'Players,' 'Seeds,' 'Dads' meet at Rendez-Vous

PARIS -- Wild Bunch's "The Players," with "The Artist's" star Jean Dujardin which is helmer Michel Hazanavicius, Memento's "Bad Seed items" and Pathe's "Sunday Fathers" will screen within the 14th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema. Our planet's finest national film showcase, the Rendez-Vous starts Wednesday getting a gala screening of Sylvie Testud's Kinology-offered "Another Woman's Existence," toplining Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Kassovitz, a greater-concept romantic dramedy. Put together by Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche, star of Magnolia U.S. pick-up "Point Blank," "Players," a seven-part sexcom, is amongst the-anticipated films in the tests. This can be due to its subject, a Judd Apatow-ant undertake thirty-something male infidelit its cast, introduced by Guillaume Canet ("Last Evening") which is star company company directors, including Hazanavicius, Fred Cavaye ("Anything on herInch), Dujardin, Lellouche and Eric Lartigau ("The Big Picture"). A dark tale of two schoolboys' kidnapping a teacher, "Seed items" is Nebbou's follow-around critical hits "Dumas" and "Mark from the Angel." Compiled by Pathe in France, social comedy "Fathers" reps the directorial debut of Louis Becker, boy of Jean Becker ("My Days With Marguerite"). Of other lately revealed RDV screeners, Studiocanal will showcase "The Adopted," the directorial debut of Melanie Laurent ("Inglourious Basterds"), and movies du Losange has Tony Gatlif's "Indignados," a Berlin Panorama player. Sales companies will talk up movies in a number of stages of production. Potential buzz game game titles include Agnes Jouai's "Beneath the Rainbow," provided by Indication, EuropaCorp's spy thriller "Mobius," with Dujardin, Gaumont's "The Chef," with Jean Reno, and Valerie Donzelli's "Commitment of War" follow-up "Submit Hands," repped by Wild Bunch. Around 450 customers will attend. Forty-three in the 82 films screening are market premieres. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com