Cohen Media Group and Curzon have jointly acquired all U.S. and U.K. distribution rights to “Everything Went Fine,” Francois Ozon’s film with Sophie Marceau, which just world-premiered in competition at Cannes and earned a warm critical welcome.
The deal was negotiated by Cmg senior VP Robert Aaronson, Curzon Artificial Eye’s managing director Louisa Dent and Sébasten Beffa and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert at Playtime.
“Everything Went Fine” marks Marceau’s first time working with Ozon, one of France’s most critically laureled helmers. The drama is based Emmanuèle Bernheim’s novel “Everything Went Well” and centers on a woman as she is confronted with her father’s declining health following a stroke. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, André asks Emmanuèle to help him end his life. The film explores the father-daughter relationship.
Written and directed by Ozon, “Everything Went Fine” also stars Géraldine Pailhas, Charlotte Rampling,...
The deal was negotiated by Cmg senior VP Robert Aaronson, Curzon Artificial Eye’s managing director Louisa Dent and Sébasten Beffa and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert at Playtime.
“Everything Went Fine” marks Marceau’s first time working with Ozon, one of France’s most critically laureled helmers. The drama is based Emmanuèle Bernheim’s novel “Everything Went Well” and centers on a woman as she is confronted with her father’s declining health following a stroke. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, André asks Emmanuèle to help him end his life. The film explores the father-daughter relationship.
Written and directed by Ozon, “Everything Went Fine” also stars Géraldine Pailhas, Charlotte Rampling,...
- 7/10/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Petite Fleur (15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour)
Produced by Didar Domehri
Directed by Santiago Mitre
Written by Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre
Starring: Daniel Hendler, Vimala Pons, Sergi López, Melvil Poupaud, Françoise Lebrun, Éric Caravaca
Cinematographer: Javier Julia
Release Date/Prediction: A return to Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section might be in the cards.
…...
Produced by Didar Domehri
Directed by Santiago Mitre
Written by Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre
Starring: Daniel Hendler, Vimala Pons, Sergi López, Melvil Poupaud, Françoise Lebrun, Éric Caravaca
Cinematographer: Javier Julia
Release Date/Prediction: A return to Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section might be in the cards.
…...
- 1/6/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
François Ozon on By The Grace Of God (Grâce À Dieu): “It was important to show the complexity of all these characters.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
François Ozon’s timely and relevant By The Grace Of God (Grâce À Dieu), shot by Manuel Dacosse (Jean-François Richet’s The Emperor Of Paris) edited by Laure Gardette, and costumes by Pascaline Chavanne, stars Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet and Swann Arlaud with Aurélia Petit, Josiane Balasko, Éric Caravaca, Martine Erhel, François Marthouret, Bernard Verley, Amélie Daure, Hélène Vincent, Max Libert, Nicolas Bauwens, Zuri François, Timi-Joy Marbot, and Zéli Marbot.
Alexandre Guérin (Melvil Poupaud) and François Debord (Denis Ménochet) with Gilles Perret (Éric Caravaca)
In the second half of my in-depth conversation with the director/screenwriter we discuss the complexity of the characters who are struggling to come to grips with memories from the past and the importance of the flashbacks in telling the story.
François Ozon’s timely and relevant By The Grace Of God (Grâce À Dieu), shot by Manuel Dacosse (Jean-François Richet’s The Emperor Of Paris) edited by Laure Gardette, and costumes by Pascaline Chavanne, stars Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet and Swann Arlaud with Aurélia Petit, Josiane Balasko, Éric Caravaca, Martine Erhel, François Marthouret, Bernard Verley, Amélie Daure, Hélène Vincent, Max Libert, Nicolas Bauwens, Zuri François, Timi-Joy Marbot, and Zéli Marbot.
Alexandre Guérin (Melvil Poupaud) and François Debord (Denis Ménochet) with Gilles Perret (Éric Caravaca)
In the second half of my in-depth conversation with the director/screenwriter we discuss the complexity of the characters who are struggling to come to grips with memories from the past and the importance of the flashbacks in telling the story.
- 10/25/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
François Ozon on the roles for Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet and Swann Arlaud in By The Grace Of God (Grâce À Dieu): "I decided to make this kind of relay race between these three characters." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
By The Grace Of God (Grâce À Dieu), starring Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet and Swann Arlaud with an impressive supporting cast including Aurélia Petit, Josiane Balasko, Éric Caravaca, Martine Erhel, François Marthouret, Bernard Verley, Amélie Daure, Hélène Vincent, Max Libert, Nicolas Bauwens, Zuri François, Timi-Joy Marbot, and Zéli Marbot, had its world première at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury prize.
François Debord (Denis Ménochet), Gilles Perret (Éric Caravaca), Emmanuel Thomassin (Swann Arlaud), and Alexandre Guérin (Melvil Poupaud)
Whereas Tom McCarthy's Oscar-winning Spotlight focused on the journalistic tenaciousness of the reporters of the Boston Globe and its editor Marty Baron to expose the cover...
By The Grace Of God (Grâce À Dieu), starring Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet and Swann Arlaud with an impressive supporting cast including Aurélia Petit, Josiane Balasko, Éric Caravaca, Martine Erhel, François Marthouret, Bernard Verley, Amélie Daure, Hélène Vincent, Max Libert, Nicolas Bauwens, Zuri François, Timi-Joy Marbot, and Zéli Marbot, had its world première at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury prize.
François Debord (Denis Ménochet), Gilles Perret (Éric Caravaca), Emmanuel Thomassin (Swann Arlaud), and Alexandre Guérin (Melvil Poupaud)
Whereas Tom McCarthy's Oscar-winning Spotlight focused on the journalistic tenaciousness of the reporters of the Boston Globe and its editor Marty Baron to expose the cover...
- 10/21/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
There’s of-the-moment cinema and then there’s on-the-moment cinema, ripped so freshly from the headlines that the filmmaking still bears a few ink smudges. An engrossing, whole-hearted dramatization of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal behind the ongoing trial of Philippe Barbarin, the Archbishop of Lyon, François Ozon’s “By the Grace of God” doesn’t attempt to hide the in-progress nature of its narrative. It even concludes with a title card announcing that the verdict in Barbarin’s trial will be delivered on March 7, four weeks after the finished film’s Berlinale premiere; by the time many audiences get to see it, subsequent developments will have added different emotional hues to its onscreen ending.
That immediacy is both a virtue and a slight hindrance in a project that doesn’t play to Ozon’s usual strengths. Such a boon to his elegant genre pieces, his tricky, ahead-of-the-game authority...
That immediacy is both a virtue and a slight hindrance in a project that doesn’t play to Ozon’s usual strengths. Such a boon to his elegant genre pieces, his tricky, ahead-of-the-game authority...
- 2/8/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Nine titles announced for Berlinale, which runs Feb 7-17.
The first films have been announced for the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlinale Special sections.
The Competition line-up includes new films by Fatih Akin (The Golden Glove), François Ozon (By the Grace of God) and Denis Côté (Ghost Town Anthology).
The other three films in the strand are Marie Kreutzer’s The Ground Beneath My Feet, Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, but and Emin Alper’s A Tale of Three Sisters. All are world premieres except By the Grace Of God which is an international premiere.
The...
The first films have been announced for the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlinale Special sections.
The Competition line-up includes new films by Fatih Akin (The Golden Glove), François Ozon (By the Grace of God) and Denis Côté (Ghost Town Anthology).
The other three films in the strand are Marie Kreutzer’s The Ground Beneath My Feet, Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, but and Emin Alper’s A Tale of Three Sisters. All are world premieres except By the Grace Of God which is an international premiere.
The...
- 12/13/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first wave of titles for its competition lineup, including new films from François Ozon, Marie Kreutzer, Denis Côté and Fatih Akin. Charles Ferguson’s Watergate documentary is among the Berlinale Special titles.
The first nine Competition and Berlinale Special films were revealed today, alongside the previously announced opening film, The Kindness of Strangers by Lone Scherfig.
Festival favourites Akin (In The Fade) and Ozon (In The House) return with German-language thriller The Golden Glove and French-language drama By The Grace Of God, respectively. The former follows a serial killer who strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s. The latter looks at a real-life case of sexual abuses allegedly committed by a French priest in the late 1980s. Oscar-winner Ferguson (Inside Job) will present anticipated 260-minute feature doc Watergate, which is sure to draw plenty of contemporary parallels.
The first nine Competition and Berlinale Special films were revealed today, alongside the previously announced opening film, The Kindness of Strangers by Lone Scherfig.
Festival favourites Akin (In The Fade) and Ozon (In The House) return with German-language thriller The Golden Glove and French-language drama By The Grace Of God, respectively. The former follows a serial killer who strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s. The latter looks at a real-life case of sexual abuses allegedly committed by a French priest in the late 1980s. Oscar-winner Ferguson (Inside Job) will present anticipated 260-minute feature doc Watergate, which is sure to draw plenty of contemporary parallels.
- 12/13/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
French director Philippe Garrel has always only needed the barest means to make movie magic: a beautiful, tragic face, a sad wall to put behind it, a mournful, pensive walk alone on the street. His latest film premiered last year in Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight; having first shown his work there in 1969 with Le lit de la vierge, Garrel once again proves he is nearly alone in continuing the French New Wave’s revolution of creating celluloid myths from mere bedrooms and cafes. This new film, Lover for a Day is one of his most simple, a lithe, splendid picture dazzling in its clarity, direct emotional resonance and condensed storytelling. The set-up, co-written with Garrel’s partner Caroline Deruas-Garrel and his usual writer Arlette Langmann along with Jean-Claude Carrière, is inspired: A young woman, Jeanne breaks up with her boyfriend and must stay at the flat of his father,...
- 4/24/2018
- MUBI
Philippe Garrel's Lover for a Day (2017) is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United States. It is showing from March 31 - April 30, 2018.Roughly half an hour into Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day, there is a moment of unexpected hysteria: Ariane (Louise Chevillotte) returns home to find Jeanne (Esther Garrel) perched beside an empty window, threatening to jump. Jeanne is the daughter of Jeanne’s lover Gilles (Éric Caravaca), a philosophy professor several years her senior, and has come to stay with them in their cramped apartment following a messy argument with her boyfriend, Mateo. Jeanne asserts that she needs to kill herself to make Mateo realizes the depth of the pain he’s caused her. After a struggle, Ariane manages to pull her down, and the two make a pact to never tell Gilles what has happened. This moment marks a significant shift in...
- 3/31/2018
- MUBI
Éric Caravaca’s reflective documentary traces his family’s history to their life in Morocco and an unspoken tragedy
Éric Caravaca is the French actor and director who has starred in films such as Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day, Patrice Chéreau’s His Brother and The Officer’s Ward by François Dupeyron – to whom this film is dedicated. It is a sad, thoughtful, if slight piece of work, a 67-minute cine-memoir about his family, personal myths and memories.
It was worked on over a long period: Caravaca’s dad, a wary interview subject, died during filming. Caravaca’s parents, Angela and Gilberto, were from Morocco but came to France in the early 60s, when Éric and his brother Olivier were born. But there was a family mystery: their sister Christine died in infancy in Morocco, in circumstances his parents were always reluctant to discuss. Her grave, in “Plot...
Éric Caravaca is the French actor and director who has starred in films such as Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day, Patrice Chéreau’s His Brother and The Officer’s Ward by François Dupeyron – to whom this film is dedicated. It is a sad, thoughtful, if slight piece of work, a 67-minute cine-memoir about his family, personal myths and memories.
It was worked on over a long period: Caravaca’s dad, a wary interview subject, died during filming. Caravaca’s parents, Angela and Gilberto, were from Morocco but came to France in the early 60s, when Éric and his brother Olivier were born. But there was a family mystery: their sister Christine died in infancy in Morocco, in circumstances his parents were always reluctant to discuss. Her grave, in “Plot...
- 3/8/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s beginning to look a lot like fall festival season. On the heels of announcements from Tiff and Venice, the 55th edition of the New York Film Festival has unveiled its Main Slate, including a number of returning faces, emerging talents, and some of the most anticipated films from the festival circuit this year.
This year’s Main Slate showcases a number of films honored at Cannes including Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winner “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “Bpm,” and Agnès Varda & Jr’s “Faces Places.” Other Cannes standouts, including “The Rider” and “The Florida Project,” will also screen at Nyff.
Read MoreTIFF Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Elsewhere, Aki Kaurismäki’s Silver Bear–winner “The Other Side of Hope” and Agnieszka Holland’s Alfred Bauer Prize–winner “Spoor” come to Nyff after Berlin bows.
This year’s Main Slate showcases a number of films honored at Cannes including Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winner “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “Bpm,” and Agnès Varda & Jr’s “Faces Places.” Other Cannes standouts, including “The Rider” and “The Florida Project,” will also screen at Nyff.
Read MoreTIFF Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Elsewhere, Aki Kaurismäki’s Silver Bear–winner “The Other Side of Hope” and Agnieszka Holland’s Alfred Bauer Prize–winner “Spoor” come to Nyff after Berlin bows.
- 8/8/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sponsor prizes also go to Claire Denis comedy and Philippe Garrel drama.
Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In were among Directors’ Fortnight films to pick up awards tonight.
Although the strand is a non-competitive, some sponsors hand out prizes.
The Art Cinema Award for a feature film went to Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, which was recently snapped up by Sony Classics for North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.
The film tells the story of a cowboy (played by Brady Jandreau) who embarks on a road trip through America after a near death accident.
The Sacd Award for a French-speaking feature was given jointly to Philippe Garrel’s Lover For A Day and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In.
The latter, an unusual change of gear for Denis, is an eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, starring [link=nm...
Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In were among Directors’ Fortnight films to pick up awards tonight.
Although the strand is a non-competitive, some sponsors hand out prizes.
The Art Cinema Award for a feature film went to Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, which was recently snapped up by Sony Classics for North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.
The film tells the story of a cowboy (played by Brady Jandreau) who embarks on a road trip through America after a near death accident.
The Sacd Award for a French-speaking feature was given jointly to Philippe Garrel’s Lover For A Day and Claire Denis’ Let The Sunshine In.
The latter, an unusual change of gear for Denis, is an eccentric relationship comedy of ideas, starring [link=nm...
- 5/26/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
French director Philippe Garrel has always only needed the barest means to make movie magic: a beautiful, tragic face, a sad wall to put behind it, a mournful, pensive walk alone on the street. He is back in Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight, having first come in 1969 with Le lit de la vierge, and once again proves he is nearly alone is continuing the French New Wave’s revolution of creating celluloid myths from mere bedrooms and cafes. Lover for a Day, his newest, one of his most simple, is a lithe, splendid picture, dazzling in its clarity, direct emotional resonance and condensed storytelling. The set-up, co-written with Garrel’s partner Caroline Deruas-Garrel and his usual writer Arlette Langmann, along with Jean-Claude Carrière, is inspired: A young woman, Jeanne (Garrel’s daughter, Esther) breaks up with her boyfriend and must stay at the flat of his father, Gilles (Éric Caravaca), who,...
- 5/22/2017
- MUBI
French actor Eric Caravaca, who headlined Patrice Chereau’s 2002 drama My Brother and is one of the leads of Philippe Garrel’s new Directors’ Fortnight premiere, Lover for a Day, tries to uncover his own complex family history in the documentary Plot 35 (Carre 35). The film focuses especially on his sister, who was born and who died before him, at the age of 3, and whose short existence was almost never talked about by his parents. But with forefathers that escaped from Spain to Morocco and Algeria and then had to leave for France when those countries became independent,...
- 5/21/2017
- by Boyd van Hoeij
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Philippe Garrel, the 69-year-old veteran of the French New Wave, has produced a casual, bittersweet, and intoxicating study of relationships in flux starring his daughter Esther. In this swift, touching ode to lovers with heart-breaking, irreconcilable differences, the drama appears conventional on first glance, featuring that older-man-younger-women relationship frustratingly perennial in French art cinema, but this is a work of rare clarity by a director whose experience shows.
Completing a trilogy of sorts alongside fellow black-and-white dramas Jealousy and In The Shadow of Women, each clocking in at under 80 minutes, Lover for a Day (L’Amant d’un Jour) is a tale of dichotomies: loyalty to lovers compared with being faithful to yourself; young, optimistic love versus mature unsentimental love; animalistic craving for sex against the hard graft of being active in loving relationships. Garrel has said the film is in part his reflection on Freud’s Elektra complex, and...
Completing a trilogy of sorts alongside fellow black-and-white dramas Jealousy and In The Shadow of Women, each clocking in at under 80 minutes, Lover for a Day (L’Amant d’un Jour) is a tale of dichotomies: loyalty to lovers compared with being faithful to yourself; young, optimistic love versus mature unsentimental love; animalistic craving for sex against the hard graft of being active in loving relationships. Garrel has said the film is in part his reflection on Freud’s Elektra complex, and...
- 5/20/2017
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
Every couple of years, Philippe Garrel turns out a black-and-white tales of love and (in)fidelity among Parisian intellectuals. His detractors contend that he always makes the same film; his defenders say that’s the point. Like seeing a singer play two shows, the pleasures are found in subtle changes and rearrangements, noticing what they emphasize in this set as opposed to the last. In any case, “Lover for a Day” is unlikely to change anyone’s perspective.
There is one major departure: Instead of casting his son Louis Garrel, who either starred in or narrated his father’s previous five features, the director has gone with his daughter, Esther Garrel (of the Sundance sensation “Call Me By Your Name”). She stars as Jeanne, a young student experiencing her first pangs of heartbreak. Kicked out by her now ex and with nowhere to go, Jeanne ends up moving in with her father,...
There is one major departure: Instead of casting his son Louis Garrel, who either starred in or narrated his father’s previous five features, the director has gone with his daughter, Esther Garrel (of the Sundance sensation “Call Me By Your Name”). She stars as Jeanne, a young student experiencing her first pangs of heartbreak. Kicked out by her now ex and with nowhere to go, Jeanne ends up moving in with her father,...
- 5/19/2017
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
Two of this year’s group have films playing at the festival.
The UK’s Chris Martin, Switzerland’s Ivan Madeo [pictured, left] and Poland’s Maria Blicharska [pictured, right] are among the 20 up-and-coming European producers to be selected for the 2017 edition of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) networking platform Producers On The Move, which takes place at Cannes Film Festival.
As in previous years, the five-day event (May 19-23) will include pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings, case studies and other meetings with the international industry gathered in Cannes.
Two of the producers from this year’s line-up have films in the festival’s programme: Poland’s Maria Blicharska will be presenting Frost in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, while France’s Didar Domehri was a co-producer on Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera which will have its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section.
Producers on the Move (PoM) from previous editions of the initiative also regularly return to Cannes...
The UK’s Chris Martin, Switzerland’s Ivan Madeo [pictured, left] and Poland’s Maria Blicharska [pictured, right] are among the 20 up-and-coming European producers to be selected for the 2017 edition of European Film Promotion’s (Efp) networking platform Producers On The Move, which takes place at Cannes Film Festival.
As in previous years, the five-day event (May 19-23) will include pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings, case studies and other meetings with the international industry gathered in Cannes.
Two of the producers from this year’s line-up have films in the festival’s programme: Poland’s Maria Blicharska will be presenting Frost in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, while France’s Didar Domehri was a co-producer on Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera which will have its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section.
Producers on the Move (PoM) from previous editions of the initiative also regularly return to Cannes...
- 5/3/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Stylish, steamy and very French, Garrel’s new feature explores his trademark theme of relationships.
Screen can reveal a first English-language version of the teaser for Lover For A Day, through French producer Saïd Ben Saïd’s Paris-based production and distribution house Sbs, which is also handling international sales.
Watch below, or on mobile Here.
Philippe Garrel may be one of the only representatives of the French New Wave, alongside Agnès Varda, in Cannes this year as the festival marks its 70th anniversary, unless Jean-Luc Godard puts in a real-life appearance which is unlikely.
Garrel will not be premiering his latest work Lover For A Day in Official Selection, however, but rather Directors’ Fortnight.
The director, 69, has been a regular guest at the parallel section ever since attending its first edition in 1969 when it launched as a rebellious counterpoint to the main festival following the student and workers revolt of 1968.
Set in contemporary Paris and shot...
Screen can reveal a first English-language version of the teaser for Lover For A Day, through French producer Saïd Ben Saïd’s Paris-based production and distribution house Sbs, which is also handling international sales.
Watch below, or on mobile Here.
Philippe Garrel may be one of the only representatives of the French New Wave, alongside Agnès Varda, in Cannes this year as the festival marks its 70th anniversary, unless Jean-Luc Godard puts in a real-life appearance which is unlikely.
Garrel will not be premiering his latest work Lover For A Day in Official Selection, however, but rather Directors’ Fortnight.
The director, 69, has been a regular guest at the parallel section ever since attending its first edition in 1969 when it launched as a rebellious counterpoint to the main festival following the student and workers revolt of 1968.
Set in contemporary Paris and shot...
- 4/28/2017
- ScreenDaily
Santiago Mitre’s La Cordillera, Li Ruijun’s Walking Past The Future join Ucr.
Roman Polanski’s Based On A True Story is one of several additions to the Cannes line-up announced on Thursday.
The film will play out of competition and stars Eva Green, Emmanuelle Seigner and Vincent Perez and tells of a writer who gets involved with an obsessive fan.
Meanwhile Ruben Östlund’s The Square lands a competition slot. Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West star in the drama about a city square where there are no rules. Östlund’s last film, Force Majeure, won the Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2014.
There are two additions to Un Certain Regard. Political drama La Cordillera stars Ricardo Darin and is Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s follow-up to his Cannes Critics’ Week 2015 Nespresso Grand Prize-winner Paulina. The other new selection is Walking Past The Future from Li Ruijun.
Joiing the Special Screenings roster are Barbet Schroeder’s [link...
Roman Polanski’s Based On A True Story is one of several additions to the Cannes line-up announced on Thursday.
The film will play out of competition and stars Eva Green, Emmanuelle Seigner and Vincent Perez and tells of a writer who gets involved with an obsessive fan.
Meanwhile Ruben Östlund’s The Square lands a competition slot. Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West star in the drama about a city square where there are no rules. Östlund’s last film, Force Majeure, won the Un Certain Regard jury prize in 2014.
There are two additions to Un Certain Regard. Political drama La Cordillera stars Ricardo Darin and is Argentinian director Santiago Mitre’s follow-up to his Cannes Critics’ Week 2015 Nespresso Grand Prize-winner Paulina. The other new selection is Walking Past The Future from Li Ruijun.
Joiing the Special Screenings roster are Barbet Schroeder’s [link...
- 4/27/2017
- ScreenDaily
The Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup for the official selection, including the Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, as well as special screenings, for the 70th edition of the festival:
COMPETITIONHappy End (Michael Haneke)Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)Le Redoutable (Michel Hazanavicius)The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)Rodin (Jaques Doillon)120 Beats Per Minute (Robin Campillo)Okja (Bong Joon-Ho)In The Fade (Fatih Akin)The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)Radiance (Naomi Kawase)The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa)Jupiter's Moon (Kornél Mandruczó)Good Time (Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie)Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) L'Amant Double (François Ozon)You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)The Meyerowitz Stories (Noah Baumbach)The Square (Ruben Östlund)Un Certain REGARDOpening Night: Barbara (Mathieu Amalric)The Desert Bride (Cecilia Atan & Valeria Pivato)Lucky (Sergio Castellitto)Closeness (Kantemir Balagov)Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)Beauty and the Dogs (Kaouther Ben Hania)L...
COMPETITIONHappy End (Michael Haneke)Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)Le Redoutable (Michel Hazanavicius)The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)Rodin (Jaques Doillon)120 Beats Per Minute (Robin Campillo)Okja (Bong Joon-Ho)In The Fade (Fatih Akin)The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)Radiance (Naomi Kawase)The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa)Jupiter's Moon (Kornél Mandruczó)Good Time (Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie)Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) L'Amant Double (François Ozon)You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)The Meyerowitz Stories (Noah Baumbach)The Square (Ruben Östlund)Un Certain REGARDOpening Night: Barbara (Mathieu Amalric)The Desert Bride (Cecilia Atan & Valeria Pivato)Lucky (Sergio Castellitto)Closeness (Kantemir Balagov)Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)Beauty and the Dogs (Kaouther Ben Hania)L...
- 4/27/2017
- MUBI
The Cannes Film Festival has announced the addition of seven new films to the 2017 lineup, including Roman Polanski’s “D’après une histoire vraie” (“Based on a True Story”). Written by Polanski and French filmmaker Olivier Assayas and based on the novel by Delphine de Vigan, the film will screen in the Out of Competition section. Other filmmakers whose work has been added include Swedish filmmaker Ruben Ostlund, Argentinian writer-director Santiago Mitre and Iranian-born Swiss filmmaker Barbet Schroeder.
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The full list of the new additions are below.
Competition
“The Square,” directed by Ruben Östlund
Out of Competition
“D’après une histoire vraie,” directed by Roman Polanski
Un Certain Regard
“La Cordillera,” directed by Santiago Mitre
“Walking Past the Future,” directed by Li Ruijun
Special Screenings
“Le Vénérable W.,” directed by Barbet Schroeder
“Carré 35,” directed by...
Read More: Cannes: How to Get a Sales Agent or Distributor for Your Unfinished Film
The full list of the new additions are below.
Competition
“The Square,” directed by Ruben Östlund
Out of Competition
“D’après une histoire vraie,” directed by Roman Polanski
Un Certain Regard
“La Cordillera,” directed by Santiago Mitre
“Walking Past the Future,” directed by Li Ruijun
Special Screenings
“Le Vénérable W.,” directed by Barbet Schroeder
“Carré 35,” directed by...
- 4/27/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The 2017 Cannes Film Festival has added seven more films to its lineup, including Roman Polanski‘s “D’après une histoire vraie,” Cannes organizers announced on Monday.
Other additions include films by Ruben Ostlund, Santiago Mitre and Barbet Schroeder.
The new additions:
Main Competition: “The Square” by Ruben Ostlund
Out of Competition: “D’après une histoire vraie” by Roman Polanski
Un Certain Regard: “La Cordillera” by Santiago Mitre “Walking Past the Future” by Li Ruijun
Special Screenings: “Le Vénérable W.” by Barbet Schroeder “Carré 35” by Éric Caravaca
Children’s Screening: “Zombillénium” by Arthur de Pins and Alexis Ducord
The bulk of...
Other additions include films by Ruben Ostlund, Santiago Mitre and Barbet Schroeder.
The new additions:
Main Competition: “The Square” by Ruben Ostlund
Out of Competition: “D’après une histoire vraie” by Roman Polanski
Un Certain Regard: “La Cordillera” by Santiago Mitre “Walking Past the Future” by Li Ruijun
Special Screenings: “Le Vénérable W.” by Barbet Schroeder “Carré 35” by Éric Caravaca
Children’s Screening: “Zombillénium” by Arthur de Pins and Alexis Ducord
The bulk of...
- 4/27/2017
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
His acolytes, of which there is a rabid group, will contend that his entire career is success after success, but it still feels safe to say Philippe Garrel‘s been on a roll of sorts in recent years. He’ll follow one of last year’s best pictures, In the Shadow of Women — which more of you can and should see right now — with the Cannes-bound L’amant d’un jour, or One Day Lover, in which his own daughter, Esther Garrel, plays a woman who returns home at the tail end of a failed relationship and finds that her father (Eric Caravaca) is dating a woman (Louise Chevillotte) her own age.
There goes a joke, said either affectionately or scornfully depending on the speaker, that Garrel often produces precisely what most assume is “French arthouse cinema” — black-and-white, gloomy, sex- and cigarette-filled, with musings on matters of the heart taking...
There goes a joke, said either affectionately or scornfully depending on the speaker, that Garrel often produces precisely what most assume is “French arthouse cinema” — black-and-white, gloomy, sex- and cigarette-filled, with musings on matters of the heart taking...
- 4/20/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Baker, Nyoni, Jasper and Carpignano join Cannes veterans Denis, Ferrara, Dumont, Garrel and Gitai.Scroll Down For Full List
Tangerine director Sean Baker, the UK’s Rungano Nyoni and Italo-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano will be among the buzzed-about names premiering new works at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year (18-28 May).
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled the eclectic selection, comprising 19 feature-length films and another 11 shorts, at a press conference at the Cinéma Le Grand Action in Paris on Thursday (20 April).
Read more: Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
Opening And Closing Films
Claire Denis will open the 49th edition – running May 18-28 - with Un Beau Soleil Intérieur starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Beauvois.
Us director Geremy Jasper’s debut feature Patti Cake$ - which world premiered at Sundance this year has been selected as the closing film.
Us Presence
It is one of two Sundance titles in this year’s selection...
Tangerine director Sean Baker, the UK’s Rungano Nyoni and Italo-American film-maker Jonas Carpignano will be among the buzzed-about names premiering new works at the 49th edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year (18-28 May).
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop unveiled the eclectic selection, comprising 19 feature-length films and another 11 shorts, at a press conference at the Cinéma Le Grand Action in Paris on Thursday (20 April).
Read more: Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
Opening And Closing Films
Claire Denis will open the 49th edition – running May 18-28 - with Un Beau Soleil Intérieur starring Juliette Binoche, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Beauvois.
Us director Geremy Jasper’s debut feature Patti Cake$ - which world premiered at Sundance this year has been selected as the closing film.
Us Presence
It is one of two Sundance titles in this year’s selection...
- 4/20/2017
- ScreenDaily
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (Dfi) backs 32 projects in autumn funding round.
Moroccan filmmaker Narjiss Nejjar (Cry No More), Lebanon’s Bassem Breish and Palestinian director Suha Arraf (Villa Touma, pictured) are among the latest recipients of the Doha Film Institute’s grants programme aimed at first and second-time film-makers in the Middle East and Africa region.
The Qatari organization backed a total 32 projects from 27 countries in its autumn funding round.
Nejjar received support for upcoming film Stateless about a girl who will do anything to re-connect with her mother, including marry an aging, blind man.
Breish is working on The Maiden’s Pond, about two woman connected to the same man who need to find a way of living side by side in the same village.
Arraf, whose last film was Villa Touma, is currently working on The Poster, about a Palestinian village situated within Israeli borders which is stirred up when a controversial poster appears...
Moroccan filmmaker Narjiss Nejjar (Cry No More), Lebanon’s Bassem Breish and Palestinian director Suha Arraf (Villa Touma, pictured) are among the latest recipients of the Doha Film Institute’s grants programme aimed at first and second-time film-makers in the Middle East and Africa region.
The Qatari organization backed a total 32 projects from 27 countries in its autumn funding round.
Nejjar received support for upcoming film Stateless about a girl who will do anything to re-connect with her mother, including marry an aging, blind man.
Breish is working on The Maiden’s Pond, about two woman connected to the same man who need to find a way of living side by side in the same village.
Arraf, whose last film was Villa Touma, is currently working on The Poster, about a Palestinian village situated within Israeli borders which is stirred up when a controversial poster appears...
- 12/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Drama starring Isabelle Huppert due to shoot this June.
Les Films du Losange has taken on sales of Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (L’Avenir), starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman embarking on a new life after her husband leaves her for another woman.
“We’ll kick off sales at Cannes on the back of the script. The film is due to shoot in Paris in June,” said Les Films du Losange head of sales Agathe Valentin.
Huppert stars as Nathalie, a settled philosophy teacher who has been married for years to Heinz, with whom she has two grown-up children. They stay together out of habit and common intellectual pursuits – he also teaches philosophy — rather than for love.
But one day Heinz announces he has fallen for another woman and moves out. At the same time, Nathalie’s possessive, time-consuming mother passes away. As the summer holidays loom, Nathalie is staring...
Les Films du Losange has taken on sales of Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come (L’Avenir), starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman embarking on a new life after her husband leaves her for another woman.
“We’ll kick off sales at Cannes on the back of the script. The film is due to shoot in Paris in June,” said Les Films du Losange head of sales Agathe Valentin.
Huppert stars as Nathalie, a settled philosophy teacher who has been married for years to Heinz, with whom she has two grown-up children. They stay together out of habit and common intellectual pursuits – he also teaches philosophy — rather than for love.
But one day Heinz announces he has fallen for another woman and moves out. At the same time, Nathalie’s possessive, time-consuming mother passes away. As the summer holidays loom, Nathalie is staring...
- 5/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
Barbarian Invasion: Arcady Hits the Headlines for Procedural
Recounting a bizarre kidnapping case from 2006 that reflects the continuing cultural mutation of anti-Semitism and the modernized hate crime, Alexandre Arcady’s 24 Days reenacts a cruel and digesting instance eventually projected by the media, where it was titled The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians, as a national outcry to end hate crimes. With authorities initially reluctant to admit the underlying bigotry that spurred the kidnapping, torture, and eventual murder of Ilan Halimi that took place over nearly a month, it appears increasing political pressures only served to limit necessary discussions pertaining to the abductor’s motivations for kidnapping Halimi, namely his Jewishness.
On January 31, 2006, Ilan Halimi (Syrus Shahidi), a cell phone vendor in a Parisian suburb, has a secret rendezvous with a beautiful young woman he’s made a date with. The date is secret because Ilan already has a girlfriend,...
Recounting a bizarre kidnapping case from 2006 that reflects the continuing cultural mutation of anti-Semitism and the modernized hate crime, Alexandre Arcady’s 24 Days reenacts a cruel and digesting instance eventually projected by the media, where it was titled The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians, as a national outcry to end hate crimes. With authorities initially reluctant to admit the underlying bigotry that spurred the kidnapping, torture, and eventual murder of Ilan Halimi that took place over nearly a month, it appears increasing political pressures only served to limit necessary discussions pertaining to the abductor’s motivations for kidnapping Halimi, namely his Jewishness.
On January 31, 2006, Ilan Halimi (Syrus Shahidi), a cell phone vendor in a Parisian suburb, has a secret rendezvous with a beautiful young woman he’s made a date with. The date is secret because Ilan already has a girlfriend,...
- 4/23/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Music is at the core of two new Specialty features making their theatrical bows this weekend, albeit from rather different ends of the spectrum. XLrator Media will open Jimi: All Is By My Side focusing on the artist’s life in London in nearly three dozen theaters, while Samuel Goldwyn Films will bow faith-centered The Song in over 300 theaters, the biggest number of runs for a limited release newcomer this week. Magnolia Pictures will take thriller The Two Faces Of January starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac to an initial half-dozen locations in the wake of its VOD release late last month and CBS Films is targeting the same number of runs for its Cannes ’14 feature Pride. Factory 25 is opening its art meets goth-rap thriller Hellaware and Cinema Libre will debut a former Swiss foreign-language Oscar contender The Little Bedroom in exclusive New York runs. The weekend is...
- 9/26/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Good Grief: Nuanced Dramatic Debut Lands Long Awaited Release in Us
Initially premiering at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the directorial debut of Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond, The Little Bedroom, at last gets a Us theatrical release after four years. Picking up several accolades during its extended festival circuit tour, the film was Switzerland’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film back in 2011. Notably, it may be one of the last chances to see Michel Bouquet in a lead role (though he’s also in 2012’s celebrated Renoir, which France submitted for the same accolade in 2013). An intersection of two individuals during a period of increasing desperation, both refusing to accept an innate truth about the present state of their situations, it’s a quietly affecting and genuinely moving portrait of grief, reconciliation, and the cruel inevitably of aging.
Having given birth to a stillborn child only several months ago,...
Initially premiering at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the directorial debut of Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond, The Little Bedroom, at last gets a Us theatrical release after four years. Picking up several accolades during its extended festival circuit tour, the film was Switzerland’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film back in 2011. Notably, it may be one of the last chances to see Michel Bouquet in a lead role (though he’s also in 2012’s celebrated Renoir, which France submitted for the same accolade in 2013). An intersection of two individuals during a period of increasing desperation, both refusing to accept an innate truth about the present state of their situations, it’s a quietly affecting and genuinely moving portrait of grief, reconciliation, and the cruel inevitably of aging.
Having given birth to a stillborn child only several months ago,...
- 9/25/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Maximilian Schell dead at 83: Best Actor Oscar winner for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ (photo: Maximilian Schell ca. 1960) Actor and filmmaker Maximilian Schell, best known for his Oscar-winning performance as the defense attorney in Stanley Kramer’s 1961 political drama Judgment at Nuremberg died at a hospital in Innsbruck, Austria, on February 1, 2014. According to his agent, Patricia Baumbauer, Schell died overnight following a "sudden and serious illness." Maximilian Schell was 83. Born on December 8, 1930, in Vienna, Maximilian Schell was the younger brother of future actor Carl Schell and Maria Schell, who would become an international film star in the 1950s (The Last Bridge, Gervaise, The Hanging Tree). Immy Schell, who would be featured in several television and film productions from the mid-’50s to the early ’90s, was born in 1935. Following Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, Schell’s parents, Swiss playwright Hermann Ferdinand Schell and Austrian stage actress Margarete Schell Noé,...
- 2/2/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Patrice Chéreau dead at 68: French director best known for ‘Queen Margot,’ gay-related dramas (photo: Patrice Chéreau; Isabelle Adjani in ‘Queen Margot’) Screenwriter, sometime actor, and stage, opera, and film director Patrice Chéreau, whose clinically cool — some might say sterile — films were arthouse favorites in some quarters, has died of lung cancer in Paris. Chéreau was 68. Born on November 2, 1944, in Lézigné, in France’s Maine-et-Loire department, and raised in Paris, Patrice Chéreau began directing plays in his late teens. In the mid-’60s, he became the director of a theater in Sartrouville, northwest of Paris, where he staged plays with a strong left-wing bent. Later on he moved to Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, and in the ’80s became the director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. His 1976 staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth was considered revolutionary. Patrice Chéreau...
- 10/8/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Chicken With Plums (Poulet aux prunes) Sony Pictures Classics Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud Screenwriter: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud from the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Jamel Debbouze, Edouard Baer, Eric Caravaca, Maria de Medeiros, Chiara Mastroianni Screened at: Sony, NYC, 7/16/12 Opens: August 17, 2102 In a sequel to the wonderful and more political “Persepolis,” which was Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s animated film in which an Iranian girl travels abroad to escape from the oppression of the Iranian fundamentalist government (but cannot “find” herself in Vienna either), the writer-directors now treat us to an exquisitely photographed, edited and acted work with a modicum of animation. [ Read More ]...
- 7/19/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
DVD Playhouse—March 2011
By
Allen Gardner
127 Hours (20th Century Fox) Harrowing true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco, in another fine turn), an extreme outdoorsman who finds himself trapped in a remote Utah canyon, his arm pinned between two boulders, with no help nearby, no communication to the outside world, and dim prospects for survival, to say the least. Director Danny Boyle manages to prove again that he’s one of the finest filmmakers working today by making a subject that is seemingly uncinematic a true example of pure cinema. Inventive, breathtaking, funny, and horrifying, often all at once. Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara make a memorable, brief appearance as hikers who connect with Ralston during his journey. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Boyle, producer Christian Colson, co-writer Simon Beaufoy; Deleted scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
Amarcord (Criterion) Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning, autobiographical classic might...
By
Allen Gardner
127 Hours (20th Century Fox) Harrowing true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco, in another fine turn), an extreme outdoorsman who finds himself trapped in a remote Utah canyon, his arm pinned between two boulders, with no help nearby, no communication to the outside world, and dim prospects for survival, to say the least. Director Danny Boyle manages to prove again that he’s one of the finest filmmakers working today by making a subject that is seemingly uncinematic a true example of pure cinema. Inventive, breathtaking, funny, and horrifying, often all at once. Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara make a memorable, brief appearance as hikers who connect with Ralston during his journey. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Boyle, producer Christian Colson, co-writer Simon Beaufoy; Deleted scenes; Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
Amarcord (Criterion) Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning, autobiographical classic might...
- 3/1/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Christoph Waltz hogged the glory and won the Oscar. But I'm putting my money on Laurent, an actor and film-maker who could become the biggest French export since Juliette Binoche
Last year, Quentin Tarantino released his Inglourious Basterds, and despite being in many ways this director's number one fan I couldn't hide my disappointment with it. However, I hope I've got the good grace to concede Tarantino's remarkable flair for picking and bringing on new talent. All the world knows how the movie made a star of Christoph Waltz. This is also true of Mélanie Laurent, who played the fugitive Jewish woman Shosanna Dreyfus who was being pursued by Waltz's creepy SS "Jew hunter". Laurent had appeared in a number of films before this, but Ib was the real breakthrough. Her father, Pierre Laurent, is incidentally also a professional actor who dubs the voice of Ned Flanders in French broadcasts of The Simpsons.
Last year, Quentin Tarantino released his Inglourious Basterds, and despite being in many ways this director's number one fan I couldn't hide my disappointment with it. However, I hope I've got the good grace to concede Tarantino's remarkable flair for picking and bringing on new talent. All the world knows how the movie made a star of Christoph Waltz. This is also true of Mélanie Laurent, who played the fugitive Jewish woman Shosanna Dreyfus who was being pursued by Waltz's creepy SS "Jew hunter". Laurent had appeared in a number of films before this, but Ib was the real breakthrough. Her father, Pierre Laurent, is incidentally also a professional actor who dubs the voice of Ned Flanders in French broadcasts of The Simpsons.
- 7/13/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
2009 is about to end with a bang, though probably not the apocalyptic kind predicted in the long-awaited adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" or Chris Smith's terrifying doc "Collapse," though those will both be playing at your local arthouse. Instead, audiences will be able to enjoy a winter of wildly different indie film offerings to reflect the wildly different tastes of moviegoers as we leave one decade and move into another. (There are also many different ways to watch them, as you can tell from our Anywhere But a Movie Theater section.)
From November through January, there will be musicals ("Nine"), comedies (Broken Lizard's "The Slammin' Salmon") and stop-motion animated wonderments ("A Town Called Panic") to entertain and new films from Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodóvar, Richard Linklater, Terry Gilliam and Werner Herzog to ponder. And if new movies aren't necessarily doing the trick, you can always cozy...
From November through January, there will be musicals ("Nine"), comedies (Broken Lizard's "The Slammin' Salmon") and stop-motion animated wonderments ("A Town Called Panic") to entertain and new films from Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodóvar, Richard Linklater, Terry Gilliam and Werner Herzog to ponder. And if new movies aren't necessarily doing the trick, you can always cozy...
- 11/4/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
A week loaded with oh-so-worthy awards season contenders is offset with the comic relief of Jim Carrey's performance captured flailing, George Clooney's self-deluded staring, and the teasing promise of an affordable(!) trip to the ballet.
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"The Box"
You could make the argument that if Richard Kelly could only get the whole world to come over to his house and listen to his record collection, he might not feel the need to make films at all. That said, his fall from grace following the flop of "Southland Tales" was so total that he went from the director anointed as the hipster's David Lynch to the arthouse M. Night Shyamalan overnight. With much riding on this comeback, Kelly has turned to Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button," previously immortalized as an episode of "The Twilight Zone,...
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"The Box"
You could make the argument that if Richard Kelly could only get the whole world to come over to his house and listen to his record collection, he might not feel the need to make films at all. That said, his fall from grace following the flop of "Southland Tales" was so total that he went from the director anointed as the hipster's David Lynch to the arthouse M. Night Shyamalan overnight. With much riding on this comeback, Kelly has turned to Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button," previously immortalized as an episode of "The Twilight Zone,...
- 11/2/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
U.S. Dramatic Competition
This year's 16 films were selected from 1,026 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants' biggest fan is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player. Cast: Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Director-screenwriter: John Krasinski)
When her boyfriend leaves with little explanation,...
This year's 16 films were selected from 1,026 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants' biggest fan is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player. Cast: Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Director-screenwriter: John Krasinski)
When her boyfriend leaves with little explanation,...
- 12/3/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Germany's Oliver Hirschbiegel and Denmark’s own Lone Scherfig and Nicolas Winding Refn are among those representing their latest works in the World Dramatic Competition. The selection committee had the crazy task of bringing down the total number 1,012 submissions down to 16. Films screening in World Cinema Dramatic Competition are: Before Tomorrow (Le Jour Avant Lendemain) / Canada (Directors: Madeline Piujuq & Marie-Helene Cousineau)—A wise old woman fights to survive impossible circumstances with her young grandson in the Canadian arctic. Cast: Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Paul-Dylan Ivalu, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Mary Qulitalik, Tumasie Sivuarapik. U.S. Premiere Bronson / UK (Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; Screenwriter: Brock Norman Brock)—Bronson traces the transformation of Mickey Peterson into Britain's most notorious, dangerous, and charismatic prisoner, Charles Bronson. Cast: Tom Hardy. North American Premiere Carmo, Hit the Road / Spain (Director and Screenwriter: Murilo Pasta)— A lonely, handicapped smuggler and a beautiful girl embark on a reckless ride
- 12/3/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
PARIS -- What do Days of Glory star Roschdy Zem, the hapless victim Maiwenn Le Besco in French-made slasher movie High Tension and seasoned character actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin have in common? They are all part of the growing band of Gallic actors who recently made the switch to behind the camera.
Actors turning director is about as old as cinema itself, but in France it's getting hard these days to find an actor who hasn't made the move. The most recent release in this area is the well-received Ne le dis a personne (Tell No One), adapted from a Harlan Coben novel and the second directorial effort by Guillaume Canet. Released by Europa Corp., the film this month netted an impressive 1.5 million admissions in its first two weeks in France.
Nearly every month seems to bring the announcement of a new project. The latest is from comic Jean-Paul Rouve, star of a string of recent hit comedies in France, who starts shooting his first picture, Numero 1, next year with producer Elia Films.
"There are so many bankable stars now in the midst of personal film projects that it's hard to find actors to star in films," quips producer Frederic Niedermayer, who has directed a number of films by actor-director Emmanuel Mouret. "There is a definite trend of more actors taking up directing," echoes Jean-Michel Frodon, film critic for newspaper Le Monde.
Recent converts include Eric Caravaca, whose first film, The Passenger, screened in Critics' Week at the Venice International Film Festival last year.
Actors turning director is about as old as cinema itself, but in France it's getting hard these days to find an actor who hasn't made the move. The most recent release in this area is the well-received Ne le dis a personne (Tell No One), adapted from a Harlan Coben novel and the second directorial effort by Guillaume Canet. Released by Europa Corp., the film this month netted an impressive 1.5 million admissions in its first two weeks in France.
Nearly every month seems to bring the announcement of a new project. The latest is from comic Jean-Paul Rouve, star of a string of recent hit comedies in France, who starts shooting his first picture, Numero 1, next year with producer Elia Films.
"There are so many bankable stars now in the midst of personal film projects that it's hard to find actors to star in films," quips producer Frederic Niedermayer, who has directed a number of films by actor-director Emmanuel Mouret. "There is a definite trend of more actors taking up directing," echoes Jean-Michel Frodon, film critic for newspaper Le Monde.
Recent converts include Eric Caravaca, whose first film, The Passenger, screened in Critics' Week at the Venice International Film Festival last year.
- 11/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three middle-class men perpetrate an armed heist because one of the robber's wife needs a new moped so she won't have to take the bus to work. A misguided blasphemy of Bicycle Thief, downloaded through film-noir affectations, this Competition Entrant is morally specious and narratively nonsensical. Film might be more aptly retitled The Right of the Whiners, given its dimwitted ethics.
In this ridiculously implausible scenario, over-educated househusband Patrick (Eric Caravaca) is too proud to allow his working wife to accept a new scooter from her father because he feels his manhood threatened. He whines about it to his card buddies down at the bistro, old-timers who live nearby in a government-run high rise that houses the disbled on one floor. Also, there's a newcomer, yup, a silent stranger just out of prison for armed robbery.
Feeling sorry for himself and chalking up gaming losses, Patrick wallows in self-pity to such a pitiful depth that it inspires the old guys to concoct a plan - they will hold up their former place of employment, a shut-down steel plant where some shady execs are scamming money via scrap metal sales. It's all right to steal from your former place of employment since it shut down and you're now on the dole? They deserve it, right? Such is the moral turpitude of filmmaker Lucas Belvaux's scummy screenplay. Only those who believe that McDonald's customers who spill hot coffee on themselves deserve millions, will see the disgusting morals of the storyline.
Although the ex-con realizes the idiocy of the plan and bales, the other three stooges with no robbery skills embark on armed robbery. It's so lamebrained (but not in a Sunshine Boys comic kind of way) that it's actually painful to watch. That family-man and ultra Schmiel Patrick would risk his family life for such a dumb heist is preposterous. He is not exactly Jean Valjean. Evidently, we're supposed to root for the other two guys because it gives them something to do and inspires their boy-ish spirits. In the process, they kill an innocent man.
Twirling this twaddle around a noir-ish styled midsection, filmmaker Lucas Belvaux benefits from the luminous and artfully slanted cinematography of Pierre Melon. Riccardo Del Fra's original soundtrack also lays down some smudgy sounds, which are wasted on this bilge.
THE RIGHT OF THE WEAKEST
Diaphana Distribution
Agat Films & Cie and Entre Chien et Loup in co-production with France 3 Cinema, RTBF, Araneo Belgium, Aterliers de Baere
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Lucas Belvaux; Director of photography: Pierre Milon; Production designer: Frederique Belvaux; Costume designer: Nathalie Raoul; Editor: Ludo Troch. Cast. Patrick: Eric Caravaca; Carole: Natacha Regnier; Marc: Lucas Belvaux; Jean-Pierre: Patrick Descamps; Robert: Claude Semal; Steve: Elie Belvaux.
No MPAA rating, running time 116 minutes.
In this ridiculously implausible scenario, over-educated househusband Patrick (Eric Caravaca) is too proud to allow his working wife to accept a new scooter from her father because he feels his manhood threatened. He whines about it to his card buddies down at the bistro, old-timers who live nearby in a government-run high rise that houses the disbled on one floor. Also, there's a newcomer, yup, a silent stranger just out of prison for armed robbery.
Feeling sorry for himself and chalking up gaming losses, Patrick wallows in self-pity to such a pitiful depth that it inspires the old guys to concoct a plan - they will hold up their former place of employment, a shut-down steel plant where some shady execs are scamming money via scrap metal sales. It's all right to steal from your former place of employment since it shut down and you're now on the dole? They deserve it, right? Such is the moral turpitude of filmmaker Lucas Belvaux's scummy screenplay. Only those who believe that McDonald's customers who spill hot coffee on themselves deserve millions, will see the disgusting morals of the storyline.
Although the ex-con realizes the idiocy of the plan and bales, the other three stooges with no robbery skills embark on armed robbery. It's so lamebrained (but not in a Sunshine Boys comic kind of way) that it's actually painful to watch. That family-man and ultra Schmiel Patrick would risk his family life for such a dumb heist is preposterous. He is not exactly Jean Valjean. Evidently, we're supposed to root for the other two guys because it gives them something to do and inspires their boy-ish spirits. In the process, they kill an innocent man.
Twirling this twaddle around a noir-ish styled midsection, filmmaker Lucas Belvaux benefits from the luminous and artfully slanted cinematography of Pierre Melon. Riccardo Del Fra's original soundtrack also lays down some smudgy sounds, which are wasted on this bilge.
THE RIGHT OF THE WEAKEST
Diaphana Distribution
Agat Films & Cie and Entre Chien et Loup in co-production with France 3 Cinema, RTBF, Araneo Belgium, Aterliers de Baere
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Lucas Belvaux; Director of photography: Pierre Milon; Production designer: Frederique Belvaux; Costume designer: Nathalie Raoul; Editor: Ludo Troch. Cast. Patrick: Eric Caravaca; Carole: Natacha Regnier; Marc: Lucas Belvaux; Jean-Pierre: Patrick Descamps; Robert: Claude Semal; Steve: Elie Belvaux.
No MPAA rating, running time 116 minutes.
- 5/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Never one to shy away from stories dealing with very intense human contact, filmmaker Patrice Chereau ("Intimacy") gets up close and personal with this portrait of tricky family dynamics.
Based on the Philippe Besson novel "Son Frere", the unflinchingly clinical "His Brother" -- which screened at the City of Lights/City of Angels Film Festival -- deals with the relationship between a pair of estranged siblings who are brought together after one of them is diagnosed with a potentially fatal blood disease.
When his illness forces him to check into the hospital, Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) calls upon his gay younger brother, Luc (Eric Caravaca), to help care for him. At first reluctant and resentful for the earlier years in which he felt abandoned by his Big Brother, Luc gradually rises to the task.
Shunning artifice, Chereau insists on keeping things graphically real -- a sequence in which Thomas is given a pre-op chest-to-groin shave by two nurses is carried out with excruciating, real-time precision.
The characters' interior lives, meanwhile, are examined with the same kind of X-ray-reading scrutiny, and while its two credible leads are certainly up to the challenge, there's a relentless claustrophobia that prevents the film from taking on a fully dimensional life of its own.
By the time Chereau has cued an appropriately dirgelike Marianne Faithfull tune, his emotional shut-ins aren't The Only Ones in serious need of a blast of fresh air.
Never one to shy away from stories dealing with very intense human contact, filmmaker Patrice Chereau ("Intimacy") gets up close and personal with this portrait of tricky family dynamics.
Based on the Philippe Besson novel "Son Frere", the unflinchingly clinical "His Brother" -- which screened at the City of Lights/City of Angels Film Festival -- deals with the relationship between a pair of estranged siblings who are brought together after one of them is diagnosed with a potentially fatal blood disease.
When his illness forces him to check into the hospital, Thomas (Bruno Todeschini) calls upon his gay younger brother, Luc (Eric Caravaca), to help care for him. At first reluctant and resentful for the earlier years in which he felt abandoned by his Big Brother, Luc gradually rises to the task.
Shunning artifice, Chereau insists on keeping things graphically real -- a sequence in which Thomas is given a pre-op chest-to-groin shave by two nurses is carried out with excruciating, real-time precision.
The characters' interior lives, meanwhile, are examined with the same kind of X-ray-reading scrutiny, and while its two credible leads are certainly up to the challenge, there's a relentless claustrophobia that prevents the film from taking on a fully dimensional life of its own.
By the time Chereau has cued an appropriately dirgelike Marianne Faithfull tune, his emotional shut-ins aren't The Only Ones in serious need of a blast of fresh air.
- 4/10/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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