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CANNES 2016 Market / France

Music is the key for Pathé International

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- Sales will kick off at Cannes for Rock'n'Roll by Guillaume Canet, Django Mélodies by Etienne Comar and Dalida by Lisa Azuelos

Music is the key for Pathé International
Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet, who will both topline Rock'n'Roll, at Cannes in 2013

Although French sales agent Pathé International’s line-up does not include any films being showcased in the various selections of the 69th Cannes Film Festival (11-22 May 2016), Muriel Sauzay’s team will certainly not be lacking in strong sales pitches at the Film Market, as it will be negotiating deals for 15 titles, nine of which are in post-production. Standing out among them are three features whose common denominator is the world of music.

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The first of these is Rock'n Roll [+see also:
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, by and starring Guillaume Canet, who toplines the movie together with Oscar winner Marion Cotillard. The cast of the actor’s fifth feature as a director (after Anything You Say, Tell No One [+see also:
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, Little White Lies [+see also:
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and Blood Ties [+see also:
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) also includes Gilles Lellouche, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Lefebvre, Yvan Attal and Camille Rowe. Written by Canet together with Rodolphe Lauga and Philippe Lefebvre, the story seemingly reflects reality, as it revolves around the character of actor-director Guillaume Canet, who has so far managed to avoid a mid-life crisis and who lives happily with Marion Cotillard and their young son. But the young, pretty actress who is co-starring with him in the new film he is shooting turns his world upside down when she informs him that he is no longer “rock'n'roll” – in fact, he never has been, and he has hit the skids in the hierarchy of “bankable” actors. And so Guillaume decides to change his image and his way of life. But once the ball starts rolling, nothing can stop it, and fame and the world of viral videos will expedite his downfall... Produced by Alain Attal for Les Productions du Trésor, the film will be pre-sold from a promo reel at Cannes and will be distributed in France by Pathé from 22 February 2017.

Pre-sales (with the aid of a promo reel) will also officially kick off for Django Melodies [+see also:
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by Etienne Comar (read the article – starring Reda Kateb and Cécile de France), based on an episode in the life of guitarist Django Reinhardt, and for Dalida [+see also:
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 by Lisa Azuelos (with a cast including Sveva Alviti, Jean-Paul Rouve, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Nils Schneider – produced by the director and Julien Madon, European Film Promotion Producer on the Move 2016), which will map out the life of the famous singer.

There will be another promo reel for Raid Dingue [+see also:
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 by and starring Dany Boon, who toplines the movie together with Alice Pol; the comedy is about an absent-minded and incompetent policewoman who dreams of becoming the first female in the elite RAID unit. Once she has accomplished her objective, she finds herself supervised by the most misogynistic of all the police officers, who goes by the nickname of “Vulgar Eugène”. This unlikely duo will have to learn to work together if they want to make it through some incredible misadventures. The film is being produced by Pathé and Les Productions du Ch'timi, and is being co-produced by Belgian outfit Artémis. Pathé will distribute it in France from 1 February 2017.

Among the ammo that Pathé International is still keeping under wraps, we should highlight Promise at Dawn [+see also:
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by Eric Barbier.

The remaining titles in post-production on the firm’s Cannes slate are British productions A United Kingdom [+see also:
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 by Amma Asante (read the article) and Viceroy's House [+see also:
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by Gurinder Chadha, Eternité by Tran Anh Hung (starring Audrey Tautou, Bérénice Bejo and Mélanie Laurent – read the article), Cézanne et moi [+see also:
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by Danièle Thompson (read the article) and Souvenir [+see also:
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 by Bavo Defurne (starring Isabelle Huppert – read the article). Finally, it is worth pointing out the restored version of Milos Forman’s Valmont, which will be presented in Cannes Classics.

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(Translated from French)

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