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‘Baskin’ Director’s ‘Girl With No Mouth’ Finds Backing at Cannes
Paris-based sales company Versatile has acquired world rights on Turkish filmmaker Can Evrenol’s Girl With No Mouth, excluding North America which has been snapped up XYZ, reports ScreenDaily.
Based on a short story by Turkish comic book artist Cem Ozuduru:
The film is a coming-of-age story about Perihan, a girl born without a mouth, who is befriended by a gang of three boys also missing body parts, while on the run from the authorities.
Evrenol and his producer pitched the film as “a coming of age story, chronicling the journey of four fantastically disabled kids” aimed at both younger audiences and the general festival crowd.
The film, which is produced by Müge Büyüktalaş at MO Film, is due to shoot in Turkey this August.
The project was pitched at the proof of concept presentation of the Frontières Platform, a joint venture between the Cannes film market and the Fantasia International Film Festival.
It marks something of a departure in genre for Evrenol after his previous films, the gory cop thriller Baskin and Housewife, about a woman whose parents were murdered when she was seven, who is losing her grip on reality.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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