23/04/2013 - The Swedish-Finnish international sales agency will launch the Gustaf Skarsgård-Rebecca Ferguson-starrer at the Marché du Film during the international film festival May 15-26

Swedish Iranian-born director Mani Maserrat’s new drama US – “the story of Ida and Krister and their relationship that goes to hell” – will be launched at the Cannes International Film Festival (May 15-26) just after its domestic release on May 10, through Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri.

Swedish-Finnish international sales agency, The Yellow Affair, has picked up the Sonet Film and Café Cinema production starring Swedish actors Gustaf Skarsgård – most recently in Norwegian directors Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s Oscar-nominated Kon-Tiki [+see also:
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Scripted by Swedish writer-director-producer Jens Jonsson, whose Easy Money III: Life Deluxe will be out on October 18, US follows the two schoolteachers, Ida and Krister, who fall madly in love – but what starts as a happy union, soon turns into a battle of emotional and sexual manipulation: Ida is subject to jealousy, aggression and degradation. Jonsson, who wrote the screenplay for Maserrat’s first feature, Ciao Bella (2007), has this time also joined the producers’ team with Sandra Harms and the director.

At the Marché du Film, The White Affair will also launch Finnish director Johanna Vuoksenmaa’s new comedy, 21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage – a local blockbuster, which has since February 8 taken 329,000 admissions domestically – and Swedish director Maximilian Hult’s feature debut, Home, a romantic drama starring Moan Gammel, Lia Boysen and Simon J Berger.