Fabrice Luchini and Borgen’s Sidse Babette Knudsen star as judge and juror in this brisk, engaging study
Eavesdropping on minor officials in the toilets, loitering with the jurors as they spar over lunch, but most especially drawn to Fabrice Luchini’s cold fish of a judge – there’s a soothing Altmanesque drift about this French drama orbiting a St Omer trial. The matter under consideration is grim – a man accused of kicking his seven-month-year-old daughter to death – but writer-director Christian Vincent has a gift for notching up comic detail in the margins: the flu-ridden judge being injected by his doctor in the buttock; his insistence on the proper courtroom terms of address. Luchini, in a deft performance, almost renders his character’s prissy demands and brushoffs heroic – the flourishes of a man busy conducting the ensemble of judicial impartiality. This brings Courted close to the socially conscious docudrama of...
Eavesdropping on minor officials in the toilets, loitering with the jurors as they spar over lunch, but most especially drawn to Fabrice Luchini’s cold fish of a judge – there’s a soothing Altmanesque drift about this French drama orbiting a St Omer trial. The matter under consideration is grim – a man accused of kicking his seven-month-year-old daughter to death – but writer-director Christian Vincent has a gift for notching up comic detail in the margins: the flu-ridden judge being injected by his doctor in the buttock; his insistence on the proper courtroom terms of address. Luchini, in a deft performance, almost renders his character’s prissy demands and brushoffs heroic – the flourishes of a man busy conducting the ensemble of judicial impartiality. This brings Courted close to the socially conscious docudrama of...
- 9/29/2016
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ "We won't get the truth," Court President Racine (Fabrice Luchini) tells his assembled jury. "Our job is to apply the law. Show people what they can and cannot do." This baldly-stated realism and modesty could just as easily apply to Christian Vincent's slick if not world-shattering comedy Courted - the French title L'hermine, literally 'ermine', is much less sloppy. Racine is a reserved man, cordially disliked by court functionaries who think him something of a cold fish and gleefully pass on gossip about him in the loos. To make matters worse, he is also suffering from a flu and the stress of a messy divorce.
- 9/29/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Courted director Christian Vincent on combining crime with romance, and working with Fabrice Luchini
To combine a romantic narrative with a darker criminal story has been done before, but rarely has the correlation been quite so stark as that of which we see in Christian Vincent’s Courted. Set during a trial concerning the murder of a baby, we watch on as the judge – played by Fabrice Luchini, […]
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- 9/26/2016
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bercot to become the first female director to open San Sebastian.
Emmanuelle Bercot’s 150 Milligrams (La fille de Brest) is to receive its European premiere as the opening film of the 64th San Sebastian film festival (Sept 16-24) - making it the first film directed by a woman to open the festival since its launch in 1952.
Based on Irène Frachon’s autobiographical book Mediator 150mg, the film centres on a doctor who discovered the direct relationship between a drug and a number of suspicious deaths, and sets out to reveal the truth.
Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) and French actor Benoît Magimel (La Haine) star in the film, which will world premiere at Toronto before going on to play in competition for the Golden Shell at San Sebastian.
It marks the fifth feature from French film-maker Bercot, whose Standing Tall (La Tête haute) opened Cannes last year, where she also won best actress for her role...
Emmanuelle Bercot’s 150 Milligrams (La fille de Brest) is to receive its European premiere as the opening film of the 64th San Sebastian film festival (Sept 16-24) - making it the first film directed by a woman to open the festival since its launch in 1952.
Based on Irène Frachon’s autobiographical book Mediator 150mg, the film centres on a doctor who discovered the direct relationship between a drug and a number of suspicious deaths, and sets out to reveal the truth.
Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) and French actor Benoît Magimel (La Haine) star in the film, which will world premiere at Toronto before going on to play in competition for the Golden Shell at San Sebastian.
It marks the fifth feature from French film-maker Bercot, whose Standing Tall (La Tête haute) opened Cannes last year, where she also won best actress for her role...
- 8/24/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Franco-American Cultural Fund, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has announced the program for the 20th Colcoa French Film Festival that will run April 18-26 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. The festival will showcase a record 70 films and television series - among them 64 in competition for Colcoa Awards - including four World Premieres, seven International Premieres, 19 North American or U.S. Premieres, 17 West Coast Premieres - and 21 new shorts. Colcoa, is now the world's largest event dedicated to French films and television.
"This 20th anniversary deserves a spectacular, strong program that reflects the diversity of French production, as well as the creativity and dynamism of French filmmakers and producers," stated François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. "More than ever, we are about to involve audiences in a journey that will stir them, make them laugh, cry, tickle their curiosity, and help them remain optimistic, while recognizing the urgent world zeitgeist."
"20 years is an achievement for any film festival in Hollywood. This would not have been possible without the commitment of the Franco-American Cultural Fund - a unique partnership of the DGA, the Mpa, la Sacem and the WGA West - creator of the festival in 1996 and supporter of its subsequent development. We also salute French sales companies, official supporters, sponsors, and U.S. distributors, whose loyalty and trust have given the festival its continuing excellence," he added.
Colcoa will open Monday, April 18th with the North American Premiere of "Monsieur Chocolat," a biopic about the first French black clown, co-written by Cyril Gely, Olivier Gorce, Gérard Noiriel, Roschdy Zem, directed by Roschdy Zem, and starring Omar Sy and James Thiérrée. The film will be presented in association with Gaumont, which celebrates its 120th anniversary.
The festival will close its competition on Monday, April 25th with the World Premiere of "Up For Love," the new romantic comedy written and directed by Laurent Tirard, starring Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira. "Call My Agent" (Season 1), the most popular French TV series of the year, about a talent agency with actors playing their own roles, will close the Colcoa TV Competition.
Two other TV series, shown for the first time in North America, will be part of the program, presented in association with TV France International and Titrafilm: "The Disappearance," a drama co-written by Marie Deshaires and Catherine Touzet and directed by Charlotte Brändström; and "The Secret of Elise," a supernatural drama written by lsa Marpeau, Marie Vinoy, Marie Deshaires, and Catherine Touzet and directed by Alexandre Laurent, Samir Boitard, Mathieu Simonet, and Mehdi Meskar. The first two episodes of each series will be shown to the Colcoa audience.
To complete the competition, five TV movies will premiere at Colcoa: the North American Premiere of "Borderline," a thriller co-written and directed by Olivier Marchal, the International Premiere of "Carpets and Chaos," a comedy co-written and directed by Nader Takmil Homayoun, the International Premiere of "Stolen Babies," a drama written by Julie Jézéquel and directed by Golden Globe winner Alain Berliner; the International Premiere of "The Wall-Crosser," a fantasy written and directed by Dante Desarthes, based on Marcel Aymé's book; and the North American Premiere of "Woman Under the Influence," a drama written and directed by Claude-Michel Rome.
The feature film selection (40 features and documentaries and 21 shorts), will feature exclusive presentations. "Fanny's Journey," an epic drama written and directed by Lola Doillon, starring Cecile de France, is also a World Premiere. The U.S. Premiere of the thriller "Made in France," written and directed by Nicolas Boukhrief, is a film which did not have theatrical release in France because of sensitivity following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Colcoa also will present the U.S. Premiere of Robert Guédiguian's provocative film about the Armenian genocide, "Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad." The U.S. Premiere of Oscar ® winner Claude Lelouch's new film "Un plus Une," starring Jean Dujardin and Elsa Zylberstein, will screen, in addition to another U.S. Premiere of "All Gone South," the comedy sequel co-written and co-directed by Nicolas Benamou and Philippe Lacheau, two years after the success of Babysitting at Colcoa in 2014.
Several established writers/directors return and other known artists have been selected: Academy Award nominee Christian Carion ("Come What May"- with Cohen Media Group), Anne Fontaine ("The Innocents" - with Music Box Films), Vincent Garencq ("Kalinka"), Academy Award nominee Jean-Paul Rappeneau ("Families"), Christian Vincent ("Courted"), Maïwenn ("My King" - with Film Movement)
Every year, the Colcoa program is dedicated to a new generation of talent, many of whose films are included in Colcoa's French NeWave 2.0 Series: Samuel Collardey ("Land Legs"), Clément Cogitor ("Neither Heaven Nor Earth" - with Film Movement), Philippe Faucon - the writer/director of the 2016 César Best film winner ("Fatima" - with Kino Lorber), Emmanuel Finkiel ("A Decent Man"), Eva Husson ("Bang Gang" - with Samuel Goldwyn), Laurent Larivière ("I am a Soldier"), and Orelsan and Christophe Offenstein ("Uncompleted Song").
The After 10 Series at Colcoa invites audiences to explore new frontiers with an exclusive program, including the French-Belgian co-production from writer/director Bouli Lanners ("The First, the Last"), the new dark comedy from Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, starring Gérard Depardieu ("Saint Amour"), and Frédéric Schoendoerffer ("Past Convoy").
Two anticipated films about women in Muslim countries will be part of theWord Cinema Produced by France Series: the Franco-Moroccan co-production, "Much Loved," written and directed by Nabil Ayouch, premiered at the Director's Fortnight in 2015, and remains banned in Morocco; and, "As I Open My Eyes," a Franco-Tunisian film from female writer/director Leyla Bouzid (with Kino Lorber). The Argentine film, "Eva Doesn't Sleep," written and directed by Pablo Agüero will complete the series.
Two documentaries focusing on significant environmental issues will premiere at Colcoa: the closing film of the last Cannes Film Festival, "Ice and the Sky" (with Music Box Films) from Academy Award winner Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins), and a special presentation following the United Nations screening of the 2016 Cesar winner for Best Documentary, "Tomorrow," written and directed by Cédric Dion and Mélanie Laurent. "The Frankenstein Complex," a tribute to the creators of big screen creatures, written and directed by Gilles Penso and Alexandre Poncet, will complete this high profile documentary series.
All other Colcoa series are back in 2016: the Colcoa Classics Series with an exclusive program of digitally restored premieres (see February 19th press release); the Happy Hour Talks PanelSeriesin association withVariety (April 19-25); the Short Film Competition (Sunday, April 24 - March press release); the Focus on a Filmmaker, this year with writer/director Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Thursday, April 21); and the Focus on a Producer will be with Dominique Besnehard (Saturday, April 23).
Animation, an important part of the French film industry, will be shown at Colcoa with the premiere of Rémi Chayé's new film: "Long Way North" (with Shout Factory).
As is Colcoa tradition, comedieswill join the program almost every day, including the romantic comedy "Love at First Child," co-written and directed by Anne Giaffieri, starring Patrick Bruel and Isabelle Carré, Benoît's Graffin's "Hopefully," with Sandrine Kiberlain and Edouard Baer, Jean-Francois Richet's "One Wild Moment," starring Francois Cluzet and Vincent Cassel, and the new French hit "One Man and His Cow," written and directed by Mohamed Hamidi.
This last film will also be shown to the 3,000 students and teachers who will attend the now five High School Screenings (April 19-25) as part of the Colcoa Educational Program presented in association with Elma (European Languages and Movies in America). Two master classes for college and university students will complete the program.
For the ninth year, Lafca will partner with Colcoa Cinema for the Critics' Awards. The complete recipients list of the 2015 Awards - including the U.S. distributor winner of the Colcoa Coming Soon Award, presented in association with Kpcc, will be announced on Wednesday, April 27. Colcoa Awards are presented in association with Titrafilm, TV5 Monde USA, and Air Tahiti Nui.
"This 20th anniversary deserves a spectacular, strong program that reflects the diversity of French production, as well as the creativity and dynamism of French filmmakers and producers," stated François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. "More than ever, we are about to involve audiences in a journey that will stir them, make them laugh, cry, tickle their curiosity, and help them remain optimistic, while recognizing the urgent world zeitgeist."
"20 years is an achievement for any film festival in Hollywood. This would not have been possible without the commitment of the Franco-American Cultural Fund - a unique partnership of the DGA, the Mpa, la Sacem and the WGA West - creator of the festival in 1996 and supporter of its subsequent development. We also salute French sales companies, official supporters, sponsors, and U.S. distributors, whose loyalty and trust have given the festival its continuing excellence," he added.
Colcoa will open Monday, April 18th with the North American Premiere of "Monsieur Chocolat," a biopic about the first French black clown, co-written by Cyril Gely, Olivier Gorce, Gérard Noiriel, Roschdy Zem, directed by Roschdy Zem, and starring Omar Sy and James Thiérrée. The film will be presented in association with Gaumont, which celebrates its 120th anniversary.
The festival will close its competition on Monday, April 25th with the World Premiere of "Up For Love," the new romantic comedy written and directed by Laurent Tirard, starring Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin and Virginie Efira. "Call My Agent" (Season 1), the most popular French TV series of the year, about a talent agency with actors playing their own roles, will close the Colcoa TV Competition.
Two other TV series, shown for the first time in North America, will be part of the program, presented in association with TV France International and Titrafilm: "The Disappearance," a drama co-written by Marie Deshaires and Catherine Touzet and directed by Charlotte Brändström; and "The Secret of Elise," a supernatural drama written by lsa Marpeau, Marie Vinoy, Marie Deshaires, and Catherine Touzet and directed by Alexandre Laurent, Samir Boitard, Mathieu Simonet, and Mehdi Meskar. The first two episodes of each series will be shown to the Colcoa audience.
To complete the competition, five TV movies will premiere at Colcoa: the North American Premiere of "Borderline," a thriller co-written and directed by Olivier Marchal, the International Premiere of "Carpets and Chaos," a comedy co-written and directed by Nader Takmil Homayoun, the International Premiere of "Stolen Babies," a drama written by Julie Jézéquel and directed by Golden Globe winner Alain Berliner; the International Premiere of "The Wall-Crosser," a fantasy written and directed by Dante Desarthes, based on Marcel Aymé's book; and the North American Premiere of "Woman Under the Influence," a drama written and directed by Claude-Michel Rome.
The feature film selection (40 features and documentaries and 21 shorts), will feature exclusive presentations. "Fanny's Journey," an epic drama written and directed by Lola Doillon, starring Cecile de France, is also a World Premiere. The U.S. Premiere of the thriller "Made in France," written and directed by Nicolas Boukhrief, is a film which did not have theatrical release in France because of sensitivity following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Colcoa also will present the U.S. Premiere of Robert Guédiguian's provocative film about the Armenian genocide, "Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad." The U.S. Premiere of Oscar ® winner Claude Lelouch's new film "Un plus Une," starring Jean Dujardin and Elsa Zylberstein, will screen, in addition to another U.S. Premiere of "All Gone South," the comedy sequel co-written and co-directed by Nicolas Benamou and Philippe Lacheau, two years after the success of Babysitting at Colcoa in 2014.
Several established writers/directors return and other known artists have been selected: Academy Award nominee Christian Carion ("Come What May"- with Cohen Media Group), Anne Fontaine ("The Innocents" - with Music Box Films), Vincent Garencq ("Kalinka"), Academy Award nominee Jean-Paul Rappeneau ("Families"), Christian Vincent ("Courted"), Maïwenn ("My King" - with Film Movement)
Every year, the Colcoa program is dedicated to a new generation of talent, many of whose films are included in Colcoa's French NeWave 2.0 Series: Samuel Collardey ("Land Legs"), Clément Cogitor ("Neither Heaven Nor Earth" - with Film Movement), Philippe Faucon - the writer/director of the 2016 César Best film winner ("Fatima" - with Kino Lorber), Emmanuel Finkiel ("A Decent Man"), Eva Husson ("Bang Gang" - with Samuel Goldwyn), Laurent Larivière ("I am a Soldier"), and Orelsan and Christophe Offenstein ("Uncompleted Song").
The After 10 Series at Colcoa invites audiences to explore new frontiers with an exclusive program, including the French-Belgian co-production from writer/director Bouli Lanners ("The First, the Last"), the new dark comedy from Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, starring Gérard Depardieu ("Saint Amour"), and Frédéric Schoendoerffer ("Past Convoy").
Two anticipated films about women in Muslim countries will be part of theWord Cinema Produced by France Series: the Franco-Moroccan co-production, "Much Loved," written and directed by Nabil Ayouch, premiered at the Director's Fortnight in 2015, and remains banned in Morocco; and, "As I Open My Eyes," a Franco-Tunisian film from female writer/director Leyla Bouzid (with Kino Lorber). The Argentine film, "Eva Doesn't Sleep," written and directed by Pablo Agüero will complete the series.
Two documentaries focusing on significant environmental issues will premiere at Colcoa: the closing film of the last Cannes Film Festival, "Ice and the Sky" (with Music Box Films) from Academy Award winner Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins), and a special presentation following the United Nations screening of the 2016 Cesar winner for Best Documentary, "Tomorrow," written and directed by Cédric Dion and Mélanie Laurent. "The Frankenstein Complex," a tribute to the creators of big screen creatures, written and directed by Gilles Penso and Alexandre Poncet, will complete this high profile documentary series.
All other Colcoa series are back in 2016: the Colcoa Classics Series with an exclusive program of digitally restored premieres (see February 19th press release); the Happy Hour Talks PanelSeriesin association withVariety (April 19-25); the Short Film Competition (Sunday, April 24 - March press release); the Focus on a Filmmaker, this year with writer/director Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Thursday, April 21); and the Focus on a Producer will be with Dominique Besnehard (Saturday, April 23).
Animation, an important part of the French film industry, will be shown at Colcoa with the premiere of Rémi Chayé's new film: "Long Way North" (with Shout Factory).
As is Colcoa tradition, comedieswill join the program almost every day, including the romantic comedy "Love at First Child," co-written and directed by Anne Giaffieri, starring Patrick Bruel and Isabelle Carré, Benoît's Graffin's "Hopefully," with Sandrine Kiberlain and Edouard Baer, Jean-Francois Richet's "One Wild Moment," starring Francois Cluzet and Vincent Cassel, and the new French hit "One Man and His Cow," written and directed by Mohamed Hamidi.
This last film will also be shown to the 3,000 students and teachers who will attend the now five High School Screenings (April 19-25) as part of the Colcoa Educational Program presented in association with Elma (European Languages and Movies in America). Two master classes for college and university students will complete the program.
For the ninth year, Lafca will partner with Colcoa Cinema for the Critics' Awards. The complete recipients list of the 2015 Awards - including the U.S. distributor winner of the Colcoa Coming Soon Award, presented in association with Kpcc, will be announced on Wednesday, April 27. Colcoa Awards are presented in association with Titrafilm, TV5 Monde USA, and Air Tahiti Nui.
- 4/14/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Attraction of opposites: “judge” Fabrice Luchini and juror Sidse Babett Knudsen in Courted / L’Hermine Photo: Unifrance
As one of France’s most subtle and versatile directors, Christian Vincent appears equally at home in dealing with vibrant romantic comedy as with the harsh realities of relationships and social issues. He has worked with some of French cinema’s most significant stars, among them Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil Catherine Frot and Isabelle Carré. His progress has not been without its difficulties. After he made The Separation (La Séparation), a caustic study of a disintegrating relationship over three months which featured Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil, he found that writing and directing weighed heavily on his shoulders.
The film which resulted from that malaise was What’s So Funny About Me? (Je Ne Vois Pas Ce Qu'on Me Trouve ) in which comedian Pierre Yves (incarnated by stand-up comic Jacky Berroyer,...
As one of France’s most subtle and versatile directors, Christian Vincent appears equally at home in dealing with vibrant romantic comedy as with the harsh realities of relationships and social issues. He has worked with some of French cinema’s most significant stars, among them Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil Catherine Frot and Isabelle Carré. His progress has not been without its difficulties. After he made The Separation (La Séparation), a caustic study of a disintegrating relationship over three months which featured Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil, he found that writing and directing weighed heavily on his shoulders.
The film which resulted from that malaise was What’s So Funny About Me? (Je Ne Vois Pas Ce Qu'on Me Trouve ) in which comedian Pierre Yves (incarnated by stand-up comic Jacky Berroyer,...
- 4/13/2016
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
La Fille de Brest
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Writers: Emmanuelle Bercot, Severine Bosschem
2015 was an exceptional year for writer/director Emmanuelle Bercot. She was the second woman in the history of the Cannes Film Festival whose film opened the event with her fourth feature Standing Tall, and she won Best Actress for her performance in Maiwenn’s Mon Roi. Bercot dove into her next feature La Fille de Brest (initially titled 150 Milligrams), a reenactment of a famed anti-diabetic drug Mediator health scandal via the story of Irene Frachon’s 2009 revelation. It’s been described as a French Erin Brockovich vehicle and stars excellent Sidse Babett Knudsen (recently of Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy and Christian Vincent’s Courted). The film also stars notable French actor Benoit Magimel (The Piano Teacher; Little White Lies).
Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoit Magimel
Production Co./Producer(s): Haut et Court’sCarole Scott and Caroline Benjo,...
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Writers: Emmanuelle Bercot, Severine Bosschem
2015 was an exceptional year for writer/director Emmanuelle Bercot. She was the second woman in the history of the Cannes Film Festival whose film opened the event with her fourth feature Standing Tall, and she won Best Actress for her performance in Maiwenn’s Mon Roi. Bercot dove into her next feature La Fille de Brest (initially titled 150 Milligrams), a reenactment of a famed anti-diabetic drug Mediator health scandal via the story of Irene Frachon’s 2009 revelation. It’s been described as a French Erin Brockovich vehicle and stars excellent Sidse Babett Knudsen (recently of Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy and Christian Vincent’s Courted). The film also stars notable French actor Benoit Magimel (The Piano Teacher; Little White Lies).
Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoit Magimel
Production Co./Producer(s): Haut et Court’sCarole Scott and Caroline Benjo,...
- 1/6/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Winner of the Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards at this year's Venice Film Festival, Christian Vincent's dryly comic courtroom drama was selected as the opening film for the 44th Hong Kong French Cinepanorama on 18 November. Michel Racine (Fabrice Luchini) is a largely despised Criminal Court judge in a small town near Calais in Northern France. With a reputation for running a strict courtroom and handing out hefty sentences, neither the barristers, bailiffs, artists nor stenographers have anything approaching a kind word to say to or about him. Racine's home life seems equally cold, with an absent wife and elderly housekeeper as the only figures in his world.Overseeing a rather gruesome murder case, in which a rough-looking young father is accused of bludgeoning his infant...
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- 11/19/2015
- Screen Anarchy
The red carpet has been walked upon, the Spritz has been supped and the lion has roared. This year's Golden Lion selection is yet another surprise choice, the perfectly serviceable but by no means extraordinary Venezuelan-set drama From Afar, which follows the unlikely relationship between a maker of false teeth and a Caracas street tough. Lorenzo Vigas' film is an assured debut with two fine performances, especially from Alfredo Castro, familiar to world cinema-inclined audiences as Pablo Larraín's muse in Tony Manero and Post Mortem. Head of the Jury Alfonso Cuarón perhaps shows his generosity to another Latin American filmmaker in awarding the Silver Lion to Pablo Trapero for his Martin Scorsese-inspired true crime thriller The Clan.
The runner-up award in the Grand Jury was awarded to Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson for their superb R-rated stop motion masterpiece Anomalisa, for me the best film of the competition.
The runner-up award in the Grand Jury was awarded to Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson for their superb R-rated stop motion masterpiece Anomalisa, for me the best film of the competition.
- 9/13/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Anomalisa wins Grand Jury Prize; Robert Pattinson-starrer The Childhood Of A Leader wins best debut.Scroll down for full list of winners
From Afar (Desde Alla), the first Venezuelan production to appear in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, has won the Golden Lion for Best Film.
The directorial debut of Lorenzo Vigas concerns a middle-aged man (Alfredo Castro) who pays young boys to spend time with him. One day he befriends an 18-year-old delinquent (Luis Silva), a development that affects both profoundly.
The film, sold by Celluloid Dreams, is produced by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who co-wrote the script.
The Silver Lion for Best Director went to Argentinian film-maker Pablo Trapero for kidnap drama The Clan (El Clan).
Trapero has a good relationship with Venice, having won two prizes for his 1999 debut, Crane World, returning in 2004 with Rolling Family and sitting on the Golden Lion jury in 2012.
The Clan is based on the real-life exploits...
From Afar (Desde Alla), the first Venezuelan production to appear in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, has won the Golden Lion for Best Film.
The directorial debut of Lorenzo Vigas concerns a middle-aged man (Alfredo Castro) who pays young boys to spend time with him. One day he befriends an 18-year-old delinquent (Luis Silva), a development that affects both profoundly.
The film, sold by Celluloid Dreams, is produced by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who co-wrote the script.
The Silver Lion for Best Director went to Argentinian film-maker Pablo Trapero for kidnap drama The Clan (El Clan).
Trapero has a good relationship with Venice, having won two prizes for his 1999 debut, Crane World, returning in 2004 with Rolling Family and sitting on the Golden Lion jury in 2012.
The Clan is based on the real-life exploits...
- 9/12/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Golden Lion “From Afar” Lorenzo Vigas Silver Lion “The Clan” (Pablo Trapero) Jury Grand Prize “Anomalisa,” Charlie Kaufman Duke Johnson Special Jury Prize “Frenzy” Emin Alper Actor Fabrice Luchini (“Courted...
- 9/12/2015
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
Venezuelan filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas' "From Afar" has taken the top prize of the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival which comes to a close this weekend.
"From Afar" follows a middle-aged gay man (Alfred Castro) who cruises the streets of Caracas searching for young companions. Luis Silva also stars.
Alfonso Cuaron led the jury which handed the Silver Lion to Pablo Trapero 's "The Clan," the Grand Jury Prize to Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson's "Anomalisa," and a Special Jury Prize to Emin Alper's "Frenzy".
Other awards include Fabrice Luchini ("L’Hermine") for best actor, Valeria Golino ("Per Amor Vostro") for best actress, and Christian Vincent ("L'Hermine") for best screenplay.
In the 'Venice Horizons' sub-category, Jake Mahaffy's "Free In Deed" took best film while Gabriel Mascaro's "Neon Bull" scored a Special Jury Prize. Brady Corbet's "The Childhood Of A Leader" scored a best...
"From Afar" follows a middle-aged gay man (Alfred Castro) who cruises the streets of Caracas searching for young companions. Luis Silva also stars.
Alfonso Cuaron led the jury which handed the Silver Lion to Pablo Trapero 's "The Clan," the Grand Jury Prize to Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson's "Anomalisa," and a Special Jury Prize to Emin Alper's "Frenzy".
Other awards include Fabrice Luchini ("L’Hermine") for best actor, Valeria Golino ("Per Amor Vostro") for best actress, and Christian Vincent ("L'Hermine") for best screenplay.
In the 'Venice Horizons' sub-category, Jake Mahaffy's "Free In Deed" took best film while Gabriel Mascaro's "Neon Bull" scored a Special Jury Prize. Brady Corbet's "The Childhood Of A Leader" scored a best...
- 9/12/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Christian Vincent was a winner in a sidebar section in Venice way back in 1990 with La discrète. This year his sights are on the big prize with Courted, though his lead Fabrice Luchini – who also starred in La discrète – is a more solid contender. Luchini plays Judge Racine. He’s presiding over a
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- 9/10/2015
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The full lineup for the Venice Film Festival has been revealed, and includes new films by Martin Scorsese, Jerzy Skolimowsky, Frederick Wiseman, Marco Bellocchio, Tsai Ming-liang, Aleksandro Sokurov and more.CompetitionFrenzy (Emin Alper, Turkey/France/Qatar)Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson, Us)Blood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)Looking for Grace (Sue Brooks, Australia)Equals (Drake Doremus, Us)Remember (Atom Egoyan, Canada/Germany)Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga, Us)Per amor vostro (Giuseppe M. Gaudino, Italy/France)Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli, France/Czech Republic/Belgium)Rabin, the Last Day (Amos Gitai, Israel/France)A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, Italy/France)The Endless River (Oliver Hermanus, South Africa/France)The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper, UK/Us)Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman/Duke Johnson, Us)L'attesa (Piero Mesina, Italy)11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov, France/Germany/Netherlands)The Clan (Pablo Trapero, Argentina/Spain)Desde alla (Lorenza Vigas, Venezuela/Mexico)L'hermine (Christian Vincent,...
- 8/1/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
With the exception of Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival’s contention for the Golden Lion won’t be mentioned during awards season, but who cares when you have the likes of Aleksander Sokurov, Luca Guadagnino and Marco Bellocchio in the line-up. Not unlike previous years, the 2015 edition has a good numbers of films from Italy and the U.S., with several France co-productions littered throughout and the addition of fresh faces with first time works from composer Piero Messina and artist/musician Laurie Anderson.
While non comp offerings in the shape of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight are sure to receive a fair amount of trade news attention it’s the docus that are especially rich this year: Frederick Wiseman is joined by Sergei Loznitsa makes back to...
While non comp offerings in the shape of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight are sure to receive a fair amount of trade news attention it’s the docus that are especially rich this year: Frederick Wiseman is joined by Sergei Loznitsa makes back to...
- 7/29/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Writer-director Sue Brooks' Looking for Grace will be the first film by a female Australian director to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival since Clara Law's The Goddess Of 1967 in 2000.
Australia will have an unprecedented profile at the festival with Michael Rowe.s Early Winter and Simon Stone.s The Daughter selected for the Venice Days sidebar and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler.s Tanna screening in Venice Critics. Week.
This is the first time Australian films will be represented in all three Venice categories. That adds to the prestige of The Daughter having its North American premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival, where Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in the Gala Presentations section.
Wayne Blair's Us thriler Septembers Of Shiraz, which stars Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody and Shohreh Aghdashloo, will also screen in Gala Presentations.
Australia will have an unprecedented profile at the festival with Michael Rowe.s Early Winter and Simon Stone.s The Daughter selected for the Venice Days sidebar and Bentley Dean and Martin Butler.s Tanna screening in Venice Critics. Week.
This is the first time Australian films will be represented in all three Venice categories. That adds to the prestige of The Daughter having its North American premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival, where Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in the Gala Presentations section.
Wayne Blair's Us thriler Septembers Of Shiraz, which stars Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody and Shohreh Aghdashloo, will also screen in Gala Presentations.
- 7/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
On the heels of yesterday's Toronto Film Festival announcement, this morning we get the lineup for the 2015 Venice Film Festival and, as always, there's a little crossover with some films set to premiere on the Lido ahead of their Toronto (and/or Telluride premieres). Some of the titles not screening at Toronto (at least not yet) that will premiere at Venice include Baltasar Kormakur's Everest, which is serving as the opening night film, Drake Doremus' Equals starring Kristen Stewart, A Bigger Splash from Luca Guadagnino, Go With Me directed by Daniel Alfredson, Dito Montiel's Man Down, Amy Berg's Janis as well as a new, 16-minute short film from Martin Scorsese titled The Audition and a Brian De Palma documentary directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. There's also buzz building for The Childhood of a Leader directed by Brady Corbet and starring Robert Pattinson and Berenice Bejo.
- 7/29/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Venice Film Festival has become one of the longest-running events on the festival circuit, its veteran status giving it a level of prestige that has only been heightened by the films that have screened at the event. Having first started in 1932, a number of movies that have gone on to be classics have won prizes at the festival, including Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Satyajit Ray’s Aparajito, and Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad. Interest in the festival’s lineup announcement has thus grown over the years, with many film fans curious to see what the organisers select to play at the event, due to its stature. The full lineup for the 2015 incarnation of the festival, the 72nd one in the festival’s history, has now been announced. The festival itself will run from September 2nd to the 12th, with a jury that includes Alfonso Cuarón, Nuri Bilge Ceylan,...
- 7/29/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne, and Atom Egoyan’s Remember among the 21 competition titles.Scroll down for full line-up
The 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs – that will make up this year’s official selection.
Venice director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Paolo Baratta announced the line-up this morning.
As previously announced, Baltasar Kormakur’s mountaineering thriller Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will open the festival on Sept 2. The Universal release will play out of competition.
Birdman, last year’s opening night film, went on to be named best picture at this year’s Academy Awards, while multiple Oscar-winner Gravity bowed at the 2013 edition.
Venice also revealed that Guan Hu’s Mr Six will close the festival on Sept 12. Feng Xiaogang plays the title character, a former gangster living alone with various illnesses, who is tempted back into the business by his son.
Competition titles...
The 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs – that will make up this year’s official selection.
Venice director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Paolo Baratta announced the line-up this morning.
As previously announced, Baltasar Kormakur’s mountaineering thriller Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will open the festival on Sept 2. The Universal release will play out of competition.
Birdman, last year’s opening night film, went on to be named best picture at this year’s Academy Awards, while multiple Oscar-winner Gravity bowed at the 2013 edition.
Venice also revealed that Guan Hu’s Mr Six will close the festival on Sept 12. Feng Xiaogang plays the title character, a former gangster living alone with various illnesses, who is tempted back into the business by his son.
Competition titles...
- 7/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Some of the most anticipated movies of the Fall will make their debut at the four major festivals that annual suck up the movie world's attention during a five-week period beginning in September. The New York Film Festival has already revealed that "The Walk," "Steve Jobs" and "Miles Away" will be its major galas. The 40th Toronto International Film Festival announced its initial wave of selections on Tuesday giving away many of the "secret" premieres at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend. Earlier this month Venice announced it would open with Universal Pictures' "Everest" and debut Scott Cooper's "Black Mass" with Johnny Depp out of competition. Now, the festival has unveiled a majority of its slate with some very exciting surprises. The biggest news is that Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" will have its world premiere in Venice. The highly anticipated drama has already generated...
- 7/29/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
All the films screening at this year’s Venice film festival. This list will be updated as more titles are announced
Frenzy, Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar)
Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson (U.S.)
Blood of My Blood, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
Looking for Grace, Sue Brooks (Australia)
Equals, Drake Doremus (Us)
Remember, Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany)
Beasts of No Nation, Idris Elba (Us)
Per amor vostro, Giuseppe M. Gaudino (Italy, France)
Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli (France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
Rabin, the Last Day, Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
A Bigger Splash, Luca Guadagnino (Italy, France)
The Endless River, Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, France)
The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper (UK, Us)
Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson (Us)
L’attesa, Piero Messina (Italy)
11 minutes, Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
Francofonia, Aleksander Sokurov (France, Germany, Netherlands)
The Clan, Pablo Trapero (Argentina, Spain)
Desde alla, Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
L’hermine, Christian Vincent (France)
Behemoth, Zhao Liang (China,...
Frenzy, Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar)
Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson (U.S.)
Blood of My Blood, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
Looking for Grace, Sue Brooks (Australia)
Equals, Drake Doremus (Us)
Remember, Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany)
Beasts of No Nation, Idris Elba (Us)
Per amor vostro, Giuseppe M. Gaudino (Italy, France)
Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli (France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
Rabin, the Last Day, Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
A Bigger Splash, Luca Guadagnino (Italy, France)
The Endless River, Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, France)
The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper (UK, Us)
Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson (Us)
L’attesa, Piero Messina (Italy)
11 minutes, Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
Francofonia, Aleksander Sokurov (France, Germany, Netherlands)
The Clan, Pablo Trapero (Argentina, Spain)
Desde alla, Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
L’hermine, Christian Vincent (France)
Behemoth, Zhao Liang (China,...
- 7/29/2015
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes, with wish lists appearing almost immediately after Berlin (a fest that had one of their most impressive line-ups ever) announced their awards. The remainder of the 2015 fest circuit looks to be a plentiful, diverse porridge, with many of the world’s most renowned auteurs’ sporting brand new titles. While many prognosticators will be sharing the same lists, more or less, hopes are incredibly high for a handful of sure bets, and a gaggle of hopefuls. The main competition always seems easier to postulate, though Thierry Fremaux always throws a few curves, (After the Battle in 2012, The Hunt in 2013 or last year’s Timbuktu, which won the Cesar for Best Picture recently, are a couple ready examples of under-the-radar titles).
Italy seems primed for saturation at the fest.
Italy seems primed for saturation at the fest.
- 3/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Hot projects on Screenbase this week include German-Canadian co-production In The Lost Lands, twin brothers Mohammed Abou Nasser and Ahmad Abou Nasser’s Dégradé, spy-thriller Damascus Cover and documentary Tomorrow.
Fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands
Milla Jovovich will star alongside Justin Chatwin in this new feature based on short stories from the creator of Game Of Thrones. The German-Canadian co-production is directed by Constantin Werner.
The story revolves around a series of magical and fantastic tales centring on a sorceress in search of a spell, a warrior girl on a quest and a young barbarian who encounters a witch in a spacecraft.
Steve Hoban, Oliver Luer and Nico Bruinsma produce. Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico will serve as an executive producer.
Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time
Malick’s documentary features the voices of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Dede Gardner, Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad and [link...
Fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands
Milla Jovovich will star alongside Justin Chatwin in this new feature based on short stories from the creator of Game Of Thrones. The German-Canadian co-production is directed by Constantin Werner.
The story revolves around a series of magical and fantastic tales centring on a sorceress in search of a spell, a warrior girl on a quest and a young barbarian who encounters a witch in a spacecraft.
Steve Hoban, Oliver Luer and Nico Bruinsma produce. Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico will serve as an executive producer.
Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time
Malick’s documentary features the voices of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Dede Gardner, Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad and [link...
- 2/9/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: New sequel to hit French time travel film starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier set for 2016.
Some 20 years after Gaumont’s comic time travellers Godefroy the Hardy and Jacquasse the Crass first touched down in 1990s France, they are set to hit the big screen again next year in The Visitors: Bastille Day.
Gaumont International will launch sales on the third instalment of the highly successful time travel franchise at Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13).
“The first two films were hits at home and also did well across Europe. We’re expecting it to be one of our top-selling titles at the Efm,” said Gaumont deputy head of sales Yohann Comte.
Popular French actor Christian Clavier, who is on a roll at the moment after the success of Serial (Bad) Weddings and Do Not Disturb, will reprise his role as Jacquasse the Crass, the uncouth servant of bumbling knight Godefroy the Hardy, played...
Some 20 years after Gaumont’s comic time travellers Godefroy the Hardy and Jacquasse the Crass first touched down in 1990s France, they are set to hit the big screen again next year in The Visitors: Bastille Day.
Gaumont International will launch sales on the third instalment of the highly successful time travel franchise at Berlin’s European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13).
“The first two films were hits at home and also did well across Europe. We’re expecting it to be one of our top-selling titles at the Efm,” said Gaumont deputy head of sales Yohann Comte.
Popular French actor Christian Clavier, who is on a roll at the moment after the success of Serial (Bad) Weddings and Do Not Disturb, will reprise his role as Jacquasse the Crass, the uncouth servant of bumbling knight Godefroy the Hardy, played...
- 2/5/2015
- ScreenDaily
Catherine Deneuve: César Award Besst Actress Record-Tier (photo: Catherine Deneuve in 'In the Courtyard / Dans la cour') (See previous post: "Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve Make César Award History.") Catherine Deneuve has received 12 Best Actress César nominations to date. Deneuve's nods were for the following movies (year of film's release): Pierre Salvadori's In the Courtyard / Dans la Cour (2014). Emmanuelle Bercot's On My Way / Elle s'en va (2013). François Ozon's Potiche (2010). Nicole Garcia's Place Vendôme (1998). André Téchiné's Thieves / Les voleurs (1996). André Téchiné's My Favorite Season / Ma saison préférée (1993). Régis Wargnier's Indochine (1992). François Dupeyron's Strange Place for an Encounter / Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre (1988). Jean-Pierre Mocky's Agent trouble (1987). André Téchiné's Hotel America / Hôtel des Amériques (1981). François Truffaut's The Last Metro / Le dernier métro (1980). Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Le sauvage (1975). Additionally, Catherine Deneuve was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category...
- 1/30/2015
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
L’hermine
Director: Christian Vincent // Writer: Christian Vincent
A woefully underrated writer and director, Christian Vincent (pictured above) won a Cesar for his directorial debut back in 1990 with La Discrete, which starred Fabrice Luchini. In 2013, his latest film, The Weinstein Co. distributed Haute Cuisine, featuring a fantastic performance from Catherine Frot, perhaps garnered him his most international acclaim since his 1994 Isabelle Huppert headlined La Separation. Now, with The Stoat (L’hermine), Vincent reunites with Luchini and Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (seen last year in the terrific Peter Strickland film, The Duke of Burgundy). According to Vincent, the story will revolve around “the president of a criminal court in the twilight of his career, who is alone and feared by everyone. The story kicks off the day before a trial, and during the hearing, something will happen that will change everything.” Indeed, sitting on the jury of a case that...
Director: Christian Vincent // Writer: Christian Vincent
A woefully underrated writer and director, Christian Vincent (pictured above) won a Cesar for his directorial debut back in 1990 with La Discrete, which starred Fabrice Luchini. In 2013, his latest film, The Weinstein Co. distributed Haute Cuisine, featuring a fantastic performance from Catherine Frot, perhaps garnered him his most international acclaim since his 1994 Isabelle Huppert headlined La Separation. Now, with The Stoat (L’hermine), Vincent reunites with Luchini and Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (seen last year in the terrific Peter Strickland film, The Duke of Burgundy). According to Vincent, the story will revolve around “the president of a criminal court in the twilight of his career, who is alone and feared by everyone. The story kicks off the day before a trial, and during the hearing, something will happen that will change everything.” Indeed, sitting on the jury of a case that...
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Netflix taps into local cinema talent for political drama set against backdrop of France’s third largest city.
Netflix has greenlit its first French original series, a political drama set entitled Marseille, set against the backdrop of the southern French port city due to hit screens at the end of 2015.
The eight-part series, described as “a tale of power, corruption and redemption”, revolves around a city election between the long-time mayor Robert Taro and a younger ambitious candidate.
Netflix’s announcement comes on the eve of its highly anticipated arrival in France – a move that prompted alarm in some parts of the local film and TV industry because it is expected to put pressure on the country’s highly regulated release windows and audiovisual financing system.
“Marseille is an ambitious, diabolically smart, fictitious exploration of local politics in one of the world’s most vibrant and fascinating cities.” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos.
“We are delighted...
Netflix has greenlit its first French original series, a political drama set entitled Marseille, set against the backdrop of the southern French port city due to hit screens at the end of 2015.
The eight-part series, described as “a tale of power, corruption and redemption”, revolves around a city election between the long-time mayor Robert Taro and a younger ambitious candidate.
Netflix’s announcement comes on the eve of its highly anticipated arrival in France – a move that prompted alarm in some parts of the local film and TV industry because it is expected to put pressure on the country’s highly regulated release windows and audiovisual financing system.
“Marseille is an ambitious, diabolically smart, fictitious exploration of local politics in one of the world’s most vibrant and fascinating cities.” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos.
“We are delighted...
- 8/28/2014
- ScreenDaily
Watch a freshly cooked clip for Christian Vincent's Haute Cuisine, starring Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d'Ormesson, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Marc Roulot, Philippe Uchan, Laurent Poitrenaux and Hervé Pierre. The film opened this weekend (September 20th, 2013) via Weinstein Co, and is written by Etienne Comar and Vincent from the story by Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch. Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot), a renowned chef from Perigord, is astonished when the President of the Republic (Jean d’Ormesson) appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace. Despite jealous resentment from the other kitchen staff, Hortense quickly establishes herself, thanks to her indomitable spirit.
- 9/21/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Danièle Delpeuch, personal chef to former French President François Mitterand, met with me for coffee at New York's famous Algonquin Hotel on a late summer morning to discuss the film based on her life. She told me how and when she became friends with Catherine Frot, the role Gault Millau's "Chef of the Century" Joël Robuchon played in her hiring, mushrooms and the price of freedom. Matilda, the lovely Algonquin cat, joined us halfway through our conversation.
Danièle Delpeuch told Anne-Katrin Titze "Everybody can find something personal in this film." Photo: Tolley Haycock
Christian Vincent's Haute Cuisine, based on the true story of Danièle Delpeuch (Catherine Frot as Hortense Laborie), expertly opens up the doors to the kitchens where Monsieur le Président de la République (Jean d'Ormesson) resides.
Anne-Katrin Titze: In the movie, your alter ego is whisked away and doesn't know where she is going. She finds herself in this job,...
Danièle Delpeuch told Anne-Katrin Titze "Everybody can find something personal in this film." Photo: Tolley Haycock
Christian Vincent's Haute Cuisine, based on the true story of Danièle Delpeuch (Catherine Frot as Hortense Laborie), expertly opens up the doors to the kitchens where Monsieur le Président de la République (Jean d'Ormesson) resides.
Anne-Katrin Titze: In the movie, your alter ego is whisked away and doesn't know where she is going. She finds herself in this job,...
- 9/19/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Bon appetit! Clips from the French foodie film "Haute Cuisine," based on the true story of pioneering chef Daniele Delpeuch, have arrived. These appetizing teases give us a piquant glimpse at some of the gorgeously shot food in the film, which has been making its way through festivals since 2012 and opens September 20. Food hasn't looked this mouth-watering onscreen since Tilda Swinton swooned over a plate of prawns in "I Am Love." Also online is a video interview with the real life chef who inspired the film (below). Re-dubbed Hortense Laborie in this retelling, Delpeuch was cooking at her French country restaurant when she was hired to serve as the personal chef of President Francois Mitterand in 1988. Harvey Weinstein talked about the film at a Sundance Q & A earlier this year here. Directed by Christian Vincent and starring Catherine Frot, the film hits stateside theaters September 20. Check out the trailer here.
- 9/19/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Over time, French president François Mitterrand grew weary of the fancy foods being dished up by his chefs, and so it came to pass that a little-known provincial cook was invited, in the late 1980s, to take over the president's kitchen. In this diverting, fictionalized version of the story, Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot) is stunned by the offer, but quickly rises to the challenge set forth by Mitterrand (87-year-old newcomer Jean d'Ormesson, who is marvelous): "If you cook for me like my grandmother cooked for me, I'll be perfectly happy." Writer-director Christian Vincent and co-writer Étienne Comar, aided by Frot's quiet intensity, imbue Hortense's quest to pull off culinary miracles with an urgency that's almost absurdly compelling, and all the more entertaining for...
- 9/18/2013
- Village Voice
Title: Haute Cuisine The Weinstein Company Director: Christian Vincent Screenwriter: Etienne Comar, Christian Vincent Cast: Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d’Ormesson, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Marc Roulot, Philippe Uchan, Laurent Poitrenaux, Hervé Pierre, Brice Fournier Screened at: Dolby24, NYC,9/10/13 Opens: September 20, 2013 If Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot) knew that Bill Clinton would adopt a simple vegan diet she would be both disbelieving and horrified. Horrified. To her a diet is a disease, any diet, a point that has her quoting Montesquieu in Christian Vincent “Haute Cuisine” to the effect that, well, a diet is a disease. Watching her prepare dishes for the President of France she turns Hippocratus’s dictum “Let food [ Read More ]
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- 9/11/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
2013 edition of the Provincetown International Film Festival ran June 19-23.
Christian Vincent’s Haute Cuisine [pictured] and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom were among the winners at the 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff).
Haute Cuisine and Twenty Feet From Stardom scooped the HBO Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, respectively.
Other winners at the 2013 edition of Piff included Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ To Tell You which took home the John Schlesinger Award, given to a first time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker.
As previously announced, cinematographer Ed Lachman received the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award (sponsored by the Mallrd Foundation), while Harmony Korine won the Filmmaker on the Edge Award (sponsored by the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation).
The 2013 Piff ran June 19-23. For the full list of winners, visit the festival’s website.
Christian Vincent’s Haute Cuisine [pictured] and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom were among the winners at the 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff).
Haute Cuisine and Twenty Feet From Stardom scooped the HBO Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, respectively.
Other winners at the 2013 edition of Piff included Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ To Tell You which took home the John Schlesinger Award, given to a first time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker.
As previously announced, cinematographer Ed Lachman received the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award (sponsored by the Mallrd Foundation), while Harmony Korine won the Filmmaker on the Edge Award (sponsored by the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation).
The 2013 Piff ran June 19-23. For the full list of winners, visit the festival’s website.
- 6/24/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
2013 edition of the Provincetown International Film Festival ran June 19-23.
Christian Vincent’s Haute Cuisine [pictured] and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom were among the winners at the 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff).
Haute Cuisine and Twenty Feet From Stardom scooped the HBO Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, respectively.
Other winners at the 2013 edition of Piff included Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ To Tell You which took home the John Schlesinger Award, given to a first time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker.
As previously announced, cinematographer Ed Lachman received the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award (sponsored by the Mallrd Foundation), while Harmony Korine won the Filmmaker on the Edge Award (sponsored by the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation).
The 2013 Piff ran June 19-23. For the full list of winners, visit the festival’s website.
Christian Vincent’s Haute Cuisine [pictured] and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom were among the winners at the 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival (Piff).
Haute Cuisine and Twenty Feet From Stardom scooped the HBO Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and Best Documentary Feature, respectively.
Other winners at the 2013 edition of Piff included Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ To Tell You which took home the John Schlesinger Award, given to a first time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker.
As previously announced, cinematographer Ed Lachman received the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award (sponsored by the Mallrd Foundation), while Harmony Korine won the Filmmaker on the Edge Award (sponsored by the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation).
The 2013 Piff ran June 19-23. For the full list of winners, visit the festival’s website.
- 6/24/2013
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Christian Vincent's "Haute Cuisine" and Morgan Neville's "Twenty Feet From Stardom" were the big winners last night as the Provincetown International Film Festival concluded during an open-air block party by doling out prizes to the audience award winners. "Haute Cuisine," the story of Daniele Delpeuch, who was the private chef to French President Francois Mitterrant was named best narrative feature, while "Twenty Feet," which is currently playing in select theaters, won best documentary feature. Other winners included Whoopi Goldberg, awarded the John Schlesinger Award given to a first-time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker for her debut "Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' To Tell You," and Marnie Crawford Samuelson, whose "Selina Trieff Will Not Stop" won best short film. Earlier over the weekend, renown cinematographer Ed Lachman ("Far From Heaven") accepted the Faith Hubley Career Achievement Award, and Harmony Korine was on hand to receive the Filmmaker on the Edge.
- 6/24/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Christian Vincent’s Haute Cuisine, the story of Danièle Delpeuch, who was the private chef to French President François Mitterrand, received the audience award for best narrative feature at the Provincetown International Film Festival, which handed out its awards Sunday night. The audience award for best documentary feature went to Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom. Other awards were given to Marnie Crawford Samuelson’s Selina Trieff Will Not Stop, audience award for best short film; Whoopi Goldberg’s Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ To Tell You, the John Schlesinger Award given to a first-time documentary or narrative feature filmmaker; David Schlussel’s
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- 6/24/2013
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Monday Night, City of Lights, City of Angels -- the annual French film festival in Hollywood -- concluded by awarding Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri's Tel Aviv-set thriller "The Attack" with three top prizes including the Audience Award and the Special Critics' Prize. (Trailer below.) Based on a novel by Yasmina Khadra, "The Attack" concerns an Arab surgeon who learns of his wife's dark past in the wake of a suicide bombing (read The Playlist's review here). Doueiri previously directed the coming-of-age drama "Lila Says" (2004) and in the 1990s, was a camera assistant to Quentin Tarantino on four of his features including "Jackie Brown" and "Pulp Fiction." "The Attack" will be released in the Us by Cohen Media Group on June 21. Other prizes at Col-coa went to Christian Vincent's "Haute Cuisine" and Regis Roinsard's "Populaire," both of which will be distributed by The Weinstein Company later this summer.
- 4/23/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Col*Coa is winding down, but you can still catch a few stellar films and see the award winners for free Monday, April 22, 2013.
Award Screenings at 6:00 pm: The evening will start with the rerun of two awarded films in the Renoir and Truffaut Theaters at the DGA. Films will be announced on Sunday April 21 on the Col*Coa website, on Facebook, Twitter and on the Col•Coa info line (310) 289 5346. Free admission on a First comes First Served basis. No RSVP needed.
You can stay and also see the Closing Night Films at 8:30 pm at the DGA. Reservations needed. Those are both North American Premieres of two very anticipated French films. The thriller Moebus by Eric Rochant will show for free as will the comedy Like Brothers by Hugo Gélin.
Being among the French filmmakers (and I saw way too few of the films) gave me such a surprising sense of renewal - again because of this upcoming generation. After seeing City of Lights, the short by Pascal Tessaud which preceded the classic Jacques Demy film Bay of Angels starring a platinum blond gambling-addicted Jeanne Moreau in Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo in 1963, we spoke at length about what is called "The New Vibe". City of Lights stars a deeply quiet young man from "les banlieus", the notorious "suburbs" surrounding Paris where the international mix of young (and old) proletariat population is invisible to the rest of France except when the anger erupts into riots. This first generation has the French education but not the money or jobs and it hurts. They have picked up the cameras and with no money are creating films which express their lives in many ways like the new Latin American filmmakers or the new Eastern European filmmakers. Tessaud gave me an entire education in the hour we talked and I will share this in time. For now, aside from his wonderfuly trenchant film which played like a feature, which captured the Paris this young generation recognizes as The City of Lights - dancing, the kitchen of a very upscale restaurant, the dreary streets filled with construction, there is another example of The New Vibe, started by Rachid Djaïdani (a story in himself) the film Hold Back (Rengaine) leads the pack of the 20-some-odd new films of The New Vibe. It is produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint (Les Films des Tournelles) whose films are too numerous to name but include my favorite The Hedgehog which I wrote about at Col*Coa two years ago, Col*Coa's current Cycling with Moliere, 2002's Respiro and many many others. Hold Back took 9 years to make and most of the team was unpaid. The New Vibe makes films without the aid of the French system of funding; it is more guerilla-style, not New Wave, not Dogma but New Vibe. Hold Back took Cannes by storm when it showed last year in Directors Fortnight and went on to New Directors/ New Films in New York. The classic story of a Catholic and a Muslim who want to marry but whose family objects, this rendition the Juliet has a brother who marches throughout Paris to alert her 39 other brothers that she wants to marry outside her cultural and religious traditions. "This fresh debut mixes fable, plucky social commentary - particularly about France's Arab community - and inventive comic setpieces" (Col*Coa)
Hold Back (Rengaine) (Isa: Pathe) goes beyond the funny but "establishmant" film Intouchable which played here last year. It is the exact opposite of such films as Sister or even Aliyah (Isa: Rezo) which played here this year and also in Directors Fortnight last year. Aliyah is about a young French Jewish man who must make his last drug sale in order to escape his brother's destructive behavior. He escapes by immigrating to Israel. These films are made by filmmakers within the French establishment and describe a proletariat existence which exists in their bourgeois minds. They lack a certain "verite" which can only be captured by one who knows viscerally what such marginal existence is.
At the opposite end of the contemporary spectrum of films today, a real establishment film is You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Alain Renais (you have to be a Renais fan to love it who was so avant-garde in his day). Those old New Wave films one could see here stand out in beautiful contrast to today's New Vibe: Renais' Stavisky or the 1963 film The Fire Within (Le feu follet) by Louis Malle again starring the beautiful Jeanne Moreau. I missed them both to my regret. When I miss a film I always tell myself I can see it when it's released or on DVD or Mubi, but rarely do I get to see it. Instead I can only read about it as here written up by Beth Hanna on Indiewire blog ToH. The Fire Within was part of Wes Anderson's choices, one of the various showcases of Col*Coa. Says Hanna: "Anderson's taste is impeccable: He has selected Louis Malle's 1963 lyrical depression drama The Fire Within." It was made after the classic Elevator to the Gallows (1958) which Miles Davis scored and which also starred the young Jeanne Moreau. She also could be seen her in Col*Coa in the classic 1963 Jacques Demy-directed Bay of Angels.
Col*Coa really offered something for everyone this year. Another of my favorite film genres, the Jewish film, was represented by Aliyah and The Dandelions (Du Vent dans mes mollets) (Isa: Gaumont), Stavisky, and It Happened in St. Tropez (Isa: Pathe), a classic French comedy -- though a bit dark and yet still comedic, about romance, love and marriage switching between generations in a neurotic, comfortably wealthy Jewish family. The Dandelions was, according to my friend Debra Levine, a writer on culture including film and dance, (see her blog artsmeme), "darling, so touching, so well made, so creative ... i really liked it. Went into that rabbit hole of little girls together ... Barbie doll play. Crazy creative play. As looney as kids can be."
Ian Birnie's favorite film was Becoming Traviata. Greg Katchel's favorite originally was Rendez-vous à Kiruna by Anna Novion, but when I saw him later in the festival his favorite was Cycling with Moliere (Alceste a bicyclette) (Isa: Pathe), again produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint and directed by Philippe Le Guay who directed one of my favorites, The Women on the 6th Floor. Greg also liked Three Worlds though it was a bit "schematic" in depicting the clash of different cultures which were also shown in Hold Back.
Of the few films I was able to see, the most interesting was Augustine by Alice Winokur. It is the French response to David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and the British film Hysteria. All three were about the turn of the century concern of psychologists or doctors with female hysteria. This one concerned Jean-Martin Charcot and the neurologist's belief that hysteria was a neurological disease and he used hypnosis to get at its roots, whild in A Dangerous Method it was seen by Freud and Jung as a mental disorder and in Hysteria by Tanya Wexler (Tiff 2011) in which Dr. Mortimer Granville devises the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
Take a look at Indiewire's own article here for more on Los Angeles's greatest French attraction, the second largest French film festival in the world.
Several American distributors will present their films at Col•Coa before their U.S. release: Kino Lorber – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, co-written and directed by Alain Resnais (Focus on a Filmmaker); Mpi Media – Thérèse, the last film of director/co-writer Claude Miller starring Audrey Tautou; Cohen Media Group – In the House, written and directed by François Ozon and The Attack, co-written and directed by Ziad Doueiri; Distrib Films for two documentaries: Becoming Traviata and The Invisibles; Film Movement for two thrillers: Aliyah and Three Worlds; The Weinstein Company - Populaire.
Below you can see the international sales agents for the current features showing.
11.6 / 11.6 (Isa: Wild Bunch)
Directed by: Philippe Godeau
Written by: Philippe Godeau, Agnès De Sacy
A Few Hours Of Spring / Quelques heures de printemps (Isa: Rezo)
Directed by: Stéphane Brizé ♀
Written by: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent, Emmanuelle Seigner, Olivier Perrier
Aliyah/Alyah ✡ (Isa: Rezo, U.S.: Film Movement
Directed by: Élie Wajeman
Written by: Élie Wajeman, Gaëlle Macé
Armed Hands / Mains armées (Isa: Films Distribution)
Directed by: Pierre Jolivet
Written by: Pierre Jolivet, Simon Michaël
Augustine / Augustine (Isa: Kinology, U.S.: Music Box)
Directed by: Alice Winocour ♀
Written by: Alice Winocour
Aya Of Yop City / Aya de Yopougon (Isa: TF1)
Directed by: Clément Oubrerie, Marguerite Abouet ♀
Written by: Marguerite Abouet
Bay Of Angels / La Baie des anges (U.S.: Criterion)
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Written by: Jacques Demy
Becoming Traviata /Traviata et nous (Isa: Films Boutique, U.S. Distrib Films and Cinema Guild)
Directed by: Philippe Béziat
Written by: Philippe Béziat
Cycling With MOLIÈRE / Alceste à bicyclette (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Written by: Philippe Le Guay, based on an original idea by Fabrice Luchini and Philippe Le Guay
Fly Me To The Moon / Un plan parfait (Isa: Kinology)
Directed By: Pascal Chaumeil
Written By: Laurent Zeitoun, Yoann Gromb, Philippe Mechelen
Haute Cuisine / Les Saveurs du palais (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: The Weinstein Company)
Directed by: Christian Vincent
Written by: Etienne Comar & Christian Vincent, based on the life of Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch
Hidden Beauties / Mille-Feuille (Isa: Other Angle Pictures)
Directed by: Nouri Bouzid
Written by: Nouri Bouzid, Joumène Limam
Hold Back / Rengaine (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Rachid Djaïdani
Written by: Rachid Djaïdani
In The House / Dans la maison (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
Directed by: François Ozon
Written by: François Ozon
It Happened In Saint-tropez / Des Gens qui s’embrassent (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Danièle Thompson ♀
Written by: Danièle Thompson, Christopher Thompson
Jappeloup/ Jappeloup (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Written by: Guillaume Canet
Le Grand Soir / Le grand soir (Isa: Funny Balloons)
Directed by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
Written by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
Little Lion / Comme un Lion (Isa: Pyramide)
Directed by: Samuel Collardey
Written by: Catherine Paillé, Nadège Trebal, Samuel Collardey
Moon Man / Jean de la lune (Isa: Le Pacte)
Directed By: Stephan Schesch
Written By: Stephan Schesch, Ralph Martin. Based on the book by: Tomi Ungerer
Populaire / Populaire (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: TWC)
Directed By: Régis Roinsard
Written By: Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley, Romain Compingt
Rendezvous In Kiruna / Rendez-vous à Kiruna (Isa: Pyramide)
Directed by: Anne Novion ♀
Written by: Olivier Massart, Anne Novion, Pierre Novion
Sons Of The Wind / Les Fils du vent (Isa: Wide)
Directed by: Bruno Le Jean
Written by: Bruno Le Jean
Stavisky / Stavisky (1974) (Isa: StudioCanal)
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Written by: Jorge Semprún
The Attack / L’Attentat
France, Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar, 2013
Directed by: Ziad Doueiri (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
The BRONTË Sisters / Les Soeurs Brontë (Isa: Gaumont, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
Directed by: André Téchiné
Written by: André Téchiné, Jean Gruault, Pascal Bonitzer
The Dandelions / Du Vent dans mes mollets ✡
Directed By: Carine Tardieu ♀
Written By: Carine Tardieu, Raphaële Moussafir, Olivier Beer
The Fire Within / Le Feu Follet (1963) (Isa: Pyramide, U.S.: Janus Films)
Directed by: Louis Malle
Written by: Louis Malle
The Invisibles / Les Invisibles (Isa: Doc & Film, U.S. Distrib Films))
Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz
The Man Who Laughs/ L’Homme qui rit (Isa: EuropaCorps)
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Améris
Written by: Jean-Pierre Améris , Guillaume Laurant
THÉRÈSE / Thérèse Desqueyroux (Isa: TF1, U.S.: Mpi)
Directed by: Claude Miller
Written by: Claude Miller, Natalie Carter
Three Worlds / Trois mondes (Isa: Pyramide, U.S.: Film Movement)
Directed by: Catherine Corsini ♀
Written by: Catherine Corsini, Benoît Graffin
To Our Loves / À nos amours (1983) (U.S. Janus)
Directed By: Maurice Pialat
Written By: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat
True Friends / Amitiés sincères (Isa: Snd Groupe 6)
Directed By: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie
Written By: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie, Marie-Pierre Huster
Welcome To Argentina / Mariage à Mendoza (Isa: Kinology)
Directed By: Édouard Deluc
Written By: Anaïs Carpita, Édouard Deluc, Thomas Lilti, Philippe Rebbot
What’S In A Name / Le prénom (Isa: Pathe, U.S. Under The Milky Way)
Directed by: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Written by: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
You Ain’T Seen Nothin’ Yet / Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Isa: StudioCanal, U.S.: Kino Lorber)
Directed By: Alain Resnais
Written By: Alain Resnais, Laurent Herbiet...
Award Screenings at 6:00 pm: The evening will start with the rerun of two awarded films in the Renoir and Truffaut Theaters at the DGA. Films will be announced on Sunday April 21 on the Col*Coa website, on Facebook, Twitter and on the Col•Coa info line (310) 289 5346. Free admission on a First comes First Served basis. No RSVP needed.
You can stay and also see the Closing Night Films at 8:30 pm at the DGA. Reservations needed. Those are both North American Premieres of two very anticipated French films. The thriller Moebus by Eric Rochant will show for free as will the comedy Like Brothers by Hugo Gélin.
Being among the French filmmakers (and I saw way too few of the films) gave me such a surprising sense of renewal - again because of this upcoming generation. After seeing City of Lights, the short by Pascal Tessaud which preceded the classic Jacques Demy film Bay of Angels starring a platinum blond gambling-addicted Jeanne Moreau in Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo in 1963, we spoke at length about what is called "The New Vibe". City of Lights stars a deeply quiet young man from "les banlieus", the notorious "suburbs" surrounding Paris where the international mix of young (and old) proletariat population is invisible to the rest of France except when the anger erupts into riots. This first generation has the French education but not the money or jobs and it hurts. They have picked up the cameras and with no money are creating films which express their lives in many ways like the new Latin American filmmakers or the new Eastern European filmmakers. Tessaud gave me an entire education in the hour we talked and I will share this in time. For now, aside from his wonderfuly trenchant film which played like a feature, which captured the Paris this young generation recognizes as The City of Lights - dancing, the kitchen of a very upscale restaurant, the dreary streets filled with construction, there is another example of The New Vibe, started by Rachid Djaïdani (a story in himself) the film Hold Back (Rengaine) leads the pack of the 20-some-odd new films of The New Vibe. It is produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint (Les Films des Tournelles) whose films are too numerous to name but include my favorite The Hedgehog which I wrote about at Col*Coa two years ago, Col*Coa's current Cycling with Moliere, 2002's Respiro and many many others. Hold Back took 9 years to make and most of the team was unpaid. The New Vibe makes films without the aid of the French system of funding; it is more guerilla-style, not New Wave, not Dogma but New Vibe. Hold Back took Cannes by storm when it showed last year in Directors Fortnight and went on to New Directors/ New Films in New York. The classic story of a Catholic and a Muslim who want to marry but whose family objects, this rendition the Juliet has a brother who marches throughout Paris to alert her 39 other brothers that she wants to marry outside her cultural and religious traditions. "This fresh debut mixes fable, plucky social commentary - particularly about France's Arab community - and inventive comic setpieces" (Col*Coa)
Hold Back (Rengaine) (Isa: Pathe) goes beyond the funny but "establishmant" film Intouchable which played here last year. It is the exact opposite of such films as Sister or even Aliyah (Isa: Rezo) which played here this year and also in Directors Fortnight last year. Aliyah is about a young French Jewish man who must make his last drug sale in order to escape his brother's destructive behavior. He escapes by immigrating to Israel. These films are made by filmmakers within the French establishment and describe a proletariat existence which exists in their bourgeois minds. They lack a certain "verite" which can only be captured by one who knows viscerally what such marginal existence is.
At the opposite end of the contemporary spectrum of films today, a real establishment film is You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Alain Renais (you have to be a Renais fan to love it who was so avant-garde in his day). Those old New Wave films one could see here stand out in beautiful contrast to today's New Vibe: Renais' Stavisky or the 1963 film The Fire Within (Le feu follet) by Louis Malle again starring the beautiful Jeanne Moreau. I missed them both to my regret. When I miss a film I always tell myself I can see it when it's released or on DVD or Mubi, but rarely do I get to see it. Instead I can only read about it as here written up by Beth Hanna on Indiewire blog ToH. The Fire Within was part of Wes Anderson's choices, one of the various showcases of Col*Coa. Says Hanna: "Anderson's taste is impeccable: He has selected Louis Malle's 1963 lyrical depression drama The Fire Within." It was made after the classic Elevator to the Gallows (1958) which Miles Davis scored and which also starred the young Jeanne Moreau. She also could be seen her in Col*Coa in the classic 1963 Jacques Demy-directed Bay of Angels.
Col*Coa really offered something for everyone this year. Another of my favorite film genres, the Jewish film, was represented by Aliyah and The Dandelions (Du Vent dans mes mollets) (Isa: Gaumont), Stavisky, and It Happened in St. Tropez (Isa: Pathe), a classic French comedy -- though a bit dark and yet still comedic, about romance, love and marriage switching between generations in a neurotic, comfortably wealthy Jewish family. The Dandelions was, according to my friend Debra Levine, a writer on culture including film and dance, (see her blog artsmeme), "darling, so touching, so well made, so creative ... i really liked it. Went into that rabbit hole of little girls together ... Barbie doll play. Crazy creative play. As looney as kids can be."
Ian Birnie's favorite film was Becoming Traviata. Greg Katchel's favorite originally was Rendez-vous à Kiruna by Anna Novion, but when I saw him later in the festival his favorite was Cycling with Moliere (Alceste a bicyclette) (Isa: Pathe), again produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint and directed by Philippe Le Guay who directed one of my favorites, The Women on the 6th Floor. Greg also liked Three Worlds though it was a bit "schematic" in depicting the clash of different cultures which were also shown in Hold Back.
Of the few films I was able to see, the most interesting was Augustine by Alice Winokur. It is the French response to David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and the British film Hysteria. All three were about the turn of the century concern of psychologists or doctors with female hysteria. This one concerned Jean-Martin Charcot and the neurologist's belief that hysteria was a neurological disease and he used hypnosis to get at its roots, whild in A Dangerous Method it was seen by Freud and Jung as a mental disorder and in Hysteria by Tanya Wexler (Tiff 2011) in which Dr. Mortimer Granville devises the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
Take a look at Indiewire's own article here for more on Los Angeles's greatest French attraction, the second largest French film festival in the world.
Several American distributors will present their films at Col•Coa before their U.S. release: Kino Lorber – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, co-written and directed by Alain Resnais (Focus on a Filmmaker); Mpi Media – Thérèse, the last film of director/co-writer Claude Miller starring Audrey Tautou; Cohen Media Group – In the House, written and directed by François Ozon and The Attack, co-written and directed by Ziad Doueiri; Distrib Films for two documentaries: Becoming Traviata and The Invisibles; Film Movement for two thrillers: Aliyah and Three Worlds; The Weinstein Company - Populaire.
Below you can see the international sales agents for the current features showing.
11.6 / 11.6 (Isa: Wild Bunch)
Directed by: Philippe Godeau
Written by: Philippe Godeau, Agnès De Sacy
A Few Hours Of Spring / Quelques heures de printemps (Isa: Rezo)
Directed by: Stéphane Brizé ♀
Written by: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent, Emmanuelle Seigner, Olivier Perrier
Aliyah/Alyah ✡ (Isa: Rezo, U.S.: Film Movement
Directed by: Élie Wajeman
Written by: Élie Wajeman, Gaëlle Macé
Armed Hands / Mains armées (Isa: Films Distribution)
Directed by: Pierre Jolivet
Written by: Pierre Jolivet, Simon Michaël
Augustine / Augustine (Isa: Kinology, U.S.: Music Box)
Directed by: Alice Winocour ♀
Written by: Alice Winocour
Aya Of Yop City / Aya de Yopougon (Isa: TF1)
Directed by: Clément Oubrerie, Marguerite Abouet ♀
Written by: Marguerite Abouet
Bay Of Angels / La Baie des anges (U.S.: Criterion)
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Written by: Jacques Demy
Becoming Traviata /Traviata et nous (Isa: Films Boutique, U.S. Distrib Films and Cinema Guild)
Directed by: Philippe Béziat
Written by: Philippe Béziat
Cycling With MOLIÈRE / Alceste à bicyclette (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Written by: Philippe Le Guay, based on an original idea by Fabrice Luchini and Philippe Le Guay
Fly Me To The Moon / Un plan parfait (Isa: Kinology)
Directed By: Pascal Chaumeil
Written By: Laurent Zeitoun, Yoann Gromb, Philippe Mechelen
Haute Cuisine / Les Saveurs du palais (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: The Weinstein Company)
Directed by: Christian Vincent
Written by: Etienne Comar & Christian Vincent, based on the life of Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch
Hidden Beauties / Mille-Feuille (Isa: Other Angle Pictures)
Directed by: Nouri Bouzid
Written by: Nouri Bouzid, Joumène Limam
Hold Back / Rengaine (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Rachid Djaïdani
Written by: Rachid Djaïdani
In The House / Dans la maison (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
Directed by: François Ozon
Written by: François Ozon
It Happened In Saint-tropez / Des Gens qui s’embrassent (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Danièle Thompson ♀
Written by: Danièle Thompson, Christopher Thompson
Jappeloup/ Jappeloup (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Written by: Guillaume Canet
Le Grand Soir / Le grand soir (Isa: Funny Balloons)
Directed by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
Written by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
Little Lion / Comme un Lion (Isa: Pyramide)
Directed by: Samuel Collardey
Written by: Catherine Paillé, Nadège Trebal, Samuel Collardey
Moon Man / Jean de la lune (Isa: Le Pacte)
Directed By: Stephan Schesch
Written By: Stephan Schesch, Ralph Martin. Based on the book by: Tomi Ungerer
Populaire / Populaire (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: TWC)
Directed By: Régis Roinsard
Written By: Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley, Romain Compingt
Rendezvous In Kiruna / Rendez-vous à Kiruna (Isa: Pyramide)
Directed by: Anne Novion ♀
Written by: Olivier Massart, Anne Novion, Pierre Novion
Sons Of The Wind / Les Fils du vent (Isa: Wide)
Directed by: Bruno Le Jean
Written by: Bruno Le Jean
Stavisky / Stavisky (1974) (Isa: StudioCanal)
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Written by: Jorge Semprún
The Attack / L’Attentat
France, Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar, 2013
Directed by: Ziad Doueiri (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
The BRONTË Sisters / Les Soeurs Brontë (Isa: Gaumont, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
Directed by: André Téchiné
Written by: André Téchiné, Jean Gruault, Pascal Bonitzer
The Dandelions / Du Vent dans mes mollets ✡
Directed By: Carine Tardieu ♀
Written By: Carine Tardieu, Raphaële Moussafir, Olivier Beer
The Fire Within / Le Feu Follet (1963) (Isa: Pyramide, U.S.: Janus Films)
Directed by: Louis Malle
Written by: Louis Malle
The Invisibles / Les Invisibles (Isa: Doc & Film, U.S. Distrib Films))
Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz
The Man Who Laughs/ L’Homme qui rit (Isa: EuropaCorps)
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Améris
Written by: Jean-Pierre Améris , Guillaume Laurant
THÉRÈSE / Thérèse Desqueyroux (Isa: TF1, U.S.: Mpi)
Directed by: Claude Miller
Written by: Claude Miller, Natalie Carter
Three Worlds / Trois mondes (Isa: Pyramide, U.S.: Film Movement)
Directed by: Catherine Corsini ♀
Written by: Catherine Corsini, Benoît Graffin
To Our Loves / À nos amours (1983) (U.S. Janus)
Directed By: Maurice Pialat
Written By: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat
True Friends / Amitiés sincères (Isa: Snd Groupe 6)
Directed By: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie
Written By: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie, Marie-Pierre Huster
Welcome To Argentina / Mariage à Mendoza (Isa: Kinology)
Directed By: Édouard Deluc
Written By: Anaïs Carpita, Édouard Deluc, Thomas Lilti, Philippe Rebbot
What’S In A Name / Le prénom (Isa: Pathe, U.S. Under The Milky Way)
Directed by: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Written by: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
You Ain’T Seen Nothin’ Yet / Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Isa: StudioCanal, U.S.: Kino Lorber)
Directed By: Alain Resnais
Written By: Alain Resnais, Laurent Herbiet...
- 4/20/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Tribeca’s 12th annual festival, running from April 17-28, recently announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Midnight sections. According to Tribeca’s website, “The Spotlight section features 33 films — 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — that blur the lines of independent and mainstream filmmaking. Twenty-three films in the selection will have their world premieres at the Festival, a record number for the section.” See below for the official press release of this year’s lineup in all four categories.
2013 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Selections
For Spotlight, Midnight And New Storyscapes Sections, And Special Screenings
First-ever Storyscapes Section Showcases Innovative New Media Projects with Cross-platform Approaches to Storytelling
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Midnight sections, projects in the new Storyscapes section and Special Screenings. The 12th edition of the Festival will take place from April 17 to April 28 in New York City.
The Spotlight...
2013 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Selections
For Spotlight, Midnight And New Storyscapes Sections, And Special Screenings
First-ever Storyscapes Section Showcases Innovative New Media Projects with Cross-platform Approaches to Storytelling
The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Midnight sections, projects in the new Storyscapes section and Special Screenings. The 12th edition of the Festival will take place from April 17 to April 28 in New York City.
The Spotlight...
- 3/28/2013
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Yesterday the Tribeca Film Festival announced their feature film selections for their Spotlight and Midnight sections which include 21 narrative and 12 documentary projects.
This year’s choices bring us films featuring a bevy of top Hollywood talent including Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, John Cusack,, Gemma Arterton and Zoe Kazan.
In a press release that accompanied the roster, Genna Terranova, Director of Programming for the festival said: “The documentary films in the Spotlight section this year highlight several famous individuals (including one very cute cat) who use their wit and bold personas to make us think and laugh. A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships.”
The festival will feature the world premieres of several highly-anticipated film projects from indie mainstays like Neil Labute and Richard Linklater, as well as new projects from veteran directors like...
This year’s choices bring us films featuring a bevy of top Hollywood talent including Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, John Cusack,, Gemma Arterton and Zoe Kazan.
In a press release that accompanied the roster, Genna Terranova, Director of Programming for the festival said: “The documentary films in the Spotlight section this year highlight several famous individuals (including one very cute cat) who use their wit and bold personas to make us think and laugh. A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships.”
The festival will feature the world premieres of several highly-anticipated film projects from indie mainstays like Neil Labute and Richard Linklater, as well as new projects from veteran directors like...
- 3/7/2013
- by Damen Norton
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tribeca Film Festival organizers announced on Wednesday 33 films ticketed for the Spotlight section of the April fest, including new movies starring John Cusack, Ethan Hawke, Zoe Kazan and Melissa Leo.
“A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships,” said Tribeca director of programming Genna Terranova in a press release. The Tribeca Film Festival had previously announced "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, as the opening night film, plus a full slate of documentary and feature films in competition.
Some highlights from the Spotlight roster include the world premieres of "Adult World" (with Emma Roberts and John Cusack), "Almost Christmas" (with Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti), "A Case of You" (with Justin Long), "Some Velvet Morning" (with Stanley Tucci and Evan Rachel Wood), "Trust Me" (with Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy and more...
“A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships,” said Tribeca director of programming Genna Terranova in a press release. The Tribeca Film Festival had previously announced "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, as the opening night film, plus a full slate of documentary and feature films in competition.
Some highlights from the Spotlight roster include the world premieres of "Adult World" (with Emma Roberts and John Cusack), "Almost Christmas" (with Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti), "A Case of You" (with Justin Long), "Some Velvet Morning" (with Stanley Tucci and Evan Rachel Wood), "Trust Me" (with Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy and more...
- 3/6/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the second half of its movie slate today with a lineup that includes Emma Roberts in Adult World, Zac Efron in racing-cum-farming drama At Any Price, and Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. The releases are in the following categories, which make up the second half of the festival’s feature list: Spotlight, Midnight, Special Screenings, and Storyscapes, a new category this year to recognize work in transmedia — films the incorporate web-based and cross-platform elements.
The Spotlight selection — 33 films: 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — stands out for its range of titles, including premieres from indie darlings (Junebug director Phil Morrison,...
The Spotlight selection — 33 films: 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — stands out for its range of titles, including premieres from indie darlings (Junebug director Phil Morrison,...
- 3/6/2013
- by Adam Carlson
- EW - Inside Movies
Les Saveurs du palais (also known as Haute Cuisine)
Directed by Christian Vincent
Written by Étienne Comar, Christian Vincent
France, 2012
It is somewhat surprising to realize that so few films have been made which concerned themselves with the topic of food. Apart from being an essential element conducive towards human survival, food is in many respects an important side to a community’s culture. It can look and taste great, but also express certain values and beliefs. Of course, there are many films that have food in them, but few are genuinely about food and how it influences, inspires and swings moods. A beautiful example is the 1996 film, Big Night, with Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci. Whatever the case may be, it is always pleasant news when a new release has food as its principle subject matter, for it can influence the story and its characters in so many ways,...
Directed by Christian Vincent
Written by Étienne Comar, Christian Vincent
France, 2012
It is somewhat surprising to realize that so few films have been made which concerned themselves with the topic of food. Apart from being an essential element conducive towards human survival, food is in many respects an important side to a community’s culture. It can look and taste great, but also express certain values and beliefs. Of course, there are many films that have food in them, but few are genuinely about food and how it influences, inspires and swings moods. A beautiful example is the 1996 film, Big Night, with Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci. Whatever the case may be, it is always pleasant news when a new release has food as its principle subject matter, for it can influence the story and its characters in so many ways,...
- 12/7/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
It's fair to say The Weinstein Company is pretty high on the value of Cannes this year. And tonight will be all about their upcoming films as they pull the old "let's show some footage, stir the interest pot and steal a little bit of thunder" trick. The Weinsteins came to the fest with two heavily anticipated films already in tow (John Hillcoat's "Lawless" and Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly"). But they've maintained a muscular presence in the market as well, acquiring light touches in Christian Vincent's "Haute Cuisine" and Wayne Blair's "The Sapphires," as well as political angles on Muammar...
- 5/21/2012
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
In today's Libération, Didier Péron remembers Maurice Garrel, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 88. Father of producer Thierry Garrel and director Philippe and, of course, grandfather of Louis and Esther, Maurice Garrel performed in over a hundred films and was twice nominated for a César for best supporting actor: in 1991 for Christian Vincent's La Discrète and in 2005 for Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen. In a career spanning over five decades, Garrel appeared in films as varied as François Truffaut's The Soft Skin, Jacques Rivette's Merry-Go-Round, Claude Lelouch's Edith and Marcel, Claude Chabrol's Nada and Claude Sautet's A Heart in Winter.
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- 6/6/2011
- MUBI
There are many formulas that I like, mostly because they work. The formula for original Coke is perfect and irreplaceable. New Coke be damned. One of my favorites, is what I call the Golden Girls formula for the perfect sitcom. I believe that any successful foursome will have the smart one, the slut, the dumb/ditzy/innocent one, and the wild card. Take a moment, and think about Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia respectively. Now think of Sex and the City’s Miranda, Samantha, Charlotte and Carrie. How about the Facts of Life girls, or the Queer as Folk guys? It works, right?
A few years ago, I stumbled on a Logo network show called Noah’s Arc. It chronicles the lives a four gay black men who are best friends and confidantes. Much like their Sex and The City counterparts, their love lives, careers and daily dramas play the central role.
A few years ago, I stumbled on a Logo network show called Noah’s Arc. It chronicles the lives a four gay black men who are best friends and confidantes. Much like their Sex and The City counterparts, their love lives, careers and daily dramas play the central role.
- 8/18/2009
- by Heather Toshiko
- The Flickcast
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