If not quite a hate-letter to the idea of motherhood, then certainly a strongly-worded memo of complaint, Julie Delpy's sixth directorial feature "Lolo" features long stretches of perhaps her most accomplished and enjoyable character-comedy yet. But as often with filmmakers for whom a certain register comes almost too easily, Delpy seems impatient with herself and her facility for spiky, verbal sparring and pithy self-deprecating put-downs. As though anxious to push beyond that, "Lolo," (co-written with Eugenie Grandval) which starts off bright, breezy, and deceptively progressive –– especially in its portrayal of a fabulously foulmouthed and dirty-minded central female friendship –– moves into more densely plotted and dark-hearted territory in its latter stages. The ambition is admirable, but in execution it means the witty, sophisticate comedy gives way to farce and contrivance, and an unwelcome sourness creeps into the fizz that the winning performances cannot...
- 3/9/2016
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
“She’s an auteur,” Eugenie Grandval tells me. “She has a lot to do on set between directing other actors and creating as she goes. I’m just there to be supportive.” Grandval is the co-writer of Lolo, a comedy about a single-mom whose love life is sabotaged by her only child. The auteur whom Grandval is referring to is her co-writer and the film’s director and star, Julie Delpy. Together, the writer duo recently traveled from Lolo’s world premiere at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival to their North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Several decades ago, Delpy […]...
- 10/5/2015
- by Taylor Hess
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“She’s an auteur,” Eugenie Grandval tells me. “She has a lot to do on set between directing other actors and creating as she goes. I’m just there to be supportive.” Grandval is the co-writer of Lolo, a comedy about a single-mom whose love life is sabotaged by her only child. The auteur whom Grandval is referring to is her co-writer and the film’s director and star, Julie Delpy. Together, the writer duo recently traveled from Lolo’s world premiere at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival to their North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Several decades ago, Delpy […]...
- 10/5/2015
- by Taylor Hess
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
If not quite a hate-letter to the idea of motherhood, then certainly a strongly-worded memo of complaint, Julie Delpy's sixth directorial feature "Lolo" features long stretches of perhaps her most accomplished and enjoyable character-comedy yet. But as often with filmmakers for whom a certain register comes almost too easily, Delpy seems impatient with herself and her facility for spiky, verbal sparring and pithy self-deprecating put-downs. As though anxious to push beyond that, "Lolo," (co-written with Eugenie Grandval) which starts off bright, breezy, and deceptively progressive––especially in its portrayal of a fabulously foulmouthed and dirty-minded central female friendship––moves into more densely plotted and dark-hearted territory in its latter stages. The ambition is admirable, but in execution it means the witty, sophisticate comedy gives way to farce and contrivance, and an unwelcome sourness creeps into the fizz that the winning performances cannot quite...
- 9/11/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Venice Days has slotted Julie Delpy's "Lolo" as the eleventh title in its competition lineup. This marks the world premiere of the comedy, before it heads to Toronto later in September. (Check out the first international trailer, sans subtitles, below.) Co-written by Delpy and Eugénie Grandval, "Lolo" looks to be another one of her very French comedies of manners and errors, heated with anxiety and confusion and romantic fretting. The story surrounds who else but a neurotic Parisienne, Violette (Delpy), who falls for Jean-René while vacationing in the south of France. But the pair gets a major reality check once back home, where Violette's tyrannical son Lolo attempts to manipulate and control the relationship. Read More: Now and Then: Waiting for Julie Delpy Delpy can write a good, smart farce, such as her 2012 sequel "2 Days in New York." But I can't help but miss the bubbly, frantically charming energy of the original,...
- 8/3/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Ron Howard is attached to direct and produce a film adaptation of Joel Dicker's hit novel "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" for Warner Bros. Pictures.
The story follows a novelist who gets caught up in a scandal involving his beloved mentor, a heavyweight of American literature, when a 15-year-old girl is found dead in his backyard.
Penguin will publish the novel in the U.S. next month following massive sales in Europe which saw it outsell Dan Brown's "Inferno" (an adaptation of which Howard is working on) and challenge "Fifty Shades of Grey" on the charts.
Howard, Brian Grazer, Claire Lundberg and Eugenie Grandval will produce. Howard is currently in post-production on "Heart of the Sea"
Source: Deadline...
The story follows a novelist who gets caught up in a scandal involving his beloved mentor, a heavyweight of American literature, when a 15-year-old girl is found dead in his backyard.
Penguin will publish the novel in the U.S. next month following massive sales in Europe which saw it outsell Dan Brown's "Inferno" (an adaptation of which Howard is working on) and challenge "Fifty Shades of Grey" on the charts.
Howard, Brian Grazer, Claire Lundberg and Eugenie Grandval will produce. Howard is currently in post-production on "Heart of the Sea"
Source: Deadline...
- 4/24/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Warner Bros has acquired the Joel Dicker novel The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair for Ron Howard to direct and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer to produce with him. Deals are also in the works for Eugenie Grandval and Claire Lundberg to produce as well. Since published by the Swiss author, the novel has been a publishing phenomenon in Europe and especially in France, where is finished just behind Fifty Shades Of Grey, and Italy and Spain, where it outsold Dan Brown’s Inferno. It has sold over 2 million copies and won the prestigious Grand Prix du Roman and was nominated for the Prix Goncourt. Book was published by Bernard de Fallois’s Editions de Fallois. Published in France under the title La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert, the novel is about a young superstar novelist who finds himself embroiled in a sensationalized murder mystery when his mentor,...
- 4/23/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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