After “Peter van Kant,” French director François Ozon goes many shades lighter to revisit gender and power dynamics in “The Crime Is Mine,” a lush ensemble comedy set in 1930s Paris.
Loosely inspired by the 1934 play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, the film tells the story of Madeleine, a pretty, young and penniless actress, who is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline, a jobless lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense and becomes a star, as well as a feminist icon.
“The Crime Is Mine,” produced by Mandarin Cinema, brings together a sprawling cast, led by a pair of up-and-coming actors, Nadia Tereszkiewicz (“Forever Young”) and Rebecca Marder (“Simone”), alongside Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussolier, Dany Boon and Félix Lefebvre. The movie has been sold by Playtime in many key markets.
Ozon discussed his new film with Variety following its...
Loosely inspired by the 1934 play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, the film tells the story of Madeleine, a pretty, young and penniless actress, who is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline, a jobless lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense and becomes a star, as well as a feminist icon.
“The Crime Is Mine,” produced by Mandarin Cinema, brings together a sprawling cast, led by a pair of up-and-coming actors, Nadia Tereszkiewicz (“Forever Young”) and Rebecca Marder (“Simone”), alongside Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussolier, Dany Boon and Félix Lefebvre. The movie has been sold by Playtime in many key markets.
Ozon discussed his new film with Variety following its...
- 1/14/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
France has never had a first lady like this before.
Brigitte Macron will be the nation’s first premiere dame in nearly five years following her husband Emmanuel Macron’s election, stepping into the international spotlight last captivated by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Macron – the school teacher who took up with a student, the glamorous mother of three and grandmother to seven – is an atypical first lady, to say the least. Here’s everything you need to know about her.
1. She has chocolate in her blood
Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux Auzière Macron is the youngest of six children and the only girl.
Brigitte Macron will be the nation’s first premiere dame in nearly five years following her husband Emmanuel Macron’s election, stepping into the international spotlight last captivated by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Macron – the school teacher who took up with a student, the glamorous mother of three and grandmother to seven – is an atypical first lady, to say the least. Here’s everything you need to know about her.
1. She has chocolate in her blood
Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux Auzière Macron is the youngest of six children and the only girl.
- 5/9/2017
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
To be fair, he had nowhere to go but up. French President Francois Hollande is currently extremely unpopular, but when reports broke that he is cheating on his longterm partner, Valérie Trierweiler, with much younger actress Julie Gayet earlier this month, he saw a small increase in his approval ratings. And while only 24 percent of the public approves of his job, 77 percent say his love life is his own business. At a press conference today, Hollande said, "These are painful moments, but I have one principle: private affairs are dealt with in private. This is not the place nor the time to do this." He also declined to answer questions about whether Trierweiler was still the country's first lady, which came up, since they are not married. The French might not mind unfaithful politicians, but the details of the affair are catching international attention. The magazine Closer was the first to report on the story,...
- 1/14/2014
- by Annie Gabillet
- Popsugar.com
Left-wing political appointee takes over from Sarkozy-backed Eric Garandeau.
Former socialist minister Fréderique Bredin is to replace Eric Garandeau as president of France’s powerful film financing body, the National Cinema Centre (Cnc).
Rumours that Garandeau, a former political advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, was on the verge of being replaced have been rife ever since the latter lost the French presidency in May 2012 to socialist candidate François Hollande.
Cnc chiefs rarely outlive the governments that appointed them so Garandeau’s departure comes as little surprise.
French newspaper Le Figaro reported that relations been Garandeau and socialist French Culture and Communications Minister Aurélie Filippetti, who was instrumental in Bredin’s appointment, were not warm.
“I send my warmest thanks from the bottom of my heart to all the staff of the Cnc, as well as to film-makers and professionals for their confidence and I salute their friendship. I send my successor my best wishes,” said Garandeau...
Former socialist minister Fréderique Bredin is to replace Eric Garandeau as president of France’s powerful film financing body, the National Cinema Centre (Cnc).
Rumours that Garandeau, a former political advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, was on the verge of being replaced have been rife ever since the latter lost the French presidency in May 2012 to socialist candidate François Hollande.
Cnc chiefs rarely outlive the governments that appointed them so Garandeau’s departure comes as little surprise.
French newspaper Le Figaro reported that relations been Garandeau and socialist French Culture and Communications Minister Aurélie Filippetti, who was instrumental in Bredin’s appointment, were not warm.
“I send my warmest thanks from the bottom of my heart to all the staff of the Cnc, as well as to film-makers and professionals for their confidence and I salute their friendship. I send my successor my best wishes,” said Garandeau...
- 6/27/2013
- ScreenDaily
Left-wing political appointee takes over from Sarkozy-backed Eric Garandeau.
Former socialist minister Fréderique Bredin is to replace Eric Garandeau as president of France’s powerful film financing body, the National Cinema Centre (Cnc).
Rumours that Garandeau, a former political advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, was on the verge of being replaced have been rife ever since the latter lost the French presidency in May 2012 to socialist candidate François Hollande.
Cnc chiefs rarely outlive the governments that appointed them so Garandeau’s departure comes as little surprise.
French newspaper Le Figaro reported that relations been Garandeau and socialist French Culture and Communications Minister Aurélie Filippetti, who was instrumental in Bredin’s appointment, were not warm.
“I send my warmest thanks from the bottom of my heart to all the staff of the Cnc, as well as to film-makers and professionals for their confidence and I salute their friendship. I send my successor my best wishes,” said Garandeau...
Former socialist minister Fréderique Bredin is to replace Eric Garandeau as president of France’s powerful film financing body, the National Cinema Centre (Cnc).
Rumours that Garandeau, a former political advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, was on the verge of being replaced have been rife ever since the latter lost the French presidency in May 2012 to socialist candidate François Hollande.
Cnc chiefs rarely outlive the governments that appointed them so Garandeau’s departure comes as little surprise.
French newspaper Le Figaro reported that relations been Garandeau and socialist French Culture and Communications Minister Aurélie Filippetti, who was instrumental in Bredin’s appointment, were not warm.
“I send my warmest thanks from the bottom of my heart to all the staff of the Cnc, as well as to film-makers and professionals for their confidence and I salute their friendship. I send my successor my best wishes,” said Garandeau...
- 6/27/2013
- ScreenDaily
François Hollande, France's first Socialist president for nearly 20 years, has had a nightmarish first year
The freshly cut inscription on the marble "tombstone" was savage and to the point: "Betrayal! Here lie the promises of F. Hollande which were made to workers and their families in Florange on 24 February 2012. From the steelworkers of Lorraine." With barely suppressed anger and bitterness, Frédéric Weber, a local union official, explained why it was sitting in his office: "When François Hollande was campaigning for the presidency, he said to me: 'I will be the president of change.' He came to Florange and he said that he would fight a war against the kind of finance that closed our steelworks. But he has bowed down before the markets and screwed the workers instead."
Few countries do gesture politics with as much panache as the French. But the anger last week in this picturesque corner of north-eastern France,...
The freshly cut inscription on the marble "tombstone" was savage and to the point: "Betrayal! Here lie the promises of F. Hollande which were made to workers and their families in Florange on 24 February 2012. From the steelworkers of Lorraine." With barely suppressed anger and bitterness, Frédéric Weber, a local union official, explained why it was sitting in his office: "When François Hollande was campaigning for the presidency, he said to me: 'I will be the president of change.' He came to Florange and he said that he would fight a war against the kind of finance that closed our steelworks. But he has bowed down before the markets and screwed the workers instead."
Few countries do gesture politics with as much panache as the French. But the anger last week in this picturesque corner of north-eastern France,...
- 4/27/2013
- by Julian Coman
- The Guardian - Film News
General Petraeus! Kristen Stewart! Simon Cowell! Valérie Trierweiler! Can't anyone keep it in their pants nowadays?
The most commonly asked question about celebrity culture is probably the easiest to answer. "What is the point," everyone loves to despair, "of all these ridiculous people?" But isn't it obvious? To make us feel so much better about our own dysfunctional relationships, of course.
Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown became the star of her own reality show, The Houstons: On Our Own, within months of losing her mother – but that looked like a positively good idea compared with the one she announced in the first trailer. The 19-year-old, we discovered, was getting engaged – to her adopted brother! Surprise! The Houstons weren't thrilled, but that didn't stop the cameras rolling. "No one knew that from a godson you would turn into a boyfriend. No one knew that," her uncle scolded the groom-to-be,...
The most commonly asked question about celebrity culture is probably the easiest to answer. "What is the point," everyone loves to despair, "of all these ridiculous people?" But isn't it obvious? To make us feel so much better about our own dysfunctional relationships, of course.
Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown became the star of her own reality show, The Houstons: On Our Own, within months of losing her mother – but that looked like a positively good idea compared with the one she announced in the first trailer. The 19-year-old, we discovered, was getting engaged – to her adopted brother! Surprise! The Houstons weren't thrilled, but that didn't stop the cameras rolling. "No one knew that from a godson you would turn into a boyfriend. No one knew that," her uncle scolded the groom-to-be,...
- 12/29/2012
- by Decca Aitkenhead
- The Guardian - Film News
A delightful screwball comedy sees Catherine Deneuve blossom from 70s provincial housewife to rising political star
The French word potiche means a vase or vessel, often gaudily decorated and mostly of ornamental use. Until François Ozon's latest film, I wasn't aware of the word's derogatory meaning, to describe a woman with no real power or purpose, but after this film's success, I suspect the vernacular will have to alter to accommodate the irony of Catherine Deneuve's fine comic performance in the titular role.
You could say Luis Buñuel cast Deneuve as some kind of "potiche" as Séverine in Belle de Jour in 1967 and it has been impossible ever since for the male viewer to look at this prolific actress as anything other than a symbol of female potency, even as a sort of erotic threat. Ozon is surely trading on this iconography for a film that is a blend of boulevard farce,...
The French word potiche means a vase or vessel, often gaudily decorated and mostly of ornamental use. Until François Ozon's latest film, I wasn't aware of the word's derogatory meaning, to describe a woman with no real power or purpose, but after this film's success, I suspect the vernacular will have to alter to accommodate the irony of Catherine Deneuve's fine comic performance in the titular role.
You could say Luis Buñuel cast Deneuve as some kind of "potiche" as Séverine in Belle de Jour in 1967 and it has been impossible ever since for the male viewer to look at this prolific actress as anything other than a symbol of female potency, even as a sort of erotic threat. Ozon is surely trading on this iconography for a film that is a blend of boulevard farce,...
- 6/19/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund and likely rival of Nicolas Sarkozy in France's presidential race next year, was arrested Saturday in New York and accused of sexual assault. Read our breaking updates on the case.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund and an expected candidate in France's presidential elections next year, was arrested after boarding an Air France flight from New York to Paris on suspicion of sexually assaulting a maid in a Manhattan hotel on Saturday. Authorities took him from the first-class section of the plane and arrested him just minutes before the jet was to depart. He is now in NYPD custody.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Life in Jail at Rikers Island
Around noon today, a housekeeper entered Strauss-Kahn's room at the Sofitel on West 44th Street. Allegedly, he emerged from his bathroom naked, grabbed the maid,...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund and an expected candidate in France's presidential elections next year, was arrested after boarding an Air France flight from New York to Paris on suspicion of sexually assaulting a maid in a Manhattan hotel on Saturday. Authorities took him from the first-class section of the plane and arrested him just minutes before the jet was to depart. He is now in NYPD custody.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Life in Jail at Rikers Island
Around noon today, a housekeeper entered Strauss-Kahn's room at the Sofitel on West 44th Street. Allegedly, he emerged from his bathroom naked, grabbed the maid,...
- 5/15/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
Music Box Films Presents Francois Ozon’s Potiche Starring Catherine Deneuve
*** Palm Springs International Film Festival 2011 – Opening Night Film *** *** Venice Film Festival 2010 – Official Selection *** *** Toronto International Film Festival 2010 – Official Selection ***
Opening In Los Angeles And New York On March 25
In French, a potiche is a vase or decorative object of little value and no real practical use that you put on a shelf or a mantel. The word is also used in everyday language as a derogatory term for a woman who is considered eye candy, or a woman living in the shadow of her husband who doesn.t seem to have her own identity. Certain wives of politicians, or even certain female politicians themselves, have been called .potiches., including Madame Chirac, or more recently, Ségolène Royal.
Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, Potiche is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol,...
*** Palm Springs International Film Festival 2011 – Opening Night Film *** *** Venice Film Festival 2010 – Official Selection *** *** Toronto International Film Festival 2010 – Official Selection ***
Opening In Los Angeles And New York On March 25
In French, a potiche is a vase or decorative object of little value and no real practical use that you put on a shelf or a mantel. The word is also used in everyday language as a derogatory term for a woman who is considered eye candy, or a woman living in the shadow of her husband who doesn.t seem to have her own identity. Certain wives of politicians, or even certain female politicians themselves, have been called .potiches., including Madame Chirac, or more recently, Ségolène Royal.
Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, Potiche is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We asked last week what we should look for among the leaked Us embassy cables. Following last night's story on the Madeleine McCann investigation, here is a further instalment of user-suggested research – on the 2012 Olympics, Roman Polanski and the Dutch far right
• @AuMoulinVert asked for Olympics 2012
French presidential hopeful, Ségolène Royal, told Us diplomats French arrogance was partly to blame for Paris's lost bid to host the 2012 Olympic games. The games were awarded to London after a closely contested vote that saw both Tony Blair then French president Jacques Chirac fly to Singapore in July 2005 to make their case to delegates.
A confidential cable dated 17 February 2006 from the Us ambassador to Paris concerning a recent meeting with Royal said she had suggested, he wrote, a need "to find France's place in the world" with the French government showing less arrogance in how it speaks to the world. The latter factor,...
• @AuMoulinVert asked for Olympics 2012
French presidential hopeful, Ségolène Royal, told Us diplomats French arrogance was partly to blame for Paris's lost bid to host the 2012 Olympic games. The games were awarded to London after a closely contested vote that saw both Tony Blair then French president Jacques Chirac fly to Singapore in July 2005 to make their case to delegates.
A confidential cable dated 17 February 2006 from the Us ambassador to Paris concerning a recent meeting with Royal said she had suggested, he wrote, a need "to find France's place in the world" with the French government showing less arrogance in how it speaks to the world. The latter factor,...
- 12/15/2010
- by Simon Jeffery, Ben Quinn, Patrick Kingsley, Jason Rodrigues
- The Guardian - Film News
Adolescents feature in pictures taken by American photographer but people of similar age cannot enter gallery to see his work
In his photographs, they make love, explore their bodies, take drugs and drink alcohol.
But if Larry Clark's adolescent subjects showed up in Paris tomorrow for the opening of a retrospective of his work, they would not be allowed in: pre-empting legal issues caused by the explicit nature of some of Clark's pictures, the city hall has decided to ban under 18s.
Clark, an American photographer and film director, called the move "an attack on youth" – and the mairie of Paris has come under fire from all sides as critics accused it of self-censorship.
The French human rights league condemned the decision to ban minors from Paris's Museum of Modern Art (Mam) as "backward and reactionary".
And Fabrice Hergott, a curator at the gallery, insisted that Clark's photographs "have...
In his photographs, they make love, explore their bodies, take drugs and drink alcohol.
But if Larry Clark's adolescent subjects showed up in Paris tomorrow for the opening of a retrospective of his work, they would not be allowed in: pre-empting legal issues caused by the explicit nature of some of Clark's pictures, the city hall has decided to ban under 18s.
Clark, an American photographer and film director, called the move "an attack on youth" – and the mairie of Paris has come under fire from all sides as critics accused it of self-censorship.
The French human rights league condemned the decision to ban minors from Paris's Museum of Modern Art (Mam) as "backward and reactionary".
And Fabrice Hergott, a curator at the gallery, insisted that Clark's photographs "have...
- 10/7/2010
- by Lizzy Davies
- The Guardian - Film News
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