EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based The Pool Films has acquired international sales rights to Ludmilla Intravaia and Lionel Samain’s art documentary Caravaggio’s Eye.
It is produced by Stéphane Sorlat’s Mondex & Cie, the banner behind the Prado Trilogy that includes the films Bosch: The Garden of Dreams, Goya, Carrière and the Ghost Of Buñuel. Each has grossed around $500,000 at the global box office.
“There is a strong niche audience eager to know more about painting giants,” said Sorlat, whose credits also include The Velázquez Mystery, Searching for Ingmar Bergman and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Realm.
Caravaggio’s Eye will focus on the Italian painter as an inventor, experimenter, forerunner of photography and a secret agent within the earliest circles of freethinkers of the Italian Renaissance.
The Spain-France co-production will film later this year in Italy, France and Malta. It is co-produced by Digital District. Epicentre is slated to release the film in France in 2027.
The Pool Films’ Cannes lineup also includes Gael García Bernal’s Hombre Al Agua, in which he also stars, thriller Gwladys from the writer of The Swarm, Stephanie Pillonca’s The Days After starring Valerie Donzelli and Jalil Lespert, and 1990s Israel-set thriller Black Slaughter.
The Pool Films co-founder Gilles Sousa said that the film “in focusing on one of the great masters, perfectly meets the consistent global demand we’ve seen for high-end arts programming, and we anticipate another strong run at the international box office.”
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