Leading Casting Director Antoinette Boulat on Her Directorial Debut ‘My Night’
Ben Croll Premiering out of Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar on Tuesday, ”My Night” marks the feature debut of Antoinette Boulat, a leading casting directors behind recent films like “The French Dispatch,” “Bergman Island” and “Non-Fiction,” now making the jump behind the lens.A veteran of the French industry, Boulat co-wrote and directed this intimate character study that follows the adolescent Marion (Lou Lampros) over the course of one peripatetic Paris night as she dwells in the past and looks to the future, mourning the death of her sister while recognizing that her chance encounter with Alex (“Synonyms” star Tom Mercier) might point toward new horizons.“At the start, the idea was really to follow a young woman in Paris at night,” the