Souterrain
Quebec’s Sophie Dupuis will have sophomore feature Souterrain ready for 2020, produced by Etienne Hansez from Montreal’s Bravo Charlie and backed by Sodec, Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund. Returning to her native Val d’Or, Dupuis reunites with her 2018 Chien de Garde (Family First) star Théodore Pellerin with a cast consisting of Joakim Robillard, James Hyndman, Guillaume Cyr, Catherine Trudeau, Mickael Gouin, Chantal Fontaine, Bruno Marcil, Jean L’Italien, Lauren Hartley, Jean-Francois Boudreau, Maxime Genois, Charles-Aubey Houde and Sebastien Leblanc.…...
Quebec’s Sophie Dupuis will have sophomore feature Souterrain ready for 2020, produced by Etienne Hansez from Montreal’s Bravo Charlie and backed by Sodec, Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund. Returning to her native Val d’Or, Dupuis reunites with her 2018 Chien de Garde (Family First) star Théodore Pellerin with a cast consisting of Joakim Robillard, James Hyndman, Guillaume Cyr, Catherine Trudeau, Mickael Gouin, Chantal Fontaine, Bruno Marcil, Jean L’Italien, Lauren Hartley, Jean-Francois Boudreau, Maxime Genois, Charles-Aubey Houde and Sebastien Leblanc.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The current crop of acclaimed Quebec filmmakers shooting feature films south of the border speaks to an unprecedented infatuation on Hollywood’s part with French-Canadian directors.
Among the heavy hitters: Jean-Marc Vallée (“Wild,” “The Dallas Buyers Club,” HBO’s upcoming “Big Little Lies”), Philippe Falardeau (“The Bleeder,” “The Good Lie”), Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Sicario,” the forthcoming “Blade Runner” sequel), not to mention Xavier Dolan, who’s currently shooting his star-studded English-language debut, “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.”
But there’s another remarkably prolific, genre-bending Montreal filmmaker – an award-winning festival regular who has clocked in nine features, one medium-length production and shorts to spare over the last decade – who’s never shown much enthusiasm about dipping his toes in the American studio system. No matter how many prizes or festival selections his films rack up (Berlin, Cannes, Locarno and Sundance among them) or how many retrospectives film societies program about his work,...
Among the heavy hitters: Jean-Marc Vallée (“Wild,” “The Dallas Buyers Club,” HBO’s upcoming “Big Little Lies”), Philippe Falardeau (“The Bleeder,” “The Good Lie”), Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival,” “Sicario,” the forthcoming “Blade Runner” sequel), not to mention Xavier Dolan, who’s currently shooting his star-studded English-language debut, “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.”
But there’s another remarkably prolific, genre-bending Montreal filmmaker – an award-winning festival regular who has clocked in nine features, one medium-length production and shorts to spare over the last decade – who’s never shown much enthusiasm about dipping his toes in the American studio system. No matter how many prizes or festival selections his films rack up (Berlin, Cannes, Locarno and Sundance among them) or how many retrospectives film societies program about his work,...
- 11/11/2016
- by Michael-Oliver Harding
- Indiewire
Following in the footsteps of literature, cinema has cultivated a long and rich – and some would say tired – tradition of targeting the bourgeoisie and its manifold ills. Quebecois critic-turned-director and international festival fixture Denis Côté, whose previous films centered on working-class types and petty criminals, makes a contribution to the lot with Boris Without Beatrice, his ninth feature. To his own disservice, he’s made a film conspicuously similar to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema, one of the absolute finest specimen of cinematic bourgeois evisceration and one against which Côté’s film, perhaps inevitably, measures rather poorly.
Instead of a whole family, Boris Without Beatrice focuses on a single protagonist: Boris Malinovsky (James Hyndman), an extremely wealthy factory owner whose wife, Beatrice (Simone Élise-Gerard), suffers from melancholia so acute that she’s near catatonic. And in lieu of Terrence Stamp’s blue-eyed sex angel, Côté’s recruited the far-from-ethereal Denis Lavant...
Instead of a whole family, Boris Without Beatrice focuses on a single protagonist: Boris Malinovsky (James Hyndman), an extremely wealthy factory owner whose wife, Beatrice (Simone Élise-Gerard), suffers from melancholia so acute that she’s near catatonic. And in lieu of Terrence Stamp’s blue-eyed sex angel, Côté’s recruited the far-from-ethereal Denis Lavant...
- 2/14/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Read More: 9 Exciting New Films at This Year's Berlinale Violence is a thing of consequence in "Boris Without Béatrice." But while gunfire punctuates the air here, Denis Côté's latest feature is less about bloodshed than the emotional and moral effects of a different kind of violence — that of marital and parental neglect, of indifference and self-interest. Unlike his "Vic + Flo Saw a Bear," which won the Quebecois director a Silver Bear at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, there are no bear traps in this film: Côté, a master of mood, prefers to mete out moral comeuppance through the mere threat of it, sending one petty bourgeois heartbreaker on a path of unlikely redemption. In provincial Quebec, Boris Malinovsky (James Hyndman) cuts an idiosyncratic figure, a typical Côté protagonist. Wiry frame, naked scalp, awkward height: Boris struts through life as if he has eternal right of way. He scoffs at the.
- 2/13/2016
- by Michael Pattison
- Indiewire
Never trust a man who wears a shirt to bed. A small nugget of advice, and one that is rather sound where James Hyndman’s Boris is concerned, in Denis Cote’s Boris Without Beatrice. For the role is a profoundly unsympathetic one, with few redeeming qualities. That isn’t a problem as such, but within this
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- 2/13/2016
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In today's Berlinale 2016 Diary entry, we offer first impressions of three Competition titles: Mohamed Ben Attia's Hedi, a love story set in post-Arab Spring Tunisia with Majd Mastoura, Rym Ben Messaoud and Sabah Bouzouita, Jeff Nichols's Midnight Special, a science fiction adventure with Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard, Bill Camp and Scott Haze, and Denis Côté's Boris without Béatrice with James Hyndman, Simone-Élise Girard, Denis Lavant, Isolda Dychauk and Dounia Sichov. » - David Hudson...
- 2/12/2016
- Keyframe
In today's Berlinale 2016 Diary entry, we offer first impressions of three Competition titles: Mohamed Ben Attia's Hedi, a love story set in post-Arab Spring Tunisia with Majd Mastoura, Rym Ben Messaoud and Sabah Bouzouita, Jeff Nichols's Midnight Special, a science fiction adventure with Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard, Bill Camp and Scott Haze, and Denis Côté's Boris without Béatrice with James Hyndman, Simone-Élise Girard, Denis Lavant, Isolda Dychauk and Dounia Sichov. » - David Hudson...
- 2/12/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
For the past decade, Canadian auteur Denis Côté has been working largely under the radar, creating some of the most interesting arthouse cinema the country has to offer. His movies aren't conventional and some are just a little too odd for wide audiences but fans of Côté realize that the director makes fantastic thrillers that don't immediately appear to be thrillers.
His last feature, the excellent Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (review), introduced a more accessible Côté and it seems as though the director is staying in that mode with his latest Boris Without Beatrice.
The film stars James Hyndman as Boris Malin [Continued ...]...
His last feature, the excellent Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (review), introduced a more accessible Côté and it seems as though the director is staying in that mode with his latest Boris Without Beatrice.
The film stars James Hyndman as Boris Malin [Continued ...]...
- 2/10/2016
- QuietEarth.us
The Berlin line-up — with its established auteurs, up-and-coming voices, and notable figures who often struggle to attain U.S. distribution, to name but a few common characteristics — can be difficult to parse. One title that wasn’t in the initial announcement, yet nevertheless picked up some notice in a second round of news, is Boris Without Beatrice, the new feature from Denis Côté (Vic and Flo Saw a Bear). A trailer helps make clear why this is worth the attention.
Not that we can exactly tell how this one pans out: the festival’s synopsis would tell us we’re in for a “idiosyncratic psychological thriller,” which a preview’s mordant tone doesn’t exactly make clear. No problem: when it’s combined with the prospect of Côté directing Denis Lavant, James Hyndman, and Simone-Élise Girard, this is a festival entry we’ll keep our eyes open for.
See the...
Not that we can exactly tell how this one pans out: the festival’s synopsis would tell us we’re in for a “idiosyncratic psychological thriller,” which a preview’s mordant tone doesn’t exactly make clear. No problem: when it’s combined with the prospect of Côté directing Denis Lavant, James Hyndman, and Simone-Élise Girard, this is a festival entry we’ll keep our eyes open for.
See the...
- 2/9/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
New titles from Thomas Vinterberg, Mia Hansen-Løve, Danis Tanovic, Lav Diaz and Gianfranco Rosi among line-up.Scroll down for full list
Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has added nine titles to its Competition line-up, bringing the current total to 14 (the full Competition programme will be announced soon, according to the fest).
The new additions include The Commune, marking the first time Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt, Far From The Madding Crowd) has been in Competition at Berlin since Submarino in 2010. The film centres on a Danish commune in the 1970s and will be released in Denmark this weekend (Jan 14).
French director Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) has been selected with her drama Things to Come, starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman embarking on a new life after her husband leaves her for another woman. The film will world premiere at Berlin.
Another world premiere will be documentary Fire at Sea, capturing life on...
Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has added nine titles to its Competition line-up, bringing the current total to 14 (the full Competition programme will be announced soon, according to the fest).
The new additions include The Commune, marking the first time Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt, Far From The Madding Crowd) has been in Competition at Berlin since Submarino in 2010. The film centres on a Danish commune in the 1970s and will be released in Denmark this weekend (Jan 14).
French director Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) has been selected with her drama Things to Come, starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman embarking on a new life after her husband leaves her for another woman. The film will world premiere at Berlin.
Another world premiere will be documentary Fire at Sea, capturing life on...
- 1/11/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Boris Sans Beatrice
Director: Denis Côté
Writer: Denis Côté
French Canadian auteur Denis Côté fluctuates steadily between feature films and documentary, tending to win critical acclaim in either category. After winning Best Director at Locarno in 2008 for All That She Wants and again in 2011 for Curling he went to Sundance with the 2012 documentary Bestiaire and then scooped up the Alfred Bauer Award in Berlin for Vic+Flo Saw a Bear (2013). His latest, Boris Sans Beatrice concerns businessman Boris Malinovsky, who falls into a spiritual and moral funk when visited by a mysterious stranger (the enigmatic Denis Lavant).
Cast: James Hyndman, Denis Lavant, Simone-Elise Girard
Production Co./Producers: Metafilms’ Sylvain Corbeil & Nancy Grant (Mommy)
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Films Boutique (international).
Release Date: Cote will be competing in competition at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival.
Director: Denis Côté
Writer: Denis Côté
French Canadian auteur Denis Côté fluctuates steadily between feature films and documentary, tending to win critical acclaim in either category. After winning Best Director at Locarno in 2008 for All That She Wants and again in 2011 for Curling he went to Sundance with the 2012 documentary Bestiaire and then scooped up the Alfred Bauer Award in Berlin for Vic+Flo Saw a Bear (2013). His latest, Boris Sans Beatrice concerns businessman Boris Malinovsky, who falls into a spiritual and moral funk when visited by a mysterious stranger (the enigmatic Denis Lavant).
Cast: James Hyndman, Denis Lavant, Simone-Elise Girard
Production Co./Producers: Metafilms’ Sylvain Corbeil & Nancy Grant (Mommy)
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Films Boutique (international).
Release Date: Cote will be competing in competition at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival.
- 1/10/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With Coens‘ Hail, Caesar! set to open the 66th Berlin International Film Festival early next year, we now have a glimpse at some of the other titles making their premieres there. Perhaps most notably there’s Jeff Nichols‘ highly-anticipated Midnight Special (see the trailer here), which will hit U.S. theaters around a month after its premiere, as well as Genius, which stars Colin Firth, Jude Law, and Nicole Kidman. Also including new films from Denis Côté, Alex Gibney, and more, check out the new titles below and return for our coverage.
Competition
(all world premieres)
Boris without Béatrice (Canada)
Denis Côté
Cast: James Hyndman, Simone-Elise Girard, Denis Lavant, Isolda Dychauk, Dounia Sichov
Genius (UK-us)
Michael Grandage
Cast: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West
Alone in Berlin (Ger-Fra-uk)
Vincent Perez
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt
Midnight Special (Us)
Jeff Nichols
Cast: Michael Shannon,...
Competition
(all world premieres)
Boris without Béatrice (Canada)
Denis Côté
Cast: James Hyndman, Simone-Elise Girard, Denis Lavant, Isolda Dychauk, Dounia Sichov
Genius (UK-us)
Michael Grandage
Cast: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West
Alone in Berlin (Ger-Fra-uk)
Vincent Perez
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt
Midnight Special (Us)
Jeff Nichols
Cast: Michael Shannon,...
- 12/11/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Michael Grandage’s Genius, starring Colin Firth, Jude Law and Nicole Kidman; Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special; new Alex Gibney doc to world premiere at festival.
The first nine films for the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) Competition and Berlinale Special programme have been revealed.
The Competition titles - all world premieres - include Genius, the debut feature of celebrated British theatre director Michael Grandage, which stars Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce and Dominic West.
Adapted by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall) from A. Scott Berg’s book, Genius tells the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe (Law) and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins (Firth).
Also in Competition is Midnight Special, the anticipated new feature from Jeff Nichols, director of Mud and Take Shelter. The film centres on a father and son who go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses...
The first nine films for the 66th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) Competition and Berlinale Special programme have been revealed.
The Competition titles - all world premieres - include Genius, the debut feature of celebrated British theatre director Michael Grandage, which stars Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce and Dominic West.
Adapted by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall) from A. Scott Berg’s book, Genius tells the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe (Law) and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins (Firth).
Also in Competition is Midnight Special, the anticipated new feature from Jeff Nichols, director of Mud and Take Shelter. The film centres on a father and son who go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses...
- 12/11/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Quebec knows Fabienne Larouche for penning Virginie, a daily (and uninteresting) soap opera taking place in high school. Now, since many months, it has been announced that Radio-Canada will come up with a medical drama written by Larouche. For what I know, we shouldn't expect to see an imitation of Grey's Anatomy or ER.
Shot with a budget of $710,000 per hour (which is a lot for the French Canadian market) for 10 episodes, the series follows Dr Julie Lemieux (Isabelle Richer), is the head of the St-Arsène Hospital's traumatology wing. Each week, this dramatic TV series explores different facets of life as a surgeon when it comes to professional ethics, their reaction when a patient dies or their own personal weaknesses. In fact, Dr Pierre Meilleur (James Hyndman) drinks too much. Sophie Léveillé (Laurence Leboeuf), the young intern, does too much mistakes.
The show also stars Jean-François Pichette, Catherine de Léan,...
Shot with a budget of $710,000 per hour (which is a lot for the French Canadian market) for 10 episodes, the series follows Dr Julie Lemieux (Isabelle Richer), is the head of the St-Arsène Hospital's traumatology wing. Each week, this dramatic TV series explores different facets of life as a surgeon when it comes to professional ethics, their reaction when a patient dies or their own personal weaknesses. In fact, Dr Pierre Meilleur (James Hyndman) drinks too much. Sophie Léveillé (Laurence Leboeuf), the young intern, does too much mistakes.
The show also stars Jean-François Pichette, Catherine de Léan,...
- 12/8/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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