French writer-director Sophie Fillières, who tragically died last year from cancer at the age of 58, was no stranger to depicting manic situations on screen.
Her genre of choice was comedy, and in films like Gentille (2005), Pardon My French (2009) and When Margaux Meets Margaux (2018), she used the prism of humor to portray women going through major personal crises, whether involving their turbulent love lives or the excorcism of their own inner demons. Fillières’ chatty, messy, offbeat movies played like darker Parisian takes on the films of Woody Allen, and they would inspire a generation of younger female auteurs like Justine Triet, whose Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall Fillières played a small role in.
A major personal crisis is what guides the director’s final feature, This Life of Mine (Ma Vie Ma Gueule), which stars Agnès Jaoui as a writer combatting her mental illness with plenty of wit and a fair amount of gravitas.
Her genre of choice was comedy, and in films like Gentille (2005), Pardon My French (2009) and When Margaux Meets Margaux (2018), she used the prism of humor to portray women going through major personal crises, whether involving their turbulent love lives or the excorcism of their own inner demons. Fillières’ chatty, messy, offbeat movies played like darker Parisian takes on the films of Woody Allen, and they would inspire a generation of younger female auteurs like Justine Triet, whose Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall Fillières played a small role in.
A major personal crisis is what guides the director’s final feature, This Life of Mine (Ma Vie Ma Gueule), which stars Agnès Jaoui as a writer combatting her mental illness with plenty of wit and a fair amount of gravitas.
- 5/15/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Agnès Jaoui in This Life Of Mine to be screened as the opening film in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Photo: The Party Film Sales Sophie Fillières who died last year at the age of 58, left behind a 'very intimate self-portrait, to which Agnès Jaoui lends body and soul' Photo: Photo Unifrance A respected French female filmmaker who died last year, will have her final film This Life of Mine screened in the opening slot on May 15 of the 77th edition of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
Sophie Fillières managed to shoot the film last summer before her untimely death at the age of 58. The film titled in French Ma Vie, Ma Gueule, was finished by members of her family who include her partner, the filmmaker Pascal Bonitzer.
The film follows a middle-aged woman who travels to the Scottish Highlands to escape the harsh realities of her life and stars Agnès Jaoui,...
Sophie Fillières managed to shoot the film last summer before her untimely death at the age of 58. The film titled in French Ma Vie, Ma Gueule, was finished by members of her family who include her partner, the filmmaker Pascal Bonitzer.
The film follows a middle-aged woman who travels to the Scottish Highlands to escape the harsh realities of her life and stars Agnès Jaoui,...
- 4/16/2024
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled the selection for its 56th edition heavy on films from first-time US filmmakers, South American titles, and talent including Isabelle Huppert, Michael Cera and Agnès Jaoui.
Artistic director Julien Rejl revealed the line-up at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday (April 16) for the Cannes parallel section run by French directors guild the Srf.
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After undergoing a complete rebranding for last year’s edition complete with new artistic director Rejl and a new more inclusive female-forward name in French to La Quinzaine des Cinéastes, this year’s selection includes eight...
Artistic director Julien Rejl revealed the line-up at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday (April 16) for the Cannes parallel section run by French directors guild the Srf.
Scroll down for the full selection
After undergoing a complete rebranding for last year’s edition complete with new artistic director Rejl and a new more inclusive female-forward name in French to La Quinzaine des Cinéastes, this year’s selection includes eight...
- 4/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – The great food movies of cinema history … think “Babette’s Feast” or “Big Night” … use food prep cinematically as a palette for the senses. A French/Belgium film from last year continues that tradition. “The Taste of Things,” featuring Oscar winner Juliette Binoche and written/directed by Ahn Hung Tran, is set in late 19th Century France within a romance between a chef and his muse.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Adapted from a popular French novel featuring Chef Dodin Bouffant (Benoit Magimel), and set in 1889, the story involves the developing love affair between Bouffant and his vital taster and sous chef Eugenie (Juliette Binoche). As Bouffant’s reputation grows, to a point where ambassadors and kings desire his meals, Eugenie continues to be his muse. Right at the height of their love and food creative relationship, Eugenie’s health becomes an obstacle.
Ahn Hung Tran and Benoit Magimel on the set of ‘The...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Adapted from a popular French novel featuring Chef Dodin Bouffant (Benoit Magimel), and set in 1889, the story involves the developing love affair between Bouffant and his vital taster and sous chef Eugenie (Juliette Binoche). As Bouffant’s reputation grows, to a point where ambassadors and kings desire his meals, Eugenie continues to be his muse. Right at the height of their love and food creative relationship, Eugenie’s health becomes an obstacle.
Ahn Hung Tran and Benoit Magimel on the set of ‘The...
- 3/26/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Clockwise from bottom left: Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton in Lisa Frankenstein, Jennifer Lopez in This Is Me ... Now, Orion And The Dark, Margaret Qualley in Drive-Away Dolls, and Chip in ArgyllePhoto: Prime, Focus Features, Universal Pictures, Netflix
January may be in the rearview, but movie theaters are still...
January may be in the rearview, but movie theaters are still...
- 1/31/2024
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
Paris-based sales company is kicking off sales for the projects at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris this week
Paris-based sales company The Party has added an eclectic blend of new titles to its 2024 line-up including Sophie Fillières’ posthumous This Life of Mine, Oscar nominated Four Daughters director Kaouther Ben Hania’s next film and a Franco-Vietnamese musical comedy.
The Party is kicking off sales at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris this week for Fillières’ seventh feature, the comedy drama This Life Of Mine.
Fillières died in July 2023, at age 58, shortly after completing filming - sending shockwaves through the French film industry.
Paris-based sales company The Party has added an eclectic blend of new titles to its 2024 line-up including Sophie Fillières’ posthumous This Life of Mine, Oscar nominated Four Daughters director Kaouther Ben Hania’s next film and a Franco-Vietnamese musical comedy.
The Party is kicking off sales at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris this week for Fillières’ seventh feature, the comedy drama This Life Of Mine.
Fillières died in July 2023, at age 58, shortly after completing filming - sending shockwaves through the French film industry.
- 1/16/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Samuel Theis, a French actor-director known for starring in this year’s “Anatomy of a Fall” as the husband to Sandra Hüller’s character, has been accused of sexual assault by a crew member on his new film, a French production called “Je le jure” (“I Swear”).
According to a report in Libération from January 5 (via Screen Daily), the crew member accused Theis of raping him at a party last summer when the alleged victim was too drunk to consent. The alleged incident took place in Metz, France at an apartment rented for the production.
Theis told the publication the encounter was consensual, and his lawyer told Libération he has not been charged with any crime to date. The crew member quit the production immediately after the alleged assault.
Post-production is continuing on “I Swear,” but according to Libération, the production company Avenue B has forced Theis to complete the project remotely away from crew,...
According to a report in Libération from January 5 (via Screen Daily), the crew member accused Theis of raping him at a party last summer when the alleged victim was too drunk to consent. The alleged incident took place in Metz, France at an apartment rented for the production.
Theis told the publication the encounter was consensual, and his lawyer told Libération he has not been charged with any crime to date. The crew member quit the production immediately after the alleged assault.
Post-production is continuing on “I Swear,” but according to Libération, the production company Avenue B has forced Theis to complete the project remotely away from crew,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
The alleged rape took place during production of Theis’ Je Le Jure last summer.
Samuel Theis, the French co-star of Justine Triet’s awards season hopeful Anatomy Of A Fall has been accused of rape by a crew member on his upcoming directorial feature Je Le Jure and has been forced to continue directing from a remote location, according to a report in France’s Liberation newspaper on January 5.
The alleged rape occurred last summer at a party where the crew member said they were too inebriated to consent to a sexual encounter with Theis in an apartment rented by the production in Metz,...
Samuel Theis, the French co-star of Justine Triet’s awards season hopeful Anatomy Of A Fall has been accused of rape by a crew member on his upcoming directorial feature Je Le Jure and has been forced to continue directing from a remote location, according to a report in France’s Liberation newspaper on January 5.
The alleged rape occurred last summer at a party where the crew member said they were too inebriated to consent to a sexual encounter with Theis in an apartment rented by the production in Metz,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The alleged rape took place during production of Theis’ Je Le Jure last summer.
Samuel Theis, the French co-star of Justine Triet’s awards season hopeful Anatomy Of A Fall has been accused of rape by a crew member on his upcoming directorial feature Je Le Jure and has been forced to continue directing from a remote location, according to a report in France’s Liberation newspaper on January 5.
The alleged rape occurred last summer at a party where the crew member said they were too inebriated to consent to a sexual encounter with Theis in an apartment rented by the production in Metz,...
Samuel Theis, the French co-star of Justine Triet’s awards season hopeful Anatomy Of A Fall has been accused of rape by a crew member on his upcoming directorial feature Je Le Jure and has been forced to continue directing from a remote location, according to a report in France’s Liberation newspaper on January 5.
The alleged rape occurred last summer at a party where the crew member said they were too inebriated to consent to a sexual encounter with Theis in an apartment rented by the production in Metz,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Rotten Tomatoes and the Academy Awards don’t often go hand in hand. In fact, the Rt scores of Best Picture nominees/winners are a mixed bag. “Parasite” won Best Picture with a Rt score of 99% while “Green Book” emerged victorious with a score of just 77%. The site dishes out percentage scores to movie’s based on the film’s collection of critical reviews. The higher the score, the better the movie. Supposedly.
But, that’s not how it always work in tandem with the Oscars. For instance, “Black Panther,” “BlacKkKlansman,” and “Roma” all scored 96% but lost Best Picture to “Green Book.” Perhaps, if the Oscars listened to Rotten Tomatoes more, things would go a little more smoothly? Probably not but, just for fun, let’s pretend that Rotten Tomatoes are in charge of this year’s Academy Awards.
With that in mind, here are the 10 Best Picture nominees the...
But, that’s not how it always work in tandem with the Oscars. For instance, “Black Panther,” “BlacKkKlansman,” and “Roma” all scored 96% but lost Best Picture to “Green Book.” Perhaps, if the Oscars listened to Rotten Tomatoes more, things would go a little more smoothly? Probably not but, just for fun, let’s pretend that Rotten Tomatoes are in charge of this year’s Academy Awards.
With that in mind, here are the 10 Best Picture nominees the...
- 12/27/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Tran Anh Hung’s The Taste of Things is almost halfway done before it even hints that there’s something going on within its fin-de-siècle setting besides the creation and consumption of beautiful meals. The film’s first half hour is in fact just that, with Eugénie (Juliette Binoche), a veteran cook in the manor home of Dodin (Benoît Magimel), the epicure for whom she’s been working for over 20 years, making an extravagant, multi-course meal for him and his friends. The men eat the food, then compliment Eugénie on her cooking.
Given the close yet unfussy attention paid to the choreography of cooking, with Jonathan Ricquebourg’s camera flowing sinuously through the kitchen and peeking into pots as ingredients are added and steam billows out, it would have been satisfying if Hung had just concluded the film with well-fed Frenchmen chatting over a digestif. Fortunately, he’s interested not...
Given the close yet unfussy attention paid to the choreography of cooking, with Jonathan Ricquebourg’s camera flowing sinuously through the kitchen and peeking into pots as ingredients are added and steam billows out, it would have been satisfying if Hung had just concluded the film with well-fed Frenchmen chatting over a digestif. Fortunately, he’s interested not...
- 11/29/2023
- by Chris Barsanti
- Slant Magazine
The Cineuropa folks confirm that production on Sophie Fillières‘ seventh feature film is now complete (production took place in Scotland) – which means we’ll be aiming for a 2024 major film festival release. Fillières has been to Berlinale, Locarno and TIFF with her previous features. Among the cast in Ma vie ma gueule we find Agnès Jaoui, Philippe Katerine, Édouard Sulpice, Angelina Woreth, Emmanuel Salinger and filmmaker-actress Valérie Donzelli. Mother to actress Agathe Bonitzer, Fillières’ last film was La belle et la belle which starred Bonitzer, Sandrine Kiberlain and Melvil Poupaud.
Here is the synopsis from the Cineuropa folks:
This revolves around Barberie Bichette who’s also known as Barbie, and much to her dismay, she might have been beautiful, loved, a good mother to her children, a trustworthy colleague and a great lover, but now her life can be sombre, brutal, and often absurd, and it feels very strange for...
Here is the synopsis from the Cineuropa folks:
This revolves around Barberie Bichette who’s also known as Barbie, and much to her dismay, she might have been beautiful, loved, a good mother to her children, a trustworthy colleague and a great lover, but now her life can be sombre, brutal, and often absurd, and it feels very strange for...
- 7/18/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Last time Benoît Magimel appeared in the Cannes competition, a vision in Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, he played a foreign diplomat who stalked an island of French Polynesia like a trashy king. If Serra’s otherworldy film told a cautionary tale about feckless Euro-decadence, Magimel’s latest is more like a revelry. Adapted from Marcel Rouf’s 1924 novel The Passionate Epicure, The Pot-au-Feu is a film about the pleasures of preparing food and consuming it, the idea of cooking as an act of giving and even of love––if a leitmotif exists in this film’s script, it is the sigh of ecstasy.
The Pot-au-Feu is directed by Tran Anh Hung, a Vietnamese filmmaker who broke out at Cannes in 1993 with The Smell of Green Papaya. For Pot-au-Feu, Magimel stars as Dodin Bouffant, a restaurant owner and famed gourmet––or, as one character christens him, “the Napoleon of the culinary...
The Pot-au-Feu is directed by Tran Anh Hung, a Vietnamese filmmaker who broke out at Cannes in 1993 with The Smell of Green Papaya. For Pot-au-Feu, Magimel stars as Dodin Bouffant, a restaurant owner and famed gourmet––or, as one character christens him, “the Napoleon of the culinary...
- 6/20/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
There’s food porn, which shows like Chef’s Table and Top Chef, not to mention last year’s horror hit movie The Menu, have turned into widely popular entertainment. And then there’s art house food porn, a subgenre that possibly dates back to Marco Ferreri’s 1973 satire La Grande Bouffe, and whose other examples include Babette’s Feast, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Tampopo, Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate. The latter films tend to be made in a language other than English, and they’re less about chefs competing for Michelin stars, or glowing reviews from Pete Wells, than about food as a way of life.
Where else but France, then, as the setting for the latest, and certainly one of the most appetizing, art house food porn flicks to come along in a while? Tràn Anh Hùng’s The Pot-au-Feu (La Passion du Dodin-Bouffant) is...
Where else but France, then, as the setting for the latest, and certainly one of the most appetizing, art house food porn flicks to come along in a while? Tràn Anh Hùng’s The Pot-au-Feu (La Passion du Dodin-Bouffant) is...
- 5/24/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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In what has to be a film festival first, two of the actors in Rebecca Zlotowski’s new drama Other People’s Children, Roschdy Zem and Frederick Wiseman, have their own movies — Zem-directed Our Time and Wiseman’s Un couple — in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year.
It’s Zlotowski’s second trip to the Lido after Planetarium starring Natalie Portman, Emmanuel Salinger and Lily-Rose Depp premiered in Venice in 2016. That opulent period drama, featuring Portman and Depp as a pair of sisters and spiritual mediums touring 1930s France, was a departure for Zlotowski, who won critical praise in France and on the international circuit with her first two features: Belle Epine (2010) and Grand Central (2013), both starring Lea Seydoux.
Other People’s Children features Benedetta star Virginie Efira as Rachel, a 40-something childless school teacher (her gynecologist, played by Wiseman, keeps reminding...
In what has to be a film festival first, two of the actors in Rebecca Zlotowski’s new drama Other People’s Children, Roschdy Zem and Frederick Wiseman, have their own movies — Zem-directed Our Time and Wiseman’s Un couple — in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year.
It’s Zlotowski’s second trip to the Lido after Planetarium starring Natalie Portman, Emmanuel Salinger and Lily-Rose Depp premiered in Venice in 2016. That opulent period drama, featuring Portman and Depp as a pair of sisters and spiritual mediums touring 1930s France, was a departure for Zlotowski, who won critical praise in France and on the international circuit with her first two features: Belle Epine (2010) and Grand Central (2013), both starring Lea Seydoux.
Other People’s Children features Benedetta star Virginie Efira as Rachel, a 40-something childless school teacher (her gynecologist, played by Wiseman, keeps reminding...
- 9/1/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Today is a good day for fans of crime dramas as Netflix just renewed Narcos Mexico for a third season. The series, which was conceived as both a spiritual successor and a sequel to the original Narcos, sports an admirable 88% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating audiences will be happy to see it return to the small screen for yet another round of drug trading.
The show first aired on Netflix back in 2018. Starring Michael Peña alongside Diego Luna, Tenoch Huerta Mejía and Alyssa Diaz, it centers on the illegal drug trade in Mexico during the origin of the modern day War on Drugs. Tension arises from economic and personal conflict between various cartels, as well as the government forces trying to apprehend them.
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The show first aired on Netflix back in 2018. Starring Michael Peña alongside Diego Luna, Tenoch Huerta Mejía and Alyssa Diaz, it centers on the illegal drug trade in Mexico during the origin of the modern day War on Drugs. Tension arises from economic and personal conflict between various cartels, as well as the government forces trying to apprehend them.
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- 7/26/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
Barbara Sukowa stars in Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt, shot by Caroline Champetier Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The French Institute Alliance Française in New York is set to honour Caroline Champetier this fall with a CinéSalon eight film retrospective, curated by Delphine Selles-Alvarez and the famed cinematographer herself.
Caroline Champetier: Shaping The Light kicks off on September 19 with Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods And Men (Des Hommes Et Des Dieux), starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Other highlights include Arnaud Desplechin's La Sentinelle (Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard); Chantal Akerman's Toute Une nuit (Aurore Clément, Natalia Akerman, Paul Allio); Jean-Luc Godard's Grandeur Et Décadence D'Un Petit Commerce De Cinéma with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie Valera, Jean-Pierre Mocky and Caroline Champetier.
Holy Motors director Leos Carax Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Following screenings of Anne Fontaine's The Innocents (Les Innocentes) and Leos Carax's Holy Motors, Caroline Champetier...
The French Institute Alliance Française in New York is set to honour Caroline Champetier this fall with a CinéSalon eight film retrospective, curated by Delphine Selles-Alvarez and the famed cinematographer herself.
Caroline Champetier: Shaping The Light kicks off on September 19 with Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods And Men (Des Hommes Et Des Dieux), starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Other highlights include Arnaud Desplechin's La Sentinelle (Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard); Chantal Akerman's Toute Une nuit (Aurore Clément, Natalia Akerman, Paul Allio); Jean-Luc Godard's Grandeur Et Décadence D'Un Petit Commerce De Cinéma with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie Valera, Jean-Pierre Mocky and Caroline Champetier.
Holy Motors director Leos Carax Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Following screenings of Anne Fontaine's The Innocents (Les Innocentes) and Leos Carax's Holy Motors, Caroline Champetier...
- 8/11/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Numerous potentially interesting ideas orbit one another in Planetarium, but none boasts sufficient gravity to merit a landing, it seems. Set in 1930s France, the film begins intriguingly enough, introducing Laura (Natalie Portman) and her much younger sister, Kate (Lily-Rose Depp), as they perform a public séance for a large paying audience. Kate makes contact with the spirits, while Laura orchestrates the human drama (accompanied by a bongo drummer, for some reason); initially, it’s unclear whether they’re con artists or we’re meant to accept Kate’s gift at face value. Certainly, wealthy film producer André Korben (Emmanuel Salinger, the star of Arnaud Desplechin’s early films) believes them, as he first arranges a private séance, then invites the two women to live with him, then arranges to have them star in one of his movies, more or less as themselves, hoping to actually capture a ghostly image...
- 8/9/2017
- by Mike D'Angelo
- avclub.com
"Things are so different since you came into my life." Vision Films has unveiled a new official Us trailer for the release of the French film Planetarium, which premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals last fall. Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp star as sisters in Paris in the 1930s who have the mysterious supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. The two of them start to put on performances in the city and make films, but end up in some other trouble. The full cast includes Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, and Louis Garrel. I'm not so sure about this, as I never heard anyone raving about it, there doesn't seem to be much good buzz. It looks intriguing, but also kind of all over the place. Take a look. Here's the new official Us trailer (+ poster) for Rebecca Zlotowski's Planetarium, direct from YouTube: Follows the journey...
- 7/17/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Eric Rohmer's Triple Agent (2004) is showing January 11 - February 9, 2017.Eric Rohmer’s penultimate feature, Triple Agent, is relatively neglected within his oeuvre. Released in 2004, one hardly ever sees it among best-of-00s or even best-of-2004 lists, even though it is certainly one of the great director’s most fascinating and remarkable films.Based on a true story, Triple Agent focuses on an expatriate couple living in late 1930s Paris, right before the outbreak of the Second World War. The husband, Gen. Fyodor Voronin (Serge Renko), is an ex-White Army officer exiled from Russia, working at a White Army veterans organization. The wife, Arsinoé (Katerina Didaskalou) is a painter, originally from Greece, who concerns herself mostly with her art. The two are lovingly devoted to one another, but the election of the Front populaire, a communist-leaning political group in France,...
- 1/13/2017
- MUBI
Lily-Rose Depp's acting career might still be in its infancy, but she's already earning herself plenty of street cred on set. The young star and 17-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp recently sat down with People to talk about her new film Planetarium at the Toronto International Film Festival. Seated alongside her costars, Natalie Portman, Amira Casar and Emmanuel Salinger, Depp recalled her craziest experience filming the French-Belgian drama, which screened over the weekend at the festival. "It was a night shoot and we had all this fake snow and everything, but it was really fun and memorable for sure,...
- 9/12/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Lily-Rose Depp's acting career might still be in its infancy, but she's already earning herself plenty of street cred on set. The young star and 17-year-old daughter of Johnny Depp, recently sat down with People / EW / InStyle to talk about her new film Planetarium at the Toronto International Film Festival. Seated alongside her costars, Natalie Portman, Amira Casar and Emmanuel Salinger, Depp recalled her craziest experience filming the French-Belgian drama, which screened over the weekend at the festival. "It was a night shoot and we had all this fake snow and everything but it was really fun and memorable for sure,...
- 9/12/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp's festival world tour made its latest stop at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday night for the premiere of their new film, Planetarium. The actresses, who play sisters in the film, have been on a globetrotting promotional tour after screening Planetarium just days ago at the Venice Film Festival. The Oscar winner, whom People confirmed is pregnant with her second child, looked elegant at the Tiff screening in a floral patterned cream frock. Depp, meanwhile, opted for a flapper-inspired black-and-silver feathered minidress. Portman debuted her growing baby bump in a gorgeous Valentino gown...
- 9/11/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp's festival world tour made its latest stop at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday night for the premiere of their new film, Planetarium. The actresses, who play sisters in the film, have been on a globetrotting promotional tour after screening Planetarium just days ago at the Venice Film Festival. The Oscar winner, whom People confirmed is pregnant with her second child, looked elegant at the Tiff screening in a floral patterned cream frock. Depp, meanwhile, opted for a flapper-inspired black-and-silver feathered minidress. Portman debuted her growing baby bump in a gorgeous Valentino gown...
- 9/11/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Every scene looks exquisite in Rebecca Zlotowski’s magical tale of psychic sisters in 1930s Paris, trying to replicate their act on film as the war creeps in
There are plenty of movies about movies that put a spotlight on creating movie magic. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Planetarium may be the first one about actual magic in movies. This gorgeous, dreamy supernatural drama has a serpentine script that I wouldn’t exactly call surreal, but it’s far more interested in skiffing along its narrative currents than connecting every dot. In this case, it’s all for the better, as a faster pace means yet another lush sequence in an art deco apartment, odd medical laboratory or elegantly designed studio sound stage.
There are no planetariums in Planetarium, but it does feature a genuine star in Natalie Portman. In her first big scene, she’s wearing a tuxedo and psyching up...
There are plenty of movies about movies that put a spotlight on creating movie magic. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Planetarium may be the first one about actual magic in movies. This gorgeous, dreamy supernatural drama has a serpentine script that I wouldn’t exactly call surreal, but it’s far more interested in skiffing along its narrative currents than connecting every dot. In this case, it’s all for the better, as a faster pace means yet another lush sequence in an art deco apartment, odd medical laboratory or elegantly designed studio sound stage.
There are no planetariums in Planetarium, but it does feature a genuine star in Natalie Portman. In her first big scene, she’s wearing a tuxedo and psyching up...
- 9/7/2016
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
It’d be one thing, a simpler thing, if Rebecca Zlotowski‘s Planetarium was a middle-of-the-road effort that’s over and done with in less than two hours. Alas, it stars at a place of such promise, such intrigue, even such wonder, and, after some point, steadily progresses from unique investigation of faith and duty to middlebrow European co-production — a rather enervating thing, then, that left me thinking “no more movies like this, ever” while a sizable portion of its runtime was still left. There isn’t a precise image of the type of movie to which I’m referring, but I can at least say it goes something like this: an English-speaking (often American) star in a well-dressed, amply lit European nation, surrounded by foreign actors who rarely (if ever) speak their native tongue. I’d come right out and say it’s best embodied by, say, Suite Française,...
- 9/7/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Like an apparition that dissipates back into the ether before it can assume any meaningful shape, Rebecca Zlotowski’s “Planetarium” is a starry-eyed and somnambulant period adventure that captures the spirit of the movies at the expense of their soul. The film, which stars Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as vagabond sisters who land in Paris between the two great wars of the 20th century, begins with a compellingly morbid notion: Cinema isn’t dead, cinema is death itself. If only Zlotowski’s latest contribution to the medium ever found any life of its own.
A beautiful wisp of an idea that is seldom compelling and almost never coherent, “Planetarium” squanders an irresistibly alluring premise. Loosely inspired by the Fox sisters and other formative figures in the field of Spiritualism, the film clings to Laura (Portman) and Kate (Depp) Barlow as tightly as the siblings cling to each other. Orphaned...
A beautiful wisp of an idea that is seldom compelling and almost never coherent, “Planetarium” squanders an irresistibly alluring premise. Loosely inspired by the Fox sisters and other formative figures in the field of Spiritualism, the film clings to Laura (Portman) and Kate (Depp) Barlow as tightly as the siblings cling to each other. Orphaned...
- 9/7/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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Mechanic Resurrection "Cliff Dive" Clip
Release Date: August 26th, 2016
Cast: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones
Don't Breathe "Hallway Tension" Clip
Release Date: August 26th, 2016
Cast: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette
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Release Date: September 2nd, 2016
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- 8/26/2016
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Tony Sokol Aug 26, 2016
Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp chat to French ghosts in the forthcoming Planetarium. Here's a new trailer for a great-looking film...
The magic of movies meets mysticism in Rebecca Zlotowski's (Dear Prudence, Grand Central) upcoming Planetarium. The French film is set in the 1930s and stars Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as two American sisters who talk to ghosts in Paris.
Planetarium also stars Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, and Louis Garrel, while the screenplay is written by Rebecca Zlotowski & Robin Campillo.
The trailer, shot on vintage locations, looks beautiful and promises all kinds of intrigue - here's the synopsis to tell us more:
“The setting is Paris in the 1930s, where two sisters, American spiritualists Laura (Portman, who also appears at this year’s Festival in Jackie) and Kate Barlow (Depp), are winding up a world tour. Seemingly adept at communicating with the dead,...
Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp chat to French ghosts in the forthcoming Planetarium. Here's a new trailer for a great-looking film...
The magic of movies meets mysticism in Rebecca Zlotowski's (Dear Prudence, Grand Central) upcoming Planetarium. The French film is set in the 1930s and stars Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as two American sisters who talk to ghosts in Paris.
Planetarium also stars Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, and Louis Garrel, while the screenplay is written by Rebecca Zlotowski & Robin Campillo.
The trailer, shot on vintage locations, looks beautiful and promises all kinds of intrigue - here's the synopsis to tell us more:
“The setting is Paris in the 1930s, where two sisters, American spiritualists Laura (Portman, who also appears at this year’s Festival in Jackie) and Kate Barlow (Depp), are winding up a world tour. Seemingly adept at communicating with the dead,...
- 8/25/2016
- Den of Geek
"Tell André to be careful." The first trailer has arrived for the film Planetarium, from French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski, which is premiering at both the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals coming up. Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp star as sisters in Paris in the 1930s who have the mysterious supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. The two of them put on performances in the city and make movies, but end up in some other trouble. The full cast includes Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, and Louis Garrel. This looks very French, with luxurious shots of vintage locations plus romance galore. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Rebecca Zlotowski's Planetarium, direct from YouTube: Follows the journey of sisters who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris. Planetarium is directed by young French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski,...
- 8/25/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In “Grand Central,” Rebecca Zlotowski‘s nuclear melodrama starring Lea Seydoux and Tahar Rahim, the director made an impression with her striking visuals and careful handle on tone. Now Natalie Portman has signed up to star in the follow-up, “Planetarium,” with Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne producing. The ensemble is rounded out by Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, […]
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The post Natalie Portman & Lily-Rose Depp Embrace Opportunity In First Trailer For Rebecca Zlotowski’s ‘Planetarium’ appeared first on The Playlist.
- 8/25/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
One of two Natalie Portman-led films premiering on the fall festival circuit — the other being Pablo Larraín‘s biopic Jackie — Rebecca Zlotowski‘s Planetarium is a 1930s period piece that’s set to screen at both Venice International Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. Ahead of the premiere in about a month, the first international trailer has now arrived.
The latest film from the Grand Central director follows two sister spiritualists (the other being Lily-Rose Depp) who are believed to have a special connection to ghosts. The first preview has some beautiful imagery and introduces an intriguing story. Check out the trailer below for the film also starring Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, and Louis Garrel.
The latest film from the Grand Central director follows two sister spiritualists (the other being Lily-Rose Depp) who are believed to have a special connection to ghosts. The first preview has some beautiful imagery and introduces an intriguing story. Check out the trailer below for the film also starring Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, and Louis Garrel.
- 8/25/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
We didn’t hear much from Natalie Portman for a few years there, but the actor, producer and now writer/director is back in a big way. After “Knight of Cups” and “A Tale of Lover and Darkness,” her busy 2016 is set to continue with Rebecca Zlotowski’s “Planetarium,” which is se to premiere in Venice before stopping in Toronto as well. Find the film’s first poster below.
Read More: Natalie Portman On Her Directorial Debut And the Advice Terrence Malick Gave Her
Lily-Rose Depp and Emmanuel Salinger co-star in the film, Zlotowski’s followup to “Belle Épine” and “Grand Central,” both of which were headlined by Léa Seydoux. “Planetarium” is the story of two sisters in 1930s France (Portman and Depp) who perform as spiritualists and catch the attention of a film producer.
Read More: First Look: Natalie Portman And Lily-Rose Depp In Rebecca Zlotowski’s ‘Planetarium’
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Read More: Natalie Portman On Her Directorial Debut And the Advice Terrence Malick Gave Her
Lily-Rose Depp and Emmanuel Salinger co-star in the film, Zlotowski’s followup to “Belle Épine” and “Grand Central,” both of which were headlined by Léa Seydoux. “Planetarium” is the story of two sisters in 1930s France (Portman and Depp) who perform as spiritualists and catch the attention of a film producer.
Read More: First Look: Natalie Portman And Lily-Rose Depp In Rebecca Zlotowski’s ‘Planetarium’
Depp...
- 8/21/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Antoine Fuqua’s ragtag crew of bandits will descend on Toronto International Film Festival come September, now that The Magnificent Seven has booked its place to open the annual event on September 8.
It’s part of a star-studded lineup that boasts everything from Sundance darling Manchester By the Sea to Nate Parker’s Oscar-tipped epic, The Birth of a Nation. They’ll filter into the Special Presentations category at Tiff 2016, while The Magnificent Seven will be joined on opening night by Juan Antonio Bayona’s hotly-anticipated A Monster Calls – part The Bfg, part Pan’s Labyrinth – and Snowden, Oliver Stone’s timely biopic that was turned down by “every major studio.”
Included below is the detailed overview of every film to feature at Toronto International Film Festival, beginning with those features slated to premiere on opening night, September 8.
The Magnificent Seven, Antoine Fuqua, USA World Premiere
Director Antoine Fuqua brings...
It’s part of a star-studded lineup that boasts everything from Sundance darling Manchester By the Sea to Nate Parker’s Oscar-tipped epic, The Birth of a Nation. They’ll filter into the Special Presentations category at Tiff 2016, while The Magnificent Seven will be joined on opening night by Juan Antonio Bayona’s hotly-anticipated A Monster Calls – part The Bfg, part Pan’s Labyrinth – and Snowden, Oliver Stone’s timely biopic that was turned down by “every major studio.”
Included below is the detailed overview of every film to feature at Toronto International Film Festival, beginning with those features slated to premiere on opening night, September 8.
The Magnificent Seven, Antoine Fuqua, USA World Premiere
Director Antoine Fuqua brings...
- 7/26/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
After highlighting the best films of the year thus far, it’s time to turn our attention to the fall. While Venice and Telluride will get things going, the biggest seasonal event is easily the Toronto International Film Festival. With hundreds of titles from around the globe on its slate, many of our yearly favorites debut there and we’ll be covering in-depth yet again this year. To get a preview of what to expect, they’ve announced their initial line-up of titles.
The slate includes Tom Ford‘s Nocturnal Animals, Denis Villeneuve‘s Arrival, Damien Chazelle‘s La La Land, Kim Ji-woon‘s The Age of Shadows, Ewan McGregor‘s American Pastoral, the Miles Teller-led Bleed for This, Denial starring Rachel Weisz, Christopher Guest‘s Mascots, Werner Herzog‘s Salt and Fire, the Michael Fassbender-led Trespass Against Us, Una starring Rooney Mara, Rob Reiner‘s Lbj, A Monster Calls,...
The slate includes Tom Ford‘s Nocturnal Animals, Denis Villeneuve‘s Arrival, Damien Chazelle‘s La La Land, Kim Ji-woon‘s The Age of Shadows, Ewan McGregor‘s American Pastoral, the Miles Teller-led Bleed for This, Denial starring Rachel Weisz, Christopher Guest‘s Mascots, Werner Herzog‘s Salt and Fire, the Michael Fassbender-led Trespass Against Us, Una starring Rooney Mara, Rob Reiner‘s Lbj, A Monster Calls,...
- 7/26/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Imbued with the ability to communicate with the dead, Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp share a very close sisterly bond in upcoming period drama Planetarium, and courtesy of French outlet Elle, today we’ve been given our first glimpse of the pair standing side by side in Rebecca Zlotowski’s upcoming feature.
Taking place in the turbulent respite between World Wars I and II, Planetarium has Portman assume the role of Laura, a devout follower of religion who lives with her younger sister Kate (Lily-Depp) in the French capital of Paris. As the plot unfolds, the siblings cross paths with Emmanuel Salinger’s ambiguous visionary, who helps channel their ability to speak with spirits from beyond our world. Expect eerie atmospheres and religious awakenings aplenty.
Beyond that, details remain thin on the ground for Zlotowski’s latest, though Elle reports that filming is now complete on the drama, indicating that...
Taking place in the turbulent respite between World Wars I and II, Planetarium has Portman assume the role of Laura, a devout follower of religion who lives with her younger sister Kate (Lily-Depp) in the French capital of Paris. As the plot unfolds, the siblings cross paths with Emmanuel Salinger’s ambiguous visionary, who helps channel their ability to speak with spirits from beyond our world. Expect eerie atmospheres and religious awakenings aplenty.
Beyond that, details remain thin on the ground for Zlotowski’s latest, though Elle reports that filming is now complete on the drama, indicating that...
- 1/6/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Biggest slate to date also includes Planetarium, Money’s Money and Overdrive.
Kinology will launch sales on French director Marc Fitoussi’s coming-of-age tale Trainee Day at the American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11), in what could be one of the busiest markets yet for Gregory Melin’s Paris-based sales company.
Rising actress Jeanne Jestin, who first hit the big screen in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past, plays a teenager who discovers another side to her mother when she takes work experience at her backstabbing office.
Belgian actress Emilie Desquenne, who appeared in Fitoussi’s first feature La Vie d’Artiste, is the mother. Other cast members include director Xavier Beauvois and Sabrina Ouazani.
Fitoussi’s past credits include Copacabana and the Madame Bovary-inspired Folies Bergere, both starring Isabelle Huppert.
Paris-based Kinology will be at the Afm with one its biggest slates to date.
It will also reveal first footage on a number of upcoming films including...
Kinology will launch sales on French director Marc Fitoussi’s coming-of-age tale Trainee Day at the American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11), in what could be one of the busiest markets yet for Gregory Melin’s Paris-based sales company.
Rising actress Jeanne Jestin, who first hit the big screen in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past, plays a teenager who discovers another side to her mother when she takes work experience at her backstabbing office.
Belgian actress Emilie Desquenne, who appeared in Fitoussi’s first feature La Vie d’Artiste, is the mother. Other cast members include director Xavier Beauvois and Sabrina Ouazani.
Fitoussi’s past credits include Copacabana and the Madame Bovary-inspired Folies Bergere, both starring Isabelle Huppert.
Paris-based Kinology will be at the Afm with one its biggest slates to date.
It will also reveal first footage on a number of upcoming films including...
- 10/30/2015
- ScreenDaily
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