Best Friend Forever Boards Cannes’s ACID Pics ‘The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou,’ ‘Madgala’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBrussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired pair of French movies, “The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou” and “Magdala,” which will world premiere in the Cannes sidebar, ACID. “The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou” is the feature debut of Lucas Delangle, who previously worked with Claire Simon on “The Competition,” among other films.

Set in a small village in the French Alps, the film follows a young man, Jacky Caillou, who lives with his loving grandmother Gisele, a magnetic healer.Produced by Charles Philippe and Lucile Ric at Les films du Clan, the film stars newcomer Thomas Parigi and rising French talent Lou Lampros (“The French Dispatch,” “Peaceful”).

Arizona Distribution will release the film in France later this year. “Lucas Delangle is a new French voice to be discovered; he is already very mature and plays with cinema narration and genre,” said Martin Gondre and Charles Bin, Best Friend Forever co-founders. “His first film is a naturalistic take on a genre theme, that stands out as a most surprising, authentic and alluring movie,” the pair added.“Magdala,” meanwhile, marks the fifth feature film by Damien Manivel.

His latest film “Isadora’s Children” won the Leopard Award for best director at Locarno, and his 2017 film “The Night I Swam” played at Venice.