Seidl's Paradise trilogy goes to the United States
- The three films are to be distributed on the other side of the Atlantic next year.
Parisian sales agency The Coproduction Office has found an American buyer for the three instalments of Viennese filmmaker Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy. The filmmaker screened his
trailer
film profile] to an international audience in the Cannes Film Festival competition in 2007.
Distribution company Strand Releasing has announced that it has acquired all rights for the United States for Paradise: Love [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], a film that competed last May in Cannes, Paradise: Faith [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ulrich Seidl
film profile], which won the Jury's Special Prize at the Venice Film Festival last month, and Paradise: Hope. The trilogy is due out in American cinemas in 2013, from the first trimester.
(Translated from French)
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