Gaumont has lured distributors in key territories for Yvan Attal’s “The Accusation” ahead of the movie’s world premiere out of competition at Venice.
Based on Karine Tuil’s bestseller “Les Choses Humaines,” “The Accusation” follows the downfall of a French intellectual power couple whose model son, Alexandre, is accused of rape, setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine. The film was penned by Attal and Yaël Langmann.
Attal’s previous directorial efforts include “My Wife Is an Actress” and “Le Brio.” Tuil’s book won a pair of prestigious awards, including the Prix Goncourt High Schoolers in 2019 and has been translated in Germany, Italy and Russia with a dozen of other countries coming up.
Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in the film alongside Pierre Arditi, Benjamin Lavernhe, Ben Attal and Mathieu Kassovitz.
Gaumont has pre-sold “The Accusation” to Canada (MK2 Mile End), Brazil (Imovision), Israel (Nachshon), Spain (Karma), Cis...
Based on Karine Tuil’s bestseller “Les Choses Humaines,” “The Accusation” follows the downfall of a French intellectual power couple whose model son, Alexandre, is accused of rape, setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine. The film was penned by Attal and Yaël Langmann.
Attal’s previous directorial efforts include “My Wife Is an Actress” and “Le Brio.” Tuil’s book won a pair of prestigious awards, including the Prix Goncourt High Schoolers in 2019 and has been translated in Germany, Italy and Russia with a dozen of other countries coming up.
Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in the film alongside Pierre Arditi, Benjamin Lavernhe, Ben Attal and Mathieu Kassovitz.
Gaumont has pre-sold “The Accusation” to Canada (MK2 Mile End), Brazil (Imovision), Israel (Nachshon), Spain (Karma), Cis...
- 9/4/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Rare is the movie about writer’s block that doesn’t end with the frustrated author scrapping his dead-end drafts in order to “write what you know” — i.e., the film we’ve just sat through. More uncommon still is the dog movie that doesn’t rely on its canine lead to warm hearts, jerk tears or teach its owner important lessons about his humanity. So let’s start by giving the French midlife-crisis drama “My Dog Stupid” credit for doing something different with the trite conventions of the two feel-good categories to which it belongs.
Writer-director Yvan Attal has made three films with real-life wife Charlotte Gainsbourg — “My Wife Is an Actress,” “Happily Ever After” and now this — and with each movie, he sands away still more of the mystique that surrounds celebrity couples. Here, he plays Henri Mohen, the literary equivalent of a one-hit wonder, coasting on the...
Writer-director Yvan Attal has made three films with real-life wife Charlotte Gainsbourg — “My Wife Is an Actress,” “Happily Ever After” and now this — and with each movie, he sands away still more of the mystique that surrounds celebrity couples. Here, he plays Henri Mohen, the literary equivalent of a one-hit wonder, coasting on the...
- 7/31/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Studiocanal has sold near all of the world outside the U.S. on Hugo Gélin’s “Love at Second Sight.” The European production-distribution-sales giant, part of Vivendi’s Canal Plus Group, has also kicked off promising sales on a panoply of new foreign-language titles, such as Yvan Attal’s “My Dog Stupid,” Cedric Klapisch’s “Someone Somewhere” and animated feature “Samsam.”
“Our mission at Studiocanal is to ensure we make high-quality European cinema with strong global potential,” said Anna Marsh, Studiocanal Evp, international distribution.
Described by Marsh as a “key title, a high concept movie which really appeals.” “Love at Second Sight” stars François Civil as a young best-selling novelist who forgets the love of his life in one world to wake up in another where she’s a world-famous pianist who’s never met him.
Combining large ambition, a questioning take on gender equality in relationships, and a director whose 2017 debut,...
“Our mission at Studiocanal is to ensure we make high-quality European cinema with strong global potential,” said Anna Marsh, Studiocanal Evp, international distribution.
Described by Marsh as a “key title, a high concept movie which really appeals.” “Love at Second Sight” stars François Civil as a young best-selling novelist who forgets the love of his life in one world to wake up in another where she’s a world-famous pianist who’s never met him.
Combining large ambition, a questioning take on gender equality in relationships, and a director whose 2017 debut,...
- 2/14/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Jane Birkin on Jacques Rivette: "I went to see Céline et Julie vont en bateau." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin are being celebrated in New York with 19 films and a series of conversations. After a screening of Agnès Varda's Jane B. Par Agnès V., Birkin spoke about working with Jacques Rivette on L’Amour Par Terre with Geraldine Chaplin, 36 Vues Du Pic Saint Loup, La Belle Noiseuse with Michel Piccoli, and taxidermy.
Claude Miller's L'Effrontée; Michel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep (La Science Des Rêves); Andrew Birkin's The Cement Garden; Yvan Attal's My Wife Is An Actress (Ma Femme Est Une Actrice); Birkin's Boxes (Les Boites); Claude Miller's The Little Thief (La Petite Voleuse); Varda's Kung Fu Master! (Le Petit Amour); Serge Gainsbourg's Charlotte For Ever; Jacques Doillon's The Prodigal Daughter (La Fille Prodigue); Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgia...
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin are being celebrated in New York with 19 films and a series of conversations. After a screening of Agnès Varda's Jane B. Par Agnès V., Birkin spoke about working with Jacques Rivette on L’Amour Par Terre with Geraldine Chaplin, 36 Vues Du Pic Saint Loup, La Belle Noiseuse with Michel Piccoli, and taxidermy.
Claude Miller's L'Effrontée; Michel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep (La Science Des Rêves); Andrew Birkin's The Cement Garden; Yvan Attal's My Wife Is An Actress (Ma Femme Est Une Actrice); Birkin's Boxes (Les Boites); Claude Miller's The Little Thief (La Petite Voleuse); Varda's Kung Fu Master! (Le Petit Amour); Serge Gainsbourg's Charlotte For Ever; Jacques Doillon's The Prodigal Daughter (La Fille Prodigue); Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgia...
- 2/2/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Us director James Gray to preside over main competition jury, as previously announced.
Marco Müller, artistic director of the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17), has announced the jury members who will complete the Competition Jury.
Jury president James Gray will be joined by:
Verónica Chen (Argentina);Luca Guadagnino (Italy);Aleksei Guskov (Russia);Noémie Lvovsky (France);Amir Naderi (Iran);Zhang Yuan (China).
(See below for more details on the jury)
The Jury will confer the feature films in Competition the:
Golden Marc’Aurelio Award for Best FilmBest Director AwardSpecial Jury PrizeBest Actor AwardBest Actress AwardAward for Emerging Actor or ActressAward for Best Technical ContributionAward for Best Screenplay.
It was also announced today that Italian actress Anna Foglietta will host the awards ceremony on Nov 16.
The actress, whose credits include Anton Corbijn’s 2010 thriller The American, starring Geroge Clooney, will continue to do the honours through the second part of the evening, when the Maverick...
Marco Müller, artistic director of the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17), has announced the jury members who will complete the Competition Jury.
Jury president James Gray will be joined by:
Verónica Chen (Argentina);Luca Guadagnino (Italy);Aleksei Guskov (Russia);Noémie Lvovsky (France);Amir Naderi (Iran);Zhang Yuan (China).
(See below for more details on the jury)
The Jury will confer the feature films in Competition the:
Golden Marc’Aurelio Award for Best FilmBest Director AwardSpecial Jury PrizeBest Actor AwardBest Actress AwardAward for Emerging Actor or ActressAward for Best Technical ContributionAward for Best Screenplay.
It was also announced today that Italian actress Anna Foglietta will host the awards ceremony on Nov 16.
The actress, whose credits include Anton Corbijn’s 2010 thriller The American, starring Geroge Clooney, will continue to do the honours through the second part of the evening, when the Maverick...
- 10/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A day or two ago I casually linked to the first poster for Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac though this flippant "oh and..." way of dealing with it doesn't do its succinct brilliance justic. So, it gets a whole post.
Classic Lars pranksterism Although... does Lars love or hate Charlotte Gainsbourg's punani? This is difficult to suss out. I mean he obviously hated it in Antichrist (rusty scissors anyone?) but despite this tagline "Forget About Love" this strikes me as a very affectionate nod to Charlotte's private parts Best use of the parenthetical since Me and You and Everyone We Know
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Back and Forth Forever
Pedro Almodovar probably already has this poster framed... (The Shrinking Lover anyone?) I don't see how this would work for a matching penis poster. No, I was not just trying to figure that out on my keyboard. Shut up. There's been a lot of...
Classic Lars pranksterism Although... does Lars love or hate Charlotte Gainsbourg's punani? This is difficult to suss out. I mean he obviously hated it in Antichrist (rusty scissors anyone?) but despite this tagline "Forget About Love" this strikes me as a very affectionate nod to Charlotte's private parts Best use of the parenthetical since Me and You and Everyone We Know
))<>((
Back and Forth Forever
Pedro Almodovar probably already has this poster framed... (The Shrinking Lover anyone?) I don't see how this would work for a matching penis poster. No, I was not just trying to figure that out on my keyboard. Shut up. There's been a lot of...
- 5/3/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Clearly as the maker of a 2011 silent film, Michel Hazanavicius is a filmmaker drawn to risky endeavors. After winning worldwide acclaim for The Artist its writer-director is now taking a new risk, pursuing acting with the satirical comedy Jacky au royaume des filles, which translates to Jacky in Women's Kingdom. Though he's previously appeared in such French comedies as Yvan Attal's My Wife is an Actress and Alain Chabat's Didier, Jacky in Women's Kingdom--which is what we'll call it until U.S. distributors bestow it a flashier title.will mark his first major role. Variety reports comic book artist turned filmmaker Riad Sattouf, who made his directorial debut with the 2009 coming-of-age comedy The French Kissers, wrote and will helm this funny feature which is set in a world where gender roles are reversed, and women reign in a military dictatorship. Hazanavicius will reteam with My Wife is an Actress...
- 9/9/2012
- cinemablend.com
R&B star Robin Thicke and his sexy wife Paula Patton are planning a very sexy Christmas after spending much of 2011 apart.
The singer has been working on new material and Patton has been shooting the new Mission: Impossible movie, Ghost Protocol, all over the world with Tom Cruise.
Thicke admits the Christmas holidays will give him the chance to really love his wife - and they might not leave the bedroom.
He explains, "My wife is an actress, a mother, and a wife and I am a husband, a father and a singer so we haven't seen each other a lot the past couple of weeks.
"We won't see each other a lot until Christmas and it's very difficult, but the only thing that gets us by is having great sex together. There is never enough (sex). When it does happen, it goes on for hours."...
The singer has been working on new material and Patton has been shooting the new Mission: Impossible movie, Ghost Protocol, all over the world with Tom Cruise.
Thicke admits the Christmas holidays will give him the chance to really love his wife - and they might not leave the bedroom.
He explains, "My wife is an actress, a mother, and a wife and I am a husband, a father and a singer so we haven't seen each other a lot the past couple of weeks.
"We won't see each other a lot until Christmas and it's very difficult, but the only thing that gets us by is having great sex together. There is never enough (sex). When it does happen, it goes on for hours."...
- 12/24/2011
- WENN
France's most self-critical film star, Charlotte Gainsbourg has grown up surrounded by controversy. As she collaborates with Lars von Trier once again, in Melancholia, she talks here about motherhood, movies and preserving her father's memory
A pregnant Charlotte Gainsbourg runs her fingers across her bump, which is encased in cashmere and discreetly wedged behind the table of a Paris hotel bar. She is trying to work out what her children might hate her for. Because to her, France's most self-critical film star, it is obvious that they will hate her for something. "You always have so much to reproach your parents for," she muses. "It's normal. I can see already what my kids will have to blame me for. I prefer to anticipate the bad side rather than get a slap in the face later."
Gainsbourg, 40, is fascinated by bad parents. "I like bad mothers," she declares. What she means...
A pregnant Charlotte Gainsbourg runs her fingers across her bump, which is encased in cashmere and discreetly wedged behind the table of a Paris hotel bar. She is trying to work out what her children might hate her for. Because to her, France's most self-critical film star, it is obvious that they will hate her for something. "You always have so much to reproach your parents for," she muses. "It's normal. I can see already what my kids will have to blame me for. I prefer to anticipate the bad side rather than get a slap in the face later."
Gainsbourg, 40, is fascinated by bad parents. "I like bad mothers," she declares. What she means...
- 9/29/2011
- by Angelique Chrisafis
- The Guardian - Film News
Famous as much for her parents, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, as her acting, the French film star is raddled with self-criticism and doubt
A pregnant Charlotte Gainsbourg runs her fingers across her bump, which is encased in cashmere and discreetly wedged behind the table of a Paris hotel bar. She is trying to work out what her children might hate her for. Because to her, France's most self-critical film star, it is obvious that they will hate her for something. "You always have so much to reproach your parents for," she muses. "It's normal. I can see already what my kids will have to blame me for. I prefer to anticipate the bad side rather than get a slap in the face later."
Gainsbourg, 40, is fascinated by bad parents. "I like bad mothers," she declares. What she means is she likes playing parental incompetents – hapless drifters or neglectful control-freaks...
A pregnant Charlotte Gainsbourg runs her fingers across her bump, which is encased in cashmere and discreetly wedged behind the table of a Paris hotel bar. She is trying to work out what her children might hate her for. Because to her, France's most self-critical film star, it is obvious that they will hate her for something. "You always have so much to reproach your parents for," she muses. "It's normal. I can see already what my kids will have to blame me for. I prefer to anticipate the bad side rather than get a slap in the face later."
Gainsbourg, 40, is fascinated by bad parents. "I like bad mothers," she declares. What she means is she likes playing parental incompetents – hapless drifters or neglectful control-freaks...
- 8/5/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Real-life couple Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal will once again share the lead, this time in Belgian director Lucas Belvaux eighth feature film which is set to begin filming next month in the North of France in Le Havre. Titled Une nuit (One Night) this sees thesps Nicole Garcia and Natacha Régnier (who starred in the Cannes selected La Raison du plus faible) fill out the supporting roles. Attal starred in Belvaux's last picture Rapt (2009) which will be released stateside on July 12th. Gist: Inspired by Didier Decoin's novel "Est-ce ainsi que les femmes meurent?", this is the story of a wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who discovers that her husband is one of the witnesses of a crime scene. Worth Noting: The Gainsbourg-Attal pair of previously starred together in such films as My Wife is an Actress (2001) and in ...And They Lived Happily Ever After (2004). Do We Care?: Like...
- 1/10/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Lorber Films has secured U.S. rights to Belgian director/actor Lucas Belvaux's French thriller "Rapt" and scheduled a theatrical release that starts in New York next July. Starring is Yvan Attal ("Munich," "My Wife is an Actress") as a kidnapped millionaire being held for ransom. Also in the cast are Anne Consigny ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"), André Marcon ("The Page Turner") and veteran Françoise Fabian ("Belle de Jour"). The film first screened in the U.S. at the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of the Rendez-vous with French Cinema series.
- 11/4/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jeff Gerrard is the king of commercials. With 3,500 spots under his belt and a decade-and-a-half stint as president of the Commercial Casting Directors Association, there's no question that he knows his way around the ad world. But Gerrard, who is based in Sherman Oaks, Calif., isn't just about commercials. He also boasts an impressive feature-film résumé that includes "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" and the Steven Seagal vehicle "Half Past Dead." More recently, he's been hard at work casting "microseries" like "My Manny" for TBS—short, advertiser-sponsored episodic bits that run during the commercial breaks in popular shows.Accidental CareerIt was all an accident. I was an actor for 15 years, and I loved every second of it. I used to audition for a company called Bci Casting quite a bit in commercials. They called one day after they'd seen a couple of shows in town I'd directed. They said, "Can you come in and help us?...
- 8/5/2010
- backstage.com
An introverted Parisian architect Mathieu goes back to a small town where he grew up, to tend to his dying mother in her final days. There he spots his old fling Maya on the street. So begins this wish fulfillment, a-second-chance-at-what-could've-been story. Even though they've grown up and have separate lives- Mathieu married to an architect partner and Maya to a brutish local farmer, they've been keeping the memories of their first great love and heartbreaks. This time, they can't take their hands off of each other. So they carry on with their affairs under the noses of their semi-suspecting spouses. Yvan Attal, (My Wife is an Actress, Les Patriots) is great as mild mannered Mathieu who gets blinded by his rekindled love. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (It's Easier for a Camel, Nennet et Boni), plays indecisive Maya. With her tiny raspy voice and big, deep fawn eyes, Tedeschi could bring out madness in any man.
- 3/7/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Chicago – For film lovers unable to attend international film festivals, “Paris, je t’aime” provided an irresistible glimpse at world cinema. Eighteen celebrated filmmakers were each recruited to make a short subject set in the City of Love, thus allowing audiences to view the same town from different cultural perspectives. Some shorts worked better than others, but the resounding majority of them were utterly captivating.
It’s great to see this cinematic experiment continue with “New York, I Love You,” despite the fact that it isn’t anywhere near as artistically stimulating or dramatically satisfying as its predecessor. There’s only ten filmmakers this time, excluding Randy Balsmeyer, who handles the transitions. While “Paris” included Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuaron and the Coen brothers, “New York” offers directors like Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth”), Allen Hughes (“The Book of Eli”) and Brett Ratner (“Rush Hour”), whose very name inspires derisive laughter amongst film purists.
It’s great to see this cinematic experiment continue with “New York, I Love You,” despite the fact that it isn’t anywhere near as artistically stimulating or dramatically satisfying as its predecessor. There’s only ten filmmakers this time, excluding Randy Balsmeyer, who handles the transitions. While “Paris” included Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuaron and the Coen brothers, “New York” offers directors like Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth”), Allen Hughes (“The Book of Eli”) and Brett Ratner (“Rush Hour”), whose very name inspires derisive laughter amongst film purists.
- 2/5/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Since debuting aged 13 with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, on a pop single called 'Lemon Incest', the French-British actress and singer has courted controversy. Last year she starred as a demonic mother in Lars von Trier's controversial film Antichrist. As her third album is released, made with Us songwriter Beck, she talks to Sean O'Hagan about her recent brain surgery and her enduring feelings for her late father
In the summer of 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg had what seemed like a minor water-skiing accident. Six months later, after attending a gala screening in Venice of Todd Haynes's film, I'm Not There, in which she played one of Bob Dylan's wives, she suffered "a seven day headache". Back home in Paris, she went to the doctor for a check-up and found out that she was lucky to be alive.
"They did an Mri scan and found that my brain had been...
In the summer of 2007, Charlotte Gainsbourg had what seemed like a minor water-skiing accident. Six months later, after attending a gala screening in Venice of Todd Haynes's film, I'm Not There, in which she played one of Bob Dylan's wives, she suffered "a seven day headache". Back home in Paris, she went to the doctor for a check-up and found out that she was lucky to be alive.
"They did an Mri scan and found that my brain had been...
- 1/10/2010
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
Antichrist
Directed by: Lars Von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe
Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Rating: Nc-17
Release Date: October 23, 2009 (Limited)
Plot: After the sudden loss of their son, a married couple (Gainsbourg, Dafoe) with a strained relationship seek healing in their cabin in the woods.
Who’S It For? This horrifying film is likely to gain some sort of following, despite having a narrow appeal that demands art house audience members to watch images that would disturb even the most grotesque fare of mainstream Hollywood.
Expectations: At the same festival that gave Gainsbourg’s performance an award for Best Actress, audience members were apparently throwing up and passing out. Other than hearing this, I had nothing but the bold title of Antichrist to tempt me.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Charlotte Gainsbourg as She: An incredible amount of passion pours out of Gainsbourg in this performance, which is always at full force,...
Directed by: Lars Von Trier
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe
Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Rating: Nc-17
Release Date: October 23, 2009 (Limited)
Plot: After the sudden loss of their son, a married couple (Gainsbourg, Dafoe) with a strained relationship seek healing in their cabin in the woods.
Who’S It For? This horrifying film is likely to gain some sort of following, despite having a narrow appeal that demands art house audience members to watch images that would disturb even the most grotesque fare of mainstream Hollywood.
Expectations: At the same festival that gave Gainsbourg’s performance an award for Best Actress, audience members were apparently throwing up and passing out. Other than hearing this, I had nothing but the bold title of Antichrist to tempt me.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Charlotte Gainsbourg as She: An incredible amount of passion pours out of Gainsbourg in this performance, which is always at full force,...
- 10/23/2009
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
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