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Pyramide International whets its appetite for 2015

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- Currently basking in the glory of the Golden Globe snagged by Leviathan, the Paris-based sales outfit will reveal the aces up its sleeve at the Rendez-vous with French Cinema

Pyramide International whets its appetite for 2015
Eva & Leon by Emilie Charpitel

The new year looks set to be extremely promising for Pyramide International, given the fact that Leviathan [+see also:
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by Russian director Andreï Zvyagintsev was crowned with the Golden Globe for Best Foreign-language Film last night (read the news). The French outfit has already sold the feature to a huge number of countries since its premiere at Cannes (where it won the Best Screenplay Award to boot). 

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The team headed by Eric Lagesse and Lucero Garzon will be continuing its successful streak this week with the 17th Rendez-vous with French Cinema event, organised in Paris by UniFrance from 15-19 January. The gathering’s line-up includes the world premiere of Eva & Leon by Emilie Charpitel, a feature debut starring Clotilde Hesme (winner of the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2012 for Angel & Tony [+see also:
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), young actor Florian Lemaire, Clotilde Coureau, Peter Coyote and Keziah Jones. Written by the director, the story revolves around two characters: 35-year-old Eva, who is a vivacious, scatterbrained layabout of a woman who has no children; and Leon, an enigmatic and curious ten-year-old boy who has no parents. At five o’clock one morning, Leon suddenly turns up at a table on a terrace and thus enters Eva’s life. He was born to an unidentified mother and is trying to track her down, so Eva decides to help him out on his quest. They don’t know each other but spend five unforgettable days together, and an unlikely friendship blossoms from this encounter. He teaches her how to grow up, while she teaches him how to be a child once again. Produced by Candice Zaccagnino for the firm ElianeAntoinette, Eva & Leon will be distributed in France by Pyramide

Pyramide International, which specialises in young, high-quality French cinema, will also be screening, among other titles, two of its most recent gems in Paris: Le dernier coup de marteau [+see also:
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by Alix Delaporte (for which Romain Paul snagged the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at Venice – released in France on 11 March 2015) and Fidelio: Alice’s Journey [+see also:
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by Lucie Borleteau (which won the Best Actress Award and the Europa Cinemas Label at Locarno).

Also on Pyramide International’s line-up, which will undoubtedly have no trouble piquing the interest of the 600 buyers that Unifrance has invited to Paris, are four titles in post-production: La belle saison [+see also:
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by Catherine Corsini (read the article – with a cast that includes Cécile de France, Izia Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky and Kevin Azaïs), which will be completed in the spring and for which some footage will be available to view in Paris, Ce sentiment de l'été [+see also:
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 by Mikhael Hers (read the article; starring Anders Danielsen Lie and Judith Chemla – scheduled for completion by the end of 2015), the Franco-Portuguese co-production Montanha [+see also:
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by Joao Salaviza (read the news – to be completed in the spring) and the Franco-Chilean documentary The Pearl Button by Patricio Guzman

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(Translated from French)

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