Exclusive: Patti Cake$ breakout star Macdonald on board Seville International Cannes sales title.
Seville International will launch pre-sales in Cannes on prestige drama Skin, a true story about the redemption of a Neo-Nazi that pairs Jamie Bell with Danielle Macdonald from Sundance breakout and Directors’ Fortnight entry Patti Cake$.
Guy Nattiv will direct the true story based on the life of Bryon ‘Pitbull’ Widner, a violent gang enforcer who is decorated in facial tattoos for committing hate crimes.
Skin will recount how Widner falls in love with a mother of three daughters outside the gang and turns his back on the gang, resulting in the arrest of its leaders.
As he embarks on his new life, the former gang member receives a $70,000 gift from a Holocaust survivor to pay for painful surgery to remove his facial tattoos.
Skin marks the fourth feature from Nattiv, whose The Flood (Mabul) won the Generation Kplus – Best Feature Film at the...
Seville International will launch pre-sales in Cannes on prestige drama Skin, a true story about the redemption of a Neo-Nazi that pairs Jamie Bell with Danielle Macdonald from Sundance breakout and Directors’ Fortnight entry Patti Cake$.
Guy Nattiv will direct the true story based on the life of Bryon ‘Pitbull’ Widner, a violent gang enforcer who is decorated in facial tattoos for committing hate crimes.
Skin will recount how Widner falls in love with a mother of three daughters outside the gang and turns his back on the gang, resulting in the arrest of its leaders.
As he embarks on his new life, the former gang member receives a $70,000 gift from a Holocaust survivor to pay for painful surgery to remove his facial tattoos.
Skin marks the fourth feature from Nattiv, whose The Flood (Mabul) won the Generation Kplus – Best Feature Film at the...
- 5/10/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Patti Cake$ breakout star Macdonald on board Seville International Cannes sales title.
Seville International will launch pre-sales in Cannes on prestige drama Skin, a true story about the redemption of a Neo-Nazi that pairs Jamie Bell with Danielle Macdonald from Sundance breakout and Directors’ Fortnight entry Patti Cake$.
Guy Nattiv will direct the true story based on the life of Bryon ‘Pitbull’ Widner, a violent gang enforcer who is decorated in facial tattoos for committing hate crimes.
Skin will recount how Widner falls in love with a mother of three daughters outside the gang and turns his back on the gang, resulting in the arrest of its leaders.
As he embarks on his new life, the former gang member receives a $70,000 gift from a Holocaust survivor to pay for painful surgery to remove his facial tattoos.
Skin marks the fourth feature from Nattiv, whose The Flood (Mabul) won the Generation Kplus – Best Feature Film at the...
Seville International will launch pre-sales in Cannes on prestige drama Skin, a true story about the redemption of a Neo-Nazi that pairs Jamie Bell with Danielle Macdonald from Sundance breakout and Directors’ Fortnight entry Patti Cake$.
Guy Nattiv will direct the true story based on the life of Bryon ‘Pitbull’ Widner, a violent gang enforcer who is decorated in facial tattoos for committing hate crimes.
Skin will recount how Widner falls in love with a mother of three daughters outside the gang and turns his back on the gang, resulting in the arrest of its leaders.
As he embarks on his new life, the former gang member receives a $70,000 gift from a Holocaust survivor to pay for painful surgery to remove his facial tattoos.
Skin marks the fourth feature from Nattiv, whose The Flood (Mabul) won the Generation Kplus – Best Feature Film at the...
- 5/10/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Patti Cake$ breakout Danielle Macdonald on board Seville International Cannes sales title.
Seville International will launch pre-sales in Cannes on prestige drama Skin, a true story about the redemption of a Neo-Nazi that pairs Jamie Bell with Danielle Macdonald from Sundance breakout and Directors’ Fortnight entry Patti Cake$.
Guy Nattiv will direct the true story based on the life of Bryon ‘Pitbull’ Widner, a violent gang enforcer who is decorated in facial tattoos for committing hate crimes.
Skin will recount how Widner falls in love with a mother of three daughters outside the gang and turns his back on the gang, resulting in the arrest of its leaders.
As he embarks on his new life, the former gang member receives a $70,000 gift from a Holocaust survivor to pay for painful surgery to remove his facial tattoos.
Skin marks the fourth feature from Nattiv, whose The Flood (Mabul) won the Generation Kplus – Best Feature Film at the...
Seville International will launch pre-sales in Cannes on prestige drama Skin, a true story about the redemption of a Neo-Nazi that pairs Jamie Bell with Danielle Macdonald from Sundance breakout and Directors’ Fortnight entry Patti Cake$.
Guy Nattiv will direct the true story based on the life of Bryon ‘Pitbull’ Widner, a violent gang enforcer who is decorated in facial tattoos for committing hate crimes.
Skin will recount how Widner falls in love with a mother of three daughters outside the gang and turns his back on the gang, resulting in the arrest of its leaders.
As he embarks on his new life, the former gang member receives a $70,000 gift from a Holocaust survivor to pay for painful surgery to remove his facial tattoos.
Skin marks the fourth feature from Nattiv, whose The Flood (Mabul) won the Generation Kplus – Best Feature Film at the...
- 5/10/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Two days ago, Telefilm Canada had announced that 10 of 27 upcoming films will be in French. What follow is the list of these films.
L’appât – Comedy, Quebec-France co-production, directed by Yves Simoneau and written by Yves Simoneau and William Reymond. Poirier is a particularly inept detective, none of whose colleagues want to work with him. However, the French police, in concert with the Sureté du Québec, assign a very unusual officer, Marc Ventura, to work alongside Poirier... (Producers: Josée Vallée and Jean-Pierre Guérin; distributor: Alliance Vivafilm). The project is also receiving Telefilm support through the performance envelope.
Café de Flore – Drama, Quebec-France co-production, written and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. This is first and foremost an incredibly beautiful love story between a man and a woman, as well as that between a mother and her son. (Producers: Pierre Even and Jean-Marc Vallée; distributor: Alliance Vivafilm).
En terrains connus – Drama written and directed by Stéphane Lafleur.
L’appât – Comedy, Quebec-France co-production, directed by Yves Simoneau and written by Yves Simoneau and William Reymond. Poirier is a particularly inept detective, none of whose colleagues want to work with him. However, the French police, in concert with the Sureté du Québec, assign a very unusual officer, Marc Ventura, to work alongside Poirier... (Producers: Josée Vallée and Jean-Pierre Guérin; distributor: Alliance Vivafilm). The project is also receiving Telefilm support through the performance envelope.
Café de Flore – Drama, Quebec-France co-production, written and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. This is first and foremost an incredibly beautiful love story between a man and a woman, as well as that between a mother and her son. (Producers: Pierre Even and Jean-Marc Vallée; distributor: Alliance Vivafilm).
En terrains connus – Drama written and directed by Stéphane Lafleur.
- 12/5/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Wellspring has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Jean-Francois Pouliot's Seducing Doctor Lewis, winner of the world cinema audience award at the Sundance Film Festival. Wellspring is planning a theatrical release for late June followed by a video/DVD release. The film, which topped the boxoffice charts in Canada last year with a take north of $8 million, was produced by Max Films' Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal. Guirgis negotiated the deal along with Cinetic Media's Matt Litton on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 3/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MONTREAL -- A winning follow-up to her first feature "2 Seconds", which won two awards at the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival, writer-director Manon Briand's "La Turbulence des fluides" (Chaos and Desire) is the moody, beautifully executed story of an independent-minded seismologist who returns to her hometown in eastern Quebec to investigate a disturbing tidal phenomenon. Outside Canada, its commercial prospects are probably modest, but, with more festival playdates, Briand's reputation will benefit, and hopefully she'll keep turning out such high-quality work.
In addition to opening the 26th MWFF and setting a high standard for the other 25 features in the offical competition, the French-language "Turbulence" was generally embraced by festivalgoers and critics -- and managed to make one almost forget Olivier Ayache-Vidal's wild, six-minute short preceding it, which features a gun-waving member of the audience interrupting what looks like a trailer for a brainless Hollywood thriller and interacting with a scared couple onscreen.
In "Turbulence", Alice (Pascale Bussieres) was born in the small town of Baie-Comeau but has not been there in a long time. When the film opens, she's gently ending a one-night stand in Tokyo, where she works as a seismologist with a team looking for "precursor" events. At work, a report comes in that the ocean tides have stopped in the vicinity of Alice's hometown and she -- convinced that the "big one" is about to strike in Japan -- reluctantly goes to investigate.
Once in Quebec, it's impossible for her to ignore the many signs that nature and the locals are not right. It's unbearably warm for a place that has never relied on air conditioning, the tides have halted, a small child wanders the town at night in a trance, and everyone is haunted by the death of the wife of a strapping firefighting pilot, Marc (Jean-Nicolas Verreault), a year earlier.
But the unexpected reunion with old college friend Catherine (Julie Gayet), a journalist who makes no secret of her love for Alice, and late-night chats in a coffee shop run by an ex-nun (Genevieve Bujold), who remembers the lead's troublesome birth, start to chip away at Alice's professional detachment. Initially attracted to Marc, she waits a bit and then tries to have an affair, but the page of the phone book with his number is ripped out all across town.
While flirting with magic realism and loosely tying events of a personal or inconsequential nature with environmental phenomenon, "Turbulence" only stretches things a bit too far with the unexpected retrieval of a body from the ocean that should have long ago been consumed by denizens of the deep. Still, the way this is handled, as well as the climactic temblor that almost kills Alice, shows that Briand's skills as a cinematic storyteller are highly evolved.
In the lead role, Bussieres has the squinty look of a worldly woman who knows no master. The miracle of finding real love in the least expected time and place becomes the actress' task to convey, and it's a marvelous performance. French thespian Gayet is likewise delightful as the peppy girlfriend who helps Alice investigate the tides, while Bujold is perfectly cast. Also a presence that elevates the film, Verreault plays a sensitive Big Man with understated charisma. David Franco's cinematography is excellent and Richard Comeau's editing shines.
LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES
Studio Max Films, Europa Corp
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Manon Briand; Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal, Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; Director of photography: David Franco; Production designer: Mario Hervieux; Editor: Richard Comeau; Music: Simon Clouquet, Valmont; Costume designers: Louise Gagne, Liz Vandal; Casting: Lucie Robitaille. Cast: Alice: Pascale Bussieres; Marc: Jean-Nicolas Verreault; Catherine: Julie Gayet; Colette: Genevieve Bujold.
No MPAA rating, running time 113 minutes.
In addition to opening the 26th MWFF and setting a high standard for the other 25 features in the offical competition, the French-language "Turbulence" was generally embraced by festivalgoers and critics -- and managed to make one almost forget Olivier Ayache-Vidal's wild, six-minute short preceding it, which features a gun-waving member of the audience interrupting what looks like a trailer for a brainless Hollywood thriller and interacting with a scared couple onscreen.
In "Turbulence", Alice (Pascale Bussieres) was born in the small town of Baie-Comeau but has not been there in a long time. When the film opens, she's gently ending a one-night stand in Tokyo, where she works as a seismologist with a team looking for "precursor" events. At work, a report comes in that the ocean tides have stopped in the vicinity of Alice's hometown and she -- convinced that the "big one" is about to strike in Japan -- reluctantly goes to investigate.
Once in Quebec, it's impossible for her to ignore the many signs that nature and the locals are not right. It's unbearably warm for a place that has never relied on air conditioning, the tides have halted, a small child wanders the town at night in a trance, and everyone is haunted by the death of the wife of a strapping firefighting pilot, Marc (Jean-Nicolas Verreault), a year earlier.
But the unexpected reunion with old college friend Catherine (Julie Gayet), a journalist who makes no secret of her love for Alice, and late-night chats in a coffee shop run by an ex-nun (Genevieve Bujold), who remembers the lead's troublesome birth, start to chip away at Alice's professional detachment. Initially attracted to Marc, she waits a bit and then tries to have an affair, but the page of the phone book with his number is ripped out all across town.
While flirting with magic realism and loosely tying events of a personal or inconsequential nature with environmental phenomenon, "Turbulence" only stretches things a bit too far with the unexpected retrieval of a body from the ocean that should have long ago been consumed by denizens of the deep. Still, the way this is handled, as well as the climactic temblor that almost kills Alice, shows that Briand's skills as a cinematic storyteller are highly evolved.
In the lead role, Bussieres has the squinty look of a worldly woman who knows no master. The miracle of finding real love in the least expected time and place becomes the actress' task to convey, and it's a marvelous performance. French thespian Gayet is likewise delightful as the peppy girlfriend who helps Alice investigate the tides, while Bujold is perfectly cast. Also a presence that elevates the film, Verreault plays a sensitive Big Man with understated charisma. David Franco's cinematography is excellent and Richard Comeau's editing shines.
LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES
Studio Max Films, Europa Corp
Credits: Screenwriter-director: Manon Briand; Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal, Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; Director of photography: David Franco; Production designer: Mario Hervieux; Editor: Richard Comeau; Music: Simon Clouquet, Valmont; Costume designers: Louise Gagne, Liz Vandal; Casting: Lucie Robitaille. Cast: Alice: Pascale Bussieres; Marc: Jean-Nicolas Verreault; Catherine: Julie Gayet; Colette: Genevieve Bujold.
No MPAA rating, running time 113 minutes.
- 8/26/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MONTREAL -- If you're a French-language filmmaker, it helps to have local Quebec producer Rogers Frappier and French filmmaker-turned producer and distributor Luc Besson in your corner.Besson, attending the Montreal World Film Festival this weekend to receive a special Grand Prix of the Americas, co-produced Manon Briand's "La Turbulence des fluides" (Chaos and Desire), the opening-night film in Montreal, which so far has garnered the bulk of media attention.The Quebec-France co-venture between Besson's Europa Corp. and Max Films of Montreal sets an important precedent for the Quebec film industry, said Ariel Veneziano, director of international sales at Alliance Atlantis Pictures International, which retains Canadian and international rights to Briand's second film.Besson's participation should open Gallic doors, Veneziano said. "It's important for us (to have) someone of the stature and profile of Besson as a producer and distributor in France," he said.Quebec producers have had a long association with France as a source of film and TV co-production financing. The challenge has been securing marketing funds and punch in the French market for Quebec films.Besson's Europa Corp. will distribute "Turbulence" in France, Switzerland and Belgium, beginning in November. Veneziano added that he anticipates a Japanese sale for Briand's film on the strength of Besson's reputation.On this side of the Atlantic, Veneziano said the Quebec release of "Turbulence" on Sept. 6 should be boosted by the local profile of Max Films' Frappier, the dean of Quebec art house film producers.Frappier and Max Films partner Luc Vandal have a track record at the Montreal World Film Festival and the Quebec boxoffice. The pair collaborated on Denis Chouinard's "Ange de goudron" (Tar Angel), which opened the 2001 Montreal World Film Festival and earned last year's FedEx Award for best Canadian film.
- 8/26/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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