“Other People’s Children” has secured U.S. distribution forward of its run at Sundance Film Festival later this month. A press launch introduced that Music Box Films snagged rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s French-language drama starring Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”) with plans to launch it in theaters and on house leisure platforms this spring.
Written by Zlotowski, the movie tells the story of Rachel, a 40-something instructor who forges an in depth bond together with her new boyfriend’s four-year-old daughter. Their relationship conjures up Rachel to think about having a baby of her personal.
“I’m very much like Rachel. I’m a Parisian woman in my early 40s. The character is a teacher, and I studied to be a teacher at university. I felt this film could be the dream life, maybe the alternative life, of what could have been for me. And, feeling that I could not have a child, I saw the film as a letter to myself, something I needed, both as a director and as a spectator, to help me with my situation. Because I couldn’t find this story anywhere, not in the way I wanted to show it, with tenderness,” Zlotowski beforehand instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “Showing how you become super attached to a kid that you raise but isn’t yours. To have strong feminist feelings that you can be complete without children, but still feeling the pain. This kind of complexity I couldn’t find anywhere. So I made the film.”
“Other People’s Children” screened at Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival. Its U.S. premiere will happen January 20 at Sundance.
“Rebecca’s compassionate new film is a delicate exploration of the complicated emotional bonds that can form between adults and the children of their romantic partners,” stated Brian Andreotti of Music Box Films “We have been admirers of her work for some time, and we are certain her latest will find a receptive audience in the U.S. that will be as moved by the film as we were.”
Zlotowski’s different credit embrace “An Easy Girl” and “Planetarium.”
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