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Cannes: Leos Carax's 'Holy Motors' Finds a U.S. Home With Indomina
27 May 2012 7:04 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The Indomina Group has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Leos Carax's acclaimed Cannes title "Holy Motors" on the final day of the festival, the company has announced. Starring Michel Piccoli, Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue, the competition film gained some of the best reviews out of the festival. Indiewire's Eric Kohn called it "balls-to-the-wall crazy, beautiful and unbelievably strange" in his review. Rob Williams, Indomina’s Vice President of Acquisitions, negotiated the deal with Carole Baraton of Wild Bunch, which is handling international sales for the film. Full press release below. Cannes, France (May 27, 2012) --- It was announced today that The Indomina Group, the fast-growing producer and distributor of film, TV and trans-media content, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Leos Carax’s critically acclaimed French drama “Holy Motors,” an official Cannes competition film starring »
- Peter Knegt
Cannes 2012: Indomina Buys U.S. Rights to Competition Film 'Holy Motors'
27 May 2012 1:34 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The Indomina Group has acquired U.S. distribution rights to French drama Holy Motors, which is part of the Competition of the Cannes Film Festival. The movie, written and directed by Leos Carax, stars Michel Piccoli, Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue. The film chronicles a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. "He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man," a description of the film says. "But where is his true home, his family, his rest?" “Leos Carax is a masterful
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- Georg Szalai
Cannes 2012. Films by Takashi Miike, Leos Carax, Jaime Rosales
25 May 2012 12:57 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The festival really came alive for me for the first time since Omirbaev's Student—not including what's obviously the best film here, but playing in Cannes Classics: Andrey Konchalovskiy's Runaway Train (1985)—with another film about the anguished-to-bursting suffering of students. Only, this was a high school musical gang film by Takashi Miike, For Love's Sake. Set in 1972, cracking with vibrant colors (and one of the handful of films here show on 35mm), images densely cluttered with classroom-alleyway bric-a-brac and as appreciative (and full) of constant brawling as a Raoul Walsh picture, the film takes its source manga and brings high school drama to the level of emotional sincerity and endless violence of the director's time traveling samurai epic, Izo. Each character devotes their love and themselves to one who cannot return that love, setting in motion a series of songs (and fights) pitting bad boys against nerds, bourgeois against orphans, »
First Trailer and New Images for Holy Motors with Eva Mendes & Kylie Minogue
23 May 2012 9:09 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
BAFTA-nominated French writer-director Leos Carax returns behind the camera with Holy Motors for his feature since 1999’s controversial Pola X.
Debuting at Cannes yesterday to positive reviews, the first trailer and a new batch of images have surfaced over at the festival’s official site, giving an intriguing and confounding first look at the film.
“From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man…
He seems to be playing roles, plunging headlong into each part – but where are the cameras?
Monsieur Oscar is alone, accompanied only by Céline, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him through and around Paris. He’s like a conscientious assassin moving from hit to hit.
In pursuit of the beautiful gesture, »
- Kenji Lloyd
Cannes 2012: Trailer, Clip and Pictures for Wacked Out 'Holy Motors'
23 May 2012 8:47 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I have my review written for Leos Carax's Holy Motors, but I wanted to present the trailer and a clip from the film before posting it so you had some idea as to what I was talking about before I actually talked about it, because this is not your average movie. In fact, it's whacked out of its effing mind! Here's the synopsis (not that it's going to help you much): From dawn to after nightfall, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man... He seems to be playing roles, plunging headlong into each part... but where are the cameras? Monsieur Oscar is alone, accompanied only by Celine, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him in and around Paris. »
- Brad Brevet
Cannes 2012: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet – review
21 May 2012 6:34 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
French actors play themselves in Alain Resnais' indulgent, self-conscious film about acting, memory and the persistence of the past
Alain Resnais' remarkable film-making career continues with his return to the Cannes competition at the age of 89. This is a quasi-theatrical contrivance based partly around Jean Anouilh's 1941 play Eurydice. Bruno Podalydès plays Antoine D'Anthac, a cultured and wealthy dramatist whose death is announced by telephone to his close friends in the opening sequence. These are French acting eminences, playing themselves: Michel Piccoli, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Lambert Wilson and many more. His lawyer invites them to D'Anthac's home and declares it is the wish of the deceased that they all watch a video recording of a performance of his play Eurydice, acted by a company of twentysomethings, La Compagnie de la Colombe. This was a play they had all been in, when younger, and the recording transports them »
- Peter Bradshaw
Cannes Check: Alain Resnais's 'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet'
12 May 2012 7:47 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
The director: Alain Resnais (French, 89 years old) The talent: No latter-day Resnais film comes without an ensemble of familiar French faces, with a number of regulars now forming the director's own repertory company of sorts. Mathieu Amalric, Lambert Wilson, Sabine Azema, Anne Consigny and Pierre Arditi have all worked with Resnais before, many of them in his last feature "Wild Grass." A more delayed reunion is with French veteran Michel Piccoli (acclaimed at last year's fest for "We Have a Pope"), whose last outing with the director was 1966's "La guerre est finie." New to Resnais's stable (I think, though »
- Guy Lodge
Veteran Actor Michel Piccoli Lauds Election Victory of French Socialist
6 May 2012 3:32 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
London - One of the prominent supporters among the French entertainment industry lauded new French president Francois Hollande Sunday night after his defeat of incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Actor Michel Piccoli, who supported Hollande during the election campaign, said the success at the polls reminded him of the first socialist victory in French presidential elections in 1981 when Francois Mitterand came to power. "I was there 30 years ago," the 86-year-old Piccoli told Agence France Press. "I think about Francois Mitterand a lot." Of Gods and Men director Xavier Beauvois was also among the big industry supporters of
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- Georg Szalai
We Have a Pope
27 April 2012 6:55 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
We Have a Pope
Directed by: Nanni Moretti,
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy
Running Time: 1 hr 42 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: April 27, 2012 (Chicago)
Plot: A cardinal (Piccoli) decides that he doesn’t want to be pope, despite being selected by his superiors.
Who’S It For? Religious moviegoers might find this to be funny, with its respectful portrayal of respected figures and of the Vatican itself. However, everyone, not just those who believe in the pope, will be shaken up by this movie’s moments in the third act.
Overall
With all of the pressures and requirements, being a world leader must be the worst job in the world. But what could be even more dreadful? How about considering denying papacy after being elected to rule the Catholic world?
Michel Piccoli plays Cardinal Melville, a simple cardinal who comes to the Vatican after the recent pope’s »
- Nick Allen
Film Review: Fallible Human Beings Bless ‘We Have a Pope’
27 April 2012 5:55 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – It’s getting harder and harder to satirize something as über-holy as the Vatican, given their preferred state of reality, but director Nanni Morretti gives it an absurd cinematic try just by highlighting the humanity behind the state of grace. Michel Piccoli portrays the title character in ‘We Have a Pope.’
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This Italian film has caused a bit of pique from its storytelling source, and given the Vatican’s famous sensitivity to any form of commentary upon it, that’s not surprising. By telling the story of an elected pope, who refuses to complete the given assignment by appearing before his faithful, Moretti injects a natural emotional element to the often cold power play of papal politics. The pope presumably is infallible in decision making, but as long as there is a human being representing those decisions, the concept of infallibility is corruptible. Moretti illustrates this deftly in the film, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Cannes Check: Leos Carax's 'Holy Motors'
24 April 2012 3:51 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
The auteur: Leos Carax (French, 51 years old) The talent: There are a couple of eclectic ensembles to be found in this year's Cannes lineup, but surely none weirder than this one. That weatherbeaten French character actor (and longtime Carax associate) Denis Lavant ("Beau Travail") takes the lead role here is hardly a surprise. Gallic veterans Michel Piccoli (most recently seen in "We Have a Pope") and Edith Scob ("Summer Hours") also make sense. But who would have expected them to share the bill with Eva Mendes and, wait for it, Australian pop pixie Kylie Minogue? The mind reels. Carax wrote »
- Guy Lodge
The competition's still a man's world
19 April 2012 10:28 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With new offerings from Audiard, Haneke and Loach, this year's festival will be another feast of quality film-making. Could have done with a few more women directors, mind
Once again, the Cannes film festival has unveiled a gorgeous list. The only disappointments, for some, will be the fact that Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Terrence Malick's new project were not included, reportedly because they were not ready in time – although the idea of Malick actually having a new film completed just one year after the last head-spinning epic is fantastically improbable: as if he had moved up to a Roger Corman level of productivity. Some observers will be disappointed that Stoker, by the South Korean director Park Chan-wook has not been selected, likewise Wong Kar-wai's The Grand Master – although the festival could sneak in a late entry here and there.
The relative absence of women in the list of directors is, »
- Peter Bradshaw
Cannes 2012. Lineup
19 April 2012 8:36 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
So we've known for some time now that Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will be opening the Cannes Film Festival (site) on May 16. Yesterday, the Festival announced that Thérèse Desqueyroux, Claude Miller's final film, will close this year's edition on May 27. Miller's adaptation of François Mauriac's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux features Audrey Tautou in the title role as well as Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
And lineups for the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection were unveiled on Tuesday. Jean-Pierre Dardenne will preside over the Jury.
Today, the Festival's announced the full lineup for the Official Selection of its 65th anniversary edition. This is a roundup-in-progress, obviously.
Competition
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. The synopsis at the official site: "Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, »
Predicting the 2012 Cannes Film Festival Line-Up 24 Hours Before It's Revealed
18 April 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Photo: Cannes Film Festival Update: The full line-up is now available right here. We are now less than 24 hours away from the official 2012 Cannes Film Festival line-up announcement and I have to admit, my excitement for what may come is hitting overload. As much as the Toronto Film Festival has come to be the place where several films begin their Oscar run, there simply is nothing better than the international cinematic prestige of attending the Cannes Film Festival each year and this will mark my third year attending. With that in mind, late last night I added an additional nine films to the RopeofSilicon database that have the potential of being named during tomorrow's (April 19) announcement, which should come sometime around 2 or 3 Am Pst. After doing so I felt it wouldn't hurt to take one last look at what films have the strongest chance of showing up at the festival this year. »
- Brad Brevet
Massacre Film Leads Italy's Donatello Awards Nominations
12 April 2012 6:31 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Director Marco Tulio Giordana's Romanzo Di Una Strage has landed 16 nominations for Italy's David di Donatello Awards just two weeks after the film's release.
The stirring movie, which chronicles the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, picked up Best Film, Best Director and Best Producer nods, while leading man Valerio Mastandrea was nominated among the Best Actor hopefuls.
The film was released in Italy on 30 March to huge national acclaim.
Close behind Giordana's film among the nominees announced on Thursday, were Nanni Moretti's comedy Habemus Papam (15 nods) and Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place (14 nods), which features Sean Penn as a fallen rock star.
Also up for Best Film: Cesare deve moriere and Terraferma, while Mastandrea will fight it out with Frenchman Michel Piccoli (Habemus Papam), Elio Germano (Magnifica presenza), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Scialla!) and Marco Giallini (Posti in piedi in paradiso) for the Best Actor award.
The Best Actress nominees are: Donatella Finocchiaro (Terraferma), Micaela Ramazzoti (Posti in piedi in paradiso), Claudia Gerini (Il mio domani), Valeria Golino (La kryptonite nella borsa) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Io sono Li).
Roman Polanski’s Carnage, Melancholia, Le Havre, Oscar winner The Artist and Intouchables are all up for the Best European Union film trophy, while Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Ides of March, The Tree of Life and Asghar Farhadi’s Best Foreign Film Oscar winner A Separation will compete for the Best Foreign Film prize.
The awards will be announced on 4 May. »
We Have A Pope—movie review
9 April 2012 12:53 AM, PDT | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
Given Nanni Moretti’s track record as writer, director, and actor, there is every reason to have high hopes for his latest effort, We Have a Pope. One would presume that a behind-the-scenes look at the process of naming a new Pontiff would provide ample fodder for observational humor. Instead, the film focuses on the chosen man’s crisis of confidence. Since that man is played by the great Michel Piccoli, this idea, too, offers great promise. Piccoli has played all kinds of characters in his long career, from the Everyman to King Lear. It’s no surprise, then, that he is ideal as a cardinal who is paralyzed with fright when his Vatican colleagues choose him as the new...
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- Leonard Maltin
We Have a Pope Movie Review
7 April 2012 2:28 PM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: We Have a Pope Director: Nanni Moretti Starring: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Margherita Buy, Renato Scarpa, Franco Graziosi, Enrico Ianniello An amiable comedy import at once thoughtful and low-key, multi-hyphenate Nanni Moretti’s Italian-language “We Have a Pope” takes an unlikely subject — the aftermath of the election of a new pontiff, and the swirl of self-doubt surrounding the newly infallible voice of God on Earth — and turns it into something rich, surprising and altogether rewarding. At the Vatican conclave to select the new pope, Cardinal Melville (Michel Piccoli, of “Contempt” and “Belle de Jour”) emerges as a surprise candidate on a fourth or fifth ballot. Caught off guard upon [ Read More ] »
- bsimon
Popcorn Preview: We Have a Pope
6 April 2012 8:58 AM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Film: We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam) (2011) Cast includes: Michel Piccoli (A Leap in the Dark), Nanni Moretti (The Son's Room), Margherita Buy (Days and Clouds) Director: Nanni Moretti (The Caiman) Genre: Light Drama | Comedy | Satire (102 minutes) Crowds gather in St. Peter's Square to pray and to wait. It's a sea of scarlet as 108 cardinals make their way to the Sistine Chapel for the conclave. Journalists struggle for scraps of information... a hopeless pursuit. Once they finally get the lights turned on in the Sistine Chapel, the cardinals get down to the task of voting. When each has written a name on his ballot, he signals that he's finished by tapping his pen. As the votes are counted, most cardinals have a similar silent prayer... "Not me. Oh Lord, please not me." Although Cardinal Gregory gets the most votes in the first round, the vote isn't decisive. The smoke is black. »
- Leslie Sisman
Watch: An Exclusive Clip from Nanni Moretti's 'We Have a Pope'
6 April 2012 8:44 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Italian comic director Nanni Moretti ("Caro Diario") is back with a new film, and Indiewire has got an exclusive clip! "We Have a Pope" is a comic take on the story of a newly elected Pope (Michel Piccoli) and his relationship with his therapist. The film opens today courtesy of Sundance Selects. The release follows Moretti's career retrospective this past week at New York's IFC Center. »
- Bryce J. Renninger
‘We Have a Pope’ a comedy so mild it should come with a Papal Seal of Approval
5 April 2012 12:19 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
We Have a Pope / Habemus Papam
Directed by Nanni Moretti
Written by Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli
Italy / France, 2011
We Have a Pope gets off to a colourful start, with the masses in Saint Peter’s Square feasting their eyes on a sea of red capes, white lace and ecclesiastical bling. On paper, Nanni Moretti’s film promises swinging satire and perhaps some searching questions about how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its leader. Unfortunately he’s bottled it – serving up a comedy so mild it should come with a Papal Seal of Approval.
Michel Piccoli stars as Cardinal Melville, chosen by his peers to be the new Pope after lengthy deliberations and much collective boredom. It turns out that no one really wanted the job (“Not me, Lord”), so Melville is just the poor schmuck who’s drawn the short straw. In a wonderfully anti-climactic moment he »
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