Kino Lorber Nabs North American Rights to Louis Garrel’s ‘A Faithful Man’ (Exclusive)

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Louis Garrel’s critically acclaimed drama “A Faithful Man,” which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the Fipresci award.Sold to Kino Lorber by Wild Bunch and CAA Media Finance, the movie also played at the New York and San Sebastian film festivals where it won best screenplay.“A Faithful Man” marks the sophomore feature of Garrel, following “Two Friends” which opened at Cannes’s Critics Week in 2015.

Garrel, who is best known for his roles as an actor in “The Dreamers” and “Godard Mon Amour,” wrote the script of “A Faithful Man” in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière, a revered French writer, playwright and screenwriter.

Garrel stars in the film opposite Laetitia Casta (who is also his wife) and Lily Rose Depp.“A Faithful Man” follows Abel (Garrel), a Parisian journalist who runs into his ex-girlfriend

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