Paris-based MMM Film Sales has picked up “Versailles,” from “Roma” and “Birds of Passage” producer Pimienta Films and its director Andrés Clariond Rangel’s Cinematográfica CR.

Its trailer bows exclusively in Variety (below) ahead of its world premiere at Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia. A topical absurdist comedy about wanna-be autocrats, it melds cinematic realism with theatrical excess, drawing on such inspirations as “The Favourite,” “The Death of Stalin” and “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.”

Co-written by Clariond Rangel and Alo Valenzuela, “Versailles” stars Cuauhtli Jiménez (“Finlandia,” “Narcos: Mexico”) in his first leading role and Spain’s Maggie Civantos (“Vis a Vis,” “Cable Girls”).

It follows Chema (Jiménez), a young Mexican politician, who, when un

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