EXCLUSIVE: Altered Innocence has picked up all North American rights to the Locarno competitors title Astrakan, the debut function from filmmaker David Depesseville.
The pic will display screen at New Directors / New Films, MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual movie competition and is being prepped for a Summer 2023 theatrical launch.
Altered Innocence describes the movie as a coming-of-age story about “adoption, first love, and family secrets,” with an surprising formal left flip.
The full synopsis reads: Samuel is a wild-looking twelve-year-old orphan who has been positioned with a nanny, Marie, for a number of weeks. Marie, who’s struggling between her emotions and her want for cash, is married to Clément, with whom she has two sons, Alexis and Dimitri. Very shortly, Samuel should get to know this new household and their attainable secrets and techniques.
Depesseville has described the movie as “an impressionistic chronicle of that preadolescent age where one is mainly submerged in permanent feelings.”
“The power of the evocation matters most to me,” Depesseville added.
The deal was negotiated between Frank Jaffe from Altered Innocence and Félicie Roger from Tamara Films.
“As a specialist in coming-of-age films, it’s rare to see a film that dives into the genre with such a unique eye as David has done here,” Jaffe stated.
“The film feels like a dream until a thunderous finale makes you wake up and question everything that came before. I’m thrilled for American art-house audiences to drink in young Samuel’s unique journey and experience this film for themselves.”
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