Across her five previous features, Austrian director Jessica Hausner has developed a distinctly unique tone––one which carries through her sixth outing Club Zero. Led by Mia Wasikowska, the dark satire follows a nutrition teacher at an elite school whose relationship with five students takes a dangerous turn. While Hausner is perhaps intentionally poking the bear as it relates to eating disorders, one could swap out the subject of her new film to another topic du jour and still retain a cogent, one-of-a-kind look at cult mentality.
Ahead of Film Movement’s theatrical release of Club Zero this Friday––followed by their digital release of new 4K restorations of Lovely Rita and Hotel, along with Lourdes, on March 29––I spoke with Hausner about being inspired by fairy tales, the provocation of withholding food, collaborating with Mia Wasikowska, divisive reactions, the overwhelming stress of youth, and more.
The Film Stage: You...
Ahead of Film Movement’s theatrical release of Club Zero this Friday––followed by their digital release of new 4K restorations of Lovely Rita and Hotel, along with Lourdes, on March 29––I spoke with Hausner about being inspired by fairy tales, the provocation of withholding food, collaborating with Mia Wasikowska, divisive reactions, the overwhelming stress of youth, and more.
The Film Stage: You...
- 3/13/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Above: Little JoeJessica Hausner is one of the great observers in modern cinema. The human body and its roots and tendrils are examined as if in a nature documentary while circumstances become outrageous: The faces of her heroines, the slow body language meant to mask an internal longing and anxiousness, the minute changes in expressions, the cracking of a voice. The world suddenly becomes too small for her characters and we watch as they try to breathe. Hausner began by observing young Germans and their first brushes with the thorniness of adult life and its inherent violence. In her shorts Flora (1995), Inter-View (1999), and her first feature Lovely Rita (2001), she shows people who seem like they want to claw their way out of their cramped surroundings or even out of their own skin. In 2004’s Hotel, her aesthetic playbook was completely rewritten. Suddenly a clinical stillness and a nagging, asymmetrical design...
- 11/12/2019
- MUBI
Austrian producer Martin Gschlacht has been an active proponent of Austrian (and eventually Iranian) cinema since the late 1990s, and has quietly amassed a coterie of regular collaborators, including Jessica Hausner, Götz Spielmann and directing duo Shirin Neshat & Shoja Azari (including their titles Women Without Men in 2009 and Looking for Oum Kulthum in 2017).
Notably, Gschlacht started out as and is perhaps more notable as a cinematographer, beginning his career with Hausner, lensing her early short Inter-View (1999) and all of her subsequent features, from her 2001 debut Lovely Rita to her latest English language debut, Little Joe, which finally sees the Austrian director ascend into the Cannes competition in 2019.…...
Notably, Gschlacht started out as and is perhaps more notable as a cinematographer, beginning his career with Hausner, lensing her early short Inter-View (1999) and all of her subsequent features, from her 2001 debut Lovely Rita to her latest English language debut, Little Joe, which finally sees the Austrian director ascend into the Cannes competition in 2019.…...
- 4/22/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Imagine finding one of van Gogh’s early sketches for “Starry Night,” or a rough draft of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. For anyone who loves music, the mammoth 50th anniversary reissue of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is just as good—if not better. The expanded package includes nearly two hours worth of outtakes from the groundbreaking 1967 sessions, offering not only an alternate-universe look at some of the most beloved tracks in the rock canon, but also a fascinating fly-on-the-wall view of four young artists at the height of their power.
Stripped down, occasionally rough and always electrifying,...
Stripped down, occasionally rough and always electrifying,...
- 6/1/2017
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
It’s with great pleasure to see Austrian director Jessica Hausner’s fourth feature Amour Fou available on Blu-ray in the Us, considering several of her previous exemplary titles have failed to secure distribution altogether. Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Film Editing at Austrian Oscars, premiering her latest at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, it’s an innovative exploration of the strange thing called love. Film Movement released the title in three theaters in early summer of 2015, and only managed to rake in around thirteen thousand in a three month run. Although it ultimately didn’t manage to heighten Hausner’s international profile as much as one would’ve hoped, with a little luck this should end up on some year-end best lists and continue to grasp a wider, more deserving audience.
Hausner reveals her strongest work yet, a droll, romantic exploration of sorts...
Hausner reveals her strongest work yet, a droll, romantic exploration of sorts...
- 11/3/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Love Fool: Hausner’s Latest an Exquisitely Shot, Humorous Exploration of Love and Death
With her fourth feature film, Amour Fou, Austrian director Jessica Hausner reveals her strongest work yet, a droll, romantic exploration of sorts that manages to expertly blend her unique tone with exquisite digital compositions from her longtime cinematographer Martin Gschlacht. In comparison to their first outing together, 2001’s Lovely Rita, their mastery of the digital image couldn’t be more strikingly apparent. Whereas that film’s complex subject suffered greatly from the rather jarring presentation of image and jagged zooms, here they’ve controlled the medium fantastically. The film’s look is so remarkably beautiful that non-German speakers will be hard pressed to keep up with subtitles as they soak in her unique tale of dying for love.
In 1811 during the last several months of German poet Heinrich von Kleist’s (Christian Friedel) life, his search...
With her fourth feature film, Amour Fou, Austrian director Jessica Hausner reveals her strongest work yet, a droll, romantic exploration of sorts that manages to expertly blend her unique tone with exquisite digital compositions from her longtime cinematographer Martin Gschlacht. In comparison to their first outing together, 2001’s Lovely Rita, their mastery of the digital image couldn’t be more strikingly apparent. Whereas that film’s complex subject suffered greatly from the rather jarring presentation of image and jagged zooms, here they’ve controlled the medium fantastically. The film’s look is so remarkably beautiful that non-German speakers will be hard pressed to keep up with subtitles as they soak in her unique tale of dying for love.
In 1811 during the last several months of German poet Heinrich von Kleist’s (Christian Friedel) life, his search...
- 3/19/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Flaming Lips and some "fwends" have taken on the songs of The Beatles' "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band," and first up is an iconic little song with Miley Cyrus and Moby. Click here to listen to Miley Cyrus, Moby and Flaming Lips cover "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Cyrus obviously bends her voice to fit the psychedelic trip on this one; but a trained singer singing purposely flat hurts my widdle hawt. It's nice to hear her step outside her wheelhouse, and, judging from the little blips of in-studio banter inserted at the beginning and end, she had at least a little fun. As you'll see the song is conveniently located on the pre-order page for the set, officially dubbed "With a Little Help From My Fwends," a title you will be embarrassed to say aloud, guaranteed. The Oklahoma-founded group has gone the way of PledgeMusic for this release,...
- 10/13/2014
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
Paul McCartney returned to a concert stage Saturday in Albany, New York, after being sidelined for two months because of a virus, spinning out songs from the Beatles, Wings and a solo career that has spanned more than 50 years of rock 'n' roll. "It's great to be back," said McCartney, who turned 72 two weeks ago. He looked none the worse for wear, putting on a show of just under three hours with 38 songs before finishing with the three-song medley that ends the Abbey Road album. McCartney was briefly hospitalized in Tokyo in May because of the viral infection. The illness...
- 7/6/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Amour Fou by Jessica Hausner, one of my favorite directors, was, as all her films are, a surprise, rising out of a quietly building plot whose ending punctuates a philosophic idea that plays out like a melodic line of a larger song. Framed in the simple Beidermeyer style of 1811 Berlin, again the question of ownership over a person and a person’s soul is the subtle subject of this film. The shadows cast by the French Revolution, Prussian militarism and Hapsburg conservatism, slavery, the emancipation of the peasants, the birth of the working poor and the place of women as the chattel of their husbands are embodied in the personal drama of a fragile soul and interpreted by society as a tragic love story when in truth it is the story of a woman worn down by the societal tyranny of her pre-Freudian society who perhaps, barely perceives her true self only at the end of the film’s trajectory.
The simplicity of the production design by Katharina Wöppermann,the production designer of Lourdes, Lovely Rita and Raúl Ruiz‘s Klimt as well, was discussed in an interview with Jessica Hausner posted on the Austrian Film Commission site : “And there was wallpaper, there were carpets that covered the floor of the whole room like fitted carpets. Our film is set in the Empire Period, that short time between 1810 and 1815 when people followed the model of ancient Greece. You can also see it in the clothes [by costume designer, Tanja Hausner, Jessica’s sister] with high waists and soft, flowing, light material. In terms of interior design, they used ancient columns, draped curtains and Greek landscapes painted on the walls. This was also connected with the philosophical ideal of antiquity. The patterns and colors don’t really develop until the Biedermeier period, but it all started at the beginning of the 19th century. Another interesting point is that heating, light and comfort were generally concentrated only in one living room, which is why people would sit around a table - five, six or more of them together, and they would hear what the other people were talking about. To a certain extent there was a different kind of privacy in those days.”
Jessica Hausner, an Austrian director and screenwriter is so lucky to have found in Philippe Bober, founder of The Coproduction Office, a kindred spirit whose patience and warm passion for developing projects fits perfectly with her sparse, introverted and deep examinations of souls whose human owners are not fully cognizant of them.
She has written and directed seven films since 1999 with Philippe Bober. Her first feature film Lovely Rita was developed with Philippe and screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Lourdes won the Fipresci and Signis Awards at its debut in Venice Film Festival 2009. Before that, she shot a couple of shorts and was a script girl in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games in 1997 and went on to write and direct her first 45 minute feature Inter-View which was developed at Cinefondation where it won an Honorable Mention in 1999.
Philippe Bober works with people with a distinctive signature. In a previous discussion we had , he claims that it takes 10 to 20 years before an “auteur” can create a name for herself or himself which carries a certain weight in terms of raising money and appealing to audiences. Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes, the most successful of her films began 12 years before its debut. He and Jessica have been working together since 1999.
Philippe’s job is to bring “auteurs” to audiences via sales and marketing. His work is to help them make decisions which will not compromise their art but will shape the films they want to make during scripting, casting and editing to be more accessible to audiences. One example of this pertains to the decision on casting to result in greater ticket sales. To do that one must know which past films made what box office numbers in which territory. There is no such recipe for scripting or editing in terms of making the message and story clearer to the audience without censuring the auteur. As he explains, sometimes this process takes two years and sometimes it can take up to 10 years.
Jessica Hausner shaped Amour Fou first around the idea of a double suicide, and then, in the course of her research, around the romantic poet, Heinrich von Kleist and his double suicide with Henriette Vogel.
Kleist subverted clichéd ideas of Romantic longing and themes of nature and innocence. He infused them with irony, taking up the subjective emotions and placing them into contextual paradox to show individuals in moments of crises and doubt, with both tragic and comic outcomes. As often as not, his dramatic and narrative situations end without resolution.
Hausner says, “His work is fascinating. I'm thinking particularly of the Marquise of O. It's an unfathomable story. Here I’m completely in agreement with Henriette's mother in my film, who says: ‘What an absurd idea, that a woman who is impregnated against her will by a man can come to love him in the end.’ That's a very male fantasy. And I think that's also what inspired my character of Kleist in the film. What kind of man could think up something like that? He'd have to be somebody who is very caught up in his own extremes, who doesn't step outside, and who can only accept extreme things.”
And so, after watching Amour Fou, we are left with the almost humorous unanswered question of what was Henriette thinking and about to say at the moment the trigger was released.
The simplicity of the production design by Katharina Wöppermann,the production designer of Lourdes, Lovely Rita and Raúl Ruiz‘s Klimt as well, was discussed in an interview with Jessica Hausner posted on the Austrian Film Commission site : “And there was wallpaper, there were carpets that covered the floor of the whole room like fitted carpets. Our film is set in the Empire Period, that short time between 1810 and 1815 when people followed the model of ancient Greece. You can also see it in the clothes [by costume designer, Tanja Hausner, Jessica’s sister] with high waists and soft, flowing, light material. In terms of interior design, they used ancient columns, draped curtains and Greek landscapes painted on the walls. This was also connected with the philosophical ideal of antiquity. The patterns and colors don’t really develop until the Biedermeier period, but it all started at the beginning of the 19th century. Another interesting point is that heating, light and comfort were generally concentrated only in one living room, which is why people would sit around a table - five, six or more of them together, and they would hear what the other people were talking about. To a certain extent there was a different kind of privacy in those days.”
Jessica Hausner, an Austrian director and screenwriter is so lucky to have found in Philippe Bober, founder of The Coproduction Office, a kindred spirit whose patience and warm passion for developing projects fits perfectly with her sparse, introverted and deep examinations of souls whose human owners are not fully cognizant of them.
She has written and directed seven films since 1999 with Philippe Bober. Her first feature film Lovely Rita was developed with Philippe and screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Lourdes won the Fipresci and Signis Awards at its debut in Venice Film Festival 2009. Before that, she shot a couple of shorts and was a script girl in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games in 1997 and went on to write and direct her first 45 minute feature Inter-View which was developed at Cinefondation where it won an Honorable Mention in 1999.
Philippe Bober works with people with a distinctive signature. In a previous discussion we had , he claims that it takes 10 to 20 years before an “auteur” can create a name for herself or himself which carries a certain weight in terms of raising money and appealing to audiences. Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes, the most successful of her films began 12 years before its debut. He and Jessica have been working together since 1999.
Philippe’s job is to bring “auteurs” to audiences via sales and marketing. His work is to help them make decisions which will not compromise their art but will shape the films they want to make during scripting, casting and editing to be more accessible to audiences. One example of this pertains to the decision on casting to result in greater ticket sales. To do that one must know which past films made what box office numbers in which territory. There is no such recipe for scripting or editing in terms of making the message and story clearer to the audience without censuring the auteur. As he explains, sometimes this process takes two years and sometimes it can take up to 10 years.
Jessica Hausner shaped Amour Fou first around the idea of a double suicide, and then, in the course of her research, around the romantic poet, Heinrich von Kleist and his double suicide with Henriette Vogel.
Kleist subverted clichéd ideas of Romantic longing and themes of nature and innocence. He infused them with irony, taking up the subjective emotions and placing them into contextual paradox to show individuals in moments of crises and doubt, with both tragic and comic outcomes. As often as not, his dramatic and narrative situations end without resolution.
Hausner says, “His work is fascinating. I'm thinking particularly of the Marquise of O. It's an unfathomable story. Here I’m completely in agreement with Henriette's mother in my film, who says: ‘What an absurd idea, that a woman who is impregnated against her will by a man can come to love him in the end.’ That's a very male fantasy. And I think that's also what inspired my character of Kleist in the film. What kind of man could think up something like that? He'd have to be somebody who is very caught up in his own extremes, who doesn't step outside, and who can only accept extreme things.”
And so, after watching Amour Fou, we are left with the almost humorous unanswered question of what was Henriette thinking and about to say at the moment the trigger was released.
- 5/31/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Manchester, Tennessee -- Even a former Beatle needs a moment standing on the main stage at Bonnaroo.
A few songs into his transcendent first set at the massive Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Paul McCartney wrapped his arms around his signature Hofner bass and surveyed a crowd of 80,000 adoring fans.
"Hey, listen, I'm going to take a moment just to drink all this in for myself," McCartney said.
McCartney is one of the world's most recognizable musicians and showed why as he led a massive 2 1/2-hour sing-a-long of three dozen songs that included two encores Friday night.
Playing for a crowd consisting mostly of fans who were born a decade or more after the Beatles broke up in 1971, he lavishly revisited the Beatles, Wings and his own solo catalog, laying down hit after hit and playing two Beatles cuts he only recently began playing live for the first time – "Lovely Rita" and "Mr.
A few songs into his transcendent first set at the massive Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Paul McCartney wrapped his arms around his signature Hofner bass and surveyed a crowd of 80,000 adoring fans.
"Hey, listen, I'm going to take a moment just to drink all this in for myself," McCartney said.
McCartney is one of the world's most recognizable musicians and showed why as he led a massive 2 1/2-hour sing-a-long of three dozen songs that included two encores Friday night.
Playing for a crowd consisting mostly of fans who were born a decade or more after the Beatles broke up in 1971, he lavishly revisited the Beatles, Wings and his own solo catalog, laying down hit after hit and playing two Beatles cuts he only recently began playing live for the first time – "Lovely Rita" and "Mr.
- 6/15/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Paul McCartney kicked off his "Out There!" tour in a big way. The Beatles alum played a show in Brazil over the weekend, surprising fans by playing Beatles songs that they had never heard live.
The 70-year-old singer dusted off Beatles tracks that had yet to be performed on stage, Billboard reports, including “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” "All Together Now," “Lovely Rita,” and “Your Mother Should Know” -- take a listen above. The songs were recorded at various times during the Beatles' career: "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" was featured on the band's 1967 album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," along with "Lovely Rita," while "Your Mother Should Know" is a track off of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album, and "All Together Now" debuted on the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack.
McCartney rounded out the performance with other beloved Beatles songs, including “Lady Madonna” and “Eleanor Rigby,...
The 70-year-old singer dusted off Beatles tracks that had yet to be performed on stage, Billboard reports, including “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” "All Together Now," “Lovely Rita,” and “Your Mother Should Know” -- take a listen above. The songs were recorded at various times during the Beatles' career: "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" was featured on the band's 1967 album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," along with "Lovely Rita," while "Your Mother Should Know" is a track off of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album, and "All Together Now" debuted on the "Yellow Submarine" soundtrack.
McCartney rounded out the performance with other beloved Beatles songs, including “Lady Madonna” and “Eleanor Rigby,...
- 5/7/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Amour Fou
Director/Writer: Jessica Hausner
Producer(s): Tba
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Tba
I got to know Jessica Hausner a little late in the game, the Austrian director wowed me with her minimalist portrait Lourdes (a Venice Film Festival selection) but she first made waves back in 2001 with her sophomore film, the Cannes Un Certain Regard selected Lovely Rita. Currently a bit past the funding stages, her sixth aptly titled Amour Fou is probably in the casting portion of the production.
Gist: Inspired by the life and death of the poet Heinrich von Kleist and his partner in death, Henriette Vogel, the deals with the ambivalence and absurdity inherent in the very concept of two people committing suicide because of their love for one another. Committing this act is the yearning to escape the inevitability of death through love, to avoid dying alone and to oppose...
Director/Writer: Jessica Hausner
Producer(s): Tba
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Tba
I got to know Jessica Hausner a little late in the game, the Austrian director wowed me with her minimalist portrait Lourdes (a Venice Film Festival selection) but she first made waves back in 2001 with her sophomore film, the Cannes Un Certain Regard selected Lovely Rita. Currently a bit past the funding stages, her sixth aptly titled Amour Fou is probably in the casting portion of the production.
Gist: Inspired by the life and death of the poet Heinrich von Kleist and his partner in death, Henriette Vogel, the deals with the ambivalence and absurdity inherent in the very concept of two people committing suicide because of their love for one another. Committing this act is the yearning to escape the inevitability of death through love, to avoid dying alone and to oppose...
- 1/11/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Here are the results from the We Love Soaps TV "Indie Series of the Week" poll for the week of June 19-25, 2011. The Bay returned with "Far From The Bay" and captured the top spot for the week.
If you're a fan of any of these shows, we encourage you to check out some of the other series you may not have watched yet.
Indie soaps that aired one or more episodes last week were eligible.
Watch last week's indie soaps below:
- Anyone But Me Season 3 Episode 5 "2,500 Miles To You" (Season Finale)
As The Corn Grows Episode 68
Awkward Embraces Season 2 Finale Part 1 "The Facebook"
- The Bay Chapter 5 Part 1 "Far From The Bay"
- Beirut, I Love You Episode22 "Lovely Rita"
- California Heaven Episodes 9, 10 & 11
- Downsized Season 2 Episode 4 "The American Dream"
Fumbling Thru The Pieces Episode 11 "It's all in the Cards"
- Los Americans Episode 5 "Lead Us Not.
If you're a fan of any of these shows, we encourage you to check out some of the other series you may not have watched yet.
Indie soaps that aired one or more episodes last week were eligible.
Watch last week's indie soaps below:
- Anyone But Me Season 3 Episode 5 "2,500 Miles To You" (Season Finale)
As The Corn Grows Episode 68
Awkward Embraces Season 2 Finale Part 1 "The Facebook"
- The Bay Chapter 5 Part 1 "Far From The Bay"
- Beirut, I Love You Episode22 "Lovely Rita"
- California Heaven Episodes 9, 10 & 11
- Downsized Season 2 Episode 4 "The American Dream"
Fumbling Thru The Pieces Episode 11 "It's all in the Cards"
- Los Americans Episode 5 "Lead Us Not.
- 6/28/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Getty Nick Mason
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason doesn’t expect to be performing any of the rock group’s beloved works on stage with his two band mates any time soon. So, the English band’s fans will have to be content with snapping up an ambitious, comprehensive set of Floyd releases this fall.
“Dark Side of the Moon,” released in 1973, is one of the most durable sellers in music history. Emi, the band’s label dating back to...
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason doesn’t expect to be performing any of the rock group’s beloved works on stage with his two band mates any time soon. So, the English band’s fans will have to be content with snapping up an ambitious, comprehensive set of Floyd releases this fall.
“Dark Side of the Moon,” released in 1973, is one of the most durable sellers in music history. Emi, the band’s label dating back to...
- 6/26/2011
- by Jon Friedman
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Which web series was your favorite last week? Support your favorite continuing drama or comedy and vote in the weekly We Love Soaps TV poll below. Check back on Tuesday morning for the results (voting ends Tuesday at 9 a.m. Et). Only the shows that aired one or more new episodes from June 19-25, 2011 are listed. Based on release schedules, the shows in the poll will change weekly.
If an indie soap aired this week and is not on the list, feel free to cast your vote as "Other" and add a note in the Comments section of this post.
Watch this week's indie soaps below:
- Anyone But Me Season 3 Episode 5 "2,500 Miles To You" (Season Finale)
As The Corn Grows Episode 68
Awkward Embraces Season 2 Finale Part 1 "The Facebook"
- The Bay Chapter 5 Part 1 "Far From The Bay"
- Beirut, I Love You Episode22 "Lovely Rita"
- California Heaven Episodes...
If an indie soap aired this week and is not on the list, feel free to cast your vote as "Other" and add a note in the Comments section of this post.
Watch this week's indie soaps below:
- Anyone But Me Season 3 Episode 5 "2,500 Miles To You" (Season Finale)
As The Corn Grows Episode 68
Awkward Embraces Season 2 Finale Part 1 "The Facebook"
- The Bay Chapter 5 Part 1 "Far From The Bay"
- Beirut, I Love You Episode22 "Lovely Rita"
- California Heaven Episodes...
- 6/25/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Led by Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Be Kind Rewind,” “The Science of Sleep” “Human Nature”), the following jury members are responsible for selecting the student winners of Cannes Cinéfondation competition (award monies of 15,000€, 11,250€ and 7,500€ go to the top three!), and the winners of the Short Film competition.
Wondering what it takes to get on a Cannes jury? Check out the following juror’s bios and keep us posted!
Julie Gayet, Actress and Producer, France
Julie Gayet began her acting career in A la belle étoile, three years before winning the Romy Schneider Prize in 1996. Since then she has starred in films directed by Michel Deville, Agnès Varda, Merzak Allouache, Emmanuel Mouret and Patrice Leconte, to name but a few. In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, which would go on to carry out ambitious projects such as Fix me and Huit fois debout.
Jessica Hausner,...
Wondering what it takes to get on a Cannes jury? Check out the following juror’s bios and keep us posted!
Julie Gayet, Actress and Producer, France
Julie Gayet began her acting career in A la belle étoile, three years before winning the Romy Schneider Prize in 1996. Since then she has starred in films directed by Michel Deville, Agnès Varda, Merzak Allouache, Emmanuel Mouret and Patrice Leconte, to name but a few. In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, which would go on to carry out ambitious projects such as Fix me and Huit fois debout.
Jessica Hausner,...
- 4/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Led by Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Be Kind Rewind,” “The Science of Sleep” “Human Nature”), the following jury members are responsible for selecting the student winners of Cannes Cinéfondation competition (award monies of 15,000€, 11,250€ and 7,500€ go to the top three!), and the winners of the Short Film competition.
Wondering what it takes to get on a Cannes jury? Check out the following juror’s bios and keep us posted!
Julie Gayet, Actress and Producer, France
Julie Gayet began her acting career in A la belle étoile, three years before winning the Romy Schneider Prize in 1996. Since then she has starred in films directed by Michel Deville, Agnès Varda, Merzak Allouache, Emmanuel Mouret and Patrice Leconte, to name but a few. In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, which would go on to carry out ambitious projects such as Fix me and Huit fois debout.
Jessica Hausner,...
Wondering what it takes to get on a Cannes jury? Check out the following juror’s bios and keep us posted!
Julie Gayet, Actress and Producer, France
Julie Gayet began her acting career in A la belle étoile, three years before winning the Romy Schneider Prize in 1996. Since then she has starred in films directed by Michel Deville, Agnès Varda, Merzak Allouache, Emmanuel Mouret and Patrice Leconte, to name but a few. In 2007, she founded her own production company, Rouge International, which would go on to carry out ambitious projects such as Fix me and Huit fois debout.
Jessica Hausner,...
- 4/21/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Chicago – The third week of the 13th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center has arrived, and we’re back to give you an idea of what to expect in the second half of arguably the best fest in the Windy City. We profile several of this week’s hottest tickets, including an anticipated screening hosted by Chicago’s own Jonathan Rosenbaum.
The first half of EU 2010 (which you can read about here and here) produced some memorable films including Sweden’s taut thriller “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Italy’s sumptuous romance “I Am Love,” and France’s exhilaratingly off-kilter re-telling of “Bluebeard.” As good as all of those films were, the festival has generally been offering stronger programming each week, and this is the best one yet. Out of the next four highlights, there are at least two that absolutely should not be missed.
It...
The first half of EU 2010 (which you can read about here and here) produced some memorable films including Sweden’s taut thriller “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Italy’s sumptuous romance “I Am Love,” and France’s exhilaratingly off-kilter re-telling of “Bluebeard.” As good as all of those films were, the festival has generally been offering stronger programming each week, and this is the best one yet. Out of the next four highlights, there are at least two that absolutely should not be missed.
It...
- 3/18/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sometimes it feels as if 2010 so far can be summed up as an ongoing quest to avoid discussing Avatar. (Okay, you want my one-word review? Meh.) Fortunately, a number of filmmakers have stepped up to offer heartening proof that the whole of cinema isn't henceforth going to be consigned to the twin plagues of Polaroid goggles and half-baked storytelling. Jessica Hausner -- previously known for Lovely Rita and Hotel -- has gone a good deal farther, taking her guests into a world as rarefied as Pandora, but quite, quite real, in Lourdes. In case you didn't know, Lourdes is a city in France, site of a purported miracle in the nineteenth century and subsequently the locus for pilgrims hoping that the hand of God will relieve them of their various illnesses and disabilities. Amongst Lourdes, the film's contemporary group of...
- 2/19/2010
- by Dan Persons
- Huffington Post
This Article Has Been Updated On January 23
Dear Cinema Retro, Referring to the piece on your website -- "It's Over: Conan To Leave NBC; Last Show Friday." I really feel such sympathy for Conan O'Brien. Just think about it. He's soon to be unemployed! If I were him I would not be in the least concerned that "no major network has indicated interest in signing him on." I would take the $33 million and yell to the heavens "Thank you, thank you, now I'm free, and I'm rich." The worst he has to look forward to is that for the rest of his life he would suffer in comfort. How tragic. Some people really have a hard time in life. Regards, Allan Osborne.Retro responds: Allan, I couldn't agree with you more. Although I rarely watch late night comedy shows (I'm usually glued to political programs or TCM), I've always liked...
Dear Cinema Retro, Referring to the piece on your website -- "It's Over: Conan To Leave NBC; Last Show Friday." I really feel such sympathy for Conan O'Brien. Just think about it. He's soon to be unemployed! If I were him I would not be in the least concerned that "no major network has indicated interest in signing him on." I would take the $33 million and yell to the heavens "Thank you, thank you, now I'm free, and I'm rich." The worst he has to look forward to is that for the rest of his life he would suffer in comfort. How tragic. Some people really have a hard time in life. Regards, Allan Osborne.Retro responds: Allan, I couldn't agree with you more. Although I rarely watch late night comedy shows (I'm usually glued to political programs or TCM), I've always liked...
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