I Was a Teenage Vampire: Rouzet Insists the Family That Slays Together Stays Together
For her narrative feature debut, En attendant la nuit (For Night Will Come), Céline Rouzet jumps into a growing trend of vampiric coming of age narratives, a familiar if satisfactorily brooding exercise about a family who believes they can control the chaos of their child’s violent condition. Employing Elodie Bouchez as a devoted matriarch, Rouzet builds on the inevitable tension inspired by this dysfunctional clan doomed to lose control in this bid to overcome nature by nurture, for, as the title implies, darkness is destined to descend upon them.…...
For her narrative feature debut, En attendant la nuit (For Night Will Come), Céline Rouzet jumps into a growing trend of vampiric coming of age narratives, a familiar if satisfactorily brooding exercise about a family who believes they can control the chaos of their child’s violent condition. Employing Elodie Bouchez as a devoted matriarch, Rouzet builds on the inevitable tension inspired by this dysfunctional clan doomed to lose control in this bid to overcome nature by nurture, for, as the title implies, darkness is destined to descend upon them.…...
- 9/19/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
French director Edouard Bergeon, whose Cesar-nominated debut feature “In the Name of the Land” was a box office hit in 2019, has penned another eco-thriller, “The Green Deal.”
The movie, which is partly set in the Indonesian forest, has been boarded by Playtime and will be pitched to buyers at the Toronto Film Festival.
“The Green Deal” explores crimes and colliding interests in the exploitation of a palm oil and the production of biofuels. The movie is produced by Christophe Rossignon and Philip Böeffard at Nord-Ouest Films, the well-established banner behind “Merry Christmas” and more recently Thomas Cailley’s “The Animal Kingdom,” which was produced by Pierre Guyard.
“The Green Deal” stars Alexandra Lamy as Carole, an English professor leading a tranquil life in rural France. Her world crumbles when she learns that her son, Martin, conducting research for his Ph.D. in Indonesia, has been arrested in Borneo on drug...
The movie, which is partly set in the Indonesian forest, has been boarded by Playtime and will be pitched to buyers at the Toronto Film Festival.
“The Green Deal” explores crimes and colliding interests in the exploitation of a palm oil and the production of biofuels. The movie is produced by Christophe Rossignon and Philip Böeffard at Nord-Ouest Films, the well-established banner behind “Merry Christmas” and more recently Thomas Cailley’s “The Animal Kingdom,” which was produced by Pierre Guyard.
“The Green Deal” stars Alexandra Lamy as Carole, an English professor leading a tranquil life in rural France. Her world crumbles when she learns that her son, Martin, conducting research for his Ph.D. in Indonesia, has been arrested in Borneo on drug...
- 9/4/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Among the four (at last count) vampire-related titles to surface on the Lido this year we find the Orizzonti selected En attendant la nuit (For Night Will Come) — the sophomore feature by Céline Rouzet stars Mathias Legoût-Hammond, Elodie Bouchez, Jean-Charles Clichet, Céleste Brunnquell and Laly Mercier. We’ve got a quartet of clips to debut here and it gives us a sense of one family’s balancing act to contain the secret from infancy but also the pains of growing up with the need to quench one’s thirst.…...
- 9/2/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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