Festivals:
Festival de San Sebastián 2023; Festival de films francophones Cinemania 2023; Films du Québec; IFI French Festival 2024 Official selection; Festival Varilux de cinéma français au Brésil 2024; Festo do Cinema Francês 2024 Antestreias
BIFAN 2024; Metal noir; Munich International Film Festival 2024; Panorama du cinéma français en Chine 2024; Shanghai International Film Festival 2024
Viva la festival; BJIFF 2024; Nuovo cinema francese 2024; Festival du film francophone de Grèce 2024; Hong Kong International Film Festival 2024; Vilnius International Film Festival 2024; Belgrade International Film Festival 2024.
Synopsis
Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father’s funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father’s weak heart.
With Marc-André Grondin and Yves Jacques
In coproduction with Stenola Productions & Metafilms
The Successor
by Xavier Legrand
Feature film, fiction, 112 min, 2023
French distribution: Haut et court
International sales: MK2 Films