Berlinale Panorama Selection ‘Grand Jeté’ Acquired by Altered Innocence in U.S. (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features EditorAltered Innocence has picked up all U.S. rights to Isabelle Stever’s sixth feature film “Grand Jeté” prior to its premiere on Friday in the Panorama section of Berlinale.
The film stars Sarah Nevada Grether as Nadja, a woman who has estranged herself from her young son in order to be able to concentrate on her ballet career.
When she meets the son (played by rising star Emil von Schönfels), who grew up with her mother, again after years at a family party, an affection develops that goes far beyond motherly love.
A release is planned for late 2022.The deal was negotiated between Frank Jaffe from Altered Innocence and Matteo Lovadina from Reel Suspects.Jaffe commented: “Director Isabelle Stever crafts an intense, but yet very intimate and lyrical film about one woman’s obsession with finding love and tranquility after an intense dancing career with an unlikely companion: her own son.
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