Among the last batch of entries for the festival, the filmmaker behind 2004 debut Steve+Sky, 2009’s The Misfortunates (Directors’ Fortnight selection) and 2012’s The Broken Circle Breakdown makes his first ever presence in the competition section and is joined by wife and creative partner Charlotte Vandermeersch who appeared in some of his films including 2016’s Belgica.
A true piece of Italian cinema (geographically and language wise), this book to film project stars Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi – in what is essentially a tale about fathers, mountains and companionship. It spans three decades and is obviously painterly — the backdrop is a major player in their communal discontent, grievances and healing.…...
A true piece of Italian cinema (geographically and language wise), this book to film project stars Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi – in what is essentially a tale about fathers, mountains and companionship. It spans three decades and is obviously painterly — the backdrop is a major player in their communal discontent, grievances and healing.…...
- 5/19/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
New titles join 47 unveiled at April 14 press conference and previously announced Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick.
Cannes Film Festival has added a flurry of new titles to its 2022 Official Selection, as promised by delegate general Thierry Frémaux at last week’s press conference unveiling the bulk of the titles due to premiere at its 75th edition, running May 17-28.
A total of 17 fresh additions were announced, joining the 47 films unveiled on April 14 as well as Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick, which were announced earlier. This brings the total number of films in selection so far to 66 against 83 in last year’s special July edition.
Cannes Film Festival has added a flurry of new titles to its 2022 Official Selection, as promised by delegate general Thierry Frémaux at last week’s press conference unveiling the bulk of the titles due to premiere at its 75th edition, running May 17-28.
A total of 17 fresh additions were announced, joining the 47 films unveiled on April 14 as well as Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick, which were announced earlier. This brings the total number of films in selection so far to 66 against 83 in last year’s special July edition.
- 4/21/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
To mark the release of Hidden Assets, out now, we’ve been given 1 copy to give away on DVD.
When a raid of an Irish drug dealer’s home upends a bag of rough diamonds supplied by a seemingly untraceable source, it quickly becomes clear that Berry has a high stakes case on her hands…
As the diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, no-nonsense Berry must join forces with gum-chewing Police Commissioner Christian De Jong to crack the case. A diamond haul in Limerick, a dead body in Antwerp, and a terrorist bombing campaign, the detective duo has their work cut out.
Working tirelessly, the unlikely pair unravel a web of political corruption spearheaded by a dangerously wealthy Irish dynasty. Drawn into a battle of wits – Berry and De Jong find themselves in a desperate race against time to stop another terrorist attack. Can they crack...
When a raid of an Irish drug dealer’s home upends a bag of rough diamonds supplied by a seemingly untraceable source, it quickly becomes clear that Berry has a high stakes case on her hands…
As the diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, no-nonsense Berry must join forces with gum-chewing Police Commissioner Christian De Jong to crack the case. A diamond haul in Limerick, a dead body in Antwerp, and a terrorist bombing campaign, the detective duo has their work cut out.
Working tirelessly, the unlikely pair unravel a web of political corruption spearheaded by a dangerously wealthy Irish dynasty. Drawn into a battle of wits – Berry and De Jong find themselves in a desperate race against time to stop another terrorist attack. Can they crack...
- 3/7/2022
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Belgium’s Panenka, producers of recent Vrt breakout hit “Two Summers” – which premiered last week to a jaw-dropping 51% market share in its prime-time slot and which will soon be released worldwide by Netflix – will virtually pitch one of their upcoming projects, “This is Not a Murder Mystery,” at Berlin Co-Pro Series.
One of 10 such projects set for this event, Co-Pro Series marks the first public pitch for “Tinamm,” with the creative team looking to the right co-production and distribution partner to help realize their murder mystery series. Panenka producer Kristoffel Mertens hosts the virtual Co-Pro pitch with co-creators Paul Baeten and Christophe Dirickx.
Baeten is a novelist, essayist and TV screenwriter, whose credits include two seasons of the acclaimed drama series “Over Water” and the aforementioned “Two Summers.” Dirickx has written and produced several feature films, including Cannes players “The Misfortunates” from director Felix van Groeningen and Frank Van Passel’s “Manneken Pis.
One of 10 such projects set for this event, Co-Pro Series marks the first public pitch for “Tinamm,” with the creative team looking to the right co-production and distribution partner to help realize their murder mystery series. Panenka producer Kristoffel Mertens hosts the virtual Co-Pro pitch with co-creators Paul Baeten and Christophe Dirickx.
Baeten is a novelist, essayist and TV screenwriter, whose credits include two seasons of the acclaimed drama series “Over Water” and the aforementioned “Two Summers.” Dirickx has written and produced several feature films, including Cannes players “The Misfortunates” from director Felix van Groeningen and Frank Van Passel’s “Manneken Pis.
- 2/15/2022
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
It will be co-written and co-directed by Belgium’s Charlotte Vandermeersch.
Beautiful Boy and The Broken Circle Breakdown director Felix van Groeningen is to co-write and co-direct a feature based on Paolo Cognetti’s Italian bestseller The Eight Mountains with Charlotte Vandermeersch for Rome-based production outfit Wildside.
It will be the first move into directing for Belgian actress Vandermeersch who has had roles in Groeningen’s Belgica, The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Misfortunates and With Friends Like These.
The Eight Mountains aims to shoot in the Italian Alps, Turin and Nepal this summer. No cast is attached yet.
The project...
Beautiful Boy and The Broken Circle Breakdown director Felix van Groeningen is to co-write and co-direct a feature based on Paolo Cognetti’s Italian bestseller The Eight Mountains with Charlotte Vandermeersch for Rome-based production outfit Wildside.
It will be the first move into directing for Belgian actress Vandermeersch who has had roles in Groeningen’s Belgica, The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Misfortunates and With Friends Like These.
The Eight Mountains aims to shoot in the Italian Alps, Turin and Nepal this summer. No cast is attached yet.
The project...
- 2/23/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Felix van Groeningen's Beautiful Boy co-screenwriter Luke Davies: "Amy Ryan and Maura Tierney, mother and stepmother. I wish we had more for the women because they're amazing in the film." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the final instalment of my conversation with Luke Davies on Beautiful Boy we discuss the family dynamics between the roles Steve Carell (David Sheff), Maura Tierney (Karen Barbour) and Amy Ryan (Vicki Sheff) play in the life of Timothée Chalamet (Nic Sheff), the "experimenting" done by Felix van Groeningen with his longtime editor Nico Leunen, and how the Oscar-nominated screenwriter (for his adaptation of Saroo Brierley's A Long Way Home for Garth Davis's Lion), enjoys dealing with parent-child relationships.
Karen Barbour (Maura Tierney) with her husband David Sheff (Steve Carell): "For the first time this alpha male who is a high achiever comes up against that thing that he not only...
In the final instalment of my conversation with Luke Davies on Beautiful Boy we discuss the family dynamics between the roles Steve Carell (David Sheff), Maura Tierney (Karen Barbour) and Amy Ryan (Vicki Sheff) play in the life of Timothée Chalamet (Nic Sheff), the "experimenting" done by Felix van Groeningen with his longtime editor Nico Leunen, and how the Oscar-nominated screenwriter (for his adaptation of Saroo Brierley's A Long Way Home for Garth Davis's Lion), enjoys dealing with parent-child relationships.
Karen Barbour (Maura Tierney) with her husband David Sheff (Steve Carell): "For the first time this alpha male who is a high achiever comes up against that thing that he not only...
- 1/6/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Paul Auster on Alicia Vikander's connection to In the Country of Last Things being filmed by Alejandro Chomski in 2019: "At one point, it was before Alicia became famous, when she was on the brink, and she loved the book and she wanted to do it." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
When I met Paul Auster to return his DVD copy of The Inner Life Of Martin Frost, starring David Thewlis and Irène Jacob with Michael Imperioli and Sophie Auster, I brought a brochure for him of the Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum and I showed him Ed Bahlman's copy of Attilio Bertolucci's collection of poetry, signed by his son, Bernardo Bertolucci.
We discussed Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates and The Brooklyn Follies, Pedro Almodóvar and The Book Of Illusions, Per Oscarsson in Hening Carlsen's adaptation of Knut Hamsun's Hunger, Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair,...
When I met Paul Auster to return his DVD copy of The Inner Life Of Martin Frost, starring David Thewlis and Irène Jacob with Michael Imperioli and Sophie Auster, I brought a brochure for him of the Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum and I showed him Ed Bahlman's copy of Attilio Bertolucci's collection of poetry, signed by his son, Bernardo Bertolucci.
We discussed Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates and The Brooklyn Follies, Pedro Almodóvar and The Book Of Illusions, Per Oscarsson in Hening Carlsen's adaptation of Knut Hamsun's Hunger, Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair,...
- 12/20/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Hate U Give, latest 2018 film about fatal police shooting, enters top 10.
October 15 Update: In its second weekend Sony/Marvel’s buddy movie Venom held firm at number one on a confirmed $35m to reach $142.1m as Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born stayed in second on $28.4m, and Universal’s First Man landed in third place on an underwhelming $16m.
Amazon Studios made a splash with its awards hopeful Beautiful Boy in limited release, while Columbia Pictures’ Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and Fox’s Bad Times At The El Royale delivered a pair of so-so top 10 debuts.
Venom, which...
October 15 Update: In its second weekend Sony/Marvel’s buddy movie Venom held firm at number one on a confirmed $35m to reach $142.1m as Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born stayed in second on $28.4m, and Universal’s First Man landed in third place on an underwhelming $16m.
Amazon Studios made a splash with its awards hopeful Beautiful Boy in limited release, while Columbia Pictures’ Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and Fox’s Bad Times At The El Royale delivered a pair of so-so top 10 debuts.
Venom, which...
- 10/14/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Hate U Give, latest 2018 film about fatal police shooting, enters top 10.
In its second weekend Sony/Marvel’s buddy movie Venom held firm at number one on an estimated $35.7m to reach $142.8m as Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born stayed in second on $28m, and Universal’s First Man landed in third place on an underwhelming $16.5m.
Amazon Studios made a splash with its awards hopeful Beautiful Boy in limited release, while Columbia Pictures’ Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and Fox’s Bad Times At The El Royale delivered a pair of so-so top 10 debuts.
Venom, which stars Tom Hardy...
In its second weekend Sony/Marvel’s buddy movie Venom held firm at number one on an estimated $35.7m to reach $142.8m as Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born stayed in second on $28m, and Universal’s First Man landed in third place on an underwhelming $16.5m.
Amazon Studios made a splash with its awards hopeful Beautiful Boy in limited release, while Columbia Pictures’ Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and Fox’s Bad Times At The El Royale delivered a pair of so-so top 10 debuts.
Venom, which stars Tom Hardy...
- 10/14/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Belgian director Felix van Groeningen is deeply interested in chronicling the emotional lay-of-the-land of 'downfall.' From his comedic family comedy-drama The Misfortunates, to the death of a small child for a pair of firebrand Bluegrass musicians in The Broken Circle Breakdown, earnest and tragic tones are harmonized to elicit maximal emotional response. It is hard, nearly impossible in fact, to walk away from van Groeningen's filmmaking unaffected. So with his English language debut, courtesy of Amazon Studios, and Hollywood stars, Steve Carell, Amy Ryan and the up and coming Timothée Chalamet, it appears from this trailer, that not a bit of dilution has occurred. On the contrary, albeit it might just be the trailer editors, things appear to be even more potent. Based on the...
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- 6/27/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Belgian director Felix van Groeningen is deeply interested in chronicling the emotional lay-of-the-land of 'downfall.' From his comedic family comedy-drama The Misfortunates, to the death of a small child for a pair of firebrand Bluegrass musicians in The Broken Circle Breakdown, earnest and tragic tones are harmonized to elicit maximal emotional response. It is hard, nearly impossible in fact, to walk away from van Groeningen's filmmaking unaffected. So with his English language debut, courtesy of Amazon Studios, and Hollywood stars, Steve Carell, Amy Ryan and the up and coming Timothée Chalamet, it appears from this trailer, that not a bit of dilution has occurred. On the contrary, albeit it might just be the trailer editors, things appear to be even more potent. Based on the...
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- 6/27/2018
- Screen Anarchy
The Misfortunates DVDDirector: Felix van Groeningen.
Writer: Christophe Dirickx, Dimitri Verhulst and Felix van Groeningen.
The Misfortunates is a Belgium language film from director Felix van Groeningen. The film recently had a showing on DVD September 28th through Evokative Films in Canada, with Neoclassic Films handling Us distribution. A real life look at writer Dimitri Verhulst's early life, The Misfortunates shows the stumbling blocks of lower class life, which involves alcoholism, family dysfunction and poverty. The Strobbe's, who are the focus of the film, band together through drink, but also through a common bond of love.
The film begins with a young Kleine Strobbe of thirteen living with his alcoholic father, where there are no signs of a mother. Kleine's mother left the family at an early age and now Kleine is raised by three more family members who love strong drink, his three uncles. Soon there are misadventures...
Writer: Christophe Dirickx, Dimitri Verhulst and Felix van Groeningen.
The Misfortunates is a Belgium language film from director Felix van Groeningen. The film recently had a showing on DVD September 28th through Evokative Films in Canada, with Neoclassic Films handling Us distribution. A real life look at writer Dimitri Verhulst's early life, The Misfortunates shows the stumbling blocks of lower class life, which involves alcoholism, family dysfunction and poverty. The Strobbe's, who are the focus of the film, band together through drink, but also through a common bond of love.
The film begins with a young Kleine Strobbe of thirteen living with his alcoholic father, where there are no signs of a mother. Kleine's mother left the family at an early age and now Kleine is raised by three more family members who love strong drink, his three uncles. Soon there are misadventures...
- 10/19/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
If you.ve been brought up by a tight family, you.ll probably identify with the slogan uttered now and then by one of the members of these misfortunates: "No one lays a finger on a Strobbe." Then again, maybe that.s not such a great accomplishment, because who.d want to? In adapting a best-selling novel about a wacky Belgian family, filmmaker Felix Van Groeninger captures the essence of Dimitri Verhulst.s book "De helaasheid der dingen, making the tome cinematic by giving more activity to the principal performer who is not simply a passive sponge. Belgium.s Oscar entry for Best Foreign Picture of 2009, "The Misfortunates" is a down-and-dirty look at a white-trash family in the Belgian province of Flanders in 1988 with occasional extensions to current times. Few films possess the kind of genre-swapping that Groeningen taps into, merging off-the-wall ribaldry with moments of tender emotion, a look...
- 3/31/2010
- Arizona Reporter
The latest acquisition from Montreal based Evokative Films, The Misfortunates, will start its cross country tour in a couple weeks starting here in Toronto then off to Ottawa and Vancouver.
Montreal, Wednesday March 24th, 2010 - After opening in Montreal on March 19th to unanimously positive reviews, Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates(Original title De Helaasheid Der Dingen, French title La Merditude Des Choses) will now be screening in Toronto from April 9th at the Canada Square Theatre in Flemish with English subtitles. The film will then go on to play in Ottawa from April 30th at the Mayfair Theatre and in Vancouver from May 14th at the Cinemark Tinseltown Theatre. Other engagements throughout Canada will follow.
The rest of the press release is after the break...
Montreal, Wednesday March 24th, 2010 - After opening in Montreal on March 19th to unanimously positive reviews, Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates(Original title De Helaasheid Der Dingen, French title La Merditude Des Choses) will now be screening in Toronto from April 9th at the Canada Square Theatre in Flemish with English subtitles. The film will then go on to play in Ottawa from April 30th at the Mayfair Theatre and in Vancouver from May 14th at the Cinemark Tinseltown Theatre. Other engagements throughout Canada will follow.
The rest of the press release is after the break...
- 3/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Like the headline says. This one's a favorite around here so get out and give it a look if you can:
Evokative Films is very pleased to announce the theatrical release of Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates (De Helaasheid Der Dingen). The film will debut in Montreal on March 19th at the AMC Forum Theatre with a Flemish with English subtitles print and at the Cinéma Beaubien with a Flemish with French subtitles print. The Misfortunates will then go on to play in Toronto from April 9th at the Canada Square Theatre (venue may change), in Ottawa from April 30th at the Mayfair Theatre and in Vancouver from May 14th at the Cinemark Tinseltown Theatre. Other engagements throughout Canada will follow.
Gunther Strobbe is a 13 years old boy who lives in his grandmother's house in a small Belgian town with his alcoholic father and three uncles. Life in the household is clearly dysfunctional,...
Evokative Films is very pleased to announce the theatrical release of Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates (De Helaasheid Der Dingen). The film will debut in Montreal on March 19th at the AMC Forum Theatre with a Flemish with English subtitles print and at the Cinéma Beaubien with a Flemish with French subtitles print. The Misfortunates will then go on to play in Toronto from April 9th at the Canada Square Theatre (venue may change), in Ottawa from April 30th at the Mayfair Theatre and in Vancouver from May 14th at the Cinemark Tinseltown Theatre. Other engagements throughout Canada will follow.
Gunther Strobbe is a 13 years old boy who lives in his grandmother's house in a small Belgian town with his alcoholic father and three uncles. Life in the household is clearly dysfunctional,...
- 3/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The eccentric Icelandic comedy Mr Bjarnfredarson has swept the country's movie awards and reached 20% of the population. But will the outside world care?
If Avatar has taught us anything, it's that making a film that's both critically acclaimed and commercially successful takes years of work, hundreds of millions of dollars, cutting-edge technology and a script about a Jesusy blue chap who rides around on a flying pike and gets off with sexy aliens whenever he can.
Although maybe that's just applicable to America. Iceland, on the other hand, appears to prefer downbeat comedies about ex-convicts. Last week, Icelandic comedy/drama Mr Bjarnfredarson became the most nominated film at the Icelandic film and television awards, picking up 11 nods for everything from best film to best director to best make-up. It accounts for three of the best leading actor nominations, too, which does seem a little inexplicable. The Prison Shift, the TV...
If Avatar has taught us anything, it's that making a film that's both critically acclaimed and commercially successful takes years of work, hundreds of millions of dollars, cutting-edge technology and a script about a Jesusy blue chap who rides around on a flying pike and gets off with sexy aliens whenever he can.
Although maybe that's just applicable to America. Iceland, on the other hand, appears to prefer downbeat comedies about ex-convicts. Last week, Icelandic comedy/drama Mr Bjarnfredarson became the most nominated film at the Icelandic film and television awards, picking up 11 nods for everything from best film to best director to best make-up. It accounts for three of the best leading actor nominations, too, which does seem a little inexplicable. The Prison Shift, the TV...
- 2/9/2010
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
Along with The Over the Hill Band and Altiplano, the third Belgian feature I caught at PSIFF10 was Felix Van Groeningen's The Misfortunates (2009), Belgium's official submission to the Academy Awards® foreign language category. Though it did not make the Oscar® shortlist, The Misfortunates won the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Festival's Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, and three Golden Starfish Awards (Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography) at the 17th Hamptons International Film Festival.
Adapted from Flemish author Dimitri Verhulst's semi-autobiographical novel De helaasheid der dingen (The Alasness of Things), the condensely-entitled Misfortunates is--as Boyd von Hoeij writes at Variety--"a bittersweet meditation on whether familial love and pride are enough to sustain a proper upbringing."
As with its Belgian counterpart Altiplano, The Misfortunates frequently shifts its palette from black and white to color and so I felt compelled to open the Q&A questioning on that stylistic choice.
Adapted from Flemish author Dimitri Verhulst's semi-autobiographical novel De helaasheid der dingen (The Alasness of Things), the condensely-entitled Misfortunates is--as Boyd von Hoeij writes at Variety--"a bittersweet meditation on whether familial love and pride are enough to sustain a proper upbringing."
As with its Belgian counterpart Altiplano, The Misfortunates frequently shifts its palette from black and white to color and so I felt compelled to open the Q&A questioning on that stylistic choice.
- 2/4/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Berlin -- Belgian black comedy "The Misfortunates" by director Felix van Groeningen will close this year's Munich International Film Festival (June 26 – July 4).
The film premiered in Cannes in the Director's Fortnight section where it won the Prix Art et Essai award. The cast turned heads on the Croisette by cycling nude through central Cannes to promote the movie.
Other Cannes entries heading to Munich this year include Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces" and Golden Camera winner "Samson and Deliah."
Palme d'Or winner "The White Ribbon" will have a special screening in Munich July 3 in honor of director Michael Haneke, who will receive the festival's CineMerit lifetime achievement award.
Other highlights at this year's Munich Fest include Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience" starring porn performer Sasha Grey, Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" and "The Hurt Locker" from Kathryn Bigelow.
Munich's opening film has yet to be announced.
The film premiered in Cannes in the Director's Fortnight section where it won the Prix Art et Essai award. The cast turned heads on the Croisette by cycling nude through central Cannes to promote the movie.
Other Cannes entries heading to Munich this year include Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces" and Golden Camera winner "Samson and Deliah."
Palme d'Or winner "The White Ribbon" will have a special screening in Munich July 3 in honor of director Michael Haneke, who will receive the festival's CineMerit lifetime achievement award.
Other highlights at this year's Munich Fest include Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience" starring porn performer Sasha Grey, Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" and "The Hurt Locker" from Kathryn Bigelow.
Munich's opening film has yet to be announced.
- 6/4/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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