Paris-based company 2425 Films, recently acquired by Mediawan, is working with a pool of rising filmmakers on timely movies, including Charly Delwart’s “1,5 degré,” Ilan Duran Cohen’s “Le coup d’apres” and Thomas Kruithof’s “Les Braises.”
2425 Films, founded by Thibault Gast and Matthias Weber, has been thriving with smart, high-concept commercial movies, such as Yann Gozlan’s “La boite noire” and “An Ideal Man,” as well as the thriller “Burn Out.” The company also presented Gozlan’s latest film, “Visions,” a thriller starring Diane Kruger (co-produced by Eagle Team Entetainment) at this year’s Angouleme Film Festival.
Duran Cohen’s “Le coup d’apres” is a film set in the world of French politics, with a duo of French stars, Marina Fois and Laurent Laffite, who previously co-starred in “Papa ou Maman,” a French hit comedy franchise. Laffite, who also stars in Netflix’s limited series “Tapie,” plays...
2425 Films, founded by Thibault Gast and Matthias Weber, has been thriving with smart, high-concept commercial movies, such as Yann Gozlan’s “La boite noire” and “An Ideal Man,” as well as the thriller “Burn Out.” The company also presented Gozlan’s latest film, “Visions,” a thriller starring Diane Kruger (co-produced by Eagle Team Entetainment) at this year’s Angouleme Film Festival.
Duran Cohen’s “Le coup d’apres” is a film set in the world of French politics, with a duo of French stars, Marina Fois and Laurent Laffite, who previously co-starred in “Papa ou Maman,” a French hit comedy franchise. Laffite, who also stars in Netflix’s limited series “Tapie,” plays...
- 11/1/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Bishop of Orleans, a converted Jew, is driving back to Paris when his car breaks down and he's rescued by a car full of denim-clad French proto-punks. Why don't they go to mass? he asks. This is no joke, but the bitterly funny setup to the French film The Jewish Cardinal, based on the life of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who spends the movie in a fit of translation, trying to explain the Catholic Church to the youth, Judaism to the Catholics, and himself to his family. Characters in this deft biopic, directed by Ilan Duran Cohen, speak French, Polish, English, German, Latin, and Hebrew, and, as has been the case since that first multilingual Bible story, misunderstandings abound.
Cardinal Lustiger, played with great urgency and tenderness by Laurent Lucas, inhabit...
Cardinal Lustiger, played with great urgency and tenderness by Laurent Lucas, inhabit...
- 4/9/2014
- Village Voice
The 2013 St. Louis International Film Festival concluded Sunday night with a party at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis. Sliff announced the audience-choice and juried-competition awards.
Now in its 22nd year, the Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival is one of the largest international film festivals in the Midwest. This year’s festival was held Nov. 14-24, 2013.
2013 Sliff Film Awards
Best of Fest Audience Choice Awards
Best Documentary Feature: “Harlem Street Singer” directed by Simeon Hutner
Best International Narrative Feature: “Philomena” directed by Stephen Frears
Best Narrative Feature: “One Chance” directed by David Frankel
New Filmmakers Forum Award
“This Is Where We Live” directed by Marc Menchaca and Josh Barrett ($500 cash prize)
St. Louis Film Critics Association Joe Pollack Awards Best Documentary Feature: “Blood Brother” directed by Steve Hoover Special Jury Mention, Documentary Feature: “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step” directed by David Lewis
Best Narrative Feature: “Key...
Now in its 22nd year, the Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival is one of the largest international film festivals in the Midwest. This year’s festival was held Nov. 14-24, 2013.
2013 Sliff Film Awards
Best of Fest Audience Choice Awards
Best Documentary Feature: “Harlem Street Singer” directed by Simeon Hutner
Best International Narrative Feature: “Philomena” directed by Stephen Frears
Best Narrative Feature: “One Chance” directed by David Frankel
New Filmmakers Forum Award
“This Is Where We Live” directed by Marc Menchaca and Josh Barrett ($500 cash prize)
St. Louis Film Critics Association Joe Pollack Awards Best Documentary Feature: “Blood Brother” directed by Steve Hoover Special Jury Mention, Documentary Feature: “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step” directed by David Lewis
Best Narrative Feature: “Key...
- 11/25/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
UK Jewish Film Festival kicks off its 17th edition tonight; 53 UK premieres presented.
The UK Jewish Film Festival opens its 17th edition tonight at the BFI Southbank with the UK premiere of The Jewish Cardinal by French director Ilan Duran Cohen.
The festival runs across five cities - London, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester - from Oct 20 to Nov 17. The closing night gala will screen the UK premiere of Eytan Fox’s Cupcakes.
More than 80 films and other special events are planned. There are 53 UK premieres.
Programme highlights include an IMAX screening of Ari Folman’s The Congress, horror film Big Bad Wolves, Seth Fisher’s Blumenthal starring Brian Cox, Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight starring Juno Temple, Lucia Puenzo’s thriller Wakolda, documentary Dancing In Jaffa and Tracie Holder’s Joe Papp in Five Acts.
The festival has also started a new VOD channel sponsored by Think Jam (link here).
Festival founder and executive director Judy Ironside...
The UK Jewish Film Festival opens its 17th edition tonight at the BFI Southbank with the UK premiere of The Jewish Cardinal by French director Ilan Duran Cohen.
The festival runs across five cities - London, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester - from Oct 20 to Nov 17. The closing night gala will screen the UK premiere of Eytan Fox’s Cupcakes.
More than 80 films and other special events are planned. There are 53 UK premieres.
Programme highlights include an IMAX screening of Ari Folman’s The Congress, horror film Big Bad Wolves, Seth Fisher’s Blumenthal starring Brian Cox, Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight starring Juno Temple, Lucia Puenzo’s thriller Wakolda, documentary Dancing In Jaffa and Tracie Holder’s Joe Papp in Five Acts.
The festival has also started a new VOD channel sponsored by Think Jam (link here).
Festival founder and executive director Judy Ironside...
- 10/30/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Paris -- The recent love affair between U.S. filmgoers and French movies will be reignited Thursday evening as Unifrance's 14th annual Rendez-Vous with French cinema kicks off in New York.
The event launches in Alice Tully Hall with the U.S. premiere of Christophe Barratier's musical period piece "Paris 36," the director's follow-up to international hit "The Chorus," about a Depression-era music hall in Paris. Sony Classics will release the film stateside April 3.
"The fact that we were sold out before the fest even began says that, while French films might be scrambling for a small little bit of the U.S. boxoffice, there's an enduring appetite in the U.S. for French movies," Unifrance's N.Y. bureau chief John Kochman told The Hollywood Reporter.
Organized in partnership with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, this year's Rendez-Vous lineup of 18 titles reads like the nominees list at Friday's Cesar Awards ceremony.
The event launches in Alice Tully Hall with the U.S. premiere of Christophe Barratier's musical period piece "Paris 36," the director's follow-up to international hit "The Chorus," about a Depression-era music hall in Paris. Sony Classics will release the film stateside April 3.
"The fact that we were sold out before the fest even began says that, while French films might be scrambling for a small little bit of the U.S. boxoffice, there's an enduring appetite in the U.S. for French movies," Unifrance's N.Y. bureau chief John Kochman told The Hollywood Reporter.
Organized in partnership with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, this year's Rendez-Vous lineup of 18 titles reads like the nominees list at Friday's Cesar Awards ceremony.
- 3/5/2009
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tell me this: what sort of spy movie has a title that translates to The Pleasure Of Singing? A very unusual one, that’s for sure, and one that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Both certainly seem to be the case with Ilan Duran Cohen’s Le Plaisir De Chanter.
Muriel and Philippe work for an intelligence agency but also form an unlikely pair of lovers. Their latest assignment is to recover a secret hidden (maybe unwittingly) by Constance, the attractive widow of a shady businessman. Constance, a calm and naive woman, attends an opera singing class, and one by one Muriel, Philippe and an increasing number of other spies with bewitching voices sign up. They are all up against each other, each trying to discover the pretty widow’s secret. In this absurd black comedy, voices break free, bodies intermingle and hearts chase after one another.
Cohen certainly...
Muriel and Philippe work for an intelligence agency but also form an unlikely pair of lovers. Their latest assignment is to recover a secret hidden (maybe unwittingly) by Constance, the attractive widow of a shady businessman. Constance, a calm and naive woman, attends an opera singing class, and one by one Muriel, Philippe and an increasing number of other spies with bewitching voices sign up. They are all up against each other, each trying to discover the pretty widow’s secret. In this absurd black comedy, voices break free, bodies intermingle and hearts chase after one another.
Cohen certainly...
- 10/29/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Sometimes it seems as if French films exist merely to remind the rest of us that we aren't getting enough sex. In the aptly named "Confusion of Genders", which was recently unveiled at the New Directors/New Films Festival before its eventual theatrical release, the central character is a fortysomething bisexual lawyer, Alain (Pascal Greggory), who juggles a plethora of male and female lovers with the kind of ambivalence that the rest of us can only dream about. Unfortunately, as this talky and less-than-compelling film well illustrates, another person's romantic problems aren't necessarily as engrossing to us as they are to him.
After a long relationship, Alain is finally considering settling down with his beautiful law partner Laurence (Nathalie Richard), who is pregnant with his child. This decision comes despite the fact that their relationship is less than passionate. Alain is far more interested in his latest client, Marc (Vincent Martinez), who happens to be a murderer facing life in prison. Marc's primary romantic obsession is the gorgeous Babette (Julie Gayet), whom Alain promptly at-tempts to seduce. He does this as much to get close to Marc as for its own sake. At the same time, Alain is being ardently pursued by the much younger Christophe (Cyrille Thouvenin), who offers the promise of great sex and lots of it.
Despite the juiciness inherent in this sexual roundelay, director-screenwriter Ilan Duran Cohen's film is an essentially dreary affair, mainly because of the lack of warmth generated by the characters. This is particularly true of Greggory's Alain, who despite his intense demeanor and serious cheekbones is far more dour than interesting. His self-absorption is matched by the rest of the characters in this examination of sexual identity, which only sporadically comes to life. The film looks elegant, and occasionally its dialogue reaches a certain level of lacerating wit -- most evident in the scene in which Alain and Laurence finally attempt to get married, with the inevitable second thoughts. But the net effect is ultimately more depressing than it is provocative.
CONFUSION OF GENDERS
Picture This!
Director-screenwriter: Ilan Duran Cohen
Producer: Didier Boujard
Director of photography: Jeanne Lapoirie
Editor: Fabrice Rouaud
Music: Jay Jay Johanson
Production designer: Francoise Dupertuis
Color/stereo
Cast:
Alain: Pascal Greggory
Laurence: Nathalie Richard
Babette: Julie Gayet
Etienne: Alain Bashung
Marc: Vincent Martinez
Christophe: Cyrille Thouvenin
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
After a long relationship, Alain is finally considering settling down with his beautiful law partner Laurence (Nathalie Richard), who is pregnant with his child. This decision comes despite the fact that their relationship is less than passionate. Alain is far more interested in his latest client, Marc (Vincent Martinez), who happens to be a murderer facing life in prison. Marc's primary romantic obsession is the gorgeous Babette (Julie Gayet), whom Alain promptly at-tempts to seduce. He does this as much to get close to Marc as for its own sake. At the same time, Alain is being ardently pursued by the much younger Christophe (Cyrille Thouvenin), who offers the promise of great sex and lots of it.
Despite the juiciness inherent in this sexual roundelay, director-screenwriter Ilan Duran Cohen's film is an essentially dreary affair, mainly because of the lack of warmth generated by the characters. This is particularly true of Greggory's Alain, who despite his intense demeanor and serious cheekbones is far more dour than interesting. His self-absorption is matched by the rest of the characters in this examination of sexual identity, which only sporadically comes to life. The film looks elegant, and occasionally its dialogue reaches a certain level of lacerating wit -- most evident in the scene in which Alain and Laurence finally attempt to get married, with the inevitable second thoughts. But the net effect is ultimately more depressing than it is provocative.
CONFUSION OF GENDERS
Picture This!
Director-screenwriter: Ilan Duran Cohen
Producer: Didier Boujard
Director of photography: Jeanne Lapoirie
Editor: Fabrice Rouaud
Music: Jay Jay Johanson
Production designer: Francoise Dupertuis
Color/stereo
Cast:
Alain: Pascal Greggory
Laurence: Nathalie Richard
Babette: Julie Gayet
Etienne: Alain Bashung
Marc: Vincent Martinez
Christophe: Cyrille Thouvenin
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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