HeRe - Memento Films International

SUNDANCE /
RENDEZ-VOUS
DE PARIS 2014
UPCOMING
COLD IN JULY
MR. KAPLAN
by Jim Mickle
U.S. Dramatic Competition
by Alvaro Brechner
In Post-production
LOCK CHARMER
New
by Natalia Smirnoff
World Cinema Dramatic
Competition
BLUE RUIN
by Jeremy Saulnier
Spotlight
STILL ALICE
New
Graphic design: www.clade.fr / Credits non contractual
In SUNDANCE
by Richard Glatzer
& Wash Westmoreland
In Production
COMPLETED
SHORT TERM 12
by Destin Cretton
CHASING THE WIND
by Rune Denstad Langlo
BACK IN CRIME
by Germinal Alvarez
CONTACTS
Emilie GEORGES
In Paris: January 10th – 11th
In Sundance: January 17th – 22nd
emilie@memento-films.com
+33 6 62 08 83 43
OFFICE IN PARIS
Tanja MEISSNER
In Paris: January 10th – 11th
In Sundance: January 15th – 20th
tanja@memento-films.com
+33 6 22 92 48 31
Nicholas KAISER
In Paris: January 10th – 11th
In Sundance: January 17th- 22nd
nicholas@memento-films.com
+33 6 43 44 48 99
Nick SHUMAKER
In Sundance: January 15th – 22nd
nick@memento-films.com
+1 646 648 09 86
MEMENTO FILMS INTERNATIONAL
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IN SUNDANCE
U.S. Dramatic Competition
COLD IN JULY
A film by Jim Mickle
By the director of WE ARE WHAT WE ARE
(Sundance 2013, Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2013), STAKE LAND
Based on Joe R. Lansdale’s cult-classic novel
With Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard
(Mud, The Assassination of Jesse James, Days of Heaven)
and Don Johnson (Django Unchained, Miami Vice)
Cold in July tells the story of Richard Dane, a small town frame builder from East Texas who is
forced to kill a man in self-defense. He then meets Ben Russel, a rough ex-con and the father of
the man Dane shot, who is hell-bent on avenging his son’s death. But small town corruption and
paranoia turn these bitter ennemies into unlikely allies, as the two guilt-stricken fathers begin a
search for truth, aided by Dane’s tough minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the backwoods of Houston. Before it’s all over, they uncover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous
than any of them could have imagined.
SCREENINgs
Saturday January 18th, 5:30pm @ Library Center Theatre, Park City (Public)
Sunday January 19th, 6pm @ Holiday 2, Park City (P&I)
Tuesday January 21st, 3:30pm @ Eccles Theatre, Park City (Public)
Thursday January 23rd,11:45pm @ Library Center Theatre, Park City (Public)
Saturday January 25th, 4:30pm @ Redstone Cinema 7, Park City (Public)
BMS Studio presents,
in association with BACKUP MEDIA and Paradise City a La Cinefacture Label
a Belladona Production
USA, FRANCE | 2014 | 100 MIN | Budget 3,5 Millions USD
IN SUNDANCE
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
LOCK CHARMER
A film by Natalia Smirnoff
By the director of PUZZLE (Berlin Competition 2009)
Sebastián is a 33-year-old locksmith who has never really believed in long-term commitments.
Not even with Mónica, his most steady relationship which has only lasted five months.
When she reveals she is pregnant and that he is the likely father, Sebastián’s world takes a strange
turn : he begins to have strange visions about his clients whenever he’s working on their doors.
Some would call it a gift, but, for Sebastián, it feels more like a curse. Together with the help of
Daisy, an unlikely assistant who very much wants to believe in his gift, he reluctantly sets out to
use his talent for his own good.
SCREENINgs
Tuesday January 21st, 6:00pm @ Egyptian Theatre, Park City (Public)
Wednesday January 22rd 8:30am @ Holiday 1, Park City (P&I)
Thursday, January 23rd, 8:30pm @ Library Center Theatre, Park City (Public)
Friday, January 24th, 8:30pm @ Prospector Square Theatre, Park City (Public)
Saturday, January 25th, 4:00pm @ Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City (Public)
With Esteban Lamothe (El Estudiente, Villegas), Erica Rivas (Tetro) |
PRODUCED BY Tarea Fina (LAS ACACIAS)
ARGENTINA | 2014 | 77 min
IN SUNDANCE
Toronto
Official
Selection
Locarno
Piazza Grande
Directors fortnight
competition
Cannes
Fipresci Prize
SPOTLIGHT
BLUE RUIN
A film by Jeremy Saulnier
Blue Ruin follows a mysterious homeless man whose quiet life is turned upside down by dreadful
news regarding a past tragedy. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance
but proves an amateur assassin, finding himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
“Saulnier has made a film of almost unbearable tension, a no-frills pressure cooker that rattles the senses
not just for what occurs...but for what’s waiting just off screen at every turn.” THE PLAYLIST
“The best Coen Bros. noir since they were making them.” FILMFREAK CENTRAL
“A lean and suspenseful genre piece... The script lures the viewer into
an unnerving sense of complicity.” VARIETY
“A tense, darkly comic and surprisingly esoteric revenge tale in the tradition of the Coen brothers’ Blood
Simple, Blue Ruin displays Jeremy Saulnier’s serious capacity for complex genre cinema.” INDIEWIRE
“I doubt we’ll see a more deft, thrilling genre film this year... It’s all incredibly smart.
It is also violent, hilarious, very suspenseful and best of all, humane and thought-provoking...
The acting is superb...Highly Recommended. ” TWITCH
SCREENINgs
Friday January 17th, 11:30am @ The MARC, Park City (Public)
Saturday January 18th, 3pm @ Holiday 2, Park City (P&I)
Sunday January 19th, 11:30pm @ Prospector Square Theatre, Park City (Public)
Saturday January 25th, 9:00pm @ Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City (Public)
With macon blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves (Homeland)
Produced by FILMSCIENCE, NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH AND THE LAB OF MADNESS
USA | 2013 | 92 min
DR
UPCOMING
New – Script Available
STILL ALICE
A film by Richard Glatzer and Wash WESTMORELAND
By the director of Quinceanera
(Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award – Sundance 2007)
Adapted from Lisa Genova’s best-seller
With Julianne Moore (Map to the Stars, The Kids are All Right, The
Hours) Alec Baldwin (Blue Jasmin, 30 Rock), Kristen Stewart (Twilight,
On the Road), Kate Bosworth (Another Happy Day)
Dr. Alice Howland is a world renowned professor of neuroscience at Columbia University. Happily
married and the mother of three grown children, she doesn’t really pay attention when small
things seem to slip from her mind, but getting lost in her own neighborhood makes her realize that
something terribly wrong is happening. That is only the beginning of her struggle to still be Alice.
A BSM Studio presentation of a Lex Lutzus & James Brown production in association with Killer Films
Delivery Fall 2014
in post-production
PROMOREEL AVAILABLE
MR. KAPLAN
A film by Alvaro Brechner
By the director of Bad Day to Go Fishing
(Cannes Critics’ Week 2009)
Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob
fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he’s become rather
grumpy, fed up with his community and his family’s lack of interest in its own heritage.
One beach bar may, however, provide him with an unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness
and recover his family’s respect in the community: its owner, a quiet, elderly German, raises
Mr.Kaplan suspicion of being a runaway nazi.
Ignoring his family’s concerns about his health, Jacob secretly recruits Contreras, a more loyal
than honest former police officer, to help him investigate. Together, they will try to repeat the
historic capture of Adolf Eichmann: by unmasking and kidnapping the German and secretly taking him to Israel.
with HECTOR NOGUERA, NESTOR GUZZINI AND ROLF BECKER
Produced by BAOBAB FILMS, SALADO, RAZOR FILM PRODUKTION (WADJDA, WALTZ WITH BASHIR)
Delivery Spring 2014
COMPLETED
locarno
best actress
locarno
Special mention
locarno
Ecumenical
Prize
locarno
junior jury
second prize
Gotham Award
Best actress
South
by Southwest
Grand Jury Prize
South
by Southwest
Audience Award
INDEPENDENT
SPIRIT AWARD
best supporting
male nomination
INDEPENDENT
SPIRIT AWARD
Best Female Lead
nomination
INDEPENDENT
SPIRIT AWARD
Best editing
nomination
SHORT TERM 12
A film by Destin Cretton
Short Term 12 follows Grace, a 20-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers.
Grace is passionate and takes great care of the kids in her charge, and hides her relationship with
her boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. When the troubled Jayden is admitted in the center, Grace’s
difficult past starts to resurface and puts at risks the delicate balance of her life and future prospects.
“Genuinely moving and heartfelt, honest and striking, this is a drama that will have audiences
simultaneously laughing and crying. Larson gives a phenomenal performance!” SCREEN
“The stunning SXSW fest winner puts the recent Park City competition lineup to shame.” VARIETY
“Genuinely moving, affecting, engaging. Theatrical appeal is strong. Brie Larson gives
a breakthrough performance.” THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Brie Larson turns in an Oscar worthy performance as the lead. Not only emotionally engaging,
it’s also funny.” AIN’T IT COOL
”Impeccable performances all around. Tremendously involving. Intensely likable protagonists
whose penchant for cracking jokes under duress.“ INDIEWIRE
View trailer here
With Brie Larson (The Spectacular Now, United States of Tara),
John Gallagher Jr. (The Newsroom), Kaitlyn Dever (The Spectacular Now, J. Edgar),
Rami Malek (Need For Speed, Twilight, The Master)
Produced by TRACTION MEDIA / ANIMAL KINGDOM
USA | 2013 | 96 min
COMPLETED
ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL
IN COMPETITION
ARRAS FILM FESTIVAL
IN COMPETITION
CHASING THE WIND
A film by Rune Denstad Langlo
Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. She’s moved to Berlin, where she now works as a
fashion designer, happily living with Mathias.
When her grandmother dies, she reluctantly returns to her small town in Norway to take care
of the arrangements and stays with her grumpy grandfather. But in the week leading up to the
funeral, nothing goes as expected and secrets that were kept for too long are soon revealed.
Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life and learn to care for the ones she really loves. View trailer here
With Marie Blokhus, Tobias Santelmann (Kon-Tiki),
Sven-Bertil Taube (Millenium), Frederik Meldal Nørgaard
Produced by Motlys (Oslo, August 31st, North, Turn me on Dammit !)
NORWAY | 2013 | 93 min
COMPLETED
Moscow
In COMPETITION
PUCHEON
FILM FESTIVAL
IN COMPETITION
ENGLISH DUBBED VERSION AVAILABLE
BACK IN CRIME
A film by Germinal Alvarez
Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Earwig, a dangerous
serial killer who began his rampage 20 years before. When Kemp is mysteriously transported
back in time, to Earwig’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch
this elusive killer. As he tries to help his youngerself, Kemp will trigger a series of events with
unforeseen consequences…
“A film fully mastered, as much in its direction as in its screnplay.” LE MONDE
“Anglade carries the film with such enthusiasm and talent. His performance is what makes a real success
from this clever first feature, which allows us to discover a young promising director: Germinal Alvarez.”
20 MINUTES
View trailer here
With Jean-Hugues Anglade (Betty Blue, La Femme Nikita, Queen Margot)
and Mélanie Thierry (Babylon A.D, The Princess of Montpensier)
Produced by Haut et Court (Coco Before Chanel, LES REVENANTS)
FRANCE | 2013 | 102 Min