One of the most daring films on the festival circuit this year has found a home. We’re pleased to exclusively reveal that Cinema Guild has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for Albert Serra’s Liberté, which won a Special Jury Prize when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. It’s an official election of both the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. Cinema Guild will open the film in theaters in 2020. See the official synopsis and new international trailer below.
Just before the French Revolution, in a forest outside Berlin, a band of libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI rendezvous with the legendary German seducer and freethinker, the Duc de Walchen (Helmut Berger), to convince him to join in their mission: the rejection of authority and all moral boundaries. What begins as an evening of strategizing on the proliferation of libertinage,...
Just before the French Revolution, in a forest outside Berlin, a band of libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI rendezvous with the legendary German seducer and freethinker, the Duc de Walchen (Helmut Berger), to convince him to join in their mission: the rejection of authority and all moral boundaries. What begins as an evening of strategizing on the proliferation of libertinage,...
- 9/24/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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