Michael Gentile’s Paris-based The Film, the banner behind Julie Delpy’s upcoming show “On the Verge,” is developing a string of projects with emerging filmmakers, notably Yaël Cojot-Goldberg’s “Farewell Caracas” and Mehdi Fikri’s drama “Et maintenant, le feu.”
The company is also producing Danielle Arbid’s “Des châteaux qui brûlent,” based on Arno Bertina’ book, and Delpy’s next French-language movie, “Les Barbares,” a culture clash film set in Brittany.
“Farewell Caracas,” co-written by Cojot-Goldberg and Thomas Vincent (the co-director of “Bodyguard”), is set in the 1970s in Venezuela and is a semi-autobiographical tale. The film revolves around French expats who move to Venezuela and will star Melanie Thierry (“In Therapy”), Arieh Worthalter (“Girl”) and Mathieu Amalric (“Sound of Metal”). It tells the story of the helmer’s parents whose love for one another got tested after her father, who was a well-established banker, spiralled out of control after discovering Klaus Barbie,...
The company is also producing Danielle Arbid’s “Des châteaux qui brûlent,” based on Arno Bertina’ book, and Delpy’s next French-language movie, “Les Barbares,” a culture clash film set in Brittany.
“Farewell Caracas,” co-written by Cojot-Goldberg and Thomas Vincent (the co-director of “Bodyguard”), is set in the 1970s in Venezuela and is a semi-autobiographical tale. The film revolves around French expats who move to Venezuela and will star Melanie Thierry (“In Therapy”), Arieh Worthalter (“Girl”) and Mathieu Amalric (“Sound of Metal”). It tells the story of the helmer’s parents whose love for one another got tested after her father, who was a well-established banker, spiralled out of control after discovering Klaus Barbie,...
- 7/11/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
MaryAnn’s quick take… Laetitia Dosch burns with a passionate anxiety in French writer-director Léonor Serraille’s debut, a clever, wise, wildly unsentimental portrait of a woman learning how to be herself. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
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When we meet 30ish Parisian Paula, she is banging her head on the door to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment. Literally. Violently. She ends up with a nasty wound on her forehead and a trip to the psych ward… from which she walks away only to head straight back to his building to scream at him via the intercom and then just up at his windows. He is not impressed. (Neither are the neighbors.)
Laetitia Dosch’s Paula is aimless, abrasive, difficult to like.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
When we meet 30ish Parisian Paula, she is banging her head on the door to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment. Literally. Violently. She ends up with a nasty wound on her forehead and a trip to the psych ward… from which she walks away only to head straight back to his building to scream at him via the intercom and then just up at his windows. He is not impressed. (Neither are the neighbors.)
Laetitia Dosch’s Paula is aimless, abrasive, difficult to like.
- 5/18/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Laetitia Dosch gives a raw, powerful performance in this affecting drama about a young woman going through an extreme emotional crisis
Léonor Serraille is the 32-year-old first-time director from Lyon who won the Camera d’Or prize at last year’s Cannes and also a César for this attractive and sympathetically acted movie in a classic New Wave style. It is co-scripted by her and editor Clémence Carré, as well as screenwriter Bastien Daret.
Its star, Laetitia Dosch, is on screen for almost every minute. She gives a keenly emotional, raw, open performance as Paula, a young woman going through an extreme emotional crisis, having evidently broken up with her older boyfriend – a famous photographer whose intimate and erotic picture of Paula in the bath has become the much-exhibited talk of the town.
Léonor Serraille is the 32-year-old first-time director from Lyon who won the Camera d’Or prize at last year’s Cannes and also a César for this attractive and sympathetically acted movie in a classic New Wave style. It is co-scripted by her and editor Clémence Carré, as well as screenwriter Bastien Daret.
Its star, Laetitia Dosch, is on screen for almost every minute. She gives a keenly emotional, raw, open performance as Paula, a young woman going through an extreme emotional crisis, having evidently broken up with her older boyfriend – a famous photographer whose intimate and erotic picture of Paula in the bath has become the much-exhibited talk of the town.
- 5/17/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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