From today through February 1, we're partnering with the My French Film Festival to show you ten recently released French features (first and second films) and ten French shorts. Presented by Unifrance, the festival invites you to award points to the films you like at the main site — and these points count, as six prizes will be awarded (three for features, three for shorts): the Internet Users Prize, Social Networks Prize and International Press Prize.
Outside of both competitions, we've also got a few extra presentations. The online festival was a hit around the world last year and you won't want to miss this second edition.
A few quick notes on the films, starting with the features:
Rebecca Zlotowski's Belle épine (Dear Prudence), winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc for Best First Film, is "closer to a sobering character study than a classical youth film," finds Chris Cabin in Slant.
Outside of both competitions, we've also got a few extra presentations. The online festival was a hit around the world last year and you won't want to miss this second edition.
A few quick notes on the films, starting with the features:
Rebecca Zlotowski's Belle épine (Dear Prudence), winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc for Best First Film, is "closer to a sobering character study than a classical youth film," finds Chris Cabin in Slant.
- 1/11/2012
- MUBI
The first of several top ten film lists from the writers of WhatCulture!
We’ve reached the end of another calendar year, with what could, for once, be an interesting awards season just around the corner. While many of the big contenders for the BAFTAs and Oscars have yet to see the light of day in cinemas, it’s as good a time as any for me to look back on the year that was. And while we have had to endure many a stinker from Messrs. Bay, Snyder and Marshall, and see a number of good directors come unstuck (Ron Howard and Terence Davies spring to mind), there has overall been much to celebrate.
The Coen Brothers kicked things off optimistically with True Grit; while a semi-skimmed effort by their standards, it is far superior to the original. Wake Wood showed that the reborn Hammer is here to stay,...
We’ve reached the end of another calendar year, with what could, for once, be an interesting awards season just around the corner. While many of the big contenders for the BAFTAs and Oscars have yet to see the light of day in cinemas, it’s as good a time as any for me to look back on the year that was. And while we have had to endure many a stinker from Messrs. Bay, Snyder and Marshall, and see a number of good directors come unstuck (Ron Howard and Terence Davies spring to mind), there has overall been much to celebrate.
The Coen Brothers kicked things off optimistically with True Grit; while a semi-skimmed effort by their standards, it is far superior to the original. Wake Wood showed that the reborn Hammer is here to stay,...
- 1/1/2012
- by Daniel Mumby
- Obsessed with Film
Cannes 2011 is in full swing and it seems rather odd to post this clip from a movie which screened at the festival back in 2010 but it really shows how long some of these movies take to be seen in the rest of the world after debuting at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Love Like Poison is directed by Katell Quillévéré and stars Clara Augarde, Lio, Michel Galabru, Stefano Cassetti, Thierry Neuvic and Youen Leboulanger-Gourvil. It’s available to view in cinemas now.
A coming-of-age drama which skillfully combines sexual frankness with a captivating sense of innocence, first-time director Katell Quillévéré’s charming Love Like Poison was a surprise, yet deserved, critical hit at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest,...
A coming-of-age drama which skillfully combines sexual frankness with a captivating sense of innocence, first-time director Katell Quillévéré’s charming Love Like Poison was a surprise, yet deserved, critical hit at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest,...
- 5/16/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The French title of Katell Quillévéré's sensitive directorial debut is Un poison violent, the title of a Serge Gainsbourg song describing the turbulence of love. Here it is experienced by Anna (an unaffected, delicately poised performance from Clara Augarde), a devout 14-year-old girl from a middle-class family in Britanny. She's simultaneously coping with pubescence, the separation of her parents, her first tentative love affair with a local boy, the kindly attentions of a young priest, her confirmation and the impending death of her lustful widowed grandfather (the great 88-year-old comedian Michel Galabru, who played the hypocritical politician in La Cage aux Folles). It is a film of nuance and subtle glimpses, like looking at the world through a curtain of Breton lace.
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- 5/14/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Attack The Block (15)
(Joe Cornish, 2011, UK) John Boyega, Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker. 88 mins
More Critters than Cloverfield, this alien-invasion movie is modest in scale and ambition but makes up for it in local flavour. The setting is south London – Brit cinema's default "ghetto" location, bruv – where sharp-toothed ETs come to regret messing with the hoodies, who team up with their recent victim and the upstairs drug dealer to defend their manor. It's no Shaun Of The Dead, but it's up-to-date and fitfully entertaining, and there's at least some social grit beneath the down-with-the-kids comedy.
A Screaming Man (PG)
(Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010, Cha/Fra/Bel) Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma, Emile Abssolo M'Bo. 91 mins
Saying a great deal with few resources, this skillful Chadian drama finds weighty moral, global and generational concerns in the story of a swimming pool attendant and his son.
Love Like Poison (15)
(Katell Quillévéré, 2010, Fra) Clara Augarde, Lio, Stefano Cassetti.
(Joe Cornish, 2011, UK) John Boyega, Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker. 88 mins
More Critters than Cloverfield, this alien-invasion movie is modest in scale and ambition but makes up for it in local flavour. The setting is south London – Brit cinema's default "ghetto" location, bruv – where sharp-toothed ETs come to regret messing with the hoodies, who team up with their recent victim and the upstairs drug dealer to defend their manor. It's no Shaun Of The Dead, but it's up-to-date and fitfully entertaining, and there's at least some social grit beneath the down-with-the-kids comedy.
A Screaming Man (PG)
(Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010, Cha/Fra/Bel) Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma, Emile Abssolo M'Bo. 91 mins
Saying a great deal with few resources, this skillful Chadian drama finds weighty moral, global and generational concerns in the story of a swimming pool attendant and his son.
Love Like Poison (15)
(Katell Quillévéré, 2010, Fra) Clara Augarde, Lio, Stefano Cassetti.
- 5/13/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Coming of age stories have been a staple of cinema for nearly as long as the medium has been in existence. Exploring themes of budding sexuality, immerging adulthood and familiarity with life, love and death, all through the often-confused mind of a teenager, these films seek to analyse the difficulties of growing up.
Love Like Poison, French writer/director Katell Quillévéré’s first feature length film, attempts to slot into this subgenre of dramatic cinema whilst also critiquing the overbearing influence of the Catholic Church. To non-French/non-Catholic audiences the film loses an element of its impact through this overarching theme of Catholicism as an important aspect of everyday life. However, it does succeed in offering an insightful glimpse into growing up in a small French town.
On a limited theatrical release in the UK from today, Love Like Poison is reviewed below.
Anna (Clara Augarde...
Coming of age stories have been a staple of cinema for nearly as long as the medium has been in existence. Exploring themes of budding sexuality, immerging adulthood and familiarity with life, love and death, all through the often-confused mind of a teenager, these films seek to analyse the difficulties of growing up.
Love Like Poison, French writer/director Katell Quillévéré’s first feature length film, attempts to slot into this subgenre of dramatic cinema whilst also critiquing the overbearing influence of the Catholic Church. To non-French/non-Catholic audiences the film loses an element of its impact through this overarching theme of Catholicism as an important aspect of everyday life. However, it does succeed in offering an insightful glimpse into growing up in a small French town.
On a limited theatrical release in the UK from today, Love Like Poison is reviewed below.
Anna (Clara Augarde...
- 5/13/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
A bittersweet French gem from last year's Cannes festival gets a welcome UK release
Writer-director Katell Quillévéré, with her first feature, reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker; her movie speaks of Catholicism, nascent sexuality and la France profonde – and the characters she creates are subtly but richly sympathetic. This is a coming-of-age movie that is touching, funny, desperately sad and has a spiritual dimension that comes to its mysterious and satisfying fruition at the very end, with an inspired choral arrangement of Radiohead's Creep over the final credits.
Love Like Poison (the title is taken from a Serge Gainsbourg song) centres on a crisis with many facets. Anna, played by Clara Augarde, is a floweringly beautiful 14-year-old girl who comes home from her boarding school for the summer to find that her father, Paul (Thierry Neuvic), has left the family home for another woman. Her mother, Jeanne (Lio), now conceives a miserable,...
Writer-director Katell Quillévéré, with her first feature, reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker; her movie speaks of Catholicism, nascent sexuality and la France profonde – and the characters she creates are subtly but richly sympathetic. This is a coming-of-age movie that is touching, funny, desperately sad and has a spiritual dimension that comes to its mysterious and satisfying fruition at the very end, with an inspired choral arrangement of Radiohead's Creep over the final credits.
Love Like Poison (the title is taken from a Serge Gainsbourg song) centres on a crisis with many facets. Anna, played by Clara Augarde, is a floweringly beautiful 14-year-old girl who comes home from her boarding school for the summer to find that her father, Paul (Thierry Neuvic), has left the family home for another woman. Her mother, Jeanne (Lio), now conceives a miserable,...
- 5/12/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A bittersweet French gem from last year's Cannes festival gets a welcome UK release
Writer-director Katell Quillévéré, with her first feature, reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker; her movie speaks of Catholicism, nascent sexuality and la France profonde – and the characters she creates are subtly but richly sympathetic. This is a coming-of-age movie that is touching, funny, desperately sad and has a spiritual dimension that comes to its mysterious and satisfying fruition at the very end, with an inspired choral arrangement of Radiohead's Creep over the final credits.
Love Like Poison (the title is taken from a Serge Gainsbourg song) centres on a crisis with many facets. Anna, played by Clara Augarde, is a floweringly beautiful 14-year-old girl who comes home from her boarding school for the summer to find that her father, Paul (Thierry Neuvic), has left the family home for another woman. Her mother, Jeanne (Lio), now conceives a miserable,...
Writer-director Katell Quillévéré, with her first feature, reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker; her movie speaks of Catholicism, nascent sexuality and la France profonde – and the characters she creates are subtly but richly sympathetic. This is a coming-of-age movie that is touching, funny, desperately sad and has a spiritual dimension that comes to its mysterious and satisfying fruition at the very end, with an inspired choral arrangement of Radiohead's Creep over the final credits.
Love Like Poison (the title is taken from a Serge Gainsbourg song) centres on a crisis with many facets. Anna, played by Clara Augarde, is a floweringly beautiful 14-year-old girl who comes home from her boarding school for the summer to find that her father, Paul (Thierry Neuvic), has left the family home for another woman. Her mother, Jeanne (Lio), now conceives a miserable,...
- 5/12/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A bittersweet French gem from last year's Cannes festival gets a welcome UK release
Writer-director Katell Quillévéré, with her first feature, reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker; her movie speaks of Catholicism, nascent sexuality and la France profonde – and the characters she creates are subtly but richly sympathetic. This is a coming-of-age movie that is touching, funny, desperately sad and has a spiritual dimension that comes to its mysterious and satisfying fruition at the very end, with an inspired choral arrangement of Radiohead's Creep over the final credits.
Love Like Poison (the title is taken from a Serge Gainsbourg song) centres on a crisis with many facets. Anna, played by Clara Augarde, is a floweringly beautiful 14-year-old girl who comes home from her boarding school for the summer to find that her father, Paul (Thierry Neuvic), has left the family home for another woman. Her mother, Jeanne (Lio), now conceives a miserable,...
Writer-director Katell Quillévéré, with her first feature, reveals herself to be a supremely natural film-maker; her movie speaks of Catholicism, nascent sexuality and la France profonde – and the characters she creates are subtly but richly sympathetic. This is a coming-of-age movie that is touching, funny, desperately sad and has a spiritual dimension that comes to its mysterious and satisfying fruition at the very end, with an inspired choral arrangement of Radiohead's Creep over the final credits.
Love Like Poison (the title is taken from a Serge Gainsbourg song) centres on a crisis with many facets. Anna, played by Clara Augarde, is a floweringly beautiful 14-year-old girl who comes home from her boarding school for the summer to find that her father, Paul (Thierry Neuvic), has left the family home for another woman. Her mother, Jeanne (Lio), now conceives a miserable,...
- 5/12/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Love Like Poison / Un Poison Violent
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Written by Katell Quillévéré
2010, France
With a title borrowed from Serge Gainsbourg, it should be no great surprise that Katell Quillévéré’s feature debut Love Like Poison combines subversiveness with musical eclecticism and a touch of bawdy humour. Quillévéré isn’t trying to pick up the mantle of Claude Chabrol — this is a coming-of-age drama set in rural Brittany and punctuated with some unexpected English folk songs. Even if you’ve had your fill of adolescent angst, narcotic experiments and clandestine gropings, the fearless performance here of young Clara Augarde is reason enough to watch.
The story begins in church, with 14-year-old Anna (Augarde), being distracted during Holy Communion by winsome choirboy Pierre (Youen Leboulanger-Gourvil) giving her the eye. This is the first of several occasions in the film, when Anna’s behaviour during a religious service doesn’t meet the...
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Written by Katell Quillévéré
2010, France
With a title borrowed from Serge Gainsbourg, it should be no great surprise that Katell Quillévéré’s feature debut Love Like Poison combines subversiveness with musical eclecticism and a touch of bawdy humour. Quillévéré isn’t trying to pick up the mantle of Claude Chabrol — this is a coming-of-age drama set in rural Brittany and punctuated with some unexpected English folk songs. Even if you’ve had your fill of adolescent angst, narcotic experiments and clandestine gropings, the fearless performance here of young Clara Augarde is reason enough to watch.
The story begins in church, with 14-year-old Anna (Augarde), being distracted during Holy Communion by winsome choirboy Pierre (Youen Leboulanger-Gourvil) giving her the eye. This is the first of several occasions in the film, when Anna’s behaviour during a religious service doesn’t meet the...
- 5/9/2011
- by Susannah
- SoundOnSight
Acclaimed by the Cannes elite last year, French coming-of-age drama Love Like Poison arrives on screens this side of the Channel next month. There's a new trailer online. It's kinda lovely and you can feast your eyes on it below.Love Like Poison is the story of teenager Anna (Clara Augarde). She's a boarder at a Catholic school who heads home for the holidays to discover her dad has left for good. With mum seeking consolation in the company of the local priest, Anna forms a bond with her granddad (Michel Galabru) and a local lad called Pierre (Youen Leboulanger-Gourvil), a tender rite of passage that pretty much melted hearts on the Croisette last summer.It's the first feature for Katell Quillévéré, clearly a name to look out for in French filmmaking. The film's title - a riff on a Serge Gainsbourg song - tells you all you need to...
- 4/19/2011
- EmpireOnline
Who is she?
A 31-year-old French director whose film debut, Love Like Poison, was a critics' favourite at Cannes last year, where it featured in the Directors' Fortnight.
Brilliant title, what's that all about?
It's borrowed from a Serge Gainsbourg song. In the film, 14-year-old Anna (Clara Augarde) is soon to be confirmed, but has doubts and is falling in love with a boy from the village.
Loss of innocence, sexual awakening – hardly original, is it?
Maybe not – but as coming-of-age stories go, this is pretty atypical. It's sensitive and beautifully written, but also juicily rebellious. Quillévéré lost her faith around the same age and you ought to see the bloodless bishop she has officiating at the confirmation scene – like a lizard in a mitre, lecturing blank-faced teenagers on idolatry and the sins of the flesh.
So the church takes a kicking?
Yes, but there's a sympathetic local priest who is having his own wobbles.
A 31-year-old French director whose film debut, Love Like Poison, was a critics' favourite at Cannes last year, where it featured in the Directors' Fortnight.
Brilliant title, what's that all about?
It's borrowed from a Serge Gainsbourg song. In the film, 14-year-old Anna (Clara Augarde) is soon to be confirmed, but has doubts and is falling in love with a boy from the village.
Loss of innocence, sexual awakening – hardly original, is it?
Maybe not – but as coming-of-age stories go, this is pretty atypical. It's sensitive and beautifully written, but also juicily rebellious. Quillévéré lost her faith around the same age and you ought to see the bloodless bishop she has officiating at the confirmation scene – like a lizard in a mitre, lecturing blank-faced teenagers on idolatry and the sins of the flesh.
So the church takes a kicking?
Yes, but there's a sympathetic local priest who is having his own wobbles.
- 3/18/2011
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
David from Victim of the Time with one last report from the 54th BFI London Film Festival.
Craig gave you a packed wrap-up earlier today, but I couldn't let you go without getting in another word myself. I caught near to 50 films during the past month (give or take a couple I, er, nodded off during), and I'm happy to say there were an abundance of highs and a general lack of lows - maybe I just chose well, or maybe the programmers did. My standout film remains Kelly Reichardt's menacing Meek's Cutoff (review), while the festival practically brimmed over with stunning female performances, from Michelle Williams' two-hander in Meek's and Blue Valentine (capsule), to Jeong-hee Lee's damaged optimism in Poetry (Nat's review), to Lesley Manville's jittering sorrow in Another Year (capsule). Huge thanks to Nathaniel for hosting Craig and I, huge thanks to the festival for...
Craig gave you a packed wrap-up earlier today, but I couldn't let you go without getting in another word myself. I caught near to 50 films during the past month (give or take a couple I, er, nodded off during), and I'm happy to say there were an abundance of highs and a general lack of lows - maybe I just chose well, or maybe the programmers did. My standout film remains Kelly Reichardt's menacing Meek's Cutoff (review), while the festival practically brimmed over with stunning female performances, from Michelle Williams' two-hander in Meek's and Blue Valentine (capsule), to Jeong-hee Lee's damaged optimism in Poetry (Nat's review), to Lesley Manville's jittering sorrow in Another Year (capsule). Huge thanks to Nathaniel for hosting Craig and I, huge thanks to the festival for...
- 10/29/2010
- by Dave
- FilmExperience
It’s almost time. Time for what you ask? For taking count of the number of film trailers in 2010 to use this same version of Radiohead’s “Creep.”
The first was the trailer for David Fincher’s The Social Network (the international version of which actually used the uncut version of the song complete with that pesky f word) and here we have it again, this time accompanying the trailer for Katell Quillévéré’s award winning Un Poison Violent (Love Like Poison).
The story centres on Anna (Clara Augarde), a fourteen year-old girl who comes home for boarding school for her summer holidays to find that her family life is disintegrating. Among the pressures of her confirmation, her father leaving and a romantic interest, Anna comes to question her faith.
It’s a beautiful trailer, made that much more poignant by the music selection, and there’s also something interesting...
The first was the trailer for David Fincher’s The Social Network (the international version of which actually used the uncut version of the song complete with that pesky f word) and here we have it again, this time accompanying the trailer for Katell Quillévéré’s award winning Un Poison Violent (Love Like Poison).
The story centres on Anna (Clara Augarde), a fourteen year-old girl who comes home for boarding school for her summer holidays to find that her family life is disintegrating. Among the pressures of her confirmation, her father leaving and a romantic interest, Anna comes to question her faith.
It’s a beautiful trailer, made that much more poignant by the music selection, and there’s also something interesting...
- 7/20/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Mike Leigh shone, Woody Allen hit cruise control and there was a lot of nonsense about teens: Peter Bradshaw picks his highlights so far
As Cannes passed its first weekend, the first big auteur made his appearance: British director Mike Leigh, with his new film Another Year, a characteristically muted, bittersweet tale, starring Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville. It is composed in the distinctively stylised Leigh idiom, which, after you have taken time to acclimatise, discloses a hugely involving and subtle story; I was utterly immersed by the final credits.
Sheen plays Gerri, a psychotherapist; her husband, Tom (Broadbent), is an engineer. Both are nearing retirement and gently content with their careers, their marriage and the way their lives have turned out. But despite, or perhaps because of the gentle glow of happiness they radiate, their home is a magnet for unhappy souls. Chief among these is their...
As Cannes passed its first weekend, the first big auteur made his appearance: British director Mike Leigh, with his new film Another Year, a characteristically muted, bittersweet tale, starring Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville. It is composed in the distinctively stylised Leigh idiom, which, after you have taken time to acclimatise, discloses a hugely involving and subtle story; I was utterly immersed by the final credits.
Sheen plays Gerri, a psychotherapist; her husband, Tom (Broadbent), is an engineer. Both are nearing retirement and gently content with their careers, their marriage and the way their lives have turned out. But despite, or perhaps because of the gentle glow of happiness they radiate, their home is a magnet for unhappy souls. Chief among these is their...
- 5/17/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Un poison violent (translates into Love Like Poison) is Jean Vigo prize wining screenplay - your typical French family drama big on dialogue, not interested in style. Helmer Katell Quillévéré presented her directorial debut in the Quinzaine last night and I couldn't help think back to last year's Bruno Dumont film Hadewijch - both films take certain aspects of religion and cross it with female adolescence. - Un poison violent (translates into Love Like Poison) is Jean Vigo prize wining screenplay - your typical French family drama big on dialogue, not interested in style. Helmer Katell Quillévéré presented her directorial debut in the Quinzaine last night and I couldn't help think back to last year's Bruno Dumont film Hadewijch - both films take certain aspects of religion and cross it with female adolescence. Apologies for the lack of video clarity in the first portion,...
- 5/15/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Un poison violent (translates into Love Like Poison) is Jean Vigo prize wining screenplay - your typical French family drama big on dialogue, not interested in style. Helmer Katell Quillévéré presented her directorial debut in the Quinzaine last night and I couldn't help think back to last year's Bruno Dumont film Hadewijch - both films take certain aspects of religion and cross it with female adolescence. Apologies for the lack of video clarity in the first portion, but if you stick around you'll see some familiar faces among the cast - including Stefano Cassetti of Roberto Succo fame. Clara Augarde the red head teen and film's centerpiece, does a formidable job.
- 5/15/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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