The Announcement Photo: Courtesy of Venice Film Festival Mahmut Fazil Coskun's satirical approach to a failed Turkish coup, The Announcement won the top prize Gold Palm at Valencia's Mostra Film Festival this weekend. The award comes with a prize purse of £21,500.
The film also won the Best Screenplay award for Coskun and co-writer Ercan Kesa and the Best Cinematography award for Krum Rodríguez.
The jury, chaired by the French director of photography Marie Spencer, praised The Announcement "for the vision and skill of its director and for the perfect execution of all its departments as well as to choose a comic and absurd style to explain a daring and timely history”.
The Silver Palm, which carries an award of £8,600 went to Syrian film The Day I Lost My Shadow. The film, directed by Soudade Kaadan is a magic-realism inflected story about a mother who goes looking for a bottle of gas against the backdrop.
The film also won the Best Screenplay award for Coskun and co-writer Ercan Kesa and the Best Cinematography award for Krum Rodríguez.
The jury, chaired by the French director of photography Marie Spencer, praised The Announcement "for the vision and skill of its director and for the perfect execution of all its departments as well as to choose a comic and absurd style to explain a daring and timely history”.
The Silver Palm, which carries an award of £8,600 went to Syrian film The Day I Lost My Shadow. The film, directed by Soudade Kaadan is a magic-realism inflected story about a mother who goes looking for a bottle of gas against the backdrop.
- 11/4/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Emmanuel Bourdieu on who could play Louis-Ferdinand Céline: "One is Denis Podalydès, who is my best friend. And the other was Denis Lavant whom I knew only as a fan." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Emmanuel Bourdieu, director and co-screenwriter of Louis-Ferdinand Céline (based on the book The Crippled Giant by Martin Hindus and starring Denis Lavant), spoke with me about the casting of the lead role, shooting in Belgium with cinematographer Marie Spencer and screenwriter Marcia Romano and editor Benoît Quinon on board, working with composer Grégoire Hetzel on creating a tune for a William Blake poem to characterize Philip Desmeules' portrayal of Hindus, and how Géraldine Pailhas helped with the costumes for Lucette (designed by Florence Scholtes and Christophe Pidre).
Denis Lavant as Louis-Ferdinand Céline with Bébert: "He could change the mood very very fast. And Denis knows how to do that.
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Emmanuel Bourdieu, director and co-screenwriter of Louis-Ferdinand Céline (based on the book The Crippled Giant by Martin Hindus and starring Denis Lavant), spoke with me about the casting of the lead role, shooting in Belgium with cinematographer Marie Spencer and screenwriter Marcia Romano and editor Benoît Quinon on board, working with composer Grégoire Hetzel on creating a tune for a William Blake poem to characterize Philip Desmeules' portrayal of Hindus, and how Géraldine Pailhas helped with the costumes for Lucette (designed by Florence Scholtes and Christophe Pidre).
Denis Lavant as Louis-Ferdinand Céline with Bébert: "He could change the mood very very fast. And Denis knows how to do that.
- 1/5/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Opens: in France: April 30 (SBS Films, Medusa Film)
"The Great Alibi", the second Agatha Christie adaptation to reach French screens in four months, is not so much as whodunit as a why-make-it. Slickly turned out with a plethora of top acting talent, the movie will do air to middling business at home and abroad, but you have to wonder what its interest was for director Pascal Bonitzer, one of France's best screenwriting talents.
The original 1946 novel, "The Hollow", is a standard Christie country house murder mystery, which Bonitzer transposes from England to France. When handsome psychiatrist Pierre Collier (Lambert Wilson) arrives for the weekend at the home of senator Henri Pages (Pierre Arditi) with his long-suffering wife Claire (Anne Consigny) in tow, he finds himself sharing the premises with two of his mistresses -- one current, the other an ex -- along with Lea Mantovani (Caterina Murino), an old flame who has since become a film star. It's hinted that even Pages's wife Eliane (Miou-Miou) was an earlier conquest.
Naturally, Collier soon ends up dead. Detective inspector Grange (Maurice Benichou) is called in to solve the mystery and most of the subsequent action, including the killer's eventual comeuppance, takes place in Paris. The dialogue is crisp and agreeably waspish, acting is uniformly first-rate and lensing and lighting impeccable. Benichou brings a breath of fresh air to the proceedings, and Arditi and Miou-Miou form an endearingly eccentric couple. "Alibi" passes pleasantly enough, yet there's no satire, little passion and not much real tension.
Cast: Lambert Wilson; Miou-Miou; Pierre Arditi; Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi; Anne Consigny; Mathieu Demy; Caterina Murino; Grange: Maurice Benichou; Marthe: Celine Sallette. Director: Pascal Bonitzer. Screenwriters: Pascal Bonitzer, Jerome Beausejour. Based on the novel by: Agatha Christie. Producer: Said ben Said; Executive director: Sybille Nicolas. Director of photography: Marie Spencer. Production designer: Wouter Zoom. Costume designer: Marielle Robaut. Music: Alexei Aigui. Editor: Monica Coleman. Sales: UGC Distribution. No MPAA rating, running time 93 minutes.
"The Great Alibi", the second Agatha Christie adaptation to reach French screens in four months, is not so much as whodunit as a why-make-it. Slickly turned out with a plethora of top acting talent, the movie will do air to middling business at home and abroad, but you have to wonder what its interest was for director Pascal Bonitzer, one of France's best screenwriting talents.
The original 1946 novel, "The Hollow", is a standard Christie country house murder mystery, which Bonitzer transposes from England to France. When handsome psychiatrist Pierre Collier (Lambert Wilson) arrives for the weekend at the home of senator Henri Pages (Pierre Arditi) with his long-suffering wife Claire (Anne Consigny) in tow, he finds himself sharing the premises with two of his mistresses -- one current, the other an ex -- along with Lea Mantovani (Caterina Murino), an old flame who has since become a film star. It's hinted that even Pages's wife Eliane (Miou-Miou) was an earlier conquest.
Naturally, Collier soon ends up dead. Detective inspector Grange (Maurice Benichou) is called in to solve the mystery and most of the subsequent action, including the killer's eventual comeuppance, takes place in Paris. The dialogue is crisp and agreeably waspish, acting is uniformly first-rate and lensing and lighting impeccable. Benichou brings a breath of fresh air to the proceedings, and Arditi and Miou-Miou form an endearingly eccentric couple. "Alibi" passes pleasantly enough, yet there's no satire, little passion and not much real tension.
Cast: Lambert Wilson; Miou-Miou; Pierre Arditi; Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi; Anne Consigny; Mathieu Demy; Caterina Murino; Grange: Maurice Benichou; Marthe: Celine Sallette. Director: Pascal Bonitzer. Screenwriters: Pascal Bonitzer, Jerome Beausejour. Based on the novel by: Agatha Christie. Producer: Said ben Said; Executive director: Sybille Nicolas. Director of photography: Marie Spencer. Production designer: Wouter Zoom. Costume designer: Marielle Robaut. Music: Alexei Aigui. Editor: Monica Coleman. Sales: UGC Distribution. No MPAA rating, running time 93 minutes.
- 5/20/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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