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Cohen Media Group Acquires North American Rights to Bejo’s Heist Film “The Last Diamond”

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Bérénice Bejo’s heist film is headed to U.S. theaters…

Cohen Media Group has acquired the North American distribution and English-language remake rights to The Last Diamond, starring the 37-year-old Argentine actress.

Berenice Bejo in The Last Diamond

Written and directed by Eric Barbier (The Serpent, Toreros), the French suspense drama centers on paroled jewel thief Simon (Yvan Attal) as he plots the heist of a legendary diamond, put up for auction by the family of gem expert Julia (Bejo).

Masquerading as a securityconsultant, Simon leads the beautiful but vulnerable Julia down a seductive, dangerous path toward a fate neither of them suspected.

Jean-Francois Stévenin also stars.


The Last Diamond / Le Dernier Diamant (2014… by unifrance

The Last Diamond will have its North American premiere at the Colcoa Film Festival in Hollywood.

It’s set to open in France at the end of the month followed by an early 2015 release in the U.S.

Bejo to Star in the French Film “Le Dernier Diamant”

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Bérénice Bejo will be shining bright like a diamond (owner) in her next picture…

The 36-year-old Argentine actress has been cast in the French film Le Dernier Diamant, a heist film that follows an ex-con coerced into taking part in the theft of a celebrated diamond during an auction in Antwerp and who becomes entangled with the diamond’s owner.

Berenice Bejo

Bejo, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the Best Picture-winner The Artist, will portray the owner of the diamond in the Eric Barbier-directed film.

Le Dernier Diamant, which co-stars Yvan Attal, Jean-François Stévenin and Annie Cordy, will begin filming next week.

Bejo’s most recent projects include voicing the character of Mérida in the French-dubbed version of Disney’s Brave and appearing in the 2012 French comedy  Populaire.