France (by Bruno Dumont, starring Léa Seydoux)

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Paris-based Indie Sales has boarded international sales on Bruno Dumont’s upcoming drama On A Half Clear Morning, starring Léa Seydoux as a celebrity journalist juggling her busy career and personal life whose life is overturned by a freak car accident.

Dumont writes and directs the drama, his seventh feature-length fiction after Joan Of Arc which premieres in Un Certain Regard this year.

Seydoux – who is also in Cannes this year in Arnaud Desplechin’s Palme d’Or contender Oh Mercy!, will star as France de Meur, a Parisian star journalist with a frantic high-profile life. She hits a psychological wall when she is involved in an accident while driving along a coastal road in the south of France, prompting her to seek out a more anonymous way of life, which is easier said than done.

The cast also features actress and stand-up comedian Blanche Gardin and Benoît Magimel. “The film highlights the excesses and hypocrisy of our highly-connected societies where public life often takes precedence over private life,” says Nicolas Eschbach, Indie Sales CEO and co-founder. [SOURCE]