’Beautiful Minds’ is inspired by the real-life experiences of co-director Alexandre Jollien who was born with cerebral palsy but overcame his disabilities to study philosophy
Elle Driver has launched sales on Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien’s pioneering French comedy-drama Beautiful Minds, about a workaholic funeral director and a solitary vegetable delivery man and philosopher born with cerebral palsy, who embark on a road trip in a hearse.
It is inspired by the real-life experiences of Jollien who was born with cerebral palsy but overcame his disabilities to study philosophy and become became a major thinker and spiritual teacher, who has written several best-selling books.
Elle Driver has launched sales on Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien’s pioneering French comedy-drama Beautiful Minds, about a workaholic funeral director and a solitary vegetable delivery man and philosopher born with cerebral palsy, who embark on a road trip in a hearse.
It is inspired by the real-life experiences of Jollien who was born with cerebral palsy but overcame his disabilities to study philosophy and become became a major thinker and spiritual teacher, who has written several best-selling books.
- 3/3/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The duo lead the cast of Constance Meyer’s first feature film, a Dharamsala production set to be sold worldwide by Indie Sales, which is soon to wrap filming. Filming has entered the home straight for Robuste, the first full-length work by Constance Meyer who turned heads with her short films Frank-Étienne vers la béatitude (selected for Venice’s Orizzonti line-up in 2012), Rhapsody (battling it out in Clermont-Ferrand’s national competition and Locarno’s international competition in 2016) and La belle affaire (screening Out of Competition in Locarno 2018).At the head of the cast we find Gérard Depardieu (nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in 1991, for Cannes’ Best Actor accolade in 1990 and for Venice’s equivalent in 1985, nominated for the Best Actor César 17 times – most notably in 2016 for Valley of Love – and walking away with the trophy twice; recently well-received in Fahim and touring French cinemas from...
Isabelle Huppert with her Mrs. Hyde (Madame Hyde) director Serge Bozon Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The first time I talked with Isabelle Huppert at length was in Paris in 2006, when Serge Toubiana introduced us at the Cinémathèque Française (which had then recently opened in the Frank Gehry building at 51 rue de Bercy) private reception for Le Roman D’isabelle, La Femme Mystère. Over the years Isabelle and I have had conversations on her work with Catherine Breillat for Abuse Of Weakness, Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley Of Love with Gérard Depardieu, and Serge Bozon’s Mrs. Hyde (Madame Hyde). In October of last year, I met with Isabelle Huppert in one of the suites of the Four Seasons for a conversation on her starring role in Ira Sachs' Frankie, co-written with longtime collaborator Mauricio Zacharias.
Ilene (Marisa Tomei) with Frankie (Isabelle Huppert)
Patrice Chéreau’s Joseph Conrad adaptation Gabrielle...
The first time I talked with Isabelle Huppert at length was in Paris in 2006, when Serge Toubiana introduced us at the Cinémathèque Française (which had then recently opened in the Frank Gehry building at 51 rue de Bercy) private reception for Le Roman D’isabelle, La Femme Mystère. Over the years Isabelle and I have had conversations on her work with Catherine Breillat for Abuse Of Weakness, Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley Of Love with Gérard Depardieu, and Serge Bozon’s Mrs. Hyde (Madame Hyde). In October of last year, I met with Isabelle Huppert in one of the suites of the Four Seasons for a conversation on her starring role in Ira Sachs' Frankie, co-written with longtime collaborator Mauricio Zacharias.
Ilene (Marisa Tomei) with Frankie (Isabelle Huppert)
Patrice Chéreau’s Joseph Conrad adaptation Gabrielle...
- 3/31/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Berlinale 2020: From the Guillaume Nicloux's project Soumission to the hybrid film A Winter’s Journey, a great many titles have been added to the line-ups of French companies at the Efm. Beyond the main announcements which came last week at the start of the European Film Market of the 70th Berlinale (read the news), professionals from the French film industry have since revealed during the Berlin event a large array of new titles. We take a tour of the new announcements.Parisian company Incognita Films will produce Soumission by Guillaume Nicloux, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Michel Houellebecq, which should begin filming next September with Jean-Paul Rouve in the leading role.Mk2 Films has added several titles to its international sales line-up (news): The Love Letter from French director Jérôme Bonnell (in post-production), Petite Solange from Axelle Roppert...
Guillaume Nicloux, the French director of “Valley of Love,” is set to preside over the jury of the Arcs Film Festival, while the iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) will be the patron of the second edition of the Talent Village.
Created last year, the Talent Village is a development workshop and platform for emerging talents aimed at helping them make their feature debut. Huppert will succeed to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (“The Hunt”) who was the patron of the inaugural edition.
The festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, will also launch the Cinema Green Lab. Along the lines of its workshop program and award for women filmmakers, the Arcs festival will be hosting screenings of environment-themed movies, workshops discussing eco-friendly initiatives in the film industry, as well as panel discussions about ways to tackle these topics in fiction.
The Arcs fest will also hand out an award...
Created last year, the Talent Village is a development workshop and platform for emerging talents aimed at helping them make their feature debut. Huppert will succeed to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (“The Hunt”) who was the patron of the inaugural edition.
The festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, will also launch the Cinema Green Lab. Along the lines of its workshop program and award for women filmmakers, the Arcs festival will be hosting screenings of environment-themed movies, workshops discussing eco-friendly initiatives in the film industry, as well as panel discussions about ways to tackle these topics in fiction.
The Arcs fest will also hand out an award...
- 10/22/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The event takes place from December 14-21.
French director Guillaume Nicloux will head the jury of the 11th edition of the European cinema-focused Les Arcs Film Festival, which takes place Dec 14-21 in the French ski resort.
Meanwhile, Oscar-nominated actor Isabelle Huppert has been announced as the honorary “godmother” of its Talent Village, nurturing emerging directors.
Nicloux’s credits include The Nun, Valley Of Love and most recently Thalasso (aka Just Great) starring Gerard Depardieu and cult French writer Michel Houellebecq as two dissolute men who meet in a health spa in a Northern French seaside resort.
Past jury presidents...
French director Guillaume Nicloux will head the jury of the 11th edition of the European cinema-focused Les Arcs Film Festival, which takes place Dec 14-21 in the French ski resort.
Meanwhile, Oscar-nominated actor Isabelle Huppert has been announced as the honorary “godmother” of its Talent Village, nurturing emerging directors.
Nicloux’s credits include The Nun, Valley Of Love and most recently Thalasso (aka Just Great) starring Gerard Depardieu and cult French writer Michel Houellebecq as two dissolute men who meet in a health spa in a Northern French seaside resort.
Past jury presidents...
- 10/18/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The French director will chair the competition jury at the 11th Les Arcs Film Festival, while the world-famous actress will be the patron of the Talent Village. The ten features duking it out for the Crystal Arrow at the 11th Les Arcs Film Festival (14-21 December 2019) will be weighed up by a jury chaired by French filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux. The identities of the other jury members and the festival’s programme will be unveiled in Paris on 4 November. Meanwhile, the second edition of the Talent Village, which supports young filmmakers in their endeavours to make their feature debuts (see the news), will be blessed with a patron with an undeniable aura of prestige in the form of Isabelle Huppert, who will come along to share her experience and talk to them about their projects.As...
- 10/17/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Berlin — The Berlin Festival’s Drama Series Days wrapped Wednesday after three days of intense panels, screenings and an affirmation of the robust growth of Europe’s higher-end drama series production. As the Berlin Festival looks to a future under new directors, one fairly safe prediction is that its TV strand, already boasting packed-to-the -rafters audiences for its key sessions, will only get bigger. Following, five takeaways from its 5th edition:
Netflix
Amazon made the running at Sundance, but Netflix ruled business news flow in Berlin, at least through Wednesday afternoon. With its first film in Berlin competition, Isabel Coixet’s “Elisa & Marcela,” an at-least 49-exec delegation and its own panel at Berlin’s Drama Series Days, during the course of the Berlin Film Festival, Netflix unveiled 12 new Original Series and seven new Original Movies out of international, from Spain (five new series), Mexico, Germany and Norway (one series).
The...
Netflix
Amazon made the running at Sundance, but Netflix ruled business news flow in Berlin, at least through Wednesday afternoon. With its first film in Berlin competition, Isabel Coixet’s “Elisa & Marcela,” an at-least 49-exec delegation and its own panel at Berlin’s Drama Series Days, during the course of the Berlin Film Festival, Netflix unveiled 12 new Original Series and seven new Original Movies out of international, from Spain (five new series), Mexico, Germany and Norway (one series).
The...
- 2/13/2019
- by John Hopewell and Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
C’est Extra
France’s Guillaume Nicloux begins his fifteenth feature film C’est Extra by reuniting with two of his previous headliners, Michel Houellebecq and Gerard Depardieu. Produced by Sylvie Pialat and Benoit Quainon of Les Films du Worso, Nicloux’s title will also be co-produced by Wild Bunch. Nicloux has steadily been directing features since 1991, but has come into international renown over the past five years or so. Previously competing in Locarno with 1992’s La Vie Crevee (The Dead Life), Nicloux competed in Berlin with his 2013 remake of Rivette’s The Nun and took home a Best Screenplay win in Tribeca for The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq.…...
France’s Guillaume Nicloux begins his fifteenth feature film C’est Extra by reuniting with two of his previous headliners, Michel Houellebecq and Gerard Depardieu. Produced by Sylvie Pialat and Benoit Quainon of Les Films du Worso, Nicloux’s title will also be co-produced by Wild Bunch. Nicloux has steadily been directing features since 1991, but has come into international renown over the past five years or so. Previously competing in Locarno with 1992’s La Vie Crevee (The Dead Life), Nicloux competed in Berlin with his 2013 remake of Rivette’s The Nun and took home a Best Screenplay win in Tribeca for The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq.…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Company to unveil new films by Rebecca Zlotowski, Guillaume Nicloux and Roschdy Zem during Paris Rendez-vous in January.
Wild Bunch will kick-off sales on a quartet of new French films during the Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris in January including a coming-of-age tale by Rebecca Zlotowski, starring glamour girl and lingerie designer Zahia Dehar, and Guillaume Nicloux’s new collaboration with cult writer Michel Houellebecq and Gérard Depardieu.
Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl co-stars debutant actress Mina Farid as the naïve 16-year-old Naïma, whose eyes are opened to the world of love, sex and human relationships over a summer...
Wild Bunch will kick-off sales on a quartet of new French films during the Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris in January including a coming-of-age tale by Rebecca Zlotowski, starring glamour girl and lingerie designer Zahia Dehar, and Guillaume Nicloux’s new collaboration with cult writer Michel Houellebecq and Gérard Depardieu.
Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl co-stars debutant actress Mina Farid as the naïve 16-year-old Naïma, whose eyes are opened to the world of love, sex and human relationships over a summer...
- 12/20/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Cold WarDear Danny, Given that Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature was perhaps the most unfairly dismissed entry in last year’s competition, I’m glad to hear that Donbass proved rewarding. I missed it myself, having spent most of the third day trekking down the Croisette to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs (Directors' Fortnight) and the Semaine de la Critique (Critics' Week) festivals, the latter of which offered little worth discussing thus far. Still, I'm glad I made the short journey, since the two Quinzaine selections were challenging and compelling in ways I hadn't anticipated. But let's start with two competitions entries, both of which turned out to be quasi-musicals of a sort. The first: Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto (Summer), centered around the burgeoning underground scene of the Leningrad Rock Club in the early 1980s—“a cardboard England in a Baltic swamp," as Mike (Roman Bilyk), the popular frontman of one...
- 5/20/2018
- MUBI
The wartime backdrop may be 1945 Indochina rather than 1969 Vietnam, but “Apocalypse Eventually” would be an apt alternative title for “To the Ends of the World,” Guillaume Nicloux’s deliberate, elliptical and startlingly carnal vision of a rogue French soldier’s vengeful heart-of-darkness quest. Sewn through with horrifying imagery of brutality and decay — yet not specifically an anti-war film so much as a personal probe into the toxifying properties of unresolved grief — this formally impressive but pristinely unpleasant provocation extends themes explored in Nicloux’s previous two films, “Valley of Love” and “The End.” Yet it finds a more robust cinematic language for its philosophical wanderings than either of those curiosities, with cinematographer David Ungaro’s ravishing jungle vistas practically causing sweat to bead on the screen. That semi-epic scope, coupled with the star presence of Gaspard Ulliel and recent Nicloux regular Gérard Depardieu, should beef up distributor interest in a...
- 5/11/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Guillaume Nicloux’s Platoon-style drama about the French presence in south-east Asia is suitably violent, but also flirts with macho cliche
Guillaume Nicloux is the director of that rather extraordinary comedy The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, in which the famous author created what amounted to a bizarre 94-minute cameo as himself, and also the bittersweet autumnal drama Valley of Love, with Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu. Now he has brought to the Director’s Fortnight section in Cannes an extremely confident and undeniably well-made Vietnam war movie, with something of Oliver Stone’s Platoon, except with the French in the role of the doomed occupying force, which in the 1940s preceded that of the Americans. The movie uses the term “Indochine” or “Indochina” in the opening titles, a colonial-era phrase, now rather frowned on, and predating the modern south-east Asia.
Guillaume Nicloux is the director of that rather extraordinary comedy The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, in which the famous author created what amounted to a bizarre 94-minute cameo as himself, and also the bittersweet autumnal drama Valley of Love, with Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu. Now he has brought to the Director’s Fortnight section in Cannes an extremely confident and undeniably well-made Vietnam war movie, with something of Oliver Stone’s Platoon, except with the French in the role of the doomed occupying force, which in the 1940s preceded that of the Americans. The movie uses the term “Indochine” or “Indochina” in the opening titles, a colonial-era phrase, now rather frowned on, and predating the modern south-east Asia.
- 5/10/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Distributor plans autumn release following deal with Pathe International.
Strand Releasing has picked up North American rights to Souvenir starring Isabelle Huppert and Kevin Azaïs.
Bavo Defurne directed the film, which concerns a former singer who works in a factory and whose days of glory appear to be behind her.
When a co-worker discovers her talent he persuades her to hit the road for a comeback tour and a budding romance ensues.
Strand distributed Defurne’s previous feature North Sea Texas as well as his short films.
The distributor is no stranger to Huppert either, having released Anne Fontaine’s My Worst Nightmare, Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley Of Love, and Catherine Breillat’s Abuse Of Weakness.
Strand plans an autumn release and negotiated the deal with Pathe International. Bonjour Pictures, Frakas Productions, Deal Productions, and Avenue B Productions produced Souvenir.
“This film is making an amazing journey and I think Souvenir comes to the Us at the...
Strand Releasing has picked up North American rights to Souvenir starring Isabelle Huppert and Kevin Azaïs.
Bavo Defurne directed the film, which concerns a former singer who works in a factory and whose days of glory appear to be behind her.
When a co-worker discovers her talent he persuades her to hit the road for a comeback tour and a budding romance ensues.
Strand distributed Defurne’s previous feature North Sea Texas as well as his short films.
The distributor is no stranger to Huppert either, having released Anne Fontaine’s My Worst Nightmare, Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley Of Love, and Catherine Breillat’s Abuse Of Weakness.
Strand plans an autumn release and negotiated the deal with Pathe International. Bonjour Pictures, Frakas Productions, Deal Productions, and Avenue B Productions produced Souvenir.
“This film is making an amazing journey and I think Souvenir comes to the Us at the...
- 6/9/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
As the film distribution landscape keeps evolving, distributors of foreign language fare in the United States are struggling to keep up with a brave new world. French cinema, a niche favorite of American audiences for decades, is struggling to stay in the game — and right now, its future is uncertain.
“Ten years ago, we had more success at the box office,” Isabelle Giordano, the Executive Director of UniFrance, recently told IndieWire. “We have to admit that the situation is not as good as it was then.”
But it’s not for lack of effort. Thanks to a number of initiatives headed up by UniFrance – a government-supported body that operates with the sole aim of promoting French cinema throughout the world – French films are fighting to find new life at the U.S. box office.
Per Deadline, ticket sales in foreign markets for French titles dipped to $35 million in 2016, down 69% from...
“Ten years ago, we had more success at the box office,” Isabelle Giordano, the Executive Director of UniFrance, recently told IndieWire. “We have to admit that the situation is not as good as it was then.”
But it’s not for lack of effort. Thanks to a number of initiatives headed up by UniFrance – a government-supported body that operates with the sole aim of promoting French cinema throughout the world – French films are fighting to find new life at the U.S. box office.
Per Deadline, ticket sales in foreign markets for French titles dipped to $35 million in 2016, down 69% from...
- 3/9/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Isabelle Huppert (Courtesy: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
The best actress Oscar race might seem like a showdown between La La Land’s Emma Stone and Jackie’s Natalie Portman, but Elle’s Isabelle Huppert is proving to be quite the upset. Should Huppert actually snag an Oscar nomination this year, shockingly it would be a first for the French thespian. If Huppert has flown under the Academy’s radar, who else out there is considered the best of the best and hasn’t had a chance to win Hollywood’s biggest award?
Our latest indication of Huppert’s surprise domination this awards season was at the Golden Globes when the 63-year-old won for best actress in a drama and bested Portman — Stone was nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy. Further catapulting Huppert in the best actress Oscar standings was Elle being named best foreign-language film,...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
The best actress Oscar race might seem like a showdown between La La Land’s Emma Stone and Jackie’s Natalie Portman, but Elle’s Isabelle Huppert is proving to be quite the upset. Should Huppert actually snag an Oscar nomination this year, shockingly it would be a first for the French thespian. If Huppert has flown under the Academy’s radar, who else out there is considered the best of the best and hasn’t had a chance to win Hollywood’s biggest award?
Our latest indication of Huppert’s surprise domination this awards season was at the Golden Globes when the 63-year-old won for best actress in a drama and bested Portman — Stone was nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy. Further catapulting Huppert in the best actress Oscar standings was Elle being named best foreign-language film,...
- 1/12/2017
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
Isabelle Huppert on Elle: "I never worked with a trained cat before." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, Mia Hansen-Løve's Things To Come (L’Avenir), and Paul Verhoeven's Elle have one thing in common - Isabelle Huppert. Metrograph in New York honoured Huppert by programming Catherine Breillat's Abuse Of Weakness (Abus De faiblesse); Claire Denis' White Material; Ursula Meier's Home; Hal Hartley's Amateur; Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher and Hong Sang-soo's In Another Country.
Isabelle Huppert with Metrograph's Aliza Ma Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Isabelle spoke with Aliza Ma at Metrograph, following the screening of In Another Country about what two of her latest films have in common:
Isabelle Huppert: In both films there is a cat. In Things To Come it's a very, very big cat. Very heavy like an elephant. In Elle [France's Foreign Language Oscar submission] is a very different cat.
Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, Mia Hansen-Løve's Things To Come (L’Avenir), and Paul Verhoeven's Elle have one thing in common - Isabelle Huppert. Metrograph in New York honoured Huppert by programming Catherine Breillat's Abuse Of Weakness (Abus De faiblesse); Claire Denis' White Material; Ursula Meier's Home; Hal Hartley's Amateur; Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher and Hong Sang-soo's In Another Country.
Isabelle Huppert with Metrograph's Aliza Ma Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Isabelle spoke with Aliza Ma at Metrograph, following the screening of In Another Country about what two of her latest films have in common:
Isabelle Huppert: In both films there is a cat. In Things To Come it's a very, very big cat. Very heavy like an elephant. In Elle [France's Foreign Language Oscar submission] is a very different cat.
- 12/4/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As underwhelming a year as 2016 has been in the eyes of many critics and cineastes alike, that can’t be said for the work of actress Isabelle Huppert. With at least four genuinely superb performances in films like Valley Of Love, Elle and Louder Than Bombs (along with one we will be talking about at length here), 2016 has proven to be a banner year for the underrated actress. Oscar buzz has surrounded her work in the Paul Verhoeven-directed Elle, and art house rats are seemingly given new reason to embrace her and her work at an almost quarterly rate. And yet there’s one performance that has both gone underrated and yet may be one of her most rewarding from this new period in her career.
In Things To Come, Huppert stars as a strong-willed philosophy teacher named Nathalie, who has helped raise a beautiful and well-to-do family with her husband Heinz.
In Things To Come, Huppert stars as a strong-willed philosophy teacher named Nathalie, who has helped raise a beautiful and well-to-do family with her husband Heinz.
- 12/2/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
In the flurry of year-end lists and awards that greet us every December, one always stands out: John Waters’, which appears annually in Artforum. The cult filmmaker has once again shared his top-10 list, which is led this year by “Krisha,” a “hilariously harrowing portrait of a family reunion ruined by an alcoholic relative and too many dogs” that the “Pink Flamingos” director says is “told with verve and lunacy.”
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ALso making the cut: an “exceptional piece of investigative reporting” (“Tickled”), “the best accidentally gay movie ever made by a known heterosexual director” (“Everybody Wants Some!!”) and two featuring “the best actress in the whole wide world” (“Elle” and “Valley of Love”). Find the full list below, and read all of Waters’ comments at Artforum.
Read More: John Waters on ‘Multiple Maniacs,’ His Favorite...
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ALso making the cut: an “exceptional piece of investigative reporting” (“Tickled”), “the best accidentally gay movie ever made by a known heterosexual director” (“Everybody Wants Some!!”) and two featuring “the best actress in the whole wide world” (“Elle” and “Valley of Love”). Find the full list below, and read all of Waters’ comments at Artforum.
Read More: John Waters on ‘Multiple Maniacs,’ His Favorite...
- 12/1/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The best of 2016 lists keep on coming and today we have what is certainly the most eclectic. As he does every year, John Waters has named his favorite films of the last 12 months. Ranging from the ultra-obscure to the arthouse to one studio feature, it’s another varied batch of movies to either put on your radar or revisit. Topping the list is one of the year’s most overlooked films, Trey Edward Shults‘ debut Krisha, which he calls, “hilariously harrowing.”
Also on the list is Richard Linklater‘s Everybody Wants Some!! (“the best accidentally gay movie ever made by a known heterosexual director”), Todd Solondz‘s Wiener Dog (“nasty, blunt, rude, and full of hideous surprises”), Paul Verhoeven‘s Elle, Pedro Almodóvar‘s Julieta (“If Hitchcock had actually understood women, might he not have made this serious and absolutely stunning hellodrama about female longing and loneliness?”), and more.
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Also on the list is Richard Linklater‘s Everybody Wants Some!! (“the best accidentally gay movie ever made by a known heterosexual director”), Todd Solondz‘s Wiener Dog (“nasty, blunt, rude, and full of hideous surprises”), Paul Verhoeven‘s Elle, Pedro Almodóvar‘s Julieta (“If Hitchcock had actually understood women, might he not have made this serious and absolutely stunning hellodrama about female longing and loneliness?”), and more.
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- 12/1/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Pixar’s Dory is catch of the day, while Isabelle Huppert is on a roll with Valley of Love
We’re in the “last of the summer wine” phase of the DVD release calendar, with the qualifier that this summer’s harvest was a pretty thin one. Finding Dory (Disney, U) and Jason Bourne (Universal, 12) were hardly the most offensive rehashes of the season, but months on, they already feel like supersized footnotes – capably dotting i’s and crossing t’s on what has gone before, without bringing urgent new ideas to the table.
Pixar’s aqua-bright Finding Nemo sequel at least tries a shift in emphasis, elevating Ellen DeGeneres’s disarmingly addled clownfish sidekick to protagonist status, and neatly reversing the 2003 film’s arc by tracing her search for her long-lost parents. That aside, it’s gentle-natured business as before, mixing home-is-where-the-heart-is sentiment with elaborate pratfalls in the great...
We’re in the “last of the summer wine” phase of the DVD release calendar, with the qualifier that this summer’s harvest was a pretty thin one. Finding Dory (Disney, U) and Jason Bourne (Universal, 12) were hardly the most offensive rehashes of the season, but months on, they already feel like supersized footnotes – capably dotting i’s and crossing t’s on what has gone before, without bringing urgent new ideas to the table.
Pixar’s aqua-bright Finding Nemo sequel at least tries a shift in emphasis, elevating Ellen DeGeneres’s disarmingly addled clownfish sidekick to protagonist status, and neatly reversing the 2003 film’s arc by tracing her search for her long-lost parents. That aside, it’s gentle-natured business as before, mixing home-is-where-the-heart-is sentiment with elaborate pratfalls in the great...
- 11/27/2016
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
As Kirsten Dunst gears up for her directorial debut next year with an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s landmark 1963 novel The Bell Jar, she’s been expanding her cast. With Dakota Fanning on board to lead as Esther Greenwood, Jesse Plemons recently joined, and now ScreenDaily reports that Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette, Bel Powley (The Diary Of A Teenage Girl) and Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac) have all been added to the ensemble. The story follows Greenwood, who suffers from a mental illness, returning to her Boston home after interning at a magazine in New York City. Production begins early next year for a hopeful festival premiere later in 2017.
In other cast expansions, production has now begun on David Robert Mitchell‘s follow-up to It Follows, the Andrew Garfield-led modern-day noir thriller Under the Silver Lake. We got word earlier this week that Riley Keough (American Honey, Mad Max: Fury Road) had...
In other cast expansions, production has now begun on David Robert Mitchell‘s follow-up to It Follows, the Andrew Garfield-led modern-day noir thriller Under the Silver Lake. We got word earlier this week that Riley Keough (American Honey, Mad Max: Fury Road) had...
- 11/4/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
John Waters, a big fan of Isabelle Huppert, star of Valley Of Love, Elle and Things To Come Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Cristian Mungiu's (Beyond The Hills and 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days)Graduation (Bacalaureat) with Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar and Malina Manovici; Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, starring Dave Johns and Hayley Squires; Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Mia Hansen-Løve's (Goodbye First Love and Eden) Things To Come (L’Avenir) are four early highlights of the 54th New York Film Festival.
In Elle, shot by Stéphane Fontaine (Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Rust And Bone written by Thomas Bidegain), Anne Consigny, Laurent Lafitte, Judith Magre, and Charles Berling make up a smashing ensemble cast. Things to Come features Edith Scob, André Marcon, and Roman Kolinka with costumes by Rachèle Raoult (Jalil Lespert's Yves Saint Laurent and Léos Carax's Holy Motors) filmed...
Cristian Mungiu's (Beyond The Hills and 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days)Graduation (Bacalaureat) with Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar and Malina Manovici; Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, starring Dave Johns and Hayley Squires; Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Mia Hansen-Løve's (Goodbye First Love and Eden) Things To Come (L’Avenir) are four early highlights of the 54th New York Film Festival.
In Elle, shot by Stéphane Fontaine (Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Rust And Bone written by Thomas Bidegain), Anne Consigny, Laurent Lafitte, Judith Magre, and Charles Berling make up a smashing ensemble cast. Things to Come features Edith Scob, André Marcon, and Roman Kolinka with costumes by Rachèle Raoult (Jalil Lespert's Yves Saint Laurent and Léos Carax's Holy Motors) filmed...
- 9/4/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Isabelle Huppert stars on stage in Phaedra(s) and films - Elle and Things to Come Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Guillaume Nicloux's bewitching Valley Of Love star Isabelle Huppert in 2013 presented Abuse Of Weakness with Catherine Breillat at the New York Film Festival. This year she has two films - Paul Verhoeven's Elle with Laurent Lafitte and Anne Consigny, based on the novel by Philippe Djian with a screenplay by David Birke, and also Mia Hansen-Løve's Things To Come (L’Avenir) with André Marcon and Edith Scob.
Isabelle Huppert in Phaedra(s)
In 2014, Isabelle Huppert performed on stage with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki in New York during the Lincoln Center Festival in the Sydney Theater Company production of Jean Genet's The Maids, directed by Benedict Andrews at City Center.
This year she will star in Phaedra(s), directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski with text composed of excerpts...
Guillaume Nicloux's bewitching Valley Of Love star Isabelle Huppert in 2013 presented Abuse Of Weakness with Catherine Breillat at the New York Film Festival. This year she has two films - Paul Verhoeven's Elle with Laurent Lafitte and Anne Consigny, based on the novel by Philippe Djian with a screenplay by David Birke, and also Mia Hansen-Løve's Things To Come (L’Avenir) with André Marcon and Edith Scob.
Isabelle Huppert in Phaedra(s)
In 2014, Isabelle Huppert performed on stage with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki in New York during the Lincoln Center Festival in the Sydney Theater Company production of Jean Genet's The Maids, directed by Benedict Andrews at City Center.
This year she will star in Phaedra(s), directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski with text composed of excerpts...
- 8/18/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Alice Winocour on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut: "The first scene where we see Nicole Kidman wearing this fabulous dress, with Tom Cruise going to the party." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Augustine and Disorder (Maryland) director Alice Winocour, co-writer of Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang, talked Beauty And The Beast, Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte, Vincent Lindon meeting Matthias Schoenaerts, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on holiday, Pascaline Chavanne's costumes for Diane Kruger, Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone (De Rouille Et D'Os) with Thomas Bidegain, and alluding to David Lynch's Lost Highway and William Holden.
Alice Winocour with Valley Of Love's Guillaume Nicloux, A Decent Man's Emmanuel Finkiel, The Great Game's Nicolas Pariser and Melvil Poupaud
Vincent, a troubled Afghanistan veteran, after being discharged from the army, becomes bodyguard to the wife (Kruger) and young son Ali (Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant) of a wealthy Lebanese businessman (Percy Kemp...
Augustine and Disorder (Maryland) director Alice Winocour, co-writer of Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang, talked Beauty And The Beast, Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte, Vincent Lindon meeting Matthias Schoenaerts, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on holiday, Pascaline Chavanne's costumes for Diane Kruger, Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone (De Rouille Et D'Os) with Thomas Bidegain, and alluding to David Lynch's Lost Highway and William Holden.
Alice Winocour with Valley Of Love's Guillaume Nicloux, A Decent Man's Emmanuel Finkiel, The Great Game's Nicolas Pariser and Melvil Poupaud
Vincent, a troubled Afghanistan veteran, after being discharged from the army, becomes bodyguard to the wife (Kruger) and young son Ali (Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant) of a wealthy Lebanese businessman (Percy Kemp...
- 8/13/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Alice Winocour on Disorder: "I thought also about Carpenter's films, the sound."
Following her enticing and spirited debut, Augustine, Alice Winocour again proves that she can package troubled states of mind in lush images and strong plots. Disorder (Maryland), written with Jean-Stéphane Bron, stars Matthias Schoenaerts (Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone) and Diane Kruger with Paul Hamy (Katell Quillévéré's Suzanne, Maïwenn's My King), Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant, and Percy Kemp.
Vincent: "What is frightening for the character is to not have control over his own body."
Pascaline Chavanne's costumes (Jacques Doillon's Rodin, Emmanuelle Bercot's Standing Tall, Christophe Honore's Métamorphoses), Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte, Vincent Lindon, László Nemes's Son Of Saul, Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, Michel Houellebecq's Submission, Julien Lacheray's editing, Gesaffelstein's sound, John Carpenter, David Lynch's Lost Highway and William Holden -...
Following her enticing and spirited debut, Augustine, Alice Winocour again proves that she can package troubled states of mind in lush images and strong plots. Disorder (Maryland), written with Jean-Stéphane Bron, stars Matthias Schoenaerts (Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone) and Diane Kruger with Paul Hamy (Katell Quillévéré's Suzanne, Maïwenn's My King), Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant, and Percy Kemp.
Vincent: "What is frightening for the character is to not have control over his own body."
Pascaline Chavanne's costumes (Jacques Doillon's Rodin, Emmanuelle Bercot's Standing Tall, Christophe Honore's Métamorphoses), Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte, Vincent Lindon, László Nemes's Son Of Saul, Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, Michel Houellebecq's Submission, Julien Lacheray's editing, Gesaffelstein's sound, John Carpenter, David Lynch's Lost Highway and William Holden -...
- 8/11/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
★★★★☆ Rarely do we get treated to a moment so surprisingly amusing as the vision of Gérard Depardieu sporting a breezy, pineapple speckled button-up shirt and a baseball cap. It's one of the precious moments of levity in Valley of Love that help to lift the spirits of this otherwise beautifully melancholic yarn of two parents, now separated, meeting in Death Valley at the request of their now-deceased son. Caps and pineapple print shirts, more sartorially American than French, are a few of the ways director Guillaume Nicloux shorthands the oddity and discomfort his leads experience as strangers in a strange land, in search of the unknown.
- 8/11/2016
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Making any film in the Mojave desert would be difficult – never mind with a wine-swigging, naked Depardieu in tow. Valley of Love director Guillaume Nicloux explains how he did it
In Valley of Love, the new film from French director Guillaume Nicloux, Gérard Depardieu heaves his massive, sweating bulk around in the searing heat of Death Valley in eastern California, where temperatures regularly top 49C (120F). Perched on the edge of the Mojave desert, and notoriously among the hottest, driest places on the planet, Death Valley would appear to be one of the most hostile environments possible to make a film. Even if you don’t – as Depardieu has admitted doing – chug more than a dozen bottles of wine a day.
Nicloux, who at 50 resembles a steeple-fingered intellectual of the old school, from his precise, considered diction to his frowning, high-foreheaded mien, says that, while it was tough, it encouraged a kind of existential phlegmatism.
In Valley of Love, the new film from French director Guillaume Nicloux, Gérard Depardieu heaves his massive, sweating bulk around in the searing heat of Death Valley in eastern California, where temperatures regularly top 49C (120F). Perched on the edge of the Mojave desert, and notoriously among the hottest, driest places on the planet, Death Valley would appear to be one of the most hostile environments possible to make a film. Even if you don’t – as Depardieu has admitted doing – chug more than a dozen bottles of wine a day.
Nicloux, who at 50 resembles a steeple-fingered intellectual of the old school, from his precise, considered diction to his frowning, high-foreheaded mien, says that, while it was tough, it encouraged a kind of existential phlegmatism.
- 7/28/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Nicolas Pariser, Alice Winocour, Melvil Poupaud, Mathieu Lamboley, uniFrance President Jean-Paul Salomé Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Melvil Poupaud walked the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema red carpet with The Great Game (Le Grand Jeu) director Nicolas Pariser, Disorder's Alice Winocour, Julie Delpy's Lolo composer Mathieu Lamboley, Bang Gang's Eva Husson, A Decent Man's Emmanuel Finkiel, John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Aurélia Thiérrée with Guillaume Nicloux and his Valley Of Love star Isabelle Huppert.
Joseph Paskin (André Dussollier) Pierre Blum (Melvil Poupaud)
Oscar Isaac in Jc Chandor's A Most Violent Year, Alain Delon in Valerio Zurlini's Indian Summer (Le Professeur), Benoît Jacquot's Closet Children (Les Enfants Du Placard), Marguerite Duras, Eric Rohmer, Xavier Dolan, Justine Triet, Fan Bingbing, and his Great Game co-stars Clémence Poésy and André Dussollier - these and more entered into a kind of Lacanian conversation with Melvil Poupaud at the Parker Meridien in New York.
Melvil Poupaud walked the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema red carpet with The Great Game (Le Grand Jeu) director Nicolas Pariser, Disorder's Alice Winocour, Julie Delpy's Lolo composer Mathieu Lamboley, Bang Gang's Eva Husson, A Decent Man's Emmanuel Finkiel, John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Aurélia Thiérrée with Guillaume Nicloux and his Valley Of Love star Isabelle Huppert.
Joseph Paskin (André Dussollier) Pierre Blum (Melvil Poupaud)
Oscar Isaac in Jc Chandor's A Most Violent Year, Alain Delon in Valerio Zurlini's Indian Summer (Le Professeur), Benoît Jacquot's Closet Children (Les Enfants Du Placard), Marguerite Duras, Eric Rohmer, Xavier Dolan, Justine Triet, Fan Bingbing, and his Great Game co-stars Clémence Poésy and André Dussollier - these and more entered into a kind of Lacanian conversation with Melvil Poupaud at the Parker Meridien in New York.
- 7/15/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In a new interview with Screen Daily, Mia Hansen-Løve mentioned two new projects either on her mind or in the works: “Maya,” which will star her “Things to Come” and “Eden” collaborator Roman Kolinka, and another film “inspired partly” by her husband Olivier Assayas. Assayas, himself a filmmaker, recently premiered “Personal Shopper” at Cannes.
Read More: ‘Fire At Sea’ Takes Golden Bear At Berlin Film Festival, Mia Hansen-Love Wins Best Director And More
The two have been married since 2009 and have a daughter named Vicky. Hansen-Løve has drawn inspiration from her personal life more than once, including her recent film, “Eden,” which is based on her brother Sven’s experiences in the world of electronic music; he co-wrote the script with her. “Things to Come,” which premiered in Berlin (where Hansen-Løve won the Silver Bear for Best Director), stars Isabelle Huppert as a character based loosely on the writer/director’s mother.
Read More: ‘Fire At Sea’ Takes Golden Bear At Berlin Film Festival, Mia Hansen-Love Wins Best Director And More
The two have been married since 2009 and have a daughter named Vicky. Hansen-Løve has drawn inspiration from her personal life more than once, including her recent film, “Eden,” which is based on her brother Sven’s experiences in the world of electronic music; he co-wrote the script with her. “Things to Come,” which premiered in Berlin (where Hansen-Løve won the Silver Bear for Best Director), stars Isabelle Huppert as a character based loosely on the writer/director’s mother.
- 7/12/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
Leave it to a Romanian director to make a movie that best expresses the dangers of the dyed-in-the-wool mindset of modern America. Culled partly from historical documents, Aferim! is a twisted history lesson whose messages transcend its insular time period of 19th-century Romania. Its story concerns Constable Costandin (Teodor Corban) and his son, Ionita (Mihai Comanoiu), who chase after a wanted Gypsy slave...
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
Leave it to a Romanian director to make a movie that best expresses the dangers of the dyed-in-the-wool mindset of modern America. Culled partly from historical documents, Aferim! is a twisted history lesson whose messages transcend its insular time period of 19th-century Romania. Its story concerns Constable Costandin (Teodor Corban) and his son, Ionita (Mihai Comanoiu), who chase after a wanted Gypsy slave...
- 6/24/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a potential relationship between two men over the course of a weekend, whereas its successor considers the opposite extreme. Again sticking to a tight timeframe, the film chronicles the six days leading up to a couple’s 45th wedding anniversary.
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a potential relationship between two men over the course of a weekend, whereas its successor considers the opposite extreme. Again sticking to a tight timeframe, the film chronicles the six days leading up to a couple’s 45th wedding anniversary.
- 6/17/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
This is Isabelle Huppert’s world, we all just happen to have the glorious honor of living in it.
After starring in the beautiful and moving Valley Of Love which finally hit theaters a handful of weeks ago, screens across the country are once again blessed with her beauty and talent thanks to the newest, and arguably greatest, film from director Joachim Trier. Best known for his critically beloved debut Reprise and his Cannes darling Oslo, August 31st, Trier is back with his first English-language picture, the understated and seemingly misunderstood (just look at the absurd and off base Rotten Tomatoes score) Louder Than Bombs.
Huppert takes on the role of photographer Isabelle Reed who we see through flashbacks, as her family is still reeling from her death in a tragic car accident two years prior. The film actually opens with the starting of a new life, as we see her eldest son,...
After starring in the beautiful and moving Valley Of Love which finally hit theaters a handful of weeks ago, screens across the country are once again blessed with her beauty and talent thanks to the newest, and arguably greatest, film from director Joachim Trier. Best known for his critically beloved debut Reprise and his Cannes darling Oslo, August 31st, Trier is back with his first English-language picture, the understated and seemingly misunderstood (just look at the absurd and off base Rotten Tomatoes score) Louder Than Bombs.
Huppert takes on the role of photographer Isabelle Reed who we see through flashbacks, as her family is still reeling from her death in a tragic car accident two years prior. The film actually opens with the starting of a new life, as we see her eldest son,...
- 4/8/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
With his three features across the last decade — Reprise, Oslo, August 31st, and Louder Than Bombs — Norwegian director Joachim Trier has handled the battle of inner demons with a vibrant poignancy that few other filmmakers can match. His English-language debut, which enters limited release this weekend, follows a father (Gabriel Byrne) and two sons (Devin Druid) and (Jesse Eisenberg) as they navigate life after the death of the family’s matriarch (Isabelle Huppert, appearing in flashbacks.)
It’s a immensely well-acted drama that strings seemingly minor occurrences together for an ultimately significant emotional catharsis. I had the opportunity to speak with Trier about his approach to storytelling, taking on American culture, what he learned after turning down over 70 scripts, working with Jesse Eisenberg and Isabelle Huppert, his love for Andrei Tarkovsky, and much more. Check out the conversation below.
The Film Stage: Louder Than Bombs takes a non-linear approach in structure,...
It’s a immensely well-acted drama that strings seemingly minor occurrences together for an ultimately significant emotional catharsis. I had the opportunity to speak with Trier about his approach to storytelling, taking on American culture, what he learned after turning down over 70 scripts, working with Jesse Eisenberg and Isabelle Huppert, his love for Andrei Tarkovsky, and much more. Check out the conversation below.
The Film Stage: Louder Than Bombs takes a non-linear approach in structure,...
- 4/6/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
From Sophie’s Choice to My Sister’s Keeper, child loss has been the subject of everything from prestige Oscar pictures to Ya drivel. It’s an understandable focus, for there are few more intrinsically emotional narrative foundations than parents coping with the loss of a child. And whether those characters are together or separated, that loss serves as both a shared crucible and a uniting force.
Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love pares this scenario down to its most elemental sediments, brings in two international superstars with a loaded onscreen history, and the rest nearly takes care of itself. Valley of Love lives and dies on the caliber of its actors, and the film is certainly in good hands with Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, two performers who haven’t been together since Maurice Pialat’s Loulou but have careers that, together, span every major auteur constellation across the globe.
Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love pares this scenario down to its most elemental sediments, brings in two international superstars with a loaded onscreen history, and the rest nearly takes care of itself. Valley of Love lives and dies on the caliber of its actors, and the film is certainly in good hands with Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, two performers who haven’t been together since Maurice Pialat’s Loulou but have careers that, together, span every major auteur constellation across the globe.
- 3/25/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Playing divorced parents embarking on a strange journey into Death Valley, Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu bring an easy chemistry and rich shared experience to Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love, opening today in the States from Strand. They both play famous actors, one a skeptic and one a life-after-death believer, yoked together on a road trip conceived by their son, who committed suicide in San Francisco several months earlier. He’s written them both letters and given them a map to seven locations, telling them in his posthumously received correspondence that he’ll appear to them at one of the stops. The premise […]...
- 3/25/2016
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. There are a few contenders out there for the biggest French star in the world. Vincent Cassel and Mathieu Amalric have enduring international appeal, Juliette Binoche is an auteurist favorite, and a new generation of actors like Jean Dujardin, Lea Seydoux, and Omar Sy are increasingly having as much success in the U.S. as they are at home. But if we're talking about cinematic legends — truly prolific, popular actors — the safest bets might be Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu. Across decades-long careers, the two actors have earned enormous acclaim, won virtually every prize available, and had every A-list director around the world lining up to work with them. They've only worked together twice, however, in 1974's "Going Places" and 1980's "Loulou," which makes their reunion 30 years on in Cannes competition entry "Valley Of Love" a major event.
- 3/24/2016
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
It strikes me as peculiar that Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, two of the French cinema's titans, each appearing in hundreds of films (Depardieu 217 films, Huppert 126 to date according to imdb), had previously worked together in just 2 films - Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuse (1974) where young Huppert had a supporting role and Maurice Pialat's great Loulou (1980). But some 36 years later, they are together again in Guillaume Nicloux (Kidnapping of Michel Huellebecq, The Nun)'s Valley of Love, a film that takes place in Death Valley, playing themselves, well, sort of. Deeply anchored by these two veteran actors' chemistry, the film is much more than a coy, reflexive exercise in celeb-dom but a deeply affecting drama about grief and a physical manifestation...
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- 3/24/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Grief is both one of the most discussed topics within motion pictures, and yet it’s a theme that is more often than not done with poor execution. Either too slight to matter in any deeply emotional or intellectual level or played in a pitch so shrill that calling it melodrama would be treating it kindly, this is a topic deserving a nuanced and assured hand from everyone involved, from director to his or her cast. And thankfully, Guillaume Nicloux’s latest film plays this theme beautifully.
Entitled Valley of Love Nicloux is back with yet another film (he’s ostensibly directed a film or done work in TV at a pace of one every two years or better since the early portion of his career in the early 1990s) and takes on the theme of grief with two of the best actors of their generation. The film introduces us to Isabelle and Gerard,...
Entitled Valley of Love Nicloux is back with yet another film (he’s ostensibly directed a film or done work in TV at a pace of one every two years or better since the early portion of his career in the early 1990s) and takes on the theme of grief with two of the best actors of their generation. The film introduces us to Isabelle and Gerard,...
- 3/24/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Valley of Love star Isabelle Huppert Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special, starring Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst and Jaeden Lieberher, prompted Isabelle Huppert to bring up Mud in our conversation on Guillaume Nicloux's haunting Valley Of Love. Anaïs Romand, George Cukor's The Women with Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell and Woody Allen's Magic In The Moonlight came to mind.
Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, last seen on the screen together in Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), play a long divorced couple brought together by the death of their son. Similar in effect to what Nicloux did with The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, fictional plot and biographical details merge so that in the end, only truth matters, once it has made its way through fact and fiction.
Isabelle Huppert: "For me, it's a great film about cinema ..."
Huppert, whose character is never named, arrives first in Death Valley.
Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special, starring Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst and Jaeden Lieberher, prompted Isabelle Huppert to bring up Mud in our conversation on Guillaume Nicloux's haunting Valley Of Love. Anaïs Romand, George Cukor's The Women with Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell and Woody Allen's Magic In The Moonlight came to mind.
Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, last seen on the screen together in Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), play a long divorced couple brought together by the death of their son. Similar in effect to what Nicloux did with The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, fictional plot and biographical details merge so that in the end, only truth matters, once it has made its way through fact and fiction.
Isabelle Huppert: "For me, it's a great film about cinema ..."
Huppert, whose character is never named, arrives first in Death Valley.
- 3/21/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Guillaume Nicloux and Isabelle Huppert at the Valley of Love premiere Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Emmanuel Finkiel (Je Ne Suis Pas Un salaud), Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang co-writer Alice Winocour (Disorder), Nicolas Pariser and his star Melvil Poupaud (Le Grand Jeu) and Bang Gang (Une Histoire D'Amour Moderne) director Eva Husson joined Guillaume Nicloux and Isabelle Huppert on the red carpet.
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, Alfred Hitchcock casting James Bond Sean Connery for Marnie, Gianfranco Rosi's Sacro Gra and The End with Gérard Depardieu, came up in my conversation with the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opening night film director, Guillaume Nicloux.
Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in Valley Of Love
A long divorced couple, played by Depardieu and Huppert, meet up in Death Valley after their son committed suicide months earlier. They each received a letter promising them that if...
John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Emmanuel Finkiel (Je Ne Suis Pas Un salaud), Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang co-writer Alice Winocour (Disorder), Nicolas Pariser and his star Melvil Poupaud (Le Grand Jeu) and Bang Gang (Une Histoire D'Amour Moderne) director Eva Husson joined Guillaume Nicloux and Isabelle Huppert on the red carpet.
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, Alfred Hitchcock casting James Bond Sean Connery for Marnie, Gianfranco Rosi's Sacro Gra and The End with Gérard Depardieu, came up in my conversation with the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opening night film director, Guillaume Nicloux.
Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in Valley Of Love
A long divorced couple, played by Depardieu and Huppert, meet up in Death Valley after their son committed suicide months earlier. They each received a letter promising them that if...
- 3/19/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jeff Nichols: "Who doesn't want to follow Sam Shepard around?" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Marguerite director Xavier Giannoli told me that on Paris posters for Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols is proclaimed the new Steven Spielberg. At the Warner Bros. tea, hosted by Michael Shannon with Kirsten Dunst and Jaeden Lieberher, I spoke with the director about following Sam Shepard, Adam Driver in Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts and Erin Benach's costumes. She also worked with Derek Cianfrance on The Place Beyond The Pines and his upcoming The Light Between Oceans, starring Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz. I told Jeff that Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu would make for a interesting supernatural companion piece to his film.
Sam Shepard as Calvin Meyer: "Their belief system that they built around the boy is very selfish."
In a spectacular race against time, often in the dark,...
Marguerite director Xavier Giannoli told me that on Paris posters for Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols is proclaimed the new Steven Spielberg. At the Warner Bros. tea, hosted by Michael Shannon with Kirsten Dunst and Jaeden Lieberher, I spoke with the director about following Sam Shepard, Adam Driver in Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts and Erin Benach's costumes. She also worked with Derek Cianfrance on The Place Beyond The Pines and his upcoming The Light Between Oceans, starring Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz. I told Jeff that Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu would make for a interesting supernatural companion piece to his film.
Sam Shepard as Calvin Meyer: "Their belief system that they built around the boy is very selfish."
In a spectacular race against time, often in the dark,...
- 3/18/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
There may be no living actor — excepting, say, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliette Binoche — who better represents world cinema than Isabelle Huppert. Her career has spanned from the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Pialat, and Michael Cimino to Hong Sang-soo, Mia Hansen-Løve, and Michael Haneke, to name but a solid handful, and so it’s only natural that her visit to a film festival — New York’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, in this case, for her starring role in Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love — would spur a career-spanning discussion.
And now one can hear it for themselves! The Film Society of Lincoln Center have shared the audio of a recent, live event on their podcast, The Close-Up, in which Huppert discusses the particular path she’s taken towards international superstardom while fielding numerous questions from the audience. There’s a second, posted as part of The Film Comment Podcast, that...
And now one can hear it for themselves! The Film Society of Lincoln Center have shared the audio of a recent, live event on their podcast, The Close-Up, in which Huppert discusses the particular path she’s taken towards international superstardom while fielding numerous questions from the audience. There’s a second, posted as part of The Film Comment Podcast, that...
- 3/10/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
John Waters on Isabelle Huppert: "It's amazing, she gets in the skin of whoever it is." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Us première of Valley Of Love, Guillaume Nicloux's searing portrait of a long divorced couple (Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert), John Waters recalled Bertrand Blier's Going Places (Les Valseuses) as his first Isabelle experience, Catherine Breillat's Abuse Of Weakness (Abus De Faiblesse), and wishing he had seen her in Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire or Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, or Jean Genet's The Maids with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki.
The next morning over coffee, I shared greetings from her Tip Top director Serge Bozon and Mrs. Hyde, where Isabelle will star with Romain Duris and Depardieu. At the French Embassy after party celebrating 25 years of French electronic music with DJs Busy P, Boston Bun, Superpoze and Jacques, she tried to answer John Waters earlier posed question.
At the Us première of Valley Of Love, Guillaume Nicloux's searing portrait of a long divorced couple (Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert), John Waters recalled Bertrand Blier's Going Places (Les Valseuses) as his first Isabelle experience, Catherine Breillat's Abuse Of Weakness (Abus De Faiblesse), and wishing he had seen her in Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire or Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, or Jean Genet's The Maids with Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Debicki.
The next morning over coffee, I shared greetings from her Tip Top director Serge Bozon and Mrs. Hyde, where Isabelle will star with Romain Duris and Depardieu. At the French Embassy after party celebrating 25 years of French electronic music with DJs Busy P, Boston Bun, Superpoze and Jacques, she tried to answer John Waters earlier posed question.
- 3/6/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Valley Of Love Us première Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The day before the opening night New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema screening of Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, attended by John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Emmanuel Finkiel (A Decent Man), Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang co-writer Alice Winocour (Disorder), Nicolas Pariser and his star Melvil Poupaud (The Great Game), I met with Eva Husson for a conversation on her debut feature Bang Gang (Une Histoire D'Amour Moderne).
Eva Husson with Valley Of Love director Guillaume Nicloux Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Tara Subkoff's teenage #Horror, Ben Affleck, a cat and Gillian Flynn, author of David Fincher's Gone Girl, Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street, Cervantes, C.G. Jung, Dostoyevsky, Homer, and a Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Van Gogh connection bring us into the present.
Two best friends, teenagers Laetitia (Daisy Broom...
The day before the opening night New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema screening of Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, attended by John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Emmanuel Finkiel (A Decent Man), Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang co-writer Alice Winocour (Disorder), Nicolas Pariser and his star Melvil Poupaud (The Great Game), I met with Eva Husson for a conversation on her debut feature Bang Gang (Une Histoire D'Amour Moderne).
Eva Husson with Valley Of Love director Guillaume Nicloux Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Tara Subkoff's teenage #Horror, Ben Affleck, a cat and Gillian Flynn, author of David Fincher's Gone Girl, Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street, Cervantes, C.G. Jung, Dostoyevsky, Homer, and a Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Van Gogh connection bring us into the present.
Two best friends, teenagers Laetitia (Daisy Broom...
- 3/5/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Lincoln Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
As Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert opens this year's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York tonight, here are four more highlights. Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel are brilliant in Maïwenn's My King (Mon Roi) with Isild Le Besco and Two Friends (Deux Amis) director Louis Garrel. Garrel's film, co-written with Christophe Honoré, stars Golshifteh Farahani (Asghar Farhadi's About Elly), Vincent Macaigne and Garrel.
Isabelle Carré, Karin Viard, Denis Lavant (of Léos Carax's Holy Motors fame) and André Dussollier in Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu's alluring 21 Nights With Pattie (21 Nuits Avec Pattie) and Catherine Corsini's hot Summertime (La Belle Saison) Izïa Higelin, Cécile de France and Noémie Lvovsky with a score by Grégoire Hetzel (composer of Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room) add to the early bird highlights.
As Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert opens this year's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York tonight, here are four more highlights. Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel are brilliant in Maïwenn's My King (Mon Roi) with Isild Le Besco and Two Friends (Deux Amis) director Louis Garrel. Garrel's film, co-written with Christophe Honoré, stars Golshifteh Farahani (Asghar Farhadi's About Elly), Vincent Macaigne and Garrel.
Isabelle Carré, Karin Viard, Denis Lavant (of Léos Carax's Holy Motors fame) and André Dussollier in Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu's alluring 21 Nights With Pattie (21 Nuits Avec Pattie) and Catherine Corsini's hot Summertime (La Belle Saison) Izïa Higelin, Cécile de France and Noémie Lvovsky with a score by Grégoire Hetzel (composer of Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room) add to the early bird highlights.
- 3/3/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Greeted with predominantly mixed-to-negative reviews at Cannes, Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love — tonight’s Opening Night selection of this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema — hit me so strongly I had to read up afterwards. Whatever the obvious problems with this movie may be didn’t register with me, so reading the notices helped. This isn’t a case of non-arthouse-friendly viewers finding a movie too slow and boring, but there are, I suppose, some obvious hurdles with this film. It starts as naturalism and unexpectedly keeps left-turning into mysticism, turns too jarring and ill-fitting for some (but, by definition, can’t movies turn […]...
- 3/3/2016
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
With the 2015 awards season finally wrapped up, we can now genuinely look towards the year ahead. This month brings a handful of long-awaited festival hold-overs from last year, as well as a few promising studio titles. It should also be noted that essential restorations of Late Spring (3/4), River of Grass (3/11), A Brighter Summer Day (3/11), and Fireworks Wednesday (3/16) will be coming to select cities (and some beyond). If you’re in New York City, we’ll also be getting the grand opening of a new arthouse cinema — the Lower East Side’s Metrograph, which is dedicated to a mix of repertory and new releases.
Matinees to See: Songs My Brothers Taught Me (3/2), The Wave (3/4), Boy and the Beast (3/4), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (3/4), Creative Control (3/11), Eye in the Sky (3/11), Hello, My Name is Doris (3/11), Lolo (3/11), Marguerite (3/11), Remember (3/11), Hyena Road (3/11), The Little Prince (3/18), Too Late (3/18), The Program (3/18), and Born to be Blue (3/25).
10. Take Me to the River...
Matinees to See: Songs My Brothers Taught Me (3/2), The Wave (3/4), Boy and the Beast (3/4), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (3/4), Creative Control (3/11), Eye in the Sky (3/11), Hello, My Name is Doris (3/11), Lolo (3/11), Marguerite (3/11), Remember (3/11), Hyena Road (3/11), The Little Prince (3/18), Too Late (3/18), The Program (3/18), and Born to be Blue (3/25).
10. Take Me to the River...
- 3/2/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Big winners also included Oscar nominee Mustang and local box office hit Margurite.
Philippe Faucon’s contemporary immigrant drama Fatima won best film at France’s César ceremony in Paris on Friday, beating hot favourites Marguerite, My Golden Years, and Oscar nominee Mustang as well as Palme d’Or winner Dheepan.
The picture — based on the semi-autobiographical works of Fatima Elayoubi about an illiterate North African woman adapting to life in France — also won Césars for best upcoming actress for Zita Hanot and best adaptation for Faucon.
As was the case last year, when Abderrahmane Sissako’s timely exploration of Islamic extremism of Timbuktu swept the board, the votes of 4,276-strong César academy appear to have been influenced in part by events in France, which like many countries across Europe is preoccupied with immigration and the reality of its ethnic minorities.
Other winners on Friday night included foreign language Oscar nominee Mustang and local box office hit [link...
Philippe Faucon’s contemporary immigrant drama Fatima won best film at France’s César ceremony in Paris on Friday, beating hot favourites Marguerite, My Golden Years, and Oscar nominee Mustang as well as Palme d’Or winner Dheepan.
The picture — based on the semi-autobiographical works of Fatima Elayoubi about an illiterate North African woman adapting to life in France — also won Césars for best upcoming actress for Zita Hanot and best adaptation for Faucon.
As was the case last year, when Abderrahmane Sissako’s timely exploration of Islamic extremism of Timbuktu swept the board, the votes of 4,276-strong César academy appear to have been influenced in part by events in France, which like many countries across Europe is preoccupied with immigration and the reality of its ethnic minorities.
Other winners on Friday night included foreign language Oscar nominee Mustang and local box office hit [link...
- 2/27/2016
- ScreenDaily
Three Sisters (Les Trois Soeurs) director and star of Paolo Virzi's Human Capital, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opens with Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert. Jacques Audiard's Cannes Palme d’Or winner Dheepan closes the festival. Melvil Poupaud, Julie Delpy, Alice Winocour, Diane Kruger, Maïwenn, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Eva Husson, Rudi Rosenberg, Emmanuel Finkiel, Danielle Arbid, Nicolas Pariser, Clémence Poésy, Nabil Ayouch, Grégoire Hetzel, Mathieu Lamboley, Alain Resnais' composer Mark Snow, Huppert, Nicloux and Bruni Tedeschi are expected to attend.
Bercot's Standing Tall (Catherine Deneuve, Sara Forestier, Benoît Magimel, Rod Paradot); Winocour’s Disorder (Diane Kruger, Matthias Schoenaerts); Pariser's The Great Game (André Dussollier, Poésy) and Bruni Tedeschi's Three Sisters with cinematographer Simon Beaufils - who also brilliantly shot Paolo Virzi's study of capitalism in crisis Human Capital - are four of the early bird highlights.
This year's New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opens with Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert. Jacques Audiard's Cannes Palme d’Or winner Dheepan closes the festival. Melvil Poupaud, Julie Delpy, Alice Winocour, Diane Kruger, Maïwenn, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Eva Husson, Rudi Rosenberg, Emmanuel Finkiel, Danielle Arbid, Nicolas Pariser, Clémence Poésy, Nabil Ayouch, Grégoire Hetzel, Mathieu Lamboley, Alain Resnais' composer Mark Snow, Huppert, Nicloux and Bruni Tedeschi are expected to attend.
Bercot's Standing Tall (Catherine Deneuve, Sara Forestier, Benoît Magimel, Rod Paradot); Winocour’s Disorder (Diane Kruger, Matthias Schoenaerts); Pariser's The Great Game (André Dussollier, Poésy) and Bruni Tedeschi's Three Sisters with cinematographer Simon Beaufils - who also brilliantly shot Paolo Virzi's study of capitalism in crisis Human Capital - are four of the early bird highlights.
- 2/26/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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