Warwick Thornton’s “The New Boy” has been set as the opening title of next month’s Sydney Film Festival, which will celebrate its 70th edition, June 7-18. The film, a tale of sprituality and survival in 1940s Australia, starring Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair and Aswan Reid, will also play in the festival’s competition section.
Other titles in competition include: the world premiere of Australian documentary feature “The Dark Emu Story,” directed by Allan Clarke; Christian Petzold’s previously announced “Afire”; Charlotte Regan’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “Scrapper”; Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Monster”; Aki Kaurismäki’s compassionate comedy “Fallen Leaves”; Kim Jee-woon’s “Cobweb”; Asmae El Moudir’s “The Mother of All Lies”; Alice Englert’s directorial debut “Bad Behaviour”; Celine Song’s Sundance and Berlinale 2023 selected romance “Past Lives”; Liu Jian’s 2023 Berlinale-selected animation “Art College 1994”; Devashish Makhija’s “Joram,” a thriller about an...
Other titles in competition include: the world premiere of Australian documentary feature “The Dark Emu Story,” directed by Allan Clarke; Christian Petzold’s previously announced “Afire”; Charlotte Regan’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “Scrapper”; Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Monster”; Aki Kaurismäki’s compassionate comedy “Fallen Leaves”; Kim Jee-woon’s “Cobweb”; Asmae El Moudir’s “The Mother of All Lies”; Alice Englert’s directorial debut “Bad Behaviour”; Celine Song’s Sundance and Berlinale 2023 selected romance “Past Lives”; Liu Jian’s 2023 Berlinale-selected animation “Art College 1994”; Devashish Makhija’s “Joram,” a thriller about an...
- 5/10/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Docaviv, the prestigious all-documentary film festival in Tel Aviv, today announced the International Competition lineup for the 25th anniversary of the event, which takes place May 11-20.
In competition are some of the early favorites for Oscar recognition, including Apolonia, Apolonia, winner of Best Feature at IDFA; 20 Days in Mariupol, the harrowing examination of the siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the Russian invasion; Kokomo City, winner of two awards at Sundance, and The Eternal Memory, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at Sundance [scroll for the full International Competition lineup].
Docaviv is an Oscar-qualifying festival, with winners in the International, Israeli, and Shorts competitions automatically becoming eligible for Academy Awards consideration. It is the only all-documentary festival in Israel and widely considered one of the world’s foremost nonfiction film events.
Some of the expected international guests include Emmy-winning documentary producer John Battsek, who will hold...
In competition are some of the early favorites for Oscar recognition, including Apolonia, Apolonia, winner of Best Feature at IDFA; 20 Days in Mariupol, the harrowing examination of the siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the Russian invasion; Kokomo City, winner of two awards at Sundance, and The Eternal Memory, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at Sundance [scroll for the full International Competition lineup].
Docaviv is an Oscar-qualifying festival, with winners in the International, Israeli, and Shorts competitions automatically becoming eligible for Academy Awards consideration. It is the only all-documentary festival in Israel and widely considered one of the world’s foremost nonfiction film events.
Some of the expected international guests include Emmy-winning documentary producer John Battsek, who will hold...
- 4/20/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Champion Campion
The Sydney Film Festival will present ‘Jane Campion – Her Way,’ a retrospective of films by the pioneering director. Campion herself will appear in conversation with David Stratton on June 10 at the 2023 edition of the festival, its 70th anniversary presentation (June 7-18).
Held in association with Acmi and the National Film and Sound Archive, ‘Jane Campion – Her Way’ will encompass screenings of all nine of Campion’s feature films, as well as a selection of her short films. The selection will go on to tour the Acmi in Melbourne (June 15 – July 2) and at Nfsa in Canberra (July 20-30).
“For our 70th edition, we wanted to present a retrospective commensurate with the milestone, reflecting the audacious and boundary pushing filmmaking synonymous with our festival and region. Campion is a ground-breaking filmmaker who has made a profound impact on cinema with her daring and unforgettable films,” said Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley.
The Sydney Film Festival will present ‘Jane Campion – Her Way,’ a retrospective of films by the pioneering director. Campion herself will appear in conversation with David Stratton on June 10 at the 2023 edition of the festival, its 70th anniversary presentation (June 7-18).
Held in association with Acmi and the National Film and Sound Archive, ‘Jane Campion – Her Way’ will encompass screenings of all nine of Campion’s feature films, as well as a selection of her short films. The selection will go on to tour the Acmi in Melbourne (June 15 – July 2) and at Nfsa in Canberra (July 20-30).
“For our 70th edition, we wanted to present a retrospective commensurate with the milestone, reflecting the audacious and boundary pushing filmmaking synonymous with our festival and region. Campion is a ground-breaking filmmaker who has made a profound impact on cinema with her daring and unforgettable films,” said Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley.
- 4/18/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
‘Power Of The Dog’ Producer Tanya Seghatchian To Lead London Film Festival Jury
Film producer Tanya Seghatchian has been announced as the jury president for the Official Competition of the 66th BFI London Film Festival, running from October 5 – 16. Seghatchian will be joined by British actor Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), filmmaker and playwright Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami), filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane (The Disciple), and journalist Charles Gant. The jury will award the festival’s Best Film Award.
Luc Besson, James Gray, Gabe Polsky Booked For Rome’s Talks Program
Luc Besson, Gabe Polsky, James Gray, Stephen Frears and Mario Martone will be among the filmmakers setting down at the Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-23) for its two new talk sections Paso Doble and Absolute Beginners.
French filmmaker Besson will kick off the new Absolute Beginners devoted to directors speaking about their experiences on their first features.
Film producer Tanya Seghatchian has been announced as the jury president for the Official Competition of the 66th BFI London Film Festival, running from October 5 – 16. Seghatchian will be joined by British actor Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), filmmaker and playwright Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami), filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane (The Disciple), and journalist Charles Gant. The jury will award the festival’s Best Film Award.
Luc Besson, James Gray, Gabe Polsky Booked For Rome’s Talks Program
Luc Besson, Gabe Polsky, James Gray, Stephen Frears and Mario Martone will be among the filmmakers setting down at the Rome Film Festival (Oct 13-23) for its two new talk sections Paso Doble and Absolute Beginners.
French filmmaker Besson will kick off the new Absolute Beginners devoted to directors speaking about their experiences on their first features.
- 10/4/2022
- by Zac Ntim, Melanie Goodfellow, Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Fanny Ardant and Gabriel Arcand set to star in crime drama.
French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli is teaming with Canadian producer Roger Frappier of Max Films on Italian Shoes, an adaptation of the crime novel of the same name by Henning Mankell, set to star Fanny Ardant and Gabriel Arcand.
Frédéric Bourboulon, known for his collaborations with the late Bertrand Tavernier, is the French producer. The film, which will be shot in winter in Quebec, will tell the story of a man living in self-imposed exile on an island and running away from his past.
Bertuccelli is in Cannes with her documentary Jane Campion,...
French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli is teaming with Canadian producer Roger Frappier of Max Films on Italian Shoes, an adaptation of the crime novel of the same name by Henning Mankell, set to star Fanny Ardant and Gabriel Arcand.
Frédéric Bourboulon, known for his collaborations with the late Bertrand Tavernier, is the French producer. The film, which will be shot in winter in Quebec, will tell the story of a man living in self-imposed exile on an island and running away from his past.
Bertuccelli is in Cannes with her documentary Jane Campion,...
- 5/21/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
A new documentary about “The Power of the Dog” director Jane Campion has been picked up for sales by WestEnd Films and Cinephil.
Directed by César Award-winning “Since Otar Left…” helmer Julie Bertuccelli, “Jane Campion, The Cinema Woman” is screening as part of the Cannes Classics line-up.
The New Zealand director was the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, for “The Piano,” and this year won the best director Oscar for her Netflix western “The Power of the Dog.” Bertuccelli’s documentary on the 68-year-old filmmaker, which spans 40 years, is described as “the portrait [Campion] deserves, in a film that is unapologetically subjective and offbeat, very much mirroring [Campion’s] own trailblazing journey in cinema and life.”
The film is produced by Academy Award nominee Estelle Fialon, and crew members include editors Laure Gardette and Svetlana Vaynblat (“Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By”), as well as César Award-winning sound editor and mixer Olivier Goinard.
Directed by César Award-winning “Since Otar Left…” helmer Julie Bertuccelli, “Jane Campion, The Cinema Woman” is screening as part of the Cannes Classics line-up.
The New Zealand director was the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, for “The Piano,” and this year won the best director Oscar for her Netflix western “The Power of the Dog.” Bertuccelli’s documentary on the 68-year-old filmmaker, which spans 40 years, is described as “the portrait [Campion] deserves, in a film that is unapologetically subjective and offbeat, very much mirroring [Campion’s] own trailblazing journey in cinema and life.”
The film is produced by Academy Award nominee Estelle Fialon, and crew members include editors Laure Gardette and Svetlana Vaynblat (“Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By”), as well as César Award-winning sound editor and mixer Olivier Goinard.
- 5/6/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
And the last additions to the Cannes programme is the ever-so-popular Cannes Classics – which promises plenty of restored (mostly 4k) national film treasures plus a good helping of docu items pertaining to cinema with Julie Bertuccelli taking a closer look at Jane Campion, Cinema Woman and Naomi Kawase’s docu Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A. The guest list includes a huge swath of important cinema folk – and Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore will open the sidebar. We’ve streamlined the press release (the guest list is varied) – but here are the titles.…...
- 5/2/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The Cannes Film Festival has set its lineup for this year’s Cannes Classics program, which shines a spotlight on restorations of classic movies and features contemporary documentaries about film. Kicking off the sidebar is Jean Eustache’s controversial film The Mother and the Whore, the 1973 Cannes Grand Prize winner which incited riots at the time. Also included in the program are films by Vittorio de Sica (Sciuscià), Satyajit Ray (The Adversary), Orson Welles (The Trial) and Martin Scorsese (The Last Waltz), as well as a new 4K master of Singin’ in the Rain to mark the movie’s 70th anniversary.
Among the documentaries is Ethan Hawke’s study of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, The Last Movie Stars. Executive produced by Scorsese, it features Karen Allen, George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Latanya Richardson Jackson, Zoe Kazan, Laura Linney and Sam Rockwell among others in an exploration of the iconic couple and American cinema.
Among the documentaries is Ethan Hawke’s study of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, The Last Movie Stars. Executive produced by Scorsese, it features Karen Allen, George Clooney, Oscar Isaac, Latanya Richardson Jackson, Zoe Kazan, Laura Linney and Sam Rockwell among others in an exploration of the iconic couple and American cinema.
- 5/2/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s line-up will also celebrate classics such as Singin’ In The Rain and Indian director Satyajit Ray’s 1970 work The Adversary.
Late French filmmaker Jean Eustache’s recently restored cult 1973 drama The Mother And The Whore will open Cannes Classics this year, the line-up for which was announced on Monday (May 2).
Other highlights include two episodes of the series The Last Movie Stars directed by Ethan Hawke about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; a screening of Singin’ In The Rain to coincide with the 70th anniversary of its release and a restored 4K version of Vittorio de Sica’s 1946 work Sciuscià.
Late French filmmaker Jean Eustache’s recently restored cult 1973 drama The Mother And The Whore will open Cannes Classics this year, the line-up for which was announced on Monday (May 2).
Other highlights include two episodes of the series The Last Movie Stars directed by Ethan Hawke about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; a screening of Singin’ In The Rain to coincide with the 70th anniversary of its release and a restored 4K version of Vittorio de Sica’s 1946 work Sciuscià.
- 5/2/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The immersive VR piece “Bodyless,” director Hsin-Chien Huang’s dreamlike exploration of his own childhood growing up under Taiwanese martial law, took home top honors at Paris’ NewImages Festival on Friday evening. Along with its newly minted Masque d’Or for best VR work, the 25-minute piece walked away with €6,000 in prize money.
Led by French music producer and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, this year’s jury – which also included directors Julie Bertuccelli, Jérémy Clapin and Alice Diop alongside actor Vimala Pons – honored two films with a second place tie, offering the special jury prize to both Ainslee Robson’s exploration of Ethiopian-American identity “Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR,” and Fabito Rychter and Amir Admoni’s wryly surrealist “Gravity VR.”
Jarre’s jury also awarded Marie Blondiaux and Charles Ayats’ interactive project “Moa – My Own Assistant,” which was adapted from a novel by French writer Alain Damasio, and...
Led by French music producer and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, this year’s jury – which also included directors Julie Bertuccelli, Jérémy Clapin and Alice Diop alongside actor Vimala Pons – honored two films with a second place tie, offering the special jury prize to both Ainslee Robson’s exploration of Ethiopian-American identity “Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR,” and Fabito Rychter and Amir Admoni’s wryly surrealist “Gravity VR.”
Jarre’s jury also awarded Marie Blondiaux and Charles Ayats’ interactive project “Moa – My Own Assistant,” which was adapted from a novel by French writer Alain Damasio, and...
- 9/26/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Running Sept. 23-27, this year’s NewImages Festival will work on two different fronts, offering locals a physical rendezvous space at Paris’ Forum des Images, while opening its full program to international attendees participating online.
Giving NewImages’ third edition a true hybrid flair, the 16 VR projects playing in competition and the 12 out-of-competition works can be experienced in person via reservation, and through the festival’s digital arm, @VRChat, a virtual room created by Xr platform VRrOOm.
On the industry side, NewImages three-day program will launch with an opening keynote from MIT’s D. Fox Harrell, and then span a number of professional workshops and panels, while the festival’s Xr financing market will host eight pitching sessions divided by theme.
Blending both physical and digital elements, the festival’s opening performance, “Flame,” will put live performers Alejandro Mendia and Samantha Alcon onto stage optimized for the virtual world – a show...
Giving NewImages’ third edition a true hybrid flair, the 16 VR projects playing in competition and the 12 out-of-competition works can be experienced in person via reservation, and through the festival’s digital arm, @VRChat, a virtual room created by Xr platform VRrOOm.
On the industry side, NewImages three-day program will launch with an opening keynote from MIT’s D. Fox Harrell, and then span a number of professional workshops and panels, while the festival’s Xr financing market will host eight pitching sessions divided by theme.
Blending both physical and digital elements, the festival’s opening performance, “Flame,” will put live performers Alejandro Mendia and Samantha Alcon onto stage optimized for the virtual world – a show...
- 9/22/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Catherine Deneuve has returned to her Paris home after more than a month in the hospital and at a rest home following a mild stroke, according to French report. The French screen icon was seen out and about by her neighbors in the Saint Germain arrondissement of Paris.
Deneuve, 76, had what her family called a “very limited” ischemic stroke – an incident caused by reduced blood flow to the brain – on Nov. 6 while filming the movie “De Son Vivant.” The stroke occurred while Deneuve was shooting a scene in a hospital in Gonesse, near Paris, which made it possible for her to receive medical care immediately. She was taken to Salpetriere hospital, which specializes in treating strokes, and was then moved to the private Hospital Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild in northern Paris. In the last couple weeks or so, she had been staying in a rest home outside of Paris.
The filming of “De Son Vivant,...
Deneuve, 76, had what her family called a “very limited” ischemic stroke – an incident caused by reduced blood flow to the brain – on Nov. 6 while filming the movie “De Son Vivant.” The stroke occurred while Deneuve was shooting a scene in a hospital in Gonesse, near Paris, which made it possible for her to receive medical care immediately. She was taken to Salpetriere hospital, which specializes in treating strokes, and was then moved to the private Hospital Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild in northern Paris. In the last couple weeks or so, she had been staying in a rest home outside of Paris.
The filming of “De Son Vivant,...
- 12/12/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The films of Italian director Carlo Sironi and Serbian director Miroslav Terzic are joint winners of the Golden Antigone award. A Special Mention goes to Madre and the Audience Award to Two of Us. Sole from Italian director Carlo Sironi and Stitches from Serbian director Miroslav Terzic were both handed out the 2019 Golden Antigone by a jury headed by French director Julie Bertuccelli and awarding the best feature of the 41st Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival. Unveiled in the Orizzonti programme in Venice before screening in Toronto (in the Discovery section) and bringing together Italian and Polish producers, Carlo Sironi’s feature debut is sold worldwide by Luxbox, has just been released in Italian cinemas by Officine Ubu and will be distributed in France in the first semester of 2020 by Les Valseurs. Meanwhile, Stitches already boasts among its awards the Label Europa Cinemas given at the Panorama section of the...
- 10/28/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
An enticing menu featuring more than 100 films at the 41st edition of the Cinemed, Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, which will unfold from 18 to 26 October. The excellent Adults in the Room by Costa-Gavras will tomorrow open the 41st edition of the Cinemed, Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (now presided by Palermo mayor Leoluca Orlando), which will unfold from 18-26 October. The guest of honour this year is French filmmaker André Téchiné, and this iteration of the gathering will close with Dominik Moll’s Only the Animals. Ten fiction features will be competing for the 2019 Antigone d'Or Award, which will be given out by a jury presided by French director Julie Bertuccelli. Among them, four films presented at Venice stand out: A Son from Tunisian director Mehdi M Barsaoui (winner of the Best Actor Orizzonti...
- 10/17/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
‘Toy Story 4’ (Photo credit: Disney/Pixar).
The fourth installment in the Disney/Pixar Toy Story franchise has smashed the opening weekend record for an animated title worldwide, ending a run of sequels and reboots which audiences showed they did not want or need.
Directed by Josh Cooley, Toy Story 4 grabbed $244.5 million, beating Incredibles 2‘s $235.8 million, although the $120.9 million domestic debut was only the fourth biggest for the genre, trailing Incredibles 2 ($182 million), Finding Dory ($135 million) and Shrek the Third ($121 million).
It was a buoyant weekend in Oz as Toy Story 4 and Universal/Illumination’s The Secret Life of Pets sequel drew kids and families and fans of Indian cinema turned out for Kabir Singh and Shadaa.
However Child’s Play, the remake of the 1988 horror movie about a ghastly voodoo doll named Chucky, found few takers for Roadshow. Among the specialty releases, Sony’s Never Look Away...
The fourth installment in the Disney/Pixar Toy Story franchise has smashed the opening weekend record for an animated title worldwide, ending a run of sequels and reboots which audiences showed they did not want or need.
Directed by Josh Cooley, Toy Story 4 grabbed $244.5 million, beating Incredibles 2‘s $235.8 million, although the $120.9 million domestic debut was only the fourth biggest for the genre, trailing Incredibles 2 ($182 million), Finding Dory ($135 million) and Shrek the Third ($121 million).
It was a buoyant weekend in Oz as Toy Story 4 and Universal/Illumination’s The Secret Life of Pets sequel drew kids and families and fans of Indian cinema turned out for Kabir Singh and Shadaa.
However Child’s Play, the remake of the 1988 horror movie about a ghastly voodoo doll named Chucky, found few takers for Roadshow. Among the specialty releases, Sony’s Never Look Away...
- 6/24/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
“Yomeddine,” a road-trip movie about an Egyptian leper and a young orphan journeying in search of family, won the Reflet d’Or for best feature film at the 24th Geneva Intl. Film Festival Saturday. The character-driven drama, Egyptian-Austrian director A.B. Shawky’s feature debut, premiered in competition in Cannes, and is Egypt’s candidate for the foreign-language Oscar.
The features jury, led by Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, gave a special mention to Bi Gan’s languorous noir love story “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” The director’s sophomore feature tracks a lovelorn drifter’s return to his hometown in Southwest China.
“Autonomies,” written and created by Yehonatan Indursky and Ori Elon, and directed by Indursky, received the Reflet d’Or for best TV series. In the alternate-reality drama, Israel has split in two states: Jerusalem is ultra-Orthodox, while Tel Aviv is a secular state. The action focuses on two...
The features jury, led by Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, gave a special mention to Bi Gan’s languorous noir love story “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” The director’s sophomore feature tracks a lovelorn drifter’s return to his hometown in Southwest China.
“Autonomies,” written and created by Yehonatan Indursky and Ori Elon, and directed by Indursky, received the Reflet d’Or for best TV series. In the alternate-reality drama, Israel has split in two states: Jerusalem is ultra-Orthodox, while Tel Aviv is a secular state. The action focuses on two...
- 11/10/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Festival doc activity included the Marche’s Doc Corner and a buzzy Doc Day that welcomed European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
The Cannes L’Œil d’or (Golden Eye) documentary award has been presented to Stefano Savona’s Samouni Road.
The $5,900 priz is presented by Lascam (the French-speaking authors’ society) and its president, Julie Bertuccelli, in collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival, with the support of Ina (French National Audiovisual Institute) and, new for this year, Audiens.
The jury – headed by director Emmanuel Finkiel – praised the Directors’ Fortnight entry for its “intelligent way of filming, the right distance in its point of view,...
The Cannes L’Œil d’or (Golden Eye) documentary award has been presented to Stefano Savona’s Samouni Road.
The $5,900 priz is presented by Lascam (the French-speaking authors’ society) and its president, Julie Bertuccelli, in collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival, with the support of Ina (French National Audiovisual Institute) and, new for this year, Audiens.
The jury – headed by director Emmanuel Finkiel – praised the Directors’ Fortnight entry for its “intelligent way of filming, the right distance in its point of view,...
- 5/20/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Claire Darling
Documentary filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli, who worked with a stunning array of world auteurs as an assistant director, moved into narrative filmmaking with 2003’s lauded Since Otar Left, which won a Cesar for Best First Film and the Critics’ Week Grand Prize out of Cannes.
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Documentary filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli, who worked with a stunning array of world auteurs as an assistant director, moved into narrative filmmaking with 2003’s lauded Since Otar Left, which won a Cesar for Best First Film and the Critics’ Week Grand Prize out of Cannes.
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- 1/3/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Actress Sara Forestier and director Hélène Angel on the set of Elementary Photo: Unifrance The French, without wishing to sound chauvinistic, hold their education system in high regard. Cinema has reflected that interest in films from Jean Vigo’s Zero de Conduite in 1933, through the gentle documentary about life in a country infant school Etre et Avoir (2002) by Nicolas Phlibert to Laurent Cantet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Class (2008), set in a raw inner city school. And let’s not forget Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’Esquive (2003), Louis Malle’s 1987 Au Revoir Les Enfants, Julie Bertuccelli’s School of Babel (2013), and Christophe Barratier’s 2004 The Chorus.
Joining the throng is director Hélène Angel with Elementary (Primaire) in which Sara Forestier plays a primary school teacher who has no time for a personal life and lives in an apartment in the grounds with her ten-year-old son.
Angel says: “Education is...
Joining the throng is director Hélène Angel with Elementary (Primaire) in which Sara Forestier plays a primary school teacher who has no time for a personal life and lives in an apartment in the grounds with her ten-year-old son.
Angel says: “Education is...
- 8/22/2017
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fledgling Canadian distributor indulges in French passion.
Montreal-based upstart MK2 | Mile End has snapped up rights to a number of French auteur-driven titles led by Mathieu Amalric’s Un Certain Regard opener Barbara (pictured).
The distributor, recently launched by Paris-based MK2 and Metropole Films co-founding MD Charles Tremblay, struck a deal with Gaumont also yielded Guillaume Gallienne’s Maryline.
MK2 | Mile End acquired two from Pathé – Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub Is Mektoub and Xavier Beauvois’ The Guardians, both of which are in post.
The distributor has signed three from Memento, taking Berlinale premiere The Midwife by Martin Provost, Xavier Giannoli’s in-production The Apparition, and Claire Darling by Julie Bertuccelli, which will star Catherine Deneuve and her daughter Chiara Mastroianni.
Rounding out the spree are Cédric Klapisch’s Back To Burgundy from StudioCanal, and Jean-Stephane Bron’s The Paris Opera from Les Films du Losange.
As part of its exclusive output deal with MK2 Films, MK2 l [link...
Montreal-based upstart MK2 | Mile End has snapped up rights to a number of French auteur-driven titles led by Mathieu Amalric’s Un Certain Regard opener Barbara (pictured).
The distributor, recently launched by Paris-based MK2 and Metropole Films co-founding MD Charles Tremblay, struck a deal with Gaumont also yielded Guillaume Gallienne’s Maryline.
MK2 | Mile End acquired two from Pathé – Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub Is Mektoub and Xavier Beauvois’ The Guardians, both of which are in post.
The distributor has signed three from Memento, taking Berlinale premiere The Midwife by Martin Provost, Xavier Giannoli’s in-production The Apparition, and Claire Darling by Julie Bertuccelli, which will star Catherine Deneuve and her daughter Chiara Mastroianni.
Rounding out the spree are Cédric Klapisch’s Back To Burgundy from StudioCanal, and Jean-Stephane Bron’s The Paris Opera from Les Films du Losange.
As part of its exclusive output deal with MK2 Films, MK2 l [link...
- 5/23/2017
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fledgling Canadian distributor indulges in French passion.
Montreal-based upstart MK2 | Mile End has snapped up rights to a number of French auteur-driven titles led by Mathieu Amalric’s Un Certain Regard opener Barbara (pictured).
The distributor, recently launched by Paris-based MK2 and Metropole Films co-founding MD Charles Tremblay, struck a deal with Gaumont also yielded Guillaume Gallienne’s Maryline.
MK2 | Mile End acquired two from Pathé – Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub Is Mektoub and Xavier Beauvois’ The Guardians, both of which are in post.
The distributor has signed three from Memento, taking Berlinale premiere The Midwife by Martin Provost, Xavier Giannoli’s in-production The Apparition, and Claire Darling by Julie Bertuccelli, which will star Catherine Deneuve and her daughter Chiara Mastroianni.
Rounding out the spree are Cédric Klapisch’s Back To Burgundy from StudioCanal, and Jean-Stephane Bron’s The Paris Opera from Les Films du Losange.
As part of its exclusive output deal with MK2 Films, MK2 l [link...
Montreal-based upstart MK2 | Mile End has snapped up rights to a number of French auteur-driven titles led by Mathieu Amalric’s Un Certain Regard opener Barbara (pictured).
The distributor, recently launched by Paris-based MK2 and Metropole Films co-founding MD Charles Tremblay, struck a deal with Gaumont also yielded Guillaume Gallienne’s Maryline.
MK2 | Mile End acquired two from Pathé – Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub Is Mektoub and Xavier Beauvois’ The Guardians, both of which are in post.
The distributor has signed three from Memento, taking Berlinale premiere The Midwife by Martin Provost, Xavier Giannoli’s in-production The Apparition, and Claire Darling by Julie Bertuccelli, which will star Catherine Deneuve and her daughter Chiara Mastroianni.
Rounding out the spree are Cédric Klapisch’s Back To Burgundy from StudioCanal, and Jean-Stephane Bron’s The Paris Opera from Les Films du Losange.
As part of its exclusive output deal with MK2 Films, MK2 l [link...
- 5/23/2017
- by [email protected] (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Petition calls for unified EU vision on copyright and culture.
Cannes Palme d’Or contenders Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, Michel Hazanavicius have joined 80 top European film-makers in a petition calling for a unified European Union vision on copyright and culture in the digital age.
“We believe that European filmmaking reflects Europe’s positive values. That it can inspire ambition and renewal in Europe’s cultural policies. Europe isn’t just jobs, territories, markets and consumers, European culture also supports multiple identities, democracy and freedom of expression,” the petition said.
Published to coincide with the European Film Forum in Cannes on Monday, it highlighted four key areas where the European Union needed to renew and reinforce its legislation to protect European culture.
Top of the filmmakers’ demands was the maintaining of the territoriality of copyright.
The European Parliament voted last week in favour of a European Commission proposal to de-territorialise digital rights, but the directors...
Cannes Palme d’Or contenders Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, Michel Hazanavicius have joined 80 top European film-makers in a petition calling for a unified European Union vision on copyright and culture in the digital age.
“We believe that European filmmaking reflects Europe’s positive values. That it can inspire ambition and renewal in Europe’s cultural policies. Europe isn’t just jobs, territories, markets and consumers, European culture also supports multiple identities, democracy and freedom of expression,” the petition said.
Published to coincide with the European Film Forum in Cannes on Monday, it highlighted four key areas where the European Union needed to renew and reinforce its legislation to protect European culture.
Top of the filmmakers’ demands was the maintaining of the territoriality of copyright.
The European Parliament voted last week in favour of a European Commission proposal to de-territorialise digital rights, but the directors...
- 5/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
Petition calls for unified EU vision on copyright and culture.
Cannes Palme d’Or contenders Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, Michel Hazanavicius have joined 80 top European film-makers in a petition calling for a unified European Union vision on copyright and culture in the digital age.
“We believe that European filmmaking reflects Europe’s positive values. That it can inspire ambition and renewal in Europe’s cultural policies. Europe isn’t just jobs, territories, markets and consumers, European culture also supports multiple identities, democracy and freedom of expression,” the petition said.
Published to coincide with the European Film Forum in Cannes on Monday, it highlighted four key areas where the European Union needed to renew and reinforce its legislation to protect European culture.
Top of the filmmakers’ demands was the maintaining of the territoriality of copyright.
The European Parliament voted last week in favour of a European Commission proposal to de-territorialise digital rights, but the directors...
Cannes Palme d’Or contenders Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke, Michel Hazanavicius have joined 80 top European film-makers in a petition calling for a unified European Union vision on copyright and culture in the digital age.
“We believe that European filmmaking reflects Europe’s positive values. That it can inspire ambition and renewal in Europe’s cultural policies. Europe isn’t just jobs, territories, markets and consumers, European culture also supports multiple identities, democracy and freedom of expression,” the petition said.
Published to coincide with the European Film Forum in Cannes on Monday, it highlighted four key areas where the European Union needed to renew and reinforce its legislation to protect European culture.
Top of the filmmakers’ demands was the maintaining of the territoriality of copyright.
The European Parliament voted last week in favour of a European Commission proposal to de-territorialise digital rights, but the directors...
- 5/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
Colcoa is keeping up with the times. Now in its twenty-first year, the lauded French film festival, sponsored by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, has added a pair of forward-thinking new categories for its newest edition. This year will include a virtual reality program and a web series competition, in addition to its Cinema, Television and Shorts competitions.
“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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- 4/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
L’Arp expresses love for Us culture and “consternation” at Us president’s budget plan.
French cinema guild L’Arp has issued a message of solidarity with Us filmmakers and artists, condemning Us President Donald Trump’s recently revealed proposals to slash cultural spending.
“We love American culture and cinema which for us [are] our inexhaustible sources of inspiration and escape,” said the body, jointly presided over by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (pictured) and filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli.
“We therefore wish to express our solidarity with the American filmmakers and artists who have recently mobilised against this decision.”
Under its budget proposals for the next fiscal year, the Trump administration is planning to cut some $971m previously earmarked for non-profit cultural entities, including theatres, writing programmes, orchestras, libraries and public broadcasters.
The biggest losers are expected to be the National Endowment For The Arts, the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, the Institute Of Museum And Library Services, and the National...
French cinema guild L’Arp has issued a message of solidarity with Us filmmakers and artists, condemning Us President Donald Trump’s recently revealed proposals to slash cultural spending.
“We love American culture and cinema which for us [are] our inexhaustible sources of inspiration and escape,” said the body, jointly presided over by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (pictured) and filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli.
“We therefore wish to express our solidarity with the American filmmakers and artists who have recently mobilised against this decision.”
Under its budget proposals for the next fiscal year, the Trump administration is planning to cut some $971m previously earmarked for non-profit cultural entities, including theatres, writing programmes, orchestras, libraries and public broadcasters.
The biggest losers are expected to be the National Endowment For The Arts, the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, the Institute Of Museum And Library Services, and the National...
- 3/23/2017
- ScreenDaily
L’Arp statement expresses love for Us culture and consternation over Us president’s budget plan.
French cinema guild L’Arp has issued a message of solidarity with Us filmmakers and artists, condemning Us President Donald Trump’s recently revealed proposals to slash cultural spending.
“We love American culture and cinema which for us are inexhaustible sources of inspiration and escape,” said the body, jointly presided over by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (pictured) and filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli.
“We therefore wish to express our solidarity with the American filmmakers and artists who have recently mobilised against this decision.”
Under its budget proposals for the next fiscal year, the Trump administration is planning to cut some $971m previously earmarked for non-profit cultural entities, including theatres, writing programmes, orchestras, libraries and public broadcasters.
The biggest losers are expected to be the National Endowment For The Arts, the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, the Institute Of Museum And Library Services, and the National...
French cinema guild L’Arp has issued a message of solidarity with Us filmmakers and artists, condemning Us President Donald Trump’s recently revealed proposals to slash cultural spending.
“We love American culture and cinema which for us are inexhaustible sources of inspiration and escape,” said the body, jointly presided over by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (pictured) and filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli.
“We therefore wish to express our solidarity with the American filmmakers and artists who have recently mobilised against this decision.”
Under its budget proposals for the next fiscal year, the Trump administration is planning to cut some $971m previously earmarked for non-profit cultural entities, including theatres, writing programmes, orchestras, libraries and public broadcasters.
The biggest losers are expected to be the National Endowment For The Arts, the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, the Institute Of Museum And Library Services, and the National...
- 3/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
Rithy Panh - president of the documentary jury in Cannes
For the first time this year the Cannes Film Festival will embrace a prize for the best documentary called The Golden Eye (L’Oeil d’or) which recognises the upsurge in the documentary tradition.
Director Julie Bertuccelli, who was responsible for initiating the new honour, said: “Cinema was born through documentaries. Now they are becoming ever more popular among general audiences as well as the critics - and they have a bigger presence in festivals. That’s why we felt it was important for them to be properly recognised at Cannes and to have a dedicated prize for documentaries.”
The prize, which will cover all sections of the Festival, will be decided by a jury made up of
- Rithy Panh (Jury president), from Cambodia and France - Nicolas Philibert, director from France - Irène Jacob, actress from France - Diana El Jeiroudi,...
For the first time this year the Cannes Film Festival will embrace a prize for the best documentary called The Golden Eye (L’Oeil d’or) which recognises the upsurge in the documentary tradition.
Director Julie Bertuccelli, who was responsible for initiating the new honour, said: “Cinema was born through documentaries. Now they are becoming ever more popular among general audiences as well as the critics - and they have a bigger presence in festivals. That’s why we felt it was important for them to be properly recognised at Cannes and to have a dedicated prize for documentaries.”
The prize, which will cover all sections of the Festival, will be decided by a jury made up of
- Rithy Panh (Jury president), from Cambodia and France - Nicolas Philibert, director from France - Irène Jacob, actress from France - Diana El Jeiroudi,...
- 4/29/2015
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘The Artist’ director Michel Hazanavicius leads call against the creation of a Digital Single Market
Three Academy Award winners – Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum) and Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) – are among 20 film-makers joining the protest against the European Commission’s plans to reform copyright law.
In their statement, also signed by Chantal Akerman, Luc Dardenne, Costa-Gavras, Jaco van Dormael and Julie Bertuccelli, they declared: “We are Europeans who still hear the echo of [European Commission] President Juncker saying that he would never accept creators being ‘treated like plastic manufacturers’, but now his College compare our work with selling a car or a tie.”
“We are Europeans shocked to hear of ‘breaking down national silos in copyright’, yet nothing to condemn ongoing violations of copyright, which hinder the development of online legal services.”
Commission declares backing for Digital Single Market
The film-makers’ joint declaration was issued ahead of the first debate held by the...
Three Academy Award winners – Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum) and Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land) – are among 20 film-makers joining the protest against the European Commission’s plans to reform copyright law.
In their statement, also signed by Chantal Akerman, Luc Dardenne, Costa-Gavras, Jaco van Dormael and Julie Bertuccelli, they declared: “We are Europeans who still hear the echo of [European Commission] President Juncker saying that he would never accept creators being ‘treated like plastic manufacturers’, but now his College compare our work with selling a car or a tie.”
“We are Europeans shocked to hear of ‘breaking down national silos in copyright’, yet nothing to condemn ongoing violations of copyright, which hinder the development of online legal services.”
Commission declares backing for Digital Single Market
The film-makers’ joint declaration was issued ahead of the first debate held by the...
- 3/26/2015
- by [email protected] (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Two suspects on the run after French magazine massacre leaves 12 dead.
French cinema industry guild L’Arp and its counterparts in the Us have condemned a terrorist attack on the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were shot dead by two armed gunmen. At least four people were critically wounded in the attack.
At time of writing early on Thursday morning local time two men remained at large. They were identified as brothers Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi and are understood to be in their 30s.
Afp reported that a third man believed to be 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad surrendered close to the Belgian border.
“The cineastes of L’Arp learned with horror about the base attack on the newsroom of Charlie Hebdo and are devastated by this inexplicable act,” L’Arp said in a statement hours after the attack.
“They wish to express their full solidarity for the journalists and staff at Charlie...
French cinema industry guild L’Arp and its counterparts in the Us have condemned a terrorist attack on the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were shot dead by two armed gunmen. At least four people were critically wounded in the attack.
At time of writing early on Thursday morning local time two men remained at large. They were identified as brothers Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi and are understood to be in their 30s.
Afp reported that a third man believed to be 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad surrendered close to the Belgian border.
“The cineastes of L’Arp learned with horror about the base attack on the newsroom of Charlie Hebdo and are devastated by this inexplicable act,” L’Arp said in a statement hours after the attack.
“They wish to express their full solidarity for the journalists and staff at Charlie...
- 1/8/2015
- ScreenDaily
Top satirical cartoonists among 12 people shot dead in attack on French magazine.
French cinema industry guild L’Arp has condemned a terrorist attack on the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were shot dead by two armed gunmen. At least four people were critically wounded in the attack.
“The cineastes of L’Arp learned with horror about the base attack on the newsroom of Charlie Hebdo and are wiped out by this inexplicable act,” the body said in a statement, just hours after the attack.
“They wish to express their full solidarity for the journalists and staff at Charlie Hebdo as well as their relatives and colleagues.
“Their historic bravery honours creation and freedom. Nothing, no threat or violent act, whatever the motive, whether it be political, religious or otherwise, will hinder the freedom of expression and freedom of creation.”
Filmmaker Claude Lelouche is currently the honorary president of L’Arp with...
French cinema industry guild L’Arp has condemned a terrorist attack on the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were shot dead by two armed gunmen. At least four people were critically wounded in the attack.
“The cineastes of L’Arp learned with horror about the base attack on the newsroom of Charlie Hebdo and are wiped out by this inexplicable act,” the body said in a statement, just hours after the attack.
“They wish to express their full solidarity for the journalists and staff at Charlie Hebdo as well as their relatives and colleagues.
“Their historic bravery honours creation and freedom. Nothing, no threat or violent act, whatever the motive, whether it be political, religious or otherwise, will hinder the freedom of expression and freedom of creation.”
Filmmaker Claude Lelouche is currently the honorary president of L’Arp with...
- 1/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
Director re-imprisoned over the weekend in notorious Evin jail.
Concerns are growing for Iranian filmmaker and women’s rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi following reports she started a five-year jail sentence in Iran’s notorious Evin prison on the outskirts of Tehran last weekend.
The filmmaker was given a five-year prison sentence earlier this year on charges of being involved in “a plot against state security” and producing “propaganda against the government”.
She was first arrested in July 2011 on charges linked to her work with the Western media outlets such as the BBC, Al Jazeera, Radio France and Voice of America. She was imprisoned briefly before being placed under house arrest.
There has been no official statement on her incarceration in Evin but sources close to the filmmaker in Paris say she was taken into custody on June 7.
The French Directors Guild (Sfr) launched a petition on Thursday [June 12] calling for Mohammadi’s release.
“We are greatly...
Concerns are growing for Iranian filmmaker and women’s rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi following reports she started a five-year jail sentence in Iran’s notorious Evin prison on the outskirts of Tehran last weekend.
The filmmaker was given a five-year prison sentence earlier this year on charges of being involved in “a plot against state security” and producing “propaganda against the government”.
She was first arrested in July 2011 on charges linked to her work with the Western media outlets such as the BBC, Al Jazeera, Radio France and Voice of America. She was imprisoned briefly before being placed under house arrest.
There has been no official statement on her incarceration in Evin but sources close to the filmmaker in Paris say she was taken into custody on June 7.
The French Directors Guild (Sfr) launched a petition on Thursday [June 12] calling for Mohammadi’s release.
“We are greatly...
- 6/13/2014
- ScreenDaily
Director re-imprisoned over the weekend in notorious Evin jail.
Concerns are growing for Iranian filmmaker and women’s rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi following reports she started a five-year jail sentence in Iran’s notorious Evin prison on the outskirts of Tehran last weekend.
The filmmaker was given a five-year prison sentence earlier this year on charges of being involved in “a plot against state security” and producing “propaganda against the government”.
She was first arrested in July 2011 on charges linked to her work with the Western media outlets such as the BBC, Al Jazeera, Radio France and Voice of America. She was imprisoned briefly before being placed under house arrest.
There has been no official statement on her incarceration in Evin but sources close to the filmmaker in Paris say she was taken into custody on June 7.
The French Directors Guild (Sfr) launched a petition on Thursday [June 12] calling for Mohammadi’s release.
“We are greatly...
Concerns are growing for Iranian filmmaker and women’s rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi following reports she started a five-year jail sentence in Iran’s notorious Evin prison on the outskirts of Tehran last weekend.
The filmmaker was given a five-year prison sentence earlier this year on charges of being involved in “a plot against state security” and producing “propaganda against the government”.
She was first arrested in July 2011 on charges linked to her work with the Western media outlets such as the BBC, Al Jazeera, Radio France and Voice of America. She was imprisoned briefly before being placed under house arrest.
There has been no official statement on her incarceration in Evin but sources close to the filmmaker in Paris say she was taken into custody on June 7.
The French Directors Guild (Sfr) launched a petition on Thursday [June 12] calling for Mohammadi’s release.
“We are greatly...
- 6/13/2014
- ScreenDaily
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Scott Asheton (1949-2014) - Drummer for the Stooges. He appears with the band in the concert films Iggy & the Stooges: Live in Detroit and Search and Destroy: Iggy & the Stooges' Raw Power. He died on March 15. (THR) Jean-Louis Bertuccelli (1942-2014) - French filmmaker who directed his country's 1971 Oscar submission, Ramparts of Clay, as well as Doctor Francoise Gailland. His daughter is The Tree director Julie Bertuccelli. He died on...
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- 4/2/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
The full line up has been unveiled for the 7th edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Daniel Schechter’s Life Of Crime will open the 7th edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, which runs Oct 24- Nov 2.
13 Arab feature films (seven of which are world premieres) will compete across different sections of the festival, including Rani Massalha’s Giraffada and Nejib Belkhadi’s Bastardo in the New Horizons Competition, Ahmed Abdallah’s Rags And Tatters and Hicham Ayouch’s Fevers in the Narrative Feature Competition, and Sherief Elkatsha’s Cairo Drive and Mohammad Soueid’s The Boy From Aleppo in the Documentary Feature Competition.
Tobe Hooper’s UAE horror Djin will screen in the festival’s Showcase section.
Films competing in the Narrative Feature Competition include Jun Robles Lana’s Barber’s Tales, Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, Danis Tanovic’s An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker, Jasmila Zbanic’s [link...
Daniel Schechter’s Life Of Crime will open the 7th edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, which runs Oct 24- Nov 2.
13 Arab feature films (seven of which are world premieres) will compete across different sections of the festival, including Rani Massalha’s Giraffada and Nejib Belkhadi’s Bastardo in the New Horizons Competition, Ahmed Abdallah’s Rags And Tatters and Hicham Ayouch’s Fevers in the Narrative Feature Competition, and Sherief Elkatsha’s Cairo Drive and Mohammad Soueid’s The Boy From Aleppo in the Documentary Feature Competition.
Tobe Hooper’s UAE horror Djin will screen in the festival’s Showcase section.
Films competing in the Narrative Feature Competition include Jun Robles Lana’s Barber’s Tales, Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, Danis Tanovic’s An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker, Jasmila Zbanic’s [link...
- 10/1/2013
- by [email protected] (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
The full line up has been unveiled for the 7th edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Daniel Schechter’s Life Of Crime will open the 7th edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, which runs Oct 24- Nov 2.
13 Arab feature films (seven of which are world premieres) will compete across different sections of the festival, including Rani Massalha’s Giraffada and Nejib Belkhadi’s Bastardo in the New Horizons Competition, Ahmed Abdallah’s Rags And Tatters and Hicham Ayouch’s Fevers in the Narrative Feature Competition, and Sherief Elkatsha’s Cairo Drive and Mohammad Soueid’s The Boy From Aleppo in the Documentary Feature Competition.
Tobe Hooper’s UAE horror Djin will screen in the festival’s Showcase section.
Films competing in the Narrative Feature Competition include Jun Robles Lana’s Barber’s Tales, Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, Danis Tanovic’s An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker, Jasmila Zbanic’s [link...
Daniel Schechter’s Life Of Crime will open the 7th edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, which runs Oct 24- Nov 2.
13 Arab feature films (seven of which are world premieres) will compete across different sections of the festival, including Rani Massalha’s Giraffada and Nejib Belkhadi’s Bastardo in the New Horizons Competition, Ahmed Abdallah’s Rags And Tatters and Hicham Ayouch’s Fevers in the Narrative Feature Competition, and Sherief Elkatsha’s Cairo Drive and Mohammad Soueid’s The Boy From Aleppo in the Documentary Feature Competition.
Tobe Hooper’s UAE horror Djin will screen in the festival’s Showcase section.
Films competing in the Narrative Feature Competition include Jun Robles Lana’s Barber’s Tales, Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, Danis Tanovic’s An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker, Jasmila Zbanic’s [link...
- 10/1/2013
- by [email protected] (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
Two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (upcoming The Lone Ranger, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Michael Clayton) joins the thriller Felony opposite the previously cast male lead Joel Edgerton (upcoming Zero Dark Thirty, The Great Gatsby), it was announced by The Solution Entertainment Group.s (.The Solution.) founders and partners, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, and producers Rosemary Blight of Goalpost Pictures Australia and Edgerton for Blue-Tongue Films.
The feature film, set to start lensing in late October, will be directed by Matthew Saville (Noise) from a script by Edgerton.
The Solution arranged the financing for the film, with Wilson and Nestel serving as executive producers. The company is representing the international rights to the film and is actively selling the title at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival.
Felony will be distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Roadshow Films. CAA is handling Us rights.
Driving home after a celebration...
The feature film, set to start lensing in late October, will be directed by Matthew Saville (Noise) from a script by Edgerton.
The Solution arranged the financing for the film, with Wilson and Nestel serving as executive producers. The company is representing the international rights to the film and is actively selling the title at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival.
Felony will be distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Roadshow Films. CAA is handling Us rights.
Driving home after a celebration...
- 9/9/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
One of my favorite international sales agent is Memento. I wrote of them last year (See blog). Now they are representing the film of one of my favorite people in the biz, the hyphenate director-producer-writer who also was put into the role of casting director by Steve Soderbergh while casting Che.
Rodrigo (Rigo to his friends) Bellot began his career's path from his native Bolivia to U.S. with Sexual Dependency, produced by Ara Katz (Howard Zinn doc The People Speak and George Romero's Survival of the Dead).
Screen Daily recently announced Memento and Rigo's upcoming picture, We Are What We Are, a picture that actors Riley Keogh and Julia Garner will be sinking their teeth into as two sisters forced into cannibalism by their father. Read the article which is full of interesting tidbits, such as the factthat Riley Keough is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley and she has plenty of fat and juicy roles lined up already.
Memento Films International (Mfi) describes We Are What We Are as a "re-imagination" of Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s Somo Lo Que Hay (U.S. IFC) about a family of cannibals in Mexico City.
The director, Jim Mickle, best known for his cult vampire picture Stake Land which won Toronto’s Midnight Madness sidebar in 2010, has transposed the story to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State.
Principal photography will begin in the Catskills on May 29. The picture will wrap the first week of July with delivery slated for January of 2013, just in time for Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin.
Mfi has already presold the project at Berlin’s Efm to E1/ Artificial Eye for the U.K. , Canada, France, Scandinavia and South Africa. Cinema Mondo prebought the film for Finland; Koch Media and Alamode have German rights, Cinefil has Hungary, Canana has Mexico, Calinos has Turkey.
A real winner as is Memento itself and Rigo too!
Memento is a select arthouse company for high-profile, director-driven independent films. They choose only 8 projects a year and offer tailor–made synergies and business expertise through four companies; from production (Memento Films Production & La Cinefacture), International Sales (Memento Films International) to French distribution (Memento Films Distribution), according to the specific needs of each project. They have recently worked with renowned and award-winning filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Laurent Cantet, Emanuele Crialese, Hiner Saleem, Jia Zhang-ke, Ramin Bahrani, Gilles Marchand, Julie Bertuccelli, Aditya Assarat, Pawel Pawlikowski and Olivier Assayas.
Memento's young and dynamic team is devoted to promoting the projects with a maximum of commitment, rather than merely selling. Whether it is high-end arthouse fare with a medium-sized budget or cutting-edge low-budget projects from emerging talents, they value originality, whether narrative or the cinematographic vision of the director.
You can see Memento's Cannes lineup on Cinando. Look for them in Cannes at 25 la Croisette - Bagatelle. Or call them at 33 4 93 38 68 19.
Rodrigo (Rigo to his friends) Bellot began his career's path from his native Bolivia to U.S. with Sexual Dependency, produced by Ara Katz (Howard Zinn doc The People Speak and George Romero's Survival of the Dead).
Screen Daily recently announced Memento and Rigo's upcoming picture, We Are What We Are, a picture that actors Riley Keogh and Julia Garner will be sinking their teeth into as two sisters forced into cannibalism by their father. Read the article which is full of interesting tidbits, such as the factthat Riley Keough is the granddaughter of Elvis Presley and she has plenty of fat and juicy roles lined up already.
Memento Films International (Mfi) describes We Are What We Are as a "re-imagination" of Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s Somo Lo Que Hay (U.S. IFC) about a family of cannibals in Mexico City.
The director, Jim Mickle, best known for his cult vampire picture Stake Land which won Toronto’s Midnight Madness sidebar in 2010, has transposed the story to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State.
Principal photography will begin in the Catskills on May 29. The picture will wrap the first week of July with delivery slated for January of 2013, just in time for Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin.
Mfi has already presold the project at Berlin’s Efm to E1/ Artificial Eye for the U.K. , Canada, France, Scandinavia and South Africa. Cinema Mondo prebought the film for Finland; Koch Media and Alamode have German rights, Cinefil has Hungary, Canana has Mexico, Calinos has Turkey.
A real winner as is Memento itself and Rigo too!
Memento is a select arthouse company for high-profile, director-driven independent films. They choose only 8 projects a year and offer tailor–made synergies and business expertise through four companies; from production (Memento Films Production & La Cinefacture), International Sales (Memento Films International) to French distribution (Memento Films Distribution), according to the specific needs of each project. They have recently worked with renowned and award-winning filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Laurent Cantet, Emanuele Crialese, Hiner Saleem, Jia Zhang-ke, Ramin Bahrani, Gilles Marchand, Julie Bertuccelli, Aditya Assarat, Pawel Pawlikowski and Olivier Assayas.
Memento's young and dynamic team is devoted to promoting the projects with a maximum of commitment, rather than merely selling. Whether it is high-end arthouse fare with a medium-sized budget or cutting-edge low-budget projects from emerging talents, they value originality, whether narrative or the cinematographic vision of the director.
You can see Memento's Cannes lineup on Cinando. Look for them in Cannes at 25 la Croisette - Bagatelle. Or call them at 33 4 93 38 68 19.
- 5/3/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Reviewer: James van Maanen
Rating (out of five): *** 1/2
That anyone could steal the thunder out from under an actress as always-fine as Charlotte Gainsbourg is surprising enough; that it would be a small girl named Morgana Davies with but a single credit behind her (for a film unreleased anywhere but in Australia -- and given but a single star on its IMDb site!) is a further oddity.
Yet Davies, in only her second role, excels. The movie is called The Tree, and it is very much worth viewing. The film's director, Julie Bertuccelli (of the much-heralded Since Otar Left), either cast her film strikingly well (every actor is on-point here, including the expansive arboreal giant in the title role) or else she has been able to bring out a remarkable emotional range coupled to an acute intelligence from Gainsbourg’s young co-star. Probably both.
Rating (out of five): *** 1/2
That anyone could steal the thunder out from under an actress as always-fine as Charlotte Gainsbourg is surprising enough; that it would be a small girl named Morgana Davies with but a single credit behind her (for a film unreleased anywhere but in Australia -- and given but a single star on its IMDb site!) is a further oddity.
Yet Davies, in only her second role, excels. The movie is called The Tree, and it is very much worth viewing. The film's director, Julie Bertuccelli (of the much-heralded Since Otar Left), either cast her film strikingly well (every actor is on-point here, including the expansive arboreal giant in the title role) or else she has been able to bring out a remarkable emotional range coupled to an acute intelligence from Gainsbourg’s young co-star. Probably both.
- 11/15/2011
- by weezy
- GreenCine
Still from The Artist
The 2011 edition of Mumbai Film Festival can boast of a strong French connection. Not only does it include a strong line-up of French films in a special section, but it will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cannes Critics Week by presenting a retrospective of 25 films.
The special section called ‘Rendez-vous with French Cinema’ will be co-organized with the French Embassy in India and Unifrance. For those who remember, this is the fourth edition of the event in Mumbai which has been merged with the Mumbai Film Festival this year. The past three editions were held separately as film festivals. This section will bring to Mumbai some of the critically acclaimed contemporary French films which include The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius, The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Robert Guédiguian and Declaration of War by ValérieDonzelli.
The Artist which will open the section competed at the Cannes Film...
The 2011 edition of Mumbai Film Festival can boast of a strong French connection. Not only does it include a strong line-up of French films in a special section, but it will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cannes Critics Week by presenting a retrospective of 25 films.
The special section called ‘Rendez-vous with French Cinema’ will be co-organized with the French Embassy in India and Unifrance. For those who remember, this is the fourth edition of the event in Mumbai which has been merged with the Mumbai Film Festival this year. The past three editions were held separately as film festivals. This section will bring to Mumbai some of the critically acclaimed contemporary French films which include The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius, The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Robert Guédiguian and Declaration of War by ValérieDonzelli.
The Artist which will open the section competed at the Cannes Film...
- 10/10/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Release Date: Nov. 15,2011
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
Charlotte Gainsbourg gets mystical in The Tree.
The exquisite Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist) stars in Julie Bertuccelli’s (Since Otar Left) 2010 film The Tree, a mystical drama of loss and rebirth on the Australian countryside.
Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn (Gainsbourg) and her four young children struggle to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone (Morgana Davies) becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then the tree’s enormous roots slowly begin to encroach on the abode and threaten their fragile existence….
The movie looks to be in the same vein as such 1970s Australia-based classics as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Walkabout, wherein the gorgeous but harsh Australian Outback plays as a lyrical...
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
Charlotte Gainsbourg gets mystical in The Tree.
The exquisite Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist) stars in Julie Bertuccelli’s (Since Otar Left) 2010 film The Tree, a mystical drama of loss and rebirth on the Australian countryside.
Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn (Gainsbourg) and her four young children struggle to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone (Morgana Davies) becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then the tree’s enormous roots slowly begin to encroach on the abode and threaten their fragile existence….
The movie looks to be in the same vein as such 1970s Australia-based classics as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Walkabout, wherein the gorgeous but harsh Australian Outback plays as a lyrical...
- 8/16/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Seven years ago the French documentarist Julie Bertuccelli made Since Otar Left, an accomplished feature debut telling the unusual story of a middle-class Georgian family in impoverished post-Soviet Union Tbilisi, sustained by a sense of national and municipal pride and a love of all things French. It's a household of widows, the only man being a doctor forced to work as an illegal labourer in Paris to support the family. When he's killed on a building site, two of them conceal the news from his mother, a deception not easily sustained when they all make a trip to Paris. Bertuccelli has followed up this touching, wryly humorous picture with the singularly disappointing The Tree, about a French widow, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg), raising four children in the Australian outback after the sudden death of her husband.
The bizarre reason for making it is that, having failed to get the rights to...
The bizarre reason for making it is that, having failed to get the rights to...
- 8/6/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Super 8 (12A)
(Jj Abrams, 2011, Us) Riley Griffiths, Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler. 112 mins
With Steven Spielberg producing, neo-sci-fi superstar Jj Abrams harks back to the kid-friendly action fantasies of the 80s (Et, The Goonies) while adding a few modern monster-movie scares of his own. The two genres don't always sit well together, and the retro lens flare becomes wearing, but Super 8 has character and charm, especially in the three young leads, whose plans to make a super-8 zombie movie are scuppered by the arrival of a dangerous creature.
French Cancan (PG)
(Jean Renoir, 1954, Fr) Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Maria Félix. 104 mins
Digital restoration of Renoir's salute to the swinging, sensual Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec et al. Gabin stars as the ambitious entrepreneur whose plan to spice up his new nightclub, the Moulin Rouge, with dancing girls creates a new star, a new craze and a love triangle.
Knuckle (15)
(Ian Palmer,...
(Jj Abrams, 2011, Us) Riley Griffiths, Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler. 112 mins
With Steven Spielberg producing, neo-sci-fi superstar Jj Abrams harks back to the kid-friendly action fantasies of the 80s (Et, The Goonies) while adding a few modern monster-movie scares of his own. The two genres don't always sit well together, and the retro lens flare becomes wearing, but Super 8 has character and charm, especially in the three young leads, whose plans to make a super-8 zombie movie are scuppered by the arrival of a dangerous creature.
French Cancan (PG)
(Jean Renoir, 1954, Fr) Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Maria Félix. 104 mins
Digital restoration of Renoir's salute to the swinging, sensual Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec et al. Gabin stars as the ambitious entrepreneur whose plan to spice up his new nightclub, the Moulin Rouge, with dancing girls creates a new star, a new craze and a love triangle.
Knuckle (15)
(Ian Palmer,...
- 8/5/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Famous as much for her parents, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, as her acting, the French film star is raddled with self-criticism and doubt
A pregnant Charlotte Gainsbourg runs her fingers across her bump, which is encased in cashmere and discreetly wedged behind the table of a Paris hotel bar. She is trying to work out what her children might hate her for. Because to her, France's most self-critical film star, it is obvious that they will hate her for something. "You always have so much to reproach your parents for," she muses. "It's normal. I can see already what my kids will have to blame me for. I prefer to anticipate the bad side rather than get a slap in the face later."
Gainsbourg, 40, is fascinated by bad parents. "I like bad mothers," she declares. What she means is she likes playing parental incompetents – hapless drifters or neglectful control-freaks...
A pregnant Charlotte Gainsbourg runs her fingers across her bump, which is encased in cashmere and discreetly wedged behind the table of a Paris hotel bar. She is trying to work out what her children might hate her for. Because to her, France's most self-critical film star, it is obvious that they will hate her for something. "You always have so much to reproach your parents for," she muses. "It's normal. I can see already what my kids will have to blame me for. I prefer to anticipate the bad side rather than get a slap in the face later."
Gainsbourg, 40, is fascinated by bad parents. "I like bad mothers," she declares. What she means is she likes playing parental incompetents – hapless drifters or neglectful control-freaks...
- 8/5/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Julie Bertuccelli's film is an outrageously twee, spiritual and supercilious drama, set in Australia, about family and grief
Some critics, with a droll nod to Terrence Malick, have nicknamed this "The Tree of Death". It is from Julie Bertuccelli, the former documentary-maker whose fiction feature debut Since Otar Left, in 2003, was a triple-deckered study of three generations of women. This is her first film since then and it is an outrageously twee, spiritual and supercilious drama, set in Australia, about family and grief. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays Dawn, a woman who lives with her husband and children in remote Queensland. When her man dies of a heart attack, driving his car into a big tree on their property, their youngest daughter takes it into her head that his spirit has gone to live in this tree. Dawn finds herself believing it too. As the tree threatens to damage the house with its gnarly roots,...
Some critics, with a droll nod to Terrence Malick, have nicknamed this "The Tree of Death". It is from Julie Bertuccelli, the former documentary-maker whose fiction feature debut Since Otar Left, in 2003, was a triple-deckered study of three generations of women. This is her first film since then and it is an outrageously twee, spiritual and supercilious drama, set in Australia, about family and grief. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays Dawn, a woman who lives with her husband and children in remote Queensland. When her man dies of a heart attack, driving his car into a big tree on their property, their youngest daughter takes it into her head that his spirit has gone to live in this tree. Dawn finds herself believing it too. As the tree threatens to damage the house with its gnarly roots,...
- 8/4/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Tree
Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies, Marton Csokas | Written and Directed by Julie Bertuccelli
One Day, One Life, Life in a Day, A Better Life, The Tree of Life and now, simply The Tree. That’s a whole load of movies released over a short space of time with pretty similar titles. Is anyone else getting confused?
The Tree is a quiet Australian drama that invokes many of the same themes and ideas as The Tree of Life (a death in the family, man versus nature, etc) but is told in a way that many may find more accessible – ie, less whispered mumbo jumbo and fewer dinosaurs (though I liked the dinosaurs in Tree of Life. I mean come on – dinosaurs!).
For the record, I liked The Tree of Life and I also kind of like this film. It focuses on a family in the wake of the father (Aden Young)’s death.
Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies, Marton Csokas | Written and Directed by Julie Bertuccelli
One Day, One Life, Life in a Day, A Better Life, The Tree of Life and now, simply The Tree. That’s a whole load of movies released over a short space of time with pretty similar titles. Is anyone else getting confused?
The Tree is a quiet Australian drama that invokes many of the same themes and ideas as The Tree of Life (a death in the family, man versus nature, etc) but is told in a way that many may find more accessible – ie, less whispered mumbo jumbo and fewer dinosaurs (though I liked the dinosaurs in Tree of Life. I mean come on – dinosaurs!).
For the record, I liked The Tree of Life and I also kind of like this film. It focuses on a family in the wake of the father (Aden Young)’s death.
- 7/31/2011
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Everett Charlotte Gainsbourg in “The Tree”
Director Julie Bertuccelli slips an off-hand reference to her native France among the stark Australian landscapes that populate her new film, “The Tree.”
Dawn, her lead female character played by French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, is the child of a French father and an English mother. The simple and almost throwaway plot point gives Gainsbourg an excuse to sound slightly less than Australian, and gives Bertuccelli the chance to explore ties to her homeland as...
Director Julie Bertuccelli slips an off-hand reference to her native France among the stark Australian landscapes that populate her new film, “The Tree.”
Dawn, her lead female character played by French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, is the child of a French father and an English mother. The simple and almost throwaway plot point gives Gainsbourg an excuse to sound slightly less than Australian, and gives Bertuccelli the chance to explore ties to her homeland as...
- 7/17/2011
- by Nick Andersen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Julie Bertuccelli’s The Tree considers the point at which mourning the loss of a loved one crosses the line from respecting the person’s legacy to something unhealthier. Based on a novel by Judy Pascoe (via a script by Elizabeth J. Mars), The Tree stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as a rural Australian mother of four, struggling to get on with her life after her husband suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack. Gainsbourg grieves hard at first, but gradually begins to adjust, even starting a love affair with her new boss, a plumber played by Marton Csokas. Meanwhile, Gainsbourg’s eight-year-old ...
- 7/14/2011
- avclub.com
Overall, Julie Bertucelli's The Tree is an interesting film that explores our relation with nature. Unfortunately, the film is too badly paced.
Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) lives with her four children in the Australian countryside. She must face the sudden death of her husband (Aden Young). However, Simone (Morgana Davies), Dawn's 8-year-old daughter, believes that her father lives again as the huge fig tree growing in the garden.
The whole family comes to believe that. However, some of the tree's branches fell over the house and its growing roots threaten the water pipes. When George, the new man Dawn sees, suggests the O'Neils to have the tree cut down, Simone won't allow it. This is because she's been talking to her father through that tree.
Julie Bertucelli's directorial skills gives the film a good momentum. Her depiction of the O'Neils' daily life after the death of the father allows the cast to deliver a nice performance.
Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) lives with her four children in the Australian countryside. She must face the sudden death of her husband (Aden Young). However, Simone (Morgana Davies), Dawn's 8-year-old daughter, believes that her father lives again as the huge fig tree growing in the garden.
The whole family comes to believe that. However, some of the tree's branches fell over the house and its growing roots threaten the water pipes. When George, the new man Dawn sees, suggests the O'Neils to have the tree cut down, Simone won't allow it. This is because she's been talking to her father through that tree.
Julie Bertucelli's directorial skills gives the film a good momentum. Her depiction of the O'Neils' daily life after the death of the father allows the cast to deliver a nice performance.
- 7/7/2011
- by [email protected] (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Thanks to Métropole Films, Sound On Sight is giving away five double passes to the advanced screening of Julie Bertuccelli’s critically L’Arbre (The Tree). The screening will also be held at our favourite theatre, Cinema Parallèle on July 6th at 7.30Pm. To enter to win, simply email Ricky at
[email protected] with the subject heading “L’Arbre” and let us know what your favourite French film is.
We had the chance to catch the film at last year’s Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, and we were all fans. Our very own Justine Smith wrote in her review that it was a “fine showcase for some great performances”.
Here is the official plot synopsis for the film:
In Australia, Dawn and Peter live happily with their four children in the shade of giant fig tree. When Peter dies suddenly, everyone reacts in its own way. Simone, the 8 years old daughter,...
[email protected] with the subject heading “L’Arbre” and let us know what your favourite French film is.
We had the chance to catch the film at last year’s Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, and we were all fans. Our very own Justine Smith wrote in her review that it was a “fine showcase for some great performances”.
Here is the official plot synopsis for the film:
In Australia, Dawn and Peter live happily with their four children in the shade of giant fig tree. When Peter dies suddenly, everyone reacts in its own way. Simone, the 8 years old daughter,...
- 6/27/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Critics' Week has already begun celebrating its 50th anniversary by posting 50 video interviews with directors and actors who've seen their work debut in this section at Cannes. We're celebrating, too. In association with the 4+1 Film Festival, Mubi is presenting a retrospective of some of the greatest films first seen in Critics' Week over the past half-century. And even though the first 1000 views of each of the films will be free to you, the viewer, the rights holders will carry on receiving their duly earned revenue.
The retrospective encompasses over 100 titles in all, but please do keep in mind that rights issues can get complicated and not every film can be available in every country. That said, here's a quick overview of just some of the highlights:
Over in the Garage, a La Semaine Blogathon is already on the roll, starting with Kj Farrington's entry on Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know,...
The retrospective encompasses over 100 titles in all, but please do keep in mind that rights issues can get complicated and not every film can be available in every country. That said, here's a quick overview of just some of the highlights:
Over in the Garage, a La Semaine Blogathon is already on the roll, starting with Kj Farrington's entry on Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know,...
- 5/14/2011
- MUBI
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