Urban Sales Boards Cannes ACID Presents “Born Under A Bad Star”
Urban Sales has secured international sales rights to the film Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile), which has been selected as the opening feature of the Cannes parallel section ACID. The announcement was made on Tuesday.
This debut feature from French directors Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier chronicles a tumultuous 24 hours in the life of a couple, revealing the dysfunction within their relationship through the perspective of their young daughter.
Cambourieu and Berlier have previously garnered recognition for their short films, including the Oscar-nominated The Lost Children (Les Enfants Perdus) and Bachelorette Party (Enterrement de vie de jeune fille).
The directors employed an intimate filmmaking approach for this project, working with a small crew and featuring their daughter, Anouk Berlier-Cambourieu, who also appeared in The Lost Children. She leads the cast alongside Noëmie Édé-Decugis and Hugo Carton.
The film is produced by Heure d’Été, which marks its first venture into feature filmmaking after a successful track record in short films that have received multiple festival runs and César nominations.
“With their radical on-set writing method and unflinching intimacy, they portray domestic violence as it is truly lived: without moral judgment or easy redemption, in all its everyday banality and persistence,” stated the production company.
Garance Targowla, Acquisition Manager at Urban Sales, commented, “Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier dissect the anatomy of a toxic relationship with a precision and an exhausting intimacy that leaves no one untouched. This is the arrival of two major authors, and we are proud to stand behind them.”
Tandem is set to release the film in France.
