10/03/2023 - The French director combines war spoils with former ultra-left terrorists in his new film starring Alma Rechtman, Brigitte Sy and Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, and produced by The Dark

Scheduled to unfold over six weeks, filming on Jean-Charles Hue’s Sang craché des lèvres belles has entered the home straight, with a wrap date set for 18 March. This will be the filmmaker’s 5th feature film after The Lord’s Ride [+see also:
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Names stealing focus in the cast include Alma Rechtman (in her first feature film), Brigitte Sy (at her best in the series Black Spot and L’Opéra, as well as in Wild Life [+see also:
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film profile]) and, as is often the case in Jean-Charles Hue’s films, the Dorkel family (Frédéric, his wife Lina and their four children).

Penned by the director together with Adrien Pescayré, the story follows Marta who has narrowly escaped a settling of scores meted out by her boyfriend Alex and who takes refuge in the Pyrenees where she joins her parents, two former ultra-left terrorists who have just been released from prison. Together, they set out in search of their war spoils…

Sang craché des lèvres belles is produced by Cédric Walter on behalf of The Dark, in co-production with Les Films de la Nuit and Studio Actarus. Benefitting from an advance on receipts from the CNC and support from the Occitanie and Nouvelle Aquitaine regions, the feature film is being shot in the Hautes-Pyrénées area, with Julien Hogert heading up photography, and editing entrusted to Matthieu Laclau (whose filmography notably includes A Touch of Sin and Ash Is Purest White [+see also:
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(Translated from French)