{"id":496728,"date":"2026-05-22T01:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/496728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:50:13","slug":"1-2-special-buy-cannes-critics-week-winner-la-gradiva-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/496728\/","title":{"rendered":"1-2 Special buy Cannes Critics’ Week Winner ‘La Gradiva’ for US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDistributor 1-2 Special has acquired all North American rights to La Gradiva<\/a>, the debut feature from French filmmaker and cinematographer Marine Atlan, which won best film at this year\u2019s Cannes Critics\u2019 Week<\/a>. A theatrical release is planned, with dates to be announced.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film follows a group of high school students on a class trip to Naples who, amid the ruins of Pompeii, are overtaken by surges of desire, anger, and despair. Atlan co-wrote the script with Anne Brouillet and also served as cinematographer alongside Pierre Mazoyer.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore moving to directing, Atlan built her career behind the camera on films including Jessica Forever, The Rapture, Summer Scars, and Queens of Drama. Her cinematography on The Girl in the Snow earned a C\u00e9sar nomination, and her short films have screened at the Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, and Brive festivals. The La Gradiva<\/a> script was awarded the Fondation GAN Grand Prize in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his review for The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> Jordan Mintzer called La Gradiva a \u201cstunning debut\u201d that depicts French teens \u201cin the throes of art, angst and ecstasy with a rare emotional honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLa Gradiva was produced by In\u00e8s Da\u00efen Dasi of Les Films du Poisson, with Angelo Barbagallo as co-producer and Ya\u00ebl Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez as associate producers. The deal was negotiated by mk2 on behalf of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Distributor 1-2 Special has acquired all North American rights to La Gradiva, the debut feature from French filmmaker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[190863,34388,18,117,19,1452,17,216303,327],"class_list":["post-496728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes-2026","tag-cannes-critics-week","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-la-gradiva","tag-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116615723474166833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}