John Trengove’s ‘The Smell Of Apples’ Sells To France Ahead Of TIFF Debut
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Deadline reports that ARP Sélection has acquired French distribution rights to John Trengove's Apartheid-era drama The Smell of Apples ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film, adapted from Mark Behr's 1993 Booker Prize-nominated novel, centers on a young boy coming of age within a white utopia in Cape Town. Trengove, a South African director and writer, has previously explored masculinity and power in his work, and this period piece extends that examination into the architecture of racial segregation.
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