La Nuée
Promising to be one of 2020’s more bizarre debut is Just Philippot’s La Nuée (The Swarm), produced by Thierry Lounas and Manuel Chiche. Suliane Brahim (“Black Spot” – the French “Fleabag”) and Sofiane Khammes (The World is Yours, 2018) are among the cast in the production lensed by Romain Carcanade. Philippot’s 2016 short “Ses souffles” was shortlisted for a Cesar and his 2018 short “Acid” competed at Sundance and the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand.
Gist: Written by Jérôme Genevray and Franck Victor, in order to save her farm from bankruptcy, a single mother breeds edible grasshoppers but then begins to have a strange, obsessive relationship with them.
Release Date/Prediction: Shot in August through September of 2019, The Swarm could be poised for a premiere at Cannes in Critics’ Week.
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