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WHO’S IN IT?

Brad Pitt (Fury), Angelina Jolie Pitt (Salt), Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds), Niels Arestrup (War Horse), Melvil Poupaud (Laurence Anyways), Richard Bohringer (The Cat’s Meow), Sarah Naudi (Quantum Love), Anna Cachia (Heroes and Villains), George Camilleri (film debut), Frédéric Dessains (Unleashed)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Angelina Jolie Pitt (Unbroken), director, writer, producer; Brad Pitt (12 Years A Slave), producer; Gabriel Yared (The Talented Mr. Ripley), composer; Christian Berger (The White Ribbon), cinematographer; Martin Pensa (Dallas Buyers Club) and Patricia Rommel (The Lives of Others), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In mid-70s France, American couple Roland (Pitt) and Vanessa (Jolie Pitt), a writer and former dancer respectively, travel together across the beautiful French landscape. However, with the cracks in their delicate marriage starting to expand, both of them settle in a quiet seaside town where they interact with and grow close to its more vibrant inhabitants – quite possibly at a high personal cost…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Hollywood’s most famous couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Pitt (as she seems to be going by now), reunite on-screen for the first time in ten years in a film that marks Jolie Pitt’s third directorial outing – which, after the mixed reaction to last year’s Unbroken, should be approached with great caution.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2015

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