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EXCLUSIVE: France’s Studio TF1 has snapped up international sales rights to Olivier Ducray’s The Man Who Vanished (L’Homme Qui S’Envola), starring Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg and has revealed a first look picture.
The Man Who Vanished centres on a charismatic CEO whose private jet crashes in the Pyrenees and presumably kills him. However, an investigation into his death unearths secrets of his ostensibly perfect life, complete with a secret bribe, a hidden bank account and a mysterious buried survival kit.
The race-against-the-clock thriller is produced by Paris-based NAC Films. It is Ducray’s first solo feature after co-directing Maybe More and Two Of A Kind and co-writing screenplays for several films, including local box-office hits No Signal! and The Climb!
Studio TF1 will release the film directly in French cinemas later this year. It is one of the first films the company will release theatrically as part of its rebranded strategy to expand its cinema division by both increasing film production and launching theatrical distribution for its own titles.
On the in-house production side, Studio TF1 is launching Guillaume Nicloux’s 21st feature, The Conviction (Article 353), starring Vincent Lindon and Jonathan Cohen, produced by Studio TF1-owned Felicita Films and prolific French production outfit Les Films du Kiosque.
The Conviction stars Lindon as a once-respected contractor struggling to rebuild his life after a divorce and the collapse of his business. When a charismatic property developer, played by Cohen, lures him into a tempting real estate project, he ends up trapped in a dangerous game as the lines between law and morality are blurred.
India Hair, Laure Marsac, Jean-Luc Vincent and Eloy Pohu co-star.
The Conviction is adapted from Tanguy Viel’s 2017 novel Article 353 Du Code Pénal, with a script written by the director alongside Anne-Louise Trividic.
Ad Vitam will release the film in France.
The prolific Nicloux is known for films including Valley Of Love and To The Ends Of The World, as well as Mi Amor starring Pom Klementieff and Benoit Magimel, which hits French cinemas on May 6.
The company is launching sales on both titles in Cannes, in addition to Vincent Garenq’s Forsaken (L’Abandon) about the real-life murder of schoolteacher Samuel Paty, which is screening out of competition at the festival.
Studio TFI’s market slate also includes Clement Michel’s Mr. Misfit starring Andre Dussollier, Kyan Khojandi and Valerie Donzelli, produced by Atelier De Production, Pierre-François Martin-Laval’s Serial Teachers 3 – Back To The Past in which the director stars alongside Christian Clavier and Isabelle Nanty, and Elie Semoun’s Ducobu And The Ghost Of Saint Potache, both produced by UGC.
UGC will release all three latter films in local cinemas.
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