Screen’s Cannes Close-Up interview series talks to Charles Audinet, busy line producer for international shoots in France from Paris and Bordeaux-based production company Les Valseurs.

Audinet has recently worked on Chopin, A Sonata In Paris that used the city of Bordeaux to recreate the 19th century Paris where the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin lived.

“We had to rebuild and recreate all the Parisian streets and suburbs in the city centre of Bordeaux,” says Audinet. “Bordeaux is very interesting because its pre-Haussmannian natural locations.”

In the interview, Audinet also recalls that it was a contact he met at Cannes who gave him his first chance as a line producer, and how he is busy this year presenting four projects that Les Valseurs has co-produced: Diego Céspedes’ The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo in Un Certain Regard; Guillermo Galoe’s Sleepless City and Leonardo Martinelli’s Samba Infinito in Critics’ Week and Militantropos, directed by Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi and Yelizaveta Smit in Directors’ Fortnight.

Watch the full interview above.

Chopin, A Sonata In Paris is produced by Akson Studio in Poland and sold by Playtime, the biopic is directed by Michał Kwieciński stars Lambert Wilson as King Louis Philippe; Joséphine de La Baume as Georges Sand and Eryk Kulm as Chopin.

This edition of Cannes Close-Up is sponsored by Film France by CNC.

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