Finally some comedy at Cannes! Check out an upcoming french film titled Tournée directed by Mathieu Amalric.
If this is not enough for start, let's already describe this as a road movie which takes place “in the world of striptease”. Interested anyone?
Hope you are, so get ready for this one, scheduled to compete for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2010.
Tournée is a story about American burlesque girls on tour in France, with an ex-show producer trying to make a comeback with a troupe of “new burlesque” dancers style.
Produced by Les Films du Poisson, the feature actually traces several days in the life of a show producer, who has left his homeland to live in the US. He returns to France with a troupe of New Burlesque performers and tours the port cities before staging a final show in Paris.
Filming started in April 2009 and The Neo-Burlesque cabaret troupe, which the director had discovered in 2007, went on an actual tour along French port cities in order to provide the necessary footage.
In Tournee you'll have a chance to see Mathieu Amalric, Julie Ferrier, Anne Benoît and Damien Odoul.
When it comes to Tournee, this is Amalric's fourth directorial feature, after Mange ta Soupe (or Eat your Soup) from 1997, Wimbledon Stage (selected at Locarno in 2001 and Rotterdam in 2002) and Public Affairs (screened in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight in 2003).
Let's wait and see how the things will work out for him at this Film Festival. We wish his Tournée best luck!
