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CANNES 2014 Un Certain Regard / France

Pascale Ferran and Mathieu Amalric under the spotlight

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- Two French attractions stand out in the Certain Regard section with Bird People and La chambre bleue

Pascale Ferran and Mathieu Amalric under the spotlight
Bird People by Pascale Ferran

An integral part of the official selection in the 67th Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25), the Un Certain Regard programme (read the news story) includes four mainly French productions. Youth and discovery may be an integral part of the opening with Party Girl [+see also:
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, a debut feature length film by the Marie Amachoukeli - Claire Burger - Samuel Theis trio (article), but two well-known directors will also take part.  

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Pascale Ferran will present Bird People [+see also:
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 (article), his third fiction feature length film. Winner of the Caméra d’Or in Cannes in 1994 with Petits arrangement avec les morts, the filmmaker’s subsequent piece of work just involved television fiction film L’âge des possibles (selected in Venice in 1996) and Lady Chatterley [+see also:
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(five César awards in 2007, including best film).

His latest film’s cast includes American Josh Charles, Australian Radha Mitchell and French Anaïs Demoustier and Roschdy Zem. Produced by Denis Freyd for Archipel 35Bird People benefitted of a budget of €6.9 million, which includes co-production by France 2 Cinéma, pre-acquisition by Canal+ and Ciné+, and an anticipation on revenue from the CNC and help from the Ile-de-France region. The distribution in France will be taken care of by Diaphana and international sales will be done by Films Distribution.

The narrator of Bird PeopleMathieu Amalric will reveal during Certain Regard La chambre bleue [+see also:
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 (news), his sixth feature length film as a director. His previous piece of work as a director, Tournée [+see also:
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, won best director in Cannes in 2010. An adaptation by Simenon, starring the director himself, with Stéphanie Cléau and Léa DruckerLa chambre bleue was produced by Paulo Branco for Alfama Films (which will launch the film in France on May 16 and will take care of international sales). Its budget is of €2.4 million and includes pre-sales by CNC for Canal+ and Ciné+.

Run [+see also:
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by Philippe Lacôte (article), which is a 75% French production, will be on the Croisette via Claire Gadéa for Banshee Films. Co-produced with Arte France Cinéma, the debut film starring Abdoul Karim Konaté and Isaac de Bankolé, was supported by CNC in anticipation of its revenue. French and international distribution will be taken care of by Bac Films.

Finally to be noted in the Certain Regard section are two minority French co-productions: Turist (Force Majeure) [+see also:
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 by Ruben Ostlund (Sweden 67%, Denmark 19%, France 13% via Société Parisienne de Production - Coproduction Office, which will take care of international sales), an Italian French feature length film Incompresa [+see also:
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by Asia Argento (with Charlotte Gainsbourg – co-production Paradis Films).

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(Translated from French)

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