Paladin and 108 Media have acquired all North American rights to Michel Gondry's “The We and the I” at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film had its North American premiere Friday. First screend at Cannes in May, “The We and the I” will open in theaters in New York and Toronto in March. The acquisition is the first since the two companies formed a new distribution partnership in August. Read More: Toronto 2012: What Eli Roth's Midnight Madness Vehicle 'Aftershock' Could Do for a Moribund Dimension Set on the last day of the school year, “The We and the I” follows a group of Bronx high school students riding a city bus on their way home as they interact with each other and expose their relationships, hardships and ambitions. Gondry, who workshopped the project with students at a Bronx after-school arts program, wrote the screenplay...
- 9/8/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
From the Residence Grand Hotel in Cannes, writer-director Michel Gondry talks to THR about his latest film, which opens the Director's Fortnight. Written by Gondry, Paul Proch and Jeff Grimshaw, the low-budget project The We and the I was developed from an idea by Gondry via a long workshop process with kids from The Point, a Bronx-based community program that provides exposure to arts and activism. View all of THR's Cannes video diaries here. Video by Jennifer Laski, Raphael Laski, Fabien Constant, Pablo Teyssier-Verger.
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- 5/18/2012
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With each new film, Michel Gondry falls further and further away from his Charlie Kaufman-scripted opus, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Here in Cannes with his new, chamber movie of sorts, The We and the I, the filmmaker continues a creative decline that appears to have no bottom.
The entirety of this tale takes place on a public bus in the New York City borough of the Bronx. For the majority of those on said bus, it’s the ride home after the last day of school. We’re introduced to these high-schoolers in what Gondry deems “Part 1: The Bullies,” as we watch the cool kids on the back of the bus pull pranks on everyone from an old white lady sitting next to them to their fellow, nerdier classmates. There will be two more parts, “Part 2: The Chaos and “Part 3: The I.”
These are not likable characters,...
The entirety of this tale takes place on a public bus in the New York City borough of the Bronx. For the majority of those on said bus, it’s the ride home after the last day of school. We’re introduced to these high-schoolers in what Gondry deems “Part 1: The Bullies,” as we watch the cool kids on the back of the bus pull pranks on everyone from an old white lady sitting next to them to their fellow, nerdier classmates. There will be two more parts, “Part 2: The Chaos and “Part 3: The I.”
These are not likable characters,...
- 5/18/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
After getting the brilliant first trailer for Michel Gondry’s next film, The We and the I, earlier this week, a great new poster has made its way online, featuring a colourful array of all the characters set against a backdrop of the New York City Subway Map.
The Oscar-winning Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is directing from a script he co-wrote with Jeffrey Grimshaw and Paul Proch, going with a cast of largely unknowns, and it looks like we have something to really look forward to here.
“The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates. As kids depart the bus for the last time, we get to learn about these graduates as they step into the world – their love, their conflicts, their despair and their hope.”
There have...
The Oscar-winning Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is directing from a script he co-wrote with Jeffrey Grimshaw and Paul Proch, going with a cast of largely unknowns, and it looks like we have something to really look forward to here.
“The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates. As kids depart the bus for the last time, we get to learn about these graduates as they step into the world – their love, their conflicts, their despair and their hope.”
There have...
- 5/17/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Like some Gallic version of Tim Burton, Michel Gondry's initial promise has given way to a series of films whose diminishing returns demonstrate that he's a talented visualist without the capacity for, or worse, any interest in, telling an actual story. Gondry's defenders will, of course, point to the excellent "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," but the passage of years has made it abundantly clear that the credit for that film is entirely screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's; Gondry may have gotten out of the way of that script, but that's hardly a reason to celebrate his skills or capablities, such as they are, beyond that. The messy "Be Kind, Rewind," the cutesy-creepy "The Science of Sleep," the noisome and needless "Green Hornet" ... Gondry's name above a title has gone from being a reason to seek a film to being a reason to shun it.
"The We and the I,...
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- 5/17/2012
- by James Rocchi
- The Playlist
For awhile we've heard various details about Michel Gondry's newest film The We and the I, which will be making its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this month (stay tuned right here for all of Alex's coverage). Previously we heard that the film would follow a group of unknown actors as a group of school kids who travel into the future by mistake and discover a machine that keeps people younger. Sounded like a Gondry film to us, but with the first trailer just revealed, this looks like a Spike Lee movie, but a bit more uplifting and with a coming-of-age charm at the heart of it. At the very least, it seems refreshing. Watch it! Here's the first trailer for Michel Gondry's The We and the I via Bleeding Cool: Michel Gondry directs The We and the I from a script that he wrote with Jeffrey Grimshaw...
- 5/15/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
After getting the first poster and a new set of images for Michel Gondry’s next film, The We and the I, earlier today, we’ve now got the great first trailer for the film ahead of its debut in the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes this week.
Penned by Gondry and debut writers Jeffrey Grimshaw and Paul Proch, the film stars a cast of largely unknowns, and this first trailer shows a lot of promise amongst them.
“The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates. As kids depart the bus for the last time, we get to learn about these graduates as they step into the world – their love, their conflicts, their despair and their hope.”
There’s been talk of sci-fi and time travel elements with the project, which...
Penned by Gondry and debut writers Jeffrey Grimshaw and Paul Proch, the film stars a cast of largely unknowns, and this first trailer shows a lot of promise amongst them.
“The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates. As kids depart the bus for the last time, we get to learn about these graduates as they step into the world – their love, their conflicts, their despair and their hope.”
There’s been talk of sci-fi and time travel elements with the project, which...
- 5/15/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Like most people, we’re big fans of Michel Gondry’s work, and his upcoming projects are always something to look forward to.
His next film, The We and the I, has been selected to open the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival this month, and now the first poster for the film has made its way online, as well as 12* new hi-res images.
The project is a little shrouded in mystery, with the following synopsis not revealing too much:
“The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates. As kids depart the bus for the last time, we get to learn about these graduates as they step into the world – their love, their conflicts, their despair and their hope.”
It’s thought that elements of time travel and/or...
His next film, The We and the I, has been selected to open the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival this month, and now the first poster for the film has made its way online, as well as 12* new hi-res images.
The project is a little shrouded in mystery, with the following synopsis not revealing too much:
“The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates. As kids depart the bus for the last time, we get to learn about these graduates as they step into the world – their love, their conflicts, their despair and their hope.”
It’s thought that elements of time travel and/or...
- 5/15/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
#90. The We and the I Director: Michel GondryWriters: Gondry, Paul Proch and Partizan's Jeffrey GrimshawProducers: Raffi Adlan and Georges BermannDistributor: Rights Available The Gist: There is no official synopsis yet, this is pieced from interviews @ ThePlaylist: Gondry’s team interviewed participants from youth programs at The Point, Go Girl, Bronx Defenders and area high schools, asking them to describe important moments in their lives, then to act out these stories, improvising short sketches. This centers on a group of school kids who accidentally travel into the future to discover another machine that keeps people younger. "It's about the group effect, how people in groups transform when the group is dislocated, because everyone jumps out of the bus at different times, there is a smaller group and how the relationships evolve."...(more) Cast: Non professional actors. List Worthy Reasons...: Combine the faux individual and group filmmaking inventiveness in Be Kind Rewind,...
- 1/4/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
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