This is a packed weekend for new specialty rollouts, one of the most crowded of the summer. Neon is opening writer-director Julius Onah’s drama Luce with New York and L.A. runs in its opening frame…
Neon picked up rights to Julius Onah’s psychological thriller,Luce
The film centers on Luce , an all-star high school athlete and accomplished debater who is perceived as a poster boy for the new American Dream. Sharing that idealized picture are his parents , who adopted him from a war-torn country a decade earlier. When Luce’s teacher makes a shocking discovery in his locker, Luce’s stellar reputation is called into question. The challenge is understanding whether he is really at fault or if Ms. Wilson is preying on dangerous stereotypes.
“The film is actually a very unusual co-production between Israeli and German film funds, French distributor Le Pacte and American financing from Black Bear Pictures,” Adler said. “Stitching it all together was not, let us say, trivial. … Eitan Mansuri of Spiro Films in Israel worked closely with our German partners Match Factory on the European side and producer Anne Carey on the American side.”, while Martin Freeman came on much later in the process, according to Adler.
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