07/04/2005

In 2005 and 2006, 7 Italian films coproduced by Cattleya and Babe Film will be released in France. This was announced by Fabio Conversi —the producer who created Babe Film and has been living in France for a few years, which allows him to act as an intermediary between Italian producers and French distributors— at the recent Montecarlo Forum of Cinema and Litterature, and published online by E-duesse. Conversi also revealed the first two titles of the selection : Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti by Marco Tullio Giordana (release in September, distributed by Mars Film) and La bestia nel cuore by Cristina Comencini, starring Luigi Lo Cascio and Stefania Rocca (release in October). Both films were supported by Rai Cinema.

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Romanzo criminale by Michele Placido, adapted from Giancarlo De Cataldo’s novel, will follow in January 2006 (Cattleya, Warner Bros. Italia. Babe). The other films are still in the making : there is Mare Buio by Roberta Torre (Rai Cinema, Babe, Cattleya), starring the French actress Anna Mouglalis ; there is Gianni Amelio and Sergio Castellitto’s new project, an adaptation from Ermanno Rea’s novel La dismissione yet without a title (Rai Cinema, Cattleya, Babe), as well as the films Il Fasciocomunista by Daniele Luchetti (Cattleya, Babe) and N by Paolo Virzì, a comedy coproduced by Cattleya, Medusa Film