I’m not a fan, necessarily, of the reality dating genre,” Jennifer Nettles admitted once. This sentiment resonates deeply with many and provides a fitting prologue to the emotional rollercoaster experienced by Wisconsinite Grace Girard on Farmer Wants A Wife. Throughout the season,Girard‘s journey captured the hearts of viewers. The climax of this journey unfolded during the season finale, where Grace faced one of the hardest moments of her life. She expressed,The final decision I made during the show was one of the hardest moments of my life. Finding True Connection Grace and Brandon Keilen‘s chemistry was palpable from the outset.
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- 5/16/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
“Sidonie in Japan” will travel far and wide, as international agent Indie Sales has posted a raft of new sales out of Rome’s Mia Market. Starring Isabelle Huppert and directed by Elise Girard, the wistful romance world premiered out of Venice’s independent, auteur-oriented sidebar Venice Days last month.
The Paris-based sales company has altogether secured distribution deals for Australia/New Zealand (Sharmill Films), the Baltics (Next Episode Sl), Brazil (Imovision), the Cis (Arthouse), Germany (Majestic), Italy (Academy 2), India and subcontinent (BookMyShow), Spain (Surtsey) and Switzerland (Outside the Box), while negotiations are still ongoing with partners in Belgium and China. Gallic distributor Art House will handle the film’s domestic release early next year.
Led by Huppert and co-starring August Diehl and Tsuyoshi Ihara (“Letters from Iwo Jima”) the bittersweet film follows a widowed French author who accepts an invitation to Kyoto, only to find her husband’s ghost waiting for her there.
The Paris-based sales company has altogether secured distribution deals for Australia/New Zealand (Sharmill Films), the Baltics (Next Episode Sl), Brazil (Imovision), the Cis (Arthouse), Germany (Majestic), Italy (Academy 2), India and subcontinent (BookMyShow), Spain (Surtsey) and Switzerland (Outside the Box), while negotiations are still ongoing with partners in Belgium and China. Gallic distributor Art House will handle the film’s domestic release early next year.
Led by Huppert and co-starring August Diehl and Tsuyoshi Ihara (“Letters from Iwo Jima”) the bittersweet film follows a widowed French author who accepts an invitation to Kyoto, only to find her husband’s ghost waiting for her there.
- 10/13/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Canadian director Ariane Louis-Seize’s comedy-drama Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person has scooped the Director’s Award at the Venice Film Festival parallel section Giornate degli Autori.
The coming-of-age tale revolves around a teenage vampire Sasha, who is too sensitive to kill. When her concerned parents decide to cut off her blood supply, her life is in peril.
Fortunately, she crosses paths with Paul, a desolate teenager with suicidal tendencies who willingly offers his life to save hers. However, what begins as a mutual agreement soon evolves into a nocturnal journey to fulfil Paul’s final desires before the break of day.
It was among 10 titles playing in the GdA competition this year.
The jury was composed of young European cinephiles from the 27 Times Cinema program, a joint initiative between the GdA, the European Parliament’s Lux Audience Award and Europa Cinemas.
It was presided over by Portuguese director...
The coming-of-age tale revolves around a teenage vampire Sasha, who is too sensitive to kill. When her concerned parents decide to cut off her blood supply, her life is in peril.
Fortunately, she crosses paths with Paul, a desolate teenager with suicidal tendencies who willingly offers his life to save hers. However, what begins as a mutual agreement soon evolves into a nocturnal journey to fulfil Paul’s final desires before the break of day.
It was among 10 titles playing in the GdA competition this year.
The jury was composed of young European cinephiles from the 27 Times Cinema program, a joint initiative between the GdA, the European Parliament’s Lux Audience Award and Europa Cinemas.
It was presided over by Portuguese director...
- 9/8/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The mythology around Japan as a nation of everyday ghosts — where the living and the dead share space, occasionally in view of each other — can lead certain western filmmakers into dubious territory: If you don’t recall how Gus van Sant floundered with the mawkish, condescending exoticism of “The Sea of Trees,” trust that it’s best forgotten. Centered on a long-grieving Frenchwoman who finally makes peace with her husband’s death over the course of a Japanese work trip, “Sidonie in Japan” risks similar pitfalls — but Élise Girard’s droll, bittersweet romance mostly dodges them with grace and good humor, plus a pointed awareness of the limitations of its outsider perspective.
Premiering in the Venice Days sidebar at this year’s Venice Film Festival, this is a sweetly unassuming affair that is given some vinegary oomph by the presence of Isabelle Huppert in the lead — which will doubtless secure...
Premiering in the Venice Days sidebar at this year’s Venice Film Festival, this is a sweetly unassuming affair that is given some vinegary oomph by the presence of Isabelle Huppert in the lead — which will doubtless secure...
- 9/4/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Jean-Luc Godard famously said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. Another version of that, at least based on French writer-director Élise Girard’s latest film, Sidonie in Japan (Sidonie au Japon), could be: All you need to make a movie is Isabelle Huppert wearing chic pantsuits and wandering around lots of picturesque Japanese locations.
That’s a good part of what happens in this sweetly minimalist international romance/ghost story, in which Huppert plays a writer who recalls her past lives while on a book tour through Osaka, Kyoto and a few other intoxicating places during a one-week excursion. Along the way, she strikes up a friendship — and perhaps something more — with her Japanese publisher, a man of few words who watches over her throughout the trip. Oh, and she also sees dead people.
Premiering in the Venice Days sidebar on the Lido,...
That’s a good part of what happens in this sweetly minimalist international romance/ghost story, in which Huppert plays a writer who recalls her past lives while on a book tour through Osaka, Kyoto and a few other intoxicating places during a one-week excursion. Along the way, she strikes up a friendship — and perhaps something more — with her Japanese publisher, a man of few words who watches over her throughout the trip. Oh, and she also sees dead people.
Premiering in the Venice Days sidebar on the Lido,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Second Chance Romance: Girard Haunts Huppert in Erstwhile Ghost Story
Isabelle Huppert conjoins two of her most recent recurring cinematic themes with Sidonie in Japan, which showcases the legendary French actress in a foreign country while also being haunted by the past. Headlining the third film from Élise Girard, Huppert becomes a stranger in a strange land while visiting Kyoto, Japan thanks to the republication of her first novel, L’ombre Portee (The Shadow Cast), which becomes more than just a metaphorical map to her current dilemma as a writer who no longer writes.
As Sidonie (Huppert) reluctantly travels to Kyoto, she is greeted at the airport by Kenzo Mizoguchi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), who also happens to be the publisher of her reprinted first novel, as well as devoted escort for the remainder of her trip.…...
Isabelle Huppert conjoins two of her most recent recurring cinematic themes with Sidonie in Japan, which showcases the legendary French actress in a foreign country while also being haunted by the past. Headlining the third film from Élise Girard, Huppert becomes a stranger in a strange land while visiting Kyoto, Japan thanks to the republication of her first novel, L’ombre Portee (The Shadow Cast), which becomes more than just a metaphorical map to her current dilemma as a writer who no longer writes.
As Sidonie (Huppert) reluctantly travels to Kyoto, she is greeted at the airport by Kenzo Mizoguchi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), who also happens to be the publisher of her reprinted first novel, as well as devoted escort for the remainder of her trip.…...
- 9/1/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
§tElise Girard directs her third film about a woman mourning her husband in Kyoto while on her book tour.
Indie Sales has unveiled the new trailer for Elise Girard’s romantic drama Sidonie In Japan starring Isabelle Huppert and has signed deals in Germany, Switzerland and Italy ahead of the film’s premiere at Giornate degli Autori in Venice.
Out of the Box will release the film in Switzerland and Majestic Filmverleih is handling German distribution, joining the film’s French distributor Art House Films and Italy’s Academy Two.
Sidonie in Japan stars Huppert as a French writer mourning...
Indie Sales has unveiled the new trailer for Elise Girard’s romantic drama Sidonie In Japan starring Isabelle Huppert and has signed deals in Germany, Switzerland and Italy ahead of the film’s premiere at Giornate degli Autori in Venice.
Out of the Box will release the film in Switzerland and Majestic Filmverleih is handling German distribution, joining the film’s French distributor Art House Films and Italy’s Academy Two.
Sidonie in Japan stars Huppert as a French writer mourning...
- 9/1/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The strand is free of style or length constraints.
Films from Jean-Luc Godard, Delphine Girard and Bas Devos will screen in San Sebastian International Film Festival’s Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, a strand of the festival free of style or length constraints.
Godard’s posthumous short film Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars’, which premiered in Cannes, will open the strand alongside Yui Kiyohara’s debut Remerging Every Night which first screened at Berlinale.
Girard’s debut Through The Night is developed from her Oscar-nominated short A Sister (2020) and will premiere at Venice before heading to San Sebastian.
The...
Films from Jean-Luc Godard, Delphine Girard and Bas Devos will screen in San Sebastian International Film Festival’s Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, a strand of the festival free of style or length constraints.
Godard’s posthumous short film Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars’, which premiered in Cannes, will open the strand alongside Yui Kiyohara’s debut Remerging Every Night which first screened at Berlinale.
Girard’s debut Through The Night is developed from her Oscar-nominated short A Sister (2020) and will premiere at Venice before heading to San Sebastian.
The...
- 8/24/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Marseille’s contradictions were particularly evident at this year’s Festival International du Cinéma Marseille, whose venues are located in the city’s loud, rundown, and graffiti-blanketed center. Not too long of a walk from the chaos one can find little oases of bourgeois indifference, from chic home décor shops to an Aztec-inspired Nikkei gastronomic haven. One doesn’t have to travel more than two feet from a festival screening to be confronted with a reality apparently unable to penetrate its air-conditioned theaters, at least not as patrons.
For one, it’s by and large privileged, white audience members who, following screenings, patronize the Blum brasserie, where festival talks are often held. There inside their hermetic bubble, as they sip on cappuccinos and nibble on pastries, it’s easy to imagine festival-goers indulging in discussions about injustice and decolonization while the racialized poor loiter outside, fundamentally alienated from it all.
For one, it’s by and large privileged, white audience members who, following screenings, patronize the Blum brasserie, where festival talks are often held. There inside their hermetic bubble, as they sip on cappuccinos and nibble on pastries, it’s easy to imagine festival-goers indulging in discussions about injustice and decolonization while the racialized poor loiter outside, fundamentally alienated from it all.
- 7/10/2023
- by Diego Semerene
- Slant Magazine
Indie Sales has acquired “Sidonie in Japan,” Elise Girard’s romance-laced ghost movie starring Oscar-nominated Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) and August Diehl (“A Hidden Life”).
Huppert stars Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer who mourns her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie. She will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again
Indie Sales will be introducing “Sidonie in Japan” to buyers at the European Film Market. Now in post, the movie will be completed in the Spring. Art House Films will handle the French release.
“Sidonie in Japan” was produced by Sébastien Haguenauer through his Paris-based outfit 10:15! Productions, in co-production with Lupa Film GmbH,...
Huppert stars Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer who mourns her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie. She will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again
Indie Sales will be introducing “Sidonie in Japan” to buyers at the European Film Market. Now in post, the movie will be completed in the Spring. Art House Films will handle the French release.
“Sidonie in Japan” was produced by Sébastien Haguenauer through his Paris-based outfit 10:15! Productions, in co-production with Lupa Film GmbH,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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