AKA Un Balcon sur la Mere, this atmospheric thriller will feature a crazy mystery and murder most foul.
Actress-turned-director Nicole Garcia (Place Vendôme, The Adversary) directs classic actress Claudia Cardinale (Fitzcarraldo, Once Upon a Time in the West) Jean Dujardin (OSS 117), Tony Servillo, Sandrine Kiberlain and Cannes Best Actress Award-winner Marie-Jose Croze (The Barbarian Invasions, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) in this atmospheric thriller that cuts between Oran at the end of the Algerian War and southern France in the first days of Mitterrand's presidency, between the search for lost love and the unraveling of a property scam, between past longings and present desires.
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence.
Just finished with post-production, hopefully Garcia's thriller will be released in theaters in 2010 or early 2011 by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. More as we hear it!
