French films coming soon in the US

Here are six French movies you can expect to see in America in the next year.

Screened at the Fantastic Film Festival in Austin in September 2013, then in other U.S. festivals earlier this year, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears has been acquired by Strand Releasing. A Belgium France Luxembourg coproduction, this erotic fantasy thriller by the French couple living in Brussels, Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, has been released in France in March. Strand plans a late summer U.S. release.

Strand Releasing has also acquired the rights to the latest film by Céline Sciamma, Bande de filles. The director, already famous for Tomboy, presented his film at Cannes as part of the Directors' Fortnight. The movie is scheduled for a release to French theaters in October, and will be released in the U.S. in early 2015 under the title Girlhood.

The Night and You (Les rencontres d’après minuit), the first feature by Yann Gonzalez is, for Les Cahiers du Cinema, in the world's top 10 of the year 2013. Shown that year at Cannes, this drama, released in France in late 2013, was screened at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica in late April and at the Frameline Film Festival in Los Angeles on June 23rd. It will be distributed in the United States before the end of the year by Strand Releasing.

U.S. distribution rights to La French were aquired by Drafthouse Films. The Cédric Jimenez’ movie, a French flipside for The French Connection, was a hot ticket for several distributors. Starring Jean Dujardin as the judge Michel, it was shot in summer 2013 in Marseille and La Ciotat and completed in autumn in Belgium, in Antwerp, Brussels and Charleroi, for indoor scenes. Currently in post-production, its French release has been postponed until early December. It should be released in major U.S. cities in 2015.

Goodbye to Language is among movies we’ve already announced. It was purchased by Twentieth Century Fox before its filming. Ultimately, the last Jean Luc Godard’s movie rights have been acquired by Kino Lorber. It will open in New York in late October, at Lincoln Center and IFC Center. A national theatrical release will follow on 3D screens. Its VOD distribution and a 3D Blu-ray release are planned for 2015.

Also coming soon:

Timbuktu, by Abderrahmane Sissako, a film that criticizes the actions of jihadists in Mali, in official competition at Cannes this year. In Tamacheq language, but also in Arabic and French, the movie by the Mauritanian director is a French production. It will be distributed in the U.S. by Cohen Media Group.

Les Apaches, by Thierry de Peretti is a Corsican noir movie, released in France in summer 2013. Film Movement has acquired the rights and will propose a cable VOD (Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Bresnan, RCN, Bright House , ...) from July 8 to September 8.

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