“Love at 1st Fight” Cannes hit producer boards Vincent Lacoste projects

“Love at 1st Fight” Cannes hit producer boards Vincent Lacoste projects

PanARMENIAN.Net - Pierre Guyard, the French producer of Cannes’ Directors Fortnight hit “Love at First Fight”, has boarded “Les deux fils” (“The Two Sons”), the directorial debut of French actor Felix Moati which will topline rising French star Vincent Lacoste (“Lolo”), Variety reports.

Lacoste also starred in Moati’s last short film, “Après Suzanne” which competed at Cannes.

Set to shoot next Summer in Paris, Moati’s film centers on the strong bond uniting a father and his two young sons, a 13-year old boy and his older brother which will be played by Lacoste. Guyard, who is producing the film at Nord-Ouest Productions, said the film was a tender comedy drama boasting crisp dialogue, blending elements of Woody Allen’s and Arnaud Desplechin movies.

Keeping track of promising filmmakers, Guyard is also on board to produce Mikhaël Hers’s “Amanda,” a melodrama starring Lacoste as a 22 year old man who is forced to take care of his young niece following the death of his sister.

“Amanda,” Hers’s follow up to “This Summer Feeling,” will shoot in Paris, Bordeaux and London during the third quarter of 2017.

Since breaking through in “The French Kissers,” Lacoste has seen his career take off in recent years with critically-acclaimed roles in Thomas Lilti’s medical drama “Hippocrates, Diary of a French Doctor,””Julie Delpy’s comedy “Lolo” and most recently Justine Triet’s dramedy “Victoria” which bowed at Cannes’ Critics Week.

Guyard is also developing the sophomore outing of “Love at First Fight” director, Thomas Cailley, which will lense next year, as well as the third film of actress-turned-director Geraldine Nakache in which she will star opposite Leila Bekhti (“Midnight Sun”). The pair formed a duo in Nakache’s popular feature debut “All That Glitters.” Stephane Celerier’s Mars Films is co-producing Nakache’s pic.

Guyard is also behind Joan Chemla’s feature debut “If You Saw His Heart” with Gael Garcia Bernal and Marine Vacth. MK2 is showing a promo of the movie at the AFM.

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