Adam Yauch’s Oscilloscope Pictures Picks Up Michel Gondry Doc, ‘The Thorn in the Heart’

Hollywood Reporter:

The film, which played as a special screening in Cannes, is a passion project for the director. Titled “L’Epine dans le Coeur” in French, the French- and English-language pic centers on schoolteacher Suzette Gondry, the director’s aunt and matriarch of his family, and her relationship with her son.

In the process it tells both a personal tale of one family’s secrets and a larger story of life in rural France. Partizan Films produced and financed the pic.

Oscilloscope’s co-founder, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, called the title “a sincere doc on a subject that is so close to (Gondry’s) heart.”