Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Bruno Dumont’s “The Empire,” a sci-fi satire starring Anamaria Vartolomei (“Happening”), Camille Cottin (“Call My Agent!”), Lyna Khoudri (“The Three Musketeers”) and Fabrice Luchini.
“The Empire” just world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize. The movie marks Dumont’s follow up to “France,” a dark comedy starring Léa Seydoux which competed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year, followed by a home video, educational and digital release on all major platforms. The acquisition of “The Empire” marks the sixth time that Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont, with previous releases including “Li’l Quinquin,” “Coincoin and the Extra-Humans,” “Slack Bay,” “Camille Claudel 1915” and, most recently, “France.”
The film is set in a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, where a special...
“The Empire” just world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize. The movie marks Dumont’s follow up to “France,” a dark comedy starring Léa Seydoux which competed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical release later this year, followed by a home video, educational and digital release on all major platforms. The acquisition of “The Empire” marks the sixth time that Kino Lorber has collaborated with Dumont, with previous releases including “Li’l Quinquin,” “Coincoin and the Extra-Humans,” “Slack Bay,” “Camille Claudel 1915” and, most recently, “France.”
The film is set in a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, where a special...
- 3/7/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs and Mati Diop’s Dahomey earned strong average scores on Screen’s Berlin jury grid, while Bruno Dumont’s The Empire divided critics.
A Traveler’s Needs stars Isabelle Huppert as a French woman teaching in Korea and is currently on an average of 2.9, with one score still to come (from Paolo Bertolin from cinematografo.it). Screen’s own critic awarded it four stars (excellent), while three critics gave it three stars (good) and three gave it two (average).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
The score is currently slighter...
A Traveler’s Needs stars Isabelle Huppert as a French woman teaching in Korea and is currently on an average of 2.9, with one score still to come (from Paolo Bertolin from cinematografo.it). Screen’s own critic awarded it four stars (excellent), while three critics gave it three stars (good) and three gave it two (average).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
The score is currently slighter...
- 2/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
Out of the many movies you could imagine emerging from the mind of French auteur Bruno Dumont, a Star Wars parody was probably somewhere at the bottom of the list.
And yet it’s been some time since the Cannes Grand Jury Prize laureate, who broke out in the late 90s with viscerally stylized, hard-hitting works of Gallic realism like The Life of Jesus and Humanity, has strayed far from his gritty roots towards a brand of accentuated arthouse satire.
His latest effort, the sci-fi farce The Empire (L’Empire), definitely fits the latter mold, although it’s loaded with enough VFX, light saber battles, spacecrafts and prophecies to give George Lucas a run for his money. That is, if Lucas decided to set the next Star Wars in a sleepy northern French city, used a local mechanic to play one of the leads and tossed in a few flagrant sex scenes,...
And yet it’s been some time since the Cannes Grand Jury Prize laureate, who broke out in the late 90s with viscerally stylized, hard-hitting works of Gallic realism like The Life of Jesus and Humanity, has strayed far from his gritty roots towards a brand of accentuated arthouse satire.
His latest effort, the sci-fi farce The Empire (L’Empire), definitely fits the latter mold, although it’s loaded with enough VFX, light saber battles, spacecrafts and prophecies to give George Lucas a run for his money. That is, if Lucas decided to set the next Star Wars in a sleepy northern French city, used a local mechanic to play one of the leads and tossed in a few flagrant sex scenes,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It is increasingly weird to recall that for a while, French director Bruno Dumont was the kind of filmmaker who reminded you, often forcibly and somewhat against your will, that the word “auteur” contains most of the letters of “austere.” “The Empire,” another of the director’s proudly off-kilter comedies that pitches the bumbling denizens of a small French village into a vast, sinister conspiracy extending far beyond their foreshortened horizons, hovers several light years — and two janky light sabers — away from austerity. Unfortunately, though, the air out there is also a little thin on hilarity, with the film’s one-gag setup becoming stretched to the point that it doesn’t even matter that it’s a pretty good gag.
The humor, as ever with the Dumont of “Li’l Quinquin” and “Slack Bay,” derives largely from the collision of the grandiose with the drolly mundane. This time out, harking back to,...
The humor, as ever with the Dumont of “Li’l Quinquin” and “Slack Bay,” derives largely from the collision of the grandiose with the drolly mundane. This time out, harking back to,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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
"The Prince of Darkness must be removed from the face of the Earth." Arp Selection in France has revealed the first look official trailer for a sci-fi epic called L'Empire, which translates to The Empire in English. It's the latest film from French filmmaker Bruno Dumont and was originally rumored to premiere in Cannes, though it never showed up. Now set to open in France in March 2024. "Between Ma Loute and The Life of Jesus, between heaven and earth, Bruno Dumont offers us his caustic, cruel and crazy vision of Star Wars." That's their description. A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights. Starring a big French cast: Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp, Camille Cottin, Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, with Fabrice Luchini. This has spaceships galore, ethereal aliens, lightsabers, religious metaphors, French sex jokes, and all kinds of other crazy sci-fi things going on. Whoa! But will it be any good?...
- 9/22/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When period costumes appear in contemporary French cinema, one can almost always be sure that there will be some kind of criticism of the aristocracy or the bourgeoisie – this is the case, for example, in Bruno Dumont's mocking, misanthropic Slack Bay, or in Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, in which Céline Sciamma a love that is forbidden not only because of gender but also because of social status. For Aurélia Georges, going back to 1914 in Secret Name is not only a pretext for a story about class emancipation, but, above all, female emancipation.
The First World War has just broken out and sex worker Nelie (Lyna Khoudri) decides to abandon her current life and go to the front as a nurse. There, when an opportunity arises, she takes over the identity of the badly injured Rose (Maud Wyler), who comes from a good home. By impersonating her,...
The First World War has just broken out and sex worker Nelie (Lyna Khoudri) decides to abandon her current life and go to the front as a nurse. There, when an opportunity arises, she takes over the identity of the badly injured Rose (Maud Wyler), who comes from a good home. By impersonating her,...
- 8/10/2021
- by Mateusz Tarwacki
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
December 10 release planned for US and English-speaking Canada.
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights from Indie Sales to Bruno Dumont’s media satire France starring Léa Seydoux following its world premiere in Competition in Cannes last month.
The French auteur’s latest film focuses on celebrity journalist France de Meurs – balancing her high-profile television studio, a distant war and the demands of family – whose life is turned upside-down when she injures a young North African man with learning difficulties in a traffic accident.
The incident forces France to reassess her priorities and as she tries to retreat into a simpler,...
Kino Lorber has acquired US rights from Indie Sales to Bruno Dumont’s media satire France starring Léa Seydoux following its world premiere in Competition in Cannes last month.
The French auteur’s latest film focuses on celebrity journalist France de Meurs – balancing her high-profile television studio, a distant war and the demands of family – whose life is turned upside-down when she injures a young North African man with learning difficulties in a traffic accident.
The incident forces France to reassess her priorities and as she tries to retreat into a simpler,...
- 8/2/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“My work is all about transfiguration… I’m not a naturalistic filmmaker at all.” So goes one of the most widely quoted statements by French auteur Bruno Dumont, now as noted for his bold stylistic experimentation across different genres as he is the dour, powerful slabs of “transcendental” cinema with which he first made his name at the turn of the millennium. Here lies a blindspot of director-focused appreciation: his latest film France has the appearance of a glossy, luxe piece of entertainment––almost a French Succession––that could appeal to a wide, even non-cinephilic audience across its home country. But those familiar with his output can’t help scan the precis of this film and perceive a likely Trojan Horse, or a piece of subversion at cross-purposes with its exterior sense. Is this the regressive underside of auteurism, that secretly wants our favorites to make a recognizably similar film each time out the block?...
- 7/20/2021
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
After last year’s Cannes Film Festival was reduced to a press conference announcing the works they would’ve screened, they’re back in full swing for 2021. Forgoing the virtual aspects embraced by many festivals, Cannes kicks off this Tuesday and we’ll be on the ground to cover.
Ahead of the festivities we’ve rounded up what we’re most looking forward to—and while we’re sure many surprises await, per every year, one will find twenty films that should already be on your radar. Check out our picks below and be sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest updates from the festival.
20. The Year of the Everlasting Storm (Various)
It’s only fitting to kick off with a film that looks to encapsulate our tumultuous year. Featuring contributions from Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who appears a bit later down as well), David Lowery, Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras,...
Ahead of the festivities we’ve rounded up what we’re most looking forward to—and while we’re sure many surprises await, per every year, one will find twenty films that should already be on your radar. Check out our picks below and be sure to subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest updates from the festival.
20. The Year of the Everlasting Storm (Various)
It’s only fitting to kick off with a film that looks to encapsulate our tumultuous year. Featuring contributions from Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who appears a bit later down as well), David Lowery, Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras,...
- 7/4/2021
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Des hommes
Belgium’s Lucas Belvaux has assembled one of his highest profile casts in some time with his latest feature Des hommes (Home Front), which reunites him with his Une Trilogy (2002) stars Catherine Frot and Jean-Pierre Darroussin who will be joined by Gerard Depardieu and Yoann Zimmer. Produced by David Frenkel and Patrick Quinet, Belvaux employs Bruno Dumont’s recent favored Dp Guillaume Deffontaines to lens. Belvaux, a five-time Cesar nominee competed in Cannes with his 2006 title The Right of the Weakest.…...
Belgium’s Lucas Belvaux has assembled one of his highest profile casts in some time with his latest feature Des hommes (Home Front), which reunites him with his Une Trilogy (2002) stars Catherine Frot and Jean-Pierre Darroussin who will be joined by Gerard Depardieu and Yoann Zimmer. Produced by David Frenkel and Patrick Quinet, Belvaux employs Bruno Dumont’s recent favored Dp Guillaume Deffontaines to lens. Belvaux, a five-time Cesar nominee competed in Cannes with his 2006 title The Right of the Weakest.…...
- 1/1/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Before we get to our weekly streaming picks, check out our annual feature: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2019.
Cold Case Hammarskjöld (Mads Brügger)
In 1961, Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in Africa under mysterious circumstances. Beginning as an investigation into his still-unsolved death, the trail that Mads Brügger follows in Cold Case Hammarskjöld is one that expands to implicate some of the world’s most powerful governments in unfathomably heinous crimes. Without revealing the specifics of the jaw-dropping revelations in this thoroughly engrossing documentary, if there’s any justice, what is brought to light will cause global...
Before we get to our weekly streaming picks, check out our annual feature: Where to Stream the Best Films of 2019.
Cold Case Hammarskjöld (Mads Brügger)
In 1961, Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash in Africa under mysterious circumstances. Beginning as an investigation into his still-unsolved death, the trail that Mads Brügger follows in Cold Case Hammarskjöld is one that expands to implicate some of the world’s most powerful governments in unfathomably heinous crimes. Without revealing the specifics of the jaw-dropping revelations in this thoroughly engrossing documentary, if there’s any justice, what is brought to light will cause global...
- 12/20/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
After grabbing Cannes’ Un Certain Regard preemed Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come earlier this month, the Brooklyn based distrib KimStim have gone back to the Cannes sidebar to land yet another prize winner in Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc. Dumont has been on a remarkable film per year run since 2016’s Slack Bay with On a Half Clear Morning set to premiere at a major film fest next year. KimStim (who released Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc) plan to release Joan of Arc in the summer of 2020. We were at the awards ceremony to witness Laxe and Dumont receive their prizes.…...
- 11/22/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
One of the most acclaimed directors working in France today, Bruno Dumont doesn’t tend to repeat himself. In the last decade, he has gone from making a supernatural thriller set in the countryside (“Outside Satan”) to a classical biopic (“Camille Claudel 1915”) to a whimsical TV series about bumbling detectives (“Lil Quinquin”) and a surrealist comedy of manners (“Slack Bay”).
For his Cannes-premiering “Joan of Arc,” however, Dumont is returning to recent turf. The period drama follows 2017’s “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” a deadpan portrait of the future martyr’s childhood that was set to heavy metal music. For “Joan of Arc,” Dumont follows his “Jeanette” star Lise Leplat Prudhomme into the famous 15th century saga as she leads the French army on a holy mission that leads to charges of heresy and, eventually, her death.
Like “Jeanette,” the new movie draws on a revisionist approach to...
For his Cannes-premiering “Joan of Arc,” however, Dumont is returning to recent turf. The period drama follows 2017’s “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” a deadpan portrait of the future martyr’s childhood that was set to heavy metal music. For “Joan of Arc,” Dumont follows his “Jeanette” star Lise Leplat Prudhomme into the famous 15th century saga as she leads the French army on a holy mission that leads to charges of heresy and, eventually, her death.
Like “Jeanette,” the new movie draws on a revisionist approach to...
- 5/6/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.
Last weekend saw the release of Claire Denis’ “Let the Sunshine In,” starring one of the only famous actors in the world *not* to appear in “Infinity War:” The great Juliette Binoche. From her indelible work with legendary auteurs like Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, and Hou Hsiao-hsien, to her standout performances in more traditional fare like “The English Patient” and “Chocolate,” very few people in the film world have built such a dynamic and impressive body of work.
This week’s question: What is Juliette Binoche’s best performance?
Max Weiss (@maxthegirl), Baltimore Magazine
Holy smokes, Juliette Binoche has great taste in material! She also doesn’t give bad performances—and mostly gives great ones—so this was a toughie. I seriously considered her sexy and enigmatic performance in Abbas Kiarostami’s...
Last weekend saw the release of Claire Denis’ “Let the Sunshine In,” starring one of the only famous actors in the world *not* to appear in “Infinity War:” The great Juliette Binoche. From her indelible work with legendary auteurs like Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, and Hou Hsiao-hsien, to her standout performances in more traditional fare like “The English Patient” and “Chocolate,” very few people in the film world have built such a dynamic and impressive body of work.
This week’s question: What is Juliette Binoche’s best performance?
Max Weiss (@maxthegirl), Baltimore Magazine
Holy smokes, Juliette Binoche has great taste in material! She also doesn’t give bad performances—and mostly gives great ones—so this was a toughie. I seriously considered her sexy and enigmatic performance in Abbas Kiarostami’s...
- 4/30/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Okay, okay, I’ll go see Darkest Hour! Jeez!
The first thing that struck me as I mused in the glow of the announcement of the Oscar nominations Tuesday morning, specifically about the Best Picture nominees, is that outside of not yet having seen the film mentioned above, I don’t have a problem with the presence of any of them. Of course, there are several movies I’d rather see in there instead which, even given Oscar’s new Age of Diversity and Enlightenment, would have no shot at a nomination (Personal Shopper, Slack Bay), and even one that you’d think would fit right in with Oscar’s previous profile (The Meyerowitz Stories). This year, of all years, I just assumed that Wonder Woman was a shoo-in for a Best Picture nod, and maybe even one for Gal Gadot. But the pool of performances by actresses this year was just too rich,...
The first thing that struck me as I mused in the glow of the announcement of the Oscar nominations Tuesday morning, specifically about the Best Picture nominees, is that outside of not yet having seen the film mentioned above, I don’t have a problem with the presence of any of them. Of course, there are several movies I’d rather see in there instead which, even given Oscar’s new Age of Diversity and Enlightenment, would have no shot at a nomination (Personal Shopper, Slack Bay), and even one that you’d think would fit right in with Oscar’s previous profile (The Meyerowitz Stories). This year, of all years, I just assumed that Wonder Woman was a shoo-in for a Best Picture nod, and maybe even one for Gal Gadot. But the pool of performances by actresses this year was just too rich,...
- 1/28/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
The true highlight of Toronto International Film Festival every year is the Wavelengths program, an expertly curated selection of the most boundary-pushing cinema from around the world. Led in particular by the programming vision of Andréa Picard, also known for her contributions to Cinema Scope since its inception, it acts as its own mini-festival of sorts. We were lucky enough to receive a personal preview of this year’s exciting looking batch of films from her.
Can you talk about some of the pairings; for example Blake Williams’ Prototype with Erkki Kurenneimi’s Florence or Denis Côté’s A Skin So Soft with Kazik Radwanski’s Scaffold?
I’ve always tried to curate the program as much as possible. There are infinite possibilities out there and sometimes I’m not even looking for a theme, but a theme will emerge. Sometimes things lend themselves to make a really great programme.
Can you talk about some of the pairings; for example Blake Williams’ Prototype with Erkki Kurenneimi’s Florence or Denis Côté’s A Skin So Soft with Kazik Radwanski’s Scaffold?
I’ve always tried to curate the program as much as possible. There are infinite possibilities out there and sometimes I’m not even looking for a theme, but a theme will emerge. Sometimes things lend themselves to make a really great programme.
- 8/16/2017
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
One of the first things I learned upon arriving at the CannesFilm Festival for the first time is this: Many of the people who come to Cannes year after year aren’t actually there to watch movies.
It’s a lamentable truth that for literally thousands of film industry professionals, Cannes serves more as a trade show than a celebration of cinema. For these individuals, more important than seeing the movies screening in competition is the opportunity to strike a deal with a financier or distributor at the festival’s marketplace, aka the Marché du Film. As one distributor I met with remarked, the irony of the experience can be maddening. After pursuing a career in film because of your love of movies, you arrive at the granddaddy of film festivals only to spend all your time chasing money.
While the mood at the Marché is all business all the time,...
It’s a lamentable truth that for literally thousands of film industry professionals, Cannes serves more as a trade show than a celebration of cinema. For these individuals, more important than seeing the movies screening in competition is the opportunity to strike a deal with a financier or distributor at the festival’s marketplace, aka the Marché du Film. As one distributor I met with remarked, the irony of the experience can be maddening. After pursuing a career in film because of your love of movies, you arrive at the granddaddy of film festivals only to spend all your time chasing money.
While the mood at the Marché is all business all the time,...
- 5/25/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Juliette Binoche in Slack Bay.
Sharmill Films has acquired Bruno Dumont.s Slack Bay (Ma Loute), starring Juliette Binoche, out of Cannes.
Slack Bay premiered in official competition, and is about the disappearances of tourists from a picturesque coastal community in the north of France in 1910, and the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the local townsfolk.
Binoche co-stars with Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Dumont's credits include L'il Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915 and Hors Satan.
The film received mixed reviews at Cannes, with THR's Todd McCarthy calling it "arresting".and The Telegraph's Tim Robey labelling the film "hard to swallow".
Slack Bay's rural period setting and its apparently idiosyncratic, darkly comic tone would suggest that Sharmill are shooting for The Dressmaker crowd, with Binoche subbing in for Kate Winslet.
No release date has yet been set.
Sharmill Films has acquired Bruno Dumont.s Slack Bay (Ma Loute), starring Juliette Binoche, out of Cannes.
Slack Bay premiered in official competition, and is about the disappearances of tourists from a picturesque coastal community in the north of France in 1910, and the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the local townsfolk.
Binoche co-stars with Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Dumont's credits include L'il Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915 and Hors Satan.
The film received mixed reviews at Cannes, with THR's Todd McCarthy calling it "arresting".and The Telegraph's Tim Robey labelling the film "hard to swallow".
Slack Bay's rural period setting and its apparently idiosyncratic, darkly comic tone would suggest that Sharmill are shooting for The Dressmaker crowd, with Binoche subbing in for Kate Winslet.
No release date has yet been set.
- 5/25/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
British filmmaker Ken Loach wins second Palme d’Or; Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman wins two.Scroll down for full list of winners
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake has won the Palme d’Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22), marking the second time the British filmmaker has won the top prize after The Wind That Shakes The Barley in 2006.
The 79-year-old filmmaker returned for a record 13th Competition entry with the tale of an injured carpenter and single mother caught in a bureaucracy nightmare within the UK welfare system.
Accepting the Palme d’Or from actor Mel Gibson, Loach used his acceptance speech to spotlight the “dangerous project of austerity”.
“We must give a message of hope, we must say another world is possible,” he said. “The world we live in is at a dangerous point right now. We are in the grip of a dangerous project of austerity driven by ideas that we...
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake has won the Palme d’Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22), marking the second time the British filmmaker has won the top prize after The Wind That Shakes The Barley in 2006.
The 79-year-old filmmaker returned for a record 13th Competition entry with the tale of an injured carpenter and single mother caught in a bureaucracy nightmare within the UK welfare system.
Accepting the Palme d’Or from actor Mel Gibson, Loach used his acceptance speech to spotlight the “dangerous project of austerity”.
“We must give a message of hope, we must say another world is possible,” he said. “The world we live in is at a dangerous point right now. We are in the grip of a dangerous project of austerity driven by ideas that we...
- 5/22/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The time has come to award this year’s winners, including the recipient of the coveted Palme d’Or. Screen is at the ceremony… and the first winners have been announced.
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Palme d’Or
I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach (UK)
Grand Prix
It’s Only The End Of The World (Juste La Fin Du Monde), Xavier Dolan (Canada)
Best Director
Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper (France)
&
Cristian Mungiu, Graduation (Bacalaureat) (Romania)
Best Screenplay
Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman (Forushande) (Iran)
Jury Prize
American Honey, Andrea Arnold (UK)
Best Actor
Shahab Hosseini, The Salesman (Forushande)
Dir. Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Best Actress
Jaclyn Jose, Ma’ Rosa
Dir. Brilliante Mendoza (Philippines)
Honorary Palme d’or
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Camera d’Or
Divines, Houda Benyamina
Best Short Film
Timecode, Juanjo Gimenez (Spain)
Short Film Special Mention
The Girl who Danced with the Devil (A Moça Que Dançou Com O Diabo),João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
The jury, presided over by...
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Palme d’Or
I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach (UK)
Grand Prix
It’s Only The End Of The World (Juste La Fin Du Monde), Xavier Dolan (Canada)
Best Director
Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper (France)
&
Cristian Mungiu, Graduation (Bacalaureat) (Romania)
Best Screenplay
Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman (Forushande) (Iran)
Jury Prize
American Honey, Andrea Arnold (UK)
Best Actor
Shahab Hosseini, The Salesman (Forushande)
Dir. Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Best Actress
Jaclyn Jose, Ma’ Rosa
Dir. Brilliante Mendoza (Philippines)
Honorary Palme d’or
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Camera d’Or
Divines, Houda Benyamina
Best Short Film
Timecode, Juanjo Gimenez (Spain)
Short Film Special Mention
The Girl who Danced with the Devil (A Moça Que Dançou Com O Diabo),João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
The jury, presided over by...
- 5/22/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The time has come to award this year’s winners, including the recipient of the coveted Palme d’Or. Screen is at the ceremony… and the first winners have been announced.
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Grand Prix
It’s Only The End Of The World (Juste La Fin Du Monde), Xavier Dolan (Canada)
Best Director
Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper (France)
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Cristian Mungiu, Graduation (Bacalaureat) (Romania)
Best Screenplay
Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman (Forushande) (Iran)
Jury Prize
American Honey, Andrea Arnold (UK)
Best Actor
Shahab Hosseini, The Salesman (Forushande)
Dir. Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Best Actress
Jaclyn Jose, Ma’ Rosa
Dir. Brilliante Mendoza (Philippines)
Honorary Palme d’or
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Camera d’Or
Divines, Houda Benyamina
Best Short Film
Timecode, Juanjo Gimenez (Spain)
Short Film Special Mention
The Girl who Danced with the Devil (A Moça Que Dançou Com O Diabo),João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
The jury, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, is on stage...
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Grand Prix
It’s Only The End Of The World (Juste La Fin Du Monde), Xavier Dolan (Canada)
Best Director
Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper (France)
&
Cristian Mungiu, Graduation (Bacalaureat) (Romania)
Best Screenplay
Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman (Forushande) (Iran)
Jury Prize
American Honey, Andrea Arnold (UK)
Best Actor
Shahab Hosseini, The Salesman (Forushande)
Dir. Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Best Actress
Jaclyn Jose, Ma’ Rosa
Dir. Brilliante Mendoza (Philippines)
Honorary Palme d’or
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Camera d’Or
Divines, Houda Benyamina
Best Short Film
Timecode, Juanjo Gimenez (Spain)
Short Film Special Mention
The Girl who Danced with the Devil (A Moça Que Dançou Com O Diabo),João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
The jury, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, is on stage...
- 5/22/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Asghar Farhadi’s “Forushande” or “The Salesman” was a last-minute addition to the official competition and it is a refreshing, intelligent watch coming in the wake of the vampire-top-model hokum of “The Neon Demon” and the mawkishness of “The Last Face” this late in the festival. Unlike most of the other competition entries, “The Salesman” boasts a tightly structured cause-and-effect narrative that keeps an ongoing suspense throughout most of its running time. This is the kind of kitchen-sink suspense plot that Farhadi has established himself the master of and unlike many of the high-expectation disappointments this year, “The Salesman” delivers on its promise.
“Forushande” revolves around a couple of part-time theatre actors Emad (he is also a literature teacher) and Rana, whose apartment building suffers structural damage, precipitating their hasty move to alternative accommodation. An actor colleague offers his rental apartment which still has the furniture of the previous occupant,...
“Forushande” revolves around a couple of part-time theatre actors Emad (he is also a literature teacher) and Rana, whose apartment building suffers structural damage, precipitating their hasty move to alternative accommodation. An actor colleague offers his rental apartment which still has the furniture of the previous occupant,...
- 5/20/2016
- by Zornitsa Staneva
- SoundOnSight
Last year, we got underdog “Dheepan” and “Dheepan” got the Palme D’Or.
This year, the same day saw the bourgeois artifice of Pedro Almodóvar’s uninspiring “Julieta”, “Aquarius” from Brazil that fetishes its glamorous, ageing bourgeois muse in a quasi Almodovarian fashion, and small-time Manila drug-dealer drama “Ma’ Rosa” from the Philippines’ Brillante Mendoza screening in the official competition. “Ma’ Rosa” is the film that so far comes closest to the ethos of “Dheepan” – ditching the gimmicks (“Ma Loute”s cannibals anyone?), the glamour (that will be 5000 Euro for two bags and a belt and Kristen Stewart won’t bat an eyelid in “Personal Shopper”), the muse overdose (we get that Sonia Braga has divine hair in the first half hour of “Aquarius”), and transporting us to an Asian slum where the characters need to scrape for their existence. I already slated Ken Loach for his insipid instalment of...
This year, the same day saw the bourgeois artifice of Pedro Almodóvar’s uninspiring “Julieta”, “Aquarius” from Brazil that fetishes its glamorous, ageing bourgeois muse in a quasi Almodovarian fashion, and small-time Manila drug-dealer drama “Ma’ Rosa” from the Philippines’ Brillante Mendoza screening in the official competition. “Ma’ Rosa” is the film that so far comes closest to the ethos of “Dheepan” – ditching the gimmicks (“Ma Loute”s cannibals anyone?), the glamour (that will be 5000 Euro for two bags and a belt and Kristen Stewart won’t bat an eyelid in “Personal Shopper”), the muse overdose (we get that Sonia Braga has divine hair in the first half hour of “Aquarius”), and transporting us to an Asian slum where the characters need to scrape for their existence. I already slated Ken Loach for his insipid instalment of...
- 5/17/2016
- by Zornitsa Staneva
- SoundOnSight
At Cannes festival panel, French Oscar winner discusses importance of turning down film roles and reflects on Scorsese’s ‘very feminine side’
Juliette Binoche said on Sunday that she once confronted Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese about why they did not make films about women.
Related: Ma Loute (Slack Bay) review - Juliette Binoche goes mesmerically over the top in bizarre seaside comedy
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Juliette Binoche said on Sunday that she once confronted Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese about why they did not make films about women.
Related: Ma Loute (Slack Bay) review - Juliette Binoche goes mesmerically over the top in bizarre seaside comedy
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- 5/15/2016
- by Nigel M Smith in Cannes
- The Guardian - Film News
Bruno Dumont pushed himself as a filmmaker for his comic detective miniseries P’tit Quinquin, and now he seems to have confirmed this new direction for the cinema with Slack Bay, a pratfall-filled coastal tale of crime and love set in the 1910s. The crime is missing tourists in a poor seaside village on Côte d'Opale; the investigators a blimp-sized local detective and his pint-sized sidekick; the love between a local boy and a cross-dressing young beauty of a rich family whose gratuitously Egyptian-style mansion sits sentinel over the titular marshy bay.The French director ambitiously expands his experiment begun with his first period film, Camille Claudel 1915, where his preferred cast of non-professional locals, including those with mental disabilities, acted alongside mega-star Juliette Binoche. In Slack Bay, Binoche returns as a rich flit and mother of a romantic youth of ambiguous gender, alongside Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Fabrice Luchini...
- 5/14/2016
- MUBI
Above: The Handmaiden by Park Chan-wook (South Korea).As I always do around this time of year, I have attempted to round up as many posters as possible for the films in competition for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d’Or. Not an easy task, given that some films may barely have finished a final edit before the print (sorry, hard drive) is couriered to the Croisette, so key art may be the last thing on a producer’s mind.The competition is full of both usual suspects (Loach, Almodóvar, Assayas, the Dardennes, Brilliante Mendoza) and some nice surprises (like the long-awaited follow-up to Neighboring Sounds by Kleber Mendonça Filho, and the first feature film in a decade from the 77-year-old Paul Verhoeven). I am especially pleased to see new films from two of my favorite filmmakers, Andrea Arnold and Maren Ade, as well as the two great Romanian auteurs Cristian Mungiu and Cristi Piui.
- 5/14/2016
- MUBI
More than a few eyebrows were raised two years ago when it was announced that the next outing by Bruno Dumont, dour auteur extraordinaire, would be a comedy. But then Li’l Quinquin screened in the Director’s Fortnight and blew everyone away, eventually coming to top Cahiers du Cinéma’s list of the year’s best films. Not only was the four-part miniseries (or four-hour film, per Cahiers) side-splittingly funny, but, surprisingly, it also made perfect sense as a Dumont film. The genre volte-face didn’t require the director to venture into unknown territory — he simply had to push his signature sternness even further to render it hilariously absurd. Hopes were therefore high for Slack Bay, which sees him continue in the same vein. Disappointingly, the film feels like someone trying very hard to imitate Li’l Quinquin, pulling off but a pallid counterfeit.
Dumont constructs most of Slack...
Dumont constructs most of Slack...
- 5/13/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Slack Bay (Ma Loute) is a one-of-a-kind outing from perennially outre French auteur Bruno Dumont, a stylized slapstick art film that comingles in-bred upper-class twits and murderous roughneck fishermen on the northern French coast, circa 1910; it’s like an unholy alliance between Jacques Tati and Euro-period Joseph Losey, one that will justifiably cause many viewers to wonder, What have we just seen? More weirdly fascinating than genuinely good, this beautifully made, bracingly eccentric and often arch film will generate a measure of strong support but will bewilder more than entrance most traditional art-house
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- 5/13/2016
- by Todd McCarthy
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bruno Dumont, the former high priest of French seriousness, has successfully shifted to slapstick and pratfalls in this crime comedy set during the Belle Époque
Is there a more extraordinary auteur career than that of Bruno Dumont? Having started as one of Europe’s foremost purveyors of extreme cinema and extreme seriousness, he made a startling move to wacky broad comedy, and is handling it as if to the manner born. Now he gives us Ma Loute, or Slack Bay, a macabre pastoral entertainment by the seaside from the belle époque: it’s an old-fashioned provincial comedy with something of Clochemerle, a world in which everyone seems to have drunk their bodyweight in absinthe. There’s also the surreal meta-strangeness of Ken Russell’s version of The Boyfriend.
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Is there a more extraordinary auteur career than that of Bruno Dumont? Having started as one of Europe’s foremost purveyors of extreme cinema and extreme seriousness, he made a startling move to wacky broad comedy, and is handling it as if to the manner born. Now he gives us Ma Loute, or Slack Bay, a macabre pastoral entertainment by the seaside from the belle époque: it’s an old-fashioned provincial comedy with something of Clochemerle, a world in which everyone seems to have drunk their bodyweight in absinthe. There’s also the surreal meta-strangeness of Ken Russell’s version of The Boyfriend.
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- 5/13/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup for the official selection, including the Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, as well as special screenings, for the 69th edition of the festival:COMPETITIONOpening Night: Café Society (Woody Allen) [Out of Competition]Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)American Honey (Andrea Arnold)Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)La Fille Inconnue (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)Juste La Fin du Monde (Xavier Dolan)Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont)Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia)I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu)Loving (Jeff Nichols)Agassi (Park Chan-Wook)The Last Face (Sean Penn)Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)Elle (Paul Verhoeven)The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding-Refn)The Salesman (Asgha Farhadi)Un Certain REGARDOpening Film: Clash (Mohamed Diab)Varoonegi (Behnam Behzadi)Apprentice (Boo Junfeng)Voir du Pays (Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin)La Danseuse (Stéphanie Di Giusto)La...
- 4/22/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Exclusive: Organisers behind the Cannes Marché’s third Next event set to run from May 12-18 have lined up an expanded future of cinema showcase that places heavy emphasis on the fast-rising world of virtual reality.
For the first time Next events will take place at the entrance of the Village International on the Pantiero side – the site previously occupied by Canal+ – and will feature installations, interactive films, screenings, conferences and workshops on subjects such as big data, theatres of the future, and VOD opportunities.
The Next schedule will include 15 innovative companies that will conduct business at the Next Pavilion. Creative Wallonia and the Canadian Film Center will have their own corner. The full Next programme will be announced shortly.
Vr Days programme
The centerpiece is the Vr Days programme, a rich roster featuring work from the world’s leading exponents that takes place over May 15 and 16 and stems from a clamour by content creators to focus...
For the first time Next events will take place at the entrance of the Village International on the Pantiero side – the site previously occupied by Canal+ – and will feature installations, interactive films, screenings, conferences and workshops on subjects such as big data, theatres of the future, and VOD opportunities.
The Next schedule will include 15 innovative companies that will conduct business at the Next Pavilion. Creative Wallonia and the Canadian Film Center will have their own corner. The full Next programme will be announced shortly.
Vr Days programme
The centerpiece is the Vr Days programme, a rich roster featuring work from the world’s leading exponents that takes place over May 15 and 16 and stems from a clamour by content creators to focus...
- 4/20/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Check out the trailers for films set to play at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
This page will be updated with further trailers are they are released…
CompetitionSlack Bay (Ma Loute) - Bruno Dumont
Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi star in this quirky period comedy-drama about a series of mysterious tourist disappearances.
Julieta - Pedro Almodóvar
Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte both play the titular Julieta in this adaptation of three short stories by Pulitzer-winning Canadian author Alice Munro. [review]
The Neon Demon - Nicolas Winding Refn
Elle Fanning leads this twisted tale of a young model who moves to Los Angeles to forge her career.
The Handmaiden (Agassi) - Park Chan-Wook
(No English trailer available as of yet)
Based on Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, this Korean drama follows an heiress who falls in love with a petty thief.
Out Of CompetitionThe Bfg - Steven Spielberg
Spielberg reunites with Oscar-winner Mark Rylance for this adaptation...
This page will be updated with further trailers are they are released…
CompetitionSlack Bay (Ma Loute) - Bruno Dumont
Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi star in this quirky period comedy-drama about a series of mysterious tourist disappearances.
Julieta - Pedro Almodóvar
Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte both play the titular Julieta in this adaptation of three short stories by Pulitzer-winning Canadian author Alice Munro. [review]
The Neon Demon - Nicolas Winding Refn
Elle Fanning leads this twisted tale of a young model who moves to Los Angeles to forge her career.
The Handmaiden (Agassi) - Park Chan-Wook
(No English trailer available as of yet)
Based on Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, this Korean drama follows an heiress who falls in love with a petty thief.
Out Of CompetitionThe Bfg - Steven Spielberg
Spielberg reunites with Oscar-winner Mark Rylance for this adaptation...
- 4/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
Kieran, here. The Cannes film festival is a peculiar animal. Its relation to the Oscar race (it's April, so I'm allowed to mention it again) is nebulous. While the festival raerly fails to deliver at least a few titles that will net multiple nominations, it's hardly the launching pad into awards season in a way similar to Toronto or (in more recent years) Telluride. And truthfully, that's one of the things that makes it so compelling to follow. Regardless of whatever criticisms one can levy against Cannes, it's hard to deny that it clearly has its own rich history and identity with different motives on its mind compared to many high profile festivals.
The lineup for the festival is replete with interesting cinematic offerings. There are certain directors who can always garner a slot on the roster (*uses quiet voice* regardles of the quality of the actual film). Even still,...
The lineup for the festival is replete with interesting cinematic offerings. There are certain directors who can always garner a slot on the roster (*uses quiet voice* regardles of the quality of the actual film). Even still,...
- 4/14/2016
- by Kieran Scarlett
- FilmExperience
2016 looks like a good vintage: Screen’s chief critic and reviews editor Fionnuala Halligan dissects this year’s Competition lineup…
Advance word on the Cannes Competition line-up was muted this year, and smoke signals from Paris indicated that the selection was running very close to the line. Thierry Fremaux talked at the launch press conference about “loyalty” and “risk-taking” in the same breath. While these aren’t two words which tend to mix well at Cannes, the festival’s 2016 line-up certainly promises to deliver fresh film-making. “We know the risks we are taking,” said Fremaux.
There’s little doubt that Cannes 2016 looks like a good vintage. Typically of a festival which always surprises, there’s no way to tell if this will be a good, bad, or - worst of all - indifferent mix until we taste. One note we won’t apparently be savouring in the Competition, however, is a sense of France and its relationship...
Advance word on the Cannes Competition line-up was muted this year, and smoke signals from Paris indicated that the selection was running very close to the line. Thierry Fremaux talked at the launch press conference about “loyalty” and “risk-taking” in the same breath. While these aren’t two words which tend to mix well at Cannes, the festival’s 2016 line-up certainly promises to deliver fresh film-making. “We know the risks we are taking,” said Fremaux.
There’s little doubt that Cannes 2016 looks like a good vintage. Typically of a festival which always surprises, there’s no way to tell if this will be a good, bad, or - worst of all - indifferent mix until we taste. One note we won’t apparently be savouring in the Competition, however, is a sense of France and its relationship...
- 4/14/2016
- by finn.halligan@screendaily.com (Fionnuala Halligan)
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Film Festival, opening May 11 with Woody Allen's Café Society, has announced the lineup for its Official Selection. Among the contenders for the Palme d'Or this year will be Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s La fille inconnue, Xavier Dolan’s Juste la fin du Monde, Bruno Dumont’s Ma Loute, Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, Jeff Nichols’s Loving, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/14/2016
- Keyframe
The Cannes Film Festival, opening May 11 with Woody Allen's Café Society, has announced the lineup for its Official Selection. Among the contenders for the Palme d'Or this year will be Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s La fille inconnue, Xavier Dolan’s Juste la fin du Monde, Bruno Dumont’s Ma Loute, Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, Jeff Nichols’s Loving, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle, Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 4/14/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
The line-up of the 69th Cannes Film Festival in full.
At a press conference this morning, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure revealed 49 films selected for inclusion in this year’s festival, set to run May 11-22.
The annoncement was delayed by a peaceful protest at the Ugc Normandie movie theatre on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. A tweet from the festival said: “Due to an intervention of Entertaintement workers, the announcement of the Selection is slightly delayed. Stay with us!”
As previously announced, Woody Allen’s Café Society will open the festival on May 11.
Also previously announced, the competition jury will be presided over by Australian director George Miller, whose Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road received its world premiere at Cannes last year.
Competition
Jury chair: George Miller
Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade (Germany)Julieta, Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)American Honey, Andrea Arnold (UK)Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas (France)The Unknown Girl (La Fille Inconnue), Jean-Pierre Dardenne & [link...
At a press conference this morning, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux and president Pierre Lescure revealed 49 films selected for inclusion in this year’s festival, set to run May 11-22.
The annoncement was delayed by a peaceful protest at the Ugc Normandie movie theatre on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. A tweet from the festival said: “Due to an intervention of Entertaintement workers, the announcement of the Selection is slightly delayed. Stay with us!”
As previously announced, Woody Allen’s Café Society will open the festival on May 11.
Also previously announced, the competition jury will be presided over by Australian director George Miller, whose Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road received its world premiere at Cannes last year.
Competition
Jury chair: George Miller
Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade (Germany)Julieta, Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)American Honey, Andrea Arnold (UK)Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas (France)The Unknown Girl (La Fille Inconnue), Jean-Pierre Dardenne & [link...
- 4/14/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Memento releases English-subtitled trailer for Bruno Dumont’s quirky period-whodunnit, starring Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has released the first English-language subtitled trailer for Bruno Dumont’s quirky period comedy-drama Slack Bay (Ma Loute), ahead of its release in May.
Set in the summer of 1910 on the rolling beaches of the northern French coast, the potential Cannes title revolves around a series of mysterious tourist disappearances and two local families, the curious fisherman clan, the Bréforts, and the eccentric, bourgeois Van Peteghems, who spend every summer in their imposing holiday mansion overlooking the bay.
When one of the Bréfort sons, Ma Loute, and the mischievous, teenage Billie Van Peteghem fall in love, the lives of both families are shaken to the core.
Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi head a large ensemble cast.
The new trailer reveals a quirky drama in which the majestic backdrops of France...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has released the first English-language subtitled trailer for Bruno Dumont’s quirky period comedy-drama Slack Bay (Ma Loute), ahead of its release in May.
Set in the summer of 1910 on the rolling beaches of the northern French coast, the potential Cannes title revolves around a series of mysterious tourist disappearances and two local families, the curious fisherman clan, the Bréforts, and the eccentric, bourgeois Van Peteghems, who spend every summer in their imposing holiday mansion overlooking the bay.
When one of the Bréfort sons, Ma Loute, and the mischievous, teenage Billie Van Peteghem fall in love, the lives of both families are shaken to the core.
Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi head a large ensemble cast.
The new trailer reveals a quirky drama in which the majestic backdrops of France...
- 3/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Memento releases English-subtitled trailer for quirky period-whodunnit, starring Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has released the first English-language subtitled trailer for Bruno Dumont’s quirky period comedy-drama Slack Bay (Ma Loute), ahead of its release in May.
Speculation is rife that the film will premiere in Official Selection at Cannes but the Paris-based sales company would not comment on its chances. Its May 11 release date in France, by sister company Memento Distribution, suggests, however, that it will make its debut at the festival.
Set in the summer of 1910 on the rolling beaches of the northern French coast, the film revolves around a series of mysterious tourist disappearances and two local families, the curious fisherman clan, the Bréforts, and the eccentric, bourgeois Van Peteghems, who spend every summer in their imposing holiday mansion overlooking the bay.
When one of the Bréfort sons, Ma Loute, and the mischievous...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has released the first English-language subtitled trailer for Bruno Dumont’s quirky period comedy-drama Slack Bay (Ma Loute), ahead of its release in May.
Speculation is rife that the film will premiere in Official Selection at Cannes but the Paris-based sales company would not comment on its chances. Its May 11 release date in France, by sister company Memento Distribution, suggests, however, that it will make its debut at the festival.
Set in the summer of 1910 on the rolling beaches of the northern French coast, the film revolves around a series of mysterious tourist disappearances and two local families, the curious fisherman clan, the Bréforts, and the eccentric, bourgeois Van Peteghems, who spend every summer in their imposing holiday mansion overlooking the bay.
When one of the Bréfort sons, Ma Loute, and the mischievous...
- 3/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
Following his epic drama Li’l Quinquin — one of last year’s most overlooked films — director Bruno Dumont returns this year with a new feature, and while it may be on the smaller scale, it looks to have just as much of his personality. One of our most-anticipated films of the year, Ma Loute (aka Slack Bay) is described as a quirky, dark period comedy following an investigation into a series of mysterious disappearances on the beaches of northern France.
Led by his Camille Claudel star Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the first trailer has now arrived. Even without subtitles as of now, one can see a number of visually inventive scenarios and strong personalities across the ensemble. With a debut in France in early May, this one is all but confirmed for the Cannes Film Festival, so as we await the official news, check out the trailer below,...
Led by his Camille Claudel star Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the first trailer has now arrived. Even without subtitles as of now, one can see a number of visually inventive scenarios and strong personalities across the ensemble. With a debut in France in early May, this one is all but confirmed for the Cannes Film Festival, so as we await the official news, check out the trailer below,...
- 3/30/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.News"Once upon a time, two people met.A woman, a man… Their memory has almost been erased.All that’s left is a picture… torn, faded, almost gone.Cinema is not eternal but it does sometimes escape oblivion. And it is possible to restore a picture.And what will there be then between these two characters who perhaps stepped out of an English or Italian comedy or an Éric Rohmer film?When you see a poster like this, your imagination fills in the blanks, just like it does at the movies."—Édouard Waintrop, Artistic Director of the Directors’ Fortnight, about its 2016 posterSpeaking of Cannes, the festival has revealed its Opening Night Film, Woody Allen's Café Society, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, and shot by the great Vittorio Storaro.
- 3/30/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Exclusive: Producer of Rafi Pitts’ Berlinale Competition title is lining up several new projects.
Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, the German producer of Rafi Pitts’ Berlinale Competition title Soy Nero [pictured], is lining up projects from Israel and Cyprus.
Twenty Twenty’s managing director Thanassis Karathanos told Screen that principal photography on Israeli filmmaker Veronica Kedar’s Family began at locations in the German city of Halle last week.
Although the film’s story is set in Israel, Family will be shot completely in Germany. It marks another collaboration for Karathanos with Mosh Danon’s Inosan Productions after working together on Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s 2009 film Ajami.
Kedar’s second feature had been pitched at the 2014 edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market where Twenty Twenty’s second project, Christos Georgiou’s Happy Birthday, was also presented to potential co-producers.
A March start is planned for the shooting of Georgiou’s first feature since the 2008 comedy Small Crime and...
Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, the German producer of Rafi Pitts’ Berlinale Competition title Soy Nero [pictured], is lining up projects from Israel and Cyprus.
Twenty Twenty’s managing director Thanassis Karathanos told Screen that principal photography on Israeli filmmaker Veronica Kedar’s Family began at locations in the German city of Halle last week.
Although the film’s story is set in Israel, Family will be shot completely in Germany. It marks another collaboration for Karathanos with Mosh Danon’s Inosan Productions after working together on Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s 2009 film Ajami.
Kedar’s second feature had been pitched at the 2014 edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market where Twenty Twenty’s second project, Christos Georgiou’s Happy Birthday, was also presented to potential co-producers.
A March start is planned for the shooting of Georgiou’s first feature since the 2008 comedy Small Crime and...
- 2/14/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Ma Loute
Director: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont
After making his first foray into television with 2014’s wonderfully strange Li’l Quinquin (read review), Bruno Dumont returns to another dark comedy vehicle with Ma Loute (Slack Bay), a period piece set in the summer of 1910. The disappearance of tourists lead two inspectors to explore a seaside resort in Pas de Calais, where two very different families have managed to become wrapped up in these strange circumstances. Dumont reunites with Juliette Binoche, who last starred in his 2013 Camille Claudel, 1915, and she’s joined notably by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Fabrice Luchini (who won Best Actor in Venice 2015 for L’hermine).
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Luc Vincent
Production Co./Producer: 3B Productions’ Jean Bréhat (Li’l Quinquin).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Memento Films (international).
Release Date: Dumont has appeared at Cannes five times, winning a special mention for...
Director: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont
After making his first foray into television with 2014’s wonderfully strange Li’l Quinquin (read review), Bruno Dumont returns to another dark comedy vehicle with Ma Loute (Slack Bay), a period piece set in the summer of 1910. The disappearance of tourists lead two inspectors to explore a seaside resort in Pas de Calais, where two very different families have managed to become wrapped up in these strange circumstances. Dumont reunites with Juliette Binoche, who last starred in his 2013 Camille Claudel, 1915, and she’s joined notably by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Fabrice Luchini (who won Best Actor in Venice 2015 for L’hermine).
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Luc Vincent
Production Co./Producer: 3B Productions’ Jean Bréhat (Li’l Quinquin).
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Memento Films (international).
Release Date: Dumont has appeared at Cannes five times, winning a special mention for...
- 1/13/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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