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Cannes Croisette: From Paris with Love

Pierre Morel directs this action flick – a la francais and L’Americaine…which means expect at least one car chase.

Published on May 11, 2009

Pegged for release early next year, scripted by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak, From Paris with Love concerns a young embassy low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack. Pierre Morel directs this action flick – a la francais and L’Americaine…which means expect at least one car chase. Lionsgate owns the rights and releases this in February of next year.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).