Italian director Pietro Marcello returns to Directors' Fortnight, but this time on his own, in the realm of fiction and in French. Present last year with the collective documentary Futura [+leggi anche:
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The new film from Pietro Marcello, who is also behind the documentary/fiction hybrids The Mouth of the Wolf [+leggi anche:
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The cast includes Juliette Jouan (in her big screen debut), Raphaël Thierry, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, Ernst Umhauer, François Négret and Belgium’s Yolande Moreau.

Freely adapted by the director, together with Maurizio Braucci (Silver Bear for Best Screenplay in Berlin in 2019 for Piranhas [+leggi anche:
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The director of photography on the film is Marco Graziaplena, with a score by Gabriel Yared.

Produced by Charles Gillibert for Paris-based company CG Cinéma and by Italian company Avventurosa (Pietro Marcello’s company), Scarlet was co-produced by Arte France Cinéma, Rai Cinema and by German company Match Factory Productions, with support from Hype Film (Russia), Wise Pictures and Eurimages, among others. The film will be distributed in France by Le Pacte, in Italy by 01 Distribution and in Germany by Piffl Medien. International sales are handled by Orange Studio.