16/05/2023 - CANNES 2023: Pulsar Content picks up Morgan Simon; Pascal Bonitzer plus brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu are added to Pyramide International’s line-up; Raoul Peck joins the ranks of mk2 Films

Director Morgan Simon, who is preparing his second feature L’amour égaré

As is customary on the first day of the Marché du Film at the 76^th Cannes Film Festival, French international sales agents have unveiled a host of new titles that have been added to their jam-packed catalogues.

Pulsar Content is launching pre-sales for L’amour égaré (see the article), the second feature by Morgan Simon, following A Taste of Ink [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Morgan Simon
film profile] (Special Mention in New Directors at San Sebastián in 2017), which is now in post-production. A production by Trois Brigands and Wild Bunch together with Belgium’s Frakas, the latter on board as a co-producer, it is toplined by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Félix Lefebvre (Summer of 85 [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], taking part in the Cannes showcase this year, in the Un Certain Regard title All to Play For [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Deloget
film profile]) and Lubna Azabal.

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Pyramide International (see the news) has added Jim’s Story by brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu to its line-up. A loose adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pierric Bailly, it stars Sara Forestier, Sara Giraudeau and Karim Leklou (who will be seen by Critics’ Week audiences this week in Vincent Must Die [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Stéphan Castang
film profile]). Staged by SBS Productions and co-produced by Arte France Cinéma, the feature will begin principal photography this summer.

Pyramide International has also acquired another SBS production: Auction by Pascal Bonitzer. Now in post-production, the film boasts a cast including Alex Lutz (who will bring this year’s Un Certain Regard to a close with Strangers by Night [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], which he directed and stars in), Léa Drucker (who will be glimpsed in competition on the Croisette next week in Last Summer [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Catherine Breillat
film profile]), Louise Chevillotte and Nora Hamzawi.

Last but not least, mk2 films (see the news) is launching pre-sales for Ernest Cole, the new documentary by Raoul Peck (Oscar-nominated in 2017 for I Am Not Your Negro [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]), which revolves around the titular man, who was South Africa’s first independent photographer and whose work railed against the reality of apartheid. The production is being staged by Velvet Film.

(Translated from French)