Martin Scorsese will reunite with Andrew Garfield for his next feature, The Life Of Jesus: more on the new project here.
Martin Scorsese had promised to get back out making movies quickly once he was done with his promotional and awards work on Killers Of The Flower Moon, and he’s set to be keeping his word. As had been strongly suggested, he’s going to be making a film about Jesus Christ next, that appears to be going by the title The Life Of Jesus.
The film will reteam Martin Scorsese with Andrew Garfield, with whom he made the movie Silence. The plan, as previously discussed, is for this to be a much slimmer film in terms of runtime that Scorsese’s last couple of outings. A running time of less than 90 minutes has been talked about.
We also know that the plan is for the film to...
Martin Scorsese had promised to get back out making movies quickly once he was done with his promotional and awards work on Killers Of The Flower Moon, and he’s set to be keeping his word. As had been strongly suggested, he’s going to be making a film about Jesus Christ next, that appears to be going by the title The Life Of Jesus.
The film will reteam Martin Scorsese with Andrew Garfield, with whom he made the movie Silence. The plan, as previously discussed, is for this to be a much slimmer film in terms of runtime that Scorsese’s last couple of outings. A running time of less than 90 minutes has been talked about.
We also know that the plan is for the film to...
- 7/22/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Out of the many movies you could imagine emerging from the mind of French auteur Bruno Dumont, a Star Wars parody was probably somewhere at the bottom of the list.
And yet it’s been some time since the Cannes Grand Jury Prize laureate, who broke out in the late 90s with viscerally stylized, hard-hitting works of Gallic realism like The Life of Jesus and Humanity, has strayed far from his gritty roots towards a brand of accentuated arthouse satire.
His latest effort, the sci-fi farce The Empire (L’Empire), definitely fits the latter mold, although it’s loaded with enough VFX, light saber battles, spacecrafts and prophecies to give George Lucas a run for his money. That is, if Lucas decided to set the next Star Wars in a sleepy northern French city, used a local mechanic to play one of the leads and tossed in a few flagrant sex scenes,...
And yet it’s been some time since the Cannes Grand Jury Prize laureate, who broke out in the late 90s with viscerally stylized, hard-hitting works of Gallic realism like The Life of Jesus and Humanity, has strayed far from his gritty roots towards a brand of accentuated arthouse satire.
His latest effort, the sci-fi farce The Empire (L’Empire), definitely fits the latter mold, although it’s loaded with enough VFX, light saber battles, spacecrafts and prophecies to give George Lucas a run for his money. That is, if Lucas decided to set the next Star Wars in a sleepy northern French city, used a local mechanic to play one of the leads and tossed in a few flagrant sex scenes,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hengameh Panahi, the French-Iranian producer and sales agent who founded Celluloid Dreams and was a pivotal figure in bringing works from such auteurs as Jacques Audiard, Jafar Panahi (no relation), François Ozon, Marjane Satrapi and Todd Haynes to the world, has died. She was 67.
Viviana Andriani, a press attaché who had worked with Panahi for many years, confirmed Thursday that Panahi died on November 5 after battling a long illness.
Celluloid Dreams, which Panahi launched in 1985, was a groundbreaking sales and production company that helped build the global market for international arthouse films. Over the course of three decades, Paris-based Celluloid helped package and sell more than 800 films, including the first works from François Ozon (See The Sea), Gaspar Noé (I Stand Alone), Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus), among many others.
Alongside many European talents, Panahi, who was born in Iran but moved to Europe aged...
Viviana Andriani, a press attaché who had worked with Panahi for many years, confirmed Thursday that Panahi died on November 5 after battling a long illness.
Celluloid Dreams, which Panahi launched in 1985, was a groundbreaking sales and production company that helped build the global market for international arthouse films. Over the course of three decades, Paris-based Celluloid helped package and sell more than 800 films, including the first works from François Ozon (See The Sea), Gaspar Noé (I Stand Alone), Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus), among many others.
Alongside many European talents, Panahi, who was born in Iran but moved to Europe aged...
- 11/9/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Groundbreaking French-Iranian sales agent and producer Hengameh Panahi, who represented a myriad of renowned Cannes and Venice prize-winning auteur directors, has died at the age of 67.
Paris-based press attaché Viviana Andriani, who handled press campaigns for a number of Panahi’s films, announced the news in a short communiqué.
She said Panahi had died on November 5 after bravely battling a long illness.
Panahi was a force to be reckoned with on the international film industry circuit, who launched dozens of renowned arthouse directors at the beginning of their careers and accompanied them as they won awards and fame.
Born in Iran, Panahi was sent to Belgium to complete her education as teenager.
She got her first big break in the film industry as head of international at Brussels-based animation studio Graphoui.
In an early sign of her flare for scouting promising talent, Panahi connected with John Lasseter and Tim Burton...
Paris-based press attaché Viviana Andriani, who handled press campaigns for a number of Panahi’s films, announced the news in a short communiqué.
She said Panahi had died on November 5 after bravely battling a long illness.
Panahi was a force to be reckoned with on the international film industry circuit, who launched dozens of renowned arthouse directors at the beginning of their careers and accompanied them as they won awards and fame.
Born in Iran, Panahi was sent to Belgium to complete her education as teenager.
She got her first big break in the film industry as head of international at Brussels-based animation studio Graphoui.
In an early sign of her flare for scouting promising talent, Panahi connected with John Lasseter and Tim Burton...
- 11/9/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Even in the grittier, more dourly ascetic, first films that he made in the 90s, Bruno Dumont has always wrestled with Big Picture questions about human nature, spirituality, and the conditions of reality within the context of French history and nationhood. In La vie de Jésus (1997), Dumont’s debut, an unemployed and mentally-ill teenager is a Christ figure whose corruption assumes sexual and violent extremes, and over a decade later, in 2009’s Hadewijch, a freakishly devout young Catholic woman, an avatar for the eponymous 13th century mystic and poet, becomes involved with Islamic fundamentalists. These mystical aggrandizements of the French working class, the everyday bourgeoisie, and the immigrant communities that to this day remain a point of political contention in France, go hand in hand with Dumont’s later portraits of martyrous historical figures who loom large in the French imaginary—think Camille Claudel and Joan of Arc (Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc...
- 12/13/2021
- MUBI
A Cannes Film Festival staple, Bruno Dumont returns to the competition for a fourth time with a media satire that was clearly for acquired tastes. Slack Bay (Ma Loute) was his last time in comp, and excluding his mini-series P’tit Quinquin which shored up at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2014, he is best known for Camera d’Or winning La vie de Jésus (Directors’ Fortnight) 1999’s L’humanité (Grand Prix and a double Best Performance prize for his non-professional actors) and 2006’s Flandres.
Another film that is yay or nay on our panel, we’ve found high scores of 4 from several critics and complete dismal from the rest.…...
Another film that is yay or nay on our panel, we’ve found high scores of 4 from several critics and complete dismal from the rest.…...
- 7/16/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Lise Leplat Prudhomme as Joan of Arc. Bruno Dumont: 'It may seem anachronistic to choose a young girl but it makes the audience confront their own preconceptions and to go deeper' Photo: Unifrance As a director and as a person Bruno Dumont - whose film Joan Of Arc reaches UK streaming services this week - has lightened up considerably since the austere days of Humanity and Flanders, which both scooped the Cannes Film Festival’s grand prix awards in 1999 and 2006 respectively. Although he has been invited more than eight times to take part in the Festival’s various sections frequently he receives a rough ride from the critics and the public while his admirers will defend him to the hilt.
He directed his first feature film at the age of 38: The Life Of Jesus (1996), which was shot in his home town of Bailleul, near Lille. It was much acclaimed in the Director's Fortnight,...
He directed his first feature film at the age of 38: The Life Of Jesus (1996), which was shot in his home town of Bailleul, near Lille. It was much acclaimed in the Director's Fortnight,...
- 6/16/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
On a Half Clear Morning
No doubt about it — Bruno Dumont’s been busier than ever. While 2019 saw the restoration of his 1997 debut The Life of Jesus and his 1999 follow-up Humanite with their inclusion in the Criterion Collection, we also saw the theatrical release of his Coincoin and the Extra Humans stateside, while his second installment in his Joan of Arc reiteration, Joan of Arc, took home a prize following its premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. Two decades prior, Dumont would average a new project once every two to three years, but he’s been more prolific than ever, already filming his latest, On a Half Clear Morning (Par ce demi-clair matin) starring Léa Seydoux, Benoit Magimel, Blanche Gardin, and produced by Rachid Bouchareb and Jean Brehat while David Chambille is lensing.…...
No doubt about it — Bruno Dumont’s been busier than ever. While 2019 saw the restoration of his 1997 debut The Life of Jesus and his 1999 follow-up Humanite with their inclusion in the Criterion Collection, we also saw the theatrical release of his Coincoin and the Extra Humans stateside, while his second installment in his Joan of Arc reiteration, Joan of Arc, took home a prize following its premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. Two decades prior, Dumont would average a new project once every two to three years, but he’s been more prolific than ever, already filming his latest, On a Half Clear Morning (Par ce demi-clair matin) starring Léa Seydoux, Benoit Magimel, Blanche Gardin, and produced by Rachid Bouchareb and Jean Brehat while David Chambille is lensing.…...
- 1/3/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
E.T. Clone Home: Dumont Gets Delirious in Sci-Fi Themed Series Sequel
Ever the nonconformist, French auteur Bruno Dumont seems to be in the midst of an exceptional renaissance. Just as his first two films (1997’s The Life of Jesus and 1999’s Humanite), have been re-released and restored courtesy of Criterion Collection this year, Dumont returned to Cannes in Un Certain Regard with his musical-themed continuation of French icon Joan of Arc while his 2018 Locarno premed Coincoin and the Extra-Humans reaches a theatrical release. However, the juxtaposition between his early and current works is pronounced considering Dumont made a name for himself in austerity, working with non-professionals mired in gloomy narratives which felt more like documentaries.…...
Ever the nonconformist, French auteur Bruno Dumont seems to be in the midst of an exceptional renaissance. Just as his first two films (1997’s The Life of Jesus and 1999’s Humanite), have been re-released and restored courtesy of Criterion Collection this year, Dumont returned to Cannes in Un Certain Regard with his musical-themed continuation of French icon Joan of Arc while his 2018 Locarno premed Coincoin and the Extra-Humans reaches a theatrical release. However, the juxtaposition between his early and current works is pronounced considering Dumont made a name for himself in austerity, working with non-professionals mired in gloomy narratives which felt more like documentaries.…...
- 8/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
French director Bruno Dumont is set to receive the Locarno Festival's lifetime achievement award, the Pardo d'onore Manor. He will accept the prize at the famed outdoor Swiss cinema, the Piazza Grande, on Aug. 4 with the world premiere of his new miniseries Coincoin et les z'inhumains, a comedic police caper about an extraterrestrial discovery.
Dumont was born in Bailleul in the French part of Flanders. His two-decades-long career has produced numerous controversial and thought-provoking films that explore the existence of evil or mystery in everyday life.
His first film, The Life of Jesus (1997), earned him ...
Dumont was born in Bailleul in the French part of Flanders. His two-decades-long career has produced numerous controversial and thought-provoking films that explore the existence of evil or mystery in everyday life.
His first film, The Life of Jesus (1997), earned him ...
French director Bruno Dumont is set to receive the Locarno Festival's lifetime achievement award, the Pardo d'onore Manor. He will accept the prize at the famed outdoor Swiss cinema, the Piazza Grande, on Aug. 4 with the world premiere of his new miniseries Coincoin et les z'inhumains, a comedic police caper about an extraterrestrial discovery.
Dumont was born in Bailleul in the French part of Flanders. His two-decades-long career has produced numerous controversial and thought-provoking films that explore the existence of evil or mystery in everyday life.
His first film, The Life of Jesus (1997), earned him ...
Dumont was born in Bailleul in the French part of Flanders. His two-decades-long career has produced numerous controversial and thought-provoking films that explore the existence of evil or mystery in everyday life.
His first film, The Life of Jesus (1997), earned him ...
If you thought the sudden move of French director Burno Dumont from austere drama to increasingly wacky comedy in the TV miniseries P'tit Quinquin and last year’s farce Slack Bay was a shock, prepare yourself for Jeannette, an electro-musical dance film on the adolescent life of Joan of Arc. Opening with little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) humming prayers to herself along the river Meuse (in fact, Dumont re-locates the story to his beloved northern France), suddenly the music swells, she belts one out—”there is nothing, there is never anything, but perdition!”—and ends it all with a handspring and splits. “Why do you do that?” asks a passing child, but the answer is obvious: lonesome, poor, in love with charity and full of doubts, Jeannette bounds with childhood’s pent up energy and calls forth her questions, protests and passion in bodily, soulful fervor. With this beginning, Dumont...
- 9/13/2017
- MUBI
Maverick French director Bruno Dumont returns after Slack Bay with this baffling, deliberately disconcerting musical that won’t have your toes tapping
One of the Cannes film festival’s favourite aging enfant terribles, especially since Lars Von Trier seems to be still banned for life, Bruno Dumont returns to the Croisette this year with his latest assiette de wackitude, Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc. Hopefully, distributors outside of France will see sense and drop the formality of the subtitle and just rename this Jeanette! – because it is, of all things, a musical about young Jeanne d’Arc and everyone knows musicals are better with exclamation points.
Having dipped a toe into more commercial waters with his last two outing – miniseries Li’l Quinquin and the star-led feature Slack Bay, both black but broad comedies – Dumont returns to more familiar sombre, avant-garde territory with this adaptation of a play...
One of the Cannes film festival’s favourite aging enfant terribles, especially since Lars Von Trier seems to be still banned for life, Bruno Dumont returns to the Croisette this year with his latest assiette de wackitude, Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc. Hopefully, distributors outside of France will see sense and drop the formality of the subtitle and just rename this Jeanette! – because it is, of all things, a musical about young Jeanne d’Arc and everyone knows musicals are better with exclamation points.
Having dipped a toe into more commercial waters with his last two outing – miniseries Li’l Quinquin and the star-led feature Slack Bay, both black but broad comedies – Dumont returns to more familiar sombre, avant-garde territory with this adaptation of a play...
- 5/21/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Love them or hate them, the films of Bruno Dumont never cease to confound.
For a long time the 59-year-old auteur was known for his uncompromising – and uncompromisingly bleak – early works like The Life of Jesus and Humanité, which featured amateur actors and were set in the darkest corners of northern France.
Then the director switched gears about five years ago with the Juliette Binoche-starrer Camille Claudel 1915, following that up with the surprisingly hilarious TV mini-series, Lil’ Quinquin. After another stab at comedy with Slack Bay, which played in competition last year, Dumont is back at the...
For a long time the 59-year-old auteur was known for his uncompromising – and uncompromisingly bleak – early works like The Life of Jesus and Humanité, which featured amateur actors and were set in the darkest corners of northern France.
Then the director switched gears about five years ago with the Juliette Binoche-starrer Camille Claudel 1915, following that up with the surprisingly hilarious TV mini-series, Lil’ Quinquin. After another stab at comedy with Slack Bay, which played in competition last year, Dumont is back at the...
- 5/21/2017
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Hiam Abbass leads Berlin Panorama winner.
New York distributor Film Movement has acquired Us rights to Belgian director Philippe Van Leeuw’s Berlin Panorama Audience Award-winner In Syria.
Films Boutique represents international rights to the film formerly known as Insyriated and screens it in Cannes tomorrow (May 18) and on Monday (May 22).
Israeli-Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass plays a mother of three who turns her home into a safe house for family and neighbours as Syria’s civil war rages outside.
As bombs fall in the street, snipers turn nearby courtyards into death traps and burglars loot hard-won belongings, maintaining a routine indoors becomes a matter of life and death over the course of one day.
The cast includes Diamand Bou Abboud and Juliette Navis.
Film Movement celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and president Michael E. Rosenberg is in Cannes to scout for acquisitions. The company plans a theatrical release this winter.
“In Syria is a powerful...
New York distributor Film Movement has acquired Us rights to Belgian director Philippe Van Leeuw’s Berlin Panorama Audience Award-winner In Syria.
Films Boutique represents international rights to the film formerly known as Insyriated and screens it in Cannes tomorrow (May 18) and on Monday (May 22).
Israeli-Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass plays a mother of three who turns her home into a safe house for family and neighbours as Syria’s civil war rages outside.
As bombs fall in the street, snipers turn nearby courtyards into death traps and burglars loot hard-won belongings, maintaining a routine indoors becomes a matter of life and death over the course of one day.
The cast includes Diamand Bou Abboud and Juliette Navis.
Film Movement celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and president Michael E. Rosenberg is in Cannes to scout for acquisitions. The company plans a theatrical release this winter.
“In Syria is a powerful...
- 5/17/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Ma Loute
Director: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont
After making his first foray into television with 2014’s wonderfully strange Li’l Quinquin (read review), Bruno Dumont returns to another dark comedy vehicle with Ma Loute (Slack Bay), a period piece set in the summer of 1910. The disappearance of tourists lead two inspectors to explore a seaside resort in Pas de Calais, where two very different families have managed to become wrapped up in these strange circumstances. Dumont reunites with Juliette Binoche, who last starred in his 2013 Camille Claudel, 1915, and she’s joined notably by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Fabrice Luchini (who won Best Actor in Venice 2015 for L’hermine).
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Luc Vincent
Production Co./Producer: 3B Productions’ Jean Bréhat (Li’l Quinquin).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Memento Films (international).
Release Date: Dumont has appeared at Cannes five times, winning a special mention for...
Director: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont
After making his first foray into television with 2014’s wonderfully strange Li’l Quinquin (read review), Bruno Dumont returns to another dark comedy vehicle with Ma Loute (Slack Bay), a period piece set in the summer of 1910. The disappearance of tourists lead two inspectors to explore a seaside resort in Pas de Calais, where two very different families have managed to become wrapped up in these strange circumstances. Dumont reunites with Juliette Binoche, who last starred in his 2013 Camille Claudel, 1915, and she’s joined notably by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Fabrice Luchini (who won Best Actor in Venice 2015 for L’hermine).
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Luc Vincent
Production Co./Producer: 3B Productions’ Jean Bréhat (Li’l Quinquin).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Memento Films (international).
Release Date: Dumont has appeared at Cannes five times, winning a special mention for...
- 1/13/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Bruno Dumont is famed for making relentlessly grim films that show the savage side of humanity. So why has he shot a knockabout comedy about a buffoonish cop? The French director explains how P’tit Quinquin came about – and why he has no regrets about casting a gardener who refused to learn his lines
I’m a little apprehensive about telling Bruno Dumont how funny I found his new film P’tit Quinquin. I half-expect him to bristle like Joe Pesci in GoodFellas: “Funny how? You think I’m here to amuse you?” After all, the French writer-director is legendary for the severity of his films and of his own sometimes taciturn manner. His work – from his 1997 debut La Vie de Jésus to the harrowing artist biopic Camille Claudel 1915 – characteristically portrays the bleaker corners of the human condition in a filmic language that can be dauntingly austere. The...
I’m a little apprehensive about telling Bruno Dumont how funny I found his new film P’tit Quinquin. I half-expect him to bristle like Joe Pesci in GoodFellas: “Funny how? You think I’m here to amuse you?” After all, the French writer-director is legendary for the severity of his films and of his own sometimes taciturn manner. His work – from his 1997 debut La Vie de Jésus to the harrowing artist biopic Camille Claudel 1915 – characteristically portrays the bleaker corners of the human condition in a filmic language that can be dauntingly austere. The...
- 7/8/2015
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Life of Quinquin: Dumont’s Foray into Miniseries Format Filled with His Brand of Peculiar Humor
Provocative auteur Bruno Dumont lets loose his comedic side with a four part miniseries, Li’l Quinquin, shown as one long piece at the Cannes Film Festival. While it apparently will be released in English speaking territories in the same fashion, its purposeful structure does make it seem better served to be viewed in more than one sitting, where its bizarre weirdness has a better chance of really sinking in. But one has to remember that we’re talking about Dumont here, the director who grapples with existential ennui usually through the lens of religious discord or the bleak isolation of rural settings. So the project is indeed the most comedic offering of the director’s oeuvre, following last year’s captivating look at sculptor Camille Claudel starring Juliette Binoche. Yet it’s not...
Provocative auteur Bruno Dumont lets loose his comedic side with a four part miniseries, Li’l Quinquin, shown as one long piece at the Cannes Film Festival. While it apparently will be released in English speaking territories in the same fashion, its purposeful structure does make it seem better served to be viewed in more than one sitting, where its bizarre weirdness has a better chance of really sinking in. But one has to remember that we’re talking about Dumont here, the director who grapples with existential ennui usually through the lens of religious discord or the bleak isolation of rural settings. So the project is indeed the most comedic offering of the director’s oeuvre, following last year’s captivating look at sculptor Camille Claudel starring Juliette Binoche. Yet it’s not...
- 1/1/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The following exchange took place between critics Michael Pattison and Neil Young over email between 4 and 8 August, not long after Li’l Quinquin screened at Wrocław’s New Horizons International Film Festival—following its world-premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and now playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).
Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin
Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...
Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).
Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin
Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...
- 9/10/2014
- by Neil Young
- MUBI
Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine des Realisateurs (a.k.a Directors’ Fortnight) has in the past couple of years, counted on a healthy supply of French, Spanish and Belgium produced film items, and has been geared towards the offbeat genre items as with last year’s edition curated by Edouard Waintrop and co. To be unveiled on the 22nd, as we attempted with our Critics’ Week predix, Blake Williams, Nicholas Bell and I (Eric Lavallee) are thinking out loud and hedging our bets on what the section might look like or what the programmers might be looking at for 2014. Here is our predictions overview:
Alleluia
Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.
Alleluia
Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.
- 4/16/2014
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
Kino Lorber has picked up all Us rights to Bruno Dumont’s Camille Claudel 1915 starring Juliette Binoche.
Nationwide release will kick off on October 16 with an exclusive engagement at New York’s Film Forum.
Binoche portrays Auguste Rodin’s protégé and later his mistress, who is also the sister of the Christian and mystic poet Paul Claudel and in later years is confined to a mental institution.
Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber released Dumont’s first two films in the Us – The Life Of Jesus and Humanité.
Lorber negotiated the deal for Camille Claudel 1915 with Wild Bunch head of international sales Carole Baraton.
Nationwide release will kick off on October 16 with an exclusive engagement at New York’s Film Forum.
Binoche portrays Auguste Rodin’s protégé and later his mistress, who is also the sister of the Christian and mystic poet Paul Claudel and in later years is confined to a mental institution.
Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber released Dumont’s first two films in the Us – The Life Of Jesus and Humanité.
Lorber negotiated the deal for Camille Claudel 1915 with Wild Bunch head of international sales Carole Baraton.
- 9/19/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Director Bruno Dumont ("The Life of Jesus," "Outside Satan") has made a name for himself with challenging, sometimes controversial films that often feature non-professional actors and considered, not to say glacial, pacing interrupted with scenes of violence. But with "Camille Claudel 1915" he abandons some aspects of that approach while ever more fully indulging others. So for the first time he has a name star in Juliette Binoche, who turns in a reliably committed and remarkably naked performance as the titular Claudel, but here Dumont slows the pace of the action to almost nil, and punctuates it only with long talky tracts until the film becomes either a masterpiece of the "slow and boring" school of cinema, or an occasionally excruciating form of Chinese water torture, depending on your point of view. Unlike our Indiewire colleague Eric Kohn, whose almost beat-for-beat contrasting review you can read here, we unfortunately fall more into the.
- 2/16/2013
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Entering its second year, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look series provides a strong, welcome antidote to the generally anemic cinematic landscape that is January. Its eclectic selection of undistributed features and shorts, programmed by Dennis Lim, Rachael Rakes, and David Schwartz, occasions an invigorating mixture of moods and approaches from established as well as emerging directors. It’s indicative of the series’ dedication to distinctive, often divisive cinematic voices that Bruno Dumont’s decidedly non-crowd-pleasing Hors Satan was chosen as the opening night film nearly two years following its Cannes premiere.
Whereas earlier films like Twentynine Palms or Hadewijch pushed the French director’s worldview in new directions, Hors Satan sits solidly in Dumont’s comfort zone, down to the cryptically religious title that links it to his debut, The Life of Jesus. His protagonist is a drifter with a scruffy, narrow face like Pasolini’s proletarian Christ,...
Whereas earlier films like Twentynine Palms or Hadewijch pushed the French director’s worldview in new directions, Hors Satan sits solidly in Dumont’s comfort zone, down to the cryptically religious title that links it to his debut, The Life of Jesus. His protagonist is a drifter with a scruffy, narrow face like Pasolini’s proletarian Christ,...
- 1/11/2013
- by Fernando F. Croce
- MUBI
The Berlin International Film Festival (February 7-17) has added nine more titles to its competition lineup, including Jafar Panahi's latest, "Closed Curtain," Bruno Dumont's "Camille Claudel 1915," starring Juliette Binoche, Sundance entry "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman," starring Shia Labeouf, and Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller "Side Effects," starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum and Jude Law. Full list below. The Berlinale will also host the European premiere of Wong Kar-wai's hotly anticipated kung fu biopic "The Grandmaster." Check out the early review consensus on the film here. Nine competition titles added, listed alphabetically: Camille Claudel 1915 France By Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, Humanity, Flanders) With Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent World Premiere Elle s'en va (On my Way) France By Emmanuelle Bercot (Clément,...
- 1/11/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
The European Film Academy and Fipresci have announced the five nominations for this year’s Discovery Award / Prix Fipresci and making the cut we find Angelina Nikonova’s outstanding Twilight Portrait (Venice and Tiff in 2011 – pic above) which will measure itself against Mads Matthiesen’s Teddy Bear (Sundance 2012 – read review), Boudewijn Koole’s Kauwboy and Jan Speckenbach’s Reported Missing (2012′s Berlin Film Fest) and Rufus Norris’ Broken (Critics’ Week opener in Cannes this year – see our coverage). The 25th European Film Awards will take place in Malta on 1 December 2012. Since this specific award has existed, previous winners include some worthy winners in 1997′s Bruno Dumont (La vie de Jésus), 2003′s Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return), 2008′s Steve McQueen (Hunger), 2009′s Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga), 2010′s Samuel Maoz (Lebanon) and last year, 2011′s Hans Van Nuffel (Oxygen).
10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear)
Denmark, 92 min
Directed by: Mads Matthiesen
Written by: Mads Matthiesen...
10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear)
Denmark, 92 min
Directed by: Mads Matthiesen
Written by: Mads Matthiesen...
- 10/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Jacques Doillon’s most recent film—known in English, if it is known at all, as either The Three-Way Wedding or In the Four Winds—has never, to my knowledge, been shown in the States since its release in France in the spring of 2010. According to Jordan Montzer in Variety, Doillon’s “oeuvre reaches new heights of faux-kinky gobbledygook in [this] low-budget chamber piece.... With a pitch that could have provoked untold laughter in the hands of a Larry David, pic somberly reveals the ego-tripping, backstabbing and, well, butt-slapping that occurs when two thesps spend a day at the country home of a misanthropic playwright. What ensues is far from enjoyable, and adequate perfs won’t carry Doillon’s pretentious banter further than French ears.”
That last part may have proved to be right, but I’ve always loved the highly unusual and borderline grotesque poster for the film. I had...
That last part may have proved to be right, but I’ve always loved the highly unusual and borderline grotesque poster for the film. I had...
- 12/16/2011
- MUBI
Jacques Rancière, Philippe Lafosse and the public in conversation about Straub-Huillet after a screening of From the Clouds to the Resistance and Workers, Peasants
Monday, February 16, 2004, Jean Vigo Cinema, Nice, France
Above: From the Clouds to the Resistance.
Philippe Lafosse: It seemed interesting to us, after having seen twelve films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and talked about them together, to ask another viewer, a philosopher and cinephile, to talk to us about these filmmakers. Jacques Rancière is with us this evening to tackle a subject that we’ve entitled “Politics and Aesthetics in the Straubs’ Films,” knowing that we could then look into other points.
Jacques Ranciere: First, a word apropos the “and” of “Politics and Aesthetics”: this doesn’t mean that there’s art on the one hand and politics on the other, or that there would be a formal procedure on the one hand and political messages on the other.
Monday, February 16, 2004, Jean Vigo Cinema, Nice, France
Above: From the Clouds to the Resistance.
Philippe Lafosse: It seemed interesting to us, after having seen twelve films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and talked about them together, to ask another viewer, a philosopher and cinephile, to talk to us about these filmmakers. Jacques Rancière is with us this evening to tackle a subject that we’ve entitled “Politics and Aesthetics in the Straubs’ Films,” knowing that we could then look into other points.
Jacques Ranciere: First, a word apropos the “and” of “Politics and Aesthetics”: this doesn’t mean that there’s art on the one hand and politics on the other, or that there would be a formal procedure on the one hand and political messages on the other.
- 11/7/2011
- MUBI
Updated through 5/19.
"French director Bruno Dumont may not make religious films as such — perhaps it’s truer to say, theological ones." Jonathan Romney for Screen: "Certainly, he makes films in which the big questions are invoked, but in ways less explicitly religious than obliquely metaphysical. In his sixth feature Outside Satan (Hors Satan), he seems to present a very ambivalent Jesus figure. Yet, until he pulls his big dramatic twist at the end, Dumont's drama is grounded in everyday concrete reality. Lead actors who initially seem uncommunicative, even unappealing, prove idiosyncratically compelling in a film that sees Dumont stripping his style to the bones, with echoes of his 1997 debut The Life of Jesus."
Rob Nelson for Variety: "Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure, Dumont's minimalist study of an oddball poacher and the farm girl who keeps him company contains only a dozen 'dramatic' events, but they all register indelibly,...
"French director Bruno Dumont may not make religious films as such — perhaps it’s truer to say, theological ones." Jonathan Romney for Screen: "Certainly, he makes films in which the big questions are invoked, but in ways less explicitly religious than obliquely metaphysical. In his sixth feature Outside Satan (Hors Satan), he seems to present a very ambivalent Jesus figure. Yet, until he pulls his big dramatic twist at the end, Dumont's drama is grounded in everyday concrete reality. Lead actors who initially seem uncommunicative, even unappealing, prove idiosyncratically compelling in a film that sees Dumont stripping his style to the bones, with echoes of his 1997 debut The Life of Jesus."
Rob Nelson for Variety: "Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure, Dumont's minimalist study of an oddball poacher and the farm girl who keeps him company contains only a dozen 'dramatic' events, but they all register indelibly,...
- 5/19/2011
- MUBI
More peeks at Cannes Film Festival entries as the glorious cinephile wet dream-come-true nears its latest iteration. First up is a scene dug up by Quiet Earth from the next film by Bruno Dumont, "Hors Satan" (formerly titled "L'empire"), which follows a homeless religious man and the local farm girl who feeds him. Sounds precious, right? Not so fast--apparently this man murders and partakes in miracles! Typical Dumont territory. We covered it in our "18 Foreign Films of 2011" piece, mentioning our bated breath in regards to the finished product. While "The Life of Jesus" was great, everything since has…...
- 5/11/2011
- The Playlist
Durham, Nc - The hard truth of cinema takes place at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, Nc from April 14-17. That’s four solid days of movies that don’t feature Natalie Portman’s face being digitally inserted on other bodies. Four days of real people doing real stuff. And you can get some great BBQ.
This years line up has enough goodness to make me have to make painful choices as what to watch. There’s only one screening unless a movie wins a major prize. It’s be there or miss out. Choice wisely. Here’s a few of the films I’m looking to catch:
The Hangman (Thursday 10:20 a.m.) appears to be a creepy classic as it probes the man who executed Nazi Adolph Eichmann. What’s he do now? He ritually slaughters animals. Windfall (Thurs 4:20 p.m.) takes us to Meredith,...
This years line up has enough goodness to make me have to make painful choices as what to watch. There’s only one screening unless a movie wins a major prize. It’s be there or miss out. Choice wisely. Here’s a few of the films I’m looking to catch:
The Hangman (Thursday 10:20 a.m.) appears to be a creepy classic as it probes the man who executed Nazi Adolph Eichmann. What’s he do now? He ritually slaughters animals. Windfall (Thurs 4:20 p.m.) takes us to Meredith,...
- 4/5/2011
- by UncaScroogeMcD
If one contemplates the history of political cinema, it would appear that the greatest political films were made when a discursive framework – usually Marxist or liberal-democratic – was readily available. Rarely have political films not assumed ‘complete understanding’ of a political subject and this understanding has been provided by accepted ideological viewpoints. Instead of being tentative in their approach to their subjects, political films have been categorical – because of their confidence in their moral/ political positions. To illustrate, the anti-colonialism of Gilo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966) which is post-Marxist and perhaps owes to Frantz Fanon, could not have been opposed. Costa Gavras’ Z (1969), which is set in an unnamed country (perhaps Greece) under a military junta, is confident of the universality of liberal-democratic values. Political films made after the end of Communism, works like The Lives of Others (2006), plead for freedom from tyranny and uphold similar liberal-democratic values which,...
- 3/8/2011
- by MK Raghvendra
- DearCinema.com
The European Film Academy have nominated five films for the Discovery Award - which recognises a director’s first full length feature film. Previous winners include Bruno Dumot's La vie de Jésus (1997), Laurent Cantet's Human Resources (2000), Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return (2003) and last year the award went to the very deserving Steve McQueen's Hunger. - The European Film Academy have nominated five films for the Discovery Award - which recognises a director’s first full length feature film. Previous winners include Bruno Dumot's La vie de Jésus (1997), Laurent Cantet's Human Resources (2000), Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return (2003) and last year the award went to the very deserving Steve McQueen's Hunger. The favorite among this year's batch would be the just selected Israeli film from Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani. Ajami received a special mention at Cannes. Here are the five noms.: Ajami, Germany / Israel written...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
'29 Palms' on Wellspring map
Indie film distribution unit Wellspring is coming aboard French writer-director Bruno Dumont's upcoming 29 Palms as the film's co-producer and U.S. distributor. Starring Katerina Golubeva (Pola X), Palms centers on a young couple scouting photo locations in Southern California's Joshua Tree National Park whose lives are shattered by a shocking confrontation in the desert. The film is being shot in English and French. Wellspring rolled out Dumont's Life of Jesus and Humanite, both of which screened at the Festival de Cannes. Wellspring said that Palms, in production, will be ready as a Cannes entry this year and that the company will roll out the project next year. Palms is being made through the 3-B Prods. and Thoke Moebius shingles, with Canal Plus and Flach Pyramide International also co-producing. The deal was brokered by Wellspring's Krysanne Katsoolis and Marie Therese Guirgis, with 3-B's Jean Brehat.
- 2/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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