Stars at Noon Review — Stars at Noon (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Claire Denis, written by Andrew Litvack and Claire Denis and starring Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, Danny Ramirez, John C. Reilly and Nick Romano. Andie MacDowell’s daughter, Margaret Qualley, becomes an automatic movie star in the first twenty minutes or [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: Stars At Noon (2022): Margaret Qualley’s Performance is Superb in Claire Denis’ Meandering Film...
- 10/29/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
This review originally ran May 25, 2022, for the film’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Not a word of French is spoken in Claire Denis’ languid thriller “Stars at Noon,” but the voice that rings out is crystal clear. On paper (and the film is adapted from Denis Johnson’s 1984 book), the project seems cut from similar cloth to a paranoid New Hollywood potboiler, draping games of cat and mouse with a geopolitical sash.
On screen, the film would just as soon do away with dress altogether, replacing the thrill of the chase with thrills of the flesh — and with a number of other illicit activities as well. The walls are closing in around our beleaguered leads, so they might as well pour a drink, light up a smoke, and enjoy that even closer proximity.
Marking her return to the Cannes competition for the first time in more than 30 years,...
Not a word of French is spoken in Claire Denis’ languid thriller “Stars at Noon,” but the voice that rings out is crystal clear. On paper (and the film is adapted from Denis Johnson’s 1984 book), the project seems cut from similar cloth to a paranoid New Hollywood potboiler, draping games of cat and mouse with a geopolitical sash.
On screen, the film would just as soon do away with dress altogether, replacing the thrill of the chase with thrills of the flesh — and with a number of other illicit activities as well. The walls are closing in around our beleaguered leads, so they might as well pour a drink, light up a smoke, and enjoy that even closer proximity.
Marking her return to the Cannes competition for the first time in more than 30 years,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
Stars at Noon Trailer — Claire Denis‘ Stars at Noon (2022) movie trailer has been released by A24. The Stars at Noon trailer stars Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Danny Ramirez, Benny Safdie, and John C. Reilly. Crew Claire Denis, Léa Mysius, and Andrew Litvack wrote the screenplay for Stars at Noon. Plot Synopsis Stars at [...]
Continue reading: Stars At Noon (2022) Movie Trailer: Journalist Margaret Qualley & Businessman Joe Alwyn try to Escape Nicaragua...
Continue reading: Stars At Noon (2022) Movie Trailer: Journalist Margaret Qualley & Businessman Joe Alwyn try to Escape Nicaragua...
- 9/30/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
French filmmaker Léa Mysius follows her nose in “The Five Devils,” focusing on the sense of smell. That’s her protagonist’s special gift, one that scares her mother (“Blue Is the Warmest Color” actor Adèle Exarchopoulos) but allows her to venture beyond the constraints of time and space.
Shown in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight – with Wild Bunch on board – it’s Mysius’ second feature film as a director following “Ava,” awarded at the French fest in 2017. She also co-wrote Claire Denis’ “The Stars at Noon,” presented in the main competition.
“It all started when I was a kid – I was fascinated by smells,” Mysius tells Variety.
“Together with my sister, we had fun making these little potions. We grew up in the countryside, which helped us develop that sense even more. One of my friends told me that growing up in Paris, he had to ‘close off’ his nostrils for good.
Shown in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight – with Wild Bunch on board – it’s Mysius’ second feature film as a director following “Ava,” awarded at the French fest in 2017. She also co-wrote Claire Denis’ “The Stars at Noon,” presented in the main competition.
“It all started when I was a kid – I was fascinated by smells,” Mysius tells Variety.
“Together with my sister, we had fun making these little potions. We grew up in the countryside, which helped us develop that sense even more. One of my friends told me that growing up in Paris, he had to ‘close off’ his nostrils for good.
- 5/26/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Early in “Stars at Noon,” Yank journalist Trish gazes wistfully at a yellowed black-and-white photo of Nicaraguan resistance fighters, framed and tacked to the wall of the grim Managua hotel room where she’s having businesslike intercourse. “Young rebels used to be so sexy,” she sighs. It’s a direct jab at the unformidable army lieutenant on top of her in that moment, but also a callback to what could be perceived from afar as a more romantic, mysterious age of global political unrest — the kind that fueled the novels of Graham Greene and films like “The Year of Living Dangerously,” an alluring realm of fiction that perhaps propeled Trish so far from home in the first place. Claire Denis revives that sort of grimy glamor in this humid, intoxicating American-abroad thriller, but she’s not nearly so naive or nostalgic as her young protagonist.
Updating the late Denis Johnson...
Updating the late Denis Johnson...
- 5/25/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Given the combustible subject matter and the director’s reputation, French auteur Claire Denis has made a remarkably listless and unpersuasive film in Stars at Noon. Set during the Nicaraguan Sandanista revolution circa 1984, this adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novel published two years later centers on a couple of Americans of dubious character who misspend time in Central America before finally deciding it’s time to split when, in fact, it might be too late. This is the sort of misfire that, just because it comes from a hallowed French auteur, sometimes gets programmed in the Cannes competition even when it manifestly doesn’t deserve to be there.
The best scenes, even though they’re a bit confusing, come at the beginning, as saucy young American alleged journalist Trish (Margaret Qualley) has it off with a local politico with whom she has some sort of tit-for-tat arrangement. Trish is more...
The best scenes, even though they’re a bit confusing, come at the beginning, as saucy young American alleged journalist Trish (Margaret Qualley) has it off with a local politico with whom she has some sort of tit-for-tat arrangement. Trish is more...
- 5/25/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Claire Denis may have fallen in love with Margaret Qualley because of her coltish and carefree performance as one of the Manson girls in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, yet I can’t help but suspect that — if only subconsciously — there may be another reason why she decided to cast the young actress in the lead role of “Stars at Noon.”
Like so many of Denis’ films, this sweaty romantic thriller about two white foreigners who fall in love (or at least fuck a lot) against the background of Central American political tensions is a cryptic and carnal search for a way out of purgatory. And like so many of Denis’ films, the incandescent “Stars at Noon” is cut with such jagged atemporality that it often seems set in a space between time, where the past never happened and the future may never come.
In this case, that dislocated...
Like so many of Denis’ films, this sweaty romantic thriller about two white foreigners who fall in love (or at least fuck a lot) against the background of Central American political tensions is a cryptic and carnal search for a way out of purgatory. And like so many of Denis’ films, the incandescent “Stars at Noon” is cut with such jagged atemporality that it often seems set in a space between time, where the past never happened and the future may never come.
In this case, that dislocated...
- 5/25/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Danny Ramirez is joining Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn in Claire Denis’ next film at A24, The Stars at Noon. A24 had no comment.
Based on the novel by Denis Johnson, the story is set in 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution and follows a mysterious English businessman and headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. They soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
Denis will direct and also adapted the script with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack. Rt Features and Curiosa Films are producing the pic, which was originally announced during AFM 2020
Ramirez is fresh off the success of the Disney+ Marvel series, The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, where he co-starred opposite Anthony Mackie, playing Marvel character, Joaquin Torres. The actor will next appear opposite Tom Cruise...
Based on the novel by Denis Johnson, the story is set in 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution and follows a mysterious English businessman and headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. They soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
Denis will direct and also adapted the script with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack. Rt Features and Curiosa Films are producing the pic, which was originally announced during AFM 2020
Ramirez is fresh off the success of the Disney+ Marvel series, The Falcon & The Winter Soldier, where he co-starred opposite Anthony Mackie, playing Marvel character, Joaquin Torres. The actor will next appear opposite Tom Cruise...
- 1/14/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Joe Alwyn has come on to star opposite Margaret Qualley in Claire Denis’ next film at A24, The Stars at Noon. Alwyn replaces Taron Egerton, who had to leave the project due to personal reasons. A24 had no comment.
Based on the novel by Denis Johnson, the story is set in 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution and follows a mysterious English businessman and headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. They soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
Denis will direct and also adapted the script with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack. Rt Features and Curiosa Films are producing the pic, which was originally announced during AFM 2020 with Robert Pattinson as the male lead; he fell out soon after the schedule on The Batman was pushed because of Covid.
Based on the novel by Denis Johnson, the story is set in 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution and follows a mysterious English businessman and headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. They soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
Denis will direct and also adapted the script with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack. Rt Features and Curiosa Films are producing the pic, which was originally announced during AFM 2020 with Robert Pattinson as the male lead; he fell out soon after the schedule on The Batman was pushed because of Covid.
- 11/3/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Wild Bunch, Memento, Mk2, Charades, The Party Film Sales and Elle Driver get off to a flying start, jettisoning new titles into the European Film Market showcase. The European Film Market at the 70th Berlinale has only been in full swing since yesterday, yet several groups working within the French film industry (international sales or production companies) have already made some top tier announcements. Wild Bunch has added The Stars at Noon to its already copious line-up (read our news). The next film by Claire Denis will see the director joining forces with English star Robert Pattinson for the second time, following on from High Life. American rising star Margaret Qualley will also grâce the film poster. Based upon American writer Denis Johnson’s eponymous novel, which the director adapted in league with Léa Mysius and Andrew Litvack, the feature film (produced...
A24 has bought North American rights to the thriller “The Stars at Noon,” starring Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley.
Claire Denis is attached to direct, and wrote the screenplay with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack, based on Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel.
The deal was announced Tuesday on the eve of the Berlin Film Festival, where Wild Bunch is launching international sales on the project. CAA Media Finance brokered the domestic deal. Paris-based Curiosa Films is producing “The Stars at Noon.”
The film, set during the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1984, follows a mysterious English businessman and a headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. Their situation soon deteriorates and they attempt to escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
Pattinson is currently shooting “The Batman” for Warner Bros. Denis’ credits include “35 Shots of Rum” and “High Life,” which also starred Pattinson and was bought by A24.
Qualley,...
Claire Denis is attached to direct, and wrote the screenplay with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack, based on Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel.
The deal was announced Tuesday on the eve of the Berlin Film Festival, where Wild Bunch is launching international sales on the project. CAA Media Finance brokered the domestic deal. Paris-based Curiosa Films is producing “The Stars at Noon.”
The film, set during the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1984, follows a mysterious English businessman and a headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. Their situation soon deteriorates and they attempt to escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
Pattinson is currently shooting “The Batman” for Warner Bros. Denis’ credits include “35 Shots of Rum” and “High Life,” which also starred Pattinson and was bought by A24.
Qualley,...
- 2/18/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
A24 has acquired the North American rights to “The Stars at Noon” ahead of the European Film Market, the latest film from French auteur Claire Denis that will star Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.
The film was acquired ahead of the Efm, which kicks off later this week. “The Stars at Noon” is a romance set during the 1984 Nicaraguan Revolution and follows a mysterious English businessman and an American journalist who strike up a passionate love affair. But as they try to escape the country, they soon become embroiled in a web of conspiracy and lies with only themselves to rely on.
Denis will direct the film and will write the screenplay with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack, adapting the 1986 novel by Denis Johnson of the same name.
Also Read: Dev Patel Goes Medieval in David Lowery and A24's Nightmarish...
The film was acquired ahead of the Efm, which kicks off later this week. “The Stars at Noon” is a romance set during the 1984 Nicaraguan Revolution and follows a mysterious English businessman and an American journalist who strike up a passionate love affair. But as they try to escape the country, they soon become embroiled in a web of conspiracy and lies with only themselves to rely on.
Denis will direct the film and will write the screenplay with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack, adapting the 1986 novel by Denis Johnson of the same name.
Also Read: Dev Patel Goes Medieval in David Lowery and A24's Nightmarish...
- 2/18/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Claire Denis and Robert Pattinson openly talked about wanting to work together again while promoting their first collaboration, the space drama “High Life,” and now they’re going to get the chance with the French director’s next feature film, “The Stars at Noon.” Deadline reports that A24 has picked up North American distribution rights to “The Stars at Noon” ahead of the European Film Market kicking off this week. The project pairs Pattinson with “Fosse/Verdon” Emmy nominee and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” favorite Margaret Qualley. “The Stars at Noon” script is being adapted from Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel by co-writers Denis, Lea Mysius, and Andrew Litvack.
“The Stars at Night” is set during the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1984. Pattinson will star as a mysterious English businessman who meets an American Journalist (Qualley) reporting on the revolution. The two have an instant connection and a passionate romance ensues, only...
“The Stars at Night” is set during the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1984. Pattinson will star as a mysterious English businessman who meets an American Journalist (Qualley) reporting on the revolution. The two have an instant connection and a passionate romance ensues, only...
- 2/18/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Exclusive: In a competitive situation on the eve of the European Film Market, A24 has swooped on North American rights to one of the hot indie pics that has just dropped at the market.
In a low-seven-figure deal, the blue-chip buyer has swooped on Claire Denis’ next movie, love story/thriller The Stars at Noon, which has her High-Life collaborator Robert Pattinson and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood breakout Margaret Qualley attached.
Set in 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution, the film follows a mysterious English businessman and headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. They soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
The project is based on the 1986 novel by acclaimed U.S. writer Denis Johnson. Filmmaker Denis is adapting the novel with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack.
In a low-seven-figure deal, the blue-chip buyer has swooped on Claire Denis’ next movie, love story/thriller The Stars at Noon, which has her High-Life collaborator Robert Pattinson and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood breakout Margaret Qualley attached.
Set in 1984 during the Nicaraguan Revolution, the film follows a mysterious English businessman and headstrong American journalist who strike up a passionate romance. They soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
The project is based on the 1986 novel by acclaimed U.S. writer Denis Johnson. Filmmaker Denis is adapting the novel with Lea Mysius and Andrew Litvack.
- 2/18/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Regent Entertainment's here! Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Merci ... Docteur Rey! the latest comedy from Oscar-winning duo Ismail Merchant and James Ivory. The film stars Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Bulle Ogier, Simon Callow and Stanislas Merhar. The Andy Litvack-directed comedy-murder mystery, which has opened in France, will be released Aug. 13 in New York, with a Los Angeles run to follow. Here! executive vp distribution and acquisitions Mark Reinhart negotiated the deal for the company.
- 4/30/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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