The awards season is winding down with the Oscars coming up this weekend, but don't think that you'll have to wait until next fall to see a new batch of prize-winning acclaimed films. You may have to look beyond the tentpole titles, but there are plenty of gems to be discovered in the months ahead, and "Felix and Meira" is a picture you'll want to keep on your radar. Today, we'll help you out with the exclusive trailer and poster for the movie. Co-written and directed by Maxime Giroux ("Jo Pour Jonathan," "Demain"), and starring Hadas Yaron, Martin Dubreuil, Luzer Twersky, and Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, the story is set in Montreal's Mile End neighborhood, and tracks the unlikely romance that blossoms between Meira, a Hasidic housewife and mother, and Felix, a secular man reeling from the death of his estranged father. Their chance meeting in a bakery sparks a friendship that becomes something more,...
- 2/18/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Year: 2010
Director: Maxime Giroux
Writers: Maxime Giroux, Alexandre Laferrière
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Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 8 out of 10
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, likely for a long time to come: Quebec is a breeding ground for great film talent and it’s sad, a national cultural tragedy, that English speaking Canada, never mind the rest of the world, doesn’t often get to take in all that the province has to offer. It was years before filmmakers like Denys Arcand and Denis Villeneuve made a mark outside of the province and I’m starting to wonder what other great talents lay hidden there, especially when I see a film as powerful as Maxime Giroux’s Jo for Jonathan (Jo pour Jonathan).
Jo is the younger of two brothers and he worships his brother Thomas. Jo perceives him as having everything he wants: a job,...
Director: Maxime Giroux
Writers: Maxime Giroux, Alexandre Laferrière
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 8 out of 10
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, likely for a long time to come: Quebec is a breeding ground for great film talent and it’s sad, a national cultural tragedy, that English speaking Canada, never mind the rest of the world, doesn’t often get to take in all that the province has to offer. It was years before filmmakers like Denys Arcand and Denis Villeneuve made a mark outside of the province and I’m starting to wonder what other great talents lay hidden there, especially when I see a film as powerful as Maxime Giroux’s Jo for Jonathan (Jo pour Jonathan).
Jo is the younger of two brothers and he worships his brother Thomas. Jo perceives him as having everything he wants: a job,...
- 12/8/2010
- QuietEarth.us
Some people try to give to the idiom "silence is golden" a positive meaning. However, in the case of Maxime Giroux's Demain, that experience slightly fails. In fact, the film looks good on paper, but doesn't live up to its potential.
Sophie (Eugénie Beaudry) is a young woman living in an unidentified Canadian city. She works in an office and also has to take care of her diabetic father (Serge Houde). After a night in a bar, Sophie meets Jérôme (Guillaume Beauregard), a construction worker who works without a permit, and they both fall for each other. However, like Jérôme, Sophie doesn't really think about her future and just wants to live the present time.
While the film isn't downright bad, it certainly has its charms, which are all in the first half. As a matter of fact, without even spelling it out, Demain shows quite well that when...
Sophie (Eugénie Beaudry) is a young woman living in an unidentified Canadian city. She works in an office and also has to take care of her diabetic father (Serge Houde). After a night in a bar, Sophie meets Jérôme (Guillaume Beauregard), a construction worker who works without a permit, and they both fall for each other. However, like Jérôme, Sophie doesn't really think about her future and just wants to live the present time.
While the film isn't downright bad, it certainly has its charms, which are all in the first half. As a matter of fact, without even spelling it out, Demain shows quite well that when...
- 8/4/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
London -- In a country that loves a movie with political content, Oliver Stone's "W." is sure to ignite healthy debate when today's Italian premiere kicks off the nine-day Turin Film Festival.
The timing certainly couldn't be better, coming little more than two weeks after a U.S. presidential election that still has Europe buzzing.
But Barack Obama's election to the White House was arguably less surprising -- and certainly less controversial -- than this year's lineup, which is completely void of Italian films.
Arguably the country's third most prominent film festival, after Venice and Rome, the Northern Italian film jamboree will come to a close with "The Edge of Love," directed by John Maybury.
Under the watchful eye of filmmaker Nanni Moretti, now in his second year as artistic director, the festival has no Italian films because, according to Moretti, there simply weren't any titles that were up to snuff.
The timing certainly couldn't be better, coming little more than two weeks after a U.S. presidential election that still has Europe buzzing.
But Barack Obama's election to the White House was arguably less surprising -- and certainly less controversial -- than this year's lineup, which is completely void of Italian films.
Arguably the country's third most prominent film festival, after Venice and Rome, the Northern Italian film jamboree will come to a close with "The Edge of Love," directed by John Maybury.
Under the watchful eye of filmmaker Nanni Moretti, now in his second year as artistic director, the festival has no Italian films because, according to Moretti, there simply weren't any titles that were up to snuff.
- 11/20/2008
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rome -- The 26th Turin Film Festival on Friday released a lineup completely void of Italian films but heavy on U.S. and European productions.
Second-year artistic director Nanni Moretti -- who revealed the lineup to a packed house at the Nuovo Sacher, the Rome cinema he owns -- did his best to avoid comparisons to the just-completed Rome International Film Festival, but the Italian press is sure to highlight the differences.
The Rome event was criticized for a lineup that in many ways was a photo negative of the program Moretti released Friday, with six Italian films featured and just one from the U.S.
Moretti said that the U.S. writers' strike, which had an impact on the lineups in Venice, Rome and elsewhere, also played a role in shaping Turin's lineup. Though three of the 15 films in the lineup have American DNA, all are low-budget affairs: Azazel Jacobs' "Momma's Man,...
Second-year artistic director Nanni Moretti -- who revealed the lineup to a packed house at the Nuovo Sacher, the Rome cinema he owns -- did his best to avoid comparisons to the just-completed Rome International Film Festival, but the Italian press is sure to highlight the differences.
The Rome event was criticized for a lineup that in many ways was a photo negative of the program Moretti released Friday, with six Italian films featured and just one from the U.S.
Moretti said that the U.S. writers' strike, which had an impact on the lineups in Venice, Rome and elsewhere, also played a role in shaping Turin's lineup. Though three of the 15 films in the lineup have American DNA, all are low-budget affairs: Azazel Jacobs' "Momma's Man,...
- 11/7/2008
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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