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Gaumont Books Fontaine’s ‘Bovary’ Update
16 May 2013 1:58 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Gaumont is re-teaming with French helmer Anne Fontaine on “Gemma Bovery”. The bigscreen adaptation of the eponymous comicbook, pic toplines star Gemma Arterton and Gallic thesp Fabrice Luchini.
A contempo twist on Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary,” Fontaine’s pic turns on the unlikely romance between an ex-Parisian hipster (Luchini) living in Normandy and an attractive British woman (Arterton) who has moved into a small farm nearby with her husband.
Philippe Carcassone at Cine@ and Matthieu Tarot at Albertine are producing along with Gaumont, which is also handling international and French distribution. Ruby Films has UK distribution rights.
Gaumont saw success with Fontaine’s previous pic, “Two Mothers”. Gaumont’s €17 million “Turning Tide,” Christophe Offenstein, is set to sail to key international territories. Sailing drama stars Guillaume Canet and Francois Cluzet. Gaumont — the pic’s producer, distributor and seller — has inked pre-sales pacts after showing a promo to Cannes market buyers, »
- Elsa Keslassy
Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom
3 May 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
For Jane Austen's heroines a ball is a rare chance to mingle with the opposite sex. Now a BBC reconstruction of the Netherfield dance reveals the rigid social conventions that governed regency life
In Emma, Jane Austen concedes that it may be just possible to live without dancing. "Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind." But what an empty life! For anyone who still has sap in them, there is nothing like dancing – nothing to rival what Austen calls "the felicities of rapid motion". In Austen's fiction, as in many novels of the 19th century, a ball is the ultimate occasion for a heady kind of courtship – a trying out of partners that is exciting, flirtatious and downright erotic.
In Pride and Prejudice, the complicated mutual »
- John Mullan
'In the House' review: French teen becomes a writer by observing what happens
2 May 2013 5:58 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
The teacher is a veteran of the French school system, not burnt out but resigned to the mediocrity of each new crop of high school sophomores. That first assignment -- "Write about what you did last weekend" -- confirms what he tells his gallery manager wife: "This is the worst class I've had in my life."
But one 16-year-old boy, Claude, takes it seriously. He describes a classmate he selected, a somewhat dim kid whose life he'd love to have, whose house he longed to gain entry to. And he did, taking in details -- the sports-crazed dad beaten down by a job that includes petty humiliations from his boss and Chinese clients, and "the singular scent of a middle-class woman," his classmate's fetching blond mother.
He's ingratiating himself into their lives. He's observing, passing judgment, telling their secrets. And he knows how to make the essay a cliffhanger.
"To be continued. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Six novelists on their favourite second artform
27 April 2013 2:37 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Writers often worry about the dangers of outside influence, but what about the non-literary inspirations they are far more comfortable admitting to? Andrew O'Hagan talks to six novelists about their passion for a second artform
The divine counsels decided, once upon a time, that influence is bad and that too much agency is the enemy of invention. Harold Bloom can't be blamed for that: he certainly pointed to the danse macabre of influence and anxiety, but to him the association was perfectly creative. Elsewhere, writers have always been blamed for being too much like other writers, or too much like themselves, and even now, in the crisis of late postmodernism, we find it hard to believe that writers might live happily in a state of influence and cross-reference. Yet anybody who knows anything about writers knows that they love their sweet influences.
What I've noticed, though, is that the influences »
- Andrew O'Hagan, Lavinia Greenlaw, John Lanchester, Alan Warner, Sarah Hall, Colm Tóibín
Six novelists on their favourite second artform
27 April 2013 2:37 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Writers often worry about the dangers of outside influence, but what about the non-literary inspirations they are far more comfortable admitting to? Andrew O'Hagan talks to six novelists about their passion for a second artform
The divine counsels decided, once upon a time, that influence is bad and that too much agency is the enemy of invention. Harold Bloom can't be blamed for that: he certainly pointed to the danse macabre of influence and anxiety, but to him the association was perfectly creative. Elsewhere, writers have always been blamed for being too much like other writers, or too much like themselves, and even now, in the crisis of late postmodernism, we find it hard to believe that writers might live happily in a state of influence and cross-reference. Yet anybody who knows anything about writers knows that they love their sweet influences.
What I've noticed, though, is that the influences »
- Andrew O'Hagan, Lavinia Greenlaw, John Lanchester, Alan Warner, Sarah Hall, Colm Tóibín
In the House – review
2 April 2013 8:21 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
François Ozon's clever psychological comedy about teaching and erotic obsession is his best work to date
The 45-year-old François Ozon has made a dozen feature-length films and several shorts over the past 15 years, and he has found a popular audience in France for stylish, sophisticated movies that often deal with gay themes. Unlike the work of most French mainstream directors, a fair proportion of his pictures have crossed the Channel. Moreover, he's worked with several prominent British actresses – most notably Charlotte Rampling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Romola Garai, the last named having appeared in his version of Elizabeth Taylor's novel Angel playing a romantic novelist in Edwardian England.
Ozon's new film, the teasing comedy In the House, touches on a number of his recurrent concerns, among them the nature of creativity and stories within stories, and it is, I think, his best work to date. Loosely based on »
- Philip French
Gemma Arterton To Star In Big Screen Adaptation Of Posy Simmonds' Gemma Bovery
17 March 2013 12:29 PM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
We briefly covered Tamara Drewe here on Cbm back in 2010, and now Bleeding Cool reports that Gemma Arterton has signed up to star in another big screen adaptation of one of Posy Simmonds' newspaper strips turned graphic novels. Director Anne Fontaine has reportedly told AlloCine that she will be helming the film, while French actor Fabrice Luchini has told them that he will be acting alongside the British bombshell. The graphic novel description is as follows... "Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bête-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, »
Arterton, Luchini Star In "Gemma Bovery"
17 March 2013 6:29 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Gemma Arterton and French actor Fabrice Luchini are set to star in a film adaptation of the comic strip "Gemma Bovery".
"Coco Avant Chanel" and "Two Mothers" director Anne Fontaine helms the project which is described as a reimagining of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".
The story deals with the last few months in the life of an English expatriate living in Normandy. Shooting kicks off this Summer.
Posy Simmonds created the comic, and is the author of "Tamara Drewe" which was also adapted as a film that starred Arterton and Luke Evans.
Source: Allocine & The Playlist »
- Garth Franklin
Gemma Arterton To Star In Graphic Novel Adaptation 'Gemma Bovery'
16 March 2013 8:20 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It would seem that Gemma Arterton has a thing for the works of author Posy Simmonds. The actress sashayed across the screen in Stephen Frears' adaptation of the writer's "Tamara Drewe" a couple of years back, and now it looks like she's set to lead another one of Simmonds' books as it heads to the movies. French actor Fabrice Luchini revealed to Allocine that he'll be starring with Arterton in "Gemma Bovery," which Anne Fontaine ("Two Mothers," "Coco Before Chanel") confirmed she will direct. A reimagining of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" (duh), the story is told in flashback, detailing the tragicomic last few months in the life of the titular character, an English expatriate living in Normandy. The setting is contemporary and nods to Flaubert's novel overt, so perhaps it will be a bit of fun for those looking to shake up the literary canon. Production is set to get underway this summer, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Sokurov: Early Masterworks | Blu-ray/DVD Review
8 January 2013 1:15 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Raised in a military family and schooled in the ways of movie making under the wing of Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s career started in the 1970s working in television, but soon delved headlong into visual experimentalism. Most of his work from the 80s was legally banned in the Soviet Union, and with this lovingly assembled set by Cinema Guild, comes the first time any of these films have found a home release within the Us. Often said to be enigmatic, undefinable films, the early work of the auteur is a collection of ruminating death obsessed stories pulled from the Soviet and European classical canon and the war torn history of his mother country. With the three features bound within this set, Sokurov gleans material from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ for Whispering Pages, the ghost of Anton Chekhov for Stone, and Save and Protect retells Gustave Flaubert »
- Jordan M. Smith
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