Les Films du Losange launches Antichrist on 120 screens
Preceded by an explosive reputation and crowned with the Best Actress Award (for Charlotte Gainsbourg) at the recent Cannes Film Festival, Danish director Lars von Trier’s Antichrist [+see also:
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The company headed by Margaret Menegoz also made the most of its time on the Croisette thanks to Austrian director Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner The White Ribbon [+see also:
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The feature has been bought for the US (Sony Pictures Classics), the UK (Artificial Eye), Spain (Golem), Benelux (Cinéart), Sweden (Folkets Bio), Denmark (Camera FilmArthaus), Greece (Rosebud), Poland (Monolith) and the countries of the former Yugoslavia (Megacom), as well as Germany ( X Filme) and Italy by its co-producers Lucky Red.
Losange also clinched successful sales for French director Mia Hansen-Love’s Father of My Children [+see also:
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Another Cannes contender hits French theatres this Wednesday: Marina de Van’s Don’t Look Back [+see also:
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DoP Anthony Dod Mantle is doubly honoured in this week’s line-up for he lensed both Von Trier’s film and Country Wedding [+see also:
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Alongside two US films, an Argentinean and a Japanese title, two other French productions complete the line-up of new releases: Raoul Ruiz’s Nucingen House [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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