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Kino Lorber Acquires North American Rights To Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht’s HOW TO SMELL A ROSE: A VISIT WITH RICKY LEACOCK IN NORMANDY – We Are Movie Geeks

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Kino Lorber Acquires North American Rights To Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht’s HOW TO SMELL A ROSE: A VISIT WITH RICKY LEACOCK IN NORMANDY

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How to Smell a Rose

Kino Lorber is proud to announce the acquisition of all North American rights to Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht‘s HOW TO SMELL A ROSE: A VISIT WITH RICKY LEACOCK IN NORMANDY, a moving tribute by one cinema verité master to another.

Opening at New York’s Film Forum on Wednesday, August 12, 2015, HOW TO SMELL OF ROSE: A VISIT WITH RICKY LEACOCK IN NORMANDY was co-directed by Les Blank and his longtime creative partner, Gina Leibrecht. HOW TO SMELL A ROSE: A VISIT WITH RICKY LEACOCK is the penultimate film directed by Les Blank, before he passed away on April 7, 2013.

During its theatrical run at Film Forum, HOW TO SMELL A ROSE will be screened with the Leacock-Joyce Chopra classic, HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, on the 1963 birth of the Fischer quintuplets in Aberdeen, South Dakota. In further national theatrical engagements “Rose” will be presented with Les Blank’s now classic 1980 short film WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE.

In HOW TO SMELL A ROSE, directed by Blank and Gina Leibrecht, one legendary figure visits with another. Les Blank’s warm and moving portrait of Leacock and partner Valerie Lalonde in France includes marvelous clips of Leacock’s movies, including excerpts from PRIMARY, the Direct Cinema classic about the 1960 Wisconsin Primary election between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey, as well as clips from CANARY BANANAS, made at age 14 on his father’s Canary Island plantation.

Leacock is as charismatic recalling his cinematic triumphs (shooting Flaherty’s LOUISIANA STORY, filming Leonard Bernstein in Israel), as he is explaining why he quit drinking or quoting Escoffier on the making of a perfect bouillon.

Kino Lorber will play HOW TO SMELL A ROSE in art house theatres and film festival throughout the fall, followed by a VOD and home media release later this year.

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