Body on Memento Films’ slate
- The feature by Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska will have its world premiere in competition at Berlin
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French international sales agent Memento Films – which has been hard at work since yesterday at the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, organised in Paris by UniFrance (read the news) – has announced the addition of Body by Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska to its slate; the film will be taking part in the competition at the 65th Berlinale (5-15 February 2015). This is the third movie in a row by the filmmaker that Memento is selling, following Elles [+see also:
film review
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interview: Malgorzata Sumowska
film profile] (Berlinale Panorama 2012) and In the Name of [+see also:
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interview: Malgorzata Szumowska
interview: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz
film profile] (in competition at Berlin in 2013). Prior to this, the director made Happy Man (nominated for the European Film Awards in 2000 – Discovery of the Year), Strangers [+see also:
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film profile] (which screened at Sundance and the Berlinale Panorama in 2005) and 33 Scenes from Life [+see also:
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film profile] (winner of the Jury Prize at Locarno in 2008).
Produced by Nowhere sp., Body stars Janusz Gajos (who rose to fame in Three Colors: White, was nominated for the Eagle Award for Best Actor in 2000, 2002 and 2014, and won the prize in 2006), Maja Ostaszewska (who turned heads in such titles as In the Name of, Katyn [+see also:
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interview: Andrzej Wajda
interview: Michal Kwiecinski
film profile] and The Pianist [+see also:
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film profile], and was nominated for the Eagle Award for Best Actress in 2001 and 2004) and Justyna Suwala. Exploring three radically different approaches to the human body and mind in modern-day Poland, the film recounts the intertwined stories of a prosecutor who is an expert in criminal cases, his anorexic daughter and the latter’s therapist, a woman who claims to be able to communicate with people’s loved ones who have passed away.
Managed by Emilie Georges and headed by Tanja Meissner, the Memento Films team will begin their journey to the Sundance Film Festival (22 January-1 February 2015) next week, where another title from their slate will be screened in the Park City at Midnight section: the US feature Cop Car by John Watts (starring Kevin Bacon and Shea Whingham).
Also standing out among the pre-sales are two films to keep a close eye on, which are currently in post-production: Marguerite [+see also:
film review
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interview: Xavier Giannoli
film profile] by French director Xavier Giannoli (read the article – with a promo reel available in Paris) and Louder than Bombs [+see also:
film review
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interview: Joachim Trier
film profile] by Norway’s Joachim Trier (read the article – complete with an all-star cast including Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan and David Strathairn).
Emphasising quality over quantity, Memento Films has a line-up that still includes successful titles such as the Cannes Palme d'Or winner Winter Sleep [+see also:
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interview: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
film profile] by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Still Alice by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Refugiado [+see also:
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film profile] by Argentinian director Diego Lerman, and Mr Kaplan [+see also:
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film profile] by Alvaro Brechner.
(Translated from French)
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