Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) won’t make its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival until Tuesday, May 21 but Mongrel Media has already stepped in to acquire all Canadian rights. The plan is for a fall 2013 release, Deadline said.

The film — Sorrentino’s fifth competition on the Croisette — tells the story of an aging writer who who bitterly recollects his passionate lost youth against the backdrop of modern Rome.

It stars Tony Servillo, who also starred in Sorrentino’s Il Divo, which Mongrel also released in Canada.