Swiss sales agency Lightdox has acquired the international rights to feature documentary “On the Edge” by Nicolas Peduzzi, which just had its world premiere at Copenhagen documentary festival Cph:dox in the Dox:award competition, and received a Special Mention from the jury, who said the film “gripped us, and took us on a journey through the labyrinth of a human mind.”
The film centers on Jamal Abdel Kader, who is the only psychiatrist in a 400-bed state hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Dedicated to his patients, he does his utmost to soothe their pain, listen to their words, and protect them from their own demons. However, the public health service is doing badly. There isn’t enough time, the caregivers are under severe strain as the institution is understaffed and underfunded. Yet Jamal and his colleagues keep striving to fulfil their mission: to heal bodies and souls.
Anna Berthollet, co-founder and CEO of Lightdox,...
The film centers on Jamal Abdel Kader, who is the only psychiatrist in a 400-bed state hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Dedicated to his patients, he does his utmost to soothe their pain, listen to their words, and protect them from their own demons. However, the public health service is doing badly. There isn’t enough time, the caregivers are under severe strain as the institution is understaffed and underfunded. Yet Jamal and his colleagues keep striving to fulfil their mission: to heal bodies and souls.
Anna Berthollet, co-founder and CEO of Lightdox,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Louis Garrel as Dorante and Isabelle Huppert as Araminte, in False Confessions, director Luc Bondy’s French-language adaption of Marivaux’s play “Les Fausses Confidences.” Photo courtesy of Big World Pictures ©
Romantic comedy with a French accent and a love letter to theater both describe the French-language False Confessions (Les Fausses Confidences), the last film by Swiss film, theater and opera director Luc Bondy. Bondy re-sets Marivaux’s 18th century classical play about love, “Les Fausses Confidences,” in modern-day Paris, and stars Oscar-nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) and Louis Garrel as the would-be lovers at the center of all the twists and deceits.
Fans of director Bondy, writer Marivaux, the film’s star Isabelle Huppert or just theater in general, will find much to like in this enjoyable, clever film adaption. Passions, doubts, jealousies and tempers are all aroused in this dizzy, funny tale, in a production that blends film and theater in a creative fashion.
Romantic comedy with a French accent and a love letter to theater both describe the French-language False Confessions (Les Fausses Confidences), the last film by Swiss film, theater and opera director Luc Bondy. Bondy re-sets Marivaux’s 18th century classical play about love, “Les Fausses Confidences,” in modern-day Paris, and stars Oscar-nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) and Louis Garrel as the would-be lovers at the center of all the twists and deceits.
Fans of director Bondy, writer Marivaux, the film’s star Isabelle Huppert or just theater in general, will find much to like in this enjoyable, clever film adaption. Passions, doubts, jealousies and tempers are all aroused in this dizzy, funny tale, in a production that blends film and theater in a creative fashion.
- 7/14/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Big World Pictures
Founded in 2013 and run almost single-handedly by Jonathan Howell, Big World Pictures is a non-profit distribution outfit dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States.
“As an expansion of the mission of our critically-acclaimed short film distribution wing, The World According to Shorts, Big World Pictures is dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States. We acquire only three to four feature films annually for theatrical release, in addition to several short films (to be released through The World According to Shorts), and ten to twelve feature films annually for video/VOD/TV release.”
Opening at Laemmle’s Royal in L.A. day and date with New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on June 23, Luc Bondy’s modern-day adaptation of the classic Marivaux play, “False Confessions”, starring Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel and Bulle Ogier...
Founded in 2013 and run almost single-handedly by Jonathan Howell, Big World Pictures is a non-profit distribution outfit dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States.
“As an expansion of the mission of our critically-acclaimed short film distribution wing, The World According to Shorts, Big World Pictures is dedicated to bringing the best in world cinema to film enthusiasts across the United States. We acquire only three to four feature films annually for theatrical release, in addition to several short films (to be released through The World According to Shorts), and ten to twelve feature films annually for video/VOD/TV release.”
Opening at Laemmle’s Royal in L.A. day and date with New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on June 23, Luc Bondy’s modern-day adaptation of the classic Marivaux play, “False Confessions”, starring Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel and Bulle Ogier...
- 6/6/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Grasshopper Film has announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to Michael Almereyda’s new documentary “Escapes,” a dynamic portrait of Hampton Fancher, executive produced by Wes Anderson. “Escapes” will open in theaters this summer followed by a VOD and Home Video release in the fall.
“Escapes” showcases the storytelling talents of Hampton Fancher, flamenco dancer, film and TV actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” as well as screenwriter on the upcoming sequel “Blade Runner 2049.” Fancher’s running commentary – with a little help from Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott – works in concert with extensive archival footage as Fancher relates death-defying escapades from a remarkable life.
– Grasshopper Film has announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to Michael Almereyda’s new documentary “Escapes,” a dynamic portrait of Hampton Fancher, executive produced by Wes Anderson. “Escapes” will open in theaters this summer followed by a VOD and Home Video release in the fall.
“Escapes” showcases the storytelling talents of Hampton Fancher, flamenco dancer, film and TV actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” as well as screenwriter on the upcoming sequel “Blade Runner 2049.” Fancher’s running commentary – with a little help from Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott – works in concert with extensive archival footage as Fancher relates death-defying escapades from a remarkable life.
- 3/10/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Isabelle Huppert might as well be crowned queen of the 2016 festival circuit. Her first film of the year, Mia Hansen-Løve‘s Things to Come, premiered at Berlin, followed by Paul Verhoeven‘s Elle at Cannes; then, at Tiff, she’ll have those two films, as well as the premiere of Bravo Defurne‘s Souvenir. But before that, she’s starring alongside Louis Garrel in Luc Bondy‘s The False Secrets, which will screen at the Locarno Film Festival this weekend.
Today we have a pair of new trailers for two of the films — first from Things to Come, which is one of our favorites of the year. As we said in our review, “While Hansen-Løve certainly deserves credit for writing such a compelling character, it’s difficult to imagine anyone realizing Nathalie as consummately as Huppert, who, even by her exceptionally high standards, pulls off a superlative performance.”
Following that,...
Today we have a pair of new trailers for two of the films — first from Things to Come, which is one of our favorites of the year. As we said in our review, “While Hansen-Løve certainly deserves credit for writing such a compelling character, it’s difficult to imagine anyone realizing Nathalie as consummately as Huppert, who, even by her exceptionally high standards, pulls off a superlative performance.”
Following that,...
- 8/3/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Harry Radliffe II, an award-winning producer for “60 Minutes,” died on Tuesday. He was 66. Hailed as the first African-American to head a CBS News bureau, Radliffe had battled colon cancer since 2008. He died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, according to CBSNews.com. Until recently, Radliffe had been working on a story for “60 Minutes” about a special orphanage in Tanzania. The trip to Africa was his last for the program after 26 years on the show and 40 years in television news. Also Read: Luc Bondy, Swiss Stage and Opera Director, Dead at 67 Radliffe traveled around the world to produce stories for leading CBS News.
- 12/2/2015
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
Influential Swiss theater director Luc Bondy has died from complications due to pneumonia. He was 67. The Odeon Theater in Paris, which Bondy ran for the past three years, made the announcement of his death Saturday. Bondy was a force at theaters throughout Europe, including Berlin’s Schaubuehne, the Salzburg Festival and Vienna’s Wiener Festwochen, which he led until 2013. He also directed operas and films in a career that spanned more than four decades. Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015 (Photos) “Although ill from his early years, he gave up nothing, working tirelessly, suffering but still tirelessly at work,” French President Francois Hollande’s.
- 11/29/2015
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Odeon theatre, Paris
Luc Bondy's stylish, modern-dress production of Marivaux's comedy is a compelling portrait of a woman poleaxed by passion
Isabelle Huppert, a veteran of some 90 films, is also a highly skilled stage actor. If there were any doubt of the matter, she gives a sensational performance in Luc Bondy's stylish, modern-dress production of Marivaux's complex comedy.
It helps, of course, that Marivaux's 1737 play, little known in Britain but beautifully translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker in 1983 as False Admissions, is a masterly study in deception and self-deception. Huppert plays Araminte, a wealthy, somewhat self-preoccupied widow: a point made in Bondy's production by Araminte's obsessive tai-chi workouts and vast Imelda Marcos-like collection of shoes.
The play's action revolves around a cunning stratagem in which Araminte is tricked into falling in love with her young, penniless steward, Dorante. There is a palpable cruelty to the plan, involving Dorante's supposed passion for Araminte's personal assistant,...
Luc Bondy's stylish, modern-dress production of Marivaux's comedy is a compelling portrait of a woman poleaxed by passion
Isabelle Huppert, a veteran of some 90 films, is also a highly skilled stage actor. If there were any doubt of the matter, she gives a sensational performance in Luc Bondy's stylish, modern-dress production of Marivaux's complex comedy.
It helps, of course, that Marivaux's 1737 play, little known in Britain but beautifully translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker in 1983 as False Admissions, is a masterly study in deception and self-deception. Huppert plays Araminte, a wealthy, somewhat self-preoccupied widow: a point made in Bondy's production by Araminte's obsessive tai-chi workouts and vast Imelda Marcos-like collection of shoes.
The play's action revolves around a cunning stratagem in which Araminte is tricked into falling in love with her young, penniless steward, Dorante. There is a palpable cruelty to the plan, involving Dorante's supposed passion for Araminte's personal assistant,...
- 2/25/2014
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Versatile actor at Berlin's Schaubühne theatre who made films with Wim Wenders and Eric Rohmer
The German actor Otto Sander, who has died aged 72 after suffering from cancer, made his name as one of the members of Peter Stein's Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, where he developed a versatile but precise stage presence that he brought to all kinds of roles. Sander also had more than 100 credits in film and TV productions, most notably Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (The Boat, 1981), as a drunk and disillusioned U-boat captain, and Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987), as one of the two angels in Wim Wenders's magical survey of the divided city.
Born in Hanover, Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated from the Friederichsgymnasium in 1961. He did his military service as a naval reserve officer. In 1965, in his first engagement at the Düsseldorf Kammerspiele, he showed a natural...
The German actor Otto Sander, who has died aged 72 after suffering from cancer, made his name as one of the members of Peter Stein's Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, where he developed a versatile but precise stage presence that he brought to all kinds of roles. Sander also had more than 100 credits in film and TV productions, most notably Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (The Boat, 1981), as a drunk and disillusioned U-boat captain, and Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987), as one of the two angels in Wim Wenders's magical survey of the divided city.
Born in Hanover, Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated from the Friederichsgymnasium in 1961. He did his military service as a naval reserve officer. In 1965, in his first engagement at the Düsseldorf Kammerspiele, he showed a natural...
- 9/13/2013
- by Hugh Rorrison
- The Guardian - Film News
When music and theatre gel, as Terry Gilliam did with Eno, the result can be unmissable art
When a critic describes a production as getting "a riotous reception", as one recently wrote of Eno's reinterpretation of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, it's not necessarily complimentary. In our case, he was referring to the fact that boos sounded among the cheers from the opening night audience.
This kind of reaction is more common on the continent than it is in the UK. Opera houses in Munich and Paris compete for the rudest audience prize. Audiences often boo singers mid-performance, and they sometimes resort to jeering in the interval.
Not that I'm inviting that from our audiences, but great art that takes risks can provoke a strong reaction, especially when it's in the hands of truly individual thinkers who hold up a mirror to the audience and ask questions about the world in which we live.
When a critic describes a production as getting "a riotous reception", as one recently wrote of Eno's reinterpretation of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, it's not necessarily complimentary. In our case, he was referring to the fact that boos sounded among the cheers from the opening night audience.
This kind of reaction is more common on the continent than it is in the UK. Opera houses in Munich and Paris compete for the rudest audience prize. Audiences often boo singers mid-performance, and they sometimes resort to jeering in the interval.
Not that I'm inviting that from our audiences, but great art that takes risks can provoke a strong reaction, especially when it's in the hands of truly individual thinkers who hold up a mirror to the audience and ask questions about the world in which we live.
- 5/27/2011
- by John Berry
- The Guardian - Film News
Mattila/Álvarez/Gagnidze/Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Colaneri
(Virgin Classics)
Karita Mattila has announced she is dropping Tosca from her repertoire, so those who were hoping to hear her in the role in London next year will have to make do with this performance from the New York Met, filmed during the opening run of Luc Bondy's controversial 2009 production. There's evidence – forced chest tones, unsteadiness when singing softly, lunges at high notes – that Mattila's move into dramatic soprano territory was a mistake from which she is wisely trying to extricate herself. But her extraordinary sense of theatre makes her compelling to watch, whether she's sexually teasing Marcelo Álvarez's fervent Cavaradossi in church, or attacking George Gagnidze's perverted Scarpia with a violence that borders on the pathological. Bondy keeps Puccini's specified period (1800), but also views the work as prophetic of 20th and 21st-century political violence. His...
(Virgin Classics)
Karita Mattila has announced she is dropping Tosca from her repertoire, so those who were hoping to hear her in the role in London next year will have to make do with this performance from the New York Met, filmed during the opening run of Luc Bondy's controversial 2009 production. There's evidence – forced chest tones, unsteadiness when singing softly, lunges at high notes – that Mattila's move into dramatic soprano territory was a mistake from which she is wisely trying to extricate herself. But her extraordinary sense of theatre makes her compelling to watch, whether she's sexually teasing Marcelo Álvarez's fervent Cavaradossi in church, or attacking George Gagnidze's perverted Scarpia with a violence that borders on the pathological. Bondy keeps Puccini's specified period (1800), but also views the work as prophetic of 20th and 21st-century political violence. His...
- 12/9/2010
- by Tim Ashley
- The Guardian - Film News
Booing -- an honored tradition you might have thought had disappeared at the Metropolitan Opera as finally as the echoes of bravos past -- is back. Luc Bondy's new Tosca reaped sustained hoots when the director joined the opening night cast at the curtain call a few weeks ago. Mary Zimmerman was resoundingly catcalled as she stepped out to link arms with Natalie Dessay after unveiling last year's La Sonnambula mangling. Not to mention last week's yowling after Daniele Gatti's Aida conducting. No, I'm not about to make a case for booing, though in theory I'm not against it. I sometimes think it's well deserved. What keeps me from supporting it as a response as worthy in certain situations as are applause and the epidemic standing ovation is that often those who've earned the boos...
- 10/7/2009
- by David Finkle
- Huffington Post
Everyone talks about Tosca, a thriller, an edge-of-your-seat, over the top classic, with glorious Puccini music as its underpinning. All true. The story, which had its origins in a play with Sarah Bernhardt tells of a passionate singer involved in a populist rebellion against Italian royals who is unable to save her lover. Costume Designer Milena Canonero. Photos Metropolitan Opera But in this new production which is this year's opening night at the Metropolitan Opera, there is one very special element that fans can be especially excited about: the costume designer is the multi-Oscared Milena Canonero. The production boasts lots of star wattage: Karita Mattila, the Finnish diva as Tosca and Luc Bondy, one of Europe's most innovative directors with James Levine at the podium. But Canonero alone would be reason enough for those who aren't familiar...
- 9/21/2009
- by Patricia Zohn
- Huffington Post
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