Paradise City Sales has closed a raft of international deals for Andrea Pallaoro’s drama starring Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon. Paradise City Sales has closed deals for Spain with Vertice360; Australia and New Zealand with Umbrella; Poland with Gutek; Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania with Aero Films; former Yugoslavia and Bulgaria with MCF Megacom; and Taiwan with AV Jet. More territories are under negotiation.
Paradise City Sales is also handling North American sales alongside UTA Independent Film Group. The film will be released in Italy by 01 Distribution, while O’Brother will distribute in Benelux. The film centers on Leo and Anne, whose relationship becomes caught in a cycle of attraction and separation as the boundaries between intimacy and dependence, care and control and presence and absence steadily begin to collapse.
Ava’s presence — and particularly her voice — reaches across different layers of the story, bringing buried emotions and memories to the surface. The film grew out of a story and screenplay by the late Italian master, together with Ilaria Bernardini and Ludovica Rampoldi; Pallaoro subsequently took on the project and developed the screenplay further with Bernardini and Rampoldi after Bertolucci’s death. The film also has a strong musical component.
Sarandon, Marinelli and Vikander all perform songs in the film, whose licensed music also includes tracks by Jamie xx, Marianne Faithfull and Nick Cave, Nina Simone and Imagine Dragons. Pallaoro previously attended Venice with “Medeas,” “Hannah” and “Monica.” The latter competed at the festival and earned its star Charlotte Rampling the Volpi Cup for best actress.
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