Dany Boon and Audrey Fleurot are setting sail for See The Sea, Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud’s family comedy-drama adapted from hit Mexican film Ya Veremos, and Snd will kick off sales in Cannes.
Actor-director Boon, known for box office hits Welcome To The Sticks and Driving Madeleine, and Fleurot play a divorced couple forced to put aside their differences on an oceanside trip when their son begins to go blind.
Currently shooting in southwestern France, the film is the latest in what has been a boom in local language remakes that will take centre stage at the Cannes market. Pedro Pablo Ibarra...
Actor-director Boon, known for box office hits Welcome To The Sticks and Driving Madeleine, and Fleurot play a divorced couple forced to put aside their differences on an oceanside trip when their son begins to go blind.
Currently shooting in southwestern France, the film is the latest in what has been a boom in local language remakes that will take centre stage at the Cannes market. Pedro Pablo Ibarra...
- 5/3/2024
- ScreenDaily
Line-up includes ’Meet The Leroys’ starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and José Garcia.
Newen Connect has added a trio of star-powered French comedies – Meet The Leroys, Here & There and Karaoké – to its slate and the TF1-owned company will kick off sales for the new films at AFM.
Meet The Leroys is written and directed by International Emmy-nominated Florent Bernard (Le Flambeau) and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and José Garcia in a story of a man facing divorce who attempts to rekindle his wife’s affections by taking her and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane.
The film is...
Newen Connect has added a trio of star-powered French comedies – Meet The Leroys, Here & There and Karaoké – to its slate and the TF1-owned company will kick off sales for the new films at AFM.
Meet The Leroys is written and directed by International Emmy-nominated Florent Bernard (Le Flambeau) and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and José Garcia in a story of a man facing divorce who attempts to rekindle his wife’s affections by taking her and their teenage children on a road trip down memory lane.
The film is...
- 10/27/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Brussels-based sales company Be For Films has closed a raft of pre-sales on Julien Carpentier’s feature debut “La vie de ma mère,” a mother-and-son dramedy, starring Agnès Jaoui and William Lebghil.
Now in post, the heartwarming film follows Julien, a successful 33-year-old florist whose life is turned upside down when his mother Judith, whom he hasn’t seen for two years, reappears. Mercurial and extravagant, she suffers from bipolar disorder and has recently escaped from a clinic. Pierre has only one idea in mind: Send her back as quickly as possible so his life can get back on track. But nothing happens as he hoped for. Their unexpected reunion, as funny and explosive as it is heart-wrenching, will transform Pierre and Judith forever. Alison Wheeler and Salif Cissé complete the cast. Kmbo will distribute the film in France.
“La vie de ma mere” is produced by Silex Films, the banner behind “Rose,...
Now in post, the heartwarming film follows Julien, a successful 33-year-old florist whose life is turned upside down when his mother Judith, whom he hasn’t seen for two years, reappears. Mercurial and extravagant, she suffers from bipolar disorder and has recently escaped from a clinic. Pierre has only one idea in mind: Send her back as quickly as possible so his life can get back on track. But nothing happens as he hoped for. Their unexpected reunion, as funny and explosive as it is heart-wrenching, will transform Pierre and Judith forever. Alison Wheeler and Salif Cissé complete the cast. Kmbo will distribute the film in France.
“La vie de ma mere” is produced by Silex Films, the banner behind “Rose,...
- 1/16/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Pulsar Content has closed a raft of major deals on “La Maison,” Anissa Bonnefont’s erotic drama based on Emma Becker’s controversial bestselling novel chronicling the young author’s two-year undercover experience working as a sex worker at a Berlin brothel.
The Paris-based company introduced the title to buyers at Cannes and sold it to Wild Bunch for Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain, among other deals.
Wild Bunch will team with Capelight for the German release. The film will be handled by Wild Bunch subsidiaries in Italy and Spain, Bim Distribuzione and Vertigo, respectively. Other territories closed include Singapore (Shaw), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais), and the Baltics (Garsu Pasaulio Irasai). Pulsar Content is in talks to lock further deals.
“I’m excited to take on this ambitious, well crafted and daring film accross our European territories. ‘La Maison found its home,'” said Wild Bunch’s Marc Gabizon.
Pulsar...
The Paris-based company introduced the title to buyers at Cannes and sold it to Wild Bunch for Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain, among other deals.
Wild Bunch will team with Capelight for the German release. The film will be handled by Wild Bunch subsidiaries in Italy and Spain, Bim Distribuzione and Vertigo, respectively. Other territories closed include Singapore (Shaw), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais), and the Baltics (Garsu Pasaulio Irasai). Pulsar Content is in talks to lock further deals.
“I’m excited to take on this ambitious, well crafted and daring film accross our European territories. ‘La Maison found its home,'” said Wild Bunch’s Marc Gabizon.
Pulsar...
- 5/24/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Pulsar Content has boarded Anissa Bonnefont’s erotic drama “La Maison” based on Emma Becker’s controversial bestselling novel chronicling the young author’s two-year undercover experience working as a sex worker at a Berlin brothel.
Now in post-production, “La Maison” is headlined by Ana Girardot, the rising French star of “The Returned,” “Back to Burgundy” and “Escobar: Paradise Lost,” as well as Rossy De Palma and Aure Atika (“10 Days With Dad”). De Palma will also be at Cannes to preside over the jury of the Golden Camera Award.
Pulsar Content has secured worldwide sales and unveiling a first still of the movie (pictured above). The outfit will introduce the project to buyers at Cannes with a promo reel. Rezo will distribute “La Maison” in France.
Radar Films, a Mediawan company whose credits include “Vicky and her Mystery,” “The Deep House” and “Divorce Club” is producing the movie with and Belgian banner uMedia co-producing.
Now in post-production, “La Maison” is headlined by Ana Girardot, the rising French star of “The Returned,” “Back to Burgundy” and “Escobar: Paradise Lost,” as well as Rossy De Palma and Aure Atika (“10 Days With Dad”). De Palma will also be at Cannes to preside over the jury of the Golden Camera Award.
Pulsar Content has secured worldwide sales and unveiling a first still of the movie (pictured above). The outfit will introduce the project to buyers at Cannes with a promo reel. Rezo will distribute “La Maison” in France.
Radar Films, a Mediawan company whose credits include “Vicky and her Mystery,” “The Deep House” and “Divorce Club” is producing the movie with and Belgian banner uMedia co-producing.
- 5/4/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Stalk,” Simon Bouisson’s timely French show tackling cyber spying and bullying, has lured a flurry of top TV channels across the world.
Produced by Priscilla Bertin and Judith Nora at Silex Films, the half-hour psychological thriller series was a big hit on France Televisions’s platform Slash and later aired on the broadcaster’s linear channel France 2 in the slot following “Call My Agent! The second season, which won best half-hour series and best music (for Paul Sabin) at La Rochelle TV Festival, recently premiered.
FranceTV Distribution, the commercial arm of the broadcaster, has sold the first two seasons to HB0 Latin America, Gsn in Russia and Shahid in the Middle East. South Korea’s Navel picked up season one, while the second season has been picked up by Wdr and Sony in Germany, Rai Play in Italy and Ici tou.tv in Canada.
Bouisson, who previously helmed the...
Produced by Priscilla Bertin and Judith Nora at Silex Films, the half-hour psychological thriller series was a big hit on France Televisions’s platform Slash and later aired on the broadcaster’s linear channel France 2 in the slot following “Call My Agent! The second season, which won best half-hour series and best music (for Paul Sabin) at La Rochelle TV Festival, recently premiered.
FranceTV Distribution, the commercial arm of the broadcaster, has sold the first two seasons to HB0 Latin America, Gsn in Russia and Shahid in the Middle East. South Korea’s Navel picked up season one, while the second season has been picked up by Wdr and Sony in Germany, Rai Play in Italy and Ici tou.tv in Canada.
Bouisson, who previously helmed the...
- 11/30/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
French soccer player-turned-actor Eric Cantona (“Looking for Eric”) is set to star in “Giant With Feet of Clay” (“Le Colosse aux pieds d’argile”), a television drama about sexual harassement and abuse in sports.
The movie is about to start shooting in Southwestern France with French director Stéphanie Murat; and is being produced by Sydney Gallonde’s Make It Happen Studio and Tetra Media Studio (“Paris Police 1900”).
Aude Marcle penned the script which is loosely based on the true story of Sébastien Boueilh, who penned the book “Le Colosse aux pieds d’argile” with Thierry Vildary. The timely movie has been commissioned by French TV network TF1 which is also co-producing.
Cantona as Sébastien, a successful former rugbyman who was raped by someone close to his parents for four years when he was a teenage athlete and has been unable to tell anyone what happened to him. Torn by...
The movie is about to start shooting in Southwestern France with French director Stéphanie Murat; and is being produced by Sydney Gallonde’s Make It Happen Studio and Tetra Media Studio (“Paris Police 1900”).
Aude Marcle penned the script which is loosely based on the true story of Sébastien Boueilh, who penned the book “Le Colosse aux pieds d’argile” with Thierry Vildary. The timely movie has been commissioned by French TV network TF1 which is also co-producing.
Cantona as Sébastien, a successful former rugbyman who was raped by someone close to his parents for four years when he was a teenage athlete and has been unable to tell anyone what happened to him. Torn by...
- 10/18/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Distributor, Kinology reunite after Oscar-nominated Mustang.
Cohen Media Group has picked up all North American rights from Kinology to actress Aurélie Saada’s feature directorial debut Rose starring Françoise Fabian.
The film received its world premiere inat Locarno Film Festival in August and centres on a 78-year-old woman who has just lost her husband of more than 50 years. Devastation gives way to a strong desire to live life to the full even though the woman’s newfound joie de vivre threatens to upset the family balance.
The cast includes Aure Atika, Grégory Montel, Damien Chapelle, Pascal Elbé and Mehdi Nebbou.
Cohen Media Group has picked up all North American rights from Kinology to actress Aurélie Saada’s feature directorial debut Rose starring Françoise Fabian.
The film received its world premiere inat Locarno Film Festival in August and centres on a 78-year-old woman who has just lost her husband of more than 50 years. Devastation gives way to a strong desire to live life to the full even though the woman’s newfound joie de vivre threatens to upset the family balance.
The cast includes Aure Atika, Grégory Montel, Damien Chapelle, Pascal Elbé and Mehdi Nebbou.
- 10/11/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Actress and now debuting director, writer and composer Aurélie Saada pours a tremendous amount of personal nostalgia into “Rose,” a feature steeped in love for her North African Jewish roots, from music (all written by Saada) to food — the credits even include her recipe for “makroud,” a date-filled cookie. The film stars Françoise Fabian as a recent widow hesitantly engaging with the world while emerging from under her children’s straightjacketing concerns, and . The result is that “Rose” never truly blooms. Notwithstanding such a handicap, its all-embracing effusion of Jewishness, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, guarantees an easy sell across the Atlantic.
The entire Goldberg family and their friends are literally in a swirl of merriment for the birthday of pater familias Philippe (Bernard Murat), celebrated at a big bash replete with Yiddish songs and the hora. It seems an odd time for his Orthodox doctor son Pierre to tell him his troubling Mri results,...
The entire Goldberg family and their friends are literally in a swirl of merriment for the birthday of pater familias Philippe (Bernard Murat), celebrated at a big bash replete with Yiddish songs and the hora. It seems an odd time for his Orthodox doctor son Pierre to tell him his troubling Mri results,...
- 8/6/2021
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Aure Atika, Grégory Montel, Damien Chapelle, Pascal Elbé and Mehdi Nebbou likewise star in the cast of this Silex Films and Germaine Films production, distributed by Apollo. Shot in Paris between 2 November and 15 December, Rose, the debut feature film by Aurélie Saada (who forms one half of musical duo Brigitte) is now in post-production. Gracing the cast is seasoned actress Françoise Fabian, Aure Atika, Grégory Montel (known for his role as Gabriel in the series Call My Agent! and recently at his best in...
- 12/23/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
"Everything is at a standstill." 1091 Media has debuted an official Us trailer for a contemporary drama titled Until the Birds Return, the feature directorial debut of Algerian filmmaker Karim Moussaoui. This premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in 2017, and is just now finally getting a VOD release in the Us. "A property developer is witness to random street violence. A pair of secret lovers make their way across the desert. A doctor is accused of having a criminal past. In these three interconnected tales, exciting newcomer Karim Moussaoui—whom critics at Cannes compared to Abbas Kiarostami and Leos Carax—takes the pulse of modern-day Algiers, a country once riven by colonial occupation and sectarian warfare yet still abundant in beauty and promise." The film stars Mohamed Djouhri, Sonia Mekkiou, Hania Amar, Mehdi Ramdani, Chawki Amari, Saadia Gacem, Hassan Kachach, Nadia Kaci, Samir El Hakim, & Aure Atika. This looks very good!
- 4/15/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
To support and honor womankind, Pomellato and The New York Times collaborate to spread a message of positive female empowerment for International Women’s Day (March 8th).
Pomellato Women's Day Ambassadors
Through a Nyt article detailing important milestones in the women’s movement, and a Pomellato video with an international cast of powerful women, the new partnership champions female achievements, leadership, and gender equality.
Published on March 8th, The New York Times (nytimes.com) article explores the key historical moments in women’s rights during the 20th and 21st centuries, and how these civic changes have influenced present day. From a woman’s right to vote, to today’s viral phenomena such as the #MeToo and #TimesUp hashtags, the article features historical summaries, photography, Nyt archive links, and the Pomellato commemorative video.
Interviewing Pomellato advocates from a variety of countries, generations and backgrounds, the video features women who define empowerment.
Pomellato Women's Day Ambassadors
Through a Nyt article detailing important milestones in the women’s movement, and a Pomellato video with an international cast of powerful women, the new partnership champions female achievements, leadership, and gender equality.
Published on March 8th, The New York Times (nytimes.com) article explores the key historical moments in women’s rights during the 20th and 21st centuries, and how these civic changes have influenced present day. From a woman’s right to vote, to today’s viral phenomena such as the #MeToo and #TimesUp hashtags, the article features historical summaries, photography, Nyt archive links, and the Pomellato commemorative video.
Interviewing Pomellato advocates from a variety of countries, generations and backgrounds, the video features women who define empowerment.
- 3/8/2018
- Look to the Stars
La blessure
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche // Writer: Abdellatif Kechiche, Francois Begaudeau
Few auteurs have reached the heights of emotional realism in narrative cinema as has Tunisian born director Abdellatif Kechiche. Starting out as an actor (his last stint in front of the camera was in Jeff Stanzler’s 2005 American indie Sorry, Haters with Robin Wright), Kechiche’s 2000 debut, Poetical Refugee premiered in Venice and starred a host of faces we’ve seen frequently, including Sami Bouajila, Elodie Bouchez, and Aure Atika. His coming titles would prove Kechiche’s preference for non-professional and/or character actors, including the excellent 2005 title Games of Love and Chance, which won Kechiche the Cesar for Best Film, Screenplay, and Director, and would introduce us to actress Sara Forestier. He’d win Best Film, Director, and Screenplay again at the Cesars in 2007, along with several awards in Venice, including the Special Jury Prize for The Secret of the Grain,...
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche // Writer: Abdellatif Kechiche, Francois Begaudeau
Few auteurs have reached the heights of emotional realism in narrative cinema as has Tunisian born director Abdellatif Kechiche. Starting out as an actor (his last stint in front of the camera was in Jeff Stanzler’s 2005 American indie Sorry, Haters with Robin Wright), Kechiche’s 2000 debut, Poetical Refugee premiered in Venice and starred a host of faces we’ve seen frequently, including Sami Bouajila, Elodie Bouchez, and Aure Atika. His coming titles would prove Kechiche’s preference for non-professional and/or character actors, including the excellent 2005 title Games of Love and Chance, which won Kechiche the Cesar for Best Film, Screenplay, and Director, and would introduce us to actress Sara Forestier. He’d win Best Film, Director, and Screenplay again at the Cesars in 2007, along with several awards in Venice, including the Special Jury Prize for The Secret of the Grain,...
- 1/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Some famous actors, rappers and model types are going topless for fish. According to the Daily Mail, Actress Gillian Anderson posed topless with a large conger eel wrapped around her neck to cover her breasts. The Fishlove campaign is a pescatarian PETA of sorts, and the photos are to bring awareness against destructive fishing practices. Other participants included Olivia Williams, Jeany Spark, Melanie Bernier and Portuguese beauty Barbara Cabrita who all followed Anderson's lead and posed with fish. Wallander star Jeany Spark and The Beat That My Heart Skipped actress Aure Atika took part in the shoot too. The Fishlover website explains: ‘The global marine ecosystem will collapse within a generation if unsustainable fishing practices are allowed...
- 12/4/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Merely two years ago, Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth was brought to the small screen in an outstanding epic miniseries. It featured a fantastic mix of drama, romance, war, corruption, revenge, mystery, and political intrigue, all centered around the building of a cathedral in the fictitious English town of Kingsbridge. Now Follett’s “sequel” novel, World Without End, has been given the miniseries treatment, bringing us once again to this small town where we find that many of these same elements are still brewing, even 150 years later.
As this is a six and a half hour miniseries, there is quite a bit going on, so I’ll do my best to lay down the most important storylines. Set in the 1300s, the main storyline revolves around Caris (Charlotte Riley), a resident of Kingsbridge who has decided to study medicine from Mattie (Indira Varma), a woman who is...
As this is a six and a half hour miniseries, there is quite a bit going on, so I’ll do my best to lay down the most important storylines. Set in the 1300s, the main storyline revolves around Caris (Charlotte Riley), a resident of Kingsbridge who has decided to study medicine from Mattie (Indira Varma), a woman who is...
- 12/4/2012
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
Warrior (12A)
(Gavin O'Connor, 2011, Us) Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison. 140 mins
After a summer of CGI robots and superheroes duking it out, here's proof again that nothing beats human-on-human violence. The basic ingredients of this sports drama look very familiar, but there's novelty in the fighting style (mixed martial arts), and the fact that our opponents are two sympathetic brothers – hard-up teacher Edgerton v Afghanistan vet Hardy. For once, the outcome is uncertain.
Drive (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011, Us) Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks. 100 mins
A vintage American muscle car with an efficient European engine, this sleek crime thriller handles the genre road superbly, as cool getaway ace Gosling loses his grip over one last job.
Crazy Stupid Love (12A)
(Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, 2011, Us) Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone. 118 mins
Male relationship woes are sympathetically mocked in this multi-stranded romcom, centring on Carell's...
(Gavin O'Connor, 2011, Us) Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison. 140 mins
After a summer of CGI robots and superheroes duking it out, here's proof again that nothing beats human-on-human violence. The basic ingredients of this sports drama look very familiar, but there's novelty in the fighting style (mixed martial arts), and the fact that our opponents are two sympathetic brothers – hard-up teacher Edgerton v Afghanistan vet Hardy. For once, the outcome is uncertain.
Drive (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011, Us) Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks. 100 mins
A vintage American muscle car with an efficient European engine, this sleek crime thriller handles the genre road superbly, as cool getaway ace Gosling loses his grip over one last job.
Crazy Stupid Love (12A)
(Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, 2011, Us) Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone. 118 mins
Male relationship woes are sympathetically mocked in this multi-stranded romcom, centring on Carell's...
- 9/23/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Mademoiselle Chambon
Directed by Stéphane Brizé
Screenplay by Florence Vignon & Stéphane Brizé
2011, France
Movie femmes fatales are ten a penny, but never underestimate the danger posed by a woman toting a violin case. Like Daniel Auteuil in Un Coeur en Hiver, the hero of Stéphane Brizé’s Mademoiselle Chambon finds the twin attractions of beautiful music and a lovely face just too hard to resist.
For a film in which music plays a such central role, Mademoiselle Chambon begins in deliberately unharmonious fashion as builder Jean (Vincent Lindon) gets busy with his power tools. He’s a middle-aged family man with an attractive wife, a young son and an elderly father (played by Jean-Marc Thibault) who’s in failing health. Jean, we sense, is a man who’s much more at home operating a drill than expressing his feelings. But when he’s invited to give a talk at the...
Directed by Stéphane Brizé
Screenplay by Florence Vignon & Stéphane Brizé
2011, France
Movie femmes fatales are ten a penny, but never underestimate the danger posed by a woman toting a violin case. Like Daniel Auteuil in Un Coeur en Hiver, the hero of Stéphane Brizé’s Mademoiselle Chambon finds the twin attractions of beautiful music and a lovely face just too hard to resist.
For a film in which music plays a such central role, Mademoiselle Chambon begins in deliberately unharmonious fashion as builder Jean (Vincent Lindon) gets busy with his power tools. He’s a middle-aged family man with an attractive wife, a young son and an elderly father (played by Jean-Marc Thibault) who’s in failing health. Jean, we sense, is a man who’s much more at home operating a drill than expressing his feelings. But when he’s invited to give a talk at the...
- 9/23/2011
- by Susannah
- SoundOnSight
Before Cosmopolis, Juliette Binoche Getting Ready to Live 'The Life of Another' for Testud Next Week
Dear 20-something female readers, imagine: your birthday party was a complete blast; Paul, the cute boy you just met, actually showed up and you can tell you're already falling for him. When you wake up next to him he's your husband, the father of your three children and 12 years have passed. You're suddenly 37, in the middle of a divorce and you can't remember a thing. That's the terrifying premise of the directorial debut by French actress and writer Sylvie Testud. Life of Another (La Vie d'une Autre) is the sort of project that could add up to nothing more than a very long list of French actresses turned directors, but it actually carries a lot of promise when you have Juliette Binoche toplining the pic. Cineuropa reports that production begins next week. First and foremost let's detail the amazing cast, which I will summarize in one scream of adoration: Binoche!
- 3/30/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Best Documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop" It's hard to know whether street artist Banksy's feature documentary is what it claims to be—a doc about an obsessive man who falls in love with the world of street art (where artists place their work in public, risking arrest for vandalism), fashioning himself as the most financially successful street artist in history—or is Banksy's best prank to date. The film follows the life of buffoonish French expatriate Thierry Guetta, a happy-go-lucky proprietor of an overpriced hipster-wear store in West Hollywood with the curious habit of videotaping everything that happens to him. Guetta persuades his cousin, a street artist known as Space Invader, to become the subject of a "documentary," which leads Guetta to other street artists like Obama icon-maker Shepard Fairey and ultimately to the white whale of street artists: the ultra-secretive Banksy (interviewed in silhouette, of course...
- 1/20/2011
- backstage.com
Sneak Peek "Copacabana", the upcoming French comedy feature directed by Marc Fitoussi, starring Isabelle Huppert as 'Babou'.
Cast also includes Aure Atika as 'Lydie', Lolita Chammah as 'Esméralda', Jurgen Delnaet as 'Bart', Chantal Banlier as 'Irène', Magali Woch as 'Sophie', Nelly Antignac as 'Amandine', Guillaume Gouix as 'Kurt', Joachim Lombard as 'Justin' and Noémie Lvovsky as 'Suzanne'.
"...'Babou' (Huppert) is boldly unconventional and cheerful. Never having cared about social conventions before, she is suddenly faced with the realization that her own daughter is ashamed of her and therefore refuses to invite her to her wedding. Hurt in her pride, Babou tries to regain her daughter's respect by starting anew. She accepts the challenge of selling time-sharing-flats at the Belgian seaside during the off-season, in a desperate attempt to prove her real worth and her motherly love to her daughter..."
The film was released in France July 2010 with a North American release Tba.
Cast also includes Aure Atika as 'Lydie', Lolita Chammah as 'Esméralda', Jurgen Delnaet as 'Bart', Chantal Banlier as 'Irène', Magali Woch as 'Sophie', Nelly Antignac as 'Amandine', Guillaume Gouix as 'Kurt', Joachim Lombard as 'Justin' and Noémie Lvovsky as 'Suzanne'.
"...'Babou' (Huppert) is boldly unconventional and cheerful. Never having cared about social conventions before, she is suddenly faced with the realization that her own daughter is ashamed of her and therefore refuses to invite her to her wedding. Hurt in her pride, Babou tries to regain her daughter's respect by starting anew. She accepts the challenge of selling time-sharing-flats at the Belgian seaside during the off-season, in a desperate attempt to prove her real worth and her motherly love to her daughter..."
The film was released in France July 2010 with a North American release Tba.
- 11/3/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Copacabana
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Aure Atika, Lolita Chammah, Jurgen Delnaet | Written and Directed by Marc Fitoussi
This would be the second Isabelle Huppert film I have seen at the London Film Festival thus far and Copacabana is a far superior film to the disappointing Special Treatment . Babou (Huppert) is an initially very annoying Frenchwoman who has flitted from place to place in her life, enjoyed her travels and perceived rebellion against bourgeois society, yet failed to put down roots and now finds herself unemployed. She has a daughter, Esme (played by Huppert’s real life daughter Lolita Chammah), who is much more strait-laced than her mother and is marrying a boring executive. The final straw comes when Esme tells her mother not to attend her wedding, partly to save her from paying for any of it but mostly because Esme is embarrassed by her. Distraught, Babou finds work as selling...
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Aure Atika, Lolita Chammah, Jurgen Delnaet | Written and Directed by Marc Fitoussi
This would be the second Isabelle Huppert film I have seen at the London Film Festival thus far and Copacabana is a far superior film to the disappointing Special Treatment . Babou (Huppert) is an initially very annoying Frenchwoman who has flitted from place to place in her life, enjoyed her travels and perceived rebellion against bourgeois society, yet failed to put down roots and now finds herself unemployed. She has a daughter, Esme (played by Huppert’s real life daughter Lolita Chammah), who is much more strait-laced than her mother and is marrying a boring executive. The final straw comes when Esme tells her mother not to attend her wedding, partly to save her from paying for any of it but mostly because Esme is embarrassed by her. Distraught, Babou finds work as selling...
- 10/24/2010
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Affairs have been the subject of many dramatic films thru the years. Now Voyager and Brief Encounter concern men and women sharing a short doomed romance. Add France.s Mademoiselle Chambon directed by Stephane Brize to this long list, As opposed to other explorations of this theme, this film tries to show how this affair would occur between members of the French working class.
The film opens with a man wielding a jackhammer at a home renovation project. This is Jean played by Vincent Lindon( he reminds me of Ben Stiller crossed with the hangdog expressions of Brad Garret). We then see Jean on a picnic with his adoring wife Anne-Marie(Aure Atika) and sweet young son Jeremy(Arthur Le Houerou). Both Jean and Anne-Marie are attentive parents who try and help Jeremy with his lessons after the meal. Anne-Marie is soon back at her print shop job while Jean tends to his aged,...
The film opens with a man wielding a jackhammer at a home renovation project. This is Jean played by Vincent Lindon( he reminds me of Ben Stiller crossed with the hangdog expressions of Brad Garret). We then see Jean on a picnic with his adoring wife Anne-Marie(Aure Atika) and sweet young son Jeremy(Arthur Le Houerou). Both Jean and Anne-Marie are attentive parents who try and help Jeremy with his lessons after the meal. Anne-Marie is soon back at her print shop job while Jean tends to his aged,...
- 10/9/2010
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Courtesy of Sharmill Films, we have tickets for Mademoiselle Chambon, by Stéphane Brizé (Not Here to be Loved) and starring Vincent Lindon (Welcome, Anything for Her), Sandrine Kiberlain (Little Nicholas, Après Vous) and Aure Atika (The Beat That My Heart Skipped).
Mademoiselle Chambon is based on the novel by Éric Holder.
Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son Kevin. He feels comfortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerising, unlike any woman he has ever met before. This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organised life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret?
The film will be released on June 10, 2010.
To win, email miguel@focalattractions.com.au and tell us,...
Mademoiselle Chambon is based on the novel by Éric Holder.
Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son Kevin. He feels comfortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerising, unlike any woman he has ever met before. This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organised life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret?
The film will be released on June 10, 2010.
To win, email miguel@focalattractions.com.au and tell us,...
- 6/9/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Actress and filmmaker Julie Delpy will take on both roles in her next project entitled "The Skylab" for Films Distribution says Allocine.
The story is set in France in 1979 during the international media event when there was rampant fear that the decaying orbit of the defunct Us space station would bring the structure crashing down on a populated area.
The action will follow a family gathering and waiting for Skylab to fall. Ultimately the structure broke up during re-entry and scattered debris over the barren deserts of western Australia.
Aure Atika, Noemie Lvovsky, Bernadette Lafon and Eric Elmosnino also star. Michael Gentile is producing and shooting kicks off June 1st in Normandy.
The story is set in France in 1979 during the international media event when there was rampant fear that the decaying orbit of the defunct Us space station would bring the structure crashing down on a populated area.
The action will follow a family gathering and waiting for Skylab to fall. Ultimately the structure broke up during re-entry and scattered debris over the barren deserts of western Australia.
Aure Atika, Noemie Lvovsky, Bernadette Lafon and Eric Elmosnino also star. Michael Gentile is producing and shooting kicks off June 1st in Normandy.
- 5/18/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The great French film Mademoiselle Chambon, based on a novel by Eric Holder, never strives for greatness. It just gently saunters there with a majestic, relentless vision of an impossible love.
From the opening scene of a picnic where two parents awkwardly try to help their son with his grammar assignment (what is a “direct object”?), director and co-screenwriter Stéphane Brizé sends forth his simple plot along with nary a shove.
Jean (Vincent Lindon), the dad, is in construction: he builds houses. Anne Marie (Aure Atika), the mom, works at a printer, assembling books.
One afternoon, Mom twists her back, and Dad must pick up Jérémy (Arthur Le Houérou) at school. There Jean meets Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), the teacher.
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From the opening scene of a picnic where two parents awkwardly try to help their son with his grammar assignment (what is a “direct object”?), director and co-screenwriter Stéphane Brizé sends forth his simple plot along with nary a shove.
Jean (Vincent Lindon), the dad, is in construction: he builds houses. Anne Marie (Aure Atika), the mom, works at a printer, assembling books.
One afternoon, Mom twists her back, and Dad must pick up Jérémy (Arthur Le Houérou) at school. There Jean meets Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), the teacher.
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- 5/8/2010
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
Paris -- The 48th annual International Critics Week will be a first-timers feast of comfort cinema with a hearty helping of French fare.
Critics Week artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon announced the lineup Monday in Paris; all seven Competition titles will be up for the Camera d'Or, and six of the seven are world premieres.
"Our main goal is to reveal young filmmakers," Berjon said about the competition lineup. The sidebar will kick off May 13 with Out of Competition title "Le Nom des Gens," Michel Leclerc's political comedy starring Jacques Gamblin and Sara Forestier.
Two other French comedies will screen Out of Competition, including Quentin Dupieux's "Rubber," shot in English in the U.S., and Marc Fitoussi's "Copacabana." The latter stars last year's Festival de Cannes jury president, Isabelle Huppert, opposite her daughter, Lolita Chammah, in the story of a mother-daughter relationship that co-stars Aure Atika.
"It's not about the nationalities,...
Critics Week artistic director Jean-Christophe Berjon announced the lineup Monday in Paris; all seven Competition titles will be up for the Camera d'Or, and six of the seven are world premieres.
"Our main goal is to reveal young filmmakers," Berjon said about the competition lineup. The sidebar will kick off May 13 with Out of Competition title "Le Nom des Gens," Michel Leclerc's political comedy starring Jacques Gamblin and Sara Forestier.
Two other French comedies will screen Out of Competition, including Quentin Dupieux's "Rubber," shot in English in the U.S., and Marc Fitoussi's "Copacabana." The latter stars last year's Festival de Cannes jury president, Isabelle Huppert, opposite her daughter, Lolita Chammah, in the story of a mother-daughter relationship that co-stars Aure Atika.
"It's not about the nationalities,...
- 4/19/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's time for more Julie Delpy directorial action. Just a few months ago, we learned that she was gearing up for 2 Days in New York -- a follow-up to her darkly funny indie 2 Days in Paris. Now she's headed for more "feel-good" laughs with another feature; The Hollywood Reporter posts that Delpy will spend much of the summer filming her next creation, Skylab.
Another film that will list her as writer, director, and star, Skylab follows one family through three generations. Delpy will act alongside a European cast that includes Eric Elmonsino, Noemie Lvovsky, Aure Atika, and Bernadette Laffont. Producer Michael Gentile says: "It's a real feel-good movie. It's tender and funny, in the spirit of 2 Days in Paris. It's really Julie Delpy's vision of France through the eyes of a French woman who has lived in the U.S. for many years."
While it sounds like another modern-day tale,...
Another film that will list her as writer, director, and star, Skylab follows one family through three generations. Delpy will act alongside a European cast that includes Eric Elmonsino, Noemie Lvovsky, Aure Atika, and Bernadette Laffont. Producer Michael Gentile says: "It's a real feel-good movie. It's tender and funny, in the spirit of 2 Days in Paris. It's really Julie Delpy's vision of France through the eyes of a French woman who has lived in the U.S. for many years."
While it sounds like another modern-day tale,...
- 4/16/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
All Julie Delpy news is good news (even that time when it was about An American Werewolf in Paris), so today is a banner day, with the revelation that not only did the star of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset start shooting Skylab a couple of weeks ago, but also that a sequel to Two Days in Paris is in the works.Skylab, it says here (at THR), is a comedy encompassing three generations of a family. It's shooting in Brittany for the next couple of months, co-stars Eric Elmonsino (Gainsbourg), Noemie Lvovsky (A Simple Heart), Aure Atika (The Beat that My Heart Skipped) and Bernadette Laffont (Broken English), and is, according to producer Michael Gentile, "a really tender, funny, feel-good movie."The Skylab of the title refers to the Nasa space station that made an unplanned return to terra firma in 1979. We're not sure of the connection there, but...
- 4/15/2010
- EmpireOnline
Paris -- After her global hit "2 Days in Paris," writer-director-actress Julie Delpy will spend seven weeks in Brittany to shoot French comedy "Skylab," the film's producer, Michael Gentile confirmed Tuesday.
"Skylab" stars Delpy alongside "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" star Eric Elmonsino, Gallic actresses Noemie Lvovsky, Aure Atika and Bernadette Laffont among the large cast that encompasses the three generations of family upon which the story centers.
"It's a real feel-good movie. It's tender and funny, in the spirit of '2 Days in Paris'," Gentile said in an interview, adding: "It's really Julie Delpy's vision of France through the eyes of a French woman who has lived in the U.S. for many years."
Delpy is also set to direct and star in "2 Days in Paris" sequel "2 Days in New York."
The "Skylab" in the title refers to a Nasa space station that crashed onto earth in 1979, six years after launching into orbit.
"Skylab" stars Delpy alongside "Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life" star Eric Elmonsino, Gallic actresses Noemie Lvovsky, Aure Atika and Bernadette Laffont among the large cast that encompasses the three generations of family upon which the story centers.
"It's a real feel-good movie. It's tender and funny, in the spirit of '2 Days in Paris'," Gentile said in an interview, adding: "It's really Julie Delpy's vision of France through the eyes of a French woman who has lived in the U.S. for many years."
Delpy is also set to direct and star in "2 Days in Paris" sequel "2 Days in New York."
The "Skylab" in the title refers to a Nasa space station that crashed onto earth in 1979, six years after launching into orbit.
- 4/14/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kino Lorber (the new venture from Lorber Films and Kino International) have made an Efm pick up, grabbing the theatrical rights to Stéphane Brizé's Mademoiselle Chambon - a recent winner for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Cesars this past weekend. - Kino Lorber (the new venture from Lorber Films and Kino International) have made an Efm pick up, grabbing the theatrical rights to Stéphane Brizé's Mademoiselle Chambon - a recent winner for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Cesars this past weekend. Judging from the trailer, this appears to be distinctly Euro, and by that I mean: long takes, long pauses without dialogue and the human condition. The pic also received noms for actresses Sandrine Kiberlain (Best Actress), and Aure Atika for Best Supporting. Jean (Vincent Lindon) is an upstanding man: a good builder, a good son, a good father, and a good husband.
- 3/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
"A Prophet" from director Jacques Audiard won nine awards at the 35th annual Cesar Awards. The Oscar nominated film for best foreign language took home best French film of the year, director, screenplay, editing, cinematography, production design, best actor, and most promising actor (best male newcomer) for Tahar Rahim. Niels Arestrup won best supporting actor also for "A Prophet."
Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" was named best foreign film of the year, beating out last year's Oscar winner "Slumdog Millionaire" and this year's blue contender, "Avatar."
Meanwhile, "Avatar's" Sigourney Weaver presented Harrison Ford with a Cesar of Honor award. Aw...
Here's the list of nominees and winners of the 35th annual Cesar Awards (winners are highlighted):
Best Film
A l.Origine, Xavier Giannoli
Le Concert, Radu Mihaileanu
Les Herbes Folles, Alain Resnais
La Journee de la Jupe, Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Rapt, Lucas Belvaux
Un Prophete, Jacques Audiard
Welcome, Philippe Lioret...
Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" was named best foreign film of the year, beating out last year's Oscar winner "Slumdog Millionaire" and this year's blue contender, "Avatar."
Meanwhile, "Avatar's" Sigourney Weaver presented Harrison Ford with a Cesar of Honor award. Aw...
Here's the list of nominees and winners of the 35th annual Cesar Awards (winners are highlighted):
Best Film
A l.Origine, Xavier Giannoli
Le Concert, Radu Mihaileanu
Les Herbes Folles, Alain Resnais
La Journee de la Jupe, Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Rapt, Lucas Belvaux
Un Prophete, Jacques Audiard
Welcome, Philippe Lioret...
- 2/28/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Release Date: Oct. 22 (limited)
Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire
Writers: Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre Di Sciullo, Jerry Kramski, Richard McGuire, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe
Starring: Nicole Garcia, Guillaume Depardieu, Aure Atika
Studio/Running Time: IFC Films, 80 mins.
Anthology films are notoriously uneven, with participating directors often contradicting each other’s ideas as much as complementing them. France’s Fear(s) of the Dark is more unified than most, though, with its creators sticking to the topics of fear and nightmares and for once staying on the same page as each other. More immediately noticeable is its stylistic unity, the entire film composed basically from black-and-white animation. Since the directors are also some of the country’s finest comic artists and designers, the result is a visual (and also audio) tour de force that makes the palette feel less like limitation than a catalyst for innovation.
Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire
Writers: Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre Di Sciullo, Jerry Kramski, Richard McGuire, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe
Starring: Nicole Garcia, Guillaume Depardieu, Aure Atika
Studio/Running Time: IFC Films, 80 mins.
Anthology films are notoriously uneven, with participating directors often contradicting each other’s ideas as much as complementing them. France’s Fear(s) of the Dark is more unified than most, though, with its creators sticking to the topics of fear and nightmares and for once staying on the same page as each other. More immediately noticeable is its stylistic unity, the entire film composed basically from black-and-white animation. Since the directors are also some of the country’s finest comic artists and designers, the result is a visual (and also audio) tour de force that makes the palette feel less like limitation than a catalyst for innovation.
- 10/24/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
The animated French-language omnibus Fear(s) of the Dark casts a decidedly uneven spell: though never less than a joy to look at, the start/stop/resume qualities of its storytelling (meant, I believe, to mimic the unbounded nature of dreams, the sense of jumping heedlessly between nightmares) is almost entirely a distraction. This should nonetheless hint at the quality of the images before us, which make memorable use of the black-and-white extremes of the color spectrum. The tales that hit the hardest are the ones allowed full, uninterrupted development. In the first, young introvert Eric (Guillaume Depardieu) falls in love with Laura (Aure Atika), a blond beauty who turns out to be a predatory half insect. Earlier this year, Depardieu showed his live-action chops with fatal obsession in Jacques Rivette’s The Duchess of Langeais, and he’s no less potent in animated form (his voice - gravelly and...
- 10/23/2008
- UGO Movies
CANNES -- Special agent OSS117 is back for another mission. Jean Dujardin, star of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, paid a visit to Cannes to sign off on a sequel to the hit spy spoof. The project will reunite the same core talent, including director Michel Hazanavicius and writer Jean-Francois Halin. It will be produced by Eric and Nicolas Altmayer's Mandarin Films, with Gaumont handling French distribution and international sales, as on the first picture. Delivery is scheduled for December 2008. Based on a series of pulp secret-agent novels by Jean Bruce, the OSS117 franchise already had been adapted eight times in largely forgotten series in the 1960s before film rights to the central character were bought by Mandarin. Nest of Spies, which co-stars Berenice Bejo and Aure Atika, uses a strong retro feel to pastiche the crass colonialism, sexism and homophobia of an unreconstructed tough guy of 1950s France. The movie so far has sold nearly 1.8 million tickets in France.
- 5/24/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Special agent OSS117 is back for another mission. Jean Dujardin, star of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, paid a visit to Cannes to sign off on a sequel to the hit spy spoof. The project will reunite the same core talent, including director Michel Hazanavicius and writer Jean-Francois Halin. It will be produced by Eric and Nicolas Altmayer's Mandarin Films, with Gaumont handling French distribution and international sales, as on the first picture. Delivery is scheduled for December 2008. Based on a series of pulp secret-agent novels by Jean Bruce, the OSS117 franchise already had been adapted eight times in largely forgotten series in the 1960s before film rights to the central character were bought by Mandarin. Nest of Spies, which co-stars Berenice Bejo and Aure Atika, uses a strong retro feel to pastiche the crass colonialism, sexism and homophobia of an unreconstructed tough guy of 1950s France. The movie so far has sold nearly 1.8 million tickets in France.
- 5/24/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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