Memento showcases Black Heaven and The Tree
After a successful Berlinale, French seller Memento Films International will arrive on Wednesday at the Film Market of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival with strong ambitions.
The team headed by Emilie Georges and Tanja Meissner will be pinning its hopes on two films in Official Selection: Julie Bertucelli’s The Tree [+see also:
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On the Croisette, Memento will also officially launch pre-sales for Dominik Moll’s French/Spanish co-production The Monk (see news), whose cast includes Vincent Cassel, Déborah François, Sergi Lopez and Geraldine Chaplin; and for So-Yong Kim’s US film For Ellen, featuring Paul Dano.
Other noteworthy titles in the line-up are Pawel Pawlikowski’s French/UK/Polish co-production The Woman in the Fifth (see news), which is currently shooting in Paris and stars Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas and Joanna Kulig; and Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s UK-produced vampire film Hello Darkness, which will start shooting in October with a cast including Dominic Cooper and Julie Christie.
Finally, there will be market screenings for French director Coline Serreau’s documentary Think Global, Act Rural; and two former Berlin contenders: French/Argentinean co-production Puzzle by Natalia Smirnoff and German title Faith [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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