Some of Europe’s most acclaimed below-the-line talents will do a deep dive into the artistry of movie magic for In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema, a new documentary feature being produced by Yi Zhou’s Into the Sun Entertainment.
Triple Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds), three-time production design winner Dante Ferretti (Hugo, Sweeney Todd, The Aviator), Oscar-winning film editor Thom Noble (Witness) and Academy Award-winning make-up artist Giorgio Gregorini (Suicide Squad) will feature in the doc, which was shot during the making of Zhou’s upcoming feature film debut, Stars and Scars, in Rome and Los Angeles.
All the involved talents are attached to work on the feature, an English-language sci-fi drama centered on the rare phenomenon known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (Hsam), where people can recall an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid and extraordinary detail. Christopher Lambert...
Triple Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds), three-time production design winner Dante Ferretti (Hugo, Sweeney Todd, The Aviator), Oscar-winning film editor Thom Noble (Witness) and Academy Award-winning make-up artist Giorgio Gregorini (Suicide Squad) will feature in the doc, which was shot during the making of Zhou’s upcoming feature film debut, Stars and Scars, in Rome and Los Angeles.
All the involved talents are attached to work on the feature, an English-language sci-fi drama centered on the rare phenomenon known as Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (Hsam), where people can recall an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid and extraordinary detail. Christopher Lambert...
- 10/31/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One bold gesture the new Berlinale team has made at the festival this year is to put Philippe Garrel back in competition. His last two movies, small films with grand sensitivity, have premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, a fitting place for their discretion but not necessarily the director’s stature. His new film, The Salt of Tears, is no different in scale, effectively embracing cinema’s affinity for, in literary terms, short stories rather than novels. Like his last film, Lover for a Day, we find Garrel channeling the energy of young actors cast mostly from the acting classes he teaches to bring a light-footed freshness to his atmosphere and storytelling. And like his two most recent films, it has a swift, sketch-like quality that sometimes works well and sometimes doesn’t with the film’s essentially fable-like, rather than realistic storytelling. This friction between the exactitude required...
- 2/24/2020
- MUBI
To some extent, with The Salt of Tears (Le Sel des larmes) French post-New Wave director Philippe Garrel continues in the familiar vein of his last three films, the intimate dramas Jealousy, In the Shadow of Women and Lover for a Day. It's shot in black-and-white, it looks at relationship issues surrounding fathers and lovers, and much of the same below-the-line talent has collaborated on this effort as well, from production designer Manu de Chauvigny to composer Jean-Louis Aubert. But there’s an element of light comedy — rather than the more familiar irony — that feels fresh and invigorating, even ...
- 2/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
To some extent, with The Salt of Tears (Le Sel des larmes) French post-New Wave director Philippe Garrel continues in the familiar vein of his last three films, the intimate dramas Jealousy, In the Shadow of Women and Lover for a Day. It's shot in black-and-white, it looks at relationship issues surrounding fathers and lovers, and much of the same below-the-line talent has collaborated on this effort as well, from production designer Manu de Chauvigny to composer Jean-Louis Aubert. But there’s an element of light comedy — rather than the more familiar irony — that feels fresh and invigorating, even ...
- 2/22/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Modern-to-the-hilt noir submerged in the unforgiving blackness of digital photography, emotional currents sparked with a tactile cinema appealing directly to the senses. In retrospect, it (sometimes) seems these two edges could sufficiently define Claire Denis’s Bastards, but her films can never be boiled down to a few descriptors — which might be a tinge ironic, given the immense power of a narrative system that consists of absolutely no more than each crucial component, like a cinematic razor blade slicing its way through all that’s pure. The crescendo would prove unbearable if the pleasures weren’t so extreme, and Bastards’s final moments are...
Bastards (Claire Denis)
Modern-to-the-hilt noir submerged in the unforgiving blackness of digital photography, emotional currents sparked with a tactile cinema appealing directly to the senses. In retrospect, it (sometimes) seems these two edges could sufficiently define Claire Denis’s Bastards, but her films can never be boiled down to a few descriptors — which might be a tinge ironic, given the immense power of a narrative system that consists of absolutely no more than each crucial component, like a cinematic razor blade slicing its way through all that’s pure. The crescendo would prove unbearable if the pleasures weren’t so extreme, and Bastards’s final moments are...
- 4/19/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Philippe Garrel's Lover for a Day (2017) is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United States. It is showing from March 31 - April 30, 2018.Roughly half an hour into Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day, there is a moment of unexpected hysteria: Ariane (Louise Chevillotte) returns home to find Jeanne (Esther Garrel) perched beside an empty window, threatening to jump. Jeanne is the daughter of Jeanne’s lover Gilles (Éric Caravaca), a philosophy professor several years her senior, and has come to stay with them in their cramped apartment following a messy argument with her boyfriend, Mateo. Jeanne asserts that she needs to kill herself to make Mateo realizes the depth of the pain he’s caused her. After a struggle, Ariane manages to pull her down, and the two make a pact to never tell Gilles what has happened. This moment marks a significant shift in...
- 3/31/2018
- MUBI
Mubi has struck gold once again.
After years of being best known as an art house alternative to the bloated, insufferable media streaming services like Netflix, Mubi has slowly but surely increased their foothold in the theatrical distribution game, gunning for a seat at that hotly contested table as well. Be it nabbing the UK theatrical rights to Miguel Gomes’ masterpiece Arabian Nights or coming stateside with 2016’s Baden Baden, the company has not only curated an expert streaming service but gotten into business with some of the most interesting and exciting voices in the film world today.
Director Philippe Garrel is the latest to join these ranks. Following up his 2016 masterpiece In The Shadow Of Women, Garrel has returned with a new, equally moving look at modern love and romance, Lover For A Day. Starring his daughter Esther Garrel (who is low key a highlight of Call Me By Your Name,...
After years of being best known as an art house alternative to the bloated, insufferable media streaming services like Netflix, Mubi has slowly but surely increased their foothold in the theatrical distribution game, gunning for a seat at that hotly contested table as well. Be it nabbing the UK theatrical rights to Miguel Gomes’ masterpiece Arabian Nights or coming stateside with 2016’s Baden Baden, the company has not only curated an expert streaming service but gotten into business with some of the most interesting and exciting voices in the film world today.
Director Philippe Garrel is the latest to join these ranks. Following up his 2016 masterpiece In The Shadow Of Women, Garrel has returned with a new, equally moving look at modern love and romance, Lover For A Day. Starring his daughter Esther Garrel (who is low key a highlight of Call Me By Your Name,...
- 1/26/2018
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Philippe Garrel – a stalwart filmmaker who admirably continues to keep the spirit of the French New Wave alive – with his latest, Lover for a Day, completes a trilogy also comprising his previous works Jealousy and In the Shadow of Women. Like the other two films, Lover for a Day is shot in luminous, shimmering monochrome, runs under 80 minutes, and deals with themes of fidelity, jealousy, passion, suicidal depression, and the general difficulty in maintaining, and navigating the shifting emotions of, romantic relationships. As such, this film, both in the context of Garrel’s previous work and of other similarly minded works in general, may strike a familiar tone, even over-familiar for some. And given that one of the central relationships depicted is that between a university professor in his 50s and his student who's in her 20s, this may actually seem off-putting, given the current heightened sensibilities regarding women's depictions onscreen and treatment offscreen.
- 1/13/2018
- Screen Anarchy
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