Introduced at the Berlinale’s EFM, production on Aude Léa Rapin‘s sophomore feature has officially begun with Adele Exarchopoulos and Souheila Yacoub toplining what is coined as a female-driven science-fi thriller. Produced by Les Films du Bal, Planète B will be shot in both French and English with a cast that is rounded out by Souleymane Touré, India Hair, Jonathan Couzinié, Paul Beaurepaire, Léo Chalié and Grace Seri. Filming will last until May in Grenoble and Lyon, France.
The film follows Julia Bombarth (Exarchopoulos), one of the activists who mysteriously disappeared after participating in a violent protest. After being shot in the eye by a flash-ball gun, Julia fainted and woke up in an unknown world, known as Planet B.
Our Nicholas Bell reviewed Rapin’s Directors’ Fortnight 2019 feature debut – Heroes Don’t Die —
“The end result is a rather odd duck, mixing perspectives and paralleling dualities of life and death, love and friendship, war and peace, imaginary and reality. More an essay on commemoration than an emotional reclamation of unfulfilled lives cut short, Rapin explores the difficulty in interpreting a present divorced from the distant ghosts of the past or the unforeseeable inevitability of the future.”
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
