After receiving some CNC Coin back in March of ’22, French filmmaker Lucie Prost is to begin production on what sounds like if you were to mix echo-drama Haynes’ Dark Water merged with Nichols’ Take Shelter. She has been able to lasso Finnegan Oldfield (Final Cut), Daphné Patakia (Benedetta) and Florent Loiret Caille for Les truites – the French word for trout. Production is set for June and July with cinematographer Noé Bach whose recent films include A-list film festival preemed Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s Anaïs in Love (2021), Guillaume Gouix’s Amore mio (2022) and Sofia Alaoui’s Animalia (2023) is onboard here. Lucie Fichot and Nelson Ghrénassia will produce.
Léo (Oldfield), a 27-year-old engineer, must sell the agricultural land of his father – a farmer who committed suicide three years earlier – to a rare metal drilling company. But strange phenomena lead him to think that the construction site is polluting the river of his childhood. He then embarks on a hallucinated investigation that will confront him with his grief…
