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CANNES 2015 Market / France

Brizé, Audiard, Garcia Bernal, Duris – and the rest

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- CANNES 2015: On the Croisette, the announcements keep coming for MK2, Celluloid Dreams, Nord-Ouest Films and Indie Sales

Brizé, Audiard, Garcia Bernal, Duris – and the rest
Director Stéphane Brizé

The Film Market of the 68th Cannes Film Festival continues to run its dynamic course for the French international sales agents. Here is a brief overview of the fresh announcements following those of Wednesday (read the news) and Thursday (read the news), as Films Distribution is already seeing buyers flock to its stand in the wake of the huge sensation caused yesterday evening by the press screenings of Lazlo Nemes’ sublime Hungarian feature Son of Saul [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: László Nemes
interview: László Rajk
film profile
]
, which will have its official premiere today at 4.30 pm in the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

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MK2 (read the line-up news) has revealed that it has apparently sold the upcoming film by Stéphane Brizé, Une vie, abroad; the movie is based on the novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. For the record, the French director will be on the Cannes listings next Monday in official competition with The Measure of a Man [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Stéphane Brizé
film profile
]
(also being sold by MK2). For his next film, which will commence shooting this summer, he will once again work with TS Productions and has assembled a cast including Judith Chemla, Jalil Lespert, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Belgian actress Yolande Moreau. 

Celluloid Dreams has announced pre-sales to around 20 territories for the eagerly anticipated Dheepan [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Jacques Audiard
film profile
]
by Jacques Audiard, which will be unveiled in competition next week.

As producer Pierre Guyard (Nord-Ouest Films) announced to Cineuropa just before the start of the festival (read the interview), the film noir If You Saw His Heart [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
 by Joan Chemla will begin shooting in the autumn, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Marine Vacth (Young and Beautiful [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: François Ozon
film profile
]
).

Lastly, Indie Sales (read the interview with Nicolas Eschbach) has added the film Cessez-le-feu [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Emmanuel Courcol (in post-production – read the article), which boasts a cast including Romain Duris, Céline Sallette and Grégory Gadebois, to its slate.

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(Translated from French)

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