“Stalk,” Simon Bouisson’s timely French show tackling cyber spying and bullying, has lured a flurry of top TV channels across the world.
Produced by Priscilla Bertin and Judith Nora at Silex Films, the half-hour psychological thriller series was a big hit on France Televisions’s platform Slash and later aired on the broadcaster’s linear channel France 2 in the slot following “Call My Agent! The second season, which won best half-hour series and best music (for Paul Sabin) at La Rochelle TV Festival, recently premiered.
FranceTV Distribution, the commercial arm of the broadcaster, has sold the first two seasons to HB0 Latin America, Gsn in Russia and Shahid in the Middle East. South Korea’s Navel picked up season one, while the second season has been picked up by Wdr and Sony in Germany, Rai Play in Italy and Ici tou.tv in Canada.
Bouisson, who previously helmed the...
Produced by Priscilla Bertin and Judith Nora at Silex Films, the half-hour psychological thriller series was a big hit on France Televisions’s platform Slash and later aired on the broadcaster’s linear channel France 2 in the slot following “Call My Agent! The second season, which won best half-hour series and best music (for Paul Sabin) at La Rochelle TV Festival, recently premiered.
FranceTV Distribution, the commercial arm of the broadcaster, has sold the first two seasons to HB0 Latin America, Gsn in Russia and Shahid in the Middle East. South Korea’s Navel picked up season one, while the second season has been picked up by Wdr and Sony in Germany, Rai Play in Italy and Ici tou.tv in Canada.
Bouisson, who previously helmed the...
- 11/30/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
There’s something off about Mama Weed. On a more superfluous level, there’s the translation from La daronne—the original French title and the street name its protagonist comes to earn, itself an informal term for “mother”—to the title and nickname used in its United States release. Textually, problems emerge from the myriad supporting characters, virtually all of whom play like narrative props. The script seems uninterested in its conflict; the filmmaking lacks the style to glue its pieces together. That shines a light on, and strands, our title character.
She’s Patience (Isabelle Huppert), an Arabic-fluent French translator working for the police’s narcotics unit. At first, she’s humble: a woman proficient in her professional life but underpaid, a widow and mother to two daughters (Iris Bry and Rebecca Marder). She’s behind on her rent and hopes to afford her own mother (Liliane Rovère) better...
She’s Patience (Isabelle Huppert), an Arabic-fluent French translator working for the police’s narcotics unit. At first, she’s humble: a woman proficient in her professional life but underpaid, a widow and mother to two daughters (Iris Bry and Rebecca Marder). She’s behind on her rent and hopes to afford her own mother (Liliane Rovère) better...
- 7/14/2021
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
Yasin Houicha and Oulaya Amamra lead the cast of the filmmaker’s first full-length work, a Unité production set to be distributed in France by Haut et Court. Having kicked off on 31 August, filming on Emma Benestan first feature Fragile wrapped in Sète yesterday, 13 October. Hailing from La Fémis’s Editing Department, the director previously drew attention with her numerous short films, in particular the fiction offering Goût bacon and the documentary Un monde sans bêtes. Distinguishing themselves at the head of the cast are Yasin Houicha and Oulaya Amamra (the winner of the Best New Hope César and the Best Newcomer Lumières award in 2017 for Divines, similarly well-received in The World is Yours, Farewell to the Night and The Salt...
- 10/14/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
"The party's over, Papicha." Peccadillo Pictures in the UK has debuted an official UK trailer for Papicha, an Algerian film which originally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section last year. Set in Algiers in 1997, following four women trying to navigate an oppressive life in Algeria just as the civil war is about to get worse and change everything forever. "Lifting the lid on the radical events of the Algerian Civil War, Mounia Meddour's Papicha follows the trials and tribulations of a group of determined young women as they come face to face with a new, dangerous reality." Starring Lyna Khoudri as Papicha, with Shirine Boutella, Nadia Kaci, Amira Hilda Douaouda, Zahra Doumandji, Yasin Houicha, Khalissa Houicha, and Meryem Medjkane. This looks like an excellent and brutally honest look at life in Algeria in the 90s and how it was all about to change...
- 7/17/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Terrific lead characterizations and edgy camerawork hold their own against a problematic script in Mounia Meddour’s feature debut “Papicha.” This is a film designed to be championed by everyone wanting to support a woman’s right to self-expression: It’s got a female director (not a novelty in the Maghreb), depicts powerful young women refusing to bow down to fundamentalism, and is bursting with energy and likable figures. Yet the screenplay’s seams show so glaringly, and the finish is so tonally mismatched, that notwithstanding audience identification and the inevitable “loosely inspired by real events” tagline, “Papicha” feels conspicuously manipulative. That shouldn’t stall further fest play and Francophone distribution following the film’s Cannes premiere, though sales farther afield may prove more of a challenge.
The setting is Algiers in the 1990s, when the nation was roiled in a bloody civil war that pitted the less-than-democratic government against an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency.
The setting is Algiers in the 1990s, when the nation was roiled in a bloody civil war that pitted the less-than-democratic government against an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency.
- 5/18/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Silex, the up-and-coming Parisian production banner, is producing “Stalk,” a high-concept, contemporary series skewing millennials for France.tv, the streaming service of French broadcasting group France Televisions. The series was co-created, co-writen and will be directed by Simon Bouisson, who previously helmed the critically acclaimed web series “Wei or Die.”
Written by Bouisson and Jean-Charles Paugam, “Stalk” follows the rise and fall of Lux, an 18 year-old hacker who got hazed and humiliated by the coolest students during his first days at a prestigious engineering school and sets off to take his revenge. His plan consists in cyber-stalking them, hacking their phones and computers to discover their secrets and integrate their clan to ultimately manipulate them.
Priscilla Bertin and Judith Nora, who are producing at Silex Films, described “Stalk” as a psychological drama featuring an ultra-smart protagonist similar to Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network.”
“‘Stalk’ compelled us because it tackles our...
Written by Bouisson and Jean-Charles Paugam, “Stalk” follows the rise and fall of Lux, an 18 year-old hacker who got hazed and humiliated by the coolest students during his first days at a prestigious engineering school and sets off to take his revenge. His plan consists in cyber-stalking them, hacking their phones and computers to discover their secrets and integrate their clan to ultimately manipulate them.
Priscilla Bertin and Judith Nora, who are producing at Silex Films, described “Stalk” as a psychological drama featuring an ultra-smart protagonist similar to Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network.”
“‘Stalk’ compelled us because it tackles our...
- 3/27/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
"You have to dare to be rich." Netflix has debuted a trailer for a French film titled Divines, which won the Golden Camera (or Camera d'Or) at the Cannes Film Festival - the top prize for a first-time filmmaker. Uda Benyamina directs this coming-of-age film about a teen from the slum streets of Paris who meets a dancer that changes her life. Oulaya Amamra stars as Dounia, the girl at the center of the story, with Déborah Lukumuena, Kevin Mischel, Jisca Kalvanda, Yasin Houicha, Majdouline Idrissi & Bass Dhem. I always admire French coming-of-age films because they have contain a unique perspective on growing up that's different than what I'm used to, and there's always something to pick up. This looks like a great film. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Houda Benyamina's Divines, direct from Netflix's YouTube: The funny, suspenseful and often emotional drama tells the story of Dounia,...
- 10/5/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Houda Benyamina made an auspicious debut at the Cannes Film Festival this year, winning the Camera d’Or (read: best first film) for “Divines.” That was enough to attract the attention of Netflix, who will make the film available to stream next month. Watch its first trailer below.
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While you’re here, avail yourself of the film’s official synopsis as well: “The funny, suspenseful and often emotional drama tells the story of Dounia, a tough, but naive teenager who sees getting rich or dying trying as her most viable option in life. Set in a ghetto near Paris where drugs and religion reign supreme, Dounia is hungry for her share of power and success. Enlisting the help of her best friend she decides to follow the footsteps of a respected and successful neighborhood dealer.
Read More: Netflix’s Big Narrative Play: Why the Company Is Loading Up on Small Movies This Fall
While you’re here, avail yourself of the film’s official synopsis as well: “The funny, suspenseful and often emotional drama tells the story of Dounia, a tough, but naive teenager who sees getting rich or dying trying as her most viable option in life. Set in a ghetto near Paris where drugs and religion reign supreme, Dounia is hungry for her share of power and success. Enlisting the help of her best friend she decides to follow the footsteps of a respected and successful neighborhood dealer.
- 10/5/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Netflix, in case it wasn’t already clear, wants to have something for everybody. So, if you dig Kevin James, they’ve got you covered. If you like prestige TV, they’re one of the leaders in the game. And if foreign cinema is more to your taste, next month the streaming service is delivering one of the more buzzworthy titles of this year’s Cannes Film Festival with “Divines.”
Winner of the Caméra d’Or, the film from Houda Benyamina stars Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kévin Mischel, Jisca Kalvanda, Yasin Houicha, and Majdouline Idrissi, and tells the story of Dounia, who wants to rise out of the Paris ghetto where she lives, but of course, best laid plans never quite turn out the way you expect.
Continue reading Teenagers Strive For Power & Success In New Trailer For Cannes Winner ‘Divines’ at The Playlist.
Winner of the Caméra d’Or, the film from Houda Benyamina stars Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kévin Mischel, Jisca Kalvanda, Yasin Houicha, and Majdouline Idrissi, and tells the story of Dounia, who wants to rise out of the Paris ghetto where she lives, but of course, best laid plans never quite turn out the way you expect.
Continue reading Teenagers Strive For Power & Success In New Trailer For Cannes Winner ‘Divines’ at The Playlist.
- 10/5/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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