Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival, there are a handful of films out of the hundreds selected to screen that just completely pass us by. Sometimes those pictures turn out to be hidden gems, while others are overlooked for a reason. However, in the case of "Beyond The Reach" (originally titled "The Reach"), maybe it didn't even need to screen at Tiff at all. It's every bit a b-movie thriller, not a prestige pic, but that doesn't matter as it looks like a decent slice of sun-baked fun. Michael Douglas and Jeremy Irvine star in the movie, directed by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti ("Carré blanc"), that centers on a massively successful businessman and expert tracker who goes on a hunting trip out in the Mojave Desert with a young guide. However, when the millionaire accidentally kills someone, the kid becomes his next target. A simple premise, and maybe not the brainiest the flick,...
- 2/5/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Michael Douglas will produce and star in the thriller "The Reach" at Furthur Films and Good Universe.
Based on Robb White’s novel "Deathwatch," Douglas will play an arrogant businessman and big game hunter in pursuit of his ultimate prize who hires a young guide to lead him into the American desert.
After he shoots and kills an innocent man, a game of cat-and-mouse unfolds when the guide refuses to take part in a cover-up.
Jean Baptiste Léonetti ("Carré Blanc") will direct from a script by Stephen Susco. Douglas and Robert Mitas are producing.
Source: Screen Daily...
Based on Robb White’s novel "Deathwatch," Douglas will play an arrogant businessman and big game hunter in pursuit of his ultimate prize who hires a young guide to lead him into the American desert.
After he shoots and kills an innocent man, a game of cat-and-mouse unfolds when the guide refuses to take part in a cover-up.
Jean Baptiste Léonetti ("Carré Blanc") will direct from a script by Stephen Susco. Douglas and Robert Mitas are producing.
Source: Screen Daily...
- 5/8/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Carré Blanc
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
Written by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
France, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Leonetti’s Carre Blanc marks the arrival of someone who promises to be an emerging new talent in genre filmmaking in France. With that said, his directorial debut comes off as a somewhat jejune undergraduate rhetoric about consumerism and corporate supremacy. Leonetti shows confidence in his direction, a marriage of French cuisine with a Russian setting, but the film adds nothing new to the genre. Influences appear to range from Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Orwell, Kafka and most clearly Tarkovsky, but the director cites George Lucas’s Thx-1138 as his prime source of guidance. Ask him about the politics and Leonetti will reply, “this is not a political film, I have no solutions, no answer, this is simply a love story.”
Carre Blanc is a mild success, based solely on his distinctive aesthetic. Leonetti crafts his film with precision,...
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
Written by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
France, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Leonetti’s Carre Blanc marks the arrival of someone who promises to be an emerging new talent in genre filmmaking in France. With that said, his directorial debut comes off as a somewhat jejune undergraduate rhetoric about consumerism and corporate supremacy. Leonetti shows confidence in his direction, a marriage of French cuisine with a Russian setting, but the film adds nothing new to the genre. Influences appear to range from Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Orwell, Kafka and most clearly Tarkovsky, but the director cites George Lucas’s Thx-1138 as his prime source of guidance. Ask him about the politics and Leonetti will reply, “this is not a political film, I have no solutions, no answer, this is simply a love story.”
Carre Blanc is a mild success, based solely on his distinctive aesthetic. Leonetti crafts his film with precision,...
- 8/2/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Carré Blanc
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
Written by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
France, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Leonetti’s Carre Blanc marks the arrival of someone who promises to be an emerging new talent in genre filmmaking in France. With that said, his directorial debut comes off as a somewhat jejune undergraduate rhetoric about consumerism and corporate supremacy. Leonetti shows confidence in his direction, a marriage of French cuisine with a Russian setting, but the film adds nothing new to the genre. Influences appear to range from Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Orwell, Kafka and most clearly Tarkovsky, but when asked what his major inspiration was, Leonetti cites George Lucas’s Thx-1138 as his prime source of guidance. Ask him about the politics and Leonetti will reply, “this is not a political film, I have no solutions, no answer, this is simply a love story.”
Carre Blanc is a mild success, based solely on his distinctive aesthetic.
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
Written by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
France, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Leonetti’s Carre Blanc marks the arrival of someone who promises to be an emerging new talent in genre filmmaking in France. With that said, his directorial debut comes off as a somewhat jejune undergraduate rhetoric about consumerism and corporate supremacy. Leonetti shows confidence in his direction, a marriage of French cuisine with a Russian setting, but the film adds nothing new to the genre. Influences appear to range from Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Orwell, Kafka and most clearly Tarkovsky, but when asked what his major inspiration was, Leonetti cites George Lucas’s Thx-1138 as his prime source of guidance. Ask him about the politics and Leonetti will reply, “this is not a political film, I have no solutions, no answer, this is simply a love story.”
Carre Blanc is a mild success, based solely on his distinctive aesthetic.
- 7/29/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Up until last year, film festivals had always been a bit of a mystery to me. I had gone to a few conventions before and been shown advanced screenings of films, but to actually go to an event where all you did was watch films seemed a bit beyond my reach. Didn’t help either that I had never really lived in areas with affordable or frequent festivals. That is, up until last year when I was introduced to AFI Fest. They hooked me in with free tickets and the promise of engaging cinema from around the world. To say I had fun is a bit of an understatement. As the credits to the last film rolled, I decided that I would come back next year in a more professional manner and write about it.
Which brings us to now. AFI Fest 2011 Presented by Audi is a little over a...
Which brings us to now. AFI Fest 2011 Presented by Audi is a little over a...
- 10/24/2011
- by Jonathan Hardesty
- Flickchart
Chantal Akerman (center), Almayer's Folly World Cinema Selections Almayer's Folly: Chantal Akerman loosely adapts Joseph Conrad’s novel set in Malaysia, the tragic tale of a failed European trader and his "mixed blood" daughter. Dir Chantal Akerman. Cast Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andrianasolo. Belgium/France. U.S. Premiere. Alps: Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a tale of a group offering an unusual service for grieving families: They inhabit the role of the recently deceased. Dir Yorgos Lanthimos. Scr Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou. Cast Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Ariane Labed, Johnny Vekris. Greece/France. U.S. Premiere. CARRÉ Blanc: One of the strongest debuts in years, CARRÉ Blanc is a dystopian sci-fi vision of a world with limited resources and limitless cruelty. Dir/Scr Jean-Baptiste Léonetti. Cast Sami Bouajila, Julie Gayet, Jean-Pierre Andreani, Fejria Deliba, Valerie Bodson. France/Luxembourg/Russia/Belgium/Switzerland. The Day He Arrives:...
- 10/23/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Carré Blanc
Written and directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonettie
2011, France
The world of Carré Blanc is a desolate expanse of concrete housing complexes. A square emblem, representative of a nameless, faceless state entity, is emblazoned everywhere. Loudspeakers stationed at every street corner call out population statistics, urge residents to copulate, and endlessly extol the virtues of the sport of croquet. In an apartment building a woman argues with her son and hastens to defenestrate herself. Her body is quickly taken away and the boy is hustled off to live in a state school where he too tries but fails to commit suicide. Years later, the boy, Phillipe (Sami Bouajila) is the successful and confident hiring manager of an inscrutable business and his wife, Marie (Julie Gayet), walks the empty streets and appears generally unconvinced by the world she’s been indoctrinated into.
Ostensibly a dystopian-future film, Carré Blancis more accurately a minimalist,...
Written and directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonettie
2011, France
The world of Carré Blanc is a desolate expanse of concrete housing complexes. A square emblem, representative of a nameless, faceless state entity, is emblazoned everywhere. Loudspeakers stationed at every street corner call out population statistics, urge residents to copulate, and endlessly extol the virtues of the sport of croquet. In an apartment building a woman argues with her son and hastens to defenestrate herself. Her body is quickly taken away and the boy is hustled off to live in a state school where he too tries but fails to commit suicide. Years later, the boy, Phillipe (Sami Bouajila) is the successful and confident hiring manager of an inscrutable business and his wife, Marie (Julie Gayet), walks the empty streets and appears generally unconvinced by the world she’s been indoctrinated into.
Ostensibly a dystopian-future film, Carré Blancis more accurately a minimalist,...
- 9/28/2011
- by Emmet Duff
- SoundOnSight
Carré Blanc
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
Written by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
France, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Leonetti’s Carre Blanc marks the arrival of someone who promises to be an emerging new talent in genre filmmaking in France. With that said, his directorial debut comes off as a somewhat jejune undergraduate rhetoric about consumerism and corporate supremacy. Leonetti shows confidence in his direction, a marriage of French cuisine with a Russian setting, but the film adds nothing new to the genre. Influences appear to range from Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Orwell, Kafka and most clearly Tarkovsky, but when asked at the Q&A what his major inspiration was, Leonetti shrugged away the names mentioned above, and instead cited George Lucas’s Thx-1138 as his prime source of guidance. Ask him about the politics and Leonetti will reply, “this is not a political film, I have no solutions, no answer, this is simply a love story.
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
Written by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
France, 2011
Jean-Baptiste Leonetti’s Carre Blanc marks the arrival of someone who promises to be an emerging new talent in genre filmmaking in France. With that said, his directorial debut comes off as a somewhat jejune undergraduate rhetoric about consumerism and corporate supremacy. Leonetti shows confidence in his direction, a marriage of French cuisine with a Russian setting, but the film adds nothing new to the genre. Influences appear to range from Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Orwell, Kafka and most clearly Tarkovsky, but when asked at the Q&A what his major inspiration was, Leonetti shrugged away the names mentioned above, and instead cited George Lucas’s Thx-1138 as his prime source of guidance. Ask him about the politics and Leonetti will reply, “this is not a political film, I have no solutions, no answer, this is simply a love story.
- 9/17/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Age: 40 Hometown: Paris, France Why He's On Our Radar: The French director's feature-length debut, "Carré Blanc," premiered this week in the Discovery section at the Toronto International Film Festival. Set in a cold, satiric near-future where humanity is forced to smile on command, play croquet and procreate, the movie stars Sami Bouajila as a committed member of the totalitarian establishment who slowly wakes up from the spell. Well received ...
- 9/16/2011
- Indiewire
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Eye Of The Storm Trailer I like this kind of story, I do. It's familiar territory, to be sure, but if there's someone who I...
- 9/9/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
The 2011 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and will run until September 18th. Now you’re going to hear a lot about the celebrities in town, the parties going down and the massive queues, but at the end of the day Tiff is about the movies. And with over 330 movies playing this year, there’s definitely no shortage of films to choose from.
After much deliberation and careful calculation we’ve made our picks. Between the five of us covering the fest, we’re likely going to see close to 125 of the films playing Tiff this year. Yeah, it’s a lot of movies. Certainly more than can be listed here. So we’ve asked our writers to narrow it down to their top three picks.
You can find the full film line-up here, but here is what Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Zack Kotzer and Will Perkins think...
After much deliberation and careful calculation we’ve made our picks. Between the five of us covering the fest, we’re likely going to see close to 125 of the films playing Tiff this year. Yeah, it’s a lot of movies. Certainly more than can be listed here. So we’ve asked our writers to narrow it down to their top three picks.
You can find the full film line-up here, but here is what Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Zack Kotzer and Will Perkins think...
- 9/8/2011
- by Dork Shelf
- DorkShelf.com
It's a shaved down lucky seven, from last year's eleven titles that are the make-up of Tiff's Vanguard section and we've got some noteworthy films to point out including the world premiere to Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Headshot (see pic above) which promises to be a rather interesting cinematic experience. While last year we got such items as Monsters, Our Day Will Come and Adam Wingard's A Horrible Way to Die (he returns to the line-up this year in the Midnight Madness section), this edition appears to be a cut above, they've got a pair of excellent features we caught back in Cannes with Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31 (Un Certain Regard) and Justin Kurzel's Snowtown (Critics' Week). A highly touted item from Venice has also made the cut, and we're especially glad that we'll be able to see Tahar Rahim violently and emotionally lose it in Love and...
- 8/3/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Details are about Jean-Baptiste Léonetti's French dystopian flick are scant, but Twitch calls it "a slyly hilarious commentary on capitalism gone badly wrong." The satirical elements are certainly clear in this full trailer for the film, but there is also a pervasive darkness throughout, which stops this from being a laugh-out-loud black comedy.
The film's IMDb page takes a slightly blunter approach when describing the movie: "In the future, society's weak are killed and used for meat."
The film will screen at the 2011 Sitges Film Festival.
Enjoy the full trailer after the break.
Carré Blanc is Jean-Baptiste Léonetti's first feature scine his 2003 award winning short Le pays des Ours.
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The film's IMDb page takes a slightly blunter approach when describing the movie: "In the future, society's weak are killed and used for meat."
The film will screen at the 2011 Sitges Film Festival.
Enjoy the full trailer after the break.
Carré Blanc is Jean-Baptiste Léonetti's first feature scine his 2003 award winning short Le pays des Ours.
You might like: Mutants
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- 7/18/2011
- QuietEarth.us
How about a dose of dystopian sci-fi to start your week? Twitch has posted a very mesmerizing trailer for a French sci-fi film called Carré Blanc from filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Léonetti. It looks incredibly weird and twisted, but Twitch has seen it and has great things to say. Here's how they describe the film: "Carre Blanc is a near future arthouse science fiction picture that fuses the dark absurdism of Franz Kafka with the icily precise visuals of a Tarkovsky, the picture is a slyly hilarious commentary on capitalism gone badly wrong." Unfortunately it's in French without any subtitles, but it still looks great and intrigues me anyway. Watch the first official trailer for Jean-Baptiste Léonetti's Carre Blanc via Twitch: Here's the only IMDb logline: In the future, society's weak are killed and used for meat. Maybe that gives away too much? Carré Blanc is both written and directed by...
- 7/17/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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