Best Friend Forever Boards Black Comedy Bloody Oranges With Denis Podalydes, Blanche Gardin (EXCLUSIVE)
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Popular French theater director Jean-Christophe Meurisse is making his sophomore film outing with “Bloody Oranges,” a black comedy headlined by Denis Podalydès (“La Belle Epoque”), Blanche Gardin (“Delete History”) and Christophe Paou (“Synonyms”).
Brussels-based outfit Best Friend Forever has acquired international sales rights to the film, which is produced by Rectangle Prods. “(“It Must Be Heaven,” “Climax”) and Mamma Roman.
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“Bloody Oranges” marks Meurisse’s follow-up to “Apnee,” which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2016. Meurisse is also a well-known figure in the world of theater, having launched the Chiens de Navarre theater troupe.
2020: A Theater of the Absurd for Europeâs Playhouses
The Timesâs theater critics in London, Paris and Berlin reflect on a year of closures, reopenings, restrictions and curfews, in which the show somehow went on.
At the National Theater in London in September. The cityâs theaters were closed and reopened twice in 2020, then closed a third time.Credit.Lauren Fleishman for The New York Times
Dec. 17, 2020
Matt Wolf, London Theater Critic
Theater of the absurd has nothing on the bizarre scenario endured by Britainâs playhouses during 2020. March 16 was the first of several doomsdays on which the coronavirus pandemic forced them to close their doors, bringing to a halt a theatrical economy worth billions of pounds.