Peta’s off to Cannes
Good news for Adelaide film producer Peta Astbury who has bought the film rights of my book From France With Love. She is taking her first, successful film, The Marrige of Figaro to Cannes.
The movie will screen in the Marche du Film of the Festival de Cannes, the all-important Cannes Film Festival marketplace on May 11, which could well be a lucky day because it is also Peta’s 35th birthday.
The best news is that the SA Film Corporation will fund Peta’s trip to the event.
When one considers that Cannes attracts top film stars for the top international films, as well as the who’s who of film in direction and production, it’s certainly the place Peta needs to be.
The Marriage of Figaro is a delightful low-budget film about a good-guy Biker – Figaro – who can’t seem to pull off marrying the mother of his children after what has been an idyllic de facto relationship. It all threatens to collapse like a pack of cards. It had a successful run in the cinemas three years ago and is available on DVD.
Peta says she wants From France With Love to be her first mainstream film and going to Cannes for the second year in a row must surely help her international connections for funding and film distribution. And it won’t only be for Figaro, but hopefully also for FFWL, my own love story about meeting my husband Olivier in 2004. Back then he was my “lovely French man’’ and FFWL has been a best-seller for Penguin.
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