14/03/2014 - The French company adds to its line-up Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s next film, a free adaptation of the Decameron novellas

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

A nice acquisition for the international sales division of the French group MK2 which yesterday announced the arrival to its line-up of Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Meraviglioso Boccaccio. Their last film, Cesare deve morire [+see also:
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film profile], had won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2012. A free adaptation of Boccaccio’s famous Decameron novellas, the film, coproduced by Italy (Cinemaundici) and France (Bis Films) will begin shooting at the end of the month with Jasmine Trinca, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kim Rossi Stuart, Michele Riondino, Paola Cortellesi, Kasia Smutniak and Lello Arena in the cast.

MK2 International’s line-up already includes two films in post-production which will probably make their global debut during the next big international festivals: Olivier Assayas’s Franco-German-Swiss coproduction Sils Maria (international title: Clouds of Sils Maria) (read article - with Juliette Binoche, Kirsten Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz in the cast) and Japanese Naomi Kawase’s Still The Water (coproduced by France via Comme des Cinémas and Arte France Cinéma).

In Berlin, MK2 International also launched pre-sales of Robert Guédiguian’s Une histoire de fou (Don't Tell Me The Boy Was Mad) (read news), an Agat Films production which will begin shooting next July and which will be distributed in France by Diaphana. The current line-up is completed by two documentaries: Spanish Carlos Saura’s Argentina (in production) and French Frédéric Martin’s Charlie Chaplin: The Legend of a Century (in post-production).

(Translated from French)