Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Peaceful,” Emmanuelle Bercot’s Cesar-winning melodrama which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, has landed domestic distribution with New York-based banner Distrib US.Sold by Studiocanal, the movie is headlined by Benoit Magimel and Catherine Deneuve (pictured).
Magimel, who won the Cesar Award for best actor — beating fellow nominee Adam Driver — stars as a man dying of cancer. “Peaceful” world premiered out of competition at Cannes where it earn warm reviews.Distrib US has also acquired “A Tale of Love and Desire” and “Les Inde Galantes,” which are both screening this week at the Film at Lincoln Center as part of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York.
The event is being co-organized by Unifrance, the French film and TV advocacy org. “Les Inde Galantes,” directed by Philippe Béziat, is a documentary following 30 dancers reprising Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece on the stage of Paris’s legendary Opéra Bastille.
The film, which features Clément Cogitore, earned a best documentary nomination at the Cesar Awards. Pyramide International handles sales.“A Tale of Love and Desire,” directed by Leyla Bouzid, follows Ahmed, an 18-year old French-Algerian man who is brought up in the suburbs of Paris and meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, at the university.
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