Film is set to start shooting next week in Buenos Aires and to continue in Barcelona and Las Vegas.
Barcelona-based production company Mr. Miyagi has teamed with Uruguay’s Mother Superior and Argentina’s Sombracine to co-produce queer romantic comedy Astronaut, the feature directorial debut of producer-director David Matamoros.
Lead-produced by Mr. Miyagi’s Matamoros and Ángeles Hernández, Astronaut follows David, an inveterate romantic who has a travel agency specialising in trips linked to romantic comedies. His 15-year relationship with Quique is stagnant. So, David decides to give Quique a trip down Route 66 with a special stop in Las Vegas.
Barcelona-based production company Mr. Miyagi has teamed with Uruguay’s Mother Superior and Argentina’s Sombracine to co-produce queer romantic comedy Astronaut, the feature directorial debut of producer-director David Matamoros.
Lead-produced by Mr. Miyagi’s Matamoros and Ángeles Hernández, Astronaut follows David, an inveterate romantic who has a travel agency specialising in trips linked to romantic comedies. His 15-year relationship with Quique is stagnant. So, David decides to give Quique a trip down Route 66 with a special stop in Las Vegas.
- 8/2/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
Arte France Cinéma have thrown their support behind a quintet of projects and among them we find Lucile Hadzihalilovic re-teaming with Marion Cotillard for La Tour de glace La Tour de glace. Set to shoot in January and February next year in both France and Germany, this fourth feature film is set in the 1970s. Cotillard was cast in Hadzihalilovic’s debut back in 2004 (Innocence). By the sounds of the synopsis it looks like the central character will be a young actress. Co-written along with Geoff Cox (who helped with Évolution (2015) and Earwig (2021)), from her high mountain village, 15-year-old Jeanne dreams of leaving her childhood orphanage and discovering the world.…...
- 6/22/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Stories are certainly significant in Claire Denis‘ films, though their role is often to be a vehicle for her significant skills as a visual storyteller. (I can tell you what The Intruder‘s story is, but I couldn’t lay out the “plot” unless I’d just seen it. Even then…) And so while I’d normally hesitate to read a synopsis for any film as anticipated as her next, High Life, I figure this is a safe territory. Start playing the Tindersticks score and then we’ll talk about spoilers.
As it were, Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval told Screen Daily, somewhat counter to earlier reports, that the picture — which is set to star Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, and Mia Goth — concerns “a group of convicts duped into joining a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful.” But this will not happen...
As it were, Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval told Screen Daily, somewhat counter to earlier reports, that the picture — which is set to star Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, and Mia Goth — concerns “a group of convicts duped into joining a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful.” But this will not happen...
- 2/8/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Évolution Movie Trailer. Lucile Hadzihalilovic‘s Évolution (2016) movie trailer stars Max Brebant, Roxane Duran and Julie-Marie Parmentier. Évolution‘s plot synopsis: “The only residents of young Nicholas’s seaside town are women and boys. When he sees a dead body in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be […]...
- 12/11/2015
- by Marco Margaritoff
- Film-Book
We’ve spent a lot of the past few weeks looking forward to the cinematic bounty that awaits us in 2016, from The Nice Guys to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. But for those seeking slightly more exotic fare, we’ve got the first trailer for Évolution. Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Innocence), Évolution unfolds on a mysterious island populated only by women […]
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- 12/9/2015
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Laszlo Nemes wins best director for Son of Saul; Mediterranea wins best first film.
The Stockholm International Film Festival awarded its Bronze Horse award for best film to Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs.
The jury – comprised of producer Mimmi Spång, director Peter Grönlund, director Christian Zübert, director Di Phan Dang, and director Arab Nasser – said the film was an “aesthetic masterpiece, a film that innovatively uses all cinematic components to move freely between present, past, dream and imagination. With this tightly woven family drama, the director gradually patches together our broken inner places and makes us visible to ourselves – and to each other.”
The other prize winners were:
Best first film: Mediterranea by Jonas Carpignano
Best director: László Nemes, Son of Saul
Best script: Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour, Mustang
Best cinematography: Manuel Dacosse, Evolution
Best actress: Julija Steponaityte, The Summer of Sangaile
Best actor: Koudous Seihon, Mediterranea
Best...
The Stockholm International Film Festival awarded its Bronze Horse award for best film to Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs.
The jury – comprised of producer Mimmi Spång, director Peter Grönlund, director Christian Zübert, director Di Phan Dang, and director Arab Nasser – said the film was an “aesthetic masterpiece, a film that innovatively uses all cinematic components to move freely between present, past, dream and imagination. With this tightly woven family drama, the director gradually patches together our broken inner places and makes us visible to ourselves – and to each other.”
The other prize winners were:
Best first film: Mediterranea by Jonas Carpignano
Best director: László Nemes, Son of Saul
Best script: Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour, Mustang
Best cinematography: Manuel Dacosse, Evolution
Best actress: Julija Steponaityte, The Summer of Sangaile
Best actor: Koudous Seihon, Mediterranea
Best...
- 11/22/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Competition titles include Couple In A Hole, Sparrows, A Bigger Splash; Norway will be in the spotlight country.
Tom Geens’ Couple in a Hole [pictured], Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows and Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash will be among the 10 titles competing at the seventh edition of the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 12-19) in the French Alps.
Another 20 short films will compete in the Igloo Short Programme including British Bafta-winning animators Greg and Myles McLeod’s 365 and Dutch Edmond De Nina’s Gantz.
The shorts will be shown in an “ice cinema” built at an altitude of 2,200 metres and only accessible by skis or on foot.
In total, some 120 films, selected to by the festival’s artistic director Frédéric Boyer, will screen across the week-long event, which drew nearly 20,000 spectators in 2014.
New Sidebars
In addition to the competitive selections, the Les Arcs team - led by co-founders Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin and Guillaume Calop - has added...
Tom Geens’ Couple in a Hole [pictured], Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows and Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash will be among the 10 titles competing at the seventh edition of the Les Arcs European Film Festival (Dec 12-19) in the French Alps.
Another 20 short films will compete in the Igloo Short Programme including British Bafta-winning animators Greg and Myles McLeod’s 365 and Dutch Edmond De Nina’s Gantz.
The shorts will be shown in an “ice cinema” built at an altitude of 2,200 metres and only accessible by skis or on foot.
In total, some 120 films, selected to by the festival’s artistic director Frédéric Boyer, will screen across the week-long event, which drew nearly 20,000 spectators in 2014.
New Sidebars
In addition to the competitive selections, the Les Arcs team - led by co-founders Pierre Emmanuel Fleurantin and Guillaume Calop - has added...
- 11/5/2015
- ScreenDaily
Evolution
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Canada, 2015
Philadelphia Film Festival
Evolution is an odd bird. It has the mood of a David Cronenberg film, some of the peculiarities of City of Lost Children, and the child’s fascination of Tideland.
Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives with his mother (Julie-Marie Parmentier) in a small seaside town. Strange things start to happen when Nicolas sees a dead boy floating underwater. Soon, he and all of the other young boys in the town are taken to the hospital for an unknown procedure. Nicholas starts to question the workings of the town and his mother’s intentions.
Everything in Evolution is sparse. The walls are bare. The furniture is nearly nonexistent. The population is small. The hospital looks more like a seedy motel. Even the score (slow and dissonant) and the pacing (deliberate) are sparse. This all adds up to a methodical sort of fantasy, where the dread truly creeps.
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Canada, 2015
Philadelphia Film Festival
Evolution is an odd bird. It has the mood of a David Cronenberg film, some of the peculiarities of City of Lost Children, and the child’s fascination of Tideland.
Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives with his mother (Julie-Marie Parmentier) in a small seaside town. Strange things start to happen when Nicolas sees a dead boy floating underwater. Soon, he and all of the other young boys in the town are taken to the hospital for an unknown procedure. Nicholas starts to question the workings of the town and his mother’s intentions.
Everything in Evolution is sparse. The walls are bare. The furniture is nearly nonexistent. The population is small. The hospital looks more like a seedy motel. Even the score (slow and dissonant) and the pacing (deliberate) are sparse. This all adds up to a methodical sort of fantasy, where the dread truly creeps.
- 11/3/2015
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
Evolution
Written by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Alanté Kavaïté
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France, 2014
It is difficult to discuss Evolution without giving away a lot of its surprises. Needless-to-say, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s masterful film (only her second in a decade) is disturbing, beautiful and restrained. Mysterious from beginning to end, the film challenges and intrigues, reaching down inside to grab hold of something within us all that is ancient and primordial, engaging on a level that exists within not only a collective imagination but our collective biology. As the tide of revelation comes in, new details are revealed, yet when it recedes it takes something else with it. So the audience is left to keep afloat in a cloudy brine of opaque truths making for a claustrophobic experience with no easy way out.
On a strange island, Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives with a group of other young boys overseen by a watchful group of androgynous women.
Written by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Alanté Kavaïté
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France, 2014
It is difficult to discuss Evolution without giving away a lot of its surprises. Needless-to-say, Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s masterful film (only her second in a decade) is disturbing, beautiful and restrained. Mysterious from beginning to end, the film challenges and intrigues, reaching down inside to grab hold of something within us all that is ancient and primordial, engaging on a level that exists within not only a collective imagination but our collective biology. As the tide of revelation comes in, new details are revealed, yet when it recedes it takes something else with it. So the audience is left to keep afloat in a cloudy brine of opaque truths making for a claustrophobic experience with no easy way out.
On a strange island, Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives with a group of other young boys overseen by a watchful group of androgynous women.
- 10/18/2015
- by Liam Dunn
- SoundOnSight
A pair of sections that we’ve been covering almost since its inception, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced their selections for the New Auteurs and American Independents line-ups and we’ve got a noteworthy, eyebrow-raising sampling of award-winning items from the Cannes played hellish immigration drama Mediterranea from Jonas Carpignano to Sundance (Josh Mond’s James White) to SXSW (Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha) winners. Since Park City days, our Nicholas Bell has reviewed a good chunk of these titles, but we’ll still likely have a couple of more reviews once the festival begins. Here are the selections and jury members.
New Auteurs Selections (11 Titles)
From Afar – When a middle-aged man is assaulted and robbed by a young criminal, an unlikely relationship develops. Dir Lorenzo Vigas. Scr Lorenzo Vigas. Cast Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva. Venezuela/Mexico. U.S. Premiere
Disorder – Matthias Schoenaerts plays an ex-soldier who becomes locked...
New Auteurs Selections (11 Titles)
From Afar – When a middle-aged man is assaulted and robbed by a young criminal, an unlikely relationship develops. Dir Lorenzo Vigas. Scr Lorenzo Vigas. Cast Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva. Venezuela/Mexico. U.S. Premiere
Disorder – Matthias Schoenaerts plays an ex-soldier who becomes locked...
- 10/15/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 59th BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with Sarah Gavron's Suffragette and screens over 240 films before wrapping on October 18 with Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs. We have reviews of every title but one in the Official Competition: Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendour, Sean Baker's Tangerine, Jonás Cuarón's Desierto, Terence Davies's Sunset Song, Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Evolution, Laszlo Nemes's Son of Saul, Jerzy Skolimowski's 11 Minutes, Simon Stone's The Daughter, Johnnie To's Office and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier. » - David Hudson...
- 10/7/2015
- Keyframe
The 59th BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with Sarah Gavron's Suffragette and screens over 240 films before wrapping on October 18 with Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs. We have reviews of every title but one in the Official Competition: Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendour, Sean Baker's Tangerine, Jonás Cuarón's Desierto, Terence Davies's Sunset Song, Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Evolution, Laszlo Nemes's Son of Saul, Jerzy Skolimowski's 11 Minutes, Simon Stone's The Daughter, Johnnie To's Office and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier. » - David Hudson...
- 10/7/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
London Film Festival | Iris Prize | Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival
With Carey Mulligan’s Suffragette leading the way, this is “the year of the strong woman”, declares festival director Clare Stewart, and the higher-profile titles at least go some way to correcting cinema’s big gender problem. At one end of the age spectrum you’ve got Saoirse Ronan in Us-Irish immigrant drama Brooklyn, and a new documentary on Malala Yousafzai; at the other there’s Maggie Smith as Alan Bennett’s The Lady In The Van. Those good intentions can’t quite carry throughout the huge programme: 238 films from everywhere from Albania to Vanuatu, with still 80% male-directed. Among the British selection, you’ve got Danny Boyle (Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs), Ben Wheatley (High-Rise with Tom Hiddleston), Stephen Frears and Terence Davies; while the international programme includes heavy hitters such as Todd Haynes (Cate Blanchett in Carol), Paolo Sorrentino, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Hou Hsiao-hsien.
With Carey Mulligan’s Suffragette leading the way, this is “the year of the strong woman”, declares festival director Clare Stewart, and the higher-profile titles at least go some way to correcting cinema’s big gender problem. At one end of the age spectrum you’ve got Saoirse Ronan in Us-Irish immigrant drama Brooklyn, and a new documentary on Malala Yousafzai; at the other there’s Maggie Smith as Alan Bennett’s The Lady In The Van. Those good intentions can’t quite carry throughout the huge programme: 238 films from everywhere from Albania to Vanuatu, with still 80% male-directed. Among the British selection, you’ve got Danny Boyle (Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs), Ben Wheatley (High-Rise with Tom Hiddleston), Stephen Frears and Terence Davies; while the international programme includes heavy hitters such as Todd Haynes (Cate Blanchett in Carol), Paolo Sorrentino, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Hou Hsiao-hsien.
- 10/2/2015
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
In the nine consecutive years I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival, it remains an elusive monstrosity of an event. With its hundreds of offerings, it’s a gluttonous buffet for the committed cineaste, a playground of auteurs mixed with unknown quantities. Even after having attended Sundance and Cannes, navigating the selections still somehow feels like ‘catching up’ with entries from Berlin, Locarno, and the concurrent Venice. And, therefore, everyone’s Toronto experience is bound to seem a bit different, even as streamlined as the festival is as it remains one of the most press and public friendly film festivals in existence.
Of course, there’s always complaints (or questions) as to what doesn’t make an appearance at the festival, and we’re always subject to the tastes of various programmers. For instance, why exactly room could not have been made for Polish master Andrzej Zulawski’s first...
Of course, there’s always complaints (or questions) as to what doesn’t make an appearance at the festival, and we’re always subject to the tastes of various programmers. For instance, why exactly room could not have been made for Polish master Andrzej Zulawski’s first...
- 9/28/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Evolution wins special jury prize; Joachim Lafosse’s The White Knights wins Silver Shell.Scroll down for full list of winners
Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Runarsson’s second film, following Volcano (2011), follows 16-year-old Ari, who has to leave his mother’s home in Reykjavik and move back to his former hometown in the isolated Westfjords of Iceland where he navigates a rocky relationship with his father.
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s surreal horror film Evolution picked up the Special Jury Prize. The French director’s first feature in more than a decade follows a young boy living in a mysterious, isolated seaside clinic who uncovers the sinister purposes of his keepers.
The film also saw Manu Dacosse pick up the Jury Prize for best cinematography.
The Silver Shell for best director went to Joachim Lafosse for The White...
Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 63rd San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Runarsson’s second film, following Volcano (2011), follows 16-year-old Ari, who has to leave his mother’s home in Reykjavik and move back to his former hometown in the isolated Westfjords of Iceland where he navigates a rocky relationship with his father.
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s surreal horror film Evolution picked up the Special Jury Prize. The French director’s first feature in more than a decade follows a young boy living in a mysterious, isolated seaside clinic who uncovers the sinister purposes of his keepers.
The film also saw Manu Dacosse pick up the Jury Prize for best cinematography.
The Silver Shell for best director went to Joachim Lafosse for The White...
- 9/26/2015
- ScreenDaily
Runar Runarsson's Nordic coming-of-age tale Sparrows landed the San Sebastian International Film Festival's Golden Shell Saturday night at a gala ceremony. Widely-acclaimed shorts director Runarsson’s second feature film is set in northern Iceland during the nightless days of summer and impressed the jury chaired by Danish actress Paprika Steen. The prize ceremony stood out for its even sprinkling of awards amongst the films, with no film other than Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Evolution earning more than one category. The French-Belgian-Spanish co-production won a special jury prize, as well as the best photography award for Manu Dacosse’s work.
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- 9/26/2015
- by Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Read More: Fantastic Fest Reveals Second Wave of Programming, Including 'Green Room,' 'The Martian,' and 'The Witch' Some movies are so dense with gorgeous mysteries that they don't need solutions. French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "Evolution" provides an ideal example: Ten-year-old Nicolas (Max Brebant) spends his days in an isolated seaside hospital, along with several other children, all of whom are subjected to an alarming medical process. His mother, and the other women who tend to the boys, obscure the reasons behind the confined setting. When Nicolas spies on them after dark, he gets no closer to answers. But the puzzle pieces gradually congeal into a strangely consistent world of transgressive sexuality, body horror and laboratory birth. Nicolas doesn't piece it all together, but as he develops his individuality, he takes action against the ominous events around him. It's the year's wildest coming of age story. Buried...
- 9/24/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Near the beginning of Evolution, there’s a shot that hangs underwater, showing a seemingly harmonious aquatic eco-system that’s glimpsed just long enough to create the sense of something that, while somewhat familiar, is distinctly outside the human world. This fleeting image though shows the promise of the film Evolution could’ve been.
With a plot threadbare enough that it’ll get the defensive label of a “dark fairy tale” or something along those lines, we follow Nicolas (Max Brebant), a young boy living on a secluded island who has his first encounter with death, witnessing the corpse of a dead boy his age while swimming in the ocean. Doted over by his mother (or is she?) in this small community also containing many other young boys, it perhaps takes a little bit of time to realize how strange Nicolas’ home actually is.
Danger comes more into the equation...
With a plot threadbare enough that it’ll get the defensive label of a “dark fairy tale” or something along those lines, we follow Nicolas (Max Brebant), a young boy living on a secluded island who has his first encounter with death, witnessing the corpse of a dead boy his age while swimming in the ocean. Doted over by his mother (or is she?) in this small community also containing many other young boys, it perhaps takes a little bit of time to realize how strange Nicolas’ home actually is.
Danger comes more into the equation...
- 9/20/2015
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
Cloaked in a mystifying atmosphere and possessed by a transfixing, amorphous mood, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "Evolution" is a beautifully strange hybrid of innocence and disturbance. "Unique" is the immediate descriptor that springs to mind once it ends, but the film's singularity has traces of David Cronenberg's early body horrors, fragments of Carl Theodor Dreyer's spiritual contours, and a dash of Jean Painlevé for its fascination with the sea. Famed underwater-explorer Jacques Cousteau famously proclaimed that "the sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." Painlevé's short films on oceanic fauna contain the same effects of this spell, and the quote applies remarkably well to the feelings evoked in "Evolution," which spreads its net wide. Hadzihalilovic creates a nightmarish lullaby that nestles itself into the unsuspecting viewer like some alien organism,...
- 9/16/2015
- by Nikola Grozdanovic
- The Playlist
"It’s been over a decade since Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s debut feature, Innocence, became a critical and cult hit, prompting comparisons to the work of her ex-partner Gaspar Noé, on whose movies she has collaborated several times," begins Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "With her sophomore effort, Evolution, the writer-director delivers another disturbing mélange of experimental genre filmmaking and adorable, tortured French kids." In the Guardian, Jordan Hoffman suggests that Evolution's "post-human aspects are reminiscent of Under the Skin, its slowly teased mysteries recall Upstream Color." We've got more reviews and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 9/16/2015
- Keyframe
"It’s been over a decade since Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s debut feature, Innocence, became a critical and cult hit, prompting comparisons to the work of her ex-partner Gaspar Noé, on whose movies she has collaborated several times," begins Jordan Mintzer in the Hollywood Reporter. "With her sophomore effort, Evolution, the writer-director delivers another disturbing mélange of experimental genre filmmaking and adorable, tortured French kids." In the Guardian, Jordan Hoffman suggests that Evolution's "post-human aspects are reminiscent of Under the Skin, its slowly teased mysteries recall Upstream Color." We've got more reviews and a clip. » - David Hudson...
- 9/16/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
I'm very excited to hear that Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Innocence) is back with a new film called Evolution that reportedly straddles the line between horror and surreal fantasy. The film is also said to be inspired by The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Debuting at Tiff 2015 in the Vanguard section, the film is about a ten year old boy living on a remote island that is solely inhabited by women and young boys. It's worth noting that Innocence was about a mysterious all girls academy, so we're obviously dealing with interesting thematic echoes here.
Synopsis:
A young boy living in a mysterious, isolated seaside clinic uncovers the sinister purposes of his keepers, in this exquisitely shot blend of body horror and surreal fantasy from director Lucile Hadzihalilovi [Continued ...]...
Debuting at Tiff 2015 in the Vanguard section, the film is about a ten year old boy living on a remote island that is solely inhabited by women and young boys. It's worth noting that Innocence was about a mysterious all girls academy, so we're obviously dealing with interesting thematic echoes here.
Synopsis:
A young boy living in a mysterious, isolated seaside clinic uncovers the sinister purposes of his keepers, in this exquisitely shot blend of body horror and surreal fantasy from director Lucile Hadzihalilovi [Continued ...]...
- 9/14/2015
- QuietEarth.us
British actress to receive career award; festival guest list includes Tom Hiddleston, Ellen Page, Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro.
Emily Watson, star of Breaking The Waves, The Book Thief and Everest, is receive the Donostia Award at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) in recognition of her 30 years in film.
The British actress will collect the award at a gala on Sept 25 in San Sebastian’s Kursaal Auditorium.
The festival also unveiled some high-profile names and juries for its upcoming edition.
Actors attending include stars of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Sienna Miller, Tom Hiddleston and Luke Evans; Freeheld actress Ellen Page; Sicario stars Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro; Tim Roth, at the festival with 600 Miles and Chronic; Louise Bourgoin, star of The White Knights; and Karin Viard and Isabelle Carré from 21 nuits avec Pattie.
Filmmakers in attendance include Pablo Agüero (Eva Doesn’t Sleep), Laurie Anderson (Heart of a Dog), Scott Cooper ([link...
Emily Watson, star of Breaking The Waves, The Book Thief and Everest, is receive the Donostia Award at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) in recognition of her 30 years in film.
The British actress will collect the award at a gala on Sept 25 in San Sebastian’s Kursaal Auditorium.
The festival also unveiled some high-profile names and juries for its upcoming edition.
Actors attending include stars of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Sienna Miller, Tom Hiddleston and Luke Evans; Freeheld actress Ellen Page; Sicario stars Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro; Tim Roth, at the festival with 600 Miles and Chronic; Louise Bourgoin, star of The White Knights; and Karin Viard and Isabelle Carré from 21 nuits avec Pattie.
Filmmakers in attendance include Pablo Agüero (Eva Doesn’t Sleep), Laurie Anderson (Heart of a Dog), Scott Cooper ([link...
- 9/4/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
It is time for me to make my peace with the fact that I will not be at Fantastic Fest this year. Last year's fest was one of my favorites ever, fitting for a tenth anniversary, and I would love to go this year. It's just not in the cards, though. It guts me, too. The event continues to grow and change and evolve, and it features one of the greatest programming teams in the business right now. There are films playing at the festival that I'll see in Toronto, and I'm sure I'll catch up with others, but that's not the point. Fantastic Fest is an experience, and an amazing one. If you want to go, you still can. "Daytime Only Badges, Fan Badges, and 2Nd Half Badges for Fantastic Fest 2015 are available for purchase here," today's press release urged. If you can go for the second half, you'll...
- 8/27/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
One of the greatest genre film festivals in the world (some say the best) has just announced its second wave of titles, including a few titles so anticipated you’ll wish you’re in Austin next month. Below are 35 more films to add to the 23 already announced in the first wave. They include Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise and Jeremy Saulnier’s follow up to Blue Ruin, The Green Room. In addition to the films, Fantastic Fest is also delivering something special this year with a performance from Itchy-o – “a blazing, 32-member aural assault from the darkest depths of Colorado.” Fantastic Fest will also host the World Premiere of Lazer Team, the first feature film from web series gods Rooster Teeth. “This is a big year for genre cinema. We’re exceptionally proud to honor incredible filmmakers...
- 8/27/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
It’s hard to believe that we are a month away from what is possibly the best genre film festival in North America! After announcing a Kurt Russell included first wave, we get a wave that probably includes all the films I have the most interest in. The French remake of what I consider is one of Mario Bava’s best films, Rabid Dogs is included. Along with Jeremy Saulnier’s follow up from Blue Ruin, Green Room where Patrick Stewart plays a Neo-Nazi club owner, Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of High-Rise and the horror film that has some chilling buzz, The Witch, are all included. Check out the full listing below and wait with anticipation for our coverage of the festival!
Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of programming featuring the Us Premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster as the opening night film.
Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of programming featuring the Us Premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster as the opening night film.
- 8/26/2015
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 26, 2015 — Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of programming featuring the Us Premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster as the opening night film. Lanthimos will be in attendance to share his wonderfully surreal examination of human connections. Joining The Lobster is a dazzling array of the year’s most anticipated genre films from heavyweight directors including Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic The Martian, Ben Wheatley’s High-rise and Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room. Fantastic Fest will also host the World Premiere of Lazer Team, the first feature film from web series gods Rooster Teeth. Lazer Team director Matt Hullum and cast members Burnie Burns, Alan Ritchson, Colton Dunn, Michael Jones, and Gavin Free will be in attendance to celebrate the highly anticipated sci-fi comedy and join Fantastic Fest’s official opening night party, presented by Rooster Teeth. “This is a big year for genre cinema.
- 8/26/2015
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Cannibalistic skyscraper tribes, a punk band forced to fight for survival, and 17th century-set supernatural happenings will grace the big screen this fall at Fantastic Fest 2015, as High-Rise, Green Room (co-starring Patrick Stewart), and The Witch are among the films announced in the festival's second wave of programming.
Taking place September 24th–October 1st at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar theater in Austin, TX, Fantastic Fest 2015 celebrates an abundance of titles spanning multiple genres (as well as those that don't fit into one specific genre). Stay tuned to Daily Dead for the upcoming final wave of Fantastic Fest 2015 programming, and to read about the first wave of the festival's programming, visit:
http://dailydead.com/fantastic-fest-2015-first-wave-includes-bone-tomahawk-the-invitation/
Press Release: Austin, TX - Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of programming featuring the Us Premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster as the opening night film.
Taking place September 24th–October 1st at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar theater in Austin, TX, Fantastic Fest 2015 celebrates an abundance of titles spanning multiple genres (as well as those that don't fit into one specific genre). Stay tuned to Daily Dead for the upcoming final wave of Fantastic Fest 2015 programming, and to read about the first wave of the festival's programming, visit:
http://dailydead.com/fantastic-fest-2015-first-wave-includes-bone-tomahawk-the-invitation/
Press Release: Austin, TX - Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of programming featuring the Us Premiere of Yorgos Lanthimos' The Lobster as the opening night film.
- 8/26/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The distributor has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch to Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s French horror film ahead of its world premiere in Toronto’s Vanguard strand.
Evolution (France-Spain-Belgium) takes place on an island where a 10-year-old boy discovers the secret behind the settlement, which comprises only women and young boys.
Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, and Julie-Marie Parmentier star. Hadzihalilovic co-wrote the screenplay with Alanté Kavaïté and Geoff Cox.
Les Films du Worso’s Sylvie Pialat and Benoît Quainon produced with Noodles Production’s Jérôme Vidal, Volcano Films’ Sebastian Alvarez, Scope Pictures’ Geneviève Lemal and Left Field Ventures’ John Engel. The project shot in Lanzarote and Barcelona.
Evolution will also screen at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Evolution (France-Spain-Belgium) takes place on an island where a 10-year-old boy discovers the secret behind the settlement, which comprises only women and young boys.
Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, and Julie-Marie Parmentier star. Hadzihalilovic co-wrote the screenplay with Alanté Kavaïté and Geoff Cox.
Les Films du Worso’s Sylvie Pialat and Benoît Quainon produced with Noodles Production’s Jérôme Vidal, Volcano Films’ Sebastian Alvarez, Scope Pictures’ Geneviève Lemal and Left Field Ventures’ John Engel. The project shot in Lanzarote and Barcelona.
Evolution will also screen at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
- 8/13/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
We’re already gearing up for some Tiff presales with this one coming from the delicious Vanguard programme offerings. Deadline reports that Lucile Hadzihalilovic‘s long awaited sophomore film has been picked well in advance of it’s September world premiere date. Not known for picking up films with subtitles, Alchemy landed Evolution – a pic that has been on our most anticipated radar for a while now. More than a decade since her boarding school misadventures of Innocence announced a new French talent was among us (she did co-write Enter the Void), we’re thinking that the distrib co. might have gotten an early look due to their pick-up of Noe’s 2015 Cannes selected Love.
Gist: Written by Hadzihalilovic, Alanté Kavaïté and Geoff Cox, this is about 10-year-old Nicolas (Max Brebant) who lives with his mother on a remote island, in a village inhabited solely by women and young boys.
Gist: Written by Hadzihalilovic, Alanté Kavaïté and Geoff Cox, this is about 10-year-old Nicolas (Max Brebant) who lives with his mother on a remote island, in a village inhabited solely by women and young boys.
- 8/13/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Alchemy acquires French film Evolution Alchemy, which is already set to break into the horror game with Rob Zombie’s upcoming 31, has announced today they’ve secured the North American distribution rights to the upcoming Evolution. Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and filmed by renowned cinematographer Manu Dacosse (The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears), the film…
The post Alchemy Acquires Distribution for French Film Evolution appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
The post Alchemy Acquires Distribution for French Film Evolution appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
- 8/13/2015
- by Spencer Perry
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Alchemy has acquired North American distribution rights to the French-language horror pic Evolution, helmed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic. It has been set to world premiere in the Vanguard section at next month’s Toronto Film Festival. Hadzihalilovic wrote the screenplay with Alanté Kavaïté and Geoff Cox and serves as Hadzihalilovic’s follow-up to her 2004 indie hit Innocence. In the pic, 10-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a village on a remote island inhabited…...
- 8/13/2015
- Deadline
Other new titles in competition include Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows and the first animated film to play in San Seb’s official selection.
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are among the eight new titles to join the competition line-up at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston and is a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment.
Davies’ Sunset Song, set to world premiere at Toronto, is a coming of age drama centred on the the daughter of a Scottish farmer in the early 1900s.
The new titles also include Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. The Japanese anime is the first animated film to compete in official selection at San Sebastian and revolves around a boy who befriends a supernatural creature in an imaginary world.
Full list of...
Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and Terence Davies’ Sunset Song are among the eight new titles to join the competition line-up at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26).
Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston and is a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment.
Davies’ Sunset Song, set to world premiere at Toronto, is a coming of age drama centred on the the daughter of a Scottish farmer in the early 1900s.
The new titles also include Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast. The Japanese anime is the first animated film to compete in official selection at San Sebastian and revolves around a boy who befriends a supernatural creature in an imaginary world.
Full list of...
- 8/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Deals with Wild Bunch, Memento, Submarine include doc The Seventh Fire, presented by Terrence Malick.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s TV and new media manager Ella Field and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s TV and new media manager Ella Field and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo...
- 2/27/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Deals with Wild Bunch, Memento, Submarine include doc The Seventh Fire, presented by Terrence Malick.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo strange...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on five titles out of the European Film Market (Efm) (Feb 5-13) in Berlin, including well-received Berlinale Special documentary The Seventh Fire and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s drama Evolution from Wild Bunch.
Jack Pettibone Riccobono’s documentary The Seventh Fire, about the unseen world of Native American criminal gangs, is executive produced by Natalie Portman and Chris Eyre, and presented by Terrence Malick.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Wide House’s Anais Clanet with Metrodome planning a theatrical release in late 2015.
Interview: Jack Pettibone Riccobono (dir), Shane Slattery-Quintanilla (pro)
From Wild Bunch, Metrodome inked a deal for Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s (Innocence) follow-up fantasy horror Evolution, which stars Max Brebant and Roxane Duran.
Evolution charts the story of a quiet seaside village where boys are forced to undergo strange...
- 2/27/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Company racks up sales on Margarethe von Trotta’s The Misplaced World ahead of Berlinale premiere.
Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch has unveiled a packed Efm slate, including Margarethe von Trotta’s The Misplaced World, Michel Franco’s English-language debut Chronic and The Goetz Brothers’ Martyrs.
The company is already reporting strong business ahead of the Berlinale Special premiere for The Misplaced World, about a German jazz singer who discovers a family secret when she heads to New York to track down an opera singer who resembles her late mother.
It is von Trotta’s first film since her 2012 Hannah Arendt, which played successfully in theatres worldwide.
So far, The Misplaced World has been picked up for Spain (Golem Distribucion), Greece (Strada Films) Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Hungary (Vertigo Films), Israel (Nachshon Films), Turkey (Calinos Film), Brazil (Mares Films) and Japan (Gaga Corporation). Van Trotta’s long-time distributor Concorde will release the film in Germany.
Wild Bunch co-chief...
Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch has unveiled a packed Efm slate, including Margarethe von Trotta’s The Misplaced World, Michel Franco’s English-language debut Chronic and The Goetz Brothers’ Martyrs.
The company is already reporting strong business ahead of the Berlinale Special premiere for The Misplaced World, about a German jazz singer who discovers a family secret when she heads to New York to track down an opera singer who resembles her late mother.
It is von Trotta’s first film since her 2012 Hannah Arendt, which played successfully in theatres worldwide.
So far, The Misplaced World has been picked up for Spain (Golem Distribucion), Greece (Strada Films) Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Hungary (Vertigo Films), Israel (Nachshon Films), Turkey (Calinos Film), Brazil (Mares Films) and Japan (Gaga Corporation). Van Trotta’s long-time distributor Concorde will release the film in Germany.
Wild Bunch co-chief...
- 1/31/2015
- ScreenDaily
New films on Screenbase this week include Jamie Adams’ Black Mountain Poets, Valérie Donzelli’s romance Marguerite and Julien, and Julie Delpy’s France-set romcom Lolo.Global Screen’s Ooops! Noah Is Gone…
This animated film focuses on a fictional species which discovers it cannot board Noah’s Ark. While two of them manage to make it, their children fall off the Ark. The kids then have to learn how to live by themselves.
The film is directed by Toby Genkel and Sean McCormack, who previously made a name for themselves with Niko. German sales company Global Screen has sold the animation to eOne, Eagle Pictures, Scanbox and Smile Entertainment.
Crime thriller Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Daniel Alfredson’s new feature stars Anthony Hopkins, Jim Sturgess and Sam Worthington. The plot—based on real events—takes place in the eighties, when a gang kidnapped beer mogul Freddy Heinecken. The screenplay is based on Peter R. de Vries’ book...
This animated film focuses on a fictional species which discovers it cannot board Noah’s Ark. While two of them manage to make it, their children fall off the Ark. The kids then have to learn how to live by themselves.
The film is directed by Toby Genkel and Sean McCormack, who previously made a name for themselves with Niko. German sales company Global Screen has sold the animation to eOne, Eagle Pictures, Scanbox and Smile Entertainment.
Crime thriller Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Daniel Alfredson’s new feature stars Anthony Hopkins, Jim Sturgess and Sam Worthington. The plot—based on real events—takes place in the eighties, when a gang kidnapped beer mogul Freddy Heinecken. The screenplay is based on Peter R. de Vries’ book...
- 1/16/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
Sales company unveils new films by Donzelli, Sfar, Odoul and Garrel at Paris Rendez-vous.
Wild Bunch will kick off sales on nine new French titles at this year’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 15-19), many of which will be completed in time for a potential Cannes slot, including an incestuous love story by Valérie Donzelli and First World War drama by Damien Odoul.
The company will also show first images of several previously announced productions including Jacques Audiard’s untitled drama revolving around Sri Lankan immigrants in Paris, which it is co-selling with Celluloid Dreams, and Julie Delpy’s France-set romance Lolo, in which she stars as a chic Parisian sophisticate who falls for a geeky It expert played by Dany Boon.
There will also be a promo-reel for Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years (aka Three Memories of Childhood), revisiting the childhood of Paul Dédalus, the protagonist in his 1997 film My Sex Lifewho...
Wild Bunch will kick off sales on nine new French titles at this year’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 15-19), many of which will be completed in time for a potential Cannes slot, including an incestuous love story by Valérie Donzelli and First World War drama by Damien Odoul.
The company will also show first images of several previously announced productions including Jacques Audiard’s untitled drama revolving around Sri Lankan immigrants in Paris, which it is co-selling with Celluloid Dreams, and Julie Delpy’s France-set romance Lolo, in which she stars as a chic Parisian sophisticate who falls for a geeky It expert played by Dany Boon.
There will also be a promo-reel for Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years (aka Three Memories of Childhood), revisiting the childhood of Paul Dédalus, the protagonist in his 1997 film My Sex Lifewho...
- 1/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
Evolution
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic // Writers: Alanté Kavaïté, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
While she’s mostly known for having co-written Gaspar Noe’s infamous 2009 film, Enter the Void, Lucile Hadzihalilovic is an accomplished director of her own right, having made the underappreciated 2004 film Innocence (trailer below), which is a strange, meditative, and very creepy film about a boarding school for young girls and starred Marion Cotillard. Now, she’s back over a decade later with her sophomore film, Evolution. The story revolves around 11-year-old Nicolas, who lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt the phases of evolution. Hadzihalilovic cites The Island of Dr. Moreau as inspiration, and the film stars Roxane Duran (supporting player from The White Ribbon, 17 Girls,...
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic // Writers: Alanté Kavaïté, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
While she’s mostly known for having co-written Gaspar Noe’s infamous 2009 film, Enter the Void, Lucile Hadzihalilovic is an accomplished director of her own right, having made the underappreciated 2004 film Innocence (trailer below), which is a strange, meditative, and very creepy film about a boarding school for young girls and starred Marion Cotillard. Now, she’s back over a decade later with her sophomore film, Evolution. The story revolves around 11-year-old Nicolas, who lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt the phases of evolution. Hadzihalilovic cites The Island of Dr. Moreau as inspiration, and the film stars Roxane Duran (supporting player from The White Ribbon, 17 Girls,...
- 1/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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