Edge scores duo of two acclaimed titles in Venice 2022!
Tevin Stakston
Edge Entertainment are proud to announce two new high profile acquisitions from the 79th Venice International Film Festival: the praised romantic drama Other People’s Children by Rebecca Zlotowski and the acclaimed documentary The March on Rome by Mark Cousins
Other People’s Children by Rebecca Zlotowski
Rachel is 40 years old, with no children. She loves her life: her high-school students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she becomes attached to Leila, his 4-year-old daughter. She tucks her into bed, cares for her, loves her like her own. But to love other people’s children is risky.
Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest feature film is a delightful and heartfelt coming-of-age character study about a woman already of a certain age. And it is, by far, her best film to date. Other People’s Children world premiered in the competition at Venice Film Festival to critical acclaim and stars a mesmerizing Virginie Efira in the lead, together with great performances from Roschdy Zem and Chiara Mastroianni. The film premieres in French cinemas on September 21st.
Edge Entertainment are delighted to have acquired the rights for the Nordic countries from Wild Bunch International.
Swedish premiere in 2023.
The March on Rome by Mark Cousins
Through little-seen archive footage and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. With blending images of fiction and historical documents, Cousins contextualises history through the now, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and manipulated media.
Award winning film director and historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey) explores the roots of fascist propaganda in his latest high-end documentary The March of Rome, which openend the Out of Competition subsection at the The Giornate degli Autori on August 31th. The film is co-written by Italian writer and director Tony Saccucci and stars Alba Rohrwacher as Anna, the fictional character leading us through the narration. The March of Rome premieres in Italian cinemas on October 31st, 2022 - exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s infamous insurrection.
Edge Entertainment are delighted to have acquired the rights for the Nordic countries from The Match Factory.
Swedish premiere in 2023.