Wild Bunch and Fidélité join forces with Noé
Gaspard Noé, the Argentinean-born enfant terrible of French cinema, is making his return to Cannes this year. The director’s last time at the festival was in 2002 with the competition film Irreversible.
After some setbacks and an unsuccessful experience at Pathé, his latest project, Enter the Void, is finally back on track and will be produced by French companies Wild Bunch and Fidélité. The €10.1m English-language film, which will shot in Japan in September, is being co-produced by the director’s company (Les Films de la Zone), Russia’s Central Partnership and Japan’s Comstock.
Loosely based on Le Livre des Morts, Enter the Void recounts the misadventures of a Japanese drug dealer and his sister: a hallucinatory journey that will require a number of special effects, which Noé (this year’s Critics’ Week patron) will entrust, as usual to French company Mc Guff.
Wild Bunch will handle international sales in all territories except for North American.
(Translated from French)
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