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CANNES 2013 Market / France

From the next Cantet to the ambitious Saint-Exupéry

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- The winner of the La Palme d’Or 2008 is to film in Cuba, Chapter 2 is placing its bets on a biopic in English, Mia Hansen Løve prepares Eden and Bac sells the next Dagur Kari

Just like the pouring rain on the Croisette, the stream of announcements of new projects in production and in vendors' line-ups didn't let up for French companies on the fourth day of the Film Market at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.

At the end of the year, Laurent Cantet (Palme d’Or 2008 with The Class [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Carole Scotta
interview: Laurent Cantet
film profile
]
) will film Retour à Itaca (Vuelta a Itaca) in Cuba, with a screenplay co-written with Leonardo Padura. Its production will be handled by Full House.

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Chapter 2 has revealed the ambitious project Saint-Exupéry (photo), a biopic in English on the famous French aviator, author and poet, who disappeared in 1944. Its direction will most certainly be entrusted to an American filmmaker (negotiations are underway). The film will be coproduced by Orange Studio and Pathé (which will handle distribution in France and supervise international sales).

Mia Hansen Løve (All is Forgiven [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: David Thion
interview: Mia Hansen-Löve
film profile
]
,
Father of my Children [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mia Hansen-Løve
film profile
]
, Goodbye First Love
 [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mia Hansen-Love
film profile
]
)
unveiled the cast of Eden which she will be filming this summer. On the bill, among others, Pauline Etienne, Golshifteh Farahani, Laura Smet and American actress Greta Gerwig, in an account of the evolution of electronic music in France from 1990 to the present day, through the life of a DJ.

Finally, Bac Films has addedto its line-up (article) and will handle the international sales of Fusi by Dagur Kari, produced by Iceland and coproduced by Denmark.

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(Translated from French)

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