Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine des Realisateurs (a.k.a Directors’ Fortnight) has in the past couple of years, counted on a healthy supply of French, Spanish and Belgium produced film items, and has been geared towards the offbeat genre items as with last year’s edition curated by Edouard Waintrop and co. To be unveiled on the 22nd, as we attempted with our Critics’ Week predix, Blake Williams, Nicholas Bell and I (Eric Lavallee) are thinking out loud and hedging our bets on what the section might look like or what the programmers might be looking at for 2014. Here is our predictions overview:
Alleluia
Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.
Alleluia
Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.
- 4/16/2014
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009 Saturday, April 4, highlights Schedule and synopses from the Llgff website Après lui Directed by: Gaël Morel Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Adrien Jolivet Country: France Year: 2007 Running time: 90min Following the sudden death of her son Mathieu in a car accident, Camille (Catherine Deneuve) reaches out to his best friend Franck in an attempt to cope with her loss and gain a focus for her pain. However, this initially cathartic relationship soon begins to border on the obsessive, and Camille’s family begin to question her state of mind as she devotes more and more time to Franck. While the film hints at a possible sexual relationship between Franck and Mathieu in the opening scenes, sexuality is not the focus here. Instead, director Gaël Morel (À Toute Vitesse, Le Clan) and co-writer Christophe Honoré (Les Chansons d’amour) have put together a beautifully controlled meditation...
- 4/1/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
- Picture This! Entertainment (an indie company specializing in Lesbian/Gay/Bi fair and the occasional festival film from unknown filmmakers) have picked up the rights to Cannes Critics' Week selection from Belgium. First-time feature director Micha Wald's Voleurs de chevaux (The Arms Of My Enemy) will receive a summer release and have its U.S preem at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.The film centres on two sets of brothers who embark on an adventure following a fateful encounter in Eastern Europe. Adrien Jolivet, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet, Gregoire Colin and Dupont Francois-Rene star. ...
- 1/9/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
PARIS --The fifth annual Rendez-Vous Franco-Allemands (Franco-German Meetings) is set to kick off in Versailles on Nov. 22, French film promotion organization Unifrance announced Wednesday.
The three-day confab, presided over by the heads of both countries' state film bodies, Veronique Cayla and Peter Dinges, will feature a series of meetings for film industry professionals.
The subjects du jour will include new ways of financing and the implications for co-productions, the deployment of digital screens and the implication of VOD for film and television.
A pitching session will help both Gallic and German producers find co-production partners for their various projects. Russian producers also are planning to make the trip to Versailles to observe the exchanges and propose their own projects.
Unifrance will introduce young talents from Germany (Martina Gedek, August Diehl, Alexander Fehling, Fabian Hinrichs, Sibel Kekilli, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Hinnerk Schoenemann, Joerdis Triebel and Sebastian Urzendowsky) and France (Melvil Poupaud, Nicolas Cazale, Jennifer Decker, Valerie Donzelli, Mylene Jampanoi, Adrien Jolivet, Aissa Maiga and Allyson Paradis) to each other and to visiting producers.
The three-day confab, presided over by the heads of both countries' state film bodies, Veronique Cayla and Peter Dinges, will feature a series of meetings for film industry professionals.
The subjects du jour will include new ways of financing and the implications for co-productions, the deployment of digital screens and the implication of VOD for film and television.
A pitching session will help both Gallic and German producers find co-production partners for their various projects. Russian producers also are planning to make the trip to Versailles to observe the exchanges and propose their own projects.
Unifrance will introduce young talents from Germany (Martina Gedek, August Diehl, Alexander Fehling, Fabian Hinrichs, Sibel Kekilli, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Hinnerk Schoenemann, Joerdis Triebel and Sebastian Urzendowsky) and France (Melvil Poupaud, Nicolas Cazale, Jennifer Decker, Valerie Donzelli, Mylene Jampanoi, Adrien Jolivet, Aissa Maiga and Allyson Paradis) to each other and to visiting producers.
- 11/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pierre Jolivet's "Zim and Co". is a fast-paced and sly comedy about the lengths to which a street-smart kid and his pals will go to keep him out of prison. The movie doesn't get weighed down with any heavy messages.
Nevertheless, it's nice to see -- and the film undoubtedly earned a spot in Un Certain Regard because of this -- a filmmaker who can mingle social observations with breezy comedy. The film definitely has a life ahead in festivals and distribution in many markets.
The key point the story brings home is that for a certain groups of kids in French society, an by extension elsewhere in the world, it's all too easy to get into trouble based on the youngsters' ethnicity or social status.
Zim (Adrien Jolivet, presumably the director's son) is actually an okay guy. He works various gigs to help his single working-class mom, although he does so with jobs that pay under the counter with no pay slips reported to the government. Okay, that's strike one. He's not above smoking a little weed, fairly common among kids from all walks of life but it's usually the lower classes that take the heat. So there's strike two.
A bit high one morning as he rides his scooter, he has an accident, which an older man in a now slightly dented car takes to be a capital offense. So police are called and a prior petty crime turns up on his record. Suddenly, Zim finds himself facing a judge who tells him to avoid prison, he must get a real job, the kind with pay slips.
After several false starts, he lands a job by lying that he has a car and driver's license. In 10 days, he manages to acquire the license -- only because the driving inspector admits France needs more white drivers. But the car alludes.
The more he tries to go straight and stay out of jail, the more trouble he lands in. His friends are all from immigrant families so everyone in his circle is used to people taking advantage of them or ripping them off.
It's heartening to see a movie that treats close friendships between kids from different racial groups. In the course of the movie, Zim even acquires a Moslem girlfriend in Safia (Naidra Ayadi), albeit a very westernized Moslem.
The film's conclusion and a telling coda underscore the point by Jolivet (who wrote the script with Simon Michael) that adult prejudices can really wear some kids down.
Vendredi Film/BAC Films...
Nevertheless, it's nice to see -- and the film undoubtedly earned a spot in Un Certain Regard because of this -- a filmmaker who can mingle social observations with breezy comedy. The film definitely has a life ahead in festivals and distribution in many markets.
The key point the story brings home is that for a certain groups of kids in French society, an by extension elsewhere in the world, it's all too easy to get into trouble based on the youngsters' ethnicity or social status.
Zim (Adrien Jolivet, presumably the director's son) is actually an okay guy. He works various gigs to help his single working-class mom, although he does so with jobs that pay under the counter with no pay slips reported to the government. Okay, that's strike one. He's not above smoking a little weed, fairly common among kids from all walks of life but it's usually the lower classes that take the heat. So there's strike two.
A bit high one morning as he rides his scooter, he has an accident, which an older man in a now slightly dented car takes to be a capital offense. So police are called and a prior petty crime turns up on his record. Suddenly, Zim finds himself facing a judge who tells him to avoid prison, he must get a real job, the kind with pay slips.
After several false starts, he lands a job by lying that he has a car and driver's license. In 10 days, he manages to acquire the license -- only because the driving inspector admits France needs more white drivers. But the car alludes.
The more he tries to go straight and stay out of jail, the more trouble he lands in. His friends are all from immigrant families so everyone in his circle is used to people taking advantage of them or ripping them off.
It's heartening to see a movie that treats close friendships between kids from different racial groups. In the course of the movie, Zim even acquires a Moslem girlfriend in Safia (Naidra Ayadi), albeit a very westernized Moslem.
The film's conclusion and a telling coda underscore the point by Jolivet (who wrote the script with Simon Michael) that adult prejudices can really wear some kids down.
Vendredi Film/BAC Films...
- 5/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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