Sony Footage Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights for Rebecca Zlotowski’s French-language homicide thriller film Vie Privée, starring Jodie Foster as a famend psychiatrist who investigates the suspicious dying of considered one of her sufferers.
Foster, who speaks fluent French, is joined within the forged by Auteuil (Farewell, Mr Haffman) and Efira (Different Individuals’s Youngsters), Mathieu Amalric (Serpent’s Path), Vincent Lacoste (Misplaced Illusions) and Luana Bajrami (Portrait of a Woman On Hearth).
The acquisition follows a slew of offers on the movie, which is being bought internationally by Goodfellas.
As introduced by Deadline over the weekend, it has bought out in Europe with offers to UK (Altitude), Spain (Caramel Movies), Germany (Plaion Footage), Italy (Europictures), Benelux (September Movie), Switzerland (Frenetic Movies), Portugal (Pris Audiovisuais), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), ex-Yugoslavia (MCF), Hungary (Cinetel Ltf), Romania (Independenta Movie), Poland (Greatest Movie), the Baltics and CIS (Professional:vzglyad).
Danish distributor One other World Leisure has acquired Scandinavian rights, in a multi-territory deal masking Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Outdoors of Europe, it has been acquired for Israel (Lev Cinemas),Turkey (Yeni Bir Movies) and Australia and New Zealand (Transmission).
Numerous Asia offers are in superior negotiation.
Advert Vitam pre-acquired French rights for the film, produced by Frédéric Jouve at Les Movies Velvet in co-production with France 3 Cinéma.
Zlotowski’s earlier credit embrace 2023 Venice Golden Lion contender Different Individuals’s Youngsters, An Simple Woman, Planetarium, Grand Central and Expensive Prudence.
Foster, who has sturdy ties with France, has appeared in a handful of French Productions throughout her profession, however Vie Privée marks her first French-language position in 20 years after Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s wartime romance A Very Lengthy Engagement in 2005.
