The New York Times just published a Jennifer Lawrence profile anchored in the actress’ stated desire to no longer play in a studio-sized, franchise-shaped mold, which is of course what actors say when promoting smaller, more independent fare. (The fare in this case being Causeway—a work we found underwhelming as dramatic material but a reminder of how gifted she actually is.) Though in the put-up-or-shut-up divide this is a pretty good case of putting up: there’s quick notice she and Lynne Ramsay are planning to collaborate on an adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s Die, My Love.
If there’s temptation to note Ramsay’s hardly moved the needle since You Were Never Really Here, regularly attaching herself to projects that never materialize—the last few years alone have brought word of a Margaret Atwood adaptation, a Stephen King adaptation, and a Rooney Mara / Joaquin Phoenix project—a star...
If there’s temptation to note Ramsay’s hardly moved the needle since You Were Never Really Here, regularly attaching herself to projects that never materialize—the last few years alone have brought word of a Margaret Atwood adaptation, a Stephen King adaptation, and a Rooney Mara / Joaquin Phoenix project—a star...
- 11/2/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review on “The Book of Delights,” and adaptation of a famous South American novel that is a production of Brazil and Argentina, currently available for digital download or through Video On Demand beginning on September 2nd, 2022.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
An adaptation from a novel by the late Clarice Lispector, Lóri (Simone Sploladore) is a lonely and melancholy woman who divides her time between her tasks as an elementary school teacher and her romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. By chance, she meets the Argentine Ulysses (Javier Drolas), a renowned professor of philosophy, somewhat self-centered. And even as Ulysses seems elusive, it is with him that Lóri will learn to love and face her own loneliness.
”The Book of Delights” is available for digital download or through Video On Demand starting September 2nd. Featuring Simone Sploladore, Javier Drolas, Felipe Rocha, Gabriel Stauffe and Martha Nowill.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
An adaptation from a novel by the late Clarice Lispector, Lóri (Simone Sploladore) is a lonely and melancholy woman who divides her time between her tasks as an elementary school teacher and her romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. By chance, she meets the Argentine Ulysses (Javier Drolas), a renowned professor of philosophy, somewhat self-centered. And even as Ulysses seems elusive, it is with him that Lóri will learn to love and face her own loneliness.
”The Book of Delights” is available for digital download or through Video On Demand starting September 2nd. Featuring Simone Sploladore, Javier Drolas, Felipe Rocha, Gabriel Stauffe and Martha Nowill.
- 9/1/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
If one is looking for a bit of erotic romance to spice up your cinematic offerings as we approach the tail end of summer, look no further than Marcela Lordy’s Brazilian drama The Book of Delights. Based on the novel by celebrated writer Clarice Lispector, Film Movement will be releasing the Săo Paulo International Film Festival selection on September 2 and we’re pleased to exclusively debut the U.S. trailer.
Set in Rio de Janeiro, and based on Lispector’s playful novel, the film is a compelling character study that focuses on a complicated, intelligent, free spirit, Lóri (Simone Spoladore), a primary school teacher who divides her time between work and romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. Eventually emotionally dissatisfied by one-night stands, she begins a tenuous relationship with the renowned, self-confident Argentinian philosophy teacher, Ulisses (Javier Drolas). Headstrong, yet sympathetic, he works at breaking through her...
Set in Rio de Janeiro, and based on Lispector’s playful novel, the film is a compelling character study that focuses on a complicated, intelligent, free spirit, Lóri (Simone Spoladore), a primary school teacher who divides her time between work and romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. Eventually emotionally dissatisfied by one-night stands, she begins a tenuous relationship with the renowned, self-confident Argentinian philosophy teacher, Ulisses (Javier Drolas). Headstrong, yet sympathetic, he works at breaking through her...
- 8/24/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The rich, varied and enticing lineup of Uruguay’s inaugural Arca Intl. Film Festival underscores one fact from the festival’s get-go: In commercial terms, art-themed movies are not necessarily a backwater niche, reserved for high-brow aesthetes.
MSNBC Films won what is described as an intense bidding war to secure rights to Jr’s “Paper and Glue”; Sony Pictures Classics acquired U.S. rights to animated heist caper “Ruben Brandt, Collector,” Zeitgeist Film/Kino Lorber took those to “Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint”; further titles are handled by doyens of arthouse film or documentary sales such as Films Boutique (“Last and First Men”) and Deckert Distribution (“Caveman–The Hidden Giant”).
That market punch is no coincidence. For Arca’s open air big screen sessions, “we’ve chosen titles to appeal to a broad public, fiction titles, or documentaries which are attractive for their subjects or form, or even an...
MSNBC Films won what is described as an intense bidding war to secure rights to Jr’s “Paper and Glue”; Sony Pictures Classics acquired U.S. rights to animated heist caper “Ruben Brandt, Collector,” Zeitgeist Film/Kino Lorber took those to “Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint”; further titles are handled by doyens of arthouse film or documentary sales such as Films Boutique (“Last and First Men”) and Deckert Distribution (“Caveman–The Hidden Giant”).
That market punch is no coincidence. For Arca’s open air big screen sessions, “we’ve chosen titles to appeal to a broad public, fiction titles, or documentaries which are attractive for their subjects or form, or even an...
- 1/6/2022
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
M-Appeal has closed deals for two of its Ventana Sur titles: Marcela Lordy’s “The Book of Delights” to Pigeon Co. in Taiwan and “The Night of the Beast” from Mauricio Leiva Cock to HBO in Eastern Europe.
“The Book of Delights” is an Argentina-Brazil co-production between Cinematográfica Marcela and bigBonsai which had already sold in the U.S. and Japan before the Taiwan announcement was made. M-Appeal will be looking to secure deals in more territories during Ventana Sur.
Adapted from Clarice Lispector’s Brazilian novel “Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres,” “The Book of Delights” is the erotic story of Lóri, a woman on the lookout for sexual satisfaction, unwilling to compromise her own agency. An attractive young teacher by day, Lóri engages in a string of casula affairs catering to her desires and needs while purposefully avoiding emotional attachments.
Eventually, she crosses paths with renowned philosophy teacher,...
“The Book of Delights” is an Argentina-Brazil co-production between Cinematográfica Marcela and bigBonsai which had already sold in the U.S. and Japan before the Taiwan announcement was made. M-Appeal will be looking to secure deals in more territories during Ventana Sur.
Adapted from Clarice Lispector’s Brazilian novel “Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres,” “The Book of Delights” is the erotic story of Lóri, a woman on the lookout for sexual satisfaction, unwilling to compromise her own agency. An attractive young teacher by day, Lóri engages in a string of casula affairs catering to her desires and needs while purposefully avoiding emotional attachments.
Eventually, she crosses paths with renowned philosophy teacher,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
International sales agency M-Appeal has closed two deals at Cannes Marché du Film for Marcela Lordy’s feature “The Book of Delights,” licensing to Film Movement in North America and At Entertainment in Japan.
Adapted from Clarice Lispector’s Brazilian novel “Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres,” “The Book of Delights” is the erotic story of Lóri, a woman on the lookout for sexual satisfaction without sacrificing any of her own self-determination. Described by the film’s literature as a “free spirited, independent and attractive teacher,” Lóri engages in a string of love affairs catering to her desires and needs while purposefully avoiding emotional attachments.
Eventually, she crosses paths with renowned philosophy teacher, Ulisses, famous in the field of philosophy to a degree which has over-inflated his ego. The encounter causes Lóri to re-evaluate her own decisions and kickstarts a journey of self-discovery, realization and human contact.
“The Book of...
Adapted from Clarice Lispector’s Brazilian novel “Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres,” “The Book of Delights” is the erotic story of Lóri, a woman on the lookout for sexual satisfaction without sacrificing any of her own self-determination. Described by the film’s literature as a “free spirited, independent and attractive teacher,” Lóri engages in a string of love affairs catering to her desires and needs while purposefully avoiding emotional attachments.
Eventually, she crosses paths with renowned philosophy teacher, Ulisses, famous in the field of philosophy to a degree which has over-inflated his ego. The encounter causes Lóri to re-evaluate her own decisions and kickstarts a journey of self-discovery, realization and human contact.
“The Book of...
- 7/8/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Fresh off bullish sales on Berlin Festival Grand Jury Prize winner “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” sales company M-Appeal has just swooped on world rights to Brazilian Marcela Lordy’s “The Book of Delights” (“O Livro dos Praceres”) – part of a brace of first features from a new generation of young female Brazilian directors that is one of the most interesting new phenomena currently seen in Latin America movies.
Marking also the first fiction feature from Deborah Osborn’s bigBonsai, “The Book of Delights” is co-produced by Rizoma, a driving force of the New Argentine Cinema over the past two decades, creating straight arrow fest winners and more open movies on the arthouse side of mainstream.
The latter is the case of “The Book of Delights,” co-written by Lordy and Argentina’s Josefina Trotta whose writing credits include Martin Desalvo’s 2013 hit “Darkness by Day.”
“The Book of Delights” also...
Marking also the first fiction feature from Deborah Osborn’s bigBonsai, “The Book of Delights” is co-produced by Rizoma, a driving force of the New Argentine Cinema over the past two decades, creating straight arrow fest winners and more open movies on the arthouse side of mainstream.
The latter is the case of “The Book of Delights,” co-written by Lordy and Argentina’s Josefina Trotta whose writing credits include Martin Desalvo’s 2013 hit “Darkness by Day.”
“The Book of Delights” also...
- 3/18/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Jenny Hval tells the psychedelic tale of Alice in Wonderland on her new song “High Alice.” The track is the second single off the Norwegian avant-pop artist’s upcoming LP The Practice of Love, out September 13th via Sacred Bones Records.
The song opens with an intro of clashing, reverberating synths reminiscent of Radiohead’s “15 Step,” but as Hval sings the opening lines, she makes it all her own. “Alice lost/She took a long rest/In an unknown place,” she whispers. “She thought ‘where do all these creatures come from?...
The song opens with an intro of clashing, reverberating synths reminiscent of Radiohead’s “15 Step,” but as Hval sings the opening lines, she makes it all her own. “Alice lost/She took a long rest/In an unknown place,” she whispers. “She thought ‘where do all these creatures come from?...
- 8/13/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
This past Friday, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij released a “surprise” Netflix series entitled “The Oa,” about a young woman named Prairie Johnson (played by Marling), who resurfaces after having been missing for seven years, calls herself The Oa, and can see, even though she was blind prior to her disappearance. In a new interview with the New York Times, Marling discusses several influences on “The Oa” and the character of Prairie, including Hayao Miyazaki’s “Princess Mononoke.”
Read More: ‘The Oa’ Review: Brit Marling’s Secret Netflix Series Is an Admirably Ambitious Letdown
“Hayao Miyazaki’s female characters are always very developed and layered,” she says. “San, the wolf princess, and Lady Eboshi, the ruler of Irontown, are vivid portraits of women. They have a ferocity and complexity to them that I often see in women in the real world but not as often onscreen.”
Marling also cited other influences,...
Read More: ‘The Oa’ Review: Brit Marling’s Secret Netflix Series Is an Admirably Ambitious Letdown
“Hayao Miyazaki’s female characters are always very developed and layered,” she says. “San, the wolf princess, and Lady Eboshi, the ruler of Irontown, are vivid portraits of women. They have a ferocity and complexity to them that I often see in women in the real world but not as often onscreen.”
Marling also cited other influences,...
- 12/20/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Why This World, Benjamin Moser’s biography of Clarice Lispector, out this month from Oxford University Press, examines the life and work of a prolific and reputedly brilliant writer—whom you likely haven’t heard of. Lispector, who died in 1977, is memorably described as “that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf.” She’s a writer’s writer, counting Orhan Pamuk, Colm Toibin, Jonathan Franzen, and Edmund White among her fans. But she has eluded a wider literary audience. Why This World fuses 20th-century micro-histories of the Ukranian pogroms, which Lispector fled as a child, and a preindustrial Brazil, where her family began anew, with Lispector’s personal story. Moser, who is the book reviewer for Harper’s Magazine, spoke to Vf.com from his home in the Netherlands last week. Vf Daily: How did you find Clarice? And decide she was worthy of a whole biography?...
- 8/18/2009
- Vanity Fair
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