The best movie involving a boat since “Titanic” with the best vomiting sequence since “Team America: World Police,” Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” is an energetic and wacky examination of class, gender norms and culture, woven into a dynamite script. After debuting at Cannes, Östlund’s English-language debut will finally introduce the Swedish writer and director to more mainstream American audiences, and possibly even Oscar voters.
The film tells the story of Carl (Harris Dickenson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), two fashion models and a celebrity couple who in three narrative chapters explore their roles in each other’s lives — following a dinner date, a luxury cruise and a shocking x-factor that presents an interesting turn of events.
There are two noteworthy aspects to the dark comedy that are low-hanging fruit for Academy Awards attention. The original script by Östlund, with its whimsical premise, harnesses the type of engaging qualities...
The film tells the story of Carl (Harris Dickenson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), two fashion models and a celebrity couple who in three narrative chapters explore their roles in each other’s lives — following a dinner date, a luxury cruise and a shocking x-factor that presents an interesting turn of events.
There are two noteworthy aspects to the dark comedy that are low-hanging fruit for Academy Awards attention. The original script by Östlund, with its whimsical premise, harnesses the type of engaging qualities...
- 5/23/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky brings a basket brimming with projects to this year’s AFM as he looks forward to easier international conditions as the Covid pandemic begins to recede.
Deals with two of Russia’s biggest platforms — Kinopoisk HD on local search engine giant Yandex, and Okko, part of leading bank Sber (which has a client base that numbers 90 million) — as well as a strategic partnership and first-look deal with Apple to produce Russian-language and multilingual international shows for Apple Plus TV allows the two-time Oscar nominee a breadth of material with which to work.
Top projects include “Red Rainbow,” the winner of this year’s co-production pitching competition at Series Mania. “Rainbow” is based on a true story set in 1979 about three young gay activists from West Berlin who are invited to Moscow on an official visit, not realizing that homosexuality is a crime in the Soviet Union.
Deals with two of Russia’s biggest platforms — Kinopoisk HD on local search engine giant Yandex, and Okko, part of leading bank Sber (which has a client base that numbers 90 million) — as well as a strategic partnership and first-look deal with Apple to produce Russian-language and multilingual international shows for Apple Plus TV allows the two-time Oscar nominee a breadth of material with which to work.
Top projects include “Red Rainbow,” the winner of this year’s co-production pitching competition at Series Mania. “Rainbow” is based on a true story set in 1979 about three young gay activists from West Berlin who are invited to Moscow on an official visit, not realizing that homosexuality is a crime in the Soviet Union.
- 10/31/2021
- by Nick Holdsworth
- Variety Film + TV
He is also working again with Kantemir Balagov and with US documentarian and visual artist Godfrey Reggio.
Leading Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky has unveiled a new internationally-focused slate.
It is headlined by the English-language debut of Andrey Zvyagintsev, the next film from filmmaker Kantemir Balagov following their collaboration on 2019’s Beanpole and a documentary by US filmmaker and visual artist Godfrey Reggio that is being co-produced by Steven Soderbergh.
Zvyagintsev’s What Happens is written by Oleg Negin and will shoot in the US. No further details are yet known. Rodnyansky and Zvyagintsev prevously collaborated on the Oscar-winning Leviathan and the Oscar- nominated Loveless.
Leading Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky has unveiled a new internationally-focused slate.
It is headlined by the English-language debut of Andrey Zvyagintsev, the next film from filmmaker Kantemir Balagov following their collaboration on 2019’s Beanpole and a documentary by US filmmaker and visual artist Godfrey Reggio that is being co-produced by Steven Soderbergh.
Zvyagintsev’s What Happens is written by Oleg Negin and will shoot in the US. No further details are yet known. Rodnyansky and Zvyagintsev prevously collaborated on the Oscar-winning Leviathan and the Oscar- nominated Loveless.
- 7/7/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
He is also working again with Kantemir Balagov and with US documentarian and visual artist Godfrey Reggio.
Leading Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky has unveiled a new internationally-focused slate.
It is headlined by the English-language debut of Andrey Zvyagintsev, the next film from filmmaker Kantemir Balagov following their collaboration on 2019’s Beanpole and a documentary by US filmmaker and visual artist Godfrey Reggio that is being co-produced by Steven Soderbergh.
Zvyagintsev’s What Happens is written by Oleg Negin and will shoot in the US. No further details are yet known. Rodnyansky and Zvyagintsev prevously collaborated on the Oscar-winning Leviathan and the Oscar- nominated Loveless.
Leading Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky has unveiled a new internationally-focused slate.
It is headlined by the English-language debut of Andrey Zvyagintsev, the next film from filmmaker Kantemir Balagov following their collaboration on 2019’s Beanpole and a documentary by US filmmaker and visual artist Godfrey Reggio that is being co-produced by Steven Soderbergh.
Zvyagintsev’s What Happens is written by Oleg Negin and will shoot in the US. No further details are yet known. Rodnyansky and Zvyagintsev prevously collaborated on the Oscar-winning Leviathan and the Oscar- nominated Loveless.
- 7/7/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Top Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky, who was Oscar nominated for Andrey Zvyagintsev’s films “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” is reteaming with Zvyagintsev for his first English-language film, and with Kantemir Balagov, who directed “Beanpole,” best director winner in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2019. Rodnyansky will also co-produce a documentary by Godfrey Reggio alongside Steven Soderbergh.
Rodnyansky has two films in Cannes Festival this year: Oscar nominated Ari Folman’s Out of Competition title “Where Is Anne Frank,” and Kira Kovalenko’s Un Certain Regard selected “Unclenching the Fists.”
Zvyagintsev’s “What Happens,” which will be shot in the U.S., is written by Oleg Negin. It is a contemplation on the nature of human relationships, the state of modern man, and the fragility of human life. Rodnyansky and Zvyagintsev collaborated on “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” both of which were nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
“After Andrey finished working on ‘Loveless,...
Rodnyansky has two films in Cannes Festival this year: Oscar nominated Ari Folman’s Out of Competition title “Where Is Anne Frank,” and Kira Kovalenko’s Un Certain Regard selected “Unclenching the Fists.”
Zvyagintsev’s “What Happens,” which will be shot in the U.S., is written by Oleg Negin. It is a contemplation on the nature of human relationships, the state of modern man, and the fragility of human life. Rodnyansky and Zvyagintsev collaborated on “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” both of which were nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
“After Andrey finished working on ‘Loveless,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Alexander Rodnyansky, the producer who in the past unveiled Leviathan and Loveless here, is back at the Cannes Film Festival to launch a new company. Ar Content is designed to invest in strong scripts and source material, aimed to exploit the demand for global-minded commercial content.
“Everybody wants great material, but nobody wants to investing in developing it, and so that is why I decided that will be my focus,” Rodnyansky told Deadline. “Developing great material, and not simply financing packages. It was obvious to me the priority is to make films that are global because that is where the business is going, and I am sensitive to it, coming from a different part of the world.
“Ar Content is a sister company to Ar Films, which produced both Leviathan and Loveless,” he said. “This is a response to a growing demand for premium quality, particularly as streaming distribution...
“Everybody wants great material, but nobody wants to investing in developing it, and so that is why I decided that will be my focus,” Rodnyansky told Deadline. “Developing great material, and not simply financing packages. It was obvious to me the priority is to make films that are global because that is where the business is going, and I am sensitive to it, coming from a different part of the world.
“Ar Content is a sister company to Ar Films, which produced both Leviathan and Loveless,” he said. “This is a response to a growing demand for premium quality, particularly as streaming distribution...
- 5/11/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Further jury members are Chang Chen, Robert Guédiguian, Khadja Nin, Léa Seydoux and Andrei Zvyagintsev.
The 2018 Cannes Film Festival (May 8-19) has unveiled the jury for its main competition.
Comprising five women and four men, the Jury features:
Chinese actor Chang Chen, who starred in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Three Times and The Assassin, and Kim Ki-duk’s Breath, which all screened in Competition at Cannes. His other films include John Woo’s Red Cliff and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Writer, director, producer Ava DuVernay, whose features include Disney sci-fi A Wrinkle In Time, Selma, for which she...
The 2018 Cannes Film Festival (May 8-19) has unveiled the jury for its main competition.
Comprising five women and four men, the Jury features:
Chinese actor Chang Chen, who starred in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Three Times and The Assassin, and Kim Ki-duk’s Breath, which all screened in Competition at Cannes. His other films include John Woo’s Red Cliff and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Writer, director, producer Ava DuVernay, whose features include Disney sci-fi A Wrinkle In Time, Selma, for which she...
- 4/18/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Sofia Film Festival winners also announced.
Dublin-based Italian writer-director Nathalie Biancheri’s second feature film project Wolf was awarded the Danny Lerner Grand Prix for best international project at the 15th edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production market this weekend.
The Nu Boyana Film Studios’ CEO Yariv Lerner handed over a prize of €50,000 in services and a cheque for €5,000 to Biancheri and her producer Jessie Fisk for what the director describes as “a high concept, absurdist arthouse drama”.
Budgeted at €1.2m, Wolf is set to be the first project to go into production by Fisk’s production company Feline Films.
Dublin-based Italian writer-director Nathalie Biancheri’s second feature film project Wolf was awarded the Danny Lerner Grand Prix for best international project at the 15th edition of the Sofia Meetings co-production market this weekend.
The Nu Boyana Film Studios’ CEO Yariv Lerner handed over a prize of €50,000 in services and a cheque for €5,000 to Biancheri and her producer Jessie Fisk for what the director describes as “a high concept, absurdist arthouse drama”.
Budgeted at €1.2m, Wolf is set to be the first project to go into production by Fisk’s production company Feline Films.
- 3/19/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Leviathan director developing TV series with Paramount Television.
Andrey Zvyagintsev, the twice-Academy Award nominated Russian director of Leviathan and Loveless, has revealed more details of his first TV project which he is now developing with Paramount Television.
“My ambition is not only to make a TV series but to make an amazing TV series that will stand for something,” he said at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event in Qatar on Tuesday. “It will make its mark in television.”
Details remain scarce as Zvyagintsev said he is just beginning to embark on the project. He is working with Oleg Negin,...
Andrey Zvyagintsev, the twice-Academy Award nominated Russian director of Leviathan and Loveless, has revealed more details of his first TV project which he is now developing with Paramount Television.
“My ambition is not only to make a TV series but to make an amazing TV series that will stand for something,” he said at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event in Qatar on Tuesday. “It will make its mark in television.”
Details remain scarce as Zvyagintsev said he is just beginning to embark on the project. He is working with Oleg Negin,...
- 3/13/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Untitled dramatic thriller will take place in contemporary Moscow.
Paramount Television said on Thursday (March 1) it is developing a dramatic thriller from Oscar-nominated director Andrey Zvyagintsev in what will be the Russian auteur’s first television project.
Zvyagintsev, whose Loveless competes for the best foreign-language Academy Award on Sunday, created the original idea with Oleg Negin and will direct the first two episodes and serve as executive producer.
The parties revealed little about the untitled series, except to say it will be in Russian and takes place in contemporary Moscow.
Alexander Rodnyansky will also serve as executive producer. Zvyagintsev, Negin...
Paramount Television said on Thursday (March 1) it is developing a dramatic thriller from Oscar-nominated director Andrey Zvyagintsev in what will be the Russian auteur’s first television project.
Zvyagintsev, whose Loveless competes for the best foreign-language Academy Award on Sunday, created the original idea with Oleg Negin and will direct the first two episodes and serve as executive producer.
The parties revealed little about the untitled series, except to say it will be in Russian and takes place in contemporary Moscow.
Alexander Rodnyansky will also serve as executive producer. Zvyagintsev, Negin...
- 3/1/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
An upscale apartment in one of Moscow’s uglier neighborhoods is on the market: Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Alexei Rozin) are at the final stage of divorce and have already arranged new lives with new partners. They can’t wait to be done with each other, and neither needs the property; same goes for the only, unwanted child of their failed union, Alyosha, about twelve years old. After eavesdropping on another hateful, screaming fight, in which the word orphanage is brought up, the boy disappears, likely run away, possibly kidnapped. There are many directions a story can take from a premise like this. A Hollywood drama would see the bitter spouses bonding, perhaps achieving a reunion, or it would turn into a thriller (which is, actually, one of the unfulfilled promises of Loveless). In a European art film, which of course is Andrei Zvyagintsev’s main frame of reference,...
- 2/15/2018
- MUBI
When director Andrey Zvyagintsev first got the script for Loveless, a drama about a divorcing couple who must come together when their son goes missing, he was baffled by just one thing: the film’s title.
“I decided to make it a working title and later find a better one,” Zvyagintsev recalls of Oleg Negin’s script. “I had other ideas — for instance, Battlefield. But I got used to this title and even began to love it because in a very precise, surgical way, it expresses the main issue of our film.”
Zvyagintsev describes the film about the Moscow couple (played by...
“I decided to make it a working title and later find a better one,” Zvyagintsev recalls of Oleg Negin’s script. “I had other ideas — for instance, Battlefield. But I got used to this title and even began to love it because in a very precise, surgical way, it expresses the main issue of our film.”
Zvyagintsev describes the film about the Moscow couple (played by...
- 1/11/2018
- by Vladimir Kozlov ,Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“The Square” was the big winner at the European Film Awards, taking nearly every top prize: Best Film, Director, Actor, Screenwriter, even Best Comedy for good measure. It continues a very good year for Ruben Östlund’s art-world satire, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and is considered a likely nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.
Also represented were “On Body and Soul,” which won the Golden Bear at Berlinale and earned Alexandra Borbely the Best Actress award, and “Communion,” which took the Documentary prize.
This year’s ceremony, the 30th, took place in Berlin. Avail yourself of the winner list below.
Read More:2017 European Film Awards Nominations: ‘The Square,’ ‘Bpm,’ ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer,’ and More Lead the Way Best European Film
“Bpm (Beats per Minute),” (Robin Campillo, France)
“Loveless,” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, Belgium, Germany, France)
“On Body and Soul,” (Ildiko Enyedi,...
Also represented were “On Body and Soul,” which won the Golden Bear at Berlinale and earned Alexandra Borbely the Best Actress award, and “Communion,” which took the Documentary prize.
This year’s ceremony, the 30th, took place in Berlin. Avail yourself of the winner list below.
Read More:2017 European Film Awards Nominations: ‘The Square,’ ‘Bpm,’ ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer,’ and More Lead the Way Best European Film
“Bpm (Beats per Minute),” (Robin Campillo, France)
“Loveless,” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, Belgium, Germany, France)
“On Body and Soul,” (Ildiko Enyedi,...
- 12/9/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Loveless (Nelyubov) Sony Pictures Classics Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev Screenwriter: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Cast: Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, Andrid Keishs, Alexey Fateev Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 11/27/17 Opens: February 26, 2017 but early December 2017 for one week for awards consideration. You’re of course familiar with the chorus of Van […]
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- 12/2/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The European Film Awards nominations have been released, with a number of festival favorites landing high-profile nods. Among them are “The Square” and “Bpm,” which were both nominated for Best European Film, and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” which missed out on the top category but was recognized in the Director, Actor, and Screenwriter fields.
Read More:‘The Square’ Director Ruben Östlund Wants to Push Cultural Boundaries, But Won’t Read Any Scripts With Killing
This year’s ceremony, the 30th, takes place in Berlin on December 9. Here are all the nominees:
Best European Film
“Bpm (Beats per Minute),” (Robin Campillo, France)
“Loveless,” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, Belgium, Germany, France)
“On Body and Soul,” (Ildiko Enyedi, Hungary)
“The Other Side of Hope,” (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland, Germany)
“The Square,” (Ruben Ostlund, Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark)
Best European Director
Ildiko Enyedi, (“On Body and Soul”)
Aki Kaurismaki, (“The Other Side of Hope”)
Yorgos Lanthimos,...
Read More:‘The Square’ Director Ruben Östlund Wants to Push Cultural Boundaries, But Won’t Read Any Scripts With Killing
This year’s ceremony, the 30th, takes place in Berlin on December 9. Here are all the nominees:
Best European Film
“Bpm (Beats per Minute),” (Robin Campillo, France)
“Loveless,” (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, Belgium, Germany, France)
“On Body and Soul,” (Ildiko Enyedi, Hungary)
“The Other Side of Hope,” (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland, Germany)
“The Square,” (Ruben Ostlund, Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark)
Best European Director
Ildiko Enyedi, (“On Body and Soul”)
Aki Kaurismaki, (“The Other Side of Hope”)
Yorgos Lanthimos,...
- 11/4/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
'120 Beats per Minute' trailer: Robin Campillo's AIDS movie features plenty of drama and a clear sociopolitical message. AIDS drama makes Pedro Almodóvar cry – but will Academy members tear up? (See previous post re: Cannes-Oscar connection.) In case France submits it to the 2018 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, screenwriter-director Robin Campillo's AIDS drama 120 Beats per Minute / 120 battements par minute, about the Paris Act Up chapter in the early 1990s, could quite possibly land a nomination. The Grand Prix (Cannes' second prize), international film critics' Fipresci prize, and Queer Palm winner offers a couple of key ingredients that, despite its gay sex scenes, should please a not insignificant segment of the Academy membership: emotionalism and a clear sociopolitical message. When discussing the film after the presentation of the Palme d'Or, Pedro Almodóvar (and, reportedly, jury member Jessica Chastain) broke into tears. Some believed, in fact, that 120 Beats per Minute...
- 6/21/2017
- by Steph Mont.
- Alt Film Guide
Andrey Zvyagintsev‘s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated, Cannes-winning 2014 drama Leviathan is Loveless, co-written with creative partner Oleg Negin (also of Elena and The Banishment). Following an estranged couple who are going through a divorce, their relationship shifts when their 12-year-old son disappears.
With that set-up ripe for an exploration about a flailing relationship, with no doubt some political undercurrents, we imagine this will continue quite a streak for the Russian director. While the first trailer, which has debuted ahead of its Cannes release, doesn’t include English subtitles, it still gives a strong sense of the drama to come. Check it out below and return for our review.
Boris and Zhenya are going through a divorce. Arguing constantly, and in the process of selling their apartment, they are already preparing for their new lives: Boris with his younger, pregnant girlfriend and Zhenya with the wealthy lover who is keen to get married.
With that set-up ripe for an exploration about a flailing relationship, with no doubt some political undercurrents, we imagine this will continue quite a streak for the Russian director. While the first trailer, which has debuted ahead of its Cannes release, doesn’t include English subtitles, it still gives a strong sense of the drama to come. Check it out below and return for our review.
Boris and Zhenya are going through a divorce. Arguing constantly, and in the process of selling their apartment, they are already preparing for their new lives: Boris with his younger, pregnant girlfriend and Zhenya with the wealthy lover who is keen to get married.
- 5/16/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Taking him further down the subvert-a-comedic-performer’s-persona trail blazed with Crystal Fairy and Nasty Baby, writer-director Sebastian Silva is hoping to have Will Ferrell lead Captain Dad, a “family thriller” that’s nabbed Catherine Keener and his Crystal Fairy / Magic Magic star Michael Cera. [Variety]
On paper, its set-up doesn’t sound worlds apart from Ferrell’s best-known work: Rich Peelman (there’s your first sign) celebrates his wife’s (Keener) birthday by taking her, their six children, and the children’s partners “on a trip through the Caribbean on a sail boat.” But things go awry when his “subpar sailing abilities [there’s the second] and clashes of attitude with the rest of the family are brought into question” — supposedly to ends more overtly dramatic than comedic.
With good forces (including Archer Gray and Christine Vachon‘s Killer Films) supporting it, we should hear more about Captain Dad in the coming months. Based on established facts,...
On paper, its set-up doesn’t sound worlds apart from Ferrell’s best-known work: Rich Peelman (there’s your first sign) celebrates his wife’s (Keener) birthday by taking her, their six children, and the children’s partners “on a trip through the Caribbean on a sail boat.” But things go awry when his “subpar sailing abilities [there’s the second] and clashes of attitude with the rest of the family are brought into question” — supposedly to ends more overtly dramatic than comedic.
With good forces (including Archer Gray and Christine Vachon‘s Killer Films) supporting it, we should hear more about Captain Dad in the coming months. Based on established facts,...
- 5/11/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
There's a scene near the exact midpoint of Leviathan where the main characters, their legal troubles apparently over, go for an idyll on the Russian coastline. They tease each other, drink vodka, and create their own makeshift shooting range—first with empty bottles, then with a framed portrait of Brezhnev. There's a tartness to the scene, not just from the booze and guns, but from the fact that just about everyone in the film has a dark, boorish side; corruption on a small scale instead of a large one. But there's a merry populism mixed in as well. One of the true surprises of Leviathan is how, for such a dour film, so much humor can be found in it. These people could just as easily be the townsfolk of Bedford Falls or John Ford's Ireland, and the film feels genuinely fond of them, corruption and all. It's easily Leviathan's funniest,...
- 2/21/2015
- by Duncan Gray
- MUBI
Change the things you can, accept the things you cannot, and go to jail and die either way.Nominated for the 2015 Academy Awards Best Foreign Film Oscar, and the winner of the Golden Globe, writer/director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s neo-biblical tome is as fascinating to watch as it is dreadful to imagine. Co-written with Oleg Negin, the screenplay is set in a small, nearly abandoned coastal town on the Barents Sea in northern Russia. All hope seems to have left the family of Kolya (Alexei Serebriakov). A small but successful automobile mechanic, the widower Kolya is embroiled in a fight with the […]...
- 2/20/2015
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
Well, sometimes some confusion can be a good thing. When I was first aware of this film’s title, I thought that this may be a remake/reboot of the 1989 Peter Weller starring monster thriller with a massive CGI beastie akin to those from Pacific Rim or last Summer’s retooled Godzilla. Seems I was mistaken. Leviathan doesn’t concern itself with a colossal rampaging demon risen from the depths, but rather it’s a complex drama set in a dreary, Russian fishing village (yes, it has subtitles). The title doesn’t refer to a scaly giant that the film’s heroes must face. They instead must square off against an even more formidable adversary, for this leviathan is comprised not of claws and fangs, but corruption and the cruelties of fate itself.
The story begins as the sun rises over that Russian village, as Nikolay (Aleksey Serebryakov) heads away...
The story begins as the sun rises over that Russian village, as Nikolay (Aleksey Serebryakov) heads away...
- 2/20/2015
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Leviathan Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B Director: Andrey Zvyangintsev Screenwriter: Andrey Zyvagintsev, Oleg Negin Cast: Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Sergey Pokhodaev Screened at: Sony, NYC, 11/25/14 Opens: December 25, 2014 The principal character in Andrey Zvyangintsev’s “Leviathan” is one who during the two hours plus running time of the film becomes completely depleted. He is a lost soul not just metaphorically but a man who has literally lost his two wives, his son, his home, his spirit, his freedom. If that sounds similar to the fate of the biblical Job, which addresses the theme of God’s justice in [ Read More ]
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- 12/21/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan added to its growing trophy case of awards, winning top honors, the Golden Frog for best film, at Poland's Camerimage Festival for cinematographer Mikhail Krichman. Camerimage is the world's leading festival honoring the art of cinematography. The film, which won the best screenplay honor in Cannes this year for Zvyagintsev and co-screenwriter Oleg Negin, is Russia's official entry for the 2015 foreign language Oscar. Leviathan is also one of the front-runners for the European Film Awards, which will be held in Riga, Latvia, next month. Cinematographer Ehab Assal took the runner-up silver award at
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- 11/22/2014
- by Karsten Kastelan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A who's who of this year's Oscar-contending foreign film crop will duke it out for best film honors along with Lars von Trier's latest at this year's European Film Awards. "Force Majeure" from Sweden, "Ida" from Poland, "Leviathan" from Russia and "Winter Sleep" from Turker were nominated in the top category with Lars von Trier's two-part "Nymphomaniac," with "Ida" leading the way overall with five nominations. Steven Knight's "Locke" showed up in the director and screenwriter fields, while that film's star, Tom Hardy, was nominated in the best actor category along with awards hopefuls like Brendan Gleeson ("Calvary") and Timothy Spall (shockingly, "Mr. Turner's" only nomination). Marion Cotillard ("Two Days, One Night"), Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Nymphomaniac") and Agata Kulesza ("Ida") were among the best actress nominees. Also announced were the craft prizes, included hardware for "Ida" (cinematographer), "Under the Skin" (composer) and "The Dark Valley" (costume and...
- 11/9/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
The European Film Academy and Efa Productions have announced the nominations for the 27th European Film Awards. The more than 3,000 Efa Members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on December 13, in the Latvian capital Riga, European Capital of Culture 2014.
Nominees:
European Film
Force Majeure (Turist)
Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway
Writer/Director: Ruben Östlund
Ida
Poland/Denmark
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Writers: Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Leviathan (Leviafan)
Russia
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer: Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev
Nymphomaniac Director's Cut Volume I and II
Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium
Writer/Director: Lars von Trier
Winter Sleep (Kis Uykusu)
Turkey/France/Germany
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writer: Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan
European Comedy
Carmina and Amen (Carmina y Amen)
Spain
Writer/Director: Paco León
Le Week-End
UK
Director: Roger Michel
Writer: Hanif Kureishi
The Mafia Only Kills In Summer (La Mafia Uccide Solo d'Estate)
Italy...
Nominees:
European Film
Force Majeure (Turist)
Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway
Writer/Director: Ruben Östlund
Ida
Poland/Denmark
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Writers: Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Leviathan (Leviafan)
Russia
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writer: Oleg Negin & Andrey Zvyagintsev
Nymphomaniac Director's Cut Volume I and II
Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium
Writer/Director: Lars von Trier
Winter Sleep (Kis Uykusu)
Turkey/France/Germany
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writer: Ebru Ceylan & Nuri Bilge Ceylan
European Comedy
Carmina and Amen (Carmina y Amen)
Spain
Writer/Director: Paco León
Le Week-End
UK
Director: Roger Michel
Writer: Hanif Kureishi
The Mafia Only Kills In Summer (La Mafia Uccide Solo d'Estate)
Italy...
- 11/8/2014
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Force Majeure, Leviathan and Nymphomaniac among nominees.
The nominations for the 27th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.
More than 3,000 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 13 in Riga.
Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut - Volume I & II and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep will compete for European Film, with every director - apart from von Trier - up for European Director alongside Steven Knight for Locke and Paolo Virzi for Human Capital.
Roger Michell’s Le Week-End is up for European Comedy, alongside Paco León’s Carmina & Amen and Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer.
The full list of nominations is as follows:
European Film 2014
Force Majeure (Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway)
Written & Directed By: [link...
The nominations for the 27th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.
More than 3,000 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners, who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 13 in Riga.
Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac Director’s Cut - Volume I & II and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep will compete for European Film, with every director - apart from von Trier - up for European Director alongside Steven Knight for Locke and Paolo Virzi for Human Capital.
Roger Michell’s Le Week-End is up for European Comedy, alongside Paco León’s Carmina & Amen and Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer.
The full list of nominations is as follows:
European Film 2014
Force Majeure (Sweden/Denmark/France/Norway)
Written & Directed By: [link...
- 11/8/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida leads the field for the 27th European Film Awards with five major nominations including Best European Film, Director, two Best Actress nods for co-leads Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza, and Best Screenplay.
Close behind are Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev‘s Leviathan and Turkey’s Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep, a pair of Cannes winners. Both films have been chosen to represent their country in the Academy Awards foreign language category.
The European Film Awards has increasingly become a bellwether for awards season, with previous Efa Best European Film winners Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and Michael Haneke’s Amour going on to win the Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars.
Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tom Hardy, Stellan Skarsgard and Timothy Spall are among the acting nominees.
The European Film Awards ceremony will be handed out in Riga, Latvia on...
Close behind are Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev‘s Leviathan and Turkey’s Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep, a pair of Cannes winners. Both films have been chosen to represent their country in the Academy Awards foreign language category.
The European Film Awards has increasingly become a bellwether for awards season, with previous Efa Best European Film winners Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and Michael Haneke’s Amour going on to win the Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars.
Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tom Hardy, Stellan Skarsgard and Timothy Spall are among the acting nominees.
The European Film Awards ceremony will be handed out in Riga, Latvia on...
- 11/8/2014
- by Ali Jaafar
- Deadline
This year’s European Film Awards are officially out of the gates with a not so lean 50 film submissions to select from. The 27th edition collects titles that date back to last year’s Venice and Toronto Int. Film Festivals moving into Sundance-Rotterdam-Berlin and finally Cannes of ’14. Among the 31 European countries represented, we’ve got likes of the Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan leading the huge pack of contenders including Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida. Here’s the complete list of 50!:
Alienation
ОТЧУЖДЕНИЕ (Otchujdenie)
Bulgaria
Directed By: Milko Lazarov
Written By: Milko Lazarov, Kitodar Todorov & Georgi Tenev
Produced By: Veselka Kiryakova
Amour Fou
Austria/Luxembourg/Germany
Written & Directed By: Jessica Hausner
Produced By: Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu & Philippe Bober
Beautiful Youth
Hermosa Juventud
Spain/France
Directed By: Jaime Rosales
Written By: Jaime Rosales & Enric Rufas
Produced By: Jaime Rosales,...
Alienation
ОТЧУЖДЕНИЕ (Otchujdenie)
Bulgaria
Directed By: Milko Lazarov
Written By: Milko Lazarov, Kitodar Todorov & Georgi Tenev
Produced By: Veselka Kiryakova
Amour Fou
Austria/Luxembourg/Germany
Written & Directed By: Jessica Hausner
Produced By: Martin Gschlacht, Antonin Svoboda, Bruno Wagner, Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu & Philippe Bober
Beautiful Youth
Hermosa Juventud
Spain/France
Directed By: Jaime Rosales
Written By: Jaime Rosales & Enric Rufas
Produced By: Jaime Rosales,...
- 9/16/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Politics, corruption, religion and vodka dominate the grey landscape that is Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan (Levifan), a hefty film for both its 141-minute running time as well as its weighty material. Moving at a pace all its own, with knockout performances and stunning cinematography from Mikhail Krichman, Leviathan serves as a perfect example of a film that separates art house from mainstream. This isn't a tale of the small guy that took on the autocratic state and won. The opportunity for this to be that movie is here, but it pushes well past that point, proving the metaphorical leviathan is far too cunning for such Hollywood-esque happy endings. The story begins on the Barents Sea as we learn Kolia (Alexei Serebriakov) is facing the prospect his business, home and land will be taken from him. The villain in this piece is Vadim Shelevyat (Roman Madyanov), the town's corrupt mayor, whose...
- 9/5/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Leviathan
Written by Oleg Negin and Andrei Zvyagintsev
Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev
Russia, 2014
There are three things you don’t discuss at a dinner table: politics, religion, and your unending suffering at the hands of those two beasts. Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan manages to bring all three of those into a modern retelling of Job by way of Thomas Hobbes. Taking influence from such classic texts puts Zvyagintsev in the realm of other Russian storytellers known for grand-scale ambitions: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Tarkovsky. Luckily, his cultural inheritance is well-utilized — the title implying a mammoth tale from a political beast encapsulates a present-day Russia dominated by systems out of its citizens’ control.
Kolya (Alexei Serebryakov) and his son Roma (Sergey Pokhadaev) smack each other at the breakfast table as punishment-turned-friendly-roughhousing. Roma is still getting used to Kolya’s second wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) living with them in their seaside home, so he...
Written by Oleg Negin and Andrei Zvyagintsev
Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev
Russia, 2014
There are three things you don’t discuss at a dinner table: politics, religion, and your unending suffering at the hands of those two beasts. Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan manages to bring all three of those into a modern retelling of Job by way of Thomas Hobbes. Taking influence from such classic texts puts Zvyagintsev in the realm of other Russian storytellers known for grand-scale ambitions: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Tarkovsky. Luckily, his cultural inheritance is well-utilized — the title implying a mammoth tale from a political beast encapsulates a present-day Russia dominated by systems out of its citizens’ control.
Kolya (Alexei Serebryakov) and his son Roma (Sergey Pokhadaev) smack each other at the breakfast table as punishment-turned-friendly-roughhousing. Roma is still getting used to Kolya’s second wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) living with them in their seaside home, so he...
- 5/30/2014
- by Zach Lewis
- SoundOnSight
As a film critic, one is usually moved to immediate expression when a great film comes down the pike -- its ideas spur one's own, the words tumble forth in not-always-orderly fashion, the urge to share an experience sometimes outpacing the ability to parse it. Yet sometimes baldly extraordinary films thwart our initial attempts to write about them, and such has been the case with me and Andrei Zvyagintsev's "Leviathan" -- a classically robust, not inordinately complicated melodrama that nonetheless seems to be about something different every time I sit down to tackle it. It's been a week since I saw it at Cannes, and "Leviathan" hasn't yet settled in my mind or heart; rather, it continues to unsettle, in ways both exciting and elusive. It's a film, like a rich novel, from which you might wish to re-read extracts while only halfway through; it's certainly the first film I...
- 5/30/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Winter Sleep won the Palme d’Or
The Jury of this 67th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Jane Campion, awarded the Palme d’Or to Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
The Best Director Award went to Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher.
The Camera d’Or went to Party Girl directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis presented in the Un Certain Regard Selection.
Full list of awards: (including Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight)
Feature Films
Palme d’Or
Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix
Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) by Alice Rohrwacher
Best Director Award
Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher
Jury Prize ex-aequo
Mommy by Xavier Dolan
Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye to language) by Jean-Luc Godard
Best Screenplay Award
Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for Leviathan
Best Actress Award
Julianne Moore in Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg
Best Actor Award
Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner...
The Jury of this 67th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Jane Campion, awarded the Palme d’Or to Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
The Best Director Award went to Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher.
The Camera d’Or went to Party Girl directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis presented in the Un Certain Regard Selection.
Full list of awards: (including Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight)
Feature Films
Palme d’Or
Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix
Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) by Alice Rohrwacher
Best Director Award
Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher
Jury Prize ex-aequo
Mommy by Xavier Dolan
Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye to language) by Jean-Luc Godard
Best Screenplay Award
Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for Leviathan
Best Actress Award
Julianne Moore in Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg
Best Actor Award
Timothy Spall in Mr. Turner...
- 5/25/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Festival de Cannes closing ceremony makes for a fun and festive night, particularly, I suspect, if you get to watch it live from the Lumiere, the largest theater in the Palais de Festival complex and the spot where all the major events take place. Most journalists watch a simulcast from the smaller theater, the Debussy, and that's usually plenty of fun by itself -- provided the technology works, which it didn't last night: The feed kept cutting out, leaving us literally in the dark for long stretches of the ceremony. C'est la vie. But we did hear jury president Jane Campion mangle the names of Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, screenwriters of the somber Russian drama Leviathan, which won the Best Screenplay prize. You can't really blame her -- those Ru...
- 5/25/2014
- Village Voice
We'll be updating this post as this year's award winners at the 67th Cannes Film Festival are announced.
In Competition
Palme d'Or – Winter Sleep, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix – The Wonders, directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Jury Prize – Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan & Goodbye to Language, directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Best Director – Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Best Screenplay – Oleg Negin & Andrei Zvyagintsev, Leviathan
Best Actress – Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Best Actor – Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner
Check out our Notebook coverage of Goodbye to Language, Maps to the Stars, & Mr. Turner.
Un Certain Regard
Prix Un Certain Regard — White God, directed by Kornél Mundruczó
Jury Prize — Force Majeure, directed by Ruben Östlund
Special Prize — Salt of the Earth, directed by Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Ensemble Prize — Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis
Best Actor — David Gulpilil, Charlie's Country
Check out our Notebook coverage of Force Majeure.
In Competition
Palme d'Or – Winter Sleep, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix – The Wonders, directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Jury Prize – Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan & Goodbye to Language, directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Best Director – Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Best Screenplay – Oleg Negin & Andrei Zvyagintsev, Leviathan
Best Actress – Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Best Actor – Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner
Check out our Notebook coverage of Goodbye to Language, Maps to the Stars, & Mr. Turner.
Un Certain Regard
Prix Un Certain Regard — White God, directed by Kornél Mundruczó
Jury Prize — Force Majeure, directed by Ruben Östlund
Special Prize — Salt of the Earth, directed by Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Ensemble Prize — Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis
Best Actor — David Gulpilil, Charlie's Country
Check out our Notebook coverage of Force Majeure.
- 5/25/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 196-minute epic Winter Sleep won the Palme d'Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival.
The saga of a former actor who runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife, with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his recently-divorced sister, it was described by some critics as a challenge for audiences with a minimal narrative driven by political and intellectual debates.
The director dedicated the award to the . young people of Turkey and to those who lost their lives during the year..
David Gulpilil took the best actor prize for Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country in the Un Certain Regard section.
Italian-German director Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders, the tender story of a young woman struggling against her alienating environment, won the grand jury prize.
Bennett Miller was named best director for Foxcatcher, which stars Channing Tatum...
The saga of a former actor who runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife, with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his recently-divorced sister, it was described by some critics as a challenge for audiences with a minimal narrative driven by political and intellectual debates.
The director dedicated the award to the . young people of Turkey and to those who lost their lives during the year..
David Gulpilil took the best actor prize for Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country in the Un Certain Regard section.
Italian-German director Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders, the tender story of a young woman struggling against her alienating environment, won the grand jury prize.
Bennett Miller was named best director for Foxcatcher, which stars Channing Tatum...
- 5/24/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The winners at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival have been announced and there was some perceived competition for the Palme d'Or with films such as Xavier Dolan's Mommy and Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan, but it was the third in the bunch of major contenders, Winter Sleep, a 3 hour and 16 minute film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Climates, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia). I've included the trailer for Winter Sleep at the bottom of this post, but here's the synopsis for the Turkish film: Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities... As for Mommy and Leviathan, they didn't go home empty...
- 5/24/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The top award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival has gone to Winter Sleep, an epic-length family drama directed by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
A jury including Gael Garcia Bernal, Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, and Nicolas Winding Refn selected the winners from the 18 films in competition. Prizes were handed out during Saturday night’s closing ceremony.
Ceylan dedicated the award to “the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives in the last year,” referring to a coal mine accident that killed 301 workers.
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher took home the runner-up Grand Prix prize for the coming of age story The Wonders.
A jury including Gael Garcia Bernal, Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, and Nicolas Winding Refn selected the winners from the 18 films in competition. Prizes were handed out during Saturday night’s closing ceremony.
Ceylan dedicated the award to “the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives in the last year,” referring to a coal mine accident that killed 301 workers.
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher took home the runner-up Grand Prix prize for the coming of age story The Wonders.
- 5/24/2014
- by Amber Ray
- EW - Inside Movies
The Palme d’Or of the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival went to Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epic and yet personally intimate story of a wealty self-absorbed Anatolian hotelier and landowner and his uneasy relationships with those around him. Ceylan’s first Palme d’Or, he has received the Grand Prix twice already. Once for 2002′s Distant and again for 2011′s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. He also won for best director in 2008 for Three Monkeys.
Winter Sleep is the second film by a Turkish director to win the Palme, after Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren’s The Way in1982. When Ceylan received the award, he noted that 2014 was the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. This is a great surprise for me, Ceylan said, I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives over the past year.
Winter Sleep is being sold internationally by Memento who will also release it in France. Ama acquired Greek rights before Cannes.
The Grand Prix was awarded to Alice Rohrwacher’s semi-autobiographical drama The Wonders ( Le meraviglie), one of the true wild-card selections in the Competition. Rohrwacher’s only other film was Corpo Celeste. Isa: The Match Factory and distributed in its home country, Italy, by Bim.
Best Director Award went to Bennett Miller (Moneyball, Capote) for Foxcatcher, about the complex relationship of Olympic wrestlers Mark and Davd Schultz and the Pennsylvania millionaire John du Pont. It is being sold internationally by Kimberly Fox’s new production and sales company Panorama who had pre-sold rights before Cannes for U.S. to Sony Pictures Classics, Canada to Métropole Films Distribution and Mongrel Media Inc., France to Mars Films, Germany to Koch Media Gmbh, Japan to Longride Inc., Switzerland to Ascot Elite Entertainment Group, Taiwan to Long Shong International, U.K. to Entertainment One UK.
The Actress Prize went to Julianne Moore for her role in David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars , a Hollywood saga where in order to succeed you must be incestuous or schizophrenic. Written by Bruce Wagner it is being sold internationally by Entertainment One, it had pre-sold before Cannes to Benelux to Cdc United Network and Cineart , Colombia to Babilla Cine, France to Canal + and Le Pacte, Germany to Mfa Film Distribution and Rtc Media, Greece to Hollywood Entertainment S.A., Italy to Adler Entertainment Srl, So. Korea to Doki Entertainment, Mexico to Cine Video Y Tv, Norway to Star Media Entertainment, Romania to Independenta Film, Switzerland to Pathe Films Ag, Turkey to Calinos Films, Ukraine to Top Film Distribution (Ukraine), U.K. to Entertainment One Films International.
The Actor Award went to Timothy Spall for his role as the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner whose use of light and color made him a pioneering and controversial figures of his day. Mr. Turner was directed by seven-time Academy Award® nominated and multiple BAFTA winning writer/director Mike Leigh (Another Year, Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies). The legendary British actor Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, Secrets & Lies) also includes frequent Leigh collaborators, including Academy Award® nominated cinematographer Dick Pope (Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies, The Illusionist) and Academy Award®-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Another Year, Anna Karenina, Atonement). Leigh works in close collaboration with his actors, using his unique methods of improvisation to bring Turner and his 19th century world to life. Mike Leigh said: Turner as a character is compelling. I want to explore the man, his working life, his relationships and how he lived. But what fascinates me most is the drama that lies in the tension between this driven eccentric and the epic, timeless world he evoked in his masterpieces.
I’ve spent a lot of time being a bridesmaid. This is the first time I’ve ever been a bride, so I’m quite pleased about that, Spall said in a long, moving acceptance speech. This is as much an accolade for Mr. Leigh as it is for me. Spall recalled that when Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, in which he also starred, won the Palme d’Or, he was undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. I thank God that I’m still here and alive.
The film was already pre-sold before Cannes by Isa Pyramide to U.S. to Sony Pictures Classics, Canada to Mongrel Media Inc., France to Canal + and Diaphana Distribution, Germany to Prokino Filmverleih Gmbh, Switzerland to Pathe Films Ag.
The Jury Prize went to two films from the Competition’s youngest and oldest directors: Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language. Dolan thanked the Jury President Jane Campion and cited her Palme d’Or-winning The Piano as one of the first and most influential films he watched as a teenager. Godard did not attend the festival. Mommy is being sold internationally by both Seville and Entertainment One and was pre-sold before Cannes to Benelux to ABC - Cinemien, France to Diaphana Distribution, Japan toDongyu Club and Pictures Dept. Co. Ltd.
Camera d'Or went to Party Girl, Un Certain Regard Opening Night Film, the debut feature of three directors including two women, Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. It had won the ensemble acting prize the night before at the Certain Regard Awards ceremony. It is being sold internationally by Pyramide. The Caméra d'Or ( Golden Camera ) is the award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or International Critics' Week). The prize was created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob and is awarded by an independent jury which this year was headed by Nicole Garcia.
Screenplay Award went to Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, Leviathan which was highly praised. Its Isa Pyramide presold the film to Australia to Palace Films, Benelux to Lumière, Brazil to Imovision, Greece to Seven Films, Spain to Golem Distribución, Taiwan toPomi International, U.K. to Artificial Eye,Curzon Cinemas and Curzon Film World
Other prizes:
Short Films Palme d’Or: Leidi (Simon Mesa Soto), a U.K. – Colombia coproduction.
Short Films Special Mention: Aissa (Clement Trehin-Lalanne) from France
Ecumenical Jury Prize: Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania-France) being sold internationally by Le Pacte who is also distributing it in France with TV5Monde.
Un Certain Regard Prizes
Un Certain Regard Prize: White God (Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary-Germany-Sweden). Isa: The Match Factory
Jury prize: Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, Sweden-France-Denmark-Norway) Isa: The Coproduction Office, sold to Benelux to Lumiere and to Norway’s Arthaus.
Special Prize: The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, France-Italy). Isa: Le Pacte who is distributing it in France and has licensed it to
Italy to Officine Ubu and to Romania to Independenta Film.
Ensemble: Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis, France) Isa: Pyramide
Actor: David Gulpilil, Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer, Australia)
Directors’ Fortnight Prizes
Art Cinema Award: Les Combattants (Thomas Cailley, France) Isa: Bac Films presold to Haut et Court for France.
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Les Combattants
Europa Cinemas Label: Les Combattants
Critics’ Week Prizes
Grand Prize: The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine) Isa: AlphaViolet (also French distributor)
Visionary Prize: The Tribe
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Hope (Boris Lojkine, France) Isa: Pyramide. France TV5Monde.
Fipresci Prizes
Competition: Winter Sleep
Un Certain Regard: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, Denmark-u.S.-Argentina)
Directors’ Fortnight: Les Combattants...
Winter Sleep is the second film by a Turkish director to win the Palme, after Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren’s The Way in1982. When Ceylan received the award, he noted that 2014 was the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema. This is a great surprise for me, Ceylan said, I want to dedicate the prize to all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives over the past year.
Winter Sleep is being sold internationally by Memento who will also release it in France. Ama acquired Greek rights before Cannes.
The Grand Prix was awarded to Alice Rohrwacher’s semi-autobiographical drama The Wonders ( Le meraviglie), one of the true wild-card selections in the Competition. Rohrwacher’s only other film was Corpo Celeste. Isa: The Match Factory and distributed in its home country, Italy, by Bim.
Best Director Award went to Bennett Miller (Moneyball, Capote) for Foxcatcher, about the complex relationship of Olympic wrestlers Mark and Davd Schultz and the Pennsylvania millionaire John du Pont. It is being sold internationally by Kimberly Fox’s new production and sales company Panorama who had pre-sold rights before Cannes for U.S. to Sony Pictures Classics, Canada to Métropole Films Distribution and Mongrel Media Inc., France to Mars Films, Germany to Koch Media Gmbh, Japan to Longride Inc., Switzerland to Ascot Elite Entertainment Group, Taiwan to Long Shong International, U.K. to Entertainment One UK.
The Actress Prize went to Julianne Moore for her role in David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars , a Hollywood saga where in order to succeed you must be incestuous or schizophrenic. Written by Bruce Wagner it is being sold internationally by Entertainment One, it had pre-sold before Cannes to Benelux to Cdc United Network and Cineart , Colombia to Babilla Cine, France to Canal + and Le Pacte, Germany to Mfa Film Distribution and Rtc Media, Greece to Hollywood Entertainment S.A., Italy to Adler Entertainment Srl, So. Korea to Doki Entertainment, Mexico to Cine Video Y Tv, Norway to Star Media Entertainment, Romania to Independenta Film, Switzerland to Pathe Films Ag, Turkey to Calinos Films, Ukraine to Top Film Distribution (Ukraine), U.K. to Entertainment One Films International.
The Actor Award went to Timothy Spall for his role as the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner whose use of light and color made him a pioneering and controversial figures of his day. Mr. Turner was directed by seven-time Academy Award® nominated and multiple BAFTA winning writer/director Mike Leigh (Another Year, Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies). The legendary British actor Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, Secrets & Lies) also includes frequent Leigh collaborators, including Academy Award® nominated cinematographer Dick Pope (Vera Drake, Secrets & Lies, The Illusionist) and Academy Award®-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Another Year, Anna Karenina, Atonement). Leigh works in close collaboration with his actors, using his unique methods of improvisation to bring Turner and his 19th century world to life. Mike Leigh said: Turner as a character is compelling. I want to explore the man, his working life, his relationships and how he lived. But what fascinates me most is the drama that lies in the tension between this driven eccentric and the epic, timeless world he evoked in his masterpieces.
I’ve spent a lot of time being a bridesmaid. This is the first time I’ve ever been a bride, so I’m quite pleased about that, Spall said in a long, moving acceptance speech. This is as much an accolade for Mr. Leigh as it is for me. Spall recalled that when Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, in which he also starred, won the Palme d’Or, he was undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. I thank God that I’m still here and alive.
The film was already pre-sold before Cannes by Isa Pyramide to U.S. to Sony Pictures Classics, Canada to Mongrel Media Inc., France to Canal + and Diaphana Distribution, Germany to Prokino Filmverleih Gmbh, Switzerland to Pathe Films Ag.
The Jury Prize went to two films from the Competition’s youngest and oldest directors: Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language. Dolan thanked the Jury President Jane Campion and cited her Palme d’Or-winning The Piano as one of the first and most influential films he watched as a teenager. Godard did not attend the festival. Mommy is being sold internationally by both Seville and Entertainment One and was pre-sold before Cannes to Benelux to ABC - Cinemien, France to Diaphana Distribution, Japan toDongyu Club and Pictures Dept. Co. Ltd.
Camera d'Or went to Party Girl, Un Certain Regard Opening Night Film, the debut feature of three directors including two women, Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. It had won the ensemble acting prize the night before at the Certain Regard Awards ceremony. It is being sold internationally by Pyramide. The Caméra d'Or ( Golden Camera ) is the award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or International Critics' Week). The prize was created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob and is awarded by an independent jury which this year was headed by Nicole Garcia.
Screenplay Award went to Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, Leviathan which was highly praised. Its Isa Pyramide presold the film to Australia to Palace Films, Benelux to Lumière, Brazil to Imovision, Greece to Seven Films, Spain to Golem Distribución, Taiwan toPomi International, U.K. to Artificial Eye,Curzon Cinemas and Curzon Film World
Other prizes:
Short Films Palme d’Or: Leidi (Simon Mesa Soto), a U.K. – Colombia coproduction.
Short Films Special Mention: Aissa (Clement Trehin-Lalanne) from France
Ecumenical Jury Prize: Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania-France) being sold internationally by Le Pacte who is also distributing it in France with TV5Monde.
Un Certain Regard Prizes
Un Certain Regard Prize: White God (Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary-Germany-Sweden). Isa: The Match Factory
Jury prize: Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, Sweden-France-Denmark-Norway) Isa: The Coproduction Office, sold to Benelux to Lumiere and to Norway’s Arthaus.
Special Prize: The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, France-Italy). Isa: Le Pacte who is distributing it in France and has licensed it to
Italy to Officine Ubu and to Romania to Independenta Film.
Ensemble: Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis, France) Isa: Pyramide
Actor: David Gulpilil, Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer, Australia)
Directors’ Fortnight Prizes
Art Cinema Award: Les Combattants (Thomas Cailley, France) Isa: Bac Films presold to Haut et Court for France.
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Les Combattants
Europa Cinemas Label: Les Combattants
Critics’ Week Prizes
Grand Prize: The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine) Isa: AlphaViolet (also French distributor)
Visionary Prize: The Tribe
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Hope (Boris Lojkine, France) Isa: Pyramide. France TV5Monde.
Fipresci Prizes
Competition: Winter Sleep
Un Certain Regard: Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, Denmark-u.S.-Argentina)
Directors’ Fortnight: Les Combattants...
- 5/24/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
We might have changed the notion and definition of what the La Nouvelle Vague at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Youth are picking up the torch and reinvigorating future cinema — a sentiment that was expressed by jury members Jane Campion and Nicolas Winding Refn, and the more experienced folk are doing just the same. Godard broke the traditional narrative while Xavier Dolan and Alice Rohrwacher have made cinema feel fresh again and they were awarded for it. And the best news, the one master filmmaker who was due finally picked up a prize that had seemed to favor the Dardennes (who went o for 6 in their eligible categories with Julianne Moore finally getting some due (0 for 4 at the Oscars) for her deliriously fun bit in Maps to the Stars) won the Palme for Winter Sleep. Admittedly, the jury were afraid of the three plus hour film when they first viewed the scorecard,...
- 5/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
After all the parties, films, and um ... sex positions, the most important thing about the Cannes Film Festival is the winners. First, the big ones: The Palme d'Or went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep, while Alice Rohrwacher's Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) went home with the Grand Prix. See the rest of this year's (the festival's 67th) winners after the jump.Best DirectorBennett Miller, FoxcatcherJury Prize – TieMommy, director Xavier DolanGoodbye to Language, director Jean-Luc GodardBest ScreenplayAndrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin, LeviathanBest ActressJulianne Moore, Maps to the StarsBest ActorTimothy Spall, Mr. TurnerCamera d'OrParty Girl, directors Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel TheisShort FilmLeidi, director Simón Mesa SotoSpecial Mention: Aïssa, director Clément Trehin-LalanneJa Vi Elsker, director Hallvar Witzø...
- 5/24/2014
- by Delia Paunescu
- Vulture
The Jury of this 67th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Jane Campion, revealed the names of the prize winners this evening during the Awards Ceremony. Lambert Wilson hosted Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to the best of the 18 films in Competition. Sergio Leone’s Per un pugno di dollari (A Fistful of Dollars) presented by Quentin Tarantino, was screened at the end of the ceremony. An the winners are: Feature Films Palme d’or Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan Grand Prix Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) by Alice Rohrwacher Best Director Award Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher Jury Prize ex-aequo Mommy by Xavier Dolan Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye to language) by Jean-Luc Godard Best Screenplay Award Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for Leviathan Best Actress Award Julianne Moore in Maps To The Stars by David Cronenberg...
- 5/24/2014
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Going into tonight's awards ceremony at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, there was no clear front-runner for the event's highest honor, the Palme d'Or. Read More: 'Winter Sleep' Wins Palme d'Or at 2014 Cannes Film Festival; Full List of Winners Prior to the show, buzz in Cannes was deafening for Xavier Dolan's first film to screen in competition "Mommy," the Dardennes brothers' harrowing "Two Days, One Night," and the challenging Russian epic "Leviathan." Yet ultimately the Palme went to Cannes regular, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan for his three-hour plus drama "Winter Sleep," a Shakespearean tale of a disgruntled landowner contemplating his affluent lifestyle. Dolan settled for the Jury Prize (along with Jean-Luc Godard for "Goodbye to Language"), while "Leviathan" writers Andrey Zvyaginstev and Oleg Negin were awarded Best Screenplay. The Dardennes, who both have already won Palme d'Or twice before (for "The Child" and "Rosetta"), were shut out as was Marion Cotillard's.
- 5/24/2014
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Winter Sleep" has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival.
The runner-up Grand Priz prize went to Alice Rohrwacher's "The Wonders", whilst a special Jury Prize was given to both Jean-Luc Godard's "Goodbye to Language" and Xavier Dolan's "Mommy".
Actor Timothy Spall won Best Actor for his work in Mike Leigh's "Mr. Turner," Julianne Moore took Best Actress for her role in David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars," and Bennett Miller won Best Director for the highly acclaimed "Foxcatcher".
Screenplay honors went to Andrei Zviagyntsev and Oleg Negin for "Leviathan," and cinematography honors to "Party Girl".
Earlier, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's "The Tribe" won the Critics' Week sidebar, whilst Kornel Mundruczo's "White God" took the Un Certain Regard prize.
Jane Campion led this year's jury which included the likes of Willem Dafoe, Gael Garcia Bernal, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Winding Refn,...
The runner-up Grand Priz prize went to Alice Rohrwacher's "The Wonders", whilst a special Jury Prize was given to both Jean-Luc Godard's "Goodbye to Language" and Xavier Dolan's "Mommy".
Actor Timothy Spall won Best Actor for his work in Mike Leigh's "Mr. Turner," Julianne Moore took Best Actress for her role in David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars," and Bennett Miller won Best Director for the highly acclaimed "Foxcatcher".
Screenplay honors went to Andrei Zviagyntsev and Oleg Negin for "Leviathan," and cinematography honors to "Party Girl".
Earlier, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's "The Tribe" won the Critics' Week sidebar, whilst Kornel Mundruczo's "White God" took the Un Certain Regard prize.
Jane Campion led this year's jury which included the likes of Willem Dafoe, Gael Garcia Bernal, Sofia Coppola, Nicolas Winding Refn,...
- 5/24/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep has won the coveted Palme d’Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, where Timothy Spall and Julianne Moore picked up Best Actor and Best Actress.
Led by Jane Campion, the jury comprised Jia Zhangke, Willem Dafoe, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn and Sofia Coppola.
Cannes 2014: News, reviews, interviewsClick here for Screen’s analysis of the winnersPalme d’or
Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix
The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher
Best Director
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Jury Prize
Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard
Mommy, Xavier Dolan
Best Screenplay
Leviathan, Andrei Zviagyntsev & Oleg Negin
Best Actor
Timothy Spall, Mr Turner
Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Camera d’Or
Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis
Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)
Leidi by Simón Mesa Soto
Short Film Special Distinctions
Aissa by Clément Trehin-Lalanne
Yes We Love (Ja vi...
Led by Jane Campion, the jury comprised Jia Zhangke, Willem Dafoe, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn and Sofia Coppola.
Cannes 2014: News, reviews, interviewsClick here for Screen’s analysis of the winnersPalme d’or
Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Grand Prix
The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher
Best Director
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Jury Prize
Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard
Mommy, Xavier Dolan
Best Screenplay
Leviathan, Andrei Zviagyntsev & Oleg Negin
Best Actor
Timothy Spall, Mr Turner
Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Camera d’Or
Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis
Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)
Leidi by Simón Mesa Soto
Short Film Special Distinctions
Aissa by Clément Trehin-Lalanne
Yes We Love (Ja vi...
- 5/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
The winners are now being announced at the 67th Cannes Film Festival. Find out the latest ahead of the winner of the coveted Palme d’Or.
After nearly two weeks of screenings, the 67th Cannes Film Festival comes to a close today and the winners are set to be revealed.
Led by Jane Campion, the jury comrpises Jia Zhangke, Willem Dafoe, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn and Sofia Coppola.
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Jury Prize
Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard
Mommy, Xavier Dolan
Best Screenplay
Leviathan, Andrei Zviagyntsev & Oleg Negin
Best Actor
Timothy Spall, Mr Turner
Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Camera d’Or
Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis
Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)
Leidi by Simón Mesa Soto
Short Film Special Distinctions
Aissa by Clément Trehin-Lalanne
Yes We Love (Ja vi elsker) by Hallvar Witzo
Profiles of the 18 Cannes...
After nearly two weeks of screenings, the 67th Cannes Film Festival comes to a close today and the winners are set to be revealed.
Led by Jane Campion, the jury comrpises Jia Zhangke, Willem Dafoe, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn and Sofia Coppola.
Refresh the page for more…
Jury Prize
Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard
Mommy, Xavier Dolan
Best Screenplay
Leviathan, Andrei Zviagyntsev & Oleg Negin
Best Actor
Timothy Spall, Mr Turner
Best Actress
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Camera d’Or
Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis
Palme d’Or Court Metrage (Short Film)
Leidi by Simón Mesa Soto
Short Film Special Distinctions
Aissa by Clément Trehin-Lalanne
Yes We Love (Ja vi elsker) by Hallvar Witzo
Profiles of the 18 Cannes...
- 5/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up U.S. and Canadian rights to competition title Leviathan as the festival winds down Saturday. The film, from Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, is, on the surface, about how a dispute over land in a remote Russian township becomes a stone that casts ripples through a family and a community. Deeper down however, the project is an examination of Russia's state corruption and flawed justice system. Videos: Cannes: Steve Carell, Marion Cotillard, Cate Blanchett Preview Their Upcoming Movies Leviathan is produced by Alexander Rodnyansky from a script by Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin. It's Zvyagintsev's fourth
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- 5/24/2014
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Competition entry sells to UK.
UK arthouse distributor Curzon has acquired all-rights to Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Competition entry Leviathan in a deal negotiated with Pyramide International.
Zyagintsev’s third film to launch at Cannes after The Banishment and Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize-winner Elena follows the owner of a small-town auto shop who comes into conflict with the local mayor.
Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Aleksey Serebryakov and actress Elena Lyadova (Elena) star in the drama from co-writers Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin (Elena, Banishment).
Producers are Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov, DoP is Mikhail Krichman and music comes from Philip Glass.
The deal means Curzon has two films playing in Competition this week, following their pre-buy of the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night.
Philip Knatchbull, CEO of Curzon, said: “We’re delighted to have wrapped up the UK rights ahead of Leviathan’s competition screening and to be working again with Pyramide International...
UK arthouse distributor Curzon has acquired all-rights to Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Competition entry Leviathan in a deal negotiated with Pyramide International.
Zyagintsev’s third film to launch at Cannes after The Banishment and Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize-winner Elena follows the owner of a small-town auto shop who comes into conflict with the local mayor.
Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Aleksey Serebryakov and actress Elena Lyadova (Elena) star in the drama from co-writers Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin (Elena, Banishment).
Producers are Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov, DoP is Mikhail Krichman and music comes from Philip Glass.
The deal means Curzon has two films playing in Competition this week, following their pre-buy of the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night.
Philip Knatchbull, CEO of Curzon, said: “We’re delighted to have wrapped up the UK rights ahead of Leviathan’s competition screening and to be working again with Pyramide International...
- 5/18/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Welcome to the final entry in Cannes Check, In Contention's annual preview of the films in Competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow. Taking on different selections every day, we've examined what they're about, who's involved and what their chances are of snagging an award from Jane Campion's jury. We close thing out, neatly enough, with what will also be the last Competition film to be unveiled on the Croisette: Andrei Zvyagintsev's "Leviathan." The director: Andrei Zvyagintsev (Russian, 50 years old). Among the most highly regarded Russian filmmakers of his generation, Zvyagintsev's filmography is short but muscular, and routinely compared to work of his late compatriot (and admitted inspiration) Andrei Tarkovsky. Born to working-class parents in Siberia, he began his career as an actor, graduating from drama school in his home town of Novosibirsk before moving to Moscow to further train at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts.
- 5/13/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena is a wonderfully shot, perfectly acted Russian drama, Dostoevskian in its moral poles and Chekhovian in its refusal to resolve them. Placing the viewer smack in the middle of the two classes of Putin's Russia—the sleek rich and the crumbling poor, with nary a middle class between them—the film embodies in with play-like economy the competition between forces of greed and the bonds of family, a struggle the latter can't even hope to win.
Elena is a middle-aged former nurse who, late in life, has married up to a wealthy businessman she once cared for and now lives with in his modern condo; she dotes after him, he does a bit of ordering around, but they have a couple of scenes together that convey, if not the romance of a first marriage, the genuine affection of a second. But Elena's family did not rise...
Elena is a middle-aged former nurse who, late in life, has married up to a wealthy businessman she once cared for and now lives with in his modern condo; she dotes after him, he does a bit of ordering around, but they have a couple of scenes together that convey, if not the romance of a first marriage, the genuine affection of a second. But Elena's family did not rise...
- 5/28/2012
- by Evan McMurry
- Filmology
Legendary Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev creates a great film noir. With a screenplay by Oleg Negin and score by Phillip Glass .Elena. is a masterpiece of the understated film noir. Crows call out warning cries off-screen and barely perceptible low frequency rumbles travel through the floor as Elena slips further and further into a murderous abyss. The low frequency rumbles are either the gathering clouds of a horrific thunderstorm being contemplated by Zeus himself or the earthquake of Elena.s moral underpinnings tearing and wrenching at their foundations. The deed is done, the crows cry, her train hits and kills a man and his horse. The lights in the block go out, the grandchild naps fitfully on the...
- 5/19/2012
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
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