The life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th century France, will be played by Melanie Laurent in a sprawling period movie directed by Fabienne Berthaud.
“Rosa Bonheur” is being produced by Carole Scotta, Barbara Letellier and Caroline Benjo at Haut et Court, the company behind “Coco Before Chanel” and “The Night of the 12th,” which won a raft of Cesar Awards last year.
The biopic reteams Haut et Court with Berthaud following her previous films, notably Diane Kruger starrer ”Lily Sometimes,” which played at Cannes’ Director’s fortnight in 2010, and 2019’s ”A Bigger World,” starring Cecile de France, which bowed at Venice. Haut et Court will also distribute “Rosa Bonheur” in France.
The movie will shoot on location in Bonheur’s well-preserved atelier at her Château de By in Thomery, where she worked and lived for over 40 years, alongside her partner Nathalie...
“Rosa Bonheur” is being produced by Carole Scotta, Barbara Letellier and Caroline Benjo at Haut et Court, the company behind “Coco Before Chanel” and “The Night of the 12th,” which won a raft of Cesar Awards last year.
The biopic reteams Haut et Court with Berthaud following her previous films, notably Diane Kruger starrer ”Lily Sometimes,” which played at Cannes’ Director’s fortnight in 2010, and 2019’s ”A Bigger World,” starring Cecile de France, which bowed at Venice. Haut et Court will also distribute “Rosa Bonheur” in France.
The movie will shoot on location in Bonheur’s well-preserved atelier at her Château de By in Thomery, where she worked and lived for over 40 years, alongside her partner Nathalie...
- 2/15/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
French sales companies are getting behind Mia’s film and TV market in Rome this week.
French sales companies will be out in force at Rome’s Mia film and TV market (October 13-17) as the global film and TV market circuit continues to shift due to the pandemic Covid-19.
French sellers have been busy networking at the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals this autumn, but Mia represents the first physical market since Cannes in July for most after only a handful of European professionals made the trip to Toronto in September.
Mia will also be the last opportunity...
French sales companies will be out in force at Rome’s Mia film and TV market (October 13-17) as the global film and TV market circuit continues to shift due to the pandemic Covid-19.
French sellers have been busy networking at the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals this autumn, but Mia represents the first physical market since Cannes in July for most after only a handful of European professionals made the trip to Toronto in September.
Mia will also be the last opportunity...
- 10/12/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
France Televisions Distribution has scored a raft of sales on Juliette Binoche starrer “Between Two Worlds” ahead of its world premiere on opening night of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.
“Between Two Worlds” (Ouistreham), adapted from Florence Aubenas’ bestseller “Le Quai de Ouistreham,” stars Binoche as Marianne Winckler, a well-known author who decides to write a book on job insecurity and sets off to experience it firsthand. As she becomes a cleaning lady, she discovers a precarious life and finds herself invisible in society, but also forges genuine bonds with some of her companions in misfortune. These friendships are put to the test when the truth comes out.
The movie has already lured a flurry of distributors in key markets, including Karma Films (Spain), Teodora Film (Italy), Bestfilm.eu (Baltics), Nachshon Films & Red Cape (Israel), Providence Filmes (Latin America), Av-jet International Media Co. (Taïwan), Madman (Australia/New Zealand), Cineart (Benelux) and Frenetic Films...
“Between Two Worlds” (Ouistreham), adapted from Florence Aubenas’ bestseller “Le Quai de Ouistreham,” stars Binoche as Marianne Winckler, a well-known author who decides to write a book on job insecurity and sets off to experience it firsthand. As she becomes a cleaning lady, she discovers a precarious life and finds herself invisible in society, but also forges genuine bonds with some of her companions in misfortune. These friendships are put to the test when the truth comes out.
The movie has already lured a flurry of distributors in key markets, including Karma Films (Spain), Teodora Film (Italy), Bestfilm.eu (Baltics), Nachshon Films & Red Cape (Israel), Providence Filmes (Latin America), Av-jet International Media Co. (Taïwan), Madman (Australia/New Zealand), Cineart (Benelux) and Frenetic Films...
- 6/9/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Social drama revolves around an 11-year-old boy living in a mobile home with his mother on the edge of the woods.
France tv distribution has boarded sales on French director Fabienne Berthaud’s upcoming social drama Little Man Tom and Sylvie Audcoeur’s psychological thriller An Ordinary Mother, starring Karin Viard.
The film and TV sales division of French state broadcaster will introduce both titles to the market at the upcoming EFM (March 1-5).
Little Man Tom is the fifth feature of writer and director Berthaud and follows her 2019 Mongolia-set drama A Bigger World.
It is adapted from the 2017 novel...
France tv distribution has boarded sales on French director Fabienne Berthaud’s upcoming social drama Little Man Tom and Sylvie Audcoeur’s psychological thriller An Ordinary Mother, starring Karin Viard.
The film and TV sales division of French state broadcaster will introduce both titles to the market at the upcoming EFM (March 1-5).
Little Man Tom is the fifth feature of writer and director Berthaud and follows her 2019 Mongolia-set drama A Bigger World.
It is adapted from the 2017 novel...
- 2/25/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Hauts-de-France region will also back films in production Soumission by Guillaume Nicloux, Saint-Omer by Alice Diop and Murder Party by Nicolas Pleskof. Three feature films have been earmarked for production support during the latest funding session held by Pictanovo, the Hauts-de-France’s regional agency dedicated to film and audiovisual creation. Shining bright among them is Tom, which will be Fabienne Berthaud’s 5th full-length work following Frankie (2006), Lily Sometimes (Directors’ Fortnight 2010), Sky (Toronto’s Platform competition in 2015) and A Bigger World (Venice Days in the Venice Film Festival 2019). Written by the director alongside Gladys Marciano and Pascal Arnold, the screenplay is an adaptation of Barbara Constantine’s novel Tom petit Tom tout petit homme Tom. The story revolves around 11-year-old Tom who lives in an old mobile home with his young mother, Joss. With her love for parties and weekends away with friends, Tom often finds himself alone, and.
Showcasing the wide scope and many nuances of French comedies, Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Lost Prince,” “Mama Weed” with Isabelle Huppert (pictured), “The Lion” with Dany Boon, and “Welcome to the Jungle” with Catherine Deneuve are having their market premieres at the 22nd edition of the UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris, which runs Jan. 16-20.
Sold by Studiocanal, “The Lost Prince” is fantasy-filled family comedy headlined by Omar Sy (“Intouchables), François Damiens (“Heartbreaker”) and Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”).
“Mama Weed” directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, is a crime comedy starring Huppert, the Oscar-nominated actress, as a French-Arabic translator working for the anti-drug squad in Paris. Le Pacte is handling international sales.
“The Lion” is an action comedy about Romain (Philippe Katerine), a psychologist who is fascinated by his patient, Leo Milan (Boon), who claims to be a highly-trained international spy.
Helmed by Hugo Benamozig and David Caviglioli,...
Sold by Studiocanal, “The Lost Prince” is fantasy-filled family comedy headlined by Omar Sy (“Intouchables), François Damiens (“Heartbreaker”) and Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”).
“Mama Weed” directed by Jean-Paul Salomé, is a crime comedy starring Huppert, the Oscar-nominated actress, as a French-Arabic translator working for the anti-drug squad in Paris. Le Pacte is handling international sales.
“The Lion” is an action comedy about Romain (Philippe Katerine), a psychologist who is fascinated by his patient, Leo Milan (Boon), who claims to be a highly-trained international spy.
Helmed by Hugo Benamozig and David Caviglioli,...
- 1/17/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Producers previously struck deals on spiritual tale for France, Belgium, Switzerland.
WaZabi Films has reported a strong response from buyers at Venice Days to Fabienne Berthaud’s A Bigger World and has struck key deals following the world premiere.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s new Montreal-based sales company has licensed rights in Germany and Austria to Mfa+, after the producers closed earlier deals with Haut et Court for France, Scope for Benelux, and Jmh for Switzerland.
A Bigger World (Un Monde Plus Grand) stars Cécile de France as Corine, who leaves Paris to spend a few weeks in Mongolia...
WaZabi Films has reported a strong response from buyers at Venice Days to Fabienne Berthaud’s A Bigger World and has struck key deals following the world premiere.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s new Montreal-based sales company has licensed rights in Germany and Austria to Mfa+, after the producers closed earlier deals with Haut et Court for France, Scope for Benelux, and Jmh for Switzerland.
A Bigger World (Un Monde Plus Grand) stars Cécile de France as Corine, who leaves Paris to spend a few weeks in Mongolia...
- 9/2/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A full-blown nosedive into the rites of Mongolian shamans may not be for everyone, but it’s certainly for Corine (Cécile de France), the heroine of French writer-director Fabienne Berthaud’s latest feature, A Bigger World (Un monde plus grand).
Based on a true story, although we unfortunately don’t learn this until the closing credits, the film follows a sound engineer’s long journey from grieving widow to a woman with unique spiritual powers she learns to harness for her own good. It’s hard to believe at times, and some of the drama can be heavy-handed, but de ...
Based on a true story, although we unfortunately don’t learn this until the closing credits, the film follows a sound engineer’s long journey from grieving widow to a woman with unique spiritual powers she learns to harness for her own good. It’s hard to believe at times, and some of the drama can be heavy-handed, but de ...
- 8/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A full-blown nosedive into the rites of Mongolian shamans may not be for everyone, but it’s certainly for Corine (Cécile de France), the heroine of French writer-director Fabienne Berthaud’s latest feature, A Bigger World (Un monde plus grand).
Based on a true story, although we unfortunately don’t learn this until the closing credits, the film follows a sound engineer’s long journey from grieving widow to a woman with unique spiritual powers she learns to harness for her own good. It’s hard to believe at times, and some of the drama can be heavy-handed, but de ...
Based on a true story, although we unfortunately don’t learn this until the closing credits, the film follows a sound engineer’s long journey from grieving widow to a woman with unique spiritual powers she learns to harness for her own good. It’s hard to believe at times, and some of the drama can be heavy-handed, but de ...
- 8/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Production in Tasmania scheduled for spring 2020.
WaZabi Films co-founders Anick Poirier and Lorne Price continue to assemble a prestige slate and on the eve of Venice and Toronto have boarded sales on zombie thriller Devil Inside to star Australian talents Rachael Taylor and Ryan Kwanten.
Jonathan auf der Heide will direct, while David Ngo produces, and Bryce Menzies (Hotel Mumbai) and Clement Dunn (Ghost Hunters) are the executive producers. Oscar-winning New South Wales-based prosthetics and effects aces Odd Studio, which has worked on Mad Max: Fury Road and Alien: Covenant among many others, has also come on board.
The elevated...
WaZabi Films co-founders Anick Poirier and Lorne Price continue to assemble a prestige slate and on the eve of Venice and Toronto have boarded sales on zombie thriller Devil Inside to star Australian talents Rachael Taylor and Ryan Kwanten.
Jonathan auf der Heide will direct, while David Ngo produces, and Bryce Menzies (Hotel Mumbai) and Clement Dunn (Ghost Hunters) are the executive producers. Oscar-winning New South Wales-based prosthetics and effects aces Odd Studio, which has worked on Mad Max: Fury Road and Alien: Covenant among many others, has also come on board.
The elevated...
- 8/28/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Oualid Mouaness’ drama joins Sophie Deraspe’s Contemporary World Cinema entry Antigone on Tiff slate.
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s new sales agency WaZabi Films has announced its first acquisition, picking up the majority of worldwide rights to Lebanon-set 1982 starring Nadine Labaki ahead of its world premiere in Tiff Discovery next month.
Oualid Mouaness’ feature debut takes place against the backdrop of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and is set at a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, as 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate he loves her.
Meanwhile his teachers – on different sides of the political spectrum...
Anick Poirier and Lorne Price’s new sales agency WaZabi Films has announced its first acquisition, picking up the majority of worldwide rights to Lebanon-set 1982 starring Nadine Labaki ahead of its world premiere in Tiff Discovery next month.
Oualid Mouaness’ feature debut takes place against the backdrop of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and is set at a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, as 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate he loves her.
Meanwhile his teachers – on different sides of the political spectrum...
- 8/16/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Venice Film Festival has announced the selections for its 76th edition, which is set to take place from August 29 to September 7. The announcement marks the week’s second major film festival lineup to confirm titles following the Toronto International Film Festival. With both official selections for Venice and Tiff now revealed, the upcoming 2019-20 awards season is quickly taking shape.
As previously announced, Venice 2019 will open with the world premiere of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film “The Truth.” The family drama stars Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve, and Ethan Hawke. “The Truth” is Kore-eda’s first directorial effort since winning the Palme d’Or in 2018 with “Shoplifters.” This year’s festival will close with “The Burnt Orange Heresy,” the latest feature from Giuseppe Capotondi. The movie stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, and Mick Jagger.
Venice has already announced that Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel will serve as the president of this year’s competition jury.
As previously announced, Venice 2019 will open with the world premiere of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film “The Truth.” The family drama stars Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve, and Ethan Hawke. “The Truth” is Kore-eda’s first directorial effort since winning the Palme d’Or in 2018 with “Shoplifters.” This year’s festival will close with “The Burnt Orange Heresy,” the latest feature from Giuseppe Capotondi. The movie stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, and Mick Jagger.
Venice has already announced that Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel will serve as the president of this year’s competition jury.
- 7/25/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
After competing in Berlin earlier this year with Tremors, Guatemalan helmer Jayro Bustamante can say 2019 was a stupendous year (with two films premiering at major fests) as he is among the eleven filmmakers in the 2019 Giornate degli Autori section at the Venice Film Festival. Bustamante’s La llorona will measure up against the likes of Dominik Moll (Seules Les Bêtes starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), Fabienne Berthaud (Un Monde Plus Grand starring her muse Cécile De France) and Manele Labidi‘s directorial debut starring Golshifteh Farahani. Section topper Giorgio Gosetti sees competing films compete for the Europa Cinemas Label, the Bnl-bnp Paribas Audience Award, the GdA Director’s Award assigned by the jury of the Giornate and the Future Lion award.…...
- 7/23/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Independent strand of Venice festival selects 11 titles for its competition.
The world premiere of Dominik Moll’s Only The Animals will open Venice Days, the independent strand of the Venice film festival that will run alongside the festival from August 28 - September 7.
Moll’s film will play in competition, alongside 10 other titles, while Bartabas’ Time Of The Untamed will close the festival, out of competition.
German-born French director Moll’s previous credits include With A Friend Like Harry, which premiered at Cannes in 2000 and was Bafta nominated.
Elsewhere, Italian graphic novelist and director Igort (Igor Tuveri) premieres his crime drama 5 Is The Perfect Number,...
The world premiere of Dominik Moll’s Only The Animals will open Venice Days, the independent strand of the Venice film festival that will run alongside the festival from August 28 - September 7.
Moll’s film will play in competition, alongside 10 other titles, while Bartabas’ Time Of The Untamed will close the festival, out of competition.
German-born French director Moll’s previous credits include With A Friend Like Harry, which premiered at Cannes in 2000 and was Bafta nominated.
Elsewhere, Italian graphic novelist and director Igort (Igor Tuveri) premieres his crime drama 5 Is The Perfect Number,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days sidebar has unveiled its 2019 lineup with 11 movies in competition.
The section, which is modeled after Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, comprises six first features and four films directed by women.
Competition highlights include Dominik Moll’s Seules Les Bêtes, which will open the strand on Wednesday, August 28; Jayro Bustamante’s La llorona; Japanese actor Joe Odagiri’s feature directorial debut They Say Nothing Stays the Same; and Fabienne Berthaud’s Un Monde Plus Grand, starring Cécile de France.
Also in competition, Corpus Christi comes from Polish director Jan Komasa; family saga Beware Of Children is by Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud; Un Divan à Tunis, starring Golshifteh Farahani, is by Manele Labidi; Laos’ Venice debut comes with The Long Walk by Mattie Do; and U.S.-Philippines co-production Lingua Franca comes from Isabel Sandoval.
Comics artist Igort’s 5 è Il Numero Perfetto stars Toni Servillo,...
The section, which is modeled after Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, comprises six first features and four films directed by women.
Competition highlights include Dominik Moll’s Seules Les Bêtes, which will open the strand on Wednesday, August 28; Jayro Bustamante’s La llorona; Japanese actor Joe Odagiri’s feature directorial debut They Say Nothing Stays the Same; and Fabienne Berthaud’s Un Monde Plus Grand, starring Cécile de France.
Also in competition, Corpus Christi comes from Polish director Jan Komasa; family saga Beware Of Children is by Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud; Un Divan à Tunis, starring Golshifteh Farahani, is by Manele Labidi; Laos’ Venice debut comes with The Long Walk by Mattie Do; and U.S.-Philippines co-production Lingua Franca comes from Isabel Sandoval.
Comics artist Igort’s 5 è Il Numero Perfetto stars Toni Servillo,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
New York-based Filipina filmmaker Isabel Sandoval’s “Lingua Franca,” about a transgender immigrant, is among 11 competition entries, all world premieres, that will launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section.
The only U.S. entry set to compete in the section modeled on Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, “Lingua Franca” is Sandoval’s third work. It follows “Apparition” (2012), a period drama about cloistered Filipina nuns praised by Variety’s Richard Kuipers as an “outstanding sophomore feature.”
Produced by Tony- and Grammy-winning Filipino producer Jhett Tolentino, and by Darlene Malimas and Carlo Velayo, “Lingua Franca” is set in Brighton Beach, New York, where a transgender Filipina immigrant named Olivia – played by Sandoval, who is herself transgender – scrambles to avoid deportation. She becomes involved with a Russian slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s trans.
Venice Days artistic director Giorgio Gosetti said that this year’s selection is characterized...
The only U.S. entry set to compete in the section modeled on Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, “Lingua Franca” is Sandoval’s third work. It follows “Apparition” (2012), a period drama about cloistered Filipina nuns praised by Variety’s Richard Kuipers as an “outstanding sophomore feature.”
Produced by Tony- and Grammy-winning Filipino producer Jhett Tolentino, and by Darlene Malimas and Carlo Velayo, “Lingua Franca” is set in Brighton Beach, New York, where a transgender Filipina immigrant named Olivia – played by Sandoval, who is herself transgender – scrambles to avoid deportation. She becomes involved with a Russian slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s trans.
Venice Days artistic director Giorgio Gosetti said that this year’s selection is characterized...
- 7/23/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The ‘bible’ for the series is being written by fellow novelist Douglas Kennedy.
Prolific Belgian producer and tax shelter financier Scope Invest, which has five projects in Official Selection in Cannes, is hatching an ambitious new Cold War series, Expo 58, based on the novel of the same name by bestselling UK writer Jonathan Coe. The ‘bible’ for the series is being written by fellow novelist Douglas Kennedy.
The story is set during the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. It follows a British employee at the Central Office of Information assigned to oversee the creation of an authentic British pub at...
Prolific Belgian producer and tax shelter financier Scope Invest, which has five projects in Official Selection in Cannes, is hatching an ambitious new Cold War series, Expo 58, based on the novel of the same name by bestselling UK writer Jonathan Coe. The ‘bible’ for the series is being written by fellow novelist Douglas Kennedy.
The story is set during the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. It follows a British employee at the Central Office of Information assigned to oversee the creation of an authentic British pub at...
- 5/17/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Co-written with Claire Barre, this is Berthaud’s fourth feature after Frankie, Lily Sometimes and Sky.
Celluloid Dreams has released a first image of Belgian actress Cécile de France in the role of a woman who discovers she has shamanistic abilities during a trip to Mongolia in French filmmaker Fabienne Berthaud’s upcoming feature A Bigger World (Un Monde Plus Grand).
The feature is based on the real-life experiences of Corine Sombrun, a French musician and composer who made a similar discovery while on assignment as a sound recordist for the BBC World Service in Mongolia in 2001.
Sombrun’s abilities...
Celluloid Dreams has released a first image of Belgian actress Cécile de France in the role of a woman who discovers she has shamanistic abilities during a trip to Mongolia in French filmmaker Fabienne Berthaud’s upcoming feature A Bigger World (Un Monde Plus Grand).
The feature is based on the real-life experiences of Corine Sombrun, a French musician and composer who made a similar discovery while on assignment as a sound recordist for the BBC World Service in Mongolia in 2001.
Sombrun’s abilities...
- 9/6/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Diane Kruger atop the Majestic Hotel in Cannes Photo: Kering Women in Motion
She could be compared to a cross between Grace Kelly and Carole Lombard. Diane Kruger, 38, who won best actress at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, has gone from being a top model to respected actress in a relatively short time. She intersperses big budget outings such as Troy and Inglourious Basterds with European films among them Alice Winocour’s Disorder; as Marie Antoinette in Benoit Jacquot’s Farewell, My Queen and Fabienne Berthaud’s Sky, about a contemporary French woman who strikes out on her own in the American West. She was a mainstay for two seasons in the American remake of the Scandi-noir series The Bridge, transposed to the border between the Us and Mexico.
She speaks her native German for the first time in Cannes Competition entry In The Fade by German film-maker with Turkish roots Fatih Akin,...
She could be compared to a cross between Grace Kelly and Carole Lombard. Diane Kruger, 38, who won best actress at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, has gone from being a top model to respected actress in a relatively short time. She intersperses big budget outings such as Troy and Inglourious Basterds with European films among them Alice Winocour’s Disorder; as Marie Antoinette in Benoit Jacquot’s Farewell, My Queen and Fabienne Berthaud’s Sky, about a contemporary French woman who strikes out on her own in the American West. She was a mainstay for two seasons in the American remake of the Scandi-noir series The Bridge, transposed to the border between the Us and Mexico.
She speaks her native German for the first time in Cannes Competition entry In The Fade by German film-maker with Turkish roots Fatih Akin,...
- 5/26/2017
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Fifth edition to host actors including Danny DeVito and will open with El Destierro; Oasis doc to get special screening.
The fifth Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (Emiff, November 3-12) is to pay tribute to Us comedy actor and filmmaker, Danny DeVito.
As the centrepiece of the festival, DeVito will receive the inaugural ‘Evolution Honorary Award’. To tie in with the event, there will be a special screening of DeVito’s celebrated battle of the sexes comedy War Of The Roses, followed by an on-stage conversation with the actor.
Other highlights of the growing event, which takes place in Palma in the heart of Mallorca, have also now been confirmed.
The Opening Night gala is El Destierro, produced by local Goya nominated filmmakers Toni Bestard, Marcos Cabotá and Diana de la Cuadra. There will be narrative and documentary competition sections, a Drive in Cinema section at Port Adriano, and a Virtual Reality Zone at Co Co & Cia...
The fifth Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (Emiff, November 3-12) is to pay tribute to Us comedy actor and filmmaker, Danny DeVito.
As the centrepiece of the festival, DeVito will receive the inaugural ‘Evolution Honorary Award’. To tie in with the event, there will be a special screening of DeVito’s celebrated battle of the sexes comedy War Of The Roses, followed by an on-stage conversation with the actor.
Other highlights of the growing event, which takes place in Palma in the heart of Mallorca, have also now been confirmed.
The Opening Night gala is El Destierro, produced by local Goya nominated filmmakers Toni Bestard, Marcos Cabotá and Diana de la Cuadra. There will be narrative and documentary competition sections, a Drive in Cinema section at Port Adriano, and a Virtual Reality Zone at Co Co & Cia...
- 10/17/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
France-based German actress takes on rare German-speaking role.
Diane Kruger has signed to star in Fatih Akin’s long-gestated German-language In The Fade (Aus Dem Nichts) about a man who is tipped over the edge by his experiences of prejudice.
It is a rare German-speaking role for French-based Kruger who has built her acting career in France.
Her recent credits include Fabienne Berthaud’s Us-set couple drama Sky and Alice Winocour’s Disorder, which premiered in Un Certain Regard last year.
Fatih, who first started developing In The Fade in 2010, once described it as a sort of updated Taxi Driver.
In the meantime, the Turkish-German director has made The Cut and is currently working on post-production of Goodbye Berlin, which is set for a September release in Germany.
The new film is produced by Akin’s production company Bombero Intenational with Paris-based Macassar Productions on board as a co-producer.
It is due to shoot in the autumn...
Diane Kruger has signed to star in Fatih Akin’s long-gestated German-language In The Fade (Aus Dem Nichts) about a man who is tipped over the edge by his experiences of prejudice.
It is a rare German-speaking role for French-based Kruger who has built her acting career in France.
Her recent credits include Fabienne Berthaud’s Us-set couple drama Sky and Alice Winocour’s Disorder, which premiered in Un Certain Regard last year.
Fatih, who first started developing In The Fade in 2010, once described it as a sort of updated Taxi Driver.
In the meantime, the Turkish-German director has made The Cut and is currently working on post-production of Goodbye Berlin, which is set for a September release in Germany.
The new film is produced by Akin’s production company Bombero Intenational with Paris-based Macassar Productions on board as a co-producer.
It is due to shoot in the autumn...
- 5/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson have been together for nearly a decade, but that doesn't make filming sex scenes with costars anymore bearable. The pair costar in the new film Sky (in theaters now), directed by Kruger's longtime friend Fabienne Berthaud and also costars Lena Dunham and The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus, who plays Kruger's love interest in the film. "I didn't know [Reedus] before the film," Kruger told People at the Sky premiere in New York City Thursday night, which she attended sans Jackson. "We share a lot of intimate scenes," she revealed, "I was really nervous about meeting...
- 4/15/2016
- by Kristen Caires, @kristencaires
- PEOPLE.com
This April’s VOD offerings are a strong and eclectic bunch, including one of my favorite films out of the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, The Invitation, which arrives on digital platforms April 8th.
For you Norman Reedus fans out there, IFC releases the road thriller Sky, in which he plays a supporting role, on April 15th. The latest horror anthology, Holidays, makes its VOD bow on the same day, courtesy of Vertical Entertainment and Xyz Films, and if you dig Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, then you have The Tell-Tale Heart to look forward to on April 5th.
Other notable VOD titles for April 2016 include The Girl in the Photographs, Pandemic, The Forest, and 13 Cameras.
The Girl in the Photographs (Vertical Entertainment) – April 1st
In Nick Simon’s The Girl In The Photographs, Colleen’s life isn’t going anywhere. The small town check out girl with natural beauty is bored with...
For you Norman Reedus fans out there, IFC releases the road thriller Sky, in which he plays a supporting role, on April 15th. The latest horror anthology, Holidays, makes its VOD bow on the same day, courtesy of Vertical Entertainment and Xyz Films, and if you dig Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, then you have The Tell-Tale Heart to look forward to on April 5th.
Other notable VOD titles for April 2016 include The Girl in the Photographs, Pandemic, The Forest, and 13 Cameras.
The Girl in the Photographs (Vertical Entertainment) – April 1st
In Nick Simon’s The Girl In The Photographs, Colleen’s life isn’t going anywhere. The small town check out girl with natural beauty is bored with...
- 3/31/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Sometimes, vacations go wrong –– and sometimes, they go really wrong. It's in that latter category where Diane Kruger finds herself in "Sky," and the new trailer for the film has arrived as it prepares for its stateside debut. Read More: Watch: First International Trailer For 'Sky' Starring Diane Kruger And Norman Reedus Also featuring Norman Reedus, Gilles Lellouche, and Lena Dunham, and directed by Fabienne Berthaud, the movie follows a French woman vacationing in the United States with her husband, as they try to fix their broken marriage, but things go horribly wrong. Here's the synopsis: A French woman finds liberation in the dusty highways, wide open spaces, and smoky barrooms of the American West in this captivating road movie. Diane Kruger stars as the Parisian Romy who, while on vacation in California, breaks things off once and for all with her boorish husband (Gilles Lellouche) in a dramatic final fight.
- 3/25/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The road trip movie in which a character finds themselves across the beautiful American landscape is pretty familiar ground, but in the upcoming "Sky" starring Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus, it gets a bit of French flavor. Read More: Review: John Hillcoat's 'Triple 9' Starring Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie & Kate Winslet Directed by Fabienne Berthaud, and co-starring Gilles Lellouche, Lena Dunham, Q'orianka Kilcher, and Joshua Jackson, the film follows a French woman who breaks up with her husband and goes on a journey across the American west. Here's the synopsis: A French woman finds liberation in the dusty highways, wide open spaces, and smoky barrooms of the American West in this captivating road movie. Diane Kruger stars as the Parisian Romy who, while on vacation in California, breaks things off once and for all with her boorish husband (Gilles Lellouche) in a dramatic final fight.
- 2/26/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Read More: Exclusive 'Sky' Poster Foreshadows Haunting Tiff Drama IFC Films has acquired all North American rights to Fabienne Berthaud's first English-language film, "Sky," starring Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this year and already has releases planned in France and Germany through Haut et Court and Alamode. The drama also stars Gilles Lellouche and Q'orianka Kilcher. The official synopsis reads: "Romy (Kruger) is on holiday in the USA with her French husband, Richard (Lellouche). But the journey quickly turns into a settling of old scores for this worn out couple. After an ultimate fight, Romy decides to break free. She cuts off her ties to a stable and secure life that has become alienating and escapes to the unknown. Drifting through a noisy Las Vegas to the wondrous high desert, Romy goes on with her solitary journey, abandoning herself...
- 11/9/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Fabienne Berthaud’s first English-language film, “Sky,” a romantic drama starring Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, the company announced Monday. “Sky” tells the story of a woman’s lifelong wandering that turns into an intimate reawakening in foreign lands. The film co-stars Gilles Lellouche and Q’orianka Kilcher, and also features Lena Dunham and Joshua Jackson. Romy (Kruger) is on holiday in the U.S. with her French husband (Lellouche), but the journey quickly turns into a settling of old scores for this worn-out couple.
- 11/9/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Sky, the Toronto Film Festival pic that marks the English-language debut of Fabienne Berthaud. Diane Kruger, Norman Reedus, Gilles Lellouche and Q'orianka Kilcher star in the movie about a woman's lifelong wandering that turns into an absolute and intimate reawakening in foreign lands. Gabrielle Dumon and Bertrand Faivre produced the movie, which was co-produced by Pandora and Womonos Films in association with Ocs & Film und…...
- 11/9/2015
- Deadline
It’s the Limit: Berthaud Escapes into the Great Well Known
Actress turned director Fabienne Berthaud reunites with her favored on-screen counterpart Diane Kruger for her third feature, Sky. Following in the footsteps of several Gallic auteurs by relocating her Euro cast to the desert climes of the American Southwest, superficial comparisons to Guillaume Nicloux’s wildly underrated Valley of Love and Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms (the same locale we begin with here) fade away as Berthaud marches bravely into a problematic and curiously sexist character study. Though the film is compelling, even enigmatic in its first half, utilizing the kookiness of downtown Las Vegas and its denizens, a disappointing pallor overtakes this odyssey of self-discovery to the point where everything begins to seem haphazard and convenient. A mixture of notable cast members, some exceptionally wasted, filter throughout banalities we assume will lead to something more potent than the...
Actress turned director Fabienne Berthaud reunites with her favored on-screen counterpart Diane Kruger for her third feature, Sky. Following in the footsteps of several Gallic auteurs by relocating her Euro cast to the desert climes of the American Southwest, superficial comparisons to Guillaume Nicloux’s wildly underrated Valley of Love and Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms (the same locale we begin with here) fade away as Berthaud marches bravely into a problematic and curiously sexist character study. Though the film is compelling, even enigmatic in its first half, utilizing the kookiness of downtown Las Vegas and its denizens, a disappointing pallor overtakes this odyssey of self-discovery to the point where everything begins to seem haphazard and convenient. A mixture of notable cast members, some exceptionally wasted, filter throughout banalities we assume will lead to something more potent than the...
- 10/2/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Sky
Written by Fabienne Berthaud & Pascal Arnold
Directed by Fabienne Berthaud
France/Germany, 2015
For her latest film Sky, French director Fabienne Berthaud once again teams up with her muse Diane Kruger, to deliver an odd little film about a woman’s exploration of her new-found freedom.
Romy (Diane Kruger) and her husband Richard (Gilles Lellouche) are a couple of Parisians traveling through the American south-west in order to reinvigorate their dying marriage. A drunken night at a bar leads to an irreconcilable confrontation, and Romy sets out on her own, cutting ties with her former life.
Sky suffers from having an identity crisis. The movie takes the story in one direction before yanking it in another. Sky begins as a relationship exploration, teases becoming a crime film, switches gears and becomes a road trip movie before settling in as a romantic drama. Despite all the change ups, Sky moves at...
Written by Fabienne Berthaud & Pascal Arnold
Directed by Fabienne Berthaud
France/Germany, 2015
For her latest film Sky, French director Fabienne Berthaud once again teams up with her muse Diane Kruger, to deliver an odd little film about a woman’s exploration of her new-found freedom.
Romy (Diane Kruger) and her husband Richard (Gilles Lellouche) are a couple of Parisians traveling through the American south-west in order to reinvigorate their dying marriage. A drunken night at a bar leads to an irreconcilable confrontation, and Romy sets out on her own, cutting ties with her former life.
Sky suffers from having an identity crisis. The movie takes the story in one direction before yanking it in another. Sky begins as a relationship exploration, teases becoming a crime film, switches gears and becomes a road trip movie before settling in as a romantic drama. Despite all the change ups, Sky moves at...
- 9/20/2015
- by Victor Stiff
- SoundOnSight
This was not the 40th edition of the “Festival of Festivals” that Toronto was hoping for. The 2015 Toronto International Festival began with legal issues forcing the Aretha Franklin concert documentary “Amazing Grace” to cancel its opening night slot and has pretty much ended with the withdraw of the Amber Heard drama “London Fields” after director Matthew Cullen took the film’s producers to court claiming (among other things) that they re-edited the film without his input. Considering how weak the world premieres were overall this year it was par the course for a festival’s whose opening weekend was colder and rainier than in recent memory. Granted, There were certainly a lot of good movies that screened at the fest this year, but almost every single one of them debuted somewhere else. That’s not good for an event that considers itself one of the premier film festivals in the world.
- 9/18/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
With 44 films selected (72 if minority French coproductions are included), 57 artists present (among whom Claude Lelouch, Jean Dujardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Catherine Corsini, Claire Denis, Diane Kruger, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Mathieu Amalric, Dany Boon, and Julie Delpy) and 68 exporters, French cinema confirms a leading presence in Toronto at the Toronto Film Festival.
These are the films in the Gala, Platform, and Special Presentation sections, but there are many more French productions in Tiff's program. You'll find a complete list Here.
Screening schedule
Galas
"Lolo"
Julie Delpy
Us Sales Agent: CAA
North American Premiere
"Disorder"
Alice Winocour
Coproduction: France, Belgium
Us Distributor: Sundance Selects
North American Premiere
Platform- Competitive Section
"Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) "
Éva Husson
World Sales: Films Distribution
International Premiere
"The White Knights"
Joachim Lafosse
Coproduction: France, Belgium
World Sales: Indie Sales
World Premiere
"Sky"
Fabienne Berthaud
Coproduction: France, Germany
World Sales: The Bureau Sales
World Premiere
"French Blood"
Diastème
World Sales: Indie Sales
Internationale Premiere
Special Presentations
"Families"
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
World Sales: TF1 International
World Premiere
"Colonia"
Florian Gallenberger
Coproduction: Germany, Luxbg, France
Us Sales Agent: UTA
World Premiere
"Desierto"
Jonas Cuaron
Coproduction: Mexico, France
Us Sales Agent: UTA
World Premiere
"Dheepan"
Jacques Audiard
Us Distributor: Sundance Selects
North American Premiere
"Summertime"
Catherine Corsini
World Sales: Pyramide International
North American Premiere
"Ma Ma"
Julio Medem
Coproduction: Spain, France
Us Sales Agent: CAA
International Premiere
"My Mother"
Nanni Moretti Coproduction: Italy, France
Us Distributor: Alchemy
North American Premiere
"Mountain May Depart"
Jia Zhang-Ke Coproduction: China, France, Japan
Us Distributor: Kino Lorber
North American Premiere
"Mustang"
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Coproduction: Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar
Us Distributor: Cohen Media Group
North American Premiere
"Louder Than Bombs"
Joachim Trier
Coproduction: Norway, France, Denmark
World Sales: Mememto Films
North American Premiere
"The Lobster"
Yorgos Lanthimos
Coproduction: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands
Us Distributor: Alchemy
North American Premiere
"Un + Une"
Claude Lelouch
Us Sales Agent: Metropolitan Filmexport
World Premiere
"Youth"
Paolo Sorrentino
Coproduction: Italy, France, UK, Switzerland
Us Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures
North American Premiere...
These are the films in the Gala, Platform, and Special Presentation sections, but there are many more French productions in Tiff's program. You'll find a complete list Here.
Screening schedule
Galas
"Lolo"
Julie Delpy
Us Sales Agent: CAA
North American Premiere
"Disorder"
Alice Winocour
Coproduction: France, Belgium
Us Distributor: Sundance Selects
North American Premiere
Platform- Competitive Section
"Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) "
Éva Husson
World Sales: Films Distribution
International Premiere
"The White Knights"
Joachim Lafosse
Coproduction: France, Belgium
World Sales: Indie Sales
World Premiere
"Sky"
Fabienne Berthaud
Coproduction: France, Germany
World Sales: The Bureau Sales
World Premiere
"French Blood"
Diastème
World Sales: Indie Sales
Internationale Premiere
Special Presentations
"Families"
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
World Sales: TF1 International
World Premiere
"Colonia"
Florian Gallenberger
Coproduction: Germany, Luxbg, France
Us Sales Agent: UTA
World Premiere
"Desierto"
Jonas Cuaron
Coproduction: Mexico, France
Us Sales Agent: UTA
World Premiere
"Dheepan"
Jacques Audiard
Us Distributor: Sundance Selects
North American Premiere
"Summertime"
Catherine Corsini
World Sales: Pyramide International
North American Premiere
"Ma Ma"
Julio Medem
Coproduction: Spain, France
Us Sales Agent: CAA
International Premiere
"My Mother"
Nanni Moretti Coproduction: Italy, France
Us Distributor: Alchemy
North American Premiere
"Mountain May Depart"
Jia Zhang-Ke Coproduction: China, France, Japan
Us Distributor: Kino Lorber
North American Premiere
"Mustang"
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Coproduction: Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar
Us Distributor: Cohen Media Group
North American Premiere
"Louder Than Bombs"
Joachim Trier
Coproduction: Norway, France, Denmark
World Sales: Mememto Films
North American Premiere
"The Lobster"
Yorgos Lanthimos
Coproduction: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands
Us Distributor: Alchemy
North American Premiere
"Un + Une"
Claude Lelouch
Us Sales Agent: Metropolitan Filmexport
World Premiere
"Youth"
Paolo Sorrentino
Coproduction: Italy, France, UK, Switzerland
Us Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures
North American Premiere...
- 9/13/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Read More: Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard's 'Macbeth' Posters Stun in Black and White and Blood Red A stunning, ambient new poster has been released for Fabienne Berthaud's newest film, "Sky." Starring Diane Kruger and Gilles Lelouche as a traveling married couple, the film's official synopsis reads, "Romy and Richard are a French couple on vacation in America. They play at being free and wild in the California desert, but can't escape the shadow hanging over their relationship. A drunken night in a bar leads to a violent confrontation. Romy sees a chance to remake her life." The film also stars Joshua Jackson, Norman Reedus and Lena Dunham as various travelers the couple meets along their journey. "Sky" premieres September 16. Read More: Exclusive: Nicolas Winding Refn Discusses Movie Poster Evolution and Premieres Nsfw Vintage Ads...
- 9/9/2015
- by Ryan Anielski
- Indiewire
Films set to show at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), updated as announcements are made in the run up to the event.
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
Tiff will open on September 10 with Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts.
Tiff 40
Key: Wp = world premiere; Nap = North American premiere; IP = international premiere; Cp = Canadian premiere.
GALASBeeba Boys (Canada), Deepa Mehta, WPDemolition, Jean-Marc Vallée WPDisorder (Maryland) (France-Belgium), Alice Winocour NAPThe Dressmaker (Aus), Jocelyn Moorhouse, WPEye In The Sky (UK), Gavin Hood WPForsaken (Canada), Jon Cassar, WPFreeheld (Us), Peter Sollett, WPHyena Road (Canada), Paul Gross, WPLolo (France), Julie Delpy, NAPLegend (UK), Brian Helgeland, IPMan Down (Us), Dito Montiel NAPThe Man Who Knew Infinity (UK), Matt Brown, WPThe Martian (Us), Ridley Scott, WPMiss You Already (UK), Catherine Hardwicke WPMississippi Grind (Us), Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden CPMr. Right (Us), Paco Cabezas WPThe Program (UK), Stephen Frears, WPRemember (Canada), Atom Egoyan, NAPSeptembers Of Shiraz (Us), Wayne Blair, WPStonewall ([link...
- 8/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
Sue Brooks. Looking for Grace will screen in Platform, a new competitive section of the Toronto International Film Festival which showcases films that have a strong directorial vision. The road movie starring Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young and Terry Norris is the only Australian title in the running for the $C25,000 prize determined by the jury of filmmakers Jia Zhang-ke, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland. That strengthens Australia.s profile at the event which runs September 10-20. Jocelyn Moorhouse.s The Dressmaker will have its world premiere in Gala Presentations,. Simon Stone.s The Daughter will have its North American premiere in Special Presentations and Jennifer Peedom.s Sherpa and Gillian Armstrong.s Women He.s Undressed will compete in Tiff Docs.
Young, who also stars in The Daughter, plays 16-year-old Grace, who has run away from home. Her exasperated parents head to the West Australian wheat belt...
Young, who also stars in The Daughter, plays 16-year-old Grace, who has run away from home. Her exasperated parents head to the West Australian wheat belt...
- 8/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Tiff folks have unveiled their slated dozen features for their spanking brand new competitive section and they’ve managed to lasso some high profile world preems that will compete alongside Int. and Na premieres. Claire Denis, Agnieszka Holland and Jia Zhang-ke for which the name of the programme section is named after (Tiff referenced his 2000 film), will see a class comprised of the likes Joachim Lafosse and his piping hot The White Knights, David Verbeek (Full Contact starring Grégoire Colin – see pic above), Fabienne Berthaud and yet again actress Diane Kruger with Sky and Ben Wheatley‘s highly anticipated High Rise. Also included in the comp we find Pablo Trapero‘s Venice-bound The Clan, Eva Husson‘s hotly tipped directorial debut Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) and a docu entry that sounds absolutely brutal true story from Alan Zweig in Hurt. The winner will be announced on...
- 8/13/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The Toronto International Film Festival has, through its run, divided the films into numerous programmes to better identify and group together like-minded features. One of the new additions to the programme in 2015 will be the Platform selection, which will showcase films with a strong directorial vision. What is unique about this programme is that the selected films, twelve in total, will be judged by a three-person jury during the event, with the top film taking home a $25,000 prize. The first ever group of judges at the 2015 event will be comprised of filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke, whose 2000 film Platform was cited as the inspiration for the programme, alongside filmmakers Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland. The lineup for the Platform was announced today, and can be seen below, alongside their official synopses.
Bang Gang, directed by Eva Husson, making its World Premiere
Biarritz. Sixteen-year-old George, a beautiful high-school student, falls in love with Alex.
Bang Gang, directed by Eva Husson, making its World Premiere
Biarritz. Sixteen-year-old George, a beautiful high-school student, falls in love with Alex.
- 8/13/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Twelve titles also include films by Pablo Trapero, Joaquim Lafosse, He Ping and Fabienne Berthaud.Scroll down for full list
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) has unveiled the 12 titles that will comprise the inaugural line-up for Platform - the new juried programme that champions director-led cinema from around the world.
The competitive strand includes the world premiere of Ben Wheatley’s highly-anticipated High-Rise, a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment. The adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.
Also receiving its world premiere is Fabienne Berthaud’s Sky, a France-Germany co-production that star Diane Kruger, The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and Girls star Lena Dunham.
Kruger plays Romy, a married woman on holiday in the Us who storms out on her French husband (Gilles Lellouche) after an argument and wanders into the desert outside of Las...
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20) has unveiled the 12 titles that will comprise the inaugural line-up for Platform - the new juried programme that champions director-led cinema from around the world.
The competitive strand includes the world premiere of Ben Wheatley’s highly-anticipated High-Rise, a dystopic depiction of a society that starts a class war in a high-rise apartment. The adaptation of Jg Ballard’s 1975 novel stars Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.
Also receiving its world premiere is Fabienne Berthaud’s Sky, a France-Germany co-production that star Diane Kruger, The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and Girls star Lena Dunham.
Kruger plays Romy, a married woman on holiday in the Us who storms out on her French husband (Gilles Lellouche) after an argument and wanders into the desert outside of Las...
- 8/13/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Ben Wheatley, Joachim Lafosse, Pablo Trapero and Fabienne Berthaud are among the directors who will be competing for the Toronto International Film Festival’s first jury award, with films that feature Tom Hiddleston, Elisabeth Moss, Norman Reedus and Lena Dunham, among others. The films will compete for a $25,000 (Canadian) prize in the new Platform section, a juried selection of films added for the first time to Tiff’s massive lineup. Festival organizers announced the list of 12 Platform films on Thursday, with Tiff CEO Piers Handling calling the section “a way to sharpen our focus on artistically ambitious cinema in our.
- 8/13/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Read More: Toronto International Film Festival Reveals First Slate of Titles: New Ridley Scott and Cary Fukunaga Films Top List, 'Demolition' to Open The Toronto International Film Festival's newest program -- Platform, a section dedicated to "director's cinema" picks from around the world -- has now unveiled its inaugural slate. The brand-new section includes twelve features and boasts 8 world premieres, including Ben Wheatley's highly anticipated Tom Hiddleston-starring "High-Rise." The section will also play home to the world premieres of Fabienne Berthaud's "Sky," David Verbeek's "Full Contact" and Alan Zweig's "Hurt." "We created this new programme as a way to sharpen our focus on artistically ambitious cinema in our 40th year and we are thrilled to be able to put the spotlight on these 12 brilliant filmmakers this September," said Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff. "They are major creative...
- 8/13/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Hot projects new to Screenbase include Nicolas Winding Refn feature The Neon Demon, Pope Francis biopic Francisco, Brady Corbet’s directorial debut The Childhood Of A Leader and a new adaptation by Wim Wenders.Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
- 2/18/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
13 Hours
James Badge Dale ("Iron Man 3") has scored one of the lead roles in Michael Bay's "13 Hours" at Paramount Pictures. John Krasinski is also onboard this film adaptation of the Mitchell Zuckoff book.
The story chronicles of the deadly assault on the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, told from the perspective of the six-member security team that fought to protect the other people stationed there. Dale will play the leader of the security team. [Source: Deadline]
Sky
Diane Kruger ("The Bridge") and Norman Reedus ("The Walking Dead") have joined the cast on Fabienne Berthaud’s English-language debut "Sky" which has just begun filming. Berthaud co-wrot the film with Pascal Arnold.
Gilles Lellouche, Q’orianka Kilcher, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lena Dunham and Joshua Jackson also star in the story of a woman’s lifelong wandering that turns into an intimate reawakening in foreign lands. [Source: Screen]
Living On Video...
James Badge Dale ("Iron Man 3") has scored one of the lead roles in Michael Bay's "13 Hours" at Paramount Pictures. John Krasinski is also onboard this film adaptation of the Mitchell Zuckoff book.
The story chronicles of the deadly assault on the U.S. State Department Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, told from the perspective of the six-member security team that fought to protect the other people stationed there. Dale will play the leader of the security team. [Source: Deadline]
Sky
Diane Kruger ("The Bridge") and Norman Reedus ("The Walking Dead") have joined the cast on Fabienne Berthaud’s English-language debut "Sky" which has just begun filming. Berthaud co-wrot the film with Pascal Arnold.
Gilles Lellouche, Q’orianka Kilcher, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lena Dunham and Joshua Jackson also star in the story of a woman’s lifelong wandering that turns into an intimate reawakening in foreign lands. [Source: Screen]
Living On Video...
- 2/8/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Two of the hottest stars in television, Lena Dunham and Norman Reedus, are set to make the move to the big screen together with Sky. But do the duo have the screen-presence to excel on the big screen? Or will they be found lacking and only cement their reputation as television stars instead? We.ll find out with Sky, a thriller/road-movie that will also star Diane Kruger. According to Variety, Lily Sometimes director Fabienne Berthaud will oversee the film, which will be her third feature film. There.s a European vibe running throughout Sky, as it is being part financed by Bertrand Faivre.s French studio Le Bureau as well as Germany.s Pandora. They are also hoping to raise further financing while at the Berlin Film festival. Diane Kruger will take the lead role in Sky. She will star as Romy who takes a trip to California with...
- 2/6/2015
- cinemablend.com
The sales market at the Berlin International Film Festival is in full swing, so that means a lot of new images from upcoming films are arriving. Plus, new projects coming together seeking financing or distribution deals or both. We'll kick off this round up with the first snap, seen up above, from Thomas McCarthy's "Spotlight." The movie brings together a great ensemble — Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James — to tell the true story "about the Boston Globe investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church." [Screen Daily] Lena Dunham, Diane Kruger, Norman Reedus, Gilles Lellouche, and Q’orianka Kilcher have boarded "Sky." Fabienne Berthaud (“Lily Sometimes”) directs the film that follows "Romy, who goes with her husband on a trip to California and accidentally kills him during a violent fight. She flees the scene and embarks on a life-changing solo trip across California and.
- 2/6/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus lead the cast on director’s first English-language film.
Principal photography has commenced on Sky.
Fabienne Berthaud’s English-language debut, which was co-written with Pascal Arnold, marks her third feature film with Diane Kruger, following Frankie and Lily Sometimes.
Norman Reedus, Gilles Lellouche, Q’orianka Kilcher, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lena Dunham and Joshua Jackson also star in the story of a woman’s lifelong wandering that turns into an intimate reawakening in foreign lands.
Sky is produced by Bertrand Faivre and Gabrielle Dumon in co-production with Pandora Film (D) and Vamonos, and in association with Ocs & Filmstiftung Nrw.
The Bureau Sales handle international sales on the film, which will be released domestically by Haut & Court.
Principal photography has commenced on Sky.
Fabienne Berthaud’s English-language debut, which was co-written with Pascal Arnold, marks her third feature film with Diane Kruger, following Frankie and Lily Sometimes.
Norman Reedus, Gilles Lellouche, Q’orianka Kilcher, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lena Dunham and Joshua Jackson also star in the story of a woman’s lifelong wandering that turns into an intimate reawakening in foreign lands.
Sky is produced by Bertrand Faivre and Gabrielle Dumon in co-production with Pandora Film (D) and Vamonos, and in association with Ocs & Filmstiftung Nrw.
The Bureau Sales handle international sales on the film, which will be released domestically by Haut & Court.
- 2/6/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The Bridge's Diane Kruger has signed on for two independent films.
Kruger will star in Alice Winocour's Maryland and Fabienne Berthaud's Sky.
Maryland follows a former soldier suffering from Ptsd who is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy businessman while he is away, Deadline reports.
In Sky, a woman will find herself spiritually reawakened while travelling solo.
The girlfriend of Joshua Jackson will tackle both features before appearing in Fathers and Daughters.
Kruger is best known for her role as Sonya Cross in FX's The Bridge.
The series just ended its second season on the network.
Kruger will star in Alice Winocour's Maryland and Fabienne Berthaud's Sky.
Maryland follows a former soldier suffering from Ptsd who is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy businessman while he is away, Deadline reports.
In Sky, a woman will find herself spiritually reawakened while travelling solo.
The girlfriend of Joshua Jackson will tackle both features before appearing in Fathers and Daughters.
Kruger is best known for her role as Sonya Cross in FX's The Bridge.
The series just ended its second season on the network.
- 10/3/2014
- Digital Spy
• Oscar winner William Hurt has joined the ensemble of Race, the Jesse Owens biopic starring Stephan James (When the Game Stands Tall) as the legendary track and field star. Hurt will play the president of the Amateur Athletic Union Jeremiah Mahoney, who led efforts to boycott the 1936 Olympics in Berlin against Hitler. Emmy winner Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers) is directing the production currently filming in Montreal and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. In addition to James, Hurt joins Jeremy Irons as future International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, Jason Sudeikis as Osu...
- 10/2/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: With her FX series The Bridge wrapping its second season tonight, Diane Kruger has set two indie features to fill her winter schedule. German-born Kruger (Wicker Park, Inglourious Basterds, The Host) will first head to the south of France to film Maryland for director Alice Winocour, the helmer who made her debut two years ago with the Cannes entry Augustine. The film tracks an ex-soldier with Ptsd who is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he’s out of town. Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead, Rust and Bone) will play the soldier. Dharamsala and Darius Films are producing.
Kruger will then head to the American southwest set of Sky to re-team with director Fabienne Berthaud after their 2006 film Frankie and 2010’s Lily Sometimes. The film tracks a woman’s reawakening through her solitary journey into foreign lands and will mark Kruger and...
Kruger will then head to the American southwest set of Sky to re-team with director Fabienne Berthaud after their 2006 film Frankie and 2010’s Lily Sometimes. The film tracks a woman’s reawakening through her solitary journey into foreign lands and will mark Kruger and...
- 10/1/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Moonrise Kingdom is first of 22 films competing for the Palme D'Or, none of which was made by a female director
The Cannes film festival kicked off its 65th edition not, as usual, with a Hollywood blockbuster, or the latest in 3D animation, but with a gentle, charming, at times dark evocation of childhood by American indie director Wes Anderson – whose own boyhood provided some of the material for this lopsided look at innocent first love.
When he was a boy, the director of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums said, he found a pamphlet called Coping With the Very Troubled Child on the fridge. "I wasn't the only child in the house, but I knew which one was the very troubled child. If my brothers had found it, they would not have looked at themselves." The pamphlet makes its appearance in Moonrise Kingdom in the hands of 12-year-old Suzy, who makes...
The Cannes film festival kicked off its 65th edition not, as usual, with a Hollywood blockbuster, or the latest in 3D animation, but with a gentle, charming, at times dark evocation of childhood by American indie director Wes Anderson – whose own boyhood provided some of the material for this lopsided look at innocent first love.
When he was a boy, the director of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums said, he found a pamphlet called Coping With the Very Troubled Child on the fridge. "I wasn't the only child in the house, but I knew which one was the very troubled child. If my brothers had found it, they would not have looked at themselves." The pamphlet makes its appearance in Moonrise Kingdom in the hands of 12-year-old Suzy, who makes...
- 5/17/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Which film is the odds-on favorite to grab the Palme d’Or this year. It depends not on who you ask, but who is assigned a jury seat. We’ve decided to offer our readers a breakdown on the jury of nine.
Nanni Moretti
Known For: His political edge, as well as an omnipresence in Cannes, where he’s appeared 14 times, winning awards twice.
Best Work: He won the Palme d’Or in 2001 for The Son’s Room, though many regard 1994′s Dear Diary, which won an directing prize at Cannes, to be his best.
Little known fact: Organized an estimated 200,000 protesters in 2002 to a gathering in the square in front of Rome’s San Giovanni basilica to oppose legal reforms planned by the right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi. He was quote during the protest as saying “The Italians who voted for Berlusconi were following a dream — and they woke up in a nightmare.
Nanni Moretti
Known For: His political edge, as well as an omnipresence in Cannes, where he’s appeared 14 times, winning awards twice.
Best Work: He won the Palme d’Or in 2001 for The Son’s Room, though many regard 1994′s Dear Diary, which won an directing prize at Cannes, to be his best.
Little known fact: Organized an estimated 200,000 protesters in 2002 to a gathering in the square in front of Rome’s San Giovanni basilica to oppose legal reforms planned by the right-wing government of Silvio Berlusconi. He was quote during the protest as saying “The Italians who voted for Berlusconi were following a dream — and they woke up in a nightmare.
- 5/15/2012
- by Blake Williams
- IONCINEMA.com
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