Francois Ozon’s My Crime to Premiere at Unifrance’s Paris Rendez-Vous

Francois Ozon’s subsequent movie “My Crime,” a interval movie headlined by Rebecca Marder and Nadia Tereszkiewicz, will world premiere on opening night time of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, an annual showcase organized by the promotion org Unifrance.

The twenty fifth version of the Rendez-Vous competition, which is able to run Jan. 10-17 with trade professionals from all over the world, pays tribute to Daniel Toscan du Plantier. The beloved producer and former president of Unifrance, who died nearly 20 years in the past, was a driving power behind the creation of the Rendez-Vous, an occasion aimed toward fast-tracking the export of French films.

“My Crime” will mark the prolific French auteur’s observe as much as “Peter von Kant” which premiered on opening night time of this yr’s Berlin Movie Pageant.

“My Crime” sees Ozon revisiting the interval style explored in a few of his most profitable movies, reminiscent of “8 Ladies” – which bought almost 5 million tickets outdoors of France — and “Potiche” — which bought 2.2 million admissions.

Set within the 1930’s, “My Crime” follows a younger actress who’s accused of murdering a producer. In addition to Marder and Tereszkiewicz, “My Crime” stars Isabelle Huppert, Dany Boon and Fabrice Luchini.

Slated for a March 8 launch in France, the film is repped by Paris-based worldwide gross sales firm Playtime, and is produced by Ozon’s common companions, Éric and Nicolas Altmayer at Mandarin Manufacturing (“The Takedown”).

This yr’s Rendez-Vous will host the third journée de l’export, a day-long program of panels with distributors, producers, gross sales brokers, abilities and establishments from France, Europe and the U.S.. These trade professionals will get collectively on the Publicis Cinemas on the Champs Elysees to debate the challenges of promoting and distributing French movies within the years to return.

The Rendez-Vous can even host market screenings of recent French movies throughout a number of arthouse cinemas positioned within the Champs-Elysees space. Sellers and patrons will probably be having conferences on the posh Hôtel du Collectionneur, the place French stars and worldwide journalists can even be readily available for press junkets from Jan. 14-17.

Following its merger with the TV export physique TV France Worldwide, Unifrance can even showcase French sequence with a devoted program referred to as French TV Screenings which will probably be held Jan. 10-11 on the Membership de l’Etoile.

Ozon just lately posted the primary nonetheless of “My Crime” on social media: