Macassar Productions
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    • EVA
    • GOLDEN YOUTH
    • IN THE FADE
    • IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
    • MASAAN
    • MY NIGHT
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SYNOPSIS

When an elderly writer dies in his bathtub one night, only a single person knows the secret existence of his last manuscript: Bertrand, a young man who is also accidental witness to the writer’s death. Bertrand has the deceased’s last play performed under his own name and is intoxicated by its success. But the world is soon eager for another work from this supposed young literary genius. In the midst of his attempts to put a new creation to paper, Bertrand encounters an attractive but mysterious woman named Eva. To him, she is much more than merely a high-class prostitute, and their conversations flow directly into the dialogue of his new play. But he finds it impossible to penetrate Eva’s emotional armour. Nobody must know what really drives her – least of all this arrogant upstart, whose sexual dependency she exploits but whom she certainly does not trust. Bertrand becomes ensnared in an emotional entrapment that leads to catastrophe. 
More than fifty years after Joseph Losey, Benoit Jacquot has revisited British writer James Hadley Chase’s novel in order to create his own cinematic adaptation: a conversation piece that plumbs the moral depths of the world of the rich and the beautiful.

CREDITS

a film by   Benoît Jacquot   EVA   
​Isabelle Huppert   Gaspard Ulliel   Julia Roy   Marc Barbé   Richard Berry

screenplay, adaptation & dialogue   Gilles Taurand and Benoît Jacquot   based on the novel by   James Hadley Chase   director of photography   Julien Hirsch   sound   Christian Monheim, Paul Heymans and Olivier Goinard   original score   Bruno Coulais   editor Julia Gregory   set design   Katja Wyszkop   assistant director   Antoine Santana   casting   Antoinette Boulat   script   Geneviève Dufour   costume design   Marielle Robaut   location manager   François-Xavier Bazin   head of post production   Mélanie Karlin   
producers  Marie-Jeanne Pascal and 
Mélita Toscan du Plantier   co-produced by   Luc Besson
produced by Macassar Productions   co-produced by EuropaCorp, Arte France Cinéma, NJJ Entertainment, Scope Pictures   
​with the participation of Canal +, Ciné +, Arte France, TeleScope Film Distribution
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FRENCH DISTRIBUTION & WORLD SALES: EuropaCorp

TECHNICAL

format DCP / colour / 2.39 / 5.1     length 100 min     original language French   year 2018

FESTIVALS

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Official Selection In Competition Berlinale (Germany) / Belgrade International Film Festival (Serbia) / Espoo Ciné International Film Festival (Finland)  / Pula Film Festival (Croatia)
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  • FILMS
    • EVA
    • GOLDEN YOUTH
    • IN THE FADE
    • IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
    • MASAAN
    • MY NIGHT
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • FR