Delete History (Effacer l'historique), the latest work from scrappy French iconoclasts Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern (I Feel Good, Near Death Experience), is at once a dramedy that dips into yellow-vest sentiment in suburban France; a farce about the digital world that surrounds us and seems to command us more than actually help us; and an all-round, utterly depressing movie about the world we live in today.
A slot in the Berlinale competition might offer this unusual filmmaking duo their highest level of international exposure yet, even if their wacky sense of humor and jerry-rigged-looking visuals will never be ...
A slot in the Berlinale competition might offer this unusual filmmaking duo their highest level of international exposure yet, even if their wacky sense of humor and jerry-rigged-looking visuals will never be ...
- 2/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Delete History (Effacer l'historique), the latest work from scrappy French iconoclasts Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern (I Feel Good, Near Death Experience), is at once a dramedy that dips into yellow-vest sentiment in suburban France; a farce about the digital world that surrounds us and seems to command us more than actually help us; and an all-round, utterly depressing movie about the world we live in today.
A slot in the Berlinale competition might offer this unusual filmmaking duo their highest level of international exposure yet, even if their wacky sense of humor and jerry-rigged-looking visuals will never be ...
A slot in the Berlinale competition might offer this unusual filmmaking duo their highest level of international exposure yet, even if their wacky sense of humor and jerry-rigged-looking visuals will never be ...
- 2/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A Golden Globe nomination for Rocketman for Best Picture, Musical or Comedy caps off a banner year for actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher, whose fourth feature at the helm—or “four and a half”, quips Fletcher, after he stepped in uncredited to salvage Bohemian Rhapsody last year—was also his highest grosser to date. Fletcher, who has worked as an actor since he was a young boy in films like Bugsy Malone, had long harbored dreams to direct when he made his indie debut with Wild Bill in 2011. A few years later, he landed high on Hollywood’s watchlist after his Elton John biopic, starring Taron Egerton as the musical legend, premiered at Cannes in May. But what makes him tick?
My First Film Lesson
You’re going back so far; I started acting when I was a kid. It seems trite to say, “you’ve got to know your lines,” but you do.
My First Film Lesson
You’re going back so far; I started acting when I was a kid. It seems trite to say, “you’ve got to know your lines,” but you do.
- 12/20/2019
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Blanche Gardin, Denis Podalydès and Corinne Masiero topline this production being staged by Les Films du Worso and sold by Wild Bunch. The shoot for Effacer l’historique (lit. “Delete the History”) by Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine has been in full swing since 29 July. This is the ninth feature by the directorial duo, following I Feel Good (unveiled on the Piazza Grande at last year’s Locarno Film Festival), Saint Amour (out of competition at Berlin in 2016), Nde (Near Death Experience), Le grand soir (Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2012), Mammuth (in competition at the 2010 Berlinale), Louise-Michel (Best Screenplay Award at San Sebastián in 2008 and Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2009), Avida (out of competition at Cannes in 2006) and Aaltra (in competition at Rotterdam in 2004). As for the cast of their new opus, the...
The one thing that unites all the films from oddball Francophone directors Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern (Saint-Amour, Near Death Experience) is that a mere plot setup can never prepare the viewer for what’s coming — even viewers who are familiar with all their eccentric, touching and frequently hilarious previous films.
Case in point: Their latest concoction is called I Feel Good and is ostensibly about a middle-aged woman with stringy hair and a sizable derriere who runs an idealistic version of a recycling center. One day in her rural nook of southern France, she’s visited ...
Case in point: Their latest concoction is called I Feel Good and is ostensibly about a middle-aged woman with stringy hair and a sizable derriere who runs an idealistic version of a recycling center. One day in her rural nook of southern France, she’s visited ...
- 10/5/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The one thing that unites all the films from oddball Francophone directors Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern (Saint-Amour, Near Death Experience) is that a mere plot setup can never prepare the viewer for what’s coming — even viewers who are familiar with all their eccentric, touching and frequently hilarious previous films.
Case in point: Their latest concoction is called I Feel Good and is ostensibly about a middle-aged woman with stringy hair and a sizable derriere who runs an idealistic version of a recycling center. One day in her rural nook of southern France, she’s visited ...
Case in point: Their latest concoction is called I Feel Good and is ostensibly about a middle-aged woman with stringy hair and a sizable derriere who runs an idealistic version of a recycling center. One day in her rural nook of southern France, she’s visited ...
- 10/5/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s been six years since Jean Dujardin improbably charmed his way to an Oscar for a sparkling star turn in “The Artist,” and since then, even the French film industry has struggled to make optimum use of the funnyman’s outsize, old-school screen presence. Drug thriller “The Connection” was a solid enough play-it-straight vehicle, but by the time Dujardin showed up as a digitally modified little person in the dubious 2016 romcom “Up for Love,” Michel Hazanavicius’s beguiling silent-film pastiche itself seemed ancient history. That “I Feel Good” finally hands Dujardin a role he can wrap his arms around is perhaps the greatest of its many offbeat pleasures; he repays Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s ultimately sunny anti-capitalist comedy with a performance of x-factor charm, yes, but also wounded human complexity.
Dujardin’s urbane star quality isn’t the likeliest of matches for Delépine and Kervern, a cheerfully...
Dujardin’s urbane star quality isn’t the likeliest of matches for Delépine and Kervern, a cheerfully...
- 8/11/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The 71st edition of the Swiss film festival closed with the awards ceremony on August 11.
Siew Hua Yeo’s second feature A Land Imagined has become the first film from Singapore to take home the top honour of the Golden Leopard in the history of the Locarno Festival.
The Singapore-France-Netherlands co-production, which received backing from Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund and Cnc’s World Cinema Fund, follows a police investigator who must find a missing migrant in industrial Singapore.
The International Competition jury headed by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke awarded the special jury prize to Yolande Zauberman’s documentary M,...
Siew Hua Yeo’s second feature A Land Imagined has become the first film from Singapore to take home the top honour of the Golden Leopard in the history of the Locarno Festival.
The Singapore-France-Netherlands co-production, which received backing from Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund and Cnc’s World Cinema Fund, follows a police investigator who must find a missing migrant in industrial Singapore.
The International Competition jury headed by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke awarded the special jury prize to Yolande Zauberman’s documentary M,...
- 8/11/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Courtney Hadwin won’t be back on “America’s Got Talent” till August 14 at the earliest. That is because she got the Golden Buzzer from Howie Mandel after her audition on June 21 and was sent straight through to the live shows. This means she doesn’t have to compete in the judges cuts round, which kicks off on July 17.
According to our poll of “Agt” viewers, Hadwin is far out in front to win season 13. That she is from England hasn’t hurt her in the minds of American fans of this reality competition series. They are won over by her powerhouse talent, which she first showed off on a TV show back home: “The Voice Kids UK.”
Surprisingly, she didn’t win that competition in 2017. She did make it to the final, where she stopped the show with the searing power ballad “And I Am Telling You I’m...
According to our poll of “Agt” viewers, Hadwin is far out in front to win season 13. That she is from England hasn’t hurt her in the minds of American fans of this reality competition series. They are won over by her powerhouse talent, which she first showed off on a TV show back home: “The Voice Kids UK.”
Surprisingly, she didn’t win that competition in 2017. She did make it to the final, where she stopped the show with the searing power ballad “And I Am Telling You I’m...
- 7/16/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Before Telluride, before Venice, before TIFF, there is the last great festival of the summer season: Locarno Festival, a singular Swiss event that typically features a strong mix of fest favorites from Sundance and Cannes, along with their own batch of returning favorites.
This year’s lineup is no exception, including films from Spike Lee, Ethan Hawke, Kent Jones, Aneesh Chaganty, Cristina Gallego, and Ciro Guerra that have premiered elsewhere, along with new films from Hong Sangsoo, Vianney Lebasque, and Yolande Zauberman. Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming sequel “The Equalizer 2″ will also screen, along with the second season of Bruno Dumont’s series “Coincoin and the Extra Humans.”
This morning’s lineup announcement includes the Piazza Grande section and the International Competition.
Check out the full lineup for this year’s Locarno Festival below.
Piazza Grande
“The Guest,” Duccio Chiarini, Italy Switzerland, France
“Coincoin and the Extra-Humans,” Bruno Dumont, France
“Liberty,...
This year’s lineup is no exception, including films from Spike Lee, Ethan Hawke, Kent Jones, Aneesh Chaganty, Cristina Gallego, and Ciro Guerra that have premiered elsewhere, along with new films from Hong Sangsoo, Vianney Lebasque, and Yolande Zauberman. Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming sequel “The Equalizer 2″ will also screen, along with the second season of Bruno Dumont’s series “Coincoin and the Extra Humans.”
This morning’s lineup announcement includes the Piazza Grande section and the International Competition.
Check out the full lineup for this year’s Locarno Festival below.
Piazza Grande
“The Guest,” Duccio Chiarini, Italy Switzerland, France
“Coincoin and the Extra-Humans,” Bruno Dumont, France
“Liberty,...
- 7/11/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
New films from Hong Sangsoo, Abbas Fahdel, Radu Muntean in competition.
The line-up for Carlo Chatrian’s last outing as the artistic director of the Locarno Festival (Aug 1-11) in Switzerland includes the world premieres of Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli’s Le Vent Tourne and German director Sandra Nettelbeck’s tragicomedy Was Uns Nicht Umbringt.
Both will screen as part of the non-competitive Piazza Grande open-air programme.
Scroll down for full line-up
Further Piazza Grande films include Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, actor-director Ethan Hawke’s Blaze, Aneesh Chaganty’s debut feature Searching, and the late Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka’s...
The line-up for Carlo Chatrian’s last outing as the artistic director of the Locarno Festival (Aug 1-11) in Switzerland includes the world premieres of Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli’s Le Vent Tourne and German director Sandra Nettelbeck’s tragicomedy Was Uns Nicht Umbringt.
Both will screen as part of the non-competitive Piazza Grande open-air programme.
Scroll down for full line-up
Further Piazza Grande films include Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, actor-director Ethan Hawke’s Blaze, Aneesh Chaganty’s debut feature Searching, and the late Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka’s...
- 7/11/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the official lineup for its 71st edition, including 13 world premieres in the main competition, which is characterized by films with women at their center.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian – who moves to the Berlin Film Festival next year – noted that, although only three of the 15 titles competing for the Golden Leopard are directed by women, “a large number of the films are portraits of women.”
That applies to U.S. first-time director Kent Jones’ drama “Diane,” which stars Mary Kay Place and made a splash at Tribeca; Romanian auteur Radu Muntean’s teenage pregnancy drama “Alice T”; Turkey’s “Sibel,” by Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, whose protagonist is a young, rebellious mute woman; and Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel’s “Yara,” about a young woman who lives with her grandmother in an idyllic Lebanese village “where politics and the female condition in the Arab world come crashing in.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian – who moves to the Berlin Film Festival next year – noted that, although only three of the 15 titles competing for the Golden Leopard are directed by women, “a large number of the films are portraits of women.”
That applies to U.S. first-time director Kent Jones’ drama “Diane,” which stars Mary Kay Place and made a splash at Tribeca; Romanian auteur Radu Muntean’s teenage pregnancy drama “Alice T”; Turkey’s “Sibel,” by Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, whose protagonist is a young, rebellious mute woman; and Iraqi director Abbas Fahdel’s “Yara,” about a young woman who lives with her grandmother in an idyllic Lebanese village “where politics and the female condition in the Arab world come crashing in.
- 7/11/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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