NEW YORK -- Chris Blackwell's indie distribution shingle Palm Pictures has picked up two films that screened earlier this year at the Festival de Cannes: writer-helmer Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf, starring Isabelle Huppert, and helmer Lou Ye's Chinese import Purple Butterfly, starring Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Zhang Ziyi. This year's Cannes slate has proved a cinematic trove for Palm, which also acquired Christoffer Boe's Reconstruction from the fest. That film won the Cannes Camera d'Or, for best first feature, and became Denmark's foreign-language entry for the Oscars. The Wolf deal encompasses domestic and Caribbean rights. The project by Haneke (The Piano Teacher) is set in a postapocalyptic world where citizens have headed to the country in their bid for survival.
- 11/4/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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