Hollywood's Costner takes home Honorary Award Speaking of Hollywood, the French Academy has frequently given its Honorary César (an equivalent to the Lifetime Achievement Award) to some curious group of Hollywood celebrities. Among those are Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Quentin Tarantino, Hugh Grant, Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Spike Lee, Andie McDowell, and Sylvester Stallone. This year, they've made another curious choice: Kevin Costner, whose Honorary Award was a tribute to his "fabulous contribution to cinematic history." Costner, among whose movie credits as actor and/or director are Dances with Wolves, Bull Durham, JFK, The Bodyguard, The Postman, and Waterworld, thanked the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences for embracing him "for who I am." Other César winners Among this year's other César winners were, in the supporting categories, Valérie Benguigui and Guillaume de Tonquédec for What's in a Name? / Le Prénom, directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patelliere.
- 2/23/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Michael Haneke’s Amour won five César awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor and Best original screenplay. The award ceremony was held on Friday night.
Les Invisibles by Sébastien Lifshitz won the Best Documentary and Argo by Ben Affleck won the Best Foreign Film.
2013 César winners:
Best film: Amour
Best director: Michael Haneke, Amour
Best original screenplay: Haneke, Amour
Best actress: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Best actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
Best foreign film: Argo, Ben Affleck
Best supporting actress: Valérie Benguigui, What’s In A Name
Best supporting actor: Guillaume de Tonquedec, What’s In A Name
Best upcoming actress: Izia Higelin, Mauvaise Fille
Best upcoming actor: Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone
Best first film: Louise Wimmer, directed by Cyril Mennegun
Best animation film: Ernest And Celestine, directed by Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier
Best documentary: Les Invisibles, Sébastien Lifshitz
Best adaptation: Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain,...
Les Invisibles by Sébastien Lifshitz won the Best Documentary and Argo by Ben Affleck won the Best Foreign Film.
2013 César winners:
Best film: Amour
Best director: Michael Haneke, Amour
Best original screenplay: Haneke, Amour
Best actress: Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Best actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
Best foreign film: Argo, Ben Affleck
Best supporting actress: Valérie Benguigui, What’s In A Name
Best supporting actor: Guillaume de Tonquedec, What’s In A Name
Best upcoming actress: Izia Higelin, Mauvaise Fille
Best upcoming actor: Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust And Bone
Best first film: Louise Wimmer, directed by Cyril Mennegun
Best animation film: Ernest And Celestine, directed by Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier
Best documentary: Les Invisibles, Sébastien Lifshitz
Best adaptation: Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain,...
- 2/23/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Chicago – Benoît Jacquot is a director clearly enraptured by the beauty of young women. This was eminently clear in his early ’90s-era vehicles for Virginie Ledoyen (“A Single Girl,” “Marianne”), an actress who turned up in his latest picture, “Farewell, My Queen,” still looking startlingly youthful. Yet she is no longer the center of Jacquot’s universe.
Taking Ledoyen’s place is 27-year-old Léa Seydoux, a smoldering French starlet harboring the remarkable ability to simultaneously appear achingly vulnerable and coldly calculating within the same take. She has such a potent presence that it earned her the role of a cardboard villain in “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.” Thankfully, Jacquot realized that she was far more than a broodingly pretty face, and offered her what is truly her finest and most complex role to date.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
Every frame of “Farewell, My Queen” is viewed through the eyes of Sidonie (Seydoux), a...
Taking Ledoyen’s place is 27-year-old Léa Seydoux, a smoldering French starlet harboring the remarkable ability to simultaneously appear achingly vulnerable and coldly calculating within the same take. She has such a potent presence that it earned her the role of a cardboard villain in “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.” Thankfully, Jacquot realized that she was far more than a broodingly pretty face, and offered her what is truly her finest and most complex role to date.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
Every frame of “Farewell, My Queen” is viewed through the eyes of Sidonie (Seydoux), a...
- 1/29/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The nominations for the César Awards aka the French Oscars were announced. "Farewell, My Queen," "Amour," "Camille Redouble," "In the House," "Rust & Bone," "Holy Motors," and "What's My Name" are competing for the Best Picture category. We'll find out the winners on February 22nd.
Here's the full list of nominees of the 2013 César Awards:
Best Picture
Farewell, My Queen
Amour
Camille Redouble
In The House
Rust & Bone
Holy Motors
What.s In A Name
Best Director
Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
Michael Haneke, Amour
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
François Ozon, In The House
Jacques Audiard, Rust & Bone
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actress
Catherine Frot, Les Sauveurs Du Palais
Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
Corinne Masiero, Louise Wimmer
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Léa Seydoux, Farewell, My Queen
Hélène Vincent, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actor
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Cherchez Hortense
Patrick Bruel, What...
Here's the full list of nominees of the 2013 César Awards:
Best Picture
Farewell, My Queen
Amour
Camille Redouble
In The House
Rust & Bone
Holy Motors
What.s In A Name
Best Director
Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
Michael Haneke, Amour
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
François Ozon, In The House
Jacques Audiard, Rust & Bone
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actress
Catherine Frot, Les Sauveurs Du Palais
Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
Corinne Masiero, Louise Wimmer
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Léa Seydoux, Farewell, My Queen
Hélène Vincent, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actor
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Cherchez Hortense
Patrick Bruel, What...
- 1/27/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
By Lee Pfeiffer
The Cohen Media Group is a relatively new company that, over the last four years, has produced and distributed primarily highly acclaimed international art house films. The company's latest release on DVD and Blu-ray is Farewell, My Queen, director Benoit Jacquot's French-language 2012 period costume drama that centers on the outbreak of the French Revolution, as experienced by Sidonie (Lea Seydoux), a young woman who has the seemingly enviable position of being "The Queen's Reader". Her primary responsibility is to literally read books to Marie Antoinette (that's right, the nobility didn't even have to strain their eyes). Sidonie, a twenty-something country girl, is in awe of the Queen and is slavishly devoted to her needs. As played by Diane Kruger, Marie Antoinette is presented as the undeniably spoiled wife of Louis XVI, but the portrayal humanizes her. Marie Antoinette, like so many famous (or infamous) historical figures, has...
The Cohen Media Group is a relatively new company that, over the last four years, has produced and distributed primarily highly acclaimed international art house films. The company's latest release on DVD and Blu-ray is Farewell, My Queen, director Benoit Jacquot's French-language 2012 period costume drama that centers on the outbreak of the French Revolution, as experienced by Sidonie (Lea Seydoux), a young woman who has the seemingly enviable position of being "The Queen's Reader". Her primary responsibility is to literally read books to Marie Antoinette (that's right, the nobility didn't even have to strain their eyes). Sidonie, a twenty-something country girl, is in awe of the Queen and is slavishly devoted to her needs. As played by Diane Kruger, Marie Antoinette is presented as the undeniably spoiled wife of Louis XVI, but the portrayal humanizes her. Marie Antoinette, like so many famous (or infamous) historical figures, has...
- 1/13/2013
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The court intrigue that animates Benoit Jacquot‘s Farewell, My Queen – set during the final days of Marie Antoinette’s reign – could be the stuff of so many costume dramas. To his great credit, however, the 65-year-old Parisian director, best known on this side of the pond for his 1995 hotel chamber drama A Single Girl, offers an elliptical, accumulative account of the events, keeping them tightly focused on the experience of the Queen’s private reader Sidonie (Léa Seydoux) as the storm clouds of revolution gather from outside the corridors of Versailles and the regime’s demise very quickly becomes inevitable, even as the insufferable queen (Diana Kruger) manages to lack any understanding of why her subjects are bent on her untimely exit.
As revolution marches toward them, Sidonie’s infatuation with the Queen is marked by jealousy at her attachment to the cosmopolitan duchess Gabrielle de Polignac (Virginie Ledoyen,...
As revolution marches toward them, Sidonie’s infatuation with the Queen is marked by jealousy at her attachment to the cosmopolitan duchess Gabrielle de Polignac (Virginie Ledoyen,...
- 7/11/2012
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
It'll do. As the Opening Night film of the 62nd Berlinale, Benoît Jacquot's Farewell, My Queen has just enough star power (Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette, Léa Seydoux — looking at times for all the world like a French Scarlett Johansson — as her reader, Sidonie Laborde, Virginie Ledoyen as the Queen's favorite, Gabrielle de Polignac, Noémie Lvovsky as the first lady-in-waiting, Jeanne Campan, and Xavier Beauvois as Louis XVI), Euro cred and thematic relevance to a few motifs running through this year's edition (the Arab Spring — Death for Sale, The Reluctant Revolutionary, Words of Witness, In the Shadow of a Man, all screening in the Panorama section — and Occupy Wall Street, by way of the "anti-globalization" protests in Genoa 2001 (Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood, Panorama Special); there's even an undercurrent of the queer electricity that's Panorama's stock and trade), that it'll do. Like so many films that open festivals great and small,...
- 2/11/2012
- MUBI
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