The 80th annual Venice Film Festival launches on the Lido on August 30. This edition features a slew of Oscar hopefuls including Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” David Fincher’s “The Killer,” Yorgas Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” and Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.” They’re all vying for the top prize, the Golden Lion.
Seventy years ago, there were four now-classics in competition: William Wyler’s “Roman Holiday,” for which Audrey Hepburn would win Oscar, John Huston’s “Moulin Rouge,” Samuel Fuller’s “Pickup on South Street” and Vincente Minnelli’s “The Bad and the Beautiful,” which had recently picked up five Oscars. But the Golden Lion didn’t roar at the 14th edition of the international film festival.
The jury headed by future Nobel Prize laureate in literature Eugenio Montale just couldn’t decide on the best of the fest because according to the New York Times “the quality...
Seventy years ago, there were four now-classics in competition: William Wyler’s “Roman Holiday,” for which Audrey Hepburn would win Oscar, John Huston’s “Moulin Rouge,” Samuel Fuller’s “Pickup on South Street” and Vincente Minnelli’s “The Bad and the Beautiful,” which had recently picked up five Oscars. But the Golden Lion didn’t roar at the 14th edition of the international film festival.
The jury headed by future Nobel Prize laureate in literature Eugenio Montale just couldn’t decide on the best of the fest because according to the New York Times “the quality...
- 8/29/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Brian Cox shudders to think what path his life would have taken had he not become an actor. “I think because I love traveling, I would’ve probably joined something like the Merchant Navy,” said the burly Scottish actor during a Washington Post Zoom conversation about his autobiography, “Putting the Rabbit in the Hat.” “I would’ve probably been an assistant cook or something and traveled around the world. I did actually think of the alternative [to acting] but then I put the alternative away because I knew I was going to do what I was going to do, come hell or high water.”
Thank goodness, he put the alternative away because the world would have been robbed of one of the most acclaimed actors who has triumphed on stage, screen and television. He was chilling as the first Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann’s 1986 “Manhunter.” He was terrifying in his Emmy...
Thank goodness, he put the alternative away because the world would have been robbed of one of the most acclaimed actors who has triumphed on stage, screen and television. He was chilling as the first Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann’s 1986 “Manhunter.” He was terrifying in his Emmy...
- 2/21/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Teams behind Carol and Still Alice partner on period-biopic due to shoot in May.
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game) is in advanced talks to star in biopic Colette, written by Still Alice team Wash Westmoreland and the late Richard Glatzer.
Westmoreland is set to direct the feature from Carol producers Number 9 Films and Killer Films.
Nightcrawler and Whiplash backers Bold Films will finance and co-produce the English-language title, marking the company’s first foray into the UK. Filming is due to commence in May in Budapest.
HanWay Films, which is on a roll following Oscar-nominations for Brooklyn, Carol and Anomalisa, will handle world sales. Additional casting is underway.
Pam Koffler and Christine Vachon (Carol, Still Alice) produce for Killer Films and Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley (Carol, Made in Dagenham) will produce for Number 9, which is currently in post-production on Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem and Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest Hour And A Half.
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Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game) is in advanced talks to star in biopic Colette, written by Still Alice team Wash Westmoreland and the late Richard Glatzer.
Westmoreland is set to direct the feature from Carol producers Number 9 Films and Killer Films.
Nightcrawler and Whiplash backers Bold Films will finance and co-produce the English-language title, marking the company’s first foray into the UK. Filming is due to commence in May in Budapest.
HanWay Films, which is on a roll following Oscar-nominations for Brooklyn, Carol and Anomalisa, will handle world sales. Additional casting is underway.
Pam Koffler and Christine Vachon (Carol, Still Alice) produce for Killer Films and Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley (Carol, Made in Dagenham) will produce for Number 9, which is currently in post-production on Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem and Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest Hour And A Half.
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- 2/1/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The 27th annual Gypsy of the Year performances are once again coming to New York City Dec. 7 and 8. Slated to honor the tireless work of “gypsies,” ensemble members, and dancers on Broadway are “Hamilton” stars Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, and Leslie Odom Jr., along with Judith Light of “Thérèse Raquin,” Brandon Uranowitz of “An American in Paris,” and others. Seth Rudetsky will host the fundraiser for the eighth year running, and the awards for the show that raised the most money will be presented by George Takei (“Allegiance”), Michael Cerveris (“Fun Home”), and Julie White (“Sylvia”) at Tuesday’s performance. Set to showcase Broadway’s starpower are performers from the Gloria Estefan musical based on the star’s life, “On Your Feet!,” Great White Way staples such as “Chicago,” “The Lion King,” and “Les Misérables,” “The King and I,” “An American in Paris,” Off-Broadway Company Xiv’s “Nutcracker Rouge,...
- 12/4/2015
- backstage.com
With the play Thérèse Raquin, Broadway has welcomed not only a new star to its firmament — the radiant Keira Knightley — but also an ingenious feat of theatrical magic via a shimmering sliver of water. This central presence of water onstage creates an intoxicating atmosphere for the audience as they watch this beautifully modern adaptation by Helen Edmundson of Émile Zola’s tale of love, lust, betrayal, and guilt.Although set in 19th-century French society, Thérèse Raquin is not your typical, stuffy period drama. It’s initially the story of a young woman who submits to a loveless life with a selfish husband and controlling mother-in-law. But the show deepens when Knightley’s title character meets her husband's childhood friend, and a boat ride on the river Seine turns violent. Expressive of Thérèse’s emotional state, the set designed by Beowulf Boritt uses color, light, and scale to craft a space...
- 11/30/2015
- Vulture
Thanks to the premiere of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow‘s new documentary De Palma on the fall festival circuit, there’s been rejuvenated interest in the work of the director. We called it “a fascinating, revealing, and compelling overview of a remarkably eclectic career, but it’s also a seldom-heard first-hand account of what it’s like to work inside and outside the Hollywood system.” As we look forward to A24’s theatrical release next year, it begs the question of what Brian De Palma will actually be directing next.
There was word he might reteam with Al Pacino on both the remake Retribution as well as Happy Valley, then we got the news he might put a new spin on Thérèse Raquin. It seems as they’ve all been put on the backburner, as a press release informs us his next film, Lights Out, is now pre-production. The action thriller,...
There was word he might reteam with Al Pacino on both the remake Retribution as well as Happy Valley, then we got the news he might put a new spin on Thérèse Raquin. It seems as they’ve all been put on the backburner, as a press release informs us his next film, Lights Out, is now pre-production. The action thriller,...
- 11/9/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Keira Knightley says she has been approached at least three times to play Thérèse Raquin in one or another adaptation of the 1867 Zola novel. She finally succumbed when offered Helen Edmundson’s version, figuring there must be a reason everyone imagined her in the role of an orphan turned adulteress turned accomplice to murder. That reason is evident in the Roundabout production that opened tonight at Studio 54, in which Knightley, well known from films including Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean, makes a stark and somewhat counterintuitive Broadway debut. She is compelling and articulate, especially when silent, and brings to the morose tale the banked-fire quality that seems to illuminate such material from within. Which is a good thing, since it isn’t much illuminated from without.That’s no one’s fault, really, unless it’s Zola’s; he saw himself as a kind of literary chemist,...
- 10/30/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game, the upcoming The Emperor’s Children) is making her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin, and not since Donna Reed donned spectacles and pulled her hair back in a tight bun as a spinster librarian in It’s A Wonderful Life has so much effort gone into draining all the sex from a sexy star. It worked: Helen Edmundson’s new adaptation of the 1867 Émile Zola novel (and, six years later, play) of illicit passion and its consequences is Doa…...
- 10/30/2015
- Deadline
English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
- 10/23/2015
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
Lupita Nyong'o will be the latest Oscar winner to come to Broadway when her production of Eclipsed, a play by The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira, moves uptown from the Public Theater in February. Eclipsed follows a group of women held captive during the 2003 Liberian civil war, and has been sold out throughout its Off Broadway run; upon its move the show will be one of only two plays written by a woman in Broadway's current lineup. (Helen Edmundson's Zola adaptation Thérèse Raquin is the other, though more female-penned shows could be added later in the season.) Congrats to Lupita, whose Egot chances just went up considerably; after all, you know who else's show just went from the Public to Broadway?...
- 10/20/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
Keira Knightley is suffering a bad stroke of luck on Broadway. After being heckled by a crazed fan on opening night, the newest leading star of Helen Edmundson's Thérèse Raquin had to bow out of a preview performance in the titular role before the curtains even rose Wednesday evening. The cause? A "minor injury," according to the Associated Press. Roundabout Theatre Company, who is responsible for the Broadway production, said Knightley's injury kept her out of the theater and even caused the evening's performance to be canceled altogether. The silver lining to this unfortunate ordeal is that Roundabout expects the Oscar nominee to be return for Thursday...
- 10/8/2015
- E! Online
“Come on, mother,” Keira Knightley jokingly says as she helps Judith Light to her feet in a quiet room at the Studio 54 theater. It’s the day before previews begin for Knightley’s Broadway debut as the title character in an adaptation of Zola’s dark romantic novel Thérèse Raquin. (Light plays Thérèse’s aunt and caretaker.) “She’s so free,” Light raves of Knightley. “She’ll interrupt rehearsal to say, ‘Wait, what are we doing here?’ It gives the rest of us permission to do that too. She’s fearless.” Knightley bursts into laughter: “Am I giving that impression?”Thérèse Raquin opens October 29 at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54. *This article appears in the October 5, 2015 issue of New York Magazine.
- 10/6/2015
- by Rebecca Milzoff
- Vulture
Keira Knightley was making her Broadway debut in the first preview performance of Thérèse Raquin when she was interrupted by a man who began screaming at her in the middle of the scene, AP reports. The fan reportedly stood up in the theater's mezzanine level and announced his love for the actress; when she stayed in character, he allegedly shouted out, "Five seconds is too long to wait for a response!" Before he could be escorted out by security, the man was able to throw a bouquet of flowers onto the stage, where they were soon kicked off by Knightley's co-star Gabriel Ebert. (After a brief break, the show went on.) Bizarrely, the incident occurred at Broadway's Studio 54 theater, the same location where Shia Labeouf drunkenly interrupted a performance of Cabaret last year. Future performances of Thérèse Raquin will see increased security.
- 10/2/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
Updated with comment from theater: A deranged, if lovestruck, stalker interrupted the first preview performance of Thérèse Raquin at Studio 54 on Thursday night to profess his love for star Keira Knightley, who was making her Main Stem debut. He also invoked Jesus, according to reports across social media later that evening and this morning. Before being escorted out of the theater and arrested, the young man managed to whirl around and hurl a bouquet to the stage…...
- 10/2/2015
- Deadline
Keira Knightley was all set to make her highly anticipated Broadway debut Thursday night in the opening preview performance of Helen Edmundson's Thérèse Raquin as the title role. But, unlike the standard theater mantra, practice doesn't always make perfect. Only minutes after the curtains' draw, the show was disrupted by an unruly audience member who began shouting concerning phrases at the Oscar nominee. Whitney McIntosh and Kacey Bange, who both sat in the audience on opening night, shared their first-hand accounts with E! of what unfolded inside Studio 54. "As soon as the play started, there was a guy who started yelling 'This was all looney tunes!' and so I...
- 10/2/2015
- E! Online
Actor was minutes into performance of Thérèse Raquin when audience member in mezzanine interrupted show
No opening night is perfect. Yet the opening night of Thérèse Raquin, starring Keira Knightley, took a strange turn just minutes into the performance on Thursday when a member of the audience interrupted the show.
Related: How did Hamilton become Broadway's breakout hit?
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No opening night is perfect. Yet the opening night of Thérèse Raquin, starring Keira Knightley, took a strange turn just minutes into the performance on Thursday when a member of the audience interrupted the show.
Related: How did Hamilton become Broadway's breakout hit?
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- 10/2/2015
- by Jana Kasperkevic in New York
- The Guardian - Film News
Translators introduction: This article by Mireille Latil Le Dantec, the second of two parts, was originally published in issue 40 of Cinématographe, September 1978. The previous issue of the magazine had included a dossier on "La qualité française" and a book of a never-shot script by Jean Grémillon (Le Printemps de la Liberté or The Spring of Freedom) had recently been published. The time was ripe for a re-evaluation of Grémillon's films and a resuscitation of his undervalued career. As this re-evaluation appears to still be happening nearly 40 years later—Grémillon's films have only recently seen DVD releases and a 35mm retrospective begins this week at Museum of the Moving Image in Queens—this article and its follow-up gives us an important view of a French perspective on Grémillon's work by a very perceptive critic doing the initial heavy-lifting in bringing the proper attention to the filmmaker's work.
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- 12/11/2014
- by Ted Fendt
- MUBI
We were all hoping that the London production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour would mark Keira Knightley's Broadway debut (she got great reviews in 2011 starring opposite Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss), but we'll take her however we can get her. Next fall, she will make her Broadway debut in Roundabout Theatre Company's adaptation of the tragic novel Thérèse Raquin, continuing with Knightley's affinity for period dramas. In other news, Big Brother standout Frankie J. Grande (the bro of another famous Grande, Ariana) will take on a supporting role in Rock of Ages for two months beginning Nov.
- 10/25/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Into the Woods Video: Meryl Streep sings! She stars as a witch in the big-screen version of Into the Woods, an adaptation of the Broadway musical, and a new behind-the-scenes video includes snippets of her lovely singing voice, previously heard in 1990's Postcards from the Edge and 2008's Mama Mia. Anna Kendrick, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, James Corden and Johnny Depp also star; the movie heads to theaters on December 25. [Movies Coming Soon] Therese Raquin: Keira Knightley will make her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The actress (above in Anna Karenina) is not a complete novice to stage acting; she previously starred in two West End productions in London. The play will open in October 2015. In the meantime, she stars...
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- 10/24/2014
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Score a huge one for Todd Haimes, longtime artistic director of the nonprofit Roundabout empire. The company, which operates three Broadway venues, will launch its 50th anniversary season next October with Keira Knightley as Emile Zola’s adulterous heroine, in Thérèse Raquin, perennial catnip for playwrights and screenwriters. Haimes commissioned the latest adaptation, by Helen Edmundson. It was first presented in summer 2014 at the UK’s Bath Theatre Royal (Knightley was not involved). Evan Cabnet (Poor Behavior, The Model Apartment) will direct.
Story revolves around the title character, whose passionless marriage to Camille, an epicene simp, is blown up with the arrival of hot’n’handsome Laurent, resulting in sexy dark business later recycled in any number of films noirs, plays, TV miniseries, an opera and even a Broadway musical by Harry Connick Jr. (Thou Shalt Not, which didn’t).
Knightley (Pirates Of The Caribbean, Begin Again, etc.) stars in...
Story revolves around the title character, whose passionless marriage to Camille, an epicene simp, is blown up with the arrival of hot’n’handsome Laurent, resulting in sexy dark business later recycled in any number of films noirs, plays, TV miniseries, an opera and even a Broadway musical by Harry Connick Jr. (Thou Shalt Not, which didn’t).
Knightley (Pirates Of The Caribbean, Begin Again, etc.) stars in...
- 10/23/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language)
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard
France, 2014
When I finally got around to seeing Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, the thing I kept saying to people was, “Isn’t it funny that this film needs to be seen in 3D and yet itself does not justify 3D’s place within cinema?” I still hold my “it’s fine” opinion on that film, denying its status as an Avatar-esque game changer, and I thought I’d have to keep searching for that. Luckily, I found it right off the bat at the New York Film Festival: Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language redefines not only 3D in film, but quite possibly film itself.
Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of Godard (despite his masterwork Vivre sa Vie being in my top ten favorites of all time). His rhetorical style, abrasive and uncompromising, has always alienated me.
Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard
France, 2014
When I finally got around to seeing Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, the thing I kept saying to people was, “Isn’t it funny that this film needs to be seen in 3D and yet itself does not justify 3D’s place within cinema?” I still hold my “it’s fine” opinion on that film, denying its status as an Avatar-esque game changer, and I thought I’d have to keep searching for that. Luckily, I found it right off the bat at the New York Film Festival: Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language redefines not only 3D in film, but quite possibly film itself.
Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of Godard (despite his masterwork Vivre sa Vie being in my top ten favorites of all time). His rhetorical style, abrasive and uncompromising, has always alienated me.
- 10/3/2014
- by Kyle Turner
- SoundOnSight
★★☆☆☆Longing, passion and an illicit love affair should be ripe material for any romping period drama. Sadly, actor-turned-director Charlie Stratton's adaptation of Neal Bell's play, In Secret (2013) - which is in turn based upon Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin - is a tonally perplexing disappointment that fails to truly wrestle with the themes provided. Production designer Uli Hanisch's sets plunge us into a rather dank 19th century France - with an overly robust enthusiasm for greys - and it's in this world that we meet Thérèse (Elizabeth Olsen, also seen in Godzilla this week). Born out of wedlock, Thérèse is shipped off to live with her seemingly kind, but more accurately conniving aunt, Madame Raquin (Jessica Lang).
- 9/23/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
English language film has long been a place for some of the greatest horror film directors of all time. All the way back to Alfred Hitchcock, we have seen the genre grow and develop sub-genres, thanks to the public’s ongoing thirst for fear and the possibility of danger around every turn. But, for every Saw or Hostel or terrible remake of classic English-language horror films, there are inventive, terrifying films made somewhere else that inspire and even outdo many of our best Western world horror films. This list will count down the fifty definitive horror films with a main language that isn’t English; some may have some English-language parts in them, but they are, for the most part, foreign. Enlighten yourself. Broaden your horizons. People can get murdered and tortured in every language.
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
50. Kuroneko (1968)
English Title: Black Cat
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Japanese for “Black Cat,” Kuroneko is...
- 7/7/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
The umpteenth screen version of Thérèse Raquin is lifted by occasional humour and Lange's impressive performance
This latest adaptation (via Neal Bell's stage play) of Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin is notable largely for the anguished, nuanced performance of Jessica Lange as tortured and torturing mother Madame Raquin, an impressively physical account of seething rage and maddening horror. Elizabeth Olsen is the initially repressed eponymous anti-heroine whose passions are awakened by Oscar Isaac's brooding rake, with deadly results. The story (first filmed in 1915 and reinterpreted endlessly since) is well rehearsed: illicit desires provoke a mortal sin in the shadow of which fleshy pleasures wither. Charlie Stratton, who directed Bell's play on stage in La, paints 19th-century Paris as a torpid dung-hole in which the suffocating air of death (Matt Lucas's bewigged Olivier literally stinks of the morgue) is alleviated only by the spark of lust a...
This latest adaptation (via Neal Bell's stage play) of Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin is notable largely for the anguished, nuanced performance of Jessica Lange as tortured and torturing mother Madame Raquin, an impressively physical account of seething rage and maddening horror. Elizabeth Olsen is the initially repressed eponymous anti-heroine whose passions are awakened by Oscar Isaac's brooding rake, with deadly results. The story (first filmed in 1915 and reinterpreted endlessly since) is well rehearsed: illicit desires provoke a mortal sin in the shadow of which fleshy pleasures wither. Charlie Stratton, who directed Bell's play on stage in La, paints 19th-century Paris as a torpid dung-hole in which the suffocating air of death (Matt Lucas's bewigged Olivier literally stinks of the morgue) is alleviated only by the spark of lust a...
- 5/17/2014
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
There are some nice, cheeky moments in this Zola adaptation that ramps up the sex and the jokes, but ultimately it's pretty lightweight
This yoof-courting take on Zola's Thérèse Raquin bigs up the humping and wisecracks, and represents heroine Elizabeth Olsen's entrapment with images of corsetry and barred windows that rarely venture beyond the obvious. Sporadically, its cheek works Shirley Henderson and Matt Lucas offer droll support yet it's imprisoned by its own glibness, grabbing for sensation over emotion, and looking silly whenever it misses: Olsen's performance is one long, breathy gasp, while mad aunt Jessica Lange succumbs to conniptions over cowpats. The poison slips down easily enough, but it's diet cola when set against 2009's Korean vampire movie Thirst, still this book's most potent screen translation.
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This yoof-courting take on Zola's Thérèse Raquin bigs up the humping and wisecracks, and represents heroine Elizabeth Olsen's entrapment with images of corsetry and barred windows that rarely venture beyond the obvious. Sporadically, its cheek works Shirley Henderson and Matt Lucas offer droll support yet it's imprisoned by its own glibness, grabbing for sensation over emotion, and looking silly whenever it misses: Olsen's performance is one long, breathy gasp, while mad aunt Jessica Lange succumbs to conniptions over cowpats. The poison slips down easily enough, but it's diet cola when set against 2009's Korean vampire movie Thirst, still this book's most potent screen translation.
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- 5/15/2014
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Though it’s more than likely people will be queuing around the block this weekend to see Elizabeth Olsen star in Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla – the talented young actress can also be seen in Charlie Stratton’s period drama In Secret, where she is given even more of a platform to show off her acting credentials, in a brooding, cinematic reimagining of Émile Zola’s classic novel Thérèse Raquin.
Olsen plays the eponymous lead, who becomes disillusioned when married off by her troubled aunt Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange), to her sickly cousin Camille (Tom Felton), against her will. Though the pair share something of an amicable relationship, the lack of physical attraction breeds a sexual desire within the young girl, and one that is ignited when she first lays eyes on the charming Laurent (Oscar Isaac). Though somewhat afraid, intrigued and almost intimidated by sex – the pair soon enter into a salacious,...
Olsen plays the eponymous lead, who becomes disillusioned when married off by her troubled aunt Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange), to her sickly cousin Camille (Tom Felton), against her will. Though the pair share something of an amicable relationship, the lack of physical attraction breeds a sexual desire within the young girl, and one that is ignited when she first lays eyes on the charming Laurent (Oscar Isaac). Though somewhat afraid, intrigued and almost intimidated by sex – the pair soon enter into a salacious,...
- 5/15/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Director: Charlie Stratton; Screenwriter Charlie Stratton; Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton, Jessica Lange, Matt Lucas Running time: 107 mins; Certificate: 15
After several decades of failed and stalled attempts, an adaptation of Emile Zola's gothic novel Thérèse Raquin has finally made it to the screen, with a generic new title that in no way reflects its uproariously weird tone. In Secret's main selling point is its cast, the previously attached Jessica Biel and Gerard Butler having now been replaced by the altogether more compelling duo of Elizabeth Olsen and Oscar Isaac, but strong performances can't elevate it beyond the level of enjoyably ridiculous.
Olsen plays the beautiful, quietly resentful anti-heroine Thérèse, who's adopted as a child by a stern, puritanical aunt (Jessica Lange on scenery-chewing form) and forced into a suffocating, loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille (Tom Felton). So overwhelming is her sexual repression that when...
After several decades of failed and stalled attempts, an adaptation of Emile Zola's gothic novel Thérèse Raquin has finally made it to the screen, with a generic new title that in no way reflects its uproariously weird tone. In Secret's main selling point is its cast, the previously attached Jessica Biel and Gerard Butler having now been replaced by the altogether more compelling duo of Elizabeth Olsen and Oscar Isaac, but strong performances can't elevate it beyond the level of enjoyably ridiculous.
Olsen plays the beautiful, quietly resentful anti-heroine Thérèse, who's adopted as a child by a stern, puritanical aunt (Jessica Lange on scenery-chewing form) and forced into a suffocating, loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille (Tom Felton). So overwhelming is her sexual repression that when...
- 5/15/2014
- Digital Spy
Director Charlie Stratton clearly felt that we needed a sumptuous adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin and today we get to show you all a clip from the film In Secret.
Why should you care? Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac and Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ Tom Felton and current queen of the American TV Horrorshows Jessica Lange – that’s why. Having Olsen in your film is enough to guarantee it’s worth watching and wrapping her up in illicit scandal with Isaac is a good game plan. Stratton is untested on the big screen but he’s done his homework on his cast.
The film is out here in the UK on the 16th of May, but for now here’s your clip which features an excellently bewhiskered Matt Lucas.
The post Exclusive Clip from In Secret featuring Oscar Isaac, Elizabeth Olsen & Matt Lucas appeared first on HeyUGuys.
Why should you care? Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac and Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ Tom Felton and current queen of the American TV Horrorshows Jessica Lange – that’s why. Having Olsen in your film is enough to guarantee it’s worth watching and wrapping her up in illicit scandal with Isaac is a good game plan. Stratton is untested on the big screen but he’s done his homework on his cast.
The film is out here in the UK on the 16th of May, but for now here’s your clip which features an excellently bewhiskered Matt Lucas.
The post Exclusive Clip from In Secret featuring Oscar Isaac, Elizabeth Olsen & Matt Lucas appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 5/6/2014
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sneak Peek writer/director Charlie Stratton's 'erotic thriller' "In Secret" (aka "Thérèse"), based on the 1867 classic novel "Thérèse Raquin" by author Émile Zola, starring Elizabeth Olsen ("Avengers: Age Of Ultron"), Tom Felton, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Lange, opening February 21, 2014:
"...set in the lower echelons of 1860's Paris, 'Thérèse Raquin' (Olsen) is a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, trapped in a loveless marriage to her frail cousin 'Camille' (Felton), thanks to her domineering aunt 'Madame Raquin' (Lange).
"Thérèse spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching 'Madame' play dominoes with an eclectic group.
"But after she meets her husband's alluring friend 'Laurent LeClaire' (Isaac), she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "In Secret"...
"...set in the lower echelons of 1860's Paris, 'Thérèse Raquin' (Olsen) is a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, trapped in a loveless marriage to her frail cousin 'Camille' (Felton), thanks to her domineering aunt 'Madame Raquin' (Lange).
"Thérèse spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching 'Madame' play dominoes with an eclectic group.
"But after she meets her husband's alluring friend 'Laurent LeClaire' (Isaac), she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences..."
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- 2/22/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
As a CIA agent, Kevin Costner aims for a box-office bull's-eye in 3 Days to Kill. But is the espionage thriller right on target? Plus: Animation visionary Hayao Miyazaki unveils his supposed swan song, The Wind Rises, and Elizabeth Olsen goes for literate, period prestige in In Secret. Here's what to see and what to skip in theaters this weekend. Skip This 3 Days to Kill var brightcovevideoid = '3231991949001'; It wouldn't be so egregious that 3 Days to Kill is six different movies in one, if any of them were actually decent. As it is, the spy/action/terminal-illness/coming-of-age/cultural-exchange/family...
- 2/21/2014
- by Alynda Wheat, PEOPLE Movie Critic
- PEOPLE.com
In Secret is an old-fashioned bodice-ripper – a period potboiler about adulterous lust, premeditated murder, and poetic justice. Though told in broad, Harlequin-novel strokes, it is well done with fine direction and exceptional performances. Set in 1860’s Paris, In Secret tells the tale of young Thérèse (Elizabeth Olsen), who has been brought up by her aunt, Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange) and more or less forced to marry her pasty wimp cousin Camille (Tom Felton). She has resigned herself to a dull gray loveless life working in a small fabric shop owned by her aunt/mother-in-law in a grimy section of Paris while her husband toils away as an accountant. Thérèse is ready to satisfy the sexual desires bottled in her, but the whiny Camille would rather go to the zoo and be babied by his mama. When he brings his wife flowers, he warns “Don’t tell mother. She’ll be...
- 2/21/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Title: In Secret Director: Charlie Stratton Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Jessica Lange, Tom Felton, Oscar Isaac. Emile Zola’s significant novel ‘Thérèse Raquin,’ first published in 1867, was adapted for the silver screen by Charlie Stratton, and screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Stratton portrays with great sensitivity the nineteenth century romantic melodrama of the ill-matched cousins who are brought up together, married to one another by an imperious mother, and are doomed to a tragic fate after the unhappy young wife embarks on a passionate affair. ‘In Secret’ is set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin (Elizabeth Olsen), a sexually repressed [ Read More ]
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- 2/21/2014
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
In Secret
Written and directed by Charlie Stratton
USA, 2013
What occurs in the new film In Secret feels less like a natural progression of logical events, instead of something more pre-ordained and unnecessarily fatalistic. The characters existing inside of this turgid tragedy do not act freely, but as if guided by an invisible puppet master. Even though the film is the latest adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin, it’s not that the story here unfolds dully because the basic plot points have been echoed many times in the past. Instead, it’s that there’s a deficiency of life amidst the gloom, even in the first half, which is presumably defined by its leading characters’ intertwining passion.
Elizabeth Olsen plays Thérèse Raquin, who’s first seen as a little girl being brought to her aunt (Jessica Lange) while her father works in Africa. Hope that he’ll...
Written and directed by Charlie Stratton
USA, 2013
What occurs in the new film In Secret feels less like a natural progression of logical events, instead of something more pre-ordained and unnecessarily fatalistic. The characters existing inside of this turgid tragedy do not act freely, but as if guided by an invisible puppet master. Even though the film is the latest adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin, it’s not that the story here unfolds dully because the basic plot points have been echoed many times in the past. Instead, it’s that there’s a deficiency of life amidst the gloom, even in the first half, which is presumably defined by its leading characters’ intertwining passion.
Elizabeth Olsen plays Thérèse Raquin, who’s first seen as a little girl being brought to her aunt (Jessica Lange) while her father works in Africa. Hope that he’ll...
- 2/21/2014
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
New Release
In Secret
R, 1 Hr., 47 Mins.
Who knew Émile Zola had so much in common with James M. Cain? In this wicked, The Postman Always Rings Twice-style riff on the 19th-century bodice ripper Thérèse Raquin, Elizabeth Olsen plays a sexually repressed wife who falls for a Parisian charmer (Oscar Isaac) and plots to murder her drip of a husband (Tom Felton). There’s never any doubt that this will end badly for the lovers. But just in case, Jessica Lange as the fire-breathing mother-in-law seals the deal. B —Chris Nashawaty
New Release
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Not Rated,...
In Secret
R, 1 Hr., 47 Mins.
Who knew Émile Zola had so much in common with James M. Cain? In this wicked, The Postman Always Rings Twice-style riff on the 19th-century bodice ripper Thérèse Raquin, Elizabeth Olsen plays a sexually repressed wife who falls for a Parisian charmer (Oscar Isaac) and plots to murder her drip of a husband (Tom Felton). There’s never any doubt that this will end badly for the lovers. But just in case, Jessica Lange as the fire-breathing mother-in-law seals the deal. B —Chris Nashawaty
New Release
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
Not Rated,...
- 2/19/2014
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
Remember when the selling point of the “John Carter” movie was that the original novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs had inspired “Star Wars” and “Superman”? And then the movie came out and most people felt like they were sitting through a warmed-over rehash of “Star Wars” and “Superman”? When a work has inspired many copycats, it’s difficult to rediscover how groundbreaking the original once was. And that’s certainly one of the major problems with “In Secret,” a dispassionate adaptation of Émile Zola’s “Thérèse Raquin,” a novel that shocked audiences in 1867 with its tale of lust and murder,...
- 2/18/2014
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Almost a pop history of Western culture's relationship to female orgasm, Charlie Stratton's In Secret is a spirited zip through Zola's Thérèse Raquin, a sex-and-sin morality tale of the sort that has been the template for the last decade of Woody Allen dramas. Unlike those, In Secret boasts vigor and thematic richness, that feeling of artists expressing something vital rather than just banging out that year's script from the drawer.
That's especially true in the first half, which digs into ennui dating back to the dawn of monogamy: In 1860s Paris, a young woman gets impressed into marriage with a dope (Tom Felton) who, when he actually bothers to take her to bed, goes at her with the same dull passion he might apply to eating oatmeal. Downs...
That's especially true in the first half, which digs into ennui dating back to the dawn of monogamy: In 1860s Paris, a young woman gets impressed into marriage with a dope (Tom Felton) who, when he actually bothers to take her to bed, goes at her with the same dull passion he might apply to eating oatmeal. Downs...
- 2/18/2014
- Village Voice
Watch the trailer for Roadside Attractions' "In Secret" thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton, Jessica Lange, Mackenzie Crook, Shirley Henderson, John Kavanaugh, Lily Laight and Matt Lucas. Charlie Stratton directs and also wrote the script based on Émile Zola’s novel Thérèse Raquin and the play by Neal Bell. "In Secret" is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Therese (Elizabeth Olsen of "Martha Marcy May Marlene"), a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton of the “Harry Potter” franchise), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (two-time Academy Award winner Jessica Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop...
- 12/20/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Previously titled Therese, Charlie Stratton’s In Secret had its world debut earlier this year at Tiff, where it premiered to early praise, particularly for the film’s leading performances.
Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, and Tom Felton star as the leading trio in the adaptation of Émile Zola’s original novel, Thérèse Raquin. And now Roadside has released the first trailer for the newly-titled film over on Apple.
Based on Émile Zola’s scandalous novel, Thérèse Raquin, In Secret is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Therese (Elizabeth Olsen of “Martha Marcy May Marlene”), a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton of the “Harry Potter” franchise), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (two-time Academy Award winner Jessica Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a...
Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, and Tom Felton star as the leading trio in the adaptation of Émile Zola’s original novel, Thérèse Raquin. And now Roadside has released the first trailer for the newly-titled film over on Apple.
Based on Émile Zola’s scandalous novel, Thérèse Raquin, In Secret is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Therese (Elizabeth Olsen of “Martha Marcy May Marlene”), a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton of the “Harry Potter” franchise), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (two-time Academy Award winner Jessica Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a...
- 12/4/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With how front and center his role in Inside Llewyn Davis is, Oscar Isaac runs the risk of being called Llewyn by strangers for the rest of his life. First up to rectify that is In Secret, which comes out on February 21 of next year. A period drama–erotic thriller hybrid, it stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman in a loveless marriage with her cousin, who falls for a sexy painter, played by Isaac. It is based on Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin, though it reads like a cinephile's attempt at fan fiction.
- 12/3/2013
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
"I want to fall asleep in your arms..." Roadside has debuted the first official trailer for In Secret, an indie romantic thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen at the center of a sultry Parisian love triangle. The two lovers are Oscar Isaac, who is getting plenty of attention starring in Inside Llewyn Davis, and Tom Felton, last seen in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. While this starts out slow, it picks up by the end with intriguing plot twists (they do reveal quite a bit) and gorgeous cinematography in the second half. Despite the big twist being revealed (warning!) in this trailer, I'm still interested in checking it out. Something about that Olsen. Here's the first official trailer for Charlie Stratton's In Secret, originally from Apple: Based on Émile Zola's scandalous novel, Thérèse Raquin, Charlie Stratton's In Secret is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge...
- 12/3/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Various films have undergone release date changes, and even some title changes, in the past week or so. Time to look at the ones not already covered not covered in standalone articles (like yesterday's "Star Wars" news).
Disney quietly slipped out the news yesterday that Brad Bird's mysterious "Tomorrowland" project has been pushed back by five months. Originally slated for next December, it will now hit May 22nd 2015.
A leaked poster from Afm indicates Robert Rodriguez's "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" may have undergone a title chance. The new title? "Sin City: A Dame to Die For". It remains on track for an August 22nd 2014 release.
Speaking of title changes, Roadside Attractions has retitled its romantic thriller "Therese" to "In Secret". Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton and Jessica Lange star in the "Thérèse Raquin" adaptation which has been scheduled for a release next year on February 21st.
Disney quietly slipped out the news yesterday that Brad Bird's mysterious "Tomorrowland" project has been pushed back by five months. Originally slated for next December, it will now hit May 22nd 2015.
A leaked poster from Afm indicates Robert Rodriguez's "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" may have undergone a title chance. The new title? "Sin City: A Dame to Die For". It remains on track for an August 22nd 2014 release.
Speaking of title changes, Roadside Attractions has retitled its romantic thriller "Therese" to "In Secret". Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton and Jessica Lange star in the "Thérèse Raquin" adaptation which has been scheduled for a release next year on February 21st.
- 11/8/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Roadside Attractions has made some moves on Therese, the film it acquired at Toronto. The film has been retitled In Secret, and has been set for February 21 release. The romantic thriller stars Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton and Jessica Lange and is based on Emile Zola’s scandalous novel Thérèse Raquin. Ld Entertainment financed it and Roadside made the deal just before the film’s Toronto premiere. Charlie Stratton made his directing debut, and Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon and William Horberg produced. Set in 1860s Paris, pic is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge. Therese (Olsen) is a sexually repressed beautiful young woman trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (Lange). Her husband’s friend (Isaac) catches her eye and things go all kinds of wrong from there. Related: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Nabs ‘Therese...
- 11/6/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
An adaptation of the Zola classic Thérèse Raquin that takes the original novel into strange new areas – not all of them good
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Paris, they say, is the city of lovers. They don't specify what kind of lovers though and if this film is anything to go by, some of them have a very strange way of expressing it.
A largely straightforward adaptation of Emile Zola's classic 19th century novel of passion and decay sees Elisabeth Olsen in the title role of Therese Raquin. An orphan taken under the wing of her aunt, she is married without her consent to her nerdy, consumptive son and dispatched from an idyllic rural life to the dingiest street in Paris, nay the world. Here she is expected to build a life with her weedy Camille, who shows greater sympathy for the caged bears...
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Paris, they say, is the city of lovers. They don't specify what kind of lovers though and if this film is anything to go by, some of them have a very strange way of expressing it.
A largely straightforward adaptation of Emile Zola's classic 19th century novel of passion and decay sees Elisabeth Olsen in the title role of Therese Raquin. An orphan taken under the wing of her aunt, she is married without her consent to her nerdy, consumptive son and dispatched from an idyllic rural life to the dingiest street in Paris, nay the world. Here she is expected to build a life with her weedy Camille, who shows greater sympathy for the caged bears...
- 9/11/2013
- by Paul MacInnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Give a bunch of American actors -- Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Lange -- a classic Parisian text and they implausibly turn out their best British accents. There is something amiss with a period drama genre when getting the tones from the right side of the English Channel proves so difficult for actors who usually produce performances from a rare cloth. Yet someone obviously forgot to tell them that having a lady in a corset doesn't always mean it's an audition for "Downton Abbey." Olsen plays Therese with a face so sour they should name a whisky cocktail in her honor. She uses that expression to play a young woman who's the last to know that her mother (Lange) has arranged a marriage with her cousin Camille (Tom Felton). But it's really the face of someone who must be wondering how her agent allowed her to take on such a role.
- 9/10/2013
- by Kaleem Aftab
- Indiewire
Therese
Written and directed by Charlie Stratton
USA, 2013
So-called “costume dramas” often deal in subtle yet significant helpings of sexual repression guiding their characters’ every action. The idea of an erotic thriller set in the 1860s is thereby rather an intriguing one – in which each intimate moment carries greater weight and excitement than in most present day scenarios. Émile Zola’s novel “Thérèse Raquin” is no stranger to cinema, its first of many screen adaptations dating back to a 1915 Italian silent film. Television veteran Charlie Stratton makes his feature directorial debut with a new look at the doomed yarn of lust and betrayal.
Stratton has paved his way through directorial gigs on Faux Baby and, most recently, Revenge. His move to feature filmmaking brings with it the sensibilities of one senselessly scrambling to keep cable subscribers tuned in for commercial breaks – rushing story angles and building to mild climaxes so...
Written and directed by Charlie Stratton
USA, 2013
So-called “costume dramas” often deal in subtle yet significant helpings of sexual repression guiding their characters’ every action. The idea of an erotic thriller set in the 1860s is thereby rather an intriguing one – in which each intimate moment carries greater weight and excitement than in most present day scenarios. Émile Zola’s novel “Thérèse Raquin” is no stranger to cinema, its first of many screen adaptations dating back to a 1915 Italian silent film. Television veteran Charlie Stratton makes his feature directorial debut with a new look at the doomed yarn of lust and betrayal.
Stratton has paved his way through directorial gigs on Faux Baby and, most recently, Revenge. His move to feature filmmaking brings with it the sensibilities of one senselessly scrambling to keep cable subscribers tuned in for commercial breaks – rushing story angles and building to mild climaxes so...
- 9/10/2013
- by Tom Stoup
- SoundOnSight
It takes a lot to revive a literary classic, with a number of approaches being utilized in recent years. Change the character's race ("Wuthering Heights")! Have it set on a grand stage ("Anna Karenina")! Turn it into a 3D video game ("The Great Gatsby")! But sometimes the best approach is a more classical one, which seems to be the path that Charlie Stratton chose when adapting Émile Zola's "Thérèse Raquin" for the big screen as "Therese." The adaptation, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton, Oscar Isaac, and Jessica Lange, premieres as part of this year's Toronto International Film Festival and has just debuted the first clip as well as a couple of new photos. Olsen plays the titular Therese, who is stuck in a loveless marriage to a local drip (Felton) and begins an illicit affair with an old friend of her husband's (Isaac). Lange plays Therese's overbearing aunt.
- 9/9/2013
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
Elizabeth Olsen lays eyes on her soon-to-be secret lover in the first clip released from new film “Therese”, an adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel “Thérèse Raquin”. A thrilling Parisian love affair set in the 1860′s, Olsen is the titular character who has been forced into a marriage with her cousin Camille, played by Tom Felton. [...]
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- 9/6/2013
- by Melanie Abernathy
- UpandComers
Ld Entertainment has released a clip and two new stills from their upcoming Thérèse , an erotic thriller based on Émile Zola's scandalous novel, "Thérèse Raquin." Check them all out below! In the film, set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Thérèse Raquin (Elizabeth Olsen), a sexually repressed and beautiful young woman, is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton), by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange). Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband's alluring friend, Laurent (Oscar Isaac), she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Rounding out the cast of are Shirley...
- 9/6/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Regardless if it contains the red-hot Martha Marcy May Marlene alumn Elizabeth Olsen and the months away from a potential Best Actor nom lock in Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), you can’t blame Mickey Liddell’s Ld Entertainment for staying put on Therese. On top of having to deal with a just released, competing title of Thérèse (a.k.a Thérèse Desqueyroux) – the Cannes film based on the François Mauriac character, the title that sat on the shelf for the better part of last year and the 2013 campaign. Having thrown himself into the distribution game with some tricky, tough to bank titles Biutiful, I Love You Phillip Morris and the 4 star instant cult Killer Joe, this deal was probably cooked up somewhere in June, way before it was announced as a Tiff title. Roadside Attractions will pick up the load with in collaboration with Ld Entertainment prez David Dinerstein.
- 8/28/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
In the first advance deal of the Toronto International Film Festival, Roadside Attractions bought U.S. theatrical distribution rights to Charlie Stratton’s romantic thriller "Therese" starring Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Tom Felton and Jessica Lange. The film premieres on September 7. The feature debut of writer/director Stratton, "Therese" is based on Emile Zola’s novel “Thérèse Raquin.” Elizabeth Olsen is Therese, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille (Tom Felton) by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin (Jessica Lange). When she meets her husband's childhood friend, Laurent (Oscar Isaac, of “Inside Llewyn Davis”), she embarks on an illicit affair with tragic consequences. "Therese" was developed, financed and produced by Ld Entertainment, which previously worked with Roadside on "Albert Nobbs," "Biutiful" and "I Love You Phillip Morris." Roadside Attractions will oversee...
- 8/28/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
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