Suck Your Blood: Antonin Peretjatko Lands Laure Calamy & Vimala Pons for “Vade retro”

French filmmaker Antonin Peretjatko is set to sink his teeth into his fourth feature film and he lassoed some alumni for Vade retro (formerly known as Le vampire du soleil levant). Laure Calamy will topline with players William Lebghil and Vimala Pons in the mix. Lebghil was in Peretjatko’s sophomore feature and Pons was in his first pair of films including his debut The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu (a Directors’ Fortnight selection back in 2013). Vade retro landed some early CNC support three years back. Comme des cinémas’ Masa Sawada (Kôji Fukada Love Life) is producing the project which will move into production in September.

The film will centre on a vampire, afraid of women and of blood, sent to Japan and tasked to return with a wife, so as to ensure the continuation of the family lineage. To assert himself, he will have to fight against the dogmas and traditions of vampires. In this world of violence, he finds his salvation thanks to poetry…