Canadian director Matthew Rankin’s Persian and French-language drama Universal Language has won the inaugural Audience Award of Directors’ Fortnight.
This is the first official prize launched by Directors’ Fortnight which does not have a jury. The €7,500 cash award, is also the first audience award to be launched in Cannes, across the Official Selection and the parallel sections.
It is being sponsored by the Chantal Akerman Foundation, which preserves the legacy of the director who retained strong ties with Directors’ Fortnight throughout her career, after screening breakthrough film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussel in the section in 1975.
Described as taking place “somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg”, Universal Language intertwines multiple characters.
Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it, while Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg and Matthew quits...
This is the first official prize launched by Directors’ Fortnight which does not have a jury. The €7,500 cash award, is also the first audience award to be launched in Cannes, across the Official Selection and the parallel sections.
It is being sponsored by the Chantal Akerman Foundation, which preserves the legacy of the director who retained strong ties with Directors’ Fortnight throughout her career, after screening breakthrough film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussel in the section in 1975.
Described as taking place “somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg”, Universal Language intertwines multiple characters.
Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it, while Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg and Matthew quits...
- 5/23/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Noémie Merlant plays the titular role in the erotic drama based on a script co-written by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski.
Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe have rounded out the cast of Audrey Diwan’s English-language feature Emmanuelle that has just wrapped production in Paris. Pathé will release the film in France and France Télévisions has pre-bought the film for local TV broadcast.
Emmanuelle is Diwan’s first English-language feature from Venice Golden Lion-winning Happening director Diwan also features Jamie Campbell Bower, Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong in supporting roles. Shooting started in October and took place in Hong Kong and Paris.
Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe have rounded out the cast of Audrey Diwan’s English-language feature Emmanuelle that has just wrapped production in Paris. Pathé will release the film in France and France Télévisions has pre-bought the film for local TV broadcast.
Emmanuelle is Diwan’s first English-language feature from Venice Golden Lion-winning Happening director Diwan also features Jamie Campbell Bower, Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong in supporting roles. Shooting started in October and took place in Hong Kong and Paris.
- 12/19/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Sex and Longing: Efira Shines in Zlotowski’s Portrait of Missed Opportunities
In a celebrated tradition of quietly personal characterizations French cinema is known for, Rebecca Zlotowski examines one woman’s sudden quest for motherhood she hadn’t been aware she desired until it’s almost too late in Other People’s Children (Les Enfants des Autres). Heretofore, Złotowski’s characterizations have skewed towards transitional periods in the life of young women, such as her 2010 debut Dear Prudence or 2016’s An Easy Girl.
Recruiting Virginie Efira to headline one woman’s surprising quest to engage in the collective experience of birthing a child after falling head over heels for a handsome divorcee and his four year old daughter, Zlotowski adeptly navigates the inevitability of reality obfuscated by love’s rosy tinted glasses.…...
In a celebrated tradition of quietly personal characterizations French cinema is known for, Rebecca Zlotowski examines one woman’s sudden quest for motherhood she hadn’t been aware she desired until it’s almost too late in Other People’s Children (Les Enfants des Autres). Heretofore, Złotowski’s characterizations have skewed towards transitional periods in the life of young women, such as her 2010 debut Dear Prudence or 2016’s An Easy Girl.
Recruiting Virginie Efira to headline one woman’s surprising quest to engage in the collective experience of birthing a child after falling head over heels for a handsome divorcee and his four year old daughter, Zlotowski adeptly navigates the inevitability of reality obfuscated by love’s rosy tinted glasses.…...
- 4/21/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In Other People’s Children, the latest from director Rebecca Zlowtowski, a woman in her 40s named Rachel (Virginie Efira) grapples with the idea of being a mother—as well as the idea of going down a child-free path. Editor Geraldine Mangenot, who’s worked with Zlowtowski since her 2019 film An Easy Girl, discusses how being a mother herself influenced the film’s edit. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the editor of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being hired for this job? Mangenot: […]
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- 1/30/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
In Other People’s Children, the latest from director Rebecca Zlowtowski, a woman in her 40s named Rachel (Virginie Efira) grapples with the idea of being a mother—as well as the idea of going down a child-free path. Editor Geraldine Mangenot, who’s worked with Zlowtowski since her 2019 film An Easy Girl, discusses how being a mother herself influenced the film’s edit. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the editor of your film? What were the factors and attributes that led to your being hired for this job? Mangenot: […]
The post “I Like To Edit Ideas, Not Sequences”: Editor Geraldine Mangenot on Other People’s Children first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Like To Edit Ideas, Not Sequences”: Editor Geraldine Mangenot on Other People’s Children first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/30/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Spring theatrical and home entertainment release planned.
Music Box Films has acquired US rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children ahead of its US premiere at Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off next week.
Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, and Chiara Mastroianni star in the drama about a woman who lives with her new love and his four-year-old daughter and ponders starting her own family relatively late in life. Efira will receive the honorary Unifrance French Cinema Award later this month.
Other People’s Children premiered in Venice last year and went on to screen as a Special Presentation at TIFF.
Music Box Films has acquired US rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children ahead of its US premiere at Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off next week.
Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, and Chiara Mastroianni star in the drama about a woman who lives with her new love and his four-year-old daughter and ponders starting her own family relatively late in life. Efira will receive the honorary Unifrance French Cinema Award later this month.
Other People’s Children premiered in Venice last year and went on to screen as a Special Presentation at TIFF.
- 1/10/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Spring theatrical and home entertainment release planned.
Music Box Films has acquired US rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children ahead of its US premiere at Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off next week.
Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, and Chiara Mastroianni star in the drama about a woman who lives with her new love and his four-year-old daughter and ponders starting her own family relatively late in life. Efira will receive the honorary Unifrance French Cinema Award later this month.
Other People’s Children premiered in Venice before going on to screen as a Special Presentation at TIFF.
Music Box Films has acquired US rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children ahead of its US premiere at Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off next week.
Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, and Chiara Mastroianni star in the drama about a woman who lives with her new love and his four-year-old daughter and ponders starting her own family relatively late in life. Efira will receive the honorary Unifrance French Cinema Award later this month.
Other People’s Children premiered in Venice before going on to screen as a Special Presentation at TIFF.
- 1/10/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Music Box Films has picked up U.S. rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s “Other People’s Children,” the affecting drama starring Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”). The movie world premiered in competition at Venice and is slated to make its U.S. debut in the Spotlight section at Sundance later this month.
Also starring Roschdy Zem and Chiara Mastroianni, “Other People’s Children” played in the Special Presentation section at Toronto. Music Box Films will release the French movie in theaters and on home entertainment platforms in spring 2023.
Efira, one of France’s leading actors, delivers a strong performance as Rachel, a dedicated high school teacher. She falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), and it’s not long before she also falls for his 4-year-old daughter Leila. Although she feels like a mother, Rachel is not allowed to forget that Leila is another woman’s daughter. She begins to long for a child of her own,...
Also starring Roschdy Zem and Chiara Mastroianni, “Other People’s Children” played in the Special Presentation section at Toronto. Music Box Films will release the French movie in theaters and on home entertainment platforms in spring 2023.
Efira, one of France’s leading actors, delivers a strong performance as Rachel, a dedicated high school teacher. She falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), and it’s not long before she also falls for his 4-year-old daughter Leila. Although she feels like a mother, Rachel is not allowed to forget that Leila is another woman’s daughter. She begins to long for a child of her own,...
- 1/10/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
While waiting to pick up five-year-old Leila from judo practice, personable 40-ish schoolteacher Rachel introduces herself to another parent as Leila’s stepmom, before backtracking to awkwardly correct herself. Later, when a kindly stranger on a train remarks on the resemblance between the two, Rachel doesn’t bother clarifying, merely accepting the benign compliment. Her relationship to Leila is both unremarkably simple and complicated by an absence of clear language for it: She’s dating the girl’s father, and the attachment between woman and child has grown perhaps stronger than the relationship on which it depends. It’s the kind of delicate everyday situation that rarely occupies the centre of a film, and in the superb “Other People’s Children,” writer-director Rebecca Zlotowski negotiates it with warm intelligence and compassion.
Continuing in the relaxed, character-centered vein of 2019’s lovely “An Easy Girl” — the right direction to take after the starry...
Continuing in the relaxed, character-centered vein of 2019’s lovely “An Easy Girl” — the right direction to take after the starry...
- 9/4/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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Released on Netflix in 2020 after premiering at Cannes the year before, An Easy Girl was an under-the-radar treat — a South-of-France-set coming-of-age film so lusciously tactile and perceptive it felt like a classic as soon as the closing credits began to roll. The writer-director, Rebecca Zlotowski, is back with a more conventional but equally winning work in Venice competition entry Other People’s Children (Les enfants des autres), confirming her gift for investing familiar formulas with freshness and charm, smarts and sexiness.
Anchored by a superb Virginie Efira (Benedetta) as a 40ish high-school teacher whose bond with her boyfriend’s daughter awakens a complicated mix of maternal yearning and midlife frustration, the movie has the typical contours of contemporary Parisian romantic dramedy: Good-looking people embrace, talk, smoke, sip wine, attend casually chic soirees, and embrace some more against the backdrop of a glittering Eiffel Tower...
Released on Netflix in 2020 after premiering at Cannes the year before, An Easy Girl was an under-the-radar treat — a South-of-France-set coming-of-age film so lusciously tactile and perceptive it felt like a classic as soon as the closing credits began to roll. The writer-director, Rebecca Zlotowski, is back with a more conventional but equally winning work in Venice competition entry Other People’s Children (Les enfants des autres), confirming her gift for investing familiar formulas with freshness and charm, smarts and sexiness.
Anchored by a superb Virginie Efira (Benedetta) as a 40ish high-school teacher whose bond with her boyfriend’s daughter awakens a complicated mix of maternal yearning and midlife frustration, the movie has the typical contours of contemporary Parisian romantic dramedy: Good-looking people embrace, talk, smoke, sip wine, attend casually chic soirees, and embrace some more against the backdrop of a glittering Eiffel Tower...
- 9/4/2022
- by Jon Frosch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French director Rebecca Zlotowski makes her Venice Film Festival competition debut on Sunday with drama Other People’s Children, casting the often neglected, sometimes maligned figure of the stepmother in a fresh light.
Virginie Efira stars as an attractive teacher in her 40s with a full and happy life. In the backdrop, however, her biological clock is ticking. When she gets involved with a divorced father, she becomes attached to his young daughter.
Efira is joined in the cast by Roschdy Zem as the father; Chiara Mastroianni, in a small role as his ex-wife and the girl’s mother, and documentarian Frederic Wiseman, who makes a guest appearance as a gynaecologist.
Other People’s Children is Zlotowski’s fifth film after Dear Prudence, Grand Central, Planetarium and An Easy Girl. The filmmaker was last in Venice with Planetarium which played Out of Competition in 2016.
Deadline talked to Zlotowski ahead of the premiere in Venice.
Virginie Efira stars as an attractive teacher in her 40s with a full and happy life. In the backdrop, however, her biological clock is ticking. When she gets involved with a divorced father, she becomes attached to his young daughter.
Efira is joined in the cast by Roschdy Zem as the father; Chiara Mastroianni, in a small role as his ex-wife and the girl’s mother, and documentarian Frederic Wiseman, who makes a guest appearance as a gynaecologist.
Other People’s Children is Zlotowski’s fifth film after Dear Prudence, Grand Central, Planetarium and An Easy Girl. The filmmaker was last in Venice with Planetarium which played Out of Competition in 2016.
Deadline talked to Zlotowski ahead of the premiere in Venice.
- 9/4/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Some films spring from abundance, while others are born of a need. Premiering in competition in Venice, Rebecca Zlotowski’s “Other People’s Children” clearly falls into the latter camp. “I’ve often used cinema as a guide for living, only aspects of my own life hadn’t been told,” Zlotowski tells Variety. “I imagined a 40-year-old woman, nearing the end of her fertility, who is a stepmother to others, and thought, why hadn’t we seen that character before?”
Filling in the missing pieces, Zlotowski’s romantic drama follows Rachel (Virginie Efira), a Parisian high school teacher who feels a sudden and unrealized desire for maternity when she falls in love with a recent divorcé – and with him, his four-year-old daughter. Tinged in bittersweet tones, the film tracks the ecstasies of a new and all-enveloping love affair and the tradeoffs that arrive with mid-life relationships. Because in this particular love-triangle...
Filling in the missing pieces, Zlotowski’s romantic drama follows Rachel (Virginie Efira), a Parisian high school teacher who feels a sudden and unrealized desire for maternity when she falls in love with a recent divorcé – and with him, his four-year-old daughter. Tinged in bittersweet tones, the film tracks the ecstasies of a new and all-enveloping love affair and the tradeoffs that arrive with mid-life relationships. Because in this particular love-triangle...
- 9/4/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
In the second big prize announcement by a Directors’ Fortnight partner, “The Mountain” (“La Montagne”), from emerging French auteur Thomas Salvador, has won the Sacd Prize, awarded by France’s Writers’ Guild for the best French-language movie in the section.
The second feature of the French actor-director after 2017’s promising “Vincent,” selected for San Sebastian’s prestige New Directors section, ”The Mountain” is sold internationally by Le Pacte which will also handle distribution in France.
From a screenplay written by Salvador and Naila Guiguet, which was selected for Critics’ Weeks’ Next Steps 2020, “The Mountain” turns on Pierre, 40, played by Salvador, who makes a sales pitch for his company’s robotic arm in Chamonix, the capital of the French Alps.
When his colleagues return to Paris, he stays on, pitching a tent just below the Aiguille du Midi cable car station, a spectacular pinnacle at 12,600 feet, in the lap of Mont Blanc.
The second feature of the French actor-director after 2017’s promising “Vincent,” selected for San Sebastian’s prestige New Directors section, ”The Mountain” is sold internationally by Le Pacte which will also handle distribution in France.
From a screenplay written by Salvador and Naila Guiguet, which was selected for Critics’ Weeks’ Next Steps 2020, “The Mountain” turns on Pierre, 40, played by Salvador, who makes a sales pitch for his company’s robotic arm in Chamonix, the capital of the French Alps.
When his colleagues return to Paris, he stays on, pitching a tent just below the Aiguille du Midi cable car station, a spectacular pinnacle at 12,600 feet, in the lap of Mont Blanc.
- 5/26/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Léa Seydoux and Audrey Diwan are teaming up for “Emmanuelle.” The film will mark the English-language directorial debut of Diwan, who has received critical raves and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “Happening,” the story of a woman obtaining an illegal abortion in the 1960s. Seydoux will play the title role in the film.
“Emmanuelle” was inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (“An Easy Girl”). The book centers on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel. Adaptation rights for Arsan’s book were acquired by Chantelouve (Marion Delord and Reginald de Guillebon), producers on the film.
The project was announced at the Cannes Film Festival, where Seydoux is premiering two films,...
“Emmanuelle” was inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (“An Easy Girl”). The book centers on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel. Adaptation rights for Arsan’s book were acquired by Chantelouve (Marion Delord and Reginald de Guillebon), producers on the film.
The project was announced at the Cannes Film Festival, where Seydoux is premiering two films,...
- 5/16/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Palme d’Or winning actress Léa Seydoux will star in Happening filmmaker Audrey Diwan’s English-language directorial debut, Emmanuelle, inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski.
The Arsan book follows a young woman’s sexual journey from the arms of her husband to intimate encounters with the wives of his business associates, to further explorations wherein the philosophical and aesthetic facets of eroticism are expounded—and enacted—to the fullest degree.
Diwan’s second feature, Happening, adapted from Annie Ernaux’s book recounting her illegal abortion in the 1960s, received the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival; four César Award nominations, including a win for Most Promising Newcomer for Anamaria Vartolomei; and a BAFTA Award nomination; among other honors. The pic features a cast of stellar emerging French acting talent including Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet-Klein and Luana Bajrami.
Diwan’s feature directorial debut,...
The Arsan book follows a young woman’s sexual journey from the arms of her husband to intimate encounters with the wives of his business associates, to further explorations wherein the philosophical and aesthetic facets of eroticism are expounded—and enacted—to the fullest degree.
Diwan’s second feature, Happening, adapted from Annie Ernaux’s book recounting her illegal abortion in the 1960s, received the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival; four César Award nominations, including a win for Most Promising Newcomer for Anamaria Vartolomei; and a BAFTA Award nomination; among other honors. The pic features a cast of stellar emerging French acting talent including Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet-Klein and Luana Bajrami.
Diwan’s feature directorial debut,...
- 5/16/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
A frothy wish-fulfillment comedy that takes a few wildly unpredictable turns, “Spin Me Round” serves up an al dente satire of corporate retreat culture by following the manager of a popular pasta restaurant on an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy, where nothing goes as she expected. Amber (Alison Brie) imagines something along the lines of the company’s TV commercials, in which handsome Tuscan Grove founder Nick Martucci (Alessandro Nivola) serves pasta in the shade of the family villa — the ideal backdrop for a straightforward rom-com scenario. But this sly, if slightly undercooked movie has other plans, earning its title as it keeps us guessing.
Reteaming with “Horse Girl” director Jeff Baena, Brie co-wrote the script, conceiving her own character as a basic, ambitionless Audrey Hepburn type — all the better to misdirect audiences, who’ve been led to believe they’re in for a low-budget “Roman Holiday,” rather than the more...
Reteaming with “Horse Girl” director Jeff Baena, Brie co-wrote the script, conceiving her own character as a basic, ambitionless Audrey Hepburn type — all the better to misdirect audiences, who’ve been led to believe they’re in for a low-budget “Roman Holiday,” rather than the more...
- 3/24/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Les enfants des autres (Other People’s Children)
Directly after premiering her fourth feature film Une fille facile (An Easy Girl) in the Directors’ Fortnight section, Rebecca Zlotowski moved into the directors’ chair for a six-parter politico-series she co-created called “Savages” and we imagine it is here she nabbed actor Roschdy Zem for what might be a more two-hander drama. After her huge entrance into the film world with 2010’s Belle Epine (Critics’ Week), 2013’s Grand Central (Un Certain Regard), 2016’s Planetarium (Out of Comp in Venice), this more intimate fifth feature (in just over a decade) began lensing in March of 2021 with Virginie Efira (who will have an eventful 2022 with Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris and Serge Bozon’s Don Juan).…...
Directly after premiering her fourth feature film Une fille facile (An Easy Girl) in the Directors’ Fortnight section, Rebecca Zlotowski moved into the directors’ chair for a six-parter politico-series she co-created called “Savages” and we imagine it is here she nabbed actor Roschdy Zem for what might be a more two-hander drama. After her huge entrance into the film world with 2010’s Belle Epine (Critics’ Week), 2013’s Grand Central (Un Certain Regard), 2016’s Planetarium (Out of Comp in Venice), this more intimate fifth feature (in just over a decade) began lensing in March of 2021 with Virginie Efira (who will have an eventful 2022 with Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris and Serge Bozon’s Don Juan).…...
- 1/13/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Annette” producer Charles Gillibert is set to produce “Rodeo,” Lola Quivoron’s daring feature debut about a young woman who infiltrates an underground dirt bike community in France.
Quivoron previously directed the short film “Au Loin, Baltimore,” which played at Locarno in 2016 and, co-directed (with Antonia Buresi) “Headshot,” a documentary about today’s youth that aired on Franco-German network Arte.
“Rodeo” shot entirely on the outskirts of Bordeaux, France, and follows a young misfit and small-time thug, Julia, who is fiercely passionate about riding. One summer, she encounters a crew of dirt riders and sets off to infiltrates their male-dominated world, but an accident will compromise her ability to fit in. As its title suggests, “Rodeo” will be packed with action scenes spearheaded by Mathieu Lardot, a stunt expert who’s worked on “Jason Bourne,” “Spectre,” “Rogue City,” “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” among others.
Gillibert...
Quivoron previously directed the short film “Au Loin, Baltimore,” which played at Locarno in 2016 and, co-directed (with Antonia Buresi) “Headshot,” a documentary about today’s youth that aired on Franco-German network Arte.
“Rodeo” shot entirely on the outskirts of Bordeaux, France, and follows a young misfit and small-time thug, Julia, who is fiercely passionate about riding. One summer, she encounters a crew of dirt riders and sets off to infiltrates their male-dominated world, but an accident will compromise her ability to fit in. As its title suggests, “Rodeo” will be packed with action scenes spearheaded by Mathieu Lardot, a stunt expert who’s worked on “Jason Bourne,” “Spectre,” “Rogue City,” “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout,” among others.
Gillibert...
- 11/17/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Film at Lincoln Center’s reopening includes in-cinema screenings of Christian Petzold’s Undine Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center will reopen to the public at 25% capacity on Friday, April 16 with screenings of Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges with Small Frank (voiced by Tracy Letts), and the restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1974). Upcoming films include Christian Petzold’s Undine, starring Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski; François Ozon’s Summer Of ’85 (Été ’85); Heidi Ewing’s I Carry You With Me; Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran, and Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue. The World of Wong Kar Wai comes May 14-20.
Film at Lincoln Center has the World of Wong Kar Wai coming Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema was abruptly halted on March 12, 2020, following Rebecca Zlotowski...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center will reopen to the public at 25% capacity on Friday, April 16 with screenings of Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges with Small Frank (voiced by Tracy Letts), and the restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1974). Upcoming films include Christian Petzold’s Undine, starring Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski; François Ozon’s Summer Of ’85 (Été ’85); Heidi Ewing’s I Carry You With Me; Hong Sangsoo’s The Woman Who Ran, and Jia Zhangke’s Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue. The World of Wong Kar Wai comes May 14-20.
Film at Lincoln Center has the World of Wong Kar Wai coming Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema was abruptly halted on March 12, 2020, following Rebecca Zlotowski...
- 4/1/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie […] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,” said the late, great Gordon Willis. As we continue our year-end coverage, one aspect we must highlight is, indeed, cinematography. From talented newcomers to seasoned professionals, we’ve rounded up the examples that have most impressed us this year. Check out our rundown below.
An Easy Girl (Georges Lechaptois)
The French Riviera is the fitting location for this tale of sexual discovery and class criticism. Georges Lechaptois’ frames are gorgeous not just because of the landscape––we have reoccurring overhead shots of the crystal-blue tides rustling against the beach where characters lay––but the juxtaposition of the quiet life out on the sea. The sun-soaked vistas at lunch are as lively as the quiet, sensuous nights the lovers spend in their dimly lit...
An Easy Girl (Georges Lechaptois)
The French Riviera is the fitting location for this tale of sexual discovery and class criticism. Georges Lechaptois’ frames are gorgeous not just because of the landscape––we have reoccurring overhead shots of the crystal-blue tides rustling against the beach where characters lay––but the juxtaposition of the quiet life out on the sea. The sun-soaked vistas at lunch are as lively as the quiet, sensuous nights the lovers spend in their dimly lit...
- 12/22/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Raphael Berdugo’s Paris-based Cité Films is heading to the Mia market with a slate of director-driven films, including the Marguerite Duras adaptation “Azuro,” and the politically-engaged documentary “Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free.”
Written and directed by Mathieu Rozé, “Azuro” is based on “The Little Horses of Tarquinia,” a lesser-known novel by Marguerite Duras published in 1953.
Rozé’s feature debut, “Azuro” shot this summer in the south of France, near Marseille, and is expected to be delivered in January. The film takes place over a summer and revolves around a group of friends who are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and mountains. Their holiday routine gets turned upside down, however, when a mysterious stranger arrives from sea on a golden boat after a fire erupts on a nearby mountain.
The cast is headlined by Valerie Donzelli, the helmer-actor of “Declaration of War,...
Written and directed by Mathieu Rozé, “Azuro” is based on “The Little Horses of Tarquinia,” a lesser-known novel by Marguerite Duras published in 1953.
Rozé’s feature debut, “Azuro” shot this summer in the south of France, near Marseille, and is expected to be delivered in January. The film takes place over a summer and revolves around a group of friends who are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and mountains. Their holiday routine gets turned upside down, however, when a mysterious stranger arrives from sea on a golden boat after a fire erupts on a nearby mountain.
The cast is headlined by Valerie Donzelli, the helmer-actor of “Declaration of War,...
- 10/14/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Viewed in a certain light, the noirish romantic thriller “Lovers,” which premiered on Sept. 3 at the Venice Film Festival, could be seen as something of a change in pace for co-writer and director Nicole Garcia.
A love-triangle potboiler about an unhappy woman, her wealthy older husband, and the bad-news ex-boyfriend she can’t leave behind, the Venice competition title takes standards from genre fiction and transmits them into intimate character drama toplined by actors Stacy Martin (“Nymphomaniac”), Pierre Niney (“Yves Saint Laurent”), and Benoît Magimel (“An Easy Girl”).
“Even in my more overtly romantic films, I’ve always played with ideas of danger and fear, and tried to put the main characters at risk,” says Garcia, who signed on the project when it had a more pronounced genre edge.
“‘Lovers’ gave me that chance to take those ideas even further, [but I didn’t want to go full film noir]. Instead, I preferred to develop the ambivalence of all three characters,...
A love-triangle potboiler about an unhappy woman, her wealthy older husband, and the bad-news ex-boyfriend she can’t leave behind, the Venice competition title takes standards from genre fiction and transmits them into intimate character drama toplined by actors Stacy Martin (“Nymphomaniac”), Pierre Niney (“Yves Saint Laurent”), and Benoît Magimel (“An Easy Girl”).
“Even in my more overtly romantic films, I’ve always played with ideas of danger and fear, and tried to put the main characters at risk,” says Garcia, who signed on the project when it had a more pronounced genre edge.
“‘Lovers’ gave me that chance to take those ideas even further, [but I didn’t want to go full film noir]. Instead, I preferred to develop the ambivalence of all three characters,...
- 9/4/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
A good ol’ fashioned doomed romance replete with eye-popping exotic locations, a traffic-stopping cast, lavish wines, great catering, guns, drugs, sex and lies, French actress turned director Nicole Garcia’s latest effort, Lovers (Amants), delivers the genre’s essential items in a slick film noir throwback carried by a trio of strong performances.
Starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent), Stacy Martin (Vox Lux) and Benoît Magimel (An Easy Girl), all in top form here, this is the kind of dark and fatalistic love story that heads where you expect it to but remains altogether engrossing, even if some of its plot machinations seem ...
Starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent), Stacy Martin (Vox Lux) and Benoît Magimel (An Easy Girl), all in top form here, this is the kind of dark and fatalistic love story that heads where you expect it to but remains altogether engrossing, even if some of its plot machinations seem ...
A good ol’ fashioned doomed romance replete with eye-popping exotic locations, a traffic-stopping cast, lavish wines, great catering, guns, drugs, sex and lies, French actress turned director Nicole Garcia’s latest effort, Lovers (Amants), delivers the genre’s essential items in a slick film noir throwback carried by a trio of strong performances.
Starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent), Stacy Martin (Vox Lux) and Benoît Magimel (An Easy Girl), all in top form here, this is the kind of dark and fatalistic love story that heads where you expect it to but remains altogether engrossing, even if some of its plot machinations seem ...
Starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent), Stacy Martin (Vox Lux) and Benoît Magimel (An Easy Girl), all in top form here, this is the kind of dark and fatalistic love story that heads where you expect it to but remains altogether engrossing, even if some of its plot machinations seem ...
The French actor, director, and producer Rebecca Zlotowski made a splash in 2016 with the World War II film “Planetarium,” starring Lily Rose and Natalie Portman. Although it’s been a few years between that film and her follow up, “An Easy Girl,” Zlotowski has been very busy. She directed episodes of “Savages” on Canal +, co-directed “J’irai où tu iras” and started the 5050×2020 movement, a campaign for gender parity at the Cannes Film Festival.
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- 8/18/2020
- by Asher Luberto
- The Playlist
With theaters open in 44 of the 50 states, cinemas are finding something to show — although turnout is still so modest that distributors are still being hesitant about what to release. That means another week in what’s now going on five months of the industry’s pivot to streaming releases, with a fresh batch of respectable lower-profile offerings.
Netflix continues to lead the pack with options, releasing four new features (that we know of), including the superhero-esque movie “Project Power,” a sci-fi thriller about a drug that gives ordinary folks special abilities … for about five minutes. Apple TV Plus paid top dollar at Sundance for “Boys State,” and as soon as you see it, you’ll understand why: The documentary, about a Texas mock-government program for teens, captures all the rowdiness and idealism of the long-running event — offering a virtual glimpse into what can happen when young minds come together in person to share their ideas,...
Netflix continues to lead the pack with options, releasing four new features (that we know of), including the superhero-esque movie “Project Power,” a sci-fi thriller about a drug that gives ordinary folks special abilities … for about five minutes. Apple TV Plus paid top dollar at Sundance for “Boys State,” and as soon as you see it, you’ll understand why: The documentary, about a Texas mock-government program for teens, captures all the rowdiness and idealism of the long-running event — offering a virtual glimpse into what can happen when young minds come together in person to share their ideas,...
- 8/14/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
The director herself calls An Easy Girl a “simple film on a complex subject,” which is as fine a one-liner as I’ll ever come up with. This is a straightforward coming-of-age story from France, a country for whom this is almost a national cliché, but elevated by a key eye for gender roles of its protagonists and an up-to-date message for a teenage generation growing up in a #MeToo world. – Ed F. (full review)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Capone (Josh Trank)
Thanks to a bout of syphilis contracted before the age of fifteen, Alphonse Gabriel “Scarface” Capone found himself trapped inside a prison...
An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
The director herself calls An Easy Girl a “simple film on a complex subject,” which is as fine a one-liner as I’ll ever come up with. This is a straightforward coming-of-age story from France, a country for whom this is almost a national cliché, but elevated by a key eye for gender roles of its protagonists and an up-to-date message for a teenage generation growing up in a #MeToo world. – Ed F. (full review)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Capone (Josh Trank)
Thanks to a bout of syphilis contracted before the age of fifteen, Alphonse Gabriel “Scarface” Capone found himself trapped inside a prison...
- 8/14/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
An intellectually stimulating art-house treasure all too easily overlooked amid the near-constant flood of Netflix content, “An Easy Girl” depicts a transformative summer in the life of a 16-year-old girl, but not the one described in the film’s title. That label — which writer-director Rebecca Zlotowski employs ironically, calling into question the patriarchal idea that a woman’s worth is tied up in how “hard to get” she plays it — refers to the protagonist’s 22-year-old cousin, no girl at all, but a comely temptress who breezes into the coastal French city of Cannes like a seductive tropical storm, turning heads and jostling perceptions wherever she goes.
Shifting gears from her widely panned “Planetarium”, Zlotowski delivers a relatively modest but far more thought-provoking project — a Rohmerian moral tale, à “La Collectionneuse,” with a shrewd feminist twist. It’s at once a striking auteur statement (launched during Director’s Fortnight at...
Shifting gears from her widely panned “Planetarium”, Zlotowski delivers a relatively modest but far more thought-provoking project — a Rohmerian moral tale, à “La Collectionneuse,” with a shrewd feminist twist. It’s at once a striking auteur statement (launched during Director’s Fortnight at...
- 8/13/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Before the major haul that’s landing tomorrow to see you through the weekend, Netflix has added two new movies this Thursday which you may wish to check out. Though very different films, they’re both critically acclaimed and well worth a watch. Specifically, they’re a French coming-of-age drama and a sci-fi indie flick.
First of all, An Easy Girl (Une fille facile) stars Mina Farid as Naima, a 16-year-old girl figuring out her path in life who’s drawn into her free-spirited cousin Sofia’s (Zahia Dehar) wild lifestyle despite the warnings of her family and friends. As directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, it won the Best French-language Film gong at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It was released in France earlier this year and is now being distributed overseas by Netflix.
Secondly, there’s 2012’s Safety Not Guaranteed, which is notable for being the directorial debut of Colin Trevorrow,...
First of all, An Easy Girl (Une fille facile) stars Mina Farid as Naima, a 16-year-old girl figuring out her path in life who’s drawn into her free-spirited cousin Sofia’s (Zahia Dehar) wild lifestyle despite the warnings of her family and friends. As directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, it won the Best French-language Film gong at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It was released in France earlier this year and is now being distributed overseas by Netflix.
Secondly, there’s 2012’s Safety Not Guaranteed, which is notable for being the directorial debut of Colin Trevorrow,...
- 8/13/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Building on a busy month for library expansions, Netflix are now planning to put up a number of new titles this week. In terms of what’s coming from August 10th to August 16th, highlights include four seasons of The Legend of Korra, original movie Project Power, and critical favorites such as Nightcrawler. What, then, can we expect from the streamer in the next few days?
Well, the aforementioned Project Power has been gradually generating buzz over its concept, wherein a drug lord provides users with a product that can temporarily grant superpowers. Set in New Orleans, the Netflix picture stars Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with directing duties falling to Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. You can catch the trailer for this one up above, with the film arriving on August 14th.
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Well, the aforementioned Project Power has been gradually generating buzz over its concept, wherein a drug lord provides users with a product that can temporarily grant superpowers. Set in New Orleans, the Netflix picture stars Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with directing duties falling to Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. You can catch the trailer for this one up above, with the film arriving on August 14th.
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- 8/9/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
Long, hot days and nights of adolescent self-discovery abound in the movies, from Bonjour Tristesse to Eve’s Bayou, Tomboy to An Easy Girl
Whether you’ve managed to briefly get away from home or remained in a state of semi-lockdown, nobody has had exactly the summer they planned in 2020. And while we can all bemoan things we’ve missed out on in this lost season, it’s hard not to feel most for the young: summer, after all, is when kids are supposed to discover themselves and each other in an environment of balmy, untrammelled freedom.
Pending the return of that, there are plenty of coming-of-age movies out there to remind us what a youthful summer is supposed to be like. With little fanfare, Netflix is premiering one of the best recent ones this week. Rebecca Zlotowski’s lovely An Easy Girl (2019) sees the talented French film-maker rallying from the...
Whether you’ve managed to briefly get away from home or remained in a state of semi-lockdown, nobody has had exactly the summer they planned in 2020. And while we can all bemoan things we’ve missed out on in this lost season, it’s hard not to feel most for the young: summer, after all, is when kids are supposed to discover themselves and each other in an environment of balmy, untrammelled freedom.
Pending the return of that, there are plenty of coming-of-age movies out there to remind us what a youthful summer is supposed to be like. With little fanfare, Netflix is premiering one of the best recent ones this week. Rebecca Zlotowski’s lovely An Easy Girl (2019) sees the talented French film-maker rallying from the...
- 8/8/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix is adding a seriously impressive line-up of content across August. In a bid to keep you indoors and out of the sun, the streaming giant has got a wide range of titles coming to its library next month, including various highly-anticipated original movies and TV shows, as well as countless beloved films that are being added – or are returning – to the site.
We’ve previously had a couple of updates on what to expect in August, but this is the full official list of everything that’s due on Netflix over the course of next month. As we already knew, some of the highlights include Jamie Foxx superhero vehicle Project Power and the fifth and penultimate season of DC’s Lucifer. Now, however, we can see there’s a lot more to look forward to besides just that.
The first day of August, in particular, brings a whole heap of titles.
We’ve previously had a couple of updates on what to expect in August, but this is the full official list of everything that’s due on Netflix over the course of next month. As we already knew, some of the highlights include Jamie Foxx superhero vehicle Project Power and the fifth and penultimate season of DC’s Lucifer. Now, however, we can see there’s a lot more to look forward to besides just that.
The first day of August, in particular, brings a whole heap of titles.
- 7/22/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Now that we’re two thirds of the way through July, we’ve got a pretty good idea of what’s coming to Netflix next month. New titles are being added all the time and while some days remain lacking in content at present, on the whole we know what to expect on the streaming service in August. As always, there’s a huge variety, too, from foreign titles to documentaries to new TV series to much-anticipated Netflix originals.
Some of the more notable additions to the line-up that have been added since it was first announced last week include 2003’s Seabiscuit, the jockey drama starring Tobey Maguire, and the next season of Transformers Rescue Bots Academy, both coming on the first day of the month. And remember, this is far from the full list of new arrivals for August, as it only encompasses what’s been announced so far,...
Some of the more notable additions to the line-up that have been added since it was first announced last week include 2003’s Seabiscuit, the jockey drama starring Tobey Maguire, and the next season of Transformers Rescue Bots Academy, both coming on the first day of the month. And remember, this is far from the full list of new arrivals for August, as it only encompasses what’s been announced so far,...
- 7/20/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
Philippe (Benoît Magimel) and Andres (Nuno Lopes) with Calypso (Clotilde Courau) in Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile)
At the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, just days before the announcement came that Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile), co-written with Teddy Lussi-Modeste, and starring Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel and Nuno Lopes would be the last screening of the festival, I met with the director at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Governor Andrew M Cuomo announced at that time (March 13) that he was limiting gathering in public spaces due to the coronavirus pandemic in New York, which eventually led to the closing of all cinemas by March 16.
Rebecca Zlotowski on Benoît Magimel: “There’s something about him being very melancholic, very sad.”
In the second half of my conversation with Rebecca Zlotowski, André Gide, Marguerite Duras,...
At the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, just days before the announcement came that Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile), co-written with Teddy Lussi-Modeste, and starring Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel and Nuno Lopes would be the last screening of the festival, I met with the director at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Governor Andrew M Cuomo announced at that time (March 13) that he was limiting gathering in public spaces due to the coronavirus pandemic in New York, which eventually led to the closing of all cinemas by March 16.
Rebecca Zlotowski on Benoît Magimel: “There’s something about him being very melancholic, very sad.”
In the second half of my conversation with Rebecca Zlotowski, André Gide, Marguerite Duras,...
- 3/26/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Before everything went to hell with the Covid-19, I was prepping for attending Film at Lincoln Center's annual Rendezvous with French Cinema Festival, as I've been covering it for Screen Anarchy for the last several years. I was even lucky enough to have a chat with lovely director Rebecca Zlotowski about her seductive new film An Easy Girl, starring a French tabloid sensation, Zahia Dehar. Dehar made headlines in 2009 in a sex scandal involving players in French National Footbal team. She was a minor at the time. She later used her notoriety to be an internet celebrity and entrepreneur. A few days after our conversation, the citywide quarantine hit. With the movie slated to come out this summer, tentatively, here...
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- 3/25/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Nicolas Vanier’s Spread Your Wings (Donne-Moi Des Ailes) and Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s South Terminal (Terminal Sud) screenings cancelled
UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, which was to run through March 15 at the Walter Reade Theater in New York, was aborted yesterday due to the announcement by Governor Cuomo on the coronavirus pandemic limiting gathering in public spaces. Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile) which started at 4:00pm on Thursday was the last screening of the festival.
Burning Ghost director Stéphane Batut, who was in town and expected to participate in a Q&a had his screening canceled. On Wednesday, March 4, it was announced by UniFrance that the French delegation would not be attending. Who You Think I Am director Safy Nebbou and Rebecca Zlotowski, along with Batut were the only three filmmakers who attended.
Two films, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s...
UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, which was to run through March 15 at the Walter Reade Theater in New York, was aborted yesterday due to the announcement by Governor Cuomo on the coronavirus pandemic limiting gathering in public spaces. Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile) which started at 4:00pm on Thursday was the last screening of the festival.
Burning Ghost director Stéphane Batut, who was in town and expected to participate in a Q&a had his screening canceled. On Wednesday, March 4, it was announced by UniFrance that the French delegation would not be attending. Who You Think I Am director Safy Nebbou and Rebecca Zlotowski, along with Batut were the only three filmmakers who attended.
Two films, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s...
- 3/13/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rebecca Zlotowski on intertextuality in An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile): “It’s a reproduction of the prologue of the summer tale by Éric Rohmer, the beginning of La Collectionneuse is Haydée Politoff, the main actress on the beach, shot exactly the same.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is nothing easy about being an easy girl in Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile), co-written with Teddy Lussi-Modeste, shot by Georges Lechaptois, which is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema.
Naïma (Mina Farid), Sofia (Zahia Dehar), Philippe (Benoît Magimel), and Andres (Nuno Lopes) in An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile)
Naïma (Mina Farid) has just turned 16. She lives in Cannes with her mother who works as a maid in one of the fancy hotels. When her older bombshell cousin Sofia (Zahia Dehar) visits for the summer, a new chapter begins in her life. Naima is in awe...
There is nothing easy about being an easy girl in Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile), co-written with Teddy Lussi-Modeste, shot by Georges Lechaptois, which is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema.
Naïma (Mina Farid), Sofia (Zahia Dehar), Philippe (Benoît Magimel), and Andres (Nuno Lopes) in An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile)
Naïma (Mina Farid) has just turned 16. She lives in Cannes with her mother who works as a maid in one of the fancy hotels. When her older bombshell cousin Sofia (Zahia Dehar) visits for the summer, a new chapter begins in her life. Naima is in awe...
- 3/13/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité) star Ethan Hawke: "If you guys could be with these remarkable women, as I was, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche. They think differently and they speak differently and approach our work differently.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
On Wednesday, March 4, it was announced by UniFrance that the French delegation, including UniFrance President Serge Toubiana, Lucie Borleteau, Maïmouna Doucouré, Mehdi Idir, Claude Lelouch, Valérie Perrin, Chiara Mastroianni, Mounia Meddour, Nicolas Pariser, Bruno Dumont, Sarah Suco, Pascal Bonitzer, Cédric Klapisch, Alice Winocour, and Juliette Binoche would not be attending Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York. Who You Think I Am (Celle Que Vous Croyez) director Safy Nebbou and An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile) director Rebecca Zlotowski are still scheduled to do a Q&a.
Juliette Binoche with sea turtle: “I can say that this film had been a dream. I had been nagging Kore-eda...
On Wednesday, March 4, it was announced by UniFrance that the French delegation, including UniFrance President Serge Toubiana, Lucie Borleteau, Maïmouna Doucouré, Mehdi Idir, Claude Lelouch, Valérie Perrin, Chiara Mastroianni, Mounia Meddour, Nicolas Pariser, Bruno Dumont, Sarah Suco, Pascal Bonitzer, Cédric Klapisch, Alice Winocour, and Juliette Binoche would not be attending Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York. Who You Think I Am (Celle Que Vous Croyez) director Safy Nebbou and An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile) director Rebecca Zlotowski are still scheduled to do a Q&a.
Juliette Binoche with sea turtle: “I can say that this film had been a dream. I had been nagging Kore-eda...
- 3/6/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile) featuring Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes, Clotilde Courau and Lakdhar Dridi, is a Rendez-Vous with French Cinema highlight Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Early Bird highlights in the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center 25th edition include Nicolas Pariser’s Alice And The Mayor (Alice Et Le maire), starring Anaïs Demoustier and Fabrice Luchini with Antoine Reinartz and Nora Hamzawi; Alice Winocour’s Proxima with Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Sandra Hüller, and Lars Eidinger, score by Ryuichi Sakamoto; Bruno Dumont's Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), his sequel to Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan of Arc, starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme, and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile).
Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Early Bird highlights in the UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center 25th edition include Nicolas Pariser’s Alice And The Mayor (Alice Et Le maire), starring Anaïs Demoustier and Fabrice Luchini with Antoine Reinartz and Nora Hamzawi; Alice Winocour’s Proxima with Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Sandra Hüller, and Lars Eidinger, score by Ryuichi Sakamoto; Bruno Dumont's Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), his sequel to Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan of Arc, starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme, and Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile).
Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette.
- 2/24/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Christophe Honoré’s On A Magical Night (Chambre 212) is to screen in New York’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center announced the 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema lineup of 22 feature films and free Special Events. Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette Binoche (Safy Nebbou’s Who You Think I Am - Celle Que Vous Croyez), and Ethan Hawke, who is currently at Sundance in Michael Almereyda’s Tesla opposite Kyle MacLachlan, and on the Us Dramatic Competition jury with Wash Westmorland, Dee Rees, and Isabella Rossellini.
Ethan Hawke stars with Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Bruno Dumont’s Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile), Claude Lelouch...
UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center announced the 25th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema lineup of 22 feature films and free Special Events. Opening the festival is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth (La Vérité), starring Catherine Deneuve (also in Cédric Kahn’s Happy Birthday - Fête De Famille), Juliette Binoche (Safy Nebbou’s Who You Think I Am - Celle Que Vous Croyez), and Ethan Hawke, who is currently at Sundance in Michael Almereyda’s Tesla opposite Kyle MacLachlan, and on the Us Dramatic Competition jury with Wash Westmorland, Dee Rees, and Isabella Rossellini.
Ethan Hawke stars with Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Bruno Dumont’s Joan Of Arc (Jeanne), Rebecca Zlotowski’s An Easy Girl (Une Fille Facile), Claude Lelouch...
- 1/23/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center have set the lineup for the 25th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (March 5–15), the annual New York mini-festival dedicated to French filmmaking. The event will open with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s drama The Truth, starring Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve and Ethan Hawke.
For the first time, the festival is introducing an Audience Award. Additionally, the festival is expanding its industry-facing events with a day-long networking event to bring together French sales agents, French producers, and American industry on Friday, March 6.
Highlights of the 22-film lineup include Christophe Honoré’s On a Magical Night, for which Chiara Mastroianni won an award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section; Quentin Dupieux’s satire Deerskin, starring Oscar winner Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel; Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc, which received a Cannes Special Jury Mention; Mounia Meddour’s Papicha, the story of young women’s resistance...
For the first time, the festival is introducing an Audience Award. Additionally, the festival is expanding its industry-facing events with a day-long networking event to bring together French sales agents, French producers, and American industry on Friday, March 6.
Highlights of the 22-film lineup include Christophe Honoré’s On a Magical Night, for which Chiara Mastroianni won an award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section; Quentin Dupieux’s satire Deerskin, starring Oscar winner Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel; Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc, which received a Cannes Special Jury Mention; Mounia Meddour’s Papicha, the story of young women’s resistance...
- 1/23/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Bruno Dumont’s “Joan of Arc (“Jeanne”), a semi-musical period drama that world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won a special mention in the Un Certain Regard section, has received the Louis Delluc prize from French Critics.
The jury of the Louis Delluc prize is headed by Gilles Jacob, the former president of the Cannes Film Festival.
Dumont’s film follows the journey of the young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme), who believes that God has chosen her and leads the king of France’s army in the 15th century as both France and England fight for the French throne. When she is captured, the church sends her for trial on charges of heresy.
“Joan of Arc,” which is a follow-up to Dumont’s 2017 film “Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc,” beat out Alain Cavalier’s “Living and Knowing You’re Alive,” Francois Ozon’s “By the Grace of God,...
The jury of the Louis Delluc prize is headed by Gilles Jacob, the former president of the Cannes Film Festival.
Dumont’s film follows the journey of the young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme), who believes that God has chosen her and leads the king of France’s army in the 15th century as both France and England fight for the French throne. When she is captured, the church sends her for trial on charges of heresy.
“Joan of Arc,” which is a follow-up to Dumont’s 2017 film “Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc,” beat out Alain Cavalier’s “Living and Knowing You’re Alive,” Francois Ozon’s “By the Grace of God,...
- 12/9/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Jury Prize winner is also France’s submission to the Oscars this year.
Ladj Ly’s debut feature and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, revolving around social tensions in a tough Paris suburb, is the frontrunner in the 25th edition of France’s Lumière awards this year, with seven nominations.
The awards which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Les Misérables has been nominated for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, first film and twice in the best new actor section for two of its cast members,...
Ladj Ly’s debut feature and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, revolving around social tensions in a tough Paris suburb, is the frontrunner in the 25th edition of France’s Lumière awards this year, with seven nominations.
The awards which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Les Misérables has been nominated for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, first film and twice in the best new actor section for two of its cast members,...
- 12/3/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Reverberations from the 2018 Women’s March in Cannes echoed all the way to the Bell Lightbox this year as the Toronto Intl. Film Festival played host to a social-minded pack of filmmakers transforming the French industry.
Alongside projects from women’s march leaders Céline Sciamma (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”), Rebecca Zlotowski (“Savages”) and the late Agnès Varda (“Varda by Agnès”), the festival screened works from rising talents Justine Triet (“Sibyl”), Mati Diop (“Atlantics”) and Alice Winocour (“Proxima”) — and the fact that they all hit Toronto at the same time is not some happy accident.
“There’s definitely a new generation of women filmmakers in France, and they are creating a new wave,” says Iris Brey, a Franco-American author and academic. “Even if they’re all very different, and offer different cinematic experiences, they represent an emerging group that has decided to tell their stories from a feminine point of view.
Alongside projects from women’s march leaders Céline Sciamma (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”), Rebecca Zlotowski (“Savages”) and the late Agnès Varda (“Varda by Agnès”), the festival screened works from rising talents Justine Triet (“Sibyl”), Mati Diop (“Atlantics”) and Alice Winocour (“Proxima”) — and the fact that they all hit Toronto at the same time is not some happy accident.
“There’s definitely a new generation of women filmmakers in France, and they are creating a new wave,” says Iris Brey, a Franco-American author and academic. “Even if they’re all very different, and offer different cinematic experiences, they represent an emerging group that has decided to tell their stories from a feminine point of view.
- 9/25/2019
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Toronto-bowed “Savages,” the kinetic, taut political thriller from Vivendi’s Canal Plus, imagines a French Obama – Idder Chaouch, of Algerian descent, played by a stately Roschdy Zem – poised in Paris to rule France as its first Maghrebi president.
If he survives an assassination attempt.
Yet, created and co-written by novelist Sabri Louatah and cineast Rebecca Zlotowski, who also directs, the six-part limited series kicks off, in a total declaration of intentions, 250 miles south in the dowdy city of Saint-Étienne.
From a slow sweep establishing shot, it’s a motley, downbeat mix of high-rise council apartment blocks and hills. Cut to two sisters, Dounia and Rabia Nerrouche, in a car, running through the guest list for the wedding of Slim, Dounia’s youngest.
“Arab, Arab, Arab! Mekloufi, Arab. Sahraoui, Arab. Benboudaud, big fat Arab! All Arabs: Are you serious?” asks Rabia in semi-mock disgust, using a more derogatory word in French for “Arab.
If he survives an assassination attempt.
Yet, created and co-written by novelist Sabri Louatah and cineast Rebecca Zlotowski, who also directs, the six-part limited series kicks off, in a total declaration of intentions, 250 miles south in the dowdy city of Saint-Étienne.
From a slow sweep establishing shot, it’s a motley, downbeat mix of high-rise council apartment blocks and hills. Cut to two sisters, Dounia and Rabia Nerrouche, in a car, running through the guest list for the wedding of Slim, Dounia’s youngest.
“Arab, Arab, Arab! Mekloufi, Arab. Sahraoui, Arab. Benboudaud, big fat Arab! All Arabs: Are you serious?” asks Rabia in semi-mock disgust, using a more derogatory word in French for “Arab.
- 9/11/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
International sales supremo to focus on deepening feature film sales activities and auteur talent management.
Pan-European production and distribution group Wild Bunch Sa announced on Monday that it has reorganised its structure so that its international sales department will become a standalone company led by its founder and long-time chief Vincent Maraval.
The new company – which will retain the name Wild Bunch International (Wbi) - will function as a subsidiary rather than as an in-house sales department.
The team will remain the same and it will continue to be based in the Paris offices of parent company Wild Bunch Sa,...
Pan-European production and distribution group Wild Bunch Sa announced on Monday that it has reorganised its structure so that its international sales department will become a standalone company led by its founder and long-time chief Vincent Maraval.
The new company – which will retain the name Wild Bunch International (Wbi) - will function as a subsidiary rather than as an in-house sales department.
The team will remain the same and it will continue to be based in the Paris offices of parent company Wild Bunch Sa,...
- 7/1/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Wild Bunch is spinning off its international sales operation as a standalone company launched by French film industry veteran Vincent Maraval and Brahim Chioua, two of Wild Bunch’s co-founders.
The new outfit, Wild Bunch International (Wbi), which is being set up as a subsidiary of Wild Bunch, will handle world distribution on French and foreign films. Its aim is to handle 20 to 30 films per year, according to documents filed at the Paris commercial court. Wbi will pick up all of Wild Bunch’s sales business, including on library titles, even though the library will still be owned by Wild Bunch, a company rep told Variety.
In a statement, Wild Bunch said that the new setup would enable Wild Bunch to “expand its portfolio of film financing and sales activities, including working with third-party partners.”
“For our international sales department, this streamlined structure offers exciting growth prospects that will benefit...
The new outfit, Wild Bunch International (Wbi), which is being set up as a subsidiary of Wild Bunch, will handle world distribution on French and foreign films. Its aim is to handle 20 to 30 films per year, according to documents filed at the Paris commercial court. Wbi will pick up all of Wild Bunch’s sales business, including on library titles, even though the library will still be owned by Wild Bunch, a company rep told Variety.
In a statement, Wild Bunch said that the new setup would enable Wild Bunch to “expand its portfolio of film financing and sales activities, including working with third-party partners.”
“For our international sales department, this streamlined structure offers exciting growth prospects that will benefit...
- 7/1/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
European film stalwart Wild Bunch is undergoing an internal reorganization with the formation of Wild Bunch International, a subsidiary focused specifically on international film sales.
The demarcation establishes the existing Wild Bunch international sales department as a stand-alone company with the ambition for it to expand its portfolio of film financing and sales activities, including working with third-party partners.
Vincent Maraval will continue to lead the international team, which Wild Bunch says remains unchanged, from its existing Paris location. Parent company Wild Bunch Sa will handle Wbi’s administrative functions.
The German-French Wild Bunch Group last year struck a $130M financial restructuring plan with its creditors, including Swb Finance B.V., a company owned by Wild Bunch’s biggest German shareholder, Lars Windhorst. The backing was needed to reduce sizable debt.
“For our international sales department, this streamlined structure offers exciting growth prospects that will benefit the entire Wild Bunch...
The demarcation establishes the existing Wild Bunch international sales department as a stand-alone company with the ambition for it to expand its portfolio of film financing and sales activities, including working with third-party partners.
Vincent Maraval will continue to lead the international team, which Wild Bunch says remains unchanged, from its existing Paris location. Parent company Wild Bunch Sa will handle Wbi’s administrative functions.
The German-French Wild Bunch Group last year struck a $130M financial restructuring plan with its creditors, including Swb Finance B.V., a company owned by Wild Bunch’s biggest German shareholder, Lars Windhorst. The backing was needed to reduce sizable debt.
“For our international sales department, this streamlined structure offers exciting growth prospects that will benefit the entire Wild Bunch...
- 7/1/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski has signed with CAA following her most recent Cannes showing with An Easy Girl, which won the Sacd Prize in last month’s Directors’ Fortnight. Zlotowski is a Cannes regular whose feature debut, Belle Epine, screened in Critics’ Week in 2010 winning the Grand Prize for best first film. It also took the prestigious Louis Delluc award that year.
Zlotowski’s follow-up, Grand Central, ran in Un Certain Regard in 2013 while her third feature, The Summoning, was in the 2016 Venice Film Festival and also screened at Toronto.
The writer/director is currently in post-production on her first miniseries, Les Sauvages, for Canal Plus. A family saga set against a backdrop of politics and social tensions in contemporary France, it’s based on the novel by Sabri Louatah who co-adapted with Zlotowski. Roschdy Zem, Marina Foïs and Amira Casar star.
An Easy Girl, which took the French...
Zlotowski’s follow-up, Grand Central, ran in Un Certain Regard in 2013 while her third feature, The Summoning, was in the 2016 Venice Film Festival and also screened at Toronto.
The writer/director is currently in post-production on her first miniseries, Les Sauvages, for Canal Plus. A family saga set against a backdrop of politics and social tensions in contemporary France, it’s based on the novel by Sabri Louatah who co-adapted with Zlotowski. Roschdy Zem, Marina Foïs and Amira Casar star.
An Easy Girl, which took the French...
- 6/4/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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