Cannes 2016, Day 9:The Future Is So Bright We Got to Wear Shades
Only a couple of days left before the main prizes are awarded, tents are taken down and the movie circus leaves town. The future beyond the Palais all of a sudden becomes urgent. Some of the competition titles already got something more valuable then diplomas and statuettes: bidding wars and lucrative sales. Germany’s well-received and well-reviewed Toni Erdmann – the father/daughter dramedy co-starring that giant furry – was quickly nabbed by Sony Classics for North America, with distribution rights being snapped up by key markets like Japan, Italy, Australia and the UK. Sony Classics also picked up the gorgeous animated feature The Red Turtle – a Studio Ghibli/Wild Bunch co-production shown in Un Certain Regard. And Park Chan-wook’s Amazon-backed The Handmaiden quickly became Korea’s most successful acquisitions story, having been sold to 120 territories. Some prizes were already handed out – Critics’ Week awarded its top prize to Mimosas, a road movie of sorts about a caravan traveling across the Moroccan Atlas. The end is near – and so is the beginning.
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