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IFC Picks Up Sundance Darling ‘Liberal Arts’

With Sundance now in full swing, acquisitions are flying left and right, and now, it’s IFC’s turn.

The IFC bunk-buddy has just nabbed up the rights to the latest film from ‘˜happythankyoumoreplease’ director Josh Radnor, ‘˜Liberal Arts,’ one of the festival’s more well respected debuts.

Starring Radnor and sudden indie darling Elizabeth Olsen, the film follows a man who is ‘invited back to his alma mater, falls for a 19-year-old college student, and is faced with the powerful attraction that springs up between them.’

The distributor will likely send this sucker straight to VOD and into theaters later this year, as not only is Radnor a hot name, but there may not be a more interesting young actress around than Olsen, whose ‘˜Martha Marcy May Marlene’ was one of 2011’s biggest Sundance hits. Now, it remains to be seen as just what the chances are like for this film hitting Criterion (this writer think they are about as slim to none as a film can get), but then again, one may have said the same about ‘˜Tiny Furniture.’ And look at where left us.

What do you think?

Source Variety

Joshua Brunsting

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