Catherine Deneuve Drama ‘Mute’ from Emmanuelle Bercot Heads Studiocanal Berlin Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel and Cécile de France, “Mute,” directed by Cannes finest actress winner Emmanuelle Bercot, will head Studiocanal’s 2021 Berlin slate.
“Mute” is produced by Les Movies du Kiosque, whose credits consist of “La Belle Epoque” and Bercot’s non-public “Standing Enormous.”
Introduced to traders from Feb. 27, the film marks the most stylish from Bercot who’s finest identified as a 2015 Cannes Competition finest actress award winner for her no-holds barred performance in “My King” however is a critical author and director in her non-public upright. 20-year career highlights consist of co-writing Maiwenn’s
“Polisse” and directing “Standing Enormous,” which opened the 2015 Cannes Competition and snagged Cesar Award nominations for film, director and normal screenplay. Studiocanal handled world distribution on “My King.”
As becomes an actor, Bercot’s six aspects are illustrious by their first class casts.
“Mute” is no longer any exception. Space over four seasons, the characteristic stars Benoit Magimel, a Cannes finest actor winner for Michael Haneke’s “The Pianist,” and Cecile de France (“Russian Dolls,” “The Exiguous one With a Bike”).
Billed by Anne Cherel, Studiocanal EVP world sales and distribution and Chloé Marquet, head of world film sales, as “to take into accounta good looking out, unforgettable, film about like, wretchedness, and acceptance,” “Mute” stars Magimel as a son in denial about a serious illness, Deneuve as a mother dealing with the insufferable with a model of helplessness. Between them a health care provider battles to realize his job and carry them to acceptance, and understand what it technique to die while living.
Bercot solid Gabriel Sara, an exact-existence doctor, as himself, a resolution that “brings such truth and authenticity to the film as she portrays no longer most effective Sara’s out of the ordinary medical abilities however his humanity,” acknowledged Cherel and Marquet.
They added: ”The film is an homage to the medical machine, to the entire key employees who had been on the entrance line this past year and leaves you with a resounding desire to revel in existence, to issue ‘I like you’ to the of us you care about.”