Cohen Media Group Wants Us to Spend ‘Afternoons with Marguerite’

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The new kid on the distribution block appears to be specializing in adult-minded films from France. After grabbing Cannes Competition title Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law, Cohen Media Group (CMG) have picked up Jean Becker’s My Afternoons with Marguerite (La Tête en Friche) for a theatrical play sometime next year. Based on Marie-Sabine Roger’s book of the same title, the film centres on a man who lives simply in a caravan at the bottom of his mother’s garden until he meets an old lady (Gisèle Casadesus) who helps him see that he can take control of his life. Casadesus whose been in film since 1934, will next be seen in the Weinstein Co. pick-up Elle s’appelait Sarah from Gilles Paquet-Brenner starring Kristin Scott Thomas.

 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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