Exclusive: Violin prodigy Alix Vaillot [pictured] stars as a musician battling blindness.
Gaumont has been pulling in sales on Michel Boujenah’s touching drama Heartstrings, starring French violin prodigy Alix Vaillot as a young musician battling blindness, ahead of its official roll-out at the Afm. Other cast include Charles Berling and Pascal Elbe.
The film has sold to Japan (Kino Films), Canada (Az Films) and Korea (Woo Sung). A deal to Germany and Switzerland (Ascot Elite) was announced over the summer. “It’s rare to get a Japanese pre-sale on a script for a French film,” comments Gaumont’s deputy head of international sales Yohann Comte.
The comedy-drama – based on Pascal Ruter’s best-seller Le Coeur en Braille – is in the vein of this year’s French box-office hit La Famille Bélier, adds Comte. Vaillot plays a young girl with musical aspirations, battling her parents’ plans to put her in an institution for the blind. Such a move...
Gaumont has been pulling in sales on Michel Boujenah’s touching drama Heartstrings, starring French violin prodigy Alix Vaillot as a young musician battling blindness, ahead of its official roll-out at the Afm. Other cast include Charles Berling and Pascal Elbe.
The film has sold to Japan (Kino Films), Canada (Az Films) and Korea (Woo Sung). A deal to Germany and Switzerland (Ascot Elite) was announced over the summer. “It’s rare to get a Japanese pre-sale on a script for a French film,” comments Gaumont’s deputy head of international sales Yohann Comte.
The comedy-drama – based on Pascal Ruter’s best-seller Le Coeur en Braille – is in the vein of this year’s French box-office hit La Famille Bélier, adds Comte. Vaillot plays a young girl with musical aspirations, battling her parents’ plans to put her in an institution for the blind. Such a move...
- 11/4/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Violin prodigy Alix Vaillot [pictured] stars as a musician battling blindness.
Gaumont has been pulling in sales on Michel Boujenah’s touching drama Heartstrings, starring French violin prodigy Alix Vaillot as a young musician battling blindness, ahead of its official roll-out at the Afm. Other cast include Charles Berling and Pascal Elbe.
The film has sold to Japan (Kino Films), Canada (Az Films) and Korea (Woo Sung). A deal to Germany and Switzerland (Ascot Elite) was announced over the summer. “It’s rare to get a Japanese pre-sale on a script for a French film,” comments Gaumont’s deputy head of international sales Yohann Comte.
The comedy-drama – based on Pascal Ruter’s best-seller Le Coeur en Braille – is in the vein of this year’s French box-office hit La Famille Bélier, adds Comte. Vaillot plays a young girl with musical aspirations, battling her parents’ plans to put her in an institution for the blind. Such a move...
Gaumont has been pulling in sales on Michel Boujenah’s touching drama Heartstrings, starring French violin prodigy Alix Vaillot as a young musician battling blindness, ahead of its official roll-out at the Afm. Other cast include Charles Berling and Pascal Elbe.
The film has sold to Japan (Kino Films), Canada (Az Films) and Korea (Woo Sung). A deal to Germany and Switzerland (Ascot Elite) was announced over the summer. “It’s rare to get a Japanese pre-sale on a script for a French film,” comments Gaumont’s deputy head of international sales Yohann Comte.
The comedy-drama – based on Pascal Ruter’s best-seller Le Coeur en Braille – is in the vein of this year’s French box-office hit La Famille Bélier, adds Comte. Vaillot plays a young girl with musical aspirations, battling her parents’ plans to put her in an institution for the blind. Such a move...
- 11/4/2015
- ScreenDaily
Cannes -- Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" won the Festival de Cannes' top honor, the coveted Palme d'Or, as the 63rd annual Festival de Cannes wrapped Sunday night.
Charlotte Gainsbourg joined jury president Tim Burton to present Weerasethakul with the prize at the traditional closing-night ceremony held in the Palais des Festivals, as the world's most famous film festival wrapped its 12-day run.
"I'd like to thank the jury, particularly Tim Burton, whose haircut I really like," Weerasethakul told the crowd while accepting his Palme d'Or. He added: "I'd like to send a message home: This prize is for you."
Match Factory is handling international sales for the film about a man suffering from acute kidney failure who spends his last days in the country surrounded by his family.
French director Xavier Beauvois' "Of Gods and Men" was awarded the fest's Grand Prize.
Charlotte Gainsbourg joined jury president Tim Burton to present Weerasethakul with the prize at the traditional closing-night ceremony held in the Palais des Festivals, as the world's most famous film festival wrapped its 12-day run.
"I'd like to thank the jury, particularly Tim Burton, whose haircut I really like," Weerasethakul told the crowd while accepting his Palme d'Or. He added: "I'd like to send a message home: This prize is for you."
Match Factory is handling international sales for the film about a man suffering from acute kidney failure who spends his last days in the country surrounded by his family.
French director Xavier Beauvois' "Of Gods and Men" was awarded the fest's Grand Prize.
- 5/23/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paris – An international pot pourri of all-male auteurs from across the globe will battle France's own filmmaking superstars on their home turf when the French-accented 63rd Festival de Cannes kicks off its annual Riviera rendez-vous on May 12th, the fest's artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced Thursday at a press conference in Paris.
Familiar faces in the famous fest's Competition selection including Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mike Leigh, Rachid Bouchareb and Lee Chang-Dong will screen their films alongside Gallic filmmakers Bertrand Tavernier, Xavier Beauvois, Mathieu Amalric and Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
The Competition will feature 16 films from 13 countries. 46 features had been chosen for the full selection as of Thursday's conference, with "six or seven more" to come in the coming days, Fremaux told journalists at the conference held at the luxe Parisian Grand Hotel.
The red carpets won't be lacking famous faces. Former jury president Sean Penn will...
Familiar faces in the famous fest's Competition selection including Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mike Leigh, Rachid Bouchareb and Lee Chang-Dong will screen their films alongside Gallic filmmakers Bertrand Tavernier, Xavier Beauvois, Mathieu Amalric and Franco-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
The Competition will feature 16 films from 13 countries. 46 features had been chosen for the full selection as of Thursday's conference, with "six or seven more" to come in the coming days, Fremaux told journalists at the conference held at the luxe Parisian Grand Hotel.
The red carpets won't be lacking famous faces. Former jury president Sean Penn will...
- 4/15/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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