’Beautiful Minds’ is inspired by the real-life experiences of co-director Alexandre Jollien who was born with cerebral palsy but overcame his disabilities to study philosophy
Elle Driver has launched sales on Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien’s pioneering French comedy-drama Beautiful Minds, about a workaholic funeral director and a solitary vegetable delivery man and philosopher born with cerebral palsy, who embark on a road trip in a hearse.
It is inspired by the real-life experiences of Jollien who was born with cerebral palsy but overcame his disabilities to study philosophy and become became a major thinker and spiritual teacher, who has written several best-selling books.
Elle Driver has launched sales on Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien’s pioneering French comedy-drama Beautiful Minds, about a workaholic funeral director and a solitary vegetable delivery man and philosopher born with cerebral palsy, who embark on a road trip in a hearse.
It is inspired by the real-life experiences of Jollien who was born with cerebral palsy but overcame his disabilities to study philosophy and become became a major thinker and spiritual teacher, who has written several best-selling books.
- 3/3/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The director has just wrapped filming on his new work, a Soyouz Films production sold by Elle Driver and starring Najaa Bensaid, Pio Marmaï and Agnès Jaoui. 7 August saw shooting wrap on Compagnons, the 4th feature film by François Favrat following on from The Role of a Lifetime (which earned a Best Actress nomination at the 2005 Césars), Bitter Victory (2009) and Boomerang (2015). Stealing focus at the head of the cast are Najaa Bensaid (discovered in Being 14) and Pio Marmaï, without forgetting Agnès Jaoui. Written by the director and Johanne Bernard (In Your Hands), the story centres around 19-year-old Naëlle who harbours a passion for street art, but who finds herself forced to...
Being 14 (2015) Film Review from the 14th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Helene Zimmer and starring Athalia Routier, Galatéa Bellugi, Najaa Bensaid, Kevin Château, Françoise Lebrun, Louis Jacq. Every decade or so, there is a film that, to me, defines the adolescent feelings of that era in America; the “perfect high school movie,” so to speak. For the […]...
- 4/27/2015
- by Michael Smith
- Film-Book
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