FEATURE
French sellers By Melanie Goodfellow
Wild Bunch — which represents a record 15 films across Official Selection including Competition titles Beyond The Hills, The Angels’ Share and Holy Motors — will introduce Jean-Luc Godard’s Good- bye To Language 3D, Brian de Palma’s Passion, Vin- cenzo Natali’s Haunter and Marina de Van’s English-language horror-house tale Dark Touch to the market. Elle Driver will launch the Catherine Deneuve-
The Magnificent Eleven
starring Jason Maza makes its debut on Stealth’s indie label and comedy The Magnificent Eleven gets a first market screening. Goldcrest will be in Cannes with first market
screenings for David Riker’s The Girl starring Abbie Cornish, family-drama Private Peaceful and Cheerful Weather For The Wedding starring Eliza- beth McGovern, Felicity Jones and Luke Treada- way. Black arts movement doc Brooklyn Boheme is among Goldcrest’s new documentary offerings. AV Pictures has first screenings of action-thriller
Liability starring Tim Roth, Jack O’Connell and Peter Mullan, and Menhaj Huda’s horror Come- down with Bafta-winner Adam Deacon. The Works brings romantic farce Of Corset’s
Mine starring Camilla Belle; Terri Hooley biopic Good Vibrations; and Mat Whitecross’ drama Ashes starring Jim Sturgess and Ray Winstone. Goalpost’s The Sapphires starring Chris O’Dowd
gets a midnight screening. Kaleidoscope has first market screenings for
David Attenborough-narrated doc The Penguin King 3D, thriller I Against I, Kill Zombie! and Inter- view With A Hitman. Celsius Entertainment brings new teen
romance The First Time, recently picked up by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) for North America. Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point Media Group has
picked up Cannes Classics doc Me And Me Dad about John Boorman and gives market screenings to teen horror 6 Plots as well as family title Cool Kids Don’t Cry. Genre specialist Jinga Films has market debuts
for horrors Closed Circuit Extreme and The Devil’s Business as well as extended footage of black com- edy Black Forest: Hansel And Gretel & The 420 Witch. Moviehouse has debuts for Riot, May I Kill You
and I Declare War and will be showing footage of Nativity 2! The Second Coming starring David Ten- nant, a trailer of The Hooligan Wars from director Paul Tanter and a promo of The Power. Genesis has first market screenings for comedy
Outside Bet starring Bob Hoskins and Adam Dea- con, as well as thrillers The Wee Man and Piggy both starring Martin Compston. Maura and Antony Ford’s 7&7 Producers’ Sales
Service will have first screenings for John Duigan’s Careless Love, Papadopoulos And Sons starring Stephen Dillane, Talking To The Trees and Percival’s Big Night. Timeless Films’ 3D animation Justin And The Knights Of Valour will be screening on promo reel.
n 24 Screen International at Cannes May 16, 2012 Operation Libertad Moon Man
starring road movie Elle s’en va, directed by Polisse co-writer and cast member Emmanuelle Bercot and the hilarious fashion-world documentary Mademoiselle C. Other hot new titles include May In The Summer, the latest film from Amreeka direc- tor Cherien Dabis. Celluloid Dreams will consolidate sales on
Jacques Audiard’s Competition title Rust & Bone. The company will also continue to pre-sell Brazil- ian Heitor Dhalia’s upcoming Bald Mountain, and kick off sales on actioner Raze. TF1 International is selling Brandon Cronen-
berg’s satirical thriller Antiviral, premiering in Un Certain Regard. It also hopes to complete sales on the closing film, the late Claude Miller’s Thérese Des- queyroux. New projects include Jérome Cornuau’s Scotland-set mystery The Crossing. The Coproduction Office is handling Ulrich
Seidl’s Competition picture Paradise: Love about a European woman who travels to Kenya in search of a young lover. MK2 will market premiere Marion Laine’s
romance A Monkey On My Shoulder starring Juli- ette Binoche and Edgar Ramirez, and continues sales on Competition titles On The Road, Like Someone In Love and After The Battle as well as Laurence Anyways in Un Certain Regard. SND is offering a sneak preview of Julien Lecler-
cq’s Gibraltar-set thriller The Informant. The film, based on a script by A Prophet writer Abdel Raouf Dafri, is currently in production.
StudioCanal is handling Alain Resnais’ Competi-
tion title You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet as well as Direc- tors’ Fortnight animation Ernest & Celestine. It will also continue sales on Susanne Bier’s Serena and Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo. Doc & Film International has three festival titles:
Colombian Juan Andres Arango’s Un Certain Regard screener La Playa DC; Sebastien Lifshitz’s out of competition documentary Les Invisibles, about people who pioneered open gay living, and Directors’ Fortnight selection Operation Libertad about an attempt to rob a Swiss bank. Films Distribution is selling Sandrine Bonnaire’s
Critics’ Week screener Maddened By His Absence. It will also market premiere Eytan Fox’s latest film Yossi and French director Pierre Jolivet’s police thriller Armed Hands. EuropaCorp will show first images of Jean-
Pierre Améris’ adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs, starring Gérard Depardieu, and David Marconi’s Morocco-set thriller Intersection. It is also unveiling three French-language projects, including The Journey (Le Parcours) by Philippe Lellouche to star Vincent Perez. Funny Balloons is handling Benoit Delépine and
Gustave Kervern’s Competition title Le Grand Soir and Chilean Pablo Larrain’s No, which plays in Directors’ Fortnight Gaumont is selling the closing film of Directors’
Fortnight, Noemie Lvovsky’s Camille Rewinds, and will also unveil the upcoming Turning Tide, star- ring Intouchables co-star Francois Cluzet as a lone yachtsman on a round-the-world race. Le Pacte will market premiere two feature-
length animations: Jean-Christophe Dessaint’s Day Of The Crows and Stephan Schesch’s adapta- tion the children’s classic Moon Man. Memento Films International will market pre-
miere Craig Zobel’s controversial Compliance and continue pre-sales on Jim Mickle’s cannibal pic- ture We Are What We Are. Pathé International is world premiering James Huth’s romantic comedy Happiness Never Comes
Ernest & Celestine
Compliance
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