Moody French synth rockers Air are going to be scoring the Belgian film, “Quartier Lointain” that stars the rather beautiful Alexandra Maria Lara (“Youth Without Youth,” she also played Annik Honore in the Joy Division film, “Control”) Leo Legrand and Jonathan Zaccai.
Here’s the synopis: “A 50-year-old man is transported back into the body of his adolescent self, perhaps allowing him to solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance.
The film is being directed by Sam Garbarski (the English-language sex dramedy “Irina Palm,” he also acted in the great 2008 French film, “Un Secret,”) and is an adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi‘s titular 1998 manga comic brought to 1960s France. Wild Bunch is handling sales.
Feature-film wise, Air previously composed the entire score to Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides,” and their songs are routinely used in various films (“Marie Antoinette,” Coppola hearts them, and they have written scores to various shorts). One half of the dream-pop group, Jean-Benoit Dunckel, recently scored the terrible-looking French comedy,”Cyprien.”
