Anne Fontaine’s Maurice Ravel biopic Boléro has sold to key territories for Snd following the film’s world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam. Snd is now screening the film to buyers at the EFM.
Boléro has been snapped up by X-Verleih for Germany, Movies Inspired in Italy, O’Brother for Benelux, Gaga in Japan, Sphere in Canada, Cinemundo in Portugal, Njuta for Scandinavia, Agora for Switzerland, Beta in Bulgaria, Discovery in the Balkans, Cirko in Hungary, Aj Jet in Taiwan, Arna Media for Cis and Skeye for Airlines.
Raphael Personnaz stars as the famed composer as he prepares...
Boléro has been snapped up by X-Verleih for Germany, Movies Inspired in Italy, O’Brother for Benelux, Gaga in Japan, Sphere in Canada, Cinemundo in Portugal, Njuta for Scandinavia, Agora for Switzerland, Beta in Bulgaria, Discovery in the Balkans, Cirko in Hungary, Aj Jet in Taiwan, Arna Media for Cis and Skeye for Airlines.
Raphael Personnaz stars as the famed composer as he prepares...
- 2/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
Please don’t stop the music: Anne Fontaine isn’t done with it just yet.
Following “Boléro” — world premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam — the noted director is developing another melodic project.
“It’s about a character who was a star at 10 years old. He had a ‘magic’ voice, but then he suddenly lost it. Years later, he is ready to come back. It’s a comedy, based on something real,” she says. Admitting that this time, she will swap classical compositions for popular tunes.
“I like songs: they are in our blood. We hear them and remember we lost a lover when they were playing. They mark our lives. There will be so much music [in this film]. And all these amazing voices, including a real-life singer making her film debut.”
New project will combine “cruelty and humor.”
“Our destiny might be cruel, but we are still able to laugh about it.
Following “Boléro” — world premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam — the noted director is developing another melodic project.
“It’s about a character who was a star at 10 years old. He had a ‘magic’ voice, but then he suddenly lost it. Years later, he is ready to come back. It’s a comedy, based on something real,” she says. Admitting that this time, she will swap classical compositions for popular tunes.
“I like songs: they are in our blood. We hear them and remember we lost a lover when they were playing. They mark our lives. There will be so much music [in this film]. And all these amazing voices, including a real-life singer making her film debut.”
New project will combine “cruelty and humor.”
“Our destiny might be cruel, but we are still able to laugh about it.
- 1/29/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Len Lye's deliriously jazzy 1930s animation for the Post Office Savings Bank shows public information films needn't be dull
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The colours might look late-60s-psychedelic; some of the interaction between graphics and the human figure (at approx 1.40, for example) seems comparable with the experiments made by contemporary digital artists such as Klaus Obermaier. But this short animation, Rainbow Dance, was actually created back in 1936 as an advert for the Post Office Savings Bank. Between 1933 and 1940 the Gpo (now the Royal Mail) ran a film unit which produced dozens of short public-information films. The most famous was Night Mail with music by Benjamin Britten and words by Wh Auden, but while that was a classic black-and-white vision of Britain, avant-garde mainly in its combination of music and poetry, Len Lye's Rainbow Dance was one of several extravagantly experimental animations on which...
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The colours might look late-60s-psychedelic; some of the interaction between graphics and the human figure (at approx 1.40, for example) seems comparable with the experiments made by contemporary digital artists such as Klaus Obermaier. But this short animation, Rainbow Dance, was actually created back in 1936 as an advert for the Post Office Savings Bank. Between 1933 and 1940 the Gpo (now the Royal Mail) ran a film unit which produced dozens of short public-information films. The most famous was Night Mail with music by Benjamin Britten and words by Wh Auden, but while that was a classic black-and-white vision of Britain, avant-garde mainly in its combination of music and poetry, Len Lye's Rainbow Dance was one of several extravagantly experimental animations on which...
- 11/30/2012
- by Judith Mackrell
- The Guardian - Film News
Huppert/Radio France Choir/Gatti/Orchestre National de France
(Radio France)
Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – a "mystery" by Gabriele d'Annunzio for which Debussy wrote the incidental music – caused ructions in its day (1911), thanks to the fact that the text drew parallels between Christianity and the classical cult of Adonis. Nowadays, we're more likely to ponder why two such publicly heterosexual men collaborated on so deeply homoerotic a work. That the title role was written to be performed in drag by d'Annunzio's then mistress, Ida Rubinstein, only adds to the piece's complex sexual implications. The "orchestral fragments" Debussy assembled after the premiere have become familiar in the concert hall. This Radio France production from 2009 gives us the complete score, together with a drastic abridgement of the play. Sébastien is played by Isabelle Huppert, sounding androgynous and admirably restrained. The closely recorded soloists are nothing special, but the choral singing is exquisite,...
(Radio France)
Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – a "mystery" by Gabriele d'Annunzio for which Debussy wrote the incidental music – caused ructions in its day (1911), thanks to the fact that the text drew parallels between Christianity and the classical cult of Adonis. Nowadays, we're more likely to ponder why two such publicly heterosexual men collaborated on so deeply homoerotic a work. That the title role was written to be performed in drag by d'Annunzio's then mistress, Ida Rubinstein, only adds to the piece's complex sexual implications. The "orchestral fragments" Debussy assembled after the premiere have become familiar in the concert hall. This Radio France production from 2009 gives us the complete score, together with a drastic abridgement of the play. Sébastien is played by Isabelle Huppert, sounding androgynous and admirably restrained. The closely recorded soloists are nothing special, but the choral singing is exquisite,...
- 5/10/2012
- by Tim Ashley
- The Guardian - Film News
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