Italy’s Vivo Film Boards ‘Technically Sweet,’ Produced by Brazil’s Gullane, Based on a Michelangelo Antonioni Script (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comVivo Film (“Le Quattro Volte,” “Miss Marx”) has boarded André Ristum’s action drama “Tecnicamente Dolce” (“Technically Sweet”), based on a screenplay by Italian legend Michelangelo Antonioni, teaming with Gullane Filmes, Brazil’s biggest independent film production house.
The news comes as “Carnival Is Over,” the awaited thriller drama by “Narcos” director Fernando Coimbra, whose “A Wolf at the Door” was one of the standout Brazilian feature debuts of the last decade, has now entered post-production, shaping up as one of the big arthouse titles to hit festivals from Brazil next year.
Featuring Leandra Leal (“A Wolf at the Door”), Pêpê Rapazote (“Narcos”) and Irandhir Santos (“Tropa de Elite 2”), “Carnival” is a Brazilian-Portuguese co-production that teams Gullane with Fado Filmes, Videodrome, Globo Filmes and Telecine, in association with TC Filmes.
France’s Playtime has started to pre-sell the film. “This movie is our main title for next year. This is the new auteur movie from Fernando [Coimbra] because he did a lot for Netflix and other players, but his own artistic style is here,” Fabiano Gullane told Variety. “Carnival Is Over” will be Gullane main focus for the international market at least in the next year’s first half. “We are expecting a good performance in both festivals and sales,” Gullane said.
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