Lina El Arabi, the emerging French actor of the Cesar-nominated “A Wedding,” is set to headline “The Malediction” (“Leana”), a horror-thriller which will mark the feature debut of Abel Danan.
The film is being produced by Leo Maidenberg, whose credits include “Sisters in Arms” and “The Bunker Game.” Xavier Gens, the producer of Mounia Meddour’s Cesar-winning film “Papicha,” is co-producing. Gens is also a director specialised in genre films with a track record including “Frontiere (s).” El Arabi was featured as a rising star at Toronto in 2017.
Penned by Danan and Emma Lacoste, “The Malediction” takes place today, in a world that is slowly recovering from a mysterious epidemic. The movie is set in Paris and follows Yara, a 25 year-old young Moroccan woman who came to study in Paris and has not left her home for several months, as she is agoraphobic since childhood because of terrible family events.
The film is being produced by Leo Maidenberg, whose credits include “Sisters in Arms” and “The Bunker Game.” Xavier Gens, the producer of Mounia Meddour’s Cesar-winning film “Papicha,” is co-producing. Gens is also a director specialised in genre films with a track record including “Frontiere (s).” El Arabi was featured as a rising star at Toronto in 2017.
Penned by Danan and Emma Lacoste, “The Malediction” takes place today, in a world that is slowly recovering from a mysterious epidemic. The movie is set in Paris and follows Yara, a 25 year-old young Moroccan woman who came to study in Paris and has not left her home for several months, as she is agoraphobic since childhood because of terrible family events.
- 7/12/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Family disputes and conspiracies take center stage in “The Other Story,” veteran helmer Avi Nesher’s lively drama exploring a hot button issue: the divide between Israel’s secular Jews and the ultra-Orthodox. The fluid narrative plays out against the backdrop of a Jerusalem riven by multiple conflicts as two dysfunctional families separately arrive at an understanding of what is important in life and are ultimately able to dial back their desire to deal in inflexible absolutes. Like Nesher’s other features of the past decade this smartly cast and smoothly directed drama involves an investigation. It’s a neat script ploy that allows loyalties to shift, revelations to surface and hidden agendas to appear, while keeping the action pacey and the audience guessing. After breaking box office records in Israel, Nesher’s entertaining 18th film will start its theatrical rollout on both coasts through Strand Releasing.
Actually, “The Other Story” boasts multiple investigations.
Actually, “The Other Story” boasts multiple investigations.
- 6/24/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Production is underway in Jerusalem on Israeli director’s latest feature.
Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher is currently shooting his new feature Pilgrim in Jerusalem, and Screen can reveal the first look from the production.
The film revolves around a once brilliant but now disillusioned and penniless psychologist, Jonathan Kedem (Yuval Segal), who is called back to Israel from the Us by his ex-wife (Maya Dagan) to dissuade estranged daughter Anat (Joy Rieger) from marrying into the ultra-orthodox community.
With Anat’s rejection of secular values driving a potential wedge with her family, Jonathan’s journey plunges him into Jerusalem’s “cauldron of competing faiths and passions”. Little does the disillusioned, psychologist realize that this pilgrimage will offer him a rare chance for redemption.
Pilgrim’s shoot has taken Nesher all over Jerusalem, from the religious neighbourhood of Givat Modechai to an East Jerusalem neighbourhood running alongside the separation wall.
Describing the latter...
Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher is currently shooting his new feature Pilgrim in Jerusalem, and Screen can reveal the first look from the production.
The film revolves around a once brilliant but now disillusioned and penniless psychologist, Jonathan Kedem (Yuval Segal), who is called back to Israel from the Us by his ex-wife (Maya Dagan) to dissuade estranged daughter Anat (Joy Rieger) from marrying into the ultra-orthodox community.
With Anat’s rejection of secular values driving a potential wedge with her family, Jonathan’s journey plunges him into Jerusalem’s “cauldron of competing faiths and passions”. Little does the disillusioned, psychologist realize that this pilgrimage will offer him a rare chance for redemption.
Pilgrim’s shoot has taken Nesher all over Jerusalem, from the religious neighbourhood of Givat Modechai to an East Jerusalem neighbourhood running alongside the separation wall.
Describing the latter...
- 7/14/2017
- ScreenDaily
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi and French actor Ludivine Sagnier are among the four names on this year's jury for the Un Certain Regard sidebar in Cannes. Presided over by Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg, Sagnier and Ziyi are joined by Rio Film Festival director Ilda Santiago and Spanish producer, distributor and exhibition player Enrique Gonzalez Macho. Festival de Cannes organizers also announced April 30 this year's Camera d'or jury, which will be led by French director Agnes Varda. Joining Varda is Spanish director Isabelle Coixet, French helmer Regis Wargnier, Chloe Rolland (Syndicat de la Critique), Michel Abramowicz (Afc), Eric Guirado (Srf)
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- 4/30/2013
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Blu-Ray Review
Taken
Directed by: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Running Time: 1 hr, 31 mins
Rating: PG-13
Due out: May 12, 2009
Plot: A man (Neeson) revives his past-life skills as an assassin when his daughter (Grace) is kidnapped in Europe.
Who’s It For? If you love action films, you’ve probably seen Taken. But anyone who wants to add a little excitement to their life should consider renting this.
Movie: Could we ever have expected Neeson to be such a natural butt kicker? Here he fits like a glove (that’s covered in a lot of blood, probably) in the role of indifferent killing machine. Co-writer Luc Besson has another bullet bonanza (like his The Professional) that touches action fans in the dustiest corners of our hearts. Even the cheesy plot bookends to the action are forgivable, considering the blast that awaits around the corner (whined about...
Taken
Directed by: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Running Time: 1 hr, 31 mins
Rating: PG-13
Due out: May 12, 2009
Plot: A man (Neeson) revives his past-life skills as an assassin when his daughter (Grace) is kidnapped in Europe.
Who’s It For? If you love action films, you’ve probably seen Taken. But anyone who wants to add a little excitement to their life should consider renting this.
Movie: Could we ever have expected Neeson to be such a natural butt kicker? Here he fits like a glove (that’s covered in a lot of blood, probably) in the role of indifferent killing machine. Co-writer Luc Besson has another bullet bonanza (like his The Professional) that touches action fans in the dustiest corners of our hearts. Even the cheesy plot bookends to the action are forgivable, considering the blast that awaits around the corner (whined about...
- 5/19/2009
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
How far would you go to save a loved one? What would you do? Who would you kill? Asking these questions, Taken originally opened in Europe before its Us release; Parisian crowds were ecstatic for the brutal vision of director Pierre Morel and writer Luc Besson. But American audiences didn’t get to share in that vision. What came to American theaters was a limping watered down version of the film – consequently, critical and audience reception suffered. The Blu-ray release of Taken rectifies the theatrical mistake and gives audiences the choice between more or less brutality.
Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has played the role of absentee father in the life of his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) thanks in large part to his career in the secret service. Working as a freelance security specialist, his contact with Kim has been reduced to that of the stricter, over-protective father who finds himself...
Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has played the role of absentee father in the life of his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) thanks in large part to his career in the secret service. Working as a freelance security specialist, his contact with Kim has been reduced to that of the stricter, over-protective father who finds himself...
- 5/18/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Taken, starring Liam Neeson, captivated audiences earlier this year to the tune of over $140 million in domestic box office sales. In a short period of time, you can own the thriller with one of three different versions. The film will be released on May 12, 2009 on Blu-ray Disc, 2-Disc Extended Cut Special Edition and the Single-Disc Extended Cut Version. Special Features Per Version: Blu-Ray Disc The Taken Extended Cut Blu-ray Disc (Bd) is presented in widescreen format (2.40:01) with English 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound and Spanish/French Dolby Surround with English, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include: Disc One *Extended Cut seamlessly branched with Audio commentary with Director Pierre Morel, Writer Robert Mark Kamen, and Cinematographers Michel Abramowicz and Michel Julienne *Exclusive Le “Making Of” featurette *Inside Action: Side by Side Comparisons of: •Peter Dies •Bryan Escapes Construction Site •Good Luck •The Interrogation •Bryan at Saint Clair’s •Boat Fight *Black Ops...
- 4/18/2009
- by Link
- BuzzFocus.com
Release Date: Jan. 30
Director: Pierre Morel
Writer: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Cinematographer: Michel Abramowicz
Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Xander Berkeley, Holly Valance
Studio/Run Time: Twentieth Century-Fox, 93 mins.
Taken doesn’t have a plot so much as it does a premise. Liam Neeson plays a retired spy trying to patch up a shaky history with his daughter. When she flies off to Paris, which for some reason needs his approval even though he’s in no way her legal guardian, he receives a call that she and her friend have been kidnapped. Neeson gets on the next plane and spends the next two thirds of the movie in one long pursuit to find his daughter before she’s forced into prostitution. There are certainly a few nuances in the characters and their relationship, almost all of which occur in the film’s first act, but...
Director: Pierre Morel
Writer: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Cinematographer: Michel Abramowicz
Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Xander Berkeley, Holly Valance
Studio/Run Time: Twentieth Century-Fox, 93 mins.
Taken doesn’t have a plot so much as it does a premise. Liam Neeson plays a retired spy trying to patch up a shaky history with his daughter. When she flies off to Paris, which for some reason needs his approval even though he’s in no way her legal guardian, he receives a call that she and her friend have been kidnapped. Neeson gets on the next plane and spends the next two thirds of the movie in one long pursuit to find his daughter before she’s forced into prostitution. There are certainly a few nuances in the characters and their relationship, almost all of which occur in the film’s first act, but...
- 2/2/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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