Atalante Bolsters Heritage Cinema in Spain With Czechoslovak Classic ‘Daisies,’ Calypso Doc ‘One Hand Don’t Clap’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEd Meza @edmezavar Madrid-based distributor Atalante is ramping up its heritage cinema titles in Spain, where it’s set to release Vera Chytilová’s 1966 Czechoslovakian dark comedy “Daisies” and Kavery Kaul’s 1988 calypso music documentary “One Hand Don’t Clap.” “Daises,” which Atalante is releasing in November, “is maybe one of the most iconic modern European films that we are very proud to put in theaters,” Atalante CEO Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro told Variety at the Lumière Film Festival’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France.
While the company had previously released one or two heritage films a year, 2024 saw an extraordinary number of releases, Ledo added.
Indeed, Atalante’s releases this year included the 4K restoration by Toho of Yasujiro Ozu’s 1950 Japanese drama “The Munekata Sisters,” which premiered last year in Cannes; the new restoration of Martha Coolidge’s 1975 U.S.
drama “Not a Pretty Picture,” a reconstruction of sexual assault that bowed last year at the Berlinale; and Jacques Rivette’s “L’Amour fou” (1969), along with two other titles celebrating the collaboration between the director and actress Bulle Ogier, “Céline and Julie Go Boating” (1974) and “Le Pont du Nord” (1981).
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