The smash French comedy-drama from Guillaume Canet stars Marion Cotillard and Oscar contender Jean Dujardin and drew 5.3m admissions in its native country.

Theatrical release is planned for the first quarter of 2012, with subsequent DVD and VoD roll-out.

Canet’s (pictured on set) follow-up to Tell No One  is a collaboration between Les Productions du Trésor, EuropaCorp, Caneo Films and M6 Films.

Benoit Magimel also stars in the story about a group of friends who take a revealing beach holiday following the death of a friend. The film premiered in Toronto last autumn.

MPI Media Group evp Greg Newman negotiated the deal with EuropaCorp international sales manager Cécile Fouché.

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