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

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.