Territory of Love explained

Territory of Love
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Director:Romain Cogitore[1]
Cinematography:Thomas Ozoux
Music:Mathieu Lamboley

}Territory of Love (French: '''L'Autre continent''') is a 2018 romantic drama film[1] written and directed by Romain Cogitore, starring Déborah François and Paul Hamy.The film was co-produced by France and Taiwan and made its world premiere at the on 8 November 2018, where it won the Audience Award. It was released theatrically in Taiwan by House on Fire on 16 November 2018,[1] and in France by Dulac Distribution on 5 June 2019.[1]

Plot

Maria is a restless young Dutch woman and aspiring writer who lives in France, speaks five languages, has seven unfinished novels and is trying to finish her latest one. She moves to Taipei and lives on small jobs. There she meets Olivier, a young and shy French expat who works as a tour guide and can speak fourteen languages, and they fall in love. When things seemed fine between them, Olivier is diagnosed with a rare type of Leukemia and they must return to France to begin his treatment in Strasbourg.

Cast

Production

The film was based on a real story that a woman who was an acquaintance of director Romain Cogitore told him about a bereavement that she was living, although the man she was talking about was not dead.[2]

Déborah François and Paul Hamy learned all of their lines in Mandarin phonetically.[3] [4]

Filming took place in Kaohsiung and in Taichung in Taiwan, and in Alsace and Limoges in France between 12 April 2017 and 8 June 2017.[5] [6]

Reception

AlloCiné, a French cinema site, gave the film an average rating of 3.3/5, based on a survey of 18 French reviews.[7]

Awards and nominations

YearAward / FestivalCategoryRecipient(s)Result
2012SACD Beaumarchais AwardBest Script Romain Cogitore[8] [9]
2013Grand Prix du Meilleur ScénaristeJunior Prize for Best Screenplay[10]
2018Rencontres du cinéma francophone en BeaujolaisAudience Award
2019Tübingen-Stuttgart French Film FestivalGrand Prix - International Competition[11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Territory of Love . 4 July 2023 . . 13 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230113041930/https://en.unifrance.org/movie/44230/territory-of-love . live .
  2. Web site: 5 June 2019 . L'Autre Continent : le miracle amoureux selon Déborah François . Do It in Paris . fr . 6 July 2023 . 5 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230205131050/https://www.doitinparis.com/fr/l-autre-continent-film-24469 . live .
  3. Web site: L'Autre continent : les secrets du tournage . Territoty of Love: the secrets of the shooting . 6 July 2023 . . fr . 14 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220814113553/https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-262184/secrets-tournage/ . live .
  4. Web site: Omaïs . Mehdi . 31 May 2019 . Déborah François : "Les voyages me donnent plus d'audace" . Journal des femmes . fr . 6 July 2023 . 6 July 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230706165323/https://www.journaldesfemmes.fr/people/actus/2531472-deborah-francois-l-autre-continent/ . live .
  5. Web site: Lemercier . Fabien . 22 March 2017 . Principal photography about to start for Territory of Love . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200923112935/https://www.cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/325980/ . 23 September 2020 . 4 July 2023 . Cineuropa.
  6. Web site: L'Autre Continent Territory of Love . 4 July 2023 . Cinéma Defacto . 8 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221208085342/http://www.cinemadefacto.com/portfolio/the-great-wall/ . live .
  7. Web site: Critiques presse pour le film L'Autre continent . . 4 July 2023 . fr . 14 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220814120554/https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-262184/critiques/presse/ . live .
  8. Web site: Keslassy . Elsa . 30 May 2017 . Cinema Defacto Boards 'The Harvesters,' 'Love Wall,"Blind Willow' (EXCLUSIVE) . . 4 July 2023 . 25 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171125130242/http://variety.com/2017/more/news/cinema-defacto-boards-the-harvesters-love-wallblind-willow-exclusive-1202447533/ . live .
  9. Web site: Romain Cogitore . 2 July 2023 . Catherine Winckelmuller . fr . 27 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220927105018/https://www.winckelmuller.com/COGITORE.html?lang=fr . live .
  10. Web site: Lauréats, finalistes et films 1986-2022 . 4 July 2023 . Les Prix du Scénario . 24 September 2018 . fr . 4 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230404193129/https://prix-scenariste.org/fr/accueil/laureats-finalistes-et-films-1986-2/21 . live .
  11. Web site: 2019 – Französische Filmtage Tübingen-Stuttgart . 4 July 2023 . Französische Filmtage Tübingen . de . 1 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230401040208/https://franzoesische.filmtage-tuebingen.de/2019-2/ . live .

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