Imaginarium, Void set for Cannes

Two Canadian features will unspool next month at Cannes, which on Thursday tapped both Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Enter the Void.

The storied French festival will mark the debut of the famously troubled Imaginarium, which was left without a leading man following the death of Heath Ledger early last year, and which marked the last project by producer William Vince. Vince — head of Vancouver’s Infinity Features, which copro’ed the movie with Samuel Hadida of Paris-based Davis Films and Gilliam’s daughter Amy Gilliam — died of cancer last summer, shortly after Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in for Ledger.

Imaginarium will play out of competition at Cannes, and is listed as Canada/France copro.

Though it is listed as a purely French movie, the in-competition Enter the Void drew on private financing in Canada and shot in Quebec. It comes from French director Gaspar Noe (Irreversible) and, among others, producer Suzanne Girard (Emotional Arithmetic) of Productions Bleu Blanc Rouge.