Exclusive: Comedy marks directorial debut of veteran producer.
Paris-based Other Angle has boarded sales on dramatic comedy Chouquette, the directorial debut of veteran producer Patrick Godeau who is in Cannes this year with Un Certain Regard opener Barbara.
“I’ve wanted to direct a film since I was 14-years-old but ended up working in every other aspect of cinema,” explains veteran producer Godeau, whose recent credits also include Camping 3 and The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun.
“I’m the sort of producer who likes to develop a project from scratch, bringing in the various elements of screen-writer and director myself… I was in the middle of following the same process for Chouquette when my partner said, ‘Why don’t you direct it yourself?’” he said.
Loosely adapted from a novel by Emilie Freche, transposed from the south of France to Northern Brittany, Chouquette stars Sabine Azéma as a 60-something woman living alone in...
Paris-based Other Angle has boarded sales on dramatic comedy Chouquette, the directorial debut of veteran producer Patrick Godeau who is in Cannes this year with Un Certain Regard opener Barbara.
“I’ve wanted to direct a film since I was 14-years-old but ended up working in every other aspect of cinema,” explains veteran producer Godeau, whose recent credits also include Camping 3 and The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun.
“I’m the sort of producer who likes to develop a project from scratch, bringing in the various elements of screen-writer and director myself… I was in the middle of following the same process for Chouquette when my partner said, ‘Why don’t you direct it yourself?’” he said.
Loosely adapted from a novel by Emilie Freche, transposed from the south of France to Northern Brittany, Chouquette stars Sabine Azéma as a 60-something woman living alone in...
- 5/18/2017
- ScreenDaily
Not losing sight of his directorial ambitions, Mathieu Amalric has set his next behind-the-camera effort — and it already sounds like his most fascinating to date. According to Le Figaro (via Richard Brody), he’ll helm and lead Barbara, a biopic-of-sorts of French singer Monique Serf — also known as, well, Barbara — that breaks apart standard approaches to the genre. Consider this the Irma Vep mold, if early word is accurate: Amalric will play a director hoping to make a biopic about Barbara, while Jeanne Balibar is to co-star as the actress leading the film-within-the-film. Per producer Patrick Godeau, it will thus “retain its freedom and impose a point of view.”
Meanwhile, Deadline has learned that Joe Wright will recover himself post-Pan with something that seems a bit more in his wheelhouse. I speak, obviously, of a film concerning Winston Churchill, which Working Title and screenwriter-producer Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything...
Meanwhile, Deadline has learned that Joe Wright will recover himself post-Pan with something that seems a bit more in his wheelhouse. I speak, obviously, of a film concerning Winston Churchill, which Working Title and screenwriter-producer Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything...
- 3/30/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Isabelle Carre ("A French Gigolo"), Marina Hands ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") and James Thierree ("Twice Upon a Time") will star in Claude Miller's "Voyez comme ils dansent" (Watch While They Dance) a drama loosely based on Roy Parvin's short story "Menno's Granddaughter."The film follows a woman who travels from Paris to a small town in Canada, where her ex-husband has just died.After falling ill she has to seek help from her ex's widow, the woman he left her for, and they develop an uneasy friendship.According to Variety, Patrick Godeau will produce through his Paris-based Aliceleo production company. Filming will take place in France and Canada late this year or early 2010.
- 7/2/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
- A trio of actors in Isabelle Carre (Anna M.), Marina Hands (Lady Chatterley) and James Thierree (Vatel) have scored a top-lining acting gig in Claude Miller's next feature which will be filmed on both sides of the Atlantic. The production to be set up for sometime in 2010 is titled Voyez comme ils dansent (Watch While They Dance) and is loosely based on Roy Parvin's short story "Menno's Granddaughter", this follows a woman who travels from Paris to a small town in Canada, where her ex-husband has just died. After falling ill she has to seek help from her ex's widow, the woman he left her for, and they develop an uneasy friendship. Variety reports that Patrick Godeau (La fille coupée en deux) will produce. Miller has had some luck stateside having his last two pics La petite Lili (2003) and Un secret (2007) find distribution via First Run and Strand respectively.
- 7/2/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
PARIS -- Veteran French actors Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno are heading back to the big screen for two new projects set to make their market debut in Cannes next week, the films' world sales agent, TF1 International, said.
Depardieu will star as a police captain in Claude Chabrol's psychological thriller Bellamy alongside Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Marie Bunel and Vahina Giocante. Bellamy is being produced by Patrick Godeau's Aliceleo Cinema and will be released in France by TFM Distribution.
Reno will play the father of young co-star Gaspard Ulliel in Laurent Tuel's Inside Ring, about a young man trying to break free from his father's gang. The film, produced by Thelma Films' Christine Gozlan and Alter Films' Alain Terzian, also co-stars Giocante and 2008 Cesar award-winner Sami Bouajila.
Depardieu will star as a police captain in Claude Chabrol's psychological thriller Bellamy alongside Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Marie Bunel and Vahina Giocante. Bellamy is being produced by Patrick Godeau's Aliceleo Cinema and will be released in France by TFM Distribution.
Reno will play the father of young co-star Gaspard Ulliel in Laurent Tuel's Inside Ring, about a young man trying to break free from his father's gang. The film, produced by Thelma Films' Christine Gozlan and Alter Films' Alain Terzian, also co-stars Giocante and 2008 Cesar award-winner Sami Bouajila.
As the American Film Market began winding down this week, two domestic indie distribution banners were busy inking pacts to acquire films that had initially unspooled at the Berlin International Film Festival last month. According to sources, New York-based Wellspring has pulled up to the bargaining table and is negotiating to acquire North American rights to Roberto Succo helmer Cedric Kahn's Red Lights. Adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, Lights is a drama about a woman who leaves her husband and picks up a mysterious hitchhiker. The film was produced by Patrick Godeau and stars Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Carole Bouquet.
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