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MK2 places its stakes on Tom at the Farm and Hotel

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- Sales open in Paris for the latest films by Xavier Dolan and Lisa Langseth of Sweden. Market premiere for Ouf

Several promising assets are in the line-up of MK2 International for the Rendez-vous with French Cinema, organized in Paris by Unifrance from January 15 to 21. Particularly noticeable among the screenings, the world premiere of Ouf (Nuts) from French director Yann Coridian - with a cast including Eric Elmosnino, Sophie Quinton and Italian actress Valeria Golino, to be released in France on February 27. 

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Juliette Schrameck's team will also be pitching Tom at the Farm, the 4th feature film by Canadian director Xavier Dolan (photo), currently in post-production. Co-produced with France, the film with Dolan acting alongside Pierre-Yves Cardinal and Lise Roy, is an adaptation of a play with the same title by Michel Marc Bouchard. The script folows a young advertising executive who takes a trip across the country to attend a funeral where he discovers that no-one knows of his existence, nor his relationship with the deceased, who was his lover. When the elder brother of the dead man insists on playing a macabre role-play to protect the honour of his mother and the family, a twisted atmosphere takes over which can only be dissipated when the truth comes out, whatever the consequences.

MK2 International is selling another promising movie which is also in post-production : Hotel directed by Lisa Langseth of Sweden. In the wake of Pure, she is reunited with a rising actress : Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair [+see also:
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). The cast also features David Dencik and Simon J Berger. The script is centered around Erika, a young woman leading a perfect life until the day everything hits the fan. At a complete loss, she joins a therapy group which decides to find a place where anonymity would allow everyone to start over with a  totally new identity.

Worth noting, among other things, in the rest of the line-up, the Canadian feature-length film Geronthophilia by Bruce LaBruce whose shooting began early in December in Montreal and which is dubbed by the film-maker as an encounter between Harold and Maud and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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(Translated from French)

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