Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to the drama De Gaulle, with plans to release it in theaters and on digital platforms on October 22.
De Gaulle is a biopic centered on Charles De Gaulle (Lambert Wilson), the French military officer and statesmen who led government-in-exile Free France against Nazi Germany during World War II.
It picks up with the newly appointed French General in May of 1940, as he leaves his wife and children behind to join the Government in Paris. Facing the defeatist attitude of French Chief of State Philippe Pétain, who is ready to negotiate with Hitler, De Gaulle has only one purpose: to continue fighting.
Gabriel Le Bomin (Our Patriots) wrote and directed the film, which also stars Isabelle Carré (Romantics Anonymous), Olivier Gourmet (The Son) and more.
Aïssa Djabri and Farid Lahouassa served as the project’s producers, with Christopher Granier-Deferre exec producing.
The acquisition...
De Gaulle is a biopic centered on Charles De Gaulle (Lambert Wilson), the French military officer and statesmen who led government-in-exile Free France against Nazi Germany during World War II.
It picks up with the newly appointed French General in May of 1940, as he leaves his wife and children behind to join the Government in Paris. Facing the defeatist attitude of French Chief of State Philippe Pétain, who is ready to negotiate with Hitler, De Gaulle has only one purpose: to continue fighting.
Gabriel Le Bomin (Our Patriots) wrote and directed the film, which also stars Isabelle Carré (Romantics Anonymous), Olivier Gourmet (The Son) and more.
Aïssa Djabri and Farid Lahouassa served as the project’s producers, with Christopher Granier-Deferre exec producing.
The acquisition...
- 8/26/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Watching Cedric Klapish's feature, recently showcased at New Directors/ New Films, is like waking up on a quiet Sunday morning and taking a stroll around the neighborhood.
Except that the neighborhood is in Paris and it's filled with the kind of picturesque and charming eccentrics that you only find in whimsical French movies.
The film, which has already won prizes at various festivals, is the kind of aimless but engaging enterprise that will separate the art house fanatics from the mere dilettantes when it opens commercially this spring.
The rudimentary plot involves the efforts of a young makeup artist named Chloe (Garance Clavell) to find someone to take care of her cat, Gris-Gris, while she's on vacation. Since her carefree gay roommate, Michel Olivier Py), refuses to assume the responsibility, she takes the feline to Madame Renee (Renee Le Calm), a dotty old lady with a house full of cats who acts as the neighborhood's unofficial kitty sitter.
When Chloe returns a few days later, Madame Renee tearfully admits that Gris-Gris is missing. This leads to a desperate search, where Chloe runs into a variety of colorful types, ranging from lifelong residents to new arrivals who reflect Paris' increasingly international population.
Shot with a great deal of improvisation and incorporating many nonactors into the mix, "When the Cat's Away" is a necessarily uneven piece of work that is alternately charming and boring. It has many well-observed moments that ultimately don't add up to very much, and it is likely to be fully appreciated only by audiences who have a great deal of patience.
Klapisch does have a fine sense of style, however, as was demonstrated with his other recent film, the much more tightly written "Un Air de Famille". The best thing about this effort is its vivid sense of atmosphere; it has the warmth of a fresh croissant.
WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY
Sony Pictures Classics
A co-production of Vertigo Prods.
and France2 Cinema,
with the participation of Canal Plus
Director-screenwriter Cedric Klapisch
Producers Aissa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa,
Manuel Munz
Director of photography Benoit Delhomme
Editor Francine Sandberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Chloe Garance Clavell
Djamel Zinedine Soualem
Madame Renee Renee Le Calm
Michel Olivier Py
Drummer Romain Duris
Running time -- 95 minutes...
Except that the neighborhood is in Paris and it's filled with the kind of picturesque and charming eccentrics that you only find in whimsical French movies.
The film, which has already won prizes at various festivals, is the kind of aimless but engaging enterprise that will separate the art house fanatics from the mere dilettantes when it opens commercially this spring.
The rudimentary plot involves the efforts of a young makeup artist named Chloe (Garance Clavell) to find someone to take care of her cat, Gris-Gris, while she's on vacation. Since her carefree gay roommate, Michel Olivier Py), refuses to assume the responsibility, she takes the feline to Madame Renee (Renee Le Calm), a dotty old lady with a house full of cats who acts as the neighborhood's unofficial kitty sitter.
When Chloe returns a few days later, Madame Renee tearfully admits that Gris-Gris is missing. This leads to a desperate search, where Chloe runs into a variety of colorful types, ranging from lifelong residents to new arrivals who reflect Paris' increasingly international population.
Shot with a great deal of improvisation and incorporating many nonactors into the mix, "When the Cat's Away" is a necessarily uneven piece of work that is alternately charming and boring. It has many well-observed moments that ultimately don't add up to very much, and it is likely to be fully appreciated only by audiences who have a great deal of patience.
Klapisch does have a fine sense of style, however, as was demonstrated with his other recent film, the much more tightly written "Un Air de Famille". The best thing about this effort is its vivid sense of atmosphere; it has the warmth of a fresh croissant.
WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY
Sony Pictures Classics
A co-production of Vertigo Prods.
and France2 Cinema,
with the participation of Canal Plus
Director-screenwriter Cedric Klapisch
Producers Aissa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa,
Manuel Munz
Director of photography Benoit Delhomme
Editor Francine Sandberg
Color/stereo
Cast:
Chloe Garance Clavell
Djamel Zinedine Soualem
Madame Renee Renee Le Calm
Michel Olivier Py
Drummer Romain Duris
Running time -- 95 minutes...
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