Yesterday was the turn of the Sang a Klang in Pfaffenthal, normally the home of Luxembourg's Blues' Club, to be shrouded in black drapes, to be transformed into a film set, shooting an interior scene, with numerous nearby small car parks and other spaces cordoned off to make way for the cast and crew, equipment, trailers and tents - all in all a huge involvement just for a minute or so's final result to be seen on the big screen in roughly 12 months from now.
The shooting started on 25 September and will last until 25 October - everything is scheduled tightly and there is little room for manoeuvre. Then there is another 4 weeks shooting in Belgium until the wrap on 23 November. Before it moves across the border, it will have been to Arcelor Mittal in Shifflange, the Plateau du Rahm, a convalescence centre in Colpach-Bas, Berdorf, Remich, the Chateau de Meysembourg, Filmland in Kehlen, Ehnen and the Sang a Klang in Pfaffenthal...
Logline: When her grandmother is brutally murdered, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she has never known.
Synopsis
Regine, a psychologically fragile young woman, is hiding away in the city, far from the dark and forbidding countryside of her traumatic childhood. She’s struggling to construct the loving family she never had, and to rise above the events of the past: above all, the disastrous home birth of her brother Isaac, which led to her mother’s insanity and Isaac’s apparent death.
But the city is tense and hostile, and contains its own threats. An abusive relationship with the controlling psychiatrist who’s treating her mother is already blighting Regine’s life when the brutal murder of her grandmother raises a crucial question: is Isaac still alive, and looking for revenge against a family which he feels has rejected him?
Driven to heal the wounds of the past and to reunite her family by connecting with the brother she’s never met, Regine must return to the site of her previous traumas and confront the true source of her family’s guilt. It could make sense of her life – or throw it into unending chaos.