Goodfellas Boards Sales On Gaël Morel’s Cannes-Bound AIDS Drama ‘To Live, To Die, To Live Again’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has acquired international rights for French director Gaël Morel’s drama To Live, To Die, To Live Again (Vivre, Mourir, Renaître) set against the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s, ahead of its world premiere in Cannes.
Rising French actors Victor Belmondo, Lou Lampros and Théo Christine co-star as a romantically entwined trio whose youthful dalliance takes them into life-changing territory with the arrival of AIDS.
While they expect the worse, the destiny of each character will take an unexpected turn. Morel has taken inspiration from his own teenage fears around AIDS in the 1990s as well as research he did for a planned documentary on people who caught the virus and were saved at the last minute by the development of effective antiretroviral therapies.
Michèle Halberstadt and Laurent Pétin produced the film under the banner of their Paris-based film company ARP Sélection, which will also distribute the feature in France. “We knew Gaël had this film in him, and that this story meant a lot to him.
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