Seconda (Barbara Giordano) is the second born child of Augusto (Maurizio Tabani) and Dominique (Anna Galante) and she cannot leave the house. Her agoraphobia might be at its most potent now at thirty-two years old, this latest stint of seclusion hitting the nine-month mark despite her parents imploring her to go outside. Sometimes zipping herself up in a blue hoodie provides the protection necessary to brave the world, but mostly Seconda would rather dance in her room and hiss at the family cat. Augusto and Dominique are unsurprisingly tired and frustrated, but love her just the same. If only they could get her to take her medication and forget the absence of the sister (Juliette) who’s demise is thus far unknown, maybe she would lead a normal life.
What is “normal,” though? Writer/director Klaudia Reynicke’s Love Me Tender answers: “Everything.” Just because Seconda doesn’t adhere to...
What is “normal,” though? Writer/director Klaudia Reynicke’s Love Me Tender answers: “Everything.” Just because Seconda doesn’t adhere to...
- 9/6/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Rome-based Summerside Intl. has acquired international sales rights to Klaudia Reynicke’s “Love Me Tender.”
The second feature from Peru-born and Switzerland-based filmmaker will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Festival in its Filmmakers of the Present competition, which focuses on first and second features.
Summerside Intl. is the world sales agent, excluding and Lichtenstein and Switzerland. The film, also written by Reynicke, will be distributed in Switzerland by First Hand Films.
“Love Me Tender” is produced by Tiziana Soudani, Muchela Pini and Gabriella De Gara at the Ticino-based Amka Films, founded by Soudani in 1988. Its credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s 2018 Cannes Festival best screenplay winner “Happy as Lazzaro” and 2014’s “The Wonders” which took a Cannes Grand Jury Prize, as well as Silvio Soldini’s “Bread and Tulips,” a big box office hit which swept nine David di Donatello awards.
Italian-language Swiss public broadcaster Rsi Radiotelevisione Svizzera co-produces.
The second feature from Peru-born and Switzerland-based filmmaker will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Festival in its Filmmakers of the Present competition, which focuses on first and second features.
Summerside Intl. is the world sales agent, excluding and Lichtenstein and Switzerland. The film, also written by Reynicke, will be distributed in Switzerland by First Hand Films.
“Love Me Tender” is produced by Tiziana Soudani, Muchela Pini and Gabriella De Gara at the Ticino-based Amka Films, founded by Soudani in 1988. Its credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s 2018 Cannes Festival best screenplay winner “Happy as Lazzaro” and 2014’s “The Wonders” which took a Cannes Grand Jury Prize, as well as Silvio Soldini’s “Bread and Tulips,” a big box office hit which swept nine David di Donatello awards.
Italian-language Swiss public broadcaster Rsi Radiotelevisione Svizzera co-produces.
- 7/23/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Brief Encounter: Bonnell’s Latest a Breezy, Gallic Affair
With his fifth feature, Just a Sigh, (a butchered translation from what really should be The Time of Adventure), director Jerome Bonnell revisits themes he seems inspired by, as he reunites with the lovely Emmanuelle Devos for a tale that sounds like a distant cousin to his 2002 debut, Le Chignon d’Olga. While there’s certainly a whiff of Lean’s Brief Encounter that might glance through your mind like a musty phantom, this is a mostly lighthearted carefree romp through a day in the life of a woman who does something that most people seem to fantasize about—making love to a proper stranger.
Alix Aubane (Devos), a perpetually broke actress in the midst of performing Ibsen’s “The Lady and the Sea,” absconds to Paris for a film audition. Forgetting her cell phone charger, she leaves fraught messages...
With his fifth feature, Just a Sigh, (a butchered translation from what really should be The Time of Adventure), director Jerome Bonnell revisits themes he seems inspired by, as he reunites with the lovely Emmanuelle Devos for a tale that sounds like a distant cousin to his 2002 debut, Le Chignon d’Olga. While there’s certainly a whiff of Lean’s Brief Encounter that might glance through your mind like a musty phantom, this is a mostly lighthearted carefree romp through a day in the life of a woman who does something that most people seem to fantasize about—making love to a proper stranger.
Alix Aubane (Devos), a perpetually broke actress in the midst of performing Ibsen’s “The Lady and the Sea,” absconds to Paris for a film audition. Forgetting her cell phone charger, she leaves fraught messages...
- 3/19/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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