26/05/2007

Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red has picked up Italian rights to Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [+see also:
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Lucky Red has also boarded the pan-European co-production The White Ribbon (along with Les Films du Losange, X-Filme and Wega ), the new film by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, and Il divo by Paolo Sorrentino, based on the life of Demo-Christian political leader Giulio Andreotti.

StudioCanal sold the rights to The Age of Ignorance by Denys Arcand, out of competition at Cannes, to BIM.

Headed by Vieri Razzini and Cesare Petrillo, Teodora Film, which has always brought to Italy the most sophisticated of Scandinavian cinema, at the Cannes market acquired its first US title, Bonneville by Christopher Rowley, starring Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates (to be released in Italy under the title Una cadillac tutta rossa). The company also acquired the debut feature of the young, Argentinean writer-screenwriter Lucía Puenzo, XXY, winner of the 46th Critics’ Week sidebar.

A further two Un Certain Regard titles were picked up by Mikado and Lady Film , respectively: the debut film of Israeli director Eran Kolirin, The Band’s Visit (which won the FIPRESCI award in the sidebar section), and Caramel by Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki.

RAI ended the market with an agreement to distribute Pompei, the new film by Roman Polanski, a big budget, €135m international co-production.

(Translated from Italian)