14/05/2013 - With six contenders for the Palme d’Or 2013 in its line-up, Wild Bunch’s international sales team has the upper hand on the Croisette

A whisker away from its 2006 record when it handled the international sales of seven Palme d’Or contenders, the Parisian company Wild Bunch will come to the 66th Cannes Film Festival (which begins tomorrow) with six films from its line-up in competition. Over the past 14 years, except for the 2005 edition, Wild Bunch has always sold at least one feature film competing for the supreme award in Cannes: one in 2007, two in 2004 and 2010, three in 2000, 2012 and 2012, four in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008 and 2009.

The films in the 2013 Cannes competition that Wild Bunch will propose for sale at the Film Market are Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) [+see also:
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interview: Arnaud Desplechin
film profile] by Arnaud Desplechin (photo), Blue Is the Warmest Color [+see also:
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interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
film profile] by Abdellatif Kechiche (a film also produced by Wild Bunch as a delegate), Young and Beautiful [+see also:
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interview: François Ozon
film profile] by François Ozon, Only God Forgives [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Winding Refn
film profile] (a WB coproduction – sales shared with Gaumont) by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, Like Father, Like Son by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda and The Immigrant [+see also:
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film profile] by American director James Gray (also coproduced by WB). In the Official Selection, Bastards [+see also:
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film profile] by Claire Denis (another of Wild Bunch’s delegate productions) will screened in Un Certain Regard and Blood Ties [+see also:
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film profile] by Guillaume Canet will be presented out of competition.

As we wait for the new projects that Wild Bunch will unveil at its own pace on the Croisette, we can nevertheless mention scheduled market premieres and especially those of the documentary Once Upon a Forest by Luc Jacquet, The Last Days by Spanish directors Alex and David Pastor, Scorpion in Love by their compatriot Santiago Zannou, Smart Ass by Kim Chapiron, La grande boucle (Tour de force) by Laurent Tuel (with Clovis Cornillac and Bouli Lanners for a comedy with the Tour de France cycling competition as a backdrop), Dark Touch by Marina de Van and Homeland by Mohamed Hamidi (with Jamel Debbouze in the cast).

Notable titles in the line-up of the international sales team (now managed by Carole Baraton, as Vincent Maraval focuses on production, acquisitions and funding) include in post-production Open Windows by Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo, Dans la cour by Pierre Salvadori, Goodbye To Langage3D by Jean-Luc Godard, the Franco-American coproduction White Bird in a Blizzard by Gregg Araki, A Nine-Minute Interval by Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu (coproduced by the French company Films du Worso) and A Promise by Patrice Leconte.

(Translated from French)