Following “Marie’s Story” and “Take a Chance on Me,” French director Jean-Pierre Améris is reteaming with Paris-based Indie Sales on his next movie, “It Takes Two to Tango,” a romantic comedy starring Valérie Lemercier.
Currently filming in Geneva and France, the film also stars Gérard Darmon (“King”) and Patrick Timsit (“Brother and Sister”). The plot revolves around Antoine Toussaint (Darmon), a famous and disillusioned 70-year-old crooner who meets Victoire (Lemercier), a good-natured fan with a few loose wires, while on a train to Geneva where he plans to end his life. This unlikely encounter thwarts all Antoine’s plans, for better or worse.
“It Takes Two to Tango” is produced by Denis Carot and Sophie Revil at France’s Escazal Films and will be released in France by Arp in April 2025.
“We are excited to re-team with Jean-Pierre Améris and bring his universe and heart-warming characters to audiences around the world,...
Currently filming in Geneva and France, the film also stars Gérard Darmon (“King”) and Patrick Timsit (“Brother and Sister”). The plot revolves around Antoine Toussaint (Darmon), a famous and disillusioned 70-year-old crooner who meets Victoire (Lemercier), a good-natured fan with a few loose wires, while on a train to Geneva where he plans to end his life. This unlikely encounter thwarts all Antoine’s plans, for better or worse.
“It Takes Two to Tango” is produced by Denis Carot and Sophie Revil at France’s Escazal Films and will be released in France by Arp in April 2025.
“We are excited to re-team with Jean-Pierre Améris and bring his universe and heart-warming characters to audiences around the world,...
- 8/30/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Marion Cotillard has signed on for a role in “The Morning Show” Season 4, Variety has learned.
The Oscar winner will appear in the new season of the Apple TV+ series alongside stars Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston as well as cast members Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Greta Lee, Jon Hamm, and Nicole Beharie.
Cotillard will star as Celine Dumont, described as “a savvy operator from a storied European family.”
This will be one of the few TV roles Cotillard has held in her career. She won the Academy Award for best actress for “La Vie En Rose” in 2008. She was nominated in the same category in 2015 for “Two Days, One Night.” Her other notable film roles include “Brother and Sister,” “From the Land of the Moon,” “Macbeth,” “Midnight in Paris,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “Inception.”
Cotillard is repped by Agence Adequat in France and by...
The Oscar winner will appear in the new season of the Apple TV+ series alongside stars Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston as well as cast members Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Greta Lee, Jon Hamm, and Nicole Beharie.
Cotillard will star as Celine Dumont, described as “a savvy operator from a storied European family.”
This will be one of the few TV roles Cotillard has held in her career. She won the Academy Award for best actress for “La Vie En Rose” in 2008. She was nominated in the same category in 2015 for “Two Days, One Night.” Her other notable film roles include “Brother and Sister,” “From the Land of the Moon,” “Macbeth,” “Midnight in Paris,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “Inception.”
Cotillard is repped by Agence Adequat in France and by...
- 6/5/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
No major film festival is complete without at least one Love Letter To Cinema™ from a filmmaker of some renown, to advocate the joys of the medium to an audience that doesn’t have to be told twice. French writer-director and Cannes regular Arnaud Desplechin brings that to the Croisette this year with “Filmlovers!,” a duly warm and nostalgia-washed cine-valentine, but one with a little more to say than just, “Movies, amirite?” Indeed, the film’s somewhat inelegant English-language title risks concealing the more specific focus of this unassuming but winning hybrid documentary: The French title, “Spectateurs!,” makes clear this is first and foremost a celebration of spectatorship rather than filmmaking, probing the dynamics of cinema audiences and their relationship to the screen. In either language, it’s impassioned enough to earn its exclamation point.
Not a major work but a bright, pleasurable one, with its director on more limber...
Not a major work but a bright, pleasurable one, with its director on more limber...
- 5/29/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Movies are hot, according to Marshall McLuhan, who wasn’t paying them a compliment but placing them within his theory of hot and cool media. He was referring to the sensory richness that makes movies such a captivating and complete experience that they require little active participation from the audience. Just sit in the dark and let the magic wash over you. Arnaud Desplechin doesn’t disagree about the magic, but he puts a different slant on things in the docufiction Filmlovers! (Spectateurs!), whose focus is the moviegoer as an essential part of the equation.
Abounding in movie love, the director’s first feature since Brother and Sister cites more than 50 films in its eloquent onrush of clips and philosophizing and memory. But, in a departure from most such cinema essays, there’s no auteur namechecking (or onscreen titles ID’ing clips); it’s not those 50 films’ making-of or even their makers that matter here,...
Abounding in movie love, the director’s first feature since Brother and Sister cites more than 50 films in its eloquent onrush of clips and philosophizing and memory. But, in a departure from most such cinema essays, there’s no auteur namechecking (or onscreen titles ID’ing clips); it’s not those 50 films’ making-of or even their makers that matter here,...
- 5/23/2024
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Arnaud Desplechin’s hybrid documentary “Spectateurs!” (“Filmlovers”) debuted a first trailer ahead of the film’s world premiere at Cannes on May 22.
The 88-minute docu is a love letter to cinema, inspired by Desplechin’s own discovery and passion for cinema.
Per the official Cannes description of the film, Desplechin wrote: “What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So, I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction and discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.”
“Spectateurs!” weaves documentary and fiction with a cast including Milo Machado Graner, the young breakthrough actor of Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” and well-known French actors Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) and Françoise Lebrun...
The 88-minute docu is a love letter to cinema, inspired by Desplechin’s own discovery and passion for cinema.
Per the official Cannes description of the film, Desplechin wrote: “What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So, I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction and discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.”
“Spectateurs!” weaves documentary and fiction with a cast including Milo Machado Graner, the young breakthrough actor of Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” and well-known French actors Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) and Françoise Lebrun...
- 5/14/2024
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival lineup was finally revealed at the sliver of dawn on Thursday, April 11. Festival director Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch unveiled this year’s crop of films across the many sections, from the Competition to Un Certain Regard, during a press conference beginning at 5 a.m. Et. See the full lineup below.
The 77th edition of Cannes comes to the Côte d’Azur May 14 through 25, and a few titles were already confirmed to be in the mix. There’s Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded epic “Megalopolis,” which has already screened for a rarified few in the United States to much awe and speculation over what distributor might take on Coppola’s experimental vision. For his first feature since 2011’s “Twixt,” Coppola gathered a cast including Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia Labeouf, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, and Jason Schwartzman for a sci-fi vision of a ruined NYC-like metropolis.
The 77th edition of Cannes comes to the Côte d’Azur May 14 through 25, and a few titles were already confirmed to be in the mix. There’s Francis Ford Coppola’s self-funded epic “Megalopolis,” which has already screened for a rarified few in the United States to much awe and speculation over what distributor might take on Coppola’s experimental vision. For his first feature since 2011’s “Twixt,” Coppola gathered a cast including Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia Labeouf, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, and Jason Schwartzman for a sci-fi vision of a ruined NYC-like metropolis.
- 4/22/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Though we’re likely just two months from Arnaud Desplechin’s next feature Spectateurs! he’s already mobilized an enviable team for the next-next project. Ecran Total reports Léa Seydoux (his collaborator on Deception and Oh Mercy!), Jason Schwartzman, John Turturro, and Golshifteh Farahani (previously of Brother and Sister) are leading The Thing That Hurts, which has just secured financing from the Belgian entity Wallimage and will be supported by CG Cinéma.
Early details are scant, except notice that The Thing That Hurts shoots in Brussels and (per quick translation) “evokes the meeting, following the death of a famous American psychotherapist based in Paris, of some of her patients, who confided in their relationship with the deceased.” Desplechin’s cinema is nothing if not the mingling of memory with grief––these four playing in that world is nearly as sterling a guarantee as the film struggling to receive U.S.
Early details are scant, except notice that The Thing That Hurts shoots in Brussels and (per quick translation) “evokes the meeting, following the death of a famous American psychotherapist based in Paris, of some of her patients, who confided in their relationship with the deceased.” Desplechin’s cinema is nothing if not the mingling of memory with grief––these four playing in that world is nearly as sterling a guarantee as the film struggling to receive U.S.
- 3/20/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Renowned French auteur Arnaud Desplechin, whose latest film “Brother and Sister” competed at Cannes Film Festival in 2022, is currently wrapping his next directorial effort, “Spectateurs!”
Les Films du Losange, which handles French distribution and international sales rights to the title, has unveiled a first still (above) in the run-up to the Unifrance Rendez-Vous With French Cinema market, where it will introduce the film to buyers.
The hybrid project weaves documentary and fiction with a cast including Milo Machado Graner, the young breakthrough actor of Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” and well-known French actors Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) and Françoise Lebrun (“The Book of Solutions”).
Now in post, the docufiction is described by Les Films du Losange as “a love letter to cinema, freely inspired by the director’s own discovery and passion for cinema.”
A Croisette regular, Desplechin previously directed “Deception,” an adaptation of...
Les Films du Losange, which handles French distribution and international sales rights to the title, has unveiled a first still (above) in the run-up to the Unifrance Rendez-Vous With French Cinema market, where it will introduce the film to buyers.
The hybrid project weaves documentary and fiction with a cast including Milo Machado Graner, the young breakthrough actor of Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” and well-known French actors Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) and Françoise Lebrun (“The Book of Solutions”).
Now in post, the docufiction is described by Les Films du Losange as “a love letter to cinema, freely inspired by the director’s own discovery and passion for cinema.”
A Croisette regular, Desplechin previously directed “Deception,” an adaptation of...
- 1/4/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Melvil Poupaud, an actor in Francois Ozon’s “By the Grace of God” and Maiwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry,” will receive the French Cinema Award from Unifrance, the French promotion organization.
The ceremony will be held on Jan. 18 at the Culture Ministry during the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema market. The French Cinema Award was created in 2016 to honor actors, filmmakers and producers who have contributed to making French cinema shine abroad. Past recipients include actor Juliette Binoche, director Olivier Assayas and producers Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam, among others.
Poupaud started his career as a child actor in the 1980 and has worked with auteurs such as Raoul Ruiz, Eric Rohmer, James Ivory and Ozon, with whom he has made four movies. His latest film directed by Ozon, “By the Grace of God,” won the Silver Bear in Berlin and earned him a Cesar nomination for best actor. He also worked with several well-established female directors,...
The ceremony will be held on Jan. 18 at the Culture Ministry during the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema market. The French Cinema Award was created in 2016 to honor actors, filmmakers and producers who have contributed to making French cinema shine abroad. Past recipients include actor Juliette Binoche, director Olivier Assayas and producers Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam, among others.
Poupaud started his career as a child actor in the 1980 and has worked with auteurs such as Raoul Ruiz, Eric Rohmer, James Ivory and Ozon, with whom he has made four movies. His latest film directed by Ozon, “By the Grace of God,” won the Silver Bear in Berlin and earned him a Cesar nomination for best actor. He also worked with several well-established female directors,...
- 1/4/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“The Five Devils” and “For My Country” won the Emerging Filmmaker and Audience Awards at this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center announced Thursday.
Hosted at Lincoln Center every year, the annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival screens a variety of films from contemporary French filmmakers. This year’s edition, which ran from March 2-12, hosted screenings for 21 features, including opening film “Revoir Paris” from Alice Winocour, Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister,” Louis Garrel’s “The Innocent,” and Quentin Dupieux’s “Smoking Causes Coughing.”
“The Five Devils,” the sophomore film from “Ava” filmmaker Léa Mysius, stars Sally Dramé as Vicky, a young girl with a supernatural talent for reproducing the scent of anyone and anything she encounters. The movie made its world premiere in May 2022 as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight section, where it received positive reviews from critics.
Hosted at Lincoln Center every year, the annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival screens a variety of films from contemporary French filmmakers. This year’s edition, which ran from March 2-12, hosted screenings for 21 features, including opening film “Revoir Paris” from Alice Winocour, Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister,” Louis Garrel’s “The Innocent,” and Quentin Dupieux’s “Smoking Causes Coughing.”
“The Five Devils,” the sophomore film from “Ava” filmmaker Léa Mysius, stars Sally Dramé as Vicky, a young girl with a supernatural talent for reproducing the scent of anyone and anything she encounters. The movie made its world premiere in May 2022 as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight section, where it received positive reviews from critics.
- 3/16/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Melvil Poupaud with Anne-Katrin Titze on Arnaud Desplechin: “For me he is one of the best metteurs en scène that I’ve worked with because of where he puts the camera, the choice of the lens, everything means something.”
In the second instalment with Melvil Poupaud on Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister, screenplay with Julie Peyr we discuss inspiration from Forest Whitaker in Clint Eastwood’s Bird and Jack Nicholson In Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, Grégoire Hetzel’s score, a very particular smile shared by him and Marion Cotillard, a cowboy movie showdown in the supermarket, contradictions, and hungry ghosts.
Melvil Poupaud on Arnaud Desplechin: “He doesn’t want to be realistic or naturalistic. ” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Magnetic Melvil Poupaud opens on Tuesday, March 7 with a screening of Carine Tardieu’s The Young Lovers (Les Jeunes Amants) at 7:30pm followed by a Q&a with Melvil inside Florence Gould.
In the second instalment with Melvil Poupaud on Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister, screenplay with Julie Peyr we discuss inspiration from Forest Whitaker in Clint Eastwood’s Bird and Jack Nicholson In Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces, Grégoire Hetzel’s score, a very particular smile shared by him and Marion Cotillard, a cowboy movie showdown in the supermarket, contradictions, and hungry ghosts.
Melvil Poupaud on Arnaud Desplechin: “He doesn’t want to be realistic or naturalistic. ” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Magnetic Melvil Poupaud opens on Tuesday, March 7 with a screening of Carine Tardieu’s The Young Lovers (Les Jeunes Amants) at 7:30pm followed by a Q&a with Melvil inside Florence Gould.
- 2/27/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Melvil Poupaud and Marion Cotillard in Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister (Frère Et Sœur) screening in Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Photo: Shanna Besson/Why Not Productions
In the first instalment with Melvil Poupaud (who is being honoured at the French Institute in New York next month) we discuss the dark side of Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister (Frère Et Sœur), Mathieu Amalric in A Christmas Tale and Kings And Queens, Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning, a touch of François Ozon’s By The Grace Of God, James Joyce’s The Dead, Eric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale, and Woody Allen’s Coup De Chance with Lou de Laâge, Niels Schneider and Valérie Lemercier.
Melvil Poupaud with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I always understood that the most gratifying thing when you’re an actor is when a great director such as Eric Rohmer...
In the first instalment with Melvil Poupaud (who is being honoured at the French Institute in New York next month) we discuss the dark side of Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister (Frère Et Sœur), Mathieu Amalric in A Christmas Tale and Kings And Queens, Mia Hansen-Løve’s One Fine Morning, a touch of François Ozon’s By The Grace Of God, James Joyce’s The Dead, Eric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale, and Woody Allen’s Coup De Chance with Lou de Laâge, Niels Schneider and Valérie Lemercier.
Melvil Poupaud with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I always understood that the most gratifying thing when you’re an actor is when a great director such as Eric Rohmer...
- 2/15/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center have unveiled the lineup for the 28th edition of Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, an annual celebration of contemporary French filmmaking. The event will take place March 2–12.
It kicks off with a screening of Alice Winocour’s “Revoir Paris,” which stars Virginie Efira as a translator named Mia, who survived a mass shooting in a Paris restaurant and is unable to resume life as usual. In an effort to regain a sense of normalcy, Mia returns repeatedly to the site of the shooting, forming bonds with her fellow survivors. Efira is best known for her star turn in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta.”
“It is a such a pleasure to open this year’s edition with the French critical and box-office hit ‘Revoir Paris’ in the presence of director Alice Winocour and actress Virginie Efira, who just received our French Cinema Award in Paris,” said Daniela Elstner,...
It kicks off with a screening of Alice Winocour’s “Revoir Paris,” which stars Virginie Efira as a translator named Mia, who survived a mass shooting in a Paris restaurant and is unable to resume life as usual. In an effort to regain a sense of normalcy, Mia returns repeatedly to the site of the shooting, forming bonds with her fellow survivors. Efira is best known for her star turn in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta.”
“It is a such a pleasure to open this year’s edition with the French critical and box-office hit ‘Revoir Paris’ in the presence of director Alice Winocour and actress Virginie Efira, who just received our French Cinema Award in Paris,” said Daniela Elstner,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Armageddon Time – James Gray [Review]
Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh [Review]
Broker – Hirokazu Kore-eda [Review]
Frère et sœur – Arnaud Desplechin [Review]
Close – Lukas Dhont [Review]
Crimes of the Future – David Cronenberg [Review]
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook [Review]
The Eight Mountains – Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen [Review]
Eo – Jerzy Skolimowski [Review]
Les Amandiers – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi [Review]
Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi [Review]
Leila’s Brothers – Saeed Roustayi [Review]
Un petit frère – Léonor Serraille [Review]
Nostalgia – Mario Martone [Review]
Pacifiction – Albert Serra [Review]
R.M.N.…...
Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh [Review]
Broker – Hirokazu Kore-eda [Review]
Frère et sœur – Arnaud Desplechin [Review]
Close – Lukas Dhont [Review]
Crimes of the Future – David Cronenberg [Review]
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook [Review]
The Eight Mountains – Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen [Review]
Eo – Jerzy Skolimowski [Review]
Les Amandiers – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi [Review]
Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi [Review]
Leila’s Brothers – Saeed Roustayi [Review]
Un petit frère – Léonor Serraille [Review]
Nostalgia – Mario Martone [Review]
Pacifiction – Albert Serra [Review]
R.M.N.…...
- 6/16/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Returning to its standard May slot for the first time in two years, the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has now concluded, with a familiar Swede taking home top honors. While our coverage will continue over the next week or so—and far beyond as we provide updates on the journey of these selections—we’ve asked our contributors on the ground to share favorites.
See their picks below, and explore all of our coverage here.
Leonardo Goi (@LeonardoGoi)
1. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
2. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
3. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
4. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
5. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
6. The Fabric of the Human Body (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)
7. Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski)
8. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
9. Scarlet (Pietro Marcello)
10. Funny Pages (Owen Kline)
Luke Hicks (@lou_hicks)
1. Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)
2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
3. Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski)
4. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
5. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells...
See their picks below, and explore all of our coverage here.
Leonardo Goi (@LeonardoGoi)
1. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
2. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
3. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
4. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
5. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
6. The Fabric of the Human Body (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)
7. Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski)
8. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
9. Scarlet (Pietro Marcello)
10. Funny Pages (Owen Kline)
Luke Hicks (@lou_hicks)
1. Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)
2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
3. Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski)
4. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
5. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells...
- 5/31/2022
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Triangle of Sadness.Below you will find an index of our coverage from the Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight, and Critics' Week in 2022, as well as our favorite films.Awardstop 101. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)2. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)3. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)4. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor) & One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)6. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)7. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)8. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)9. Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski)10. Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret)(Poll contributors: Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal, Jordan Cronk, Flavia Dima, Daniel Fairfax, Lawrence Garcia, Leonardo Goi, Daniel Kasman, Łukasz Mańkowski, Caitlin Quinlan, Savina Petkova)Correspondences#1 Daniel Kasman previews the festival | Read#2 Leonardo Goi on Scarlet (Pietro Marcello), Alma Viva (Cristèle Alves Meira), God's Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer) | Read#3 Lawrence Garcia on The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve) | Read...
- 5/31/2022
- MUBI
Here’s a fun bit of symmetry: Of the four French titles competing for this year’s Palme d’Or, the first to screen was “Brother and Sister” and the last was “Mother and Son.” (Presumably daughters and grandparents will get their due next year.) Of the two, “Mother and Son” director Léonor Serraille bests her colleague Arnaud Desplechin in the family-saga sweepstakes, delivering a decade-spanning immigration drama that plays on the most intimate of registers.
The film closed out the Cannes competition on Friday, providing it an auspicious berth. This year’s jury will go into deliberations with actress Annabelle Lengronne fresh in mind; should the actress win, she won’t have far to travel.
She isn’t entirely the lead, as the triptych follows a Franco-Ivorian family in chapters dedicated to each member. We open in 1989 on Rose (Lengronne), a young mother of four who leaves her two...
The film closed out the Cannes competition on Friday, providing it an auspicious berth. This year’s jury will go into deliberations with actress Annabelle Lengronne fresh in mind; should the actress win, she won’t have far to travel.
She isn’t entirely the lead, as the triptych follows a Franco-Ivorian family in chapters dedicated to each member. We open in 1989 on Rose (Lengronne), a young mother of four who leaves her two...
- 5/27/2022
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
After the Oscars, the Palme d’Or is the most prestigious film award in the business, and it’s a lot less predictable. Coming from a jury usually comprised of actors and directors, it arrives as the outcome of furious debate and often conflicting values about the nature of the art form. There is no mathematical formula for predicting the Palme d’Or, and educated guesswork can be misleading, but it’s still worth a shot.
Handed out at the festival since 1955, the golden prize represents the pinnacle of prestige for the filmmaker who receives it. As Cannes presents itself as the nexus of the greatest cinema on the planet, the prize is an extension of that mentality, and it invites winners into an exclusive club that spans film history. Recipients of the Palme d’Or have ranged from “Black Orpheus” and “La Dolce Vita” to “Apocalypse Now.” In some cases,...
Handed out at the festival since 1955, the golden prize represents the pinnacle of prestige for the filmmaker who receives it. As Cannes presents itself as the nexus of the greatest cinema on the planet, the prize is an extension of that mentality, and it invites winners into an exclusive club that spans film history. Recipients of the Palme d’Or have ranged from “Black Orpheus” and “La Dolce Vita” to “Apocalypse Now.” In some cases,...
- 5/27/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose feature films are premiering at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival to find out which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why these were the right tools to create the look and visual language of these highly anticipated films.
Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
Page 2: Out of Competition, Premieres, and Special Screenings
Page 3: Un Certain Regard, Critics’ Week, and Acid
Page 4: Directors’ Fortnight and Marché du Film
(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)
Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
“Boy from Heaven”
Dir: Tarik Saleh, DoP: Pierre Aim
Format: 4K Arriraw
Camera: Arri Lf
Lens: Scorpio 40mm
Aim: “Boy from Heaven” is the third film I made with Tarik after “The Nile Hilton Incident” and “The Contractor.” To shoot Tarik’s latest film, we only used one lens: the 40mm scope Scorpio. The general idea of...
Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
Page 2: Out of Competition, Premieres, and Special Screenings
Page 3: Un Certain Regard, Critics’ Week, and Acid
Page 4: Directors’ Fortnight and Marché du Film
(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)
Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
“Boy from Heaven”
Dir: Tarik Saleh, DoP: Pierre Aim
Format: 4K Arriraw
Camera: Arri Lf
Lens: Scorpio 40mm
Aim: “Boy from Heaven” is the third film I made with Tarik after “The Nile Hilton Incident” and “The Contractor.” To shoot Tarik’s latest film, we only used one lens: the 40mm scope Scorpio. The general idea of...
- 5/27/2022
- by Chris O'Falt and Erik Adams
- Indiewire
Notebook is covering the Cannes Film Festival with an on going correspondence between critics Leonardo Goi and Lawrence Garcia, and editor Daniel Kasman.R.M.N.Dear Leo and Danny,Triangle of Sadness is the ideal sort of film to discuss in these correspondences, partly because it seems to actively invite snap judgments (so easy to come by in a charged festival environment), making it especially useful to get some reflective distance from that initial, instinctive response. In any case, the film was just one of a number of Competition titles that explored the relationship between action and impulse, providing different perspectives on how we as humans are bound up with bodily instinct.Unsurprisingly, perhaps, given its title and that of The Square (2017), Triangle is most interesting when showing how our actions are inextricably tied to a certain spatial awareness or understanding. There are of course the scenes where Östlund...
- 5/27/2022
- MUBI
This year at the Cannes Film Festival, complicated family bonds were laid bare for all to see. Arnaud Desplechin's new film "Brother and Sister" — also known in French as "Frère Et Soeur" — was one of several fest films exploring what it means to love, hate, and question the people closest to us, for better or worse. The movie follows Alice (Marion Cotillard) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud), siblings in their mid-fifties who have been estranged for over 20 years. Alice harbors a deep hatred for Louis, yet the true reasons for her feelings are mysterious to everyone but them....
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- 5/23/2022
- by Lex Briscuso
- Slash Film
With a Cannes Film Festival slate filled with familial trauma, Arnaud Desplechin's "Brother and Sister" — also known as "Frère et Sœur" in France — fits in like a glove. The film follows two estranged siblings, Marion Cotillard's Alice and Melvil Poupaud's Louis, who haven't spoken to one another in over 20 years. But when their parents become victims of a brutal car accident, their sudden demises force the pair to reunite and take a hard look at the way their relationship has been fractured over the years. The film is an intense yet tender look at the complications...
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- 5/23/2022
- by Lex Briscuso
- Slash Film
It is lonely being an Anglophone Arnaud Desplechin fan, let alone one based in the U.K. A strong cult generated in the aftermath of his ’00s arthouse hits Kings and Queen and A Christmas Tale survives, but in terms of a theatrical release, his newer work will play once or twice at one-off screenings in the US, then fall to be retrieved (or ignored) in a VOD content library. And in Blighty they have lately got harsh, if uncomprehending reviews, creating further invisibility.
If the quality of Ismäel’s Ghosts, Oh, Mercy! and Deception denotes no fall-off, there’s still the impression Desplechin could use a broader hit to remind everyone how good he is, even as his reputation and industry success in France remains robust; My Golden Days had this exact impact after Jimmy P. disappointed some. Enter Brother and Sister.
Despite reports of boos at its Cannes screening,...
If the quality of Ismäel’s Ghosts, Oh, Mercy! and Deception denotes no fall-off, there’s still the impression Desplechin could use a broader hit to remind everyone how good he is, even as his reputation and industry success in France remains robust; My Golden Days had this exact impact after Jimmy P. disappointed some. Enter Brother and Sister.
Despite reports of boos at its Cannes screening,...
- 5/22/2022
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother and Sister ended to the audible reception of somewhere around seven boos, two derisive whistles and nothing else; if you’re someone who believes indifference is a worse reaction than active hostility, this somehow seemed to split the worst possible difference. Consensus holds, not inaccurately, that Desplechin’s peak work is, at least for now, behind him, with the arguable exception of My Golden Days—non-coincidentally, a prequel to 1996’s My Sex Life. His experiments outside of erratic interpersonal dramas, like 2011’s self-explanatorily titled Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and 2019’s crime drama Oh Mercy!, have been received with tepid bewilderment. I have more sympathy for these […]
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- 5/22/2022
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother and Sister ended to the audible reception of somewhere around seven boos, two derisive whistles and nothing else; if you’re someone who believes indifference is a worse reaction than active hostility, this somehow seemed to split the worst possible difference. Consensus holds, not inaccurately, that Desplechin’s peak work is, at least for now, behind him, with the arguable exception of My Golden Days—non-coincidentally, a prequel to 1996’s My Sex Life. His experiments outside of erratic interpersonal dramas, like 2011’s self-explanatorily titled Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and 2019’s crime drama Oh Mercy!, have been received with tepid bewilderment. I have more sympathy for these […]
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- 5/22/2022
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Arnaud Desplechin’s latest film superficially resembles some of his most beloved and best work, family dramas featuring very colorful, neurotic, sometimes impulsive characters by turn extremely sincere and sardonic, loquacious and secretive — films such as “My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument” (1996) and “A Winter’s Tale” (2008). But unlike them, “Brother and Sister” is also a puzzle, even if the director does not make it easy for us to solve it.
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- 5/21/2022
- by Elena Lazic
- The Playlist
After seeing his last film (Deception) premiere in the Cannes Premiere section last year, Arnaud Desplechin returns to the competition section once again with Brother and Sister. This is his seventh comp offering after La sentinelle (1992), My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument (1996), Esther Kahn (2000), A Christmas Tale (2008), Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013), and the yummy 2019 procedural Oh Mercy!. This sees him reteam with Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud.
Their parents might be on death’s bed but you would not know it as estranged adult children are willing to use eye daggers, kitchen knifes and publishing houses to bring each other down.…...
Their parents might be on death’s bed but you would not know it as estranged adult children are willing to use eye daggers, kitchen knifes and publishing houses to bring each other down.…...
- 5/21/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Jerzy Skolimowski’s ’Eo’, Tarik Saleh’s ’Boy From Heaven’ and Arnaud Desplechin’s ’Brother and Sister’ also land on the jury grid.
James Gray’s Armageddon Time has taken the early lead on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 2.8 (with one score incoming), whilst the first scores for Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, Tarik Saleh’s Boy From Heaven and Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister are also in.
Period drama Armageddon Time, which stars Jeremy Strong, Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway, received fours (excellent) from Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret and Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
James Gray’s Armageddon Time has taken the early lead on Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 2.8 (with one score incoming), whilst the first scores for Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, Tarik Saleh’s Boy From Heaven and Arnaud Desplechin’s Brother And Sister are also in.
Period drama Armageddon Time, which stars Jeremy Strong, Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway, received fours (excellent) from Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret and Time Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
- 5/21/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
I’m Not One of Your Fans: Desplechin Delivers Camp Classic with Failed Melodrama
No one depicted in Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister), the latest melodrama from esteemed French director Arnaud Desplechin, is having anything near a genuine human experience. A perennial favorite amongst critics, it would seem when he’s good, he’s very, very good. But when he’s bad, he’s awful.
Desplechin’s script, co-written by frequent collaborator Julie Peyr, is so stuffed with outrageously bad dialogue it’s difficult to know where to begin discussing how terrible it is, and embarrassing for a cast of notable actors chewing scenery so ferociously one has no choice but to desire experiencing it again.…...
No one depicted in Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister), the latest melodrama from esteemed French director Arnaud Desplechin, is having anything near a genuine human experience. A perennial favorite amongst critics, it would seem when he’s good, he’s very, very good. But when he’s bad, he’s awful.
Desplechin’s script, co-written by frequent collaborator Julie Peyr, is so stuffed with outrageously bad dialogue it’s difficult to know where to begin discussing how terrible it is, and embarrassing for a cast of notable actors chewing scenery so ferociously one has no choice but to desire experiencing it again.…...
- 5/21/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The brother and sister in Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister” can’t stand each other. The sister, played by Marion Cotillard, is Alice, a theatre superstar playing to packed houses in an adaptation of James Joyce’s “The Dead.” The brother, played by Melvil Poupaud, is Louis, an award-winning author and poet.
Alice resented it when his fame briefly overtook hers, but there is more to their mutual loathing than that. For mysterious, complicated reasons, they haven’t spoken in 20 years, and when they talk about each other to other people, Alice smiles a smile of pure venom, and Louis explodes in vicious rage. What are they to do, then, when Louis has to return to his hometown of Lille to visit his dying parents? Will he and Alice be forced to confront each other at long last?
It’s a juicy premise, but Desplechin and his co-writer, Julie Peyr,...
Alice resented it when his fame briefly overtook hers, but there is more to their mutual loathing than that. For mysterious, complicated reasons, they haven’t spoken in 20 years, and when they talk about each other to other people, Alice smiles a smile of pure venom, and Louis explodes in vicious rage. What are they to do, then, when Louis has to return to his hometown of Lille to visit his dying parents? Will he and Alice be forced to confront each other at long last?
It’s a juicy premise, but Desplechin and his co-writer, Julie Peyr,...
- 5/21/2022
- by Nicholas Barber
- The Wrap
All is not well with the Vuillard clan and something’s gone rotten in Roubaix. While their matriarch lies ill, treading the line between the here and the hereafter, the paterfamilias is left to contend with his three headstrong children. Though the youngest, who lives a stable married life, more often than not serves as ballast between more electric older siblings, sparks fly when the other two meet — or at least they would, had the eldest daughter not banished her hard-drinking middle brother from the family.
Sound familiar? Sounds, perhaps, like another Arnaud Desplechin film that premiered once upon a time in Cannes (as nearly all his films do)? Sounds about right.
Though the French auteur has always freely recycled themes and plot points (with more than half the characters in his 14 features carrying the surnames Dedalus and Vuillard), “Brother and Sister” seems more like a retread (and a retreat...
Sound familiar? Sounds, perhaps, like another Arnaud Desplechin film that premiered once upon a time in Cannes (as nearly all his films do)? Sounds about right.
Though the French auteur has always freely recycled themes and plot points (with more than half the characters in his 14 features carrying the surnames Dedalus and Vuillard), “Brother and Sister” seems more like a retread (and a retreat...
- 5/20/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
Where do I begin with Arnaud Desplechin’s newest drama film, Brother and Sister, starring Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud? Written by Desplechin and Julie Peyr, the story follows two estranged siblings who haven’t seen each other in years. The movie chronicles their journey from the start of their relationship to where things went wrong, through the present day, and how the tension between them nearly destroyed their family.
The movie opens up at the funeral of Louis’ (Poupaud) six-year-old son. His sister Alice (Cotillard) and her husband (Francis Leplay) show up to pay their respects, but this sends Louis into a rage. He rants on about how they never got to meet or know his son before he passed away. Cut to five years later, he has moved with his wife to a rural area, while Alice is the star of a large French theater production. She anticipates her elderly parents,...
The movie opens up at the funeral of Louis’ (Poupaud) six-year-old son. His sister Alice (Cotillard) and her husband (Francis Leplay) show up to pay their respects, but this sends Louis into a rage. He rants on about how they never got to meet or know his son before he passed away. Cut to five years later, he has moved with his wife to a rural area, while Alice is the star of a large French theater production. She anticipates her elderly parents,...
- 5/20/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Whatever other flaws “Brother and Sister” may have, you absolutely cannot accuse it of being slow to build. Within its first 10 minutes, two estranged siblings bawl each other out at a dead child’s wake, one declaring the other “an indecent monster”; a screechingly staged single-vehicle car crash imperils an elderly couple and paralyzes a teenage driver; then, a barrelling truck at the scene brings further tragedy. Even before we’ve had time to gather the principals’ names, French director Arnaud Desplechin’s latest dysfunctional family tableau makes no bones about its dialed-to-11 melodramatic agenda; that attention-grabbing intensity soon dissipates, however, in the gauzy, maudlin study of toxic sibling relations that ensues. Marion Cotillard’s headlining presence may pique international interest in a talky piece likely to play better on home turf.
The outward signs were promising for Desplechin’s swift follow-up to his stuffy Philip Roth adaptation “Deception,” which...
The outward signs were promising for Desplechin’s swift follow-up to his stuffy Philip Roth adaptation “Deception,” which...
- 5/20/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Last year’s behemoth two dozen title competition saw Julia Ducournau’s Titane take the top honors landing the Palme d’Or but our jury of twenty film critics from around the world would have prized Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car instead. We’d like to thank our media partner friends at Mubi are supporting our work here with our Cannes Critics’ Panel … our tenth edition!
Among the twenty-one films competing for the Palme d’Or this year we find Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi, Forever Young by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Crimes of the Future by David Cronenberg, Tori et Lokita by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Stars At Noon by Claire Denis, Brother and Sister by Arnaud Desplechin, Close by Lukas Dhont, Armageddon Time by James Gray, Broker by Kore-Eda Hirokazu, Nostalgia by Mario Martone, R.M.N.…...
Among the twenty-one films competing for the Palme d’Or this year we find Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi, Forever Young by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Crimes of the Future by David Cronenberg, Tori et Lokita by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Stars At Noon by Claire Denis, Brother and Sister by Arnaud Desplechin, Close by Lukas Dhont, Armageddon Time by James Gray, Broker by Kore-Eda Hirokazu, Nostalgia by Mario Martone, R.M.N.…...
- 5/17/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
A version of this preview of this year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup appeared in the Cannes edition of TheWrap magazine.
As the film industry — from the mightiest moguls to the scrappiest indie-theater owners — struggles to bring movies and moviegoing back to pre-covid standards, look to this year’s Cannes Film Festival to trumpet the cause, starting with a splashy premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick” that’s clearly meant to send out an international message: “Remember summer movies? You love those. And they’re back!”
Beyond that Paramount blockbuster, Cannes 2022 seems to be delivering more of what the annual event is known for, in the best ways (providing an international platform for some of the world’s greatest films and filmmakers) and in the worst.
Even with its recurring shortcomings, the Cannes lineup provides an impressive menu of titles that cineastes everywhere have been eagerly awaiting, from David Cronenberg’s...
As the film industry — from the mightiest moguls to the scrappiest indie-theater owners — struggles to bring movies and moviegoing back to pre-covid standards, look to this year’s Cannes Film Festival to trumpet the cause, starting with a splashy premiere of “Top Gun: Maverick” that’s clearly meant to send out an international message: “Remember summer movies? You love those. And they’re back!”
Beyond that Paramount blockbuster, Cannes 2022 seems to be delivering more of what the annual event is known for, in the best ways (providing an international platform for some of the world’s greatest films and filmmakers) and in the worst.
Even with its recurring shortcomings, the Cannes lineup provides an impressive menu of titles that cineastes everywhere have been eagerly awaiting, from David Cronenberg’s...
- 5/16/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
‘Brother and Sister’ Trailer: Arnaud Desplechin Directs Marion Cotillard in Cannes Competition Title
An Arnaud Desplechin film showing up in the Cannes competition lineup is as expected as the changing seasons. An Arnaud Desplechin film starring two titans of French cinema, Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud? Even more welcome. “Brother and Sister” is among the main competition titles heading to this year’s festival, which runs May 17 through May 28. Ahead of the film community’s big return to the Croisette, watch the first trailer for the film, exclusive to IndieWire, below.
In “Brother and Sister,” or “Frère et Soeur” as it’s known in French, Alice (Cotillard) and Louis (Poupaud) are siblings. She is an actress, while he was a teacher and a poet. For the past two decades, Alice has resented him, and they’ve remained estranged for the last 20 years. That is, until their parents become involved in a serious accident, and they are forced to toss blood under the bridge and reconcile anew.
In “Brother and Sister,” or “Frère et Soeur” as it’s known in French, Alice (Cotillard) and Louis (Poupaud) are siblings. She is an actress, while he was a teacher and a poet. For the past two decades, Alice has resented him, and they’ve remained estranged for the last 20 years. That is, until their parents become involved in a serious accident, and they are forced to toss blood under the bridge and reconcile anew.
- 5/9/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Xenix Film has revealed an official trailer for the French indie drama titled Brother and Sister, originally Frère et Soeur in French. This is premiering at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival later this month playing in the Main Competition, before opening in French cinemas. The story revolves around a brother & sister who are nearing their fifties - Alice is an actress, Louis was a teacher and a poet. They no longer speak to one another and have been avoiding each other for over twenty years, but the death of their parents will force them to cross paths. Melvil Poupaud and Marion Cotillard co-star as the titular brother and sister, with Golshifteh Farahani, Cosmina Stratan, Patrick Timsit, Benjamin Siksou, and Max Baissette de Malglaive. This looks like a very emotional story about a family and the challenging dynamics between two siblings that don't like each other. There's no English subtitles available yet,...
- 5/4/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
If you can count on death and taxes, you can also count on French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin having a new film at the Cannes Film Festival. Desplechin has had ten films play at Cannes either in competition or in other sections, his most recent being 2021’s “Deception” and 2019’s “Oh Mercy.” His latest, “Brother And Sister” (“Frère et Sœur”) stars Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud as estranged siblings who are forced to reunite after 20 years following the death of their parents.
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- 5/4/2022
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
It was just yesterday I remarked how Arnaud Desplechin’s recent work has been severely overlooked here in America, naming his riveting Philip Roth adaption Deception as the top pick to see this month. The French director is now back with another film at Cannes Film Festival, Frère et soeur aka Brother and Sister, and now the first trailer has arrived ahead of its premiere and subsequent release in France on May 20.
Led by Marion Cotillard & Melvil Poupaud, the film follows the siblings as they near the age of 50. Cotillard plays Alice, an actress, while Poupaud is Louis, a teacher and a poet. After being estranged for many years, the death of their parents brings them closer together. While the first trailer lacks English subtitles, it gives a strong sense of the drama at hand, in the story which Desplechin says explores coming to the end of a long-standing hatred.
Led by Marion Cotillard & Melvil Poupaud, the film follows the siblings as they near the age of 50. Cotillard plays Alice, an actress, while Poupaud is Louis, a teacher and a poet. After being estranged for many years, the death of their parents brings them closer together. While the first trailer lacks English subtitles, it gives a strong sense of the drama at hand, in the story which Desplechin says explores coming to the end of a long-standing hatred.
- 5/4/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Johnny Depp’s new movie Jeanne Du Barry will be launched for pre-sales at this month’s Cannes market, marking a first narrative feature for the actor in more than three years.
In a report from ScreenDaily about Wild Bunch’s Cannes market slate, the trade confirms previous reports that Depp will star alongside Maïwenn in the French period drama about Jeanne Bécu, a woman born into poverty but who rose through the ranks of the court of King Louis Xv to become his mistress. Depp will play Louis Xv (nicknamed ‘Louis The Beloved’) opposite actress and filmmaker Maïwenn who will also direct.
Louis Garrel, Pierre Richard and Noemie Lvovsky are also set to star. A start date has yet to be revealed.
Depp is currently in the middle of a protracted and messy legal battle with his former wife Amber Heard. The three-time Oscar nominee hasn’t acted in...
In a report from ScreenDaily about Wild Bunch’s Cannes market slate, the trade confirms previous reports that Depp will star alongside Maïwenn in the French period drama about Jeanne Bécu, a woman born into poverty but who rose through the ranks of the court of King Louis Xv to become his mistress. Depp will play Louis Xv (nicknamed ‘Louis The Beloved’) opposite actress and filmmaker Maïwenn who will also direct.
Louis Garrel, Pierre Richard and Noemie Lvovsky are also set to star. A start date has yet to be revealed.
Depp is currently in the middle of a protracted and messy legal battle with his former wife Amber Heard. The three-time Oscar nominee hasn’t acted in...
- 5/3/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris-based sales is also handing 14 titles due to premiere in Official Selection or one of the parallel sections.
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) will launch sales on Ken Loach’s new feature The Old Oak during Cannes and has released fresh details about the project.
The production sees Loach return to northeast England, where he shot 2016 Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, and Sorry We Missed You, which also world premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2019.
It is set in a former coal-mining village that has never fully recovered from the closure of the mines. Its once-thriving, proud community struggles...
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) will launch sales on Ken Loach’s new feature The Old Oak during Cannes and has released fresh details about the project.
The production sees Loach return to northeast England, where he shot 2016 Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake, and Sorry We Missed You, which also world premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2019.
It is set in a former coal-mining village that has never fully recovered from the closure of the mines. Its once-thriving, proud community struggles...
- 5/2/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Roman Polanski’s ‘The Palace’ Adds ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Actor Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant (Exclusive)
German actor Oliver Masucci and French star Fanny Ardant have joined the cast of Roman Polanski’s new movie “The Palace,” which will surely be a subject of controversy at the Cannes Film Festival where distribution rights are being sold.
The ensemble drama, which had already cast Mickey Rourke, will be headlined by Masucci, the German actor who appeared in “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” and the Netflix series “Dark,” and Ardant, the esteemed French star of “La Belle Epoque” and “8 Women.” Budgeted at €13 million (13.9 million), the movie is currently shooting on location in Gstaad, Switzerland, and is being sold by Wild Bunch International, the powerhouse behind several movies competing at Cannes, notably Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister,” Claire Denis’s “Stars at Noon” and the opening night film “Final Cut” from Michel Hazanavicius.
The key crew includes Oscar-winning music composer Alexandre Desplat, along with Polanski’s regular cinematographer Pawel Edelman,...
The ensemble drama, which had already cast Mickey Rourke, will be headlined by Masucci, the German actor who appeared in “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” and the Netflix series “Dark,” and Ardant, the esteemed French star of “La Belle Epoque” and “8 Women.” Budgeted at €13 million (13.9 million), the movie is currently shooting on location in Gstaad, Switzerland, and is being sold by Wild Bunch International, the powerhouse behind several movies competing at Cannes, notably Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister,” Claire Denis’s “Stars at Noon” and the opening night film “Final Cut” from Michel Hazanavicius.
The key crew includes Oscar-winning music composer Alexandre Desplat, along with Polanski’s regular cinematographer Pawel Edelman,...
- 4/25/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
After being cancelled in 2020 and then delayed in 2021, the Cannes Film Festival is finally back on track for May 2022 on the French Riviera. The 75th installment of the international cinema showcase will take place from May 17 to May 28, and there will be 18 films competing for the coveted Palme d’Or, the festival’s top prize. Last year that honor went to the French thriller “Titane,” directed by Julia Ducournau. As of this writing several details are still to be announced including who will be on this year’s jury and who will be serving as jury president after Spike Lee presided over last year’s program.
A filmmaker’s previous track record at Cannes can sometimes give us an idea of who’s in a good position to claim the Palme. For instance, seven of this year’s entries in the official competition come from directors who have previously won...
A filmmaker’s previous track record at Cannes can sometimes give us an idea of who’s in a good position to claim the Palme. For instance, seven of this year’s entries in the official competition come from directors who have previously won...
- 4/25/2022
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
“When I met you, you were ripe,” says Denis Podalydès’s Philip to his younger mistress (Léa Seydoux) in Arnaud Desplechin’s adaptation with Julie Peyr of Philip Roth’s Deception (Tromperie). She responds: “No, I was rotting on the floor under a tree.”
Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère Et Sœur (Brother And Sister), starring Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani, Melvil Poupaud, and Cosmina Stratan has been selected to screen in the 75th anniversary edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Arnaud’s Ismael's Ghosts was the 2017 Cannes Opening Night Gala selection and his Philip Roth adaptation Deception was a 2021 highlight.
Arnaud Desplechin with Anne-Katrin Titze on Philip Roth: “He’s as is, he’s absolutely imperfect, selfish as I was saying.”
Desplechin will have had ten world premieres at Cannes: Oh Mercy!; My Golden Days; Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian; A Christmas Tale; Esther Kahn...
Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère Et Sœur (Brother And Sister), starring Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani, Melvil Poupaud, and Cosmina Stratan has been selected to screen in the 75th anniversary edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Arnaud’s Ismael's Ghosts was the 2017 Cannes Opening Night Gala selection and his Philip Roth adaptation Deception was a 2021 highlight.
Arnaud Desplechin with Anne-Katrin Titze on Philip Roth: “He’s as is, he’s absolutely imperfect, selfish as I was saying.”
Desplechin will have had ten world premieres at Cannes: Oh Mercy!; My Golden Days; Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian; A Christmas Tale; Esther Kahn...
- 4/19/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
An intriguing Competition; the return of Hollywood; and familiar gender balance complaints.
Cannes Film Festival general delegate Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure announced the majority of the Official Selection for the 75th edition in Paris today (April 14).
Screen’s editorial team assesses some of the key talking points generated by this year’s line-up.
An intriguing, exciting Competition
Cannes is a big film festival that is actually, in terms of number of films, very small: official selection that is. The sidebars – Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight – are separately run. With 47 films announced today, and more to come to make it...
Cannes Film Festival general delegate Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure announced the majority of the Official Selection for the 75th edition in Paris today (April 14).
Screen’s editorial team assesses some of the key talking points generated by this year’s line-up.
An intriguing, exciting Competition
Cannes is a big film festival that is actually, in terms of number of films, very small: official selection that is. The sidebars – Critics’ Week, Directors’ Fortnight – are separately run. With 47 films announced today, and more to come to make it...
- 4/15/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow¬Fionnuala Halligan¬Louise Tutt¬Tim Dams¬Mona Tabbara¬Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The 75th Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 17-28, was already due to be a starry affair with the likes of Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis screening out of competition. Today it got even hotter with a strong Official Selection that should make for glamorous red carpets, but one that will likewise treat serious subject matter.
While Cannes is a moment to celebrate film, it will also this year serve as a period of reflection and inquiry about the state of the art form, General Delegate Thierry Frémaux noted at this morning’s lineup reveal. The crisis in Ukraine will also be top of mind. The Cannes Market had already set a day dedicated to support the beleaguered film industry there, and the fest today included two titles from Ukrainian filmmakers: veteran auteur Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of Destruction in a special...
While Cannes is a moment to celebrate film, it will also this year serve as a period of reflection and inquiry about the state of the art form, General Delegate Thierry Frémaux noted at this morning’s lineup reveal. The crisis in Ukraine will also be top of mind. The Cannes Market had already set a day dedicated to support the beleaguered film industry there, and the fest today included two titles from Ukrainian filmmakers: veteran auteur Sergei Loznitsa’s The Natural History Of Destruction in a special...
- 4/14/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival announced its 75th anniversary lineup on Thursday morning in Paris, with films selected for the prestigious festival including “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” George Miller’s first film since “Mad Max: Fury Road”; “Showing Up,” which finds indie director Kelly Reichardt reuniting with her “Wendy and Lucy” and “Certain Women” star Michelle Williams; and “Crimes of the Future,” a reportedly disturbing David Cronenberg drama whose cast includes Kristen Stewart, Lea Seydoux and Viggo Mortensen, who starred in three Cronenberg films between 2005 and 2011, including “A History of Violence” and “Eastern Promises.”
Other films include two music documentaries: “Trouble in Mind,” a Jerry Lee Lewis film by Ethan Coen, and “Moonage Daydream,” an authorized David Bowie work by Brett Morgen.
The 18 films in the main competition include several from Cannes regulars, including the Dardenne brothers (“Tori and Lokita”), Claire Denis (“Stars at Noon”), James Gray (“Armageddon Time”), Hirokazu...
Other films include two music documentaries: “Trouble in Mind,” a Jerry Lee Lewis film by Ethan Coen, and “Moonage Daydream,” an authorized David Bowie work by Brett Morgen.
The 18 films in the main competition include several from Cannes regulars, including the Dardenne brothers (“Tori and Lokita”), Claire Denis (“Stars at Noon”), James Gray (“Armageddon Time”), Hirokazu...
- 4/14/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
As the Cannes Film Festival will announce its Official Selection on Thursday, Variety is starting to get a slightly clearer picture of what 75th edition will look like, though fewer titles than usual have leaked. Led by Cannes’ artistic director and general delegate Thierry Fremaux, the selection committee has been flooded with late submissions and is now in the thick of deliberations.
Most surprisingly, according to two well-informed sources, there will even be a David Lynch feature film which has been completely off the radar and stars Laura Dern — either as a cameo or a supporting role — along with some other Lynch regulars.
We already know the sun-dappled celebration will land several high-profile films from U.S. studios, such as Joseph Kosinski’s Paramount movie “Top Gun: Maverick” with a special homage to Tom Cruise, who will be on hand, as well as Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” from Warner Bros....
Most surprisingly, according to two well-informed sources, there will even be a David Lynch feature film which has been completely off the radar and stars Laura Dern — either as a cameo or a supporting role — along with some other Lynch regulars.
We already know the sun-dappled celebration will land several high-profile films from U.S. studios, such as Joseph Kosinski’s Paramount movie “Top Gun: Maverick” with a special homage to Tom Cruise, who will be on hand, as well as Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” from Warner Bros....
- 4/11/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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