Isabelle Huppert, the Oscar-nominated actor of “Elle,” is set to reteam with French director Jean-Paul Salomé (“Mama Weed”) on the French thriller “The Sitting Duck.”
The movie, produced by Bertrand Faivre at Le Bureau and co-produced by Bettina Brokemper at Heimatfilm, boasts a stellar cast, which also includes Benoit Magimel, Marina Fois, Alexandra Maria Lara, Grégory Gadebois and François-Xavier Demaison.
Huppert previously starred in Salomé’s crime comedy “Mama Weed” as a French-Arabic translator for the Paris drug police who becomes a savvy wholesale pusher.
The French star will this time star as Maureen Kearney, a whistleblower who is found in her home, tied to a chair, the letter “A” carved into her abdomen, and a knife handle inserted into her vagina. Traumatized, she has no memory of the assault. But the investigation uncovers new elements leading Maureen to become a suspect.
The Bureau Sales (“True Things”) will launch the...
The movie, produced by Bertrand Faivre at Le Bureau and co-produced by Bettina Brokemper at Heimatfilm, boasts a stellar cast, which also includes Benoit Magimel, Marina Fois, Alexandra Maria Lara, Grégory Gadebois and François-Xavier Demaison.
Huppert previously starred in Salomé’s crime comedy “Mama Weed” as a French-Arabic translator for the Paris drug police who becomes a savvy wholesale pusher.
The French star will this time star as Maureen Kearney, a whistleblower who is found in her home, tied to a chair, the letter “A” carved into her abdomen, and a knife handle inserted into her vagina. Traumatized, she has no memory of the assault. But the investigation uncovers new elements leading Maureen to become a suspect.
The Bureau Sales (“True Things”) will launch the...
- 1/10/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Jean-Paul Salomé: 'I really liked that and also the tone of the comedy which was fun but also criticised certain aspects of society' Photo: Unifrance Jean-Paul Salomé first worked as a trainee for legendary director Claude Lelouch. He scored his cinema debut with the comedy Les Braqueuses in 1993 then created a new cinematic adaptation of Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre and an updated adaptation of the iconic tale of the gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin. These were followed by Female Agents, The Chameleon, and Playing Dead. Mama Weed (La Daronne) is his latest feature with Isabelle Huppert as a drug dealing police translator. It opens the curtailed French Film Festival at Chichester Cinema at New Park and Aberdeen Belmont Filmhouse tomorrow (Wednesday 4 November). The filmmaker is in conversation with Festival director Richard Mowe.
What were the elements of Hannelore Cayre’s best-selling novel that persuaded you to make a film of it?...
What were the elements of Hannelore Cayre’s best-selling novel that persuaded you to make a film of it?...
- 11/3/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
To mark the release of Populaire on DVD and Blu-ray 23rd September, we’ve been given three copies to give away on Blu-ray.
Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François, Female Agents) is living in a sleepy French village with her widower father. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, it seems her destiny is to spend the rest of her days as a bored rural housewife.
But Rose wants more from life. Travelling to Normandy, she meets Louis Echard (Romain Duris, Heartbreaker), the dashing boss of an insurance agency who’s hiring a secretary. The interview is a disaster, but Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at an extraordinary speed! Unwittingly, she awakes the dormant sports fan in Louis, who enters her into national speed typing competition. As he coaches her, they both discover that the road to success can take some romantic turns…
Please note: This...
Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François, Female Agents) is living in a sleepy French village with her widower father. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, it seems her destiny is to spend the rest of her days as a bored rural housewife.
But Rose wants more from life. Travelling to Normandy, she meets Louis Echard (Romain Duris, Heartbreaker), the dashing boss of an insurance agency who’s hiring a secretary. The interview is a disaster, but Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at an extraordinary speed! Unwittingly, she awakes the dormant sports fan in Louis, who enters her into national speed typing competition. As he coaches her, they both discover that the road to success can take some romantic turns…
Please note: This...
- 9/13/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Becker Film Group has just acquired Australian and New Zealand rights to Caught in Flight, the film in which Naomi Watts is to play Princess Diana.
The UK film is scheduled to go into production in July and is the first to be represented internationally by sales and financing company Embankment Films, which has already made sales to more than 40 territories.
.From my perspective, Princess Diana is one of the great stories of our time, and Naomi Watts has a great profile in Australia and I hope she will come out and support the release,. said Richard Becker.
The film is a love story between Princess Diana and heart surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan to be directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made Downfall. The producers are Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae of Ecosse Films, and the script has been written by Stephen Jeffreys.
Becker said Caught in Flight and his...
The UK film is scheduled to go into production in July and is the first to be represented internationally by sales and financing company Embankment Films, which has already made sales to more than 40 territories.
.From my perspective, Princess Diana is one of the great stories of our time, and Naomi Watts has a great profile in Australia and I hope she will come out and support the release,. said Richard Becker.
The film is a love story between Princess Diana and heart surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan to be directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made Downfall. The producers are Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae of Ecosse Films, and the script has been written by Stephen Jeffreys.
Becker said Caught in Flight and his...
- 5/4/2012
- by Sandy George
- IF.com.au
PARIS -- Jean-Paul Salome's "Les Femmes de l'Ombre" (Female Agents) doesn't pretend to be much more than an old-fashioned action flick with a feminist slant. Unashamedly targeting popular audiences, the movie boasts high production values and packs sufficient star-power to appeal broadly in both home and foreign markets.
The pitch is an all-woman commando unit parachuted into occupied France in May 1944 to rescue a British agent captured while reconnoitering the terrain ahead of the Normandy landings. Resistance fighter Louise (Sophie Marceau) heads up a team that includes feisty prostitute Jeanne (Julie Depardieu), good-time cabaret artiste Suzy (Marie Gillain) and nervous explosives expert Gaelle (Deborah Francois), patriots one and all.
Linking up with radio operator Maria Maya Sansa) already in situ, they get the job done in double-quick time. Then they are charged by their London controllers with a follow-up mission to kill Karl Heindrich (Moritz Bleibtreu), head of German military intelligence, who they fear may have correctly deduced the location of the pending Allied landings. Louise's brother Pierre Julien Boisselier) is captured, as is Gaelle. The female agents launch an assassination attempt in a Metro station. It fails, and one of them is killed as a result.
There are torture scenes and seductions. Salome papers over the numerous gaps and implausibilities in the plot by keeping the action moving along at breakneck speed, leaving little time for reflection. The hardest part of the film, according to Salome, was "making it as realistic as possible while providing plenty of glamour." Glamour clearly won out over realism since the spectator is left to wonder at how the heroines remain so impeccably groomed and maintain such a well-stocked wardrobe, while on the run in penury-ridden Paris.
Louise is portrayed as wanting above all to raise a family, and each of the agents is given a defining human quality -- one her Catholic faith, another her desire to avenge her murdered Jewish parents, and so on. The characterization is perfunctory, however. Most of the stock figures from wartime resistance movies are present, with only Bleibtreu as the troubled but duty-bound German officer hinting at anything original.
Technically the movie is spot on with the reconstructions of occupied Paris a strong point. Salome directs with conviction and despite its simplicities -- or perhaps, in its depiction of an age when wars had a clear beginning and end, because of them -- these female agents is likely to carry audiences with it.
LES FEMME DE L'OMBRE
La Chauve-Souris, Restons Groupes Productions
Sales Agent: TF1 International
Credits:
Director: Jean-Paul Salome
Writers: Jean-Paul Salome, Laurent Vachaud
Director of photography: Pascal Ridao
Producer: Eric Neve
Executive producer: Nora Salhi
Production designer: Francois Dupertuis
Music: Bruno Coulais
Costume designer: Pierre-Jean Larroque
Editor: Marie-Pierre Renaud
Cast:
Louise Desfontaines: Sophie Marceau
Jeanne Faussier: Julie Depardieu
Suzy Desprez: Marie Gillain
Gaelle Lemenech: Deborah Francois
Karl Heindrich: Moritz Bleibreu
Maria Luzzato: Maya Sansa
Pierre Desfontaines: Julien Boisselier
Eddy: Vincent Rottiers
Lt. Becker: Volker Bruch
Melchior: Robin Renucci
Running time -- 118 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The pitch is an all-woman commando unit parachuted into occupied France in May 1944 to rescue a British agent captured while reconnoitering the terrain ahead of the Normandy landings. Resistance fighter Louise (Sophie Marceau) heads up a team that includes feisty prostitute Jeanne (Julie Depardieu), good-time cabaret artiste Suzy (Marie Gillain) and nervous explosives expert Gaelle (Deborah Francois), patriots one and all.
Linking up with radio operator Maria Maya Sansa) already in situ, they get the job done in double-quick time. Then they are charged by their London controllers with a follow-up mission to kill Karl Heindrich (Moritz Bleibtreu), head of German military intelligence, who they fear may have correctly deduced the location of the pending Allied landings. Louise's brother Pierre Julien Boisselier) is captured, as is Gaelle. The female agents launch an assassination attempt in a Metro station. It fails, and one of them is killed as a result.
There are torture scenes and seductions. Salome papers over the numerous gaps and implausibilities in the plot by keeping the action moving along at breakneck speed, leaving little time for reflection. The hardest part of the film, according to Salome, was "making it as realistic as possible while providing plenty of glamour." Glamour clearly won out over realism since the spectator is left to wonder at how the heroines remain so impeccably groomed and maintain such a well-stocked wardrobe, while on the run in penury-ridden Paris.
Louise is portrayed as wanting above all to raise a family, and each of the agents is given a defining human quality -- one her Catholic faith, another her desire to avenge her murdered Jewish parents, and so on. The characterization is perfunctory, however. Most of the stock figures from wartime resistance movies are present, with only Bleibtreu as the troubled but duty-bound German officer hinting at anything original.
Technically the movie is spot on with the reconstructions of occupied Paris a strong point. Salome directs with conviction and despite its simplicities -- or perhaps, in its depiction of an age when wars had a clear beginning and end, because of them -- these female agents is likely to carry audiences with it.
LES FEMME DE L'OMBRE
La Chauve-Souris, Restons Groupes Productions
Sales Agent: TF1 International
Credits:
Director: Jean-Paul Salome
Writers: Jean-Paul Salome, Laurent Vachaud
Director of photography: Pascal Ridao
Producer: Eric Neve
Executive producer: Nora Salhi
Production designer: Francois Dupertuis
Music: Bruno Coulais
Costume designer: Pierre-Jean Larroque
Editor: Marie-Pierre Renaud
Cast:
Louise Desfontaines: Sophie Marceau
Jeanne Faussier: Julie Depardieu
Suzy Desprez: Marie Gillain
Gaelle Lemenech: Deborah Francois
Karl Heindrich: Moritz Bleibreu
Maria Luzzato: Maya Sansa
Pierre Desfontaines: Julien Boisselier
Eddy: Vincent Rottiers
Lt. Becker: Volker Bruch
Melchior: Robin Renucci
Running time -- 118 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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