Kevin Kline encounters resident Maggie Smith and her daughter Kristen Scott Thomas when he looks to take over a sprawling Paris apartment that he has inherited from his estranged father. An apartment he thought was empty. Kline and Scott Thomas’s onscreen romance, combined with scenic French locales — perhaps a modern companion to Woody Allen’s ‘20s-set “Magic in the Moonlight” — should appeal to the same target demo that can't wait to see Smith in “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2.” Cohen Media Group is booking writer-director Israel Horovitz's "My Old Lady" into art house theaters this fall. A list of release dates and the trailer below. September 10th NYC – Exclusive at The Paris Theatre September 19th Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago Boston Washington, DC Miami Ft. Lauderdale Philadelphia Dallas Houston Austin Seattle Atlanta Denver San Diego Minneapolis...
- 7/15/2014
- by Nick Newman
- Thompson on Hollywood
Disney Channel is shopping for a new hit series, ordering a comedy pilot set inside a mall.
The project, titled Fairest of the Mall, centers on a teenage girl who lands her dream job at the plaza’s hottest clothing store — only to lose it once she’s set up by the resident queen bee. Now, the only job she can find is at the tech store filled with nerds quirky teen boys.
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Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas (Randy Cunningham) penned the script...
The project, titled Fairest of the Mall, centers on a teenage girl who lands her dream job at the plaza’s hottest clothing store — only to lose it once she’s set up by the resident queen bee. Now, the only job she can find is at the tech store filled with nerds quirky teen boys.
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Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas (Randy Cunningham) penned the script...
- 6/10/2014
- TVLine.com
Scott Thomas is reunited with the director of I've Loved You So Long in a handsomely mounted yarn about a stalker who throws the life of a neurosurgeon into crisis
Reuniting with the writer-director of I've Loved You So Long, Kristin Scott Thomas plays the increasingly embattled wife of an apparently reliable neurosurgeon (Daniel Auteuil) caught in the throes of a late-life crisis triggered by unexpected tokens of stalkery affection. A chance encounter with Lou (Leila Bekhti), who thanks Paul for his kindness when operating on her years ago (he insists that she is mistaken), plays prelude to a volley of red roses delivered daily to the doctor's home and office, threatening the tranquillity of his apparently happy marriage. As Paul's unease turns to rage, and suspicion to paranoia, his life unravels, causing cracks in his relationships through which bleed long-buried truths.
With its chilly visual sheen and sharp bourgeois satire,...
Reuniting with the writer-director of I've Loved You So Long, Kristin Scott Thomas plays the increasingly embattled wife of an apparently reliable neurosurgeon (Daniel Auteuil) caught in the throes of a late-life crisis triggered by unexpected tokens of stalkery affection. A chance encounter with Lou (Leila Bekhti), who thanks Paul for his kindness when operating on her years ago (he insists that she is mistaken), plays prelude to a volley of red roses delivered daily to the doctor's home and office, threatening the tranquillity of his apparently happy marriage. As Paul's unease turns to rage, and suspicion to paranoia, his life unravels, causing cracks in his relationships through which bleed long-buried truths.
With its chilly visual sheen and sharp bourgeois satire,...
- 5/10/2014
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Is this classy film, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Daniel Auteuil, the modern equivalent of the French 'tradition of quality' that Truffaut warned us about?
There is something exasperating in this movie from Philippe Claudel, the French novelist-turned-film-maker who enjoyed such an impressive debut in 2008 with I've Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman nursing an awful secret. Scott Thomas now returns as Lucie, the wife of Paul (Daniel Auteuil), a wealthy and successful neurosurgeon. Their comfortable haute-bourgeois existence is disrupted when Paul starts getting anonymous bouquets. Is he being stalked? Or is something else going on, a midlife crisis connected to his burgeoning relationship with a beautiful young woman, Lou (Leïla Bekhti)? Auteuil looks the part, Michael Haneke said he cast Auteuil in his stalker nightmare Hidden because he had the face of a man with a secret and Before the Winter Chill has all...
There is something exasperating in this movie from Philippe Claudel, the French novelist-turned-film-maker who enjoyed such an impressive debut in 2008 with I've Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman nursing an awful secret. Scott Thomas now returns as Lucie, the wife of Paul (Daniel Auteuil), a wealthy and successful neurosurgeon. Their comfortable haute-bourgeois existence is disrupted when Paul starts getting anonymous bouquets. Is he being stalked? Or is something else going on, a midlife crisis connected to his burgeoning relationship with a beautiful young woman, Lou (Leïla Bekhti)? Auteuil looks the part, Michael Haneke said he cast Auteuil in his stalker nightmare Hidden because he had the face of a man with a secret and Before the Winter Chill has all...
- 5/8/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Lionsgate
“I’m sort of, as the French would say, ‘stuck between two chairs’, because I’m no longer 40 and sort of a seductress, and I’m not yet a granny.” So said Kristin Scott Thomas after declaring that she’s just about had it with the whole acting lark. A couple of weeks ago she was pretty candid in an interview with The Guardian, saying that she’s completely bored with all of the things that go on behind the scenes of film sets and that she’s had it with people telling her what to do all the time on set.
The sort of things that filmgoers don’t even think about as they slurp down their oversized soft drinks (or sip their wine, in case they’re watching a Kristin Scott Thomas film.) But, she also raised an interesting point when she started talking about those French...
“I’m sort of, as the French would say, ‘stuck between two chairs’, because I’m no longer 40 and sort of a seductress, and I’m not yet a granny.” So said Kristin Scott Thomas after declaring that she’s just about had it with the whole acting lark. A couple of weeks ago she was pretty candid in an interview with The Guardian, saying that she’s completely bored with all of the things that go on behind the scenes of film sets and that she’s had it with people telling her what to do all the time on set.
The sort of things that filmgoers don’t even think about as they slurp down their oversized soft drinks (or sip their wine, in case they’re watching a Kristin Scott Thomas film.) But, she also raised an interesting point when she started talking about those French...
- 2/18/2014
- by Nikola Grozdanovic
- Obsessed with Film
Review Ivan Radford 7 Feb 2014 - 06:13
The story of Charles Dickens' secret lover is a slow, understated affair, says Ivan. Here's his review of The Invisible Woman...
"You men live your lives while it is we who have to wait," says Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones) halfway through Ralph Fiennes' thoughtful study on love, loss and identity.
The Invisible Woman of the title, she is the secret sweetheart of Charles Dickens (Fiennes), whom he meets just as his career is at its peak - much to the apparent consternation of Nelly's mother, Mrs. Frances Ternan (a delightfully stern Kristin Scott Thomas). Falling for each other over theatre rehearsals of his play No Thoroughfare, the movie follows the couple's gradual romance in the face of society's conventions, which leave Nelly forgotten in the shade of the writer's public life.
That respectable Victorian veneer spreads to Fiennes' direction, swapping his hectic Coriolanus helming for a calmer,...
The story of Charles Dickens' secret lover is a slow, understated affair, says Ivan. Here's his review of The Invisible Woman...
"You men live your lives while it is we who have to wait," says Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones) halfway through Ralph Fiennes' thoughtful study on love, loss and identity.
The Invisible Woman of the title, she is the secret sweetheart of Charles Dickens (Fiennes), whom he meets just as his career is at its peak - much to the apparent consternation of Nelly's mother, Mrs. Frances Ternan (a delightfully stern Kristin Scott Thomas). Falling for each other over theatre rehearsals of his play No Thoroughfare, the movie follows the couple's gradual romance in the face of society's conventions, which leave Nelly forgotten in the shade of the writer's public life.
That respectable Victorian veneer spreads to Fiennes' direction, swapping his hectic Coriolanus helming for a calmer,...
- 2/6/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
From the title of the new film The Invisible Woman, movie goers may think they’re seeing yet another follow-up to the H.G. Wells inspired Universal monster classic The Invisible Man, the James Whale film that was the debut of Claude Raines. After all, that studio did a flick by that title in 1940 that went for laughs instead of chills. But this new effort is not full of floating objects and bandaged menace. This is actually a biography of a person who was so regulated to the shadows that she was almost unseen. In telling her story we get another view of a more celebrated historical figure, similar to what was done in W.C. Fields And Me (1976) and 2000′s Thirteen Days (with Jack and Bobby Kennedy). This new film is the story of Ellen or Nelly Ternan and her clandestine relationship with the revered author Charles Dickens. Over 150 years ago,...
- 1/23/2014
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Furrowed Eyebrow. The Slo-Mo 360-Eye-Roll. The Wince. The Something-Smells Nose-Scrunch. And the Dead-Eye Jaw-Drop. Chances are, you have your own versions of these faces, perfected from years of watching mediocre movies and television where words are strung together in a truly unholy manner by actors — who may be either victim or willing accomplice to the writer — delivering a metaphorical gut-punch to the audience that makes you go, “Oof.”
Fortunately, our brains have a natural tendency to quickly forget the worst lines in a movie. (It’s a survival mechanism.) But every now and then, a turd refuses to be flushed.
Fortunately, our brains have a natural tendency to quickly forget the worst lines in a movie. (It’s a survival mechanism.) But every now and then, a turd refuses to be flushed.
- 12/10/2013
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
★☆☆☆☆Kristin Scott Thomas stars alongside Jean-Pierre Bacri in director Pascal Bonitzer's Looking for Hortense (2012), a diminutive and largely atonal French comedy of manners that sets about weaving issues of immigration and nationality into its story of a beleaguered family, only to find itself entirely wanting in the narrative department. Scott Thomas plays Iva, a frustrated stage director trying to inject two actors with a sense of passion before her latest play enters dress rehearsals. She also fails to infuse passion into a dormant relationship with her partner, Damien (Bacri), and their son, Noé (Marin Orcand Tourres).
- 12/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Neither Superman nor the Lone Ranger can hold a candle to Kristin Scott Thomas, whatever she's in
Two aged American heroes saunter on to small screens this week. No surprise that the one fighting fit is Clark Kent himself, back in moneyed, near-machine-like condition in Zack Snyder's sturdy, appropriately metallic and largely humourless Superman update Man of Steel (Warner, 12). Less expected is that it's dustily unfashionable lawman The Lone Ranger (Disney, 12) who gets far the more thrilling film. Unjustly maligned by critics who smelled blood as inevitable commercial failure loomed, it re-emerges on DVD looking to harvest as cultish a following as any Disney mega-production can hope for.
Man of Steel may boast the airbrushed visual sheen and positively homoerotic muscularity that is Snyder's directorial signature, but it's otherwise focus-grouped to the nth degree: the dominant creative presence is not Snyder but producer Christopher Nolan, whose recent Batman trilogy set the tone of stern,...
Two aged American heroes saunter on to small screens this week. No surprise that the one fighting fit is Clark Kent himself, back in moneyed, near-machine-like condition in Zack Snyder's sturdy, appropriately metallic and largely humourless Superman update Man of Steel (Warner, 12). Less expected is that it's dustily unfashionable lawman The Lone Ranger (Disney, 12) who gets far the more thrilling film. Unjustly maligned by critics who smelled blood as inevitable commercial failure loomed, it re-emerges on DVD looking to harvest as cultish a following as any Disney mega-production can hope for.
Man of Steel may boast the airbrushed visual sheen and positively homoerotic muscularity that is Snyder's directorial signature, but it's otherwise focus-grouped to the nth degree: the dominant creative presence is not Snyder but producer Christopher Nolan, whose recent Batman trilogy set the tone of stern,...
- 12/1/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Starred Up leads British Independent Film Awards noms, followed by The Selfish Giant. Scarlett Johansson and Judi Dench among Best Actress nominees.
David Mackenzie’s Starred Up leads the Moet British Independent Film Awards nominations with eight nods, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor for Jack O’Connell, and two Best Supporting Actor nominations.
The Selfish Giant picked up seven nominations while Filth, Metro Manila and Le Week-end picked up five nominations each.
Best Film nominations comprise Metro Manila, Philomena, The Selfish Giant, Starred Up and Le Week-end.
Nominations for Best Actress are Judi Dench for Philomena, Lindsay Duncan for Le Week-end, Scarlett Johansson for Under The Skin, Felicity Jones for The Invisible Woman and Saoirse Ronan for How I Live Now.
Along with O’Connell for Starred Up, Best Actor award nominees include Jim Broadbent for Le Week-end, Steve Coogan for Philomena, Tom Hardy for Locke and James McAvoy for Filth...
David Mackenzie’s Starred Up leads the Moet British Independent Film Awards nominations with eight nods, including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor for Jack O’Connell, and two Best Supporting Actor nominations.
The Selfish Giant picked up seven nominations while Filth, Metro Manila and Le Week-end picked up five nominations each.
Best Film nominations comprise Metro Manila, Philomena, The Selfish Giant, Starred Up and Le Week-end.
Nominations for Best Actress are Judi Dench for Philomena, Lindsay Duncan for Le Week-end, Scarlett Johansson for Under The Skin, Felicity Jones for The Invisible Woman and Saoirse Ronan for How I Live Now.
Along with O’Connell for Starred Up, Best Actor award nominees include Jim Broadbent for Le Week-end, Steve Coogan for Philomena, Tom Hardy for Locke and James McAvoy for Filth...
- 11/11/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Drama reunites Kristin Scott Thomas with director Philippe Claudel.
Metrodome has taken UK rights to Telluride drama Before the Winter Chill (Avant l’hiver) which reunites Kristin Scott Thomas with I’ve Loved You So Long director Philippe Claudel.
Daniel Auteuil, Richard Berry and Leila Bekhti star alongside Scott Thomas in the French drama about a man in the autumn of his life, torn between a loving wife and his dangerous attraction for a troubled, mysterious young woman.
The deal was negotiated by Gregory Chambet for TF1 International and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards for a 2014 release.
Producers are Yves Marmion and Romain Rojtman of Les Films du 24.
Claudel’s acclaimed 2008 debut I’ve Loved You So Long took £1.2m ($1.8m) in the UK and scored the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA, a Cesar for Best First Film and two Golden Globe nominations.
Upcoming Metrodome releases include David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche and Lukas Moodysson...
Metrodome has taken UK rights to Telluride drama Before the Winter Chill (Avant l’hiver) which reunites Kristin Scott Thomas with I’ve Loved You So Long director Philippe Claudel.
Daniel Auteuil, Richard Berry and Leila Bekhti star alongside Scott Thomas in the French drama about a man in the autumn of his life, torn between a loving wife and his dangerous attraction for a troubled, mysterious young woman.
The deal was negotiated by Gregory Chambet for TF1 International and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards for a 2014 release.
Producers are Yves Marmion and Romain Rojtman of Les Films du 24.
Claudel’s acclaimed 2008 debut I’ve Loved You So Long took £1.2m ($1.8m) in the UK and scored the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA, a Cesar for Best First Film and two Golden Globe nominations.
Upcoming Metrodome releases include David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche and Lukas Moodysson...
- 9/24/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Protagonist Pictures has concluded sales in several territories for Israel Horovitz’s feature debut My Old Lady, starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline and Kristin Scott Thomas; shooting to begin in Paris on Sept 26.
The film has sold to the UK (Curzon Film World), Australia and New Zealand (Hopscotch/eOne), Germany and Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Scandinavia (Svensk), Benelux (Imagine), South Africa (Nu Metro), Israel (Lev Films), Greece and Cyprus (Feelgood), Middle East (Front Row), Portugal (Lusomundo), and Airlines (Eim).
Cohen Media Group’s acquistition of the film for North America was announced last week.
The cast is led by Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Dominique Pinon.
BBC Films is backing the project.
The film is written by Horovitz, on whose award-winning play the screenplay is based. Horovitz’ screenwriting credits include Istvan Szabo’s Sunshine, Author! Author!, and Cannes Prix du Jury winner The Strawberry Statement.
In My Old Lady, Kline plays Mathias...
The film has sold to the UK (Curzon Film World), Australia and New Zealand (Hopscotch/eOne), Germany and Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Scandinavia (Svensk), Benelux (Imagine), South Africa (Nu Metro), Israel (Lev Films), Greece and Cyprus (Feelgood), Middle East (Front Row), Portugal (Lusomundo), and Airlines (Eim).
Cohen Media Group’s acquistition of the film for North America was announced last week.
The cast is led by Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Dominique Pinon.
BBC Films is backing the project.
The film is written by Horovitz, on whose award-winning play the screenplay is based. Horovitz’ screenwriting credits include Istvan Szabo’s Sunshine, Author! Author!, and Cannes Prix du Jury winner The Strawberry Statement.
In My Old Lady, Kline plays Mathias...
- 9/9/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kristin Scott Thomas joins cast to play Maggie Smith’s daughter.
Cohen Media Group has acquired all Us and Canadian rights to My Old Lady.
Kristin Scott Thomas has joined Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline and Dominique Pinon have joined the cast of Israel Horovitz’s feature debut.
The project starts shooting in Paris on Sept 26. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales.
The North American deal was negotiated by Cohen Media Group Executive VP Gary Rubin and Cinetic Media’s John Sloss and Steven Farneth on behalf of the producers.
The story is about a New Yorker (Kline) who goes to sell a flat he inherited from his estranged father. He discovers a refined older woman (Smith) living there with her daughter (Scott Thomas).
Producers are Rachael Horovitz (Moneyball), Gary Foster (Sleepless in Seattle) Nitsa Benchetrit and David Barrot.
Co-producing on the ground in Paris are David Atrakchi, Boris Mendza and Gael Cabouat for Fulldawa Films. Charles Cohen and [link...
Cohen Media Group has acquired all Us and Canadian rights to My Old Lady.
Kristin Scott Thomas has joined Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline and Dominique Pinon have joined the cast of Israel Horovitz’s feature debut.
The project starts shooting in Paris on Sept 26. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales.
The North American deal was negotiated by Cohen Media Group Executive VP Gary Rubin and Cinetic Media’s John Sloss and Steven Farneth on behalf of the producers.
The story is about a New Yorker (Kline) who goes to sell a flat he inherited from his estranged father. He discovers a refined older woman (Smith) living there with her daughter (Scott Thomas).
Producers are Rachael Horovitz (Moneyball), Gary Foster (Sleepless in Seattle) Nitsa Benchetrit and David Barrot.
Co-producing on the ground in Paris are David Atrakchi, Boris Mendza and Gael Cabouat for Fulldawa Films. Charles Cohen and [link...
- 9/6/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Kristin Scott Thomas is set to join Maggie Smith and Kevin Kline in the BBC Films and Cohen Media Group feature "My Old Lady".
Kline plays a down-and-out New Yorker who travels to Paris to settle affairs dealing with an inherited apartment.
He discovers a refined older woman (Smith) living there with her daughter (Scott Thomas). Dominique Pinon also stars a real-estate agent who becomes involved in events.
The project marks the directorial debut of famed playwright Israel Horovitz who is also adapting the script from his own award-winning play.
Rachael Horovitz, Nitsa Benchetrit and David Barro will produce. Filming begins in Paris at the end of the month.
Source: THR...
Kline plays a down-and-out New Yorker who travels to Paris to settle affairs dealing with an inherited apartment.
He discovers a refined older woman (Smith) living there with her daughter (Scott Thomas). Dominique Pinon also stars a real-estate agent who becomes involved in events.
The project marks the directorial debut of famed playwright Israel Horovitz who is also adapting the script from his own award-winning play.
Rachael Horovitz, Nitsa Benchetrit and David Barro will produce. Filming begins in Paris at the end of the month.
Source: THR...
- 9/6/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Passion plays as if writer/director Brian De Palma took Alain Corneau's screenplay for Love Crime, added on six minutes to the ending and shot every scene in one take no matter how well it turned out. All the elements from Corneau's original are here, but none of the intrigue. It's a stilted and stiff production with absolutely zero fluidity from scene to scene and lines such as "How about you call me... Never!" after Rachel McAdams is stood up by her booty call and she tosses her cell phone across the room. It's big moves, daring proclamations and over-acting met with an absence of thrills. The score tells you things are about to get intense, but it isn't long before you realize that's just not the case. I should note my opinion of this film is going to be much different when compared to someone that hasn't seen the original.
- 8/29/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
★★★☆☆ Pascal Bonitzer's domestic dramedy Looking for Hortense (2012), starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Isabelle Carré, has a topical slant that lifts the film out of mediocrity. Iva (Scott Thomas), a successful theatre director, asks her partner Damien (Bacri), a lecturer in Chinese Studies, to try and prevent the deportation of her sister's friend Zorica (Carré), an illegal immigrant he has never met. Damien's aloof father (Claude Rich) is a senior member of the French Council of State and knows all the right people in high places. Unwillingly, out of a sense of duty to Iva, Damien makes an appointment to see him.
Pressed for time, they meet in a Japanese restaurant where Damien is visibly shocked to see his elderly father flirting with a young male waiter. Distracted, he vacillates and fails to raise Zorica's case. Meanwhile, Iva starts an affair with her leading actor and Damien demands...
Pressed for time, they meet in a Japanese restaurant where Damien is visibly shocked to see his elderly father flirting with a young male waiter. Distracted, he vacillates and fails to raise Zorica's case. Meanwhile, Iva starts an affair with her leading actor and Damien demands...
- 8/8/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Some of the most enjoyable movies to have come out of Europe in the past couple of years have been French romantic comedies (From-coms), with the likes of Delicacy, Populaire and Heartbreaker illuminating our screens, with their effortless charm and whimsicality. Now we can add another to our collection, as director Pascal Bonitzer reunites with British actress Kristin Scott Thomas in his latest picture Looking for Hortense.
We delve into the troubling life of Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri), who is a professor of Japanese civilisation by day, and a long suffering husband of Iva (Scott Thomas) by night. As the latter’s romantic affair causes rifts between their marriage and they start arguing incessantly in front of their young son, Damien has his head turned by the beautiful illegal immigrant Aurore (Isabelle Carré). With expulsion from France looming, Damien has the power to keep his new friend in the country, as...
We delve into the troubling life of Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri), who is a professor of Japanese civilisation by day, and a long suffering husband of Iva (Scott Thomas) by night. As the latter’s romantic affair causes rifts between their marriage and they start arguing incessantly in front of their young son, Damien has his head turned by the beautiful illegal immigrant Aurore (Isabelle Carré). With expulsion from France looming, Damien has the power to keep his new friend in the country, as...
- 8/7/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
What’s happened to Kristin Scott Thomas? As Ryan Gosling’s sultry, foul-tongued mother in ‘Only God Forgives’, the British actress is almost unrecognisable.
Gone is the icey pallor, the haughty but unmistakable classy presence to which we are accustomed. Instead we get what one critic called “Caligula mixed with Mary Beard“ - all hair extensions, misapplied makeup and attitude, lots and lots of attitude.
Kristin Scott Thomas, but not as we know her, in 'Only God Forgives'
But, if Kst herself relished the role she “based on Donatella Versace”, her director is equally unapologetic.
“I’ve just exposed her for what she really is,” Nicolas Winding Refn explains, with a glint in his eye. “She’s been hiding for all these years.
“When my casting director suggested Kristin, we met for lunch, and I realised this woman had no problem turning on the bitch-switch. You can just feel it…...
Gone is the icey pallor, the haughty but unmistakable classy presence to which we are accustomed. Instead we get what one critic called “Caligula mixed with Mary Beard“ - all hair extensions, misapplied makeup and attitude, lots and lots of attitude.
Kristin Scott Thomas, but not as we know her, in 'Only God Forgives'
But, if Kst herself relished the role she “based on Donatella Versace”, her director is equally unapologetic.
“I’ve just exposed her for what she really is,” Nicolas Winding Refn explains, with a glint in his eye. “She’s been hiding for all these years.
“When my casting director suggested Kristin, we met for lunch, and I realised this woman had no problem turning on the bitch-switch. You can just feel it…...
- 8/5/2013
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
Only God Forgives | The Heat | Paradise: Hope | The Conjuring | Red 2 | My Father And The Man In Black | From Up On Poppy Hill | The Smurfs 2 | Heaven's Gate
Only God Forgives (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013, Fra/Thai/Us/Swe) Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke. 90 mins
The Drive dream team are back together in Bangkok, but those hoping for a cute Gosling droolathon will be disappointed. This is more a cinematic slab of red meat: lean, raw, bloody and blunt, but with much to savour. Executed with great formal rigour, it's a stylised revenge story centred on Gosling's almost mute gangster, his terrifying mother (Scott Thomas) and an even more terrifying Thai cop (Pansringarm).
The Heat (15)
(Paul Feig, 2013, Us) Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir. 117 mins
Buddy sparks inevitably fly when Bullock's uptight FBI agent is partnered with McCarthy's foul-mouthed Boston cop, in a comedy that serves up plenty of female-oriented crudity,...
Only God Forgives (18)
(Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013, Fra/Thai/Us/Swe) Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke. 90 mins
The Drive dream team are back together in Bangkok, but those hoping for a cute Gosling droolathon will be disappointed. This is more a cinematic slab of red meat: lean, raw, bloody and blunt, but with much to savour. Executed with great formal rigour, it's a stylised revenge story centred on Gosling's almost mute gangster, his terrifying mother (Scott Thomas) and an even more terrifying Thai cop (Pansringarm).
The Heat (15)
(Paul Feig, 2013, Us) Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir. 117 mins
Buddy sparks inevitably fly when Bullock's uptight FBI agent is partnered with McCarthy's foul-mouthed Boston cop, in a comedy that serves up plenty of female-oriented crudity,...
- 8/3/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
It's not often that an actress really gets to shock. But Kristin Scott Thomas manages it in Only God Forgives. A brutally violent Thai crime thriller from Nicolas Winding Refn, if the draw was the Danish director's promised reunion with his Drive star Ryan Gosling, it's Scott Thomas who hijacks the show. She plays Gosling's bitchy bottle-blonde mother Crystal, a “terrifying mafia godmother”, in Refn's words, who smokes, swears and snarls her way across the screen when she arrives in Bangkok.
- 8/1/2013
- The Independent - Film
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; Screenwriter: Nicolas Winding Refn; Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm; Running time: 90 mins Certificate: 18
There's something undeniably beguiling about Ryan Gosling's face and the highly stylised, neon-bathed manner in which director Nicolas Winding Refn captures it. The standard forlorn expression may evoke shades of Joey Tribbiani's countenance during the whiffy throes of his 'smell the fart' acting forays, but within the framework of this brutal and compelling revenge thriller it packs the same visceral and emotive punch as in the pair's previous collaboration Drive.
The sublime Only God Forgives again positions Gosling as an immoral and taciturn anti-hero who appears disconnected from the world around him. He portrays Julian, a Bangkok based boxing promoter whose real line of work is peddling drugs.
When his paedophilic brother Billy is brutally slain by the father of a girl he murdered, with the consent of sword-bearing...
There's something undeniably beguiling about Ryan Gosling's face and the highly stylised, neon-bathed manner in which director Nicolas Winding Refn captures it. The standard forlorn expression may evoke shades of Joey Tribbiani's countenance during the whiffy throes of his 'smell the fart' acting forays, but within the framework of this brutal and compelling revenge thriller it packs the same visceral and emotive punch as in the pair's previous collaboration Drive.
The sublime Only God Forgives again positions Gosling as an immoral and taciturn anti-hero who appears disconnected from the world around him. He portrays Julian, a Bangkok based boxing promoter whose real line of work is peddling drugs.
When his paedophilic brother Billy is brutally slain by the father of a girl he murdered, with the consent of sword-bearing...
- 7/26/2013
- Digital Spy
New York — When it comes to conjuring up the most mean-spirited insults a mother could hurl at her son, leave it to Ryan Gosling.
In his latest film, "Only God Forgives," the Canadian actor plays a drug-smuggling mama's boy. In one scene, his character is humiliated by his mother at dinner after he brings a hooker, posing as his girlfriend, to meet mom – played by Kristin Scott Thomas.
Gosling said the embarrassments heaped on his character – including comments about his anatomical shortcomings – weren't originally in the script.
"She had to emasculate me and so she asked me to help, which I thought was funny. We just worked together and I told her all the things that she could say to me that would be sort of castrating," Gosling said, smiling. "She has that whole crazy rant."
The actress said while it was fun to play the villainous character, the darkness...
In his latest film, "Only God Forgives," the Canadian actor plays a drug-smuggling mama's boy. In one scene, his character is humiliated by his mother at dinner after he brings a hooker, posing as his girlfriend, to meet mom – played by Kristin Scott Thomas.
Gosling said the embarrassments heaped on his character – including comments about his anatomical shortcomings – weren't originally in the script.
"She had to emasculate me and so she asked me to help, which I thought was funny. We just worked together and I told her all the things that she could say to me that would be sort of castrating," Gosling said, smiling. "She has that whole crazy rant."
The actress said while it was fun to play the villainous character, the darkness...
- 7/25/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Anyone expecting or even comparing Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives to Drive needs to explore his catalog a little further. The closest comparison you can draw is to his 2009 feature Valhalla Rising, a slow-paced, ambiguous film with a focus on religion, transformation and a search for God. In terms of pacing, religion, transformation and a penchant for executioner violence, Only God Forgives and Valhalla are very similar. Fans arriving at the film through the likes of Refn's Pusher trilogy, Bronson or Drive will likely be disappointed to find it moves at a snail's pace for the entirety of its running time with very little overt explanation for what's going on, though the religious, Oedipal and sexual themes are hard to overlook. After leaving the theater, my immediate reaction was to join the chorus calling it "style over substance" with style to spare. I began working out my thoughts with other critics,...
- 7/19/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
"She has no problem turning on the bitch switch," Nicolas Winding Refn said of Kristin Scott Thomas at Cannes earlier this year where his latest "Only God Forgives" premiered in competition (it comes out in theaters and on VOD this Friday). No kidding. In the writer-director's ultra-violent follow-up to "Drive," Scott Thomas deviates from the upper crusty roles we're accustomed to seeing her play in films like "The English Patient" and "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," to deliver a showstopping turn as Crystal, a foul-mouthed American matriarch of a drug empire with long blond hair, nails for days and a love of Dolce & Gabbana. Read More -- Interview: Ryan Gosling On Not Understanding All of 'Only God Forgives' and How He's 'Highly Influenced By Violence' While the film has proven to be divisive among critics, most agree that her scene-stealing performance is the bawdy highlight of the thriller...
- 7/18/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
To kick off the Unifrance-sponsored Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival in London, now in its fourth year and running until 7th April, Kristin Scott Thomas sat down with The Independent film critic Jonathan Romney for a wide-ranging, convivial chat about her film and theater careers. The actress, who resides in Paris, divides her time fairly evenly these days between English- and French-language films and stage appearances (she's coming to the end of a West End run in Harold Pinter's "Old Times" and had to dash off after 45 minutes for that evening's performance). Scott Thomas has a reputation for not suffering fools gladly (least of all those of the journalistic variety) but had an easy rapport with Romney, who asked smart questions and got equally smart and frequently funny replies. Here are a few of the highlights, which include some insights into working with Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling...
- 7/18/2013
- by Matt Mueller
- Thompson on Hollywood
When Kristin Scott Thomas comes to mind, you most likely picture her as a gracious British mother or a heartfelt lover in a period piece. Yet with orange-tinted skin and a foul mouth, Scott Thomas transforms into your worst mommy nightmare in Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives."
The violent Bangkok noir and follow up to Refn's 2011 "Drive" stars Scott Thomas as Crystal, the wicked, expletive-spewing mother to Ryan Gosling's taciturn Julian. After her eldest son is murdered, Crystal is intent on revenge, but Julian's half-hearted devotion to exact it leads to some nasty insults, including her shocking commentary on his genital size; there's definitely some Oedipus complex at play here.
While "Only God Forgives" has received both boos and praise, Scott Thomas's astounding performance is the film's strongest facet. The British actress sat down with Moviefone to discuss the difficulty of her already-infamous dinner table scene...
The violent Bangkok noir and follow up to Refn's 2011 "Drive" stars Scott Thomas as Crystal, the wicked, expletive-spewing mother to Ryan Gosling's taciturn Julian. After her eldest son is murdered, Crystal is intent on revenge, but Julian's half-hearted devotion to exact it leads to some nasty insults, including her shocking commentary on his genital size; there's definitely some Oedipus complex at play here.
While "Only God Forgives" has received both boos and praise, Scott Thomas's astounding performance is the film's strongest facet. The British actress sat down with Moviefone to discuss the difficulty of her already-infamous dinner table scene...
- 7/17/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
Only God Forgives has released a new trailer.
The video shows Ryan Gosling's Julian on the trail of his brother's killers.
Nicolas Winding Refn's violent thriller centres around a Bangkok gangster and retired boxer (Gosling) who is goaded by his ruthless mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) into taking action after his brother is killed by a crooked Thai cop.
Scott Thomas has confessed that the film is "really not [her] thing" and that she took on the role to work with Refn.
The film - which reunites the Drive director with his star Gosling - received a mixed response from critics at its Cannes Film Festival premiere in May.
Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke, Byron Gibson and Yayaying Rhatha Phongam also feature in the film.
Only God Forgives will arrive in Us cinemas on July 19, and opens in the UK on August 2.
Watch Ryan Gosling discuss Only God Forgives with Digital...
The video shows Ryan Gosling's Julian on the trail of his brother's killers.
Nicolas Winding Refn's violent thriller centres around a Bangkok gangster and retired boxer (Gosling) who is goaded by his ruthless mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) into taking action after his brother is killed by a crooked Thai cop.
Scott Thomas has confessed that the film is "really not [her] thing" and that she took on the role to work with Refn.
The film - which reunites the Drive director with his star Gosling - received a mixed response from critics at its Cannes Film Festival premiere in May.
Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke, Byron Gibson and Yayaying Rhatha Phongam also feature in the film.
Only God Forgives will arrive in Us cinemas on July 19, and opens in the UK on August 2.
Watch Ryan Gosling discuss Only God Forgives with Digital...
- 7/15/2013
- Digital Spy
Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to the darkly stylish Drive is the even more violent Only God Forgives. Is he revelling in sexual brutality?
"So," asks Nicolas Winding Refn, as we sit down for lunch in a swish new place in King's Cross, London, "what was the first reaction you had to my film? What was the first thought that went through your mind?"
Not only is this a reversal of the traditional interview roles, it's also a tricky question. The film under review is Only God Forgives, the follow-up to Refn's critically acclaimed and commercially successful Drive. Imagine a Quentin Tarantino homage to oriental slasher movies but directed by David Lynch at his most elliptical and unsettling, and you might get some idea of the strangeness of Only God Forgives. It features Ryan Gosling as a boxing promoter and drug dealer with impotence issues, Kristin Scott Thomas as his blond,...
"So," asks Nicolas Winding Refn, as we sit down for lunch in a swish new place in King's Cross, London, "what was the first reaction you had to my film? What was the first thought that went through your mind?"
Not only is this a reversal of the traditional interview roles, it's also a tricky question. The film under review is Only God Forgives, the follow-up to Refn's critically acclaimed and commercially successful Drive. Imagine a Quentin Tarantino homage to oriental slasher movies but directed by David Lynch at his most elliptical and unsettling, and you might get some idea of the strangeness of Only God Forgives. It features Ryan Gosling as a boxing promoter and drug dealer with impotence issues, Kristin Scott Thomas as his blond,...
- 7/15/2013
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
Only God Forgives has debuted a UK trailer.
The promo shows Ryan Gosling looking for trouble in Bangkok while Kristin Scott Thomas demands revenge.
Nicolas Winding Refn's violent thriller centres around a gangster and retired boxer (Gosling) who is goaded by his ruthless mother (Scott Thomas) into taking action after his brother is killed.
Scott Thomas has admitted that the film is "really not [her] thing" and that she took on the role to work with Refn.
The film - which reunites the Drive director with his star Gosling - divided critics when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Only God Forgives will arrive in Us cinemas on July 19 and in the UK on August 2.
Watch Ryan Gosling discuss Only God Forgives with Digital Spy below:...
The promo shows Ryan Gosling looking for trouble in Bangkok while Kristin Scott Thomas demands revenge.
Nicolas Winding Refn's violent thriller centres around a gangster and retired boxer (Gosling) who is goaded by his ruthless mother (Scott Thomas) into taking action after his brother is killed.
Scott Thomas has admitted that the film is "really not [her] thing" and that she took on the role to work with Refn.
The film - which reunites the Drive director with his star Gosling - divided critics when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Only God Forgives will arrive in Us cinemas on July 19 and in the UK on August 2.
Watch Ryan Gosling discuss Only God Forgives with Digital Spy below:...
- 7/4/2013
- Digital Spy
Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas and Sam Riley star in Saul Dibb’s Second World War drama based on Irène Némirovsky’s best-selling novel.
TF1, Entertainment One, the Weinstein Company and BBC Films have announced the start of principal photography on $20m (€15m) feature Suite Française, which is being shot in Brussels and Paris.
For full production details visit
Suite Française
The film stars Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn), Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone), Kristin Scott Thomas (Only God Forgives), Sam Riley (On The Road), Ruth Wilson (The Lone Ranger), Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street), Alexandra Maria Lara (Rush), Tom Schilling (Oh Boy) and Lambert Wilson (Of Gods and Men).
Suite Française is set in 1940s France and is based on the international best-selling work of writer Irène Némirovsky who died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Williams will play Lucile Angellier who awaits news from her husband, a prisoner...
TF1, Entertainment One, the Weinstein Company and BBC Films have announced the start of principal photography on $20m (€15m) feature Suite Française, which is being shot in Brussels and Paris.
For full production details visit
Suite Française
The film stars Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn), Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone), Kristin Scott Thomas (Only God Forgives), Sam Riley (On The Road), Ruth Wilson (The Lone Ranger), Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street), Alexandra Maria Lara (Rush), Tom Schilling (Oh Boy) and Lambert Wilson (Of Gods and Men).
Suite Française is set in 1940s France and is based on the international best-selling work of writer Irène Némirovsky who died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Williams will play Lucile Angellier who awaits news from her husband, a prisoner...
- 6/27/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The UK poster and trailer for Ryan Gosling's Only God Forgives have been revealed.
The movie, which recently won the Sydney Film Prize, sees Gosling reuniting with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, with the actor playing a retired boxer and gangster who runs a boxing club as a front for his family's criminal dealings.
The movie, which also stars Kristin Scott Thomas, will be released in the UK on August 2, and in the Us on July 19.
It received mixed reviews when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last month, with some people booing during the screening.
Scott Thomas, who plays Gosling's mother in the film, previously said that the movie is "really not [her] sort of thing", and that she only took on the role because it was directed by Refn.
Photo gallery - Only God Forgives stills:...
The movie, which recently won the Sydney Film Prize, sees Gosling reuniting with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, with the actor playing a retired boxer and gangster who runs a boxing club as a front for his family's criminal dealings.
The movie, which also stars Kristin Scott Thomas, will be released in the UK on August 2, and in the Us on July 19.
It received mixed reviews when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last month, with some people booing during the screening.
Scott Thomas, who plays Gosling's mother in the film, previously said that the movie is "really not [her] sort of thing", and that she only took on the role because it was directed by Refn.
Photo gallery - Only God Forgives stills:...
- 6/25/2013
- Digital Spy
The top stories of the week from Toh! Interviews: Laff Q &A: "Only God Forgives" Director Winding Refn Talks Gosling's Hands, Scott Thomas's "Bitch Switch" Almodovar Talks Raucous Airplane Comedy "I'm So Excited": "Welcome to the Party!" (Trailer) Emmy Watch: Noah Emmerich Talks TV vs. Movies, "The Americans" Reviews: Memoir of a Hollywood Raconteur: Curtis Harrington's "Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood" Weekend Picks: "Monsters," Pirates, Terrorists and Zombies Review and Roundup: Stakes are High on Brad Pitt's "World War Z" Update Features: Immersed in Movies: How VFX Supervisor Farrar Fixed the Zombies in "World War Z" (Clip) Festivals: Laff "Venus Vs." Review: Venus Williams Fights for Gender Equality at Wimbledon in Ava DuVernay's Rousing Sports Doc Laff Review: Lake Bell's "In a World" a Hilarious Feminist Comedy About the Power of Voice Laff Review: Joe Burke's "Four Dogs" Is Breezy Buddy Showbiz...
- 6/21/2013
- by TOH!
- Thompson on Hollywood
Sam Riley has been cast in The Weinstein Company's Suite Française.
He will join Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas in the World War II drama, reports Deadline.
Saul Dibb will direct the adaptation of Irene Nemirovsky's book, which will also feature Matthias Schoenaerts.
Williams will star as a French woman who falls in love with a German officer (Schoenaerts).
Riley will play French soldier Benoit, with Scott Thomas taking on the role of Williams's mother.
The actor starred in 2012's On the Road adaptation and will appear alongside Angelina Jolie in Disney's live action Maleficent movie.
Suite Française will begin shooting later in the summer for a 2014 release.
He will join Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas in the World War II drama, reports Deadline.
Saul Dibb will direct the adaptation of Irene Nemirovsky's book, which will also feature Matthias Schoenaerts.
Williams will star as a French woman who falls in love with a German officer (Schoenaerts).
Riley will play French soldier Benoit, with Scott Thomas taking on the role of Williams's mother.
The actor starred in 2012's On the Road adaptation and will appear alongside Angelina Jolie in Disney's live action Maleficent movie.
Suite Française will begin shooting later in the summer for a 2014 release.
- 6/17/2013
- Digital Spy
Trailer Simon Brew 17 Jun 2013 - 06:32
Ryan Gosling and Kristen Scott Thomas star in Only God Forgives, from Drive director Nicholas Winding Refn. Here's the new trailer.
The reunion of Ryan Gosling and director Nicholas Winding Wefn, following the terrific Drive, is heading to UK cinemas at the start of August. And Only God Forgives already brings with it the controversy that followed the earlier film. Only God Forgives has had divisive reviews following its Cannes Film Festival debut, and seems to have a similar ability to polarise audiences. But heck, we can't wait to see it.
Here's the latest trailer for the movie then. It's not a red band one this time either, so you can safely watch it in your place of work without people giving you 'looks'. And we'll have more on Only God Forgives in the weeks ahead...
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Ryan Gosling and Kristen Scott Thomas star in Only God Forgives, from Drive director Nicholas Winding Refn. Here's the new trailer.
The reunion of Ryan Gosling and director Nicholas Winding Wefn, following the terrific Drive, is heading to UK cinemas at the start of August. And Only God Forgives already brings with it the controversy that followed the earlier film. Only God Forgives has had divisive reviews following its Cannes Film Festival debut, and seems to have a similar ability to polarise audiences. But heck, we can't wait to see it.
Here's the latest trailer for the movie then. It's not a red band one this time either, so you can safely watch it in your place of work without people giving you 'looks'. And we'll have more on Only God Forgives in the weeks ahead...
Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here.
- 6/17/2013
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Only God Forgives has released a poster of Kristin Scott Thomas.
It spotlights her ruthless and manipulative character Crystal.
The film centres around Ryan Gosling as Julian, a retired boxer and gangster who lives in Bangkok.
When his brother is killed by a brutal Thai policeman, his mother (Scott Thomas) forces him to seek revenge.
Only God Forgives reunites Gosling with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn.
Scott Thomas has admitted that the film is "really not [her] thing".
The violent movie divided critics when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Only God Forgives will arrive in Us cinemas on July 19 and in the UK on August 2.
Watch Ryan Gosling discuss Only God Forgives with Digital Spy below:...
It spotlights her ruthless and manipulative character Crystal.
The film centres around Ryan Gosling as Julian, a retired boxer and gangster who lives in Bangkok.
When his brother is killed by a brutal Thai policeman, his mother (Scott Thomas) forces him to seek revenge.
Only God Forgives reunites Gosling with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn.
Scott Thomas has admitted that the film is "really not [her] thing".
The violent movie divided critics when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Only God Forgives will arrive in Us cinemas on July 19 and in the UK on August 2.
Watch Ryan Gosling discuss Only God Forgives with Digital Spy below:...
- 6/7/2013
- Digital Spy
When Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives" debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last month, it produced a wide range of reactions, including boos and walkouts (of course, that's not the first time that's happened at Cannes). The movie, starring Ryan Gosling as an exiled fight promoter in Bangkok, has since been called "violent," "oedipal," and "bloody."
Despite the divisiveness, the one thing everyone seemed to agree on was that Kristin Scott Thomas was the best part of the film. (Variety said Ryan Gosling's performance was "easily upstaged by Kristin Scott Thomas's lip-smacking turn as a vindictive she-wolf.")
It's a very different role from the veteran actress, who's best known for her period piece performances, and this new poster from "Forgives," featuring Scott Thomas bathed in neon blue and red as she stares off into the ether, shows just how far away she is from "The English Patient.
Despite the divisiveness, the one thing everyone seemed to agree on was that Kristin Scott Thomas was the best part of the film. (Variety said Ryan Gosling's performance was "easily upstaged by Kristin Scott Thomas's lip-smacking turn as a vindictive she-wolf.")
It's a very different role from the veteran actress, who's best known for her period piece performances, and this new poster from "Forgives," featuring Scott Thomas bathed in neon blue and red as she stares off into the ether, shows just how far away she is from "The English Patient.
- 6/6/2013
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
Cannes – Kristin Scott Thomas and Uma Thurman celebrated Oscar-winner Philippe Rousselot for being awarded the first annual Pierre Angenieux Excellens in Cinematography Honor. "It’s not just me being honored, but all cinematographers," Rousselot tells The Hollywood Reporter at the beachside dinner ceremony. "I’ll take it for everyone." The Oscar and Cesar-winner is known for his work on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sherlock Holmes and Lions for Lambs. He worked with Thurman on Dangerous Liaisons (1998) and Henry & June (1990), and with Scott Thomas on Random Hearts (1999). He won an Oscar for 1992's A River Runs Through It and was also a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury in 1995. Cannes:
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- 5/25/2013
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Everything you think you know about Kristin Scott Thomas? Yeah, throw that away. Because Nicolas Winding Refn is about to make you see her very, very differently with this clip from Only God Forgives.Julian (Ryan Gosling), a respected figure in the criminal underworld of Bangkok, runs a Thai boxing club and smuggling ring with his brother Billy. Billy is suddenly murdered and their crime lord matriarch, Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives from London to bring back the body. When Crystal forces Julian to settle the score with his brother's killers, Julian finds himself in the ultimate showdown.Scott Thomas has quite the mouth on her in this clip so do be aware of who is in the immediate vicinity before hitting play. Check the clip below....
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- 5/23/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Cannes, France — To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas – how else? – with the flattery of his own mother.
"That's how he got me to do the film," Scott Thomas said in a beachside interview Wednesday. "He said, `You're my mother's favorite actress.' So I had to. It was a good trick."
It was an appropriate start for a disturbing portrait of a woman with, to say the least, harsh motherly instincts. In the Bangkok noir, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, Scott Thomas plays a mother demanding her surviving son (Ryan Gosling) avenge the murder of her other, more favored son (Tom Burke).
It's a ferocious, gloriously evil performance as far away from "The English Patient" (and the other elegant British period dramas Scott Thomas is best known for) as cinematically possible.
"That's how he got me to do the film," Scott Thomas said in a beachside interview Wednesday. "He said, `You're my mother's favorite actress.' So I had to. It was a good trick."
It was an appropriate start for a disturbing portrait of a woman with, to say the least, harsh motherly instincts. In the Bangkok noir, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, Scott Thomas plays a mother demanding her surviving son (Ryan Gosling) avenge the murder of her other, more favored son (Tom Burke).
It's a ferocious, gloriously evil performance as far away from "The English Patient" (and the other elegant British period dramas Scott Thomas is best known for) as cinematically possible.
- 5/23/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Expectations here in Cannes were high—or at least semi-high—for Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, in which Kristin Scott Thomas and Ryan Gosling play a mother-son duo with what might politely be called unresolved issues. Gosling's Julian has always played second fiddle to his older brother, Billy (Tom Burke)—the two of them live in Bangkok where, we learn, they assist mom in a drug-smuggling operation. One day Billy up and decides to murder an underage prostitute; he's subsequently killed at the behest of a police officer. Scott Thomas—who, in her pink lipstick and flossy blond dye job, looks a little like a really tall Kristen Chenoweth, one who hasn't been sucking helium—flies into town in a rage, seeking revenge on the person or peo...
- 5/23/2013
- Village Voice
Only God Forgives was reportedly booed at the Cannes Film Festival today (May 22).
The movie stars Ryan Gosling as a drug smuggler in Bangkok. When his brother dies, he is urged by his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to avenge his sibling's death.
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, who won the 'Best Director' prize at the 2011 festival for Drive, the film has received considerably mixed reviews.
However, Vulture has since reported that the film was even booed by critics due to the extreme violence portrayed in the movie.
Kyle Buchanan began his review by saying: "To judge from the boos and whistles after the Only God Forgives screening today, I wouldn't exactly lay odds on a 'Best Director' repeat for Refn."
He added later: "When one character stuck his hand inside a woman's slashed body, the audience locked and loaded its boos. Gosling doesn't have much to say in this movie,...
The movie stars Ryan Gosling as a drug smuggler in Bangkok. When his brother dies, he is urged by his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to avenge his sibling's death.
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, who won the 'Best Director' prize at the 2011 festival for Drive, the film has received considerably mixed reviews.
However, Vulture has since reported that the film was even booed by critics due to the extreme violence portrayed in the movie.
Kyle Buchanan began his review by saying: "To judge from the boos and whistles after the Only God Forgives screening today, I wouldn't exactly lay odds on a 'Best Director' repeat for Refn."
He added later: "When one character stuck his hand inside a woman's slashed body, the audience locked and loaded its boos. Gosling doesn't have much to say in this movie,...
- 5/22/2013
- Digital Spy
Nicholas Winding Refn.s Only God Forgives was one of the most anticipated movies screening at the Cannes Film Festival this year, as many who were moved by the director.s collaboration with leading man Ryan Gosling on Drive were excited to see what they.d do next. Then it screened . and the reactions weren.t pretty. We.ll get to those in a second, but first, Crave Online serves up a lengthy exclusive clip that.s very Nsfw thanks to Kristin Scott Thomas. brutal choices for dinner conversation. See what happens above. The above clip kind of sums up everything critics in Cannes have been saying about Refn.s latest. It.s slow moving; it.s dominated by Scott Thomas, who chews the scenery in the vile role of a vengeful mother; and it features a brooding Gosling doing very little . and very little different from what he did...
- 5/22/2013
- cinemablend.com
Only God Forgives has debuted a new clip.
The video shows Ryan Gosling's Julian introducing his girlfriend Mai (Rhatha Phongam) to his fearsome mother Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Watch the clip below (Warning: Contains explicit content):
The film centres around retired boxer and gangster Julian living in Bangkok. When his brother is killed by the Thai police, his mother demands that he seek vengeance.
Scott Thomas has admitted that the film is "really not [her] thing".
The violent movie - which reunites Drive director Refn with his star Gosling - divided critics when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this morning.
Only God Forgives will arrive in Us cinemas on July 19 and in the UK on August 2.
Watch Ryan Gosling discuss Only God Forgives with Digital Spy below:...
The video shows Ryan Gosling's Julian introducing his girlfriend Mai (Rhatha Phongam) to his fearsome mother Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Watch the clip below (Warning: Contains explicit content):
The film centres around retired boxer and gangster Julian living in Bangkok. When his brother is killed by the Thai police, his mother demands that he seek vengeance.
Scott Thomas has admitted that the film is "really not [her] thing".
The violent movie - which reunites Drive director Refn with his star Gosling - divided critics when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this morning.
Only God Forgives will arrive in Us cinemas on July 19 and in the UK on August 2.
Watch Ryan Gosling discuss Only God Forgives with Digital Spy below:...
- 5/22/2013
- Digital Spy
Anyone expecting or even comparing Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives to Drive needs to explore his catalog a little further. The closest comparison you can draw is to his 2009 feature Valhalla Rising, a slow-paced, ambiguous film with a focus on religion, transformation and a search for God. In terms of pacing, religion, transformation and a penchant for executioner violence, Only God Forgives and Valhalla are very similar. Fans arriving at the film through the likes of Refn's Pusher trilogy, Bronson or Drive will likely be disappointed to find it moves at a snail's pace for the entirety of its running time with very little overt explanation for what's going on, though the religious, Oedipal and sexual themes are hard to overlook. After leaving the theater, my immediate reaction was to join the chorus calling it "style over substance" with style to spare. I began working out my thoughts with other critics,...
- 5/22/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Kristin Scott Thomas has admitted that Only God Forgives is "not her thing".
The British actress stars in Nicolas Winding Refn's Bangkok-set thriller as the overbearing mother of Ryan Gosling's Julian, but admitted to press at the Cannes Film Festival that the script was not to her tastes.
"This kind of film is really not my thing," The Playlist quotes Scott Thomas as saying. "Films where this kind of violence happens, I don't like watching them at all."
She went on to explain that it was the opportunity to work with Winding Refn that attracted her.
"When I'd seen Bronson - I'd seen it before I met him - I thought it was the most beautiful thing. There was something deeply emotional and troubling there which appealed to me enormously.
"When I first read the script, I was excited to play someone who is as far away from...
The British actress stars in Nicolas Winding Refn's Bangkok-set thriller as the overbearing mother of Ryan Gosling's Julian, but admitted to press at the Cannes Film Festival that the script was not to her tastes.
"This kind of film is really not my thing," The Playlist quotes Scott Thomas as saying. "Films where this kind of violence happens, I don't like watching them at all."
She went on to explain that it was the opportunity to work with Winding Refn that attracted her.
"When I'd seen Bronson - I'd seen it before I met him - I thought it was the most beautiful thing. There was something deeply emotional and troubling there which appealed to me enormously.
"When I first read the script, I was excited to play someone who is as far away from...
- 5/22/2013
- Digital Spy
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Two years ago at Cannes, Nicolas Winding Refn turned the festival upside down with his brilliant, swaggering Drive, which reinvented the exploitation genre with an indie edge, and confirmed what we all already knew about Ryan Gosling’s star quality.
Now, with both stars in the ascendancy, the dream double-bill have returned to the scene of their glory, with another seemingly action-oriented vehicle for Gosling to show he’s more than just the pretty-boy lead, or the hopeless wounded romantic he’s played so far in his career. With stuntman and stunt-biker under his belt, it’s not so much of a stretch to accept Gosling as a vengeful gangster on a quest to avenge his fallen brother at the behest of his crime boss mother, which is precisely what the pre-marketing suggested we would see.
The film sees Gosling and his brother Billy (The Hour...
Two years ago at Cannes, Nicolas Winding Refn turned the festival upside down with his brilliant, swaggering Drive, which reinvented the exploitation genre with an indie edge, and confirmed what we all already knew about Ryan Gosling’s star quality.
Now, with both stars in the ascendancy, the dream double-bill have returned to the scene of their glory, with another seemingly action-oriented vehicle for Gosling to show he’s more than just the pretty-boy lead, or the hopeless wounded romantic he’s played so far in his career. With stuntman and stunt-biker under his belt, it’s not so much of a stretch to accept Gosling as a vengeful gangster on a quest to avenge his fallen brother at the behest of his crime boss mother, which is precisely what the pre-marketing suggested we would see.
The film sees Gosling and his brother Billy (The Hour...
- 5/22/2013
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Kristin Scott Thomas Talks 'Only God Forgives' at Cannes: 'This kind of film is really not my thing'
"She has no problem turning on the bitch switch," said Nicolas Winding Refn of Kristin Scott Thomas in Cannes today. No kidding. In the writer-director's ultra-violent Palme d'Or contender "Only God Forgives" (he won Best Director at the festival in 2011), Scott Thomas deviates from the upper crusty roles we're accustomed to seeing her play in films like "The English Patient" and "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," to deliver a showstopping turn as Crystal, a foul mouthed American matriarch to a drug empire with long blond hair and nails for days. Her scene-stealing performance is the best thing about the film, which unlike Refn's last existential noir "Drive," lacks just that. It's therefore no surprise she courted a ton of attention at the film's press conference. That and its star Ryan Gosling, who delivers a muted (literally) performance as her drug smuggler son, wasn't present, stuck on week three of filming his directorial debut.
- 5/22/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
★★★☆☆ Following the success of Un Certain Regard favourite Drive back in 2011, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn returns to the Croisette with Only God Forgives (2013), a stylish if ultimately shallow essay in extremism. Julian (Ryan Gosling) is a Muay Thai boxing club owner and drug dealer living in Bangkok along with older brother Billy (Tom Burke). When his brother rapes and murders a girl, a policeman (Vithaya Pansringarm) allows the father to beat Billy to death before then punishing said father. Julian's mother, Crystal - Kristin Scott Thomas, looking like a dissipated Cameron Diaz - turns up, intent on vengeance.
Aspiring to capture the shock value of an Ichi the Killer, Only God Forgives somehow feels provocative without having anything real to say. Refn's style is so studied as to be almost academic: the reds and greens of his colour palette and the icky gore are almost box-ticking in their Gaspar Noé-worshipping consistency.
Aspiring to capture the shock value of an Ichi the Killer, Only God Forgives somehow feels provocative without having anything real to say. Refn's style is so studied as to be almost academic: the reds and greens of his colour palette and the icky gore are almost box-ticking in their Gaspar Noé-worshipping consistency.
- 5/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Prior to the world premiere of Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives" on Wednesday, TWC-Radius has been tempting the Cannes crowds with clips from the Thailand-set thriller, which stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Ryan Gosling as a mother and son heading a drug ring in the Bangkok underworld. The four clips below highlight their unsettling relationship following the death of Gosling's brother, as well as establishing Scott Thomas' character as a Momma Not to Mess With. (Toh's interview with Scott Thomas is here.) "Only God Forgives" is in the competition section, and hits Us theaters on July 19. Winding Refn and Gosling previously collaborated on 2011's "Drive."...
- 5/20/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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