The film will be shown in 13 cinemas in Paris and other cities in France.
The French press has welcomed the film, in spite of its failure to win a prize in competition at Cannes in 2007.
Adam Leibovitz, the spokesman for Shellac, which is distributing The Man From London in France, blamed the lack of success in Cannes on the late showing and a mediocre dubbing. Since then, the film has been re-dubbed in both French and English.
The film opens with a typical Tarr take: so long it gives the audience plenty of time to speculate about its meaning. Tarr, however, warns in an interview against mystifying the film. "Well, a ship has arrived," he says of the take.
At a special event a the la Pagode cinema organised with the support of the Hungarian Institute in Paris in early September, Tarr said The Man From London was likely to be his last film. He said he wanted to paint, take photographs and write in the future, avoiding the role of "burned out director". Present at the event was John Simenon, the son of Georges Simenon, on whose novel The Man From London was based.
