One of last year’s collaborations between Bloody Disgusting and Dark Star Pictures was Japanese crime thriller Missing, now nominated for the 51st annual Saturn Awards!
Deadline explains, “The Saturns, which honor the best in genre entertainment across film and television, are organized by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.”
Missing has been nominated in the “Best International Film” category, alongside Madeleine Collins, The Origin of Evil, Ransomed, Speak No Evil and Sisu.
You can see the full list of Saturn Awards nominations over on Deadline.
Winners will be announced February 4, 2024.
In Missing from Bloody Disgusting and Dark Star Pictures…
“Depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer ‘No Name’ (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the...
Deadline explains, “The Saturns, which honor the best in genre entertainment across film and television, are organized by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.”
Missing has been nominated in the “Best International Film” category, alongside Madeleine Collins, The Origin of Evil, Ransomed, Speak No Evil and Sisu.
You can see the full list of Saturn Awards nominations over on Deadline.
Winners will be announced February 4, 2024.
In Missing from Bloody Disgusting and Dark Star Pictures…
“Depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer ‘No Name’ (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the...
- 12/7/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
by Cláudio Alves
Belgian-born French actress Virginie Efira has been on an upward path since around 2016, when she supported Isabelle Huppert in the Oscar-nominated Elle and dazzled as the titular lawyer in Justine Triet's Victoria. The latter part earned the thespian her first César nomination, followed by citations for Sink or Swim, An Impossible Love, Bye Bye Morons, Benedetta, and, finally, a victory thanks to Revoir Paris. And yet, beyond the Francoshpere, Efira is probably best known for Verhoeven's mad nun and little else. That's going to change fast. After 2023, there's no stopping her rise to international stardom.
This week, American cinemas welcomed Madeleine Collins, Efira's third release of the year, following career-best work in Other People's Children and Revoir Paris. Just the Two of Us and All to Play For are still awaiting distribution making for a titanic body of recent work. In a just world, this next...
Belgian-born French actress Virginie Efira has been on an upward path since around 2016, when she supported Isabelle Huppert in the Oscar-nominated Elle and dazzled as the titular lawyer in Justine Triet's Victoria. The latter part earned the thespian her first César nomination, followed by citations for Sink or Swim, An Impossible Love, Bye Bye Morons, Benedetta, and, finally, a victory thanks to Revoir Paris. And yet, beyond the Francoshpere, Efira is probably best known for Verhoeven's mad nun and little else. That's going to change fast. After 2023, there's no stopping her rise to international stardom.
This week, American cinemas welcomed Madeleine Collins, Efira's third release of the year, following career-best work in Other People's Children and Revoir Paris. Just the Two of Us and All to Play For are still awaiting distribution making for a titanic body of recent work. In a just world, this next...
- 8/19/2023
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
Seemingly channeling the spirit of Claude Chabrol, Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins is a decidedly classy throwback thriller about a seemingly humdrum character committing perverse acts of subterfuge against others. Barraud’s film follows Judith Fauvet (Virginie Efira), a translator living in France with her successful conductor husband, Melvil (Bruno Salomone), and two sons. But, it turns out, Judith is living a second life.
Under the guise of the near-constant travel required for her work, Judith has a second family in Switzerland, where boyfriend Abdel (Quim Gutierrez) primarily cares for their young daughter, Ninon (Loïse Benguerel). Barraud and co-screenwriter Klotz outline the delicate balancing act required on Judith’s part to keep her double life a secret, and the narrative displays a compelling psychological nuance due to the focus on the far-reaching effects of her deception.
By homing in on the feelings of the secondary characters, the filmmakers poignantly articulate...
Under the guise of the near-constant travel required for her work, Judith has a second family in Switzerland, where boyfriend Abdel (Quim Gutierrez) primarily cares for their young daughter, Ninon (Loïse Benguerel). Barraud and co-screenwriter Klotz outline the delicate balancing act required on Judith’s part to keep her double life a secret, and the narrative displays a compelling psychological nuance due to the focus on the far-reaching effects of her deception.
By homing in on the feelings of the secondary characters, the filmmakers poignantly articulate...
- 8/13/2023
- by Wes Greene
- Slant Magazine
Switzerland has selected Camille Jaquier’s coming-of-age period drama Thunder (Foudre) as its entry for the Best International Film category at the 2024 Oscars.
Set in 1900, the film stars Lilith Grasmug as a 17-year-old girl on the cusp of taking vows to become a nun, whose life is set on another course following the sudden death of her older sister.
She returns to her family after five years in the convent to help on their farm in a mountain village. The mysteries surrounding her sister’s death prompt her to fight for her right to self-determination and to rebel against the strict expectations of the village community.
The drama originally world premiered in Toronto’s Platform line-up in 2022 and then played at a host of other festivals including San Sebastian, Zurich, Busan and Sydney.
“Set in an archaic mountain scenery, liberation and sisterhood are at the center of this timely feminist period film.
Set in 1900, the film stars Lilith Grasmug as a 17-year-old girl on the cusp of taking vows to become a nun, whose life is set on another course following the sudden death of her older sister.
She returns to her family after five years in the convent to help on their farm in a mountain village. The mysteries surrounding her sister’s death prompt her to fight for her right to self-determination and to rebel against the strict expectations of the village community.
The drama originally world premiered in Toronto’s Platform line-up in 2022 and then played at a host of other festivals including San Sebastian, Zurich, Busan and Sydney.
“Set in an archaic mountain scenery, liberation and sisterhood are at the center of this timely feminist period film.
- 8/7/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
by Cláudio Alves
2023 is shaping out to be the year of Virginie Efira, at least as far as American audiences are concerned. Other People's Children blessed theaters in March, and Madeleine Collins will arrive in August, all lauded leading roles for the Belgian star. This month, Revoir Paris comes to satiate Efira fans, gleaming with the promise of César gold, for this picture finally won her the prize oft called the French Oscar. Written and directed by Alice Winocour in tribute to her brother, the film, also known as Paris Memories, considers the aftermath of a terrorist attack not unlike those that befell the French capital in November 2015…...
2023 is shaping out to be the year of Virginie Efira, at least as far as American audiences are concerned. Other People's Children blessed theaters in March, and Madeleine Collins will arrive in August, all lauded leading roles for the Belgian star. This month, Revoir Paris comes to satiate Efira fans, gleaming with the promise of César gold, for this picture finally won her the prize oft called the French Oscar. Written and directed by Alice Winocour in tribute to her brother, the film, also known as Paris Memories, considers the aftermath of a terrorist attack not unlike those that befell the French capital in November 2015…...
- 6/28/2023
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
La Vénus d’argent
From shorts, to docs and a 2012 feature film debut that premiered at the Berlinale (Atomic Age), Héléna Klotz‘s output has been a bit of everything. She was once a casting assistant on Cannes items such as Love Like Poison (2010) and My Little Princess (2011), but most recently she helped write 2021’s Madeleine Collins and she co-directed a docu called Hobbies (2020) which was co-written by 2022 Un Certain Regard winners Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret. In late October she began production on her sophomore project La Vénus d’argent with singer Pomme (her first role), Denis Ménochet, re-teams with Niels Schneider, Anna Mouglalis and Fianso signed on.…...
From shorts, to docs and a 2012 feature film debut that premiered at the Berlinale (Atomic Age), Héléna Klotz‘s output has been a bit of everything. She was once a casting assistant on Cannes items such as Love Like Poison (2010) and My Little Princess (2011), but most recently she helped write 2021’s Madeleine Collins and she co-directed a docu called Hobbies (2020) which was co-written by 2022 Un Certain Regard winners Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret. In late October she began production on her sophomore project La Vénus d’argent with singer Pomme (her first role), Denis Ménochet, re-teams with Niels Schneider, Anna Mouglalis and Fianso signed on.…...
- 1/9/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Filmmaker Y (Avshalom Pollak) with Yahalom David (Nur Fibak), an officer for the Ministry of Culture in Nadav Lapid’s tightly-wound musical drama Ahed’s Knee (Ha'berech)
When I spoke with Antoine Barraud (who cast filmmakers Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder in Portrait Of The Artist) on Madeleine Collins for New York’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, I brought up Nadav Lapid’s role has in his latest film. In my conversation with the director of Ahed's Knee Nadav told me how it felt to be asked to act and that he was “obsessed” as a young boy with Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s West Side Story and Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s Singin’ In The Rain, creating thoughts of wanting to become a dancer and have a band.
Nadav Lapid with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I was obsessed with West Side Story and I was also watching Singin’ in the Rain,...
When I spoke with Antoine Barraud (who cast filmmakers Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder in Portrait Of The Artist) on Madeleine Collins for New York’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, I brought up Nadav Lapid’s role has in his latest film. In my conversation with the director of Ahed's Knee Nadav told me how it felt to be asked to act and that he was “obsessed” as a young boy with Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s West Side Story and Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s Singin’ In The Rain, creating thoughts of wanting to become a dancer and have a band.
Nadav Lapid with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I was obsessed with West Side Story and I was also watching Singin’ in the Rain,...
- 3/15/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Judith (Virginie Efira) with little Ninon (Loïse Benguerel) in Antoine Barraud’s mysterious Madeleine Collins
Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins, written in collaboration with Héléna Klotz, starring Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone with Jacqueline Bisset, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel, Thomas Gioria, Théo Deroo, Nadav Lapid, Nathalie Boutefeu, Mona Walravens, Frank Onana, and Valérie Donzelli is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema and the Glasgow Film Festival.
Antoine Barraud with Anne-Katrin Titze on Maurice Pialat filming his son for Le garçu: “He said when you direct a child, it’s actually the child directing you.”
Before Antoine arrived in New York, we discussed casting Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder, the long tradition of having women’s names as film titles, novels and plays to name just a few. In Antoine Barraud’s Portrait Of The Artist, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo loomed large and we explore the unconscious mind of...
Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins, written in collaboration with Héléna Klotz, starring Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone with Jacqueline Bisset, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel, Thomas Gioria, Théo Deroo, Nadav Lapid, Nathalie Boutefeu, Mona Walravens, Frank Onana, and Valérie Donzelli is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema and the Glasgow Film Festival.
Antoine Barraud with Anne-Katrin Titze on Maurice Pialat filming his son for Le garçu: “He said when you direct a child, it’s actually the child directing you.”
Before Antoine arrived in New York, we discussed casting Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder, the long tradition of having women’s names as film titles, novels and plays to name just a few. In Antoine Barraud’s Portrait Of The Artist, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo loomed large and we explore the unconscious mind of...
- 3/7/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A woman walks through the evening dress section of an elegant department store. The camera follows her as if it were one of the discreet sales people. The pace is calm. Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's may come to mind with her explanation about Tiffany’s as a place where nothing really bad can happen. Which of course is wishful thinking. The woman enters a dressing room. She faints. Something happens offscreen and the film moves into a different gear. Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins, written in collaboration with Héléna Klotz, starring Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, and Bruno Salomone is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York and the Glasgow Film Festival.
We first meet Judith (Efira) as she plays in a park with little 4-year-old Ninon (Loïse Benguerel). Ninon wears a tiara and has a foxtail attached to the back of...
We first meet Judith (Efira) as she plays in a park with little 4-year-old Ninon (Loïse Benguerel). Ninon wears a tiara and has a foxtail attached to the back of...
- 3/4/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film and best actress prizes
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film at the 27th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, while its star Anamaria Vartolomei was awarded the best actress prize.
Adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux’s 2019 semi-autobiographical work, Happening recounts a gifted literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised in France in 1975.
It marks a first lead role for Vartolomei, whose previous credits include How To Be A Good Wife and The Royal Exchange. Vartolomei is...
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film at the 27th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, while its star Anamaria Vartolomei was awarded the best actress prize.
Adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux’s 2019 semi-autobiographical work, Happening recounts a gifted literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised in France in 1975.
It marks a first lead role for Vartolomei, whose previous credits include How To Be A Good Wife and The Royal Exchange. Vartolomei is...
- 1/18/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The awards are voted on by 95 international correspondents from 36 countries.
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions leads the nominations of the 27th edition of France’s Lumière awards, followed by Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening and Arthur Harari’s Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle.
The awards, which are voted on by 95 international correspondents hailing from 36 countries this year, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition in Venice this year, was nominated in five categories including best film, director, screenplay, actor...
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions leads the nominations of the 27th edition of France’s Lumière awards, followed by Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening and Arthur Harari’s Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle.
The awards, which are voted on by 95 international correspondents hailing from 36 countries this year, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition in Venice this year, was nominated in five categories including best film, director, screenplay, actor...
- 12/10/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Fabrice du Welz, whose latest film “Inexorable” (pictured) played at Toronto, is reteaming with his Belgian producer Jean-Yves Roubin at Frakas Production on his next project, “Maldoror.”
Inspired by a true story, “Maldoror” follows Paul Chartier, a young policeman who became obsessed with a case involving a notorious child abuser after coming close to catching him. Popular Belgian actor Benoit Poelvoorde, the star of “Inexorable,” is part of the cast of “Maldoror.”
Roubin, who is attending San Sebastian with Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “Earwig,” as well as “Titane” (which he co-produced), described “Maldoror” as a mix of thriller and film noir in a similar vein to David Fincher’s “Zodiac.” He said the film, now in development, was inspired by a notorious crime case that shook Belgium in the 1990s, known as the Affaire Dutroux.
Marc Dutroux was a convicted Belgian serial killer, rapist, and child molester who was sentenced to...
Inspired by a true story, “Maldoror” follows Paul Chartier, a young policeman who became obsessed with a case involving a notorious child abuser after coming close to catching him. Popular Belgian actor Benoit Poelvoorde, the star of “Inexorable,” is part of the cast of “Maldoror.”
Roubin, who is attending San Sebastian with Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “Earwig,” as well as “Titane” (which he co-produced), described “Maldoror” as a mix of thriller and film noir in a similar vein to David Fincher’s “Zodiac.” He said the film, now in development, was inspired by a notorious crime case that shook Belgium in the 1990s, known as the Affaire Dutroux.
Marc Dutroux was a convicted Belgian serial killer, rapist, and child molester who was sentenced to...
- 9/20/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
by Nathaniel R
Elisa and Nathaniel on one of several drink between movies breaks
That's a wrap on Venezia 78, otherwise known at the 2021 edition of the Venice Film Festival. The Golden Lion went to the excellent French abortion drama L'Evenement / Happening with Parallel Mothers, Spencer, and a trio of Netflix movies Hand of God, The Lost Daughter, and Power of the Dog also emerging as hot future awards-prospects from the competition. I cannot begin to describe how beautiful the city is (my first time visiting), or what it's like to take a boat ride to the movies each day. Or especially to hang with Elisa in person who was such a great translator for me both linguistically and culturally. There was definitely a learning curve as a first-timer (I missed way too many of the hot ticket titles) but overall it was a good experience. We hope you enjoyed our coverage.
Elisa and Nathaniel on one of several drink between movies breaks
That's a wrap on Venezia 78, otherwise known at the 2021 edition of the Venice Film Festival. The Golden Lion went to the excellent French abortion drama L'Evenement / Happening with Parallel Mothers, Spencer, and a trio of Netflix movies Hand of God, The Lost Daughter, and Power of the Dog also emerging as hot future awards-prospects from the competition. I cannot begin to describe how beautiful the city is (my first time visiting), or what it's like to take a boat ride to the movies each day. Or especially to hang with Elisa in person who was such a great translator for me both linguistically and culturally. There was definitely a learning curve as a first-timer (I missed way too many of the hot ticket titles) but overall it was a good experience. We hope you enjoyed our coverage.
- 9/14/2021
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Beginning with a dizzying one-shot that follows Judith – or is it Margot? – around a high-end clothing store before a fainting spell upends her shopping trip, Antoine Barraud’s “Madeleine Collins” is a laser-focused character study that literalizes a double-life, following Judith (a calculated Virginie Efira) as she attempts to balance seemingly having two husbands, two sets of children, two complete lives. Wisely withholding key information about how Judith came into this situation until the very end, Barraud’s film effectively grafts the tropes of Hitchcockian thriller onto a domestic portrait of a woman’s life spiraling out of control.
Continue reading ‘Madeleine Collins’ Starring Virginie Efira Is A Knotty Exploration of A Dual Life [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Madeleine Collins’ Starring Virginie Efira Is A Knotty Exploration of A Dual Life [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/4/2021
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
Nathaniel reporting from Venice, day 1 part 2
Day 1 (continued). I didn’t expect death to linger so completely over Parallel Mothers and curiously my opening night at the fest kept on inviting the grim reaper in. The first day of screenings ended with Jane Campion’s The Power of Dog in which death is far less of a subject but clouds the vast Montana skies. But first I took in Madeleine Collins, a French addition of our favorite subgenre here at The Film Experience, Women Who Lie To Themselves™ in which everyone in the film avoids talking about a death they probably should have spent lots more time processing.
Madeleine Colllins (Antoine Barraud)
Elisa already hit the highlight of the film in her brief capsule, but it bears repeating: Virginie Efira! Virginie Efira! Virginie Efira!
Day 1 (continued). I didn’t expect death to linger so completely over Parallel Mothers and curiously my opening night at the fest kept on inviting the grim reaper in. The first day of screenings ended with Jane Campion’s The Power of Dog in which death is far less of a subject but clouds the vast Montana skies. But first I took in Madeleine Collins, a French addition of our favorite subgenre here at The Film Experience, Women Who Lie To Themselves™ in which everyone in the film avoids talking about a death they probably should have spent lots more time processing.
Madeleine Colllins (Antoine Barraud)
Elisa already hit the highlight of the film in her brief capsule, but it bears repeating: Virginie Efira! Virginie Efira! Virginie Efira!
- 9/4/2021
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Benedetta star Virginie Efira plays a woman leading a double life in drama Madeleine Collins which premiered in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival today. Also doubling up in Venice by serving on the competition jury, Efira puts in a terrific performance in Antoine Barraud’s taut relationship pic that veers into thriller territory.
Efira’s translator is a sophisticated, busy working woman whose job is the perfect cover for her many trips away from home. But where’s home? Is it in Switzerland in a flat with Abdel (Quim Gutiérrez) and her young daughter? Or is it in a glamorous place in France, with Melvil (Bruno Salomone) and their two adolescent sons? The fact that she’s known as ‘Judith’ in the latter and ‘Margot’ in the former increases the intrigue.
Much of Madeleine Collins’ early power is in its mysteries, and piecing the puzzle together keeps you engaged.
Efira’s translator is a sophisticated, busy working woman whose job is the perfect cover for her many trips away from home. But where’s home? Is it in Switzerland in a flat with Abdel (Quim Gutiérrez) and her young daughter? Or is it in a glamorous place in France, with Melvil (Bruno Salomone) and their two adolescent sons? The fact that she’s known as ‘Judith’ in the latter and ‘Margot’ in the former increases the intrigue.
Much of Madeleine Collins’ early power is in its mysteries, and piecing the puzzle together keeps you engaged.
- 9/4/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
“And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife; and you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ ” are the words David Byrne bellowed on the classic Talking Heads track “Once in a Lifetime.”
In French director Antoine Barraud’s twisted, slightly unhinged and emotionally taut psychological drama, Madeleine Collins, the question is posed differently: How does a beautiful woman in her 40s find herself living in two houses, with two husbands and two entirely separate families?
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith (or Margot or Madeleine, or whatever else she decides ...
In French director Antoine Barraud’s twisted, slightly unhinged and emotionally taut psychological drama, Madeleine Collins, the question is posed differently: How does a beautiful woman in her 40s find herself living in two houses, with two husbands and two entirely separate families?
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith (or Margot or Madeleine, or whatever else she decides ...
“And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife; and you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ ” are the words David Byrne bellowed on the classic Talking Heads track “Once in a Lifetime.”
In French director Antoine Barraud’s twisted, slightly unhinged and emotionally taut psychological drama, Madeleine Collins, the question is posed differently: How does a beautiful woman in her 40s find herself living in two houses, with two husbands and two entirely separate families?
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith (or Margot or Madeleine, or whatever else she decides ...
In French director Antoine Barraud’s twisted, slightly unhinged and emotionally taut psychological drama, Madeleine Collins, the question is posed differently: How does a beautiful woman in her 40s find herself living in two houses, with two husbands and two entirely separate families?
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith (or Margot or Madeleine, or whatever else she decides ...
The programme for the 2021 Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Pedro Almodóvar, Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michelangelo Frammartino, Pablo Larraín, Paul Schrader, Ridley Scott, and more.Parallel MothersCOMPETITIONParallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (Ana Lily Amirpour)Un Autre Monde (Stephane Brize)The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)America LatinaL’Evenement (Audrey Diwan)Official CompetitionThe Hole (Michelangelo Frammartino)Sundown (Michel Franco)Lost Illusions (Xavier Giannoli)The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)Spencer (Pablo Larrain)Freaks Out (Gabriele Mainetti)Qui Rido Io (Mario Martone)On The Job: The Missing 8 (Erik Matti)Leave No Traces (Jan P. Matuszyński)Captain Volkonogov EscapedThe Card Counter (Paul Schrader)The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)Reflection (Valentyn Vasyanovych)The Box (Lorenzo Vigas)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesDune (Denis Villeneuve)Il Bambino Nascosto (Roberto Andò)Les Choses Humaines (Yvan Attal)Ariaferma (Leonardo Di Costanzo)Halloween Kills (David Gordon Green...
- 8/3/2021
- MUBI
And finally it’s the Giornate degli Autori folks headed by topper Gaia Furrer that have unveiled their sidebar selections. Of the ten feature films we find several first time feature works from the likes of Egyptian journalist Dina Amer’s debut Tu Me Resembles (executive produced by Spike Lee and Spike Jonze) and TorinoFilmLab Polish filmmaker Ola Jankowska with Anatomia. We have one item that we were tracking in Antoine Barraud‘s Madeleine Collins – which stars Benedetta herself Virginie Efira alongside helmer Nadav Lapid – that film receives a France domestic release in December. We have San Sebastian Work-in-progress title Piedra Noche by Iván Fund (he was in Un Certain Regard in 2010 The Lips) and we find Brazilian helmer Aly Muritiba‘s latest in Deserto Particular (he competed at Sundance with Rust in 2018).…...
- 7/28/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Madeleine Collins,” the buzzy psychological drama directed by France’s Antoine Barraud (“Portrait of the Artist”) and toplined by popular Belgian actress Virginie Efira who plays the lesbian nun in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” is among ten competition titles set to launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section.
The Venice section modeled around the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is largely made up of international first works this year. All entries are world premieres.
Besides “Madeleine” in which Efira (pictured) plays a woman who leads a double life –– and which also features Nadav Lapid, who is also the Israeli director of “Synonyms” and also Jacqueline Bisset –– the three other pics competing in Venice Days that are not first works are: the drama “Private Desert,” by Brazilian director Aly Muritiba (“Rust”) that is centered around a 40-year-old-cop’s Internet love interest who goes missing; “Dusk Stone,” by Argentina...
The Venice section modeled around the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is largely made up of international first works this year. All entries are world premieres.
Besides “Madeleine” in which Efira (pictured) plays a woman who leads a double life –– and which also features Nadav Lapid, who is also the Israeli director of “Synonyms” and also Jacqueline Bisset –– the three other pics competing in Venice Days that are not first works are: the drama “Private Desert,” by Brazilian director Aly Muritiba (“Rust”) that is centered around a 40-year-old-cop’s Internet love interest who goes missing; “Dusk Stone,” by Argentina...
- 7/28/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Charades, the sales firm launched three years ago by former execs at Wild Bunch, Gaumont and Studiocanal, will roll into the Berlinale’s European Film Market with a raft of pre-sales on anticipated French projects, including “The Rosemaker” with Catherine Frot and Laurent Tirard’s “The Speech.”
Charades will unveil the promos of both films, as well as “Madeleine Collins,” Antoine Barraud’s psychological drama headlined by Virginie Efira, and will be hosting the market premieres of Sebastien Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet” which is generating strong box office returns in France, where it opened last week, and Bruno Merle’s “Felicita.”
A psychological drama, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Roschdy Zem, “The Girl With a Bracelet,” has already attracted 100,000 admissions in five days. The film follows a 16-year-old who stands trial for the murder of her best friend and begins to confess to a secret life that she kept from her parents.
Charades will unveil the promos of both films, as well as “Madeleine Collins,” Antoine Barraud’s psychological drama headlined by Virginie Efira, and will be hosting the market premieres of Sebastien Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet” which is generating strong box office returns in France, where it opened last week, and Bruno Merle’s “Felicita.”
A psychological drama, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Roschdy Zem, “The Girl With a Bracelet,” has already attracted 100,000 admissions in five days. The film follows a 16-year-old who stands trial for the murder of her best friend and begins to confess to a secret life that she kept from her parents.
- 2/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Company releases first image for The Macaluso Sisters and Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu.
Paris-based company Charades has boarded world sales on Sicilian director Emma Dante’s Palermo-set feature The Macaluso Sisters, about a group of tightly-knit sisters whose lives are marked forever by the death of one of them in a tragic beach accident.
The feature is an adaptation of Dante’s 2014 play of the same name which has toured her native Italy as well as Europe and the Us to critical acclaim in recent years. It is a second fiction feature for Dante after debut film A...
Paris-based company Charades has boarded world sales on Sicilian director Emma Dante’s Palermo-set feature The Macaluso Sisters, about a group of tightly-knit sisters whose lives are marked forever by the death of one of them in a tragic beach accident.
The feature is an adaptation of Dante’s 2014 play of the same name which has toured her native Italy as well as Europe and the Us to critical acclaim in recent years. It is a second fiction feature for Dante after debut film A...
- 2/18/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The two actresses lead the cast of Baptiste Drapeau first feature film, which is steered by Capricci in league with Mon Ballon Productions and will be sold by WTFilms. The first clapperboard slammed in Bordeaux yesterday for Messe basse, the first full-length work by Baptiste Drapeau, a young filmmaker known for the shorts he authored as a student at La Fémis. Starring in the cast are Alice Isaaz, America’s Jacqueline Bisset (who has just finished shooting Madeleine Collins – read our article), François Dominique Blin (a familiar face from French TV series, known on...
- 10/30/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
The actress is leading the cast of Antoine Barraud’s 3rd feature film, sold by Charades and produced by Les Films du Bélier in league with Close Up Films and Frakas. 26 September will see filming begin on Madeleine Collins, the 3rd full-length film by Antoine Barraud, following The Sinkholes and Portrait of the Artist (unveiled in the Berlinale Forum in 2015). Starring in the cast is Belgian actress Virginie Efira, France’s Bruno Salomone, Spain’s Quim Gutiérrez, American star Jacqueline Bisset and, last...
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