Paris-Based Loco Films has boarded “The Business Women’s Club,” the next film from Brazilian writer-director Anna Muylaert
Muylaert’s “The Second Mother” won a 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and a Berlin Panorama Audience Award, and it notched up fulsome sales for the Match Factory.
“The Business Women’s Club” will be introduced to buyers at this week’s Cannes Film Market by Loco Films’ head Laurent Danielou.
Channeling Mulaert’s keen sense of social dynamics in a comedic take on sexism, “Club” is set in an alternate Brazil where gender stereotypes are flipped.
Two young male journalists visit the retreat of the Business Women’s Club. Over the course of a day, they discover the old, rich and powerful female characters “lying, cheating, melting, sinking, breaking, going over the top and almost dying to maintain what is already lost,” Muylaert said.
The journalists decide to write a Club exposé,...
Muylaert’s “The Second Mother” won a 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and a Berlin Panorama Audience Award, and it notched up fulsome sales for the Match Factory.
“The Business Women’s Club” will be introduced to buyers at this week’s Cannes Film Market by Loco Films’ head Laurent Danielou.
Channeling Mulaert’s keen sense of social dynamics in a comedic take on sexism, “Club” is set in an alternate Brazil where gender stereotypes are flipped.
Two young male journalists visit the retreat of the Business Women’s Club. Over the course of a day, they discover the old, rich and powerful female characters “lying, cheating, melting, sinking, breaking, going over the top and almost dying to maintain what is already lost,” Muylaert said.
The journalists decide to write a Club exposé,...
- 7/9/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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