Veteran Italian auteur Nanni Moretti‘s “It Will Happen Tonight,” featuring French star Louis Garrel and Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“La Storia,” “Supersex”) has been pre-sold widely by Paris-based international sales company Playtime ahead of its Venice world premiere in competition on Saturday. Though the plot is being kept under wraps, “It Will Happen Tonight”. is loosely based on the short story collection “Hungry Heart” (Lev Raev) by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo. Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, co-CEO of Playtime, commented: “Nanni Moretti is one of the great masters of European cinema.
With “It Will Happen Tonight,” he takes on Italian romance as a genre, bringing to it his unmistakable Moretti touch.” “I have no doubt that both audiences new to his work and longtime aficionados will be swept away by this love story. Our distributors around the world clearly share that enthusiasm, as sales have been brisk from the get-go,” he added. Sacher Film and Fandango produced “It Will Happen Tonight” in collaboration with RAI Cinema.
Pan-European indie group Vuelta is co-producer of the film, through its French distribution division, Pan Distribution and Playtime. Watch “It Will Happen Tonight” below
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