Emmanuel Mouret’s “Love Affairs” won best film at the 26th Lumieres Awards, which are prizes given by France-based members of the foreign press. The film weaves together a series of romantic tales with an ensemble cast including Camelia Jordana and Niels Schneider.
This year, the ceremony became a televised event. The show was broadcast on Canal Plus and hosted by French journalists Laurie Cholewa and Laurent Weil with the participation of several voting journalists. The Lumieres event traditionally kicks off France’s awards season.
Filippo Meneghetti’s romance “Two of Us,” which represents France in the international feature film race at the Oscars, won two prizes, including best first film, and best actress for the duo Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa. The feature debut follows Nina and Madeleine, two pensioners who have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades and see their bond put to the test...
This year, the ceremony became a televised event. The show was broadcast on Canal Plus and hosted by French journalists Laurie Cholewa and Laurent Weil with the participation of several voting journalists. The Lumieres event traditionally kicks off France’s awards season.
Filippo Meneghetti’s romance “Two of Us,” which represents France in the international feature film race at the Oscars, won two prizes, including best first film, and best actress for the duo Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa. The feature debut follows Nina and Madeleine, two pensioners who have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades and see their bond put to the test...
- 1/19/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
There's a cool ambiguity to Stéphane Demoustier's French remake of Argentinian film The Accused - which sees a teenager standing trial for the murder of her friend.
The bracelet she has isn't jewellery but the tag Lise Batallie (Melissa Guers) is given to wear by police while she waits for her day in court. It's also an indication of what is going to come under scrutiny in the course of the film - not just the girl herself but what she is associated with. This is the sort of story that will be familiar to viewers of the likes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as the lifestyle of the accused is put on trial as much as her actions.
Lise doesn't betray her emotions much in the dock as she is questioned over the murder of her friend Flora by the prosecution (the director's sister Anaïs Demoustier) and defence.
The bracelet she has isn't jewellery but the tag Lise Batallie (Melissa Guers) is given to wear by police while she waits for her day in court. It's also an indication of what is going to come under scrutiny in the course of the film - not just the girl herself but what she is associated with. This is the sort of story that will be familiar to viewers of the likes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as the lifestyle of the accused is put on trial as much as her actions.
Lise doesn't betray her emotions much in the dock as she is questioned over the murder of her friend Flora by the prosecution (the director's sister Anaïs Demoustier) and defence.
- 6/22/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Titles include Cannes award-winner ‘On A Magical Night’ and courtroom drama ‘The Girl With A Bracelet’.
Curzon Artificial Eye has secured UK rights to Christophe Honoré’s Cannes award-winner On A Magical Night and Stéphane Demoustier’s courtroom drama The Girl With A Bracelet in a deal with Paris-based sales company Charades.
The distributor initially plans to release both exclusively on streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) later this month but intends to give each title theatrical screenings when cinemas reopen. While no date has yet been specified, it is anticipated that UK cinemas could reopen from July 4.
On A...
Curzon Artificial Eye has secured UK rights to Christophe Honoré’s Cannes award-winner On A Magical Night and Stéphane Demoustier’s courtroom drama The Girl With A Bracelet in a deal with Paris-based sales company Charades.
The distributor initially plans to release both exclusively on streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) later this month but intends to give each title theatrical screenings when cinemas reopen. While no date has yet been specified, it is anticipated that UK cinemas could reopen from July 4.
On A...
- 6/4/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Some foreign-language films arrive on the festival circuit so primed and ready for remake treatment that you practically expect a teaser trailer in the closing credits. Such was the case with last year’s “The Accused (Acusada),” an engrossing Argentine courtroom drama just classy enough to secure a Venice competition berth, and just lurid enough to get populist-minded producers twitching. Sure enough, less than a year after Gonzalo Tobal’s film premiered on the Lido, along comes a new, relocated version: The surprise, however, is that France has beaten Hollywood to the punch. Adapted and directed with taste and tact by Stéphane Demoustier, “The Girl With a Bracelet” retains many of the merits of its source, similarly building an old-fashioned did-she-or-didn’t-she mystery — revolving around a teenage girl on trial for murdering her best friend — into a more probing, ambiguity-laced psychological profile.
In certain respects, Demoustier’s crisply shot, precisely...
In certain respects, Demoustier’s crisply shot, precisely...
- 8/9/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Having seen large success with Cannes Critics’ Week and Annecy Cristal winner “I Lost My Body,” Paris-based Charades has confirmed its acquisition of international sales rights to “Maternal” (“Hogar”), written and directed by Italy’s Maura Delpero.
The awaited fiction feature debut of Delpero, a documentary filmmaker whose won a Donatello Award nomination for dock-feature “Nadja e Sveta,” “Maternal” will world premiere in main international competition at this year’s Locarno Festival, whose lineup was announced this Wednesday morning.
Memento Films Distribution, whose more recent releases include “Une Intime Conviction” and “Everybody Knows,” will handle “Maternal’s” distribution in France.
A second Charades sales title, already announced,“The Girl with a Bracelet,” will also world premiere at Locarno, this time in its Piazza Grande strand, which highlights potential audience-friendly movies and crossover fare.
Already scooping multiple awards at top development programs, such as the Arte International Prize, adjudicated by Arte France Cinema,...
The awaited fiction feature debut of Delpero, a documentary filmmaker whose won a Donatello Award nomination for dock-feature “Nadja e Sveta,” “Maternal” will world premiere in main international competition at this year’s Locarno Festival, whose lineup was announced this Wednesday morning.
Memento Films Distribution, whose more recent releases include “Une Intime Conviction” and “Everybody Knows,” will handle “Maternal’s” distribution in France.
A second Charades sales title, already announced,“The Girl with a Bracelet,” will also world premiere at Locarno, this time in its Piazza Grande strand, which highlights potential audience-friendly movies and crossover fare.
Already scooping multiple awards at top development programs, such as the Arte International Prize, adjudicated by Arte France Cinema,...
- 7/17/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A line-up of 22 projects were presented at first edition of event.
Azerbaijan-born Elmar Ivanov’s debut feature End Of Season took home the main award of €20,000 in postproduction services from Mmc Film & TV Studios at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip) in Germany’s Cologne last week (October 10).
“We really need this prize!” said Ivanov who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan last autumn.
He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May presented footage at Ewip to find support...
Azerbaijan-born Elmar Ivanov’s debut feature End Of Season took home the main award of €20,000 in postproduction services from Mmc Film & TV Studios at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip) in Germany’s Cologne last week (October 10).
“We really need this prize!” said Ivanov who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan last autumn.
He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May presented footage at Ewip to find support...
- 10/12/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
€20,000 in post services awarded to debut film from Elmar Ivanov.
End Of Season, the debut feature from Azerbaijan director Elmar Ivanov, won the main award of €20,000 in post-production services from Mmc Film & TV Studios, at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip), part of the Film Festival Cologne on Tuesday (October 11).
¨We really need this prize!¨ said Ivanov, who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan a year ago.
He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May had presented footage at...
End Of Season, the debut feature from Azerbaijan director Elmar Ivanov, won the main award of €20,000 in post-production services from Mmc Film & TV Studios, at the first edition of the new market platform European Work in Progress (Ewip), part of the Film Festival Cologne on Tuesday (October 11).
¨We really need this prize!¨ said Ivanov, who had shot the film about a family drama over 24 hours on location in his native Azerbaijan a year ago.
He and his partner Eva Blondiau of their company Color of May had presented footage at...
- 10/11/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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