Sundance Selects Acquires Claire Denis' Bastards
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Posted August 22, 2013 10:56 PM by Webmaster
Sundance Selects/IFC Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Claire Denis' latest film Les salauds a.k.a Bastards (2013), starring Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Michel Subor, and Lola Créton. The film will have its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival Next month.
Official synopsis: Bastards follows Marco Silvestri, a captain on a container-ship who is called urgently back to Paris by his desperate sister Sandra. Sandra's husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has gone adrift - and she holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Determined to exact a terrible revenge for the violence done to his family, Marco moves into the building where Laporte's mistress Raphaelle lives; but he can't avoid Sandra's secret manipulations… or the fact that he is falling in love with Raphaelle. Featuring new music by the Thundersticks.
Official synopsis: Bastards follows Marco Silvestri, a captain on a container-ship who is called urgently back to Paris by his desperate sister Sandra. Sandra's husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has gone adrift - and she holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Determined to exact a terrible revenge for the violence done to his family, Marco moves into the building where Laporte's mistress Raphaelle lives; but he can't avoid Sandra's secret manipulations… or the fact that he is falling in love with Raphaelle. Featuring new music by the Thundersticks.
