Planete Plus Orders Munich Hostage Thriller Doc
French broadcaster Planete Plus has commissioned factual political thriller “Munich: Of Games and Blood” from Pernel Media to mark the 50th anniversary of the hostage crisis that rocked the Munich Olympic Games on September 5, 1972. Written by Philippe Saada, Yossi Melman and cinematographer Marc Dugain, the doc is narrated by three protagonists present at the original event where Israeli athletes were taken hostage by Palestinian Black September terrorists: an ex-terrorist, a member of the German police, and a Mossad agent. Doc combines this 360° point of view with archives of exclusive testimonies and revelations from declassified documents.
Executive producers for Pernel Media are Fabrice Frank and Samuel Kissous. Feature doc was commissioned by Planete Plus’s Christine Cauquelin, head of documentaries, Canal Plus Group.
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French broadcaster Planete Plus has commissioned factual political thriller “Munich: Of Games and Blood” from Pernel Media to mark the 50th anniversary of the hostage crisis that rocked the Munich Olympic Games on September 5, 1972. Written by Philippe Saada, Yossi Melman and cinematographer Marc Dugain, the doc is narrated by three protagonists present at the original event where Israeli athletes were taken hostage by Palestinian Black September terrorists: an ex-terrorist, a member of the German police, and a Mossad agent. Doc combines this 360° point of view with archives of exclusive testimonies and revelations from declassified documents.
Executive producers for Pernel Media are Fabrice Frank and Samuel Kissous. Feature doc was commissioned by Planete Plus’s Christine Cauquelin, head of documentaries, Canal Plus Group.
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- 4/4/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
French hip-hop series Le Monde de Demain has scooped the Grand Prize at the Series Mania International Competition.
Announced at a ceremony tonight and presided over by Jury President Julia Sinkevych, Arte/Netflix’s TV series about the birth of the French rap movement beat off stiff competition from the likes of Michael Hirst’s Billy the Kid and Israel’s Fire Dance.
Based on an original idea by Katell Quillévéré and Hélier Cisterne, the show, which translates in English as World of Tomorrow, features the likes of JoeyStarr and DJ Détonateur S, who created a rebellious and euphoric form of expression and brought rap to France.
Yehuda Levi, lead in Fire Dance, won Best Actor and Michelle De Swarte won Best Actress for her performance in Sky/HBO’s The Baby.
Meanwhile, Discovery+ Sweden’s The Dark Heart won Best Series in the International Panorama, the Special Jury Prize...
Announced at a ceremony tonight and presided over by Jury President Julia Sinkevych, Arte/Netflix’s TV series about the birth of the French rap movement beat off stiff competition from the likes of Michael Hirst’s Billy the Kid and Israel’s Fire Dance.
Based on an original idea by Katell Quillévéré and Hélier Cisterne, the show, which translates in English as World of Tomorrow, features the likes of JoeyStarr and DJ Détonateur S, who created a rebellious and euphoric form of expression and brought rap to France.
Yehuda Levi, lead in Fire Dance, won Best Actor and Michelle De Swarte won Best Actress for her performance in Sky/HBO’s The Baby.
Meanwhile, Discovery+ Sweden’s The Dark Heart won Best Series in the International Panorama, the Special Jury Prize...
- 3/25/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Returning barely six months after its 2021 edition, which wrapped in September, French TV festival Series Mania welcomed Jury President Julia Sinkevych,who arrived in Lille from war-torn Ukraine.
“I didn’t know if I would be lucky enough to be here tonight,” said Sinkevych to a standing ovation, with Laurence Herszberg, Series Mania general director, observing that culture cannot be insensitive to what is happening.
“The whole world is now admiring our resistance, the resistance of the Ukrainian people. But there is another battlefield, which is culture, and I want us to be noticed, recognized and admired on the cultural battlefield, too,” added Sinkevych.
“This [conflict] has been going on for a long time and there have been many episodes in this TV series. Now, Europe and the rest of the world should work together on its grand season finale.”
President of the International Panorama Jury, French writer and actress Anne Berest,...
“I didn’t know if I would be lucky enough to be here tonight,” said Sinkevych to a standing ovation, with Laurence Herszberg, Series Mania general director, observing that culture cannot be insensitive to what is happening.
“The whole world is now admiring our resistance, the resistance of the Ukrainian people. But there is another battlefield, which is culture, and I want us to be noticed, recognized and admired on the cultural battlefield, too,” added Sinkevych.
“This [conflict] has been going on for a long time and there have been many episodes in this TV series. Now, Europe and the rest of the world should work together on its grand season finale.”
President of the International Panorama Jury, French writer and actress Anne Berest,...
- 3/19/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Ukrainian producer Julia Sinkevych, named main jury president at French TV festival Series Mania, is still hoping to come to Lille this week despite the ongoing war.
“Last night, there was bombing not far from Lviv, so you never know. [Producer] Dariusz Jabłoński and the Polish Film Academy are helping out Ukrainian filmmakers and they will pick me up when I am in Poland,” she tells Variety during a conversation interrupted by a siren.
“Usually, it means you have to hide. But I am so tired of it – it happens so often. So sometimes, I don’t.”
In the worst-case scenario, she will be watching competition titles online from a shelter, with French writer and director Marc Dugain appointed as vice-president. Sinkevych admits she is “scared and frightened” to leave Ukraine as she might not be able to return to her family, but is adamant about bringing more attention to what is happening in her country.
“Last night, there was bombing not far from Lviv, so you never know. [Producer] Dariusz Jabłoński and the Polish Film Academy are helping out Ukrainian filmmakers and they will pick me up when I am in Poland,” she tells Variety during a conversation interrupted by a siren.
“Usually, it means you have to hide. But I am so tired of it – it happens so often. So sometimes, I don’t.”
In the worst-case scenario, she will be watching competition titles online from a shelter, with French writer and director Marc Dugain appointed as vice-president. Sinkevych admits she is “scared and frightened” to leave Ukraine as she might not be able to return to her family, but is adamant about bringing more attention to what is happening in her country.
- 3/17/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Move follows French film and TV festival’s decision to bar official Russian organisations from edition running March 18-25
Ukrainian film producer Julia Sinkevych has been appointed to head the international competition jury at French TV festival and industry event Series Mania, running in Lille from March 18-25.
“By proposing this presidency to Julia Sinkevych, who carries the colours of culture in a wounded country, we wish to show our support for the people of Ukraine and attest the importance of festivals in a world in crisis, as they create a place for people to come together to exchange ideas and celebrate our diversities,...
Ukrainian film producer Julia Sinkevych has been appointed to head the international competition jury at French TV festival and industry event Series Mania, running in Lille from March 18-25.
“By proposing this presidency to Julia Sinkevych, who carries the colours of culture in a wounded country, we wish to show our support for the people of Ukraine and attest the importance of festivals in a world in crisis, as they create a place for people to come together to exchange ideas and celebrate our diversities,...
- 3/2/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Co-Founder of the Ukrainian Film Academy has been named Jury President for this year’s Series Mania.
Julia Sinkevych will judge the annual event’s International Competition, joining a jury featuring German actor Christian Berkel, Israeli actress Shira Haas (Unorthodox), Turkish creator and director Berkun Oya (Bir Baskadir) and French singer-songwriter and model Yseult.
French writer/director Marc Dugain has been appointed Vice-President as Sinkevych’s presence at the Lille event next month is uncertain.
The tireless Sinkevych is the Co-Founder of the Ukrainian Film Academy and a member of the European Film Academy.
From 2010 to 2020, she worked as General Producer of Odessa International Film Festival, one of the biggest audience film festivals in Eastern Europe.
She is also a producer and is currently working on feature films Lucky Girl by Marysia Nikitiuk and Lesia by Nana Janelidze. Past credits include Vitaly Mansky’s Close Relations and Nadia Parfan’s Heatsingers.
Julia Sinkevych will judge the annual event’s International Competition, joining a jury featuring German actor Christian Berkel, Israeli actress Shira Haas (Unorthodox), Turkish creator and director Berkun Oya (Bir Baskadir) and French singer-songwriter and model Yseult.
French writer/director Marc Dugain has been appointed Vice-President as Sinkevych’s presence at the Lille event next month is uncertain.
The tireless Sinkevych is the Co-Founder of the Ukrainian Film Academy and a member of the European Film Academy.
From 2010 to 2020, she worked as General Producer of Odessa International Film Festival, one of the biggest audience film festivals in Eastern Europe.
She is also a producer and is currently working on feature films Lucky Girl by Marysia Nikitiuk and Lesia by Nana Janelidze. Past credits include Vitaly Mansky’s Close Relations and Nadia Parfan’s Heatsingers.
- 3/2/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Ukrainian film producer and co-founder of the Ukrainian Film Academy Julia Sinkevych (“Heat Singers”) has been selected as jury president for this year’s Series Mania Festival and its international competition.
“She has always been committed to supporting Ukrainian artists and the culture of her country from Kyiv, where she lives,” the festival said in a statement. “As her presence in Lille is not certain at this point in time, renowned French writer and director Marc Dugain, has been appointed as vice-president of this year’s jury.”
Sinkevych is also a member of European Film Academy and a member of the Ukrainian Oscars committee. From 2010 until 2020, Sinkevych worked as general producer of Odesa International Film Festival, one of the biggest audience film festivals in Eastern Europe. Currently Sinkevych is working on feature films “Lucky girl” by Marysia Nikitiuk and “Lesia” by Nana Janelidze.
The jury also includes German Christian Berkel...
“She has always been committed to supporting Ukrainian artists and the culture of her country from Kyiv, where she lives,” the festival said in a statement. “As her presence in Lille is not certain at this point in time, renowned French writer and director Marc Dugain, has been appointed as vice-president of this year’s jury.”
Sinkevych is also a member of European Film Academy and a member of the Ukrainian Oscars committee. From 2010 until 2020, Sinkevych worked as general producer of Odesa International Film Festival, one of the biggest audience film festivals in Eastern Europe. Currently Sinkevych is working on feature films “Lucky girl” by Marysia Nikitiuk and “Lesia” by Nana Janelidze.
The jury also includes German Christian Berkel...
- 3/2/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The film is written and directed by Natalya Kudryashova.
French sales agent Kinology has agreed a deal with Moscow-based distributor and production company Central Partnership to handle international sales on Russian drama Gerda, which receives its premiere in the international competition at this year’s Locarno Film Festival (August 4-14).
Written and directed by Natalya Kudryashova, Gerda is about a young woman named Lera who is trying to escape the constraints of her provincial life. A sociology student by day, she works in a local strip joint by night to support herself and her mother, who suffers from a mental disorder.
French sales agent Kinology has agreed a deal with Moscow-based distributor and production company Central Partnership to handle international sales on Russian drama Gerda, which receives its premiere in the international competition at this year’s Locarno Film Festival (August 4-14).
Written and directed by Natalya Kudryashova, Gerda is about a young woman named Lera who is trying to escape the constraints of her provincial life. A sociology student by day, she works in a local strip joint by night to support herself and her mother, who suffers from a mental disorder.
- 8/5/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Gregoire Melin’s Kinology, the Paris-based company handling Leos Carax’s and Mia Hansen-Love’s next films, has added a string of ambitious new films from a mix of emerging and seasoned directors.
Kinology has launched sales on “A Girl’s Room,” a stylish psychological thriller directed by Finnish up-and-coming helmer Aino Suni; “The Divide,” a stars-packed film by French director Catherine Corsini (“Three Worlds”); “Third Grade” by veteran director Jacques Doillon (“Ponette”); and “Morning Calm,” a director-driven sprawling thriller by Denis Dercourt. All films are now in post and Kinology is showing first images, teasers or trailers to buyers at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, which kicked off Jan. 13.
Suni’s feature debut, “A Girl’s Room,” follows Elina, a 17-year-old aspiring Finnish rapper forced to leave her home for the south of France after her mother finds a French boyfriend. There, she is drawn to her new stepsister Sofia,...
Kinology has launched sales on “A Girl’s Room,” a stylish psychological thriller directed by Finnish up-and-coming helmer Aino Suni; “The Divide,” a stars-packed film by French director Catherine Corsini (“Three Worlds”); “Third Grade” by veteran director Jacques Doillon (“Ponette”); and “Morning Calm,” a director-driven sprawling thriller by Denis Dercourt. All films are now in post and Kinology is showing first images, teasers or trailers to buyers at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, which kicked off Jan. 13.
Suni’s feature debut, “A Girl’s Room,” follows Elina, a 17-year-old aspiring Finnish rapper forced to leave her home for the south of France after her mother finds a French boyfriend. There, she is drawn to her new stepsister Sofia,...
- 1/15/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
After collaborating on Mounia Meddour’s 2019 Un Certain Regard title “Papicha,” High Sea Production and Tribus P have joined forces with CG Cinema to launch an investment fund, Dock, which is dedicated to financing and co-financing director-driven film and TV content for the international market.
Patrick André at High Sea, Charles Gillibert at CG Cinema and Paul-Dominique Vacharasinthu at Tribus P Films will work together to co-finance four to five films as well as three series or other formats per year during the next five years. The fund’s committee will include André, Gillibert, Vacharasinthu and investors. The fund will be open to international third-party productions that are not set up at High Sea Production, CG Cinéma or Tribus P.
Dock’s first slate of projects include Alex Carvalho’s “La salamandre,” inspired by Jean-Christophe Rufin’s novel and set in Brazil. The movie will star Marina Fois, Jesuita Barbosa and Laetitia Dosch.
Patrick André at High Sea, Charles Gillibert at CG Cinema and Paul-Dominique Vacharasinthu at Tribus P Films will work together to co-finance four to five films as well as three series or other formats per year during the next five years. The fund’s committee will include André, Gillibert, Vacharasinthu and investors. The fund will be open to international third-party productions that are not set up at High Sea Production, CG Cinéma or Tribus P.
Dock’s first slate of projects include Alex Carvalho’s “La salamandre,” inspired by Jean-Christophe Rufin’s novel and set in Brazil. The movie will star Marina Fois, Jesuita Barbosa and Laetitia Dosch.
- 5/17/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Frédérique Rouault joins ahead of the European Film Market next week.
Paris-based Playtime has appointed Frédérique Rouault as its director of international sales ahead of the European Film Market next week.
The experienced sales executive arrives from Celluloid Dreams where she was head of sales from November 2016 and helped to contribute to its recent expansion.
Prior to that, Rouault was VP international Sales at TF1 Studio where she worked on hits such as Serial (Bad) Weddings.
She originally cut her teeth in sales at Paulo Branco’s Alfama Films after attending Sciences Po and then France’s prestigious La Fémis film school, where she studied distribution.
In her new role, Rouault will work alongside Playtime partners François Yon, Sébastien Beffa and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, taking over the responsibility of the international film sales department.
“Frédérique is a seasoned professional,” said Brigaud-Robert. “She is versatile in her capabilities and has proven her talent, selling both mainstream...
Paris-based Playtime has appointed Frédérique Rouault as its director of international sales ahead of the European Film Market next week.
The experienced sales executive arrives from Celluloid Dreams where she was head of sales from November 2016 and helped to contribute to its recent expansion.
Prior to that, Rouault was VP international Sales at TF1 Studio where she worked on hits such as Serial (Bad) Weddings.
She originally cut her teeth in sales at Paulo Branco’s Alfama Films after attending Sciences Po and then France’s prestigious La Fémis film school, where she studied distribution.
In her new role, Rouault will work alongside Playtime partners François Yon, Sébastien Beffa and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, taking over the responsibility of the international film sales department.
“Frédérique is a seasoned professional,” said Brigaud-Robert. “She is versatile in her capabilities and has proven her talent, selling both mainstream...
- 2/9/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Playtime launches sales on Monge’s debut feature at UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
Source: Playtime
‘Treat Me Like Fire’
Paris-based Playtime has released first images of Tahar Rahim and Stacy Martin in buzzed-about French director Marie Monge’s debut feature tale of love and addiction Treat Me Like Fire as UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema (Jan 18-22) kicks off in Paris on Thursday.
Rahim plays a gambling addict working in a Paris bar where he gets involved with the owner’s daughter (Martin) who he introduces to the capital’s underground gambling scene.
The smitten young woman, who is keen to impress to her new lover, quickly gets hooked to the thrill of the betting table and their joint addiction quickly spirals out of control.
Playtime (formerly Films Distribution) will launch sales on the feature, which is in post-production, at the UniFrance meeting.
“We had quite a battle to get it. There was a lot of...
Source: Playtime
‘Treat Me Like Fire’
Paris-based Playtime has released first images of Tahar Rahim and Stacy Martin in buzzed-about French director Marie Monge’s debut feature tale of love and addiction Treat Me Like Fire as UniFrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema (Jan 18-22) kicks off in Paris on Thursday.
Rahim plays a gambling addict working in a Paris bar where he gets involved with the owner’s daughter (Martin) who he introduces to the capital’s underground gambling scene.
The smitten young woman, who is keen to impress to her new lover, quickly gets hooked to the thrill of the betting table and their joint addiction quickly spirals out of control.
Playtime (formerly Films Distribution) will launch sales on the feature, which is in post-production, at the UniFrance meeting.
“We had quite a battle to get it. There was a lot of...
- 1/18/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Feature inspired by the true plan to marry off Louis Xv to King of Spain’s four-year-old daughter.
Films Distribution has acquired world sales on Children Royals, inspired by a plan to marry off France’s Louis Xv to the oldest daughter of the King of Spain, Maria Anna Victoria, who was four-years-old at the time.
It is the latest film by historical writer and director Marc Dugain – best known for An Ordinary Execution and The Curse of Edgar.
The feature is adapted from Chantal Thomas’s work L’échange des princesses about a plan hatched by the Regent of France and the Spanish King in 1721 to marry their heirs, 11-year-old Louis Xv and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-year-old Spanish infanta. The aim was to secure peace between the two nations.
At the same time, the Regent of France also offered his 12-year-old daughter Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s hand to the Prince of Asturias, the 14-year-old...
Films Distribution has acquired world sales on Children Royals, inspired by a plan to marry off France’s Louis Xv to the oldest daughter of the King of Spain, Maria Anna Victoria, who was four-years-old at the time.
It is the latest film by historical writer and director Marc Dugain – best known for An Ordinary Execution and The Curse of Edgar.
The feature is adapted from Chantal Thomas’s work L’échange des princesses about a plan hatched by the Regent of France and the Spanish King in 1721 to marry their heirs, 11-year-old Louis Xv and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-year-old Spanish infanta. The aim was to secure peace between the two nations.
At the same time, the Regent of France also offered his 12-year-old daughter Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s hand to the Prince of Asturias, the 14-year-old...
- 11/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes was number one Saturday night, taking the grand prize at the Deauville Film Festival. The eviction drama stars Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon. It’s the second film with star Shannon to take the top prize at the festival, following 2011’s Take Shelter. Shannon was in Deauville earlier in the week to present the film to festival audiences. The jury was headed by French director Benoit Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen), with director Pascal Bonitzer (Made in Paris), actresses Louise Bourgoin(The Love Punch), Marie Gillain (Valentin Valentin) and Marthe Keller (The Witness), actor Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (Marseille), novelist Marc Dugain, director Sophie Filieres (If You Don't, I Will) and Cesar-winning
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- 9/12/2015
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Our film critic makes the nominations for his own personal Oscars in a widely underrated year for film
December is the season of list-making and Top 10 compiling, but when I mention this to other critics, it's been getting winces and shrugs and mutterings that 2010 hasn't been a vintage year. I'm not so sure about that. It's true that the huge arthouse hits like The White Ribbon and A Prophet are now a very distant memory — A Prophet in fact was released at the very beginning of this year, but has been so extensively discussed, that I don't mention it below. Some huge crowd-pleasers, like Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, Tom Hooper's The King's Speech and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, haven't yet had a full release and neither has Kelly Reichardt's western, Meek's Cutoff. These things may combine to produce the impression that 2010 is in itself a thin year.
December is the season of list-making and Top 10 compiling, but when I mention this to other critics, it's been getting winces and shrugs and mutterings that 2010 hasn't been a vintage year. I'm not so sure about that. It's true that the huge arthouse hits like The White Ribbon and A Prophet are now a very distant memory — A Prophet in fact was released at the very beginning of this year, but has been so extensively discussed, that I don't mention it below. Some huge crowd-pleasers, like Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, Tom Hooper's The King's Speech and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, haven't yet had a full release and neither has Kelly Reichardt's western, Meek's Cutoff. These things may combine to produce the impression that 2010 is in itself a thin year.
- 12/1/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Unstoppable (12A)
(Tony Scott, 2010, Us) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn. 98 mins
This literally one-track action thriller is the perfect fit for Scott, Hollywood's master of manliness and heavy machinery. It's based on a true story that just happens to have a plot like a disaster movie: a massive, unmanned train carrying hazardous chemicals is hurtling towards populated areas; might the prickly railroad veteran and his rookie partner just be able to stop it? Everyone knows where it's going but it's got enough momentum to smash through to the finish, and the purity of the premise is a good fit with Scott's visual excess.
The American (15)
(Anton Corbijn, 2010, Us) George Clooney, Violante Placido, Paolo Bonacelli. 105 mins
Corbijn follows up Control with a sparse, existential hitman thriller in the Le Samourai/Day Of The Jackal mould, with Clooney in picturesque Italy. Apart from the classy visuals, it...
(Tony Scott, 2010, Us) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn. 98 mins
This literally one-track action thriller is the perfect fit for Scott, Hollywood's master of manliness and heavy machinery. It's based on a true story that just happens to have a plot like a disaster movie: a massive, unmanned train carrying hazardous chemicals is hurtling towards populated areas; might the prickly railroad veteran and his rookie partner just be able to stop it? Everyone knows where it's going but it's got enough momentum to smash through to the finish, and the purity of the premise is a good fit with Scott's visual excess.
The American (15)
(Anton Corbijn, 2010, Us) George Clooney, Violante Placido, Paolo Bonacelli. 105 mins
Corbijn follows up Control with a sparse, existential hitman thriller in the Le Samourai/Day Of The Jackal mould, with Clooney in picturesque Italy. Apart from the classy visuals, it...
- 11/27/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
A pungently atmospheric chamber piece about the nature and history of Russian political power. By Peter Bradshaw
Marc Dugain, the author whose first world war-set novel The Officers' Ward became a powerful movie almost a decade ago, has here directed his own adaptation of his 2007 novel – or rather, adapted just the first part of an ambitious, episodic fiction about the nature and history of Russian political power. The result is a pungently atmospheric chamber piece, set in the paranoid Soviet era of purges and disappearances; Dugain imagines an encounter between Stalin and a young doctor, Anna, who inspires malign obsession from male colleagues on account of her extreme beauty and popularity with patients, stemming from a rumoured healing "aura" from her hands. Stalin imperiously makes Anna his top-secret personal physician, an intimacy which he decrees is so important that it supersedes and invalidates every other relationship in her life – especially her marriage.
Marc Dugain, the author whose first world war-set novel The Officers' Ward became a powerful movie almost a decade ago, has here directed his own adaptation of his 2007 novel – or rather, adapted just the first part of an ambitious, episodic fiction about the nature and history of Russian political power. The result is a pungently atmospheric chamber piece, set in the paranoid Soviet era of purges and disappearances; Dugain imagines an encounter between Stalin and a young doctor, Anna, who inspires malign obsession from male colleagues on account of her extreme beauty and popularity with patients, stemming from a rumoured healing "aura" from her hands. Stalin imperiously makes Anna his top-secret personal physician, an intimacy which he decrees is so important that it supersedes and invalidates every other relationship in her life – especially her marriage.
- 11/26/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Olivier Assayas' Carlos (the 5 1/2 long verison) and Xavier Beauvois' Cannes winner Of Gods and Men would appear to be the frontrunners in this year's 8 nominated films for the Louis-Delluc prize. The annual Best French Film award that commenced operations back in 1937, when Jean Renoir's Les Bas-fonds claimed the inaugural prize will announce the winners for Best Film and Best First Film on December 17th. Best Feature Noms: Carlos - Olivier Assayas The Ghost Writer - Roman Polanski Mysteries of Lisbon - Raoul Ruiz Of Gods and Men - Xavier Beauvois On Tour - Mathieu Amalric The Princess of Montpensier - Bertrand Tavernier White Material - Claire Denis Young Girls in Black - Jean-Paul Civeyrac Delluc prize for first-time director: A Violent Poison - Katell Quillevere An Ordinary Execution - Marc Dugain Belle Epine - Rebecca Zlotowski Domaine - Patric Chiha Gainsbourg - Joann Sfar La Vie au Ranch...
- 11/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Paris -- European distributors, French sales agents and international press will break bread and cheese Wednesday as state film promotion organization Unifrance's 12th annual's Rendez-Vous with French cinema kicks off in Paris.
But don't expect to hear any American accents.
More than 400 film distribution execs and 120 journalists from 26 countries will join French sales reps, directors and talent for a five-day sampling of the best of Gallic cinema. U.S. buyers, however, will have to wait until Unifrance's stand-alone event in March in New York in order to sample the latest in Gallic big screen fare due to the Paris event's impossible timing.
"Were it not for Sundance running concurrently with the Paris Rdv and Berlin just a few weeks later, we're sure more American buyers would come. From talking with them, we get the strong impression they'd like to -- they're certainly welcome!" Unifrance's stateside executive director John Kochman said in an interview.
But don't expect to hear any American accents.
More than 400 film distribution execs and 120 journalists from 26 countries will join French sales reps, directors and talent for a five-day sampling of the best of Gallic cinema. U.S. buyers, however, will have to wait until Unifrance's stand-alone event in March in New York in order to sample the latest in Gallic big screen fare due to the Paris event's impossible timing.
"Were it not for Sundance running concurrently with the Paris Rdv and Berlin just a few weeks later, we're sure more American buyers would come. From talking with them, we get the strong impression they'd like to -- they're certainly welcome!" Unifrance's stateside executive director John Kochman said in an interview.
- 1/12/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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