The Exhibition on Screen series examines the modern French paintings collected by Danish businessman Wilhelm Hansen
Here is a bit of a diversion from the Exhibition on Screen series’ usual practice of hanging their films around blockbuster artist names: this latest is a profile of Wilhelm Hansen, the “Danish collector” of the title, who assembled a mighty private collection of 19th-century French painting – centred on the impressionists – which was eventually donated to the Danish state in the early 1950s. The film actually takes its cue from the Royal Academy’s 2020 exhibition Gauguin and the Impressionists, whose curators are on hand to provide context.
Hansen himself seems a solid if unspectacular figure: a wealthy insurance tycoon whose main biographical drama appears to be getting caught up in a banking collapse, of which he was cleared of criminal involvement but whose financial repercussions forced him to sell a large chunk of his collection.
Here is a bit of a diversion from the Exhibition on Screen series’ usual practice of hanging their films around blockbuster artist names: this latest is a profile of Wilhelm Hansen, the “Danish collector” of the title, who assembled a mighty private collection of 19th-century French painting – centred on the impressionists – which was eventually donated to the Danish state in the early 1950s. The film actually takes its cue from the Royal Academy’s 2020 exhibition Gauguin and the Impressionists, whose curators are on hand to provide context.
Hansen himself seems a solid if unspectacular figure: a wealthy insurance tycoon whose main biographical drama appears to be getting caught up in a banking collapse, of which he was cleared of criminal involvement but whose financial repercussions forced him to sell a large chunk of his collection.
- 11/30/2021
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
It is French director Edouard Deluc’s third feature after Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti and Welcome to Argentina.
Pulsar Content is set to launch sales on French director Edouard Deluc’s horse trekking comedy Wilderness Therapy at the virtual Pre-Cannes Screenings next week.
Pio Marmaï and Philippe Rebbot star as two down-on-their-luck friends who decide to set up a company running horse trekking tours in the French Pyrenees mountains, to turn around their fortunes. Their promise of a restorative trip connecting participants with nature, silence and adventure does not pan out as expected.
The film is now shooting in the Pyrenees.
Pulsar Content is set to launch sales on French director Edouard Deluc’s horse trekking comedy Wilderness Therapy at the virtual Pre-Cannes Screenings next week.
Pio Marmaï and Philippe Rebbot star as two down-on-their-luck friends who decide to set up a company running horse trekking tours in the French Pyrenees mountains, to turn around their fortunes. Their promise of a restorative trip connecting participants with nature, silence and adventure does not pan out as expected.
The film is now shooting in the Pyrenees.
- 6/14/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Altitude’s ‘Rocks’ opens in the UK and Ireland.
France, opening Wednesday, September 16
Two French Cannes 2020 titles were the biggest openers in France this week. Caroline Vignal’s comedy-drama My Lover, My Donkey & I opened on around 460 copies for Diaphana Distribution. This second feature for Vignal stars the popular actress as a school teacher who sets off on a donkey trekking holiday in hot pursuit of her secret lover.
Emmanuel Mouret’s contemporary love-triangle drama Love Affair(s) also launched on around 460 copies for Pyramide Distribution. Camelia Jordana co-stars opposite Niels Schneider and Vincent Macaigne as a pregnant young woman...
France, opening Wednesday, September 16
Two French Cannes 2020 titles were the biggest openers in France this week. Caroline Vignal’s comedy-drama My Lover, My Donkey & I opened on around 460 copies for Diaphana Distribution. This second feature for Vignal stars the popular actress as a school teacher who sets off on a donkey trekking holiday in hot pursuit of her secret lover.
Emmanuel Mouret’s contemporary love-triangle drama Love Affair(s) also launched on around 460 copies for Pyramide Distribution. Camelia Jordana co-stars opposite Niels Schneider and Vincent Macaigne as a pregnant young woman...
- 9/18/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Melanie Goodfellow¬Martin Blaney¬Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Charles S. Cohen doesn’t just love French cinema: he puts his money where his mouth is. And with a net worth estimated at $3.3 billion by Forbes Magazine, the owner of producer/distributor Cohen Media Group — the largest American distributor of French films in the U.S. — is showing his love in a multitude of ways.
“I am finalizing plans with the French government for the renovation and expansion of La Pagode Cinema, the only theater
in the 7th arrondissement [of Paris],” the real estate magnate says.
It’s only one of his many recent efforts involving French cinema, which include licensing the film libraries of Maurice Pialat, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol and others, restoring and releasing them on home video through his Cohen Film Collection.
He’s also chairman of the Alliance Française, and his efforts in promoting French cinema and art earned him France’s National Order of Merit in...
“I am finalizing plans with the French government for the renovation and expansion of La Pagode Cinema, the only theater
in the 7th arrondissement [of Paris],” the real estate magnate says.
It’s only one of his many recent efforts involving French cinema, which include licensing the film libraries of Maurice Pialat, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol and others, restoring and releasing them on home video through his Cohen Film Collection.
He’s also chairman of the Alliance Française, and his efforts in promoting French cinema and art earned him France’s National Order of Merit in...
- 5/10/2019
- by Gregg Goldstein
- Variety Film + TV
French painter Paul Gauguin receives two noted cinematic approximations in 2018. Edouard Deluc’s Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti features Vincent Cassel as the tropically consumed painter who finds romance and liberation during his most prolific artistic period, which hits theatrical in November of 2018). Despite a lack of any major festival play, the title was snapped up by Cohen Media Group and raked in just over two-hundred thousand at the Us box office during a limited theatrical release in July of 2018.…...
- 11/13/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Gauguin: Voyage To Tahiti, which features internationally renowned actor Vincent Cassel as the celebrated artist, hits Blu-ray, DVD and digital platforms November 6 via the Cohen Media Group.
Frustrated with the modern world, Gauguin left his wife and children in 1891 to travel to Tahiti where he encounters the native Polynesians and [...]
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Frustrated with the modern world, Gauguin left his wife and children in 1891 to travel to Tahiti where he encounters the native Polynesians and [...]
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- 10/10/2018
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Chicago – The art masters, and the masterpieces they have created, become a background culture in our lives… even if we don’t necessarily know the artist. Paul Gauguin is one of those painters-as-cultural-influencer, and a vital point in his artistic life is told in the film “Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Vincent Cassel – best known to American audiences in “Ocean’s Twelve” (and “Thirteen”) – dives into the role of Paul Gauguin like a man possessed, and in many ways this was Gauguin’s most obsessive period. He left everything behind as a French painter to find his “artistic” self in Tahiti, and as many great masters do, paid the price. The story is fascinating and frustrating, much like the artist himself, but doesn’t project an understanding to the artist’s inner life or the Tahitian natives around him. This works as a lesson in being an artist over everything else,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Vincent Cassel – best known to American audiences in “Ocean’s Twelve” (and “Thirteen”) – dives into the role of Paul Gauguin like a man possessed, and in many ways this was Gauguin’s most obsessive period. He left everything behind as a French painter to find his “artistic” self in Tahiti, and as many great masters do, paid the price. The story is fascinating and frustrating, much like the artist himself, but doesn’t project an understanding to the artist’s inner life or the Tahitian natives around him. This works as a lesson in being an artist over everything else,...
- 7/24/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Narrative live action has struggled at the 2018 specialty box office; so far the top titles are either animated or documentary. But that has suddenly changed. “Eighth Grade” (A24) had a sensational two-city initial response. And “Sorry to Bother You” (Annapurna) expanded rapidly with continued strong results. Meantime serious drama “Leave No Trace” (Bleecker Street) successfully added more theaters to bring the indie count to three non-documentary hits.
Not that documentaries have peaked. “Three Identical Strangers” (Neon) is also breaking through to a wider public.
Yes, there were several major successes, but this summer lineup offered narrow appeal, leaving out more sophisticated fare. It’s too soon to celebrate. But after a worrisome first half of the year, summer brings upbeat news.
Opening
Eighth Grade (A24) – Metacritic: 90; Festivals include: Sundance, South by Southwest 2018
$252,284 in 4 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $63,071
Top level reviews (at the level of “The Rider” and “First Reformed...
Not that documentaries have peaked. “Three Identical Strangers” (Neon) is also breaking through to a wider public.
Yes, there were several major successes, but this summer lineup offered narrow appeal, leaving out more sophisticated fare. It’s too soon to celebrate. But after a worrisome first half of the year, summer brings upbeat news.
Opening
Eighth Grade (A24) – Metacritic: 90; Festivals include: Sundance, South by Southwest 2018
$252,284 in 4 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $63,071
Top level reviews (at the level of “The Rider” and “First Reformed...
- 7/15/2018
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Joaquin Phoenix stars in his second Specialty release in the last few months with Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot, with Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara. Amazon Studios is opening the title in several locations in New York and Los Angeles ahead of a wider roll out. The title will likely headline a fairly busy weekend of Specialty newcomers given the tentpole season. Rob Reiner put up his own money to finance, in part, his latest directorial effort Shock And Awe, a project that was twenty years in the making and takes a look at events precipitating the Iraq Invasion in 2003. PBS Distribution is opening Kimberly Reed’s doc Dark Money in New York ahead of a select national roll out. The feature examines the role of ‘dark money’ in U.S. politics. Among foreign-language titles, Cohen Media Group opened Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti...
- 7/12/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Vincent Cassel has curated a long career of interesting projects. And while he isn’t widely known to mainstream audiences, the French actor has had an accomplished career that has fallen mostly under the radar. Still the actor has over 80 credits to his name, including notable films “La Haine,” “Elizabeth,” and a voice performance in “The Little Prince.” For his latest project, the French actor is playing painter, sculptor, and ceramist Paul Gaugin.
Continue reading ‘Gauguin: Voyage To Tahiti’ Trailer: Vincent Cassel Makes Waves Remixing Scandalous Art History at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Gauguin: Voyage To Tahiti’ Trailer: Vincent Cassel Makes Waves Remixing Scandalous Art History at The Playlist.
- 6/15/2018
- by Julia Teti
- The Playlist
"I feel alive again." Cohen Media Group has released an official Us trailer for the film Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, originally known as just Gauguin in its released in Europe last year. The film is finally hitting limited Us theaters this summer. Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti stars Vincent Cassel as famous French artist Paul Gauguin, a painter who decided to leave behind his wife and child and civilized life to travel out to Tahiti in 1891. The film is about his decision to go to Tahiti and his romance and connection with a young Tahitian girl named Tehura, played by Tuheï Adams. The cast includes Malik Zidi, Pua-Taï Hikutini, Pernille Bergendorff, Marc Barbé, Paul Jeanson, Cédric Eeckhout, and Samuel Jouy. This looks quite good, with a compelling performance by Cassel as the inspired painter. I would really like to see this. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Edouard Deluc's Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti,...
- 6/13/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Berlin Film Festival has announced that it will kick off its 67th edition with the world premiere of Etienne Comar’s directorial debut “Django,” according to Deadline.
The film, co-written by Comar and Alexis Salatko, is a biopic about the jazz legend Django Reinhardt. Starring Reda Kateb as the guitarist and composer, the film is set during Reinhardt’s flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943. As a beloved artist, he and his family were harassed and hounded by the Nazis. Cécile de France, Alex Brendemühl and Ulrich Brandhoff co-star.
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“Django Reinhardt was one of the most brilliant pioneers of European jazz and the father of Gypsy Swing,” said Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick. “‘Django’ grippingly portrays one chapter in the musician’s eventful life and is a poignant tale of survival. Constant danger, flight and the atrocities committed against...
The film, co-written by Comar and Alexis Salatko, is a biopic about the jazz legend Django Reinhardt. Starring Reda Kateb as the guitarist and composer, the film is set during Reinhardt’s flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943. As a beloved artist, he and his family were harassed and hounded by the Nazis. Cécile de France, Alex Brendemühl and Ulrich Brandhoff co-star.
Read More: 5 Exciting Films in the 2017 Berlin Film Festival Competition Lineup
“Django Reinhardt was one of the most brilliant pioneers of European jazz and the father of Gypsy Swing,” said Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick. “‘Django’ grippingly portrays one chapter in the musician’s eventful life and is a poignant tale of survival. Constant danger, flight and the atrocities committed against...
- 1/4/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
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