Netflix on Tuesday unveiled two new European series with A-list stars, announcing the Dutch crime drama Amsterdam Empire to star X-Men alum Famke Janssen and an unnamed French thriller series toplined by gallic veteran Isabelle Adjani (Camille Claudel, The Story of Adele H.).
Janssen will star and executive produce Amsterdam Empire, about a big-time cannabis dealer whose personal betrayal of his wife threatens the future of his pot imperium. Nico Moolenaar, Bart Uytdenhouwen and Piet Matthys, creators of Netflix Dutch crime series Undercover, created the new show, which Jonas Govaerts (H4Z4RD) will direct. The plot follows Jack van Doorn, the rich and notorious founder of the Jackal coffee shop empire in Amsterdam, who has an affair with a well-known journalist, drawing the ire of his wife Betty, who is looking for payback and knows all Jack’s dirty secrets. Pupkin Film will produce Amsterdam Empire together with A Team Productions.
Janssen will star and executive produce Amsterdam Empire, about a big-time cannabis dealer whose personal betrayal of his wife threatens the future of his pot imperium. Nico Moolenaar, Bart Uytdenhouwen and Piet Matthys, creators of Netflix Dutch crime series Undercover, created the new show, which Jonas Govaerts (H4Z4RD) will direct. The plot follows Jack van Doorn, the rich and notorious founder of the Jackal coffee shop empire in Amsterdam, who has an affair with a well-known journalist, drawing the ire of his wife Betty, who is looking for payback and knows all Jack’s dirty secrets. Pupkin Film will produce Amsterdam Empire together with A Team Productions.
- 3/19/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘A French slasher throwback… deadly serious in giving its audience the pleasures of a damn good scare’
Mark Kermode
Prepare for some pulse-racing, heart-pounding High Tension. The fantastic French horror from Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D) gets a brand-new Limited Edition 4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set release from masters in the field Second Sight Films.
A new entry to the French extremity movement on its release in 2003, this fearsomely violent slasher stars Cécile de France (The French Dispatch, Around the World in 80 Days) and Maïwenn (One Deadly Summer, The Fifth Element), as two best friends whose sleepover goes shockingly awry. This brutally violent, fear-fuelled cult classic arrives in the Limited Edition and Standard Edition 4K and Blu-ray versions, on 22nd January 2024.
Alex (Maïwenn) and Marie’s (Cécile de France) study-weekend takes a savage turn, when a murderous maniac (Philippe Nahon – Irreversible), turns up on their doorstep.
Mark Kermode
Prepare for some pulse-racing, heart-pounding High Tension. The fantastic French horror from Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D) gets a brand-new Limited Edition 4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set release from masters in the field Second Sight Films.
A new entry to the French extremity movement on its release in 2003, this fearsomely violent slasher stars Cécile de France (The French Dispatch, Around the World in 80 Days) and Maïwenn (One Deadly Summer, The Fifth Element), as two best friends whose sleepover goes shockingly awry. This brutally violent, fear-fuelled cult classic arrives in the Limited Edition and Standard Edition 4K and Blu-ray versions, on 22nd January 2024.
Alex (Maïwenn) and Marie’s (Cécile de France) study-weekend takes a savage turn, when a murderous maniac (Philippe Nahon – Irreversible), turns up on their doorstep.
- 1/31/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
To celebrate the release of High Tension on Limited Edition Dual 4K Uhd/Blu-ray Box Set & Standard Editions on 4K Uhd & Blu-ray from 11 December, we’re giving away a Limited Edition Dual 4K Uhd/Blu-Ray Box Set to a lucky winner!
Prepare for some pulse-racing, heart-pounding High Tension. The fantastic French horror from Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D) gets a brand-new Limited Edition 4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set release from masters in the field Second Sight Films this December.
A new entry to the French extremity movement on its release in 2003, this fearsomely violent slasher stars Cécile de France and Maïwenn, as two best friends whose sleepover goes shockingly awry. This brutally violent, fear-fuelled cult classic arrives in the Limited Edition and Standard Edition 4K and Blu-ray versions, on 11 December 2023.
Alex (Maïwenn) and Marie’s (Cécile de France) study-weekend takes a savage turn, when a murderous...
Prepare for some pulse-racing, heart-pounding High Tension. The fantastic French horror from Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D) gets a brand-new Limited Edition 4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set release from masters in the field Second Sight Films this December.
A new entry to the French extremity movement on its release in 2003, this fearsomely violent slasher stars Cécile de France and Maïwenn, as two best friends whose sleepover goes shockingly awry. This brutally violent, fear-fuelled cult classic arrives in the Limited Edition and Standard Edition 4K and Blu-ray versions, on 11 December 2023.
Alex (Maïwenn) and Marie’s (Cécile de France) study-weekend takes a savage turn, when a murderous...
- 12/3/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo
Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an illicit sexual liaison in Last Summer, the return of eternal provocateur Catherine Breillat for her first film in a decade. A remake of May el-Toukhy’s 2019 film Queen of Hearts, which starred Trine Dyrholm, Breillat further subverts what was already subversive in her own particular penchant for wading around in the grey zones of sexuality. A much more chilly, matter-of-fact take on the taboo subject matter creates its own unique atmosphere of ascetic camp, drawing uncomfortable titters while allowing its protagonist’s behavior to play out with a loathsome believability.…...
Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an illicit sexual liaison in Last Summer, the return of eternal provocateur Catherine Breillat for her first film in a decade. A remake of May el-Toukhy’s 2019 film Queen of Hearts, which starred Trine Dyrholm, Breillat further subverts what was already subversive in her own particular penchant for wading around in the grey zones of sexuality. A much more chilly, matter-of-fact take on the taboo subject matter creates its own unique atmosphere of ascetic camp, drawing uncomfortable titters while allowing its protagonist’s behavior to play out with a loathsome believability.…...
- 5/25/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In keeping with tradition, the 2023 edition of Cannes Classics promises to be a feast for cineastes with tributes to global masters and restored versions of all-time classics.
Cannes Classics’ Memories of Jean-Luc Godard strand pays homage to the master who died in 2022 by screening a restored version of “Contempt” (1963); “Godard by Godard,” a self-portrait of the auteur; and the world premiere of “Phony Wars,” a trailer for a film that will never get made, described by the festival as a venture where the filmmaker “transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs.”
Liv Ullman will be present at the strand with “Liv Ullmann – A Road Less Travelled,” a documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar.
Japanese master Ozu Yasujiro will be paid tribute to with screenings of “Record of a Tenement Gentleman” (1947) and “The Munekata Sisters” (1950) off restored prints. “Return to Reason” – where four films of painter, photographer and director Man Ray have been...
Cannes Classics’ Memories of Jean-Luc Godard strand pays homage to the master who died in 2022 by screening a restored version of “Contempt” (1963); “Godard by Godard,” a self-portrait of the auteur; and the world premiere of “Phony Wars,” a trailer for a film that will never get made, described by the festival as a venture where the filmmaker “transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs.”
Liv Ullman will be present at the strand with “Liv Ullmann – A Road Less Travelled,” a documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar.
Japanese master Ozu Yasujiro will be paid tribute to with screenings of “Record of a Tenement Gentleman” (1947) and “The Munekata Sisters” (1950) off restored prints. “Return to Reason” – where four films of painter, photographer and director Man Ray have been...
- 5/5/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Sisters (Soeurs)
It’s been eighteen years since Yamina Benguigui’s critically acclaimed 2001 debut Inch’Allah dimanche, and she’s back with sophomore narrative feature Sisters (Soeurs). Benguigui (also serving as producer) finds a stellar trio of actresses as her three ‘sisters,’ including Isabelle Adjani (who recently made a high-profile reappearance in Romain Gavras’ The World is Yours), Maiwenn, and Rachida Bakri who starred in Coline Serreau’s 2001 title Chaos (Maiwenn’s first film appearance was as Adani’s daughter in Jean Becker’s One Deadly Summer – 1983). This will also be the first project Adjani has filmed in her father’s native country.…...
It’s been eighteen years since Yamina Benguigui’s critically acclaimed 2001 debut Inch’Allah dimanche, and she’s back with sophomore narrative feature Sisters (Soeurs). Benguigui (also serving as producer) finds a stellar trio of actresses as her three ‘sisters,’ including Isabelle Adjani (who recently made a high-profile reappearance in Romain Gavras’ The World is Yours), Maiwenn, and Rachida Bakri who starred in Coline Serreau’s 2001 title Chaos (Maiwenn’s first film appearance was as Adani’s daughter in Jean Becker’s One Deadly Summer – 1983). This will also be the first project Adjani has filmed in her father’s native country.…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Director in action: Maiwenn (right) with Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel during the shoot of Mon Roi Photo: Unifrance
French actress, writer and director Maiwenn has been in the business from an early age appearing as a child in several films including One Deadly Summer with Isabelle Adjani. She was only 16 when she was involved in a relationship with producer and director Luc Besson with whom she had a daughter, Shanna. She spent time living in Hollywood and appearing in Besson’s Léon and The Fifth Element. Her break-up with Besson at 21 marked a return to living and working in France where she has become known simply by her Christian name (surname Lo Besco which her sister Isild, also an actress and director, uses). Maiwenn had a second child, Diego, with property developer Jean-Yves Le Fur before they split up. In 2006 she directed her semi-autobiographical first feature Pardon Me followed in 2011 by Polisse,...
French actress, writer and director Maiwenn has been in the business from an early age appearing as a child in several films including One Deadly Summer with Isabelle Adjani. She was only 16 when she was involved in a relationship with producer and director Luc Besson with whom she had a daughter, Shanna. She spent time living in Hollywood and appearing in Besson’s Léon and The Fifth Element. Her break-up with Besson at 21 marked a return to living and working in France where she has become known simply by her Christian name (surname Lo Besco which her sister Isild, also an actress and director, uses). Maiwenn had a second child, Diego, with property developer Jean-Yves Le Fur before they split up. In 2006 she directed her semi-autobiographical first feature Pardon Me followed in 2011 by Polisse,...
- 1/20/2016
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘Nymphomaniac’ Star Stacy Martin Leads U.S. Trailer for ‘The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun’
After leaving a big impression in both volumes of Lars von Trier‘s Nymphomaniac, we were hoping to soon see more from up-and-comer Stacy Martin. Before Brady Corbet’s The Childhood of a Leader and Ben Wheatley’s High Rise hit theaters, we’ll see her in The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, a ’70s-influenced thriller with more than a bit of style to spare. (That period influence isn’t only aesthetic: this film is the second adaptation of Sébastien Japrisot’s novel, which was previously brought to the screen in 1970.)
The true lead, however, is Freya Mavor, as will be showcased in this preview — and that’s also the most this preview will tell you. It’s almost exclusively a collection of stylish, “propulsive” shots — set to the antiquated sounds of Wendy Rene’s “After Laughter (Comes Tears)” — which one of the only available reviews confirms is a key component.
The true lead, however, is Freya Mavor, as will be showcased in this preview — and that’s also the most this preview will tell you. It’s almost exclusively a collection of stylish, “propulsive” shots — set to the antiquated sounds of Wendy Rene’s “After Laughter (Comes Tears)” — which one of the only available reviews confirms is a key component.
- 11/11/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Sales company unveils new films by Donzelli, Sfar, Odoul and Garrel at Paris Rendez-vous.
Wild Bunch will kick off sales on nine new French titles at this year’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 15-19), many of which will be completed in time for a potential Cannes slot, including an incestuous love story by Valérie Donzelli and First World War drama by Damien Odoul.
The company will also show first images of several previously announced productions including Jacques Audiard’s untitled drama revolving around Sri Lankan immigrants in Paris, which it is co-selling with Celluloid Dreams, and Julie Delpy’s France-set romance Lolo, in which she stars as a chic Parisian sophisticate who falls for a geeky It expert played by Dany Boon.
There will also be a promo-reel for Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years (aka Three Memories of Childhood), revisiting the childhood of Paul Dédalus, the protagonist in his 1997 film My Sex Lifewho...
Wild Bunch will kick off sales on nine new French titles at this year’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (Jan 15-19), many of which will be completed in time for a potential Cannes slot, including an incestuous love story by Valérie Donzelli and First World War drama by Damien Odoul.
The company will also show first images of several previously announced productions including Jacques Audiard’s untitled drama revolving around Sri Lankan immigrants in Paris, which it is co-selling with Celluloid Dreams, and Julie Delpy’s France-set romance Lolo, in which she stars as a chic Parisian sophisticate who falls for a geeky It expert played by Dany Boon.
There will also be a promo-reel for Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years (aka Three Memories of Childhood), revisiting the childhood of Paul Dédalus, the protagonist in his 1997 film My Sex Lifewho...
- 1/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
Some movies just vanish.
While Costa-Gavras continues to enjoy a high reputation for his sixties and seventies political thrillers (perhaps more respected than watched, which is a shame) and to some extent for his later American movies (more watched than respected, also a shame), The Sleeping Car Murders (1965), one of his earliest works, is so hard to see that I wound up watching a pan-and-scanned off-air recording taped on VHS from Scottish Television sometime in the eighties, and dubbed into English. At least Simone Signoret seems to have done her own re-voicing, but her erring husband Yves Montand has that strained Amurrican tone I associate with Robert Rietty doing Orson Welles.
So Costa-Gavras' movie, formerly a missing person, turns up as a homicide victim, mutilated to prevent identification. With the performances defaced, the compositions utterly ruined, and the editing patterns minced in this copy (because a cut doesn't mean the...
While Costa-Gavras continues to enjoy a high reputation for his sixties and seventies political thrillers (perhaps more respected than watched, which is a shame) and to some extent for his later American movies (more watched than respected, also a shame), The Sleeping Car Murders (1965), one of his earliest works, is so hard to see that I wound up watching a pan-and-scanned off-air recording taped on VHS from Scottish Television sometime in the eighties, and dubbed into English. At least Simone Signoret seems to have done her own re-voicing, but her erring husband Yves Montand has that strained Amurrican tone I associate with Robert Rietty doing Orson Welles.
So Costa-Gavras' movie, formerly a missing person, turns up as a homicide victim, mutilated to prevent identification. With the performances defaced, the compositions utterly ruined, and the editing patterns minced in this copy (because a cut doesn't mean the...
- 11/6/2014
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Today on Trailers from Hell, film editor Mark Helfrich talks French director Jean Becker's 1983 thriller "One Deadly Summer," starring Isabelle Adjani as a woman on the verge. Several years after her remarkable performance as the star-crossed Adele Hugo in Truffaut's "The Story of Adele H.," Isabelle Adjani essayed yet another young woman gripped by obsession in 1983's "One Deadly Summer." The story, about an unstable femme fatale's revenge against her mother's attackers has a definite exploitation bent but the presence of Adjani and the score by Georges Delerue elevate the proceedings. Adjani won a Cesar for her trouble and the film was France's second highest grossing film of the year. Nsfw.
- 6/2/2014
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Several years after her remarkable performance as the star-crossed Adele Hugo in Truffaut's The Story of Adele H., Isabelle Adjani essayed yet another young woman gripped by obsession in 1983's One Deadly Summer. The story, about an unstable femme fatale's revenge against her mother's attackers has a definite exploitation bent but the presence of Adjani and the score by Georges Delerue elevate the proceedings. Adjani won a César for her trouble and the film was France's 2nd highest grossing film of the year. Nsfw.
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The post One Deadly Summer appeared first on Trailers From Hell.
- 6/2/2014
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Maiwenn has been in the spotlight in her native France since she was a child. She began acting in films like "Next Year If All Goes Well" and "One Deadly Summer," and she was even more famous as the teenage girlfriend of director Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element"), giving birth to his daughter at age 16. But by 21, she broke up with Besson and resumed life as an actress, including a role in the horror film "High Tension."Yet Maiwenn, now 36, says she feels like she started her career only a decade ago, when she debuted her one-woman stage show "Le pois chiche" in Paris. She went on to write, direct, and star in the short film "I'm an Actress" in 2004, followed by her 2006 feature film "Pardon Me" and "All About Actresses" in 2008."My real passion is to make movies, to direct," she says. "It's good for...
- 5/22/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
At her best, Adjani was always a victim going over the edge of sanity, and that seems to match Truffaut's account of her at work
It has never been safe to predict what Isabelle Adjani was going to do, or why. In 1974, François Truffaut was planning to make The Story of Adele H, about a daughter of Victor Hugo who falls in love with a young army officer and goes mad in her efforts to get him to return the love. He wanted someone new for the lead role, and was intrigued by Adjani in a recent hit comedy called La Gifle. Adjani was 19 and ravishing; but she was under contract as a stage actress to La Comédie-Française.
Truffaut pursued her. The theatre company declined to release her. The matter went to law. Adjani stayed quiet – but in the end she had her way. She would do Adele H. Truffaut...
It has never been safe to predict what Isabelle Adjani was going to do, or why. In 1974, François Truffaut was planning to make The Story of Adele H, about a daughter of Victor Hugo who falls in love with a young army officer and goes mad in her efforts to get him to return the love. He wanted someone new for the lead role, and was intrigued by Adjani in a recent hit comedy called La Gifle. Adjani was 19 and ravishing; but she was under contract as a stage actress to La Comédie-Française.
Truffaut pursued her. The theatre company declined to release her. The matter went to law. Adjani stayed quiet – but in the end she had her way. She would do Adele H. Truffaut...
- 5/19/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
Updated through 5/17.
Let's note right off the top, first, that the title's derived from the director's misspelling of "Police" and that the final "e" has been dropped for the English-language version. And second, that critics are split. We'll start with pan but work our way up.
"Polisse, a self-important French police procedural that feigns complexity while relishing in cliché, could very well be the worst film I see at Cannes this year," predicts Glenn Heath Jr at the House Next Door. "Supposedly based on the true stories of the Parisian Child Protective Unit, director Maïwenn Le Besco's film abrasively documents the professional and personal lives of the special police force tasked with arresting those who prey on the young…. As a social mosaic, Polisse is an insulting simplification of truly horrific issues like child rape and sex trade."
More predictions, these from Jonathan Romney in Screen: "It should flourish in France,...
Let's note right off the top, first, that the title's derived from the director's misspelling of "Police" and that the final "e" has been dropped for the English-language version. And second, that critics are split. We'll start with pan but work our way up.
"Polisse, a self-important French police procedural that feigns complexity while relishing in cliché, could very well be the worst film I see at Cannes this year," predicts Glenn Heath Jr at the House Next Door. "Supposedly based on the true stories of the Parisian Child Protective Unit, director Maïwenn Le Besco's film abrasively documents the professional and personal lives of the special police force tasked with arresting those who prey on the young…. As a social mosaic, Polisse is an insulting simplification of truly horrific issues like child rape and sex trade."
More predictions, these from Jonathan Romney in Screen: "It should flourish in France,...
- 5/17/2011
- MUBI
Daybreakers: "Dystopic films have to strike the right balance between the sterility of the future and the need to breathe some life into the movie (see Gattaca for a good examplre). The Spierig Brothers get the vampire dystopia right -- I really like the idea of huge corporations farming human blood for a mostly vampire population. But there's no razzmatazz, no charisma, no spirit, no fucking life force. It needs an occasional dose of humor; a Hannibal King; a sympathetic character. Something that might resonate with the audience, that we can relate to; that might make us give a damn about the smart ideas bubbling beneath asepsis." - Dustin Rowles
Edge of Darkness: "My guess is that a lot of critics and, in particular, box-office prognosticators, are taking a very noncommittal approach to Mel Gibson's first turn in front of the screen in seven years. How very...
Edge of Darkness: "My guess is that a lot of critics and, in particular, box-office prognosticators, are taking a very noncommittal approach to Mel Gibson's first turn in front of the screen in seven years. How very...
- 5/11/2010
- by Intern Rusty
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