EXCLUSIVE: A contemporary spherical of gross sales have been unveiled for famend Italian opera director Damiano Michieletto’s first function Primavera, which world premiered as a Particular Presentation at TIFF this weekend
Paradise Metropolis Gross sales (previously Memento Worldwide) has secured a slew of extra offers on the title following the gross sales launch on the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris in January.
The movie has since bought to Scandinavia (Cinema Mondo), The Baltics (Adastra Cinema), Portugal (Pris Audiovisuais), Greece (Filmtrade & Tanweer), Turkey ( Filmarti Movie), Bulgaria (Beta Movies), Ex-Yugoslavia (Discovery Movie), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Poland (M2 Movies), Czech Republic (Movie Europe), Latin America (Plus Movies / Imagem Filmes), South Korea (Entermode Corp), Taiwan (Swallow Wings) and Australia & New Zealand (Rialto Distribution & Shifting Story).
It was beforehand introduced as having been bought to Benelux (Cineart), Germany and Austria (X Verleih), Spain (A Contracorriente Movies), Switzerland (Frenetic) and Poland (M2 Movies).
In Italy, Primavera will likely be launched by Warner Bros. Italia, whereas Diaphana Distribution is dealing with the French launch.
The movie is lead produced by The Nice Magnificence manufacturing home Indigo Movie with Warner Bros. Leisure Italia in co-production with Moana Movies.
Mixing lyrical sensuality and emotional pressure, Primavera tells the story of Cecilia, a gifted younger violinist raised in an orphanage in 18th-century Venice, whose world is turned the other way up by her encounter with Antonio Vivaldi.
The movie expands on the novel Stabat Mater by Tiziano Scarpa, which in flip relies on the true lifetime of Vivaldi who was a Roman Catholic priest and taught on the Ospedale della Pietà for nearly 30 years.
The screenplay is co-written by Ludovica Rampoldi and director Michieletto.
Michele Riondino, who was seen not too long ago in Bille August’s mini-series adaptation of the Depend of Monte Cristo, performs Vivaldi reverse rising star Tecla Insolia as Cecilia. Isolia not too long ago received the David di Donatello for Greatest Actress for her efficiency in The Artwork Of Pleasure.
Paradise Metropolis Gross sales arrives in Toronto from Venice with a packed fall gross sales line-up which incorporates Lebanese Cyril Aris’ romance A Unhappy and Lovely World, which has simply premiered in Venice parallel part Giornate degli Autori (beforehand generally known as Venice Days), profitable the Viewers Award.
Additional titles embody Damien Hauser’s Reminiscence of Princess Mumbi, which additionally performed in GdA and screens within the Toronto Centrepiece.
Additional TIFF titles embody Haifaa Al-Mansour’s crime thriller Unidentified (Toronto Centrepiece), and Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound (Toronto Gala Shows & Cannes Un Sure Regard).
