Kandisha
French horror duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are set to return with a vengeance in 2020, potentially premiering two features. The first looks to be their fifth project, Kandisha, produced by Delphine Clot and Guillaume Lemans and stars Mathilde La Musse, Samarcande Saadi, Suzy Bemba and Nassim Lyes Si Ahmed. Simon Roca. Composer Raf Keunen (who works regularly with Michael R. Roskam) provides the score, and their usual editor Baxter is also on hand.…...
French horror duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are set to return with a vengeance in 2020, potentially premiering two features. The first looks to be their fifth project, Kandisha, produced by Delphine Clot and Guillaume Lemans and stars Mathilde La Musse, Samarcande Saadi, Suzy Bemba and Nassim Lyes Si Ahmed. Simon Roca. Composer Raf Keunen (who works regularly with Michael R. Roskam) provides the score, and their usual editor Baxter is also on hand.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Icelandic director Bendikt Erlingsson’s Of Horses And Men won the Golden Iris Award, the top prize at the 12th Brussels Film Festival.Scroll down for full list of winners
Of Horses And Men won €10,000 ($13,600) and beat out 11 other competitors at the festival, which ran from June 6-14.
The drama about the deep relationships between members of a small Icelandic community and their horses debuted in Iceland last August and has toured the festival circuit ever since, beginning with the San Sebastian Film Festival in September. It was released in the UK last weekend.
Other notable winners included Swedish director Anna Odell’s The Reunion, which won the White Iris Award for best first film, as well as €2,500 ($3,400).
Odell’s feature about her imagined high school reunion picked up two other prizes at the festival, the Fedex Cinephile Award and the Rtbf TV Prize of Best Film.
Another film that scooped multiple awards was Farewell To The...
Of Horses And Men won €10,000 ($13,600) and beat out 11 other competitors at the festival, which ran from June 6-14.
The drama about the deep relationships between members of a small Icelandic community and their horses debuted in Iceland last August and has toured the festival circuit ever since, beginning with the San Sebastian Film Festival in September. It was released in the UK last weekend.
Other notable winners included Swedish director Anna Odell’s The Reunion, which won the White Iris Award for best first film, as well as €2,500 ($3,400).
Odell’s feature about her imagined high school reunion picked up two other prizes at the festival, the Fedex Cinephile Award and the Rtbf TV Prize of Best Film.
Another film that scooped multiple awards was Farewell To The...
- 6/17/2014
- ScreenDaily
Bullhead
Written by Michael R. Roskam
Directed by Michael R. Roskam
2011, Belgium
Writer/director Michaël Roskam delivers an assured directorial debut in Bulhead, a disturbingly visceral art-house drama that ably blends elements from other genres. While punctuated with moments of austere dark humour, Bullhead ranks as one of the most original crime pics in recent memory – one which is light on crime but heavy on drama, blending thriller elements into what amounts to a character study. This emotionally driven tale of revenge, redemption and fate is morally complex and constantly surprising, shattering the myths of brute machismo by way of its central standout performance in actor Matthias Schoenaerts.
In this hyper-masculine world of backwoods crime culture, Bullhead tells the story of the young Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, whose family breeds cattle and tinkers in illegal hormones to enhance their meat. Jacky’s family is approached by a shady veterinarian...
Written by Michael R. Roskam
Directed by Michael R. Roskam
2011, Belgium
Writer/director Michaël Roskam delivers an assured directorial debut in Bulhead, a disturbingly visceral art-house drama that ably blends elements from other genres. While punctuated with moments of austere dark humour, Bullhead ranks as one of the most original crime pics in recent memory – one which is light on crime but heavy on drama, blending thriller elements into what amounts to a character study. This emotionally driven tale of revenge, redemption and fate is morally complex and constantly surprising, shattering the myths of brute machismo by way of its central standout performance in actor Matthias Schoenaerts.
In this hyper-masculine world of backwoods crime culture, Bullhead tells the story of the young Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, whose family breeds cattle and tinkers in illegal hormones to enhance their meat. Jacky’s family is approached by a shady veterinarian...
- 2/16/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Bullhead
Written by Michael R. Roskam
Directed by Michael R. Roskam
2011, Belgium
Writer/director Michaël Roskam delivers an assured directorial debut in Bulhead, a disturbingly visceral art-house drama that ably blends elements from other genres. While punctuated with moments of austere dark humour, Bullhead ranks as one of the most original crime pics in recent memory – one which is light on crime but heavy on drama, blending thriller elements into what amounts to a character study. This emotionally driven tale of revenge, redemption and fate is morally complex and constantly surprising, shattering the myths of brute machismo by way of its central standout performance in actor Matthias Schoenaerts.
In this hyper-masculine world of backwoods crime culture, Bullhead tells the story of the young Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, whose family breeds cattle and tinkers in illegal hormones to enhance their meat. Jacky’s family is approached by a shady veterinarian...
Written by Michael R. Roskam
Directed by Michael R. Roskam
2011, Belgium
Writer/director Michaël Roskam delivers an assured directorial debut in Bulhead, a disturbingly visceral art-house drama that ably blends elements from other genres. While punctuated with moments of austere dark humour, Bullhead ranks as one of the most original crime pics in recent memory – one which is light on crime but heavy on drama, blending thriller elements into what amounts to a character study. This emotionally driven tale of revenge, redemption and fate is morally complex and constantly surprising, shattering the myths of brute machismo by way of its central standout performance in actor Matthias Schoenaerts.
In this hyper-masculine world of backwoods crime culture, Bullhead tells the story of the young Limburg cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, whose family breeds cattle and tinkers in illegal hormones to enhance their meat. Jacky’s family is approached by a shady veterinarian...
- 9/30/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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