Pathé launches sales on Abdellatif Kechiche’s ‘Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due’

EXCLUSIVE: Pathe will launch sales at the AFM on Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due, the third instalment in Abdellatif Kechiche’s coming-of-age saga, which world premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in August.

It follows Mektoub, My Love Intermezzo, which premiered in Cannes’ competition in 2019, and Mektoub: My Love: Canto Uno, which premiered in Venice in 2017.

The film centres on a young man who returns to Sete after studying in Paris, still holding onto his dreams of making films, where he meets an American producer on vacation who takes an interest in his screenplay and wants his wife to play the lead role, but nothing goes as planned.

Its surprise addition at Locarno marked a long-awaited comeback for the director who had disappeared from the spotlight following allegations of on-set misconduct. He is best known for Palme d’Or-winner Blue Is The Warmest Color and The Secret Of The Grain which earned a slew of prizes including a jury prize in Venice and a best film Cesar.

Ricardo Marchegiani produced the film, in co-production with Pathe’s Ardavan Safaee, Why Not Productions’ Pascal Caucheteux and Goodfellas’ Vincent Maraval. Pathe will release the film in France on December 3.

Pathe heads to AFM with a robust slate that includes Antonin Baudry’s two-part film De Gaulle, Guillaume Canet’s thriller Karma starring Marion Cotillard, Arthur Harari’s body-swap mystery The Unknown starring Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider, and family comedy Marsupilami from French box office hitmaker Philippe Lacheau.

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