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
Well-directed at the outset and well-cast with leads Morgane More and Guillaume Depardieu as serendipitous lovers who spend one fateful night together, actor Vincent Perez's feature directorial debut is one of those Gallic love stories that features messed-up guys and soulfully innocent gals. Alas, all its charm is in the setup and the follow-through is joyless, even downright irritating.
A world premiere in the official competition, "Peau d'ange" (Angel Skin) has not enough to recommend it to more than French-speaking audiences, though Perez's filmmaking skills and Depardieu's performance make it an above-average candidate for festivals.
With her family in financial trouble, teenage Angele (More) is sent off to work as a house servant and befriends similarly cast-off Josiane (Magalie Woch). Both are verbally abused by the boss lady (Helene de Saint Pere) and made to feel socially and intellectually inferior. But the girls have their own fun and games.
When nervous, brooding, angry Gregoire (Depardieu) comes to town because of his mother's death, Josiane flirts with him, and he tells her he's a manager in the music business. Convinced that Angele is a singer waiting to be discovered, Josiane brings them together on a rainy night that results in a desperate tryst that has unforeseen consequences.
What doesn't happen is Gregoire wanting to keep it going. He's gone and off pursuing a pharmaceutical job, where his brash confidence earns the admiration of his boss (Laurent Terzieff) and the inside track on wooing his daughter (screenwriter Karine Sylla). Angele tries to be near Gregoire and takes a job with another couple working at the same company. But her new boss (Olivier Gourmet) is coming apart over his wife's infidelities, and a tragic murder takes place.
The film starts to fall apart with the incarceration of Angele as an accomplice to murder, with the poor thing unable to help herself. In prison, she learns to adapt and takes an interest in gardening with the help of nearby nuns. When fortune shifts in her favor, it's just a matter of time before she truly runs out of luck.
Shifting between the resurrection of Gregoire's character and rising career and Angele's misfortunes, Perez makes a big mistake in the finale by snuffing out a character with minimal emotion. One wonders what the point of the film is, beyond showing how people can be attached on a deeper level than physical proximity. But when the result is so miserable, one can't escape the feeling that Angele and Gregoire should not have met. Unless one is attracted to tragedy for tragedy's sake.
PEAU D'ANGE
Europa Prods.
Credits:
Director: Vincent Perez
Screenwriters: Karine Sylla, Vincent Perez, Jerome Tonnerre
Producer: Virginie Silla
Director of photography: Philippe Pavans de Ceccatty
Production designer: Frederic Benard
Editor: Laurence Briaud
Music: Replicant
Costume designer: Claudine Lachaud
Cast:
Angele: Morgane More
Gregoire: Guillaume Depardieu
Josiane: Magalie Woch
Laure: Karine Sylla
Mme Artaud: Helene de Saint Pere
Mr Grenier: Laurent Terzieff
Mr Faivre: Olivier Gourmet
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A world premiere in the official competition, "Peau d'ange" (Angel Skin) has not enough to recommend it to more than French-speaking audiences, though Perez's filmmaking skills and Depardieu's performance make it an above-average candidate for festivals.
With her family in financial trouble, teenage Angele (More) is sent off to work as a house servant and befriends similarly cast-off Josiane (Magalie Woch). Both are verbally abused by the boss lady (Helene de Saint Pere) and made to feel socially and intellectually inferior. But the girls have their own fun and games.
When nervous, brooding, angry Gregoire (Depardieu) comes to town because of his mother's death, Josiane flirts with him, and he tells her he's a manager in the music business. Convinced that Angele is a singer waiting to be discovered, Josiane brings them together on a rainy night that results in a desperate tryst that has unforeseen consequences.
What doesn't happen is Gregoire wanting to keep it going. He's gone and off pursuing a pharmaceutical job, where his brash confidence earns the admiration of his boss (Laurent Terzieff) and the inside track on wooing his daughter (screenwriter Karine Sylla). Angele tries to be near Gregoire and takes a job with another couple working at the same company. But her new boss (Olivier Gourmet) is coming apart over his wife's infidelities, and a tragic murder takes place.
The film starts to fall apart with the incarceration of Angele as an accomplice to murder, with the poor thing unable to help herself. In prison, she learns to adapt and takes an interest in gardening with the help of nearby nuns. When fortune shifts in her favor, it's just a matter of time before she truly runs out of luck.
Shifting between the resurrection of Gregoire's character and rising career and Angele's misfortunes, Perez makes a big mistake in the finale by snuffing out a character with minimal emotion. One wonders what the point of the film is, beyond showing how people can be attached on a deeper level than physical proximity. But when the result is so miserable, one can't escape the feeling that Angele and Gregoire should not have met. Unless one is attracted to tragedy for tragedy's sake.
PEAU D'ANGE
Europa Prods.
Credits:
Director: Vincent Perez
Screenwriters: Karine Sylla, Vincent Perez, Jerome Tonnerre
Producer: Virginie Silla
Director of photography: Philippe Pavans de Ceccatty
Production designer: Frederic Benard
Editor: Laurence Briaud
Music: Replicant
Costume designer: Claudine Lachaud
Cast:
Angele: Morgane More
Gregoire: Guillaume Depardieu
Josiane: Magalie Woch
Laure: Karine Sylla
Mme Artaud: Helene de Saint Pere
Mr Grenier: Laurent Terzieff
Mr Faivre: Olivier Gourmet
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 8/27/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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