PARIS — Dorcel has released director Liselle Bailey's "Standing Still," starring 2019 XBIZ Europas Female Performer of the Year Cléa Gaultier.
Alessandra Jane, Anissa Kate, Max Deeds, Marc Kaye, David Perry, Marcelle Bravo, Luke Hardy and Lola Bellucci round out the cast.
"Alice (Gaultier) is set free after six long years behind bars," a rep said. "Having paid her debt to society, the prospect of getting a new lease on life has provided her with a Zen-like outlook, peace of mind and no need for vengeance — despite having lost her job, her friends, nearly all contact with the outside world and even her grip on reality for a time while in jail.
"Yet she quickly learns that while her life came to a standstill, her lovers, Mike (Deeds) and Kate (Kate), moved on," the rep continued.
"The trope explored by 'Standing Still' runs deep in film history, with a lot of classics and underrated gems featuring women as law-breaking, unexpected antiheroes who, for their own reasons, reform themselves and turn away from a life of crime," noted Daniel Metcalf, U.S.-based publicist for the studio.
Metcalf went on to praise Gaultier's performance.
"This is the second movie of 2022 to feature Cléa in the kind of moral gray area portrayed in the 'Oceans' films, with the first being Herve Bodilis' 'Revenge,'" he said. "Her performance here is a wonderful mystery, one that unwraps itself slowly, twisting and turning as her character contends with the curveballs life throws her way. She delivers as Alice, a woman determined to make her own rules."
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