Writer-director François Ozon’s YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL which made its world premiere this week in Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival will be released in the US by Sundance Selects, a sister label to IFC Films. 

The film, with a star-making turn by Marine Vacth in the lead role, also stars Geraldine Pailhas, Frederic Pierrot, Fantin Ravat, Johan Leysen, Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard, Djedje Apali, Lucas Prisor, Laurent Delbecque, Jeanne Ruff, and Serge Hefez.

Ozon’s YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL is described as “a provocative drama about a young woman coming of age from her sexual awakening to the loss of her virginity, and from her exploration of love to her search for her identity.”