Leading German sales agent The Match Factory has acquired international rights to Ginevra Elkann’s upcoming Italian drama I Told You So.
It marks the second feature to be directed by the London-born Italian filmmaker after If Only (Magari), which opened Locarno Film Festival in 2019.
I Told You So, which has the Italian title Te l’avevo detto, is described as “a turbulent mosaic of intertwined stories amidst the inescapable Italian heat”, with an ensemble cast that includes Marisa Borini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Golino, Danny Huston, Sofia Panizzi, Alba Rohrwacher, Greta Scacchi and Riccardo Scamarcio.
Rohrwacher previously starred for Elkann in If Only while Bruni Tedeschi recently directed Forever Young, which is playing in Competition at Cannes.
The film begins during a January weekend in Rome when a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, resulting in people and animals losing self-control.
The script was written by Elkann, Chiara Barzini and Ilaria Bernardini.
It is produced by Rome-based The Apartment Pictures, which is owned by Fremantle, with Italy’s Rai Cinema.
Before directing, Elkann was best known as a producer on features including Babak Jalali’s Land, which played in Panorama at the Berlinale in 2018; Lamberto Sanfelice’s Chlorine, which was selected for Sundance and Berlin 2015; and Noaz Deshe’s Swahili-language drama White Shadow, which won the Venice Film Festival’s Lion of the Future award in 2013.
The Match Factory has four titles in official selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: Lukas Dhont’s Close, in Competition; Emin Alper’s Burning Days and Emily Atef’s More Than Ever, in Un Certain Regard; and a special screening of Mariupolis 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was killed last month during the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Ahead of the Cannes Marché, the company acquired international sales rights to Japanese director Kei Ishikawa’s A Man.
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