Huppert and Lanners Play ‘Cock and Bull’ for Jeanne Labrune

Isabelle Huppert is teaming with the nutty Bouli Lanners (I last caught him in the little seen, bizarro comedy Louise-Michel) for an odd pairing between a prostitute and a shrink. Sans Queue Ni Tete (Cock and Bull) is being directed by Jeanne Labrune with lensing beginning on Monday and roaming around into Belgium, Luxembourg and Paris. The cast replaces Michèle Laroque, François Berléand and Jean-Pierre Darroussin were originally on board.

Co-written by Labrune and Richard Debuisne, this centres on Alice (Huppert), an independent prostitute who is tired of her job and plans to undergo psychoanalysis to find the strength to change her life. Meanwhile, psychoanalyst Xavier (Lanners) has just been left by his wife and is weary of listening to his clients’ monologues. He decides to call on a professional to satisfy his erotic urges. The two characters thus meet, but this is not the start of a romance, just the first stage in a difficult journey which, through conflicts, ordeals and disappointments, leads them both to rediscover themselves. They come across a third character (Debuisne), whom they will lean on in order to make a fresh start.