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Cannes– Leading arthouse company Memento Films Intl. has acquired international sales rights to Josh Mond’s directorial debut “James White,” which premiered at Sundance and won the audience nod.
Pic is produced by Borderline Films, the company behind “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” and turns on James White, a troubled twenty-something whose hedonistic lifestyle in New York City gets turned upside down after his mother starts battling a serious illness.
Variety’s Brent Lang described “James White” as the “anti-‘Terms of Endearment.” “In Hollywood movies, death is often a beatific experience. In ‘James White,’ the edgy indie drama from Josh Mond, it’s filled with night sweats, moments of incontinence, hallucinations, and a few moments of grace,” wrote Lang.
“James White” features critically-claimed performances from Christopher Abbott (“Girls”), Cynthia Nixon (“Sex & the City”) and rapper/actor Scott ‘KiD CuDi’ Mescudi (“Entourage”).
“We saw the film in Sundance and fell in »
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