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Sundance Selects Picks Up Francois Ozon’s Young And Beautiful

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That didn’t take too long.

Sundance Selects has nabbed up the rights to Francois Ozon’s newest film, Young And Beautiful, and it marks one of the biggest deals made during this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The picture is Ozon’s latest effort following his breathtakingly dark In The House, and stars Marine Vacth who portrays a “young woman coming of age from her sexual awakening to the loss of her virginity, and from the exploration of love to her search for identity.”

The two parties have worked on past releases of Ozon’s films Angel and Ricky, both of which are solid efforts. A subsidiary of IFC, Sundance Selects picking this film up makes this a distinct possibility for the Criterion Collection, as Ozon is one of today’s most interesting filmmakers, and certainly one of a solid Criterion release of his pictures. Garnering massively positive reviews out of Cannes, expectations are high for the film, and is definitely a likely contender for The Criterion Collection going forward.

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Joshua Brunsting

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