Mia Hansen-Løve’s portrait of the travails of a middle-aged philosophy teacher is a plum acting vehicle for Isabelle Huppert It steers clear of crazy, extraordinary events to instead offer insights into how real people live and cope. The professor must dip into her subject matter to make sense of her life, and comes up sane. Folks expecting a feel-good satire about ‘goofy’ women can make do with Sally Field in Hello, My Name is Doris. Mia and Isabelle do well here.
Things to Come (2016)
Blu-ray
Mpi Media Group
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 102 min. / L’avenir / Street Date May 9, 2017 / 19.08
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard, Solal Forte, Elise Lhomeau, Lionel Dray-Rabotnik.
Cinematography: Denis Lenoir
Film Editor: Marion Monnier
Produced by Charles Gillibert
Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
French actress Isabelle Huppert had a great year in 2016, what with her Oscar nomination for Elle, a...
Things to Come (2016)
Blu-ray
Mpi Media Group
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 102 min. / L’avenir / Street Date May 9, 2017 / 19.08
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard, Solal Forte, Elise Lhomeau, Lionel Dray-Rabotnik.
Cinematography: Denis Lenoir
Film Editor: Marion Monnier
Produced by Charles Gillibert
Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
French actress Isabelle Huppert had a great year in 2016, what with her Oscar nomination for Elle, a...
- 5/23/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Having just been had the chance to shine at Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema last month, it may have flown under the radar and been passed over by the top tier film fests, but according to IndieWIRE, Zeitgeist Films’ extremely picky Emily Russo and Nancy Gerstman have chosen to adopt Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s My Friend Victoria. We briefly touched base with the project on last year’s Most Anticipated list; this is perhaps his longest time between features since he began making films and according to this interview, has been the most prosperous in term of box office back at home. My Friend Victoria will open in New York and Los Angeles in the early fall.
Gist: Adapted from a short story by Doris Lessing, this is about Victoria, a little black girl aged 8 who comes from a humble background, happens to spend the night...
Gist: Adapted from a short story by Doris Lessing, this is about Victoria, a little black girl aged 8 who comes from a humble background, happens to spend the night...
- 4/15/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Holy Motors
Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson | Written and Directed by Leos Carax
Some films are not made to be understood the first time you watch them. They are made for you to take away and think over, ponder what exactly they were trying to say, and maybe even take repeat viewings. These films are quite risky in a way because they tend to be looked upon as too artistic to ever be mainstream, or even a hit. Holy Motors is a film that takes a tight rope walk along the fine line between art house and popular culture and begs for you to take the dive and truly try to understand it.
Monsieur Oscar, the star of the piece steps into his white limousine at the of the film and is whisked away from role to role, in one he’s a monstrous tramp like figure,...
Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson | Written and Directed by Leos Carax
Some films are not made to be understood the first time you watch them. They are made for you to take away and think over, ponder what exactly they were trying to say, and maybe even take repeat viewings. These films are quite risky in a way because they tend to be looked upon as too artistic to ever be mainstream, or even a hit. Holy Motors is a film that takes a tight rope walk along the fine line between art house and popular culture and begs for you to take the dive and truly try to understand it.
Monsieur Oscar, the star of the piece steps into his white limousine at the of the film and is whisked away from role to role, in one he’s a monstrous tramp like figure,...
- 2/6/2013
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
Director: Leos Carax Writer: Leos Carax (screenplay) Starring: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Jeanne Disson, Elise Lhomeau Where can you see Eva Mendes and a naked leprechaun with an erection? How about simulated video game sex? Kylie Minogue doing a musical number? Chimpanzees? Yes, Holy Motors, of course. One can see all of the aforementioned wonders and [...]...
- 12/7/2012
- by Dirk Sonniksen
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Title: Holy Motors Indomina Pictures Director: Léos Carax Screenwriter: Léos Carax Cast: Denis Lavant, Èdith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Michel Piccoli, Jeanne Disson, Léos Carax Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 10/2/12 Opens: October 17, 2012 “Holy Motors” is destined to be the most bizarre movie most of us will see this year, an obvious choice for screening at the New York Film Festival which awards places to the most elite celluloid submitted to the judging panel. Here’s one guarantee: The public’s reaction will have three possibilities: they’ll love it, they’ll hate it, or their opinions will be somewhere between the two extremes. My own view is the [ Read More ]
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The post Holy Motors Movie Review appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 10/4/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
A gorgeous furry teacup of a film, Leos Carax's first feature in 13 years is a gripping surrealist odyssey that makes most other films look very buttoned-up
The French film-maker Leos Carax, director of Les Amants du Pont Neuf and Pola X, has made his first feature in 13 years, and it is a bizarre surrealist odyssey whose magic ingredient is comedy. This is a gorgeous furry teacup of a film, preposterous and filled with secrets; it is itself one big secret. Holy Motors is simultaneously immersive and alienating. The audience is forever being encouraged to forget about narrative sense and slip into a warm bath of unreason, but persistently jolted back out of it with non-sequiturs, accordion interludes, gags and unexpected chimps.
There is something very mad about this film, consumed with a ferociously eccentric need to let no windmill go untilted-at. When so many film-makers are content with what...
The French film-maker Leos Carax, director of Les Amants du Pont Neuf and Pola X, has made his first feature in 13 years, and it is a bizarre surrealist odyssey whose magic ingredient is comedy. This is a gorgeous furry teacup of a film, preposterous and filled with secrets; it is itself one big secret. Holy Motors is simultaneously immersive and alienating. The audience is forever being encouraged to forget about narrative sense and slip into a warm bath of unreason, but persistently jolted back out of it with non-sequiturs, accordion interludes, gags and unexpected chimps.
There is something very mad about this film, consumed with a ferociously eccentric need to let no windmill go untilted-at. When so many film-makers are content with what...
- 9/28/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Earlier in the year we posted some promising clips from Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Cannes selection Girls in Black (Des Filles en noir). The good girls gone bad drama stars Elise Caron and Elise Lhomeau as Noémie and Priscilla, “two 17-year-old girls from modest backgrounds, that harbour the same despair, the same disgust at the world and the same violence. These girls are a cause of concern to close relations and everyone around them, as they’re perhaps capable of anything.”
The clips we originally posted showed the girls dealing with getting in trouble but little of what earned them their brushes with authority but the trailer shines a little light, showing the girls in full vandalism mode and suggesting that there might be more lurking in the shadows.
Trailer after the break.
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The clips we originally posted showed the girls dealing with getting in trouble but little of what earned them their brushes with authority but the trailer shines a little light, showing the girls in full vandalism mode and suggesting that there might be more lurking in the shadows.
Trailer after the break.
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- 10/8/2010
- QuietEarth.us
My first thoughts after seeing Jean Paul Civeyrac's Des filles en noir is that you'd never find the equivalent in the U.S. The picture deals with an older pair of teens and their fascination with, and thoughts towards death and suicide - and there is this pitch perfect scene that addresses their possible individual fates on a tandem level. It's a smart, not so philosophical discussion without any baited material. What I particularly appreciated is that despite Elise Lhomeau and Léa Tissier's characters being all in black, the girls didn't have pure identifiable "labels" - basically want I'm trying to say they weren't goth chicks. After having seen the film in the morning screening, I stuck around for the the opening of the press conference. Elise Lhomeau, Léa Tissier and Civeyrac were present. ...
- 5/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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