Huppert's 'All About Corinne' Sold to Cohen Media at TIFF — SkimNews
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- Isabelle Huppert received the TIFF Tribute Performer Award at this week's Toronto Film Festival, the same week her new film hit the market.
- Cohen Media Group acquired U.S. distribution rights for 'All About Corinne,' making it one of the earliest sales out of TIFF.
- Marc Fitoussi wrote and directed the film, his third collaboration with Huppert after 'La Vie D'Artiste' (2007) and 'Paris Follies' (2014); he also directed six episodes of 'Call My Agent,' which featured Huppert skewering her own image.
- Huppert plays Corinne Maclou, a veteran French movie extra with ambitions for speaking roles who befriends Sandrine Kiberlain (playing herself), the star of the film on which Corinne is working.
- The supporting cast is a who's-who of French cinema playing themselves: Kiberlain, Anne Marivin, director Emmanuelle Bercot, Diane Kruger, Ana Girardot, Vincent Dedienne, Thomas Jolly, and Hugo Becker.
- The film had its world bow at Locarno before its North American premiere at TIFF's Gala Presentations, runs 1 hour 53 minutes, is produced by Caroline Bonmarchand, and opens in France next month.
Why it matters: The Cohen Media Group acquisition marks one of the earliest and most concrete pre-buy deals of this TIFF, giving a French-language character study built around a 70-year-old female lead a U.S. theatrical path. Huppert landing both the Tribute Performer honor and a hot sales title in the same week underscores her rare crossover pull, while Fitoussi's third pairing with her — plus his prior film 'The Extras' — shows an ongoing thematic project about overlooked talent that the festival coverage only glancingly registers.
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