You don’t need to have lived in the proverbial middle of nowhere to understand the kind of terror Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s The Soul Eater mines from the fictional Roquenoix. As shot by Simon Roca, this remote hamlet in northeastern France isn’t a ghost town so much as a burial ground where humans and buildings alike are waiting to rot. A grandiose sanatorium once towered over the tree-shrouded hills, bringing in enough cash and tourists to fill the village’s coffers. But when a motorway was built across the valley, the tourists disappeared, the sanatorium was abandoned; and the few who stayed behind were left to wrestle with an ancestral legend and a series of murders that may or may not be connected with it.
The single most terrifying thing in The Soul Eater isn’t the titular devourer, but that spectral, lifeless town where its victims are stranded.
The single most terrifying thing in The Soul Eater isn’t the titular devourer, but that spectral, lifeless town where its victims are stranded.
- 2/2/2024
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
MK2 Films has acquired a collection of films and TV series directed by Bruno Dumont, the award-winning French director behind “Life of Jesus” and “Humanity.”
The acquisition, unveiled during Mipcom Cannes, covers the bulk of the director’s work, spanning eight films and TV series including “Li’l Quinquin,” which premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. MK2 Films will represent rights to some of these titles, in France and/or international markets, apart from a few titles like “Slack Bay” whose global rights are still handled by Memento International.
“Bruno Dumont is, of course, a major figure of contemporary cinema,” said Nathanaël Karmitz, MK2’s chairman of the executive board. Karmitz praised Dumont for the “originality of his unusual, unpredictable [films], veering from gravitas to some unnerving, comedic tangents.” He continued, “Iconoclastic and consistently courageous in its form, his work perfectly represents the free and ambitious cinema that we are proud to promote.
The acquisition, unveiled during Mipcom Cannes, covers the bulk of the director’s work, spanning eight films and TV series including “Li’l Quinquin,” which premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. MK2 Films will represent rights to some of these titles, in France and/or international markets, apart from a few titles like “Slack Bay” whose global rights are still handled by Memento International.
“Bruno Dumont is, of course, a major figure of contemporary cinema,” said Nathanaël Karmitz, MK2’s chairman of the executive board. Karmitz praised Dumont for the “originality of his unusual, unpredictable [films], veering from gravitas to some unnerving, comedic tangents.” He continued, “Iconoclastic and consistently courageous in its form, his work perfectly represents the free and ambitious cinema that we are proud to promote.
- 10/16/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Plant has announced that he will be releasing a career-spanning anthology set titled Digging Deep to accompany the third season of his podcast Digging Deep With Robert Plant.
The two-disk CD set — also available for digital streaming and download — will include 30 songs from Plant’s four-decade, 11-album career as a solo artist, including a number of songs that premiered on his podcast. Highlights include the chart-topping rock hit “Hurting Kind” and the Grammy-nominated song “Shine All Around.”
A few previously released songs will also be included: “Nothing Takes the...
The two-disk CD set — also available for digital streaming and download — will include 30 songs from Plant’s four-decade, 11-album career as a solo artist, including a number of songs that premiered on his podcast. Highlights include the chart-topping rock hit “Hurting Kind” and the Grammy-nominated song “Shine All Around.”
A few previously released songs will also be included: “Nothing Takes the...
- 7/27/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
French director Bruno Dumont, who over the past two decades has gone from making naturalistic dramas such as “La Vie de Jesus” and “L’Umanité” to directing slapstick comedy, a Joan of Arc-themed musical, and innovative TV series, will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Pardo d’onore Manor lifetime achievement award.
The versatile auteur will also be world-premiering his new TV series, “Coincoin and the Extra Humans,” with a launch from the Swiss fest’s 8.000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue Aug. 4. The show, which is the second season of Dumont’s “Li’l Quinquin” series and sees its young protagonist become a French nationalist, is getting a theatrical release in Switzerland and will be playing in September on Franco-German channel Arte.
Born in Bailleul, northern France, in 1958, Dumont made his feature film debut in 1997 with “La vie de Jesus” shot in his hometown and followed up in 1999 with “L’Humanite,...
The versatile auteur will also be world-premiering his new TV series, “Coincoin and the Extra Humans,” with a launch from the Swiss fest’s 8.000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue Aug. 4. The show, which is the second season of Dumont’s “Li’l Quinquin” series and sees its young protagonist become a French nationalist, is getting a theatrical release in Switzerland and will be playing in September on Franco-German channel Arte.
Born in Bailleul, northern France, in 1958, Dumont made his feature film debut in 1997 with “La vie de Jesus” shot in his hometown and followed up in 1999 with “L’Humanite,...
- 6/7/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
In Amber Tamblyn’s impressive debut feature Paint It Black, a suicide sets up a tug of war between two unlikely interconnected foes: Josie (Alia Shawkat), a student who gets by modeling for a drawing class, and Meredith (Janet McTeer), a wealthy pianist, the mother of Josie’s ex-lover Michael (Rhys Wakefield). Opening in an ambitious daze, Josie awakes without Michael and heads to a punk club in her low rent L.A. neighborhood for an all-night bender. She then wakes up to a phone call from the police that Michael has taken his own life in a motel down in Twentynine Palms, California.
Arriving at the funeral, Josie is unexpectedly attacked in church by Meredith before she’s invited for out for a drink with Meredith’s ex-husband Cal (Alfred Molina), who offers his support to Josie. What follows is an ambitious character study morphing from a straightforward drama...
Arriving at the funeral, Josie is unexpectedly attacked in church by Meredith before she’s invited for out for a drink with Meredith’s ex-husband Cal (Alfred Molina), who offers his support to Josie. What follows is an ambitious character study morphing from a straightforward drama...
- 5/15/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
The American public education system is a vital institution, making sure that every citizen—no matter how disadvantaged—has an opportunity for self-improvement. But it’s a rough tool at best, and not always suited to the finer points of molding young minds. The juniors and seniors in the documentary The Bad Kids all attend Black Rock Continuation High School, an “alternative” school in the Mojave Desert. They’ve been accepted there because of their ongoing struggles in regular classes. Some are habitual truants. Some are teen mothers or fathers. Some fell behind on their grades as freshmen and then felt too overwhelmed to catch up. And in nearly every case, the students are dealing with a complicated world outside of Black Rock, managing poverty, abuse, and broken homes in drug-ravaged neighborhoods of dusty San Bernardino County towns like Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree. For a lot of these children...
- 12/15/2016
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
Jonathan Corwin, the Marine whose wife Erin Corwin was murdered by her lover in 2014, is speaking out for the first time on television in a Dateline network exclusive special, “The Last Day.”
Opening up about the June day that Erin, 19, disappeared after leaving their home at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in California, Jonathan speaks somberly as he details what would be their final goodbye.
“She had woke up and gotten dressed and gave me a kiss goodbye,” he reveals in the exclusive clip.
“ said, ‘Hey, I’m heading out for the day and I love you,’ ” he recalls. “I told her,...
Opening up about the June day that Erin, 19, disappeared after leaving their home at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in California, Jonathan speaks somberly as he details what would be their final goodbye.
“She had woke up and gotten dressed and gave me a kiss goodbye,” he reveals in the exclusive clip.
“ said, ‘Hey, I’m heading out for the day and I love you,’ ” he recalls. “I told her,...
- 12/1/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
After killing the wife of a fellow Marine with whom he was having an affair, Christopher Lee will spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole, according to multiple reports.
Lee, 27, a former Marine who confessed to the murder of his allegedly pregnant lover Erin Corwin, 19, by strangling her and then throwing her body down a 140-foot desert mine shaft, was sentenced Tuesday in San Bernardino County, California, Superior Court, reports The Desert Sun.
Lee was convicted Nov. 3 after abruptly recanting his not-guilty plea and making the surprise announcement that he acted on impulse, motivated...
Lee, 27, a former Marine who confessed to the murder of his allegedly pregnant lover Erin Corwin, 19, by strangling her and then throwing her body down a 140-foot desert mine shaft, was sentenced Tuesday in San Bernardino County, California, Superior Court, reports The Desert Sun.
Lee was convicted Nov. 3 after abruptly recanting his not-guilty plea and making the surprise announcement that he acted on impulse, motivated...
- 12/1/2016
- by jefftruesdelltimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
A former U.S. Marine accused of killing the wife of a fellow Twentynine Palms Marine was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday, a spokesman from the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office tells People.
Christopher Lee, who murdered his allegedly pregnant lover Erin Corwin, was charged with one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement of having intentionally killed the victim by means of lying in wait.
Lee, 27, shocked the court when he took back his not guilty plea and testified to killing his 19-year-old lover earlier this week by strangling her and then throwing her...
Christopher Lee, who murdered his allegedly pregnant lover Erin Corwin, was charged with one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement of having intentionally killed the victim by means of lying in wait.
Lee, 27, shocked the court when he took back his not guilty plea and testified to killing his 19-year-old lover earlier this week by strangling her and then throwing her...
- 11/4/2016
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
A great many shows and movies are coming to Hulu next month, some more notable than others. To skip the chaff and go straight to the wheat, allow us to collate and curate a selection of the most notable titles available to stream in July:
“48 Hours” and “Another 48 Hours”
“The Aviator”
“Berberian Sound Studio”
“Broadway Danny Rose”
“The Brothers Bloom”
“Devil’s Pass”
“Dirty Wars”
“Dirty Work”
“‘Don’t Look Now”
“Escape From Alcatraz”
“Finding Neverland”
“Fish Tank”
“Flashdance”
“Gimme the Loot”
“Glory”
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“Hackers”
“Hunger”
“The Hunt for Red October”
“In the Loop”
“Jimmy P”
“Liberal Arts”
“Like Someone in Love”
“The Loneliest Planet”
“Lonesome Jim”
“Manderlay”
“Me and You and Everyone We Know”
“Mommie Dearest”
“Phoenix”
“Rosemary’s Baby”
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“Sightseers”
“Simon Killer...
“48 Hours” and “Another 48 Hours”
“The Aviator”
“Berberian Sound Studio”
“Broadway Danny Rose”
“The Brothers Bloom”
“Devil’s Pass”
“Dirty Wars”
“Dirty Work”
“‘Don’t Look Now”
“Escape From Alcatraz”
“Finding Neverland”
“Fish Tank”
“Flashdance”
“Gimme the Loot”
“Glory”
Read More: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Reed Morano To Direct Elisabeth Moss In The Hulu Series
“Hackers”
“Hunger”
“The Hunt for Red October”
“In the Loop”
“Jimmy P”
“Liberal Arts”
“Like Someone in Love”
“The Loneliest Planet”
“Lonesome Jim”
“Manderlay”
“Me and You and Everyone We Know”
“Mommie Dearest”
“Phoenix”
“Rosemary’s Baby”
Read More: ‘Transparent’ Ratings Lag Behind Rivals on Netflix & Hulu
“Sightseers”
“Simon Killer...
- 6/22/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The jump scare is a uniquely horror movie convention. Where some movies use it as an excuse to play peekaboo and assault you with noise, others use it as a way to shatter your complacency as a viewer. It’s the purest form of scare: something bursts out of a dark corner, a loud noise cuts the tension, or a jolt to the plot comes on so unexpected, you don’t know what hit you. It may just be a momentary fright, but a good horror movie will put you on edge and keep you there.
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Alien (1979)- No blood, no Dallas
Horror purists are of the mind that jumps are cheap, and, for the most part, they are. Yet, in those nerve-wracking scenes, when a director knows exactly what they are doing, it’s riveting. I’ve always prided myself on not being one of those people who gets jumpy during a horror movie,...
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Alien (1979)- No blood, no Dallas
Horror purists are of the mind that jumps are cheap, and, for the most part, they are. Yet, in those nerve-wracking scenes, when a director knows exactly what they are doing, it’s riveting. I’ve always prided myself on not being one of those people who gets jumpy during a horror movie,...
- 10/28/2015
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
On Halloween, the tradition is to indulge in films replete with monsters, zombies, and creatures that go bump in the night. But those types of films don’t always provide the psychological terror cineastes may be craving. International and alternative cinema has always been willing to tread where conventional genre cinema dares not be it in films with strong themes, abrasive tones, or emotional depravity. Halloween can be a time not just to indulge in slimy viscera, but in the general suffering of humanity. These are eleven films whose punishment of the viewer with intense emotions and ideas make them not unlike horror films.
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) / Day of Wrath (1943)
The original king of despair, Carl Dreyer didn’t just gravitate toward miserable material, he embraced it with a technique so perfected, it felt predestined. In The Passion of Joan of Arc, a film consisting almost solely of close-ups,...
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) / Day of Wrath (1943)
The original king of despair, Carl Dreyer didn’t just gravitate toward miserable material, he embraced it with a technique so perfected, it felt predestined. In The Passion of Joan of Arc, a film consisting almost solely of close-ups,...
- 10/3/2015
- by Shane Ramirez
- SoundOnSight
It’s the Limit: Berthaud Escapes into the Great Well Known
Actress turned director Fabienne Berthaud reunites with her favored on-screen counterpart Diane Kruger for her third feature, Sky. Following in the footsteps of several Gallic auteurs by relocating her Euro cast to the desert climes of the American Southwest, superficial comparisons to Guillaume Nicloux’s wildly underrated Valley of Love and Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms (the same locale we begin with here) fade away as Berthaud marches bravely into a problematic and curiously sexist character study. Though the film is compelling, even enigmatic in its first half, utilizing the kookiness of downtown Las Vegas and its denizens, a disappointing pallor overtakes this odyssey of self-discovery to the point where everything begins to seem haphazard and convenient. A mixture of notable cast members, some exceptionally wasted, filter throughout banalities we assume will lead to something more potent than the...
Actress turned director Fabienne Berthaud reunites with her favored on-screen counterpart Diane Kruger for her third feature, Sky. Following in the footsteps of several Gallic auteurs by relocating her Euro cast to the desert climes of the American Southwest, superficial comparisons to Guillaume Nicloux’s wildly underrated Valley of Love and Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms (the same locale we begin with here) fade away as Berthaud marches bravely into a problematic and curiously sexist character study. Though the film is compelling, even enigmatic in its first half, utilizing the kookiness of downtown Las Vegas and its denizens, a disappointing pallor overtakes this odyssey of self-discovery to the point where everything begins to seem haphazard and convenient. A mixture of notable cast members, some exceptionally wasted, filter throughout banalities we assume will lead to something more potent than the...
- 10/2/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Life of Quinquin: Dumont’s Foray into Miniseries Format Filled with His Brand of Peculiar Humor
Provocative auteur Bruno Dumont lets loose his comedic side with a four part miniseries, Li’l Quinquin, shown as one long piece at the Cannes Film Festival. While it apparently will be released in English speaking territories in the same fashion, its purposeful structure does make it seem better served to be viewed in more than one sitting, where its bizarre weirdness has a better chance of really sinking in. But one has to remember that we’re talking about Dumont here, the director who grapples with existential ennui usually through the lens of religious discord or the bleak isolation of rural settings. So the project is indeed the most comedic offering of the director’s oeuvre, following last year’s captivating look at sculptor Camille Claudel starring Juliette Binoche. Yet it’s not...
Provocative auteur Bruno Dumont lets loose his comedic side with a four part miniseries, Li’l Quinquin, shown as one long piece at the Cannes Film Festival. While it apparently will be released in English speaking territories in the same fashion, its purposeful structure does make it seem better served to be viewed in more than one sitting, where its bizarre weirdness has a better chance of really sinking in. But one has to remember that we’re talking about Dumont here, the director who grapples with existential ennui usually through the lens of religious discord or the bleak isolation of rural settings. So the project is indeed the most comedic offering of the director’s oeuvre, following last year’s captivating look at sculptor Camille Claudel starring Juliette Binoche. Yet it’s not...
- 1/1/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The following exchange took place between critics Michael Pattison and Neil Young over email between 4 and 8 August, not long after Li’l Quinquin screened at Wrocław’s New Horizons International Film Festival—following its world-premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and now playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).
Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin
Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...
Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).
Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin
Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...
- 9/10/2014
- by Neil Young
- MUBI
Since 19-year-old Erin Corwin went missing more than four weeks ago, mystery continues to surround her disappearance - even as secrets she may have been keeping from her family are revealed. "We have a responsibility to conduct a thorough investigation to determine if she's a victim of foul play or if she's voluntarily missing," Jodi Miller, spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, tells People. "She has not been located." As the search for Erin continues, questions surround the nature of her relationship with her neighbor, former Marine Cpl. Christopher Lee. Erin and her husband, Marine Cpl. Jon Corwin,...
- 7/30/2014
- by Elaine Aradillas, @elaineja
- PEOPLE.com
Three weeks after her disappearance, police searching for Erin Corwin have checked out various locations near her home in Twentynine Palms, California, for evidence of foul play. "We are looking for a crime scene," says Capt. Leland Bolt from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department. Corwin, 19, who was about three weeks pregnant when she went missing, said good-bye to her husband, U.S. Marine Cpl. Jon Corwin, and left for Joshua Tree National Park at about 7 a.m. on June 28. She never returned. On July 1, four search warrants were approved to search Erin's vehicle and home, and her neighbor, former U.
- 7/24/2014
- by Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
Three weeks after her disappearance, police searching for Erin Corwin have checked out various locations near her home in Twentynine Palms, California, for evidence of foul play. "We are looking for a crime scene," says Capt. Leland Bolt from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department. Corwin, 19, who was about three weeks pregnant when she went missing, said good-bye to her husband, U.S. Marine Cpl. Jon Corwin, and left for Joshua Tree National Park at about 7 a.m. on June 28. She never returned. On July 1, four search warrants were approved to search Erin's vehicle and home, and her neighbor, former U.
- 7/24/2014
- by Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
As the search for a missing Marine wife nears the three-week mark, a witness now says he watched the pregnant Erin Corwin rendezvous and depart with another man from the site where her abandoned vehicle later turned up. Michael Beasley tells San Diego, California, TV station CBS 8 that on the morning of Saturday, June 28, after Corwin left her at home in Twentynine Palms, reportedly for a solo day trip to Joshua Tree National Park, he saw her meet a man, exit and lock her blue Toyota, and then climb into the man's red sedan. "They were just sitting and chatting,...
- 7/18/2014
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
As the search for a missing Marine wife nears the three-week mark, a witness now says he watched the pregnant Erin Corwin rendezvous and depart with another man from the site where her abandoned vehicle later turned up. Michael Beasley tells San Diego, California, TV station CBS 8 that on the morning of Saturday, June 28, after Corwin left her at home in Twentynine Palms, reportedly for a solo day trip to Joshua Tree National Park, he saw her meet a man, exit and lock her blue Toyota, and then climb into the man's red sedan. "They were just sitting and chatting,...
- 7/18/2014
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Erin Corwin was preparing for her mother to visit, and was planning to surprise her with the news that she was two months pregnant. On June 28, while her husband, U.S. Marine Cpl. Jon Corwin, stayed home, Erin, 19, got into her car at about 7 a.m. and drove to Joshua Tree National Park, near her home in Twentynine Palms, California. She was looking for ideas for things to do with her mom. She hasn't been seen since. "Jon kept trying to call her, and figured there was no cell service at the park," says Jon's mother, Sheila Braden. "By the evening,...
- 7/11/2014
- by Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
Erin Corwin was preparing for her mother to visit, and was planning to surprise her with the news that she was two months pregnant. On June 28, while her husband, U.S. Marine Cpl. Jon Corwin, stayed home, Erin, 19, got into her car at about 7 a.m. and drove to Joshua Tree National Park, near her home in Twentynine Palms, California. She was looking for ideas for things to do with her mom. She hasn't been seen since. "Jon kept trying to call her, and figured there was no cell service at the park," says Jon's mother, Sheila Braden. "By the evening,...
- 7/11/2014
- by Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
A distraught mother feels like she's "walking in a nightmare" while authorities search for her pregnant 19-year-old daughter, Erin Corwin, who has been missing since Saturday and whose disappearance could be linked to foul play. Corwin, a quiet Tennessee native who volunteers at a horse shelter, was last seen leaving her Twentynine Palms, California, home Saturday morning and was believed to be headed to nearby Joshua Tree National Park for a day trip in advance of her mother's upcoming visit, reports Kesq in Palm Springs. Her husband, Marine corporal Jonathan Wayne Corwin, reported her missing on Sunday when she did...
- 7/3/2014
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd
- PEOPLE.com
TV host Huell Howser famously exposed California with bug-eyed wonder, but kept one little piece of it to himself -- his desert hideway ... which just hit the market one year after his death.Real estates sources tell us ... Howser's bachelor pad in Twentynine Palms just went on the market ... for $395K. Huell died from cancer in Jan. 2013 ... and his Estate stands to make some good cash off the sale of the 2 Br, 2.5 BA ranch home.
- 2/12/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
An abiding presence at the Cannes Film Festival, where he has twice won the Grand Prix, French writer-director Bruno Dumont (Flanders) is arguably one of the most celebrated and least understood auteurs of the contemporary European film scene. Hailed as a neo-Bressonian wunderkind for his remarkable debut Life of Jesus (1997), a portrait of grinding life among provincial French youth, the onetime philosophy teacher returned two years later with Humanité, an opaque detective story that baffled many observers and even incensed some of Dumont’s staunchest champions. Subsequent films, the notoriously carnal Twentynine Palms (2003)— a kind of metaphysical horror exercise …...
- 1/17/2013
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Entering its second year, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look series provides a strong, welcome antidote to the generally anemic cinematic landscape that is January. Its eclectic selection of undistributed features and shorts, programmed by Dennis Lim, Rachael Rakes, and David Schwartz, occasions an invigorating mixture of moods and approaches from established as well as emerging directors. It’s indicative of the series’ dedication to distinctive, often divisive cinematic voices that Bruno Dumont’s decidedly non-crowd-pleasing Hors Satan was chosen as the opening night film nearly two years following its Cannes premiere.
Whereas earlier films like Twentynine Palms or Hadewijch pushed the French director’s worldview in new directions, Hors Satan sits solidly in Dumont’s comfort zone, down to the cryptically religious title that links it to his debut, The Life of Jesus. His protagonist is a drifter with a scruffy, narrow face like Pasolini’s proletarian Christ,...
Whereas earlier films like Twentynine Palms or Hadewijch pushed the French director’s worldview in new directions, Hors Satan sits solidly in Dumont’s comfort zone, down to the cryptically religious title that links it to his debut, The Life of Jesus. His protagonist is a drifter with a scruffy, narrow face like Pasolini’s proletarian Christ,...
- 1/11/2013
- by Fernando F. Croce
- MUBI
After a successful career as a screenwriter, Alcatraz showrunner Daniel Pyne returned to his youthful ambition to become a novelist, and has found success with his first two books, 2010’s Twentynine Palms and the just published A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar. Photos: 17 New Shows Premiering in 2012 Pyne’s writing credits range from episodes of Miami Vice to the screenplays for Doc Hollywood and the Manchurian Candidate remake. But in 2010, Pyne published Twentynine Palms, his first novel, to strong reviews. He has followed it up this month with the equally accomplished A Hole in the
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- 2/6/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Halloween, the tradition is to indulge in films replete with monsters, zombies, and creatures that go bump in the night. But those types of films don’t always provide the psychological terror cineastes may be craving. International and alternative cinema has always been willing to tread where conventional genre cinema dares not be it in films with strong themes, abrasive tones, or emotional depravity. Halloween can be a time not just to indulge in slimy viscera, but in the general suffering of humanity. These are eleven films whose punishment of the viewer with intense emotions and ideas make them not unlike horror films.
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) / Day of Wrath (1943)
The original king of despair, Carl Dreyer didn’t just gravitate toward miserable material, he embraced it with a technique so perfected, it felt predestined. In The Passion of Joan of Arc, a film consisting almost solely of close-ups,...
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) / Day of Wrath (1943)
The original king of despair, Carl Dreyer didn’t just gravitate toward miserable material, he embraced it with a technique so perfected, it felt predestined. In The Passion of Joan of Arc, a film consisting almost solely of close-ups,...
- 10/30/2011
- by Shane Ramirez
- SoundOnSight
Libération, France Soir and Les Inrocks are among the news outlets reporting that the Russian-born actress Yekaterina Golubeva, best known for performing alongside the late Guillaume Depardieu in Léos Carax's Pola X (1999), has died at the age of 44. She'll be also be remembered for her performances in Claire Denis's I Can't Sleep (1994) and The Intruder (2004) and Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms (2002).
A mother of three, Golubeva also appeared in Three Days (1991) and Few of Us (1996), both films directed by her Lithuanian husband, Sharunas Bartas. Her funeral is to be held on Saturday morning at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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A mother of three, Golubeva also appeared in Three Days (1991) and Few of Us (1996), both films directed by her Lithuanian husband, Sharunas Bartas. Her funeral is to be held on Saturday morning at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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- 8/18/2011
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"French director Bruno Dumont may not make religious films as such — perhaps it’s truer to say, theological ones." Jonathan Romney for Screen: "Certainly, he makes films in which the big questions are invoked, but in ways less explicitly religious than obliquely metaphysical. In his sixth feature Outside Satan (Hors Satan), he seems to present a very ambivalent Jesus figure. Yet, until he pulls his big dramatic twist at the end, Dumont's drama is grounded in everyday concrete reality. Lead actors who initially seem uncommunicative, even unappealing, prove idiosyncratically compelling in a film that sees Dumont stripping his style to the bones, with echoes of his 1997 debut The Life of Jesus."
Rob Nelson for Variety: "Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure, Dumont's minimalist study of an oddball poacher and the farm girl who keeps him company contains only a dozen 'dramatic' events, but they all register indelibly,...
"French director Bruno Dumont may not make religious films as such — perhaps it’s truer to say, theological ones." Jonathan Romney for Screen: "Certainly, he makes films in which the big questions are invoked, but in ways less explicitly religious than obliquely metaphysical. In his sixth feature Outside Satan (Hors Satan), he seems to present a very ambivalent Jesus figure. Yet, until he pulls his big dramatic twist at the end, Dumont's drama is grounded in everyday concrete reality. Lead actors who initially seem uncommunicative, even unappealing, prove idiosyncratically compelling in a film that sees Dumont stripping his style to the bones, with echoes of his 1997 debut The Life of Jesus."
Rob Nelson for Variety: "Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure, Dumont's minimalist study of an oddball poacher and the farm girl who keeps him company contains only a dozen 'dramatic' events, but they all register indelibly,...
- 5/19/2011
- MUBI
I'll admit it. The only reason I took a first look at this trailer for Bruno Dumont's Outside Satan was because of the title. I can't help myself ok?
It's an interesting trailer, one that doesn.t tell you anything about the plot and looks more like a non-descript two minute clip from the film but digging around the Cannes website, I did find this plot synopsis:
By the Channel, along the Côte d'Opale, near a hamlet with river and marshland, lives a strange guy who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires.
A girl from a local farm takes care of him and feeds him. They spend time together in the wide scenery of dunes and woods, mysteriously engaging in private prayer at the edge of the ponds, where the devil is prowling...
It still doesn't make a whole lot of sense but Ok, it looks interesting and...
It's an interesting trailer, one that doesn.t tell you anything about the plot and looks more like a non-descript two minute clip from the film but digging around the Cannes website, I did find this plot synopsis:
By the Channel, along the Côte d'Opale, near a hamlet with river and marshland, lives a strange guy who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires.
A girl from a local farm takes care of him and feeds him. They spend time together in the wide scenery of dunes and woods, mysteriously engaging in private prayer at the edge of the ponds, where the devil is prowling...
It still doesn't make a whole lot of sense but Ok, it looks interesting and...
- 5/10/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Quentin Dupieux has directed what could be the coolest and most bizarre film ever made. Rubber is the story of a car tyre coming to life and ‘roaming the bleak landscape’ of a Us desert. Oh and it’s got telepathic powers which means it can blow shit up at will. Do you want to see it yet?
The film is released in April on Blu-ray and DVD along with several special screenings around the UK. Is Rubber destined to become a cult classic? We hope so! Check out the Us trailer and revel in the genius and sheer lunacy! French actress Roxane Mesquida is in this too! Judging from the trailer it looks like Bruno Dumont’s TwentyNine Palms via the music video by Hammer and Tongs for Blur’s Coffee and T.V. track… or something like that.
Synopsis:
Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire...
The film is released in April on Blu-ray and DVD along with several special screenings around the UK. Is Rubber destined to become a cult classic? We hope so! Check out the Us trailer and revel in the genius and sheer lunacy! French actress Roxane Mesquida is in this too! Judging from the trailer it looks like Bruno Dumont’s TwentyNine Palms via the music video by Hammer and Tongs for Blur’s Coffee and T.V. track… or something like that.
Synopsis:
Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire...
- 3/3/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
A former philosophy professor, 52-year-old writer-director Bruno Dumont got his start making commercial films in the ’80s, eventually penning a novel that served as the basis for his extraordinary 1996 debut La Vie de Jesus. Filmed in the tiny provincial hamlet of Bailleul, France, where Dumont grew up, this story of a listless gang of moped-riding teens has nothing at all to do with the Gospels: it is an oblique title for a movie that begins and ends with a death, and whose epileptic protagonist is an odd-looking, hauntingly inexpressive adolescent. Humanité, which won the Grand Prix at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, mined a similar Bressonian aesthetic, scrutinizing an introverted, socially inept policeman who empathizes with a litter of pigs and accused criminals. Unlike his other films, which took years to complete, Twentynine Palms (2003) was conceived on the fly while Dumont was scouting locations in California, and the emphasis on mood...
- 1/3/2011
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Chicago – We have now reached the fourth and final week of the 13th Annual European Union Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center, and what a fantastic festival it has been. From international sensations to critically acclaimed gems rarely available in the Us, the EU annual line-up is consistently one of the finest offered by any festival in the Windy City.
The first three weeks were loaded with highlights that just seemed to get better as the days progressed. Some of the selections, such as Austria’s diabolical delight “The Bone Man” and the Netherlands’ beguiling documentary “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse,” were more entertaining than the majority of mainstream Hollywood releases. Both France and Italy had several exceptional entries this year, including Amos Gitai’s spellbinding “Disengagement” and Luca Guadagnino’s ravishing “I Am Love.” Read more here, here and here.
The final week is somewhat of a letdown in comparison,...
The first three weeks were loaded with highlights that just seemed to get better as the days progressed. Some of the selections, such as Austria’s diabolical delight “The Bone Man” and the Netherlands’ beguiling documentary “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse,” were more entertaining than the majority of mainstream Hollywood releases. Both France and Italy had several exceptional entries this year, including Amos Gitai’s spellbinding “Disengagement” and Luca Guadagnino’s ravishing “I Am Love.” Read more here, here and here.
The final week is somewhat of a letdown in comparison,...
- 3/25/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
After a moment of reprieve in 2009's Hadewijch, it looks as if Bruno Dumont will was again explore the nastier side of the human species with a film that will be featured in the backdrop of the sand dunes of Pas de Calais, France -- which appears to be the northern region above Normandy. - After a moment of reprieve in 2009's Hadewijch, it looks as if Bruno Dumont will was again explore the nastier side of the human species with a film that will be featured in the backdrop of the sand dunes of Pas de Calais, France -- which appears to be the northern region above Normandy. L'Empire, Dumont's sixth film, sees a strange man nestled in near the river and in marshes, where he poaches, prays, and lights fires. He is close to a farmer’s daughter who looks after him and feeds him. By murdering the girl’s father,...
- 3/9/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Following in the grand tradition of austere European filmmakers, Bruno Dumont gives religious faith quite a workout in his new film, “Hadewijch.” Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone who’s followed Dumont’s career. One of French cinema’s most illustrious provocateurs, moving rather swiftly from contentious Cannes-winning enfant terrible (when his “Humanite” won three awards in 1999, including for his non-actor actors) to loathed international auteur (“Twentynine Palms”), while …...
- 9/12/2009
- Indiewire
- Out of the second wave of film titles (read here) announced for the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, it's the inclusion of Bruno Dumont's Hadewijch that would be the top of my must see list and this coming from the filmmaker whose 2004 film Twentynine Palms almost made me vomit. I'm always fascinated by elliptical form, so despite the negative previous experience I'm curious about artists/filmmakers such as Dumont. I was thinking that Hadewijch was set for Cannes (Flanders was showcased and won the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2006) and now I'm perplexed as to why the film is receiving a world premiere not in Venice, but non-competitive Toronto? The film is about a religious novice (Julie Sokolowski) whose ecstatic, blind faith leads to her expulsion from a convent. Returning to her former life, Hadewijch reverts to being Céline, a Parisienne and daughter of a diplomat. However, her passion for God,
- 7/16/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Military bases are often in isolated or disaster-ridden locations, which makes them ideal candidates for microgrids, or self-contained power grids. Ge is capitalizing on the military's need for reliable power in all circumstances with a smart microgrid demo project at the world's largest Marine Corps base, Twentynine Palms Base in Southern California. The project is being completed thanks to a $2 million boost from Department of Defense stimulus funds.
Unlike Ge's civilian smart grid endeavors, Twentynine Palms won't use the company's smart meters and energy management systems. Instead, Ge is developing new software and using microgrid controllers in the Twentynine Palms project to efficiently manage renewable energy sources and energy storage devices. The software will keep Twentynine Palms connected to the larger power grid, but will also allow the base to seamlessly disconnect if necessary. According to Ge, the technology being developed for the California base will be scaleable to other bases around the world.
Unlike Ge's civilian smart grid endeavors, Twentynine Palms won't use the company's smart meters and energy management systems. Instead, Ge is developing new software and using microgrid controllers in the Twentynine Palms project to efficiently manage renewable energy sources and energy storage devices. The software will keep Twentynine Palms connected to the larger power grid, but will also allow the base to seamlessly disconnect if necessary. According to Ge, the technology being developed for the California base will be scaleable to other bases around the world.
- 7/8/2009
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The 36th Auckland International Film Festival opens Friday under threat of legal action that could stop the screening of two of its more than 130 features, Anatomy of Hell and Twentynine Palms. Although the New Zealand film censor has already approved both French movies as suitable for filmgoers 18 years old and older, the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards is appealing the decisions. In its submission to the Film and Literature Board of Review, the Society said Anatomy of Hell contained violence and dehumanizing sexual content that is "injurious to the public good" because it demeans women and promotes misogyny.
Indie film distribution unit Wellspring is coming aboard French writer-director Bruno Dumont's upcoming 29 Palms as the film's co-producer and U.S. distributor. Starring Katerina Golubeva (Pola X), Palms centers on a young couple scouting photo locations in Southern California's Joshua Tree National Park whose lives are shattered by a shocking confrontation in the desert. The film is being shot in English and French. Wellspring rolled out Dumont's Life of Jesus and Humanite, both of which screened at the Festival de Cannes. Wellspring said that Palms, in production, will be ready as a Cannes entry this year and that the company will roll out the project next year. Palms is being made through the 3-B Prods. and Thoke Moebius shingles, with Canal Plus and Flach Pyramide International also co-producing. The deal was brokered by Wellspring's Krysanne Katsoolis and Marie Therese Guirgis, with 3-B's Jean Brehat.
- 2/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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