Variety is reporting that Green Room's Mark Webber, Rachel Hurd-Wood from An American Haunting and French actor Lorant Deutsch will lead the cast of Joe Dante's upcoming chiller Labirinthus. “Labirintus” tells the story of a paranormal investigator (Webber), psychiatric researcher (Hurd-Wood) and engineer (Deutsch) who join forces to explore an abandoned subterranean Soviet research facility, hidden within the dark twisting catacombs beneath Buda Castle. When supernatural forces confound and torment the group they begin to question their own sanity. To escape they must quash their fears and lead their team to find and destroy the dark heart of the maze. Dante said: “Mark, Rachel and Lorant are phenomenal actors and I am delighted to be working with them in what I anticipate will...

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By Fred Blosser

Stories about domineering fathers and neglected offspring are at least as old as the Bible and Shakespeare. Gilles Legrand’s “You Will Be My Son” (2012) is a worthy addition to the genre.

Paul de Marseul (Niels Arestrup) is distressed to learn that his friend Francois Amelot (Patrick Chesnais) has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Paul is the wealthy owner of a French vineyard, and Francois has served for more than 30 years as his estate manager: “a fancy name for winemaker,” Francois comments. When Francois announces that he’s too weak from his illness to begin the new production season, Paul’s son Martin (Lorant Deutsch) steps up, eager to take on the responsibility. He handles sales for the company, and he knows Francois’ routine through years of observation. But Paul has no faith in Martin’s abilities as a vintner, and the two men moreover have a strained personal relationship.

At a beautiful vineyard in Southern France, wine-maker Paul de Marseul (Niels Arestrup) is looking for an heir worthy of taking over the family business. He is unsure that his son Martin (Lorant Deutsch), who still lives on the property with his wife, is up to the task. When his estate manager Francois Amelot (Patrick Chesnais) falls ill and receives a terminal diagnosis from his doctor, Francois’ son Philippe (Nicolas Bidet) comes home to say goodbye to his father and inadvertently attracts the attention of Paul with his wine-making skills. Paul becomes obsessed with grooming Philippe to be his successor and the son he always wanted while also pushing Martin away emotionally and questioning his manhood.

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French actor Niels Arestrup's career spans almost 40 years. He has worked with such directors as Alain Resnais, Chantal Akerman and Claude Sautet. But it's Jacques Audiard's films of the last decade -- The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), A Prophet (2009) -- in which he plays stern father figures that really put him on the map. With that unmistakable white mane and stop-in-your-tracks stare, he is also fantastic as an overbearing father in Gilles Legrand's You Will Be My Son, a family drama set in the Bordeaux wine region of France.Paul de Marseul (Arestrup) is an owner of prestigious winery. He has a dilemma. He really doesn't like the idea of his meek son Martin (Lorant Deutsch) taking over the business that's been...

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“You Will Be My Son” could very well be the “Moby Dick” of stories about realistically awful fathers. The beauty of a gorgeous vineyard in France is obscured by the monstrous countenance of Paul de Marseul (Niels Arestrup), a bitter old man caring for his massive wine business with a pompous sense of ownership that shrinks all those around him. The man who bears the brunt of this condescension, however, is his own son. Paul considers himself raised off the land whereas dedicated son Martin (Lorant Deutsch) is college-educated. Paul, a beefy, overweight older man with a brusque manner, barrels into rooms with his top buttons undone, his beard unkempt and usually with a bottle of wine in his chubby fingers. Martin, by contrast, is a lanky, weak-chinned intellectual with a finely-ironed wardrobe and a knowledge of wine that comes not from taste or touch, but from books. Nonetheless, Martin...

The Great Santini with a pinch of Straw Dogs in French wine country, Gilles Legrand’s You Will Be My Son recalls the “A” pictures Hollywood has basically stopped making. Whether Legrand’s alternately compelling and clichéd drama of father-son struggles achieves the greatness of the aforementioned films is another matter. Paul de Merseul (Niels Arestrup) is a revered French vintner, lording over his estate with kingly resolve. His mousy heir apparent, son Martin (Lorànt Deutsch), is an object of constant disdain for Paul―so when head winemaker François (Patrick Chesnais) falls ill and his handsome son Philippe (Nicolas Bridet) arrives to help, the stars align for Paul to have a new second-in-command. Further complic...

The Meek Shall Inherit: Legrand’s Familial Conflict a Seething, Elegant Drama

French director Gilles Legrand, (though perhaps better known as a producer on titles for Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Patrice Leconte) scores an uncomfortably vicious drama with his third feature, concerning a father’s hated for his heir with You Will Be My Son. Operating like the patriarchal flipside of a the main motif behind a 2007 Isabelle Huppert vehicle, L’amour Cache, Legrand twists the discomfort unrelentingly, which may strike many as over the top or even melodramatic. But the patriarchal poison on display here, while perhaps just a titch predictable, is nonetheless as elegantly made as the fine wines that fuel the narrative.

Paul de Marseul (Niels Arestrup) is a successful winemaker, whose vineyard may not be the most financially stable, but who has an uncanny ability to make (and detect) fine wines. However, his son and only heir to the business,...

★★★☆☆ The third feature from French director Gilles Legrand, You Will Be My Son (Tu seras mon fils, 2011) sees the inimitable Niels Arestrup take the role of Paul de Marseul, a successful winemaker in Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux. With ample support from co-stars Lorànt Deutsch and Nicolas Bridet as his respective son and heir, Legrand has concocted a sharp, fruity family inheritance drama that he duly leaves to ferment ahead of the great uncorking. Whilst those with a receptive palette will find much to savour, what could have been the cinematic equivalent of a sprightly white or an intense red ends up more of a middling rose.

Disheartened by the notion of his 'weak' son Martin (a rodent-like Deutsch) taking over the family business, Paul faces further complication when his friend and business partner François (Patrick Chesnais) is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Paul doesn't believe his son to have inherited the qualities...

Title: You Will Be My Son (Tu seras mon fils) Cohen Media Group Director: Gilles Legrand Screenwriter: Gilles Legrand, Delphine de Vigan Cast: Niels Arestrup, Lorant Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais, Nicolas Bridet Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 2/12/13 Opens: March 29, 2013 It’s only natural for fathers and mothers to want their sons and daughters to choose work similar to their own; that is, if the work done by the older generation is meaningful to society, enjoyable to themselves, and of course lucrative. A lawyer with an independent office, a doctor with her own practice, will want their children to take over their offices when retirement or death ensues. There’s an [ Read More ]

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Seven Psychopaths (15)

(Martin McDonagh, 2012, Us) Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits. 110 mins

It's a cult movie formula to die for: Pulp Fiction meets the Coens meets Adaptation, with postmodern high-jinks, wacky crime thrills and lashings of irreverent comedy. The latter redeems a movie that's almost too manically clever for its own good. Reality barely enters into this story of a blocked screenwriter caught up in a dognapping escapade, but there's never a dull moment. Perhaps it could do with a few.

Celeste And Jesse Forever (15)

(Lee Toland Krieger, 2012, Us) Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Ari Graynor. 92 mins

A made-for-each-other couple have trouble staying separate in this relaxed romcom,...

Gilles Legrand's soapy drama is all a bit absurd, but its absurdity is handled with some style

This film may be preposterous and soap-operatic, but director Gilles Legrand hammers it home with some storytelling gusto, and there's a richly enjoyable central performance from Niels Arestrup, the only possible actor for this role. Its story concerns a French chateau andvineyard ruled over by mercurial old wine-lover Paul de Marseul (Arestrup). Afraid of death, Paul is increasingly contemptuous of his own son Martin (Lorànt Deutsch), a milksop – so he thinks – with no passion for wine. Instead, Paul conceives a capricious, fatherly love for Philippe (Nicolas Bridet), the son of his estate manager François (Patrick Chesnais), because Philippe has a natural flair for the business. It's all a bit absurd, but Legrand handles the absurdity with some style, and there is something clever in making an apparently minor character responsible for a major narrative flourish.

Paris -- Universal Pictures International and Quad Production will breathe life into French comedy "Living is Better than Dying" starring Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard and national heartthrob Romain Duris, Upi's president of acquisitions and production Christian Grass, Upi France's Stephane Huard and Quad's Nicolas Duval Adassovsky said Wednesday.

Pascal Chaumeil will be back behind the camera again directing Duris after the two paired on recent hit comedy "Heartbreaker" co-starring Vanessa Paradis.

Francois Damiens will round out the cast for the story about a dreamer running from the police who becomes an action hero when he pitches an idea to a Hollywood film producer.

Shooting will kick off in the summer of 2011. Upi France is planning a 2012 release and nm3358231 autoGregoire Melin[/link]'s Kinology is handling international sales.

Upi is hoping the film will be its next "Heartbreaker" after that title, co-produced by Upi and released by Upi France, has sold...

Chalk this up as something we could be keeping an eye on. Attempts to contact the trio of production companies in Zurich, Luxembourg and France have proven to be fruitless in these last 24 hours so I’ll offer up what we know right now. French actors Lorànt Deutsch, Dominique Pinon [Dante 01, City of Lost Children and Delicatessen], Philippe Nahon [Haute Tension and Brotherhood of the Wolf] and Sara Forestier [Perfume: The Story of a Murderer] star in the film. This will be the debut film by Pierre-Olivier Thévenin and Jacques-Olivier Molon. Pierre-Olivier and Jacques-Olivier chiseled their jibs as makeup effects men on Twitch favorites like Inside and Blade II [well, Inside at least I can’t speak for everyone else about Blade II]. So we can be sure at least there will be very good effects in film. Just how bloody they will get with them we’ll have to see. What is it with French directing duos by the way? Its...