French actress Emmanuelle Debever, the first entertainer to accuse Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault, died by suicide Dec. 7, after jumping into the Seine river in Paris. She was 60.
First reported by the French newspaper Libération, Debever’s death has been confirmed by French authorities, who have classified it as a suicide.
Debever died on the same day as the TV broadcast of an investigative documentary into the various sexual assault allegations against Depardieu. The show, from the investigative news program Complément d’Enquête, teased the report last week with clips from an interview with actress Hélène Darras, who has filed an official complaint against Depardieu, claiming the French star sexually assaulted her on the set of the 2007 film Disco.
The TV documentary also included allegations from Debever, who accused Depardieu of assaulting her on the set of the 1982 film Danton, a period drama directed by Andrzej Wajda, in which Depardieu played Georges Danton.
First reported by the French newspaper Libération, Debever’s death has been confirmed by French authorities, who have classified it as a suicide.
Debever died on the same day as the TV broadcast of an investigative documentary into the various sexual assault allegations against Depardieu. The show, from the investigative news program Complément d’Enquête, teased the report last week with clips from an interview with actress Hélène Darras, who has filed an official complaint against Depardieu, claiming the French star sexually assaulted her on the set of the 2007 film Disco.
The TV documentary also included allegations from Debever, who accused Depardieu of assaulting her on the set of the 1982 film Danton, a period drama directed by Andrzej Wajda, in which Depardieu played Georges Danton.
- 12/14/2023
- by Valeria Verbaro
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ruben Östlund’s latest satire, Triangle of Sadness, dominated the European Film Awards with four wins, including Best Film, the evening’s top prize.
Östlund also picked up the Best Screenplay and Best Director Awards for his work on the film, and Zlatko Burić nabbed Best Actor for his leading role.
The film, which picked up this year’s Palme d’Or, follows Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), a celebrity model couple who are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting to stay alive.
In other top prizes, Vicky Krieps won the Best Actress award for the well-received period drama Corsage, and the Javier Bardem starrer, The Good Boss, won Best Comedy.
The awards ceremony, overseen by the European Film Academy, took place...
Östlund also picked up the Best Screenplay and Best Director Awards for his work on the film, and Zlatko Burić nabbed Best Actor for his leading role.
The film, which picked up this year’s Palme d’Or, follows Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), a celebrity model couple who are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting to stay alive.
In other top prizes, Vicky Krieps won the Best Actress award for the well-received period drama Corsage, and the Javier Bardem starrer, The Good Boss, won Best Comedy.
The awards ceremony, overseen by the European Film Academy, took place...
- 12/10/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Vicky Krieps was also a winner as best European actress for Corsage.
Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy Triangle Of Sadness was the big winner at the 2022 European Film Awards (EFAs), which took place today (December 10) in Reykjavík.
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The class warfare comedy won best European film, director, screenwriter and actor, for Zlatko Burić.
Vicky Krieps was also a winner as best European actress for Corsage.
Mantas Kvedaravičius’ Mariupolis 2 won the European documentary prize, whilst Alain Ughetto’s No Dogs Or Italians Allowed picked up the animated feature award.
Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss,...
Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy Triangle Of Sadness was the big winner at the 2022 European Film Awards (EFAs), which took place today (December 10) in Reykjavík.
Scroll down for winners
The class warfare comedy won best European film, director, screenwriter and actor, for Zlatko Burić.
Vicky Krieps was also a winner as best European actress for Corsage.
Mantas Kvedaravičius’ Mariupolis 2 won the European documentary prize, whilst Alain Ughetto’s No Dogs Or Italians Allowed picked up the animated feature award.
Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss,...
- 12/10/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The Efa ceremony is taking place December 10 at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík.
The 2022 European Film Awards (EFAs) ceremony is taking place today (December 10) at 19.15 GMT in Reykjavík.
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Screen will be posting the winners on this page as they are announced during the live ceremony (refresh the page for latest updates). The ceremony kicks off at 19.15 GMT.
Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy Triangle Of Sadness is among the five titles up for the European film award, and is also competing in the director, actor (for Zlatko Burić) and screenwriter (Ostlund) categories.
Lukas Dhont’s...
The 2022 European Film Awards (EFAs) ceremony is taking place today (December 10) at 19.15 GMT in Reykjavík.
Scroll down for winners
Screen will be posting the winners on this page as they are announced during the live ceremony (refresh the page for latest updates). The ceremony kicks off at 19.15 GMT.
Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy Triangle Of Sadness is among the five titles up for the European film award, and is also competing in the director, actor (for Zlatko Burić) and screenwriter (Ostlund) categories.
Lukas Dhont’s...
- 12/10/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Diaphana Distribution has acquired French rights for the film and is planning a release for the first quarter of 2022.
Diaphana Distribution has acquired French rights to Czech director Michaela Pavlátová’s My Sunny Maad, which is due to world premiere in the Annecy International Film Festival’s main feature competition this June.
The respected French distributor has a strong track record in feature animations, having previously released Phantom Boy, Long Way North and Mary And The Witch’s Flower. It plans to release the film in France in the first quarter of 2022.
My Sunny Maad revolves around a Czech woman who...
Diaphana Distribution has acquired French rights to Czech director Michaela Pavlátová’s My Sunny Maad, which is due to world premiere in the Annecy International Film Festival’s main feature competition this June.
The respected French distributor has a strong track record in feature animations, having previously released Phantom Boy, Long Way North and Mary And The Witch’s Flower. It plans to release the film in France in the first quarter of 2022.
My Sunny Maad revolves around a Czech woman who...
- 5/21/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Diaphana has taken French rights to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s drama.
On the eve of the EFM, Berlin-based sales outfit m-appeal has announced two key deals for its Berlinale Competition contender Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy in advance of the film’s world premiere next week.
Leading French arthouse outfit Diaphana will handle Japanese filmmaker Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s latest film in France and is planning a theatrical release later this year on 80 to 150 prints.
Other deals confirmed are Paulo Branco’s Lisbon-based Leopardo Filmes for Portugal; GreenNarea Media for Korea; and Andrews Films for Taiwan. All are planning a theatrical release...
On the eve of the EFM, Berlin-based sales outfit m-appeal has announced two key deals for its Berlinale Competition contender Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy in advance of the film’s world premiere next week.
Leading French arthouse outfit Diaphana will handle Japanese filmmaker Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s latest film in France and is planning a theatrical release later this year on 80 to 150 prints.
Other deals confirmed are Paulo Branco’s Lisbon-based Leopardo Filmes for Portugal; GreenNarea Media for Korea; and Andrews Films for Taiwan. All are planning a theatrical release...
- 2/26/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Titles will be eligible for selection in competitions of San Sebastian and Toronto
Cannes Film Festival delegate general Thierry Frémaux unveiled his special 2020 Official Selection to an empty cinema theatre on the Champs-Elysées in Paris on Wednesday (June 3), some two weeks after the event’s scheduled May 12-23 dates which were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Normandie cinema, which traditionally hosts the announcement, would usually have been packed with journalists but this was not possible under France’s lockdown measures that will only see theatres reopen on June 22 after nearly three months of closure.
Instead, Frémaux sat alone with festival president Pierre Lescure,...
Cannes Film Festival delegate general Thierry Frémaux unveiled his special 2020 Official Selection to an empty cinema theatre on the Champs-Elysées in Paris on Wednesday (June 3), some two weeks after the event’s scheduled May 12-23 dates which were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Normandie cinema, which traditionally hosts the announcement, would usually have been packed with journalists but this was not possible under France’s lockdown measures that will only see theatres reopen on June 22 after nearly three months of closure.
Instead, Frémaux sat alone with festival president Pierre Lescure,...
- 6/4/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Veteran director talks latest film ‘Sorry We Missed You’.
The UK release date for Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You falls portentously on November 1 - that’s to say the day after Brexit (if it happens).
The 83-year-old UK director, who is a guest of honour at Filmfest Hamburg this week, is phlegmatic about the film coming out on such a day.
“I hope it doesn’t make any difference, I don’t think it means we are all going to be on the streets on November the first,” says Loach. “I guess people will have time to go to the cinema as well.
The UK release date for Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You falls portentously on November 1 - that’s to say the day after Brexit (if it happens).
The 83-year-old UK director, who is a guest of honour at Filmfest Hamburg this week, is phlegmatic about the film coming out on such a day.
“I hope it doesn’t make any difference, I don’t think it means we are all going to be on the streets on November the first,” says Loach. “I guess people will have time to go to the cinema as well.
- 10/4/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Safy Nebbou’s “Who You Think I Am,” the romantic drama with Juliette Binoche that’s world premiering in the Berlin Film Festival’s Special Gala section, has been sold nearly worldwide by Playtime.
Binoche stars as 50-year-old Claire Millaud, who creates a fake profile as a younger woman, Clara, on social media to spy on her lover, Ludo. But as her younger avatar, Claire ends up falling in love with one of Ludo’s friends, Alex.
Playtime has sold “Who You Think I Am” to Canada (Axia), Spain (Wanda), Italy (I Wonder), Germany (Alamode), Australia (Palace), Switzerland (Agora), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Rosebud), Austria (Thimfilm), Israel (Red Cape), South America (California Filmes), China (Huashi TV), Sweden (TriArt), Hungary (HungariCom), Baltics (BestFilm), Middle East (Italia Film), Portugal (Midas), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Taiwan (Sky Digi Entertainment) and Denmark (Camera Film).
Playtime’s Nicolas Brigaud-Robert said Binoche was a big draw for distributors...
Binoche stars as 50-year-old Claire Millaud, who creates a fake profile as a younger woman, Clara, on social media to spy on her lover, Ludo. But as her younger avatar, Claire ends up falling in love with one of Ludo’s friends, Alex.
Playtime has sold “Who You Think I Am” to Canada (Axia), Spain (Wanda), Italy (I Wonder), Germany (Alamode), Australia (Palace), Switzerland (Agora), Benelux (Cineart), Greece (Rosebud), Austria (Thimfilm), Israel (Red Cape), South America (California Filmes), China (Huashi TV), Sweden (TriArt), Hungary (HungariCom), Baltics (BestFilm), Middle East (Italia Film), Portugal (Midas), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Taiwan (Sky Digi Entertainment) and Denmark (Camera Film).
Playtime’s Nicolas Brigaud-Robert said Binoche was a big draw for distributors...
- 2/9/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
News From the Planet Mars
Director: Dominik Moll
Writers: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand
Cesar award winner Dominik Moll is back with his fifth film, News From the Planet Mars. Twice competing for the Palme d’Or (with his most notable work With a Friend Like Harry in 2005, and with the underrated Lemming in 2005), Moll tends to take five or six years between projects, with his adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ 1796 Gothic novel The Monk treated to an underwhelming response in 2011 despite starring Vincent Cassel. Reuniting with his regular scribe Gilles Marchand, Moll tries his hand at existential comedy with a tale about a stressed out dad and divorcé working as an executive of an It company and headed towards a mid-life crisis, a situation insisted by the arrival of a new, insane co-worker.
Cast: Francois Damiens, Veerle Baetens, Lea Drucker, Vincent Macaigne, Michel Aumont
Production Co./Producers: Diaphana Films’ Michel Saint-Jean,...
Director: Dominik Moll
Writers: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand
Cesar award winner Dominik Moll is back with his fifth film, News From the Planet Mars. Twice competing for the Palme d’Or (with his most notable work With a Friend Like Harry in 2005, and with the underrated Lemming in 2005), Moll tends to take five or six years between projects, with his adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ 1796 Gothic novel The Monk treated to an underwhelming response in 2011 despite starring Vincent Cassel. Reuniting with his regular scribe Gilles Marchand, Moll tries his hand at existential comedy with a tale about a stressed out dad and divorcé working as an executive of an It company and headed towards a mid-life crisis, a situation insisted by the arrival of a new, insane co-worker.
Cast: Francois Damiens, Veerle Baetens, Lea Drucker, Vincent Macaigne, Michel Aumont
Production Co./Producers: Diaphana Films’ Michel Saint-Jean,...
- 1/9/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
German born, French filmmaker Dominik Moll has blasted off onto his fifth feature film, News from Planet Mars. Starring François Damiens (Tip Top), Vincent Macaigne and Léa Drucker, Cineuropa’s Fabien Lemercier reports shooting has begun on the mostly Paris-based project and will continue filming into May. Diaphana Films’ Michel Saint-Jean is producing.
Gist: Co-written by Gilles Marchand and Moll, Philippe Mars (François Damiens) is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world. He’s trying to be a good father, a kind ex-husband, a nice colleague, an understanding sibling… But the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favor lately. With his son turning into a hardcore vegan, his daughter into a pathological overachiever and his sister selling oversized paintings of their naked parents, it seems to our ever-so prudent Philippe that everyone around him is starting to behave more and more erratically… When his colleague (who also accidentally...
Gist: Co-written by Gilles Marchand and Moll, Philippe Mars (François Damiens) is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world. He’s trying to be a good father, a kind ex-husband, a nice colleague, an understanding sibling… But the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favor lately. With his son turning into a hardcore vegan, his daughter into a pathological overachiever and his sister selling oversized paintings of their naked parents, it seems to our ever-so prudent Philippe that everyone around him is starting to behave more and more erratically… When his colleague (who also accidentally...
- 4/1/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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