Territory of Love
Theatrical release poster
FrenchL'Autre continent
Directed byRomain 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]

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

Year Award / Festival Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
2012 SACD Beaumarchais Award Best Script Romain Cogitore Won [11][12]
2013 Grand Prix du Meilleur Scénariste Junior Prize for Best Screenplay Nominated [13]
2018 Rencontres du cinéma francophone en Beaujolais Audience Award Won [3]
2019 Tübingen-Stuttgart French Film Festival Grand Prix - International Competition Won [14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 "Territory of Love". Unifrance. Archived from the original on 13 January 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Territory of Love". Crew United. Archived from the original on 6 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Edition 2018 | Les 23es Rencontres dévoilent leur palmarès !". L’Autre Cinéma (in French). Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  4. ↑ Cordon-Fabregue, Anne (13 November 2018). "Rencontres du cinéma francophone en Beaujolais a annoncé son palmarès". Le Progrès (in French). Archived from the original on 6 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.}
  5. ↑ "L'Autre Continent : le miracle amoureux selon Déborah François". Do It in Paris (in French). 5 June 2019. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "L'Autre continent : les secrets du tournage" [Territoty of Love: the secrets of the shooting]. AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  7. ↑ Omaïs, Mehdi (31 May 2019). "Déborah François : "Les voyages me donnent plus d'audace"". Journal des femmes (in French). Archived from the original on 6 July 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  8. ↑ Lemercier, Fabien (22 March 2017). "Principal photography about to start for Territory of Love". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  9. ↑ "L'Autre Continent | Territory of Love". Cinéma Defacto. Archived from the original on 8 December 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  10. ↑ "Critiques presse pour le film L'Autre continent". AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  11. ↑ Keslassy, Elsa (30 May 2017). "Cinema Defacto Boards 'The Harvesters,' 'Love Wall,"Blind Willow' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 25 November 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  12. ↑ "Romain Cogitore". Catherine Winckelmuller (in French). Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  13. ↑ "Lauréats, finalistes et films 1986-2022". Les Prix du Scénario (in French). Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  14. ↑ "2019 – Französische Filmtage Tübingen-Stuttgart". Französische Filmtage Tübingen (in German). Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
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