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Exclusive: French comedy hit Ooh La La (Cocorico)– which was a hit at home and also enjoyed success across Europe – is getting a sequel with the same cast, led by Christian Clavier (Serial (Bad) Weddings).

He reunites with Didier Bourdon, Sylvie Testud (Champagne!, Jour J, Meet The Malawas) and Marianne Denicourt.

Clavier co-starred in the original comedy as the patriarch of the aristocratic Bouvier-Sauvage, who is horrified to learn that his beloved daughter Alice has fallen for the son of a Peugeot dealer, Gérard Martin (Bourdon). He comes to terms with the situation over the course of the film.

Ooh La La 2 will pick up the story on the eve of the wedding between Alice Bouvier-Sauvage and François Martin. Preparations are sent into disarray when DNA tests reveal the two fathers are not as French as they believed.

Exclusive:Prolific French writer-director Remi Bezancon has kicked off production on detective comedy Murder In the Building starring Gilles Lellouche, Laetitia Casta and Guillaume Gallienne with Snd on board for international sales.

The film centres on a Hitchcock movie buff and her husband, a famous author of thrillers, who suspect their new neighbour of killing his wife and launch a risky investigation.

It is now shooting in the Paris region until the end of May, produced by Jerico Films, whichis behindLaFamille Belier, the original French film upon which Oscar-winning Coda is based.

Snd said the film will pay homage to Hitchcock’s classic detective stories.

French supermodel/actress Laetitia Casta: ("Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life") poses for the Calzedonia 2025 Spring/Summer swimwear campaign:

Casta became a "Guess? Girl" for the clothing company in 1993…

…then gained further recognition as a "Victoria's Secret Angel" from 1998 to 2000..

...and as spokesperson for cosmetics company "L'Oreal".

She has appeared on over 100 covers of magazines including "Cosmopolitan", "Vogue", "Rolling Stone", "Elle" and "Glamour".

Casta also modeled for designers Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Louis Vuitton and Givenchy.

Casta also became an established film actress, appearing in the features "Gainsbourg (A Heroic Life)", "Face" and "Blue Bicycle".

Click the images to enlarge…...

French actress Laetitia Casta: ("Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life") poses for the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balmain, Spring/Summer 2025 campaign, photographed by Juergen Teller:

Casta became a "Guess? Girl" for the clothing company in 1993, then gaining further recognition as a "Victoria's Secret Angel" from 1998 to 2000...

...and as spokesperson for cosmetics company "L'Oreal".

She has appeared on over 100 covers of magazines including "Cosmopolitan"…

“…”Vogue", "Rolling Stone", "Elle" and "Glamour".

Casta also modeled for designers Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy...

...Roberto Cavalli, Lolita Lempicka and Vivienne Westwood.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films "Gainsbourg (A Heroic Life)", "Face" and "Blue Bicycle".

Click the images to enlarge…...

Bound In Heaven, the feature debut of director Huo Xin, won the top prize at the 2024 Rome Film Festival, with the awards unveiled at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 26.

The domestic abuse drama won best film in the Progressive Cinema Competition, the festival’s competitive strand, and also shared the best first feature award ex aequo with Edgardo Pistone’s Ciao Bambino.

Bound In Heaven premiered at Toronto, and features a starry cast including Ni Ni, Zhou You and Liao Fan. Director Huo is a veteran scriptwriter whose credits include Shower, Kung Fu Hustle, Sunflower and The Monkey King.

Argentinian director, screenwriter and producer Pablo Trapero is to chair the jury of the Progressive Cinema Competition, the competition section of the Rome Film Festival.

Trapero will be joined on the Rome jury by editor Francesca Calvelli, French actress Laetitia Casta, UK producer Gail Egan, and writer and screenwriter Dennis Lehane.

Trapero won the Silver Lion for dest director at the 2015 Venice Film Festival for The Clan. His other directing credits include crime series ZeroZeroZero.

Meanwhile, a jury chaired by Italian director and screenwriter Francesca Comencini, will award Rome’s best first feature prize to a fiction feature film in...

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz step out in the rainy weather for the Courreges Womenswear Spring/Summer 2025 fashion show on Wednesday (September 25) in Paris, France.

The 25-year-old son of David and Victoria Beckham, and the 29-year-old actress were joined by her older brother Will Peltz at the Paris Fashion Week show.

“thank you so much for having us at your beautiful show @courreges...

Snoop Dogg and Salma Hayek are among the stars set to carry the Olympic torch as the Games prepare to kick off in Paris.

Hayek — who is tied to France through her husband François-Henri Pinault, the boss of luxury group Kering and CAA owner Artemis — is currently carrying the torch from the Yvelines suburb to the Versailles Palace, alongside Didier Deschamps, the trainer of the France soccer national team, and singer Patrick Bruel.

Dogg, meanwhile, will be carrying it on Friday, the day of the opening ceremony, in Saint-Denis, where the Olympics Village housing athletes is based. As previously reported, Dogg will also also be a special correspondent for NBC during the Games. He will carry the torch alongside French model-turned-actor Laetitia Casta and rapper Mc Solaar.

Hayek and Dogg are part of a roster of big names participating in Olympics festivities. Lady Gaga and Celine Dion are also in...

For those who may have missed it, the Jacquemus 2024 Cruise fashion show occurred on Monday evening, June 10. This star-studded event was held at the iconic Casa Malaparte on the famously chic island of Capri, Italy.

Laetitia Casta, Tina Kunakey and Adèle Exarchopoulos attend the Jacquemus “La Casa” Cruise at Casa Malaparte on June 10, 2024 in Capri, Italy (Credit: Marco Piovanotto / Abaca Press / INSTARimages)

Among the many recognizable faces was Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who joined a dazzling array of stars, including Laetitia Casta, Tina Kunakey, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Dua Lipa, BlackPink member Jennie Kim, Imaan Hammam, Peggy Gou, and Tina Kunakey. These celebrities gathered to witness the French fashion label’s 15th-anniversary show, “La Casa.”

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley stole the show at the recent event. Her outfit is simply incredible—a masterclass in effortless sophistication that stayed true to her signature style.

Bertrand Bonello with Anne-Katrin Titze on Romy Schneider’s face in Coma, the camera test by Henri-Georges Clouzot for his unfinished film L’enfer (Inferno): “I was trying to find an image that you could dream of when you’re a young girl.”

Bertrand Bonello’s prophetic Coma (with a haunting score by the director/screenwriter), starring Louise Labèque (of Zombi Child) as the adolescent and Julia Faure as the title character Patricia Coma, was filmed in France during the Covid pandemic lockdown. We hear the voices of Gaspard Ulliel (Yves Saint Laurent in Bonello’s Saint Laurent), Anaïs Demoustier, Laetitia Casta, Louis Garrel, and Vincent Lacoste as the dollhouse figures. We see Romy Schneider’s face in a camera test for Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished Inferno (L’Enfer) and meet a woman in the forest portrayed by Bonnie Banane.

Young girl (Louise Labèque) with Sharon doll in Coma

Theorists Gilles Deleuze,...

Coma follows a young girl in lockdown as her anxiety over the future leads to surreal fever dreams. Bertrand Bonello's film from 2022 is now getting distribution, and feels like a modern period piece echoing the emotional turmoil of past events. Coma mixes animation styles with live-action filmmaking to create a vibrant sensory treat that's simultaneously nightmarish and hopeful.

There's arguably no director working today like the French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello, who somehow manages to have one finger on the pulse of the real world, yet also approaches current affairs with a decidedly surrealist sensibility. Indeed, his filmography feels simultaneously familiar and esoteric, immediately recognizable in the human problems his movies seek to explore, but also, because of his propensity for dream-like imagery and reliance on feeling rather than logic, sometimes difficult to digest or access. Not that this is a bad thing, of course. Bonello's newest release, Coma, benefits...

French director Bertrand Bonello is rightly back in the imaginations of U.S. cinephiles, as his new film “The Beast” is now playing stateside. The time-hopping sci-fi romantic drama starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay as would-be lovers across centuries had the biggest opening weekend yet for distributor Sideshow/Janus Films earlier this month. Now, Bertrand Bonello’s previously undistributed 2022 film “Coma” is finally joining “The Beast” at theaters beginning in May from Film Movement. Watch the trailer for “Coma,” an IndieWire exclusive, below.

Combining live-action and animation, “Coma” centers on a teenage girl in lockdown amid a global health crisis (cough cough) who develops a disturbing relationship with a YouTuber. The cast features Louise Labèque, Julia Faure, Gaspard Ulliel, Laetitia Casta, Vincent Lacoste, Louis Garrel, and Anaïs Demoustier. This was the last film Ulliel worked on before he died in January 2022 after a skiing accident. Ulliel was meant to...

Bertrand Bonello’s “Coma,” which won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2022, has been acquired by Film Movement for North American distribution.

The film follows a teenager who is stuck at home during once of France’s strict early-pandemic lockdowns. Cut off from the outside world, she begins to go back and forth between dreams and reality, guided by a disturbing and mysterious youtuber, Patricia Coma. Represented internationally by Best Friend Forever, the movie weaves genre, animation and live action to explore online behavior and content consumption.

“Coma” stars Louise Labeque (“Zombi Child”) and Julia Faure (“Camille Rewinds”), with voice acting from beloved late actor Gaspard Ulliel as well as Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste.

Along with winning the Fipresci prize at Berlin, the movie won best picture and best production design at the International Cinephile Society Awards. Film Movement previously worked with Bonello...

“Consent,” an adaptation of Vanessa Springora’s bestselling book which sparked a belated #MeToo moment in France, has lured major distributors while thriving at the local box office and stirring social media buzz.

Represented in international markets by Paris-based outfit Snd, the film marks the sophomore outing of Vanessa Filho whose debut feature “Angel Face” stars Marion Cotillard and played at the Cannes Film Festival.

Inspired by Springora’s real-life story, “Consent” tells the story of a teenage girl who is manipulated and sexually abused by a celebrated writer in his 50s. Although Springora doesn’t name him in her book, “Le Consentement,” the story revolves around Gabriel Matzneff, the renowned author of “Under 16 Years Old,” among his many books promoting sex with minors.

Published in January 2020, “Le Consentement” sent shockwaves in France where it sold more than 300,000 copies and went on to be released in 30 countries across the globe.

Sneak Peek French actress Laetitia Casta: ("Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life") posing for the Calzedonia summer 2023 campaign:

Casta became a "Guess? Girl" for the clothing company in 1993, then gaining further recognition as a "Victoria's Secret Angel" from 1998 to 2000...

...and as spokesperson for cosmetics company "L'Oreal".

She has appeared on over 100 covers of magazines including "Cosmopolitan", "Vogue", "Rolling Stone", "Elle" and "Glamour".

Casta also modeled for designers Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy...

...Roberto Cavalli, Lolita Lempicka and Vivienne Westwood.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films "Gainsbourg (A Heroic Life)", "Face" and "Blue Bicycle".

Click the images to enlarge…...

Sneak Peek French actress Laetitia Casta: ("Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life") posing for the Calzedonia spring-summer 2023 campaign:

Casta became a "Guess? Girl" for the clothing company in 1993, then gaining further recognition as a "Victoria's Secret Angel" from 1998 to 2000...

...and as spokesperson for cosmetics company "L'Oreal".

She has appeared on over 100 covers of magazines including "Cosmopolitan", "Vogue", "Rolling Stone", "Elle" and "Glamour".

Casta also modeled for designers Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy...

...Roberto Cavalli, Lolita Lempicka and Vivienne Westwood.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films "Gainsbourg (A Heroic Life)", "Face" and "Blue Bicycle".

Click the images to enlarge…...

Laetitia Casta will soon appear on the big screen as the former wife of an abusive southern Italian man whom she is accused of murdering in the thriller “A Dark Story,” directed by Italy’s Leonardo D’Agostini.

In “Dark Story” the French star, whose recent credits include “The Crusade” directed by her husband Louis Garrel, plays Carla (first look image above), the ex-wife of Vito Semeraro, a banker who beat her when they were together and is the father of her three children. She is accused of murdering him a few years after they split up.

Italian sales company True Colours is launching sales in Cannes on this psychological noir that marks the sophomore feature by D’Agostini whose 2019 debut drama “The Champion” – a soccer dramedy about a young male soccer star and a shy academic who becomes his tutor – sold widely via the same outfit. Andrea Carpenzano stars in “Dark Story” alongside Casta.

Screen’s team looks at which titles are lining up for a potential slot in either Official Selection or one of the parallel sections.

Speculation is mounting about which titles could make the line-up for the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 16-27 this year.

The submission process for Official Selection officially closes on March 21, ahead of the traditional Paris press conference in mid-April (the date is currently to be confirmed).

As filmmakers, producers and sales agents scramble to submit final titles, Screen’s team assesses which films from around the world are lining up for...

The film is directed by Vanessa Filho and stars Kim Higelin, Laetitia Casta and Jean-Paul Rouve.

Snd, the film arm of France’s M6 broadcasting group, has boarded Vanessa Filho’s Consent (Le Consentement), the big-screen adaptation of Vanessa Springora’s bestselling book Consent: A Memoir that ignited a national scandal and even helped to change French law.

The story details how a 14-year-old girl fell for and was sexually abused by a then 50-year-old acclaimed writer. The film is based on Springora’s real-life story as the teenage muse of one of the country’s most celebrated authors, Gabriel Matzneff.

Le Consentement

The filming taking place in May of last year, Vanessa Filho‘s sophomore film will leave no audience member unscathed. Based on Vanessa Springora‘s autobiographical book about being groomed and sexually abused, Le Consentement (Consent) features Jean-Paul Rouve, Kim Higelin and Laetitia Casta. This could be a drama that burns down whatever fest it preems at – and we are presuming this will follow the path of Filho’s debut film – Gueule d’ange (aka Angel Face) and hit the Croisette. Her 2018 debut with Marion Cotillard landed in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes. Filho reteams with Windy Production’s Carole Lambert and Moana Films’ Marc Missonnier.…...

Hailey Bieber took her followers down memory lane as she posted clips from the past year to her Instagram Story this week.

The supermodel shared some characteristically sexy pictures as well as shots of destinations she’s visited, various foods she’s enjoyed, red-carpet moments and some more silly selfies. Of course, she also shared some snaps of her two adorable Yorkies.

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Her extensive collection of memories included some memorable highlights, including a trip to the hospital for a blood clot in March and a stunning video of the model in a bikini descending into a wooden tub.

One of her most iconic looks of the year that she shared in her reminiscent story was her Halloween costume that paid homage to supermodel Laetitia Casta’s runway look from 1999.

Bieber, 26, included photos with friends including Kendall Jenner, Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford...

As filmmakers attempt to grapple with the ongoing pandemic, leave it to one of the great purveyors of modern society to deliver one of the best films about our collective experience of solitude. Nocturama director Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, which premiered earlier this year at Berlinale and finally arrived stateside at the New York Film Festival—but still needs U.S. distribution—is an ode to his teenage daughter’s lockdown experience, though much more peculiar than that simple logline may suggest.

Ahead of a French release, the first international trailer has now arrived for the film, which features a mix of live-action and animation with a cast including Louise Labèque, Julia Faure, Laetitia Casta, Vincent Lacoste, Louis Garrel, Anaïs Demoustier, and the late Gaspard Ulliel.

David Katz said in his review, “Like the best films on this topic, Coma is anything but a navel-gazing work, and more one of imaginative empathy.

Laetitia Casta has been wowing fans in a pink swimsuit. Pic credit: ©Imagecollect.com/LaurentKoffel

French supermodel Laetitia Casta looked incredible as she posed in a plunging pink swimsuit on social media over the weekend.

The 44-year-old former Victoria’s Secret model has been getting into summer vacation mode by posting several summery pics with Maire Claire France on Instagram, where she’s shown off her sensational figure in a range of swimwear and light dresses.

In a couple of recent posts, Laetitia donned a plunging pink one-piece swimsuit while hanging out by the water.

First up, Laetitia was snapped in the swimsuit, holding on tight to a blue wooden beam. She arched her back slightly and held her head upwards with eyes firmly shut.

Laetitia captioned the post, “ et merci à toute l’équipe pour ce très joli Nº du Marie Claire France Profitez bien de votre été et de...

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson is set to receive the Locarno Film Festival’s Excellence Award Davide Campari on Aug. 3.

The British actor will be presented with the honor by David Leitch, the director of Bullet Train, in which Taylor-Johnson stars.

Taylor-Johnson is also known for roles as John Lennon in wife Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Nowhere Boy, in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, in Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.

“An Excellence Award for a young and extremely talented actor, able to speak to all audiences, to jump from one genre to another, driven by an extraordinary ability to always put himself on the line and take risks,” Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said of the award to be given to Taylor-Johnson.

Past recipients of the Locarno tribute include Isabelle Huppert, Edward Norton, Ethan Hawke and, last year,...

Aaron Taylor-Johnson will be feted by the Locarno Film Festival with its 2022 Excellence Award Davide Campari, which pays tribute to film personalities who are making their mark on contemporary cinema.

The British actor, who is 32, will receive the award on the evening of Aug. 3 in the Swiss festival’s outdoor Piazza Grande venue, where he will launch Locarno’s opening film “Bullet Train” directed by David Leitch, in which he stars alongside Brad Pitt among other high-caliber cast members.

Taylor-Johnson is known for roles that span from his breakout performance playing John Lennon in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Nowhere Boy” in 2009 and the title character in Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass” in 2010, to Count Vronsky in Joe Wright’s “Anna Karenina,” and MCU character Peter Maximoff in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

In 2016 he scored a Golden Globe for best supporting actor for playing a psychopathic drifter in Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals.

For years, brands like Abercrombie & Fitch and women’s lingerie company Victoria’s Secret dominated mainstream clothing culture in America, and they did so by dominating the malls of America. Victoria’s Secret went the extra mile, hiring all the toVictoria’sels in the world — Stephanie Seymour, Alessandra Ambrosio, Gisele Bündchen, Laetitia Casta, Helena Christensen, Heidi Klum- to be the face of the company, thus making it seem all the more enticing to the women of America.

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Adhering to what has become a new rite of passage for French filmmakers of a certain pedigree — which is to say, those with the industry clout to get calls returned and favors cashed in on the fly — Bertrand Bonello has gone and made his own pandemic doodle. Like Céline Sciamma, Arnaud Desplechin, and Claire Denis before him, Bonello put a larger-scale project on the back-burner when the lockdowns hit, embraced Covid restrictions — or at least accepted them with a weary Gallic shrug — and dreamed up another bit of socially distanced cinema with few actors, limited sets, and a form wholly dictated by the circumstance of its production.

To this growing (and hopefully soon fading) genre, Bonello offers “Coma,” a hybrid film that differs from the pack in a few notable ways, not least of which by way of tone. Because , making a film in the zeitgeist about the zeitgeist. Of course,...

Earlier last year it was announced Bertrand Bonello would be embarking on the ambitious sci-fi melodrama La Bête (aka The Beast) with Saint Laurent stars Léa Seydoux and Gaspard Ulliel. Sadly, the project was delayed even prior to Ulliel’s tragic passing and instead Bonello embarked on a smaller-scale film which reunited him with Ulliel.

Coma, which world premieres in the Encounters section at Berlinale, stars Louise Labeque (Zombi Child) and Julia Faure, with voice acting from Ulliel, Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Anaïs Demoustier, and Vincent Lacoste. Ahead of the premiere, the first image has now arrived, seen above, along with new plot details.

Clocking in at 80 minutes, the hybrid live-action and animation “explores online behavior and content consumption through the eyes of a teenage girl who immerses audiences into her dreams and nightmares,” Variety reports. “Locked in her room, her only relationship to the outside world is virtual. Navigating between dreams and reality,...

Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired “Coma,” the latest film by celebrated French director Bertrand Bonello (“Saint Laurent”). “Coma” will have its world premiere premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Encounters section.

Weaving genre, animation and live action, the stylish movie boasts an exciting cast including Louise Labeque (“Zombi Child”) and Julia Faure (“Camille Rewinds”), with voices by beloved late actor Gaspard Ulliel, as well as Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste.

“Coma” explores online behavior and content consumption through the eyes of a teenage girl who immerses audiences into her dreams and nightmares. Locked in her room, her only relationship to the outside world is virtual. Navigating between dreams and reality, she’s guided by a disturbing and mysterious YouTuber, Patricia Coma.

Bonello’s 10th feature, “Coma” was produced by Les Films du Bélier and My New Picture. Co-producers are Remembers Production, the...

Golden Leopard goes to filmmaker from Indonesia for first time.

Indonesia’s Edwin has received Locarno Film Festival’s top honour, the Golden Leopard, for his latest feature Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, which had its world premiere in the Swiss festival’s International Competition.

The Indonesia-Singapore-Germany co-production – adapted and based on a literary work by Eka Kurniawan – is being handled internationally by The Match Factory.

It is also the first time in Locarno’s 74-year history that the Golden Leopard has gone to a filmmaker from Indonesia.

Accepting the award on behalf of Edwin, who had already...

The opening night of the Locarno Film Festival was led by a pair of rousing call to arms for the theatrical experience.

Early on it was rain, rather than Covid-19, which threatened to put a dampener on proceedings, as sodden conditions in the famous Piazza Grande forced the world premiere of “Beckett” indoors. However, ironically, the comments made by the Netflix film’s lead John David Washington felt even more powerful in front of a vast, crowded indoor theatre.

Asked how he found playing the film’s central character, an American tourist who gets caught up in a deadly manhunt, Washington had a blunt, yet thoughtful response.

“Stressful,” Washington began, to a titter from the crowd. “I just connected with the story. When I think about Beckett, I think of survival and that’s very personal to me. Part of the reason we’re all here tonight is survival of the theatrical experience,...

The Locarno Film Festival returns to its original physical format under the guidance of new Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro, who worked with the Selection Committees to pick out the titles screening in Locarno from 4 through 14 August. Alongside the welcome return of long-established favorites, there are also new items such as the competitive short films program Corti d’autore in the Pardi di domani section, plus a dedicated program for younger viewers: Locarno Kids: Screenings.

In full compliance with current health and sanitary regulations, Locarno74 will once again be an in-person event, with the return of evenings in Piazza Grande and of screenings in the other twelve theaters around the city. The venue for all meetings and panel discussions with guest personalities accompanying their films will be the Rotonda by la Mobiliare, the new home of the Forum.

The Ticket Shop will be open for ticket purchase from mid-July, whereas...

When teenaged environmental activist Greta Thunberg made her now-famous speech at the Un Headquarters in 2019, she was met with equal parts admiration and derision, likely an unfavorable imbalance toward the latter. For every A-list celebrity who reposted a clip on their Instagram story, adorned with enthusiastic heart emojis, surely another handful of Internet trolls lurked in the comments and left discouraging messages. After all, the online world is an inhospitable place for climate activists, and even more so when they come in the form of determined, ambitious teenagers.

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The Cannes Film Festival has added seven films addressing environmental concerns to its 2021 line-up.

“La Croisade” by actor-director Louis Garrel, stars himself, Laetitia Casta and Joseph Engel. It was co-written by legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière who died last year. The festival describes the film as: “A fiction in which the children take the reins to protect the planet. A tale of anticipation equally urgent, funny and charming. A story about the alienation of adults from the concerns of children who want to save themselves.”

In “Marcher sur l’eau”, filmed in a village in Niger, director Aïssa Maïga follows a little girl who, while waiting for a well to be built, must travel several kilometres for water every day. The film also explores the question of whether access to water co-relates with access to education for girls in Sub-Saharan African countries.

From India, Rahul Jain, director of Sundance-winning documentary “Machines” (2016), returns with “Invisible Demons,...

Six documentaries also selected for the festival’s inaugural environmental strand.

The Cannes Film Festival has revealed the seven titles selected for its first ‘cinema for the climate’ section – part of a new focus by the festival to address environmental issues.

Comprised of one scripted film and six documentaries, the selection is led by comedy The Crusade, by French actor and filmmaker Louis Garrel.

The film revisits the family unit of his 2018 feature A Faithful Man and sees Garrel star opposite Laetitia Casta as a couple who discover their teenage son has been secretly selling the family possessions to fund an ecological project in Africa.

Cannes is going green(er).

For its 74th edition, the Cannes International Film Festival has launched a new stand-alone section focusing on climate change, featuring one scripted drama and six documentaries centered around environmental issues.

Louis Garrel’s feature The Crusade, a drama about children who come together to protect the planet, will have its world premiere in the new section. Garrel also stars in the film, alongside Laetitia Casta and Joseph Engel.

One of the documentaries gracing the new section is Above Water from Aïssa Maïga, which looks at the impact of global warming on Niger, one of the sub-Saharan African countries hardest hit ...

Cannes is going green(er).

For its 74th edition, the Cannes International Film Festival has launched a new stand-alone section focusing on climate change, featuring one scripted drama and six documentaries centered around environmental issues.

Louis Garrel’s feature The Crusade, a drama about children who come together to protect the planet, will have its world premiere in the new section. Garrel also stars in the film, alongside Laetitia Casta and Joseph Engel.

One of the documentaries gracing the new section is Above Water from Aïssa Maïga, which looks at the impact of global warming on Niger, one of the sub-Saharan African countries hardest hit ...

French actor Laetitia Casta will be feted by Locarno Film Festival with its 2021 Excellence Award Davide Campari, which pays tribute to film personalities who have left their personal stamp on contemporary cinema.

The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to global indie cinema, headed by new artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, has chosen to honor Casta in recognition of a career in which, after making the transition from the sphere of high fashion to the theater and film milieu, she’s risen to become “one of the most versatile acting talents of the new millennium,” the fest said in a statement.

Casta, who began her acting career in 1999 playing the beautiful young villager Falbalà in “Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar,” directed by Claude Zidi, has subsequently appeared in “Savage Souls” by Raùl Ruiz in 2001, in “Love Street” by Patrice Leconte in 2002, and in Tsai Ming-liang’s “Face” in 2009, to name just a...

It marks Tesson’s 10th edition at the helm of Critics’ Week.

The upcoming edition of Cannes Critics’ Week (July 7-15) will be a momentous one for its artistic director Charles Tesson on a number of levels.

As well as being the first physical edition since 2019, after last year’s hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the parallel section’s 60th edition, it will also be respected film critic and academic Tesson’s tenth edition at the helm. Screen talked to Tesson about the line-up, which was unveiled on Monday, and plans for the 60th edition.

According to the press release,...

Sneak Peek French actress Laetitia Casta ("Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life") in "Tatler" (Russia) magazine, wearing Saint Laurent, Chanel, Valentino and a whole lot more, photographed by Mathieu Cesar:

Casta became a "Guess? Girl" for the clothing company in 1993, then gaining further recognition as a "Victoria's Secret Angel" from 1998 to 2000...

...and as spokesperson for cosmetics company "L'Oreal".

She has appeared on over 100 covers of magazines including "Cosmopolitan", "Vogue", "Rolling Stone", "Elle" and "Glamour".

Casta also modeled for designers Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Ralph Lauren...

...Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy...

...Roberto Cavalli, Lolita Lempicka and Vivienne Westwood.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films "Gainsbourg (A Heroic Life)", "Face" and "Blue Bicycle".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Laetitia Casta ...

The director also stars in the film, alongside Virginie Efira, Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Kassovitz, Nathalie Baye, Patrick Chesnais and Gilles Cohen. A Trésor Films production sold by Pathé. Final stretch for the shoot of Lui by Guillaume Canet, his 7th feature film as a director after Anything You Say, Tell No One, Little White Lies, Blood Ties (out of competition in Cannes in 2013), Rock’n Roll and Little White Lies 2.The cast includes the director himself (seen recently in La Belle Époque and In the Name of the Land), Belgian actress Virginie Efira (currently in French cinemas in Night Shift,...

The fourth series of Call My Agent will close the festival.

Dutch actresses Halina Reijn and Carice van Houten’s new drama Red Light and UK supernatural comedy horror tale Truth Seekers are among 10 upcoming series due to compete in the third edition of Canneseries which is taking place as a hybrid event from October 9 to 14.

The annual television festival was originally set to run last April alongside Miptv until the content market cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The festival was rescheduled for October to run alongside MIPCOM instead, which has since moved online due to ongoing health concerns around the virus.

French actress Laetitia Casta ("Arbitrage") poses for the Summer 2020 issue of "Madame Figaro" (France) magazine:

Casta was a "Guess? Girl" in 1993, a 'Victoria's Secret Angel' 1998-2000 and spokesperson for cosmetics company "L'Oreal".

She has appeared on over 100 magazine covers including "Cosmopolitan", "Vogue", "Elle" and "Glamour", while modeling for fashion designers Yves Saint Laurent...

...Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy...

...Roberto Cavalli and Vivienne Westwood. Fragrance commercials include Nina Ricci.

Casta is also an established film actress, appearing in numerous films including "Gainsbourg (A Heroic Life)", "Face", "Blue Bicycle", "Arbitrage", the upcoming "Beyond The Horizon (2019) and TV series "Une île".

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Italian producer Grazia Volpi, best known for bringing many works by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani to the big and small screens, including their Berlin Golden Bear winner “Caesar Must Die,” has died.

Volpi was 79, according to Italian press reports. The cause of death has not been disclosed.

Born in the Tuscan town of Pontedera, Volpi during the early 1960s started working as a production assistant in Rome, subsequently becoming a casting agent and line producer, and then setting up her own production company during the mid 1970s. She became a rare case of a woman producer in Italy’s male-dominated industry.

Volpi started working with the Taviani brothers in 1969 as a casting agent on the drama “Under The Sign of Scorpio,” their fourth work and the first feature they shot in color. The close rapport she forged with Italy’s prominent directorial duo is testified by a cameo she played...

Paris-based sales powerhouse to launch new titles by Maïwenn, Stephane Brizé, Louis Garrel and Bruno Podalydès.

Wild Bunch is to launch sales on new films by Maïwenn, Stéphane Brizé, Louis Garrel and Bruno Podalydès at Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week (January 16-20).

Drawing on her own complex history, Maïwenn’s fifth feature DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.

French actress Laetitia Casta ("Arbitrage") poses for "Elle" (Russia) magazine, wearing Dolce & Gabbana and a whole lot more, photographed by Arseny Jabiev:

Casta became a "Guess? Girl" in 1993, was a 'Victoria's Secret Angel' from 1998-2000 and spokesperson for cosmetics company "L'Oreal".

She has appeared on over 100 magazine covers including "Cosmopolitan", "Vogue", "Elle" and "Glamour", while modeling for fashion designers Yves Saint Laurent...

...Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, J. Crew, Louis Vuitton, Givenchy...

...Roberto Cavalli and Vivienne Westwood, plus fragrance commercials including Nina Ricci.

Casta is also an established film actress, appearing in numerous films including "Gainsbourg (A Heroic Life)", "Face", "Blue Bicycle", "Arbitrage", the upcoming "Beyond The Horizon (2019) and TV series "Une île".

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Olivier Meyrou with Anne-Katrin Titze on Saint Laurent director Bertrand Bonello and screenwriter Thomas Bidegain: "He wanted to see Celebration for the last part of the movie." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The morning before going to the new Pace Gallery in Chelsea for David Hockney’s La Grande Cour, Normandy exhibition and meeting with Bacurau directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles and with Sônia Braga at Cinetic Media, Olivier Merou, the director of Celebration joined me for a conversation at Film Forum on his long-awaited Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé documentary.

It's shot by Jean-Marc Bouzou and Florian Bouchet over three years starting in 1998 with a terrific score by François-Eudes Chanfrault (Clément Cogitore’s Neither Heaven Nor Earth) and sound production by Yolande Decarsin and Ludovic Escallier, and we see Catherine Deneuve, Loulou De La Falaise, Katoucha Niane, and Laetitia Casta, among others, interact with the master. With style and flair,...

Delphine Lehericey’s “Beyond the Horizon” may be playing the New Directors section at San Sebastian, but the young director is really anything but, having spent the last decade working in live theater and making a number of TV documentaries before, in 2013, making her fiction feature debut with another New Directors player, “Puppylove.”

Based on the book of the same name by Roland Buti, and set during the European continental heatwave of 1976, the film focuses on a provincial farming family in rural Romandy, Switzerland.

Bolstered by performances from standout actresses Laetitia Casta, a French Academy César nominated actress for her work in 2010’s “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life,” Clémence Poésy, most recognizable from her turn as Fleur Delacour in the “Harry Potter” films, “Beyond the Horizon” also features newcomer Luc Bruchez in the film’s lead role.

A co-production between Switzerland’s Box Productions and Belgium’s Entre Chien et Loup,...

Strand includes Fyzal Boulifa’s Lynn + Lucy and Beyond The Horizon starring Laetitia Casta and Clémence Poésy.

The 2019 San Sebastian Film Festival (September 20-28) has revealed the 14 first and second films set to compete for its New Directors award.

Among the titles are UK director Fyzal Boulifa’s feature debut Lynn + Lucy about two best friends whose relationship is tested after a tragedy. The project, backed by BBC Films, was part of the Great 8 showcase at Cannes this year.

Titles from second- time directors include Jorunn Myklebust Syversen’s Disco, with Skam star Josefine Frida Pettersen, and Delphine Lehericey’s...

French actor Louis Garrel has been married twice, first to Iranian talent Golshifteh Farahani, and now to model-cum-actress Laetitia Casta. He has also directed two features, the first a free-wheeling love-triangle comedy called “Two Friends” in which Garrel plays the cad who comes between his best friend and the object of his obsession (played by Farahani), and the other the relatively low-key drama “A Faithful Man,” centered on a different sort of triangle, in which two women (one played by Casta) compete for Garrel’s affections.

That description grossly oversimplifies both movies, and yet, their personalities could not be more different, hardly even the work of the same filmmaker, which must say something about Garrel’s state of mind in these two marriages. If “Two Lovers” was a lively New Wave lark, exploding with color and energy, then “A Faithful Man” is its sober, cerebral opposite, gray and stylistically restrained,...