The film has its world premiere this fall at the Venice Film Festival. A 2022 theatrical release in the U.S. is in the works for the tense family drama.
Tim Roth reunites with Franco (he starred in Franco’s 2015 pic Chronic) to star in Sundown with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios and Henry Goodman.
Roth and Gainsbourg play Neil and Alice, the core of a wealthy British family on vacation in Acapulco with younger members Colin (Samuel Bottomley) and Alexa (Albertine Kotting McMillan) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore revealing long-gestating rifts.
“Michel Franco’s film is an incisive look into the human psyche,” Bleecker Street CEO Andrew Karpen said Tuesday. “Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainbourg give such powerful performances you can’t take your eyes off the screen as their stories unfold.”
Diego Boneta’s latest film is heading across the pond…
Arthouse outfit MUBI has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Michel Franco’s Venice Film Festival drama New Order, starring the 29-year-old Mexican singer and actor.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.
Conceived six years ago, Franco’s timely class conflict drama sees a high-society wedding interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests as protests rage on the streets.
Written, produced and directed by Franco, the film features an ensemble cast comprised of Boneta, Naian González Norvind, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Lisa Owen, Fernando Cuautle, Mónica Del Carmen, Eligio Meléndez, Patricia Bernal, Roberto Medina, Enrique Singer and Gustavo Sánchez Parra.
Boneta served as an executive producer on the project.
Neon has acquired the North American rights to Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco’s latest feature New Order, starring the 29-year-old Mexican singer and actor.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.
Conceived six years ago, Franco’s timely class conflict drama sees a high-society wedding interrupted by the arrival of unwelcome guests as protests rage on the streets..
Neon intends a theatrical release that’ll be announced at a later date. The film will next play at BFI London Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival. It also played at San Sebastian Film Festival and made its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Written, produced and directed by Franco, the film features an ensemble cast comprised of Boneta, Naian González Norvind, Darío Yazbek Bernal, Lisa Owen, Fernando Cuautle, Mónica Del Carmen, Eligio Meléndez, Patricia Bernal, Roberto Medina, Enrique Singer and Gustavo Sánchez Parra.
He’s already proved himself to be a Sundance Film Festival darling… And, now Antonio Campos is set to charm audiences at this year’s AFI Fest.
The 29-year-old half-Brazilian screenwriter/director has been added by theAmerican Film Institute to the list of rising stars participating in AFI Fest 2012’s Young Americans and New Auteurs sections at this year’s festival.
Campos’ Simon Killer will form part of the New Auteurs section, whichhighlights first and second-time feature film directors from around the world.
Simon Killer centers on a young American man who falls in love with a French prostitute. Camposcalls Simon a “character study” of male angst and utterly reflective of his ingrained love for being frightened as an audience member.
Other Latino filmmakers participating at this year’s AFI Fest include Michel Franco of Mexico and Antonio Mendez Esparza of Spain, Mexico and the U.S.
The films in the Young Americans section are eligible for an Audience Awardwhilethe films in the New Auteurs section are eligible for a Grand Jury Award.
This year’s AFI Fest will take place on November 1-8 in Hollywood.
Here’s the complete list of participants:
YOUNG AMERICANS: All The Light In The Sky: DIR/SCR Joe Swanberg. Ape: DIR/SCR Joel Potrykus. Electrick Children: DIR/SCR Rebecca Thomas. The International Sign For Choking: DIR/SCR Zach Weintraub. Kid-Thing: DIR/SCR David Zellner. Only The Young: DIR Jason Tippet, Elizabeth Mims. Pearblossom Highway: DIR Mike Ott. SCR Mike Ott, Atsuko Okatsuka. Somebody Up There Likes Me: DIR/SCR Robert Byington. Starlet: DIR Sean Baker. SCR Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch. Sun Don’t Shine: DIR/SCR Amy Seimetz. Tchoupitoulas: DIR Turner Ross, Bill Ross.
NEW AUTEURS: After Lucia: DIR/SCR Michel Franco. Mexico. Antiviral: DIR/SCR Brandon Cronenberg. Canda/USA. Clip: DIR/SCR Maja Miloš. Serbia. Eat Sleep Die: DIR/SCR Gabriela Pichler. Sweden. Here And There: DIR/SCR Antonio Mendez Esparza. Mexico/Spain/USA. A Hijacking: DIR/SCR Tobiaas Lindholm. Denmark. In The Fog: DIR Sergei Loznitsa. Germany/Russia/Belarus/The Netherlands/Latvia. Not In Tel Aviv: DIR/SCR Nony Geffen. Israel. Simon Killer: DIR/SCR Antonio Campos. USA.
