Claire Denis’ High Life for Arte France Cinéma
- The movie will bring together Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette and Mia Goth in the cast; Arte will also co-produce films by Sergei Loznitsa, Yann Gonzalez and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
The last 2015 selection committee of Arte France Cinéma (headed by Olivier Père) has chosen to get involved with four projects as a co-producer and pre-purchaser. Standing out among them is High Life [+see also:
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High Life is a science-fiction project about the odyssey undertaken by the crew of a spaceship beyond our solar system (with a screenplay co-penned by the director, her regular collaborator Jean-Pol Fargeau, and the duo of novelists comprising English author Zadie Smith and Northern Ireland’s Nick Laird). It will boast a cast including Robert Pattinson (Cosmopolis [+see also:
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This will be the 12th feature by the filmmaker, who has been selected six times at the Venice Film Festival (in competition with No Fear, No Die in 1990, The Intruder [+see also:
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Arte France Cinéma will also be supporting A Gentle Creature, the third fiction feature by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (in competition at Cannes in 2010 and 2012 with My Joy [+see also:
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Other projects that have been accepted are Un couteau dans le cœur by Yann Gonzalez (produced by CG Cinéma and which will be the second feature by the director, who rose to stardom in the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2013 with Les Rencontres d'après minuit [+see also:
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For the record, Arte France Cinéma is also backing the upcoming films by Bertrand Bonello, Olivier Assayas, Arnaud des Pallières, Bruno Dumont, Michel Ocelot, Mia Hansen-Løve, Alain Guiraudie, Paul Verhoeven, Whit Stillman, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alessandro Comodin, Michael Dudok de Wit, Mehmet Can Mertoglu, Samuel Maoz, Mohamed Diab, Axelle Ropert, Hafsia Herzi, Caroline Deruas, Rayhana Obermeyer, Serge Bozon, Jean-François Laguionie, Sacha Wolff, Thierry de Peretti, Davy Chou, and sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin.
(Translated from French)
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