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'King’s Daughters,' Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Boarded by WTFilms
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'King’s Daughters,' Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Boarded by WTFilms

Variety·Leo Barraclough·18 days ago
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WTFilms has acquired worldwide rights for Pascal Plante ’s “King’s Daughters,” a historical survival drama spiced with folk-horror undertones, starring Sandrine Bonnaire , Laurie Babin, Lauréna Thellier, Zoé Adjani and newcomer Marguerite Champoux. Plante previously directed cyber-thriller “Red Rooms,” punk rom-com “Fake Tattoos” and sports drama “Nadia, Butterfly.” Set in 1663, “King’s Daughters” chronicles the cursed transatlantic voyage of the first group of orphan virgins sent by King Louis XIV to be married off in his faltering colony of New-France, which is the area now known as Quebec. These exiled maidens – including the youngest, Catherine Moitié, 13 years old – undergo a horrifying crossing of 111 days, plagued by promiscuity, disease, superstitious crew, famine, vermin, apathy and death.…

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