French director Olivier Marchal has begun filming new police thriller Bastion 36 for Netflix, which is billed as a contemporary cop drama adapted from Michel Tourscher’s novel Flic Requiem.
Set in Paris, the movie revolves around Antoine Cerda, a senior police officer with the prestigious Investigation and Intervention Brigade, who is transferred to the Anti-Crime Brigade after being sanctioned by the General Inspectorate of the French National Police. The move sees him turn his back on his former comrades and unit, led by the charismatic Sami Belkaïm.
When two officers from his old squad are killed in less than 24 hours and a third goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Cerda embarks on his own investigation. His inquiries will reveal an intense police rivalry and take him on a terrible downward spiral.
The movie is not a sequel but takes the director back to the world of Marchal’s 2004 police thriller Precinct...
Set in Paris, the movie revolves around Antoine Cerda, a senior police officer with the prestigious Investigation and Intervention Brigade, who is transferred to the Anti-Crime Brigade after being sanctioned by the General Inspectorate of the French National Police. The move sees him turn his back on his former comrades and unit, led by the charismatic Sami Belkaïm.
When two officers from his old squad are killed in less than 24 hours and a third goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Cerda embarks on his own investigation. His inquiries will reveal an intense police rivalry and take him on a terrible downward spiral.
The movie is not a sequel but takes the director back to the world of Marchal’s 2004 police thriller Precinct...
- 4/25/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Christophe Honoré selected Catherine Breillat’s 36 Fillette: “Her work is very important for French cinema.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jacques Demy’s Lola (starring Anouk Aimée with Marc Michel), Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, Zhangke Jia and composer Yoshihiro Hanno, Yves Robert’s La Guerre des Boutons, Alain Resnais’ Providence and L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea, Sophie's Misfortunes, and Catherine Breillat’s 36 Fillette all came up in our discussion.
Christophe Honoré with Anne-Katrin Titze on why Alain Resnais is a king: “I’m interested in narrative play and people who have a ludic relationship to storytelling.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Christophe Honoré was in New York to present Winter Boy, starring Paul Kircher, Vincent Lacoste, Juliette Binoche, and Erwan Kepoa Falé, shot by Rémy Chevrin (Guermantes, [film]On...
Jacques Demy’s Lola (starring Anouk Aimée with Marc Michel), Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, Zhangke Jia and composer Yoshihiro Hanno, Yves Robert’s La Guerre des Boutons, Alain Resnais’ Providence and L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea, Sophie's Misfortunes, and Catherine Breillat’s 36 Fillette all came up in our discussion.
Christophe Honoré with Anne-Katrin Titze on why Alain Resnais is a king: “I’m interested in narrative play and people who have a ludic relationship to storytelling.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Christophe Honoré was in New York to present Winter Boy, starring Paul Kircher, Vincent Lacoste, Juliette Binoche, and Erwan Kepoa Falé, shot by Rémy Chevrin (Guermantes, [film]On...
- 3/13/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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French-Moroccan actor Roschdy Zem has built up an impressive filmography over the past three decades, with major roles in the police thrillers 36 and Le Petit Lieutenant, the historical epics Days of Glory and Outside the Law, and a Cesar award-winning performance in Arnaud Desplechin’s 2019 cop drama Oh Mercy!
Alongside his acting career, Zem has also created an intriguing body of work as a director, tackling cases of racism in France at both the turn of the century (Chocolat) and in the 1990s (Omar Killed Me), exploring the cutthroat world of weightlifting (Bodybuilder) and delivering a down-and-dirty film noir (Persona Non Grata). Some of the genres are handled better than others, but what his movies tend to have in common is their array of finely tuned performances, including a few by the director himself.
That streak continues with Our Ties (Les Miens...
French-Moroccan actor Roschdy Zem has built up an impressive filmography over the past three decades, with major roles in the police thrillers 36 and Le Petit Lieutenant, the historical epics Days of Glory and Outside the Law, and a Cesar award-winning performance in Arnaud Desplechin’s 2019 cop drama Oh Mercy!
Alongside his acting career, Zem has also created an intriguing body of work as a director, tackling cases of racism in France at both the turn of the century (Chocolat) and in the 1990s (Omar Killed Me), exploring the cutthroat world of weightlifting (Bodybuilder) and delivering a down-and-dirty film noir (Persona Non Grata). Some of the genres are handled better than others, but what his movies tend to have in common is their array of finely tuned performances, including a few by the director himself.
That streak continues with Our Ties (Les Miens...
- 9/9/2022
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros, which has traditionally ruled the Easter weekend box office, is back, a year after Godzilla vs. Kong brought bread to reopening cinemas during the pandemic. The stateside arrival of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, and further expansion abroad into 44 markets, arrives days after the Warner Bros. Discovery merger went public.
The Harry Potter franchise spinoff has always demonstrated its potency more so abroad than stateside, so look for the magic there. David Yates, who has directed all the Fantastic Beasts movies, and Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows 1 & 2, is natch behind this threequel, which after a 56.9 million start in 22 offshore markets last weekend is eyeing, thanks to Easter vacations, a near 77M overseas cume by Eod Thursday. Add in a global weekend projected haul of 80M, and it will take Dumbledore‘s worldwide cume to 157M by Sunday according to industry estimates.
The Harry Potter franchise spinoff has always demonstrated its potency more so abroad than stateside, so look for the magic there. David Yates, who has directed all the Fantastic Beasts movies, and Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows 1 & 2, is natch behind this threequel, which after a 56.9 million start in 22 offshore markets last weekend is eyeing, thanks to Easter vacations, a near 77M overseas cume by Eod Thursday. Add in a global weekend projected haul of 80M, and it will take Dumbledore‘s worldwide cume to 157M by Sunday according to industry estimates.
- 4/14/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
36 Farmhouse(Zee5)
Starring Vijay Raaz, Sanjay Mishra Madhuri Bhatia, Amol Parasher, Barkha Singh, Ashwini Kalsekar, Flora Saini
Directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma
“Chutiyon se bhara padaa hai yeh ghar,” Vijay Raaz observes midway through this mishmash of the worse and the worst. That Subhash Ghai should come to this is a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
Not that anyone in this , hands-down Ghai’s worst production to date, has ever heard of Shakespeare. The characters are a bunch of buffoons and clowns , titivated with no redeeming qualities except that they can keep a straight face even when confronted with one of the dumbest most witless screenplays that actors have ever been given to read ever seen the motion picture was invented.
If Lumiere were to see what his dream has come to , he would slash his wrist.
Did actors like Vijay Raaz and Sanjay Mishra actually read the script before...
Starring Vijay Raaz, Sanjay Mishra Madhuri Bhatia, Amol Parasher, Barkha Singh, Ashwini Kalsekar, Flora Saini
Directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma
“Chutiyon se bhara padaa hai yeh ghar,” Vijay Raaz observes midway through this mishmash of the worse and the worst. That Subhash Ghai should come to this is a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
Not that anyone in this , hands-down Ghai’s worst production to date, has ever heard of Shakespeare. The characters are a bunch of buffoons and clowns , titivated with no redeeming qualities except that they can keep a straight face even when confronted with one of the dumbest most witless screenplays that actors have ever been given to read ever seen the motion picture was invented.
If Lumiere were to see what his dream has come to , he would slash his wrist.
Did actors like Vijay Raaz and Sanjay Mishra actually read the script before...
- 1/25/2022
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Three days into Mexico’s 2021 Guadalajara Film Festival, the prizes for the works-in-progress in its Guadalajara Construye side bar were awarded on Sunday, making a number of Latin American filmmakers very happy.
Guadalajara Construye exemplifies the solidarity of the film industries of Latin America, with production companies across the region funding numerous prizes designed to get the works-in progress over the hump to completed films ready for distribution.
The biggest winner of the night was the Mexican film “Martínez” directed by Lorena Padilla, a Mexican director who also teaches directing and screenwriting at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Padilla has garnered various levels of funding from Mexico’s Imcine film agency over the years and continued that string of good fortune tonight, picking up five awards providing post-production services for the nearly completed “Martínez.”
It tells the story of an aging office worker who finds that his long habit...
Guadalajara Construye exemplifies the solidarity of the film industries of Latin America, with production companies across the region funding numerous prizes designed to get the works-in progress over the hump to completed films ready for distribution.
The biggest winner of the night was the Mexican film “Martínez” directed by Lorena Padilla, a Mexican director who also teaches directing and screenwriting at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Padilla has garnered various levels of funding from Mexico’s Imcine film agency over the years and continued that string of good fortune tonight, picking up five awards providing post-production services for the nearly completed “Martínez.”
It tells the story of an aging office worker who finds that his long habit...
- 10/4/2021
- by Jeffrey Sipe
- Variety Film + TV
Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and… Triple H: Watches for sale! Watches for sale! Me: Triple H? What are you doing here? Hhh: Vince found out I was trying to use his money to book a Ring Of Honot knockoff and took my roster away. Now I’m stuck selling watches so I can con marks again. Me: Yeah. That sounds like something you’d do. Hhh: I have blue balls. Me: That…makes sense. Let’s start the review. Hhh: Vince’s ass tastes like s–t. Me: Thanks for the info. Hhh: I bought Samoa Joe a bra. Me: Nxt starts… Hhh: I played with his t—ies.
Match #1: Dakota Kai b. Sarray The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
With Ember Moon deemed unable to compete by the Nxt Medical Staff, Dakota Kai gladly stepped up...
Match #1: Dakota Kai b. Sarray The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
With Ember Moon deemed unable to compete by the Nxt Medical Staff, Dakota Kai gladly stepped up...
- 8/12/2021
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
The Flower of Her Secret: Lindon Conquers a Crush in Directorial Debut
Exemplifying the sincere transitional period Britney Spears famously moaned about when she sang “I’m not a girl, not yet a woman,” writer/director/star Suzanne Lindon proves she’s a triple threat in her debut Spring Blossom (Seize printemps) in a narrative which echoes the same sentiments. The daughter of noted French thespians Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon, she scripted the film when she was only fifteen years old, and five years later impresses with an assured, autobiographically inclined slant on sentiments specific to a particular age.
Curiously, it’s the sort of scenario we’ve seen through the sexualized lens of either an older male’s perspective or even the liberating gaze of an experienced woman, so there’s a doubling refreshing quality with the title, suggesting the sweet naivete of desire’s first bloom but...
Exemplifying the sincere transitional period Britney Spears famously moaned about when she sang “I’m not a girl, not yet a woman,” writer/director/star Suzanne Lindon proves she’s a triple threat in her debut Spring Blossom (Seize printemps) in a narrative which echoes the same sentiments. The daughter of noted French thespians Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lindon, she scripted the film when she was only fifteen years old, and five years later impresses with an assured, autobiographically inclined slant on sentiments specific to a particular age.
Curiously, it’s the sort of scenario we’ve seen through the sexualized lens of either an older male’s perspective or even the liberating gaze of an experienced woman, so there’s a doubling refreshing quality with the title, suggesting the sweet naivete of desire’s first bloom but...
- 5/19/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Subhash Ghai has announced a new film. His next film venture 36 Farm House will be made under his banner Mukta Searchlight Films in association with Zee Studios. The film will be directed by Gujarati filmmaker Vipul Mehta, who has given the biggest grosser to Gujarati cinema ever with his comedy-drama film Chaal Jeevi Laiye, running for 75 weeks in cinema halls.
Speaking on this announcement, Subhash Ghai said, “We have been working vigorously on developing stories and scripts for the last four years for Mukta Arts and now it’s time to enter into film production of Hindi films which is and has been our core business”.
He further added, “We are also glad that Mukta Arts in association with Zee Studios is going to take three entertaining films on floor this year under the Mukta Searchlight Films which has produced high concept low budget films like Iqbal, Joggers Park, Apna Sapna Money,...
Speaking on this announcement, Subhash Ghai said, “We have been working vigorously on developing stories and scripts for the last four years for Mukta Arts and now it’s time to enter into film production of Hindi films which is and has been our core business”.
He further added, “We are also glad that Mukta Arts in association with Zee Studios is going to take three entertaining films on floor this year under the Mukta Searchlight Films which has produced high concept low budget films like Iqbal, Joggers Park, Apna Sapna Money,...
- 1/22/2021
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
KollywoodThe children’s film will be directed by debutant Sarov Shanmugam.Digital NativeDigital NativeActor Suriya has been actively involved in production apart from acting over the last few years. From backing his wife Jyothika in her comeback film 36 Vayadhinile to bankrolling Sudha Kongara’s Soorarai Pottru, the star has made some really exciting choices as a producer. The latest update is that he will be launching actor Arun Vijay’s son in his next production venture. The details about the project are yet unknown; however, it has been confirmed that it will be a children’s film. Arun Vijay took to Twitter to share the news about his son’s acting debut. He wrote: “With all your blessings, extremely happy to announce that my son Arnav Vijay is making his debut today! Proud that he will be launched by Actor @Suriya_offl’s @2D_ENTPVTLTD. Feels good to continue the camaraderie generation after generation.
- 12/14/2020
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
Erik Sharkey and Kevin Burke love movie posters so much that they’ve both made movies about them. Erik directed a film about legendary poster artist Drew Struzan titled Drew: The Man Behind the Poster, while Kevin directed 24×36: A Movie About Movie Posters, which examined the birth, death, and resurrection of illustrated movie poster art. […]
The post This Famous ‘Star Wars’ Poster Was Created in Just 36 Hours appeared first on /Film.
The post This Famous ‘Star Wars’ Poster Was Created in Just 36 Hours appeared first on /Film.
- 9/18/2020
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
What a horrible finale.
The Challenge Season 35 Episode 16 didn't have the excitement of a season finale.
Aside from the final nine competitors scaling a mountain, it felt like a regular installment.
If you watch The Challenge online, you know The Challenge Season 36 has been a mostly disjointed affair, thanks largely to Dee Nguyen getting the pink slip.
The season failed to bounce back after acting like Dee was not a major part of the storyline. They gave her the villain edit, only to erase her.
It was... strange.
In any case, the finale featured a lot of weak competitors, perhaps making it easier for the ultimate victors to, well, tiptoe around a mountain.
Believe me, there were high stakes, but the final challenge weeded out the people who were not cut out to be crowned the winners, and it was particularly surprising that two competitors walked out of the competition.
The Challenge Season 35 Episode 16 didn't have the excitement of a season finale.
Aside from the final nine competitors scaling a mountain, it felt like a regular installment.
If you watch The Challenge online, you know The Challenge Season 36 has been a mostly disjointed affair, thanks largely to Dee Nguyen getting the pink slip.
The season failed to bounce back after acting like Dee was not a major part of the storyline. They gave her the villain edit, only to erase her.
It was... strange.
In any case, the finale featured a lot of weak competitors, perhaps making it easier for the ultimate victors to, well, tiptoe around a mountain.
Believe me, there were high stakes, but the final challenge weeded out the people who were not cut out to be crowned the winners, and it was particularly surprising that two competitors walked out of the competition.
- 7/16/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The world is Jean’s oyster – but only seemingly. After spending three years in Sweden, she is coming back to open her studio in Bangkok. However, putting ideas into practice turns out to be more complicated than she could even expect. First of all, she has to convince her family to turn their old, cluttered house into a modern and minimalistic interior, and hence to get rid of all the objects they have gathered over the years.
“Minimalism is like a Buddhist philosophy – it is all about letting go,” says Jean in the opening scene. What sounds so clear in theory, does not necessarily apply to real life that easily – especially when your family is frozen deep in time, your house looks rather like a prehistoric storeroom full of dusty trash, and on top of that some unwanted memories start hunting you. Jean has no intention of giving up though.
“Minimalism is like a Buddhist philosophy – it is all about letting go,” says Jean in the opening scene. What sounds so clear in theory, does not necessarily apply to real life that easily – especially when your family is frozen deep in time, your house looks rather like a prehistoric storeroom full of dusty trash, and on top of that some unwanted memories start hunting you. Jean has no intention of giving up though.
- 5/14/2020
- by Katarzyna Karpińska
- AsianMoviePulse
"I'm after a killer. Not the one you want to catch." Signature Entertainment UK has debuted an official trailer for a Korean crime action thriller titled The Beast, which initially opened in Korea last summer. The film, which is apparently a remake of the French thriller 36 Quai des Orfèvres with Daniel Auteuil & Gérard Depardieu, is about two detectives in conflict who solve a murder that shakes up the Korean peninsula. To get a critical clue on catching a notorious murderer, Detective Han-Soo (Lee Sung-Min) covers up another crime. Rival detective Min-Tae (Yoo Jae-Myung) senses the cover-up and gets upset. As their competition reaches its peak, even Han is forced to change his methods while Jeong's closeness to the underworld finally takes its toll on him. It sounds like another dark, complex, twisty crime thriller, which is the most common film made in Korea these days. Also starring Daniel Choi,...
- 3/6/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Joseph Baxter Jan 27, 2020
Arrow’s Stephen Amell trades the streets of Star City for the squared circle, headlining Starz’s wrestling drama series, titled Heels.
Heels is an inside jargon term within the professional wrestling industry referring to the role of villainous wrestlers, whose jobs are to generate “heat” amongst the audience, getting people behind the heroic “babyface” wrestler. Yet, it’s a concept to which Stephen Amell, the former heroic defender of Arrow’s Star City, will soon become associated, thanks to a Starz television series.
Starz gave an eight-episode order for an hourlong wrestling-centric drama, called Heels, back in August 2019, setting up the next television platform for Amell, who has completed a defining eight-season starring run on The CW’s Arrow, and has long been associated with wrestling, having participated in it sporadically, utilizing his now-legendary training.
Michael Waldron has written Heels, which will be directed by Peter Segal...
Arrow’s Stephen Amell trades the streets of Star City for the squared circle, headlining Starz’s wrestling drama series, titled Heels.
Heels is an inside jargon term within the professional wrestling industry referring to the role of villainous wrestlers, whose jobs are to generate “heat” amongst the audience, getting people behind the heroic “babyface” wrestler. Yet, it’s a concept to which Stephen Amell, the former heroic defender of Arrow’s Star City, will soon become associated, thanks to a Starz television series.
Starz gave an eight-episode order for an hourlong wrestling-centric drama, called Heels, back in August 2019, setting up the next television platform for Amell, who has completed a defining eight-season starring run on The CW’s Arrow, and has long been associated with wrestling, having participated in it sporadically, utilizing his now-legendary training.
Michael Waldron has written Heels, which will be directed by Peter Segal...
- 1/27/2020
- Den of Geek
After his films “Broken” and “Bestseller”, Korean filmmaker Jung-ho Lee has directed a remake, or rather re-imagination of the French thriller “36th Precinct” by Olivier Marchal. While there are certain similarities between the two titles, Lee has made quite a different film within the specific cultural background of his home country. Besides telling a story about corruption his movie takes a look at the steps a person is willing to take if the reward is a promotion, a raise in one’s salary or, simply put, the idea of superiority in a world where power and influence is the ultimate currency.
“The Beast” screened at Fantasy Filmfest – White Nights 2020
Following a series of brutal murders of young women, the Incheon police department is under public pressure to quickly apprehend whoever is responsible. Within its police force, Unit One and Unit Two might work together on paper, but given the possibility...
“The Beast” screened at Fantasy Filmfest – White Nights 2020
Following a series of brutal murders of young women, the Incheon police department is under public pressure to quickly apprehend whoever is responsible. Within its police force, Unit One and Unit Two might work together on paper, but given the possibility...
- 1/20/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Veteran actor Jean Reno has been tapped to star in “Rogue City,” a thriller that sees director Olivier Marchal re-team with French studio Gaumont.
Budgeted at $13 million, the film is set in Marseille and follows an anti-gang cop (Reno) with unorthodox methods who investigates a shooting at a local nightclub along with his longtime rival.
Lannick Gautry, Stanislas Merhar and David Belle complete the cast. Alain Figlarz, who has previously worked on “Taken 3,” “The Bourne Identity” and “The Transporter,” will be handling the action scenes and stunts.
The movie is set to start shooting on location in the south of France in September. Gaumont will kick off pre-sales for “Rogue City” at Cannes with a fully story-boarded script, and expects to release “Rogue City” in France during the second quarter of 2020.
Marchal is himself a former cop who worked for both the police and French intelligence. Through films such...
Budgeted at $13 million, the film is set in Marseille and follows an anti-gang cop (Reno) with unorthodox methods who investigates a shooting at a local nightclub along with his longtime rival.
Lannick Gautry, Stanislas Merhar and David Belle complete the cast. Alain Figlarz, who has previously worked on “Taken 3,” “The Bourne Identity” and “The Transporter,” will be handling the action scenes and stunts.
The movie is set to start shooting on location in the south of France in September. Gaumont will kick off pre-sales for “Rogue City” at Cannes with a fully story-boarded script, and expects to release “Rogue City” in France during the second quarter of 2020.
Marchal is himself a former cop who worked for both the police and French intelligence. Through films such...
- 5/10/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
PARIS -- MR 73 is the third in a trilogy of police thrillers that Olivier Marchal began in 2002 with Gangsters and followed up two years later with Department 36. It also is far and away the darkest of the three movies. While its resolutely dour tone and downbeat ending might deter younger spectators, the convincing portrayal of a cop at the end of his tether should pay off handsomely with mature audiences in many territories.
The announcement that serial killer Charles Subra (Philippe Nahon) is to be released early for good behavior unleashes old demons for his arresting officer Louis Schneider (Daniel Auteuil) at a time when he is struggling to cope with more recent demons -- among them deep pangs of guilt incurred when his wife suffered debilitating Brain Damage in a car crash while he was enjoying a fling with his police colleague Marie (Catherine Marchal).
Complicating matters, a new spate of killings -- clearly the work of another serial killer -- has broken out. Meanwhile, Justine (Olivia Bonamy), the daughter of one of Subra's victims 25 years earlier, writes to Subra in prison and then makes contact with Louis.
As a police detective, Louis is not so much hard-bitten as chewed up and spat out. He is first seen slumped drunk in a bus that he then proceeds to hijack for the hell of it. Asked by a psychiatrist whether he believes in God, he replies that the deity "is a son of a bitch, and one day I'm going to kill him." He's rarely without a bottle close at hand, and it always appears to be three days since his last shave. He inflames relations with his superior Kovalski (Francis Renaud) by joining the investigation into the latest killings, then he assaults him.
In an opening title, Marchal informs spectators that the film is based on a true story. The director, an ex-cop, has hinted that the movie is a transposition of events that caused him to leave the police 15 years ago. But the story of MR 73 is best seen simply as a peg on which Marchal hangs his depiction of a burned-out cop, superbly assisted by Auteuil.
The weakness of the plotting is more than compensated by the strength of the performances and the splendor of the visuals. Rarely has the Mediterranean port of Marseille, where the action is set, appeared so bleak onscreen. The sun is banished to the margins in a succession of night scenes, murky interiors and washed-out colors that provide a fitting setting for a world without redemption.
Marchal arguably overplays the religious connotations (his CV includes a spell spent at a Jesuit school), and the movie's resolution -- in which a Manurhin MR 73 handgun plays a key role -- is too pat. But for all its faults, MR 73 is a powerful piece of filmmaking that marks out its director as a distinctive voice making a personal statement about the more troubling aspects of crime and punishment.
MR 73
LGM Films, Gaumont, TF1 Films Production, Medusa Film
Sales agent: Gaumont
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Olivier Marchal
Producers: Cyril Colbeau-Justin, Jean-Baptiste Dupont, Franck Chorot
Executive producer: David Giordano
Director of photography: Denis Rouden
Production designer: Ambre Sansonetti
Costume designer: Marie-Laure Lasson
Music: Bruno Coulais
Editor: Raphaele Urtin
Cast:
Louis Schneider: Daniel Auteuil
Justine: Olivia Bonamy
Marie Angeli: Catherine Marchal
Kovalski: Francis Renaud
Mateo: Gerald Laroche
Jumbo: Guy Lecluyse
Subra: Philippe Nahon
Running time -- 124 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The announcement that serial killer Charles Subra (Philippe Nahon) is to be released early for good behavior unleashes old demons for his arresting officer Louis Schneider (Daniel Auteuil) at a time when he is struggling to cope with more recent demons -- among them deep pangs of guilt incurred when his wife suffered debilitating Brain Damage in a car crash while he was enjoying a fling with his police colleague Marie (Catherine Marchal).
Complicating matters, a new spate of killings -- clearly the work of another serial killer -- has broken out. Meanwhile, Justine (Olivia Bonamy), the daughter of one of Subra's victims 25 years earlier, writes to Subra in prison and then makes contact with Louis.
As a police detective, Louis is not so much hard-bitten as chewed up and spat out. He is first seen slumped drunk in a bus that he then proceeds to hijack for the hell of it. Asked by a psychiatrist whether he believes in God, he replies that the deity "is a son of a bitch, and one day I'm going to kill him." He's rarely without a bottle close at hand, and it always appears to be three days since his last shave. He inflames relations with his superior Kovalski (Francis Renaud) by joining the investigation into the latest killings, then he assaults him.
In an opening title, Marchal informs spectators that the film is based on a true story. The director, an ex-cop, has hinted that the movie is a transposition of events that caused him to leave the police 15 years ago. But the story of MR 73 is best seen simply as a peg on which Marchal hangs his depiction of a burned-out cop, superbly assisted by Auteuil.
The weakness of the plotting is more than compensated by the strength of the performances and the splendor of the visuals. Rarely has the Mediterranean port of Marseille, where the action is set, appeared so bleak onscreen. The sun is banished to the margins in a succession of night scenes, murky interiors and washed-out colors that provide a fitting setting for a world without redemption.
Marchal arguably overplays the religious connotations (his CV includes a spell spent at a Jesuit school), and the movie's resolution -- in which a Manurhin MR 73 handgun plays a key role -- is too pat. But for all its faults, MR 73 is a powerful piece of filmmaking that marks out its director as a distinctive voice making a personal statement about the more troubling aspects of crime and punishment.
MR 73
LGM Films, Gaumont, TF1 Films Production, Medusa Film
Sales agent: Gaumont
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Olivier Marchal
Producers: Cyril Colbeau-Justin, Jean-Baptiste Dupont, Franck Chorot
Executive producer: David Giordano
Director of photography: Denis Rouden
Production designer: Ambre Sansonetti
Costume designer: Marie-Laure Lasson
Music: Bruno Coulais
Editor: Raphaele Urtin
Cast:
Louis Schneider: Daniel Auteuil
Justine: Olivia Bonamy
Marie Angeli: Catherine Marchal
Kovalski: Francis Renaud
Mateo: Gerald Laroche
Jumbo: Guy Lecluyse
Subra: Philippe Nahon
Running time -- 124 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/21/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Campbell is attached to direct Paramount Pictures' 36, a remake of the 2004 French-language thriller 36 quai des orfevres. Author-screenwriter Richard Price has been tapped to do a rewrite.
The story revolves around two detectives who try to solve a series of armored car robberies in the hopes of landing a promotion promised to whoever catches the perpetrators.
Robert De Niro, who is producing the project through his Tribeca Films banner, had been attached to star. But sources said that Price will pen an overhaul of Dean Georgaris' screenplay and reimagine the two detectives in their 30s.
Campbell, whose credits include The Legend of Zorro and The Mask of Zorro, most recently helmed Sony/MGM's international hit Casino Royale. He is prepping 20th Century Fox's thriller Unstoppable.
The New Zealand-born director is repped by CAA and attorney Walter Teller.
Price, whose screenwriting credits include Freedomland and Mad Dog and Glory, also is a best-selling author who has penned such novels as Clockers and The Wanderers.
He is handled by CAA.
The story revolves around two detectives who try to solve a series of armored car robberies in the hopes of landing a promotion promised to whoever catches the perpetrators.
Robert De Niro, who is producing the project through his Tribeca Films banner, had been attached to star. But sources said that Price will pen an overhaul of Dean Georgaris' screenplay and reimagine the two detectives in their 30s.
Campbell, whose credits include The Legend of Zorro and The Mask of Zorro, most recently helmed Sony/MGM's international hit Casino Royale. He is prepping 20th Century Fox's thriller Unstoppable.
The New Zealand-born director is repped by CAA and attorney Walter Teller.
Price, whose screenwriting credits include Freedomland and Mad Dog and Glory, also is a best-selling author who has penned such novels as Clockers and The Wanderers.
He is handled by CAA.
- 6/13/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ocean's Thirteen star George Clooney may be going on to 36. Per Production Weekly, the actor is in talks to join fellow Oscar winner Robert De Niro in Marc Forster's remake of the French crime thriller for Paramount. Based on Olivier Marchal's 36 Quai des Orfèvres starring Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil, the film centers on a pair of cops trying to outdo each other and advance their careers by collaring a violent street gang. The project is expected to shoot in New York later this year. Clooney is also scheduled to shoot the L.A.-set cop drama White Jazz this year. His next Ocean installment rolls into theaters June 8.
- 1/3/2007
- IMDbPro News
PARIS -- French cinema group Gaumont posted full-year 2005 results Tuesday, unveiling an 18% hike in revenue from the previous year to 100.2 million ($119.2 million) along with a 21.7% drop in net profit to 7.2 million ($8.5 million). The group attributed the mixed results to the hit-or-miss nature of its film slate. The strong theatrical performances of Palais Royale!, a comedy inspired by Europe's royals (2.7 million admissions), and Je vous trouve tres beau (You Are So Beautiful), about a French farmer who seeks a Romanian girl to replace his dead wife (2.3 million entries since January), were weighed down by a pair of expensive flops -- Eric Lartigau's Un ticket pour l'espace (A Ticket to Outer Space) and Eric Valli's La Piste (The Trail), the company said. Brisk video sales of Alain Berberian's The Corsica File, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, and 36 Quai des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, helped profits, while catalog sales grew 31.7% to 47.7 million ($56.7 million).
PARIS -- French cinema group Gaumont posted full-year 2005 results Tuesday, unveiling an 18% hike in revenue from the previous year to 100.2 million ($119.2 million) along with a 21.7% drop in net profit to 7.2 million ($8.5 million). The group attributed the mixed results to the hit-or-miss nature of its film slate. The strong theatrical performances of Palais Royale!, a comedy inspired by Europe's royals (2.7 million admissions), and Je vous trouve tres beau (You Are So Beautiful), about a French farmer who seeks a Romanian girl to replace his dead wife (2.3 million entries since January), were weighed down by a pair of expensive flops -- Eric Lartigau's Un ticket pour l'espace (A Ticket to Outer Space) and Eric Valli's La Piste (The Trail), the company said. Brisk video sales of Alain Berberian's The Corsica File, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, and 36 Quai des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, helped profits, while catalog sales grew 31.7% to 47.7 million ($56.7 million).
PARIS -- French cinema group Gaumont posted full-year 2005 results Tuesday, unveiling an 18% hike in revenue from the previous year to 100.2 million ($119.2 million) along with a 21.7% drop in net profit to 7.2 million ($8.5 million). The group attributed the mixed results to the hit-or-miss nature of its film slate. The strong theatrical performances of Palais Royale!, a comedy inspired by Europe's royals (2.7 million admissions), and Je vous trouve tres beau (You Are So Beautiful), about a French farmer who seeks a Romanian girl to replace his dead wife (2.3 million entries since January), were weighed down by a pair of expensive flops -- Eric Lartigau's Un ticket pour l'espace (A Ticket to Outer Space) and Eric Valli's La Piste (The Trail), the company said. Brisk video sales of Alain Berberian's The Corsica File, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, and 36 Quai des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, helped profits, while catalog sales grew 31.7% to 47.7 million ($56.7 million).
- 2/28/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French cinema group Gaumont posted full-year 2005 results Tuesday, unveiling an 18% hike in revenue from the previous year to 100.2 million ($119.2 million) along with a 21.7% drop in net profit to 7.2 million ($8.5 million). The group attributed the mixed results to the hit-or-miss nature of its film slate. The strong theatrical performances of Palais Royale!, a comedy inspired by Europe's royals (2.7 million admissions), and Je vous trouve tres beau (You Are So Beautiful), about a French farmer who seeks a Romanian girl to replace his dead wife (2.3 million entries since January), were weighed down by a pair of expensive flops -- Eric Lartigau's Un ticket pour l'espace (A Ticket to Outer Space) and Eric Valli's La Piste (The Trail), the company said. Brisk video sales of Alain Berberian's The Corsica File, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, and 36 Quai des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, helped profits, while catalog sales grew 31.7% to 47.7 million ($56.7 million).
- 2/28/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- An insatiable appetite for detective and cop dramas in France has local broadcasters gearing up to present a police-heavy program roster this fall. With the new lineups ready to unwrap later this month, sources say that the healthy French appetite for cop shows will strongly influence schedules. Canal Plus, which has steered clear of commissioning cop series to this point, will air Engrenages (Spirals), its first-ever French police drama. The series will focus on flaws in the French judicial system. And market leader TF1, which reserves primetime slots on Mondays and Thursdays for police action, has roped in feature film director Olivier Marchal (36 Quai des Orfevres) to conceptualize a new police miniseries tentatively titled Flic, to be produced by GMT Prods. and producer Francois Engenger. Shooting is set to begin later this year.
- 8/15/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French cinema group Gaumont on Wednesday posted a 25% increase in revenue to 46.2 million (55.8 million) for the first half of 2005. The company's income increased 47% year-on-year to 5.3 million ($6.4 million). The group, which has suffered losses in recent years with the poor boxoffice performance of some releases and a drop in attendance at its theaters, attributed the improved results to the DVD releases of cop thriller 36 Quai des Orfevres, starring Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil, and The Corsican File, an espionage drama toplined by Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. International sales of the thriller Empire of Wolves, directed by Chris Nahon, also boosted revenue.
- 7/27/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French cinema group Gaumont posted improved full-year 2004 results Monday, with revenue rising 26% over the previous year to 88.6 million ($117.3 million) and a net profit of 9.7 million ($12.8 million), compared with 2.8 million in 2003. The group attributed the improved results to the success of two films it released last year and a healthy increase in French film admissions, which benefited the turnover of its EuroPalaces chain of cinema halls. Alain Berberian's The Corsica File, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, registered 2.6 million entries, while Olivier Marchal's cop thriller, 36 Quai des Orfevres, starring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, attracted two million entries last year. Consolidated profit for its EuroPalaces cinemas rose to 16.6 million ($21.9 million) compared with 3.9 million in 2003, on revenues of 407.7 million ($539.8 million) against a year-earlier 380 million, Gaumont said in a statement.
PARIS -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet's World War I saga, A Very Long Engagement, swept up 12 nominations on Monday for the Cesar Awards, France's top film honors, including best film, best director, and best actress for Audrey Tautou. Les Choristes, France's contender for a foreign-language Oscar nomination, and 36 Quai des Orfevres, the police thriller starring Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil, each nabbed eight nominations. Choristes and 36 Quai will vie with Jeunet's film and two relatively small-budget French productions - teenage drama L'Esquive (The Dodging), directed by Tunisian-born Abdellatif Kechiche, which earned five nominations, and Arnaud Desplechin's Rois et Reine (Kings and Queen), about the parallel lives of two ex-lovers, which secured seven noms.
- 1/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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