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The 16th Shanghai International Film Festival opened yesterday, serving up a feast of cinema from home and abroad for local movie buffs. This week’s film section introduces the 14 movies competing for this year’s Golden Goblet Award. There’s also another 10 works by directors nominated for the Asian New Talent Award.

Mr Morgan’s Last Love (German/Belgium)

Genre: Drama/Comedy

Runtime: 116 min

Directed by: Sandra Nettelbeck

Starring: Michael Cain, Clemence Poesy

 

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Global Screen has reported robust Cannes sales on romantic-drama Mr Morgan’s Last Love starring Michael Caine.

The German sales company has closed new deals with Svensk Film (Scandinavia), Umbrella (Australia), Sterkinekor (South Africa), Peterpan Pictures (South Korea), Shoval (Israel), Cinema Nueva Era (Mexico), IFA (Argentina), Tucuman (Brasil), Cine Columbia (Columbia), Prime Pictures (Middle East) and Suraya Filem (Malaysia).

Sandra Nettelbeck’s romantic drama, starring Michael Caine, Clemence Poésy, Jane Alexander and Anne Alvaro, premiered at the Cannes Marche. It centres on a lonely American widower in Paris, who learns to love life again after a chance encounter with a beautiful and vibrant young woman.

Global Screen also announced several other sales in the wake of the market.

A Thousand Times Goodnight, currently in the final editing stage, was presold to Turkey (Bir Film), Israel (Shoval) and Latin-America (HBO).

Bir Films picked up Irish production Run & Jump.

HBO has taken Five Years, Ludwig II and Allez, Eddy! as well as German comedy Men Do What They Can.

Iranian Irib Media Trade picked up Allez, Eddy!, Five Years and International Criminal Court.

“We enjoyed a busy market in Cannes with a very successful market premiere for Mr. Morgan’s Last Love, which we have sold to 20 territories”, said Julia Weber, head of theatrical sales at Global Screen.

“Character-driven drama with an international cast attached continues to sell very well for us.”

source: http://www.screendaily.com/news/michael-caines-mr-morgan-goes-global/5056829.article?blocktitle=Latest-News&contentID=1846

Je danse toujours play to premiere on October 8th, 2013 in Paris.

a young woman in the tape machine. it seems to write the memories of another woman, much more older, that tells a whole life. The life spans of war, it takes place before and after the fight, it encompasses a love story, joys, tears, the intensity of the day. But pletely, we understand the reality of what is unfolding before us. It’s winter 1942.
The young woman who writes knows sentenced because the man she expected did not come to dictate the underground newspapers that must type a machine.
He wasn’t ill, he was arrested and he let her go. But because she secretly loves him, she decided to stay and write the life she didn’t had.