Variety is reporting on several international deals for the mystery thriller The Sonata, starring Hobo with a Shotgun‘s Rutger Hauer, “Hemlock Groves'” Freya Tingley, and Simon Abkarian.
The film, directed by Andrew Desmond, centers on a young violinist who “unravels her long-lost father’s past, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.” I’ve been lucky enough to see The Sonata and think Bloody readers are going to love it. Watch for U.S. distribution news as it comes in.
Set in London and France, The Sonata centers on young virtuoso violinist Rose (Tingley). After the death of her estranged but famous composer father (Hauer), Rose inherits the old mansion in which he lived. There, she discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious music score marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles (Abkarian), her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, little by little, starts to unlock secrets concerning her father’s past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a plan imagined on the day she was born.
The film has been sold to genre-film distributors in South Korea, Japan and the Middle East. Sales agent ARRI Media inked deals with Company L for South Korea, The Klockworx in Japan and Salim Ramia in the Middle East.
It played in the official competition at Fantasporto, in Official Méliès Competition for Best European Feature at the Brussels Intl. Fantastic Film Festival, and out of competition at the Lucca Film Festival, where a Lifetime Achievement Award went to Hauer.
Check out some new images and Cannes sales art.
