Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has bought U.S. rights to “The Animal Kingdom,” Thomas Cailley’s creature-filled dystopian thriller which world premiered as the opening night selection of Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Produced by Pierre Guyard at Nord-Ouest Films, “The Animal Kingdom” was financed and co-produced by Studiocanal, which handles French distribution and international sales. The film is set in a world where mutations in human genetics cause people to transform into hybrid creatures. It boasts stellar performances by Roman Duris (“Final Cut”), Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is the Warmest Color”) and Paul Kircher (“Winter Boy”). Magnet will release the film next year.
Duris stars as François, who sets off to save his wife, who has been affected by this mysterious condition. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, François embarks with Emile (Kircher), their 16-year-old son, on a quest to find her with...
Produced by Pierre Guyard at Nord-Ouest Films, “The Animal Kingdom” was financed and co-produced by Studiocanal, which handles French distribution and international sales. The film is set in a world where mutations in human genetics cause people to transform into hybrid creatures. It boasts stellar performances by Roman Duris (“Final Cut”), Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is the Warmest Color”) and Paul Kircher (“Winter Boy”). Magnet will release the film next year.
Duris stars as François, who sets off to save his wife, who has been affected by this mysterious condition. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, François embarks with Emile (Kircher), their 16-year-old son, on a quest to find her with...
- 7/20/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A bold departure from France’s cinema tradition of social realism, Thomas Cailley’s widely ambitious sophomore outing “The Animal Kingdom” is equally a creature-filled dystopia, an emotionally charged father-and-son drama and a coming-of-age tale.
The character-driven film world premiered to warm reviews at the Cannes Film Festival where it bowed the Un Certain Regard section. “The Animal Kingdom” is represented in international market by Studiocanal and was produced by Pierre Guyard at Nord Ouest Films, and co-produced by Artemis.
“The Animal Kingdom” takes place in an undetermined future in France which has been swept by a genetic disease causing people to transform into creatures that are being hunted down and killed or institutionalized by authorities. Kircher, the breakout star of Christophe Honoré’s “Winter Boy,” plays 16-year-old Emile whose mother was institutionalized after showing first signs of a genetic mutation. He lives with his father Francois (Romain Duris) who is struggling to overcome grief.
The character-driven film world premiered to warm reviews at the Cannes Film Festival where it bowed the Un Certain Regard section. “The Animal Kingdom” is represented in international market by Studiocanal and was produced by Pierre Guyard at Nord Ouest Films, and co-produced by Artemis.
“The Animal Kingdom” takes place in an undetermined future in France which has been swept by a genetic disease causing people to transform into creatures that are being hunted down and killed or institutionalized by authorities. Kircher, the breakout star of Christophe Honoré’s “Winter Boy,” plays 16-year-old Emile whose mother was institutionalized after showing first signs of a genetic mutation. He lives with his father Francois (Romain Duris) who is struggling to overcome grief.
- 5/21/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Clément Cogitore's Braguino and Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies) are Best Short Film nominees for the 44th César Awards Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Clément Cogitore's haunting début feature Neither Heaven, Nor Earth (Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre), shot by Sylvain Verdet, written in collaboration with Les Cowboys director Thomas Bidegain, starred Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne discovery Jérémie Renier with Kévin Azaïs, Swann Arlaud, and Finnegan Oldfield. The film received a César Award nomination in 2016 and won the Gan Foundation Support for Distribution at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
Clément Cogitore on Braguino: "The producer, Cédric Bonin, just took the risk with me. 'Let's try, let's go there!'"
This year Clément has two César nominations in the Best Short Film category. Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies) combining K.R.U.M.P. dance with 18th century composer Jean-Philippe Rameau at the Opéra National de Paris. The five...
Clément Cogitore's haunting début feature Neither Heaven, Nor Earth (Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre), shot by Sylvain Verdet, written in collaboration with Les Cowboys director Thomas Bidegain, starred Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne discovery Jérémie Renier with Kévin Azaïs, Swann Arlaud, and Finnegan Oldfield. The film received a César Award nomination in 2016 and won the Gan Foundation Support for Distribution at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
Clément Cogitore on Braguino: "The producer, Cédric Bonin, just took the risk with me. 'Let's try, let's go there!'"
This year Clément has two César nominations in the Best Short Film category. Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies) combining K.R.U.M.P. dance with 18th century composer Jean-Philippe Rameau at the Opéra National de Paris. The five...
- 2/18/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
This is one of Huppert’s best. Small, but it should be seen and savored like a delicious praline. With chocolate, nuts and caramel, there are many flavors and textures. It is a delicious treat.
“A Poignant Huppert Performance”
- John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
“Enchanting!”
- Gary Kramer, Philadelphia Gay News
View Trailer
A Film By Bavo Defurne
Starring Isabelle Huppert and Kévin Azaïs
Official Selection:
Toronto International Film Festival
Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) lives a modest and monotonous life. By day, she works in a pâté factory, and by night, she sits on the couch and watches TV. One day, a new worker named Jean (Kévin Azaïs) arrives. The two form a platonic relationship, but Jean grows increasingly convinced that he recognizes Liliane from a European singing contest he saw as a child. Eventually, Jean convinces Liliane to confront her past. Souvenir is a beautiful portrayal of a friendship...
“A Poignant Huppert Performance”
- John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
“Enchanting!”
- Gary Kramer, Philadelphia Gay News
View Trailer
A Film By Bavo Defurne
Starring Isabelle Huppert and Kévin Azaïs
Official Selection:
Toronto International Film Festival
Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) lives a modest and monotonous life. By day, she works in a pâté factory, and by night, she sits on the couch and watches TV. One day, a new worker named Jean (Kévin Azaïs) arrives. The two form a platonic relationship, but Jean grows increasingly convinced that he recognizes Liliane from a European singing contest he saw as a child. Eventually, Jean convinces Liliane to confront her past. Souvenir is a beautiful portrayal of a friendship...
- 3/2/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Better than ever, now in its seventh year, the spectacular program with its filmmaking guests and a committed community of dedicated and intellectually alive filmgoers invigorates the mind and activist tendencies already in play.
Take for instance, University of Arizona Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world, speaking with Regents’ Professor Toni Massaro about social justice and the environment. Here he is, in person, being honored as every word he speaks is treated as a jewel. Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Chomsky has written more than 100 books, his most recent being Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power. An ardent free speech advocate, Chomsky has published and lectured widely on U.S. foreign policy, Mideast politics, terrorism, democratic society and war. Chomsky, who joined the UA faculty this fall, is a laureate professor in the Department of...
Take for instance, University of Arizona Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world, speaking with Regents’ Professor Toni Massaro about social justice and the environment. Here he is, in person, being honored as every word he speaks is treated as a jewel. Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Chomsky has written more than 100 books, his most recent being Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power. An ardent free speech advocate, Chomsky has published and lectured widely on U.S. foreign policy, Mideast politics, terrorism, democratic society and war. Chomsky, who joined the UA faculty this fall, is a laureate professor in the Department of...
- 11/13/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
I went into Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s latest film C’est la vie! knowing nothing about it. My assumption from their two previous works, Intouchables and Samba, was that it would prove a charmingly funny dramedy tinged with relevant politics and racial complexity. Well, I was wrong. Whereas the latter film honed in on the former’s politics, this one strips them away completely to focus solely on the comedy. The result is an uproariously contemporary riff on Robert Altman’s underrated classic A Wedding. While it doesn’t spread out quite so large a net—focusing almost exclusively on wedding planner Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri) and his eccentric crew—it still wonderfully distills the fiscal and logistical absurdity of such formally traditional celebrations with biting satire, broad pratfalls, and expertly rendered caricature to its essence.
They don’t ease us in either as the tone immediately reveals itself.
They don’t ease us in either as the tone immediately reveals itself.
- 9/9/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Sâm Mirhosseini and Jérémie Renier in Clément Cogitore's Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre)
Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre) director Clément Cogitore spoke with me on the role his producer Jean-Christophe Reymond played in the collaboration with Les Cowboys director Thomas Bidegain, who also has screenwriter credits for Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone, A Prophet and Cannes Palme d'Or winner Dheepan, and Michaël R Roskam's Racer And The Jailbird (Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos) which will have its world première at the Venice International Film Festival.
Bax's (Clément Bresson) tattooed back in Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Clément went into the invisible worlds of his debut feature (starring Jérémie Renier with Kévin Azaïs, Swann Arlaud, Finnegan Oldfield, Clément Bresson, Marc Robert, Hamid Reza Javdan, Edouard Court, Steve Tientcheu, Aria Faghih Habib, Stéphane Boissel, and the voice...
Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre) director Clément Cogitore spoke with me on the role his producer Jean-Christophe Reymond played in the collaboration with Les Cowboys director Thomas Bidegain, who also has screenwriter credits for Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent, Jacques Audiard's Rust And Bone, A Prophet and Cannes Palme d'Or winner Dheepan, and Michaël R Roskam's Racer And The Jailbird (Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos) which will have its world première at the Venice International Film Festival.
Bax's (Clément Bresson) tattooed back in Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Clément went into the invisible worlds of his debut feature (starring Jérémie Renier with Kévin Azaïs, Swann Arlaud, Finnegan Oldfield, Clément Bresson, Marc Robert, Hamid Reza Javdan, Edouard Court, Steve Tientcheu, Aria Faghih Habib, Stéphane Boissel, and the voice...
- 7/31/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"You need a lot of love. From your audience, too." Studiocanal has debuted the first UK trailer for a Belgian drama titled Souvenir, starring French actress Isabelle Huppert as a former singer now working at a factory in a small town. The film played at a few major festivals last fall, including Toronto and London, and is opening in Us theaters later this year. Huppert plays Liliane Cheverny, who was once "Laura", a singer who finished second in the 1974 European Song Contest. Her singing dreams are reignited when she meets a young boxer who convinces her she should make a comeback. Also starring Kévin Azaïs, Johan Leysen, Muriel Bersy, and Benjamin Boutboul. This looks like a provocative, passionate film about lost dreams. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Bavo Defurne's Souvenir, direct from YouTube: Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) was once "Laura", a rising star in the singing world, who had her moment of glory when she finished second in the ...
- 6/20/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Other winners include Sand Storm, American Honey, Old Stone, Hooligan Sparrow.
The jury of the 27th Stockholm International Film Festival has given the top award, the Bronze Horse, to Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova for Godless.
The film previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno as well as the New Talent Grant Pix in Copenhagen last week. It tells the story of a young physiotherapist struggling to survive in an economically depressed mountain town in post-Communist Bulgaria, who forms an unlikely bond with one of her elderly patients.
The jury — comprised of producer Annika Rogell, directors Roland Vranik, Wayne Roberts and Frida Kempff, and actress Julia Ragnarsson – said the film was “an astonishing masterpiece. This is filmmaking of the highest order and marks the arrival of a new great within cinema. A film that will forever live in the hearts and minds of viewers. It is a true work of art and, simply put, is...
The jury of the 27th Stockholm International Film Festival has given the top award, the Bronze Horse, to Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova for Godless.
The film previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno as well as the New Talent Grant Pix in Copenhagen last week. It tells the story of a young physiotherapist struggling to survive in an economically depressed mountain town in post-Communist Bulgaria, who forms an unlikely bond with one of her elderly patients.
The jury — comprised of producer Annika Rogell, directors Roland Vranik, Wayne Roberts and Frida Kempff, and actress Julia Ragnarsson – said the film was “an astonishing masterpiece. This is filmmaking of the highest order and marks the arrival of a new great within cinema. A film that will forever live in the hearts and minds of viewers. It is a true work of art and, simply put, is...
- 11/20/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
French actress Isabelle Huppert has made a big splash starring in at least two widely acclaimed films this year: Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle,” about a businesswoman who is assaulted in her home and then begins stalking her attacker, and Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come,” about a philosophy professor who’s life is thrown in disarray when her husband leaves her for another woman. Now, Huppert returns yet again in Bavo Defurne’s “Souvenir,” about a middle-aged factory worker’s new relationship with a young boxer. Watch a trailer for the film below. (Note: there are no English subtitles.)
Read More: Why ‘Elle’ Star Isabelle Huppert Is the Actress Whose Oscar Time Has Come
In the film, Huppert plays Liliane, an unassuming model employee in a pâté factory who meets a new worker named Jean (Kévin Azaïs) who boxes in his spare time. They soon form a platonic relationship, but...
Read More: Why ‘Elle’ Star Isabelle Huppert Is the Actress Whose Oscar Time Has Come
In the film, Huppert plays Liliane, an unassuming model employee in a pâté factory who meets a new worker named Jean (Kévin Azaïs) who boxes in his spare time. They soon form a platonic relationship, but...
- 11/10/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
This week we spoke with Isabelle Huppert, an actress who not only delivers one of the year’s best performances in Elle, but delivers another one of the year’s best performances in Things to Come. The prolific actress also had another film premiere earlier this season with Souvenir, which debuted at Tiff. Directed by Bavo Defurne, the film follows her as a factory worker whose semi-famous past bubbles up when she begins a new relationship. While it doesn’t have a U.S. release yet, it’ll be landing in France by the end of the year and the first trailer — albeit one without English subtitles — has arrived.
We said in our review, “With some nice feel-good moments and a couple crippling defeats, Defurne allows his characters to evolve despite the abbreviated run-time of 90 minutes. So while the relationship is half-baked to a point–hormones running wild–both Liliane and Jean are three-dimensional.
We said in our review, “With some nice feel-good moments and a couple crippling defeats, Defurne allows his characters to evolve despite the abbreviated run-time of 90 minutes. So while the relationship is half-baked to a point–hormones running wild–both Liliane and Jean are three-dimensional.
- 11/10/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
It starts with bubbles. So many bubbles rising slowly in liquid as the opening credits in script font flash onscreen. And when the camera finally pans out to see what it’s been that’s mesmerized us so? A glass of water with an Alkaseltzer dropped in, of course. This is the humor director Bavo Defurne and his co-writers Jacques Boon and Yves Verbraeken infuse throughout their outside-the-box romance Souvenir. As it is the woman about to drink this concoction is hardly special: she lives alone, watches trivia game shows, and works at a pâté factory garnishing one pan after the next in blissful monotony and anonymity. Today is the day that all stops.
Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) has a secret no one has yet caught onto until a twenty-two year old boxer begins working at her job. Jean (Kévin Azaïs) recognizes her from somewhere, but it takes a couple days...
Liliane (Isabelle Huppert) has a secret no one has yet caught onto until a twenty-two year old boxer begins working at her job. Jean (Kévin Azaïs) recognizes her from somewhere, but it takes a couple days...
- 9/9/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Clément Cogitore on Michelangelo Antonioni and Apichatpong Weerasethakul: "who are my masters" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory starring Richard Burton and Curd Jürgens to Stanley Kubrick's Paths Of Glory with Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker and Adolphe Menjou come to mind or the tension built with Kip (Naveen Andrews) checking for mines in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, based on Michael Ondaatje's novel when reflecting on Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre).
Jérémie Renier is Captain Antarès Bonassieu
Clément Cogitore's haunting debut feature stars Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne discovery Jérémie Renier with Kévin Azaïs (Thomas Cailley's Love At First Fight, Catherine Corsini's Summertime), Swann Arlaud (Axelle Ropert's The Apple Of My Eye), Finnegan Oldfield (Thomas Bidegain's Les Cowboys, Eva Husson's Bang Gang), Sâm Mirhosseini, Marc Robert, Hamid Reza Javdan (Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone), Edouard Court,...
Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory starring Richard Burton and Curd Jürgens to Stanley Kubrick's Paths Of Glory with Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker and Adolphe Menjou come to mind or the tension built with Kip (Naveen Andrews) checking for mines in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, based on Michael Ondaatje's novel when reflecting on Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre).
Jérémie Renier is Captain Antarès Bonassieu
Clément Cogitore's haunting debut feature stars Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne discovery Jérémie Renier with Kévin Azaïs (Thomas Cailley's Love At First Fight, Catherine Corsini's Summertime), Swann Arlaud (Axelle Ropert's The Apple Of My Eye), Finnegan Oldfield (Thomas Bidegain's Les Cowboys, Eva Husson's Bang Gang), Sâm Mirhosseini, Marc Robert, Hamid Reza Javdan (Atiq Rahimi's The Patience Stone), Edouard Court,...
- 8/4/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.
For July, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for July 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, July 22. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
Ice Age: Collision Course
Director: Galen T. Chu, Mike Thermeier
Cast: Adam DeVine, Jennifer Lopez, Melissa Rauch
Synopsis: Scrat’s epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet.
For July, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for July 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, July 22. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
Ice Age: Collision Course
Director: Galen T. Chu, Mike Thermeier
Cast: Adam DeVine, Jennifer Lopez, Melissa Rauch
Synopsis: Scrat’s epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet.
- 7/21/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
While a romance on its surface, Catherine Corsini‘s Summertime is really about freedom. The central relationship between Delphine (Izïa Higelin) and Carole (Cécile De France) pushes them to discover their personal identities removed from any union. The former is a farm girl yearning to break from the conservative mentality a future in the country dictates while the latter’s anti-bourgeois feminist Parisian cohabits with a long-term boyfriend equally political and militantly idealistic as she. They’ve each cut trails through the rigid social norms of the environments where they reside, crossing paths during the summer of 1971 by destiny’s hand. This collision ultimately evolves who they are and forces them to acknowledge how far they’re willing to go towards becoming the women they were meant to be.
Delphine is the main character despite Higelin’s second billing and ultimately the one Corsini admits is most like herself. She...
Delphine is the main character despite Higelin’s second billing and ultimately the one Corsini admits is most like herself. She...
- 7/20/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 5 Galas and 19 Special Presentations to its huge and highly anticipated international lineup including the Closing Night Film, Paco Cabezas’s Mr. Right.
In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.
The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...
In July, it was announced that Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition will open the 2015 Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, Demolition will have its world premiere on September 10 at Roy Thomson Hall.
Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Ridley Scott, Deepa Mehta, Lenny Abrahamson, Brian Helgeland, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Jason Bateman, Cary Fukunaga, Catherine Corsini, Stephen Frears, Tom Hooper, Hany Abu-Assad, Meghna Gulzar, Terence Davies, Jonás Cuarón, Julie Delpy, Rebecca Miller, Rob Reiner, Catherine Hardwicke, Pan Nalin, Lorene Scafaria, David Gordon Green, Matthew Cullen, Gaby Dellal, James Vanderbilt and Marc Abraham.
The various films listed below star Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Gary Oldman, Toni Collette, Drew Barrymore,...
- 8/18/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
★★★★☆ Winner of three prizes in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight sidebar last year, Thomas Cailley's debut feature Les Combattants is an expertly handled and brilliantly performed feel-good comedy with an original twist. Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) is a mild-mannered, angst-free young man who's looking forward to a summer hanging out with his friends and working with his brother to learn the family's carpentry trade. Even his father's recent death doesn't seem to have unduly bothered him. Disgruntled at the high prices the funeral parlour charge for inferior wood coffins, he and his brother set about making their own coffin for the old man without further ado.
- 8/10/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The latest film from Catherine Corsini is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival with the first trailer premiering alongside the festival announcement.
Summertime is directed by Corsini from a script by her and Laurette Polmanss. The film stars Cécile De France, Izia Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky, and Kévin Azaïs.
The film takes place in 1971 France where a young girl (Higelin) from a rural family moves to Paris and begins a life-changing affair with a feminist activist (De France). The French-language film is set to premiere as part of the special presentations at the festival.
This is Corsini’s first film since 2012’s Two Worlds and the premiere at Tiff will mark the North American debut of the movie. The full line-up for the Toronto International Film Festival was revealed on Tuesday.
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Summertime is directed by Corsini from a script by her and Laurette Polmanss. The film stars Cécile De France, Izia Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky, and Kévin Azaïs.
The film takes place in 1971 France where a young girl (Higelin) from a rural family moves to Paris and begins a life-changing affair with a feminist activist (De France). The French-language film is set to premiere as part of the special presentations at the festival.
This is Corsini’s first film since 2012’s Two Worlds and the premiere at Tiff will mark the North American debut of the movie. The full line-up for the Toronto International Film Festival was revealed on Tuesday.
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- 7/28/2015
- by Zach Dennis
- SoundOnSight
The 40th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival now has something of a slate. Festival toppers Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling presided over a press conference Tuesday morning where more than 34 films were announced including the world premieres of "The Martian," "The Family Fang" and "Demolition." It's an intriguing initial lineup for the venerable Canadian institution and something of a steadying the ship after losing some major debuts to Venice, Telluride and the New York Film Festival over the past few years. Well, maybe. The most impressive world premieres include the aforementioned "Demolition" with Jake Gyllenhaal (officially the best opening night film in recent memory), "The Family Fang" with Nicole Kidman, "Legend" with Tom Hardy, "Trumbo" with Bryan Cranston, "The Martian" with Matt Damon and Lance Armstrong doc "The Program" with Ben Foster and Michael Moore's latest documentary, "Where to Invade Next." Notable films that will have premiered...
- 7/28/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel bring wit and warmth to this tale of young love and survivalism
Here’s a love story with a difference. When easy-going Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) meets feisty combatant Madeleine (Adèle Haenel), he decides to follow her on to a “super-hard” army training course. Convinced that the end is nigh, Madeleine is a survivalist force of nature – tough, determined, undeterred. But when the pair take off into the woods, their isolated relationship takes an unexpected turn, Edenic dreams turning to existential End Times.
Retitled Love at First Fight in some territories, this enchanting French oddity (which picked up numerous Cannes and César awards) boasts terrifically likable performances from Haenel and Azaïs, who bring wit and warmth to their respective outsider roles. Offering a much-needed alternative to traditional romantic models, this has outlaw humour to spare but never moves too far away from heartfelt emotion. The dramatic final act is audacious,...
Here’s a love story with a difference. When easy-going Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) meets feisty combatant Madeleine (Adèle Haenel), he decides to follow her on to a “super-hard” army training course. Convinced that the end is nigh, Madeleine is a survivalist force of nature – tough, determined, undeterred. But when the pair take off into the woods, their isolated relationship takes an unexpected turn, Edenic dreams turning to existential End Times.
Retitled Love at First Fight in some territories, this enchanting French oddity (which picked up numerous Cannes and César awards) boasts terrifically likable performances from Haenel and Azaïs, who bring wit and warmth to their respective outsider roles. Offering a much-needed alternative to traditional romantic models, this has outlaw humour to spare but never moves too far away from heartfelt emotion. The dramatic final act is audacious,...
- 6/21/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Thomas Cailley’s debut, about a college dropout and a young carpenter in northern France, takes its own sweet time about showing its hand, but proves the director is one to watch
The French writer-director Thomas Cailley makes his feature debut with an engaging slow-burner of a comedy romance ( “romcom” hardly describes it), which first aired in the directors’ fortnight strand at last year’s Cannes film festival. It is a movie that takes its own sweet time to show its hand, or let the audience in on what it is centrally about. It grew on me. Adèle Haenel plays Madeleine, a bored and angry but callow college dropout in northern France who yearns to join the army; Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) is a young carpenter who falls in love with her while building a garden shed for her parents. To the astonishment of his brother and business partner, Arnaud enrols...
The French writer-director Thomas Cailley makes his feature debut with an engaging slow-burner of a comedy romance ( “romcom” hardly describes it), which first aired in the directors’ fortnight strand at last year’s Cannes film festival. It is a movie that takes its own sweet time to show its hand, or let the audience in on what it is centrally about. It grew on me. Adèle Haenel plays Madeleine, a bored and angry but callow college dropout in northern France who yearns to join the army; Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) is a young carpenter who falls in love with her while building a garden shed for her parents. To the astonishment of his brother and business partner, Arnaud enrols...
- 6/18/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Thomas Cailley’s debut, about a college dropout and a young carpenter in northern France, takes its own sweet time about showing its hand, but proves the director is one to watch
The French writer-director Thomas Cailley makes his feature debut with an engaging slow-burner of a comedy romance ( “romcom” hardly describes it), which first aired in the directors’ fortnight strand at last year’s Cannes film festival. It is a movie that takes its own sweet time to show its hand, or let the audience in on what it is centrally about. It grew on me. Adèle Haenel plays Madeleine, a bored and angry but callow college dropout in northern France who yearns to join the army; Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) is a young carpenter who falls in love with her while building a garden shed for her parents. To the astonishment of his brother and business partner, Arnaud enrols...
The French writer-director Thomas Cailley makes his feature debut with an engaging slow-burner of a comedy romance ( “romcom” hardly describes it), which first aired in the directors’ fortnight strand at last year’s Cannes film festival. It is a movie that takes its own sweet time to show its hand, or let the audience in on what it is centrally about. It grew on me. Adèle Haenel plays Madeleine, a bored and angry but callow college dropout in northern France who yearns to join the army; Arnaud (Kévin Azaïs) is a young carpenter who falls in love with her while building a garden shed for her parents. To the astonishment of his brother and business partner, Arnaud enrols...
- 6/18/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Antagonism, aggression, and the apocalypse prove to be the most potent stimulants in Thomas Cailley's winning first feature, Love at First Fight. (The movie's original, straightforward French title, Les Combattants — "The Fighters" — avoids the dopey pun that saddles the U.S. renaming.) Rejuvenating the romantic comedy through its unusual premise — in which training for an elite army unit releases a flood of pheromones — Cailley's film is also buoyed by its enormously appealing leads, Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel, the latter of whom is having a welcome moment of semi-ubiquity in New York movie theaters right now.
Set during summer in a coastal town in southwestern France, its landscapes and light beautifully capture...
Set during summer in a coastal town in southwestern France, its landscapes and light beautifully capture...
- 5/20/2015
- Village Voice
Kévin Azaïs and Adèle Haenel in Thomas Cailley's Love At First Fight (Les Combattants)
Love At First Fight (Les Combattants) stars César Best Actress winner Adèle Haenel and Kévin Azaïs with Antoine Laurent, Brigitte Roüan, Léa Pelletant and Pascal Bernagaud, directed by Best First Film César honoree Thomas Cailley. Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. James Stewart's obsession with Madeleine in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, structuring a film in three parts, internal restrictions and an unhealthy diet enter into our 20th Anniversary Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York conversation.
Love at First Fight (Les Combattants) director Thomas Cailley on Arnaud and Madeleine: "During the course of the film, they start out as prisoners of their situation." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
For a film that feels achingly of the now, technology is kept out of the picture for the most part. Cailley shows the toll it has taken on the way...
Love At First Fight (Les Combattants) stars César Best Actress winner Adèle Haenel and Kévin Azaïs with Antoine Laurent, Brigitte Roüan, Léa Pelletant and Pascal Bernagaud, directed by Best First Film César honoree Thomas Cailley. Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. James Stewart's obsession with Madeleine in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, structuring a film in three parts, internal restrictions and an unhealthy diet enter into our 20th Anniversary Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York conversation.
Love at First Fight (Les Combattants) director Thomas Cailley on Arnaud and Madeleine: "During the course of the film, they start out as prisoners of their situation." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
For a film that feels achingly of the now, technology is kept out of the picture for the most part. Cailley shows the toll it has taken on the way...
- 3/20/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Canet in André Téchiné's In the Name of My Daughter (L’Homme Qu’on Aimait Trop), also starring Adèle Haenel
This year's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opens with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni and Benoît Poelvoorde in Benoît Jacquot's 3 Hearts (3 Coeurs). Quentin Dupieux's Reality (Réalité) starring Alain Chabat, featuring Philip Glass’s Music With Changing Parts closes the festival.
There are first-rate performances from Mathieu Kassovitz and Céline Sallette (who also stars with Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche and Benoît Magimel in Cédric Jimenez' The Connection (La French)) in Cédric Kahn's Wild Life (Vie Sauvage), Guillaume Canet in Cédric Anger's Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart (La Prochaine Fois Je Viserai Le Coeur), Olivier Gourmet and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in Stéphane Demoustier's 40-Love (Terre Battue), Adèle Haenel with Kévin Azaïs in Thomas Cailley's Love At First Fight (Les Combattants...
This year's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opens with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni and Benoît Poelvoorde in Benoît Jacquot's 3 Hearts (3 Coeurs). Quentin Dupieux's Reality (Réalité) starring Alain Chabat, featuring Philip Glass’s Music With Changing Parts closes the festival.
There are first-rate performances from Mathieu Kassovitz and Céline Sallette (who also stars with Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche and Benoît Magimel in Cédric Jimenez' The Connection (La French)) in Cédric Kahn's Wild Life (Vie Sauvage), Guillaume Canet in Cédric Anger's Next Time I’ll Aim For The Heart (La Prochaine Fois Je Viserai Le Coeur), Olivier Gourmet and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in Stéphane Demoustier's 40-Love (Terre Battue), Adèle Haenel with Kévin Azaïs in Thomas Cailley's Love At First Fight (Les Combattants...
- 2/28/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Les beaux jours d’Aranjuez is an adaptation of the play by Peter Handke.
German auteur Wim Wenders is to shoot new movie Les beaux jours d’Aranjuez in June.
The project was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. The film is an adaptation of the play by Peter Handke. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Handke himself is likely to have a cameo. The film will be an Alfama/Road Movies coproduction, to be sold by Alfama.
The film marks a reunion between Wenders and veteran Portuguese producer Branco, who co-produced Wenders’ The State Of Things in 1982 and has worked with him several times since.
Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine is screening out of competition, sold by Hanway.
Branco has also announced various other new projects. This year, Benoit Jacquot should finally be shooting Alfama’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2001 novella, The Body Artist...
German auteur Wim Wenders is to shoot new movie Les beaux jours d’Aranjuez in June.
The project was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. The film is an adaptation of the play by Peter Handke. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Handke himself is likely to have a cameo. The film will be an Alfama/Road Movies coproduction, to be sold by Alfama.
The film marks a reunion between Wenders and veteran Portuguese producer Branco, who co-produced Wenders’ The State Of Things in 1982 and has worked with him several times since.
Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine is screening out of competition, sold by Hanway.
Branco has also announced various other new projects. This year, Benoit Jacquot should finally be shooting Alfama’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2001 novella, The Body Artist...
- 2/8/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Two Days, One Night, Mommy and Fevers nominated in French-language foreign film category.Scroll down for full list of nominations
The Lumière Awards, France’s version of the Golden Globes, has announced the nominations for its 20th anniversary edition. There is no clear front-runner this year.
Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent biopic Saint Laurent, Benoît Jacquot’s 3 Hearts, starring Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroianni as sisters who unwittingly fall for the same man, and Eric Lartigau’s Christmas hit La Famille Bélier, about an aspiring singer growing up in deaf family, lead the field with four nominations each including best film.
Céline Sciamma’s gritty urban drama Girlhood (Bande de Fille) and Lucas Belvaux’s chalk-and-cheese romance Not My Type(Pas Mon Genre) and, which were also nominated in the best film category, followed behind with three nominations.
Franco-Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako Timbuktu about the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on a rural community in Mali, is the sixth...
The Lumière Awards, France’s version of the Golden Globes, has announced the nominations for its 20th anniversary edition. There is no clear front-runner this year.
Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent biopic Saint Laurent, Benoît Jacquot’s 3 Hearts, starring Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroianni as sisters who unwittingly fall for the same man, and Eric Lartigau’s Christmas hit La Famille Bélier, about an aspiring singer growing up in deaf family, lead the field with four nominations each including best film.
Céline Sciamma’s gritty urban drama Girlhood (Bande de Fille) and Lucas Belvaux’s chalk-and-cheese romance Not My Type(Pas Mon Genre) and, which were also nominated in the best film category, followed behind with three nominations.
Franco-Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako Timbuktu about the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on a rural community in Mali, is the sixth...
- 1/12/2015
- ScreenDaily
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