24/04/2009

After Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nicola Giuliano
interview: Paolo Sorrentino
interview: Philippe Desandre
film profile], winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes 2008, Lucky Red returns to the Croisette with three films. Two are co-productions by cult filmmakers and feature in competition: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lars von Trier
film profile] and Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Michael Haneke
film profile].

The company headed by Andrea Occhipinti has also acquired the rights to Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell, in Cannes’ Midnight Screenings.

Also in competition is Italian director Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Cannes 2009 Marco Bellocc…
interview: Filippo Timi - actor
film profile], an Italian/French co-production between RAI Cinema, Offside and Celluloid Dreams.

Representing Italy in the jury will be actress/director Asia Argento, while Monica Bellucci stars alongside Sophie Marceau and Andrea Di Stefano in Ne Te Retourne Pas [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], the new film written and directed by young French filmmaker Marina De Van, also in the Midnight Screenings.

The film, shot for the most part in and around Lecce with the collaboration of the Apulia Film Commission, was produced by Ex Nihilo (Patrick Sobelman, France) with Studio Urania (Conchita Airoldi, Italy), Samsa Film (Jani Thiltges, Luxembourg) and Entre Chien et Loup (Diana Elbaum and Sébastien Delloye, Belgium). International sales are handled Wild Bunch, while the film will be released in Italy by BIM.

(Translated from Italian)