There are no more potential-killing words of creative advice than “write what you know.” Certainly it’s a shame that when donning her screenwriter chapeau, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi — a fine actress and a director with a deft, light touch, especially with breezy character comedy — seems to have taken them so to heart. Once again she goes back to the autobiographical well for her latest directorial trifle, “Forever Young,” which she co-writes alongside Agnès De Sacy and regular collaborator Noémie Lvovsky.
Once again the result is set in a rarefied world of which Bruni Tedeschi has intimate knowledge: this time the 1980s acting school run by the late French theater, opera and film director Patrice Chéreau. And once again she fails to make much of a case for why any of it should resonate with anyone outside this tiny, hermetically enclosed community. Staying in your lane is hardly a...
Once again the result is set in a rarefied world of which Bruni Tedeschi has intimate knowledge: this time the 1980s acting school run by the late French theater, opera and film director Patrice Chéreau. And once again she fails to make much of a case for why any of it should resonate with anyone outside this tiny, hermetically enclosed community. Staying in your lane is hardly a...
- 5/24/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Turning on the waterworks and ripping open her blouse to cap a performance of Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Respectful Prostitute,” aspiring actress Stella (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) concludes her audition for France’s most prestigious theatre school with a question from the jury. As he puffs a cigarette and speaks the first lines of dialogue written expressly for this film, an inscrutable juror looks to the ingénue and asks, “Do you think an actress needs to be an exhibitionist?”
In that opening, we find the fulcrum for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s “Forever Young.” Asking the same question to the audience and to herself — with the Stella character a clear analogue for the director — Bruni Tedeschi dances around a definitive answer, turning out an autobiographical portrait that somehow leaves you knowing less about the subject at hand, and a study of actors, warts and all, that offers little insight into the artistic process.
In that opening, we find the fulcrum for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s “Forever Young.” Asking the same question to the audience and to herself — with the Stella character a clear analogue for the director — Bruni Tedeschi dances around a definitive answer, turning out an autobiographical portrait that somehow leaves you knowing less about the subject at hand, and a study of actors, warts and all, that offers little insight into the artistic process.
- 5/24/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
A decade after presenting A Castle in Italy (2013), Valeria Bruni‑Tedeschi returns to the competition with Les Amandiers (Forever Young). Starring Louis Garrel as Patrice Chéreau and a slew of students lucky (or unlucky) to make it into the infamous school of actors in Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alexia Chardard and Oscar Lesage, this is Bruni‑Tedeschi’s third trip to the fest as a director – she showcased 2007’s Actresses in the Un Certain Regard section. Having not seen that film – I wonder if both films speak to one another.
Simply put this follows a group of students admitted into Patrice Chéreau’s Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre in the 1980s.…...
Simply put this follows a group of students admitted into Patrice Chéreau’s Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre in the 1980s.…...
- 5/23/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Benedetta
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne Patakia, Quentin D’Hainaut, Alexia Chardard, Louise Chevillotte
Cinematographer: Jeanne Lapoirie
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Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne Patakia, Quentin D’Hainaut, Alexia Chardard, Louise Chevillotte
Cinematographer: Jeanne Lapoirie
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- 1/12/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Faced with criticisms from some corners about the gaze employed on his young leads in “Blue Is The Warmest Color,” director Abdellatif Kechiche doubles down with his new film “Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno.” In fact, the trailer forgoes any dialogue and lets the camera dance around the characters who spend plenty of time making out and frolicking in their swimsuits.
Featuring a cast of mostly unknowns (Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche, Lou Luttiau, Alexia Chardard and Hafsia Herzi), the story follows a young screenwriter faced with a difficult choice between his lover and his career.
Featuring a cast of mostly unknowns (Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche, Lou Luttiau, Alexia Chardard and Hafsia Herzi), the story follows a young screenwriter faced with a difficult choice between his lover and his career.
- 3/2/2018
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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