Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe
A French filmmaker who offers comfort food portraits, for his eighth outing Martin Provost enlisted the likes of Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, Stacy Martin, Anouk Grinberg, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet and André Marcon for what is a historical romance biopic. Production on Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe began in August of last year and saw Provost re-team with his How to Be a Good Wife (2020) cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman. François Kraus and Denis Pineau-Valencienne produced the project. Provost is best known for 2008’s Seraphine — Best Film at the 2009 César Awards (French Oscars).
Gist: This revolves around Pierre Bonnard who wouldn’t be the well-known painter he is today if it weren’t for the enigmatic Marthe who features in more than a third of his works.…...
A French filmmaker who offers comfort food portraits, for his eighth outing Martin Provost enlisted the likes of Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, Stacy Martin, Anouk Grinberg, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet and André Marcon for what is a historical romance biopic. Production on Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe began in August of last year and saw Provost re-team with his How to Be a Good Wife (2020) cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman. François Kraus and Denis Pineau-Valencienne produced the project. Provost is best known for 2008’s Seraphine — Best Film at the 2009 César Awards (French Oscars).
Gist: This revolves around Pierre Bonnard who wouldn’t be the well-known painter he is today if it weren’t for the enigmatic Marthe who features in more than a third of his works.…...
- 1/5/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The regular major-festival presence of the films of Robert Guédiguian is a curious, if not wholly unwelcome, anomaly. Amid punchier, more provocative, more aesthetically challenging arthouse titles, his work moves to the calmer rhythms of classical naturalism, in which each new title feels more like a new chapter in a career-spanning novel — or a book of interconnected short stories, perhaps — about life and love and social class in the suburbs of Marseille.
Working with the same troupe of excellent actors he has cast in differing permutations through the years, most notably his wife Ariane Ascaride who stars in their twentieth collaboration here, and occupying the same compassionately observed, elegiac register that his mid-to-late middle-age titles have tended to embrace, “Gloria Mundi” is, again, a contemporary, intergenerational, socially conscientious, bittersweet family drama set in the southern French port city. And, at least until an ending marred by some scrappy filmmaking as...
Working with the same troupe of excellent actors he has cast in differing permutations through the years, most notably his wife Ariane Ascaride who stars in their twentieth collaboration here, and occupying the same compassionately observed, elegiac register that his mid-to-late middle-age titles have tended to embrace, “Gloria Mundi” is, again, a contemporary, intergenerational, socially conscientious, bittersweet family drama set in the southern French port city. And, at least until an ending marred by some scrappy filmmaking as...
- 9/6/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based company will also begin selling Robert Guédiguian’s ‘Gloria Mundi’.
Paris-based sales company mk2 will kick off sales on Manele Labidi’s Tunisia-set comedy-drama Arab Blues, starring Golshifteh Farahani, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 17-21).
Farahani, whose recent credits include Girls Of The Sun and Paterson, plays a psychoanalyst who opens up a practice in a working-class suburb of the Tunisian capital Tunis not long after the country’s 2011 revolution and attempts to treat a procession of colourful clients.
“It is a sophisticated comedy in the way it offers a fascinating window into modern Tunisia at a crossroads,...
Paris-based sales company mk2 will kick off sales on Manele Labidi’s Tunisia-set comedy-drama Arab Blues, starring Golshifteh Farahani, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 17-21).
Farahani, whose recent credits include Girls Of The Sun and Paterson, plays a psychoanalyst who opens up a practice in a working-class suburb of the Tunisian capital Tunis not long after the country’s 2011 revolution and attempts to treat a procession of colourful clients.
“It is a sophisticated comedy in the way it offers a fascinating window into modern Tunisia at a crossroads,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
France has selected Emmanuel Finkiel’s “A Memoir of War” (“La Douleur”) as its official entry for the foreign-language Oscar race.
The French Oscar committee’s choice was announced late Friday amid a dust-up over the ineligibility of Olivier Assayas’ new film, “Non-Fiction,” which did not meet the French National Film Board’s theatrical release criteria for consideration as an Oscar candidate.
“A Memoir of War” is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ semi-autobiographical novel “The War: A Memoir.” Music Box Films acquired U.S. rights to the movie in February, shortly after it opened in theaters across France on Jan. 24.
Represented in international markets by TF1 Studio, the film stars Mélanie Thierry, who plays a young Duras and delivers a breakthrough performance. Thierry stars opposite Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet.
“A Memoir of War” takes place in June 1944, when France was still under German occupation, and follows Marguerite,...
The French Oscar committee’s choice was announced late Friday amid a dust-up over the ineligibility of Olivier Assayas’ new film, “Non-Fiction,” which did not meet the French National Film Board’s theatrical release criteria for consideration as an Oscar candidate.
“A Memoir of War” is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ semi-autobiographical novel “The War: A Memoir.” Music Box Films acquired U.S. rights to the movie in February, shortly after it opened in theaters across France on Jan. 24.
Represented in international markets by TF1 Studio, the film stars Mélanie Thierry, who plays a young Duras and delivers a breakthrough performance. Thierry stars opposite Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet.
“A Memoir of War” takes place in June 1944, when France was still under German occupation, and follows Marguerite,...
- 9/21/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
France’s foreign press corps also fete Divines, My Life As A Zucchini and The Death Of Louis Xiv. French critics honour Elle in separate awards.
Paul Verhoeven’s French-language thriller continued its winning streak at the 22nd edition of the French Lumière awards on Monday evening.
Elle won best film and best director as well as best actress for Isabelle Huppert for her performance as a hard-nosed businesswoman who plays a psychological game of cat-and-mouse with a rapist who breaks into her home.
Monday’s prizes join a growing a list of awards for both the feature and Huppert that includes the Golden Globe for best foreign language film and best actress.
Huppert is also one of the favourites in the best actress category at the Oscars and the title recently picked up 11 nominations at the French César awards.
Some 60 journalists hailing from the international press corps in France voted in the Lumière Awards, which are regarded...
Paul Verhoeven’s French-language thriller continued its winning streak at the 22nd edition of the French Lumière awards on Monday evening.
Elle won best film and best director as well as best actress for Isabelle Huppert for her performance as a hard-nosed businesswoman who plays a psychological game of cat-and-mouse with a rapist who breaks into her home.
Monday’s prizes join a growing a list of awards for both the feature and Huppert that includes the Golden Globe for best foreign language film and best actress.
Huppert is also one of the favourites in the best actress category at the Oscars and the title recently picked up 11 nominations at the French César awards.
Some 60 journalists hailing from the international press corps in France voted in the Lumière Awards, which are regarded...
- 1/31/2017
- ScreenDaily
France’s foreign press corps also fete Divines, My Life As A Zucchini and The Death Of Louis Xiv. French critics honour Elle in separate awards.
Paul Verhoeven’s French-language thriller continued its winning streak at the 22nd edition of the French Lumière awards on Monday evening.
Elle won best film and best director as well as best actress for Isabelle Huppert for her performance as a hard-nosed businesswoman who plays a psychological game of cat-and-mouse with a rapist who breaks into her home.
Monday’s prizes join a growing a list of awards for both the feature and Huppert that includes the Golden Globe for best foreign language film and best actress.
Huppert is also one of the favourites in the best actress category at the Oscars and the title recently picked up 11 nominations at the French César awards.
Some 60 journalists hailing from the international press corps in France voted in the Lumière Awards, which are regarded...
Paul Verhoeven’s French-language thriller continued its winning streak at the 22nd edition of the French Lumière awards on Monday evening.
Elle won best film and best director as well as best actress for Isabelle Huppert for her performance as a hard-nosed businesswoman who plays a psychological game of cat-and-mouse with a rapist who breaks into her home.
Monday’s prizes join a growing a list of awards for both the feature and Huppert that includes the Golden Globe for best foreign language film and best actress.
Huppert is also one of the favourites in the best actress category at the Oscars and the title recently picked up 11 nominations at the French César awards.
Some 60 journalists hailing from the international press corps in France voted in the Lumière Awards, which are regarded...
- 1/30/2017
- ScreenDaily
Midnight movie: Mel Gibson stars in Jean-François Richet’s Blood Father at the Cannes Film Festival Photo: Cannes Film Festival
David Mackenzie’s new film, Hell Or High Water, which stars Ben Foster, Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges has been added to the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.
The film deals with a divorced father and his ex-con brother who dream up a desperate scheme to save the family farm in West Texas, and it marks Mackenzie’s first feature film outing since Starred Up in 2013.
Scene from The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi Photo: Cannes Film Festival
Other additions to the Festival line-up include The Salesman by Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, which will receive its world premiere in competition.
Mohamed Diab’s Clash will open Un Certain Regard while French director Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson, has secured a Midnight Screening slot.
Thierry Fremaux,...
David Mackenzie’s new film, Hell Or High Water, which stars Ben Foster, Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges has been added to the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.
The film deals with a divorced father and his ex-con brother who dream up a desperate scheme to save the family farm in West Texas, and it marks Mackenzie’s first feature film outing since Starred Up in 2013.
Scene from The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi Photo: Cannes Film Festival
Other additions to the Festival line-up include The Salesman by Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, which will receive its world premiere in competition.
Mohamed Diab’s Clash will open Un Certain Regard while French director Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson, has secured a Midnight Screening slot.
Thierry Fremaux,...
- 4/22/2016
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Seven additions made to Official Selection, including Blood Father starring Mel Gibson, the new feature from Starred Up director David Mackenzie and a Joseph Kony documentary.Click here for updated Official Selection
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is to compete for the Palme d’Or with his latest feature, The Salesman, following several additions to Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection.
The addition of the Farsi-language project, which racked up sales for Memento Films International at Berlin in February, takes the total number of films in Competition to 21.
The Salesman revolves around a couple whose relationship turns violent due to societal pressures. Long-time Farhadi collaborators Taraneh Alidoosti, who played the epnymous role in About Elly, and Shahab Hosseini, who appeared in Farhadi’s Golden Bear and Oscar-winning A Separation, co-star as the central couple.
Farhadi was last in Competition at Cannes in 2013 with his previous film, The Past, which won the Ecumenical Jury prize.
Un Certain...
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is to compete for the Palme d’Or with his latest feature, The Salesman, following several additions to Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection.
The addition of the Farsi-language project, which racked up sales for Memento Films International at Berlin in February, takes the total number of films in Competition to 21.
The Salesman revolves around a couple whose relationship turns violent due to societal pressures. Long-time Farhadi collaborators Taraneh Alidoosti, who played the epnymous role in About Elly, and Shahab Hosseini, who appeared in Farhadi’s Golden Bear and Oscar-winning A Separation, co-star as the central couple.
Farhadi was last in Competition at Cannes in 2013 with his previous film, The Past, which won the Ecumenical Jury prize.
Un Certain...
- 4/22/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup for the official selection, including the Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, as well as special screenings, for the 69th edition of the festival:COMPETITIONOpening Night: Café Society (Woody Allen) [Out of Competition]Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)La Fille Inconnue (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)Juste La Fin du Monde (Xavier Dolan)Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont)Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia)I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu)Loving (Jeff Nichols)Agassi (Park Chan-Wook)The Last Face (Sean Penn)Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)Elle (Paul Verhoeven)The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding-Refn)The Salesman (Asgha Farhadi)Un Certain REGARDOpening Film: Clash (Mohamed Diab)Varoonegi (Behnam Behzadi)Apprentice (Boo Junfeng)Voir du Pays (Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin)La Danseuse (Stéphanie Di Giusto)La...
- 4/22/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
As usual, even though they initially announced the line-up, Cannes has a few more titles to add their slate, including one of our most-anticipated films of the year. Asghar Farhadi will return to the festival with The Salesman, which reunites him with regulars Shahab Hosseini (About Elly, A Separation) and Tareneh Alidoosti (About Elly, Fireworks Wednesday). Playing in competition, it was reported the drama centers on a couple performing together in Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman.
Other titles includes the Mel Gibson-led action thriller Blood Father (see the railer here) and David Mackenzie‘s Starred Up follow-up, the western crime drama Hell or High Water, scripted by Sicario’s Taylor Sheridan and starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges. Check out the additions below.
In Competition
The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Un Certain Regard
Opening film: Eshtebak (Clash) by Mohamed Diab (Egypt)
Hell Or High Water...
Other titles includes the Mel Gibson-led action thriller Blood Father (see the railer here) and David Mackenzie‘s Starred Up follow-up, the western crime drama Hell or High Water, scripted by Sicario’s Taylor Sheridan and starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges. Check out the additions below.
In Competition
The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Un Certain Regard
Opening film: Eshtebak (Clash) by Mohamed Diab (Egypt)
Hell Or High Water...
- 4/22/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
We're gathering early reviews of David O. Russell's Joy with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. Also in today's roundup: Two pieces on Orson Welles and another two on Nathan Silver. Interviews with Bulle Ogier, Miguel Gomes, Matt Zoller Seitz and Kentucker Audley. Best-of-2015 lists and awards. News of forthcoming work from Francis Ford Coppola, Claire Denis, Sergei Loznitsa, Yann Gonzalez and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. The Av Club discusses Spike Lee's Chi-raq and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant. And more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/8/2015
- Keyframe
We're gathering early reviews of David O. Russell's Joy with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. Also in today's roundup: Two pieces on Orson Welles and another two on Nathan Silver. Interviews with Bulle Ogier, Miguel Gomes, Matt Zoller Seitz and Kentucker Audley. Best-of-2015 lists and awards. News of forthcoming work from Francis Ford Coppola, Claire Denis, Sergei Loznitsa, Yann Gonzalez and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. The Av Club discusses Spike Lee's Chi-raq and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant. And more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/8/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Princess of Montpensier; The Tree of Life; The Way; X-Men: First Class; Everything Must Go
It would be easy to dismiss The Princess of Montpensier (2010, Studiocanal, 15) as little more than a handsomely appointed costume drama, with its period setting, romping horses, masked balls, dashing duels and lush scenic detours through leafy woods and remote castles. Yet 70-year-old director Bertrand Tavernier's vibrant adaptation of Madame de La Fayette's 1662 romance is a deceptively seductive affair which discreetly addresses issues of class, gender, religion and honour with wit, verve and ease.
Mélanie Thierry is Marie de Mézières, the eponymous heroine with an undying passion for the earthy Duc de Guise (Gaspard Ulliel), who finds herself bartered into a marriage of convenience with the woefully reliable Prince de Montpensier (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet). While her unloved husband is away fighting the Huguenots for Charles IX, it falls to Lambert Wilson's tortured Comte...
It would be easy to dismiss The Princess of Montpensier (2010, Studiocanal, 15) as little more than a handsomely appointed costume drama, with its period setting, romping horses, masked balls, dashing duels and lush scenic detours through leafy woods and remote castles. Yet 70-year-old director Bertrand Tavernier's vibrant adaptation of Madame de La Fayette's 1662 romance is a deceptively seductive affair which discreetly addresses issues of class, gender, religion and honour with wit, verve and ease.
Mélanie Thierry is Marie de Mézières, the eponymous heroine with an undying passion for the earthy Duc de Guise (Gaspard Ulliel), who finds herself bartered into a marriage of convenience with the woefully reliable Prince de Montpensier (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet). While her unloved husband is away fighting the Huguenots for Charles IX, it falls to Lambert Wilson's tortured Comte...
- 10/29/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
The Big Year - Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin
Footloose - Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid
The Thing - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen
Movie of the Week
The Big Year
The Stars: Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin
The Plot: Three avid bird watchers compete to spot the rarest birds in North America at a prestigious annual event.
The Buzz: I was completely unaware of this film until about two weeks ago, when I first saw the trailer. Seems it snuck up on everyone, as there hasn’t been much buzz about it at all. Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin are all, of course, potential of amazing comedy cinema, and it’ll be interest to see how the three play off of each other. If the script is good, these three guys will do it justice. I’m...
The Big Year - Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin
Footloose - Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid
The Thing - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen
Movie of the Week
The Big Year
The Stars: Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin
The Plot: Three avid bird watchers compete to spot the rarest birds in North America at a prestigious annual event.
The Buzz: I was completely unaware of this film until about two weeks ago, when I first saw the trailer. Seems it snuck up on everyone, as there hasn’t been much buzz about it at all. Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin are all, of course, potential of amazing comedy cinema, and it’ll be interest to see how the three play off of each other. If the script is good, these three guys will do it justice. I’m...
- 10/12/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
Rank the week of October 14th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Green Lantern
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #2480
Win Percentage: 43%
Times Ranked: 6760
Top-20 Rankings: 25
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Starring: Ryan Reynolds • Blake Lively • Peter Sarsgaard • Mark Strong • Temuera Morrison
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Crime • Crime Thriller • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Action • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Horrible Bosses
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #750
Win Percentage: 54%
Times Ranked: 6278
Top-20 Rankings: 23
Directed By: Seth Gordon
Starring: Jason Bateman • Jason Sudeikis • Jennifer Aniston • Kevin Spacey • Jamie Foxx
Genres: Black Comedy • Comedy • Workplace Comedy
Rank This Movie
Zookeeper
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #10259
Win Percentage: 37%
Times Ranked: 470
Top-20 Rankings: 9
Directed By: Frank Coraci
Starring: Kevin James • Rosario Dawson • Leslie Bibb • Ken Jeong • Donnie Wahlberg
Genres: Animal Picture • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
Rank This Movie
Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG...
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #2480
Win Percentage: 43%
Times Ranked: 6760
Top-20 Rankings: 25
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Starring: Ryan Reynolds • Blake Lively • Peter Sarsgaard • Mark Strong • Temuera Morrison
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Crime • Crime Thriller • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Action • Thriller
Rank This Movie
Horrible Bosses
(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #750
Win Percentage: 54%
Times Ranked: 6278
Top-20 Rankings: 23
Directed By: Seth Gordon
Starring: Jason Bateman • Jason Sudeikis • Jennifer Aniston • Kevin Spacey • Jamie Foxx
Genres: Black Comedy • Comedy • Workplace Comedy
Rank This Movie
Zookeeper
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG | 2011)
Flickchart Ranking: #10259
Win Percentage: 37%
Times Ranked: 470
Top-20 Rankings: 9
Directed By: Frank Coraci
Starring: Kevin James • Rosario Dawson • Leslie Bibb • Ken Jeong • Donnie Wahlberg
Genres: Animal Picture • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
Rank This Movie
Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer
(Blu-ray & DVD | PG...
- 10/11/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
Well, powder our wigs if it isn't a slice of superbe costumed drama to add some Gallic elan to a damp Friday afternoon. The Princess Of Montpensier is a rollicking adventure that wafts a disdainful glove in the face of the nearest musketeer, and we've got a new clip to offer a taster.Montpensier is set during the Wars of Religion that saw France's Protestant Hugenots and, er, Catholic Catholics drown the middle part of the 16th century in copious amounts of blood. Fans of La Reine Margot will testify that it wasn't an especially happy time for the Hugenots, and this time they're on the receiving end of the Prince of Montpensier's (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) attentions. He's away fighting while his beautiful wife (Mélanie Thierry) pines for another man in a remote castle under the close supervision of the lusty Duke of Anjou (Raphaël Personnaz) and her tutor. And you...
- 6/27/2011
- EmpireOnline
Chicago – Léa Seydoux is blessed with the sort of face that appears to convey a thousand different emotions without ever having to move a muscle. Her smile is beautiful but it almost feels like an intrusion, breaking the exquisite mystery of her passive, brooding expressions. Much has been written about her resemblance to Godard’s muse, Anna Karina, which perhaps inspired New Wave successor Christophe Honoré to direct her in this evocative drama.
“La belle personne” (a.k.a. “The Beautiful Person”) could’ve easily been made in the ’60s. Within the walls of its claustrophobic school, hormonal urges and repressed desires materialize in the form of pointed glances and scribbled notes as opposed to Facebook posts. Gossip is spread the old fashioned way, without the assistance of a Twitter feed. Body language emerges as the primary tool of communication. When a tight embrace is mistaken for a kiss, it can lead to devastating consequences.
“La belle personne” (a.k.a. “The Beautiful Person”) could’ve easily been made in the ’60s. Within the walls of its claustrophobic school, hormonal urges and repressed desires materialize in the form of pointed glances and scribbled notes as opposed to Facebook posts. Gossip is spread the old fashioned way, without the assistance of a Twitter feed. Body language emerges as the primary tool of communication. When a tight embrace is mistaken for a kiss, it can lead to devastating consequences.
- 5/18/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
The Beautiful Person (2008)
Streaming Available: 05/17/2011
Synopsis: After transferring to a new high school, beautiful Junie (Léa Seydoux) starts dating fellow student Otto (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but she soon finds herself falling for Nemours (Louis Garrel), an Italian teacher already entangled in secret affairs with a pupil and colleague. Loosely based on Madame de Lafayette’s novel La Princesse de Clèves, this French drama explores the great pain that often accompanies love.
Average Netflix rating: 3.2 Araya (1959)
Streaming Available: 05/17/2011
Synopsis: Director Margot Benacerraf offers this acclaimed 1959 film that chronicles the harsh existence of Venezuelan laborers who manually recover salt from the tropical marshes in Araya, an ancient salt-producing region in that country.
Average Netflix rating: 3.3 Red,...
The Beautiful Person (2008)
Streaming Available: 05/17/2011
Synopsis: After transferring to a new high school, beautiful Junie (Léa Seydoux) starts dating fellow student Otto (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but she soon finds herself falling for Nemours (Louis Garrel), an Italian teacher already entangled in secret affairs with a pupil and colleague. Loosely based on Madame de Lafayette’s novel La Princesse de Clèves, this French drama explores the great pain that often accompanies love.
Average Netflix rating: 3.2 Araya (1959)
Streaming Available: 05/17/2011
Synopsis: Director Margot Benacerraf offers this acclaimed 1959 film that chronicles the harsh existence of Venezuelan laborers who manually recover salt from the tropical marshes in Araya, an ancient salt-producing region in that country.
Average Netflix rating: 3.3 Red,...
- 5/17/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
It’s been 7 years since Facebook launched, and 8 for Second Life, but if Black Heaven (The Other World in its original French) is to be believed, the internet is still a shadowy and lawless place where angels fear to tread, and predatory social clubs exploit the naive fantasies of the unindoctrinated. Drawing in equal measure on Hitchcockian voyeurism and modern narratives of temptation like Wall Street, Heaven constructs a largely familiar world in which the bored are led away from their boring lives into the netherworld of online role playing games, although it’s hard to see how that could be new and unfamiliar to anyone by now. But instead of constructing an analogy for the increasing virtualization of modern life, Black Heaven keeps its implications safe enough to not alienate who still refuses to have an email address. Black Heaven may push its characters to the edge, but it...
- 4/26/2011
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
"The finest Western you'll see this year is set in aristocratic 16th-century France, in the heat of Counter-Reformation," declares Nick Pinkerton. Segueing into his interview with Bertrand Tavernier, Aaron Hillis, also in the Voice, sums up the gist of The Princess of Montpensier: "Adapted from Madame de la Fayette's classic novel, the film concerns a nubile, wealthy heiress (Mélanie Thierry) who loves a rugged hothead from the wrong clan (Gaspard Ulliel), but is forced by her father to marry another prince (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), leaving her to dwell on the too-modern desire for free will — defiantly bucking against the rigid traditions of her breed." Back to Pinkerton: "The setting always serves the performers rather than vice versa — though the film is also greatly enhanced by the costuming, the rugged French countryside photographed in outdoor-adventure CinemaScope, and Philippe Sarde's baroque-tribal score, its martial and romantic poles matching a tale of...
- 4/18/2011
- MUBI
Director: Bertrand Tavernier Writers: Jean Cosmos, François-Olivier Rousseau, Bertrand Tavernier Cinematographer: Bruno de Keyzer Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Christopher Lambert, Raphaël Personnaz, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Studio/Running Time: IFC Films, 139 min. Period romances may not be a genre as popular as horror flicks or westerns, but despite the stuffiness that its name implies, perfectly well-executed ones need not be boring. At least that’s the case with Bertrand Tavernier’s Princess of Montpensier, set during 16th-century France’s endless civil wars and unsurprisingly focusing on various aristocrats aiming to sleep with the titular princess. Aside from her husband this includes her childhood...
- 4/15/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Here's Toh's weekend preview of the mainstream box office contenders. And for the smart-movie demo, here's a look at the weekend's new indie and foreign language offerings, from Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier (gorgeous, as pictured) and Danish war documentaryArmadillo, to Italy's Oscar submission The First Beautiful Thing and the France/Belgium/Chad co-production A Screaming Man, which indieWIRE's Eric Kohn calls Divine. Less well-embraced are Robert Redford's The Conspirator (Caryn James defends it here), despite its fine cast, and a widely excoriated adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Details, trailers, images and reviews are below: The Princess of Montpensier, IFC (France) Dir: Bertrand Tavernier; Cast: Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Gaspard Ulliel | 76% Metacritic | 82% Tomatometer | B indieWIRE, plus Gaspard Ulliel ...
- 4/15/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sometimes veteran directors make slower, more deliberate films as they get older, but there’s nothing draggy about Bertrand Tavernier’s historical drama The Princess Of Montpensier. Adapted by 69-year-old Tavernier and screenwriter Jean Cosmos from Madame de La Fayette’s 1662 novella, Princess stars Mélanie Thierry as a much-desired heiress who’s studying for her introduction at court with the help of principled count Lambert Wilson, while her husband (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and her lover (Gaspard Ulliel) fight in the raging Catholic/Protestant wars of the late 1500s. Wilson worries about the his charge’s loyalty, but even ...
- 4/14/2011
- avclub.com
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.
This Week’s New Instant Releases… Title: Black Heaven (2010)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda
Director: Gilles Marchand
Synopsis: While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world. Title: Heartless (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy , Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger,...
This Week’s New Instant Releases… Title: Black Heaven (2010)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda
Director: Gilles Marchand
Synopsis: While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world. Title: Heartless (2009)
Streaming Available: 04/12/2011
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy , Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger,...
- 4/11/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sneak Peek the newest poster supporting the upcoming French period romance feature "The Princess of Montpensier" ("La princesse de Montpensier"), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, based on the short story by author 'Madame de La Fayette'.
The film stars model/actress Mélanie Thierry in the title role, with Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël Personnaz.
"...The story takes place in the French aristocracy during the 'Wars of Religion', focusing on a young woman who is forced into marriage while passionately in love with another man..."
"Princess" premiered May 16, 2010 @ the Cannes Film Festival, with StudioCanal releasing it in 384 French cinemas on November 3, 2010. Distribution rights for the Us was acquired by IFC Films.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Princess of Montpensier"...
The film stars model/actress Mélanie Thierry in the title role, with Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël Personnaz.
"...The story takes place in the French aristocracy during the 'Wars of Religion', focusing on a young woman who is forced into marriage while passionately in love with another man..."
"Princess" premiered May 16, 2010 @ the Cannes Film Festival, with StudioCanal releasing it in 384 French cinemas on November 3, 2010. Distribution rights for the Us was acquired by IFC Films.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Princess of Montpensier"...
- 4/6/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Period films may be Oscar bait for many filmmakers, but are usually avoided by the mainstream moviegoer. Make it based in 16th century France, and you might as well say your good-byes. Think again.
Just out from IFC is the trailer for The Princess of Montpensier, which tells the story of an aristocrat woman who goes against her vow to marry a prince by falling in love with a duke during the plight of the Catholic/Protestant wars. With adultry comes violence, and with violence comes sword fights. Alright, sign me up!
The Princess of Montpensier will be release by Sundance Selects on April 15th in New York, and expand to more than 20 top markets nationwide through April and May. The film will be available nationwide on demand from Sundance Selects on April 20th. See below for full synopsis and trailer:
“In The Princess Of Montpensier, acclaimed filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier...
Just out from IFC is the trailer for The Princess of Montpensier, which tells the story of an aristocrat woman who goes against her vow to marry a prince by falling in love with a duke during the plight of the Catholic/Protestant wars. With adultry comes violence, and with violence comes sword fights. Alright, sign me up!
The Princess of Montpensier will be release by Sundance Selects on April 15th in New York, and expand to more than 20 top markets nationwide through April and May. The film will be available nationwide on demand from Sundance Selects on April 20th. See below for full synopsis and trailer:
“In The Princess Of Montpensier, acclaimed filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier...
- 3/16/2011
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Sneak Peek the newest poster supporting the upcoming French period romance feature "The Princess of Montpensier" ("La princesse de Montpensier"), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, based on the short story by 'Madame de La Fayette'.
The film stars model turned actress Mélanie Thierry in the title role, with Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël Personnaz.
"...The story takes place in the French aristocracy during the 'Wars of Religion', focusing on a young woman who is forced into marriage while passionately in love with another man..."
"Princess" premiered May 16, 2010 @ the Cannes Film Festival, with StudioCanal releasing it in 384 French cinemas on November 3, 2010. Distribution rights for the Us was acquired by IFC Films, who will release the film April 1, 2011.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Princess of Montpensier"...
The film stars model turned actress Mélanie Thierry in the title role, with Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël Personnaz.
"...The story takes place in the French aristocracy during the 'Wars of Religion', focusing on a young woman who is forced into marriage while passionately in love with another man..."
"Princess" premiered May 16, 2010 @ the Cannes Film Festival, with StudioCanal releasing it in 384 French cinemas on November 3, 2010. Distribution rights for the Us was acquired by IFC Films, who will release the film April 1, 2011.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Princess of Montpensier"...
- 3/14/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
World War II has to be one of the most cinematically well-chronicled periods of history there is, dwelt on by big-name directors such as Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood as well as smaller scale film-makers alike. We have had action movies, romances and opinion-pieces set during the Second World War, from the perspectives of nigh on everyone involved. It is therefore to be commended that director Nicolas Steil has found a fresh angle from which to broach this endlessly fascinating and shocking moment in history. Setting the film in his native Luxembourg, Steil dramatises the country’s Nazi occupation and its effect on Luxembourg’s denizens.
Opting for a less bombastic approach than, say, Saving Private Ryan, Steil instead directs a relatively slow paced narrative in which we watch our pacifist protagonist’s struggle for survival. The son of a disgraced and deceased collaborator, François (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) leaves university for...
Opting for a less bombastic approach than, say, Saving Private Ryan, Steil instead directs a relatively slow paced narrative in which we watch our pacifist protagonist’s struggle for survival. The son of a disgraced and deceased collaborator, François (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) leaves university for...
- 1/23/2011
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Gilles Marchand's Black Heaven is currently playing on IFC Films video-on-demand feature via Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Time Warner, and Bright House (Dread). The trailer below shows two lives. One is played online, while a second is played in reality. Both spheres of interaction offer murder, suicide and a life filled with new thrills, but new dangers. Have a look at the clip below and order the film for your viewing pleasure.
The film's synopsis is here:
"The story follows an innocent young kid, Gaspar (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), who, becoming enamored with a mysterious/gorgeous girl (Louise Bourgoin), is lured into a "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world" (IFC Films).
Director: Gilles Marchand.
Writers: Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll.
Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, and Swann Arlaud.
The...
The film's synopsis is here:
"The story follows an innocent young kid, Gaspar (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), who, becoming enamored with a mysterious/gorgeous girl (Louise Bourgoin), is lured into a "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world" (IFC Films).
Director: Gilles Marchand.
Writers: Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll.
Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, and Swann Arlaud.
The...
- 12/9/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Director: Robert Guédiguian Writer: Robert Guédiguian, Serge Le Péron, Gilles Taurand Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian “They were twenty-three when the rifles blossomed Twenty-three who gave their hearts before their time Twenty-three foreigners but still our brothers Twenty-three who loved life to death Twenty-three who cried out “France!” as they fell.” (Louis Aragon, Strophes pour se souvenir) The phrase "army of crime" is a reference to a caption on the Affiche Rouge ("red poster"), a propaganda poster campaign with which the Nazis sought to present French resistance fighters as criminals: "Liberators? Liberation by the army of crime." Based on the true stories of the Francs-tireurs et partisans - Main-d'œuvre immigrée (Ftp-moi), Army of Crime begins with an Altman-esque intertwining of the very individual narratives concerning a multifarious hodgepodge of anti-fascists operating clandestinely and individually in occupied Paris (a city that seems to have accepted German occupation and the mass deportations...
- 8/21/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Djinns Alt' Movie Poster
Djinns aka Stranded is a French language film from the married couple Hugues and Sandra Martin. Djinns is another word for the more familiar genies and in the extended clip below the Djinns lay havoc on a French patrol searching for a downed aircraft (Uhm). The trailer, or promo reel shows the Djinns up close and personal as they use the elements and desert creatures to terrorize these unlucky and isolated soldiers. Have a watch of the trailer below and check out an alternate poster for the film here.
The synopsis for Djinns here:
"The North African Desert of the Sahara - 1960. Soldiers are sent on a rescue mission in the desert. Trapped in a sand storm, isolated from their commander, they run into Algerian rebels. As they seek shelter in an uncharted village another, invisible, threat comes out from the desert -- the Djinns. As their ranks are decimated,...
Djinns aka Stranded is a French language film from the married couple Hugues and Sandra Martin. Djinns is another word for the more familiar genies and in the extended clip below the Djinns lay havoc on a French patrol searching for a downed aircraft (Uhm). The trailer, or promo reel shows the Djinns up close and personal as they use the elements and desert creatures to terrorize these unlucky and isolated soldiers. Have a watch of the trailer below and check out an alternate poster for the film here.
The synopsis for Djinns here:
"The North African Desert of the Sahara - 1960. Soldiers are sent on a rescue mission in the desert. Trapped in a sand storm, isolated from their commander, they run into Algerian rebels. As they seek shelter in an uncharted village another, invisible, threat comes out from the desert -- the Djinns. As their ranks are decimated,...
- 6/28/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
With Cannes's final weekend approaching people are probably leaving town. At least that's the way it happens at other festivals. The only thing exciting left (unless there's a late breaking hit or polarizing cause) is the awards and the first ever Queer Palm which could go a few different ways. But here's a few more tweets and eye candy treats for you.
Dominic Cooper = sex? | Ryan & Michelle are now dating
The Beautiful People
@onthecroisette "Dominic Cooper is provoking pansexual heatwaves in my row."
@snooptom "Pas d'Araki pour moi, je resterai sur le Dolan, "une éphémère vacuité addictive" / 20 ans, 2 films en un an, 2 Cannes, je te hais, Bravo!"
@AwardsDaily "Am always amazed by the perfect symetry of some actors' faces. Ryan Gosling is so blindingly good looking. Michelle Williams too."
@guylodge "Exclusive Cannes fashion report: Mike Leigh favours red-soled Campers with yellow socks. You heard it here first."
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet (Love Songs...
Dominic Cooper = sex? | Ryan & Michelle are now dating
The Beautiful People
@onthecroisette "Dominic Cooper is provoking pansexual heatwaves in my row."
@snooptom "Pas d'Araki pour moi, je resterai sur le Dolan, "une éphémère vacuité addictive" / 20 ans, 2 films en un an, 2 Cannes, je te hais, Bravo!"
@AwardsDaily "Am always amazed by the perfect symetry of some actors' faces. Ryan Gosling is so blindingly good looking. Michelle Williams too."
@guylodge "Exclusive Cannes fashion report: Mike Leigh favours red-soled Campers with yellow socks. You heard it here first."
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet (Love Songs...
- 5/20/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A stylized cyber-goth noir about a fresh-faced teen in a dangerous game of self-destructive femme fatales and murderous coercion. Treated as a B-movie, it's a wickedly seductive ride, but whenever it postures to say something more clever as an Information-Age cautionary tale, the film's overreaching ambitions, limply written characters and illogical plotting fall right on their avatar's face.
On summer vacation in Marseilles, young lovers Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Marion (Pauline Etienne) find a cell phone and discover cryptic messages between a vampish blonde named "Sam" (Louise Bourgoin) and "Dragon." Curiosities too tempted, the couple's investigation leads them to stumble upon and save Audrey (who goes by "Sam" in a virtual game called "Black Hole") from a joint suicide pact. Gaspard is immediately smitten by her beauty, sadness and lower-back tattoo, and goes so far as to join the online fantasy Audrey escapes into, an exciting CGI world that obeys...
On summer vacation in Marseilles, young lovers Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Marion (Pauline Etienne) find a cell phone and discover cryptic messages between a vampish blonde named "Sam" (Louise Bourgoin) and "Dragon." Curiosities too tempted, the couple's investigation leads them to stumble upon and save Audrey (who goes by "Sam" in a virtual game called "Black Hole") from a joint suicide pact. Gaspard is immediately smitten by her beauty, sadness and lower-back tattoo, and goes so far as to join the online fantasy Audrey escapes into, an exciting CGI world that obeys...
- 5/18/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Isabelle Huppert attends La princesse de Montpensier / The Princess of Montpensier Premiere at the Palais des Festivals during the 63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival. (Photo: Swarovski / WireImage.) Bertrand Tavernier’s The Princess of Montpensier is in the running for the Palme d’Or. The period romantic drama is set during the reign of Charles IX, when followers of different Christian sects (Catholics and Protestants) were at each other’s throats. The film stars Mélanie Thierry in the title role, in addition to Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson, and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. According to the film’s notes, Tavernier decided to adapt Madame de la Fayette’s 17th-century novel because he wanted to make a "love story that was both lyrical and [...]...
- 5/18/2010
- by Joan Lister
- Alt Film Guide
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet has said that La Princesse De Montpensier is a modern story, despite being set in the 1500s. The actor, who plays Philippe de Montpensier in the period drama, told reporters at Cannes that he did not really understand what people meant by "acting modern". Leprince-Ringuet said: "Even if the text or the language isn't really that spoken today, for me, acting modern is a question of situations. (more)...
- 5/18/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Bertrand Tavernier’s The Princess of Montpensier: Florence Thomassin, Mélanie Thierry (top); Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet (bottom) Bertrand Tavernier’s La princesse de Montpensier / The Princess of Montpensier is in the running for the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The period drama set during the reign of Charles IX, when followers of different Christian sects (Catholics and Protestants) were at one another’s throats, stars Mélanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Lambert Wilson, and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet. According to the film’s notes, Tavernier decided to adapt Madame de la Fayette’s 17th-century novel because he wanted to make a "love story that was both lyrical and epic in nature," adding that after filming In the Electric Mist in the United States he felt "the visceral [...]...
- 5/16/2010
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
As you all know, from May 12 through 23, 12 feature films produced or co-produced by France will be showcased in the Official Selection of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
One movie that will be shown In Competition is La Princesse de Montpensier, directed by Bertrand Tavernier.
Little history repeating for this director, since he’s taking a break from thrillers. Let’s see how things at Cannes Festival will work out for him…
If you are familiar with Tavernier’s work, than you know he already had huge success with In The Electric Mist. But this time, looks like he has started working on a European history title about 16th century French aristocracy.
This is the story about the passions and tragic fate of a princess in the French kingdom of 1562. but if you’re interested in official synopsis part check this out: “Based on a short story by Madame de La Fayette...
One movie that will be shown In Competition is La Princesse de Montpensier, directed by Bertrand Tavernier.
Little history repeating for this director, since he’s taking a break from thrillers. Let’s see how things at Cannes Festival will work out for him…
If you are familiar with Tavernier’s work, than you know he already had huge success with In The Electric Mist. But this time, looks like he has started working on a European history title about 16th century French aristocracy.
This is the story about the passions and tragic fate of a princess in the French kingdom of 1562. but if you’re interested in official synopsis part check this out: “Based on a short story by Madame de La Fayette...
- 4/26/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
In the interim, filmmaker Gilles Marchand stuck to his writing work supplying screenplays such as Lemming and Feux rouges for Dominik Moll and Cédric Kahn, but now wearing the director hat, Marchand will be returning to Cannes for the first time since 2003's Who Killed Bambi? With Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet in the lead, and also starring Louise Bourgoin (La fille de Monaco) and Melvil Poupaud (Le refuge), Black Heaven, which receives a Midnight Screening slot and is among my tops in Most Anticipated Films list, merges real life and animation, much like how Marchand's scripted L'Avion merged fantasy with real-life elements. L'autre monde (Black Heaven) is co-written by Marchand and Dominik Moll, and is a coming-of-age story about a teenager seduced by the unlimited possibilities of the dark, virtual world of online gaming. Set during the Summer in the south of France. Gaspard (Leprince-Ringuet) divides his time between his friends and his girlfriend,...
- 4/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Updated 04/19 They've added two titles but none to the actual competition list just yet. Updates are included below
04/15 Yes, they will add a few titles. Looking round the web people expect something like 4 to 5 more films to show up. Speculation that Malick's Tree of Life or Nolans Inception or Schnabel's Miral probably won't die until after they add said missing titles. But if you're heading over to the South of France next month or merely reading along on various Twitter feeds or film blogs, these are some of the titles you'll be hearing about.
Blanchett. Crowe. Scott
Opening Night Film
Because you have to kick off with a starry entry for that maximum red carpet kick. It gets the international and mainstream press excited and you need their eyeballs... even if your festival is for the global cinephiles.
Robin Hood (Ridley Scott)
I'm amused that the tagline is marketing this as an "untold story". Hee.
04/15 Yes, they will add a few titles. Looking round the web people expect something like 4 to 5 more films to show up. Speculation that Malick's Tree of Life or Nolans Inception or Schnabel's Miral probably won't die until after they add said missing titles. But if you're heading over to the South of France next month or merely reading along on various Twitter feeds or film blogs, these are some of the titles you'll be hearing about.
Blanchett. Crowe. Scott
Opening Night Film
Because you have to kick off with a starry entry for that maximum red carpet kick. It gets the international and mainstream press excited and you need their eyeballs... even if your festival is for the global cinephiles.
Robin Hood (Ridley Scott)
I'm amused that the tagline is marketing this as an "untold story". Hee.
- 4/20/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A period piece typically means serious business when it gets the most pressing question the audience can possibly have out of the way right at the start. Robert Guédiguian's Army of Crime begins by letting the viewer know what ultimately happened within the first couple of minutes; things did not turn out well, and a great many of the cast aren't going to be around when the credits roll.
The film gets some tremendous performances out of this constant sense of impending doom but is fairly badly hamstrung by the general sense that, having got this sorted out, Guédiguian isn't entirely sure what to do with the rest of the running time.
It's understandable, at least, that he would approach the material this way given Army of Crime's story is far more well known in France. The film dramatises the exploits of the Manouchian Group, a loosely-knit band of...
The film gets some tremendous performances out of this constant sense of impending doom but is fairly badly hamstrung by the general sense that, having got this sorted out, Guédiguian isn't entirely sure what to do with the rest of the running time.
It's understandable, at least, that he would approach the material this way given Army of Crime's story is far more well known in France. The film dramatises the exploits of the Manouchian Group, a loosely-knit band of...
- 1/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
In the years I've been documenting Oscar's once largely undocumented foreign film category, we've seen the number of players creep up virtually every year, despite the concurrent dwindling of foreign film distribution in the United States. In 2001 for example when I first began tracking it and sharing the info online, there were 51 official submissions for Best Foreign Language Film. Last year there were 67. For the 2009 Oscar race (the submission deadline has now passed) we've now heard from 62 countries. But that doesn't mean the official list will only be 62 films. In the eight years I've been documenting this race, something always changes between the submission deadline and Oscar's official announcement of the list (coming soon): Films are disqualified, last minute switcheroos happen, countries that didn't make noise when they first submitted are revealed. There will be drama... albeit the mostly invisible kind.
You can see more about these 62 entries (cast,...
You can see more about these 62 entries (cast,...
- 10/4/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
'Celebrating cinema's emerging talents' - That's our new slogan, and I think tMF has come a long way, but of course there is still room for improvement. I think we're lucky that our viewers care enough to tell us both our good and bad points. The October edition of the Top 50 Hitlist will reflect all these... In the meantime, tMF puts the spotlight on today's rising stars - these are the guys who really made a lot of buzz - grabbed plum roles despite intense competition and would be working with the industry's topnotch filmmakers, and more.
Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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- 9/30/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
'Celebrating cinema's emerging talents' - That's our new slogan, and I think tMF has come a long way, but of course there is still room for improvement. I think we're lucky that our viewers care enough to tell us both our good and bad points. The October edition of the Top 50 Hitlist will reflect all these... In the meantime, tMF puts the spotlight on today's rising stars - these are the guys who really made a lot of buzz - grabbed plum roles despite intense competition and would be working with the industry's topnotch filmmakers, and more.
Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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- 9/30/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
'Celebrating cinema's emerging talents' - That's our new slogan, and I think tMF has come a long way, but of course there is still room for improvement. I think we're lucky that our viewers care enough to tell us both our good and bad points. The October edition of the Top 50 Hitlist will reflect all these... In the meantime, tMF puts the spotlight on today's rising stars - these are the guys who really made a lot of buzz - grabbed plum roles despite intense competition and would be working with the industry's topnotch filmmakers, and more.
Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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- 9/30/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
'Celebrating cinema's emerging talents' - That's our new slogan, and I think tMF has come a long way, but of course there is still room for improvement. I think we're lucky that our viewers care enough to tell us both our good and bad points. The October edition of the Top 50 Hitlist will reflect all these... In the meantime, tMF puts the spotlight on today's rising stars - these are the guys who really made a lot of buzz - grabbed plum roles despite intense competition and would be working with the industry's topnotch filmmakers, and more.
Find out who they are - you've certainly heard some of them and a few might be unfamiliar names, but take a closer look - you might be missing some names who are still 'under the radar' but would soon be rockin' the scene!
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- 9/30/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
- You won't find veteran filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier anywhere close to swampy Cajun backwoods (In the Electric Mist) or for that matter, return to the thriller format, instead his next pic is set in 1562 and includes matters of the heart. Set to begin production later this month, La Princesse de Montpensier will see Mélanie Thierry in the lead with Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel, Louis Garrel and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet also joining the pic. Paradis Films' Eric Heuman and Marc Silam are producing. Based on a short story by Madame de La Fayette (published in 1662), co-scripted by Tavernier and Jean Cosmos, La Princesse de Montpensier is a tale of the passions and tragic fate of a princess, a rich heiress of a French kingdom under threat in the wars of religion of 1562. The focal point of La Fayette’s work is the love Mlle de Mézières feels for the duke de Guise
- 9/4/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- If you're the art-house/subtitle type then helmer Christophe Honoré needs no introductions. With an output like his, a recent string of pictures such as Ma Mere, In Paris and most recently, Love Songs, you know it's just a question of time before his next project is unveiled. Cineuropa recently filled us in on the Frenchman's latest project (a pic that will once again feature Honoré's muse: Louis Garrel) and which was compared to Laurent Cantet’s brilliant exposé of Paris' urban jungle a.k.a high school and Palme d'or winner Entre Les murs because of the likeliness of the setting. Co-written by the director and Gilles Taurand, La Belle Personne is a contemporary adaptation of French literary classic The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette (1678). The film retraces the misadventures of Junie (Seydoux, mademoiselle de Chartres in the book). Aged 16, the young girl changes high
- 6/10/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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