Film starring Lambert Wilson - as legendary oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau - and Audrey Tautou to hit UK screens at the end of 2016.
Altitude Film Entertainment and Pan-Européenne UK have entered a joint venture for the UK release of Jérôme Salle’s The Odyssey, capturing the life of legendary ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau aboard his ship the Calypso.
It will be the first UK release for London-based Pan-Européenne UK, since its creation last year by French producer and distributor team Philippe Godeau and Nathalie Gastaldo Godeau.
The pair are producers on The Odyssey through their Paris-based production and distribution house Pan-Européenne alongside Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier at Fidélité Films
Shot over five months in South Africa, the Antarctic and across the Mediterranean, the picture stars Lambert Wilson as Cousteau alongside Audrey Tautou as the explorer’s first wife Simone and Pierre Niney as their youngest son Philippe. It is currently in post-production.
Altitude and Pan-Européenne...
Altitude Film Entertainment and Pan-Européenne UK have entered a joint venture for the UK release of Jérôme Salle’s The Odyssey, capturing the life of legendary ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau aboard his ship the Calypso.
It will be the first UK release for London-based Pan-Européenne UK, since its creation last year by French producer and distributor team Philippe Godeau and Nathalie Gastaldo Godeau.
The pair are producers on The Odyssey through their Paris-based production and distribution house Pan-Européenne alongside Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier at Fidélité Films
Shot over five months in South Africa, the Antarctic and across the Mediterranean, the picture stars Lambert Wilson as Cousteau alongside Audrey Tautou as the explorer’s first wife Simone and Pierre Niney as their youngest son Philippe. It is currently in post-production.
Altitude and Pan-Européenne...
- 4/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Asif Kapadia on shooting his London Olympics film, and Sylvia Syms on a neglected 50s classic
As if by magic
My favourite of the official Olympics films is by Asif Kapadia. His The Odyssey examines London from the skies against a backdrop of Olympian expectation and politics, like these two were fighting it out to be the prevailing winds over the city. A panoply of voices give their Olympics memories and London thoughts, but just as in his award-winning doc Senna we don't see their faces: they could be media personalities (Richard Williams, Robert Elms, Lord Coe) or boys or elderly ladies interviewed on the street.
The film includes social comment on the closure of council leisure facilities and the shock of the 7/7 bombings. I hear now that Asif is developing his themes into a feature film. "Even though we shot in a very short time, there was still a...
As if by magic
My favourite of the official Olympics films is by Asif Kapadia. His The Odyssey examines London from the skies against a backdrop of Olympian expectation and politics, like these two were fighting it out to be the prevailing winds over the city. A panoply of voices give their Olympics memories and London thoughts, but just as in his award-winning doc Senna we don't see their faces: they could be media personalities (Richard Williams, Robert Elms, Lord Coe) or boys or elderly ladies interviewed on the street.
The film includes social comment on the closure of council leisure facilities and the shock of the 7/7 bombings. I hear now that Asif is developing his themes into a feature film. "Even though we shot in a very short time, there was still a...
- 7/21/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Asif Kapadia, director of Senna, tells Sarfraz Manzoor how he spent four days in a chopper making a 'democratic' film about London and the Olympics
I meet Asif Kapadia in a bar on the 15th floor of a hotel in central London. The location offers panoramic views of the city below, making it an unintentionally appropriate place to discuss the director's latest film. The Odyssey, a rare joint commission by Film4 and BBC Films, is Kapadia's contribution to the London 2012 festival. (The director of the acclaimed 2010 documentary Senna is one of five film-makers, with Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and StreetDance directing duo Max and Dania, to receive Olympic commissions.) Like the others', Kapadia's film is short, at just under 30 minutes, but ambitious in scope, charting the seven years since London won the bid. Since that day in July 2005, London has been bombed, bruised by the financial crisis and burned in last summer's riots.
I meet Asif Kapadia in a bar on the 15th floor of a hotel in central London. The location offers panoramic views of the city below, making it an unintentionally appropriate place to discuss the director's latest film. The Odyssey, a rare joint commission by Film4 and BBC Films, is Kapadia's contribution to the London 2012 festival. (The director of the acclaimed 2010 documentary Senna is one of five film-makers, with Mike Leigh, Lynne Ramsay and StreetDance directing duo Max and Dania, to receive Olympic commissions.) Like the others', Kapadia's film is short, at just under 30 minutes, but ambitious in scope, charting the seven years since London won the bid. Since that day in July 2005, London has been bombed, bruised by the financial crisis and burned in last summer's riots.
- 6/24/2012
- by Sarfraz Manzoor
- The Guardian - Film News
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