The Swiss/French “Dog on Trial” is set to disrupt, move and entertain the Croisette from what is revealed in a first clip from sales outfit MK2 Films, exclusively shared with Variety.
The film world premieres at Cannes Un Certain Regard May 19.
Writer/actor-turned-director Laetitia Dosch, who delivered what Variety reviewer Peter Debruge called a ‘blazing-wildfire performance’ in the 2017 Camera d’or winner “Jeune Femme”, is herself taking a chance this year on the coveted award. Meanwhile Cosmos the Dog (aka Kodi in the film) will battle for the leather dog collar Palme Dog win.
As the main protagonist Alice, Dosch wears an attorney’s gown to defend the four-legged Cosmos, accused of multiple bite attacks. Known for taking up lost causes, she will rise to the challenge, confront the legal system and advocate both for animal rights and women’s rights.
Next to Dosch and the dog Kodi, the...
The film world premieres at Cannes Un Certain Regard May 19.
Writer/actor-turned-director Laetitia Dosch, who delivered what Variety reviewer Peter Debruge called a ‘blazing-wildfire performance’ in the 2017 Camera d’or winner “Jeune Femme”, is herself taking a chance this year on the coveted award. Meanwhile Cosmos the Dog (aka Kodi in the film) will battle for the leather dog collar Palme Dog win.
As the main protagonist Alice, Dosch wears an attorney’s gown to defend the four-legged Cosmos, accused of multiple bite attacks. Known for taking up lost causes, she will rise to the challenge, confront the legal system and advocate both for animal rights and women’s rights.
Next to Dosch and the dog Kodi, the...
- 5/17/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Both features will form part of Paris-based mk2 films’ line-up at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris event this week.
mk2 films, the sales outfit behind Anatomy Of A Fall and How To Have Sex, has acquired Jonathan Millet’s thriller Ghost Trail and Laetitia Dosch’s high-concept comedy Who Let the Dog Bite? ahead of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema that opens tomorrow in Paris.
Inspired by real-life events, Ghost Trail is about a Syrian man pursuing some of the people who perpetrated horrors in the name of the regime during the civil war. His mission takes him to France...
mk2 films, the sales outfit behind Anatomy Of A Fall and How To Have Sex, has acquired Jonathan Millet’s thriller Ghost Trail and Laetitia Dosch’s high-concept comedy Who Let the Dog Bite? ahead of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema that opens tomorrow in Paris.
Inspired by real-life events, Ghost Trail is about a Syrian man pursuing some of the people who perpetrated horrors in the name of the regime during the civil war. His mission takes him to France...
- 1/15/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based Playtime has unveiled a strong Cannes film market sales slate, which includes competition titles “About Dry Grasses” and “Homecoming.”
“About Dry Grasses” is by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who won the Palme d’Or in 2014 for “Winter Sleep.” The film follows Samet, a young art teacher, who is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in, and hopes that his encounter with fellow teacher Nuray will help him overcome his angst. Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar and Musab Ekici are among the cast.
“Homecoming,” by French director Catherine Corsini who won the 2021 Queer Palm for “The Divide,” follows Khédidja, who minds a wealthy Parisian family’s children for a summer in Corsica. She brings along her own two...
“About Dry Grasses” is by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who won the Palme d’Or in 2014 for “Winter Sleep.” The film follows Samet, a young art teacher, who is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in, and hopes that his encounter with fellow teacher Nuray will help him overcome his angst. Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar and Musab Ekici are among the cast.
“Homecoming,” by French director Catherine Corsini who won the 2021 Queer Palm for “The Divide,” follows Khédidja, who minds a wealthy Parisian family’s children for a summer in Corsica. She brings along her own two...
- 5/2/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Le plus vivant possible
We had Delphine Girard‘s Le plus vivant possible has a possible 2022 drop, but perhaps there wasn’t enough time in post for this to happen. Winner of the Arte Kino International Award as part of the Coproduction Village of Les Arcs Film Festival in 2020, this feature is based on her short film Une soeur, production on her debut took place in March of 2021 in Brussels. Girard re-teamed with Veerle Baetens and a supporting cast comprised of Selma Alaoui, Guillaume Duhesme, Anne Dorval. Previously, the Belgian filmmaker had three shorts and was a second assistant director for Maïwenn’s Polisse and Bavo Defurne’s Souvenir.…...
We had Delphine Girard‘s Le plus vivant possible has a possible 2022 drop, but perhaps there wasn’t enough time in post for this to happen. Winner of the Arte Kino International Award as part of the Coproduction Village of Les Arcs Film Festival in 2020, this feature is based on her short film Une soeur, production on her debut took place in March of 2021 in Brussels. Girard re-teamed with Veerle Baetens and a supporting cast comprised of Selma Alaoui, Guillaume Duhesme, Anne Dorval. Previously, the Belgian filmmaker had three shorts and was a second assistant director for Maïwenn’s Polisse and Bavo Defurne’s Souvenir.…...
- 1/13/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Willie Nelson in a scene from ‘Willie Nelson and Family’ (Photo Courtesy of Sundance Institute)
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s lineup will include 64 Short Films and four Indie Episodic projects. More than 10,000 short film submissions were received, and the 64 selected represent work from 23 countries. 519 Indie Episodic submissions were submitted and the four selected represent five countries.
The 2023 Festival will take place in person from January 19–29. Select films will be available online beginning January 24th.
“Short films and episodic projects are an integral aspect of the overall mission of the Sundance Institute — to empower artists who are taking risks, bringing new perspectives to the forefront, and creating work that entertains and provokes conversation,” stated Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “These platforms provide artists with the ability to expand beyond the boundaries of traditional cinema, while also motivating a unique creativity through an ever expanding format.”
Indie Episodic
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The 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s lineup will include 64 Short Films and four Indie Episodic projects. More than 10,000 short film submissions were received, and the 64 selected represent work from 23 countries. 519 Indie Episodic submissions were submitted and the four selected represent five countries.
The 2023 Festival will take place in person from January 19–29. Select films will be available online beginning January 24th.
“Short films and episodic projects are an integral aspect of the overall mission of the Sundance Institute — to empower artists who are taking risks, bringing new perspectives to the forefront, and creating work that entertains and provokes conversation,” stated Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “These platforms provide artists with the ability to expand beyond the boundaries of traditional cinema, while also motivating a unique creativity through an ever expanding format.”
Indie Episodic
Chanshi...
- 12/13/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival officially announced the Shorts and Indie Episodic programs.
Notable artists and talent in the shorts program include Paul Feig, Angela Sarafyan, Kate Flannery, Yalitza Aparicio Martinez, Angela Trimbur, Ken Marino, Bi Gan, and Shannon Plumb. Selections range from more than 23 countries, including Iran and Ukraine.
The Sundance Institute will offer in-person premieres for the Indie Episodic works, with Shorts screened in curated programs. Beginning January 24, all Indie Episodic projects and selected Shorts will also be available to stream online through the end of the festival. The 2023 festival will take place January 19 through 29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29.
This upcoming year’s Short Film program includes work from 23 countries, and the Indie Episodic represents works from five countries. Forty-six percent of the filmmakers identify as women, and filmmakers...
Notable artists and talent in the shorts program include Paul Feig, Angela Sarafyan, Kate Flannery, Yalitza Aparicio Martinez, Angela Trimbur, Ken Marino, Bi Gan, and Shannon Plumb. Selections range from more than 23 countries, including Iran and Ukraine.
The Sundance Institute will offer in-person premieres for the Indie Episodic works, with Shorts screened in curated programs. Beginning January 24, all Indie Episodic projects and selected Shorts will also be available to stream online through the end of the festival. The 2023 festival will take place January 19 through 29, 2023, in person in Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort, along with a selection of films available online across the country January 24–29.
This upcoming year’s Short Film program includes work from 23 countries, and the Indie Episodic represents works from five countries. Forty-six percent of the filmmakers identify as women, and filmmakers...
- 12/13/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday revealed its 2023 lineup of episodic projects and 64 shorts, the latter culled from the fest’s highest number of submissions at 10,981.
The shorts span 23 countries, including projects from Iran (Azheh) and Ukraine (Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles), with works from such artists as Paul Feig (Help Me Understand producer), Westworld actress Angela Sarafyan (Power Signal), The Office‘s Kate Flannery (Help Me Understand), Roma‘s Yalitza Aparicio Martinez (Sweatshop Girl), The Feels’ Angela Trimbur (Mirror Party), Party Down‘s Ken Marino (Help Me Understand), Bi Gan (director of Cannes Certain Regard title A Long Days Journey Into Night director) and Shannon Plumb (Walk of Shame) to name a few.
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The shorts span 23 countries, including projects from Iran (Azheh) and Ukraine (Liturgy of anti-tank obstacles), with works from such artists as Paul Feig (Help Me Understand producer), Westworld actress Angela Sarafyan (Power Signal), The Office‘s Kate Flannery (Help Me Understand), Roma‘s Yalitza Aparicio Martinez (Sweatshop Girl), The Feels’ Angela Trimbur (Mirror Party), Party Down‘s Ken Marino (Help Me Understand), Bi Gan (director of Cannes Certain Regard title A Long Days Journey Into Night director) and Shannon Plumb (Walk of Shame) to name a few.
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- 12/13/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Festival also unveils 64 shorts.
Sundance Film Festival organisers have unveiled four Indie Episodic series including the first authorised work exploring the life of American musician Willie Nelson and new work from Xavier Dolan, as well as 64 short films.
Thom Zimny and Oren Moverman directed Willie Nelson And Family for Blackbird Presents and Sight Unseen and the documentary series chronicles the ups and downs of Nelson’s life. The festival will premiere two of five episodes.
The Indie Episodics line-up includes The Night Logan Woke Up from Xavier Dolan, the French Canadian filmmaker behind features like Mommy and I Killed My Mother.
Sundance Film Festival organisers have unveiled four Indie Episodic series including the first authorised work exploring the life of American musician Willie Nelson and new work from Xavier Dolan, as well as 64 short films.
Thom Zimny and Oren Moverman directed Willie Nelson And Family for Blackbird Presents and Sight Unseen and the documentary series chronicles the ups and downs of Nelson’s life. The festival will premiere two of five episodes.
The Indie Episodics line-up includes The Night Logan Woke Up from Xavier Dolan, the French Canadian filmmaker behind features like Mommy and I Killed My Mother.
- 12/13/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Le plus vivant possible
With three shorts under her belt and noteworthy second assistant director gigs for Maïwenn’s Polisse and Bavo Defurne’s Souvenir, Belgian filmmaker Delphine Girard has in part charted a course into feature filmmaking with a project that is, in some capacity, based on Une soeur – the short film that won her a trip to the final round of the Oscars in the Best Live Action Short Film (2020). With production set to begin in March in Brussels, Girard with reteamed with Veerle Baetens, Selma Alaoui and Guillaume Duhesme with the added presence of Anne Dorval. Le plus vivant possible won the ArteKino International Award as part of the Coproduction Village of Les Arcs Film Festival in 2020.…...
With three shorts under her belt and noteworthy second assistant director gigs for Maïwenn’s Polisse and Bavo Defurne’s Souvenir, Belgian filmmaker Delphine Girard has in part charted a course into feature filmmaking with a project that is, in some capacity, based on Une soeur – the short film that won her a trip to the final round of the Oscars in the Best Live Action Short Film (2020). With production set to begin in March in Brussels, Girard with reteamed with Veerle Baetens, Selma Alaoui and Guillaume Duhesme with the added presence of Anne Dorval. Le plus vivant possible won the ArteKino International Award as part of the Coproduction Village of Les Arcs Film Festival in 2020.…...
- 1/7/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
At its 104th session, the Walloon regional investment fund decided to support 10 projects with a total of €1.5 million. At its 104th session, the Walloon regional investment fund Wallimage has granted its support to 10 new projects. Standing out among them are two Belgian feature debuts, from Delphine Girard and Mathias Sercu. Last January, young filmmaker Delphine Girard won the ArteKino International Award as part of the Coproduction Village of Les Arcs Film Festival, for her feature debut, Most Alive. The director was also noted a few months ago for her short film Une soeur, which qualified for the final round of the Oscars. Her feature debut reunites her with the excellent cast of her short film, who will be joined by Canadian actress Anne Dorval. The film is produced by Belgian...
The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman sat down with director Jean-Philippe Duval to discuss his film 14 Days, 12 Nights in a THR Presents Q&a powered by Vision Media.
During the half-hour chat, Duval described why the film — Canada’s entry for the 2021 Academy Awards’ international feature film category — touched on subjects that were closer to home than anything he had worked on previously.
14 Days, 12 Nights follows Isabelle (Anne Dorval), a grief-stricken Canadian woman who journeys to Vietnam to visit the birthplace of her adopted daughter following a terrible accident. Touching on themes such as culture, mourning, friendship and ...
During the half-hour chat, Duval described why the film — Canada’s entry for the 2021 Academy Awards’ international feature film category — touched on subjects that were closer to home than anything he had worked on previously.
14 Days, 12 Nights follows Isabelle (Anne Dorval), a grief-stricken Canadian woman who journeys to Vietnam to visit the birthplace of her adopted daughter following a terrible accident. Touching on themes such as culture, mourning, friendship and ...
- 1/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman sat down with director Jean-Philippe Duval to discuss his film 14 Days, 12 Nights in a THR Presents Q&a powered by Vision Media.
During the half-hour chat, Duval described why the film — Canada’s entry for the 2021 Academy Awards’ international feature film category — touched on subjects that were closer to home than anything he had worked on previously.
14 Days, 12 Nights follows Isabelle (Anne Dorval), a grief-stricken Canadian woman who journeys to Vietnam to visit the birthplace of her adopted daughter following a terrible accident. Touching on themes such as culture, mourning, friendship and ...
During the half-hour chat, Duval described why the film — Canada’s entry for the 2021 Academy Awards’ international feature film category — touched on subjects that were closer to home than anything he had worked on previously.
14 Days, 12 Nights follows Isabelle (Anne Dorval), a grief-stricken Canadian woman who journeys to Vietnam to visit the birthplace of her adopted daughter following a terrible accident. Touching on themes such as culture, mourning, friendship and ...
- 1/22/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Following two wins in the past three years, contenders from across the Americas are championing local culture and community.
The lack of physical festivals has not helped any film this year, and the relatively low-key roster from the Americas could have used the opportunity to break out a little-known filmmaker or remind voters of some of the more familiar names in play.
No film from the region made it onto the 10-strong shortlist last season and, despite speculation that some filmmakers might be holding back their latest work for what is hoped will be a return to physical festivals in...
The lack of physical festivals has not helped any film this year, and the relatively low-key roster from the Americas could have used the opportunity to break out a little-known filmmaker or remind voters of some of the more familiar names in play.
No film from the region made it onto the 10-strong shortlist last season and, despite speculation that some filmmakers might be holding back their latest work for what is hoped will be a return to physical festivals in...
- 1/12/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
While the Academy has not yet released the full official list, these are the films Variety has learned have been submitted by various countries in the international film race. The shortlist will be announced Feb. 9 and the nominations on March 15. The Academy Awards ceremony takes place on April 25.
Albania Open Door
Director: Florenc Papas
Key Cast: Luli Bitri, Jonida Vokshi, Gulielm Radoja
Logline: Pregnant woman and her sister try to find a man to pretend to be the mom-to-be’s husband before visiting their traditional father.
Prodco: Bunker Film Plus
Algeria Héliopolis
Director: Djaâfar Gacem
Key cast: Souhila Mallem, Mehdi
Ramdani, Cesar Duminil
Logline: Algerians fight for independence punctuated by the 1945 massacre in the ancient city of Héliopolis.
Prodco: Centre Algérien de Développement du Cinéma
Argentina The Sleepwalkers
Director: Paula Hernández
Key Cast: Érica Rivas, Ornella D’elía, Marilu Marini, Daniel Hendler
Logline: A family drama encompasses the sexual awakening...
Albania Open Door
Director: Florenc Papas
Key Cast: Luli Bitri, Jonida Vokshi, Gulielm Radoja
Logline: Pregnant woman and her sister try to find a man to pretend to be the mom-to-be’s husband before visiting their traditional father.
Prodco: Bunker Film Plus
Algeria Héliopolis
Director: Djaâfar Gacem
Key cast: Souhila Mallem, Mehdi
Ramdani, Cesar Duminil
Logline: Algerians fight for independence punctuated by the 1945 massacre in the ancient city of Héliopolis.
Prodco: Centre Algérien de Développement du Cinéma
Argentina The Sleepwalkers
Director: Paula Hernández
Key Cast: Érica Rivas, Ornella D’elía, Marilu Marini, Daniel Hendler
Logline: A family drama encompasses the sexual awakening...
- 12/23/2020
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety Film + TV
It replaces Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy, which was disqualified for being predominantly in English.
Jean-Philippe Duval’s 14 Days 12 Nights will represent Canada in the international feature film Oscar contest after Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy was disqualified for being predominantly in English.
Telefilm Canada announced the new official submission on Saturday morning (December 19), the day after it pulled Mehta’s coming-of-age drama.
The Academy’s eligibility rules state that submissions in the category must have a language other than English accounting for more than half of the dialogue track.
Anne Dorval (Mommy) stars in 14 Days 12 Nights as a woman...
Jean-Philippe Duval’s 14 Days 12 Nights will represent Canada in the international feature film Oscar contest after Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy was disqualified for being predominantly in English.
Telefilm Canada announced the new official submission on Saturday morning (December 19), the day after it pulled Mehta’s coming-of-age drama.
The Academy’s eligibility rules state that submissions in the category must have a language other than English accounting for more than half of the dialogue track.
Anne Dorval (Mommy) stars in 14 Days 12 Nights as a woman...
- 12/19/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting on August 28, 2020.In 2012, Xavier Dolan made a statement. Anointed as the enfant prodige of the international festival circuit, recipient of reams of applauding critiques, the Canadian child actor-turned-director yet again mesmerized the French Riviera. His Lawrence Anyway, a bittersweet story of unforeseen impermanent love in the face of Lawrence’s quest for self-expression, won Suzanne Clément the Un Certain Regard award for Best Actress and the surprisingly controversial Queer Palm that Dolan refused to accept. In distancing himself from a prize that, in his view, marginalizes and ghettoizes films merely on the basis of their characters’ sexual orientation, Dolan preached a utopian reality, a post-labels dream of unbiased and egalitarian judgement. However, as this may be perceived as a privileged position that fails to acknowledge...
- 8/27/2020
- MUBI
More than a year since the film competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s latest feature “Matthias & Maxime” has finally landed a distributor. Arthouse streaming and distribution service Mubi has landed VOD and TV rights to the coming-of-age drama in the United States, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America (excluding Mexico), and India, and will premiere the film for audiences this summer. A release date is forthcoming.
“Matthias & Maxime” stars Harris Dickinson (breakout from Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats”), Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Dolan regular Anne Dorval, Pier-Luc Funk, and Dolan himself, who hasn’t starred in one of his own films since 2013’s “Tom at the Farm.” “Matthias & Maxime” (played by D’Almeida Freitas and Dolan) focuses on two men in their late 20s whose friendship changes after they’re asked to kiss for a student short.
“Matthias & Maxime” stars Harris Dickinson (breakout from Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats”), Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Dolan regular Anne Dorval, Pier-Luc Funk, and Dolan himself, who hasn’t starred in one of his own films since 2013’s “Tom at the Farm.” “Matthias & Maxime” (played by D’Almeida Freitas and Dolan) focuses on two men in their late 20s whose friendship changes after they’re asked to kiss for a student short.
- 5/30/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Streaming platform Mubi has acquired multi-territory rights to Xavier Dolan’s Cannes 2019 drama Matthias & Maxime.
Curated arthouse service Mubi has acquired the VOD and TV rights in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Latam (excl. Mexico) and India. The film will debut on the service in those markets – where it hasn’t had a theatrical run yet – this summer.
Written, produced and directed by Dolan, the film tells the story of two childhood best friends Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) and Maxime, played by Dolan himself. The two men are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film and soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
Also starring are Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Anne Dorval, Micheline Bernard, Marilyn Castonguay and Catherine Brunet.
Curated arthouse service Mubi has acquired the VOD and TV rights in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Latam (excl. Mexico) and India. The film will debut on the service in those markets – where it hasn’t had a theatrical run yet – this summer.
Written, produced and directed by Dolan, the film tells the story of two childhood best friends Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) and Maxime, played by Dolan himself. The two men are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film and soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
Also starring are Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Anne Dorval, Micheline Bernard, Marilyn Castonguay and Catherine Brunet.
- 5/29/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A prestigious, international line-up will grace the Swiss festival this year. On the dawn of its quarter-century of life, the Geneva Film Festival (Giff) is pushing the boat out and looking to the future with undeniable enthusiasm. From the 1st to the 10th of November, Geneva will sparkle, as it does every year, under the bright lights of the Giff, now an unmissable event for cinephiles, industry professionals or, quite simply, the curious. Digital projects, special screenings and gatherings linked to the seventh art and to television will all bolster the offering of the Giff, which will be welcoming, for its 25th edition, prestigious guests such as Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Park Chan-wook, David Cronenberg, Clotilde Courau and Costa-Gavras, not to mention Tom Fontana, Elia Suleiman, Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction screenwriter) and Rebecca Zlotowski, among many others. One hundred and eighty hitherto unknown works and a number of surprises await.
- 10/11/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
"I'm having thoughts I never had before." eOne in Canada has released a trailer for the film Matthias & Maxime, the latest film by Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan. His other most recent film, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan, still has never seen a release in the Us (only in France and a few other countries so far) but in the meantime this is also being released. Matthias & Maxime premiered in-competition at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, and opens in both France and Canada this October. The film follows two friends who, after sharing a kiss for a student film, spend years dealing with their feelings for each other and eventual acceptance that they might be gay. Xavier Dolan stars with Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas, as well as Harris Dickinson, Anne Dorval, Alexandre Bourgeois, Catherine Brunet, Antoine Pilon, Pier-Luc Funk, Marilyn Castonguay, Adib Alkhalidey, & Micheline Bernard. Even though...
- 9/23/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Of the many labels Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime came attached with ahead of its Cannes premiere, few felt as apt as those that billed the Canadian’s eighth feature as “a return.” Three years after railing at Cannes’ “culture of hatred” for the mauling his Grand Prix winner It’s Only The End of the World received from critics–and less than one since the even bigger misfire The Death and Life of John F. Donovan bowed in Toronto–Matthias & Maxime shipped Xavier Dolan back to the festival that first welcomed him in 2009, when his I Killed My Mother left the Directors’ Fortnight with a Camera d’Or for best first feature. Homing in on two best friends grappling with a sprawling bromance, Matthias & Maxime also promised to dwell into the non-heteronormative dynamics Dolan had explored at length since his debut. And after two features set abroad, (the France-quartered...
- 6/1/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critic Leonardo Goi and editor Daniel Kasman.Matthias & MaximeDear Danny, How nice it was to read your glowing words on Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or contender. His Parasite belongs, together with a handful of other main competition entries, to a list of Cannes titles I shall be catching up on Saturday, when the festival will run a few repeat screenings ahead of the awards ceremony. With a program as rich and tantalizing as this year’s, it’s virtually impossible not to let a few titles slip past you. And while I may have postponed my rendezvous with the likes of Céline Sciamma, Pedro Almodóvar, and Bong Joon-ho, I did make sure to catch the homecoming of one of Cannes’ youngest regulars, Xavier Dolan. Ever since his 2009 debut feature I Killed My Mother, which found a spot at the 2009 Directors’ Fortnight,...
- 5/24/2019
- MUBI
Twice in competition and twice a winner, after winning the Jury Prize (unofficial 3rd place) in 2014 for Mommy and the Grand Prix (unofficial 2nd place) in 2016 for It’s Only the End of the World, Matthias and Maxime counts as Xavier Dolan‘s sixth trip to Cannes out of eight feature films in a span of a decade. A return to his low budget roots, this sees Dolan reteam with folks behind (a fifth time with Cinematographer Andre Turpin) and in front of the camera (a fifth time working with actress Anne Dorval). The Quebec-set drama meant to be exploration of friends in their 20s while touching more explicitly on what it is to be gay.…...
- 5/22/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
From one point of view, Xavier Dolan’s career looks like a precocious, single-minded blitz. As a director (he’s also a writer and actor), he’s made eight films between 2009 and 2019, with his first coming at the age of 20 and his latest, “Matthias & Maxime,” premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in the main competition on Wednesday. It is the sixth of Dolan’s films to play in Cannes, with “Mommy” winning the Jury Prize and “It’s Only the End of the World” winning the Grand Prize.
So why does “Matthias & Maxime” feel like a comeback of sorts for the former wunderkind who turned 30 two months ago? Why does it feel as if Dolan’s blitzkrieg of a career had reached a crisis point where it badly needed a film as sharp and warm as this one?
Mostly, that’s because of Dolan’s last two films.
So why does “Matthias & Maxime” feel like a comeback of sorts for the former wunderkind who turned 30 two months ago? Why does it feel as if Dolan’s blitzkrieg of a career had reached a crisis point where it badly needed a film as sharp and warm as this one?
Mostly, that’s because of Dolan’s last two films.
- 5/22/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
If there’s one term that Xavier Dolan probably never wants or needs to hear again, it’s “enfant terrible.” Irresistible to use when the Québécois auteur was 19, rattling out of the gate with his antsy, angry lash-out of a debut, “I Killed My Mother,” it’s followed him doggedly through a series of variously spiky, variably strong follow-up features. But Dolan has just turned 30, and with his eighth film, “Matthias & Maxime,” capping a filmography longer and more entrenched in its creative identity than many directors comfortably his senior, it seems time to put the label to rest. For “Matthias & Maxime” is not in any sense the work of an enfant terrible: A wistful, low-key love-and-friendship study, and something of a back-to-basics reset after his elaborate English-language misfire “The Death and Life of John P. Donovan,” it feels at once younger and older, sweeter and more seasoned, than Dolan’s last few films.
- 5/22/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The Cannes Film Festival isn’t just a destination for auteurs and high fashion on the most glamorous red carpet in the world. It’s also a big film market for producers to unveil projects in need of distribution or some serious cash. Here are 13 of the buzziest title that are looking to woo bidders in the South of France.
“Down Under Cover”
Director: Tbd
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tiffany Haddish
Buzz factor: It’s like “Magic Mike” meets “The Heat.” This comedy about two detectives who go undercover to crack a case involving Australian strippers already has big bidders circling. And the Internet cheering. Expect for it to land a home with a major distributor soon.
Agents: CAA, FilmNation
“Cherry”
Directors: Russo brothers
Cast: Tom Holland
Buzz factor: After directing what will probably be the biggest movies of all time, the co-directors behind “Avengers: Endgame” are scaling back in this...
“Down Under Cover”
Director: Tbd
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tiffany Haddish
Buzz factor: It’s like “Magic Mike” meets “The Heat.” This comedy about two detectives who go undercover to crack a case involving Australian strippers already has big bidders circling. And the Internet cheering. Expect for it to land a home with a major distributor soon.
Agents: CAA, FilmNation
“Cherry”
Directors: Russo brothers
Cast: Tom Holland
Buzz factor: After directing what will probably be the biggest movies of all time, the co-directors behind “Avengers: Endgame” are scaling back in this...
- 5/14/2019
- by Ramin Setoodeh and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Unveiling what he categorized a “romantic and political” Official Selection this morning, Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux offered up a roster of titles from veterans of the Riviera as well as first-timers, and a handful of so-called graduates from parallel sections to the main Competition.
Overall, there’s been mostly positive reaction to the selection revealed Wednesday that brings back such noted filmmakers as Terrence Malick, Ken Loach, the Dardenne brothers and Pedro Almodovar. As for the lesser-known names, hopes are high new discoveries will be made. One of the most notable takeaways from today’s lineup is the improved, if not yet equal, number of films directed by women. The festival has consistently come under fire for under-representation and last year pledged to do better.
As expected, feature films from the streamers are sitting this one out, something that Cannes addressed this morning, and while Hollywood glamour is slightly light,...
Overall, there’s been mostly positive reaction to the selection revealed Wednesday that brings back such noted filmmakers as Terrence Malick, Ken Loach, the Dardenne brothers and Pedro Almodovar. As for the lesser-known names, hopes are high new discoveries will be made. One of the most notable takeaways from today’s lineup is the improved, if not yet equal, number of films directed by women. The festival has consistently come under fire for under-representation and last year pledged to do better.
As expected, feature films from the streamers are sitting this one out, something that Cannes addressed this morning, and while Hollywood glamour is slightly light,...
- 4/18/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Slate includes Advantages Of Travelling By Train, Below.
Montreal-based Seville International arrives at Efm with a packed sales slate led by new additions The Last Right, 14 Days, 12 Nights and Mafia Inc.
Comedy drama The Last Right shooting now in Ireland stars Michiel Huisman, Niamh Algar, Samuel Bottomley, Colm Meaney, Brian Cox, Jim Norton in the tale of a reluctant stranger tasked with driving a corpse across Ireland for a burial, who in the process evades the police, finds love, and fixes family relations. Aoife Crehan directs and Pippa Cross, Paul Donovan and Casey Herbert serve as producers.
Xavier Dolan regular...
Montreal-based Seville International arrives at Efm with a packed sales slate led by new additions The Last Right, 14 Days, 12 Nights and Mafia Inc.
Comedy drama The Last Right shooting now in Ireland stars Michiel Huisman, Niamh Algar, Samuel Bottomley, Colm Meaney, Brian Cox, Jim Norton in the tale of a reluctant stranger tasked with driving a corpse across Ireland for a burial, who in the process evades the police, finds love, and fixes family relations. Aoife Crehan directs and Pippa Cross, Paul Donovan and Casey Herbert serve as producers.
Xavier Dolan regular...
- 2/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
After highlighting 50 films that we can guarantee are worth seeing this year, it’s time we venture into the unknown. Rather than regurgitating a list of dated-years-in-advance studio releases, we’ve set out to focus on 100 films we’re genuinely looking forward to, regardless of their marketing budgets. While the majority might not have a set release–let alone any confirmed festival premiere–most have wrapped production and will likely debut at some point in 2019, so make sure to check back for updates over the next twelve months and beyond. Be sure to keep the following one-hundred films on your radar. If you want to see how we did with our picks last year, head on over here.
100. Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan)
While the five-year stretch that comprised his first five films resulted in Xavier Dolan’s rise in international prominence, the last years haven’t been as kind, with...
100. Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan)
While the five-year stretch that comprised his first five films resulted in Xavier Dolan’s rise in international prominence, the last years haven’t been as kind, with...
- 1/10/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
La femme de mon frère
French-Canadian actress Monia Chokri makes her directorial debut with My Brother’s Wife (La femme de mon frère). Produced by Nancy Grant and Sylvain Corbeil of Metafilms, the title was lensed by Bertrand Bonello’s favored Dp Josée Deshaies. The film stars a nice brochette of Quebecois thesps in Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Patrick Hivon, Évelyne Brochu, Micheline Bernard, Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Mani Soleymanlou and another Dolan staple, Anne Dorval.…...
French-Canadian actress Monia Chokri makes her directorial debut with My Brother’s Wife (La femme de mon frère). Produced by Nancy Grant and Sylvain Corbeil of Metafilms, the title was lensed by Bertrand Bonello’s favored Dp Josée Deshaies. The film stars a nice brochette of Quebecois thesps in Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Patrick Hivon, Évelyne Brochu, Micheline Bernard, Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Mani Soleymanlou and another Dolan staple, Anne Dorval.…...
- 1/3/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Matthias & Maxime
And we begin our count up with Quebecois director Xavier Dolan, who after working on his largest budget to date in 2017/18 quickly returned to his low budget roots for his eighth feature Matthias & Maxime, produced by Dolan and his regular collaborator Nancy Grant for the Sons of Manual label. Cinematographer Andre Turpin (who has been working with Dolan since 2013’s Tom at the Farm) is on hand, as is actress Anne Dorval, who has been involved in most of the director’s productions since her excellent turn in his 2009 debut I Killed My Mother.…...
And we begin our count up with Quebecois director Xavier Dolan, who after working on his largest budget to date in 2017/18 quickly returned to his low budget roots for his eighth feature Matthias & Maxime, produced by Dolan and his regular collaborator Nancy Grant for the Sons of Manual label. Cinematographer Andre Turpin (who has been working with Dolan since 2013’s Tom at the Farm) is on hand, as is actress Anne Dorval, who has been involved in most of the director’s productions since her excellent turn in his 2009 debut I Killed My Mother.…...
- 1/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
As he puts the finishing touches on his English-language debut The Death and Life of John F. Donovan–featuring the impressive ensemble of Jessica Chastain, Kit Harington, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Natalie Portman, Jacob Tremblay, Michael Gambon, and Sarah Gadon–Xavier Dolan is going back to a more narrow scope for his follow-up.
He’ll be returning to Quebec this fall to shoot his eighth feature Matt & Max, reports THR, which is said to mix the aesthetic approach of Tom at the Farm with the spirit of Mommy. Also a return to the French language, the film will depict a pair of friends in their late 20s, with Dolan playing Max. Also among the cast is the wonderful Anne Dorval (Mommy, I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats).
“This year I’ve been exposed to films that I felt were so brave and so authentic in their writing and how they talked about queer love,...
He’ll be returning to Quebec this fall to shoot his eighth feature Matt & Max, reports THR, which is said to mix the aesthetic approach of Tom at the Farm with the spirit of Mommy. Also a return to the French language, the film will depict a pair of friends in their late 20s, with Dolan playing Max. Also among the cast is the wonderful Anne Dorval (Mommy, I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats).
“This year I’ve been exposed to films that I felt were so brave and so authentic in their writing and how they talked about queer love,...
- 1/31/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Heal The Living (Reparer les vivants) will screen at Plaza Frontenac Cinema (Lindbergh Blvd. and Clayton Rd, Frontenac, Mo 63131) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Showings are Thursday, Nov. 9 at 6:40pm (purchase tickets Here) and Friday, Nov. 10 at 9:30pm (purchase tickets Here).
Three narrative threads built around the issue of organ transplantation – parents facing with the accidental death of their teen-aged son, the medical staff of a transplant team, and a middle-aged female musician dying of heart failure – are woven together in French director Katell Quillevere’s medical drama Heal The Living (Reparer les vivants). This is the third and most polished of her films, her previous works being Suzanne and Love Like Poison.
In part, Heal The Living is a medical procedural, like countless television or movie dramas, but what sets it apart is its fuller emotional portrait of the patients and...
Three narrative threads built around the issue of organ transplantation – parents facing with the accidental death of their teen-aged son, the medical staff of a transplant team, and a middle-aged female musician dying of heart failure – are woven together in French director Katell Quillevere’s medical drama Heal The Living (Reparer les vivants). This is the third and most polished of her films, her previous works being Suzanne and Love Like Poison.
In part, Heal The Living is a medical procedural, like countless television or movie dramas, but what sets it apart is its fuller emotional portrait of the patients and...
- 11/9/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Tahar Rahim, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners | Written by Katell Quillévéré, Gilles Taurand | Directed by Katell Quillévéré
This French-Belgian drama initially allures with an opening sequence that sees teenager Simon Limbres (Gabin Verdet) climb out of his girlfriend’s window and head to the beach with his buddies for a pre-dawn surf. It’s a mesmerising sequence with a dreamlike quality, as Simon observes the magnificence of nature from beneath the waves. On the way home, Simon falls asleep in the passenger seat. He will never wake up. And we will not see filmmaking of this quality again for the next 100 minutes.
Simon’s mother, Marianne (Emmanuelle Seigner), arrives at the hospital, to be told that her son is brain-dead. A young doctor, Thomas (Tahar Rahim), explains the rareness of Simon’s condition: he won’t live, but he has a body full of organs which are ripe for donation.
This French-Belgian drama initially allures with an opening sequence that sees teenager Simon Limbres (Gabin Verdet) climb out of his girlfriend’s window and head to the beach with his buddies for a pre-dawn surf. It’s a mesmerising sequence with a dreamlike quality, as Simon observes the magnificence of nature from beneath the waves. On the way home, Simon falls asleep in the passenger seat. He will never wake up. And we will not see filmmaking of this quality again for the next 100 minutes.
Simon’s mother, Marianne (Emmanuelle Seigner), arrives at the hospital, to be told that her son is brain-dead. A young doctor, Thomas (Tahar Rahim), explains the rareness of Simon’s condition: he won’t live, but he has a body full of organs which are ripe for donation.
- 7/14/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Katell Quillévéré’s audacious feature follows a human heart from donor to recipient, stirring strong emotions and showing breathtaking visual skill
“Careful. No powerful emotions.” Claire (Anne Dorval) smiles wryly, undermining the brittle anxieties of her loved ones by gently mocking the cardiac disease that could shutter her life at any moment. The fiftysomething mother of two adult sons, Claire is the end point of the journey of the closest thing that this film has to a central character: the human heart that we follow from accident-victim donor to critically ill recipient.
And “no powerful emotions” is central to the approach that French director Katell Quillévéré adopts for her stunning third feature, an adaptation of last week’s 2017 Wellcome Book prize-winning novel Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal. No swampy melodrama or misery tourism here. Quillévéré favours uncluttered empathy over sentimentality. Her film-making is as clinical and precise as a scalpel incision,...
“Careful. No powerful emotions.” Claire (Anne Dorval) smiles wryly, undermining the brittle anxieties of her loved ones by gently mocking the cardiac disease that could shutter her life at any moment. The fiftysomething mother of two adult sons, Claire is the end point of the journey of the closest thing that this film has to a central character: the human heart that we follow from accident-victim donor to critically ill recipient.
And “no powerful emotions” is central to the approach that French director Katell Quillévéré adopts for her stunning third feature, an adaptation of last week’s 2017 Wellcome Book prize-winning novel Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal. No swampy melodrama or misery tourism here. Quillévéré favours uncluttered empathy over sentimentality. Her film-making is as clinical and precise as a scalpel incision,...
- 4/30/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
"We can try to figure out what Simon would have wanted." Cohen Media Group has debuted an official Us trailer for the French indie drama Heal the Living, based on the book of the same name (Réparer les vivants) by Maylis De Kerangal. The film stars Tahar Rahim (from A Prophet and The Past) as Thomas Rémige, a doctor who is tasked with caring for a young teenage surfer boy who is in a coma after a car crash. The story follows the lives of three different people, and how they connect after a horrific accident. The cast includes Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners, Kool Shen, Monia Chokri, and Alice Taglioni. The film already played at film festivals last fall, and opens this month. This has some stunning cinematography, and it looks like a tender, emotional film about grief. This trailer totally got my attention. Here's the official Us...
- 4/11/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
After a festival run that included Venice, Toronto, London and more, the U.S. trailer has arrived for Heal the Living, Katell Quillévéré‘s latest drama, which follows the lives of three people, and how they connect through a horrific accident, which leads to a coma. Set for a theatrical release this week, Heal the Living looks to be a tender and emotionally complex look at coping with grief and moving forward in life.
Set with a lush color palette and some striking lens work from Tom Harari and music from Alexandre Desplat, see the trailer below, along with a poster and synopsis for the film starring Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners and Kool Shen.
An interweaving of three stories connected to each other via an accident.
Heal the Living opens on April 14.
Set with a lush color palette and some striking lens work from Tom Harari and music from Alexandre Desplat, see the trailer below, along with a poster and synopsis for the film starring Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners and Kool Shen.
An interweaving of three stories connected to each other via an accident.
Heal the Living opens on April 14.
- 4/11/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
After screening at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Kattell Quillévéré’s lauded “Heal the Living” is headed for its theatrical release.
Read More: Venice Film Festival 2016 Winners: Emma Stone And Tom Ford Earn Major Prizes
Based on the novel “Heart,” “Heal the Living” takes place in the aftermath of a tragic car accident leaving a young man, Simon (Gabin Verdet), braindead and forcing his family to decide his fate. Intertwining with a other narrative plots, the decisions one family makes regarding the donation of their son’s organs changes the lives of both the ones he leaves behind and the ones with the possibility of a greater future.
The film has an incredible cast, starring Tahar Rahim (“A Prophet,” “The Past”), Emmanuelle Seigner (“Venus in Fur,” “In The House,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”), Anne Dorval (“Mommy,” “I Killed My Mother”), Kool Shen,...
Read More: Venice Film Festival 2016 Winners: Emma Stone And Tom Ford Earn Major Prizes
Based on the novel “Heart,” “Heal the Living” takes place in the aftermath of a tragic car accident leaving a young man, Simon (Gabin Verdet), braindead and forcing his family to decide his fate. Intertwining with a other narrative plots, the decisions one family makes regarding the donation of their son’s organs changes the lives of both the ones he leaves behind and the ones with the possibility of a greater future.
The film has an incredible cast, starring Tahar Rahim (“A Prophet,” “The Past”), Emmanuelle Seigner (“Venus in Fur,” “In The House,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”), Anne Dorval (“Mommy,” “I Killed My Mother”), Kool Shen,...
- 4/6/2017
- by Kerry Levielle
- Indiewire
Heal The Living (Réparer les vivantes) Director: Katell Quillévéré Written by: Katell Quillévéré, Gilles Taurand from the novel “The Heart” by Maylis de Kerangal Cast: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners, Kool Shen, Monia Chokri, Alive Taglioni Opens: April 14, 2017 “We’re all connected” sounds like a tagline for a phone company and […]
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- 3/30/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Two more Toronto deals emerged on Friday in a traditional late-festival acquisitions surge.
IFC Films took North American rights to Nick Hamm’s The Journey, which launched in Venice and received its North American premiere in Special Presentations in Toronto and screens again on Saturday.
Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Toby Stephens and Freddie Highmore star in the story about the growing friendship between former political enemies, loyalist firebrand Ian Paisley and former Ira commander Martin McGuinness, over the course of the Irish peace process.
Colin Bateman wrote the screenplay. Piers Tempest, Mark Huffam, Matt Jackson, Im Global CEO Stuart Ford and Hamm produced, while the executive producers are Jo Bamford, Norman Merry, Janine Modder, and Miguel Palos Jr.
Im Global financed the film with support from North Ireland Screen and Lipsynch Post and handled international sales. IFC Films brokered the deal with CAA and Im Global and plans a mid-2017 theatrical release.
Meanwhile, Cohen...
IFC Films took North American rights to Nick Hamm’s The Journey, which launched in Venice and received its North American premiere in Special Presentations in Toronto and screens again on Saturday.
Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Toby Stephens and Freddie Highmore star in the story about the growing friendship between former political enemies, loyalist firebrand Ian Paisley and former Ira commander Martin McGuinness, over the course of the Irish peace process.
Colin Bateman wrote the screenplay. Piers Tempest, Mark Huffam, Matt Jackson, Im Global CEO Stuart Ford and Hamm produced, while the executive producers are Jo Bamford, Norman Merry, Janine Modder, and Miguel Palos Jr.
Im Global financed the film with support from North Ireland Screen and Lipsynch Post and handled international sales. IFC Films brokered the deal with CAA and Im Global and plans a mid-2017 theatrical release.
Meanwhile, Cohen...
- 9/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Two more Toronto deals emerged on Friday in a traditional late-festival acquisitions surge.
IFC Films took North American rights to Nick Hamm’s The Journey, which launched in Venice and received its North American premiere in Special Presentations in Toronto and screens again on Saturday.
Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Toby Stephens and Freddie Highmore star in the story about the growing friendship between former political enemies, loyalist firebrand Ian Paisley and former Ira commander Martin McGuinness, over the course of the Irish peace process.
Colin Bateman wrote the screenplay. Piers Tempest, Mark Huffam, Matt Jackson, Im Global CEO Stuart Ford and Hamm produced, while the executive producers are Jo Bamford, Norman Merry, Janine Modder, and Miguel Palos Jr.
Im Global financed the film with support from North Ireland Screen and Lipsynch Post and handled international sales. IFC Films brokered the deal with CAA and Im Global and plans a mid-2017 theatrical release.
Katell Quillévéré’s Heal...
IFC Films took North American rights to Nick Hamm’s The Journey, which launched in Venice and received its North American premiere in Special Presentations in Toronto and screens again on Saturday.
Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Toby Stephens and Freddie Highmore star in the story about the growing friendship between former political enemies, loyalist firebrand Ian Paisley and former Ira commander Martin McGuinness, over the course of the Irish peace process.
Colin Bateman wrote the screenplay. Piers Tempest, Mark Huffam, Matt Jackson, Im Global CEO Stuart Ford and Hamm produced, while the executive producers are Jo Bamford, Norman Merry, Janine Modder, and Miguel Palos Jr.
Im Global financed the film with support from North Ireland Screen and Lipsynch Post and handled international sales. IFC Films brokered the deal with CAA and Im Global and plans a mid-2017 theatrical release.
Katell Quillévéré’s Heal...
- 9/16/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Toronto International Film Festival continues to add to its already eclectic slate by announcing their Platform line-up today. Beginning last year as a special program to highlight auteur-driven features from around the world, this year’s line-up looks remarkably strong, opening with Bertrand Bonello‘s Paris-set terrorism drama Nocturama.
Also featuring new films from Fien Troch, Zacharias Kunuk, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ivan Sen, Katell Quillévéré, Khyentse Norbu, Pablo Larraín, William Oldroyd, Mijke de Jong, Barry Jenkins, Mathieu Denis, and Simon Lavoie, check out the line-up below.
Daguerrotype (Le Secret de la chambre noire) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, France/Japan/Belgium
World Premiere
Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes his first film outside Japan with this French-language ghost romance fantasy, about an aging photographer whose obsession with an archaic technique draws his young assistant and beautiful daughter into a dark and mysterious world. Starring Tahar Rahim, Constance Rousseau, Olivier Gourmet, and Mathieu Amalric. ***
Goldstone Ivan Sen, Australia...
Also featuring new films from Fien Troch, Zacharias Kunuk, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ivan Sen, Katell Quillévéré, Khyentse Norbu, Pablo Larraín, William Oldroyd, Mijke de Jong, Barry Jenkins, Mathieu Denis, and Simon Lavoie, check out the line-up below.
Daguerrotype (Le Secret de la chambre noire) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, France/Japan/Belgium
World Premiere
Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes his first film outside Japan with this French-language ghost romance fantasy, about an aging photographer whose obsession with an archaic technique draws his young assistant and beautiful daughter into a dark and mysterious world. Starring Tahar Rahim, Constance Rousseau, Olivier Gourmet, and Mathieu Amalric. ***
Goldstone Ivan Sen, Australia...
- 8/11/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan has won Cannes yet again.
This weekend, the Quebecois director took home the coveted Grand Jury Prize (also known as second place) for his film It's Only the End of the World, at the Cannes film festival. It's an amazing accomplishment, considering that his last film, Mommy, won third place when it played at Cannes (tied with cinematic legend Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language). Winning a prize at Cannes is an honour equivalent to winning an Oscar, so for Dolan at age 27 to have two awards out of the festival is definitely something to be proud of, especially as he represents the quality of Canadian film.
It's Only the End of the World boasts Dolan's most notable cast yet. While he usually works with regulars including Quebecois actresses Suzanne Clément and Anne Dorval, this time he went for big names like Marion Cotillard,Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux.
This weekend, the Quebecois director took home the coveted Grand Jury Prize (also known as second place) for his film It's Only the End of the World, at the Cannes film festival. It's an amazing accomplishment, considering that his last film, Mommy, won third place when it played at Cannes (tied with cinematic legend Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language). Winning a prize at Cannes is an honour equivalent to winning an Oscar, so for Dolan at age 27 to have two awards out of the festival is definitely something to be proud of, especially as he represents the quality of Canadian film.
It's Only the End of the World boasts Dolan's most notable cast yet. While he usually works with regulars including Quebecois actresses Suzanne Clément and Anne Dorval, this time he went for big names like Marion Cotillard,Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux.
- 5/24/2016
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
Xavier Dolan’s new film seemed like the event so far at Cannes judging by the longest press queue since the beginning of the festival, as well as the hustlers offering hugs in exchange for a screening invitation. Unfortunately, it seems destined to join the ample list of other highly anticipated big-name entries that didn’t quite live up to expectations (the Dardenne brothers’ “The Unknown Girl”, Alain Giraudie’s “Staying Vertical”, Pedro Almodóvar’ “Julieta”, among others). Is it the departure from Québec and shift to A-list French actors, the adaptation of an existing 1990s play rather than an original script, or the pressure to equal the resounding success of “Mommy”? While the direction has traces of the usual showy Dolan brio and crowd-pleasing aesthetic flashes, I’d posit he is underserved by the overly theatrical, verbose script and indoor setting, and seems to at times lose the reins of the jam-packed French A-listers,...
- 5/19/2016
- by Zornitsa Staneva
- SoundOnSight
Philippe de Chauveron is re-teaming with star Christian Clavier following the pair’s 2014 box-office hit.
Philippe de Chauveron {pictures, top], director of French box office hit Serial (Bad) Weddings, will reunite with Christian Clavier for new comedy Pleeeeeze, also starring Anne Dorval (Mommy) and François Damiens (La Famille Bélier).
Production companies are Puslar Productions and Clavier’s Ouille Productions. The film will be co-produced by Paris-based sales company Snd, who will also handle worldwide sales and French distribution.
The culture-clash comedy stars Clavier as Jean Etienne Fougerole a brilliant, left-wing intellectual with an heiress wife (Dorval) and a new book to promote. But Fougerole is forced to practice what he preaches after a TV talk show host challenges him to open his own home to those in need, rather than encouraging others to do so.
Fougerole accepts and shares his address, only to find his life turned upside down by the arrival of Romanian gypsy father, Babik...
Philippe de Chauveron {pictures, top], director of French box office hit Serial (Bad) Weddings, will reunite with Christian Clavier for new comedy Pleeeeeze, also starring Anne Dorval (Mommy) and François Damiens (La Famille Bélier).
Production companies are Puslar Productions and Clavier’s Ouille Productions. The film will be co-produced by Paris-based sales company Snd, who will also handle worldwide sales and French distribution.
The culture-clash comedy stars Clavier as Jean Etienne Fougerole a brilliant, left-wing intellectual with an heiress wife (Dorval) and a new book to promote. But Fougerole is forced to practice what he preaches after a TV talk show host challenges him to open his own home to those in need, rather than encouraging others to do so.
Fougerole accepts and shares his address, only to find his life turned upside down by the arrival of Romanian gypsy father, Babik...
- 4/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
La tête haute (Standing Tall)
Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot
Written by Emmanuelle Bercot, Marcia Romano
France, 2015
Perhaps it’s an unfortunate coincidence for the festival opener, French social drama La Tête Haute, that it follows but a year after the adulation apparently garnered by Xavier Dolan’s Mommy at last year’s festival – while the flamboyant Quebec drama received 10 minutes’ standing ovation, this year’s press screening of the more down-to-earth underprivileged mother-son duo from Dunkerque was met by a total of two claps and a single boo…
The film stars newcomer Rod Paradot as Malony, a delinquent ‘white-trash’ teenager, Sara Forestier as his rotten-tooth semi-junkie mother, Catherine Deneuve as an infinitely patient, rational but clement children’s judge, and Benoît Magimel as a badly-aging social worker. We first meet Malony as a six-year old in the judge’s office, where his own mother declares him a monster and abandons...
Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot
Written by Emmanuelle Bercot, Marcia Romano
France, 2015
Perhaps it’s an unfortunate coincidence for the festival opener, French social drama La Tête Haute, that it follows but a year after the adulation apparently garnered by Xavier Dolan’s Mommy at last year’s festival – while the flamboyant Quebec drama received 10 minutes’ standing ovation, this year’s press screening of the more down-to-earth underprivileged mother-son duo from Dunkerque was met by a total of two claps and a single boo…
The film stars newcomer Rod Paradot as Malony, a delinquent ‘white-trash’ teenager, Sara Forestier as his rotten-tooth semi-junkie mother, Catherine Deneuve as an infinitely patient, rational but clement children’s judge, and Benoît Magimel as a badly-aging social worker. We first meet Malony as a six-year old in the judge’s office, where his own mother declares him a monster and abandons...
- 5/13/2015
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
Take Xavier Dolan seriously. His Cannes sensation (and Oscar-snubbed) "Mommy" affirms that the prodigal filmmaker behind succès d'estime "I Killed My Mother" and the epic "Laurence Anyways" has, at 25, finally grown up. In "Mommy," Dolan wisely restrains his bravado and has never been more at home than with these three richly made characters: a scrappy and outrageously brave single mom, her smart yet deeply troubled teen with blond hair and behavioral problems, and the timid housewife with a speech impediment and secrets next door. French-Canadian powerhouse Anne Dorval, in a wickedly unhinged performance that already feels iconic, is Diane, the widowed mother of rage-addled Steve (fresh-faced youngster Antoine Olivier Pilon), a teenager too out of control for even the steeliest boarding school. Their unbalanced, smothering relationship seems on the verge of total chaos until a diffident neighbor (Dolan pal Suzanne Clement,...
- 5/4/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
This year, the unstoppable Xavier Dolan will shoot two films — the recently announced "Juste La Fin Du Monde" ("Only The End Of The World") with Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye, and Gaspard Ulliel; and then this fall, "The Death and Life of John F. Donovan," led by Jessica Chastain. But if you haven't caught "Mommy," which put him on Chastain's radar, and tied for Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, now's the time. The movie hit DVD this week, and we've got a couple copies for some lucky readers. Read More: Xavier Dolan's Vibrant, Intoxicating, And Illuminating 'Mommy' Starring Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, and Suzanne Clément, the film follows a single mother trying to raise her volatile teenage son. She finds help from the timid neighbor across the street, who changes both of their lives. It's another exciting piece of filmmaking from Dolan,...
- 5/1/2015
- by The Playlist Staff
- The Playlist
[Editor's Note: This post is presented in partnership with Time Warner Cable Movies On Demand in support of Indie Film Month. Today's pick, "Mommy" is available now On Demand. This interview originally ran in January.] Since winning the Jury Prize at Cannes this past year, you'd think Xavier Dolan would be happy to take a break. After all, the 25-year-old French-Canadian, whose latest endeavor "Mommy" is finally making its way stateside after garnering raves and becoming a box office success in Canada, has written and directed five films since turning 19; he's starred in a couple as well. But, it looks like he has no plans to stop. Read More: Cannes Review: Is Xavier Dolan's 'Mommy' His Best Film? "Mommy," which opens in the U.S. on January 23, explores at the relationship between a struggling, widowed mother (Anne Dorval), her volatile son (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) and a neighbor (Suzanne Clément) who is eager to help. In...
- 5/1/2015
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods The Boy Next Door (cougar-in-peril thriller; Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman; rated R) The Gambler (drama; Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, Brie Larson; rated R) Paddington (family; Nicole Kidman, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville; rated PG) The Wedding Ringer (comedy; Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting; rated R) Mommy (drama; Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon; rated R) Streaming/Digital Download: Rent from $4-$7 or own...
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- 4/28/2015
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
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