Film fans have been enchanted by cinema small towns like Bedford Falls in It’S A Wonderful Life ( and of course TV fans will always adore the charms of The Andy Griffith Show’s Mayberry ) for many years. Well, let’s hop across the pond and spend some time in a mellow little village over in France. This is the setting of a sweet little love story called My Afternoons With Margueritte that begins with a chance encounter between two villagers with very little in common, but who soon are able to fill a void in each other’s lives.
We first meet the younger, male half of the duo during the film’s opening titles. Chazes Germain ( Gerard Depaedieu ) is a middle aged, lumbering, good natured jack-of-all-trades known to most everyone in the little town. He frequently hangs out at a local tavern ( you almost expect them to yell...
We first meet the younger, male half of the duo during the film’s opening titles. Chazes Germain ( Gerard Depaedieu ) is a middle aged, lumbering, good natured jack-of-all-trades known to most everyone in the little town. He frequently hangs out at a local tavern ( you almost expect them to yell...
- 10/14/2011
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – In our special French film festival edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the Chicago showing of the film “The Hedgehog” at the closing night of the Music Box Theatre’s Chicago French Film Festival! “The Hedgehog” star Josiane Balasko will be at this showing in person!
The film’s original title is “Le hérisson”. “The Hedgehog” stars Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride, Wladimir Yordanoff, Sarah Lepicard, Jean-Luc Porraz and Gisèle Casadesus from writer and director Mona Achache based on the novel by Muriel Barbery.
To win your free pass to the closing-night Chicago showing of “The Hedgehog” at the Chicago French Film Festival courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This showing is on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Directions to enter this...
The film’s original title is “Le hérisson”. “The Hedgehog” stars Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet, Ariane Ascaride, Wladimir Yordanoff, Sarah Lepicard, Jean-Luc Porraz and Gisèle Casadesus from writer and director Mona Achache based on the novel by Muriel Barbery.
To win your free pass to the closing-night Chicago showing of “The Hedgehog” at the Chicago French Film Festival courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This showing is on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Directions to enter this...
- 7/21/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Weinstein Company has debuted the official trailer and poster for “Sarah’s Key,” based on the bestselling novel written by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Synopsis: Sarah’s Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down.
In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah’s family was forced to leave is about to become her own.
Synopsis: Sarah’s Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down.
In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah’s family was forced to leave is about to become her own.
- 6/7/2011
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 6/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 6/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 6/7/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Despite my confused conviction that this had been released already (after checking, it was indeed released in the UK a couple of months ago), ComingSoon.net has its hands on the new trailer for Jean Becker’s My Afternoons with Margueritte.
The film centres on the relationship between Gérard Depardieu‘s 50-year-old Germain – a near illiterate man who is considered by many to be the village idiot – and Margueritte, an elderly novelist played by Gisèle Casadesus, who Germain finds serendipitously reading extracts of her novel in the park one day. As their friendship blossoms, their frequent meetings on their favourite park bench promise acceptance and tutelage for Germain, and a deep connection for his unassuming muse.
Keep an eye out for My Afternoons with Margueritte when it is scheduled for release this June.
The film centres on the relationship between Gérard Depardieu‘s 50-year-old Germain – a near illiterate man who is considered by many to be the village idiot – and Margueritte, an elderly novelist played by Gisèle Casadesus, who Germain finds serendipitously reading extracts of her novel in the park one day. As their friendship blossoms, their frequent meetings on their favourite park bench promise acceptance and tutelage for Germain, and a deep connection for his unassuming muse.
Keep an eye out for My Afternoons with Margueritte when it is scheduled for release this June.
- 4/5/2011
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Icon sent us passes to the heartwarming French film My Afternoons with Marguerite.
It’s the story of one of those improbable encounters that can change the course of one’s life: the encounter, in a small public garden, between Germain (Gerard Depardieu), fifty and barely literate, and Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus), a little old lady passionate about reading.
Forty years and 220 pounds separate them. One day, purely by chance, Germain sits down beside Margueritte. She’ll go on to read aloud extracts from novels and thereby allow him to discover the magic of books, from which Germain imagined he was excluded for life. Until then, his family circle and drinking buddies took him for an idiot; stupidity will now change places! But Margueritte is losing her sight. For the love of this charming, mischievous and caring grandmother, Germain will teach himself and show her that he’s capable of reading...
It’s the story of one of those improbable encounters that can change the course of one’s life: the encounter, in a small public garden, between Germain (Gerard Depardieu), fifty and barely literate, and Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus), a little old lady passionate about reading.
Forty years and 220 pounds separate them. One day, purely by chance, Germain sits down beside Margueritte. She’ll go on to read aloud extracts from novels and thereby allow him to discover the magic of books, from which Germain imagined he was excluded for life. Until then, his family circle and drinking buddies took him for an idiot; stupidity will now change places! But Margueritte is losing her sight. For the love of this charming, mischievous and caring grandmother, Germain will teach himself and show her that he’s capable of reading...
- 4/5/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
ComingSoon.net has your first look at the new trailer for My Afternoons with Margueritte , starring Gérard Depardieu and Gisèle Casadesus. The film, directed by Jean Becker, opens in theaters this June. My Afternoons with Margueritte is the story of life's random encounters. In a small French town, Germain, a nearly illiterate man in his 50's and considered to be the village idiot by his friends at the local bistro, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to sit beside Margueritte, a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. She's articulate, highly intelligent and frail. Between Germain and Margueritte, there are 40 years and 200 pounds difference. Germain is lured by Margueritte's passion for life and the magic of literature from which he has always felt...
- 4/1/2011
- Comingsoon.net
I bet you missed me! Don’t worry… I’ll make it up to you! Here is a look at Sarah’S Key, a film based on the bestselling French Novel by Tatiana De Rosnay. Sarah’S Key stars Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient,Nowhere Boy, Confessions Of A Shopaholic, The Other Boleyn Girl) , Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn, and Natasha Mashkevich, and is scheduled for limited release on July 22.
Synopsis:
Paris, July 1942:
Ten-year-old Sarah is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard . their secret hiding place . and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarah.s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond,...
Synopsis:
Paris, July 1942:
Ten-year-old Sarah is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard . their secret hiding place . and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarah.s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond,...
- 3/10/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Rohmeresque English title seems to be offering a cross between Love in the Afternoon and My Night With Maud, but the French title, La tête en friche, means something like "the fallow mind", and refers to the middle-aged odd-jobman Germain (Gérard Depardieu), who strikes up an acquaintance in the square of a small French town with the 95-year-old Marguerite (the nonogenarian Gisèle Casadesus), a former international civil servant. A bloated giant in dungarees, more hulk than hunk, with low self-esteem and barely literate, he looks as if he could anchor a zeppelin. She's articulate, highly intelligent, frail, and looks as if a sharp breeze could send her floating away. Touchingly, their growing friendship centres on books and words – Marguerite's subtle love of them, Germain's inquiring wonder about them – and the first text is Camus's La Peste, which she reads to him. Gradually, if somewhat factitiously, his life is transformed through the experience,...
- 11/14/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
We Are What We Are (15)
(Jorge Michel Grau, 2010, Mexico) Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato. 90 mins
Vampires are so last season, so bring on the cannibals! Why get a shake when you can have a whole Happy Meal? The cannibal lifestyle is by no means glamourised here, but if there is a revival, this could be its Let The Right One In - a downbeat, realist horror in which a father's death forces his flesh-eating family to fend for themselves. We're in for nasty gore and a grimy wallow in Mexico's underclass, but despite a frustrating lack of detail, the setting is ripe for socio-political metaphors and inappropriate comedy.
brilliantlove (18)
(Ashley Horner, 2009, UK) 97 mins
You can tell by that lower-case title how envolope-pushingly edgy this wants to be. And sure enough there's strong sex and hipster protagonists named Manchester and Noon. At heart, though, it's a natural, unashamed...
(Jorge Michel Grau, 2010, Mexico) Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez, Paulina Gaitán, Carmen Beato. 90 mins
Vampires are so last season, so bring on the cannibals! Why get a shake when you can have a whole Happy Meal? The cannibal lifestyle is by no means glamourised here, but if there is a revival, this could be its Let The Right One In - a downbeat, realist horror in which a father's death forces his flesh-eating family to fend for themselves. We're in for nasty gore and a grimy wallow in Mexico's underclass, but despite a frustrating lack of detail, the setting is ripe for socio-political metaphors and inappropriate comedy.
brilliantlove (18)
(Ashley Horner, 2009, UK) 97 mins
You can tell by that lower-case title how envolope-pushingly edgy this wants to be. And sure enough there's strong sex and hipster protagonists named Manchester and Noon. At heart, though, it's a natural, unashamed...
- 11/13/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Gérard Depardieu leaves a trail of saccharine behind him in this sickly tale of friendship between a smalltown chump and an old lady, writes Peter Bradshaw
You really will need a sweet tooth for this one. Or rather, you will need a complete set of dentures made out of Mars Bars and Creme Eggs. It is a glutinously sentimental small-town tale about a supposedly lovable dungaree-wearing chump called Germain, played by Gérard Depardieu. Royally messed up in childhood by a cruel mum and derided by oafish mates at the local bistro, he finds friendship with a sweet-natured old lady in the park, played by veteran Gisèle Casadesus. That's not to say he is entirely missing out on life, oh dear me no: the extremely portly, jowly Germain just happens to be enjoying regular sex with a (mystifyingly) devoted girlfriend, played by 32-year-old Sophie Guillemin, one of French cinema's most attractive...
You really will need a sweet tooth for this one. Or rather, you will need a complete set of dentures made out of Mars Bars and Creme Eggs. It is a glutinously sentimental small-town tale about a supposedly lovable dungaree-wearing chump called Germain, played by Gérard Depardieu. Royally messed up in childhood by a cruel mum and derided by oafish mates at the local bistro, he finds friendship with a sweet-natured old lady in the park, played by veteran Gisèle Casadesus. That's not to say he is entirely missing out on life, oh dear me no: the extremely portly, jowly Germain just happens to be enjoying regular sex with a (mystifyingly) devoted girlfriend, played by 32-year-old Sophie Guillemin, one of French cinema's most attractive...
- 11/11/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The new kid on the distribution block appears to be specializing in adult-minded films from France. After grabbing Cannes Competition title Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law, Cohen Media Group (Cmg) have picked up Jean Becker’s My Afternoons with Marguerite (La Tête en Friche) for a theatrical play sometime next year. Based on Marie-Sabine Roger’s book of the same title, the film centres on a man who lives simply in a caravan at the bottom of his mother’s garden until he meets an old lady (Gisèle Casadesus) who helps him see that he can take control of his life. Casadesus whose been in film since 1934, will next be seen in the Weinstein Co. pick-up Elle s'appelait Sarah from Gilles Paquet-Brenner starring Kristin Scott Thomas.
- 10/19/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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