Urban Sales has closed a raft of deals on the upcoming animated feature “Into the Wonderwoods” ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section.
The film, which bows with a special screening May 22 at the prestigious French fest, has sold to 45 territories, the Paris-based sales outfit announced during the Cannes Market. Pic has sold to Volga for the Cis territories and the Baltics; Selim Ramia & Co. for the Mena region; Skyline for Vietnam; New Horizons for Poland; Ascot Elite for Switzerland; Movies Inspired for Italy; Vercine for Spain; and Pris Audiovisuais for Portugal.
The family animation next travels to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to compete in the main competition for the prestigious Cristal award. Le Pacte will be releasing the film in France on Oct. 23. Advanced negotiations are ongoing for Benelux, China, Germany, Turkey, Latin America and North America.
“Into the Wonderwoods...
The film, which bows with a special screening May 22 at the prestigious French fest, has sold to 45 territories, the Paris-based sales outfit announced during the Cannes Market. Pic has sold to Volga for the Cis territories and the Baltics; Selim Ramia & Co. for the Mena region; Skyline for Vietnam; New Horizons for Poland; Ascot Elite for Switzerland; Movies Inspired for Italy; Vercine for Spain; and Pris Audiovisuais for Portugal.
The family animation next travels to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to compete in the main competition for the prestigious Cristal award. Le Pacte will be releasing the film in France on Oct. 23. Advanced negotiations are ongoing for Benelux, China, Germany, Turkey, Latin America and North America.
“Into the Wonderwoods...
- 5/19/2024
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
"Help with the ball and I'll get you out of here." Madman Films from Australia has just revealed the main international trailer for a French dramatic thriller titled Party of Fools, which is the updated English title for this film originally known as Captives in French. It premiered last year and already opened in France in January, but has no US date yet - expected sometime later in the year. Based on a true story taking place in Paris in 1894, at the Salpêtrière Hospital, one year after the death of Prof. Jean-Martin Charcot. A young woman named Fanni voluntarily allowed herself to be locked up in the Salpêtrière hospital in order to look for her mother. A ball is being prepared there... Searching among the multitude of so-called "madwomen", she discovers a community of modern heroines who defy all of her expectations, along with the unexpected friendship of fellow patients.
- 5/2/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Alanté Kavaité’s third film The Islanders, about a woman taking care of a group of elderly people on a remote island off the coast of France, has been acquired by Elle Driver, which will start selling the film at the EFM.
The Islanders is now in post. It stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz with Dali Bensallah, Daphné Pataki and veteran talents Miou-Miou and Patrick Chesnais. Tereszkiewicz won the Cesar breakout award in 2023 for roles in Forever Young and The Red Island. Bensallah’s credits include Athena.
Kavaité’s credits include the coming-of-age story The Summer Of Sangaile, for which she won...
The Islanders is now in post. It stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz with Dali Bensallah, Daphné Pataki and veteran talents Miou-Miou and Patrick Chesnais. Tereszkiewicz won the Cesar breakout award in 2023 for roles in Forever Young and The Red Island. Bensallah’s credits include Athena.
Kavaité’s credits include the coming-of-age story The Summer Of Sangaile, for which she won...
- 2/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based sales company is bringing eight new titles to Rendez-Vous.
Julie Delpy’s immigration-themed comedy Meet The Barbarians (Les Barbares) is among eight new titles Paris-based sales company Charades is launching at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema this month.
The event takes place from January 16-23 in Paris.
Charades extensive Rendez-Vous line-up also includes 3D animation Flow, romantic comedy Just A Couple of Days starring Camille Cottin, Jeremie Sein’s Olympic sports comedy Game Changers, Antoine Raimbault’s political thriller Smoke Signals, Gustave Kervern’s revenge story Enough Is Enough!, dark comedy Plastic Guns plus recently announced adaptation And...
Julie Delpy’s immigration-themed comedy Meet The Barbarians (Les Barbares) is among eight new titles Paris-based sales company Charades is launching at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema this month.
The event takes place from January 16-23 in Paris.
Charades extensive Rendez-Vous line-up also includes 3D animation Flow, romantic comedy Just A Couple of Days starring Camille Cottin, Jeremie Sein’s Olympic sports comedy Game Changers, Antoine Raimbault’s political thriller Smoke Signals, Gustave Kervern’s revenge story Enough Is Enough!, dark comedy Plastic Guns plus recently announced adaptation And...
- 1/9/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Indie Sales has boarded Nathalie Najem’s “No Way Back,” a timely feature debut tackling domestic violence with a cast led by Bastien Bouillon (“The Night of the 12th”) and Zita Hanrot (“Angry Annie”).
Now in post, “No Way Back” will be introduced to buyers by the banner Indie Sales at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous showcase next week.
“No Way Back” tells the story of Laura, who is rebuilding her life after years under the toxic influence of Joachim and is raising their daughter on her own. When Joachim’s new girlfriend, Shirine, shows up at her door in dire straits, Laura realizes that they must help each other to get rid of Joachim’s harmful influence. The film appears to be in a similar vein as Xavier Legrand’s Venice prizewinner “Custody,” with an emphasis on sisterhood.
Bouillon won last year’s Cesar Award for best male newcomer for his...
Now in post, “No Way Back” will be introduced to buyers by the banner Indie Sales at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous showcase next week.
“No Way Back” tells the story of Laura, who is rebuilding her life after years under the toxic influence of Joachim and is raising their daughter on her own. When Joachim’s new girlfriend, Shirine, shows up at her door in dire straits, Laura realizes that they must help each other to get rid of Joachim’s harmful influence. The film appears to be in a similar vein as Xavier Legrand’s Venice prizewinner “Custody,” with an emphasis on sisterhood.
Bouillon won last year’s Cesar Award for best male newcomer for his...
- 1/8/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Graphic novel adaptation stars stars Cesar-winning actress Izia Higelin
Indie Sales has boarded Blandine Lenoir’s fourth feature Juliette In Spring and will launch sales at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris which takes place from January 16-23.
The film, based on Camille Jourdy’s graphic novel, follows a thirty-something woman who returns to her hometown to spend time with her family as buried memories, unspoken truths and long-buried secrets bubble up to the surface in what Indie Sales calls “a sweet, tender and sometimes extravagant family portrait.”
The film stars Cesar-winning actress Izia Higelin in the titular role alongside a...
Indie Sales has boarded Blandine Lenoir’s fourth feature Juliette In Spring and will launch sales at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris which takes place from January 16-23.
The film, based on Camille Jourdy’s graphic novel, follows a thirty-something woman who returns to her hometown to spend time with her family as buried memories, unspoken truths and long-buried secrets bubble up to the surface in what Indie Sales calls “a sweet, tender and sometimes extravagant family portrait.”
The film stars Cesar-winning actress Izia Higelin in the titular role alongside a...
- 1/5/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
§tElise Girard directs her third film about a woman mourning her husband in Kyoto while on her book tour.
Indie Sales has unveiled the new trailer for Elise Girard’s romantic drama Sidonie In Japan starring Isabelle Huppert and has signed deals in Germany, Switzerland and Italy ahead of the film’s premiere at Giornate degli Autori in Venice.
Out of the Box will release the film in Switzerland and Majestic Filmverleih is handling German distribution, joining the film’s French distributor Art House Films and Italy’s Academy Two.
Sidonie in Japan stars Huppert as a French writer mourning...
Indie Sales has unveiled the new trailer for Elise Girard’s romantic drama Sidonie In Japan starring Isabelle Huppert and has signed deals in Germany, Switzerland and Italy ahead of the film’s premiere at Giornate degli Autori in Venice.
Out of the Box will release the film in Switzerland and Majestic Filmverleih is handling German distribution, joining the film’s French distributor Art House Films and Italy’s Academy Two.
Sidonie in Japan stars Huppert as a French writer mourning...
- 9/1/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Cannes may get all the attention, but France’s summer film festivals are essential launchpads for local features ready to hit the international market. Here are the ones to look out for.
In August of 2011, a little French film about the bond between a wealthy quadriplegic and his fun-loving caretaker premiered at a festival in a small Southwestern town in France.
Now in its 16th edition, The Angouleme Francophone Film Festival was the first stop for global sensation The Intouchables, which went on to gross more than $445m at the box office worldwide and even get its own US remake...
In August of 2011, a little French film about the bond between a wealthy quadriplegic and his fun-loving caretaker premiered at a festival in a small Southwestern town in France.
Now in its 16th edition, The Angouleme Francophone Film Festival was the first stop for global sensation The Intouchables, which went on to gross more than $445m at the box office worldwide and even get its own US remake...
- 8/9/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Editors note: This review originally was originally published on May 18, 2022 after its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. Kino Lorber releases it in theaters Friday.
Italian director Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden) shifts his focus to France in Scarlet (L’Envol), a period drama in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in the rural north after the First World War, it’s a decade-spanning story of family, small-town politics and — ultimately — romance.
When Raphaël (Raphaël Thiéry) returns from war, his wife has died, leaving their baby daughter, Juliette, in the care of farmer Adeline (Noémie Lvovsky). Adeline gives Raphaël lodgings and helps him gain work as a carpenter. Juliette grows up close to her father, but this unconventional family is ostracized by many in the community, sealing Juliette’s fate as something of a loner. But she’s also a happy dreamer. The...
Italian director Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden) shifts his focus to France in Scarlet (L’Envol), a period drama in Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in the rural north after the First World War, it’s a decade-spanning story of family, small-town politics and — ultimately — romance.
When Raphaël (Raphaël Thiéry) returns from war, his wife has died, leaving their baby daughter, Juliette, in the care of farmer Adeline (Noémie Lvovsky). Adeline gives Raphaël lodgings and helps him gain work as a carpenter. Juliette grows up close to her father, but this unconventional family is ostracized by many in the community, sealing Juliette’s fate as something of a loner. But she’s also a happy dreamer. The...
- 6/9/2023
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Pietro Marcello with Anne-Katrin Titze on his Scarlet end credit thanks: “Renato Berta, in addition to being a friend, he is also a teacher. Thanks to Caroline Champetier we were able to shoot in 35mm. And finally Gianfranco Rosi, he’s an old friend.”
In the second instalment with Pietro Marcello on Scarlet (L'envol), his adaptation with Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline (Mikhaël Hers’ Amanda), in collaboration with Geneviève Brisac of the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by Russian author Alexander Grin, we discuss the influence of Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle In Milan, the chance discovery of Louise Michel’s poetry, fathers as mothers, dethroning princes and knights in shining armour, being an archivist, Louis Garrel’s crocodile entrance, Pietro’s new project on the question what is war, and the end credit thanks in Scarlet to Renato Berta, Caroline Champetier and Gianfranco Rosi.
Raphaël (Raphaël Thiéry) with his daughter Juliette...
In the second instalment with Pietro Marcello on Scarlet (L'envol), his adaptation with Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline (Mikhaël Hers’ Amanda), in collaboration with Geneviève Brisac of the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by Russian author Alexander Grin, we discuss the influence of Vittorio De Sica’s Miracle In Milan, the chance discovery of Louise Michel’s poetry, fathers as mothers, dethroning princes and knights in shining armour, being an archivist, Louis Garrel’s crocodile entrance, Pietro’s new project on the question what is war, and the end credit thanks in Scarlet to Renato Berta, Caroline Champetier and Gianfranco Rosi.
Raphaël (Raphaël Thiéry) with his daughter Juliette...
- 6/7/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As filmmaking gets further relegated to smaller screens, it’s a breath of fresh air to have a director like Pietro Marcello crafting cinema that is best experienced on a vast canvas. While the release of his stunning 2019 drama Martin Eden was unfortunately dampened by the pandemic, he’s now returned with the gorgeous fable Scarlet (aka L’Envol). Premiering just about a year ago at Cannes, the tale of a woman’s family and romantic journey in post-wwi France will now arrive in U.S. theaters starting this Friday. Starring Juliette Jouan, Raphaël Thierry, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, Ernst Umhauer, François Négret, and Yolande Moreau.
While he stopped by NYC for last fall’s New York Film Festival premiere, I had the opportunity to speak with Marcello about his experience working in France, the silent film connections to Scarlet, how his latest work marked a transitional point for his career,...
While he stopped by NYC for last fall’s New York Film Festival premiere, I had the opportunity to speak with Marcello about his experience working in France, the silent film connections to Scarlet, how his latest work marked a transitional point for his career,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“Yvonne Moreau is both original and very popular,” said Indie Sales.
Paris-based Indie Sales is heading to Cannes with The Jolly Forgers in tow, kicking off sales at the market for Yolande Moreau’s latest ensemble drama.
Moreau directs and stars in the feel-good feature as a woman who returns to her hometown to a house she inherited and takes in a merry band of new tenants, three men who brighten up her daily life and help her rekindle the flame of her long-lost true love. Sergi Lopez and Gregory Gadebois co-star in the film produced by Julie Salvador of...
Paris-based Indie Sales is heading to Cannes with The Jolly Forgers in tow, kicking off sales at the market for Yolande Moreau’s latest ensemble drama.
Moreau directs and stars in the feel-good feature as a woman who returns to her hometown to a house she inherited and takes in a merry band of new tenants, three men who brighten up her daily life and help her rekindle the flame of her long-lost true love. Sergi Lopez and Gregory Gadebois co-star in the film produced by Julie Salvador of...
- 5/11/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Unless you were lucky enough to catch it on the 2019 festival circuit, the pandemic unfortunately led to most viewers seeing Pietro Marcello’s stunning drama Martin Eden at home. Thankfully his next feature, the gorgeous fable Scarlet (aka L’Envol), will be primed for theatrical viewing. The Cannes selection will get a U.S. release from Kino Lorber on June 9. An adaptation of Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin, the tale of a woman’s family and romantic journey stars Juliette Jouan, Raphaël Thierry, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, Ernst Umhauer, François Négret, and Yolande Moreau.
As David Katz said in his review, “In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of labor. It’s also something that runs through Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, about the poetry-penning bus driver of the same name:...
As David Katz said in his review, “In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of labor. It’s also something that runs through Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, about the poetry-penning bus driver of the same name:...
- 5/8/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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...
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...
- 3/7/2023
- by Louise Tutt¬Jeremy Kay¬Mona Tabbara¬Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Lockdown Tower has sold to UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, and German-speaking Europe
Paris-based sales company Elle Driver has closed a slew of sales for Guillaume Nicloux’s Lockdown Tower and Yann Samuell’s The Lulus ahead of Unifrance’s annual Rendez-Vous in Paris.
Lockdown Tower has sold to Signature Entertainment for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, to California Filmes for Latin America and to Capelight for German-speaking Europe. Other sales include Vie Vision Pictures for Taiwan, Klockworks in Japan, Media4Fun in Poland, Nk Contents in Korea and Capella Film for Cis and the Baltics.
Paris-based sales company Elle Driver has closed a slew of sales for Guillaume Nicloux’s Lockdown Tower and Yann Samuell’s The Lulus ahead of Unifrance’s annual Rendez-Vous in Paris.
Lockdown Tower has sold to Signature Entertainment for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, to California Filmes for Latin America and to Capelight for German-speaking Europe. Other sales include Vie Vision Pictures for Taiwan, Klockworks in Japan, Media4Fun in Poland, Nk Contents in Korea and Capella Film for Cis and the Baltics.
- 1/5/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled the bulk of its French slate for the first half of 2023 as it gears up for the Unifrance Rendez-vous in Paris, running January 10-17.
New titles on the slate include Jean-Bernard Marlin’s Marseille gangland-set fantasy Salem about a former gang member who believes his daughter is the only one who can save his community from an apocalyptic curse uttered by a rival gang member in his dying breath.
Salem is Marlin’s second feature after the gritty romance Shéhérazade. That drama, also set against the backdrop of Marseille
, debuted in Cannes in 2018 and went on to win best first film in France’s 2019 César awards as well as most promising actress and actor for its big screen debutants Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert.
The new film, which is currently in post-production, is co-produced by Bruno Nahon’s Unité and Vatos Locos Productions,...
New titles on the slate include Jean-Bernard Marlin’s Marseille gangland-set fantasy Salem about a former gang member who believes his daughter is the only one who can save his community from an apocalyptic curse uttered by a rival gang member in his dying breath.
Salem is Marlin’s second feature after the gritty romance Shéhérazade. That drama, also set against the backdrop of Marseille
, debuted in Cannes in 2018 and went on to win best first film in France’s 2019 César awards as well as most promising actress and actor for its big screen debutants Kenza Fortas and Dylan Robert.
The new film, which is currently in post-production, is co-produced by Bruno Nahon’s Unité and Vatos Locos Productions,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Unless you were lucky enough to catch it on the 2019 festival circuit, the pandemic unfortunately led to most viewers seeing Pietro Marcello’s stunning drama Martin Eden at home. Thankfully, when it comes to his next feature, the gorgeous fable Scarlet (aka L’Envol), there will be ample opportunity for a theatrical viewing. The Cannes selection will arrive in France this January, and the first trailer has now arrived, followed by a U.S. release from Kino Lorber in 2023. An adaptation of Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin, the tale of a woman’s family and romantic journey stars Juliette Jouan, Raphaël Thierry, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, Ernst Umhauer, François Négret, and Yolande Moreau.
David Katz said in his review, “In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of labor. It’s...
David Katz said in his review, “In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of labor. It’s...
- 11/30/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Scarlet (L'envol) director Pietro Marcello with Anne-Katrin Titze (in scarlet Haider Ackermann) on Gabriel Yared: “He was both a guide and for me it was a new experience to be flanked and to be working alongside a composer of that high level.” Photo: Kate Patterson
Pietro Marcello’s Scarlet (L'envol), which is an adaptation by the director with Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline (Mikhaël Hers’ Amanda), in collaboration with Geneviève Brisac of the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by Russian author Alexander Grin stars Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, and Yolande Moreau.
Pietro Marcello on costume designer Pascaline Chavanne (pictured Juliette Jouan as Juliette in Scarlet): “For me it was a privilege to work not only with her but with the many masters of their crafts that I worked with.”
The film is a celebration of craft, both on screen and in the making, Pascaline Chavanne’s...
Pietro Marcello’s Scarlet (L'envol), which is an adaptation by the director with Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline (Mikhaël Hers’ Amanda), in collaboration with Geneviève Brisac of the 1923 novel Scarlet Sails by Russian author Alexander Grin stars Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, and Yolande Moreau.
Pietro Marcello on costume designer Pascaline Chavanne (pictured Juliette Jouan as Juliette in Scarlet): “For me it was a privilege to work not only with her but with the many masters of their crafts that I worked with.”
The film is a celebration of craft, both on screen and in the making, Pascaline Chavanne’s...
- 10/12/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Back in July, we learned that Catherine Corsini was moving on to her next feature and now we’ve learned that she plucked a key member from the hospital emergency staff from her last film La fracture (The Divide) (read review) for this new production set to begin production this fall. Aïssatou Diallo Sagna will not topline Le retour, however, she’ll likely play a key supporting role (matriarch of the wealthy couple?). We can expect two more key youth roles to be announced. Sagna debuted her acting career with Corsini and had a recent supporting role in Yolande Moreau’s Même au milieu des ruines.…...
- 9/28/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Next festival stop is NYFF.
Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights from Orange Studio to Scarlet, which opened this year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
Pietro Marcello’s French-language drama is based loosely on Alexander Grin’s novel Scarlet Sails and centres on a girl growing up with her widower father in Normandy between the two world wars at a time of dramatic innovation.
Raphaël Thiery and Juliette Jouan star alongside Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, and Yolande Moreau.
Marcello, who directed Venice and TIFF prize-winning narrative Martin Eden, co-wrote the screenplay with regular collaborator Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline,...
Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights from Orange Studio to Scarlet, which opened this year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
Pietro Marcello’s French-language drama is based loosely on Alexander Grin’s novel Scarlet Sails and centres on a girl growing up with her widower father in Normandy between the two world wars at a time of dramatic innovation.
Raphaël Thiery and Juliette Jouan star alongside Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, and Yolande Moreau.
Marcello, who directed Venice and TIFF prize-winning narrative Martin Eden, co-wrote the screenplay with regular collaborator Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Pietro Marcello’s sprawling post-wwi film “Scarlet,” which opened Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.
Represented in international markets by Orange Studio, “Scarlet” will have its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, before a theatrical release in 2023.
A loose adaptation of Alexander Grin’s novel, “Scarlet” marks Kino’s second collaboration with Marcello. It follows “Martin Eden,” which competed at Venice, won best actor for Luca Marinelli and went on to play at Toronto.
Marcello, who rose to prominence as a documentarian with his film “The Mouth of the Wolf,” penned the script for “Scarlet” with his regular screenwriting partner Maurizio Braucci (“Martin Eden”) and Maud Ameline, with the participation of novelist Geneviève Brisac.
“Scarlet” was produced by Charles Gillibert and Ilya Stewart. The film stars Raphaël Thiery and Juliette Jouan as father and daughter, alongside Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky and Yolande Moreau.
Represented in international markets by Orange Studio, “Scarlet” will have its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, before a theatrical release in 2023.
A loose adaptation of Alexander Grin’s novel, “Scarlet” marks Kino’s second collaboration with Marcello. It follows “Martin Eden,” which competed at Venice, won best actor for Luca Marinelli and went on to play at Toronto.
Marcello, who rose to prominence as a documentarian with his film “The Mouth of the Wolf,” penned the script for “Scarlet” with his regular screenwriting partner Maurizio Braucci (“Martin Eden”) and Maud Ameline, with the participation of novelist Geneviève Brisac.
“Scarlet” was produced by Charles Gillibert and Ilya Stewart. The film stars Raphaël Thiery and Juliette Jouan as father and daughter, alongside Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky and Yolande Moreau.
- 8/10/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
And here we are with the third part in our top 100 predictions.
Chad Chenouga‘s third feature film Le Principal might be one of those unassuming, perfectly calibrated French dramas that connect with auds — school settings can always land an emotional punch. Starring Roschdy Zem, Yolande Moreau and Marina Hands, this is about parents, students, teachers and one specific principle.
A possible horror offering for the Midnight Madness section, Australian twin brothers Danny & Michael Philippou (aka Racka Racka) lassoed Sophie Wilde to topline a story of a group of friends who discover how to conjure spirits using an ancient embalmed hand.…...
Chad Chenouga‘s third feature film Le Principal might be one of those unassuming, perfectly calibrated French dramas that connect with auds — school settings can always land an emotional punch. Starring Roschdy Zem, Yolande Moreau and Marina Hands, this is about parents, students, teachers and one specific principle.
A possible horror offering for the Midnight Madness section, Australian twin brothers Danny & Michael Philippou (aka Racka Racka) lassoed Sophie Wilde to topline a story of a group of friends who discover how to conjure spirits using an ancient embalmed hand.…...
- 7/22/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Not quite a musical, sort of a folktale, and almost but not entirely a hardscrabble hunk of post-war realism before all of a sudden changing gears, “Scarlet” – which opened the 2022 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar on Wednesday – is a tricky project to pin down. Of course, director Pietro Marcello wouldn’t have it any other way.
Shooting in French for the first time, the Italian filmmaker made his name with documentaries before working found and historical footage into the world of make-believe with 2019’s “Martin Eden.” With this more ambitious (if more uneven) follow-up, Marcello continues at a similar pace, folding fact into fiction as he explores both the landscapes of rural Normandy in the aftermath of the First World War and the plight of the working poor, all through the crags of his leading man’s brow.
That brow (and those crags) belongs to Raphael (Raphaël Thiéry...
Shooting in French for the first time, the Italian filmmaker made his name with documentaries before working found and historical footage into the world of make-believe with 2019’s “Martin Eden.” With this more ambitious (if more uneven) follow-up, Marcello continues at a similar pace, folding fact into fiction as he explores both the landscapes of rural Normandy in the aftermath of the First World War and the plight of the working poor, all through the crags of his leading man’s brow.
That brow (and those crags) belongs to Raphael (Raphaël Thiéry...
- 5/18/2022
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of labor. It’s also something that runs through Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, about the poetry-penning bus driver of the same name: both filmmakers have helped demystify our idea of the artist as a potential “great man of history” and the deification often accorded them. The would-be literary maven of Martin Eden and two artist-craftsmen of Scarlet are engaged instead in a noble struggle, a bit like the eternal workers’ struggle of Marcello’s other chief interest: that of leftist political thought.
Scarlet, a quasi-fairytale adapted from Russian author Aleksandr Grin’s Scarlet Skies, is a more even-tempered work than Martin Eden, and less likely to command the same ardor directed towards that film. But it finds Marcello acing another high-end literary adaptation,...
Scarlet, a quasi-fairytale adapted from Russian author Aleksandr Grin’s Scarlet Skies, is a more even-tempered work than Martin Eden, and less likely to command the same ardor directed towards that film. But it finds Marcello acing another high-end literary adaptation,...
- 5/18/2022
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
A slight but satisfying choice to open Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, Pietro Marcello’s “Scarlet” isn’t quite a fairy tale, although it certainly feels like one at times. For example, roughly midway through the movie, a woman who might be a witch meets the film’s fanciful young heroine, Juliette (Juliette Jouan), in the woods and predicts her fortune, explaining that one day this girl — who’s destined for greater things than the provincial Normandy farm where she’s dutifully passed her adolescence — will be whisked away by a ship flying scarlet sails.
Set in the years just after the Great War, this charming French-language fable — which hails from the celebrated Italian doc maker whose epic narrative debut, “Martin Eden,” was a critical success on the festival circuit just pre-covid — is smaller, sweeter and more sensitive than Marcello’s earlier work. The movie’s sense of reality-based romance,...
Set in the years just after the Great War, this charming French-language fable — which hails from the celebrated Italian doc maker whose epic narrative debut, “Martin Eden,” was a critical success on the festival circuit just pre-covid — is smaller, sweeter and more sensitive than Marcello’s earlier work. The movie’s sense of reality-based romance,...
- 5/18/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Further funding awarded to new Bruno Dumont feature and ‘Niko’ franchise.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s upcoming musical The End starring Tilda Swinton is one of 23 features to receive a share of €5.5m ($6.1m) in the latest round of Eurimages co-production support funding.
The film, a co-production between Denmark, Germany and Ireland, receives €480,000 – the largest of the 23 awards in this selection.
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The End stars George MacKay and Stephen Graham alongside Swinton in the musical about the last human family. Neon has acquired North America rights.
The Empire, the latest film from French director Bruno Dumont,...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s upcoming musical The End starring Tilda Swinton is one of 23 features to receive a share of €5.5m ($6.1m) in the latest round of Eurimages co-production support funding.
The film, a co-production between Denmark, Germany and Ireland, receives €480,000 – the largest of the 23 awards in this selection.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The End stars George MacKay and Stephen Graham alongside Swinton in the musical about the last human family. Neon has acquired North America rights.
The Empire, the latest film from French director Bruno Dumont,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Pietro Marcello, the critically acclaimed Italian filmmaker of the Venice prize-winning “Martin Eden,” has just started shooting “Scarlet” (“L’envol”), a French-language drama set in Northern Normandy. Orange Studio has acquired international sales rights to the film which will be distributed in France by Le Pacte.
Charles Gillibert, whose Paris-based outfit CG Cinema previously delivered award-winning films such as Deniz Erguven’s “Mustang” and Leos Carax’s “Annette,” is producing “Scarlet” with Avventurosa and Rai Cinema in Italy, in collaboration with Ilya Stewart (Hype Film) and Antonio Miyakawa (Wise Pictures).
Marcello penned the script with his regular screenwriting partner Maurizio Braucci (“Gomorra”), as well as Maud Ameline (“Amanda”), with the participation of the novelist Geneviève Brisac.
The film is set between the two world wars, a time of great inventions, and follows the journey of a young woman who was raised by her father, a widowed war veteran, and strives...
Charles Gillibert, whose Paris-based outfit CG Cinema previously delivered award-winning films such as Deniz Erguven’s “Mustang” and Leos Carax’s “Annette,” is producing “Scarlet” with Avventurosa and Rai Cinema in Italy, in collaboration with Ilya Stewart (Hype Film) and Antonio Miyakawa (Wise Pictures).
Marcello penned the script with his regular screenwriting partner Maurizio Braucci (“Gomorra”), as well as Maud Ameline (“Amanda”), with the participation of the novelist Geneviève Brisac.
The film is set between the two world wars, a time of great inventions, and follows the journey of a young woman who was raised by her father, a widowed war veteran, and strives...
- 8/19/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
French production and sales arm will unveil four new films at the EFM.
France’s Orange Studio will kick off sales this EFM on French director Sophie Boudre’s intergenerational comedy-drama Schoolmates!, the latest production from Paris-based Vendôme Production, the company behind La Famille Bélier and English-language remake Coda.
Based on a true story, popular comedy actress Alice Pol co-stars as a village school headmistress whose school burns down forcing her to move her classroom into a local retirement home. Cohabitation between the children and seniors will not be easy. Jonathan Zaccaï and veteran French pop icon Eddy Mitchell also top the cast.
France’s Orange Studio will kick off sales this EFM on French director Sophie Boudre’s intergenerational comedy-drama Schoolmates!, the latest production from Paris-based Vendôme Production, the company behind La Famille Bélier and English-language remake Coda.
Based on a true story, popular comedy actress Alice Pol co-stars as a village school headmistress whose school burns down forcing her to move her classroom into a local retirement home. Cohabitation between the children and seniors will not be easy. Jonathan Zaccaï and veteran French pop icon Eddy Mitchell also top the cast.
- 2/22/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The ceremony will take place on March 12.
Emmanuel Mouret’s love triangle drama Love Affair(s) leads the nominations in France’s César awards this year, followed by Albert Dupontel’s Bye Bye Morons and Summer Of 85.
France’s Academy of Cinema and Arts and Sciences unveiled the nomination list for the 46th edition of the awards on its website on Wednesday morning, ahead of the ceremony scheduled to take place on March 12.
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Its traditional news conference in Fouquet’s restaurant in Paris was not possible this year as bars and restaurants are currently...
Emmanuel Mouret’s love triangle drama Love Affair(s) leads the nominations in France’s César awards this year, followed by Albert Dupontel’s Bye Bye Morons and Summer Of 85.
France’s Academy of Cinema and Arts and Sciences unveiled the nomination list for the 46th edition of the awards on its website on Wednesday morning, ahead of the ceremony scheduled to take place on March 12.
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Its traditional news conference in Fouquet’s restaurant in Paris was not possible this year as bars and restaurants are currently...
- 2/10/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Emmanuel Mouret’s Les Choses Qu’On Dit, Les Choses Qu’On Fait, aka Love Affair(s), leads France’s César Award nominations with a total 13 including each of the top acting categories as well as Best Director and Best Film. The official 2020 Cannes Film Festival selection is followed by Albert Dupontel’s comedy/drama Adieu Les Cons (Bye Bye Morons) and François Ozon’s Eté 85 (Summer Of 85) with 12 each. The latter was released locally last summer and played Toronto in September.
Other titles to make the cut this morning include the Oscar shortlisted Two Of Us (Deux) from Filippo Meneghetti with Best Actress nods for leads Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa as well as Best Original Screenplay and Best Debut Feature.
In the Foreign Film category are Sam Mendes’ 1917, Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters, Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round (also Oscar shortlisted on Tuesday), Jan Komasa’s La Communion...
Other titles to make the cut this morning include the Oscar shortlisted Two Of Us (Deux) from Filippo Meneghetti with Best Actress nods for leads Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa as well as Best Original Screenplay and Best Debut Feature.
In the Foreign Film category are Sam Mendes’ 1917, Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters, Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round (also Oscar shortlisted on Tuesday), Jan Komasa’s La Communion...
- 2/10/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Sixties flashback for (front from left) Noémie Lvovsky, Juliette Binoche and Yolande Moreau in Martin Provost’s comedy How To Be A Good Wife Photo: © Carole Bethuel - Les Films du Kiosque The French Film Festival is offering audiences a chance to catch up with its fff@home streaming titles this weekend.
Tickets are onsale now for the virtual event, featuring seven feature films and a selection of shorts, that will run from 7.30pm on Saturday, December 19, to 7.30pm the next day. Films are available for £4.50 each and the shorts programme for just £1.
Included in the line-up is actress-turned director Sarah Suco’s UK premiere debut feature The Dazzled, a slowburn fiml set in an insular Catholic community. Also featured is Just Kids, a drama about siblings in the grips of grief and freedom, directed by Christophe Blanc and Martin Provost's sexual liberation comedy How To Be A Good Wife.
Tickets are onsale now for the virtual event, featuring seven feature films and a selection of shorts, that will run from 7.30pm on Saturday, December 19, to 7.30pm the next day. Films are available for £4.50 each and the shorts programme for just £1.
Included in the line-up is actress-turned director Sarah Suco’s UK premiere debut feature The Dazzled, a slowburn fiml set in an insular Catholic community. Also featured is Just Kids, a drama about siblings in the grips of grief and freedom, directed by Christophe Blanc and Martin Provost's sexual liberation comedy How To Be A Good Wife.
- 12/15/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In the driving seat: Yolande Moreau (behind left), Noémie Lvovsky and Juliette Binoche (front) in How To Be A Good Wife by Martin Provost Photo: UniFrance
As a mere male, director Martin Provost has demonstrated his feminist credentials long before Me Too made it fashionable and politic to do so. In Séraphine, winner of seven Césars (the French Oscars) he explored the life of an outsider artist unforgettably incarnated by Yolande Moreau. With The Midwife (Sage Femme) he united Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve as they confront life’s shifting sands. En route there was also his portrait of writer Violette Leduc with Emmanuelle Devos as the contemporary and protegé of Simone de Beauvoir.
Martin Provost: "My strong feminist streak comes from my mother. She was more important in my life than my father …” Photo: UniFrance
Provost’s new film How To Be A Good Wife is distinctly different and...
As a mere male, director Martin Provost has demonstrated his feminist credentials long before Me Too made it fashionable and politic to do so. In Séraphine, winner of seven Césars (the French Oscars) he explored the life of an outsider artist unforgettably incarnated by Yolande Moreau. With The Midwife (Sage Femme) he united Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve as they confront life’s shifting sands. En route there was also his portrait of writer Violette Leduc with Emmanuelle Devos as the contemporary and protegé of Simone de Beauvoir.
Martin Provost: "My strong feminist streak comes from my mother. She was more important in my life than my father …” Photo: UniFrance
Provost’s new film How To Be A Good Wife is distinctly different and...
- 11/23/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Chile’s Leonardo Medel directs the drama starring Mariana Di Girolamo.
Berlin-based Films Boutique has picked up world sales rights to La Veronica, a new social media-themed drama directed by Chile’s Leonardo Medel, which is being introduced to buyers during the virtual Cannes market.
The film, produced by Santiago-based outfit Merced, is in post-production and led by rising Latin American star Mariana Di Girolamo, last seen in Pablo Larraín’s Venice competition title Ema.
Girolamo plays the wife of a famous football player who spends her days by the pool, at photo shoots and taking care of her Instagram account.
Berlin-based Films Boutique has picked up world sales rights to La Veronica, a new social media-themed drama directed by Chile’s Leonardo Medel, which is being introduced to buyers during the virtual Cannes market.
The film, produced by Santiago-based outfit Merced, is in post-production and led by rising Latin American star Mariana Di Girolamo, last seen in Pablo Larraín’s Venice competition title Ema.
Girolamo plays the wife of a famous football player who spends her days by the pool, at photo shoots and taking care of her Instagram account.
- 6/24/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Parallel sections issue joint statement on the decision to abandon 2020 editions due to Covid-19.
Cannes parallel sections Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Acid announced on Wednesday (April 15) that they were cancelling their 2020 editions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The respected sidebars had originally been due to take place alongside the Cannes Film Festival during its cancelled dates of May 12-23, and had then been holding out to run during a potential end-June, start-July slot, which has now also been abandoned after the French government extended a ban on large gatherings to mid-July.
”Following the French president’s April 13 announcement banning...
Cannes parallel sections Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Acid announced on Wednesday (April 15) that they were cancelling their 2020 editions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The respected sidebars had originally been due to take place alongside the Cannes Film Festival during its cancelled dates of May 12-23, and had then been holding out to run during a potential end-June, start-July slot, which has now also been abandoned after the French government extended a ban on large gatherings to mid-July.
”Following the French president’s April 13 announcement banning...
- 4/15/2020
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
"And also, I want the vastness of the sky." Here is a unique stop-motion animated film to enjoy when you have a few extra minutes. Raymonde or the Vertical Escape is an animated short by French filmmaker Sarah Van den Boom, co-founder of Papy3D Productions in Paris. In a remote farm, Raymonde (an owl) lives a solitary life. She takes care of her garden, raises rabbits, but loneliness starts to weigh on her. She asks herself questions about the meaning of things, about God, about her tardy virginity. Now, Raymonde feels an immense desire to live rising within her... The story "uses comedy as a means to explore themes of social acceptance, isolation, and sensuality." This was nominated for Best Animated Short in France's César Awards last year, and played on the festival circuit throughout most of last year, too. Featuring Yolande Moreau as the voice of Raymonde. The character...
- 3/20/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sixties flashback for (front from left) Noémie Lvovsky, Juliette Binoche and Yolande Moreau in Martin Provost’s comedy How To Be A Good Wife due to open Unifrance’s Rendezvous with French Cinema Photo: © Carole Bethuel - Les Films du Kiosque Despite France being in the grip of multifarious “grèves” (or strikes) the annual Rendezvous with French Cinema, organised in Paris by Unifrance) is putting on a positive face as the organisers prepare to welcome almost 400 buyers to what is touted as the world’s biggest film market - which runs alongside a media junket for journalists from 32 countries.
Talents up for interviews include Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert among 120 actors and directors. Binoche stars in the market’s opening film How To Be A Good Wife (La Bonne Epouse) by Martin Provost and she will be present at the screening on 16 January alongside co-star Noémie Lvovsky and the director.
Talents up for interviews include Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert among 120 actors and directors. Binoche stars in the market’s opening film How To Be A Good Wife (La Bonne Epouse) by Martin Provost and she will be present at the screening on 16 January alongside co-star Noémie Lvovsky and the director.
- 1/8/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
La bonne épouse
Initially an actor whose career began in the mid-1970s, France’s Martin Provost has become a notable director over the past decade, which began with the breakout of his third feature, Séraphine in 2008. Since then, he tends to craft substantial vehicles for France’s finest leading ladies, and he’s nabbed Juliette Binoche for his latest feature, How to Be a Good Wife, which also reunites him with Yolande Moreau among a supporting cast which consists of Francois Berleand, Noemie Lvovsky, Edouard Baer, Anamaria Vartolomei. Provost co-writes with Severine Werba in a project produced by Francois Kraus and Denis Pineau-Valencienne.…...
Initially an actor whose career began in the mid-1970s, France’s Martin Provost has become a notable director over the past decade, which began with the breakout of his third feature, Séraphine in 2008. Since then, he tends to craft substantial vehicles for France’s finest leading ladies, and he’s nabbed Juliette Binoche for his latest feature, How to Be a Good Wife, which also reunites him with Yolande Moreau among a supporting cast which consists of Francois Berleand, Noemie Lvovsky, Edouard Baer, Anamaria Vartolomei. Provost co-writes with Severine Werba in a project produced by Francois Kraus and Denis Pineau-Valencienne.…...
- 1/2/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Effacer l’historique
Kooky Belgian duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine will present their ninth collaboration in 2020, Effacer l’historique, another exercise about social misfits attempting to succeed in tasks which seem woefully out of their depth. Sylvie Pialat and Benoit Quainon are producing, starring a lead trio of Blanche Gardin (who will also be appearing in Bruno Dumont’s latest), Denis Podalydes, and Corinne Masiero. Some of the directors’ usual suspects are also on hand in the cast, including Yolande Moreau, Benoit Poelvoorde, Bouli Lanners, and Michel Houellebecq. And they’ll be joined by American actor Denis O’Hare. The filmmakers reunite with their regular Dp, Hugues Poulain.…...
Kooky Belgian duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine will present their ninth collaboration in 2020, Effacer l’historique, another exercise about social misfits attempting to succeed in tasks which seem woefully out of their depth. Sylvie Pialat and Benoit Quainon are producing, starring a lead trio of Blanche Gardin (who will also be appearing in Bruno Dumont’s latest), Denis Podalydes, and Corinne Masiero. Some of the directors’ usual suspects are also on hand in the cast, including Yolande Moreau, Benoit Poelvoorde, Bouli Lanners, and Michel Houellebecq. And they’ll be joined by American actor Denis O’Hare. The filmmakers reunite with their regular Dp, Hugues Poulain.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
“Parasite” is poised to win top honors at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, which will be announced this Sunday, December 8. That’s according to the combined predictions of Gold Derby users who have made their forecasts here in our predictions center. Aniticipating the fickle critics prizes from year to year is always tricky (the New York Film Critics Circle defied our expectations in many categories earlier this week), but this wouldn’t be the first time Lafca looked beyond our borders for their favorite film. Scroll down to see our complete predictions.
La critics have often been more internationally minded, picking foreign-language titles for Best Picture four times since 2000: Taiwan’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000), the Japanese-language American film “Letters from Iwo Jima” (2006), the French-language Austrian film “Amour” (2012) and Mexico’s “Roma” (2018). They often go overseas for their acting winners too, picking overseas stars like Yolande Moreau...
La critics have often been more internationally minded, picking foreign-language titles for Best Picture four times since 2000: Taiwan’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000), the Japanese-language American film “Letters from Iwo Jima” (2006), the French-language Austrian film “Amour” (2012) and Mexico’s “Roma” (2018). They often go overseas for their acting winners too, picking overseas stars like Yolande Moreau...
- 12/7/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Martin Provost’s comedy drama, set in the late 1960s, has sold to Canada, China and Spain.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has announced a raft of sales on Martin Provost’s comedy drama How To Be A Good Wife, starring Juliette Binoche as the headmistress of an all-girls housekeeping school at a time of social change in the late 1960s.
The film has sold to Canada (MK2 Mile End), Australia (Palace Films), Latin America (California Filmes), Japan (New Select), China (Infotainment), Taiwan (Creative Century) and airlines (Skeye).
European territory deals include to Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Movies Inspired), Switzerland (Filmcoopi...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has announced a raft of sales on Martin Provost’s comedy drama How To Be A Good Wife, starring Juliette Binoche as the headmistress of an all-girls housekeeping school at a time of social change in the late 1960s.
The film has sold to Canada (MK2 Mile End), Australia (Palace Films), Latin America (California Filmes), Japan (New Select), China (Infotainment), Taiwan (Creative Century) and airlines (Skeye).
European territory deals include to Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Movies Inspired), Switzerland (Filmcoopi...
- 11/6/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Juliette Binoche, Yolande Moreau, Noémie Lvovsky, Edouard Baer and François Berléand are in the cast. A Les Films du Kiosque production sold by Memento. Final stretch for the shoot of Martin Provost’s How To Be A Good Wife (La Bonne Épouse), which began on 3 July and will end on 30 August. The cast of the seventh feature by the filmmaker features Juliette Binoche, Belgian actress Yolande Moreau (winner...
The brilliant Yolande Moreau, Gustave Kervern and François Morel topline this Loin derrière l'Oural production, which will be sold by Films Boutique. Les Sans-dents (lit. “The Toothless”), the fourth feature by Pascal Rabaté, following Wandering Streams (2010), Holidays by the Sea (Best Director Award at Karlovy Vary in 2011) and Patchwork Family (also in competition at Karlovy Vary in 2014), is currently in post-production. Standing out among the cast are Belgium’s Yolande Moreau, Gustave Kervern, François Morel, David Salles, Charles Schneider and Vincent Martin.The story of this comedy, written by Pascal Rabaté, follows a clan living...
Initiative to showcase nine features, with seven from first time directors.
Nine features by rising filmmakers are being showcased by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) at the Cannes Film Festival next month (May 14-25).
The initiative aims to give greater visibility to up-and-coming independent filmmakers. Seven of the nine are first- time features (apart from Blind Spot and As Happy As Possible), five are fiction films and four are documentaries. All are world premieres except Ena Sendijarevic’s Take Me Somewhere Nice, which debuted in Rotterdam.
They are:
Blind Spot (Fr) Dirs: Pierre Trividic, Patrick-Mario...
Nine features by rising filmmakers are being showcased by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) at the Cannes Film Festival next month (May 14-25).
The initiative aims to give greater visibility to up-and-coming independent filmmakers. Seven of the nine are first- time features (apart from Blind Spot and As Happy As Possible), five are fiction films and four are documentaries. All are world premieres except Ena Sendijarevic’s Take Me Somewhere Nice, which debuted in Rotterdam.
They are:
Blind Spot (Fr) Dirs: Pierre Trividic, Patrick-Mario...
- 4/23/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Intelligent comedy about women’s liberation tale unfolds in all-girls school against the backdrop of May 1968.
Memento Films International (Mfi) will kick off sales on Martin Provost’s 1960s-set comedy-drama How To Be A Good Wife, starring Juliette Binoche, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris this week (January 17-21).
Binoche will star as the co-head of an all-girls housekeeping school in a small town in the eastern French region of Alsace in the late 1960s. She runs the school alongside husband with the mission to train teenage girls to become perfect housewives. The schools were common in...
Memento Films International (Mfi) will kick off sales on Martin Provost’s 1960s-set comedy-drama How To Be A Good Wife, starring Juliette Binoche, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris this week (January 17-21).
Binoche will star as the co-head of an all-girls housekeeping school in a small town in the eastern French region of Alsace in the late 1960s. She runs the school alongside husband with the mission to train teenage girls to become perfect housewives. The schools were common in...
- 1/14/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Celle que vous croyez
For his sixth film, Celle que vous croyez, France’s Safy Nebbou assembles an all-star cast led by Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, Charles Berling, Guillaume Gouix, Francois Civil, Marie-Ange Casta, Claude Perron and Jules Houplain. Produced by Michel Saint-Jean of Diaphana Films, the project is being co-produced through Scope Pictures and France 3 Cinema. Cinematographer Gilles Portes lensed the production. Nebbou is best known for his 2008 title Mark of Angel, a melodrama based on a true story starring Catherine Frot and Sandrine Bonnaire.…...
For his sixth film, Celle que vous croyez, France’s Safy Nebbou assembles an all-star cast led by Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, Charles Berling, Guillaume Gouix, Francois Civil, Marie-Ange Casta, Claude Perron and Jules Houplain. Produced by Michel Saint-Jean of Diaphana Films, the project is being co-produced through Scope Pictures and France 3 Cinema. Cinematographer Gilles Portes lensed the production. Nebbou is best known for his 2008 title Mark of Angel, a melodrama based on a true story starring Catherine Frot and Sandrine Bonnaire.…...
- 1/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
There are precious few things we know about Valeria Bruni Tedeschi after watching her film “The Summer House” that we did not know before. But here’s one: The writer-director-star understands how her detractors perceive her. And so unfolds an early scene that seems designed to head the inevitable criticisms off at the pass: At a financing meeting for her new film, director Anna (Bruni Tedeschi) faces a panel of nonplussed producers who complain that her next project is the same as all her others and that her screenplay is “fragile.”
The scene is an amusingly brittle comedy of manners with the director, as ever, gamely ready to cast herself as the ditz. But it is also pointedly metatextual and has credibility-laden documentary guru Frederick Wiseman in it, gnomically sitting on the panel looking as baffled to be there as we are to see him. For a moment it seems like Bruni Tedeschi,...
The scene is an amusingly brittle comedy of manners with the director, as ever, gamely ready to cast herself as the ditz. But it is also pointedly metatextual and has credibility-laden documentary guru Frederick Wiseman in it, gnomically sitting on the panel looking as baffled to be there as we are to see him. For a moment it seems like Bruni Tedeschi,...
- 9/19/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Title: Les Estivants (The Summer House) Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pierre Arditi, Valeria Golino, Noémie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Laurent Stocker de la Comédie Française, Riccardo Scamarcio, Bruno Raffaelli de la Comédie Française, Marisa Borini, Oumy Bruni Garrel, Vincent Perez, Stefano Cassetti, Xavier Beauvois. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi keeps making the same film, […]
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- 9/7/2018
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
It’s been six years since Jean Dujardin improbably charmed his way to an Oscar for a sparkling star turn in “The Artist,” and since then, even the French film industry has struggled to make optimum use of the funnyman’s outsize, old-school screen presence. Drug thriller “The Connection” was a solid enough play-it-straight vehicle, but by the time Dujardin showed up as a digitally modified little person in the dubious 2016 romcom “Up for Love,” Michel Hazanavicius’s beguiling silent-film pastiche itself seemed ancient history. That “I Feel Good” finally hands Dujardin a role he can wrap his arms around is perhaps the greatest of its many offbeat pleasures; he repays Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s ultimately sunny anti-capitalist comedy with a performance of x-factor charm, yes, but also wounded human complexity.
Dujardin’s urbane star quality isn’t the likeliest of matches for Delépine and Kervern, a cheerfully...
Dujardin’s urbane star quality isn’t the likeliest of matches for Delépine and Kervern, a cheerfully...
- 8/11/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s selection features eight world premieres and a Portugal focus.
France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the line-up for its 26th Cannes Film Festival showcase, running May 9-18.
The initiative is aimed at giving greater visibility to up and coming, independnet filmmakers and will screen nine works. All our world premieres except Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road which is an international premiere.
They are:
L’amour Debout (France) by Michaël Dacheux Bad Bad Winter (Kazakhstan) by Olga Korotko Cassandro The Exotico! (France) by Marie Losier Dans La Terrible Jungle/ In The Mighty Jungle...
France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) has unveiled the line-up for its 26th Cannes Film Festival showcase, running May 9-18.
The initiative is aimed at giving greater visibility to up and coming, independnet filmmakers and will screen nine works. All our world premieres except Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road which is an international premiere.
They are:
L’amour Debout (France) by Michaël Dacheux Bad Bad Winter (Kazakhstan) by Olga Korotko Cassandro The Exotico! (France) by Marie Losier Dans La Terrible Jungle/ In The Mighty Jungle...
- 4/17/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
This is the Pure Movies review of A Woman's Life, directed by Stéphane Brizé and starring Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Yolande Moreau. Eschewing the overt staginess of many a period drama in favour of something looser and more earthy, Stéphane Brizé’s A Woman’s Life is a strikingly moody tone poem. Tethered to a nuanced and heartbreaking turn by Judith Chemla, the film documents the scant peaks and agonising troughs of Jeanne de Perthuis des Vauds’ life. It’s a bleak and rarely comfortable watch, but it taps into a level of emotional intimacy that one doesn’t immediately associate with its genre.
- 2/18/2018
- by admin
- Pure Movies
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