Amazon Prime Video has set the launch date and unveiled artwork for Mélanie Laurent’s upcoming heist romance “Freedom” (“Libre”) starring Lucas Bravo (“Emily in Paris”).
The film, which can launch solely on Prime Video on Nov. 1 throughout greater than 240 international locations, reteams the streamer and the acclaimed actor-turned-filmmaker following “The Mad Ladies’s Ball” which world premiered at Toronto Movie Competition in 2019.
Based mostly on a real story of a famend French gangster of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, “Freedom” stars Bravo as Bruno Sulak, a extremely charming legal who orchestrated daring heists with out firing a single shot. The movie additionally charts Sulak’s cat-and-mouse recreation with George Moréas (Yvan Attal), a tenacious police commissioner, in addition to his quite a few escapes from jail and relationship with lover Annie, who’s performed by newcomer Léa Luce Busato.
Thomas Dubois, head of French originals at Amazon Studios, stated working with Laurent was a part of the streamer’s mandate to forge long-term bonds with gifted filmmakers and permit them to pursue bold initiatives. “Melanie Laurent was the primary director to make a French language movie for Prime Video in France, ‘The Mad Ladies’s Ball,’ and we have been so proud to have kicked off our unique productions with that movie which additionally gained a global Emmy Award for its star Lou de Laage,” stated Dubois. “It set the tone for the kind of high quality productions that we wish to do at Prime Video, and we have been equally seduced by her concept to make a movie about Sulak as a result of it’s not an strange gangster story, it’s a couple of man who will go all the way in which to defend his freedom.”
“Sulak was a legal however he wasn’t violent and there’s some humility and softness emanating from this movie that we hardly ever see in a film about an outlaw,” Dubois continued. The chief stated the movie displays Laurent’s potential to inform tales from a distinct perspective, and described it as a “status drama with a romantic dimension” by his love story with Annie, “who will make many sacrifices to accompany Sulak in his quest for freedom.”
The robust solid is accomplished by Rasha Vukvic, (“Breathe”), Steve Tientcheu (“Aka”), David Murgia (“The Night time of the twelfth”), Léo Chalié (“Reign Supreme”) and Slimane Dazi (“Ourika”).
“Freedom” additionally reunites Laurent along with her screenwriter on “The Mad Ladies’s Ball,” Chris Deslandes, and producer Alain Goldman, whose outfit is behind Marion Cotillard starrer “La Môme,” “The Spherical Up” and “An Officer and a Spy.” Laurent, who broke by in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” has since made a reputation for herself as an actor and a filmmaker, having made her English-language characteristic debut with the crime drama “Galveston” and directed a number of French movies, together with “Breathe” which performed at Cannes’s Critics Week in 2014.
Prime Video may even launch this fall Jeremie Guez’s (“Bluebird”) crime film “Tigres & Hyènes,” that includes a widely known French solid together with Géraldine Nakache and Sofiane Zermani.
Dubois highlighted Prime Video’s observe document through the first half of 2024 with hit exhibits resembling “Ourika” whose second season is presently in growth, together with documentary initiatives.
