Playtime boasts an attractive trio in the Cannes showcase
- The French sales agent will wager on Meeting with Pol Pot and The Marching Band in the Cannes Première section, and Black Dog in the Un Certain Regard section
An established presence on the Croisette, French international sales agent Playtime will once again be negotiating on behalf of an array of titles at the Marché du Film, unspooling within the 77th Cannes Film Festival (running 15 – 25 May), notably three feature films chosen for the Official Selection.
Two of these movies are set to be unveiled in the Cannes Première line-up: The Marching Band [+see also:
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film profile] by the seasoned French-Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, who’ll enjoy a presence in the Official Selection for the 8th time in his career. His latest opus stars Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin and Cyril Guei - among other names - as three French journalists invited by the Khmer Rouge to Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) in 1978 to conduct an exclusive interview with the regime leader, Pol Pot. It appears an idyllic country, but behind the façade of this Potemkin village, the regime of the Khmer Rouge is failing and the war with Vietnam carries the risk of invasion. The regime starts to hunt down culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the journalists’ eyes, the beautiful image of this country begins to crack, revealing the true horror within, and little by little, their journey turns into a nightmare… The movie is scripted by the director, together with Pierre Erwan Guillaume, and is loosely based on When The War Was Over by journalist Elizabeth Becker. Production is entrusted to French firm Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP) and Cambodia’s Anupheap Production, while the film’s release in France will take place on 5 June, courtesy of Dulac Distribution.
The Playtime team steered by Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Sébastien Beffa and François Yon will also be pinning its hopes on Black Dog by China’s Guan Hu (starring Eddie Yuyan Peng and Jia Zhangke), which is set to be unveiled in the Un Certain Regard section and whose release in French cinemas is entrusted to Memento Films Distribution.
Equally noteworthy is the new movie in the Playtime line-up, Danish thriller Crossing Lines by Jahfar Muataz (read our article), not to mention the sales agent’s bumper post-production offering, which includes The Quiet Son by Delphine and Muriel Coulin (read our article), When Fall is Coming by François Ozon, the biopic Monsieur Aznavour by Mehdi Idir and Grand Corps Malade (starring Tahar Rahim as the famous singer), and Stranger Eyes by Singapore’s Yeo Siew Hua (who triumphed in Locarno 2018 with A Land Imagined [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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