After showing at Rotterdam, the Seattle Film Festival and the upcoming L.A Film Fest next weekend, Les Films Séville/E1 Entertainment International have announced that GKIDS have picked up the U.S. rights to West of Pluto. GKIDS is the outlet that co-distributed Sita Sings the Blues. The pic should receive a Fall release perhaps under GKIDS’ Flicker Lounge label.
Compared to the style of a Larry Clark film merged with a PG version of Paranoid Park, the French Canadian film directed by Henry Bernadet and Myriam Verrault follows a handful of teenagers over the course of 24 hours. It starts out innocuously enough, with a class presentation by one student on how Pluto lost its status as a planet and a conversation between two cheerleaders about whether or not Quebec should secede. Like a lot of high school movies, it builds to the big house party hosted by the shy kid who wants to impress the cool kids. But the party goes horribly wrong, and the older brother ends up in the car looking for the kids who trashed their house.
