Almodóvar regular Rossy de Palma to also star in the film produced by Paris-based Lgm and Studiocanal.
Harvey Keitel, Toni Collette, Rossy de Palma and Stanislas Mehrar have joined the cast of French director Amanda Sthers’s English-language debut Madame, a comedy-drama revolving around a housemaid asked to masquerade as a wealthy heiress by her employees.
The feature - produced by Paris-based Lgm in partnership with Studiocanal - will shoot in Paris for six weeks from today (July 20).
Collette and Keitel play wealthy American couple Anne and Bob who have recently set up home in Paris and decide to give a high-class dinner for a dozen distinguished diners.
The last-minute arrival of Bob’s son from his first marriage suddenly takes the number of guests to 13. The superstitious Anne asks housemaid Maria (played by de Palma) to change her uniform and pretend to be a wealthy Spanish friend.
In this guise, she is seated...
Harvey Keitel, Toni Collette, Rossy de Palma and Stanislas Mehrar have joined the cast of French director Amanda Sthers’s English-language debut Madame, a comedy-drama revolving around a housemaid asked to masquerade as a wealthy heiress by her employees.
The feature - produced by Paris-based Lgm in partnership with Studiocanal - will shoot in Paris for six weeks from today (July 20).
Collette and Keitel play wealthy American couple Anne and Bob who have recently set up home in Paris and decide to give a high-class dinner for a dozen distinguished diners.
The last-minute arrival of Bob’s son from his first marriage suddenly takes the number of guests to 13. The superstitious Anne asks housemaid Maria (played by de Palma) to change her uniform and pretend to be a wealthy Spanish friend.
In this guise, she is seated...
- 7/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
Israeli director Amos Gitai’s latest film chronicles events surrounding the final days of the assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Rabin, The Last Day premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival and screened in the Masters section at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Rabin died on November 4, 1995, at the hands of a 25-year-old right-wing law student who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords and the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
Cyril Colbeau-Justin produced alongside Jean Baptiste DuPont, Sylvie Pialat, David Kessler, Laurent Truchot, Michael Tapuach, Francesco Di Silvio and Gitai.
The film’s Us premiere will take place at the 25th annual New York Jewish Film Festival in January 2016
Kino Lorber negotiated North American rights with Indie Sales and will release the film on January 29, 2016.
Indie sales will handle international rights with Orange Studio.
Rabin, The Last Day premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival and screened in the Masters section at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Rabin died on November 4, 1995, at the hands of a 25-year-old right-wing law student who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords and the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
Cyril Colbeau-Justin produced alongside Jean Baptiste DuPont, Sylvie Pialat, David Kessler, Laurent Truchot, Michael Tapuach, Francesco Di Silvio and Gitai.
The film’s Us premiere will take place at the 25th annual New York Jewish Film Festival in January 2016
Kino Lorber negotiated North American rights with Indie Sales and will release the film on January 29, 2016.
Indie sales will handle international rights with Orange Studio.
- 12/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Valley of Love
Director: Guillaume Nicloux // Writer: Guillaume Nicloux
Even with eleven feature films under his belt, director Guillaume Nicloux remains the least recognizable name on our top ten list, but his last two features have significantly elevated his international status, including his 2013 remake of the Jacques Rivette film The Nun (based on the novel by Denis Diderot, which starred Isabelle Huppert, Martina Gedeck, Louise Bourgoin and newcomer Pauline Etienne. While that film never received Us distribution, his 2014 title, The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq was picked up by Kino Lorber after winning Best Screenplay at Tribeca and will receive a theatrical release in the Us next spring. Nicloux’s latest promises to be his most anticipated to date, reuniting film stars Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu, who last worked together in the excellent Maurice Pialat film, Loulou (1980). Filming in California, the film concerns the story revolves around Isabelle and Gérard,...
Director: Guillaume Nicloux // Writer: Guillaume Nicloux
Even with eleven feature films under his belt, director Guillaume Nicloux remains the least recognizable name on our top ten list, but his last two features have significantly elevated his international status, including his 2013 remake of the Jacques Rivette film The Nun (based on the novel by Denis Diderot, which starred Isabelle Huppert, Martina Gedeck, Louise Bourgoin and newcomer Pauline Etienne. While that film never received Us distribution, his 2014 title, The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq was picked up by Kino Lorber after winning Best Screenplay at Tribeca and will receive a theatrical release in the Us next spring. Nicloux’s latest promises to be his most anticipated to date, reuniting film stars Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu, who last worked together in the excellent Maurice Pialat film, Loulou (1980). Filming in California, the film concerns the story revolves around Isabelle and Gérard,...
- 1/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
French-Martinican rapper-turned-actor Joeystarr, a seemingly busy thespian, whose work has yet to cross the Atlantic and reach USA audiences, despite a rush of recent films, has signed up for another. He'll star in French helmer Tristan Aurouet's 3rd feature film, titled 36 Heures à Tuer (36 Hours To Kill) - another crime drama it would appear (he's done a number of those recently) for Joeystarr. Details on plot are currently being kept underwraps, but shooting is set to begin in November of this year. Aurouet will be directing from a script penned by Matthieu Le Naour, Alexandre Coquelle, Romain Lévy and Mathieu Oullion, reports Cineuropa. Cyril Colbeau-Justin and...
- 10/10/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
French action-thriller Point Blank is making its way to DVD and Blu-ray this December 6th from Magnet Releasing:Point Blank Get Ready For A Non-Stop Adrenaline Rush As The Action-Packed Film Point Blank Thrills On Blu-Ray And DVD December 6 From Magnolia Home Entertainment "It leaves you with an endorphin high. An exhilarating adrenaline rush." - New York Times "Make a note to see it. Propulsively entertaining." - Boston Herald From producers Cyril Colbeau-Justin and Jean-Baptiste Dupont (36) and writer/director by Fred Cavayé (The Next Three Days, Anything For Her), Point Blank is a "skillfully directed French thriller that plays like an Alfred Hitchcock wet dream" (Paper). Gilles Lellouche (Tell No One) stars as Samuel, a nurse who is working at a hospital when his pregnant...
- 11/6/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Chicago – In our latest French thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 10 admit-two run-of-engagement movie passes up for grabs to the film “Point Blank” from French director Fred Cavayé!
The film opened in Chicago on Aug. 12, 2011 at Landmark Century Centre Cinema. “Point Blank” stars Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier, Claire Perot, Moussa Maaskri, Pierre Benoist, Valérie Dashwood, Virgile Bramly, Nicky Naude, Adel Bencherif, Vincent Colombe, Chems Dahmani and Grégoire Bonnet from writer and director Fred Cavayé.
To win your free run-of-engagement movie pass for “Point Blank”, just answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! These movie passes are valid during the film’s theatrical run at Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Point Blank” from French director Fred Cavayé.
The film opened in Chicago on Aug. 12, 2011 at Landmark Century Centre Cinema. “Point Blank” stars Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier, Claire Perot, Moussa Maaskri, Pierre Benoist, Valérie Dashwood, Virgile Bramly, Nicky Naude, Adel Bencherif, Vincent Colombe, Chems Dahmani and Grégoire Bonnet from writer and director Fred Cavayé.
To win your free run-of-engagement movie pass for “Point Blank”, just answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! These movie passes are valid during the film’s theatrical run at Landmark Century Centre Cinema in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Point Blank” from French director Fred Cavayé.
- 8/15/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
After last year's elegant Gainsbourg from Joan Sfar, France is giving us yet another musical biopic of a vintage pop star. The upcoming Cloclo, about pop singer Claude François, started shooting on Monday, for a planned 2012 release. In the 60s Claude François turned France upside down with his love for glitter, insane outfits and catchy tunes that made him one of the most successful French singers of all time, even after his sudden death in 1978, at the age of 39. Gist: A former student of Eric Rohmer's, helmet Florient Emilio Siri actually started his career shooting glossy music videos for France's finest hip hop artists before turning to action-packed flicks such as The Nest (2002) and Hostages (2005) starring Bruce Willis. Cloclo will be his sixth directorial effort and mark a definite turn in his career. The biopic will follow the kitsch song-writer as he rises to fame against his father's hopes...
- 3/19/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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