Babysitter Trailer — Monia Chokri‘s Babysitter (2022) movie trailer has been released by Bac Films. The Babysitter trailer stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Monia Chokri, Patrick Hivon, Steve Laplante, and Hubert Proulx. Crew Catherine Léger wrote the screenplay for Babysitter. Emile Sornin created the music for the film. Josée Deshaies crafted the cinematography for the film. Plot Synopsis Babysitter‘s [...]
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- 8/29/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Babysitter Review — Babysitter (2022) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Monia Chokri, written by Catherine Léger, and starring Patrick Hivon, Monia Chokri, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Steve Laplante, Hubert Proulx, Nathalie Breuer, and Eve Duranceau. Babysitter is a visceral comedy with unexpected heights and depths woven into [...]
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- 6/19/2022
- by David McDonald
- Film-Book
New York – The 2022 in-person 21st Tribeca Film Festival ends today (June 19th). But the highly successful hybrid (click link) TRIBECAatHOME goes on through June 26th, for an extra week to catch up with the films of Tribeca.
The 2022 Tribeca Festival is presented by Crypto Platform Okx, bringing artists and diverse audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms, including film, TV, VR, gaming, music, and online work. With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is a platform for creative expression and immersive entertainment. More film reviews by Patrick McDonald are below.
Babysitter
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The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Craig Hatkoff and actor Robert De Niro as a reactive strike back at the September 11th attack in 2001, on New York City and the nearby Tribeca neighborhood.The 2022 edition will have exhibited 110 feature films from 150 filmmakers across 40 countries, and gave jury awards for U.
The 2022 Tribeca Festival is presented by Crypto Platform Okx, bringing artists and diverse audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms, including film, TV, VR, gaming, music, and online work. With strong roots in independent film, Tribeca is a platform for creative expression and immersive entertainment. More film reviews by Patrick McDonald are below.
Babysitter
Photo credit: TribecaFilm.com
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Craig Hatkoff and actor Robert De Niro as a reactive strike back at the September 11th attack in 2001, on New York City and the nearby Tribeca neighborhood.The 2022 edition will have exhibited 110 feature films from 150 filmmakers across 40 countries, and gave jury awards for U.
- 6/19/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Babysitter Tribeca Festival Tribeca Critics’ Week Selection Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Monia Chokri Writer: Catherine Léger Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Monia Chokri, Patrick Hivon, Steve Laplante Screened at: Village East Cinema, NYC, 4/9/22 Opens: June 14th, 2022 New parents always face challenges, since it’s an endeavor they’ve never embarked on before, sure to […]
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- 6/18/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- ShockYa
UTA Independent Film Group handles US rights.
Myriad Pictures has boarded international sales on the feel-good comedy and Tribeca selection Peace By Chocolate and has launched EFM talks with buyers this week.
Jonathan Keijser (What Would Beethoven Do?) directed the film from Magnetic North Pictures about a Syrian refugee in Canada who aspires to be a doctor and is torn by his chocolatier father’s wish to help him rebuild the family business. Hatem Ali, Ayham Abou Ammar, Yara Sabri and Mark Camacho star.
Keijser produced alongside Catherine Léger, whose Babysitter premiered at Sundance last month, Martin Paul-Hus and Kathy Wolf.
Myriad Pictures has boarded international sales on the feel-good comedy and Tribeca selection Peace By Chocolate and has launched EFM talks with buyers this week.
Jonathan Keijser (What Would Beethoven Do?) directed the film from Magnetic North Pictures about a Syrian refugee in Canada who aspires to be a doctor and is torn by his chocolatier father’s wish to help him rebuild the family business. Hatem Ali, Ayham Abou Ammar, Yara Sabri and Mark Camacho star.
Keijser produced alongside Catherine Léger, whose Babysitter premiered at Sundance last month, Martin Paul-Hus and Kathy Wolf.
- 2/8/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Monia Chokri’s “Babysitter” is The story of middle-aged sex pest Cédric (Patrick Hivon), his over-compensating feminist brother Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), his depressed wife Nadine — a new mother, played by Chokri herself — and their mysterious, youthful nanny Amy (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who seems intent on spicing up their love life, the film arrives with thunderous, uncompromising energy that only lets up when Chorkri decides to veer into the phantasmagorical.
Adapted by Catherine Léger from her play of the same name, the French-Canadian satire opens on the verge of an overdose of testosterone and adrenaline, with Cédric and his skeevy pals Carlos (Stéphane Moukarzel) and Tessier (Hubert Proulx) ogling pictures of women on their cellphones while cheering on a bloody cage-fight. With rapid-fire close-ups of breasts, butts, and the trio’s leery eyes, Chokri, cinematographer Josée Deshaies, and editor Pauline Gaillard yank the audience into an uncomfortably ravenous sensory overload with a sickly,...
Adapted by Catherine Léger from her play of the same name, the French-Canadian satire opens on the verge of an overdose of testosterone and adrenaline, with Cédric and his skeevy pals Carlos (Stéphane Moukarzel) and Tessier (Hubert Proulx) ogling pictures of women on their cellphones while cheering on a bloody cage-fight. With rapid-fire close-ups of breasts, butts, and the trio’s leery eyes, Chokri, cinematographer Josée Deshaies, and editor Pauline Gaillard yank the audience into an uncomfortably ravenous sensory overload with a sickly,...
- 1/27/2022
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
After bursting onto the international stage with roles in Xavier Dolan’s “Heartbeats” and “Laurence Anyways,” and premiering her own directorial debut, “A Brother’s Love,” at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, Quebecoise filmmaker Monia Chokri approached her sophomore feature as a kind of challenge.
Adapted from the 2017 play by author Catherine Léger, “Babysitter” — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22 — marks Chokri’s first directorial outing working from someone else’s text.
“Taking someone else’s words and transposing them to images was a formative experience,” Chokri tells Variety. “[In doing so] I wanted to focus on my own directing, on how best to highlight and improve my work behind the camera. That’s where I could contribute deeply to the project, and could advance from a visual and technical standpoint.”
Diving into the source material — which tracks a proto-MeToo narrative as it follows a macho engineer Cedric dealing with the fallout...
Adapted from the 2017 play by author Catherine Léger, “Babysitter” — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22 — marks Chokri’s first directorial outing working from someone else’s text.
“Taking someone else’s words and transposing them to images was a formative experience,” Chokri tells Variety. “[In doing so] I wanted to focus on my own directing, on how best to highlight and improve my work behind the camera. That’s where I could contribute deeply to the project, and could advance from a visual and technical standpoint.”
Diving into the source material — which tracks a proto-MeToo narrative as it follows a macho engineer Cedric dealing with the fallout...
- 1/24/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The clumsy, drunken lunge and uninvited cheek-kiss that precipitates the action in wildly uneven French-Canadian comedy “Babysitter” is oddly appropriate for a film that can also feel like the victim of misguided, intrusive, if hardly malevolent exuberance. Far less coherent than her more focused and confident debut “A Brother’s Love,” Monia Chokri’s second feature is basically a series of sketches, some of which comment on ingrained, unconscious misogyny, while others lampoon the culture of hypersensitivity around less severe examples of unexamined sexism, such as that forced kiss. This makes it apt, too, that “Babysitter” has such a sugary aesthetic: It often looks like the cake it wants both to have and to eat.
An awkward prologue bears the scars of restrictive pandemic shooting. Through headachey close-ups, whip-pans and crash zooms, Chokri tries to fabricate the atmosphere of a crowded arena where an Mma title fight is underway. The pans...
An awkward prologue bears the scars of restrictive pandemic shooting. Through headachey close-ups, whip-pans and crash zooms, Chokri tries to fabricate the atmosphere of a crowded arena where an Mma title fight is underway. The pans...
- 1/24/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
It’ll be a truly international Midnight section for 2022 with the half dozen offerings. We got representation from Spain and Carlota Pereda’s Piggy, Denmark in Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil, Finland’s Hanna Bergholm (Hatching), the United Kingdom’s Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace (Meet Me In The Bathroom), Canada’s Monia Chokri (Babysitter) and will be opening with the unique American offering with Mimi Cave’s Fresh which stars Daisy Edgar-Jones opposite Sebastian Stan.
Babysitter / Canada
(Director: Monia Chokri, Screenwriter: Catherine Léger, Producers: Martin Paul-Hus, Catherine Léger, Pierre-Marcel Blanchot, Fabrice Lambot) — After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny.…...
Babysitter / Canada
(Director: Monia Chokri, Screenwriter: Catherine Léger, Producers: Martin Paul-Hus, Catherine Léger, Pierre-Marcel Blanchot, Fabrice Lambot) — After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny.…...
- 12/9/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Chokri’s debut feature A Brother’s Love premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2019.
Bac Films International is launching sales on Canadian actress/filmmaker Monia Chokri’s #MeToo-era comedy drama Babysitter at next week’s AFM.
The film successfully wrapped in Quebec in October, just as the Canadian province went into partial lockdown due to a second wave of Covid-19 cases.
It is Chokri’s second feature after A Brother’s Love, which opened Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2019 and shared the jury’s Coup de Coeur prize with The Climb.
Patrick Hivon, who also co-starred in A Brother’s Love, plays...
Bac Films International is launching sales on Canadian actress/filmmaker Monia Chokri’s #MeToo-era comedy drama Babysitter at next week’s AFM.
The film successfully wrapped in Quebec in October, just as the Canadian province went into partial lockdown due to a second wave of Covid-19 cases.
It is Chokri’s second feature after A Brother’s Love, which opened Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2019 and shared the jury’s Coup de Coeur prize with The Climb.
Patrick Hivon, who also co-starred in A Brother’s Love, plays...
- 11/6/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Late last month we learned that Monia Chokri has found her quartet of players for her sophomore feature film set to begin production this summer. With Baby-sitter, Chokri cast herself, Patrick Hivon (her second outing with the actor), Steve Laplante and French actress Nadia Tereszkiewicz (from Dennis Berry’s 2018 title Sauvages and last year’s Venice entry Only the Animals by Dominik Moll (read review). d’Amérique Film’s Martin Paul-Hus and Phase 4 Productions’ Fabrice Lambot are producing. Chokri’s celebrated debut film was the Un Certain Regard winning La femme de mon frère (A Brother’s Love).
Gist: Based on the play by Catherine Léger, this is about a recently unemployed man who repents by writing a book of apologies to women in his former workplace.…...
Gist: Based on the play by Catherine Léger, this is about a recently unemployed man who repents by writing a book of apologies to women in his former workplace.…...
- 3/3/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Die-hard grunge fan (and drug dealer) Fred (Noah Parker) tells Catherine (Kelly Depeault) she can’t play her Hole CD because Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain. It’s a remark that was probably half joke and half memorial that leads into Keven (Robin L’Houmeau) dropping the necessary wisdom of knowing Love wouldn’t have been able to stop him if she tried. Cobain wasn’t a victim. He lived hard and walked a road of his own making to an end he ultimately embraced enough to pull the trigger. It’s the same type of lives these Québécois teens lead—mescaline, sex, rock-n-roll, and rage. So when Catherine replies with an “I don’t care” after being confronted about her fast-moving downward spiral, she isn’t being flippant. She truly doesn’t. She’s embraced the risks.
This is the reality many coming-of-age films forget. You need the complexity of...
This is the reality many coming-of-age films forget. You need the complexity of...
- 2/23/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
For more than a century, movies as a medium have served to reinforce a certain view of female sexuality that served to benefit … whom? Not the female sex, really, but men — or a male-dominated culture that wanted women to be more receptive to their advances, on one hand, even as it reinforced the idea that giving in too easily, or to more than one partner, made them “sluts.” Was this deliberate indoctrination on the part of filmmakers? That’s a question for graduate theses and sociologists to answer, but the impact was clear in everything from the Production Code to John Hughes movies.
As its playfully sex-positive English-language title suggests, Sophie Lorain’s “Slut in a Good Way” turns the tables on much of that mass-media conditioning, offering an upbeat and unpretentious female-centered look at the gratification, and consequences, of adolescent “oats sowing” (a metaphor heretofore reserved for indiscriminately randy...
As its playfully sex-positive English-language title suggests, Sophie Lorain’s “Slut in a Good Way” turns the tables on much of that mass-media conditioning, offering an upbeat and unpretentious female-centered look at the gratification, and consequences, of adolescent “oats sowing” (a metaphor heretofore reserved for indiscriminately randy...
- 3/31/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Sexual power plays and slut-shaming are the central themes of “Slut in a Good Way,” director Sophie Lorain’s slight but amiable story of three straight teenage girls and their romantic lives. Shot in black and white and set mostly in a retail environment, the French-Canadian film gives off a “Clerks” vibe as the trio of protagonists slack off, bitch about pay, and talk about life and love.
Catherine Léger’s story starts off in a sex shop as 17-year-old Charlotte (Marguerite Bouchard) looks for a bustier that matches one she saw in one of her boyfriend’s porn clips. What she buys doesn’t have the desired effect, though it wouldn’t have mattered what she chose: Her boyfriend tells her that he’s gay. So she gets drunk on a playground with friends Mégane (Romane Denis) and Aube (Rose Adam), lamenting that he’s “perfect” and she loves him.
Catherine Léger’s story starts off in a sex shop as 17-year-old Charlotte (Marguerite Bouchard) looks for a bustier that matches one she saw in one of her boyfriend’s porn clips. What she buys doesn’t have the desired effect, though it wouldn’t have mattered what she chose: Her boyfriend tells her that he’s gay. So she gets drunk on a playground with friends Mégane (Romane Denis) and Aube (Rose Adam), lamenting that he’s “perfect” and she loves him.
- 3/26/2019
- by Tricia Olszewski
- The Wrap
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