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French pay-tv group Canal+ and Italian public broadcaster Rai have picked up Audrey’s Back, the Quebecois dramedy about a coma victim’s return to life that won the Grand Prix at this year’s Canneseries festival.
Germany’s Beta Film, which is handling international sales on the show, closed deals with Canal+ and Rai, with future deals in the works. Beta launched Audrey’s Back at the MIPTV market earlier this year.
Florence Longpré, who co-wrote the 10-part series, stars as the titular Audrey, a coma patient, put into hospital following an accident on prom night, who suddenly wakes up after a decade and a half and slowly returns to life, learning to talk, to walk and to remember the person she was before. Co-creator Guillaume Lambert calls Audrey’s Back a typical coming-of-age story “just 15 years too late.”
Denis Bouchard, Josée Deschênes,...
French pay-tv group Canal+ and Italian public broadcaster Rai have picked up Audrey’s Back, the Quebecois dramedy about a coma victim’s return to life that won the Grand Prix at this year’s Canneseries festival.
Germany’s Beta Film, which is handling international sales on the show, closed deals with Canal+ and Rai, with future deals in the works. Beta launched Audrey’s Back at the MIPTV market earlier this year.
Florence Longpré, who co-wrote the 10-part series, stars as the titular Audrey, a coma patient, put into hospital following an accident on prom night, who suddenly wakes up after a decade and a half and slowly returns to life, learning to talk, to walk and to remember the person she was before. Co-creator Guillaume Lambert calls Audrey’s Back a typical coming-of-age story “just 15 years too late.”
Denis Bouchard, Josée Deschênes,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Quebecois series Audrey’s Back (10×30’) is heading overseas after Beta sold rights for the Pixcom-produced dramedy to two of Europe’s majors, France’s Canal+ and Italy’s pubcaster Rai.
The project was the first Quebecois series to be selected at Canneseries earlier this year, winning won both the Grand Prix Dior and the festival’s Special Interpretation Award.
The French-language dramedy follows Audrey, played by Florence Longpré, who miraculously wakes up from a coma after 16 years. Now in her thirties, she needs to not only adjust to a vastly different world but must re-learn how to speak, count, walk, and do everything that was once considered “normal”. Audrey’s awakening profoundly affects not only her life but inspires those around her.
Lead Florence Longpré co-wrote the series during the Covid-19 lockdown with co-author Guillaume Lambert (Adulthood). Also starring are Denis Bouchard, Josée Deschênes, and Zeneb Blanchet. Pixcom...
The project was the first Quebecois series to be selected at Canneseries earlier this year, winning won both the Grand Prix Dior and the festival’s Special Interpretation Award.
The French-language dramedy follows Audrey, played by Florence Longpré, who miraculously wakes up from a coma after 16 years. Now in her thirties, she needs to not only adjust to a vastly different world but must re-learn how to speak, count, walk, and do everything that was once considered “normal”. Audrey’s awakening profoundly affects not only her life but inspires those around her.
Lead Florence Longpré co-wrote the series during the Covid-19 lockdown with co-author Guillaume Lambert (Adulthood). Also starring are Denis Bouchard, Josée Deschênes, and Zeneb Blanchet. Pixcom...
- 9/15/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The fifth edition will see the TV festival return to its original springtime slot to run alongside MipTV.
French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).
The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.
Political thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath stars Alix Poisson...
French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).
The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.
Political thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath stars Alix Poisson...
- 3/8/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Denis Côté's Ghost Town Anthology is exclusively showing April 21 - May 20, 2020 in Mubi's Luminaries series.There is a certain point in any winter where it becomes unending. Long past the picturesque first snow fall, what Canadian author Mavis Gallant wisely calls “the only clean thing in a dirty year,” the snow becomes grey, packed down, blending into the constantly overcast sky. Very little breaks up this eyeline, some barren trees, long snaking highways linking what few towns remain. Northern Quebec is dotted with these landscapes, towns once prosperous and now a shadow of their past selves. Not much happens in these dreary winters of Irénée-les-Neiges, the titular town of Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology. But breaking up the winter is a sudden car crash, and when the life of a young man is taken with it, the...
- 4/15/2020
- MUBI
Simon died, or perhaps he killed himself. His car raced through a wintry country road, span, crashed. None of the 215 inhabitants of his native Quebecois hamlet of Irénée-les-Neiges would dare to call it a suicide, not even his older brother Jimmy, mother Gisèle, and father Romuald. But the boy’s death was no isolated case. “We lost him in a battle, but we haven’t lost the war,” Irénée’s mayor Simone Smallwood addresses the townspeople at the vigil, where the battle she hints at rekindles the lad’s death to the several suicides the remote town has suffered through the decades. The war, in turn, speaks to something far larger: a small community’s struggle against an outer urban world that concurrently poaches its residents, and pushes those who remain deeper into oblivion.
Denis Côté’s perturbing Ghost Town Anthology pivots on this conflict. It is a haunting portrait...
Denis Côté’s perturbing Ghost Town Anthology pivots on this conflict. It is a haunting portrait...
- 2/19/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
A film that’s every bit as bleak and fragmented as its title implies, Denis Côté’s “Ghost Town Anthology” is a pointedly modern portrait of a place that’s come unstuck in time. The fictional hamlet of Irénée-les-Neiges is located in a barren stretch of backwoods Québec, and the 215 people who still live there are almost as dead as the trees in winter, or the local economy since the mine shut down. Simon Dubé, the 21-year-old hockey player who crashes his car into a cement wall in the opening scene, is just a little bit deader than the rest.
His departure sends a destabilizing shiver through everyone who knew him; one of the many characters in Côté’s small mosaic likens the community to a house of cards that won’t be able to sustain itself in Simon’s absence, as if the young man’s suicide violated the...
His departure sends a destabilizing shiver through everyone who knew him; one of the many characters in Côté’s small mosaic likens the community to a house of cards that won’t be able to sustain itself in Simon’s absence, as if the young man’s suicide violated the...
- 2/11/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A chill air blows through the small Quebecois village of Irénée-les-Neiges following a young man’s suicide, bringing with it unexpected and largely unwelcome visitors. Denis Côté’s “Ghost Town Anthology” has superficial parallels to Robin Campillo’s “They Came Back,” in which the dead return, but in keeping with the maverick Canadian’s style, his film is a more intimate, more unsettling work that approaches narrative elliptically: Mysteries remain mysteries, and the value isn’t in finding answers but in emotionally exploring where the questions take you. Shot on 16mm for a suitable graininess, “Ghost Town” is a largely monochrome ensemble piece that muses on, rather than directly addresses, the current hot topics of the “other” and the viability of small-town life. Skirting genre formulas, the film takes a more modest approach than “Vic + Flo Saw a Bear,” and though more universal/accessible, will require intelligent marketing to...
- 2/11/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Films Boutique has debuted the first promo trailer for an indie drama titled Ghost Town Anthology, aka Répertoire des villes disparues, set in snowy Quebec. The film takes place in a small and isolated town. A boy named Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end. This is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival which is now underway, and it's playing In Competition during the fest. Starring Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Rémi Goulet, Diane Lavallée, and Hubert Proulx. This is such an odd trailer - playing like an old news reel, and more of a behind-the-scenes look than a real trailer. The film is also in color, not B&W. I'm curious to see this anyway. Here's the first promo trailer...
- 2/8/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ghost Town Anthology (Repertoire des villes disparues)
For his eleventh feature film, French-Canadian auteur Denis Côté adapts the first novel by Laurence Olivier Repertoire de villes disparues as Ghost Town Anthology. Starring Robert Naylor (of Wim Wenders’ 2015 film Everything Will Be Fine) alongside a supporting cast of Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Diane Lavallée and Rémi Goulet, the project was produced by Ziad Touma of Couzin films and was part of the Frontieres Buyers Showcase in Cannes 2018. Locarno provided Côté with his first major platform, where he won an award for 2005’s Drifting States, returning in 2007 with Our Private Lives and winning Best Director for 2008’s All That She Wants and another Best Director win for 2010’s Curling.…...
For his eleventh feature film, French-Canadian auteur Denis Côté adapts the first novel by Laurence Olivier Repertoire de villes disparues as Ghost Town Anthology. Starring Robert Naylor (of Wim Wenders’ 2015 film Everything Will Be Fine) alongside a supporting cast of Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Diane Lavallée and Rémi Goulet, the project was produced by Ziad Touma of Couzin films and was part of the Frontieres Buyers Showcase in Cannes 2018. Locarno provided Côté with his first major platform, where he won an award for 2005’s Drifting States, returning in 2007 with Our Private Lives and winning Best Director for 2008’s All That She Wants and another Best Director win for 2010’s Curling.…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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
At ease in both the fiction, docu and in hybrid forms, Denis Côté is moving back to fiction with a fantasy drama offering and has cast Robert Naylor (Wim Wender’s Everything Will Be Fine) leading a cast comprised of Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Diane Lavallée and Rémi Goulet for the inspired by book to film adaptation of Laurence Olivier’s eponymous novel, Répertoire des villes disparues.
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- 2/26/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Tva, a French Canadian TV network, announced yesterday that its new original series Tranches de vie will premiere Wednesday, September 22 at 7:30 Pm. The TV network promised that the show will cast a look at what it means to be in a relation and will have a prestigious cast.
The show will star Pauline Martin, Raymond Bouchard, Josée Deschênes, Emmanuel Bilodeau, Édith Cochrane, Jean-Michel Anctil, Émilie Bibeau and Olivier Morin.
The story follows many couples. Amélie (Émilie Bibeau) and Jean-François (Olivier Morin) are two young lovers who are learning little by little what it means to be in a relation; Claire (Édith Cochrane) and Jean-Guy (Jean-Michel Anctil) are two divorcees who try to build a blanded family that has its own problems; Suzanne (Josée Deschênes) and Luc (Emmanuel Bilodeau) constantly live a love-hate relationship; Muriel (Pauline Martin) and Daniel (Raymond Bouchard) have been together since 30 years and they consider themselves as "experimented" lovers.
The show will star Pauline Martin, Raymond Bouchard, Josée Deschênes, Emmanuel Bilodeau, Édith Cochrane, Jean-Michel Anctil, Émilie Bibeau and Olivier Morin.
The story follows many couples. Amélie (Émilie Bibeau) and Jean-François (Olivier Morin) are two young lovers who are learning little by little what it means to be in a relation; Claire (Édith Cochrane) and Jean-Guy (Jean-Michel Anctil) are two divorcees who try to build a blanded family that has its own problems; Suzanne (Josée Deschênes) and Luc (Emmanuel Bilodeau) constantly live a love-hate relationship; Muriel (Pauline Martin) and Daniel (Raymond Bouchard) have been together since 30 years and they consider themselves as "experimented" lovers.
- 9/17/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Yesterday, the Quebecker section of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed its full list of nominees at the 2010 Gémeaux Awards, the Quebecker equivalent of the Emmy Awards. Moreover, the award ceremony will be held in September. The following is a list of nominees mostly related to the entertainment sector of Quebecker television.
Best dramatic series:
* Aveux.
* C.A.
* Le Gentleman.
* Mirador.
* Musée Eden.
Best game show:
* Bluff.
* L'union fait la force.
* Le cercle
* Le moment de vérité.
* Tous pour un.
Best reality show:
* En route vers mon premier gala.
* Loft Story 6 - La revanche.
* Ma maison Rona.
* Rock n’Road II.
* VJ recherché.
Best comedy series:
* La galère.
* Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin.
* Les Parent.
* Rock et Rolland.
* Taxi 0-22.
Best soap opera:
* Destinées
* L'auberge du chien noir
* Providence
* Yamaska
Best humour show:
* 3600 secondes d'extase
* Comicographie
* Et Dieu créa... Laflaque
* Infoman
* Les appendices
Best direction in a dramatic series:
* Aveux.
Best dramatic series:
* Aveux.
* C.A.
* Le Gentleman.
* Mirador.
* Musée Eden.
Best game show:
* Bluff.
* L'union fait la force.
* Le cercle
* Le moment de vérité.
* Tous pour un.
Best reality show:
* En route vers mon premier gala.
* Loft Story 6 - La revanche.
* Ma maison Rona.
* Rock n’Road II.
* VJ recherché.
Best comedy series:
* La galère.
* Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin.
* Les Parent.
* Rock et Rolland.
* Taxi 0-22.
Best soap opera:
* Destinées
* L'auberge du chien noir
* Providence
* Yamaska
Best humour show:
* 3600 secondes d'extase
* Comicographie
* Et Dieu créa... Laflaque
* Infoman
* Les appendices
Best direction in a dramatic series:
* Aveux.
- 6/17/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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