EXCLUSIVE: Martin Provost’s relationship drama Love Lessons (Demain Je Tombe Amoureux), starring Fabrice Luchini, has buyers swooning before the film’s world premiere at Locarno Film Festival as part of the Piazza Grande screenings in August.
Paradise City Sales has sealed deals for the film in Australia and New Zealand (Limelight and Moving Story), Portugal (Midas Films), Bulgaria (Beta Films), the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Cinemart), Colombia, Ecuador and Central America (Cineplex), ex-Yugoslavia (Kino Mediteran, Five Stars and Demiurg), Taiwan (AV-JET) and to Skeye for airlines.
They follow previous sales to Canada (A-Z Films), Italy (BIM Distribuzione), Germany (Neue Visionen), Austria (Panda Film), Spain (ADSO Films), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Israel (Lev Cinemas) and Hungary (Cirko Films). Memento Distribution will release the film in France on November 25, and Imagine Film will distribute in Benelux.
Luchini plays a professor in his late 60s whose wife leaves him on the night he retires from teaching, turning his life upside down and leaving him to live by the lessons in love and literature he has been teaching his students. Emmanuelle Devos, Chiara Mastroianni and Carole Bouquet round out the starry French cast.
Provost’s ninth feature reteams the French filmmaker with longtime production partners François Kraus and Denis Pineau-Valencienne at Les Films du Kiosque after 2023’s Cannes title Bonnard, Pierre & Marthe and with DoP Guillaume Schiffman, who was nominated for an Oscar for The Artist.
Provost’s 2008 film Seraphine won seven César awards, and he is also behind 2013 period drama Violette, 2017 Berlin selection The Midwife starring Catherine Deneuve and 2020 comedy The Good Wife with Juliette Binoche.
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