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Cannes REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
Cannes 2015 2018

CITY OF JOEL By Sebastián Hofmann with Luis Completed. Thriller, 95’. THE BANISHING By Eloïse Lang with Camille Cottin,
Post-Production. Documentary, 86’. Gerardo Mendez, Miguel Rodarte, By Gutierrez Sebastian. Pre-Production. Horror. Camille Chamoux, Miou Miou, Johan
By Jesse Sweet. Cassandra Ciangherotti, Rj Mitte, WELCOME HOME By Chris Smith. Heldenbergh.
50 miles north of New York City, a town Andrés Almeida, Montserrat Marañon, Completed. Thriller, 96’. An evil spirit possesses the young Free-spirited Rose and her uptight sister
called Monroe becomes a microcosm Rj Mitte. By Ratliff George with Emily daughter of a reverend, who must seek Alice take their mother Francoise out
for a divided nation as a land dispute A young father takes his family to the Ratajkowski, Aaron Paul, Riccardo the help of an occultist to banish the of Paris and to the tropical island of
between an ultra-orthodox Hasidic perfect holiday resort, only to discover Scamarcio. spirit once and for all. Reunion for her birthday.
sect and their secular neighbors erupt that they must share their room with SERIAL DATER FLAMMABLE CHILDREN
into a turf war. another family due to a clerical error. WAVELENGTH Pre-Production. Comedy. Completed. Comedy, 97’.
ANCHOR AND HOPE PICTURES By Jena Friedman with Imogen Poots, By Stephan Elliott with Kylie Minogue,
Completed. Drama, 111’. VMI WORLDWIDE 24 Alexandra Grove-Apt 4 Timothy Simons, John Cho. Guy Pearce, Radha Mitchell, Julian
By Carlos Marques-Marcet with Natalia 1427 N La Brea Ave. N4 2LF London, United Kingdom SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD Mcmahon, Asher Keddie, Jeremy Sims.
Tena, Oona Chaplin, David Verdaguer, 90028 Los Angeles, California, USA Tel: +44 796 877 2792 Pre-Production. Comedy. Australia, 1975. Hit by the sexual
Geraldine Chaplin. Tel: +1 323 703 1115 [email protected] By Stephen Kijak with Joe Manganiello, revolution, and the body of a 200-ton
Two make love. Three make a baby. [email protected] wavelengthpictures.co.uk Sasha Lane, Ellar Coltrane, Isabelle whale, the lives of three unique families
BARLEY FIELDS ON THE OTHER vmiworldwide.com John Flahive (Managing Director) Fuhrman, Nick Krause, James Bloor. are about to be turned upside down.
SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Andre Relis (President), Jd Beaufils (Head Denver, summer 1987. A group of GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND
Completed. Drama, 88’. of Sales), Jessica Bennett (Acquisitions KEVIN ROCHE: THE QUIET quirky and confused teenagers are BAMI
By Tian Tsering with Tsering Choekyi, & Development), Julie Paquit (Sales ARCHITECT about to have their lives changed Completed. Documentary, 115’.
Completed. Documentary, 81’.
Pema Chokey, Samten Dhondup, Executive) By Mark Noonan. forever over the course of one night By Sophie Fiennes with Grace Jones,
Jamyang Choezom. THE CHINESE WIDOW Still working at age 95, Pritzker Prize when the news hits them that their Jean-Paul Goude, Sly And Robbie.
In the remote mountains of Tibet, a Completed. Romance, 97’. winning architect Kevin Roche is heroes, iconic British band The Smiths, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
teenage girl must choose between By Bille August. an enigma. He’s reached the top of are splitting. re-invents the music documentary as
supporting her family after her father’s his profession, but has little interest GARETH JONES an electrifying journey through the
political imprisonment or joining a CONNY PLANK THE POTENTIEL in celebrity, Despite a lifetime of Production. Drama. performance, private and public worlds
group of persecuted nuns on their OF NOISE acclaimed work that includes the Ford By Agnieszka Holland with James of pop cultural icon Grace Jones.
journey to freedom. Completed. Documentary, 92’. Foundation and The Met, he continues Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard. OLD BOYS
By Plank Stephan.
BEHOLD MY HEART to look to look to the future. 1933. Gareth Jones is a young Completed. Comedy, 96’.
Completed. Drama, 82’. THE RUSSIAN BRIDE ambitious Welsh journalist who gained By Toby Macdonald with Alex Lawther,
By Joshua Leonard with Marisa Tomei, Completed. Thriller, 100’. PORTRAIT OF A GALLERY fame after writing about meeting Jonah Hauer-King, Pauline Etienne,
Completed. Documentary, 79’.
Charlie Plummer, Timothy Olyphant, By Michael Ojeda. By Adrian Mccarthy. Hitler, and is now looking for his next Denis Ménochet.
Mireille Enos, Emily Robinson. A Russian woman travels to America big story. In this school-set re-working of
After the tragic death of his dad, with her daughter to marry a reclusive In 2011, the National Gallery of Ireland, CLOSE Cyrano de Bergerac, an awkward but
the country’s most visited cultural
16-year-old Marcus must look billionaire, who turns out to be a psycho Post-Production. Action/Adventure. imaginative pupil helps the handsome
after his self-destructive mother who sends their lives spiraling into a attraction, closed the doors on the By Vicky Jewson with Noomi Rapace, but spectacularly dim school-hero
historic Victorian buildings comprising
while navigating the difficulties of living hell. two thirds of its floor space, to begin Sophie Nélisse, Eoin Macken, Indira pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting
adolescence. VOLTAGE PICTURES one of the largest refurbishment Varma. French teacher.
GOOD FAVOUR 116 N Robertson Blvd., Suite 200 projects in the history of the state. Sam is the world’s toughest female SERGIO & SERGEI
Completed. 101’. 90048 Los Angeles, California, USA YOU CAN’T ESCAPE LITHUANIA bodyguard, tasked with protecting Completed. Comedy, 93’.
By Rebecca Daly with Vincent Romeo, Tel: +1 323 606 7630 Completed. Road movie, 80’. high profile targets for terrorism and By Ernesto Daranas with Hector Noas,
Lars Brygmann, Clara Rugaard, [email protected] By Romas Zabarauskas with Lavrinovic assassination. She fought her way to Tomas Cao Uriza, Ron Perlman.
Alexandre Willaume, Victoria Mayer, Irina, Denisas Kolomyckis, Adrian the top in a man’s world and feels more From award-winning Cuban director
Helena Coppejans. voltagepictures.com Escobar. at home in the war zones of Sudan than Ernesto Daranas (Behavior) and the
A remote Christian community Riviera: L5 After his star actress, Indre, murders her back at her L.A. apartment. producers of Midnight in Paris comes
experiencing a crisis of faith finds new Nicolas Chartier (CEO-President), mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans DENMARK a comedy inspired by true events about
hope in the arrival of a mysterious Jonathan Deckter (President-COO), her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican Post-Production. Comedy. an unexpected bond between two men
young man. Alexandra Cocean (Executive Vice By Adrian Shergold with Rafe Spall, caught in a changing world.
President, Int’l Sales & Distrib.), Boris boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly.
MADELINE’S MADELINE Isaac (International Sales Manager) On the road, Romas begins shooting an Simone Lykke, Thomas Gabrielsson, WIDE
Completed. Drama, 94’. improvised experimental film of the trip Benedikte Hansen, Joel Fry, Steve
By Josephine Decker with Helena LITTLE ITALY with his smartphone. Spiers. 9, rue Bleue
Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July, Post-Production. Romance, 99’. Rafe Spall stars as Herb, a down on 75009 Paris, France
Okwui Okpokwasili, Felipe Bonilla, By Petrie Donald with Emma Roberts, WAYNA PITCH his luck Welshman with no job, bad Tel: +33 1 53 95 04 64
Lisa Tharps. Alyssa Milano, Danny Aiello, Jane 9 R DU PR JEAN BERNARD neighbours and and even worse [email protected]
Madeline got the lead role in the play! Seymour. 44220 Coueron, France prospects. widemanagement.com
Strangely, the character looks just THE PROFESSOR AND THE Tel: +33 6 51 02 76 63 FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY Riviera: G2 & NEXT #14.A
like Madeline. And has a cat just like MADMAN [email protected] Post-Production. Drama. Loïc Magneron (President-Acquisitions
Madeline. And is holding a steaming Post-Production. Drama. waynapitch.com By Carmel Winters with Hazel Doupe, Director), Ana Perromat (Head of Sales),
hot iron next to her mother’s face... By Farhad Safinia with Sean Penn, Dara Devaney, Aidan O’Hare, Lalor Maxime Montagne (Business Affairs,
just like Madeline. Natalie Dormer, Steve Coogan, Eddie Jonathan Musset (CEO-Distributor), Fanny Roddy, Hilda Fay. Acquisitions, Vr Project), Danya Hannah
Marsan, Jennifer Ehle. Maillet (Acquisitions) (International Sales)
MAZE Teenage Irish Traveller Frances lost her
Completed. Thriller, 93’. A professor begins work compiling GOOD-BYE ROMEO mother in a fight. The same fight which 2 HOURS FROM PARIS
By Stephen Burke. words for the first edition of the Oxford Pre-Production. Second film, 90’. led to her father being locked up in jail Completed. Comedy, 80’.
English Dictionary in the mid 19th By Jonathan Musset.
MESSI AND MAUD century and receives over 10,000 His name’s Romeo, hers is almost Juliet, for the last ten years. By Virginie Verrier with Erika Sainte,
Completed. Drama, 92’. entries from a doctor at an insane they ought to meet ! Good-bye Romeo VULTURES Frédéric Pierrot, Fanny Cottencon,
By Marleen Jonkman with Rifka asylum. is a feature length film from Jonathan Post-Production. Thriller. Thierry Frémont, Valérie Mairesse.
Lodeizen, Cristobal Farias, Guido Musset, intended for simultaneous By Börkur Sigthorsson with Gísli Örn Sidonie, a young air hostess, raises her
Pollemans. THE SUPER theatrical and multi-platform release, Gar arsson, Baltasar Breki Samper, 15 year old daughter Lolo alone as
While on vacation in Chile, Dutch Post-Production. Thriller, 88’. which will include a Youtube sports Anna Próchniak, Marijana Jankovic. the father is unknown. In an effort to
tourist Maud abandons her husband By Rick Stephan with Val Kilmer, Patrick channel for the film’s main protagonist. Two antagonistic brothers decide to satisfy Lolo’s growing curiosity as to her
to travel alone. When she befriends John Flueger, Louisa Krause. smuggle drugs into their native Iceland origins, Sidonie takes her to her own
‘Messi’, a local boy who fills a void in Former cop Phil Lodge takes a new job WESTEND FILMS using a young Polish girl as their mule. native region, Somme Bay, in search
her heart, the pair embark on a road as a superintendent in an expensive SHEPHERDS BUILDING CENTRAL, When everything goes off the rails, of potential fathers.
trip to reinvent themselves. Manhattan hi-rise apartment building. CHARECROFT WAY these anti-heroes’ fate spirals in a life- ACID
When tenants begin disappearing with
THE QUEEN OF FEAR alarming frequency, Phil fears a sadistic W14 0EE London, United Kingdom or-death race against time. Completed. Drama, 98’.
Completed. Drama, 107’. murderer may be roaming the eerie Tel: +44 207 494 8300 THE BREADWINNER By Alexander Gorchilin with Filipp
By Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana corridors and that his daughters’ lives [email protected] Completed. Animation, 93’. Avdeev, Alexander Kuznetsov.
Tiscornia with Valeria Bertuccelli, Dario are in danger. westendfilms.com By Nora Twomey with Saara Chaudry, CARGA
Grandinetti, Diego Velazquez, Sary Gray d’Albion 28 rue des Serbes Soma Chhaya, Laara Sadiq, Ali Completed. Drama, 113’.
Lopez, Gabriel Goity. BETWEEN WORLDS (Tel: +33 4 93 68 73 76) Badshah, Kawa Ada, Shaista Latif, By Bruno Gascon with Michalina
In a constant state of anxiety, a Completed. Thriller, 89’. Sharon Harel-Cohen (Chairman), Noorin Gulamgaus. Olszanska, Vitor Norte, Rita Blanco.
celebrated actress obsessively distracts By Pulera Maria. Maya Amsellem (Managing Director), Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her A truck driver tormented by the load
herself from preparing for her career- DEPARTURES Sofia Neves (Director of Sales), Lucie family in one room of a tiny apartment he carries. A road that should lead to
defining one-woman show. Completed. Drama, 92’. Braverman (Head of Marketing), Anil building in war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan. a better life. Human beings treated as
TIME SHARE By Hutchings Peter. Ravdjee (Sales Executive), Toby Hill DUMPED goods for selling...
Completed. Drama, 96’. ELIZABETH HARVEST (Head of Acquisitions & Development) Completed. Comedy, 95’. CONSEQUENCES
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