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Official plot of 'Le Fidèle'


For its first session of 2016, Wallimage, which will no longer be sharing sessions with Brussels-based fund Bruxellimage (now known as Screen Brussels), is, amongst others, supporting two safe bets that have already been backed in the past. Wallimage is thus lending its support to Le Fidèle, which marks Michael Roskam’s return to Belgium after he shot The Drop in the United States. In his new project, which is again being produced by Savage, the director of Bullhead draws his inspiration from a real-life news item, imagining a tragic love story between Gigi (Matthias Schoenaerts), a good-looking but childish guy who is also a high-flying gangster, and Bibi, a young racing driver with very upper-class roots (Adèle Exarchopoulos). Le Fidèle should be completed by January 2017. http://www.cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=304794

Roskam changed the plot. When the film was announced in 2012, it would be "a film noir about a criminal gang in Brussels in the late 1980s", now it's a romance.
http://www.screendaily.com/savage-strikes-on-roskams-faithful/5041951.article
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/matthias-schoenaerts-reteams-with-bullhead-director-michael-roskam-for-the-faithful-lines-up-the-ardennes-20121218

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Sounds intriguing.Not a big fan of Adèle Exarchopoulos,though.

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000005/thread/247745514?d=247745514#247745514

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I'm not a fan of hers either. And although Matthias looks younger than his age, Adèle still has a baby face... she will look like his daughter in this film.  I'm not buying her as "a racing driver with upper-class roots" either. 

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Oh Ladies I soooooooo agree. I love Matthias but I am not liking some of his choices. The only good thing is that he is with Roskam again. Then with Dakota Johnson. Another baby. Time will tell!!😞

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