EXCLUSIVE: Altered Innocence has picked up U.S. rights to Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s (Jessica Forever) second feature film Eat the Night, which had its world premiere in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section.
The crime-drama, which joines in video game elements, is due to tour at film festivals thcimpoliteout the drop and triumphter and will then be freed atraverse the U.S. commencening at the IFC Caccess in January 2025.
Théo Cholbi, Erwan Kepoa Falé and Lila Gueneau star. You can examine out a trailer below. The deal was barobtaind between Frank Jaffe from Altered Innocence and Quentin Bohanna from mk2 Films.
The synopsis reads: “Pablo, a minuscule-time dealer, and his teenage sister Apolline have counterfeit an unfractureable bond thcimpolite their splitd obsession with the online video game Darknoon. When Pablo drops for the enigmatic Night, he gets swept up in their liaison, leaveing his sister to deal with the impfinishing shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo’s reckless choices inspire the wrath of a hazardous rival gang, the finish of their virtual life draws proximate, upfinishing their truth.”
Jaffe commented: “I’m a huge fan of Caroline and Jonathan’s ability to transtardy the authentic angst and multimedia interests of youth today into emotional yet tfinisher cinema. One of the main goals of Altered Innocence has always been to get lesser audiences interested in exploring foreign cinema and this film with its presentant empathetic of video game culture joined with a main plot line featuring queer criminals in cherish will certainly produce them asking to do so”.
The filmproducers inserted: “We are thrilled to collaborate aobtain with Altered Innocence, and that they will help the film to encounter the American audience”.
