Following the ambitious adventure saga “The Three Musketeers,” Pathé and Chapter 2 are back at work on another epic franchise, this time in English with a plot shedding light on the origins of the Grimaldi dynasty and their conquest of Monaco in the late 13th century. While they’re lesser known than the U.K.’s Windsors, the Grimaldi family has ruled Monaco for eight centuries and as such remains Europe’s longest-ruling royal family.
Martha Hillier is attached to write the first installment of “Monaco,” which is titled “Part I — The Rock.” Astrea Films is producing the film with Chapter 2, a Mediawan Company, and Pathé. Astrea is headed by Andrea, Pierre and Beatrice Casiraghi, who have ties to the Grimaldi family, while Dimitri Rassam is also part of the Monegasque princely family through his marriage with Charlotte Casiraghi. Morgan O’Sullivan and Osp’s Liz Gill are attached to executive produce.
Beyond this first film,...
Martha Hillier is attached to write the first installment of “Monaco,” which is titled “Part I — The Rock.” Astrea Films is producing the film with Chapter 2, a Mediawan Company, and Pathé. Astrea is headed by Andrea, Pierre and Beatrice Casiraghi, who have ties to the Grimaldi family, while Dimitri Rassam is also part of the Monegasque princely family through his marriage with Charlotte Casiraghi. Morgan O’Sullivan and Osp’s Liz Gill are attached to executive produce.
Beyond this first film,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Flanked by theatrical bed-curtains, two women exchange sidelong glances as they untie each other’s hair and plant kisses on each other’s fingers. All the world’s a stage, Éric Rohmer seems to say in his final film, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007), but never more so than in the bedroom. Set in a candle-lit chateau interior, the encounter is simultaneously a coy sapphic experiment and a monogamous heterosexual reunion: with the aid of make-up and a “druid’s potion” to halt the growth of his facial hair, the spurned Celadon (Andy Gillet) has begun to redeem himself, in the eyes of his lover Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour), by becoming a woman. Captured in an unflinching long take, there is a refreshing directness to this moment, one of...
- 12/12/2022
- MUBI
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