"It’s not HBO, it’s (French) TV," begins Adam Nayman in Cinema Scope, "and it’s also paradoxically the best movie that Bruno Dumont has made since L’humanite (1999)—a good point of comparison because Li’l Quinquin is basically a remake, give or take." "Is it Dumont’s best?" Michael Pattison asks in a conversation in the Notebook, to which Neil Young replies that "my gut reaction is to say yes, with the obvious caveat that Quinquin benefited massively from being such a volte-face…. There are moments of humor dotted through even Dumont’s ostensibly dourest efforts (I’m thinking of the hands poking out of the doors in Hors Satan proffering David Dewaele his grub) with the possible exception of Camille Claudel 1915. Not many guffaws in that one." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 10/1/2014
- Keyframe
"It’s not HBO, it’s (French) TV," begins Adam Nayman in Cinema Scope, "and it’s also paradoxically the best movie that Bruno Dumont has made since L’humanite (1999)—a good point of comparison because Li’l Quinquin is basically a remake, give or take." "Is it Dumont’s best?" Michael Pattison asks in a conversation in the Notebook, to which Neil Young replies that "my gut reaction is to say yes, with the obvious caveat that Quinquin benefited massively from being such a volte-face…. There are moments of humor dotted through even Dumont’s ostensibly dourest efforts (I’m thinking of the hands poking out of the doors in Hors Satan proffering David Dewaele his grub) with the possible exception of Camille Claudel 1915. Not many guffaws in that one." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 10/1/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The following exchange took place between critics Michael Pattison and Neil Young over email between 4 and 8 August, not long after Li’l Quinquin screened at Wrocław’s New Horizons International Film Festival—following its world-premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and now playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).
Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin
Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...
Set in a village in northern France and originally made in four parts for transmission on French television, Bruno Dumont’s latest work is 200 minutes in length and chronicles an unorthodox murder investigation conducted by Capt Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) under the watchful eyes of a rambunctious kid known only by his nickname, Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye).
Spoiler Warning: this exchange reveals and discusses significant plot details of Li’l Quinquin
Michael Pattison: You remarked on Twitter earlier that you were still thinking about Li’l Quinquin a day after seeing it—that, having slept on it, the film...
- 9/10/2014
- by Neil Young
- MUBI
Decadence, violence, love and space – Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw shares his fantasy award nomination list for 2013
• The 2012 Braddies
Awards season is now upon us and here, as every year, is my personal fantasy award nomination list for 2013, whimsically called the Braddies, which covers the period running from the beginning of the calendar year to the present. There are 10 nominations in eight categories: film, director, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, screenplay and documentary.
The reader is invited to nominate the winner in the comments section below, and perhaps to note omissions and evidence that the list betrays suggestions of sociocultural bias.
I like to think that these awards will one day evolve into an actual ceremony with chrome-and-glass statuettes, sponsorship from Sky Atlantic and a televised evening presided over by Dara Ó Briain or Mariella Frostrup. But until then, it exists in a world of fantasy only. And so,...
• The 2012 Braddies
Awards season is now upon us and here, as every year, is my personal fantasy award nomination list for 2013, whimsically called the Braddies, which covers the period running from the beginning of the calendar year to the present. There are 10 nominations in eight categories: film, director, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, screenplay and documentary.
The reader is invited to nominate the winner in the comments section below, and perhaps to note omissions and evidence that the list betrays suggestions of sociocultural bias.
I like to think that these awards will one day evolve into an actual ceremony with chrome-and-glass statuettes, sponsorship from Sky Atlantic and a televised evening presided over by Dara Ó Briain or Mariella Frostrup. But until then, it exists in a world of fantasy only. And so,...
- 12/6/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Les Misérables; Side by Side; Hors Satan
Although it may not be the first screen musical to feature live-on-set singing, Les Misérables (2012, Universal, 12) is certainly the most ambitious, a huge, sweeping epic that produced a tidal wave of tears when it opened in UK cinemas. According to news reports, audiences of all ages – both male and female – were weeping openly during the multitudinous dramatic climaxes, a response attributed to the immediacy and intimacy that live voice recording conjured. Certainly, the technique pays dividends, most notably in Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway's breathtakingly fragile rendition of I Dreamed a Dream, delivered in one continuous take, pitched somewhere between a whisper and a scream, between speech and song, with eye-watering results.
Yet for all its intimacy, the film does not skimp on spectacle. Nodding its head toward the lessons of Alan Parker's brilliant Evita, Tom Hooper's profoundly cinematic adaptation of a...
Although it may not be the first screen musical to feature live-on-set singing, Les Misérables (2012, Universal, 12) is certainly the most ambitious, a huge, sweeping epic that produced a tidal wave of tears when it opened in UK cinemas. According to news reports, audiences of all ages – both male and female – were weeping openly during the multitudinous dramatic climaxes, a response attributed to the immediacy and intimacy that live voice recording conjured. Certainly, the technique pays dividends, most notably in Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway's breathtakingly fragile rendition of I Dreamed a Dream, delivered in one continuous take, pitched somewhere between a whisper and a scream, between speech and song, with eye-watering results.
Yet for all its intimacy, the film does not skimp on spectacle. Nodding its head toward the lessons of Alan Parker's brilliant Evita, Tom Hooper's profoundly cinematic adaptation of a...
- 5/13/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Divisive filmmaker Bruno Dumont is no stranger to spirituality, and can hardly be accused of fence-sitting with Hors Satan (Outside Satan, 2011), which arrives on DVD this week courtesy of New Wave Films. Whilst the auteur's defiant opacity may put some cinephiles off, he's once again crafted an unmissable, morally-complex experience. Using little-known actors to portray his characters, Dumont creates a challenging but nevertheless compelling narrative which seeks to examine the murky synergy of good and evil - all present within Hors Satan's enigmatic protagonist, simply referred to as 'the guy' (the late David Dewaele).
Sleeping rough on the outskirts of a small coastal hamlet in Pas-de-Calais, 'the guy' ('le gars') wanders the stark landscapes akin to some messianic embodiment of nature's amorality. Here, a young woman (Alexandra Lemâtre) confides in him about her abusive stepfather. When it's claimed that she simply cannot take any more it prompts a swift...
Sleeping rough on the outskirts of a small coastal hamlet in Pas-de-Calais, 'the guy' ('le gars') wanders the stark landscapes akin to some messianic embodiment of nature's amorality. Here, a young woman (Alexandra Lemâtre) confides in him about her abusive stepfather. When it's claimed that she simply cannot take any more it prompts a swift...
- 5/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
UK arthouse distributor New Wave Films are pleased to announce the release of controversial director Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan (2011) this coming Monday (13 May). Along the Cote d'Opale, near to a hamlet with a river and a marshland, lives an unusual guy (the late David Dewaele) who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires. To celebrate the home entertainment release of Dumont's latest critically-acclaimed work, we have Three DVD copies of Hors Satan to offer out to our world cinema-loving readership, courtesy of New Wave. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
Dumont's Hors Satan is beautifully shot in a protected area on the coast of Northern France, where the director has been living most of his life. The film engages in a unique way with...
Dumont's Hors Satan is beautifully shot in a protected area on the coast of Northern France, where the director has been living most of his life. The film engages in a unique way with...
- 5/10/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Impossible | Quartet | Hors Satan | McCullin | Playing For Keeps | Repulsion | Texas Chainsaw 3D
The Impossible (12A) (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012, Spa) Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast, Samuel Joslin. 114 mins
It was less than ten years ago, but already the Indian Ocean Tsunami has passed from a documentary subject to disaster-movie material. To injurious timing, though, this epic adds the insult of assuming we're only interested in how it affected white people. It's firmly focused on the plight of a British family, separated by the disaster. It's based on a true story, and impressively mounted, but that's no excuse for the myopic tastelessness.
Quartet (12A) (Dustin Hoffman, 2012, UK) Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, ichael Gambon. 98 mins
Theatricality is built into Hoffman's directing debut, a gentle senior-centric comedy set in a country home for retired musicians. Opera diva Smith's arrival ruffles feathers and stirs up ancient memories.
Hors Satan (15) (Bruno Dumont,...
The Impossible (12A) (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012, Spa) Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast, Samuel Joslin. 114 mins
It was less than ten years ago, but already the Indian Ocean Tsunami has passed from a documentary subject to disaster-movie material. To injurious timing, though, this epic adds the insult of assuming we're only interested in how it affected white people. It's firmly focused on the plight of a British family, separated by the disaster. It's based on a true story, and impressively mounted, but that's no excuse for the myopic tastelessness.
Quartet (12A) (Dustin Hoffman, 2012, UK) Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, ichael Gambon. 98 mins
Theatricality is built into Hoffman's directing debut, a gentle senior-centric comedy set in a country home for retired musicians. Opera diva Smith's arrival ruffles feathers and stirs up ancient memories.
Hors Satan (15) (Bruno Dumont,...
- 1/5/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The wild, coastal landscapes where Bruno Dumont's antihero roams free from retribution create a lucid dream of violence and beauty
It could be the antihero who is supposed to be "outside Satan" in Bruno Dumont's latest film, or it could be the remote, islanded world he inhabits. He and they are quite close to Satan, at all events; it is perhaps truer to say he is outside both God and Satan. Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film Humanity – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling.
We are back in the broad, wild coastal landscapes of northern France, of which Britain's nearest equivalent is the East Anglian fen, a world of largely unsmiling, often unspeaking characters represented by non-professional actors.
It could be the antihero who is supposed to be "outside Satan" in Bruno Dumont's latest film, or it could be the remote, islanded world he inhabits. He and they are quite close to Satan, at all events; it is perhaps truer to say he is outside both God and Satan. Devotees of Dumont's earlier films – particularly his 1999 film Humanity – will instantly recognise the style, the locale, the narrative, the bizarre quasi-realism, in which events take place in a world infinitesimally different from the one we inhabit. As ever, the visionary, radioactive glow is compelling.
We are back in the broad, wild coastal landscapes of northern France, of which Britain's nearest equivalent is the East Anglian fen, a world of largely unsmiling, often unspeaking characters represented by non-professional actors.
- 1/4/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Due in no small part to the delayed UK theatrical release of Hadewijch (2009), Hors Satan (Outside Satan, 2011) is the second Bruno Dumont film to hit these shores within the last twelve months - no bad thing, of course. Whilst nowhere near as famous as his numerous awards would suggest, Dumont remains one of Europe's most divisive and challenging directors, with Hors Satan a prime example of his provocative, yet taxing minimal style. Hors Satan focuses on an unnamed, intimidatingly silent reprobate (David Dewaele) who Dumont's elegantly lilting camera quietly stalks through the isolated countryside of a Northern French province.
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- 1/2/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Belgian Model Hannelore Knuts will play David Bowie in a new movie inspired by the chameleon-like lifestyle of the iconic pop singer simply titled Dave. And, in case you can't tell from the first still above, Knuts is a woman! Okay, okay -- it's not too earth-shattering considering that Bowie forged a good decade of his career partly by blurring gender lines. But get a load of this plot: "The main character of the film travels back in time to stop three lookalikes of David Bowie, at different times." Sold! The film was directed by Wim Reygaert and Stephen and David Dewaele, who collectively form DJ Souwax, who are already known for mixing music, art and animation. Soulwax has also produced remixes of Bowie songs...
- 9/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
To say that director Bruno Dumont is divisive would be an understatement, but the two-time Cannes Jury Prize winner ("Flanders," "L'humanité") certainly has his fans, but even they might be tested with his latest effort "Hors Satan" ("Outside Satan"). Premiering at Cannes last year, it's a ridiculously minimal and frustratingly enigmatic film that we didn't care for that much as we found it mysterious nature dull rather than compelling. This trailer over at Cineuropa is a few months old, but it's the first time it's coming ot our attention, and it's certainly worth a peek. That said, if you want to go in fresh, this trailer does seem to go out of its way to spoil the few "events" in the movie that are there, so proceed with caution. So what is it all about? Well it follows an unwashed drifter (David Dewaele) who orms a friendship with an unnamed...
- 2/23/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- Indiewire
To say that director Bruno Dumont is divisive would be an understatement, but the two-time Cannes Jury Prize winner ("Flanders," "L'humanité") certainly has his fans, but even they might be tested with his latest effort "Hors Satan" ("Outside Satan"). Premiering at Cannes last year, it's a ridiculously minimal and frustratingly enigmatic film that we didn't care for that much as we found it mysterious nature dull rather than compelling. This trailer over at Cineuropa is a few months old, but it's the first time it's coming ot our attention, and it's certainly worth a peek. That said, if you want to go in fresh, this trailer does seem to go out of its way to spoil the few "events" in the movie that are there, so proceed with caution. So what is it all about? Well it follows an unwashed drifter (David Dewaele) who orms a friendship with an unnamed...
- 2/23/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Bruno Dumont is back on form with this mysterious and unsettling film about a fiercely devout twentysomething
The disturbing, violent, neo-Bressonian work of the French film-maker Bruno Dumont has waxed and waned in potency over the years: his Life of Jesus (1997) and the bizarrely compelling Humanity (1999) established his vision. There is a social-realist aesthetic, and a stark, islanded beauty and bleakness in the areas of northern France where Dumont prefers to film; there is an enigmatic mysticism amid explicit brutality, and a distinctive use of non-professional actors encouraged to maintain an unsmiling blankness and transcendental ordinariness. (To the astonishment of some, Emmanuel Schotté won the best actor prize at Cannes for a deadpan, untutored, almost childlike performance as the troubled police officer in Humanity, his single screen credit to this day. He was certainly an eerily powerful presence.)
Dumont has begun to repeat himself lately, but Hadewijch, made three years...
The disturbing, violent, neo-Bressonian work of the French film-maker Bruno Dumont has waxed and waned in potency over the years: his Life of Jesus (1997) and the bizarrely compelling Humanity (1999) established his vision. There is a social-realist aesthetic, and a stark, islanded beauty and bleakness in the areas of northern France where Dumont prefers to film; there is an enigmatic mysticism amid explicit brutality, and a distinctive use of non-professional actors encouraged to maintain an unsmiling blankness and transcendental ordinariness. (To the astonishment of some, Emmanuel Schotté won the best actor prize at Cannes for a deadpan, untutored, almost childlike performance as the troubled police officer in Humanity, his single screen credit to this day. He was certainly an eerily powerful presence.)
Dumont has begun to repeat himself lately, but Hadewijch, made three years...
- 2/17/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Michel Piccoli, We Have a Pope
Nanni Moretti's Habemus Papam / We Have a Pope was the top movie of 2011 according to the Cahiers du Cinéma editors and film critics. The Cahiers du Cinéma list is available in the December print edition of the French magazine.
A Vatican-set satire about a newly elected, psychologically fragile pope (European Film Award Lifetime Achievement winner Michel Piccoli) and his therapist (Moretti himself), earlier this year We Have a Pope won six awards from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, including Best Director and Best Producer (there's no Best Film category). Margherita Buy co-stars as another psychotherapist.
Tied in second place were Manoel de Oliveira's Portuguese drama O Estranho Caso de Angélica / The Strange Case of Angelica, about a photographer (Ricardo Trêpa) who becomes obsessed with the dead daughter (Pilar López de Ayala) of a wealthy hotel owner, and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life,...
Nanni Moretti's Habemus Papam / We Have a Pope was the top movie of 2011 according to the Cahiers du Cinéma editors and film critics. The Cahiers du Cinéma list is available in the December print edition of the French magazine.
A Vatican-set satire about a newly elected, psychologically fragile pope (European Film Award Lifetime Achievement winner Michel Piccoli) and his therapist (Moretti himself), earlier this year We Have a Pope won six awards from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, including Best Director and Best Producer (there's no Best Film category). Margherita Buy co-stars as another psychotherapist.
Tied in second place were Manoel de Oliveira's Portuguese drama O Estranho Caso de Angélica / The Strange Case of Angelica, about a photographer (Ricardo Trêpa) who becomes obsessed with the dead daughter (Pilar López de Ayala) of a wealthy hotel owner, and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life,...
- 12/11/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Enigmatic drama about the relationship between a woman and a mysterious outsider on Northern France's Opal Coast.
An unnamed, taciturn vagrant (David Dewaele) is camping out by a beach on the margins of a rural village on the 'Opal Coast'. He spends his days walking - and praying - in the great outdoors. Although he is occasionally hassled by a local ranger (Christophe Bon) or the police, for the most part he is accepted by this small community, which gives him food, launders his clothes and occasionally calls on his services as a healer.
He befriends a black-clad young local...
An unnamed, taciturn vagrant (David Dewaele) is camping out by a beach on the margins of a rural village on the 'Opal Coast'. He spends his days walking - and praying - in the great outdoors. Although he is occasionally hassled by a local ranger (Christophe Bon) or the police, for the most part he is accepted by this small community, which gives him food, launders his clothes and occasionally calls on his services as a healer.
He befriends a black-clad young local...
- 10/29/2011
- by Anton Bitel
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
David Guetta, Kaskade, Steve Angello talk to MTV News about why they couldn't get enough of the Brit's Vma-nominated 'Rolling in the Deep.'
By Akshay Bhansali
Adele
Photo: Paul Bergen/ Redferns
Now in its seventh year, the Tomorrowland Festival kicked off again in Boom, Belgium, this past weekend, and MTV News was there for the entire spectacle.
The dance music event started small but over the years it has ballooned into one of the most popular electronic dance music fests in existence. The Tomorrowland of 2011 had a fairy-tale theme and was made up of 14 colorfully dressed stages, which included set pieces like enormous replicas of mushrooms and trees; two of the stages were even dominated by an oversize skull and a sun. Tl accommodated 30,000 campers on its "Dreamville" grounds, bringing the total draw for the weekend to upwards of 180,000, a figure that beat out Miami's Ultra Music Festival. (And...
By Akshay Bhansali
Adele
Photo: Paul Bergen/ Redferns
Now in its seventh year, the Tomorrowland Festival kicked off again in Boom, Belgium, this past weekend, and MTV News was there for the entire spectacle.
The dance music event started small but over the years it has ballooned into one of the most popular electronic dance music fests in existence. The Tomorrowland of 2011 had a fairy-tale theme and was made up of 14 colorfully dressed stages, which included set pieces like enormous replicas of mushrooms and trees; two of the stages were even dominated by an oversize skull and a sun. Tl accommodated 30,000 campers on its "Dreamville" grounds, bringing the total draw for the weekend to upwards of 180,000, a figure that beat out Miami's Ultra Music Festival. (And...
- 7/27/2011
- MTV Music News
Updated through 5/19.
"French director Bruno Dumont may not make religious films as such — perhaps it’s truer to say, theological ones." Jonathan Romney for Screen: "Certainly, he makes films in which the big questions are invoked, but in ways less explicitly religious than obliquely metaphysical. In his sixth feature Outside Satan (Hors Satan), he seems to present a very ambivalent Jesus figure. Yet, until he pulls his big dramatic twist at the end, Dumont's drama is grounded in everyday concrete reality. Lead actors who initially seem uncommunicative, even unappealing, prove idiosyncratically compelling in a film that sees Dumont stripping his style to the bones, with echoes of his 1997 debut The Life of Jesus."
Rob Nelson for Variety: "Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure, Dumont's minimalist study of an oddball poacher and the farm girl who keeps him company contains only a dozen 'dramatic' events, but they all register indelibly,...
"French director Bruno Dumont may not make religious films as such — perhaps it’s truer to say, theological ones." Jonathan Romney for Screen: "Certainly, he makes films in which the big questions are invoked, but in ways less explicitly religious than obliquely metaphysical. In his sixth feature Outside Satan (Hors Satan), he seems to present a very ambivalent Jesus figure. Yet, until he pulls his big dramatic twist at the end, Dumont's drama is grounded in everyday concrete reality. Lead actors who initially seem uncommunicative, even unappealing, prove idiosyncratically compelling in a film that sees Dumont stripping his style to the bones, with echoes of his 1997 debut The Life of Jesus."
Rob Nelson for Variety: "Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure, Dumont's minimalist study of an oddball poacher and the farm girl who keeps him company contains only a dozen 'dramatic' events, but they all register indelibly,...
- 5/19/2011
- MUBI
- #8. Hadewijch Director: Bruno Dumont Cast: Julie Sokolowski, David Dewaele, Yassine Salim, Karl SarafidisDistributor: Rights Available. Buzz: There was plenty of speculation about the status of Hadewijch and why it may not have been included at Cannes and now even more talk about why its not competing in Venice. For those who love philosophy lessons embedded in their cinema - this may be one more exercise in just that. I'll admit to missing out on his last film (Flanders) his second Cannes Grand Jury winner, so I'm curious on catching up on a film that mostly employs non-actors. The Gist: The film is about a religious novice (Julie Sokolowski) whose ecstatic, blind faith leads to her expulsion from a convent. Returning to her former life, Hadewijch reverts to being Céline, a Parisienne and daughter of a diplomat. However, her passion for God, rage and encounters with Khaled and Nassir soon
- 8/26/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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