Known in France as a giant of modernist sculpture, to the rest of the world Camille Claudel is mainly remembered as Auguste Rodin’s lover.
Her tragic life, which included spending the last decades of her life in an asylum, has been immortalized on film by Isabelle Adjani opposite Gerard Depardieu in 1988’s Camille Claudel, and again by Juliette Binoche in 2013’s Camille Claudel 1915. A student, model, muse and lover to Rodin who blossomed into his rival, she produced artwork every bit as radical and expressive as his. And now — on view at the Getty through July 21 — is the first North American show in more than 30 years focusing solely on her work, including roughly 60 pieces.
The star of the show (seen first in the U.S. at the Art Institute of Chicago) is The Mature Age along with several iterations of her signature piece, The Waltz. Portraits in bronze or marble are plentiful too,...
Her tragic life, which included spending the last decades of her life in an asylum, has been immortalized on film by Isabelle Adjani opposite Gerard Depardieu in 1988’s Camille Claudel, and again by Juliette Binoche in 2013’s Camille Claudel 1915. A student, model, muse and lover to Rodin who blossomed into his rival, she produced artwork every bit as radical and expressive as his. And now — on view at the Getty through July 21 — is the first North American show in more than 30 years focusing solely on her work, including roughly 60 pieces.
The star of the show (seen first in the U.S. at the Art Institute of Chicago) is The Mature Age along with several iterations of her signature piece, The Waltz. Portraits in bronze or marble are plentiful too,...
- 4/17/2024
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix on Tuesday unveiled two new European series with A-list stars, announcing the Dutch crime drama Amsterdam Empire to star X-Men alum Famke Janssen and an unnamed French thriller series toplined by gallic veteran Isabelle Adjani (Camille Claudel, The Story of Adele H.).
Janssen will star and executive produce Amsterdam Empire, about a big-time cannabis dealer whose personal betrayal of his wife threatens the future of his pot imperium. Nico Moolenaar, Bart Uytdenhouwen and Piet Matthys, creators of Netflix Dutch crime series Undercover, created the new show, which Jonas Govaerts (H4Z4RD) will direct. The plot follows Jack van Doorn, the rich and notorious founder of the Jackal coffee shop empire in Amsterdam, who has an affair with a well-known journalist, drawing the ire of his wife Betty, who is looking for payback and knows all Jack’s dirty secrets. Pupkin Film will produce Amsterdam Empire together with A Team Productions.
Janssen will star and executive produce Amsterdam Empire, about a big-time cannabis dealer whose personal betrayal of his wife threatens the future of his pot imperium. Nico Moolenaar, Bart Uytdenhouwen and Piet Matthys, creators of Netflix Dutch crime series Undercover, created the new show, which Jonas Govaerts (H4Z4RD) will direct. The plot follows Jack van Doorn, the rich and notorious founder of the Jackal coffee shop empire in Amsterdam, who has an affair with a well-known journalist, drawing the ire of his wife Betty, who is looking for payback and knows all Jack’s dirty secrets. Pupkin Film will produce Amsterdam Empire together with A Team Productions.
- 3/19/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlinale Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian announced his final Competition and Encounters line-ups on Monday ahead of bowing out of the festival alongside Managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek at the end of the upcoming 74th edition in February.
News of Chatrian’s ousting by the German Culture Minister Claudia Roth back in September prompted anger in some quarters of Europe’s indie film biz. The seasoned festival programer made it clear at the time that he wanted to stay on but now appears to have made peace with the decision.
“It’s true that in the beginning I said I was willing to go on with the shared role. But then the people who are responsible for the future of the Berlinale thought this structure of two leaders was not the right one and I don’t consider myself able to run the festival alone,” he told Monday’s press conference in...
News of Chatrian’s ousting by the German Culture Minister Claudia Roth back in September prompted anger in some quarters of Europe’s indie film biz. The seasoned festival programer made it clear at the time that he wanted to stay on but now appears to have made peace with the decision.
“It’s true that in the beginning I said I was willing to go on with the shared role. But then the people who are responsible for the future of the Berlinale thought this structure of two leaders was not the right one and I don’t consider myself able to run the festival alone,” he told Monday’s press conference in...
- 1/23/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Adjani has denied she evaded paying tax on a €2m gift and of pretending to live in Portugal for two years.
Acclaimed French actress Isabelle Adjani has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence and fined €250,000 after being found guilty of aggravated tax fraud and money laundering by a Paris court on Thursday (December 14).
Adjani’s lawyer Olivier Pardo confirmed to Screen late Thursday that her defence team had officially filed an appeal that is now making its way through the Paris courts.
Adjani has consistently maintained her innocence in the face of charges that include evading taxes on a...
Acclaimed French actress Isabelle Adjani has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence and fined €250,000 after being found guilty of aggravated tax fraud and money laundering by a Paris court on Thursday (December 14).
Adjani’s lawyer Olivier Pardo confirmed to Screen late Thursday that her defence team had officially filed an appeal that is now making its way through the Paris courts.
Adjani has consistently maintained her innocence in the face of charges that include evading taxes on a...
- 12/14/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Isabelle Adjani is re-teaming with “The King’s Favorite” director Josée Dayan on the six-part mystery thriller “Belphégor.”
The acclaimed actress stars as the enigmatic 16th-century noblewoman and courtier Diane de Poitiers in “The King’s Favorite,” which premiered at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous on Monday.
The €7.6 million (7.5 million), four-part series, produced by Dayan’s Passion Films and sold internationally by France TV Distribution, examines de Poitiers’ complicated relationship with the young French king, Henry II (played by Hugo Becker), that lasted more than two decades. The large ensemble cast also includes Samuel Labarthe, Virginie Ledoyen and Gérard Depardieu.
Adjani next stars in an action-comedy helmed by Mélanie Laurent, which is set to go into production next week, Adjani told Variety.
Adjani is also set to star in a TV thriller alongside Benjamin Biolay likewise to be directed by Dayan later this year and described as in the style of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Diabolique.
The acclaimed actress stars as the enigmatic 16th-century noblewoman and courtier Diane de Poitiers in “The King’s Favorite,” which premiered at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous on Monday.
The €7.6 million (7.5 million), four-part series, produced by Dayan’s Passion Films and sold internationally by France TV Distribution, examines de Poitiers’ complicated relationship with the young French king, Henry II (played by Hugo Becker), that lasted more than two decades. The large ensemble cast also includes Samuel Labarthe, Virginie Ledoyen and Gérard Depardieu.
Adjani next stars in an action-comedy helmed by Mélanie Laurent, which is set to go into production next week, Adjani told Variety.
Adjani is also set to star in a TV thriller alongside Benjamin Biolay likewise to be directed by Dayan later this year and described as in the style of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “Diabolique.
- 9/6/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Even in the grittier, more dourly ascetic, first films that he made in the 90s, Bruno Dumont has always wrestled with Big Picture questions about human nature, spirituality, and the conditions of reality within the context of French history and nationhood. In La vie de Jésus (1997), Dumont’s debut, an unemployed and mentally-ill teenager is a Christ figure whose corruption assumes sexual and violent extremes, and over a decade later, in 2009’s Hadewijch, a freakishly devout young Catholic woman, an avatar for the eponymous 13th century mystic and poet, becomes involved with Islamic fundamentalists. These mystical aggrandizements of the French working class, the everyday bourgeoisie, and the immigrant communities that to this day remain a point of political contention in France, go hand in hand with Dumont’s later portraits of martyrous historical figures who loom large in the French imaginary—think Camille Claudel and Joan of Arc (Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc...
- 12/13/2021
- MUBI
Bruno Dumont on the Bertolt Brecht quote “If the people and the party disagree, dissolve the people” in France: “That sentence we owe to the journalist.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second instalment with Bruno Dumont on France, we discussed the clothes worn by Léa Seydoux, a scene with France and Charles Castro (Emanuele Arioli) in the Alps, repetition and resemblance, the internal self of France (Seydoux) and a song with Christophe, a moment of grace and the cinematic expression of the narrative.
Bruno Dumont on the clothes worn by France (Léa Seydoux): “Well, in a way the costumes (by Alexandra Charles) are doing the same work that the music (by Christophe) is doing on its end. They are participating in the cinematic expression of the narrative.”
France never wears the same expensive designer outfit twice. The slinky jewel-tone dresses, the short skirts, and luxurious turtlenecks are juxtaposed with...
In the second instalment with Bruno Dumont on France, we discussed the clothes worn by Léa Seydoux, a scene with France and Charles Castro (Emanuele Arioli) in the Alps, repetition and resemblance, the internal self of France (Seydoux) and a song with Christophe, a moment of grace and the cinematic expression of the narrative.
Bruno Dumont on the clothes worn by France (Léa Seydoux): “Well, in a way the costumes (by Alexandra Charles) are doing the same work that the music (by Christophe) is doing on its end. They are participating in the cinematic expression of the narrative.”
France never wears the same expensive designer outfit twice. The slinky jewel-tone dresses, the short skirts, and luxurious turtlenecks are juxtaposed with...
- 12/8/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Model and singer-songwriter Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis, son of actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Isabelle Adjani, is to make his feature debut as an adult in recently announced western Terror On The Prairie.
Day-Lewis, whose only previous feature appearance came as a child 20 years ago in Benoît Jacquot’s 2002 French-language drama Adolphe, will play the supporting role of ‘The Kid’, an outlaw whose seemingly innocent facade hides a darker reality.
As we revealed earlier this week, filming is underway in Montana on the movie, about a pioneering family that fights back against a gang of vicious outlaws that is terrorizing them on their newly built farm. Former Mandalorian star Gina Carano is starring and producing. Michael Polish (Northfork) is directing.
Among co-stars on the feature from conservative media company The Daily Wire and Bone Tomahawk producer Dallas Sonnier, are Nick Searcy (Justified), Mma star Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, stand-up Tyler Fischer, Heath Freeman...
Day-Lewis, whose only previous feature appearance came as a child 20 years ago in Benoît Jacquot’s 2002 French-language drama Adolphe, will play the supporting role of ‘The Kid’, an outlaw whose seemingly innocent facade hides a darker reality.
As we revealed earlier this week, filming is underway in Montana on the movie, about a pioneering family that fights back against a gang of vicious outlaws that is terrorizing them on their newly built farm. Former Mandalorian star Gina Carano is starring and producing. Michael Polish (Northfork) is directing.
Among co-stars on the feature from conservative media company The Daily Wire and Bone Tomahawk producer Dallas Sonnier, are Nick Searcy (Justified), Mma star Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, stand-up Tyler Fischer, Heath Freeman...
- 10/15/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
As with Jessica Lange, who recovered from her big screen debut in the flop remake of “King Kong” to become an awards darling, Michelle Pfeiffer has made us forget her first starring role in the tepid “Grease 2” in 1982. The following year she was paired with Al Pacino in the blockbuster crime drama “Scarface.” In the nearly four decades since, she has co-starred with some of the biggest names in Hollywood in such hits as “The Witches of Eastwick,” “Married to the Mob,” “Tequila Sunrise,” “The Russia House,” “Batman Returns,” “Dangerous Minds,” “Up Close & Personal,” “One Fine Day” and “What Lies Beneath.”
Oscar buzz is building for her critically acclaimed performance in the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics release “French Exit” (due out February 12). That got has us reminiscing about her trio of previous bids. Let’s take a look back at Pfeiffer’s first three Oscar-nominated performances.
“Dangerous Liaisons...
Oscar buzz is building for her critically acclaimed performance in the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics release “French Exit” (due out February 12). That got has us reminiscing about her trio of previous bids. Let’s take a look back at Pfeiffer’s first three Oscar-nominated performances.
“Dangerous Liaisons...
- 1/29/2021
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
by Nathaniel R
You've gotten to know Juan Carlos a little bit as a new contributor here at Tfe. He hosts a podcast "The One Inch Barrier" which is how I sought him out to join us here. Each episode looks at one year of the Best International Feature Film race at the Oscars, moving backward chronologically. Each season covers one decade. I've finally made the time to guest-star, for the season four premiere to discuss a year that's deeply embedded in my history: 1989... aka the year my beloved Pfeiffer lost Best Actress. We discuss Italy's winner Cinema Paradiso which is all about moviegoing and nostalgia (so appropriate for the now), France's presumed runner up Camille Claudel (which was also nominated for Best Actress for Isabelle Adjani), and Canada's provocative Jesus of Montreal. A few other films make cameos, too, including Hong Kong's Painted Faces which is randomly streaming on...
You've gotten to know Juan Carlos a little bit as a new contributor here at Tfe. He hosts a podcast "The One Inch Barrier" which is how I sought him out to join us here. Each episode looks at one year of the Best International Feature Film race at the Oscars, moving backward chronologically. Each season covers one decade. I've finally made the time to guest-star, for the season four premiere to discuss a year that's deeply embedded in my history: 1989... aka the year my beloved Pfeiffer lost Best Actress. We discuss Italy's winner Cinema Paradiso which is all about moviegoing and nostalgia (so appropriate for the now), France's presumed runner up Camille Claudel (which was also nominated for Best Actress for Isabelle Adjani), and Canada's provocative Jesus of Montreal. A few other films make cameos, too, including Hong Kong's Painted Faces which is randomly streaming on...
- 1/23/2021
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Of my list of 34 Must-Sees for the Toronto International Film Festival 2019, how many did I actually see, what other films did I see and what else? The list was based on my personal interests, not on commercial value or what I guess will be voted “The Best”. Here are my notes from this list.
1.Les Miserables directed by Ladj Ly. Les Misérables isn’t based on Victor Hugo’s classic story, but it’s set in the same region in France and has the spirit of the original. Ly originally directed an acclaimed short in 2017 of the same name that set the stage for this larger feature focused on police brutality and crime. This is a powerful, powerful film coming from the inner city of Paris. The relationship between the cops and the youth deteriorates beyond repair. Opening with a new cop being introduced to the neighborhood where the high school is called Victor Hugo,...
1.Les Miserables directed by Ladj Ly. Les Misérables isn’t based on Victor Hugo’s classic story, but it’s set in the same region in France and has the spirit of the original. Ly originally directed an acclaimed short in 2017 of the same name that set the stage for this larger feature focused on police brutality and crime. This is a powerful, powerful film coming from the inner city of Paris. The relationship between the cops and the youth deteriorates beyond repair. Opening with a new cop being introduced to the neighborhood where the high school is called Victor Hugo,...
- 9/29/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Camille ClaudelIt seems impossible to talk about Isabelle Adjani without mentioning her eyes. Round, blue, and prone to tears, Adjani’s eyes are filled with a heartbreaking expressiveness reminiscent of the actresses of the silent film era. A series collecting some of Adjani’s most memorable performances, now playing at New York’s French Institute Alliance Française, is titled (obviously) “Magnetic Gaze.” The 10-film series offers a sampling of her work, from her breakthrough as the title character in François Truffaut’s The Story of Adèle H. (1975), a haunting portrait of l’amour fou, to her most recent role in—of all things—an action comedy, Romain Gavras’s The World is Yours (2018). Adjani is extra. She works a close-up with an intensity few actresses can surpass. When she tears up, so do we. While “Magnetic Gaze” is missing some canonical Adjani films the collection here shows the actress at her most emotionally volatile.
- 9/17/2019
- MUBI
Pierre Lhomme, the French cinematographer behind such films as Army of Shadows, The Mother and the Whore, Camille Claudel and Cyrano de Bergerac, has died. He was 89.
Lhomme died July 4 in Arles, France, the French Society of Cinematographers told The Hollywood Reporter.
Lhomme received a César award in 1989 for his work on Camille Claudel, which was directed by former cameraman Bruno Nuytten. He received a second César in 1991 for Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Cyrano de Bergerac, which also won a technical prize at Cannes.
Among his 60-odd credits are films by Chris Marker (Le Joli Mai, which Lhomme co-directed, and A bientôt,...
Lhomme died July 4 in Arles, France, the French Society of Cinematographers told The Hollywood Reporter.
Lhomme received a César award in 1989 for his work on Camille Claudel, which was directed by former cameraman Bruno Nuytten. He received a second César in 1991 for Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Cyrano de Bergerac, which also won a technical prize at Cannes.
Among his 60-odd credits are films by Chris Marker (Le Joli Mai, which Lhomme co-directed, and A bientôt,...
Pierre Lhomme, the French cinematographer behind films like Army of Shadows, The Mother and the Whore, Camille Claudel and Cyrano de Bergerac, has died.
His death was first reported in a tweet from the Institut Lumière in Lyon. He was 89.
Lhomme received a César award in 1989 for his work on Camille Claudel, which was directed by former cameraman Bruno Nuytten. He received a second César in 1991 for Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Cyrano de Bergerac, which also won a technical prize at Cannes.
Among his 60-odd credits are films by Chris Marker (Le Joli Mai, which Lhomme co-directed, and A bientôt, j’...
His death was first reported in a tweet from the Institut Lumière in Lyon. He was 89.
Lhomme received a César award in 1989 for his work on Camille Claudel, which was directed by former cameraman Bruno Nuytten. He received a second César in 1991 for Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Cyrano de Bergerac, which also won a technical prize at Cannes.
Among his 60-odd credits are films by Chris Marker (Le Joli Mai, which Lhomme co-directed, and A bientôt, j’...
One of the most acclaimed directors working in France today, Bruno Dumont doesn’t tend to repeat himself. In the last decade, he has gone from making a supernatural thriller set in the countryside (“Outside Satan”) to a classical biopic (“Camille Claudel 1915”) to a whimsical TV series about bumbling detectives (“Lil Quinquin”) and a surrealist comedy of manners (“Slack Bay”).
For his Cannes-premiering “Joan of Arc,” however, Dumont is returning to recent turf. The period drama follows 2017’s “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” a deadpan portrait of the future martyr’s childhood that was set to heavy metal music. For “Joan of Arc,” Dumont follows his “Jeanette” star Lise Leplat Prudhomme into the famous 15th century saga as she leads the French army on a holy mission that leads to charges of heresy and, eventually, her death.
Like “Jeanette,” the new movie draws on a revisionist approach to...
For his Cannes-premiering “Joan of Arc,” however, Dumont is returning to recent turf. The period drama follows 2017’s “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” a deadpan portrait of the future martyr’s childhood that was set to heavy metal music. For “Joan of Arc,” Dumont follows his “Jeanette” star Lise Leplat Prudhomme into the famous 15th century saga as she leads the French army on a holy mission that leads to charges of heresy and, eventually, her death.
Like “Jeanette,” the new movie draws on a revisionist approach to...
- 5/6/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
French actress and Oscar winner Juliette Binoche will serve as president of the International Jury at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 7 -17) next year. Binoche and her as yet-unannounced jury will judge the festival’s competition lineup and hand out the Golden and Silver Bears.
“I’m very pleased that Juliette is president of the 2019 International Jury,” said Dieter Kosslick, Director of the Berlinale. “The festival shares a strong connection with her, and I’m very happy that she’ll be returning to the festival in this distinguished position.”
“Thank you for this tremendous honour and invitation for your last Berlinale, dear Dieter, it means the world to me! I’m looking forward to this special rendez-vous with the entire jury and will embrace my task with joy and care,” added Binoche.
Feted star Binoche has previously played in Berlin Film Festival movies including The English Patient, Chocolat,...
“I’m very pleased that Juliette is president of the 2019 International Jury,” said Dieter Kosslick, Director of the Berlinale. “The festival shares a strong connection with her, and I’m very happy that she’ll be returning to the festival in this distinguished position.”
“Thank you for this tremendous honour and invitation for your last Berlinale, dear Dieter, it means the world to me! I’m looking forward to this special rendez-vous with the entire jury and will embrace my task with joy and care,” added Binoche.
Feted star Binoche has previously played in Berlin Film Festival movies including The English Patient, Chocolat,...
- 12/11/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Although it’s one of director Jacques Doillon’s most prolific projects in years, his 2017 biopic Rodin, headlined by revered French actor Vincent Lindon, is something of a non-event, especially as far as portraits of artists go. Competing at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where it was coolly received, it failed to get much love beyond the festival circuit, distributed in June of 2018 by Cohen Media Group in the Us, where it took in just over forty-thousand at the box-office. Compared to previous films dealing with Rodin, usually in relation to his student/lover/rival Camille Claudel, Doillon doesn’t generate much interest in the famed sculptor of “The Kiss” and “The Thinker.”
From our Cannes review:
“As the titular figure, Vincent Lindon is defined more by his beard than his performance, and there’s little chance for him to touch on any real emotional depths concerning his love life or...
From our Cannes review:
“As the titular figure, Vincent Lindon is defined more by his beard than his performance, and there’s little chance for him to touch on any real emotional depths concerning his love life or...
- 10/9/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
French director Bruno Dumont, who over the past two decades has gone from making naturalistic dramas such as “La Vie de Jesus” and “L’Umanité” to directing slapstick comedy, a Joan of Arc-themed musical, and innovative TV series, will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Pardo d’onore Manor lifetime achievement award.
The versatile auteur will also be world-premiering his new TV series, “Coincoin and the Extra Humans,” with a launch from the Swiss fest’s 8.000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue Aug. 4. The show, which is the second season of Dumont’s “Li’l Quinquin” series and sees its young protagonist become a French nationalist, is getting a theatrical release in Switzerland and will be playing in September on Franco-German channel Arte.
Born in Bailleul, northern France, in 1958, Dumont made his feature film debut in 1997 with “La vie de Jesus” shot in his hometown and followed up in 1999 with “L’Humanite,...
The versatile auteur will also be world-premiering his new TV series, “Coincoin and the Extra Humans,” with a launch from the Swiss fest’s 8.000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue Aug. 4. The show, which is the second season of Dumont’s “Li’l Quinquin” series and sees its young protagonist become a French nationalist, is getting a theatrical release in Switzerland and will be playing in September on Franco-German channel Arte.
Born in Bailleul, northern France, in 1958, Dumont made his feature film debut in 1997 with “La vie de Jesus” shot in his hometown and followed up in 1999 with “L’Humanite,...
- 6/7/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Sales company also launching titles from Benjamin Naishtat, Nimrod Eldar and Richard Billingham.
French filmmaker Bruno Dumont is developing a second feature exploring the life of iconic French figure Joan of Arc, following on from his musical depiction of her youth, Jeanette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight last year.
It is one of four upcoming titles Paris-based sales company Luxbox is bringing to Cannes alongside Argentinian director Benjamin Naishtat’s Rojo, Israeli filmmaker Nimrod Eldar’s The Day After I’m Gone and Ray & Liz by British photographer, artist and filmmaker Richard Billingham.
Simply entitled Joan,...
French filmmaker Bruno Dumont is developing a second feature exploring the life of iconic French figure Joan of Arc, following on from his musical depiction of her youth, Jeanette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight last year.
It is one of four upcoming titles Paris-based sales company Luxbox is bringing to Cannes alongside Argentinian director Benjamin Naishtat’s Rojo, Israeli filmmaker Nimrod Eldar’s The Day After I’m Gone and Ray & Liz by British photographer, artist and filmmaker Richard Billingham.
Simply entitled Joan,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Isabelle Adjani, the Oscar-nominated star of François Truffaut’s “The Story of Adele H.” and Bruno Nuytten’s “Camille Claudel,” presided over the Cannes jury in 1997, the year of the festival’s 50th anniversary.
Heading the panel is “a very intense experience and at times a difficult mission when it comes to judging the work of other artists, and defending your emotions and ideas against those of other jury members,” says Adjani, who is a fan of incoming president Cate Blanchett. Adjani reportedly clashed with directors Mike Leigh and Nanni Moretti in choosing the winner of the 1997 Palme d’Or, with the jury eventually deciding to give the award to two films, Shohei Imamura’s “The Eel” and Abbas Kiarostami’s “Taste of Cherry.”
“The film world continues to be dominated by men,” says Adjani, one of the first and few French stars to have publicly voiced her support for the #MeToo movement.
Heading the panel is “a very intense experience and at times a difficult mission when it comes to judging the work of other artists, and defending your emotions and ideas against those of other jury members,” says Adjani, who is a fan of incoming president Cate Blanchett. Adjani reportedly clashed with directors Mike Leigh and Nanni Moretti in choosing the winner of the 1997 Palme d’Or, with the jury eventually deciding to give the award to two films, Shohei Imamura’s “The Eel” and Abbas Kiarostami’s “Taste of Cherry.”
“The film world continues to be dominated by men,” says Adjani, one of the first and few French stars to have publicly voiced her support for the #MeToo movement.
- 5/2/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Bruno Dumont on working with the writings of Charles Péguy: "Poetry and literary expression can be a very difficult tricky thing." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc (Jeannette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc), at times, little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) looks up straight into the camera (cinematography by Guillaume Deffontaines - Slack Bay (Ma Loute), Li'l Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915) and addresses God. Our position, helpless, watching from the audience, curious what this defiant girl demands, turns us into an unexpected, stupefied deity.
It is the contrast that stuns, between the early 21st century girls and music (composed by Nils Cheville, Laure Le Prunenec, Gautier Serre with the three saints in the film, Aline Charles, Elise Charles, Anaïs Rivière), the turn of the 20th century text, and the 15th century subject matter that never ceases to be urgent. "More wounded, more sick, more suffering" will exist until "someone kills war.
In Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc (Jeannette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc), at times, little Jeannette (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) looks up straight into the camera (cinematography by Guillaume Deffontaines - Slack Bay (Ma Loute), Li'l Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915) and addresses God. Our position, helpless, watching from the audience, curious what this defiant girl demands, turns us into an unexpected, stupefied deity.
It is the contrast that stuns, between the early 21st century girls and music (composed by Nils Cheville, Laure Le Prunenec, Gautier Serre with the three saints in the film, Aline Charles, Elise Charles, Anaïs Rivière), the turn of the 20th century text, and the 15th century subject matter that never ceases to be urgent. "More wounded, more sick, more suffering" will exist until "someone kills war.
- 4/8/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Co-composers Aline Charles and Elise Charles together as Madame Gervaise with Lise Leplat Prudhomme as Jeannette in Bruno Dumont's sublime, unique musical Jeannette, L'Enfance De Jeanne D’Arc (Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc)
In New York for uniFrance and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Bruno Dumont joined me for a conversation at the Loews Regency on Park Avenue to discuss divine inspiration, and how he interprets Charles Péguy's nationalism, his Catholicism, and socialism. In his latest film, Dumont puts thought into action with eager young actors who sing and dance and summersault to produce a cinematic work unlike any you have ever seen.
Bruno Dumont with Anne-Katrin Titze on making a musical out of Charles Péguy: "It's truly a very strange idea, yes." Photo: Nicholas Elliott
After Camille Claudel, 1915 starring Juliette Binoche, and his absurdly funny Li'l Quinquin and outrageous Slack Bay...
In New York for uniFrance and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Bruno Dumont joined me for a conversation at the Loews Regency on Park Avenue to discuss divine inspiration, and how he interprets Charles Péguy's nationalism, his Catholicism, and socialism. In his latest film, Dumont puts thought into action with eager young actors who sing and dance and summersault to produce a cinematic work unlike any you have ever seen.
Bruno Dumont with Anne-Katrin Titze on making a musical out of Charles Péguy: "It's truly a very strange idea, yes." Photo: Nicholas Elliott
After Camille Claudel, 1915 starring Juliette Binoche, and his absurdly funny Li'l Quinquin and outrageous Slack Bay...
- 3/16/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
It’s almost depressing to rewatch Adaptation in 2016, because it’s a reminder of how strong an actor Nicolas Cage is when he actually invests himself in good projects. It was soon after this that his career went off the rails, but he’s remarkably impressive here, playing the dual roles of Charlie Kaufman and his fictional twin brother, Donald. As much a mind-fuck as any other Kaufman screenplay,...
Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
It’s almost depressing to rewatch Adaptation in 2016, because it’s a reminder of how strong an actor Nicolas Cage is when he actually invests himself in good projects. It was soon after this that his career went off the rails, but he’s remarkably impressive here, playing the dual roles of Charlie Kaufman and his fictional twin brother, Donald. As much a mind-fuck as any other Kaufman screenplay,...
- 8/4/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Take a closer look at the films from the 70th Cannes Film Festival.
This page will be updated with trailers are they are released…
CompetitionLe Redoutable, Michel Hazanavicius
The Artist director tackles Jean-Luc Godard in this new film, following the French New Wave director as he falls in love with 17-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky.
Watch on mobile Here.
The Day After, Hong Sangsoo
This film, which is one of two director Hong Sangsoo is premiering at Cannes, follows a woman who is mistaken for her boss’ lover as she begins a new job at a publishing company.
Watch on mobile Here.
Radiance, Naomi Kawase
A writer of film voiceovers for the visually impaired meets a photographer who is losing his eyesight at a film screening, and together they learn to see the radiant world that was previously invisible to them.
Watch on mobile Here.
L’Amant Double, François Ozon
A fragile woman falls in love and moves...
This page will be updated with trailers are they are released…
CompetitionLe Redoutable, Michel Hazanavicius
The Artist director tackles Jean-Luc Godard in this new film, following the French New Wave director as he falls in love with 17-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky.
Watch on mobile Here.
The Day After, Hong Sangsoo
This film, which is one of two director Hong Sangsoo is premiering at Cannes, follows a woman who is mistaken for her boss’ lover as she begins a new job at a publishing company.
Watch on mobile Here.
Radiance, Naomi Kawase
A writer of film voiceovers for the visually impaired meets a photographer who is losing his eyesight at a film screening, and together they learn to see the radiant world that was previously invisible to them.
Watch on mobile Here.
L’Amant Double, François Ozon
A fragile woman falls in love and moves...
- 5/13/2017
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s chief critic and reviews editor Fionnuala Halligan dissects this year’s Competition films.
Welcome to the “huge party” of Cannes 70. If the Official Selection this year is a “lab”, the formula isn’t quite complete - Thierry Fremaux announced 18 films which will compete for the Palme D’Or today, implying that three have yet to arrive (he also hinted that a glaring absence, that of a film from China for the second consecutive year, may yet be rectified; nothing was said however about the absence of a major Hollywood studio thus far).
Read more:
Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
A total of 1,930 films viewed, the selection process running through to 3am: Cannes 70 will be a “meeting, a vision of the world, and a promise of a better life together”. No small ambition, but the line-up has been warmly greeted by cineastes. Clearly, it isn’t a same-old-names Cannes habitues Competition, although [link=nm...
Welcome to the “huge party” of Cannes 70. If the Official Selection this year is a “lab”, the formula isn’t quite complete - Thierry Fremaux announced 18 films which will compete for the Palme D’Or today, implying that three have yet to arrive (he also hinted that a glaring absence, that of a film from China for the second consecutive year, may yet be rectified; nothing was said however about the absence of a major Hollywood studio thus far).
Read more:
Cannes 2017: Official Selection in full
A total of 1,930 films viewed, the selection process running through to 3am: Cannes 70 will be a “meeting, a vision of the world, and a promise of a better life together”. No small ambition, but the line-up has been warmly greeted by cineastes. Clearly, it isn’t a same-old-names Cannes habitues Competition, although [link=nm...
- 4/13/2017
- by finn.halligan@screendaily.com (Fionnuala Halligan)
- ScreenDaily
For such a highly anticipated event, the Cannes Film Festival tends to contain a fairly predictable lineup: The Official Selection focuses on established auteurs whose work lands a coveted slot at the flashy gathering on autopilot. That was certainly the case last year, when the 2016 edition opened with a Woody Allen movie and featured new work from the likes of Pedro Almodovar, Nicolas Winding Refn, the Dardennes brothers and Olivier Assayas.
But we live in unpredictable times, and judging by today’s announcement of the Official Selection for Cannes 2017, even the world’s most powerful festival isn’t impervious to change. This year’s Cannes is filled with surprises: television and virtual reality, some intriguing non-fiction selections, and a whole lot of unknown quantities that push the festival in fresh directions.
That’s not to say that there aren’t a few familiar names that stand out. Todd Haynes is...
But we live in unpredictable times, and judging by today’s announcement of the Official Selection for Cannes 2017, even the world’s most powerful festival isn’t impervious to change. This year’s Cannes is filled with surprises: television and virtual reality, some intriguing non-fiction selections, and a whole lot of unknown quantities that push the festival in fresh directions.
That’s not to say that there aren’t a few familiar names that stand out. Todd Haynes is...
- 4/13/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Following his epic drama Li’l Quinquin — which he is currently prepping a sequel to — director Bruno Dumont returned to Cannes last year with Slack Bay, a dark period comedy following an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France. Led by his Camille Claudel star Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Kino Lorber picked it up for a U.S. release later this spring, and now a new trailer has arrived.
We said in our review from Cannes last year, “The most important innovation, and also this film’s greatest weakness, is its focus on an upper-class family played by well-known actors. Dumont has long proven his aptitude for working with non-professional performers, and his only collaboration with a major star to date, Juliette Binoche in Camille Claudel 1915, turned out just as fruitfully.”
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
We said in our review from Cannes last year, “The most important innovation, and also this film’s greatest weakness, is its focus on an upper-class family played by well-known actors. Dumont has long proven his aptitude for working with non-professional performers, and his only collaboration with a major star to date, Juliette Binoche in Camille Claudel 1915, turned out just as fruitfully.”
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
- 3/5/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Slate includes films starring Louis Garrel, Marion Cotillard,
Wild Bunch will kick-off pre-sales at Cannes on Oscar-winner Michel Hazanavicius’s [pictured] new project Redoubtable revolving around the relationship between Jean-Luc Godard and actress Anne Wiazemsky in the late 1960s.
Based on Wiazemsky’s autobiographical account Un An Après, the production will star Louis Garrel as Jean-Luc Godard and Stacy Martin, last seen in High-Rise, as the director’s young muse.
The script kicks off with the 1967 shoot of La Chinoise – about a group of students who try to live by Maoists principles - and follows the couple through the late 1960s when Godard went through his so-called “revolutionary period”.
Wiazemsky – who met Godard when she was just 17-years-old and he was on the rebound from Anna Karina – was married to the filmmaker for more than a decade.
Like Hazanavicius’s Oscar-winning The Artist, the aesthetics and style of Redoubtable will take inspiration from the films around which the...
Wild Bunch will kick-off pre-sales at Cannes on Oscar-winner Michel Hazanavicius’s [pictured] new project Redoubtable revolving around the relationship between Jean-Luc Godard and actress Anne Wiazemsky in the late 1960s.
Based on Wiazemsky’s autobiographical account Un An Après, the production will star Louis Garrel as Jean-Luc Godard and Stacy Martin, last seen in High-Rise, as the director’s young muse.
The script kicks off with the 1967 shoot of La Chinoise – about a group of students who try to live by Maoists principles - and follows the couple through the late 1960s when Godard went through his so-called “revolutionary period”.
Wiazemsky – who met Godard when she was just 17-years-old and he was on the rebound from Anna Karina – was married to the filmmaker for more than a decade.
Like Hazanavicius’s Oscar-winning The Artist, the aesthetics and style of Redoubtable will take inspiration from the films around which the...
- 5/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
2016 looks like a good vintage: Screen’s chief critic and reviews editor Fionnuala Halligan dissects this year’s Competition lineup…
Advance word on the Cannes Competition line-up was muted this year, and smoke signals from Paris indicated that the selection was running very close to the line. Thierry Fremaux talked at the launch press conference about “loyalty” and “risk-taking” in the same breath. While these aren’t two words which tend to mix well at Cannes, the festival’s 2016 line-up certainly promises to deliver fresh film-making. “We know the risks we are taking,” said Fremaux.
There’s little doubt that Cannes 2016 looks like a good vintage. Typically of a festival which always surprises, there’s no way to tell if this will be a good, bad, or - worst of all - indifferent mix until we taste. One note we won’t apparently be savouring in the Competition, however, is a sense of France and its relationship...
Advance word on the Cannes Competition line-up was muted this year, and smoke signals from Paris indicated that the selection was running very close to the line. Thierry Fremaux talked at the launch press conference about “loyalty” and “risk-taking” in the same breath. While these aren’t two words which tend to mix well at Cannes, the festival’s 2016 line-up certainly promises to deliver fresh film-making. “We know the risks we are taking,” said Fremaux.
There’s little doubt that Cannes 2016 looks like a good vintage. Typically of a festival which always surprises, there’s no way to tell if this will be a good, bad, or - worst of all - indifferent mix until we taste. One note we won’t apparently be savouring in the Competition, however, is a sense of France and its relationship...
- 4/14/2016
- by finn.halligan@screendaily.com (Fionnuala Halligan)
- ScreenDaily
Following his epic drama Li’l Quinquin — one of last year’s most overlooked films — director Bruno Dumont returns this year with a new feature, and while it may be on the smaller scale, it looks to have just as much of his personality. One of our most-anticipated films of the year, Ma Loute (aka Slack Bay) is described as a quirky, dark period comedy following an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.
Led by his Camille Claudel star Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the first trailer has now arrived. Even without subtitles as of now, one can see a number of visually inventive scenarios and strong personalities across the ensemble. With a debut in France in early May, this one is all but confirmed for the Cannes Film Festival, so as we await the official news, check out the trailer below,...
Led by his Camille Claudel star Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the first trailer has now arrived. Even without subtitles as of now, one can see a number of visually inventive scenarios and strong personalities across the ensemble. With a debut in France in early May, this one is all but confirmed for the Cannes Film Festival, so as we await the official news, check out the trailer below,...
- 3/30/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Ma Loute
Director: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont
After making his first foray into television with 2014’s wonderfully strange Li’l Quinquin (read review), Bruno Dumont returns to another dark comedy vehicle with Ma Loute (Slack Bay), a period piece set in the summer of 1910. The disappearance of tourists lead two inspectors to explore a seaside resort in Pas de Calais, where two very different families have managed to become wrapped up in these strange circumstances. Dumont reunites with Juliette Binoche, who last starred in his 2013 Camille Claudel, 1915, and she’s joined notably by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Fabrice Luchini (who won Best Actor in Venice 2015 for L’hermine).
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Luc Vincent
Production Co./Producer: 3B Productions’ Jean Bréhat (Li’l Quinquin).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Memento Films (international).
Release Date: Dumont has appeared at Cannes five times, winning a special mention for...
Director: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont
After making his first foray into television with 2014’s wonderfully strange Li’l Quinquin (read review), Bruno Dumont returns to another dark comedy vehicle with Ma Loute (Slack Bay), a period piece set in the summer of 1910. The disappearance of tourists lead two inspectors to explore a seaside resort in Pas de Calais, where two very different families have managed to become wrapped up in these strange circumstances. Dumont reunites with Juliette Binoche, who last starred in his 2013 Camille Claudel, 1915, and she’s joined notably by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Fabrice Luchini (who won Best Actor in Venice 2015 for L’hermine).
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Luc Vincent
Production Co./Producer: 3B Productions’ Jean Bréhat (Li’l Quinquin).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Memento Films (international).
Release Date: Dumont has appeared at Cannes five times, winning a special mention for...
- 1/13/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Slate also includes new films by Alain Guiraudie and Raymond Depardon.
Wild Bunch will launch a new biopic of legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin at Unifrance’s January event Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris.
Vincent Lindon (The Measure Of A Man) will star in the film entitled Rodin, which will shoot in 2016 for a 2017 release to coincide with the centenary of the sculptor’s death in November 1917.
French director Jacques Doillon (Love Battles) will direct from his own screenplay.
It is Lindon’s first major role since his Palme d’Or-winning performance in social drama The Measure Of A Man at Cannes last May.
Casting is currently underway for the role of Rodin’s tragic collaborator and lover Camille Claudel and his long-suffering, life-long companion Rose Beuret.
The picture will start as Rodin turns 40 and enters one of the most productive periods of his artistic career in which he created works such as The Thinker and The...
Wild Bunch will launch a new biopic of legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin at Unifrance’s January event Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris.
Vincent Lindon (The Measure Of A Man) will star in the film entitled Rodin, which will shoot in 2016 for a 2017 release to coincide with the centenary of the sculptor’s death in November 1917.
French director Jacques Doillon (Love Battles) will direct from his own screenplay.
It is Lindon’s first major role since his Palme d’Or-winning performance in social drama The Measure Of A Man at Cannes last May.
Casting is currently underway for the role of Rodin’s tragic collaborator and lover Camille Claudel and his long-suffering, life-long companion Rose Beuret.
The picture will start as Rodin turns 40 and enters one of the most productive periods of his artistic career in which he created works such as The Thinker and The...
- 12/29/2015
- ScreenDaily
We were excited as it is for Ben Wheatley's "High-Rise," but just the cast and premise alone for his next movie — the Martin Scorsese produced "Free Fire" — now has us salivating. And another great player has joined the mix. Brie Larson is replacing Olivia Wilde in the film that already has Luke Evans, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Smiley lined up to star. Set in Boston in 1978, and inspired by films like "The Killing," "The Big Combo, "The Driver," "Le Samourai," "The French Connection," "Goodfellas," "Casino," "Hard Boiled," "Reservoir Dogs," "The Getaway" and more, the story kicks off "in a deserted warehouse where a meeting between two gangs turns into a deadly shootout and all-out survival." Filming is expected to begin later this year. [Variety] Juliette Binoche is reteaming with her "Camille Claudel...
- 4/8/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Ensemble cast features Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; sales to launch at Cannes Marché.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has secured sales rights to Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay (Ma Loute), co-starring Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
The quirky, dark comedy revolving around an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.
The film follows Dumont’s Li’l Quinquin, the four-part TV series that premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight last year to rave reviews and marked a change in genre for the director of Cannes Grand Prix winners Humanité and Flanders. Some 1.4 million viewers watched the series when it was broadcast in France in September 2014.
“Bruno Dumont’s brilliant and hilarious script is a breath of fresh air,” said Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
“We’ve always loved Bruno’s cinema but Li’l Quinquin truly surprised us, becoming a cult...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has secured sales rights to Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay (Ma Loute), co-starring Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
The quirky, dark comedy revolving around an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.
The film follows Dumont’s Li’l Quinquin, the four-part TV series that premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight last year to rave reviews and marked a change in genre for the director of Cannes Grand Prix winners Humanité and Flanders. Some 1.4 million viewers watched the series when it was broadcast in France in September 2014.
“Bruno Dumont’s brilliant and hilarious script is a breath of fresh air,” said Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
“We’ve always loved Bruno’s cinema but Li’l Quinquin truly surprised us, becoming a cult...
- 4/7/2015
- ScreenDaily
Life of Quinquin: Dumont’s Foray into Miniseries Format Filled with His Brand of Peculiar Humor
Provocative auteur Bruno Dumont lets loose his comedic side with a four part miniseries, Li’l Quinquin, shown as one long piece at the Cannes Film Festival. While it apparently will be released in English speaking territories in the same fashion, its purposeful structure does make it seem better served to be viewed in more than one sitting, where its bizarre weirdness has a better chance of really sinking in. But one has to remember that we’re talking about Dumont here, the director who grapples with existential ennui usually through the lens of religious discord or the bleak isolation of rural settings. So the project is indeed the most comedic offering of the director’s oeuvre, following last year’s captivating look at sculptor Camille Claudel starring Juliette Binoche. Yet it’s not...
Provocative auteur Bruno Dumont lets loose his comedic side with a four part miniseries, Li’l Quinquin, shown as one long piece at the Cannes Film Festival. While it apparently will be released in English speaking territories in the same fashion, its purposeful structure does make it seem better served to be viewed in more than one sitting, where its bizarre weirdness has a better chance of really sinking in. But one has to remember that we’re talking about Dumont here, the director who grapples with existential ennui usually through the lens of religious discord or the bleak isolation of rural settings. So the project is indeed the most comedic offering of the director’s oeuvre, following last year’s captivating look at sculptor Camille Claudel starring Juliette Binoche. Yet it’s not...
- 1/1/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Polly Bergen: Actress on Richard Nixon's 'enemies list' (image: Polly Bergen publicity shot ca. late 1950s) (See previous article: "Polly Bergen Movies: First U.S. Woman President.") As discussed in the previous post, despite its deceptively progressive premise — the first United States woman president as a palpable reality — Kisses for My President, written by veteran Paramount screenwriter Claude Binyon (Search for Beauty, The Gilded Lily) and newcomer Robert G. Kane (whose sole other movie credit was the poorly received Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy Western Villain), was an unabashedly reactionary, "traditional family values" effort. Ironically, Polly Bergen, for her part, was a liberal-minded, politically active Democrat. At around the time Kisses for My President was released, Bergen, along with Gregory Peck, James Garner, and other Hollywood personalities, publicly came out against California's Proposition 14, a 1964 ballot initiative that would have nullified the Rumford Fair Housing Act, thus paving the way for...
- 9/22/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The following exchange took place between critics Michael Pattison and Neil Young over email between 4 and 8 August, not long after Li’l Quinquin screened at Wrocław’s New Horizons International Film Festival—following its world-premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and now playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).
Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin
Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...
Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).
Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin
Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...
- 9/10/2014
- by Neil Young
- MUBI
It’s fair to say that Bruno Dumont has favoured a quite bleak, unforgiving style of cinema – and his latest, Camille Claudel 1915, is certainly no different. The biopic is centred around the life of Camille Claudel, played by Juliette Binoche – a renowned sculpture who, following a break up with artist Auguste Rodin, had a breakdown and found herself confined to a mental institution. In spite of her somewhat speedy recovery, it’s where she spent the following 30 years of her life.
Dumont discusses how the project came into fruition, what it was like to work with real people suffering from mental illness as opposed to actors – and which Hollywood stars he would like to work with in the future.
How long have you been preparing for this movie – when did the idea of making it come to you?
In fact, it was when Juliette Binoche approached me to do a project together,...
Dumont discusses how the project came into fruition, what it was like to work with real people suffering from mental illness as opposed to actors – and which Hollywood stars he would like to work with in the future.
How long have you been preparing for this movie – when did the idea of making it come to you?
In fact, it was when Juliette Binoche approached me to do a project together,...
- 6/20/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It’s fair to say that Bruno Dumont has favoured a quite bleak, unforgiving style of cinema – and his latest, Camille Claudel 1915, is certainly no different. The biopic is centred around the life of Camille Claudel, played by Juliette Binoche – a renowned sculpture who, following a break up with artist Auguste Rodin, had a breakdown and found herself confined to a mental institution. In spite of her somewhat speedy recovery, it’s where she spent the following 30 years of her life.
Dumont discusses how the project came into fruition, what it was like to work with real people suffering from mental illness as opposed to actors – and which Hollywood stars he would like to work with in the future.
How long have you been preparing for this movie – when did the idea of making it come to you?
In fact, it was when Juliette Binoche approached me to do a project together,...
Dumont discusses how the project came into fruition, what it was like to work with real people suffering from mental illness as opposed to actors – and which Hollywood stars he would like to work with in the future.
How long have you been preparing for this movie – when did the idea of making it come to you?
In fact, it was when Juliette Binoche approached me to do a project together,...
- 6/20/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bruno Dumont, one of Europe’s most consistently unsparing directors, brings us Camille Claudel 1915, which follows on in a similar vein, and remains faithful to his somewhat unforgiving approach to filmmaking. Although the historical subject matter of Camille Claudel is something of a departure for him, it is unquestionably a Dumont film.
The French biopic looks at three days in the life of French sculptress Camille Claudel (Juliette Binoche), in her new home – a mental hospital. Confined to an asylum by her own family, following her break-up with Auguste Rodin, her situation is bleak and troubling. Camille must try to handle life in a mental hospital surrounded by co-inhabitants who are much less capable than herself, and with whom she cannot communicate with. It is clear that she does not belong here and the viewer can feel nothing but sympathy for the secluded and frustrated woman.
Binoche delivers a wonderful performance as Camille,...
The French biopic looks at three days in the life of French sculptress Camille Claudel (Juliette Binoche), in her new home – a mental hospital. Confined to an asylum by her own family, following her break-up with Auguste Rodin, her situation is bleak and troubling. Camille must try to handle life in a mental hospital surrounded by co-inhabitants who are much less capable than herself, and with whom she cannot communicate with. It is clear that she does not belong here and the viewer can feel nothing but sympathy for the secluded and frustrated woman.
Binoche delivers a wonderful performance as Camille,...
- 6/20/2014
- by Marie Ferrer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Bruno Dumont, one of Europe’s most consistently unsparing directors, brings us Camille Claudel 1915, which follows on in a similar vein, and remains faithful to his somewhat unforgiving approach to filmmaking. Although the historical subject matter of Camille Claudel is something of a departure for him, it is unquestionably a Dumont film.
The French biopic looks at three days in the life of French sculptress Camille Claudel (Juliette Binoche), in her new home – a mental hospital. Confined to an asylum by her own family, following her break-up with Auguste Rodin, her situation is bleak and troubling. Camille must try to handle life in a mental hospital surrounded by co-inhabitants who are much less capable than herself, and with whom she cannot communicate with. It is clear that she does not belong here and the viewer can feel nothing but sympathy for the secluded and frustrated woman.
Binoche delivers a wonderful performance as Camille,...
The French biopic looks at three days in the life of French sculptress Camille Claudel (Juliette Binoche), in her new home – a mental hospital. Confined to an asylum by her own family, following her break-up with Auguste Rodin, her situation is bleak and troubling. Camille must try to handle life in a mental hospital surrounded by co-inhabitants who are much less capable than herself, and with whom she cannot communicate with. It is clear that she does not belong here and the viewer can feel nothing but sympathy for the secluded and frustrated woman.
Binoche delivers a wonderful performance as Camille,...
- 6/20/2014
- by Marie Ferrer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Juliette Binoche as Camille Claudel
He has a reputation as a doom-and-gloom minimalist but French director Bruno Dumont is much more than the sum of his parts. In his latest film, Camille Claudel, 1915, he focuses on the ill-fated artist and her internment in a mental asylum after her long affair with Auguste Rodin. Inspired by correspondence between the artist and her younger brother Paul (himself a famous poet and dramaturge), it is a gruelling and meditative study very much in line with the tone of Dumont’s work such as Outside Satan and Humanité. Here he uses disabled people as supporting cast members and for the first time he works with a major star, Juliette Binoche. In the autumn he lightens up with a cop comedy series with a difference for French television. Richard Mowe met Dumont earlier this year in Paris at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
Richard Mowe: I believe that.
He has a reputation as a doom-and-gloom minimalist but French director Bruno Dumont is much more than the sum of his parts. In his latest film, Camille Claudel, 1915, he focuses on the ill-fated artist and her internment in a mental asylum after her long affair with Auguste Rodin. Inspired by correspondence between the artist and her younger brother Paul (himself a famous poet and dramaturge), it is a gruelling and meditative study very much in line with the tone of Dumont’s work such as Outside Satan and Humanité. Here he uses disabled people as supporting cast members and for the first time he works with a major star, Juliette Binoche. In the autumn he lightens up with a cop comedy series with a difference for French television. Richard Mowe met Dumont earlier this year in Paris at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
Richard Mowe: I believe that.
- 6/11/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Hubris
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Producers: Charles Gillibert, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Stuber
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Unkown
Once a project that was set to be helmed by Todd Field, Assayas, not even fresh off bowing his 2014 feature, Clouds of Sils Maria, will be churning out his first feature to film in the Us with this true crime story that suddenly seems even more lucrative now that he’s at the helm. Sure, Assayas has worked in English language films before—his latest film, along with Demonlover and Irma Vep feature a variety of languages, but we’re excited to see what names will populate his cast list in the coming year, as well as how his vision of Chicago’s underbelly will unfold.
Gist: Follows a group of small-time thieves who rob a man who turns out to be Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo.
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Producers: Charles Gillibert, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Stuber
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Unkown
Once a project that was set to be helmed by Todd Field, Assayas, not even fresh off bowing his 2014 feature, Clouds of Sils Maria, will be churning out his first feature to film in the Us with this true crime story that suddenly seems even more lucrative now that he’s at the helm. Sure, Assayas has worked in English language films before—his latest film, along with Demonlover and Irma Vep feature a variety of languages, but we’re excited to see what names will populate his cast list in the coming year, as well as how his vision of Chicago’s underbelly will unfold.
Gist: Follows a group of small-time thieves who rob a man who turns out to be Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo.
- 3/25/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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