Pyramide is also handling the directorial debut of Johanna Pyykkö, former assistant to Joachim Trier.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s comedy drama Une Honnete Femme, starring Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair.
It will launch the film at next week’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, along with Thierry de Peretti’s feature documentary A Son Image and Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.
Une Honnête Femme zooms in on three friends with different views on love – one who has just left a relationship, one who advocates for a relationship without love, and one who sees love as an adventure.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s comedy drama Une Honnete Femme, starring Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair.
It will launch the film at next week’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, along with Thierry de Peretti’s feature documentary A Son Image and Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.
Une Honnête Femme zooms in on three friends with different views on love – one who has just left a relationship, one who advocates for a relationship without love, and one who sees love as an adventure.
- 1/12/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
’Lazy Girls’ is the latest title from the Tunisian-born French filmmaker.
Paris-based Luxbox has acquired international rights to Karim Dridi’s road movie Lazy Girls and will kick off talks with buyers at this week’s European FIlm Market.
Newcomers Fanny Jullian and Julie Dumont star in the film about two young women who hit the road in their old truck after being chased from the land they were squatting and head off on an adventure.
Produced by France’s Mirak Films and Les Films du Veyrier, Lazy Girls is the latest title from Tunisian-born French filmmaker Dridi. His credits...
Paris-based Luxbox has acquired international rights to Karim Dridi’s road movie Lazy Girls and will kick off talks with buyers at this week’s European FIlm Market.
Newcomers Fanny Jullian and Julie Dumont star in the film about two young women who hit the road in their old truck after being chased from the land they were squatting and head off on an adventure.
Produced by France’s Mirak Films and Les Films du Veyrier, Lazy Girls is the latest title from Tunisian-born French filmmaker Dridi. His credits...
- 2/13/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
3B Productions, the French production outfit behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Venice opener “The Truth,” is developing the next films of Atiq Rahimi (“The Patience Stone”) and Karim Dridi (“Chouf”).
Rahimi, whose latest film “Notre-dame du Nil” will be world premiering at Toronto, is developing with Jean Brehat at 3B Productions and Ron Senkowski (“The Prophet”) the adaptation of “Les echelles du levan” (“Port of Calls”), a novel by French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf.
“I’ve always loved Amin Maalouf’s novels and I wanted to adapt one, so when Ron Senkowski proposed producing with him the adaptation of ‘Les echelles du levan,’ I didn’t hesitate,” said Brehat, adding that he thought of Rahimi to direct the film because he admires his books and the quality of the two films he’s helmed.
“Les échelles du levan” will reunite Rahimi with Golshifteh Farahani, who had starred in his 2012 film “The Patience Stone.
Rahimi, whose latest film “Notre-dame du Nil” will be world premiering at Toronto, is developing with Jean Brehat at 3B Productions and Ron Senkowski (“The Prophet”) the adaptation of “Les echelles du levan” (“Port of Calls”), a novel by French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf.
“I’ve always loved Amin Maalouf’s novels and I wanted to adapt one, so when Ron Senkowski proposed producing with him the adaptation of ‘Les echelles du levan,’ I didn’t hesitate,” said Brehat, adding that he thought of Rahimi to direct the film because he admires his books and the quality of the two films he’s helmed.
“Les échelles du levan” will reunite Rahimi with Golshifteh Farahani, who had starred in his 2012 film “The Patience Stone.
- 9/1/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Tunisian film festival dedicated to Arab and African cinema celebrated 50th anniversary this year.
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania has won the grand prize, or Tanit d’Or, at Tunisia’s Carthage Film Festival for her feature-length documentary Zaineb Hates the Snow.
Shot over a six-year period, the film follows a young Tunisian girl’s difficult passage to adolescence after she moves to Quebec from Tunisia shortly after the death of her father in an accident.
Ben Hania – whose past works includes the mockumentary The Blade of Tunis – filmed the documentary’s young protagonist from the age of nine-years-old to 15.
Carthage’s top prize the Tanit d’Or takes its name from the lunar goddess of ancient Carthage, the ruins of which act as the backdrop for some of the festival’s screenings.
It was the second win for Zeineb Hates the Snow in recent days. The feature was also awarded best documentary prize at the CineMed...
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania has won the grand prize, or Tanit d’Or, at Tunisia’s Carthage Film Festival for her feature-length documentary Zaineb Hates the Snow.
Shot over a six-year period, the film follows a young Tunisian girl’s difficult passage to adolescence after she moves to Quebec from Tunisia shortly after the death of her father in an accident.
Ben Hania – whose past works includes the mockumentary The Blade of Tunis – filmed the documentary’s young protagonist from the age of nine-years-old to 15.
Carthage’s top prize the Tanit d’Or takes its name from the lunar goddess of ancient Carthage, the ruins of which act as the backdrop for some of the festival’s screenings.
It was the second win for Zeineb Hates the Snow in recent days. The feature was also awarded best documentary prize at the CineMed...
- 11/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
Tunisian film festival dedicated to Arab and African cinema celebrated 50th anniversary this year.
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania has won the grand prize, or Tanit d’Or, at Tunisia’s Carthage Film Festival for her feature-length documentary Zeineb Hates the Snow.
Shot over a six-year period, the film follows a young Tunisian girl’s difficult passage to adolescence after she moves to Quebec from Tunisia shortly after the death of her father in an accident.
Ben Hania – whose past works includes the mockumentary The Blade of Tunis – filmed the documentary’s young protagonist from the age of nine-years-old to 15.
Carthage’s top prize the Tanit d’Or takes its name from the lunar goddess of ancient Carthage, the ruins of which act as the backdrop for some of the festival’s screenings.
It was the second win for Zeineb Hates the Snow in recent days. The feature was also awarded best documentary prize at the CineMed...
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania has won the grand prize, or Tanit d’Or, at Tunisia’s Carthage Film Festival for her feature-length documentary Zeineb Hates the Snow.
Shot over a six-year period, the film follows a young Tunisian girl’s difficult passage to adolescence after she moves to Quebec from Tunisia shortly after the death of her father in an accident.
Ben Hania – whose past works includes the mockumentary The Blade of Tunis – filmed the documentary’s young protagonist from the age of nine-years-old to 15.
Carthage’s top prize the Tanit d’Or takes its name from the lunar goddess of ancient Carthage, the ruins of which act as the backdrop for some of the festival’s screenings.
It was the second win for Zeineb Hates the Snow in recent days. The feature was also awarded best documentary prize at the CineMed...
- 11/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
The International Film Festival of Cannes, May 11th to 22nd, is the largest media event in the world after the Olympics. The Red Carpet Gala Premieres of world renowned auteur films, movie stars plus their photos go to every newspaper, magazine and television station in the world.
This year we’ll see the stars (and directors with their entourages) in films by Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Jodie Foster ♀, Stephen Spielberg, Jeff Nichols, Sean Penn, Nicolas Winding Refn, Pedro Almodóvar, Ashghar Farhadi, Andrea Arnold ♀, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Xavier Dolan, Bruno Dumont, Nicole Garcia ♀, Ken Loach, Paul Verhoeven, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, David Mackenzie, Matt Ross, Shane Black, Paul Schrader, Rithy Panh and others from almost 30 countries as they pose on the red carpet.
The Official Selection Competition shows films of bankable masters and Un Certain Regard spotlights original and young talent. The Official Selection also includes Out of Competition films, Special Screenings, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Classics, and the Cinéfondation Selection targeting film schools. The Cannes Short Film Corner offers a panorama of short film production worldwide.
There are more short films in the festival and three other “sidebar” festivals which have evolved since Cannes began in 1946. Directors banded together to create the Directors’ Fortnight, critics created the Critics Week and 20 years ago independent filmmakers created Acid.
And with all this hoopla, there are less than 95 feature films screening in all.
At the same time, there is an enormous film market called the Marché du Film. It is the most important event of the film industry, the meeting point for more than 10,000 professionals, including 3,200 producers, 1,500 international sales agents licensing almost 4,000 films and projects to 2,300 distributors from everywhere in the world (about 60 “territories” covering Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia and North America), and 790 festival organizers all there to discover the gems which will make them stand out.
There are gala parties, panel discussions hosted by many different organizations, and for the past three years there has been an increasingly bright spotlight on women and the need for parity in all areas of the film industry.
Traditional theatrical and movie channel buyers are looking for undiscovered jewels, whether in the festival or in the market, films which they judge will be most appealing to their audiences.
In the market itself, Cmg is selling directors Dorota Kobiela and Welchman’s “Loving Vincent”, an animated story of Vincent Van Gogh, still unfinished but which has “presold” in 17 territories. It features over 120 of Vincent Van Gogh’s greatest paintings with a plot drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter himself, leading us to the significant people and events in the time leading up to his unexpected death.
The other big issue today is the unequal number of women in the directors’ ranks…4% worldwide is not representative of the 51% population. Cannes is working to show its interest in improving the numbers. The need to find and show good films by women is important to everyone.
Cambodia and Singapore. Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features, chose 10 films out of 1,100 feature-length submissions and is dominated by female film-makers, with Justine Triet’s “In Bed With Victoria”, a crime thriller, selected as the opening film. And totally unique, closing night will be three short films – including Chloë Sevigny’s adaptation of the Paul Bowles novel “Kitty”, “Smile” (“Bonne Figure”) by Sandrine Kiberlain of France and “En moi” by Laetitia Casta of France.
Other films from afar include the Opening Night film of Un Certain Regard, “Eshtebak” (“Clash”) by Egypt’s Mohamed Diab, Cambodia’s “Diamond island” by Davy Chou in Competition in Critics’ Week, a Cambodian-French-German coproduction. There are two films from Lebanon, “Fallen From Heaven” a first feature in Acid and “Tramontane” in Critics Week. From Tunisia comes Karim Dridi’s “Chouf” in the Official Selection Special Screenings.
Perhaps the most exotic film showing is the Afghanistan-Denmark- France-Sweden coproduction, “Wolf and Sheep” in Directors’ Fortnight. In her debut feature, the young Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat portrays the community in a small village in rural Afghanistan through shepherd children.
Although he is still confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange will make an appearance at the Cannes film festival – via Laura Poitras’s documentary “Risk”, which has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar.
Iran’s famous Oscar-winning (“A Separation”) director, Asghar Farhadi is here with “Inversion”.
As always everyone will be running on adrenalin trying to accomplish everything in ten neverending days.
This year we’ll see the stars (and directors with their entourages) in films by Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Jodie Foster ♀, Stephen Spielberg, Jeff Nichols, Sean Penn, Nicolas Winding Refn, Pedro Almodóvar, Ashghar Farhadi, Andrea Arnold ♀, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Xavier Dolan, Bruno Dumont, Nicole Garcia ♀, Ken Loach, Paul Verhoeven, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, David Mackenzie, Matt Ross, Shane Black, Paul Schrader, Rithy Panh and others from almost 30 countries as they pose on the red carpet.
The Official Selection Competition shows films of bankable masters and Un Certain Regard spotlights original and young talent. The Official Selection also includes Out of Competition films, Special Screenings, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Classics, and the Cinéfondation Selection targeting film schools. The Cannes Short Film Corner offers a panorama of short film production worldwide.
There are more short films in the festival and three other “sidebar” festivals which have evolved since Cannes began in 1946. Directors banded together to create the Directors’ Fortnight, critics created the Critics Week and 20 years ago independent filmmakers created Acid.
And with all this hoopla, there are less than 95 feature films screening in all.
At the same time, there is an enormous film market called the Marché du Film. It is the most important event of the film industry, the meeting point for more than 10,000 professionals, including 3,200 producers, 1,500 international sales agents licensing almost 4,000 films and projects to 2,300 distributors from everywhere in the world (about 60 “territories” covering Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia and North America), and 790 festival organizers all there to discover the gems which will make them stand out.
There are gala parties, panel discussions hosted by many different organizations, and for the past three years there has been an increasingly bright spotlight on women and the need for parity in all areas of the film industry.
Traditional theatrical and movie channel buyers are looking for undiscovered jewels, whether in the festival or in the market, films which they judge will be most appealing to their audiences.
In the market itself, Cmg is selling directors Dorota Kobiela and Welchman’s “Loving Vincent”, an animated story of Vincent Van Gogh, still unfinished but which has “presold” in 17 territories. It features over 120 of Vincent Van Gogh’s greatest paintings with a plot drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter himself, leading us to the significant people and events in the time leading up to his unexpected death.
The other big issue today is the unequal number of women in the directors’ ranks…4% worldwide is not representative of the 51% population. Cannes is working to show its interest in improving the numbers. The need to find and show good films by women is important to everyone.
Cambodia and Singapore. Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features, chose 10 films out of 1,100 feature-length submissions and is dominated by female film-makers, with Justine Triet’s “In Bed With Victoria”, a crime thriller, selected as the opening film. And totally unique, closing night will be three short films – including Chloë Sevigny’s adaptation of the Paul Bowles novel “Kitty”, “Smile” (“Bonne Figure”) by Sandrine Kiberlain of France and “En moi” by Laetitia Casta of France.
Other films from afar include the Opening Night film of Un Certain Regard, “Eshtebak” (“Clash”) by Egypt’s Mohamed Diab, Cambodia’s “Diamond island” by Davy Chou in Competition in Critics’ Week, a Cambodian-French-German coproduction. There are two films from Lebanon, “Fallen From Heaven” a first feature in Acid and “Tramontane” in Critics Week. From Tunisia comes Karim Dridi’s “Chouf” in the Official Selection Special Screenings.
Perhaps the most exotic film showing is the Afghanistan-Denmark- France-Sweden coproduction, “Wolf and Sheep” in Directors’ Fortnight. In her debut feature, the young Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat portrays the community in a small village in rural Afghanistan through shepherd children.
Although he is still confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange will make an appearance at the Cannes film festival – via Laura Poitras’s documentary “Risk”, which has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar.
Iran’s famous Oscar-winning (“A Separation”) director, Asghar Farhadi is here with “Inversion”.
As always everyone will be running on adrenalin trying to accomplish everything in ten neverending days.
- 5/11/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Midnight movie: Mel Gibson stars in Jean-François Richet’s Blood Father at the Cannes Film Festival Photo: Cannes Film Festival
David Mackenzie’s new film, Hell Or High Water, which stars Ben Foster, Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges has been added to the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.
The film deals with a divorced father and his ex-con brother who dream up a desperate scheme to save the family farm in West Texas, and it marks Mackenzie’s first feature film outing since Starred Up in 2013.
Scene from The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi Photo: Cannes Film Festival
Other additions to the Festival line-up include The Salesman by Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, which will receive its world premiere in competition.
Mohamed Diab’s Clash will open Un Certain Regard while French director Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson, has secured a Midnight Screening slot.
Thierry Fremaux,...
David Mackenzie’s new film, Hell Or High Water, which stars Ben Foster, Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges has been added to the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.
The film deals with a divorced father and his ex-con brother who dream up a desperate scheme to save the family farm in West Texas, and it marks Mackenzie’s first feature film outing since Starred Up in 2013.
Scene from The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi Photo: Cannes Film Festival
Other additions to the Festival line-up include The Salesman by Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, which will receive its world premiere in competition.
Mohamed Diab’s Clash will open Un Certain Regard while French director Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson, has secured a Midnight Screening slot.
Thierry Fremaux,...
- 4/22/2016
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Seven additions made to Official Selection, including Blood Father starring Mel Gibson, the new feature from Starred Up director David Mackenzie and a Joseph Kony documentary.Click here for updated Official Selection
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is to compete for the Palme d’Or with his latest feature, The Salesman, following several additions to Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection.
The addition of the Farsi-language project, which racked up sales for Memento Films International at Berlin in February, takes the total number of films in Competition to 21.
The Salesman revolves around a couple whose relationship turns violent due to societal pressures. Long-time Farhadi collaborators Taraneh Alidoosti, who played the epnymous role in About Elly, and Shahab Hosseini, who appeared in Farhadi’s Golden Bear and Oscar-winning A Separation, co-star as the central couple.
Farhadi was last in Competition at Cannes in 2013 with his previous film, The Past, which won the Ecumenical Jury prize.
Un Certain...
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is to compete for the Palme d’Or with his latest feature, The Salesman, following several additions to Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection.
The addition of the Farsi-language project, which racked up sales for Memento Films International at Berlin in February, takes the total number of films in Competition to 21.
The Salesman revolves around a couple whose relationship turns violent due to societal pressures. Long-time Farhadi collaborators Taraneh Alidoosti, who played the epnymous role in About Elly, and Shahab Hosseini, who appeared in Farhadi’s Golden Bear and Oscar-winning A Separation, co-star as the central couple.
Farhadi was last in Competition at Cannes in 2013 with his previous film, The Past, which won the Ecumenical Jury prize.
Un Certain...
- 4/22/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup for the official selection, including the Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, as well as special screenings, for the 69th edition of the festival:COMPETITIONOpening Night: Café Society (Woody Allen) [Out of Competition]Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)La Fille Inconnue (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)Juste La Fin du Monde (Xavier Dolan)Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont)Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia)I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu)Loving (Jeff Nichols)Agassi (Park Chan-Wook)The Last Face (Sean Penn)Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)Elle (Paul Verhoeven)The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding-Refn)The Salesman (Asgha Farhadi)Un Certain REGARDOpening Film: Clash (Mohamed Diab)Varoonegi (Behnam Behzadi)Apprentice (Boo Junfeng)Voir du Pays (Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin)La Danseuse (Stéphanie Di Giusto)La...
- 4/22/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
As usual, even though they initially announced the line-up, Cannes has a few more titles to add their slate, including one of our most-anticipated films of the year. Asghar Farhadi will return to the festival with The Salesman, which reunites him with regulars Shahab Hosseini (About Elly, A Separation) and Tareneh Alidoosti (About Elly, Fireworks Wednesday). Playing in competition, it was reported the drama centers on a couple performing together in Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman.
Other titles includes the Mel Gibson-led action thriller Blood Father (see the railer here) and David Mackenzie‘s Starred Up follow-up, the western crime drama Hell or High Water, scripted by Sicario’s Taylor Sheridan and starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges. Check out the additions below.
In Competition
The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Un Certain Regard
Opening film: Eshtebak (Clash) by Mohamed Diab (Egypt)
Hell Or High Water...
Other titles includes the Mel Gibson-led action thriller Blood Father (see the railer here) and David Mackenzie‘s Starred Up follow-up, the western crime drama Hell or High Water, scripted by Sicario’s Taylor Sheridan and starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Jeff Bridges. Check out the additions below.
In Competition
The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Un Certain Regard
Opening film: Eshtebak (Clash) by Mohamed Diab (Egypt)
Hell Or High Water...
- 4/22/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Paris -- European distributors, French sales agents and international press will break bread and cheese Wednesday as state film promotion organization Unifrance's 12th annual's Rendez-Vous with French cinema kicks off in Paris.
But don't expect to hear any American accents.
More than 400 film distribution execs and 120 journalists from 26 countries will join French sales reps, directors and talent for a five-day sampling of the best of Gallic cinema. U.S. buyers, however, will have to wait until Unifrance's stand-alone event in March in New York in order to sample the latest in Gallic big screen fare due to the Paris event's impossible timing.
"Were it not for Sundance running concurrently with the Paris Rdv and Berlin just a few weeks later, we're sure more American buyers would come. From talking with them, we get the strong impression they'd like to -- they're certainly welcome!" Unifrance's stateside executive director John Kochman said in an interview.
But don't expect to hear any American accents.
More than 400 film distribution execs and 120 journalists from 26 countries will join French sales reps, directors and talent for a five-day sampling of the best of Gallic cinema. U.S. buyers, however, will have to wait until Unifrance's stand-alone event in March in New York in order to sample the latest in Gallic big screen fare due to the Paris event's impossible timing.
"Were it not for Sundance running concurrently with the Paris Rdv and Berlin just a few weeks later, we're sure more American buyers would come. From talking with them, we get the strong impression they'd like to -- they're certainly welcome!" Unifrance's stateside executive director John Kochman said in an interview.
- 1/12/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director James Cameron's "Avatar" commanded the international circuit on the weekend, soaring to No. 1 with boxoffice of $165.5 million in its opening five days from 14,604 screens in 106 territories.
"Avatar's" actual weekend figure on the foreign circuit was $6.3 million more than the $159.2 million reported on Sunday due, said distributor 20th Century Fox, "to the unexpected increase in boxoffice from Saturday to Sunday (about 3% overall)."
Fox said the much-anticipated futuristic 3D spectacle's worldwide gross total of $242.5 million ranks as the "highest-grossing nonfranchise, nonsequel opening ever." The overseas per-screen average was $11,334.
"We are off to a great start," said Paul Hanneman, co-president of Fox Theatrical International, who noted that "Avatar," while benefiting from solid reviews overseas, had to defy tough winter weather in many European markets. On the basis of favorable word-of-mouth, Hanneman predicts that "Avatar" grosses will hold relatively strongly in the coming weeks.
"We played 106 markets, and we were No.
"Avatar's" actual weekend figure on the foreign circuit was $6.3 million more than the $159.2 million reported on Sunday due, said distributor 20th Century Fox, "to the unexpected increase in boxoffice from Saturday to Sunday (about 3% overall)."
Fox said the much-anticipated futuristic 3D spectacle's worldwide gross total of $242.5 million ranks as the "highest-grossing nonfranchise, nonsequel opening ever." The overseas per-screen average was $11,334.
"We are off to a great start," said Paul Hanneman, co-president of Fox Theatrical International, who noted that "Avatar," while benefiting from solid reviews overseas, had to defy tough winter weather in many European markets. On the basis of favorable word-of-mouth, Hanneman predicts that "Avatar" grosses will hold relatively strongly in the coming weeks.
"We played 106 markets, and we were No.
- 12/20/2009
- by By Frank Segers
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Guillaume Canet can count on the return of François Cluzet, the participation of an Oscar winning actress in Marion Cotillard, and Benoît Magimel for his third feature in the director's chair. Canet will follow up Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) with with Les Petits Mouchoirs (“The Little Handkerchiefs”). Cineuropa reports that Valérie Bonneton, Gilles Lellouche, Anne Marivin, Louise Monot, Laurent Lafite, Pascale Arbillot and Jean Dujardin (Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) round out the cast. Production will last three months in Gironde, Cap Ferret and Paris. Written by the Canet, Les Petits Mouchoirs centres on a group of friends who holiday together every summer at Cap Ferret (South West portion of France). The good spirits of the first few days give way to less exalted feelings when they each express their innermost doubts. Productions du Trésor's Alain Attal (who also produced Ne le dis à personne) produces.
- 7/31/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Locarno, Switzerland -- Italian auteur Nanni Moretti was presented with the Locarno Film Festival's Golden Leopard lifetime achievement award Wednesday during yet another evening threatened by rain.
The unusually wet August has been a persistent theme at this year's festival, enough so that Moretti cracked: "I'm just trying to keep this short. It's starting to rain," when Locarno artistic director Frederic Maire asked if he had anything to add.
It did, in fact, rain periodically during the screening of "Son of Rambow" that followed, a coming-of-age story that made its appearance in Locarno a year later than originally expected.
The film, which director Garth Jennings said was a tribute to Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo" films, was originally scheduled to appear in Locarno last year, but was pulled at the last minute because of legal issues that have since been resolved.
The Piazza Grande screening of "Rambow" preceded a screening of 1989's "Red Wood Pigeon," part of the festival's homage to Moretti.
So far, five of the seven Piazza Grande screenings at this year's festival have been at least threatened by rain, focusing added attention on the indoor screenings and the festival's myriad sidebars. One of those sidebars -- the Open Doors Film Laboratory -- concluded Wednesday with a Chilean drama and a Dominican-Mexican co-production taking the top honors.
Chile's Alejandro Fernandez Almendras, who directed "Seated in Front of the Fire," and "Jen Gentil" directors Laura Amelia Guzman and Israel Cardenas Ramirez were the main Open Doors winners. Each film will receive a cash prize of 50,000 Swiss Francs ($48,800), along with other support from the sidebar, which focuses on helping up-and-coming directors from different regions of the world.
"Filmmaking in Latin America is making a remarkable contribution to world cinema," Open Doors director Vincenzo Bugno said of the region selected for this year's lab.
Thursday's lineup will be highlighted by the final day of several minor Locarno sidebars and a single Piazza Grande screening -- "Khamsa," from France's Karim Dridi. The weather forecast Locarno calls for clear skies during the day, and a chance of rain again after sunset.
The festival concludes Saturday.
The unusually wet August has been a persistent theme at this year's festival, enough so that Moretti cracked: "I'm just trying to keep this short. It's starting to rain," when Locarno artistic director Frederic Maire asked if he had anything to add.
It did, in fact, rain periodically during the screening of "Son of Rambow" that followed, a coming-of-age story that made its appearance in Locarno a year later than originally expected.
The film, which director Garth Jennings said was a tribute to Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo" films, was originally scheduled to appear in Locarno last year, but was pulled at the last minute because of legal issues that have since been resolved.
The Piazza Grande screening of "Rambow" preceded a screening of 1989's "Red Wood Pigeon," part of the festival's homage to Moretti.
So far, five of the seven Piazza Grande screenings at this year's festival have been at least threatened by rain, focusing added attention on the indoor screenings and the festival's myriad sidebars. One of those sidebars -- the Open Doors Film Laboratory -- concluded Wednesday with a Chilean drama and a Dominican-Mexican co-production taking the top honors.
Chile's Alejandro Fernandez Almendras, who directed "Seated in Front of the Fire," and "Jen Gentil" directors Laura Amelia Guzman and Israel Cardenas Ramirez were the main Open Doors winners. Each film will receive a cash prize of 50,000 Swiss Francs ($48,800), along with other support from the sidebar, which focuses on helping up-and-coming directors from different regions of the world.
"Filmmaking in Latin America is making a remarkable contribution to world cinema," Open Doors director Vincenzo Bugno said of the region selected for this year's lab.
Thursday's lineup will be highlighted by the final day of several minor Locarno sidebars and a single Piazza Grande screening -- "Khamsa," from France's Karim Dridi. The weather forecast Locarno calls for clear skies during the day, and a chance of rain again after sunset.
The festival concludes Saturday.
- 8/13/2008
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rome -- Julian Jarrold's "Brideshead Revisited" will open the 61st Locarno Film Festival, highlighting a lineup that will see nearly two dozen world premieres screen in the festival's historic Piazza Grande or in the main competition.
"Brideshead" -- a European premiere -- is a World War II drama based on the Evelyn Waugh novel and starring Matthew Goode as Capt. Charles Ryder. It screens Aug. 6.
The world premiere of Solveig Anspach's Franco-Icelandic comedy "Back Soon" will close the lakeside festival Aug. 16.
In between, the Piazza Grande lineup will unspool Marco Siega's comedic drama "Chaos Theory," Clark Gregg's comedy "Choke," Denis Rabaglia's romantic drama "Marcello, Marcello" and Garth Jennings' "Son of Rambow," which was scheduled to screen in Locarno in 2007 but pulled because of a legal dispute.
The Piazza Grande selection continues the trend of accessible fare screening in Europe's largest outdoor cinema venue under third-year artistic director Frederic Maire, as opposed to the more weighty and cerebral productions that screened there in the past.
The 17-film international competition lineup, meanwhile, is made up entirely of world and international premieres.
The complete competition lineup follows:
Piazza Grande
"Back Soon," Solveig Anspach, Iceland/France
"Berlin Calling," Hannes Stoehr, Germany
"Brideshead Revisited," Julian Jarrold, U.K.
"Chaos Theory," Marcos Siega, U.S.
"Choke," Clark Gregg, U.S.
"In 3 Tagen Bist Du Tot 2," Andreas Prochaska, Austria
"Khamsa," Karim Dridi, France
"La Fille De Monaco," Anne Fontaine, France
"Lesson 21," Alessandro Baricco, Italy/U.K.
"Marcello Marcello," Denis Rabaglia, Switzerland/Germany
"Retouches," Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland/Canada
"Night and the City," Jules Dassin, U.K.
"Nordwand," Philipp Stolzl, Germany/Austria/Switzerland
"Outlander," Howard McCain, U.S.
"Palombella Rossa," Nanni Moretti, Italy/France
"Plus Tard Tu Comprendras," Amos Gitai, France/ Germany
"Son of Rambow," Garth Jennings, U.K. /France
"The Eternity Man," Julien Temple, Australia/U.K.
"I Know," Jan Cvitkovic, Slovenia/Hungary
International competition
"33 Scenes From Life," Malgorzata Szumowska, Germany/Poland
"Daytime Drinking," Noh Young-seok, South Korea
"Dioses," Josue Mendez, Peru/Argentine/Germany /France
"Elle Veut Le Chaos," Denis Cote, Canada
"Katia's Sister," Mijke de Jong, Netherlands
"Kisses," Lance Daly, Ireland/Sweden
"Feast of Villains," Pan Jian Lin, Chine
"Mar Nero," Federico Bondi, Italy/Romania/France
"March," Klaus Handl, Austria
"Nulle Part Terre Promise," Emmanuel Finkiel, France
"Parque Via," Enrique Rivero, Mexico
"Sleep Furiously," Gideon Koppel, U.K.
"Autumn," Ozcan Alper, Turkey/Germany
"The Market -- A Tale of Trade," Ben Hopkins, Germany/U.K./Turkey/Kazakhstan
"Um Amor de Perdicao," Mario Barroso, Portugal/Brazil
"Un Autre Homme," Lionel Baier, Switzerland
"Yuri's Day," Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia/Germany...
"Brideshead" -- a European premiere -- is a World War II drama based on the Evelyn Waugh novel and starring Matthew Goode as Capt. Charles Ryder. It screens Aug. 6.
The world premiere of Solveig Anspach's Franco-Icelandic comedy "Back Soon" will close the lakeside festival Aug. 16.
In between, the Piazza Grande lineup will unspool Marco Siega's comedic drama "Chaos Theory," Clark Gregg's comedy "Choke," Denis Rabaglia's romantic drama "Marcello, Marcello" and Garth Jennings' "Son of Rambow," which was scheduled to screen in Locarno in 2007 but pulled because of a legal dispute.
The Piazza Grande selection continues the trend of accessible fare screening in Europe's largest outdoor cinema venue under third-year artistic director Frederic Maire, as opposed to the more weighty and cerebral productions that screened there in the past.
The 17-film international competition lineup, meanwhile, is made up entirely of world and international premieres.
The complete competition lineup follows:
Piazza Grande
"Back Soon," Solveig Anspach, Iceland/France
"Berlin Calling," Hannes Stoehr, Germany
"Brideshead Revisited," Julian Jarrold, U.K.
"Chaos Theory," Marcos Siega, U.S.
"Choke," Clark Gregg, U.S.
"In 3 Tagen Bist Du Tot 2," Andreas Prochaska, Austria
"Khamsa," Karim Dridi, France
"La Fille De Monaco," Anne Fontaine, France
"Lesson 21," Alessandro Baricco, Italy/U.K.
"Marcello Marcello," Denis Rabaglia, Switzerland/Germany
"Retouches," Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland/Canada
"Night and the City," Jules Dassin, U.K.
"Nordwand," Philipp Stolzl, Germany/Austria/Switzerland
"Outlander," Howard McCain, U.S.
"Palombella Rossa," Nanni Moretti, Italy/France
"Plus Tard Tu Comprendras," Amos Gitai, France/ Germany
"Son of Rambow," Garth Jennings, U.K. /France
"The Eternity Man," Julien Temple, Australia/U.K.
"I Know," Jan Cvitkovic, Slovenia/Hungary
International competition
"33 Scenes From Life," Malgorzata Szumowska, Germany/Poland
"Daytime Drinking," Noh Young-seok, South Korea
"Dioses," Josue Mendez, Peru/Argentine/Germany /France
"Elle Veut Le Chaos," Denis Cote, Canada
"Katia's Sister," Mijke de Jong, Netherlands
"Kisses," Lance Daly, Ireland/Sweden
"Feast of Villains," Pan Jian Lin, Chine
"Mar Nero," Federico Bondi, Italy/Romania/France
"March," Klaus Handl, Austria
"Nulle Part Terre Promise," Emmanuel Finkiel, France
"Parque Via," Enrique Rivero, Mexico
"Sleep Furiously," Gideon Koppel, U.K.
"Autumn," Ozcan Alper, Turkey/Germany
"The Market -- A Tale of Trade," Ben Hopkins, Germany/U.K./Turkey/Kazakhstan
"Um Amor de Perdicao," Mario Barroso, Portugal/Brazil
"Un Autre Homme," Lionel Baier, Switzerland
"Yuri's Day," Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia/Germany...
- 7/16/2008
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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