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Film Movement Scoops Up North American Rights for Bittersweet Comedy ‘A Nice Jewish Boy’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Film Movement will give director Noé Debré's bittersweet comedy a festival and theatrical rollout later this year.
Film Movement will give “ A Nice Jewish Boy ” a home – several, in fact, as the New York-based distributor has picked up North American rights to Noé Debré ’s bittersweet comedy with plans for both festival and theatrical plays later this year. Written and directed by “Dheepan” and “Stillwater” screenwriter Noé Debré, “A Nice Jewish Boy” follows Bellisha (Michael Zindel, in his leading man debut) – an unflappable 27-year-old naïf who shares a subsidized apartment with his ailing mother, Giselle (acclaimed actor and filmmaker Agnès Jaoui, “Le Gout des Autres”). The freewheeling film drew inspiration from the works of Francois Truffaut and Charlie Chaplin, Debré told Variety, engaging in equal parts with poignant and absurdist subject matters while following a daydreaming lead who can’t be knocked down.
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