Pyramide is also handling the directorial debut of Johanna Pyykkö, former assistant to Joachim Trier.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s comedy drama Une Honnête Femme, starring Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair.
It will launch the film at next week’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, along with Thierry de Peretti’s drama A Son Image and Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.
Une Honnête Femme zooms in on three friends with different views on love – one who has just left a relationship, one who advocates for a relationship without love, and one who sees love as an adventure.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s comedy drama Une Honnête Femme, starring Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair.
It will launch the film at next week’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, along with Thierry de Peretti’s drama A Son Image and Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.
Une Honnête Femme zooms in on three friends with different views on love – one who has just left a relationship, one who advocates for a relationship without love, and one who sees love as an adventure.
- 1/12/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Pyramide is also handling the directorial debut of Johanna Pyykkö, former assistant to Joachim Trier.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s comedy drama Une Honnete Femme, starring Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair.
It will launch the film at next week’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, along with Thierry de Peretti’s drama A Son Image and Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.
Une Honnête Femme zooms in on three friends with different views on love – one who has just left a relationship, one who advocates for a relationship without love, and one who sees love as an adventure.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s comedy drama Une Honnete Femme, starring Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair.
It will launch the film at next week’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, along with Thierry de Peretti’s drama A Son Image and Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.
Une Honnête Femme zooms in on three friends with different views on love – one who has just left a relationship, one who advocates for a relationship without love, and one who sees love as an adventure.
- 1/12/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Pyramide is also handling the directorial debut of Johanna Pyykkö, former assistant to Joachim Trier.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s comedy drama Une Honnete Femme, starring Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair.
It will launch the film at next week’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, along with Thierry de Peretti’s feature documentary A Son Image and Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.
Une Honnête Femme zooms in on three friends with different views on love – one who has just left a relationship, one who advocates for a relationship without love, and one who sees love as an adventure.
Paris-based Pyramide International has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s comedy drama Une Honnete Femme, starring Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier and India Hair.
It will launch the film at next week’s Rendez-Vous in Paris, along with Thierry de Peretti’s feature documentary A Son Image and Johanna Pyykkö’s My Wonderful Stranger.
Une Honnête Femme zooms in on three friends with different views on love – one who has just left a relationship, one who advocates for a relationship without love, and one who sees love as an adventure.
- 1/12/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
A major ensemble casting update has dropped (via the Cineuropa folks) for Emmanuel Mouret‘s next directing gig. His brochette includes Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, India Hair, Damien Bonnard, Grégoire Ludig and Vincent Macaigne – Une honnête femme (translates into “An Honest Woman”) deals with matters of the heart. Filming begins this week in Lyon and Moby Dick Films’ Frédéric Niedermayer is producing with the filmmaker once again.
Written by Emmanuel Mouret and Carmen Leroi, the story sees Joan, who’s no longer in love, leave her partner Victor who’s the father of her daughter. Joan is convinced her decision is morally justified, but it comes back to bite her when Victor subsequently disappears, leaving her overwhelmed with guilt.…...
Written by Emmanuel Mouret and Carmen Leroi, the story sees Joan, who’s no longer in love, leave her partner Victor who’s the father of her daughter. Joan is convinced her decision is morally justified, but it comes back to bite her when Victor subsequently disappears, leaving her overwhelmed with guilt.…...
- 9/25/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
If you know the name Quentin Dupieux, you likely know it from "Rubber," the slapstick thriller about a sentient, bloodthirsty car tire he directed in 2010. Now acclaimed in his home country of France for his unique brand of surrealism — at once wickedly humorous and nonchalant, even underplayed — Dupieux's filmmaking career took off in America with a string of riffs on schlock films. Before that, he was acclaimed (again) in France as Mr. Oizo, an electronic musician whose 1999 single "Flat Beat" spawned the beloved Levi's mascot "Flat Eric," built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
Dupieux has lived a storied life, and his latest film, "Smoking Causes Coughing," could only have been made by someone who understands the power of stories. The film follows a ragtag squadron of superheroes called The Tobacco Force who harness the powers of noxious fumes to destroy giant turtles and evil lizard men from space. More Power Rangers than Avengers,...
Dupieux has lived a storied life, and his latest film, "Smoking Causes Coughing," could only have been made by someone who understands the power of stories. The film follows a ragtag squadron of superheroes called The Tobacco Force who harness the powers of noxious fumes to destroy giant turtles and evil lizard men from space. More Power Rangers than Avengers,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Ryan Coleman
- Slash Film
Exclusive: As international delegates touch down on the Croisette for what feels like the first “real” Cannes market since the pandemic struck, Olivier Albou is getting ready to hit the ground running. The veteran exec, who heads up sales and production house Other Angle with his wife Laurence Schonberg, has four new films on his slate this year that he’s offering up to international buyers.
The company will be showing footage for Mélanie Auffret’s Sweet Little Things (Les Petites Victoires), starring Julia Piaton and Michel Blanc, about a busy young teacher who’s faced with the challenge of a new student in her class – an explosive 60-year-old man who has finally decided to learn to read and write. Then there’s Jennifer Devoldère’s male midwife feature The Midwife (Sage Homme) starring Karin Viard and Melvin Boomer as well as Jonathan Barré’s Serial Driver (Bonne Conduit) starring...
The company will be showing footage for Mélanie Auffret’s Sweet Little Things (Les Petites Victoires), starring Julia Piaton and Michel Blanc, about a busy young teacher who’s faced with the challenge of a new student in her class – an explosive 60-year-old man who has finally decided to learn to read and write. Then there’s Jennifer Devoldère’s male midwife feature The Midwife (Sage Homme) starring Karin Viard and Melvin Boomer as well as Jonathan Barré’s Serial Driver (Bonne Conduit) starring...
- 5/17/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris-based sales agent WTFilms, which specializes in genre movies, is presenting Romain Quirot’s sophomore feature film, “Apache: Gang of Paris,” at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris.
The pic is an ambitious revenge movie set in early 20th century Paris, when rival gangs were wreaking havoc. The term apache was coined in Paris at the time, to describe street gangs. “It’s a modern stylish and raw revenge movie,” says WTFilms’ Gregory Chambet. “We hope it will offer a renewal of the French action thriller genre, as Christophe Gans did with ‘Brotherhood of the Wolves’.”
Quirot’s freshman pic, cosmic road movie “The Last Journey,” starring Jean Reno, won Best Film at Sitges in 2020.
WTFilms’ slate also includes Quentin Dupieux’s “Incredible but True,” that follows on from his Venice-playing giant fly comedy, “Mandibles,” that starred French comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais.
Starring Alain Chabat and Léa Drucker,...
The pic is an ambitious revenge movie set in early 20th century Paris, when rival gangs were wreaking havoc. The term apache was coined in Paris at the time, to describe street gangs. “It’s a modern stylish and raw revenge movie,” says WTFilms’ Gregory Chambet. “We hope it will offer a renewal of the French action thriller genre, as Christophe Gans did with ‘Brotherhood of the Wolves’.”
Quirot’s freshman pic, cosmic road movie “The Last Journey,” starring Jean Reno, won Best Film at Sitges in 2020.
WTFilms’ slate also includes Quentin Dupieux’s “Incredible but True,” that follows on from his Venice-playing giant fly comedy, “Mandibles,” that starred French comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais.
Starring Alain Chabat and Léa Drucker,...
- 1/16/2022
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
The Party Films Sales will screen exclusive images from Julien Guetta’s second feature film “Top Dogs” (“Les Cadors”) at Unifrance Rendez Vous in Paris.
“Top Dogs” is a comedy drama about two estranged brothers from Normandy. Antoine is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, whereas Christian is a globe-trotting hustler. When Antoine becomes involved in sleazy activities, Christian comes to his rescue. The film is headlined by Jean-Paul Rouve, the star of one of France’s biggest comedy franchises, “Les Tuches,” as well as Michel Blanc, another French comedy fixture (“Les bronzés”) and Grégoire Ludig (“Mandibules”).
“Top Dogs” marks the sophomore outing of Guetta whose feature debut “The Troubleshooter,” a comedy-adventure, garnered more than 145,000 admissions in France.
Currently in post-production, “Top Dogs” is produced by Maxime Delauney and Romain Rousseau at Nolita Cinéma, and Lionel Dutemple and Benjamin Morgaine at Princesse Beli. It was mainly shot in Cherbourg,...
“Top Dogs” is a comedy drama about two estranged brothers from Normandy. Antoine is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, whereas Christian is a globe-trotting hustler. When Antoine becomes involved in sleazy activities, Christian comes to his rescue. The film is headlined by Jean-Paul Rouve, the star of one of France’s biggest comedy franchises, “Les Tuches,” as well as Michel Blanc, another French comedy fixture (“Les bronzés”) and Grégoire Ludig (“Mandibules”).
“Top Dogs” marks the sophomore outing of Guetta whose feature debut “The Troubleshooter,” a comedy-adventure, garnered more than 145,000 admissions in France.
Currently in post-production, “Top Dogs” is produced by Maxime Delauney and Romain Rousseau at Nolita Cinéma, and Lionel Dutemple and Benjamin Morgaine at Princesse Beli. It was mainly shot in Cherbourg,...
- 1/13/2022
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Dekanalog, the New York-based speciality distributor, has signed a home video partnership with Ocn Distribution that will see Dekanalog exclusively release Ocn theatrical titles on Blu-ray disc in the United States.
The first film under the deal will be Quentin Dupieux’s French absurdist comedy Keep an Eye Out (Au Poste!), which was Dekanalog’s debut theatrical release in March 2021. Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) stars alongside Grégoire Ludig (Mandibles) in the crime comedy about Fugain (Ludig), an ordinary guy who discovers a dead body outside his apartment building and becomes the only subject in the murder investigation. Police commissaire Buran ...
The first film under the deal will be Quentin Dupieux’s French absurdist comedy Keep an Eye Out (Au Poste!), which was Dekanalog’s debut theatrical release in March 2021. Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) stars alongside Grégoire Ludig (Mandibles) in the crime comedy about Fugain (Ludig), an ordinary guy who discovers a dead body outside his apartment building and becomes the only subject in the murder investigation. Police commissaire Buran ...
- 11/2/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dekanalog, the New York-based speciality distributor, has signed a home video partnership with Ocn Distribution that will see Dekanalog exclusively release Ocn theatrical titles on Blu-ray disc in the United States.
The first film under the deal will be Quentin Dupieux’s French absurdist comedy Keep an Eye Out (Au Poste!), which was Dekanalog’s debut theatrical release in March 2021. Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) stars alongside Grégoire Ludig (Mandibles) in the crime comedy about Fugain (Ludig), an ordinary guy who discovers a dead body outside his apartment building and becomes the only subject in the murder investigation. Police commissaire Buran ...
The first film under the deal will be Quentin Dupieux’s French absurdist comedy Keep an Eye Out (Au Poste!), which was Dekanalog’s debut theatrical release in March 2021. Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) stars alongside Grégoire Ludig (Mandibles) in the crime comedy about Fugain (Ludig), an ordinary guy who discovers a dead body outside his apartment building and becomes the only subject in the murder investigation. Police commissaire Buran ...
- 11/2/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Stars: Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair, Roméo Elvis, Coralie Russier, Bruno Lochet | Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux
DJ-turned-writer-director-cinematographer-editor-composer Quentin Dupieux returns with another inspired one-joke movie, this time about two dumb losers and their giant fly. Warm-hearted, brilliantly acted and packed with big laughs, it’s a delightful comic treat with plenty of buzz.
Mandibles opens with beach-sleeping dimwit Manu (Grégoire Ludig) recruiting best buddy Jean-Gab (David Marsais) for a car theft and mysterious suitcase delivery misson that will net them the princely sum of 500 Euros. However, their plan hits an unexpected setback when they open the trunk of their newly nicked automobile and discover a giant fly.
Jean-Gab isn’t one to miss an opportunity, so he quickly suggests they train the fly and use it to rob banks, “like a drone”. However, their plans hit another snag when they’re unexpectedly invited to stay...
DJ-turned-writer-director-cinematographer-editor-composer Quentin Dupieux returns with another inspired one-joke movie, this time about two dumb losers and their giant fly. Warm-hearted, brilliantly acted and packed with big laughs, it’s a delightful comic treat with plenty of buzz.
Mandibles opens with beach-sleeping dimwit Manu (Grégoire Ludig) recruiting best buddy Jean-Gab (David Marsais) for a car theft and mysterious suitcase delivery misson that will net them the princely sum of 500 Euros. However, their plan hits an unexpected setback when they open the trunk of their newly nicked automobile and discover a giant fly.
Jean-Gab isn’t one to miss an opportunity, so he quickly suggests they train the fly and use it to rob banks, “like a drone”. However, their plans hit another snag when they’re unexpectedly invited to stay...
- 8/25/2021
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Mandibles
After a year's hiatus due to the pandemic, Edinburgh International Film Festival returns to its August this week, with a hybrid edition, opening with Nicolas Cage's Pig tonight. With many of the films available to watch via the Filmhouse At Home streaming service wherever you are in the UK, here's six of the best films screening, plus a couple of shorts.
Mandibles
What better way to generate some buzz about a film than make it about a giant fly? Although director Quentin Dupieux's back catalogue - involving a murderous tyre (Rubber) and a man who takes the idea of killer style literally (Deerskin) plus the presence of a thigh-high fly might make this sound like a horror film it is, in fact, a surprisingly charming absurd comedy. French comedians Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais co-star as a pair of amiable goofballs, who hatch a harebrained heist plan after finding.
After a year's hiatus due to the pandemic, Edinburgh International Film Festival returns to its August this week, with a hybrid edition, opening with Nicolas Cage's Pig tonight. With many of the films available to watch via the Filmhouse At Home streaming service wherever you are in the UK, here's six of the best films screening, plus a couple of shorts.
Mandibles
What better way to generate some buzz about a film than make it about a giant fly? Although director Quentin Dupieux's back catalogue - involving a murderous tyre (Rubber) and a man who takes the idea of killer style literally (Deerskin) plus the presence of a thigh-high fly might make this sound like a horror film it is, in fact, a surprisingly charming absurd comedy. French comedians Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais co-star as a pair of amiable goofballs, who hatch a harebrained heist plan after finding.
- 8/18/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Surreality may not bite but it definitely buzzes all over the place in the latest from Quentin Dupieux - who follows up his tale of a serial killing jacket lover, Deerskin, with the offbeat story of two hapless but sweet bros who come across a giant fly and decide to try to tame it. One of our antiheroes, Manu (Grégoire Ludig), looks like a bug in a rug himself when we first spot him in a sleeping bag on the beach. Why Manu, who is a one-part Jeff Daniels' Harry, one part Jeff Bridges' The Dude and one-part Keanu Reeves' Ted, is there is anybody's guess as is the reason why anyone would hire him to make a €500 special delivery of a suitcase - but then, it's that sort of film, and as always with Dupieux, you just know there will be a punchline sparkling somewhere along the way.
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- 8/2/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The films of French director Quentin Dupieux spin self-contained worlds that revolve around absurd obsessions: an automobile tire with an urge to kill (“Rubber”), a man consumed with desire for a fringed leather jacket (“Deerskin”), and now, in the low-key, blank-stare silliness of “Mandibles,” two dimwitted dirtbags determined to train a shockingly large pet housefly to steal.
Tall, oafish, jorts-wearing Manu (Grégoire Ludig) and smaller, squirrely Jean-Gab (David Marsais) are affable idiots. Jean-Gab is happy to walk away, at a moment’s notice, from the small gas station he manages without locking up, while Manu is first seen sleeping on a beach, unaware he’s being soaked by the encroaching tide. They’re thirtysomething fools, a live-action Beavis and Butthead whose only constant is their lifelong friendship, one punctuated by inside jokes, private handshakes, and a recurring habit of getting stuck in the middle of a thought with a very French “duh” on their lips.
Tall, oafish, jorts-wearing Manu (Grégoire Ludig) and smaller, squirrely Jean-Gab (David Marsais) are affable idiots. Jean-Gab is happy to walk away, at a moment’s notice, from the small gas station he manages without locking up, while Manu is first seen sleeping on a beach, unaware he’s being soaked by the encroaching tide. They’re thirtysomething fools, a live-action Beavis and Butthead whose only constant is their lifelong friendship, one punctuated by inside jokes, private handshakes, and a recurring habit of getting stuck in the middle of a thought with a very French “duh” on their lips.
- 7/22/2021
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
"The world is out of whack." Magnolia Pictures has released an official US trailer for the absurdist comedy Mandibules, the latest from wacky French musician / filmmaker Quentin Dupieux. This also goes under the English title Mandibles, but I prefer the original French spelling more. This originally premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year to mostly rave reviews (here's mine) and it deserves to be the sleeper hit of the summer in the US this year. Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it. But it's about much more than just that. Definitely a kooky Dupieux concept and it's hilarious. One of my favorite films he's made so far. Starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, Grégoire Ludig, Bruno Lochet, Coralie Russier, India Hair, David Marsais, with Dave Chapman as "La Mouche" (aka The Fly). It's best to see...
- 6/29/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Warner TV, the French pay-tv channel and on-demand service launched by WarnerMedia, is teaming with Mediawan Group’s MakingProd for its first French original TV series, “Visitors,” a fantasy comedy by Simon Astier.
The eight-part half-hour series was created, written and is being directed by Astier, whose fanboy profile and graphic universe seem to be the perfect match for Warner TV’s identity. Astier’s previous credits include the comedic science fiction series “Hero Corp” in which he also starred, and Netflix’s supernatural series “Mortel.” Stéphane Drouet at MakingProd is producing “Visitors,” which recently started filming.
Astier stars in “Visitors” as Richard, a rookie police officer who sees two strange lights colliding in the sky on his first day on the job. The series’ large ensemble cast also includes Florence Loiret Caille, Damien Jouillerot, Vincent Desagnat, Tiphaine Daviot, Grégoire Ludig, Julie Bargeton, David Marsais, Arnaud Tsamere, Delphine Baril and Adrien Ménielle.
The eight-part half-hour series was created, written and is being directed by Astier, whose fanboy profile and graphic universe seem to be the perfect match for Warner TV’s identity. Astier’s previous credits include the comedic science fiction series “Hero Corp” in which he also starred, and Netflix’s supernatural series “Mortel.” Stéphane Drouet at MakingProd is producing “Visitors,” which recently started filming.
Astier stars in “Visitors” as Richard, a rookie police officer who sees two strange lights colliding in the sky on his first day on the job. The series’ large ensemble cast also includes Florence Loiret Caille, Damien Jouillerot, Vincent Desagnat, Tiphaine Daviot, Grégoire Ludig, Julie Bargeton, David Marsais, Arnaud Tsamere, Delphine Baril and Adrien Ménielle.
- 6/22/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
In the pantheon of love-them-or-hate-them auteurs, Quentin Dupieux resides somewhere in the middle — neither as provocative as a Gaspar Noé nor as clever in his absurdity as a Yorgos Lanthimos. His latest, “Keep an Eye Out,” isn’t actually his latest: Distributed abroad three years ago, its stateside release follows those of 2019’s “Deerskin” and last year’s “Mandibles.” Devotees of the French filmmaker (who also goes by Mr. Oizo) may find “Keep an Eye Out” worth the wait, but anyone not already on board with Dupieux’s brand of offbeat humor and forays into the surreal can safely ignore the title’s advice.
The film begins with a speedo-clad man conducting an open-air orchestra and continues at the same bizarre pace for all 73 minutes of its scant runtime, which is for the best — even those with an affinity for this kind of outré offering would concede that a little goes a long way.
The film begins with a speedo-clad man conducting an open-air orchestra and continues at the same bizarre pace for all 73 minutes of its scant runtime, which is for the best — even those with an affinity for this kind of outré offering would concede that a little goes a long way.
- 3/11/2021
- by Michael Nordine
- Variety Film + TV
The first scene of Keep an Eye Out, another crazy film by France’s Quentin Dupieux, evokes that memorable speech from Rubber about how all the great films have stuff with "no reason" to be. That’s because in said sequence, we see a man in underpants serving as a conductor of an orchestra that is playing in the open air! Once the guy in his underwear is caught by the police, Dupieux "locks us up" in a police station where the boss, the not-so-bright Buron (Benoît Poelvoorde), is conducting an interrogation on another man, Louis (Grégoire Ludig), who's suspected of murder after finding a corpse outside his apartment. Throughout its 70+ minutes, Keep an Eye Out will continue to make the "no reason” speech from Rubber...
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- 3/5/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Writer-director Quentin Dupieux cannot be charged with choosing middle-of-the-road subjects for his films. Ever since he made a serial killer thriller about a living car tire with homicidal psychic powers, there has been no predicting what he'll decide to write and direct next. At the International Film Festival Rotterdam his newest film Mandibles was shown, and guess what? It's basically Dumb and Dumber, only with a dog-sized fly. In Mandibles, Grégoire Ludig plays Manu, a clueless vagrant who we meet sleeping on a beach. A shady character offers him a business proposition: if Manu takes a mysterious package somewhere by car, he can make a lot of money. Manu agrees, but, having no car, he steals one, and discovers a gigantic...
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- 3/3/2021
- Screen Anarchy
"I'm doing a trailer. I'll call you back." Dekanalog has unveiled an official trailer for the Quentin Dupieux film Keep an Eye Out, which originally premiered in 2018 under the French title Au Poste! (Which just translates to At Office!). The short synopsis is pretty straightforward: police officers at a station must solve a murder case. But this is a Dupieux film, so you know there's more funky shit going on than that. Between the opening sequence, when a man in just red briefs conducts a philharmonic orchestra in the open air, and the triple-meta denouement, the "whip-smart script disregards audience expectations, the fourth wall, and the laws of time and space. You'll never look at a protractor or an oyster the same way again." The film stars Belgian comedian Benoît Poelvoorde, with Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize, and Anaïs Demoustier. Described in reviews as "an absurd and often surreal comedy with...
- 1/28/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Last weekend, the 2020 Nightstream Film Festival offered genre fans a ton of amazing online offerings to enjoy throughout its four-day festivities. Here’s a look at two of the films I had the opportunity to check out during Nightstream: Mandibles from Quentin Dupieux and Mickey Reece’s Climate of the Hunter.
Mandibles: While I haven’t had the opportunity to check out Deerskin just yet (which also began making the festival rounds), as a big fan of his work on the blissfully absurd Rubber, I had a sneaking suspicion that I was going to enjoy Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibles immensely, and it did not disappoint. Made in the same spirit of all those slapstick ’80s comedies of errors that so many of us grew up loving, Mandibles is a delightfully offbeat tale of two friends who come across a giant oversized fly and set out to domesticate it in...
Mandibles: While I haven’t had the opportunity to check out Deerskin just yet (which also began making the festival rounds), as a big fan of his work on the blissfully absurd Rubber, I had a sneaking suspicion that I was going to enjoy Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibles immensely, and it did not disappoint. Made in the same spirit of all those slapstick ’80s comedies of errors that so many of us grew up loving, Mandibles is a delightfully offbeat tale of two friends who come across a giant oversized fly and set out to domesticate it in...
- 10/19/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Brandon Cronenberg has proven to be an heir to his father, David, with his grisly sophomore feature, “Possessor Uncut,” which took home best film and director at Spain’s 53rd Sitges Film Festival on Saturday.
Running Oct.8-18, the fantastic film fest, Europe’s biggest, wrapped yesterday in Sitges, a picturesque seaside resort just south of Barcelona.
With these new honors, Brandon Cronenberg also suggests that his best new director award at 2012’s Sitges for debut feature, “Antiviral,” was no fluke.
A sci fi-horror hybrid, “Possessor Uncut” tracks an elite corporate assassin who uses brain-implant technology to take possession of other people’s bodies and slay prominent targets. The film first premiered at Sundance where Variety’s Peter Debruge described it as a “brilliant sci-fi puzzle” that was “more than just another bracingly extreme psychological thriller.”
Just Philippot’s “The Swarm” also snagged two awards: the Special Jury Prize and...
Running Oct.8-18, the fantastic film fest, Europe’s biggest, wrapped yesterday in Sitges, a picturesque seaside resort just south of Barcelona.
With these new honors, Brandon Cronenberg also suggests that his best new director award at 2012’s Sitges for debut feature, “Antiviral,” was no fluke.
A sci fi-horror hybrid, “Possessor Uncut” tracks an elite corporate assassin who uses brain-implant technology to take possession of other people’s bodies and slay prominent targets. The film first premiered at Sundance where Variety’s Peter Debruge described it as a “brilliant sci-fi puzzle” that was “more than just another bracingly extreme psychological thriller.”
Just Philippot’s “The Swarm” also snagged two awards: the Special Jury Prize and...
- 10/18/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Distributor Altitude has picked up a slate of four films for the U.K. and Ireland, including Adam Egypt Mortimer’s “Archenemy,” Quentin Dupieux‘s “Mandibles,” Mathieu Turi’s “Meander” and Philippe Lacôte’s “Night of the Kings.”
Spectrevision’s “Archenemy” stars Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”) as a hero from another dimension exiled to Earth, while the Venice Film Festival’s sleeper hit “Mandibles” is a surreal buddy road movie starring comedy duo David Marsais and Grégoire Ludig, known for “La Folle Histoire du Palmashow,” as well as Coralie Russier (“120 Bpm”), Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is The Warmest Color”) and rapper Romeo Elvis.
Thriller “Meander” features Gaia Weiss (“Vikings”) as a woman who wakes up in a seemingly never-ending metal tube and is forced to overcome a variety of deadly traps to survive.
Venice title “Night of the Kings,” which won the Amplify Voices Award at Toronto International Film Festival...
Spectrevision’s “Archenemy” stars Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”) as a hero from another dimension exiled to Earth, while the Venice Film Festival’s sleeper hit “Mandibles” is a surreal buddy road movie starring comedy duo David Marsais and Grégoire Ludig, known for “La Folle Histoire du Palmashow,” as well as Coralie Russier (“120 Bpm”), Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is The Warmest Color”) and rapper Romeo Elvis.
Thriller “Meander” features Gaia Weiss (“Vikings”) as a woman who wakes up in a seemingly never-ending metal tube and is forced to overcome a variety of deadly traps to survive.
Venice title “Night of the Kings,” which won the Amplify Voices Award at Toronto International Film Festival...
- 10/1/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
UK distributor Altitude has announced four acquisitions for the UK and Ireland: Archenemy from Adam Egypt Mortimer, Quentin Dupieux‘s Mandibles (as previously announced), Mathieu Turi’s Meander and Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings.
Archenemy stars Joe Manganiello (True Blood) as Max Fist, a hero from another dimension exiled to Earth. The film heralds from Mandy producer Spectrevision and writer and director Adam Egypt Mortimer.
Thriller Meander comes from writer and director Mathieu Turi (Hostile) featuring Gaia Weiss (Vikings) as a woman who wakes up in a seemingly never-ending metal tube and is forced to overcome a variety of deadly traps to survive.
Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings is set in the notorious La Maca, Ivory Coast’s largest prison ruled by its own inmates with unique laws and rituals. The film premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, won the Amplify Voices Award at...
Archenemy stars Joe Manganiello (True Blood) as Max Fist, a hero from another dimension exiled to Earth. The film heralds from Mandy producer Spectrevision and writer and director Adam Egypt Mortimer.
Thriller Meander comes from writer and director Mathieu Turi (Hostile) featuring Gaia Weiss (Vikings) as a woman who wakes up in a seemingly never-ending metal tube and is forced to overcome a variety of deadly traps to survive.
Philippe Lacôte’s Night Of The Kings is set in the notorious La Maca, Ivory Coast’s largest prison ruled by its own inmates with unique laws and rituals. The film premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, won the Amplify Voices Award at...
- 10/1/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The film co-stars French comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais.
Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi) and WTFilms have tied up a raft of deals on French director Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy road movie Mandibles, following its buzzy out of competition world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The film has sold to UK (Altitude), Germany (Koch Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures) Switzerland (Praesens Film), Spain (Karma), Belgium (O’Brother Distribution), Norway (As Fidalgo), the Netherlands (Gusto Entertainment) and Brazil (Imovision).
As previously announced by Screen, Magnolia Pictures has snapped up US rights. The company previously released Dupieux’s 2010 feature...
Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi) and WTFilms have tied up a raft of deals on French director Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy road movie Mandibles, following its buzzy out of competition world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The film has sold to UK (Altitude), Germany (Koch Films), Italy (I Wonder Pictures) Switzerland (Praesens Film), Spain (Karma), Belgium (O’Brother Distribution), Norway (As Fidalgo), the Netherlands (Gusto Entertainment) and Brazil (Imovision).
As previously announced by Screen, Magnolia Pictures has snapped up US rights. The company previously released Dupieux’s 2010 feature...
- 9/18/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
"Never saw them, never met them." Memento Films in France has revealed the first full festival trailer for the film Mandibules, the latest from wacky French musician / filmmaker Quentin Dupieux. This just premiered at the Venice Film Festival last weekend to mostly rave reviews (here's mine) and it's going to hit the Sitges Film Festival next this fall. Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it. But it's about more than just that. Definitely a Dupieux concept and it's hilarious. One of my favorites this year. The film stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Grégoire Ludig, Bruno Lochet, Coralie Russier, India Hair, David Marsais, with Dave Chapman as "La Mouche" (aka The Fly). This is a good taste of what the film offers, and I'm big-time fan of it already. Enjoy. Here's the full festival trailer for Quentin Dupieux's Mandibules,...
- 9/8/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It is generally not good critical form to lift a film’s publicity materials when writing about it, but the official logline for Quentin Dupieux’s “Mandibles” is such a masterpiece of the form that it merits quoting, and admiring, in full: “When simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.” As well as a crisp precis of what the film is about — and let it be stressed that this 77-minute prank of a film about no more than that — it’s an ideal litmus test for its potential audience. If you merely think that sounds like the dumbest thing ever, walk on by. If you think that sounds like the dumbest thing ever and you absolutely have to see it, you won’t be remotely disappointed: “Mandibles...
- 9/7/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Like the giant fly in Mandibules, director Quentin Dupieux has been buzzing and provoking us for roughly the past decade, trying to build a reputation as a new French surrealist auteur. Many were won over by last year’s Deerskin, but his latest bizarre creation truly confirms his talent.
His two best-known features, Rubber and the aforementioned Deerskin, can be summed up in a simple high-concept phrase: respectively, the “killer tire film” and the “killer jacket film.” In surrealist logic, the evolutionary chain clearly goes from tire to scream (Reality) to jacket and now to fly. Rather than something out of Cronenberg’s beloved remake, this fly is a charming, almost Spielbergian creature––far less dangerous than its human cast members. The film is notable for finding different sources of humor, puerile as they may be, than his usual theatrical violence.
That humor is more bracingly un-pc that what’s...
His two best-known features, Rubber and the aforementioned Deerskin, can be summed up in a simple high-concept phrase: respectively, the “killer tire film” and the “killer jacket film.” In surrealist logic, the evolutionary chain clearly goes from tire to scream (Reality) to jacket and now to fly. Rather than something out of Cronenberg’s beloved remake, this fly is a charming, almost Spielbergian creature––far less dangerous than its human cast members. The film is notable for finding different sources of humor, puerile as they may be, than his usual theatrical violence.
That humor is more bracingly un-pc that what’s...
- 9/6/2020
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
Between the tail end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, moviegoers had a high tolerance for pairs of male friends with more breezy optimism than brains. These dopey man-children included Wayne and Garth in “Wayne’s World”, Lloyd and Harry in “Dumb and Dumber”, and two happy-go-lucky doofuses called Bill and Ted, Jules and Vincent in “Pulp Fiction” (a more dangerous species of this genus), and “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion” as the female alternative. The idiots played by Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott in “Dude, Where’s My Car?” killed off the trend in 2000 — temporarily, at least.
Now two such dumb chums return in a meandering and often hilarious lowlife comedy written, directed, shot, and edited by Quentin Dupieux, who made last year’s “Deerskin” with Jean Dujardin. . It lasts just 77 minutes, as “Deerskin” did, and one of its central characters is a horsefly the size of a Yorkshire Terrier.
Now two such dumb chums return in a meandering and often hilarious lowlife comedy written, directed, shot, and edited by Quentin Dupieux, who made last year’s “Deerskin” with Jean Dujardin. . It lasts just 77 minutes, as “Deerskin” did, and one of its central characters is a horsefly the size of a Yorkshire Terrier.
- 9/5/2020
- by Nicholas Barber
- Indiewire
Whacky road movie stars comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais with Adèle Exarchopoulos in a supporting role.
Screen can reveal a first international trailer for French director Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy road movie Mandibles ahead of its world premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday (Sept 5).
French comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais co-star as two goofy friends who find a giant fly trapped in their car boot and decide to train it as moneymaking venture. Adèle Exarchopoulos, Coralie Russier and India Hair as well as Belgian rapper and hip hop artist Romeo...
Screen can reveal a first international trailer for French director Quentin Dupieux’s surreal comedy road movie Mandibles ahead of its world premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday (Sept 5).
French comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais co-star as two goofy friends who find a giant fly trapped in their car boot and decide to train it as moneymaking venture. Adèle Exarchopoulos, Coralie Russier and India Hair as well as Belgian rapper and hip hop artist Romeo...
- 9/4/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Nineteen French feature films, including minority coproductions, will screen at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival, which runs Sept. 2-12. There are also four short films produced by France, and six French VR productions.
Nicole Garcia will represent France in the Official Competition with “Lovers,” her ninth feature film. She will be joined in the section by Amos Gitaï, whose film “Laila in Haifa” is a majority-French coproduction.
In addition to those movies, six films majority produced or coproduced by France will be showcased at the festival. They include Quentin Dupieux’s “Mandibules,” presented out of competition, and “Princesse Europe” by Camille Lotteau, to be shown in a special screening. The competitive Orizzonti section features four majority-French films.
“Honey Cigar” plays in Giornate degli Autori, a sidebar event.
Majority-French Feature Films in Venice
“Lovers”
Section: In Competition
Director: Nicole Garcia
Cast: Stacy Martin, Pierre Niney, Benoît Magimel
Sales:...
Nicole Garcia will represent France in the Official Competition with “Lovers,” her ninth feature film. She will be joined in the section by Amos Gitaï, whose film “Laila in Haifa” is a majority-French coproduction.
In addition to those movies, six films majority produced or coproduced by France will be showcased at the festival. They include Quentin Dupieux’s “Mandibules,” presented out of competition, and “Princesse Europe” by Camille Lotteau, to be shown in a special screening. The competitive Orizzonti section features four majority-French films.
“Honey Cigar” plays in Giornate degli Autori, a sidebar event.
Majority-French Feature Films in Venice
“Lovers”
Section: In Competition
Director: Nicole Garcia
Cast: Stacy Martin, Pierre Niney, Benoît Magimel
Sales:...
- 8/27/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Hi, fly. Memento Films in France has unveiled a short 15-second teaser trailer for the film Mandibules, the latest from wacky French musician / filmmaker Quentin Dupieux. The pandemic hasn't stopped him from working! Mandibules was also announced as part of the line-up for the 2020 Venice Film Festival, kicking off in September. So what the heck is this film about? Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it. Of course. Definitely a Dupieux concept. The film stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Grégoire Ludig, Bruno Lochet, Coralie Russier, India Hair, David Marsais, with Dave Chapman as "La Mouche" (aka The Fly). There isn't really much to this teaser trailer except a quick shot of the giant fly drinking water from a pool, but still, you've gotta see this trailer with a giant fly drinking water from a pool! Because who knows what happens next.
- 7/29/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Slate also features directorial duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delépine’s comedy drama Delete History.
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.
The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.
The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.
In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.
The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.
The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.
In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...
- 10/30/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos and India Hair are among the cast of this Chi-Fou-Mi production, co-produced by Memento and Artémis, which will be sold by WTFilms and Wild Bunch. Since 16 September, the highly original Quentin Dupieux has been in the South of France shooting Mandibules, his eighth feature, following Steak (2006), Rubber (Cannes Critics’ Week in 2010), Wrong (in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance in 2012), Wrong Cops (Piazza Grande at Locarno in 2013), Reality (Orizzonti at Venice in 2014), Keep an Eye Out (Best Screenplay Award at Sitges in 2018) and Deerskin (which opened the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year).To topline the cast, the filmmaker has called upon the services of Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais, a comedy duo also known as Palmashow, who turned heads on the big screen in movies such as Babysitting, and with the former having also played one of...
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight will open with French comedy Deerskin, starring Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Adèle Haenel (Bpm).
Dujardin plays a man who becomes obsessed with owning an expensive designer deerskin jacket, leading him to blow his life savings and even turn to crime. The film will have its world premiere on May 15, and will be released theatrically in France on June 19, distributed by Diaphana. Producers are Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe for Atelier de Production with Arte France. Sales are handled by WTFilms.
Dujardin won Best Actor awards both at Cannes and at the Oscars for The Artist. Rising star Haenel is well known for movies including Bpm, Love At First Fight and The Unknown Girl.
The film is the seventh from director Quentin Dupieux (Keep An Eye Out). The filmmaker began his career making music videos and commercials working with Michel Gondry. His previous movies include Rubber, selected for...
Dujardin plays a man who becomes obsessed with owning an expensive designer deerskin jacket, leading him to blow his life savings and even turn to crime. The film will have its world premiere on May 15, and will be released theatrically in France on June 19, distributed by Diaphana. Producers are Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe for Atelier de Production with Arte France. Sales are handled by WTFilms.
Dujardin won Best Actor awards both at Cannes and at the Oscars for The Artist. Rising star Haenel is well known for movies including Bpm, Love At First Fight and The Unknown Girl.
The film is the seventh from director Quentin Dupieux (Keep An Eye Out). The filmmaker began his career making music videos and commercials working with Michel Gondry. His previous movies include Rubber, selected for...
- 4/4/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The film stars Jean Dujardin as a man who becomes dangerously obsessed with owning a designer deerskin jacket.
French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux’s black comedy Deerskin (Le Daim), starring Jean Dujardin as a man who becomes dangerously obsessed with owning a designer deerskin jacket, has been confirmed to open the 51st edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (May 15-25).
Dujardin, best known internationally for his Oscar-winning performance in The Artist, is joined in the cast by Adèle Haenel.
It is a seventh feature for Dupieux who began his career making music videos and advertising, working with the likes of Michel Gondry,...
French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux’s black comedy Deerskin (Le Daim), starring Jean Dujardin as a man who becomes dangerously obsessed with owning a designer deerskin jacket, has been confirmed to open the 51st edition of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (May 15-25).
Dujardin, best known internationally for his Oscar-winning performance in The Artist, is joined in the cast by Adèle Haenel.
It is a seventh feature for Dupieux who began his career making music videos and advertising, working with the likes of Michel Gondry,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The first scene of Keep an Eye Out, another crazy film by France’s Quentin Dupieux, evokes that memorable speech from Rubber about how all the great films have stuff with "no reason" to be. That’s because in said sequence, we see a man in underpants serving as a conductor of an orchestra that is playing in the open air! Once the guy in his underwear is caught by the police, Dupieux "locks us up" in a police station where the boss, the not-so-bright Buron (Benoît Poelvoorde), is conducting an interrogation on another man, Louis (Grégoire Ludig), who's suspected of murder after finding a corpse outside his apartment. Throughout its 70+ minutes, Keep an Eye Out will continue to make the "no reason” speech from Rubber...
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- 10/10/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Rubber helmer Quentin Dupieux has returned to French cinemas with his latest effort Keep An Eye Out (Au Poste) and it would appear he's got a bit of a hit on his hands with over a hundred thousand admissions in its first week. Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he nds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy? Benoit Poelvoorde and Gregoire Ludig star in what appears to be - as is the case with all of Dupieux's work - a deeply absurd comedy. A pair of subtitled teasers have just arrived to give a...
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- 7/11/2018
- Screen Anarchy
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