All is not well with the Vuillard clan and something’s gone rotten in Roubaix. While their matriarch lies ill, treading the line between the here and the hereafter, the paterfamilias is left to contend with his three headstrong children. Though the youngest, who lives a stable married life, more often than not serves as ballast between more electric older siblings, sparks fly when the other two meet — or at least they would, had the eldest daughter not banished her hard-drinking middle brother from the family.
Sound familiar? Sounds, perhaps, like another Arnaud Desplechin film that premiered once upon a time in Cannes (as nearly all his films do)? Sounds about right.
Though the French auteur has always freely recycled themes and plot points (with more than half the characters in his 14 features carrying the surnames Dedalus and Vuillard), “Brother and Sister” seems more like a retread (and a retreat...
Sound familiar? Sounds, perhaps, like another Arnaud Desplechin film that premiered once upon a time in Cannes (as nearly all his films do)? Sounds about right.
Though the French auteur has always freely recycled themes and plot points (with more than half the characters in his 14 features carrying the surnames Dedalus and Vuillard), “Brother and Sister” seems more like a retread (and a retreat...
- 5/20/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
“French Dispatch” director Wes Anderson is so stranger to sharing his favorite movies. Now, he’s paired with the French Institute Alliance Francaise (Fiaf) for a seven movie series devoted to Anderson’s favorite French features. The screening series will coincide with the release of Anderson’s next feature, the aforementioned “French Dispatch” starring Timothee Chalamet.
The series will kick off with a free screening of Diane Kurys’ 1977 feature “Peppermint Soda” on September 14. The other features in the series, dubbed “Wes Anderson’s French Connection” includes Max Ophuls’ 1940 film “From Mayerling to Sarajevo,” Francois Truffaut’s “The Man Who Loved Women” from 1977, “Kings and Queen” (2004), Bertrand Blier’s “Get Out Your Handkerchiefs” (1977), “Max and the Junkmen” from 1971, and Jacque Becker’s 1947 film “Antoine and Antoinette.”
These are just a few of the inspirations associated with Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” which follows a group of journalists at a fictional French magazine.
The series will kick off with a free screening of Diane Kurys’ 1977 feature “Peppermint Soda” on September 14. The other features in the series, dubbed “Wes Anderson’s French Connection” includes Max Ophuls’ 1940 film “From Mayerling to Sarajevo,” Francois Truffaut’s “The Man Who Loved Women” from 1977, “Kings and Queen” (2004), Bertrand Blier’s “Get Out Your Handkerchiefs” (1977), “Max and the Junkmen” from 1971, and Jacque Becker’s 1947 film “Antoine and Antoinette.”
These are just a few of the inspirations associated with Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” which follows a group of journalists at a fictional French magazine.
- 9/6/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Emmanuel Finkiel’s haunting adaptation of seminal author Marguerite Duras’ semi-autobiographical novel The War: A Memoir stars a luminescent Mélanie Thierry in a riveting performance as Duras.
Mélanie Thierry (The Princess of Montpensier), Benoit Magimel (The Piano Teacher), Benjamin Biolay (Personal Shopper),Shulamit Adar
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Music Box Films, one of the finest of the arthouse distributors will be releasing this emotionally complex story of love, loss, and perseverance against the backdrop of war. Memoir of War opens in New York August 17 at Film Forum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, and in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Royal and at the Regal Edwards Westpark 8 in Orange County on August 24. Other cities will follow.
It’s 1944, and Duras is an active Resistance member along with her husband, writer Robert Antelme, and a band of fellow subversives in Nazi-occupied Paris. When Antelme is deported to Dachau by the Gestapo,...
Mélanie Thierry (The Princess of Montpensier), Benoit Magimel (The Piano Teacher), Benjamin Biolay (Personal Shopper),Shulamit Adar
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Music Box Films, one of the finest of the arthouse distributors will be releasing this emotionally complex story of love, loss, and perseverance against the backdrop of war. Memoir of War opens in New York August 17 at Film Forum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, and in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Royal and at the Regal Edwards Westpark 8 in Orange County on August 24. Other cities will follow.
It’s 1944, and Duras is an active Resistance member along with her husband, writer Robert Antelme, and a band of fellow subversives in Nazi-occupied Paris. When Antelme is deported to Dachau by the Gestapo,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Arnaud Desplechin on Hitchcock and Bergman’s Influence on ‘Ismael’s Ghosts,’ Catholicism, and Vaping
That each Arnaud Desplechin film has a way of responding to the one before it (and the one before that, and the one before that, and…) might account for the doubling- and tripling-back nature of my third conversation with the writer-director, who was in town this past October for a New York Film Festival screening of Ismael’s Ghosts, one of his knottiest works: a love story, a tragedy, a comedy, an overcooked movie-within-a-movie about espionage, Mathieu Amalric doing his bug-eyed thing that nobody does better. But Desplechin first told me about the film in 2015, describing it then as, essentially, a cross between Vertigo and the later novels of Philip Roth — both of whom come up herein — so where else would my mind travel but to where we’ve been? The length and direction of what follows should be evidence enough, or so I hope, of why I keep coming back.
- 3/22/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Arnaud Desplechin’s film about the unbearably sweet nature of remembered youth only now finds a UK release
Arnaud Desplechin is such a distinctive storyteller: intriguing, perplexing, seductively indirect. His ideas and plotlines sometimes overlap or nestle on top of each other, a mysterious palimpsest. There is a certain confectionery in his work, like a box of chocolates with all the chocolates balanced on top of each other.
There is also a generic ambiguity; Desplechin deploys memories that stray to the edge of whimsy and fantasy. My favourite is Kings & Queen (2004); this latest film, in fact his last-but-one, was in the Director’s Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival in 2015, and has only now found a UK release. For me, the incomplete jigsaw of its narrative ultimately felt less than entirely satisfying. It is about the unbearably sweet and unchangeable nature of remembered youth, speckled with literary references to Yeats,...
Arnaud Desplechin is such a distinctive storyteller: intriguing, perplexing, seductively indirect. His ideas and plotlines sometimes overlap or nestle on top of each other, a mysterious palimpsest. There is a certain confectionery in his work, like a box of chocolates with all the chocolates balanced on top of each other.
There is also a generic ambiguity; Desplechin deploys memories that stray to the edge of whimsy and fantasy. My favourite is Kings & Queen (2004); this latest film, in fact his last-but-one, was in the Director’s Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival in 2015, and has only now found a UK release. For me, the incomplete jigsaw of its narrative ultimately felt less than entirely satisfying. It is about the unbearably sweet and unchangeable nature of remembered youth, speckled with literary references to Yeats,...
- 3/15/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Grégoire Hetzel: "Joy is difficult to translate." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The composer for Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse), A Christmas Tale (Un Conte De Noël); Kings & Queen (Rois Et Reine); La Forêt and The Beloved (L'Aimée), Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue), Cédric Anger's Next Time I'll Aim For the Heart (La Prochaine Fois Je Viserai Le Coeur), and Renaud Fely's L'Ami (François D'Assise Et Ses Frères) spoke with me about scoring Catherine Corsini's Summertime (La Belle Saison) starring Izïa Higelin and Cécile de France and Anne Fontaine's The Innocents (Agnus Dei).
Delphine (Izïa Higelin) in Paris
Grégoire Hetzel, who previously worked with Corsini on Les Ambitieux and Three Worlds (Trois Mondes) points out the similarity between her joy and Anne Fontaine's religion in our conversation high above Central Park.
The love story in Summertime...
The composer for Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse), A Christmas Tale (Un Conte De Noël); Kings & Queen (Rois Et Reine); La Forêt and The Beloved (L'Aimée), Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue), Cédric Anger's Next Time I'll Aim For the Heart (La Prochaine Fois Je Viserai Le Coeur), and Renaud Fely's L'Ami (François D'Assise Et Ses Frères) spoke with me about scoring Catherine Corsini's Summertime (La Belle Saison) starring Izïa Higelin and Cécile de France and Anne Fontaine's The Innocents (Agnus Dei).
Delphine (Izïa Higelin) in Paris
Grégoire Hetzel, who previously worked with Corsini on Les Ambitieux and Three Worlds (Trois Mondes) points out the similarity between her joy and Anne Fontaine's religion in our conversation high above Central Park.
The love story in Summertime...
- 7/10/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Grégoire Hetzel with Anne-Katrin Titze: "It's like Bernard Herrmann or Ravel." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Grégoire Hetzel scored Mathieu Amalric's chronicle of fluid crime The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue) and César winning director Arnaud Desplechin's mythical braid of adventure My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse), A Christmas Tale (Un Conte De Noël); Kings & Queen (Rois Et Reine); La Forêt and The Beloved (L'Aimée).
Grégoire recently worked on Cédric Anger's Next Time I'll Aim For The Heart (La Prochaine Fois Je Viserai Le Coeur); Anne Fontaine's The Innocents (Agnus Dei); Renaud Fely's L'Ami (François D'Assise Et Ses Frères), Mathieu Demy's Americano and Catherine Corsini's Summertime (La Belle Saison), which he presented at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York.
Arnaud Desplechin: "In Arnaud's films the music is always underscored …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Herrmann and Maurice Ravel eventually reverberated...
Grégoire Hetzel scored Mathieu Amalric's chronicle of fluid crime The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue) and César winning director Arnaud Desplechin's mythical braid of adventure My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse), A Christmas Tale (Un Conte De Noël); Kings & Queen (Rois Et Reine); La Forêt and The Beloved (L'Aimée).
Grégoire recently worked on Cédric Anger's Next Time I'll Aim For The Heart (La Prochaine Fois Je Viserai Le Coeur); Anne Fontaine's The Innocents (Agnus Dei); Renaud Fely's L'Ami (François D'Assise Et Ses Frères), Mathieu Demy's Americano and Catherine Corsini's Summertime (La Belle Saison), which he presented at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York.
Arnaud Desplechin: "In Arnaud's films the music is always underscored …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Herrmann and Maurice Ravel eventually reverberated...
- 3/15/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cannes Film Festival watchers reacted with dismay yesterday at the exclusion of Arnaud Desplechin’s Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse from the Official Selection. But fans of the Jimmy P, Un Conte De Noël, and Rois Et Reine helmer can now take solace that his latest film will play in Directors’ Fortnight next month. Going by the English title My Golden Years, it’s set to screen on May 15. Billed as an excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves, the drama stars…...
- 4/17/2015
- Deadline
Olivier Assayas' Carlos (the 5 1/2 long verison) and Xavier Beauvois' Cannes winner Of Gods and Men would appear to be the frontrunners in this year's 8 nominated films for the Louis-Delluc prize. The annual Best French Film award that commenced operations back in 1937, when Jean Renoir's Les Bas-fonds claimed the inaugural prize will announce the winners for Best Film and Best First Film on December 17th. Best Feature Noms: Carlos - Olivier Assayas The Ghost Writer - Roman Polanski Mysteries of Lisbon - Raoul Ruiz Of Gods and Men - Xavier Beauvois On Tour - Mathieu Amalric The Princess of Montpensier - Bertrand Tavernier White Material - Claire Denis Young Girls in Black - Jean-Paul Civeyrac Delluc prize for first-time director: A Violent Poison - Katell Quillevere An Ordinary Execution - Marc Dugain Belle Epine - Rebecca Zlotowski Domaine - Patric Chiha Gainsbourg - Joann Sfar La Vie au Ranch...
- 11/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
2009 is almost over and so many magazines and websites have already offered up their best of the year And decade that I'm afraid y'all will get sick of the retrospectives before The Film Experience has chimed on. Remember: the tortoise wins! 2005's top ten list (in its original form) follows. New comments in red.
Public Favorites (Box Office): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Madagascar and Mr & Mrs Smith
Oscar Favorites: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich
My Vote For UnderAppreciated: In Her Shoes, Happy Endings and The White Countess
Top Ten Runners Up (11-15): The Squid and the Whale, Match Point, The New World, Junebug and The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
Public Favorites (Box Office): Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Madagascar and Mr & Mrs Smith
Oscar Favorites: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich
My Vote For UnderAppreciated: In Her Shoes, Happy Endings and The White Countess
Top Ten Runners Up (11-15): The Squid and the Whale, Match Point, The New World, Junebug and The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
- 12/20/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
PARIS -- Arnaud Desplechin's art house favorite Kings and Queen, which scooped seven Cesar nominations and won France's Louis Delluc award, was picked as best French film of 2004 by the Syndicat Francais de la Critique de Cinema, the French Union of Film Critics. Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation was voted best foreign film, with the writer-director on hand to claim the honor at an awards ceremony Monday night in Paris.
- 2/15/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet's World War I saga, A Very Long Engagement, swept up 12 nominations on Monday for the Cesar Awards, France's top film honors, including best film, best director, and best actress for Audrey Tautou. Les Choristes, France's contender for a foreign-language Oscar nomination, and 36 Quai des Orfevres, the police thriller starring Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil, each nabbed eight nominations. Choristes and 36 Quai will vie with Jeunet's film and two relatively small-budget French productions - teenage drama L'Esquive (The Dodging), directed by Tunisian-born Abdellatif Kechiche, which earned five nominations, and Arnaud Desplechin's Rois et Reine (Kings and Queen), about the parallel lives of two ex-lovers, which secured seven noms.
- 1/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Wellspring announced Wednesday that it has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Kings and Queen, directed by Arnaud Desplechin and starring Mathieu Almaric, Emmanuelle Devos and Catherine Deneuve. Wellspring is pegging a 2005 release followed by a release on DVD. Negotiating the deal were Wellspring's Marie Therese Guirgis with Carole Baraton of Wild Bunch on behalf of producer Pascal Caucheteux's Why Not Prods. The film is set to screen at the New York Film Festival next week after having its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival. It tells the parallel stories of two ex-lovers: Nora, a single mother suddenly faced with the care of her terminally ill father, and Ismael, a brilliant musician trying desperately -- in high comic fashion -- to escape from a mental hospital.
- 9/30/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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