Seemingly channeling the spirit of Claude Chabrol, Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins is a decidedly classy throwback thriller about a seemingly humdrum character committing perverse acts of subterfuge against others. Barraud’s film follows Judith Fauvet (Virginie Efira), a translator living in France with her successful conductor husband, Melvil (Bruno Salomone), and two sons. But, it turns out, Judith is living a second life.
Under the guise of the near-constant travel required for her work, Judith has a second family in Switzerland, where boyfriend Abdel (Quim Gutierrez) primarily cares for their young daughter, Ninon (Loïse Benguerel). Barraud and co-screenwriter Klotz outline the delicate balancing act required on Judith’s part to keep her double life a secret, and the narrative displays a compelling psychological nuance due to the focus on the far-reaching effects of her deception.
By homing in on the feelings of the secondary characters, the filmmakers poignantly articulate...
Under the guise of the near-constant travel required for her work, Judith has a second family in Switzerland, where boyfriend Abdel (Quim Gutierrez) primarily cares for their young daughter, Ninon (Loïse Benguerel). Barraud and co-screenwriter Klotz outline the delicate balancing act required on Judith’s part to keep her double life a secret, and the narrative displays a compelling psychological nuance due to the focus on the far-reaching effects of her deception.
By homing in on the feelings of the secondary characters, the filmmakers poignantly articulate...
- 8/13/2023
- by Wes Greene
- Slant Magazine
French cinema guilds L’Arp and La Srf have put out a joint statement declaring solidarity with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Many of the demands around value sharing and A.I. regulation of the Hollywood writers and actors, who went on strike on May 2 and July 14 respectively, chime with long-running battles of the two organizations in France.
“This double social movement, a first since 1960 in Hollywood, is the sign of a major turning point, where the issues of value sharing, the integration of new models and artificial intelligence are central,” the bodies in a joint statement, issued on Thursday.
“At the heart of these demands, is the future of our sector. To guarantee that authors and artists continue to emerge and renew creation, we must on the one hand adapt value-sharing to new distribution models, so that the transition from linear does not lead to a weakening of creators,” it continued.
Many of the demands around value sharing and A.I. regulation of the Hollywood writers and actors, who went on strike on May 2 and July 14 respectively, chime with long-running battles of the two organizations in France.
“This double social movement, a first since 1960 in Hollywood, is the sign of a major turning point, where the issues of value sharing, the integration of new models and artificial intelligence are central,” the bodies in a joint statement, issued on Thursday.
“At the heart of these demands, is the future of our sector. To guarantee that authors and artists continue to emerge and renew creation, we must on the one hand adapt value-sharing to new distribution models, so that the transition from linear does not lead to a weakening of creators,” it continued.
- 7/20/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Malian filmmaker will be honoured with the award at the opening ceremony on May 17
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé will receive the Carrosse d’Or award of the French directors guild La Société des Réalisateurs (Srf) at the 55th edition of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight strand which runs May 16-27.
The director will be honoured with the award, which recognises filmmakers for their “innovative qualities”, at the opening ceremony on May 17.
Cisse’s career has spanned over 50 years with his work having screened at Cannes six times. His 1987 drama Yelen picked up the jury prize at the festival when it played in competition.
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé will receive the Carrosse d’Or award of the French directors guild La Société des Réalisateurs (Srf) at the 55th edition of the Cannes’ Directors Fortnight strand which runs May 16-27.
The director will be honoured with the award, which recognises filmmakers for their “innovative qualities”, at the opening ceremony on May 17.
Cisse’s career has spanned over 50 years with his work having screened at Cannes six times. His 1987 drama Yelen picked up the jury prize at the festival when it played in competition.
- 4/4/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Filmmaker Y (Avshalom Pollak) with Yahalom David (Nur Fibak), an officer for the Ministry of Culture in Nadav Lapid’s tightly-wound musical drama Ahed’s Knee (Ha'berech)
When I spoke with Antoine Barraud (who cast filmmakers Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder in Portrait Of The Artist) on Madeleine Collins for New York’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, I brought up Nadav Lapid’s role has in his latest film. In my conversation with the director of Ahed's Knee Nadav told me how it felt to be asked to act and that he was “obsessed” as a young boy with Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s West Side Story and Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s Singin’ In The Rain, creating thoughts of wanting to become a dancer and have a band.
Nadav Lapid with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I was obsessed with West Side Story and I was also watching Singin’ in the Rain,...
When I spoke with Antoine Barraud (who cast filmmakers Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder in Portrait Of The Artist) on Madeleine Collins for New York’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, I brought up Nadav Lapid’s role has in his latest film. In my conversation with the director of Ahed's Knee Nadav told me how it felt to be asked to act and that he was “obsessed” as a young boy with Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s West Side Story and Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s Singin’ In The Rain, creating thoughts of wanting to become a dancer and have a band.
Nadav Lapid with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I was obsessed with West Side Story and I was also watching Singin’ in the Rain,...
- 3/15/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Judith (Virginie Efira) with little Ninon (Loïse Benguerel) in Antoine Barraud’s mysterious Madeleine Collins
Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins, written in collaboration with Héléna Klotz, starring Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone with Jacqueline Bisset, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel, Thomas Gioria, Théo Deroo, Nadav Lapid, Nathalie Boutefeu, Mona Walravens, Frank Onana, and Valérie Donzelli is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema and the Glasgow Film Festival.
Antoine Barraud with Anne-Katrin Titze on Maurice Pialat filming his son for Le garçu: “He said when you direct a child, it’s actually the child directing you.”
Before Antoine arrived in New York, we discussed casting Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder, the long tradition of having women’s names as film titles, novels and plays to name just a few. In Antoine Barraud’s Portrait Of The Artist, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo loomed large and we explore the unconscious mind of...
Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins, written in collaboration with Héléna Klotz, starring Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone with Jacqueline Bisset, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel, Thomas Gioria, Théo Deroo, Nadav Lapid, Nathalie Boutefeu, Mona Walravens, Frank Onana, and Valérie Donzelli is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema and the Glasgow Film Festival.
Antoine Barraud with Anne-Katrin Titze on Maurice Pialat filming his son for Le garçu: “He said when you direct a child, it’s actually the child directing you.”
Before Antoine arrived in New York, we discussed casting Bertrand Bonello and Barbet Schroeder, the long tradition of having women’s names as film titles, novels and plays to name just a few. In Antoine Barraud’s Portrait Of The Artist, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo loomed large and we explore the unconscious mind of...
- 3/7/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A woman walks through the evening dress section of an elegant department store. The camera follows her as if it were one of the discreet sales people. The pace is calm. Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's may come to mind with her explanation about Tiffany’s as a place where nothing really bad can happen. Which of course is wishful thinking. The woman enters a dressing room. She faints. Something happens offscreen and the film moves into a different gear. Antoine Barraud’s Madeleine Collins, written in collaboration with Héléna Klotz, starring Virginie Efira, Quim Gutiérrez, and Bruno Salomone is a highlight of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York and the Glasgow Film Festival.
We first meet Judith (Efira) as she plays in a park with little 4-year-old Ninon (Loïse Benguerel). Ninon wears a tiara and has a foxtail attached to the back of...
We first meet Judith (Efira) as she plays in a park with little 4-year-old Ninon (Loïse Benguerel). Ninon wears a tiara and has a foxtail attached to the back of...
- 3/4/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film and best actress prizes
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film at the 27th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, while its star Anamaria Vartolomei was awarded the best actress prize.
Adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux’s 2019 semi-autobiographical work, Happening recounts a gifted literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised in France in 1975.
It marks a first lead role for Vartolomei, whose previous credits include How To Be A Good Wife and The Royal Exchange. Vartolomei is...
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film at the 27th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, while its star Anamaria Vartolomei was awarded the best actress prize.
Adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux’s 2019 semi-autobiographical work, Happening recounts a gifted literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised in France in 1975.
It marks a first lead role for Vartolomei, whose previous credits include How To Be A Good Wife and The Royal Exchange. Vartolomei is...
- 1/18/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The awards are voted on by 95 international correspondents from 36 countries.
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions leads the nominations of the 27th edition of France’s Lumière awards, followed by Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening and Arthur Harari’s Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle.
The awards, which are voted on by 95 international correspondents hailing from 36 countries this year, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition in Venice this year, was nominated in five categories including best film, director, screenplay, actor...
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions leads the nominations of the 27th edition of France’s Lumière awards, followed by Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening and Arthur Harari’s Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle.
The awards, which are voted on by 95 international correspondents hailing from 36 countries this year, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition in Venice this year, was nominated in five categories including best film, director, screenplay, actor...
- 12/10/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
“Madeleine Collins,” a psychological thriller with “Benedetta” star Virginie Efira, has been sold by Charades in major territories. The movie world premiered at Venice Days and played at San Sebastian.
Charades has sold “Madeleine Collins” to Movie Inspired (Italy), Rialto (Australia / New Zealand), Best Film (Poland) and Weird Wave (Greece).
Helmed by Antoine Barraud, “Madeleine Collins” stars Efira as Judith, a successful translator who leads a double life between Switzerland and France with two different men with whom she has children. As her balancing act starts to collapse, Judith decides to run away from it all, leading her situation to spiral out of control. Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone and Nadav Lapid, the Israeli helmer of Cannes-prize winner “Ahed’s Knee,” star opposite Efira.
Charades previously sold the movie to Spain (Alfa Pictures), former Yugoslavia (Megacom), South Korea (Moby Dick), Portugal (Lusomundo), Indonesia (Falcon), Taiwan (Benchmark) and Cis (Exponenta). “Madeleine Collins” was...
Charades has sold “Madeleine Collins” to Movie Inspired (Italy), Rialto (Australia / New Zealand), Best Film (Poland) and Weird Wave (Greece).
Helmed by Antoine Barraud, “Madeleine Collins” stars Efira as Judith, a successful translator who leads a double life between Switzerland and France with two different men with whom she has children. As her balancing act starts to collapse, Judith decides to run away from it all, leading her situation to spiral out of control. Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone and Nadav Lapid, the Israeli helmer of Cannes-prize winner “Ahed’s Knee,” star opposite Efira.
Charades previously sold the movie to Spain (Alfa Pictures), former Yugoslavia (Megacom), South Korea (Moby Dick), Portugal (Lusomundo), Indonesia (Falcon), Taiwan (Benchmark) and Cis (Exponenta). “Madeleine Collins” was...
- 9/23/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Madeleine Collins,” a psychological thriller headlined by “Benedetta” star and Venice jury member Virginie Efira, has been sold by Charades to a raft of buyers. The movie had world premiere in the Venice Days section on Saturday and was warmly received by critics across the board.
Helmed by Antoine Barraud, “Madeleine Collins” stars Efira as Judith, a successful translator who leads a double life between Switzerland and France with two different men with whom she has children. As her balancing act starts to collapse, Judith decides to run away from it all, leading her situation to spiral out of control. Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone and Nadav Lapid, the Israeli helmer of Cannes-prize winner “Ahed’s Knee,” star opposite Efira.
Charades has sold the movie to Spain (Alfa Pictures), former Yugoslavia (Megacom), South Korea (Moby Dick), Portugal (Lusomundo), Indonesia (Falcon), Taiwan (Benchmark) and Cis (Exponenta). The movie has distribution in place for France,...
Helmed by Antoine Barraud, “Madeleine Collins” stars Efira as Judith, a successful translator who leads a double life between Switzerland and France with two different men with whom she has children. As her balancing act starts to collapse, Judith decides to run away from it all, leading her situation to spiral out of control. Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone and Nadav Lapid, the Israeli helmer of Cannes-prize winner “Ahed’s Knee,” star opposite Efira.
Charades has sold the movie to Spain (Alfa Pictures), former Yugoslavia (Megacom), South Korea (Moby Dick), Portugal (Lusomundo), Indonesia (Falcon), Taiwan (Benchmark) and Cis (Exponenta). The movie has distribution in place for France,...
- 9/6/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Beginning with a dizzying one-shot that follows Judith – or is it Margot? – around a high-end clothing store before a fainting spell upends her shopping trip, Antoine Barraud’s “Madeleine Collins” is a laser-focused character study that literalizes a double-life, following Judith (a calculated Virginie Efira) as she attempts to balance seemingly having two husbands, two sets of children, two complete lives. Wisely withholding key information about how Judith came into this situation until the very end, Barraud’s film effectively grafts the tropes of Hitchcockian thriller onto a domestic portrait of a woman’s life spiraling out of control.
Continue reading ‘Madeleine Collins’ Starring Virginie Efira Is A Knotty Exploration of A Dual Life [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Madeleine Collins’ Starring Virginie Efira Is A Knotty Exploration of A Dual Life [Venice Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/4/2021
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
Nathaniel reporting from Venice, day 1 part 2
Day 1 (continued). I didn’t expect death to linger so completely over Parallel Mothers and curiously my opening night at the fest kept on inviting the grim reaper in. The first day of screenings ended with Jane Campion’s The Power of Dog in which death is far less of a subject but clouds the vast Montana skies. But first I took in Madeleine Collins, a French addition of our favorite subgenre here at The Film Experience, Women Who Lie To Themselves™ in which everyone in the film avoids talking about a death they probably should have spent lots more time processing.
Madeleine Colllins (Antoine Barraud)
Elisa already hit the highlight of the film in her brief capsule, but it bears repeating: Virginie Efira! Virginie Efira! Virginie Efira!
Day 1 (continued). I didn’t expect death to linger so completely over Parallel Mothers and curiously my opening night at the fest kept on inviting the grim reaper in. The first day of screenings ended with Jane Campion’s The Power of Dog in which death is far less of a subject but clouds the vast Montana skies. But first I took in Madeleine Collins, a French addition of our favorite subgenre here at The Film Experience, Women Who Lie To Themselves™ in which everyone in the film avoids talking about a death they probably should have spent lots more time processing.
Madeleine Colllins (Antoine Barraud)
Elisa already hit the highlight of the film in her brief capsule, but it bears repeating: Virginie Efira! Virginie Efira! Virginie Efira!
- 9/4/2021
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Benedetta star Virginie Efira plays a woman leading a double life in drama Madeleine Collins which premiered in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival today. Also doubling up in Venice by serving on the competition jury, Efira puts in a terrific performance in Antoine Barraud’s taut relationship pic that veers into thriller territory.
Efira’s translator is a sophisticated, busy working woman whose job is the perfect cover for her many trips away from home. But where’s home? Is it in Switzerland in a flat with Abdel (Quim Gutiérrez) and her young daughter? Or is it in a glamorous place in France, with Melvil (Bruno Salomone) and their two adolescent sons? The fact that she’s known as ‘Judith’ in the latter and ‘Margot’ in the former increases the intrigue.
Much of Madeleine Collins’ early power is in its mysteries, and piecing the puzzle together keeps you engaged.
Efira’s translator is a sophisticated, busy working woman whose job is the perfect cover for her many trips away from home. But where’s home? Is it in Switzerland in a flat with Abdel (Quim Gutiérrez) and her young daughter? Or is it in a glamorous place in France, with Melvil (Bruno Salomone) and their two adolescent sons? The fact that she’s known as ‘Judith’ in the latter and ‘Margot’ in the former increases the intrigue.
Much of Madeleine Collins’ early power is in its mysteries, and piecing the puzzle together keeps you engaged.
- 9/4/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
“And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife; and you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ ” are the words David Byrne bellowed on the classic Talking Heads track “Once in a Lifetime.”
In French director Antoine Barraud’s twisted, slightly unhinged and emotionally taut psychological drama, Madeleine Collins, the question is posed differently: How does a beautiful woman in her 40s find herself living in two houses, with two husbands and two entirely separate families?
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith (or Margot or Madeleine, or whatever else she decides ...
In French director Antoine Barraud’s twisted, slightly unhinged and emotionally taut psychological drama, Madeleine Collins, the question is posed differently: How does a beautiful woman in her 40s find herself living in two houses, with two husbands and two entirely separate families?
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith (or Margot or Madeleine, or whatever else she decides ...
“And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife; and you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ ” are the words David Byrne bellowed on the classic Talking Heads track “Once in a Lifetime.”
In French director Antoine Barraud’s twisted, slightly unhinged and emotionally taut psychological drama, Madeleine Collins, the question is posed differently: How does a beautiful woman in her 40s find herself living in two houses, with two husbands and two entirely separate families?
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith (or Margot or Madeleine, or whatever else she decides ...
In French director Antoine Barraud’s twisted, slightly unhinged and emotionally taut psychological drama, Madeleine Collins, the question is posed differently: How does a beautiful woman in her 40s find herself living in two houses, with two husbands and two entirely separate families?
It takes the film some time to reveal how its heroine, Judith (or Margot or Madeleine, or whatever else she decides ...
The programme for the 2021 Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, and includes new films from Pedro Almodóvar, Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michelangelo Frammartino, Pablo Larraín, Paul Schrader, Ridley Scott, and more.Parallel MothersCOMPETITIONParallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (Ana Lily Amirpour)Un Autre Monde (Stephane Brize)The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)America LatinaL’Evenement (Audrey Diwan)Official CompetitionThe Hole (Michelangelo Frammartino)Sundown (Michel Franco)Lost Illusions (Xavier Giannoli)The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)Spencer (Pablo Larrain)Freaks Out (Gabriele Mainetti)Qui Rido Io (Mario Martone)On The Job: The Missing 8 (Erik Matti)Leave No Traces (Jan P. Matuszyński)Captain Volkonogov EscapedThe Card Counter (Paul Schrader)The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)Reflection (Valentyn Vasyanovych)The Box (Lorenzo Vigas)Out Of COMPETITIONFeaturesDune (Denis Villeneuve)Il Bambino Nascosto (Roberto Andò)Les Choses Humaines (Yvan Attal)Ariaferma (Leonardo Di Costanzo)Halloween Kills (David Gordon Green...
- 8/3/2021
- MUBI
And finally it’s the Giornate degli Autori folks headed by topper Gaia Furrer that have unveiled their sidebar selections. Of the ten feature films we find several first time feature works from the likes of Egyptian journalist Dina Amer’s debut Tu Me Resembles (executive produced by Spike Lee and Spike Jonze) and TorinoFilmLab Polish filmmaker Ola Jankowska with Anatomia. We have one item that we were tracking in Antoine Barraud‘s Madeleine Collins – which stars Benedetta herself Virginie Efira alongside helmer Nadav Lapid – that film receives a France domestic release in December. We have San Sebastian Work-in-progress title Piedra Noche by Iván Fund (he was in Un Certain Regard in 2010 The Lips) and we find Brazilian helmer Aly Muritiba‘s latest in Deserto Particular (he competed at Sundance with Rust in 2018).…...
- 7/28/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
“Madeleine Collins,” the buzzy psychological drama directed by France’s Antoine Barraud (“Portrait of the Artist”) and toplined by popular Belgian actress Virginie Efira who plays the lesbian nun in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” is among ten competition titles set to launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section.
The Venice section modeled around the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is largely made up of international first works this year. All entries are world premieres.
Besides “Madeleine” in which Efira (pictured) plays a woman who leads a double life –– and which also features Nadav Lapid, who is also the Israeli director of “Synonyms” and also Jacqueline Bisset –– the three other pics competing in Venice Days that are not first works are: the drama “Private Desert,” by Brazilian director Aly Muritiba (“Rust”) that is centered around a 40-year-old-cop’s Internet love interest who goes missing; “Dusk Stone,” by Argentina...
The Venice section modeled around the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is largely made up of international first works this year. All entries are world premieres.
Besides “Madeleine” in which Efira (pictured) plays a woman who leads a double life –– and which also features Nadav Lapid, who is also the Israeli director of “Synonyms” and also Jacqueline Bisset –– the three other pics competing in Venice Days that are not first works are: the drama “Private Desert,” by Brazilian director Aly Muritiba (“Rust”) that is centered around a 40-year-old-cop’s Internet love interest who goes missing; “Dusk Stone,” by Argentina...
- 7/28/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Charades, the sales firm launched three years ago by former execs at Wild Bunch, Gaumont and Studiocanal, will roll into the Berlinale’s European Film Market with a raft of pre-sales on anticipated French projects, including “The Rosemaker” with Catherine Frot and Laurent Tirard’s “The Speech.”
Charades will unveil the promos of both films, as well as “Madeleine Collins,” Antoine Barraud’s psychological drama headlined by Virginie Efira, and will be hosting the market premieres of Sebastien Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet” which is generating strong box office returns in France, where it opened last week, and Bruno Merle’s “Felicita.”
A psychological drama, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Roschdy Zem, “The Girl With a Bracelet,” has already attracted 100,000 admissions in five days. The film follows a 16-year-old who stands trial for the murder of her best friend and begins to confess to a secret life that she kept from her parents.
Charades will unveil the promos of both films, as well as “Madeleine Collins,” Antoine Barraud’s psychological drama headlined by Virginie Efira, and will be hosting the market premieres of Sebastien Demoustier’s “The Girl With a Bracelet” which is generating strong box office returns in France, where it opened last week, and Bruno Merle’s “Felicita.”
A psychological drama, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Roschdy Zem, “The Girl With a Bracelet,” has already attracted 100,000 admissions in five days. The film follows a 16-year-old who stands trial for the murder of her best friend and begins to confess to a secret life that she kept from her parents.
- 2/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Company releases first image for The Macaluso Sisters and Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu.
Paris-based company Charades has boarded world sales on Sicilian director Emma Dante’s Palermo-set feature The Macaluso Sisters, about a group of tightly-knit sisters whose lives are marked forever by the death of one of them in a tragic beach accident.
The feature is an adaptation of Dante’s 2014 play of the same name which has toured her native Italy as well as Europe and the Us to critical acclaim in recent years. It is a second fiction feature for Dante after debut film A...
Paris-based company Charades has boarded world sales on Sicilian director Emma Dante’s Palermo-set feature The Macaluso Sisters, about a group of tightly-knit sisters whose lives are marked forever by the death of one of them in a tragic beach accident.
The feature is an adaptation of Dante’s 2014 play of the same name which has toured her native Italy as well as Europe and the Us to critical acclaim in recent years. It is a second fiction feature for Dante after debut film A...
- 2/18/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Charades, the sales company behind the Oscar-nominated animated film “I Lost My Body,” has boarded three new French films, “Madeleine Collins” with Virginie Efira, as well as the comedies “Felicita” and “The Speech.”
Charades will be introducing the three titles at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, an industry showcase of local movies kicking off on Jan. 16.
“Madeleine Collins” is a psychological drama directed by Antoine Barraud and headlined by Efira, the popular Belgian actress of Justine Triet’s “Victoria” and “Sibyl,” as well as Paul Verhoeven’s anticipated “Benedetta.”
Efira (pictured) stars in “Madeleine Collins” as Judith who leads a double life between Switzerland and France. In one country, she lives with Abdel with whom she raises a little girl, and in another country she lives with Melvil with whom she has two older boys. Judith gets slowly embroiled in a web of lies and secrets, leading her balancing act to explode dangerously.
Charades will be introducing the three titles at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, an industry showcase of local movies kicking off on Jan. 16.
“Madeleine Collins” is a psychological drama directed by Antoine Barraud and headlined by Efira, the popular Belgian actress of Justine Triet’s “Victoria” and “Sibyl,” as well as Paul Verhoeven’s anticipated “Benedetta.”
Efira (pictured) stars in “Madeleine Collins” as Judith who leads a double life between Switzerland and France. In one country, she lives with Abdel with whom she raises a little girl, and in another country she lives with Melvil with whom she has two older boys. Judith gets slowly embroiled in a web of lies and secrets, leading her balancing act to explode dangerously.
- 1/15/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The actress is leading the cast of Antoine Barraud’s 3rd feature film, sold by Charades and produced by Les Films du Bélier in league with Close Up Films and Frakas. 26 September will see filming begin on Madeleine Collins, the 3rd full-length film by Antoine Barraud, following The Sinkholes and Portrait of the Artist (unveiled in the Berlinale Forum in 2015). Starring in the cast is Belgian actress Virginie Efira, France’s Bruno Salomone, Spain’s Quim Gutiérrez, American star Jacqueline Bisset and, last...
Bertrand Bonello's Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera (2016) is showing on Mubi from April 7 - May 7 and Antoine Barraud's Rouge (2015) is showing on Mubi from April 21 - May - 21, 2017 as part of our Special Discovery series. Self-portrait in front of a mirror (1908), Léon Spilliaert. MuZee, Ostend. Photo: © Sabam Belgium 2016I would not paint — a picture —I'd rather be the OneIt's bright impossibility—Emily DickinsonWhen asked about his first short film, a beautiful portrait of the amazing Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, filmmaker João César Monteiro declared, rather dissatisfied, "Well, this film is proof to all those who say that you can not film a poem." The same statement has often been made about any other art that dared be approached by cinema. A strange suspicion arises once a film tackles art. It seems to be deeply grounded in an idea of cinema as the art of the little man,...
- 4/18/2017
- MUBI
Leading curated streaming platform Mubi has announced today the launch of its brand new “Discoveries” series, featuring new films each month that have been hand-picked straight from the international film festival circuit, streaming exclusively on Mubi. The new series is intended to spotlight the work of acclaimed and established directors as well as some of the most talented emerging filmmakers from around the world.
Of the new series, Mubi’s Director of Content Daniel Kasman commented, “Countless wonderful and inspiring films made all over the world are seen only at select film festivals, unfairly left undistributed and inaccessible to most audiences. So it is with great pleasure that we’re launching Mubi’s Discoveries series, a programming initiative through which we will introduce these essential, previously unavailable but extraordinary works of international cinema to the largest possible audience.”
The first film in the Discoveries series will be Damien Manivel’s “Le Parc,...
Of the new series, Mubi’s Director of Content Daniel Kasman commented, “Countless wonderful and inspiring films made all over the world are seen only at select film festivals, unfairly left undistributed and inaccessible to most audiences. So it is with great pleasure that we’re launching Mubi’s Discoveries series, a programming initiative through which we will introduce these essential, previously unavailable but extraordinary works of international cinema to the largest possible audience.”
The first film in the Discoveries series will be Damien Manivel’s “Le Parc,...
- 1/9/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The day after Sight & Sound posted its best-of-2015 list, Cahiers du Cinéma's top ten began making the rounds. The top three, in order: Nanni Moretti's Mia Madre, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendour and Philippe Garrel's In the Shadow of Women. Nominated for France's prestigious Louis Delluc Prize this year are: Antoine Barraud’s Portrait of an Artist, Stephane Brizé's The Measure of a Man, Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days, Philippe Faucon’s Fatima, Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite and Rithy Panh’s L’Image manquante. Also in today's roundup: Restoring D.A. Pennebaker's Dont Look Back, a profile of Adam Goldberg and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/28/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The day after Sight & Sound posted its best-of-2015 list, Cahiers du Cinéma's top ten began making the rounds. The top three, in order: Nanni Moretti's Mia Madre, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendour and Philippe Garrel's In the Shadow of Women. Nominated for France's prestigious Louis Delluc Prize this year are: Antoine Barraud’s Portrait of an Artist, Stephane Brizé's The Measure of a Man, Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days, Philippe Faucon’s Fatima, Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite and Rithy Panh’s L’Image manquante. Also in today's roundup: Restoring D.A. Pennebaker's Dont Look Back, a profile of Adam Goldberg and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/28/2015
- Keyframe
On My Skin: Barraud Explores the Essence of Monstrosity
There are moments within Antoine Barraud’s sophomore feature Portrait of the Artist that tend to feel enlivened with an arresting strangeness. There is the peripherally entertaining notion of provocative body horror shadowing us while we follow a filmmaker creating his latest project, simultaneously losing his grip on reality. But more often than not, the film feels like a thriller version of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery. Barraud’s French language title, Le Dos Rouge (basically The Red Back) was perhaps too literal of a title, and the allusion to Joyce’s classic text (though this is really more ‘as a middle aged man’) gives it a certain extra textual density since Joyce’s novel is an allusion to Daedalus, the man responsible for constructing the Labyrinth which entombed the deadly Minotaur in Greek Mythology.
Bertrand (Bertrand Bonello) is a filmmaker...
There are moments within Antoine Barraud’s sophomore feature Portrait of the Artist that tend to feel enlivened with an arresting strangeness. There is the peripherally entertaining notion of provocative body horror shadowing us while we follow a filmmaker creating his latest project, simultaneously losing his grip on reality. But more often than not, the film feels like a thriller version of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery. Barraud’s French language title, Le Dos Rouge (basically The Red Back) was perhaps too literal of a title, and the allusion to Joyce’s classic text (though this is really more ‘as a middle aged man’) gives it a certain extra textual density since Joyce’s novel is an allusion to Daedalus, the man responsible for constructing the Labyrinth which entombed the deadly Minotaur in Greek Mythology.
Bertrand (Bertrand Bonello) is a filmmaker...
- 3/15/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Copenhagen’s Cph Pix (April 9-22) will be bookended by films from two Danish directors shooting in the UK – Jeppe Ronde’s Welsh teen suicide drama Bridgend [pictured] and Thomas Vinterberg’s Thomas Hardy adaptation, Far From The Madding Crowd.
The audience-focused Cph Pix will show 130 feature films during 420 screenings and events.
Festival director Jacob Neiiendam said: “Artistically it’s a strong year for Danish cinema.”
Indeed, three Danish debut features will screen at Pix. “The first features from Thomas Daneskov [The Elite], Anna Sofie Hartmann [Limbo] and Jeppe Rønde showcase a diversity and nerve we have been missing in our fiction films, and they are just the tip of the iceberg,” added Neiiendam.
“We always wanted the festival to be a platform for local films which wouldn’t play well with regular releases, and this year we’ve been flooded with films produced outside the standard support system - and they are good films.”
Opening night will also...
The audience-focused Cph Pix will show 130 feature films during 420 screenings and events.
Festival director Jacob Neiiendam said: “Artistically it’s a strong year for Danish cinema.”
Indeed, three Danish debut features will screen at Pix. “The first features from Thomas Daneskov [The Elite], Anna Sofie Hartmann [Limbo] and Jeppe Rønde showcase a diversity and nerve we have been missing in our fiction films, and they are just the tip of the iceberg,” added Neiiendam.
“We always wanted the festival to be a platform for local films which wouldn’t play well with regular releases, and this year we’ve been flooded with films produced outside the standard support system - and they are good films.”
Opening night will also...
- 3/12/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Experimental strand to open with Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room
The Berlinale (Feb 5-15) has unveiled the line-up for its 45th Forum strand, comprising 43 films in its main programme, of which 31 are world premieres and 10 international premieres.
The programme includes avant garde, experimental works, essays, long-term observations and political reportage.
Canadian director Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room will open this year’s programme. The film’s numerous plotlines are inspired by real, imaginary and photographic memories of films from the silent era, using a half-damaged nitrate print aesthetic in homage.
Films of the 45th Forum
Abaabi ba boda boda (The Boda Boda Thieves) by Yes! That’s Us,
Uganda / South Africa / Kenya / Germany - Wp
Al-wadi (The Valley) by Ghassan Salhab, Lebanon / France / Germany
Balikbayan #1 (Memories of Overdevelopment Redux) by Kidlat Tahimik, The Philippines - Wp
Beira-Mar (Seashore) by Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon, Brazil - Wp
Ben Zaken by Efrat Corem, Israel - IP[p...
The Berlinale (Feb 5-15) has unveiled the line-up for its 45th Forum strand, comprising 43 films in its main programme, of which 31 are world premieres and 10 international premieres.
The programme includes avant garde, experimental works, essays, long-term observations and political reportage.
Canadian director Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room will open this year’s programme. The film’s numerous plotlines are inspired by real, imaginary and photographic memories of films from the silent era, using a half-damaged nitrate print aesthetic in homage.
Films of the 45th Forum
Abaabi ba boda boda (The Boda Boda Thieves) by Yes! That’s Us,
Uganda / South Africa / Kenya / Germany - Wp
Al-wadi (The Valley) by Ghassan Salhab, Lebanon / France / Germany
Balikbayan #1 (Memories of Overdevelopment Redux) by Kidlat Tahimik, The Philippines - Wp
Beira-Mar (Seashore) by Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon, Brazil - Wp
Ben Zaken by Efrat Corem, Israel - IP[p...
- 1/15/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Distributor acquires North American rights to 3D animated feature [pictured].
Distributor Wrekin Hill is understood to have paid seven figures for North American rights to TeamTO and Haut et Court’s 3D animated feature Yellowbird.
Sc Films International represents sales.
Christian De Vita’s film is currently in production and is a coming-of-age story about a teenage bird. Antoine Barraud and Guilhem Lesaffre wrote the screenplay with Cory Edwards.
Seth Green, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash and Christine Baranski provide the voice talent.
Wrekin Hill will release the film in theatres this autumn. CFO/Foo Rene Cogan and director of acquisitions Alex Mandell brokered the deal with Simon Crowe for UK-based Sc Films.
“We believe that Yellowbird will capture the imagination of children, teens and adults alike,” said Wrekin Hill president and CEO Chris Ball.
“It is a beautifully written story about the power of self-discovery and community that will surely take audiences on an incredible...
Distributor Wrekin Hill is understood to have paid seven figures for North American rights to TeamTO and Haut et Court’s 3D animated feature Yellowbird.
Sc Films International represents sales.
Christian De Vita’s film is currently in production and is a coming-of-age story about a teenage bird. Antoine Barraud and Guilhem Lesaffre wrote the screenplay with Cory Edwards.
Seth Green, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash and Christine Baranski provide the voice talent.
Wrekin Hill will release the film in theatres this autumn. CFO/Foo Rene Cogan and director of acquisitions Alex Mandell brokered the deal with Simon Crowe for UK-based Sc Films.
“We believe that Yellowbird will capture the imagination of children, teens and adults alike,” said Wrekin Hill president and CEO Chris Ball.
“It is a beautifully written story about the power of self-discovery and community that will surely take audiences on an incredible...
- 2/12/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The distributor is understood to have paid seven figures for North American rights to TeamTO and Haut et Court’s 3D animated feature. Sc Films International represents sales.
Christian De Vita’s film is currently in production and is a coming-of-age story of a teenage bird. Antoine Barraud and Guilhem Lesaffre wrote the screenplay with Cory Edwards
Seth Green, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash and Christine Baranski provide the voice talent.
Wrekin Hill will release Yellowbird in theatres this autumn. CFO/Foo Rene Cogan and director of acquisitions Alex Mandell brokered the deal with Simon Crowe for UK-based Sc Films International.
Christian De Vita’s film is currently in production and is a coming-of-age story of a teenage bird. Antoine Barraud and Guilhem Lesaffre wrote the screenplay with Cory Edwards
Seth Green, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash and Christine Baranski provide the voice talent.
Wrekin Hill will release Yellowbird in theatres this autumn. CFO/Foo Rene Cogan and director of acquisitions Alex Mandell brokered the deal with Simon Crowe for UK-based Sc Films International.
- 2/10/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
In a seven-figure deal, Wrekin Hill Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Christian De Vita’s 3D animated feature “Yellowbird” from TeamTO and Haut & Court, the company announced Monday. Based on fantastic artwork by Benjamin Renner (“Ernest and Celestine”), “Yellowbird” features the voices of Seth Green, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash and Christine Baranski. Antoine Barraud and Guilhem Lesaffre wrote the currently-in-production movie with Cory Edwards (“Hoodwinked”), and Wrekin Hill will release the film in theaters this fall. Also Read: Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Eric Stonestreet to Voice Pets in Animated Movie From ‘Despicable Me...
- 2/10/2014
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Matteo Lovadina’s sales outfit Reel Suspects has reported brisk business on its Fantasia Film Festival titles.
During Fantasia, Reel Suspects has pre-sold French horror movie Fievre to Germany (Donau Film) and Us indie horror The Taking to Germany (Donau) and Australia (Accent Films).
Meanwhile, three films on Reel’s slate have been in competition in Fantasia.
Brendan Muldowney’s Love Eternal, produced by Fastnet Films, Red Lion, Rinkel Film, and T.O. Entertainment, received its international premiere at Fantasia having screened in Galway.
Giulia Brazzale & Luca Immesi’s Ritual – A Psychomagic Story, produced by Esperimento Cinema, has now been sold to Australia (Accent Film).
The Sinkholes, directed by Antoine Barraud and starring Mathieu Amalric, is to be released in France by Independencia.
Alongside its Fantasia titles, Reel Suspects has also recently picked up new erotic drama And They Call It Summer, directed by Paolo Franchi and starring Jean-Marc Barr and Isabella Ferrari.
During Fantasia, Reel Suspects has pre-sold French horror movie Fievre to Germany (Donau Film) and Us indie horror The Taking to Germany (Donau) and Australia (Accent Films).
Meanwhile, three films on Reel’s slate have been in competition in Fantasia.
Brendan Muldowney’s Love Eternal, produced by Fastnet Films, Red Lion, Rinkel Film, and T.O. Entertainment, received its international premiere at Fantasia having screened in Galway.
Giulia Brazzale & Luca Immesi’s Ritual – A Psychomagic Story, produced by Esperimento Cinema, has now been sold to Australia (Accent Film).
The Sinkholes, directed by Antoine Barraud and starring Mathieu Amalric, is to be released in France by Independencia.
Alongside its Fantasia titles, Reel Suspects has also recently picked up new erotic drama And They Call It Summer, directed by Paolo Franchi and starring Jean-Marc Barr and Isabella Ferrari.
- 8/9/2013
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
This year’s Fantasia International Film Festival has come to a close and we have a list of award winners, including Big Bad Wolves and Curse of Chucky:
Montreal – Thursday August 8th, 2013 - After Tuesday night’s sold-out screening of the Canadian premiere of The World’S End, presented by director Edgar Wright and actor Nick Frost, the Fantasia International Film Festival can confirm record attendance numbers this year, boasting more than 125,000 festival-goers for its 17th edition, surpassing last year’s record of 109,000 (a 15% increase). Over the course of its three-week film marathon, it presented over 131 features from 31 countries and more than 220 shorts from across the globe.
Fantasia’s 2013 edition opened with the North American Premiere of Takashi Miike’s Shield Of Straw and closed with the Canadian Premiere of Edgar Wright’s The World’S End. A lifetime achievement award was given to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski. World...
Montreal – Thursday August 8th, 2013 - After Tuesday night’s sold-out screening of the Canadian premiere of The World’S End, presented by director Edgar Wright and actor Nick Frost, the Fantasia International Film Festival can confirm record attendance numbers this year, boasting more than 125,000 festival-goers for its 17th edition, surpassing last year’s record of 109,000 (a 15% increase). Over the course of its three-week film marathon, it presented over 131 features from 31 countries and more than 220 shorts from across the globe.
Fantasia’s 2013 edition opened with the North American Premiere of Takashi Miike’s Shield Of Straw and closed with the Canadian Premiere of Edgar Wright’s The World’S End. A lifetime achievement award was given to Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski. World...
- 8/8/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Revenge horror Big Bad Wolves has won the best film prize at the Fantasia International Film Festival, which has revealed record attendance figures for its 17th edition.
Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves picked up the Cheval Noir Award for Best Film.
A statement from the jury said: “With elements of horror, crime thriller, revenge drama, and wicked black comedy, Big Bad Wolves takes genre-bending to bold new levels. This sense of originality, along with its subversive political subtext, assured visual style, and impeccable ensemble cast, is what separates the film from the rest of the pack.”
Directing duo Keshales and Papushado also picked up the award for best screenplay. The Ucm-produced film tells the story of a series of brutal murders, and how they impact on the lives of a vigilante police detective, the main suspect and the father of a victim.
Metrodome Distribution previously secured all UK rights from 6 Sales while Magnet...
Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves picked up the Cheval Noir Award for Best Film.
A statement from the jury said: “With elements of horror, crime thriller, revenge drama, and wicked black comedy, Big Bad Wolves takes genre-bending to bold new levels. This sense of originality, along with its subversive political subtext, assured visual style, and impeccable ensemble cast, is what separates the film from the rest of the pack.”
Directing duo Keshales and Papushado also picked up the award for best screenplay. The Ucm-produced film tells the story of a series of brutal murders, and how they impact on the lives of a vigilante police detective, the main suspect and the father of a victim.
Metrodome Distribution previously secured all UK rights from 6 Sales while Magnet...
- 8/8/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Pupils of fright, are you still with me? Are your truncated attention spans medicated with caffeine and hashtags? Good. Cause we are far from over, despite the fact that Fantasia Fest 2013 is winding down, soon returning to its slimy nest after another epic edition. Enough about me though, let’s get on with the backlog:
Les Gouffres (France, 2012)
Not being someone who shies away from the term highbrow, I try to take in as much substance as possible, feeding my left hemisphere with “art”. Much like vegetables, you also need your daily brain candy. However, if art is like pornography (you know it when you see it), then Les Gouffres is also like pornography: I know that I saw it.
Directed by Antoine Barraud, Les Gouffres tells the story of a woman’s descent into complete madness, catalyzed by her refusal to deal with the role society has chosen for her.
Les Gouffres (France, 2012)
Not being someone who shies away from the term highbrow, I try to take in as much substance as possible, feeding my left hemisphere with “art”. Much like vegetables, you also need your daily brain candy. However, if art is like pornography (you know it when you see it), then Les Gouffres is also like pornography: I know that I saw it.
Directed by Antoine Barraud, Les Gouffres tells the story of a woman’s descent into complete madness, catalyzed by her refusal to deal with the role society has chosen for her.
- 8/6/2013
- by Jo Satana
- Destroy the Brain
Les gouffres (English title: The Sinkholes)
Written by Antoine Barraud
Directed by Antoine Barraud
France, 2012
*What follows is a review of one half of a review of Fantasia’ special screening of not one but two of up and coming French filmmaker’s Antoine Barraud short films, Monstre numéro deux (36 min) and Les gouffres (62 min). This article discusses Les gouffres.
New filmmakers can count their blessings when, for their first few projects, they succeed in attracting top notch talent to help add some gravitas and legitimacy to their endeavor. Relative newcomer Frenchman Antoine Barraud, one of few filmmakers of his native country with an affinity with genre fair, made a name for himself with two inparticular, both of which were shown in a single screening at this year’s Fantasia. For one of those two projects, Les gouffres, he managed to hire one of the greatest actors working today, Mathieu Amalric.
Written by Antoine Barraud
Directed by Antoine Barraud
France, 2012
*What follows is a review of one half of a review of Fantasia’ special screening of not one but two of up and coming French filmmaker’s Antoine Barraud short films, Monstre numéro deux (36 min) and Les gouffres (62 min). This article discusses Les gouffres.
New filmmakers can count their blessings when, for their first few projects, they succeed in attracting top notch talent to help add some gravitas and legitimacy to their endeavor. Relative newcomer Frenchman Antoine Barraud, one of few filmmakers of his native country with an affinity with genre fair, made a name for himself with two inparticular, both of which were shown in a single screening at this year’s Fantasia. For one of those two projects, Les gouffres, he managed to hire one of the greatest actors working today, Mathieu Amalric.
- 7/28/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Monster numéro deux
Written by Antoine Barraud
Directed by Antoine Barraud
France, 2008
*What follows is a review of one half of a review of Fantasia’s special screening of not one but two of up and coming French filmmaker’s Antoine Barraud short films, Monstre numéro deux (36 min) and Les gouffres (62 min). This article discusses Monstre numéro deux.
Looking back at the past five years or so, the sub-genre of vampire films has inspired a countless amount of filmmakers and studios to take a crack at telling stories about those haunting creatures of the night. Not that prior to 2008 such cinematic experiences were a rarity per say, but the Twilight franchise (the first installment released in ’08) unquestionably gave the genre a shot in the arm. Interestingly enough, Antoine Barraud, one of France’s few writer-directors working within genre cinema, made his own vampire flick in the same year as the first Twilight picture,...
Written by Antoine Barraud
Directed by Antoine Barraud
France, 2008
*What follows is a review of one half of a review of Fantasia’s special screening of not one but two of up and coming French filmmaker’s Antoine Barraud short films, Monstre numéro deux (36 min) and Les gouffres (62 min). This article discusses Monstre numéro deux.
Looking back at the past five years or so, the sub-genre of vampire films has inspired a countless amount of filmmakers and studios to take a crack at telling stories about those haunting creatures of the night. Not that prior to 2008 such cinematic experiences were a rarity per say, but the Twilight franchise (the first installment released in ’08) unquestionably gave the genre a shot in the arm. Interestingly enough, Antoine Barraud, one of France’s few writer-directors working within genre cinema, made his own vampire flick in the same year as the first Twilight picture,...
- 7/28/2013
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
The full Fantasia 2013 lineup has now been revealed, and we have here the third and final wave of titles to share. Prepare to drool!
From the Press Release:
The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the rest of our 120-feature lineup that comprises our 2013 event, along with a string of additional details that mark our 17th edition as a standout. Fantasia will engulf the city of Montreal from July 18-August 6, 2013. Be sure to visit the Fantasia Film Festival website for detailed essays on every title announced here, as well as all films previously disclosed over the last weeks.
Before we get started on titles... Meet Our 2013 Juries
Main Competition For The Cheval Noir Award For Best Film
Jury President: Laura Kern (Critic, Curator, managing editor, Film Comment)
Jean-Pierre Bergeron (Actor, Director, Screenwriter)
Samuel Jamier (Co-Director of the New York Asian Film Festival, Programmer at Japan Society)
Jarod Neece (Senior Programmer and Operations Manager,...
From the Press Release:
The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the rest of our 120-feature lineup that comprises our 2013 event, along with a string of additional details that mark our 17th edition as a standout. Fantasia will engulf the city of Montreal from July 18-August 6, 2013. Be sure to visit the Fantasia Film Festival website for detailed essays on every title announced here, as well as all films previously disclosed over the last weeks.
Before we get started on titles... Meet Our 2013 Juries
Main Competition For The Cheval Noir Award For Best Film
Jury President: Laura Kern (Critic, Curator, managing editor, Film Comment)
Jean-Pierre Bergeron (Actor, Director, Screenwriter)
Samuel Jamier (Co-Director of the New York Asian Film Festival, Programmer at Japan Society)
Jarod Neece (Senior Programmer and Operations Manager,...
- 7/9/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The Fantasia Film Festival is taking place from July 18th to August 6th in Montreal and will feature over 100 films from around the world. We gave you a look at the initial lineup last month and now have an additional list of Fantasia 2013 films that will be screening, including Curse of Chucky, You’re Next, and Frankenstein’s Army:
Horror Is Child’S Play – Don Mancini’S Curse Of Chucky (World Premiere)
A rarity among genre franchises, the Child’S Play series (begun in 1988) has retained the sure-handed guidance of original screenwriter/creator Don Mancini throughout killer doll Chucky’s decades’-long reign of horror. Mancini, who will be hosting our “scar-studded” world premiere, graduated to the director’s chair with 2004’s Seed Of Chucky, after having co-written or written every entry in the series. His longevity with the project is, of course, matched by the fiendish voiceover work by...
Horror Is Child’S Play – Don Mancini’S Curse Of Chucky (World Premiere)
A rarity among genre franchises, the Child’S Play series (begun in 1988) has retained the sure-handed guidance of original screenwriter/creator Don Mancini throughout killer doll Chucky’s decades’-long reign of horror. Mancini, who will be hosting our “scar-studded” world premiere, graduated to the director’s chair with 2004’s Seed Of Chucky, after having co-written or written every entry in the series. His longevity with the project is, of course, matched by the fiendish voiceover work by...
- 7/9/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival kicks off September 27th and Twitch has been given first word on their extensive midnight program lineups. And, yes, you read that right. That lineups, plural. While most festivals have just a single midnight program - if any at all - Rio offers up a whopping four distinct midnight programs, each with a distinct focus. And here's what will be playing this year:midnight Movies"Sightseers" (dir. Ben Wheatley, United Kingdom, 2012)"Room 237" (dir. Rodney Ascher, USA, 2012) "Jack and Diane" (dir. Bradley Rust Gray, USA, 2012) "Kid-Thing" (dir. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, USA, 2012) "La Cinquième Saison" (dir. Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, Belgium/Netherlands, 2012) "Les Gouffres" (dir. Antoine Barraud, France, 2012) "Los Chidos" (dir. Omar Rodriguez Lopez, USA/Mexico, Germany,...
- 9/11/2012
- Screen Anarchy
While Cannes’ Quinzaine struggles to reframe its identity, its former artistic director Olivier Père continues to impress in his new job at the Locarno Film Festival. On Wednesday, he and his programming team unveiled a lineup that is absolutely salivatory, a who’s who for high-minded cinephiles. Perhaps most impressive of all, he has managed to once again nudge the festival’s selection aesthetic even deeper into esoteric ‘experimental’ territory without seeming all that radical. More than any other festival, Locarno is the home for the edgy projects that are too sophisticated for Cannes, whose cold shoulder to avant-garde narrative filmmaking becomes more glaring with each passing year. Check out the complete line-up at the bottom of this page.
In their International Competition, in which films compete for the increasingly prestigious Golden Leopard, we have a collaboration between João Pedro Rodrigues and his partner João Rui Guerra da Mata called...
In their International Competition, in which films compete for the increasingly prestigious Golden Leopard, we have a collaboration between João Pedro Rodrigues and his partner João Rui Guerra da Mata called...
- 7/13/2012
- by Blake Williams
- IONCINEMA.com
Experimental film-maker who put pleasure and pain at the core of his work
Stephen Dwoskin, who has died of heart failure aged 73, was among those film-makers whose work is recognisable from just a few frames. A trembling, handheld camera, often observing people from an intimate, low angle; studies of women moving, dancing, stripping, making love to Dwoskin himself, or simply looking into the lens with a steely, defiant gaze; a relentless, droning, musical accompaniment. This is the impression left by his best-known films, Dyn Amo (1972), Behindert (1974) and Central Bazaar (1976).
This way of looking and filming came directly from Dwoskin's physical circumstances. Born and raised in New York, he contracted polio at the age of nine during the 1948 epidemic. "They didn't expect me to live," he recalled in 2009. "I was a whole history of polio in one person." He spent much of his life on crutches, and later used a wheelchair.
Stephen Dwoskin, who has died of heart failure aged 73, was among those film-makers whose work is recognisable from just a few frames. A trembling, handheld camera, often observing people from an intimate, low angle; studies of women moving, dancing, stripping, making love to Dwoskin himself, or simply looking into the lens with a steely, defiant gaze; a relentless, droning, musical accompaniment. This is the impression left by his best-known films, Dyn Amo (1972), Behindert (1974) and Central Bazaar (1976).
This way of looking and filming came directly from Dwoskin's physical circumstances. Born and raised in New York, he contracted polio at the age of nine during the 1948 epidemic. "They didn't expect me to live," he recalled in 2009. "I was a whole history of polio in one person." He spent much of his life on crutches, and later used a wheelchair.
- 7/12/2012
- by Adrian Martin
- The Guardian - Film News
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