Territory of Love

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Territory of Love
Territory of Love (2018) film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
French L'Autre continent
Directed by Romain Cogitore [1]
Written byRomain Cogitore [1]
Produced by
  • Vincent Wang [1]
  • Sophie Erbs [1]
  • Estela Valdiviesco Chen [1]
  • Nobu Tsai Hsin-Hung [2]
Starring
CinematographyThomas Ozoux [1]
Edited by
  • Florent Vassault [1]
  • Romain Cogitore [1]
Music byMathieu Lamboley [1]
Production
companies
  • Cinéma Defacto [1]
  • House on Fire [1]
Distributed by
  • Dulac Distribution (France) [1]
  • House on Fire (Taiwan) [1]
Release dates
  • 8 November 2018 (2018-11-08)(Rencontres du Cinéma Francophone en Beaujolais) [3] [4]
  • 5 June 2019 (2019-06-05)(France) [1]
  • 16 November 2018 (2018-11-16)(Taiwan) [2]
Running time
90 min [1]
Countries
Languages

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 Rencontres du Cinéma Francophone en Beaujolais 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]

Contents

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. [5]

Déborah François and Paul Hamy learned all of their lines in Mandarin phonetically. [6] [7]

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. [8] [9]

Reception

AlloCiné, a French cinema site, gave the film an average rating of 3.3/5, based on a survey of 18 French reviews. [10]

Awards and nominations

YearAward / FestivalCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
2012SACD Beaumarchais AwardBest Script Romain Cogitore Won [11] [12]
2013Grand Prix du Meilleur ScénaristeJunior Prize for Best ScreenplayNominated [13]
2018Rencontres du cinéma francophone en BeaujolaisAudience AwardWon [3]
2019Tübingen-Stuttgart French Film FestivalGrand Prix - International CompetitionWon [14]

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