From the moment that Thomas Salvador’s The Mountain opens on robotic engineer Pierre (Salvador) standing in his modern Paris apartment sipping a morning espresso, we understand him to be a man unmoored. At work, as his attention trails off in the midst of a presentation, he seems every bit as lost as the stray deer that he later notices roaming the empty streets of a mountainside town. Throughout the film, Pierre will often stare off into the distance, as if looking for something—but good luck figuring out what that actually is.
The Mountain tracks Pierre’s day-to-day life of self-isolation with dry precision after he travels into the Alps for his work and decides to turn his back on his life in the city for good. But whatever motivation underpins his decision is as nebulous as the clouds over the mountains, as Salvador frustratingly never offers a concrete...
The Mountain tracks Pierre’s day-to-day life of self-isolation with dry precision after he travels into the Alps for his work and decides to turn his back on his life in the city for good. But whatever motivation underpins his decision is as nebulous as the clouds over the mountains, as Salvador frustratingly never offers a concrete...
- 8/27/2023
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
"We'll build a dream! This tower is France's tower." Blue Fox Entertainment has revealed the official US trailer for the French romance Eiffel, set during the building of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris at the end of the 1800s. The film not only tells of the struggles of celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel while he creates this famous landmark and works to build it, but also his romance with another woman, a "long lost, forbidden passion that inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever." Oh my. The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Starring Romain Duris as Gustave Eiffel, Emma Mackey as Adrienne Bourgès, and Pierre Deladonchamps as Antoine Restac, with Armande Boulanger, Philippe Hérisson, Andranic Manet, Juliette Blanche. I still want to see this!
- 2/14/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Any ideas for the competition?" "We must be freer. More audacious." Build it bigger! Pathe in France has unveiled the first official trailer for the intense romantic drama Eiffel, set during the building of the Eiffel Tower in Paris at the end of the 1800s. The film not only tells of the struggles of celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel as he creates this iconic landmark, but also his romance with another woman, a "long lost, forbidden passion that inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever." Oh my. The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Starring Romain Duris as Gustave Eiffel, Emma Mackey as Adrienne Bourgès, and Pierre Deladonchamps as Antoine Restac, with Armande Boulanger, Philippe Hérisson, Andranic Manet, Juliette Blanche. I...
- 6/10/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The feature debut by Béatrice de Staël and Léo Wolfenstein, a Tabo Tabo Films production, is currently shooting. Since 12 October, Béatrice de Staël and Léo Wolfenstein have been in South-West France shooting their feature debut, Vacances (lit. “Holidays”). The cast includes Géraldine Nakache, Béatrice De Staël herselfFriend[/link]) and Andranic Manet.Written by de Staël and Philippe Barassat, the story revolves around Marie, who is spending her holidays alone with her children for the first time, without her husband. One evening, feeling lost, Marie allows herself to fall for the charms of a young man with a magnetic charisma. Produced by Véronique Zerdoun for Tabo Tabo Films, Vacances...
- 10/28/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Paris calling … Andranic Manet as Etienne in A Paris Education by Jean-Paul Civeyrac Photo: UniFrance
Art imitates life in French director Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s black and white ode to the New Wave, in which a young cinephile leaves Lyon to study film in Paris, finds a flat with fellow film geeks, and spends hours expounding on Bresson and obscure Russian directors.
Wind back a few years to 1987 and it was Civeyrac, born in 1964, who left a small town near St Etienne and travelled to Paris to work in cinema.
“Finally I decided to stay in Paris. In a few years I completed my first feature and at the same time I began teaching cinema. So I know how students behave and what they think. The film, of course, is inspired by things that I experienced but also by things that students go through today,” Civeyrac told me during the Unifrance Rendezvous with French Cinema.
Art imitates life in French director Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s black and white ode to the New Wave, in which a young cinephile leaves Lyon to study film in Paris, finds a flat with fellow film geeks, and spends hours expounding on Bresson and obscure Russian directors.
Wind back a few years to 1987 and it was Civeyrac, born in 1964, who left a small town near St Etienne and travelled to Paris to work in cinema.
“Finally I decided to stay in Paris. In a few years I completed my first feature and at the same time I began teaching cinema. So I know how students behave and what they think. The film, of course, is inspired by things that I experienced but also by things that students go through today,” Civeyrac told me during the Unifrance Rendezvous with French Cinema.
- 1/22/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Playlist
Comic book author Nine Antico scores two noted actresses for her directorial debut, Playlist, produced by Atelier de Production’s Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe. Sara Forestier and Laetitia Dosch are joined by Andranic Manet in the cast. Julie Conte makes her feature debut as Dp.
Gist: Co-written with Marc Syrigas (who co-writes with Celine Sciamma), Sophie (Forestier) lands a specialized job at a publishing house for comic books, even though she’s technically unqualified.…...
Comic book author Nine Antico scores two noted actresses for her directorial debut, Playlist, produced by Atelier de Production’s Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe. Sara Forestier and Laetitia Dosch are joined by Andranic Manet in the cast. Julie Conte makes her feature debut as Dp.
Gist: Co-written with Marc Syrigas (who co-writes with Celine Sciamma), Sophie (Forestier) lands a specialized job at a publishing house for comic books, even though she’s technically unqualified.…...
- 12/30/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Lumières are the Golden Globes of France.
A mixed bag of nominations for the 24th edition of France’s Lumière awards was unveiled in Paris on Monday (Dec 17).
Jacques Audiard’s Us-set, English-language The Sisters Brothers, period comedy-drama Mademoiselle de Jonquières, adoption drama Pupille and Venice-winning relationship drama Custody came out as the front-runners with four nominations each.
Following with three nominations each were Alex Lutz’s comedy-drama Guy, about a man who discovers he is the illegitimate son of a fading variety star and decides to follow him on tour; comedy The Trouble With You, sexual abuse drama Little Tickles,...
A mixed bag of nominations for the 24th edition of France’s Lumière awards was unveiled in Paris on Monday (Dec 17).
Jacques Audiard’s Us-set, English-language The Sisters Brothers, period comedy-drama Mademoiselle de Jonquières, adoption drama Pupille and Venice-winning relationship drama Custody came out as the front-runners with four nominations each.
Following with three nominations each were Alex Lutz’s comedy-drama Guy, about a man who discovers he is the illegitimate son of a fading variety star and decides to follow him on tour; comedy The Trouble With You, sexual abuse drama Little Tickles,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Halfway through writer-director Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s cinephile coming-of-age story A Paris Education, a girl confronts a budding filmmaker: “You seem out of touch with reality… like you live an armchair life.” It is not the first time aspiring cineastes in Civeyrac’s IndieLisboa entry get scolded for being self-centered navel-gazers, nor does the slap feel entirely undeserved. A mélange between Garrel’sRegular Lovers (with which it shares a gorgeous black and white cinematography, courtesy of Dp Pierre-Hubert Martin) and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden (of which it echoes the same affection for deranged, self-destructive loners), A Paris Education follows the solipsistic journeys of a few film students whose only real concern in life seem to be whether or not they’ll ever join the ranks of the auteurs they binge-watch before reality catches up with their dreams.
Long-haired and clean-shaven Etienne (Andranic Manet) is the protagonist. A native of Lyon, he...
Long-haired and clean-shaven Etienne (Andranic Manet) is the protagonist. A native of Lyon, he...
- 5/15/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Jean Paul Civeyrac’s black-and-white film will open theatrically in late summer.
Kino Lorber closed a deal for North American rights yesterday (May 8) to Jean Paul Civeyrac’s A Paris Education following its world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar.
The black-and-white film will open theatrically in late summer, followed by VOD and home entertainment in autumn.
A Paris Education (formerly Mes Provinciales) centres on a filmmaking student in Paris who spends a year navigating the challenges of love and friendship. Andranic Manet, Corentin Fila, Gonzague Van Bervesselès, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam, Sophie Verbeeck, and Charlotte Van Bervesselès star in the Moby Dick Films production.
Kino Lorber closed a deal for North American rights yesterday (May 8) to Jean Paul Civeyrac’s A Paris Education following its world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar.
The black-and-white film will open theatrically in late summer, followed by VOD and home entertainment in autumn.
A Paris Education (formerly Mes Provinciales) centres on a filmmaking student in Paris who spends a year navigating the challenges of love and friendship. Andranic Manet, Corentin Fila, Gonzague Van Bervesselès, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam, Sophie Verbeeck, and Charlotte Van Bervesselès star in the Moby Dick Films production.
- 5/9/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A Paris Education (Mes Provinciales) director Jean-Paul Civeyrac: "I had the idea for the film after seeing the Marlen Khutsiev film of which we see an excerpt in the film. It's called La Porte D'Ilitch [I Am Twenty]." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
When was the last time Novalis (writer of the early Romantic movement and champion of the blue flower) was quoted in a film? Jean-Paul Civeyrac's A Paris Education (shot by Pierre-Hubert Martin, edited by Louise Narboni), starring Andranic Manet (Katell Quillévéré's Heal The Living) with Sophie Verbeeck (Jérôme Bonnell's All About Them), Diane Rouxel (Frédéric Mermoud's Moka), Jenna Thiam (Cédric Kahn's Wild Life), Gonzague Van Bervesseles, and Corentin Fila, illuminates the sundry elements of what actually constitutes education.
Jean-Paul Civeyrac: "I think there's a parallel there with the end of Flaubert's Sentimental Education where the characters say, what we lived that was most powerful, is something that happened before.
When was the last time Novalis (writer of the early Romantic movement and champion of the blue flower) was quoted in a film? Jean-Paul Civeyrac's A Paris Education (shot by Pierre-Hubert Martin, edited by Louise Narboni), starring Andranic Manet (Katell Quillévéré's Heal The Living) with Sophie Verbeeck (Jérôme Bonnell's All About Them), Diane Rouxel (Frédéric Mermoud's Moka), Jenna Thiam (Cédric Kahn's Wild Life), Gonzague Van Bervesseles, and Corentin Fila, illuminates the sundry elements of what actually constitutes education.
Jean-Paul Civeyrac: "I think there's a parallel there with the end of Flaubert's Sentimental Education where the characters say, what we lived that was most powerful, is something that happened before.
- 3/20/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The many layers of feeling captured in Mathieu Amalric's Barbara is cinema at its best Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opens with Mathieu Amalric's spellbinding Barbara, starring César Best Actress winner Jeanne Balibar. They will present the film on March 8. Bruno Dumont, Vincent Macaigne, Xavier Beauvois, Marine Francen, Emmanuel Finkiel, Léonor Serraille with Julie Roué, Rachid Hami, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Laurent Cantet, Gilles Bourdos with Richard Bausch, Xavier Legrand, Raymond Depardon with Claudine Nougaret, Tonie Marshall, and Eugène Green are also are expected to attend.
Civeyrac's A Paris Education (Mes provincials), starring Andranic Manet; Serraille's Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme) with Laetitia Dosch; Dumont's Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d’Arc), and Barbara - are four of the early bird highlights.
Mathieu Amalric also can be seen during the festival in Noémie Lvovsky's Tomorrow and Thereafter (Demain et tous les...
New York's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opens with Mathieu Amalric's spellbinding Barbara, starring César Best Actress winner Jeanne Balibar. They will present the film on March 8. Bruno Dumont, Vincent Macaigne, Xavier Beauvois, Marine Francen, Emmanuel Finkiel, Léonor Serraille with Julie Roué, Rachid Hami, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Laurent Cantet, Gilles Bourdos with Richard Bausch, Xavier Legrand, Raymond Depardon with Claudine Nougaret, Tonie Marshall, and Eugène Green are also are expected to attend.
Civeyrac's A Paris Education (Mes provincials), starring Andranic Manet; Serraille's Montparnasse Bienvenüe (Jeune femme) with Laetitia Dosch; Dumont's Jeannette, The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d’Arc), and Barbara - are four of the early bird highlights.
Mathieu Amalric also can be seen during the festival in Noémie Lvovsky's Tomorrow and Thereafter (Demain et tous les...
- 3/6/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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