French director discussed her childhood in 1950s West Africa.
Filmmaker Claire Denis has revealed that she would love to make a French version of UK director Steve McQueen’s Small Axe TV film series, capturing the lives of the Caribbean community in Paris.
“I would love to do a sort of French Small Axe,” she told the inaugural masterclass of the Doha Film Institute’s 2021 Qumra talent and project incubator event on Friday March 12.
While McQueen’s anthology spans five separate films capturing the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s, Denis said her...
Filmmaker Claire Denis has revealed that she would love to make a French version of UK director Steve McQueen’s Small Axe TV film series, capturing the lives of the Caribbean community in Paris.
“I would love to do a sort of French Small Axe,” she told the inaugural masterclass of the Doha Film Institute’s 2021 Qumra talent and project incubator event on Friday March 12.
While McQueen’s anthology spans five separate films capturing the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s, Denis said her...
- 3/13/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth, Agata Buzek, Lars Eidinger, Claire Tran, Ewan Mitchell, Gloria Obianyo, Jessie Ross, Victor Banerjee | Written by Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox | Directed by Claire Denis
High Life is directed by Claire Denis and is her thirteenth film in an esteemed critically acclaimed filmography, but also stands as a few firsts; being her English language debut and her first collaboration with teen heartthrob turned indie megastar, Robert Pattinson. High Life is a low budget high concept sensual thriller. It’s boisterously provocative and sensually stoic. A conundrum of explicit desire and morbid curiosity that burns its way into your brain with an illustrious haze of pragmatic intensity.
The filmmaking on offer is simply superb with the cinematography from Yorick Le Sau being a stellar highlight. The framing and composition are distant and therefore evokes this highly daunting theme of isolation. It...
High Life is directed by Claire Denis and is her thirteenth film in an esteemed critically acclaimed filmography, but also stands as a few firsts; being her English language debut and her first collaboration with teen heartthrob turned indie megastar, Robert Pattinson. High Life is a low budget high concept sensual thriller. It’s boisterously provocative and sensually stoic. A conundrum of explicit desire and morbid curiosity that burns its way into your brain with an illustrious haze of pragmatic intensity.
The filmmaking on offer is simply superb with the cinematography from Yorick Le Sau being a stellar highlight. The framing and composition are distant and therefore evokes this highly daunting theme of isolation. It...
- 5/13/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
An astronaut on an odyssey to a distant black hole faces the challenges of parenting – and existential panic – in Claire Denis’ superbly eerie, mysterious space drama
Claire Denis’s deep-space trauma High Life is an Old Testament parable catapulted forward into the 23rd century, a primal scene in a pressurised cabin of sci-fi pessimism, suppressed horror and denied panic. As if in a recurring dream, Denis brings us repeatedly to the image of a cream-panelled spaceship corridor that curves sharply around to the right; the area is at first pristine and then, as the years go by, shabby and derelict, stained with what may be body fluids. And what is around that corner?
This is a bizarre new creationist myth for those of us who ever wondered in childhood, and then forgot to wonder, about the taboo-breaking involved in propagating a race from just two people in the Garden of Eden,...
Claire Denis’s deep-space trauma High Life is an Old Testament parable catapulted forward into the 23rd century, a primal scene in a pressurised cabin of sci-fi pessimism, suppressed horror and denied panic. As if in a recurring dream, Denis brings us repeatedly to the image of a cream-panelled spaceship corridor that curves sharply around to the right; the area is at first pristine and then, as the years go by, shabby and derelict, stained with what may be body fluids. And what is around that corner?
This is a bizarre new creationist myth for those of us who ever wondered in childhood, and then forgot to wonder, about the taboo-breaking involved in propagating a race from just two people in the Garden of Eden,...
- 5/8/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Robert Pattinson in a scene from Claire Denis’ High Life. Courtesy of A24.
For her first English-language film, renowned French director Claire Denis sends Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche into space on a mission to a black hole. Beautiful yet bleak, High Life is more contemplative and ambitious than the typical space drama, but it perhaps does not rank among the best works of the 72-year-old innovative auteur director who gave us Beau Travail and 35 Shots Of Rum.
The director co-wrote the script with Jean-Pol Fargeau. High Life opens on a spaceship far out among the stars, with a man (Pattinson) and a baby as the sole survivors. We know there is a backstory to this, and eventually it is revealed in flashback. The film has moments of violence, bursts of sometimes graphic sexuality, and maintains a creepy tension, but it also moves slowly for most of its running time,...
For her first English-language film, renowned French director Claire Denis sends Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche into space on a mission to a black hole. Beautiful yet bleak, High Life is more contemplative and ambitious than the typical space drama, but it perhaps does not rank among the best works of the 72-year-old innovative auteur director who gave us Beau Travail and 35 Shots Of Rum.
The director co-wrote the script with Jean-Pol Fargeau. High Life opens on a spaceship far out among the stars, with a man (Pattinson) and a baby as the sole survivors. We know there is a backstory to this, and eventually it is revealed in flashback. The film has moments of violence, bursts of sometimes graphic sexuality, and maintains a creepy tension, but it also moves slowly for most of its running time,...
- 4/19/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Claire Denis's Bastards (2013) is showing April 14 – May 13, 2019 in the United States.Claire Denis' Bastards has often been referred to as an exploration of power, money, and depravity, or as an allegory for late capitalism. The figure of Edouard Laporte (Michel Subor)—an ironclad businessman whom neither the police nor the law courts seem to have any interest in investigating—stands here as the personification of a corrupt economic system, the ultimate devil onto whom it is easy to project our high-profile tycoons and shady politicians. This may indeed be the soil—the given—in which Bastards is rooted, but it can also cloud our vision as to what the film ultimately unfolds.Blindness is a major theme in Claire Denis's Bastards. Marco (Vincent Lindon), a naval captain, returns to Paris after the suicide of his brother-in-law and the...
- 4/15/2019
- MUBI
It was a strong early April weekend for A24 at the indie box office, as Claire Denis’ surreal sci-fi film “High Life” opened on four screens in New York and Los Angeles and earned the top per screen average with $25,007.
The film stars Robert Pattinson as a man lost in space who must find a way to survive with his daughter after the ship’s inhabitants mysteriously disappear. Juliette Binoche and Andre Benjamin also star, with Denis directing from a script she co-wrote with Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox. “High Life” has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 89%.
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Also adding to A24’s strong weekend was the continued success of “Gloria Bell,” which added $390,000 in its fifth weekend to cross the $5 million mark.
The other big indie release this weekend was Amazon Studios’ “Peterloo,” which grossed $30,426 from three screens for an...
The film stars Robert Pattinson as a man lost in space who must find a way to survive with his daughter after the ship’s inhabitants mysteriously disappear. Juliette Binoche and Andre Benjamin also star, with Denis directing from a script she co-wrote with Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox. “High Life” has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 89%.
Also Read: 'Shazam!' Surges to $53 Million Box Office Opening
Also adding to A24’s strong weekend was the continued success of “Gloria Bell,” which added $390,000 in its fifth weekend to cross the $5 million mark.
The other big indie release this weekend was Amazon Studios’ “Peterloo,” which grossed $30,426 from three screens for an...
- 4/7/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
It begins in a lush, green garden, but “High Life,” the quiet, bracing and ultimately moving first English-language film from acclaimed French director Claire Denis, is the antithesis of a creation story. A science-fiction parable of despair, filled with more brutality than kindness and more pessimism than hope, its optimistic title is a sliver of bitter irony.
The garden, bursting with vegetables and shrouded in mist, sits housed inside a shabby spaceship containing Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter Willow (Scarlett Lindsey), the last two living people onboard. In a series of flashbacks, the vessel’s function becomes somewhat clear and significantly more ominous: Formerly a cell block full of death-row inmates, this floating utilitarian prison box is on a one-way trip to a black hole.
Monte, in for murder alongside other violent criminals but assuming the role of the ship’s most monk-like crew member, delivers narration explaining the task.
The garden, bursting with vegetables and shrouded in mist, sits housed inside a shabby spaceship containing Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter Willow (Scarlett Lindsey), the last two living people onboard. In a series of flashbacks, the vessel’s function becomes somewhat clear and significantly more ominous: Formerly a cell block full of death-row inmates, this floating utilitarian prison box is on a one-way trip to a black hole.
Monte, in for murder alongside other violent criminals but assuming the role of the ship’s most monk-like crew member, delivers narration explaining the task.
- 4/4/2019
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
As the vampire stud of the Twilight franchise, Robert Pattinson hit multiplex paydirt. Since then, he’s been raising his personal bar in the indie sphere (Good Time, Damsel). The star does himself proud in this elusive but bracing brainteaser from Claire Denis, the great French filmmaker (Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day) who’d much rather challenge audiences than coddle them. High Life is the writer-director’s first film in English, and the only one set in space. In the script she wrote with Jean-Pol Fargeau, her concerns about existence...
- 4/2/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
From director Claire Denis, starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Andre Benjamin, and Mia Goth, watch the trailer for High Life.
The film, a staggering and primal film about love and intimacy, suffused with anguished memories of a lost Earth, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and was met with overwhelming praise from the critics.
” “High Life” can’t be separated from Pattinson’s omnipresent performance, and he seems perfectly attuned to the uncanny demands of Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau’s challenging script, which is so precise, almost deterministic in its details, yet so elusive in overall effect. With few words of dialogue, but a great deal of screen time, he also carries this foreboding, dissociative film’s slender thread of connection in the relationship between Monte and the baby. But we shouldn’t overstate: His presence, plus the loosely familiar genre, and the English language dialogue, might make you...
The film, a staggering and primal film about love and intimacy, suffused with anguished memories of a lost Earth, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and was met with overwhelming praise from the critics.
” “High Life” can’t be separated from Pattinson’s omnipresent performance, and he seems perfectly attuned to the uncanny demands of Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau’s challenging script, which is so precise, almost deterministic in its details, yet so elusive in overall effect. With few words of dialogue, but a great deal of screen time, he also carries this foreboding, dissociative film’s slender thread of connection in the relationship between Monte and the baby. But we shouldn’t overstate: His presence, plus the loosely familiar genre, and the English language dialogue, might make you...
- 1/16/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Editor’s note: This post contains some spoilers for “High Life.”
When Claire Denis’ first English-language feature, the space-set thriller “High Life,” was initially announced in June of 2015, the project boasted an extra dose of behind-the-camera talent, as lauded British novelist Zadie Smith was set to take on scripting duties alongside her husband Nick Laird. While Denis’ film went on to add a number of other exciting names, including stars Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, Smith ultimately left the film, with Laird staying on as script consultant.
Vulture reports that at a Tuesday press conference following a Nyff screening of the film, Denis chalked up the break to creative differences. And while that’s an oft-used excuse, it seems that this time, it’s the truth.
“I met Zadie in London with a producer. I met her with her husband, because she wanted to share the work with Nick Laird,...
When Claire Denis’ first English-language feature, the space-set thriller “High Life,” was initially announced in June of 2015, the project boasted an extra dose of behind-the-camera talent, as lauded British novelist Zadie Smith was set to take on scripting duties alongside her husband Nick Laird. While Denis’ film went on to add a number of other exciting names, including stars Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, Smith ultimately left the film, with Laird staying on as script consultant.
Vulture reports that at a Tuesday press conference following a Nyff screening of the film, Denis chalked up the break to creative differences. And while that’s an oft-used excuse, it seems that this time, it’s the truth.
“I met Zadie in London with a producer. I met her with her husband, because she wanted to share the work with Nick Laird,...
- 10/3/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
High Life, the latest film from Claire Denis, premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival in Canada. It is co-written by Denis, Nick Laird, Geoff Cox and Jean-Pol Fargeau.
The film stars Twilight and recent Cronenberg regular Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Outcast’s André Benjamin, Mia Goth, Lars Eidinger, Agata Buzek, Claire Tran, Ewan Mitchell and Gloria Obianyo.
In these interviews Pattinson talks about wanting to work specifically with Denis, and the director herself opines that the film is ‘not really’ sci-fi and more about something more taboo.
High Life Tiff Premiere Interviews
Plot:
The film takes place beyond the solar system in a future that seems like the present. A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation and is about a group of criminals who accept a mission in space to become the subjects of a human reproduction experiment. They find themselves...
The film stars Twilight and recent Cronenberg regular Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Outcast’s André Benjamin, Mia Goth, Lars Eidinger, Agata Buzek, Claire Tran, Ewan Mitchell and Gloria Obianyo.
In these interviews Pattinson talks about wanting to work specifically with Denis, and the director herself opines that the film is ‘not really’ sci-fi and more about something more taboo.
High Life Tiff Premiere Interviews
Plot:
The film takes place beyond the solar system in a future that seems like the present. A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation and is about a group of criminals who accept a mission in space to become the subjects of a human reproduction experiment. They find themselves...
- 9/14/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A24 has acquired North American rights to “High Life,” a science fiction drama starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche that marks the English language debut of French director Claire Denis.
The film, which world premiered Sunday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows a group of criminals on a mission toward a black hole in search of an alternative source of energy.
Tricked into thinking they’ll be freed in exchange for their participation, the criminals are instead subjected to sexual experiments by the scientists aboard their ship.
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Written by Denis with Jean-Pol Fargeau, Nick Laird and Geoff Cox, the film also stars Mia Goth and André Benjamin.
It was produced by Laurence Clerc, Oliver Dungey, Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen, and Olivier Théry-Lapiney.
A24 will release “High Life” theatrically.
The film, which world premiered Sunday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows a group of criminals on a mission toward a black hole in search of an alternative source of energy.
Tricked into thinking they’ll be freed in exchange for their participation, the criminals are instead subjected to sexual experiments by the scientists aboard their ship.
Also Read: 'Green Book' Film Review: Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali Take a Perilous Road Trip Through the Deep South
Written by Denis with Jean-Pol Fargeau, Nick Laird and Geoff Cox, the film also stars Mia Goth and André Benjamin.
It was produced by Laurence Clerc, Oliver Dungey, Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen, and Olivier Théry-Lapiney.
A24 will release “High Life” theatrically.
- 9/13/2018
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
A24 has bought North American distribution rights to Claire Denis’ sci-fi drama “High Life,” starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and André Benjamin.
“High Life” premiered Sept. 9 at the Toronto Film Festival and is the first English-language feature film for Denis, who directed from a script she wrote with Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox.
The story is set on a spaceship traveling with a group of criminals on board. The criminals have been tricked into believing they will be freed if they participate in a mission towards a black hole to find an alternate energy source, while undergoing sexual experiments by the scientists on board. Pattinson’s character is caring for his baby daughter while on the ship.
Jessica Kiang gave “High Life” a positive review for Variety: “This kinky, often grotesque melding of genre science-fiction with all-out body horror is an audacious project, but the scope of its...
“High Life” premiered Sept. 9 at the Toronto Film Festival and is the first English-language feature film for Denis, who directed from a script she wrote with Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox.
The story is set on a spaceship traveling with a group of criminals on board. The criminals have been tricked into believing they will be freed if they participate in a mission towards a black hole to find an alternate energy source, while undergoing sexual experiments by the scientists on board. Pattinson’s character is caring for his baby daughter while on the ship.
Jessica Kiang gave “High Life” a positive review for Variety: “This kinky, often grotesque melding of genre science-fiction with all-out body horror is an audacious project, but the scope of its...
- 9/13/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: A24 has acquired North American distribution rights to the provocative sci-fi drama High Life, which made its Toronto Film Festival debut Sunday night at Roy Thomson Hall. The film marks French filmmaker Claire Denis’ long-anticipated English-language debut, and stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and André Benjamin. Script was written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox.
Deal was low seven figures, and A24 will go with a traditional theatrical release.
The Beau Travail director this time has tackled a Kubrick-ian science fiction tale set in deep space, where a group of criminals head toward a black hole. The spaceship’s crew is a collection of dangerous prisoners. Monte (Pattinson) is the only crew member awake as the voyage unfolds in solitude, tending to the ship to keep them all alive as they hurtle through space. And also caring for a baby daughter, Willow, who was born on board.
Deal was low seven figures, and A24 will go with a traditional theatrical release.
The Beau Travail director this time has tackled a Kubrick-ian science fiction tale set in deep space, where a group of criminals head toward a black hole. The spaceship’s crew is a collection of dangerous prisoners. Monte (Pattinson) is the only crew member awake as the voyage unfolds in solitude, tending to the ship to keep them all alive as they hurtle through space. And also caring for a baby daughter, Willow, who was born on board.
- 9/12/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Wild Bunch represents international sales.
A24 has snapped up North American rights to Claire Denis’ English-language debut High Life starring Pattinson following its world premiere in Tiff.
The distributor plans a 2019 theatrical release for the film about criminals on board an imperilled spaceship that stars Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and André Benjamin.
Rounding out the cast are Lars Eidinger, Agata Buzek, Claire Tran, Ewan Mitchell, Gloria Obianyo, Scarlett Lindsey, Jessie Ross, and Victor Banerjee. Denis wrote the screenplay with Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox
High Life premiered in Gala Presentations and screens again to the public on Thursday and Friday.
A24 has snapped up North American rights to Claire Denis’ English-language debut High Life starring Pattinson following its world premiere in Tiff.
The distributor plans a 2019 theatrical release for the film about criminals on board an imperilled spaceship that stars Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth and André Benjamin.
Rounding out the cast are Lars Eidinger, Agata Buzek, Claire Tran, Ewan Mitchell, Gloria Obianyo, Scarlett Lindsey, Jessie Ross, and Victor Banerjee. Denis wrote the screenplay with Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox
High Life premiered in Gala Presentations and screens again to the public on Thursday and Friday.
- 9/12/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A24 has nabbed North American distribution rights to High Life, French director Claire Denis’ English-language — and sci-fi — debut, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
A24 plans a theatrical release for the film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. High Life portrays a father and his daughter struggling to survive in deep space, and stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and Mia Goth.
High Life, written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox and Nick Laird, comes from Andrew Lauren Productions, Apocalypse Films, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion and Madants. Wild Bunch and CAA are selling High Life in Toronto.
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A24 plans a theatrical release for the film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. High Life portrays a father and his daughter struggling to survive in deep space, and stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and Mia Goth.
High Life, written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox and Nick Laird, comes from Andrew Lauren Productions, Apocalypse Films, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion and Madants. Wild Bunch and CAA are selling High Life in Toronto.
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- 9/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A24 has nabbed North American distribution rights to High Life, French director Claire Denis’ English-language — and sci-fi — debut, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
A24 plans a theatrical release for the film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. High Life portrays a father and his daughter struggling to survive in deep space, and stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and Mia Goth.
High Life, written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox and Nick Laird, comes from Andrew Lauren Productions, Apocalypse Films, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion and Madants. Wild Bunch and CAA are selling High Life in Toronto.
Laurence ...
A24 plans a theatrical release for the film, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. High Life portrays a father and his daughter struggling to survive in deep space, and stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and Mia Goth.
High Life, written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox and Nick Laird, comes from Andrew Lauren Productions, Apocalypse Films, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion and Madants. Wild Bunch and CAA are selling High Life in Toronto.
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- 9/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
When we use the term “science fiction,” almost invariably the branch of science we’re thinking of is physics: Quantum levels and warp speeds, artificial intelligence and advanced alien technologies. But Claire Denis’ first English-language film, the extraordinary, difficult, hypnotic, and repulsive “High Life” doesn’t give a damn about physics, and not just in the way that bodies tumble wrongly out of airlocks and nobody seems to spend a moment of their day engaged in cosmic problem-solving. In the science fiction of Denis’ forbiddingly austere and audacious imagining, the science is biology: Out here, we are not made of stars but of blood, hair, spit and semen.
We’re far from earth but this earthiness is everywhere. “Never drink your own urine, never eat your own shit — even if they’ve been recycled,” murmurs crew member Monte (Robert Pattinson) to the little baby in his care. “It’s what we call a taboo.
We’re far from earth but this earthiness is everywhere. “Never drink your own urine, never eat your own shit — even if they’ve been recycled,” murmurs crew member Monte (Robert Pattinson) to the little baby in his care. “It’s what we call a taboo.
- 9/10/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Pattinson is lost in thought in this exclusive first-look picture from High Life, acclaimed French director Claire Denis’ English-language — and sci-fi — in which a father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space.
Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, Andre Benjamin, Lars Eidinger and Jessie Ross also star in the film, in which a father and daughter struggle to survive in deep space.
High Life, written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox and Nick Laird, comes from Andrew Lauren Productions, Apocalypse Films, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion and Madants. Laurence Clerc, Oliver Dungey, Christoph Friedel, Andrew Lauren, DJ Gugenheim, Claudia...
Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, Andre Benjamin, Lars Eidinger and Jessie Ross also star in the film, in which a father and daughter struggle to survive in deep space.
High Life, written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox and Nick Laird, comes from Andrew Lauren Productions, Apocalypse Films, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion and Madants. Laurence Clerc, Oliver Dungey, Christoph Friedel, Andrew Lauren, DJ Gugenheim, Claudia...
- 2/15/2018
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert Pattinson is lost in thought in this exclusive first-look picture from High Life, acclaimed French director Claire Denis’ English-language — and sci-fi — debut, in which a father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space.
Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, Andre Benjamin, Lars Eidinger and Jessie Ross also star in the film.
High Life, written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox and Nick Laird, comes from Andrew Lauren Productions, Apocalypse Films, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion and Madants. Laurence Clerc, Oliver Dungey, Christoph Friedel, Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, Claudia Steffen, Olivier Thery-Lapiney and Klaudia Smeija are producing.
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Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, Andre Benjamin, Lars Eidinger and Jessie Ross also star in the film.
High Life, written by Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox and Nick Laird, comes from Andrew Lauren Productions, Apocalypse Films, Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion and Madants. Laurence Clerc, Oliver Dungey, Christoph Friedel, Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, Claudia Steffen, Olivier Thery-Lapiney and Klaudia Smeija are producing.
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- 2/15/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
High Life
Director: Claire Denis
Writer: Claire Denis, Zadie Smith, Nick Laird, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Arguably the higher profile project from Claire Denis is her English language debut, High Life, an ambitious sci-project co-written by novelists Zadie Smith and Nick Laird.
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Director: Claire Denis
Writer: Claire Denis, Zadie Smith, Nick Laird, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Arguably the higher profile project from Claire Denis is her English language debut, High Life, an ambitious sci-project co-written by novelists Zadie Smith and Nick Laird.
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- 1/12/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Stories are certainly significant in Claire Denis‘ films, though their role is often to be a vehicle for her significant skills as a visual storyteller. (I can tell you what The Intruder‘s story is, but I couldn’t lay out the “plot” unless I’d just seen it. Even then…) And so while I’d normally hesitate to read a synopsis for any film as anticipated as her next, High Life, I figure this is a safe territory. Start playing the Tindersticks score and then we’ll talk about spoilers.
As it were, Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval told Screen Daily, somewhat counter to earlier reports, that the picture — which is set to star Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, and Mia Goth — concerns “a group of convicts duped into joining a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful.” But this will not happen...
As it were, Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval told Screen Daily, somewhat counter to earlier reports, that the picture — which is set to star Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette, and Mia Goth — concerns “a group of convicts duped into joining a difficult space mission in the belief they will be freed if they are successful.” But this will not happen...
- 2/8/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Company also reveals more details about Claire Denis’s High Life and will show fresh footage of Emir Kusturica’s On The Milky Road.
Wild Bunch will kick-off sales on an authorised, no-holds-barred documentary about legendary Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi at the upcoming Efm.
Simply entitled Rocco, the documentary features a candid interview with the star in which he speaks about his true life, touching on his early career, fame and life with his wife of 20 years, Rosa Caracciolo, who he co-starred with in Tarzan X: Shame Of Jane- before they married and went on to have two children together.
Sometimes referred to as the “Italian stallion”, Siffredi has appeared in more than 1,500 films over his 30-year career and also dabbled briefly in the French arthouse cinema world, appearing in Catherine Breillat’s Romance and Anatomy Of Hell.
The film also follows Siffredi’s recent decision to quit the porn business for good, shortly after appearing...
Wild Bunch will kick-off sales on an authorised, no-holds-barred documentary about legendary Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi at the upcoming Efm.
Simply entitled Rocco, the documentary features a candid interview with the star in which he speaks about his true life, touching on his early career, fame and life with his wife of 20 years, Rosa Caracciolo, who he co-starred with in Tarzan X: Shame Of Jane- before they married and went on to have two children together.
Sometimes referred to as the “Italian stallion”, Siffredi has appeared in more than 1,500 films over his 30-year career and also dabbled briefly in the French arthouse cinema world, appearing in Catherine Breillat’s Romance and Anatomy Of Hell.
The film also follows Siffredi’s recent decision to quit the porn business for good, shortly after appearing...
- 2/8/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Oscar-winner joins sci-fi alongside Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth.
Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) has joined Robert Pattinson (Twilight) and Mia Goth (The Survivalist) in the cast of Claire Denis’ anticipated untitled sci-fi, written by UK novelist Zadie Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
Denis’ English-language debut, due to shoot next year, is understood to follow a group of skilled criminals who, in a bid to escape their long sentences or capital punishment, accept a likely-fatal government space mission to find alternative energy sources.
The project, which ScreenDaily first reported in June, marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director.
The story is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and [link=nm...
Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) has joined Robert Pattinson (Twilight) and Mia Goth (The Survivalist) in the cast of Claire Denis’ anticipated untitled sci-fi, written by UK novelist Zadie Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
Denis’ English-language debut, due to shoot next year, is understood to follow a group of skilled criminals who, in a bid to escape their long sentences or capital punishment, accept a likely-fatal government space mission to find alternative energy sources.
The project, which ScreenDaily first reported in June, marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director.
The story is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and [link=nm...
- 10/26/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Director Claire Denis is putting the pieces together for her surprising and enticing science fiction English-language debut. She already has Robert Pattinson and Mia Goth in the cast and has now added Patricia Arquette.The film, which has yet to lock down a title, features a script by White Teeth author Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird, based on an idea conceived by Denis and regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau. And with Screen International’s latest report on the film comes a few more details on what we can expect from the story, which had already been mentioned as taking place in space, in a future time that feels like the present. Now we know that the idea will be a Suicide Squad-style mission for skilled criminals facing death sentences or life behind bars who are offered a potentially fatal space mission to find new energy sources in...
- 10/26/2015
- EmpireOnline
Robert Pattinson will take the lead role of an extraterrestrial astronaut in Claire Denis' upcoming sci-fi film, Screen Daily reports. The yet-to-be-titled film, set in outer space, is being written by Denis, British novelist Zadie Smith and Smith's writer husband Nick Laird. Based on an idea by Denis and her longtime writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, the film's plot remains under wraps "but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’." This is the latest idiosyncratic casting choice from Pattinson, who's also starring in Harmony Korine's Miami-set revenge thriller, "The Trap," and he will next be seen in Anton Corbijn's 1950s Americana ode "Life" as James Dean's friend and photographer Dennis Stock. Read More: Robert Pattinson Follows Harmony Korine to Miami for Revenge Thriller 'The Trap' Producers at Alcatraz Film, which also handled Denis' 2013 "Bastards,...
- 8/27/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Robert Pattinson: Actor to play E.T. astronaut. Robert Pattinson to star for Claire Denis If all goes as planned, Robert Pattinson will get to star in French screenwriter-director Claire Denis' recently announced – and as yet untitled – English-language sci-fier, penned by Denis and White Teeth author Zadie Smith and her novelist husband Nick Laird, from an original idea by Denis and writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau. Among Claire Denis' credits are the interracial love story Chocolat (1988), the sociopolitical drama White Material (2009), and the generally well-regarded Billy Budd reboot Beau Travail (1999), winner of the César Award for Best Cinematography (Agnès Godard). Robert Pattinson, for his part, is best known for playing the veggie vampire in the wildly popular Twilight movies costarring Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. Robert Pattinson, astronaut In Claire Denis' film, Robert Pattinson is slated to play an E.T. astronaut. But what happens to said astronaut? Does...
- 8/27/2015
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
In June, word arrived that Beau Travail director Claire Denis was planning an ambitious film to mark her English-language debut: an untitled science fiction project. She’s now locked in a star, with Robert Pattinson confirmed for a lead role.The script comes from White Teeth author Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird, though the specifics of the idea (conceived by Denis and regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau) are being held back for now. We do know, however, that it will take place beyond the solar system in a future time that nevertheless feels like the present. Pattinson is attached to play the lead, an astronaut. There is an eclectic group collaborating on the design and development of the new film including artist Olafur Eliasson, astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, a specialist in black holes and cosmology, and musician Stuart Staples, who wrote tracks for White Material and another Denis project,...
- 8/26/2015
- EmpireOnline
Robert Pattinson is attached to play the lead role in Claire Denis’ upcoming English-language sci-fi film, written with British writer Zadie Smith.
Pattinson is set to play the astronaut lead role in the as-yet-untitled film, which Screen first reported on in June.
Plot details are being kept under wraps but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’.
Denis is writing the script with acclaimed novelist Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
The project, which marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director, is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.
Paris-based producers...
Pattinson is set to play the astronaut lead role in the as-yet-untitled film, which Screen first reported on in June.
Plot details are being kept under wraps but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’.
Denis is writing the script with acclaimed novelist Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
The project, which marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director, is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, and is due to go into production early next year.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.
Paris-based producers...
- 8/26/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Here's your awesome film news of the day: Claire Denis, one of France's most acclaimed directors, and Zadie Smith, one of the UK's most acclaimed novelists, are teaming up for Denis' english-language film debut. At the moment, plot details are sketchy. It will be a sci-fi film, set in outer space, "beyond the solar system, in a future that seems like the present." Denis has dipped her toe in genre film before, with vampires in Trouble Every Day, war and soldiers in Beau Travail, and the sort-of road film in Friday Night, but her take has always come far out of left field, challenging the common tropes and aesthetics. Based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, Denis and...
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- 6/29/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Transgressive French director Claire Denis (Trouble Everyday, White Material) is making her English language debut with a space drama that is said to "take place beyond the solar system in a future time that nevertheless feels like the present."
Denise has teamed up with English novelist Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird who will write the screenplay for the project that comes from an original idea conceived by Denis and her writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Hard science fiction nerds will be happy hear that this female power-team has also brought in an interesting group to help on the project including astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, a specialist in black holes and cosmology, artist Olafur Eliasson and musician Stuart Staples, who wrote tracks for White Ma [Continued ...]...
Denise has teamed up with English novelist Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird who will write the screenplay for the project that comes from an original idea conceived by Denis and her writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Hard science fiction nerds will be happy hear that this female power-team has also brought in an interesting group to help on the project including astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, a specialist in black holes and cosmology, artist Olafur Eliasson and musician Stuart Staples, who wrote tracks for White Ma [Continued ...]...
- 6/29/2015
- QuietEarth.us
It’s not every director who choses to make their English-language debt by venturing into the wilds of science fiction. But that’s exactly the plan for Beau Travail/ White Material filmmaker Claire Denis, who is developing an untitled drama set in space. Denis is keeping most of the plot details sealed behind an airlock for now, but Screen International has been able to discover that it will take place beyond the solar system in a future time that nevertheless feels like the present.She’s working on the project with writer Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird, working from an original idea conceived by Denis and regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau. And there is an eclectic group also collaborating on the design and development of the new film including artist Olafur Eliasson, astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, a specialist in black holes and cosmology, and musician Stuart Staples, who wrote...
- 6/29/2015
- EmpireOnline
Claire Denis, who has gifted us challenging French features including "Beau Travail," "35 Shots of Rum," "White Material" and most recently "Bastards," is set to make her English-language debut with a yet-to-be-titled science fiction film. Screen International reports that the film, set in outer space, is being written by Denis, British novelist Zadie Smith and Smith's writer husband Nick Laird. Based on an idea by Denis and her longtime writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau, the film's plot remains under wraps "but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’." The project also marks Smith's screenwriting debut, though her luminous first novel "White Teeth" (2000) was reborn as a British miniseries in 2002. The rest of Denis' menagerie of unusual collaborators on this film include Danish-Icelandic installation artist Olafur Eliasson—with whom Denis made a short film to accompany a...
- 6/29/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive: French director’s first English-language film is set in space; artist Olafur Eliasson among collaborators.
French director Claire Denis is teaming with British writer Zadie Smith on her first English-language film, which is set in space.
Plot details are being kept under wraps on the as-yet untitled adventure-sci-fi but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’.
Denis is writing the script with acclaimed novelist Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
The project, which marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director, is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.
Alcatraz and Pandora produced Denis’ most recent feature Bastards, which debuted...
French director Claire Denis is teaming with British writer Zadie Smith on her first English-language film, which is set in space.
Plot details are being kept under wraps on the as-yet untitled adventure-sci-fi but it is known to take place beyond the solar system in a ‘future that seems like the present’.
Denis is writing the script with acclaimed novelist Smith (White Teeth) and Smith’s writer husband Nick Laird.
The project, which marks an intriguing change of direction for the White Material and Beau Travail writer-director, is based on an original idea by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau.
Producers are Oliver Dungey (Miss Julie), Laurence Clerc and Olivier Thery Lapiney from Paris-based Alcatraz Films, and Claudia Steffen and Christoph Friedel of Pandora Filmproduktion in Cologne.
Alcatraz and Pandora produced Denis’ most recent feature Bastards, which debuted...
- 6/29/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Claire Denis' Bastards (Les Salaudes) may actually have a decent story, but she has muddled up the narrative to the point it's confusing as all hell. Even once the pieces start to come together, the film comes to a head-scratching conclusion of sex with corncobs and a close-up of a guy stroking his penis. Let's begin with the plot details I gathered after the opening moments and see where we get... It's raining very hard. A man has killed himself. A girl is walking naked in the streets. A man named Marco (Vincent Lindon) works aboard a container ship and receives a phone call with a family emergency and heads home immediately. Upon arrival he moves into an apartment without any furnishings. Here he makes eyes at the woman living downstairs and helps fix the chain on her son's bicycle. Following the film's opening minutes, those were the things I knew.
- 10/25/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Nenette et Boni
Written by Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau
Directed by Claire Denis
France, 1996
A more urban escapade for Denis, Nenette et Boni looks at two conflicted siblings searching for normality in one another. Boni, an over-sexualized and underachieving pizza maker lives a remarkably uneventful life, lusting over the local baker-lady and chronically masturbating. It’s only when his estranged sister Nenette shows up with a devastating secret that Boni begins to question the validity of his lifestyle and decisions.
The plot is focused on the burgeoning relationship between the siblings, but it’s undeniable that Denis shot this film with the intention of painting a picture of everyday people. Being a slice-of-life movie helps illustrate the commonality of the siblings’ issues, more or less so as to get across that everyone encounters similar problems. The film is shot well and is full of visual metaphors that do more...
Written by Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau
Directed by Claire Denis
France, 1996
A more urban escapade for Denis, Nenette et Boni looks at two conflicted siblings searching for normality in one another. Boni, an over-sexualized and underachieving pizza maker lives a remarkably uneventful life, lusting over the local baker-lady and chronically masturbating. It’s only when his estranged sister Nenette shows up with a devastating secret that Boni begins to question the validity of his lifestyle and decisions.
The plot is focused on the burgeoning relationship between the siblings, but it’s undeniable that Denis shot this film with the intention of painting a picture of everyday people. Being a slice-of-life movie helps illustrate the commonality of the siblings’ issues, more or less so as to get across that everyone encounters similar problems. The film is shot well and is full of visual metaphors that do more...
- 10/16/2013
- by Taegan J. Brown
- SoundOnSight
When Claire Denis's blood-and-lust-filled reverie Trouble Every Day, her most maligned project to date, premiered in New York in 2002, it opened on only one postage-stamp–size screen at the Quad. The grander, increasingly indispensable BAMcinématek, where this film maudit screens in a new 35mm print, provides a more optimal viewing experience to consider anew—or, like this writer, see for the first time—a hypnotic, unsettling work by one of the most sensuous filmmakers of the past 25 years.
As in many of Denis's movies, plot and narrative cohesion are subordinate to mood and texture, sight and sound. (She co-scripted Trouble Every Day with her frequent writing partner, Jean-Pol Fargeau.) Working with her usual cinematographer, the redoub...
As in many of Denis's movies, plot and narrative cohesion are subordinate to mood and texture, sight and sound. (She co-scripted Trouble Every Day with her frequent writing partner, Jean-Pol Fargeau.) Working with her usual cinematographer, the redoub...
- 10/9/2013
- Village Voice
Claire Denis douses Bastards in her usual oblique dreaminess, equal parts romantic and malevolent, yet that style can’t fully compensate for a tale that, underneath its gorgeous aesthetic affectations, proves frustratingly undercooked. After the suicide of his brother-in-law, tanker captain Marco (a grave, intense Vincent Lindon) abandons ship and returns home to help sister Sandra (Julie Bataille), who blames her husband’s death on his renowned business partner Laporte (Michel Subor), and whose daughter Justine (Lola Créton) has attempted suicide after what a doctor (Alex Descas) claims has been severe sexual abuse. Working from a screenplay co-written by Jean-Pol Fargeau, Denis establishes her scenario – which also involves Marco striking up a ...
- 10/8/2013
- Village Voice
Bastards
Written by Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau
Directed by Claire Denis
France/Germany, 2013
Every detail matters in the films of Claire Denis. Her latest, and unquestionably her darkest film yet, Bastards, contains a wealth of information in its first few shots: a man on the verge of what we learn to be a suicide, pacing about his office with the rain crashing down outside; a naked girl, wearing only heels, slowly inching her way down a darkly lit street. We re-visit the latter of these shots later in the film, but under a completely different and disturbing context. Denis is back working in full L’Intrus mode, and while Bastards isn’t nearly as impenetrable as the aforementioned 2004 film, it’s an elliptically charged work that challenges and seduces with its wide gamut of unsettling images and sounds.
Intensely fragmented, the “thriller/revenge” narrative is put in slow-motion by the suicide of Jacques.
Written by Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau
Directed by Claire Denis
France/Germany, 2013
Every detail matters in the films of Claire Denis. Her latest, and unquestionably her darkest film yet, Bastards, contains a wealth of information in its first few shots: a man on the verge of what we learn to be a suicide, pacing about his office with the rain crashing down outside; a naked girl, wearing only heels, slowly inching her way down a darkly lit street. We re-visit the latter of these shots later in the film, but under a completely different and disturbing context. Denis is back working in full L’Intrus mode, and while Bastards isn’t nearly as impenetrable as the aforementioned 2004 film, it’s an elliptically charged work that challenges and seduces with its wide gamut of unsettling images and sounds.
Intensely fragmented, the “thriller/revenge” narrative is put in slow-motion by the suicide of Jacques.
- 9/14/2013
- by Ty Landis
- SoundOnSight
A true whodunit type but of a different vibe, the one film from this years’ Cannes that should have gotten picked up around the same time they inquired about Blue Is the Warmest Color is the one film that had no business being regulated to the Un Certain Regard section. Sundance Selects will proudly feature their label at the front of the reels for the Tiff & Nyff festival screenings for Claire Denis’ Bastards. We imagine a deal was long in the works as the distributor has already affixed an October 25th release date.
Gist: Written by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau, supertanker captain Marco Silvestri (Vincent Lindon) is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra (Julie Bataille) is desperate – her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter is spiraling downwards. Sandra holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte has...
Gist: Written by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau, supertanker captain Marco Silvestri (Vincent Lindon) is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra (Julie Bataille) is desperate – her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter is spiraling downwards. Sandra holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte has...
- 8/22/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Selects/IFC Films is acquiring Us rights to Claire Denis’ 'Bastards,' which debuted at Cannes in Un Certain Regard and will play the Toronto and New York film festivals. Written by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau, the film stars Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni and Michel Subor, and was produced by Alcatraz Films and Wild Bunch. Sundance Selects is planning an October 25th release. Here's the synopsis: Bastards follows Marco Silvestri, a captain on a container-ship who is called urgently back to Paris by his desperate sister Sandra. Sandra’s husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has gone adrift - and she holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Determined to exact a terrible revenge for the violence done to his family, Marco moves into the building where Laporte’s mistress Raphaelle lives; but he can’t avoid Sandra’s secret manipulations… or the fact...
- 8/22/2013
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sundance Selects has acquired U.S. rights to Claire Denis’ Bastards, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Certain Regard sidebar and is scheduled to play both the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. The distributor plans to release it Oct. 25. The film, with a screenplay by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau, stars Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni and Michel Subor, and was produced by Alcatraz Films and Wild Bunch. Linden plays a ship’s captain who is called back to Paris when the husband of his sister, played by Julie Bataille,
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- 8/22/2013
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The distributor has acquired Us rights from Wild Bunch to Claire Denis’ Un Certain Regard premiere and has set an Oct 25 release. Separately, FilmBuff and Abramorama are teaming up on Broadway Idiot while The Cinema Guild has picked up Agnes Varda’s five-part autobiographical documentary series.
Bastards will receives its Us premiere at the New York Film Festival next month.
Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau wrote the drama about a ship’s captain pulled into a web of revenge by his sister in Paris. Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni and Michel Subor star. Arianna Bocco brokered the deal with Carlole Baraton.
FilmBuff and Abramorama will release Broadway Idiot, a chronicle of band Green Day’s collaboration with the Great White Way to bring their bestseller American Idiot to the stage, in nationwide theatres and on VoD on Oct 18. An exclusive New York theatrical engagement will kick off the run on Oct 11.The Cinema Guild has picked up digital and non-theatrical...
Bastards will receives its Us premiere at the New York Film Festival next month.
Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau wrote the drama about a ship’s captain pulled into a web of revenge by his sister in Paris. Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni and Michel Subor star. Arianna Bocco brokered the deal with Carlole Baraton.
FilmBuff and Abramorama will release Broadway Idiot, a chronicle of band Green Day’s collaboration with the Great White Way to bring their bestseller American Idiot to the stage, in nationwide theatres and on VoD on Oct 18. An exclusive New York theatrical engagement will kick off the run on Oct 11.The Cinema Guild has picked up digital and non-theatrical...
- 8/22/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
French filmmaker Claire Denis has become a respected force in the filmmaking community over her career, having written and directed features such as Beau Travail and 35 Shots of Rum, getting nominated for the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or for her first feature, and serving on the jury of the Venice Film Festival. Many were thus interested in her next film, the first since 2009′s White Material, when it made its debut at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Titled Les Salauds, or Bastards, Denis takes the directing helm once again on the film, as well as co-writing the screenplay with Jean-Pol Fargeau, and works with a cast that includes Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroianni. The first trailer for the film, which is in french, has now been released, and can be seen below.
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- 6/28/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Claire Denis' The Bastards (Les Salaudes) may actually have a decent story, but she has muddled up the narrative to the point it's confusing as all hell. Even once the pieces start to come together, the film comes to a head-scratching conclusion of sex with corncobs and a close-up of a guy stroking his penis. Let's begin with the plot details I gathered after the opening moments and see where we get... It's raining very hard. A man has killed himself. A girl is walking naked in the streets. A man named Marco (Vincent Lindon) works aboard a container ship and receives a phone call with a family emergency and heads home immediately. Upon arrival he moves into an apartment without any furnishings. Here he makes eyes at the woman living downstairs and helps fix the chain on her son's bicycle. Following the film's opening minutes, those were the things I knew.
- 5/21/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Throughout the month of October, Editor-in-Chief and resident Horror expert Ricky D, will be posting a list of his favorite Horror films of all time. The list will be posted in six parts. Click here to see every entry.
As with all lists, this is personal and nobody will agree with every choice – and if you do, that would be incredibly disturbing. It was almost impossible for me to rank them in order, but I tried and eventually gave up.
****
Special Mention: Gremlins
Directed by Joe Dante
Written by Chris Columbus
1984, USA
Gremlins gets a special mention because I’ve always considered it more of a comedy and a wholesome Christmas flick than an actual horror film. This tribute the 1950s matinee genre stands the test of time from a time when parents would take their children to family films that pushed the boundaries of the MPAA. Joe Dante is...
As with all lists, this is personal and nobody will agree with every choice – and if you do, that would be incredibly disturbing. It was almost impossible for me to rank them in order, but I tried and eventually gave up.
****
Special Mention: Gremlins
Directed by Joe Dante
Written by Chris Columbus
1984, USA
Gremlins gets a special mention because I’ve always considered it more of a comedy and a wholesome Christmas flick than an actual horror film. This tribute the 1950s matinee genre stands the test of time from a time when parents would take their children to family films that pushed the boundaries of the MPAA. Joe Dante is...
- 10/15/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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