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Sundance Selects Picks Up Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father, Like Son

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Winner of this year’s Cannes Film Festival’s Jury Prize, director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film Like Father, Like Son has now won itself a distributor.

Deadline reports that the film’s US rights have been picked up by IFC subsidiary Sundance Selects, which itself also has this year’s festival’s Palme d’Or winner, Blue Is The Warmest Color, under its wings as well. Kore-eda’s picture follows the story of two families and their responses to the news that their two sons were switched at birth.

Starring the likes of Fukuyama Masaharu and Ono Machiko, the film was extremely well received at this year’s festival, and with its victory at the awards ceremony on Sunday, this has become one of 2013’s more intriguing drama/comedies. I myself am firmly in the camp that sees this year’s IFC slate as one of the best collections of pictures in quite some time, and this is another Sundance Selects pick up that seems like an almost certain Criterion Collection release come its home video debut. Hopefully, anywho.

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