FINAL SET Directed by Quentin Reynaud INTERNATIONAL MARKETING INTERNATIONAL PUBLICITY David GAUTER Margaux AUDOUIN
[email protected] [email protected] 1 SYNOPSIS Once described as a young professional tennis prodigy, Thomas never had the career in the game he had hoped for. At 37, he decides to return to the French Open at Rolland Garros, in spite of his declining physical fitness and shattered knee. Although his wife Eve and his mother Judith advise him to give up on his unlikely ambition, Thomas obsessively perseveres. He will have to face his own demons as well as the intense competitive qualifying rounds to reach the tournament and eventually face a young tennis genius who disturbingly reminds him of his younger self. 2 INTERVIEW WITH ALEX LUTZ How does Alex Lutz, a horse-riding enthusiast, end up in a fiLm pLaying the part of a champion, in a sport he's never played before? The first time Quentin Reynaud told me his idea for a film about a tennis player was in 2015, on the set of Paris-Willouby. At the time though, the screenplay he’d been developing enthusiastically for several years was still a work in progress, and our discussion was fairly informal. After Paris-Willouby we each went our own way, but we didn't cut ties. One day when I was on my way to work in Marseille, I ran into him at the Gare de Lyon; the encounter was extremely fortuitous for me. I was still on a high from getting the César award for GUY, but I’d also had a slight setback when I found out that a film, I was really keen to do wouldn't be going ahead.