The Blinder Films co-production ‘Love and Friendship’ has entered principal photography in Dublin.
The film is an Irish/French/Dutch co-production between Blinder Films, Revolver Amsterdam and Chic Films. The Irish Film Board has also awarded €250,000 in funding so far.
The assembly edit is taking place at EGG Post production house and will be continued in France and the Netherlands.
The Irish producer is Katie Holly of Blinder Films and the Line Producer is Cathleen Dore.
Directed by Oscar nominee Whit Stillman (‘Metropolitan’), the film stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny in the lead roles (re-uniting them with Stillman after 1998’s ‘The Last Days of Disco’).
The film is based on Stillman’s adaptation of the Jane Austen’s Lady Susan – a novella that Austen never submitted for publication which describes the schemes of the main character, the widowed Lady Susan (played by Beckinsale), as she seeks a new husband for herself and one for her daughter.
‘Love and Friendship’ was taken to the Berlin International Film Festival European Film Market last week – to be sold by UK Sales Agents Protagonist Pictures.
The film is now shooting on-location in and around Dublin.
