Un poison violent (translates into Love Like Poison) is Jean Vigo prize wining screenplay - your typical French family drama big on dialogue, not interested in style. Helmer Katell Quillévéré presented her directorial debut in the Quinzaine last night and I couldn't help think back to last year's Bruno Dumont film Hadewijch - both films take certain aspects of religion and cross it with female adolescence.
They've appeared together on Félix Moati's Deux fils and will be seen in Quentin Dupieux's future Fumer fait tousser, Anaïs Demoustier & Vincent Lacoste...
We have the press books for Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light, Hideo Nakata's Chatroom, Cheol So Jang's Bedevilled, Cristi Puiu's Aurora, Katell Quillevéré's Un Poison violent, Gust Vandenberghe's Little Baby Jesus of Flandr and Diego Lerman's La Mirada invisible (pic above).
With three in the Director's Fortnight and one in the Main Comp for good measure, Films Distribution are making a significant contribution to Cannes this year – my money is on Katell Quillevere's Un Poison Violent (see pic above) but Wang Xiaoshuai, Jean-Stéphane Bron's doc on white collar crimes that hinder the working man and an immigrant tale gone wrong portrait from Olivier Masset-Depasse could make this a great year for the distributor. Something to look forward to in the near future: Yann Samuell's next effort.