05/05/2009

With four films in competition and a total of seven in the Official Selection, two in Critics’ Week and two in the Directors’ Fortnight, Wild Bunch is ready to take the Film Market by storm at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).

The French international sales company has also announced the addition to its line-up of forthcoming titles by Ken Loach (Route Irish: the story of two friends from Liverpool involved in security operations in Iraq) and Pierre Salvadori (Soins Complets, starring Audrey Tautou and Nathalie Baye).

Vincent Maraval’s team has four Palme d’Or contenders: Loach’s Looking for Eric [+see also:
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The line-up also includes Jan Kounen’s Coco Chanel & Igor Stavinsky [+see also:
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In Critics’ Week, Wild Bunch will be hoping for success with Vladimir Perisic’s Ordinary People and Gabe Ibanez’s Hierro (“Iron”). Meanwhile, the Directors’ Fortnight will screen Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique and a new version of Naomi Kawase’s Firefly.

There will be market screenings of Laurent Tirard’s Le petit Nicolas (“Little Nicolas”), Jean-Jacques and François Mantello’s OceanWorld 3D, Bruno Podalydès’ Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite) (“Public Stands, Versailles Right Bank”) and Woody Allen’s Whatever Works.

Films currently in production include Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me, Sam Gabarski’s Belgian/French co-production Quartier Lointain (“Faraway Neighbourhood”) and Jean-Luc Godard’s Socialism.

Finally, the rich slate of films in post-production features Nikita Mikhalkov’s The Exodus - The Fortress, Julio Medem’s Room In Rome, Grégoire Vigneron’s Indélébile (“Indelible”) and Momcilo Mrdakovic’s Mamarosh [+see also:
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film profile]. Further titles are Kim Chapiron’s Dog Pound, Manuel Pradal’s La Blonde aux seins nus (“The Blonde With Bare Breasts”) and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s The Extra Man, as well as new works by Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising), Claire Denis (White Material [+see also:
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(Translated from French)