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12 June 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | backstage.com | See recent Backstage news »

In “Americano,” French actor Mathieu Demy takes a cinematic journey that closely mimics his real life.The film, which is Demy’s directorial debut, tells the story of a 30-year old French man, played by Demy, struggling to commit to his girlfriend while dealing with the death of his mother in the United States, a continent away. The film is set to open in New York on June 15. “The subject is really about family relationships and the vertical love between parents and children,” Demy said. “In a way it's the story of me growing up.” As a young boy, Demy and his mother, Agnes Varda, followed his father, French New Wave veteran Jacques Demy, to Hollywood for his work. The family lived in L.A. for three years until his parents separated. Demy’s father returned to his native France, while Demy remained in California with his mother, who became a filmmaker in. »

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12 June 2012 12:43 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

We have added the first domestic trailer three posters and 14 photos from the upcoming drama Americano, Mathieu Demy‘s directorial debut, is both an homage to his famous parents, filmmakers Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy, and a work that stands entirely on its own. A deeply moving drama about inheritance andlegacy that deftly mines the [...]

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- Allan Ford

11 June 2012 9:00 AM, PDT | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

We fell in love, but not in court: Demy References Parent’s Filmography

Americano, the directorial debut of actor Mathieu Demy, (son of two legendary cinematic directors from the French New Wave, Jacques Demy and Agnes Varda), is a fruit rife with cinematic incest and nepotistic subtexts. On it’s own, this is a film about coming to grips with the past, familial relationships, and being a stranger in a strange land, but Demy has really created a cinematic wormhole, an intertwining device that unites themes from some of his parents’ own obscure works, as well as autobiographical details, and a rich subtext heavily informed by the spectrum of cinema past.

Demy stars as Martin, a real estate broker in Paris, seemingly at the end of a relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Claire (Matroianni), who wants a baby. Suddenly, Martin learns that his estranged mother has died in Los Angeles, »

- Nicholas Bell

31 May 2012 4:37 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

Title: Americano Mpi Pictures Director: Mathieu Demy Screenwriter: Mathieu Demy Cast: Mathieu Demy, Salma Hayek, Geraldine Chaplin, Chiara Mastroianni, Carlos Bardem Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 5/30/12 Opens: June 15, 2012 You don’t have to be Jewish or Catholic to feel sizable guilt upon the death of your parents. Memories of childhood crowd out events occurring in your daily routines as you wonder whether you could have done more or perhaps bothered them less with demands, or maybe even wonder whether you did the right thing to move away at a distance sufficient to cause a deep-seated estrangement. Such is the case with freshman director and co-star Mathieu Demy, whose  [ Read More ] »

- Brian Corder

9 March 2012 7:41 AM, PST | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »

Rendez-Vous with French filmmakers - Part Two

Looking for an appropriate location for my interview with Mathieu Demy, we followed the signs saying "Pool" on the 11th floor of the Empire Hotel, only to find the doors locked. Behind the neon sign on the rooftop would have been perfect - a neon sign features prominently in his film. We settled on the mezzanine overlooking the lobby.

My first question to Demy, who has brought his intricate debut feature Americano to New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, was, if perhaps Lars von »

- Anne-Katrin Titze

4 March 2012 | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »

New York's Rendez-Vous With French cinema - Part Two

As the 17th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at The Film Society, the IFC Center and BAMcinématek continues, we take a look at some more of the festival highlights. You can read Part One, here.

First-time director Mathieu Demy, who wrote and also stars in Americano, takes us on a journey to Los Angeles, then to Tijuana, Mexico and into a family's past in an incomparable way. Unique, especially, are the »

- Anne-Katrin Titze

3 March 2012 4:46 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

"As the annual Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series begins in New York City [today] with a screening of the blockbuster Intouchables, France's film industry is jubilant," begins Stephen Holden in the New York Times, and of course, what he's referring to first is the nearly absolute domination of The Artist throughout the just-passed awards season. Secondly, he's referring to the opening night film, "an interracial buddy comedy that has grossed nearly $240 million. It is now the second-highest-grossing French movie ever (behind Welcome to the Sticks). It's also "a crass escapist comedy that feels like a Gallic throwback to an 80s Eddie Murphy movie."

Variety's Jill Goldsmith reports that, just in time for the Us premiere, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the xenophobic National Front party has said, "'It would be a disaster if France were to find itself in the same situation' as the wealthy crippled Frenchman »

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