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‘Call My Agent!’s’ Ophélia Kolb Portrays a Woman at Odds With Society in Jasmin Gordon’s Toronto Feature Debut ‘The Courageous’
‘The Courageous,’ Swiss-American Jasmin Gordon’s first foray into fiction feature filmmaking, world premieres at Toronto.
“Call My Agent!”’s Ophélia Kolb plays a struggling mother on the edge of society in “The Courageous” (“Les Courageux”), Swiss-American Jasmin Gordon ’s first foray into narrative feature filmmaking, which stages its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival(TIFF) on Sept. 10. Co-produced by Maximage and RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, the family drama revolves around Jule, a single mother of three young children who lives in a small town surrounded by majestic mountains and lush forests. My co-writer Julien Bouissoux and I like to gather anecdotes, scenes, ideas about characters and images, things that move us and occupy our thoughts, and then construct a story organically from them.
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