“Beating Hearts” (“L’amour ouf”), an epic crime romance directed by Gilles Lellouche and slated to compete on the Cannes Movie Pageant, has lured main distributors in key markets forward of its world premiere.
The sprawling film, which is budgeted within the $30 million vary, is financed, co-produced represented in worldwide markets by Studiocanal. Probably the most anticipated and bold French films set for a theatrical launch in 2024, “Beating Hearts” was produced by Hugo Selignac at Chi-Fou-Mi, a Mediawan firm, and Alain Attal’s Les Movies du Tresor.
Studiocanal will distribute the movie in Germany and Australia, in addition to France, with a launch set for Oct. 16. The corporate has bought it to Cineart in Benelux, Filmcoopi in Switzerland, Feelgood in Greece, Fortunate Crimson in Italy, Lusomundo in Portugal, Kinoswiat in Poland, Greenlight Movies in Ukraine, Capella in Russia and Pinema in Turkey. Studiocanal can be closing extra offers on the Cannes Movie Pageant.
Based mostly on Neville Thompson’s 1997 novel “Jackie Loves Johnser OK,” the film is an emotional rollercoaster spanning over 15 years within the lives of star-crossed lovers. It took Lellouche over a decade to put in writing (alongside Audrey Diwan and Ahmed Hamidi) and 4 months to shoot with a forged that mixes rising and well-known actors (Mallory Wanecque, Malik Frikah, Adele Exarchopoulos and Francois Civil), a pulsating soundtrack of cult Nineteen Eighties and Nineties songs (from the Remedy, Billy Idol and Depeche Mode), topnotch key crew and musical interludes created by (La) Horde.
Lellouche, who’s greatest referred to as a beloved and bankable French actor, struck a chord together with his second directorial outing “Sink or Swim,” which grossing over $35 million regionally in 2018. The film additionally delivered Studiocanal’s largest ever field workplace gross for a neighborhood movie in France.
“Beating Hearts” reteams Lellouche with Studiocanal and marks the banner’s greatest funding in a French-language film so far. And whereas “Sink or Swim” had performed out of competitors at Cannes, “Beating Hearts” will mark Lellouche’s debut in competitors as a director.
“We strongly imagine within the unbelievable ambition and imaginative and prescient behind this distinctive movie which is testomony to our gifted and visionary filmmaking group in Gilles Lellouche, Hugo Selignac and Alain Attal,” mentioned Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh, who pointed to the success of “Sink or Swim” and “All Your Faces,” a current Cesar-winning movie produced by Selignac and Attal with Studiocanal.
Marsh mentioned the premiere of “Beating Hearts” at Cannes can be “a second in time … to find this movie on the massive display and for everybody to expertise this epic and spectacular love story.”
In an interview with Selection in January, Lellouche mentioned he learn the e book and “fell in love with this story” greater than 15 years in the past, however put it apart as a result of he didn’t really feel able to deal with such a big endeavor. However after his sophomore movie “Sink or Swim” proved profitable, Lellouche determined to take the leap and was impressed by his want to make a movie about love.
“Filial love, friendship love, irrational love, imaginary love and love within the craziest methods, resembling erotomania and jealousy – these are themes that attraction to me, woven along with adolescence, with every little thing that it stirs, as a result of every little thing is so intense, it may be exhilarating and intensely violent,” Lellouche mentioned.
“Beating Hearts” additionally melds completely different genres. “There’s plenty of romance, violence — as a result of each nice love story hurts — but additionally some thriller, music and humor,” he mentioned.
Lellouche has starred in a few of France’s hottest movies in current historical past, together with Cedric Jimenez’s “November” and “Stronghold,” in addition to Guillaume Canet’s “Little White Lies” and “Asterix and Obelix: The Center Kingdom.”
“Beating Hearts” is one in all three French-language movies competing at this yr’s Cannes Movie Pageant, together with Agathe Riedinger’s “Wild Diamond” and Christophe Honoré’s “Marcello Mio.”
