I Wonders Pictures placed themselves as a primary player in the distribution market at the Venice Film Festival. We met Andrea Romeo, the general manager at I Wonders Pictures, on the eve of the presentation of their The Beast by Bertrand Bonello.
Your projects, your expectations at the Venice Film Festival.
We are very proud to hold distribution rights of three films in the Main Competition in an edition of the VFF that employs such a prestigious jury, and has a line-up of the highest level. After last year’s Golden Lion for Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, we know that we are here to keep true to our editorial choices, which allowed us, over the years, to acquire distribution rights of films that won Oscars and Awards in major international film festivals. Our three films in the main competition are perfect examples of our vision: The Beast, Out of Season, and Woman of are great pictures that will enchant a very diverse audience for the topics they’re about and for the great actors starring: from Léa Seydoux in The Beast to Alba Rohrwacher in Out of Season. On this point, I am very happy to have, among the eleven films distributed by us that are in the several sections at the VFF, four by Italian filmmakers: L’invenzione della neve, Frammenti di un percorso amoroso, El Paraíso, and Invelle show how are film industry is alive and rich in talent. It has much to say. I Wonder Pictures looks forward to a bright future for Italian cinema.
In the not too distant future, feelings are seen as a threat and a hindrance to the normal development of interpersonal relationships. Gabrielle decides to purify her genetic makeup by undergoing a procedure that will make her relive her past lives and set her free from her st...
Fifty-year-old actor Laurent and forty-year-old pianist Hélène reunite fifteen years after the end of their relationship, which Hélène never quite came to terms with. Years passed, each took their own path, and wounds slowly healed—or so it seems: professionally, he find...
Covering a temporal span of forty-five years, the film follows the story (partly a real story) of Adam. Adam lives in a small Polish town, and does his best to be a good husband and a good father, even though his heart harbours contrasting feelings. Adam feels unease in his ma...
Festivals and what they can do for movie theatres.
The summer that is coming to an end has been very generous in terms of theatre revenue, which goes to show how audiences love theatregoing. The challenge for the coming autumn, up to Christmas, is to feed this love. Festivals are essential in this formula, because they draw audiences closer to high-quality cinema that can also be part of the mainstream. We at I Wonder Pictures know this well, as we proved with Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale, which was in the Main Competition at Venice last year.
