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Mister Cab Driver: Guillaume Senez Reteams with Roman Duris for Japan-set “Une Part Manquante”

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Mister Cab Driver: Guillaume Senez Reteams with Roman Duris for Japan-set “Une Part Manquante”

Published on October 16, 2023

They teamed together on his 2018 Cannes Critics’ Week premiered Our Struggles (Nos Batailles), and now Belgian filmmaker Guillaume Senez it set to work with Roman Duris again for the Japan-set Une Part Manquante aka A Missing Part. Screen Daily “>reports that production began today and will film in Tokyo, Sagami Bay and Yokohama until the beginning of December. Judith Chemla and Mei Cirne-Masuki also star.

This sees Jay (Duris) driving his cab every day through Tokyo in search of his daughter, Lily. Separated for nine years, he has never been able to get custody of her. Just as he’s given up hope of seeing her again and is about to return to France, Lily gets into his cab, but she doesn’t recognize him.

Related Topics:Belgian Cinema, Cinema of Belgium, Guillaume Senez, Judith Chemla, Mei Cirne-Masuki, top-stories, Une Part Manquante

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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).