LOS ANGELES, CA.- The “beautifully produced” (The Village Voice) historical portrait Cézanne et Moi, arrives on Digital HD August 8 from Magnolia Home Entertainment. Set in 19th century France, the film traces the unique friendship between painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Émile Zola. Directed by Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Danièle Thompson (Avenue Montaigne), Cézanne et Moi is both an artistic journey, and a story of friendship.

Starring César Award® winners Guillaume Canet (Tell No One) and Guillaume Gallienne (Me, Myself and Mum), Cézanne et Moi captures the evolution of two singular visionaries. From the beginning of Cézanne and Zola’s friendship as schoolboys to their future as revolutionary artists, the riveting drama follows both Zola, a fatherless child from a poor family, and Cézanne, a wealthy child with a happier home life, who as young men both wish for fame and women. The “historically authentic” (NPR) biopic begins in 1888 at the height of Zola’s career, and the peak of Cézanne’s struggle. With a friendship destined to fail, the two artists slowly grow apart as Zola becomes a renowned wealthy novelist while society rejects Cézanne’s style and paintings.

A portrait of two artists, Cézanne et Moi will be available on Digital HD from iTunes, Amazon Video, FandangoNOW and additional digital retailers on August 8.

Cézanne et Moi traces the parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Émile Zola. The two boys grew up in the city of Aix-en-Provence. Émile was a fatherless, poor child and Paul came from a wealthy family. As young men, dreaming of glory and beautiful women, they left the south to conquer the art scene in Paris. Soon Émile had it all, success, money, and the perfect wife, and embraced the very bourgeoisie he mocked in his books. Meanwhile, Cézanne rejected the Parisian scene to focus only on his work but his peers and the establishment ignored him.