Isabelle Huppert may the world’s best actress for playing strong, complex characters. From her star-making roles with directors Claude Chabrol (“La Cérémonie”) and Michael Haneke (“The Piano Teacher”) to last year’s Oscar nomination for “Elle,” she brings an enigmatic quality and psychological depth. Her incredible breadth is less measured by the variety of roles she’s played, but by the emotional range she brings to each.
“At one end you have the extreme of her suffering, and then you have her icy intellectualism,” said Haneke of Huppert in a 2001 interview. “No other actor can combine the two.” It sounds breathtakingly complex — unless, of course, you’re Isabelle Huppert. For her most recent film, “Mrs. Hyde” — a loose interpretation of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” directed by French critic-turned-director Serge Bozon — she downplayed the duality of the role and said she hardly noticed that she was playing a monster.
“At one end you have the extreme of her suffering, and then you have her icy intellectualism,” said Haneke of Huppert in a 2001 interview. “No other actor can combine the two.” It sounds breathtakingly complex — unless, of course, you’re Isabelle Huppert. For her most recent film, “Mrs. Hyde” — a loose interpretation of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” directed by French critic-turned-director Serge Bozon — she downplayed the duality of the role and said she hardly noticed that she was playing a monster.
- 10/6/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: What fall movie are you most excited to see?
E. Oliver Whitney (@cinemabite), Screencrush.com
Is there any acceptable answer besides “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”? No, no there is not. (Unless you count December as ‘fall,’ which means the new PTA is my most anticipated.) “The Lobster” would’ve been my favorite film of last year had “Moonlight” not taken the top spot, and “Dogtooth” leaves me in a mix of amazement and horror each time I watch it. So new Yorgos Lanthimos is like a drug for me. But while I’m at it, I also can’t wait for “The Florida Project,...
This week’s question: What fall movie are you most excited to see?
E. Oliver Whitney (@cinemabite), Screencrush.com
Is there any acceptable answer besides “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”? No, no there is not. (Unless you count December as ‘fall,’ which means the new PTA is my most anticipated.) “The Lobster” would’ve been my favorite film of last year had “Moonlight” not taken the top spot, and “Dogtooth” leaves me in a mix of amazement and horror each time I watch it. So new Yorgos Lanthimos is like a drug for me. But while I’m at it, I also can’t wait for “The Florida Project,...
- 8/21/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Madame HydeThis year at the Locarno Festival I am looking for specific images, moments, techniques, qualities or scenes from films across the 70th edition's selection that grabbed me and have lingered past and beyond the next movie seen, whose characters, story and images have already begun to overwrite those that came just before.***Old man kicks can. Lucky is Harry Dean Stanton, its screenplay of a solitary, elderly man fiddle-fit but increasingly aware of his impending death—and ‘the void,’ as he calls it— is simply a vehicle to get one of the most charismatic and characterful actors front and center before a camera and film him doing all sorts of stuff. John Carroll Lynch's film in the international competition is full of small delights performed by the actor, ranging from kinesthetic morning yoga to a friendship-in-old-age with a local played by David Lynch, a relationship which elaborates on...
- 8/11/2017
- MUBI
Isabelle Huppert excels at playing tough, individualistic women, but she can just as easily dial it down for more fragile performances, so it was only a matter of time before she landed a role that let her have it both ways. In Serge Bozon’s peculiar comedy “Mrs. Hyde,” she’s a beleaguered French schoolteacher who gets struck by lightning and taps into the much more powerful, vindictive side of her personality lurking beneath the surface.
It’s a fascinating role in an uneven but frequently insightful movie riddled with amusing asides and enigmatic developments, partly because Huppert doesn’t undergo a radical transformation. Instead, she subtly finds herself at war with her inner confidence, and it’s often hard to tell which side has the upper hand.
Read More:‘Tomorrow and Thereafter’ Review: A Family Drama That’s Almost Powerful But Even More Disappointing — Locarno 2017
“Mrs. Hyde” has been...
It’s a fascinating role in an uneven but frequently insightful movie riddled with amusing asides and enigmatic developments, partly because Huppert doesn’t undergo a radical transformation. Instead, she subtly finds herself at war with her inner confidence, and it’s often hard to tell which side has the upper hand.
Read More:‘Tomorrow and Thereafter’ Review: A Family Drama That’s Almost Powerful But Even More Disappointing — Locarno 2017
“Mrs. Hyde” has been...
- 8/10/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Mrs. Géquil is a delicate woman, at least in the eyes of her patronizing husband (played by José Garcia) as well as, perhaps, in the eyes of her boss and the vast majority of the students in her class. However, if the Robert Louis Stevenson reference in the title hasn’t led you to this conclusion already, then perhaps the casting of Isabelle Huppert in the lead role just might: she will not be referred to as delicate for very long. Mrs. Hyde, a socially bellicose, darkly humorous farce with aesthetic and spiritual echoes of both giallo horror and recent Kaurismäki, is the latest work of film critic-turned-actor-turned-director Serge Bozon. He’s a filmmaker who has, in the past, used similarly absurdist tropes — although never through such a playfully pseudo-supernatural façade — to talk about issues of class and gender politics in contemporary France, evidenced in Tip Top (also with Huppert) and La France.
- 8/7/2017
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Early August is usually a transitional moment, when the summer movie season winds down to set the stage for the fall, and most moviegoers are catching up on highlights from the last few weeks. But for a few thousand people attending the Locarno Film Festival, a whole new set of discoveries await.
The Swiss festival is one of the major European film events of the summer, offering a range of new titles that encompass multiple genres and national cinemas, many of which will go on to play at other big festivals later this year. Here’s a look at some of the most promising films in this year’s lineup; expect to hear more about them in the near future. (Stay tuned for more essays on this year’s lineup from participants in the 2017 Locarno Critics Academy.)
Read MoreLocarno Film Festival 2017: Enter to Win Free Online Festival Pass to...
The Swiss festival is one of the major European film events of the summer, offering a range of new titles that encompass multiple genres and national cinemas, many of which will go on to play at other big festivals later this year. Here’s a look at some of the most promising films in this year’s lineup; expect to hear more about them in the near future. (Stay tuned for more essays on this year’s lineup from participants in the 2017 Locarno Critics Academy.)
Read MoreLocarno Film Festival 2017: Enter to Win Free Online Festival Pass to...
- 8/2/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Madame Hyde
Director: Serge Bozon
Writer: Serge Bozon
Serge Bozon’s wonky sophomore effort Tip Top was a slapstick comedy skewering racial tension and police procedures in France starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlian as a pair of bizarre Internal Affairs officers.
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Director: Serge Bozon
Writer: Serge Bozon
Serge Bozon’s wonky sophomore effort Tip Top was a slapstick comedy skewering racial tension and police procedures in France starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlian as a pair of bizarre Internal Affairs officers.
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- 1/9/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question:
Last Friday saw the release of Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come,” one of two new films starring Isabelle Huppert. In the lede of his review for The New York Times, A.O. Scott asked “Isabelle Huppert: Great actress, or greatest actress?” Huppert is certainly near the very top of the list, but we thought we’d take this opportunity to open the question to our panel of critics: Who is the best working actress in the world today?
Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
A vote for someone else isn’t a vote against Isabelle Huppert, who is among the very greatest...
This week’s question:
Last Friday saw the release of Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come,” one of two new films starring Isabelle Huppert. In the lede of his review for The New York Times, A.O. Scott asked “Isabelle Huppert: Great actress, or greatest actress?” Huppert is certainly near the very top of the list, but we thought we’d take this opportunity to open the question to our panel of critics: Who is the best working actress in the world today?
Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
A vote for someone else isn’t a vote against Isabelle Huppert, who is among the very greatest...
- 12/5/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
I have had the privilege of sitting one-on-one with many artists whose work I admire, but I’ve never been quite so uneasy before speaking with Isabelle Huppert. It’s not just someone who I’ve spent some fair amount of time observing onscreen, as well as the woman who might be our greatest living actress — it’s also someone who, by now, has almost certainly been asked just about everything, especially during an ongoing press cycle that’s been especially lengthy. It’s always my goal to ask things that haven’t been brought up before, but the combination made this especially nerve-wracking.
Until I sat down and found someone who’s as blasé as she is ubiquitous, and as open as she is intelligent. It doesn’t hurt that she’s having a banner year with Paul Verhoeven‘s Elle and Mia Hansen-Løve‘s Things to Come — two of 2016’s best films,...
Until I sat down and found someone who’s as blasé as she is ubiquitous, and as open as she is intelligent. It doesn’t hurt that she’s having a banner year with Paul Verhoeven‘s Elle and Mia Hansen-Løve‘s Things to Come — two of 2016’s best films,...
- 11/9/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Madame Hyde
Director: Serge Bozon
Writers: Serge Bozon, Axelle Ropert
Serge Bozon’s sophomore effort, Tip Top (2013) was among our favorite 2014 Us theatrical releases, and still remains an underappreciated title. Bozon, whose first film was 2007’s offbeat wartime musical La France, has become an increasingly unpredictable talent, and we’re highly anticipating his recently announced third feature, Madame Hyde, a loose adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson short story, adapted famously by many auteurs (Rouben Mamoulian, Victor Fleming, and Walerian Borowczyk included). Along with his regular co-scribe Axelle Ropert, Bozon reunites with Isabelle Huppert (who starred in Tip Top), who portrays Mrs. Gequil, a shy teacher at a vocational college who experiences weird urges following a failed experiment. Bozon’s film aims to be a contemporary portrait of the education system and the relationship between teachers and student. Notably, this is the third pairing of Huppert and Depardieu following...
Director: Serge Bozon
Writers: Serge Bozon, Axelle Ropert
Serge Bozon’s sophomore effort, Tip Top (2013) was among our favorite 2014 Us theatrical releases, and still remains an underappreciated title. Bozon, whose first film was 2007’s offbeat wartime musical La France, has become an increasingly unpredictable talent, and we’re highly anticipating his recently announced third feature, Madame Hyde, a loose adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson short story, adapted famously by many auteurs (Rouben Mamoulian, Victor Fleming, and Walerian Borowczyk included). Along with his regular co-scribe Axelle Ropert, Bozon reunites with Isabelle Huppert (who starred in Tip Top), who portrays Mrs. Gequil, a shy teacher at a vocational college who experiences weird urges following a failed experiment. Bozon’s film aims to be a contemporary portrait of the education system and the relationship between teachers and student. Notably, this is the third pairing of Huppert and Depardieu following...
- 1/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Company to launch black comedy - also starring Gerard Depardieu and Romain Duris - at Rendez-vous with French Cinema; Stéphane Brizé, Gael Garcia Bernal titles also on slate.
MK2 Films has acquired sales of Serge Bozon’s black comedy Mrs. Hyde, starring Isabelle Huppert in a role inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s 19th century classic The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Gerard Depardieu and Romain Duris will also star.
Huppert is set to play a timid physics high school teacher, despised by her pupils and colleagues alike, whose life is changed forever after she is struck by lightning and wakes up with powerful and dangerous new capabilities.
“We are thrilled to represent this extraordinary new voice in French cinema that Serge Bozon has embodied since he began making films,” said MK2.
“We anticipate that, with this adaptation of a world-renowned story and simply the best possible French actors, he will be...
MK2 Films has acquired sales of Serge Bozon’s black comedy Mrs. Hyde, starring Isabelle Huppert in a role inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s 19th century classic The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Gerard Depardieu and Romain Duris will also star.
Huppert is set to play a timid physics high school teacher, despised by her pupils and colleagues alike, whose life is changed forever after she is struck by lightning and wakes up with powerful and dangerous new capabilities.
“We are thrilled to represent this extraordinary new voice in French cinema that Serge Bozon has embodied since he began making films,” said MK2.
“We anticipate that, with this adaptation of a world-renowned story and simply the best possible French actors, he will be...
- 1/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Arte France Cinéma’s Director General Olivier Père dropped development news on future French cinema offerings with three new projects that will be supported by the entity. Thierry de Peretti will be directing Une vie violente (produced by Les Films Velvet) and The Secret of the Grain actress Hafsia Herzi will make her directorial debut with Bonnes Mères — she’ll see Quat’sous Films’ Abdellatif Kechiche on board as producer. And the focus of our interest here is: the cast and project info on Serge Bozon‘s fifth feature film. Scoring a career high with Tip Top, there are some creative pairings who’ll be doing some reuniting on Bozon’s Madame Hyde. Bozon reteams with scribe Axelle Ropert and Isabelle Huppert Tip Top, while the actress reteams with Valley of Love co-star Gérard Depardieu. Romain Duris also joins the Films Pelléas production.
Gist: Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s...
Gist: Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s...
- 9/30/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
After receiving a limited run only in New York City in mid-December of 2014, Serge Bozon’s bizarre new film Tip Top comes to Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber. A socially conscious dark comedy that features the delicious pairing of Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain as two incredibly awkward female investigators, it’s bound to be one of those titles that garners a slow-burn cult following.
The most visible member of a small coterie of filmmakers operating independently outside of the French film system, including names like Marc Fitoussi, Axelle Ropert, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, each with several credits to his name, though generally without international distribution. Critic Scott Foundas penned a succinct and incredibly worthwhile write-up on this group several years back, not too long after Bozon’s third feature La France (2007) broke through the distribution fog. Discussing terms like New New Wave, etc, and the dangers of bracketing clusters of filmmakers with such labels,...
The most visible member of a small coterie of filmmakers operating independently outside of the French film system, including names like Marc Fitoussi, Axelle Ropert, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, each with several credits to his name, though generally without international distribution. Critic Scott Foundas penned a succinct and incredibly worthwhile write-up on this group several years back, not too long after Bozon’s third feature La France (2007) broke through the distribution fog. Discussing terms like New New Wave, etc, and the dangers of bracketing clusters of filmmakers with such labels,...
- 5/12/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
German born, French filmmaker Dominik Moll has blasted off onto his fifth feature film, News from Planet Mars. Starring François Damiens (Tip Top), Vincent Macaigne and Léa Drucker, Cineuropa’s Fabien Lemercier reports shooting has begun on the mostly Paris-based project and will continue filming into May. Diaphana Films’ Michel Saint-Jean is producing.
Gist: Co-written by Gilles Marchand and Moll, Philippe Mars (François Damiens) is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world. He’s trying to be a good father, a kind ex-husband, a nice colleague, an understanding sibling… But the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favor lately. With his son turning into a hardcore vegan, his daughter into a pathological overachiever and his sister selling oversized paintings of their naked parents, it seems to our ever-so prudent Philippe that everyone around him is starting to behave more and more erratically… When his colleague (who also accidentally...
Gist: Co-written by Gilles Marchand and Moll, Philippe Mars (François Damiens) is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world. He’s trying to be a good father, a kind ex-husband, a nice colleague, an understanding sibling… But the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favor lately. With his son turning into a hardcore vegan, his daughter into a pathological overachiever and his sister selling oversized paintings of their naked parents, it seems to our ever-so prudent Philippe that everyone around him is starting to behave more and more erratically… When his colleague (who also accidentally...
- 4/1/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 films of 2014…
#20. Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins
#19. Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash
#18. Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child
#17. Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook
#16. Adam Wingard’s The Guest
#15. Dardenne Bros.’ Two Days, One Night
#14. David Fincher’s Gone Girl
#13. Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer
#12. Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
#11. David Mackenzie’s Starred Up
#10.Tip Top
Serge Bozon’s latest genre mash, Tip Top, which premiered in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes 2013, was at last treated to a limited release in New York. A curiously unique and incredibly bizarre adaptation of a British thriller by Bill James, Bozon has created another strange hybrid of form with this blackly comedic, sexually perverse examination of racial inequality and notable political bigotry. For those reveling in the perverse and uniquely offbeat (especially when you throw Huppert and Kiberlain into the mix), Tip Top is not to be missed.
#20. Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins
#19. Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash
#18. Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child
#17. Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook
#16. Adam Wingard’s The Guest
#15. Dardenne Bros.’ Two Days, One Night
#14. David Fincher’s Gone Girl
#13. Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer
#12. Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
#11. David Mackenzie’s Starred Up
#10.Tip Top
Serge Bozon’s latest genre mash, Tip Top, which premiered in the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes 2013, was at last treated to a limited release in New York. A curiously unique and incredibly bizarre adaptation of a British thriller by Bill James, Bozon has created another strange hybrid of form with this blackly comedic, sexually perverse examination of racial inequality and notable political bigotry. For those reveling in the perverse and uniquely offbeat (especially when you throw Huppert and Kiberlain into the mix), Tip Top is not to be missed.
- 1/2/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Vive La France!: Bozon Returns With a Strangeness
Actor turned director Serge Bozon is the most visible member of a small coterie of filmmakers operating independently outside of the French film system, including names like Marc Fitoussi, Axelle Ropert, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, each with several credits to his name, though generally without international distribution. Critic Scott Foundas penned a succinct and incredibly worthwhile write-up on this group several years back, not too long after Bozon’s third feature La France (2007) broke through the distribution fog. Discussing terms like New New Wave, etc, and the dangers of bracketing clusters of filmmakers with such labels, there is a distinct flavor to their films as we witness slick sidestepping and reinvention of narrative form and motif, at least enough to note a similar temperament amongst their works (perhaps something more like Frayed Wave works better). Bozon’s latest genre mash, Tip Top, which...
Actor turned director Serge Bozon is the most visible member of a small coterie of filmmakers operating independently outside of the French film system, including names like Marc Fitoussi, Axelle Ropert, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, each with several credits to his name, though generally without international distribution. Critic Scott Foundas penned a succinct and incredibly worthwhile write-up on this group several years back, not too long after Bozon’s third feature La France (2007) broke through the distribution fog. Discussing terms like New New Wave, etc, and the dangers of bracketing clusters of filmmakers with such labels, there is a distinct flavor to their films as we witness slick sidestepping and reinvention of narrative form and motif, at least enough to note a similar temperament amongst their works (perhaps something more like Frayed Wave works better). Bozon’s latest genre mash, Tip Top, which...
- 12/23/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Blue in the Face: Amalric’s Simenon Adaptation an Exquisite Enigma
Though actor/director Mathieu Amalric’s last directorial effort, On Tour (2010), landed him a Best Director win at the Cannes Film Festival, it never received Us distribution. Thankfully, his latest effort, an adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novel The Blue Room, won’t be subjected to the same neglect, as it’s an elegantly staged exercise of what could have easily been a straightforward nourish tale of adultery and murder. Pared down to a regal running time of barely eighty minutes, Amalric’s film is cinema of sensation, a puzzle of subtlety detailed accents and various, deliberate textures. Swift and intoxicating, by the time its final implications have been announced, what’s left is a sense of paralytic comprehension, a goading motivation for a second viewing. It’s depiction of an adulterous affair is icy, complicated, isolating, but...
Though actor/director Mathieu Amalric’s last directorial effort, On Tour (2010), landed him a Best Director win at the Cannes Film Festival, it never received Us distribution. Thankfully, his latest effort, an adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novel The Blue Room, won’t be subjected to the same neglect, as it’s an elegantly staged exercise of what could have easily been a straightforward nourish tale of adultery and murder. Pared down to a regal running time of barely eighty minutes, Amalric’s film is cinema of sensation, a puzzle of subtlety detailed accents and various, deliberate textures. Swift and intoxicating, by the time its final implications have been announced, what’s left is a sense of paralytic comprehension, a goading motivation for a second viewing. It’s depiction of an adulterous affair is icy, complicated, isolating, but...
- 9/29/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It all begins with a freeze frame of a dirt road somewhere in Yorkshire county, lined with trees whose lush foliage converges above in an arch. What could it be if not a portal? The movie itself, meanwhile, has not even started as we watch the opening credits, encased in large old-fashioned frames, slowly fade away—a device consistently favored by Alain Resnais who opened each of his 19 features likewise, holding off the films themselves until the screen no longer contained any visual surplus. The freeze frame comes to life as the camera pans farther down the road; then we find ourselves in a theatrical set.
We have been here before, of course. Resnais' Smoking/No Smoking, also based on a play by British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn, is set in Yorkshire as well. Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter) borrows from the five-hour diptych its theatrical setting, one...
We have been here before, of course. Resnais' Smoking/No Smoking, also based on a play by British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn, is set in Yorkshire as well. Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter) borrows from the five-hour diptych its theatrical setting, one...
- 6/17/2014
- by Boris Nelepo
- MUBI
World premiere of Dermaphoria, starring The Vampire Diaries’ Joseph Morgan and Ron Perlman, to open 13th edition of the London festival.
The line-up for the East End Film Festival (June 13-25) has been revealed.
The 13th edition of the festival - which runs for 13 days - will open on Friday 13th June with the world premiere of Dermaphoria. The Us film is the second feature from Ross Clarke, the east London-based filmmaker and DJ who directed homeless documentary Skid Row in 2007 and co-founded music festival Lovebox.
Based on a novel by Craid Clevenger, Dermaphoria follows an experimental chemist who wakes up in a New Orleans jail with amnesia, accused of arson and links to a drug-manufacturing ring. The cast includes Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Walton Goggins (The Shield), Anwan Glover (The Wire) and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy).
Football focus
The festival, which coincides with the World Cup in Brazil, will welcome...
The line-up for the East End Film Festival (June 13-25) has been revealed.
The 13th edition of the festival - which runs for 13 days - will open on Friday 13th June with the world premiere of Dermaphoria. The Us film is the second feature from Ross Clarke, the east London-based filmmaker and DJ who directed homeless documentary Skid Row in 2007 and co-founded music festival Lovebox.
Based on a novel by Craid Clevenger, Dermaphoria follows an experimental chemist who wakes up in a New Orleans jail with amnesia, accused of arson and links to a drug-manufacturing ring. The cast includes Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Walton Goggins (The Shield), Anwan Glover (The Wire) and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy).
Football focus
The festival, which coincides with the World Cup in Brazil, will welcome...
- 5/7/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The East End Film Festival returns to the city of London this summer celebrating its thirteenth year, and running in the height of the World Cup, Director Alison Poltock says she’s determined to make it the festival’s best year ever.
Opening on Friday, 13th June, the festival will run in East London for thirteen days, playing host to over 100 feature narrative and documentary films, and close to 100 shorts, the majority of which will be either World, UK, or London premieres.
Ross Clarke’s sophomore feature, Dermaphormia, will kick events off as the Opening Night Gala selection. Clarke has lined up an impressive cast for his first narrative film, following his award-winning documentary Skid Row, led by Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Nicole Badaan, Walton Goggins (Django Unchained), Lucius Falick, Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Anwan Glover (The Wire), and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy). The crime-thriller centres on an experimental...
Opening on Friday, 13th June, the festival will run in East London for thirteen days, playing host to over 100 feature narrative and documentary films, and close to 100 shorts, the majority of which will be either World, UK, or London premieres.
Ross Clarke’s sophomore feature, Dermaphormia, will kick events off as the Opening Night Gala selection. Clarke has lined up an impressive cast for his first narrative film, following his award-winning documentary Skid Row, led by Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Nicole Badaan, Walton Goggins (Django Unchained), Lucius Falick, Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Anwan Glover (The Wire), and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy). The crime-thriller centres on an experimental...
- 5/7/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Fifth edition of annual showcase of contemporary French cinema to take place in key cities across the UK from April 23-28.
Marion Vernoux’s Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) will open this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema.
Vernoux and lead actress Fanny Ardant will be in attendance at the Curzon Soho in London for a post-screening Q&A.
Run by UniFrance Films and the Institut français in London, the fifth edition of the annual showcase of contemporary French cinema will take place in key cities across the UK. As well as at the Curzon Soho and Ciné Lumière, films will screen in Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Nottingham, Oxford and at the Duke of York’s in Brighton.
Speaking to Screen, Isabelle Giordano, executive director of UniFrance Films, says the focus of this year’s showcase is to highlight burgeoning talent in France.
“What I would like to do for this edition is to focus on the...
Marion Vernoux’s Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux Jours) will open this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema.
Vernoux and lead actress Fanny Ardant will be in attendance at the Curzon Soho in London for a post-screening Q&A.
Run by UniFrance Films and the Institut français in London, the fifth edition of the annual showcase of contemporary French cinema will take place in key cities across the UK. As well as at the Curzon Soho and Ciné Lumière, films will screen in Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Nottingham, Oxford and at the Duke of York’s in Brighton.
Speaking to Screen, Isabelle Giordano, executive director of UniFrance Films, says the focus of this year’s showcase is to highlight burgeoning talent in France.
“What I would like to do for this edition is to focus on the...
- 3/28/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Festival guests include Nathalie Baye, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Jalil Lespert and Vincent Macaigne.
Michael Kohlhaas by Arnaud de Pallieres was awarded best film at the 15th Athens Francophone film festival (March 19-26) backed by Unifrance.
The award sponsored by the French public channel TV5 and the Athens Municipality carries a purse of €9,000 to back the release of the film in Greece by Seven Films and Spentzos Films.
A special mention was given to Bruno Dumont’s Camille Claudel 1915, starring Juliette Binoche in the eponymous role.Videorama Films/Odeon acquired for Greece.
The five-member jury was comprised of the French-Greek actor George Corraface (president), Greek film producer Fenia Kosovitsa, French film scholar and director Antoine Danis, Greek born-French resident composer Olga Kouklaki and Greek film critic Yiannis Zoumpoulakis.
The audience award, backed by Fischer Breweries with €6,000, went to Marion Vernoux’s Les Beaux Jours starring Fanny Ardant. Produced by the French outlet Les Films du Kiosque, the film will...
Michael Kohlhaas by Arnaud de Pallieres was awarded best film at the 15th Athens Francophone film festival (March 19-26) backed by Unifrance.
The award sponsored by the French public channel TV5 and the Athens Municipality carries a purse of €9,000 to back the release of the film in Greece by Seven Films and Spentzos Films.
A special mention was given to Bruno Dumont’s Camille Claudel 1915, starring Juliette Binoche in the eponymous role.Videorama Films/Odeon acquired for Greece.
The five-member jury was comprised of the French-Greek actor George Corraface (president), Greek film producer Fenia Kosovitsa, French film scholar and director Antoine Danis, Greek born-French resident composer Olga Kouklaki and Greek film critic Yiannis Zoumpoulakis.
The audience award, backed by Fischer Breweries with €6,000, went to Marion Vernoux’s Les Beaux Jours starring Fanny Ardant. Produced by the French outlet Les Films du Kiosque, the film will...
- 3/27/2014
- by alexisgrivas@yahoo.com (Alexis Grivas)
- ScreenDaily
Louise Bourgoin as Judith in Miss And The Doctors Miss And The Doctors director Axelle Ropert: "I love films that have goodness, tenderness and a dream-like quality." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Axelle Ropert's arresting Miss And The Doctors (Tirez La Langue, Mademoiselle) stars Louise Bourgoin, Cédric Kahn, and Laurent Stocker of the Comédie Française. The cinematographer is Céline Bozon, the sister of Serge Bozon, who plays Charles and is the director of Tip Top, co-written by Ropert.
During New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Ropert and I discussed costumes of Jacques Demy, the influence of Garry Marshall's Frankie And Johnny, the tenderness of Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino, where some of the depictions by Martin Scorsese and his Wolf Of Wall Street lack nobility, and the street where we live(d).
In the film, the 13th arrondissement of Paris, undeservedly ignored by cinema, is the slightly enchanted...
During New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Ropert and I discussed costumes of Jacques Demy, the influence of Garry Marshall's Frankie And Johnny, the tenderness of Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino, where some of the depictions by Martin Scorsese and his Wolf Of Wall Street lack nobility, and the street where we live(d).
In the film, the 13th arrondissement of Paris, undeservedly ignored by cinema, is the slightly enchanted...
- 3/12/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
French cinema aficianados will be happy to know that Kino Lorber has just acquired all rights to "Tip Top," Serge Bozon's entry into the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Director's Fortnight. The film will now be making its way stateside with an upcoming New York premiere at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, an annual film festival focused on the best of new French cinema organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance. "Tip Top" combines screwball comedy, film noir and social commentary in the way that only French cinema could. The film stars national treasure Isabelle Huppert ("The Piano Teacher") and Sandrine Kiberlain ("Mademoiselle Chambon") as two Cagney & Lacey-style detectives investigating the death of a former Algerian cop working as a police informant in the town of Villeneuve. "This film just knocks your socks off with its unpredictably smart and zany narrative turns - and the zinging chemistry between Huppert...
- 2/7/2014
- by Ziyad Saadi
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Kino Lorber has acquired Us rights from Rezo Films to Serge Bozon’s Directors’ Fortnight 2013 selection Tip Top starring Isabelle Huppert.
Serge Bozon’s follow-up to La France, which Kino Lorber also distributed in the Us, stars Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain as detectives on the case of a dead Algerian informant.
Tip Top will receive its Us premiere at next month’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York.
Kino Lorber plans a theatrical release follows by VOD and digital roll-out.
The distributor recently picked up Agnieszka Holland’s Burning Bush, about Czech student Jan Palach’s self-immolation protest against Soviet occupation. The film will screen at New York’s Film Forum on June 11.
Serge Bozon’s follow-up to La France, which Kino Lorber also distributed in the Us, stars Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain as detectives on the case of a dead Algerian informant.
Tip Top will receive its Us premiere at next month’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York.
Kino Lorber plans a theatrical release follows by VOD and digital roll-out.
The distributor recently picked up Agnieszka Holland’s Burning Bush, about Czech student Jan Palach’s self-immolation protest against Soviet occupation. The film will screen at New York’s Film Forum on June 11.
- 2/7/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Pauline at the Beach: Fitoussi’s Breezy Caper Good for a Laugh
Director Marc Fitoussi seems inclined toward breezy-haired, bauble headed gamines that get jostled around like seaweed in unpredictable waters. While his 2010 film Copacabana was a notable comedy starring Isabelle Huppert as the comic foil (rather than the ‘straight man’ for once), his latest reunites him with Sandrine Kiberlain, who starred in his 2007 debut, La Vie D’Artist. It’s quite easy to see why he’s attracted such talents as he seems to have a knack for an offbeat drollery with actresses that seem unconventional leads in a comedic vehicle. Inconsequential? Perhaps. But there’s an undeniable delight in watching his funny ladies as they cross in and out of slight frippery. While his features are hard to get a hold of in the Us, possibly because of their very slightness, his latest, like his others, is certainly...
Director Marc Fitoussi seems inclined toward breezy-haired, bauble headed gamines that get jostled around like seaweed in unpredictable waters. While his 2010 film Copacabana was a notable comedy starring Isabelle Huppert as the comic foil (rather than the ‘straight man’ for once), his latest reunites him with Sandrine Kiberlain, who starred in his 2007 debut, La Vie D’Artist. It’s quite easy to see why he’s attracted such talents as he seems to have a knack for an offbeat drollery with actresses that seem unconventional leads in a comedic vehicle. Inconsequential? Perhaps. But there’s an undeniable delight in watching his funny ladies as they cross in and out of slight frippery. While his features are hard to get a hold of in the Us, possibly because of their very slightness, his latest, like his others, is certainly...
- 1/8/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
During this year’s Festival du nouveau cinéma, held in Montréal from October 9th until the 20th, the Special Presentation section is once again packed with an exceptional line-up of films, 26 new works in all, curated from some of the world’s most respected festivals.
Here is a list of the films being presented in this section of the festival:
A Touch of Sin (Tian Zhu Ding), Jia Zhang Ke (China/Japan), winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes
All is Lost, J.C. Chandor (United States)
L’Amour est un crime parfait (Love is the Perfect Crime), Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu (France/Switzerland)
La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the the House of Usher), Jean Epstein (France/United States/1928), set to the music of Montréal’s own Rock Forest
Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi (Iran)
Le Démantelement, Sébastien Pilote (Québec/Canada)
Le Dernier...
Here is a list of the films being presented in this section of the festival:
A Touch of Sin (Tian Zhu Ding), Jia Zhang Ke (China/Japan), winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes
All is Lost, J.C. Chandor (United States)
L’Amour est un crime parfait (Love is the Perfect Crime), Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu (France/Switzerland)
La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the the House of Usher), Jean Epstein (France/United States/1928), set to the music of Montréal’s own Rock Forest
Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi (Iran)
Le Démantelement, Sébastien Pilote (Québec/Canada)
Le Dernier...
- 9/25/2013
- by Trish Ferris
- SoundOnSight
Adam Cook:
Favorites
01
The Immigrant (James Gray, USA)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Portugal)
02
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)
03
Bastards (Claire Denis, France/Germany)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China)
04
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, USA)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/Chad)
The Rest
You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez, France)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, USA)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy)
Bends (Flora Lau, Hong Kong/China)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, USA)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria)
Just in Time (Peter Greenaway, UK/Portugal)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch,...
Favorites
01
The Immigrant (James Gray, USA)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Portugal)
02
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz, Philippines)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, France)
03
Bastards (Claire Denis, France/Germany)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China)
04
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, USA)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France/Chad)
The Rest
You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez, France)
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, USA)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France/Italy)
Bends (Flora Lau, Hong Kong/China)
Jimmy P. (Arnaud Desplechin, USA)
Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria)
Just in Time (Peter Greenaway, UK/Portugal)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch,...
- 5/27/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Below you will find our total coverage of the 2013 Festival de Cannes by Adam Cook, Daniel Kasman, and Marie-Pierre Duhamel.
Films
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke) (1, 2)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Bends (Flora Lau)
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh)
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon)
We Are What We Are (Jim Mickle)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann)
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike)
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard)
Interviews
Alain Guiraudie (by David Jenkins)
Takashi Miike
Lav Diaz
Dialogues
Between Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman
On Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring
On Johnnie To's Blind Detective
On Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra
On James Gray's The Immigrant
Passing Shots
Daniel Kasman
On Asghar Farhadi's The Past, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son, Anurag Kashyap's Ugly,...
Films
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke) (1, 2)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Bends (Flora Lau)
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh)
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon)
We Are What We Are (Jim Mickle)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann)
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike)
North, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
Les trois désastres (Jean-Luc Godard)
Interviews
Alain Guiraudie (by David Jenkins)
Takashi Miike
Lav Diaz
Dialogues
Between Adam Cook & Daniel Kasman
On Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring
On Johnnie To's Blind Detective
On Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra
On James Gray's The Immigrant
Passing Shots
Daniel Kasman
On Asghar Farhadi's The Past, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father, Like Son, Anurag Kashyap's Ugly,...
- 5/27/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
“Me Myself and Mum” by Guillaume Gallienne won two awards at the Directors’ Fortnight
Directors’ Fortnight is a non competitive sidebar of Cannes Film Festival, however, it does offer awards in partnership with other institutions. French film Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! (Me Myself and Mum) by Guillaume Gallienne won two of the awards at the fortnight. Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly was screened in this section.
Here is the list of winners:-
Art Cinema Award
The Cicae (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai) gives the Art Cinema Award, prize that helps with film distribution.
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! (Me Myself and Mum) by Guillaume Gallienne – France
Label Europa Cinemas
The Europa Cinemas Label aims to enhance the promotion, circulation and box-office runs of European award winning films on the screens of a cinema network spread across Europe. Awarded by a jury comprised of Europa Cinemas member exhibitors.
Directors’ Fortnight is a non competitive sidebar of Cannes Film Festival, however, it does offer awards in partnership with other institutions. French film Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! (Me Myself and Mum) by Guillaume Gallienne won two of the awards at the fortnight. Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly was screened in this section.
Here is the list of winners:-
Art Cinema Award
The Cicae (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai) gives the Art Cinema Award, prize that helps with film distribution.
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! (Me Myself and Mum) by Guillaume Gallienne – France
Label Europa Cinemas
The Europa Cinemas Label aims to enhance the promotion, circulation and box-office runs of European award winning films on the screens of a cinema network spread across Europe. Awarded by a jury comprised of Europa Cinemas member exhibitors.
- 5/25/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Guillaume Gallienne's "Me Myself and Mum" won the two top prizes at the 45th Directors' Fortnight, earning both the Art Cinema Award and the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers' Prize. Serge Bozon's comedy-thriller "Tip Top" also received a special mention by the Sacd jury. Prize for best European film in Directors' Fortnight went to "The Selfish Giant," the narrative debut of Clio Barnard ("The Arbor"). In "Me Myself and Mum," an adaptation of Gallienne's one-man show, is based on his own story of a childhood in which everyone -- including his mom -- assumes he's gay. Gallienne plays himself in addition to other roles; Diane Kruger co-stars. "Tip Top," an adaptation of Bill James' novel, stars Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain as detectives investigating the murder of an informant. "The Selfish Giant," a very loose adaptation of the Oscar Wilde fairy tale, was acquired after its...
- 5/24/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Tip Top (Serge Bozon, France)
Quinzaine Des RÉALISATEURS
After a wait of 6 years, Serge Bozon has followed up his expansive and beautiful La France with a far more modestly scaled what's-it: Tip Top, a pseudo-detective film at once burlesque and jabbing, adapted from one of a series of novels by Welsh author Bill James. It overlaps not just genres (crime, comedy) but production "genres" or types; in the sense that a minimalist Rotterdam arthouse movie is a "festival film," Tip Top feels both a distinctly auteurist film from Bozon, and a strange lower-middle range product of Euro-financing (France, Luxembourg, Belgium) involving a certain specific combination of border-crossing actors, regional locations, and a deadpan, glammed up smalltown modesty. It makes for variegated film texture combining the poetic and the mundane, complicated considerably by an unabashedly ethno-political context.
The crime investigated by internal affairs detectives Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain, that of...
Quinzaine Des RÉALISATEURS
After a wait of 6 years, Serge Bozon has followed up his expansive and beautiful La France with a far more modestly scaled what's-it: Tip Top, a pseudo-detective film at once burlesque and jabbing, adapted from one of a series of novels by Welsh author Bill James. It overlaps not just genres (crime, comedy) but production "genres" or types; in the sense that a minimalist Rotterdam arthouse movie is a "festival film," Tip Top feels both a distinctly auteurist film from Bozon, and a strange lower-middle range product of Euro-financing (France, Luxembourg, Belgium) involving a certain specific combination of border-crossing actors, regional locations, and a deadpan, glammed up smalltown modesty. It makes for variegated film texture combining the poetic and the mundane, complicated considerably by an unabashedly ethno-political context.
The crime investigated by internal affairs detectives Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain, that of...
- 5/23/2013
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Bill James's crime thriller is sexed-up and transplanted to France, with Isabelle Huppert in the lead. But the odd mix of bloody murder and comedy couplings means the movie belies its title
Tip Top – based on a crime thriller by British novelist Bill James – is a topsy-turvy sex comedy tarted up as cop drama. It's silly and wacky and rude and glib. A Punch and Judy show playing out on the set of Silent Witness.
Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain play Esther Lafarge and Sally Marinelli, two internal affairs investigators parachuted into the police department in Villeneuve, Lille to uncover the mole who caused the death of an Algerian informant. They're joined by the snitch's handler, Inspector Mendes (François Damiens) - who's keen to shift the focus of the investigation from his shady dealings with his new shill (Aymen Saïdi) towards his chances of hopping in the sack with one or both women.
Tip Top – based on a crime thriller by British novelist Bill James – is a topsy-turvy sex comedy tarted up as cop drama. It's silly and wacky and rude and glib. A Punch and Judy show playing out on the set of Silent Witness.
Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain play Esther Lafarge and Sally Marinelli, two internal affairs investigators parachuted into the police department in Villeneuve, Lille to uncover the mole who caused the death of an Algerian informant. They're joined by the snitch's handler, Inspector Mendes (François Damiens) - who's keen to shift the focus of the investigation from his shady dealings with his new shill (Aymen Saïdi) towards his chances of hopping in the sack with one or both women.
- 5/20/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
First film in 20 years from Alejandro Jodorowsky, as Clio Barnard and Paul Wright fly flag for Britain
The line-up of this year's Cannes film festival is now complete after the announcement of the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week selections.
The Director's Fortnight has added 20 titles to its already-announced opener, The Congress, from Ari "Waltz With Bashir" Folman, a part-animated adaptation of Stanislaw "Solaris" Lem's sci-fi novel The Futurological Congress.
Highlights include La Danza de la Realidad, the first film for more than two decades from cult Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (best known for El Topo), and a complementary documentary, Jodorowsky's Dune, about the director's disastrous attempt to film Frank Herbert's giant novel. Two more Chilean directors, Sebastian Silva, with his Sundance hit Magic Magic, starring Michael Cera, and Marcela Said with The Summer of the Flying Fish, have had films selected alongside.
Directors Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop has...
The line-up of this year's Cannes film festival is now complete after the announcement of the Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week selections.
The Director's Fortnight has added 20 titles to its already-announced opener, The Congress, from Ari "Waltz With Bashir" Folman, a part-animated adaptation of Stanislaw "Solaris" Lem's sci-fi novel The Futurological Congress.
Highlights include La Danza de la Realidad, the first film for more than two decades from cult Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (best known for El Topo), and a complementary documentary, Jodorowsky's Dune, about the director's disastrous attempt to film Frank Herbert's giant novel. Two more Chilean directors, Sebastian Silva, with his Sundance hit Magic Magic, starring Michael Cera, and Marcela Said with The Summer of the Flying Fish, have had films selected alongside.
Directors Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop has...
- 4/24/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The Directors Fortnight announced its full lineup on Tuesday, including nine short films and 21 features which will run parallel to the Cannes Film Festival in May. Notable selections include the Ruairi Robinson’s sci-fi film Last Days on Mars, starring Liev Schreiber (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Romola Garai (The Hour), and Olivia Williams (Rushmore), and Sebastian Silva’s thriller Magic Magic, about a tourist in Chile who starts to experience a metal breakdown, with Juno Temple (Killer Joe) and Michael Cera (Arrested Development).
Avant-garde Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain) will return to the Festival with a film about his life,...
Avant-garde Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain) will return to the Festival with a film about his life,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Although there may be a few more surprise announcements, Cannes 2013 is pretty much in place with the lineups for the Fortnight and Critics' Week announced:
Directors' Fortnight
Opening Night: The Congress (Ari Folman)
Les Apaches (Thierry de Peretti)
A Strange Course of Events (Raphaël Nadjari)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulneir)
La danza de la realidad (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
L'escale (Kaveh Bakhtiari)
La fille du 14 juillet (Antonin Peretjatko)
Henri (Yolande Moreau)
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen)
Jodorowsky's Dune (Frank Pavish)
Last Days on Mars (Ruairi Robinson)
Les garcons et Guillaume, a table! (Guillaume Gallienne)
Magic Magic (Sebastian Silva)
On the Job (Erik Matti)
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon)
Ugly (Anurag Kashyap)
Un voyageur (Marcel Ophuls)
El verano de los peces voladores (Marcela Said)
We Are What We Are (Jim Mickle)
Critics' Week
Opening Night: Suzanne (Katell Quillevere)
Séances spéciales:
Les rencontres d'apres minuit (Yann Gonzalez)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints...
Directors' Fortnight
Opening Night: The Congress (Ari Folman)
Les Apaches (Thierry de Peretti)
A Strange Course of Events (Raphaël Nadjari)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulneir)
La danza de la realidad (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
L'escale (Kaveh Bakhtiari)
La fille du 14 juillet (Antonin Peretjatko)
Henri (Yolande Moreau)
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen)
Jodorowsky's Dune (Frank Pavish)
Last Days on Mars (Ruairi Robinson)
Les garcons et Guillaume, a table! (Guillaume Gallienne)
Magic Magic (Sebastian Silva)
On the Job (Erik Matti)
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon)
Ugly (Anurag Kashyap)
Un voyageur (Marcel Ophuls)
El verano de los peces voladores (Marcela Said)
We Are What We Are (Jim Mickle)
Critics' Week
Opening Night: Suzanne (Katell Quillevere)
Séances spéciales:
Les rencontres d'apres minuit (Yann Gonzalez)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints...
- 4/23/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival lineup is virtually complete, though an Out of Competition selection or two may still be announced. This morning from Paris the fest announced their full Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine) selection, which we already knew would open with Ari Folman's The Congress, but added to that are a couple of Sundance features including Sebastian Silva's Magic Magic starring Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Catalina Sandino and Agustin Silva and Jim Mickle's cannibal feature We are What We are. Additionally, Ruairi Robinson arrives with Last Days on Mars, a sci-fi thriller starring Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai and Elias Koteas centered on a group of astronaut explorers who succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars. There will also be a special tribute to director Alejandro Jodorowosky who has a film in the selection, La Danza De La Realidad,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Heavy on the French film items and with a side dish of Chilean influence, this year’s Directors’ Fortnight also known as the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is offering “double” Alejandro Jodorowosky, and the highly anticipated titles we predicted from the likes of Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) and Serge Bozon (Tip Top). Repping Chile, we have Sebastián Silva’s Magic Magic (review) which is joined by another Sundance preemed title in Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are (fittingly this is the remake of Somos lo que hay (which was featured in the section in 2010). Upping the sci-fi quotient by joining the already announced The Congress, we find Ruairi Robinson highly anticipated feature debut with Last Days On Mars. Anurag Kashyap makes it two for two years, after unloading the almost six hour Gangs of Wasseypur, he returns with Ugly, while Tehilim (Main Comp in 2007) helmer Raphaël Nadjari returns...
- 4/23/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and the Un Certain Regard section include Terrence Malick, Ari Folman’s The Congress, Catherine Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness, Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, Michael Rowe’s Manto Acuifero, Tsai Ming-Liang’s Diary of a Young Boy, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language 3D, Serge Bozon’s Tip Top, Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves, Corneliu Porumboiu’s Nine Minute Interval, Michel & Vicky Franco’s In the Eyes and not surprisingly, a film which might have become a colony instead in Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Dau. All of these may trickle into the Directors’ Fortnight section, or might join Steve McQueen on the Lido in Venice.
In the Main Comp selection plenty that were targeted as likely candidates were included, and while we were thinking this was the year of the U.
In the Main Comp selection plenty that were targeted as likely candidates were included, and while we were thinking this was the year of the U.
- 4/18/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
#23. Serge Bozon’s Tip Top
Gist: Based on the novel by British author Bill James, Tip Top follows two female police inspectors from the police’s complaints and discipline branch as they investigate the death of an informant at a provincial police station. While they get along fine as partners, their private lives are very different. While man-hungry Sally (Sandrine Kiberlain) and the spousal abuser Esther (Isabelle Huppert) investigate, they are spied upon by reporting officer, Robert (Francois Damiens).
Prediction: Bozon’s followup to his well received 2007 debut, La France (which won the Prix Jean Vigo for Best French Film debut), will most likely end up in Un Certain Regard, and probably make this another multiple entry year for perennial legend Huppert.
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Gist: Based on the novel by British author Bill James, Tip Top follows two female police inspectors from the police’s complaints and discipline branch as they investigate the death of an informant at a provincial police station. While they get along fine as partners, their private lives are very different. While man-hungry Sally (Sandrine Kiberlain) and the spousal abuser Esther (Isabelle Huppert) investigate, they are spied upon by reporting officer, Robert (Francois Damiens).
Prediction: Bozon’s followup to his well received 2007 debut, La France (which won the Prix Jean Vigo for Best French Film debut), will most likely end up in Un Certain Regard, and probably make this another multiple entry year for perennial legend Huppert.
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- 4/13/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
#64. Axelle Ropert’s Tirez la Langue, Mademoiselle
Gist: Moving into the comedy/dramatic realm once again, this is about two very close brothers, both doctors in Paris. They are both passionate about their profession and together dedicate all their time to their patients, much to the detriment of their practice’s financial health. But one day, they meet a diabetic girl and fall in love with her mother. Both falling in love with the same woman will disrupt what had seemed to be such a solid relationship.
Prediction: Filming on Tirez la Langue, Mademoiselle took place around October of last year, and currently in post, this has been tagged with a summer release. Directors’ Fortnight showed her solid family portrait drama The Wolberg Family back in 2009, with Louise Bourgoin, and director-actor on board, this could squeeze its way into the Un Certain Regard section as to not conflict with her...
Gist: Moving into the comedy/dramatic realm once again, this is about two very close brothers, both doctors in Paris. They are both passionate about their profession and together dedicate all their time to their patients, much to the detriment of their practice’s financial health. But one day, they meet a diabetic girl and fall in love with her mother. Both falling in love with the same woman will disrupt what had seemed to be such a solid relationship.
Prediction: Filming on Tirez la Langue, Mademoiselle took place around October of last year, and currently in post, this has been tagged with a summer release. Directors’ Fortnight showed her solid family portrait drama The Wolberg Family back in 2009, with Louise Bourgoin, and director-actor on board, this could squeeze its way into the Un Certain Regard section as to not conflict with her...
- 4/3/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Tirez la langue, mademoiselle
Director/Writer: Axelle Roppert
Producer(s): Les Films Pelléas’ David Thion
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Louise Bourgoin, Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker
2013 is going to be a stellar year for writer/director Axelle Roppert. We first discovered her in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section debuting her first film – a smart family drama called The Wolberg Family (2010), but what makes her a mandatory figure to watch out for is that she might show up in Cannes this year with not one, but two projects. She wrote Tip Top for director Serge Bozon, and she directed Tirez la langue, mademoiselle translated as “Stick Out Your Tongue” – in reference to what one might do during a routine check-up. This has Louise Bourgoin (pictured above in random pic) in the lead role.
Gist: This is about two very close brothers, both doctors in Paris. They are both passionate about...
Director/Writer: Axelle Roppert
Producer(s): Les Films Pelléas’ David Thion
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Louise Bourgoin, Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker
2013 is going to be a stellar year for writer/director Axelle Roppert. We first discovered her in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section debuting her first film – a smart family drama called The Wolberg Family (2010), but what makes her a mandatory figure to watch out for is that she might show up in Cannes this year with not one, but two projects. She wrote Tip Top for director Serge Bozon, and she directed Tirez la langue, mademoiselle translated as “Stick Out Your Tongue” – in reference to what one might do during a routine check-up. This has Louise Bourgoin (pictured above in random pic) in the lead role.
Gist: This is about two very close brothers, both doctors in Paris. They are both passionate about...
- 1/11/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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