Colcoa is keeping up with the times. Now in its twenty-first year, the lauded French film festival, sponsored by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, has added a pair of forward-thinking new categories for its newest edition. This year will include a virtual reality program and a web series competition, in addition to its Cinema, Television and Shorts competitions.
“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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- 4/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Damien Chazelle given Carte Blanche to present influential French film.
Colcoa and the Franco-American Cultural Fund also announced the Focus on a Filmmaker programme in addition to a line up of French classics consisting of predominantly digitally restored films.
The programme will take place at the DGA in Hollywood from April 24-May 2 as part of Colcoa’s 21st anniversary.
Oscar contender and La La Land director Damien Chazelle [pictured] has selected Leo Carax’s The Lovers On The Bridge (1991) starring Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant as an influential film.
This Carte Blanche screening will be presented in association with Rialto Pictures, with the support of the French Embassy in the Us and l’Institut Francais.
Colcoa will honour writer-director Stéphane Brizé on April 27, with a special presentation of Not Here To Be Loved (2005) starring Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, and George Wilson.
The Festival will also host the West Coast premiere of Brizé’s new film A Woman’s Life...
Colcoa and the Franco-American Cultural Fund also announced the Focus on a Filmmaker programme in addition to a line up of French classics consisting of predominantly digitally restored films.
The programme will take place at the DGA in Hollywood from April 24-May 2 as part of Colcoa’s 21st anniversary.
Oscar contender and La La Land director Damien Chazelle [pictured] has selected Leo Carax’s The Lovers On The Bridge (1991) starring Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant as an influential film.
This Carte Blanche screening will be presented in association with Rialto Pictures, with the support of the French Embassy in the Us and l’Institut Francais.
Colcoa will honour writer-director Stéphane Brizé on April 27, with a special presentation of Not Here To Be Loved (2005) starring Patrick Chesnais, Anne Consigny, and George Wilson.
The Festival will also host the West Coast premiere of Brizé’s new film A Woman’s Life...
- 2/23/2017
- ScreenDaily
French social cinema practically qualifies as its own genre at this point, with the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne being perhaps its foremost practitioners. Rennes-born filmmaker Stéphane Brizé is himself not a stranger to this particular kind of cinema, having explored it to varying degrees in films like “Not Here To Be Loved” (about a middle-aged paper-pusher’s dreary existence) and “A Few Hours of Spring” (about a violent man who moves back in with his mother after a prison stint). And it would appear that he’s not quite done with this particular creative terrain, as here we are with the English-language trailer for his newest film, the ground-level drama “The Measure of a Man.” Read More: Karlovy Vary Review: Gripping, Intelligent, Moving Cannes Best Actor Winner 'The Measure Of A Man' Brizé’s sixth picture screened at Cannes last year to mostly favorable notices, with our own Jessica Kiang giving 'Man' an A-,...
- 3/17/2016
- by Nicholas Laskin
- The Playlist
La Loi du Marché (The Measure of a Man)
Directed by Stéphane Brizé
Written by Stéphane Brizé, Olivier Gorce
France 2015
The second of no less than five French competition entries, La Loi du Marché is so far the most stringently cinéma-vérité film competing for the Palme d’Or. It is a fine piece of social drama in the French tradition of cinéma engagé (socially conscious cinema) with prominent touches of Dogme 95-style naturalism. I had seen and loved two of Stéphane Brizé’s previous works, Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (Not Here to Be Loved, 2005) and Mademoiselle Chambon (2009) but never realised they were directed by the author of La Loi du Marché so I went in slightly irritated with the French press already lionising director Brizé’s favourite lead Vincent Lindon’s performance as “on track for the best actor prize” as I already had my firm...
Directed by Stéphane Brizé
Written by Stéphane Brizé, Olivier Gorce
France 2015
The second of no less than five French competition entries, La Loi du Marché is so far the most stringently cinéma-vérité film competing for the Palme d’Or. It is a fine piece of social drama in the French tradition of cinéma engagé (socially conscious cinema) with prominent touches of Dogme 95-style naturalism. I had seen and loved two of Stéphane Brizé’s previous works, Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (Not Here to Be Loved, 2005) and Mademoiselle Chambon (2009) but never realised they were directed by the author of La Loi du Marché so I went in slightly irritated with the French press already lionising director Brizé’s favourite lead Vincent Lindon’s performance as “on track for the best actor prize” as I already had my firm...
- 5/20/2015
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
Six features in, French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé hasn’t had a long history with the Cannes Film Festival. In fact, the one time Camera d’Or juror saw his debut 1999 film, Le bleu des villes land in the Directors’ Fortnight and after gigs such as Not Here to Be Loved (2005), Entre adultes (2006), César Award winning Mademoiselle Chambon (2009) and A Few Hours of Spring (2011), Murphy’s Law certainly did not have its place with a film on market laws. Nabbing his first Main Comp slot presence with Le Loi du marche (known to international auds as The Measure of a Man) this is the filmmakers third straight collaboration with actor Vincent Lindon. With Variety calling this “a companion piece to the Dardenne brothers’ “Two Days, One Night,” early press screenings that took place this morning pleased the small number of critics from our panel who did shore up to this tough...
- 5/18/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Stéphane Brizé, writer-director of the quiet Not Here to Be Loved, compares her tale of a married small-town artisan (Vincent Lindon) falling in love with his infant son's teacher (the handsome Sandrine Kiberlain) to Clint Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County. A nearer comparison would be Brief Encounter, and there's a poignant train station scene at the end. It's a touching, measured, well-observed film that uses music (the teacher is a trained violinist) skilfully.
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- 9/24/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Reviewer: James Van Maanen
Rating (out of 5): ****
The exquisite French film Mademoiselle Chambon has been co-adapted (with Florence Vignon, from the novel by Eric Holder) and directed by Stéphane Brizé, who a few years ago, gave us the quietly entrancing Not Here to Be Loved [sadly not yet on DVD in the Us]. Brizé now offers an ever better, though just as quietly entrancing, film -- this time using two of France's best actors at the very top of their form: Vincent Lindon (Friday Night) and Sandrine Kiberlain (Apres Vous). A film with minimal dialog, but never obviously so, it relies on the in-the-moment response of the two actors, who are simply marvelous at expressing their inner selves while appearing to camouflage their feelings.
Rating (out of 5): ****
The exquisite French film Mademoiselle Chambon has been co-adapted (with Florence Vignon, from the novel by Eric Holder) and directed by Stéphane Brizé, who a few years ago, gave us the quietly entrancing Not Here to Be Loved [sadly not yet on DVD in the Us]. Brizé now offers an ever better, though just as quietly entrancing, film -- this time using two of France's best actors at the very top of their form: Vincent Lindon (Friday Night) and Sandrine Kiberlain (Apres Vous). A film with minimal dialog, but never obviously so, it relies on the in-the-moment response of the two actors, who are simply marvelous at expressing their inner selves while appearing to camouflage their feelings.
- 12/13/2010
- by underdog
- GreenCine
Courtesy of Sharmill Films, we have tickets for Mademoiselle Chambon, by Stéphane Brizé (Not Here to be Loved) and starring Vincent Lindon (Welcome, Anything for Her), Sandrine Kiberlain (Little Nicholas, Après Vous) and Aure Atika (The Beat That My Heart Skipped).
Mademoiselle Chambon is based on the novel by Éric Holder.
Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son Kevin. He feels comfortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerising, unlike any woman he has ever met before. This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organised life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret?
The film will be released on June 10, 2010.
To win, email miguel@focalattractions.com.au and tell us,...
Mademoiselle Chambon is based on the novel by Éric Holder.
Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: he spends his days happily between his construction sites and his house, with his loving wife and son Kevin. He feels comfortable in his routine. One day, as he’s picking up Kevin from school, he stumbles upon Mademoiselle Chambon, his son’s teacher. She’s discreet, elegant, mesmerising, unlike any woman he has ever met before. This chance encounter will be a turning point in his well-organised life. An opportunity to change or a folly to regret?
The film will be released on June 10, 2010.
To win, email miguel@focalattractions.com.au and tell us,...
- 6/9/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
- Founded in 1988, the European Film Academy currently unites 1,700 European film professionals with the common aim of promoting Europe's film culture. Here are this year's noms.... European Film 2006 Breakfast On Pluto; Ireland/UK Directed by Neil Jordan Produced by Parallel Film Productions Ltd./Number 9 Films Grbavica; Austria/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/Croatia Directed by Jasmila Zbanic Produced by Coop99 Filmproduktion Gmbh/Deblokada/Noirfilm/Jadran Film Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives Of Others); Germany Directed by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck Produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion/Bayerischer Rundfunk/Arte/Creado Film The Road To Guantanamo; UK Directed by Michael Winterbottom And Mat Whitecross Produced by Revolution Films Ltd. Volver; Spain Directed by Pedro Almodovar Produced by El Deseo D.A., S.L.U. The Wind That Shakes The Barley; UK/Ireland/Germany/Italy/Spain Directed By Ken Loach Produced By Sixteen Films/Matador Pictures/Regent Capital/UK Film Council/Bord Scannan Na
- 11/6/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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