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A World Of Pure Imagination
Golden ticket: Netflix landed the big one this week, wrapping up a deal to acquire the full Roald Dahl catalogue of stories, marking one of the streamer’s most significant acquisitions to date and one that the company was understood to have been chasing voraciously. The agreement extends a partnership that began in 2018, initially only covering animated adaptations, with projects to date including Taika Waititi and Phil Johnston’s upcoming series based on the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and an adaptation of Matilda The Musical with Sony and Working Title.
Franchise potential: Financial details weren’t disclosed but general consensus seems to be that this was a...
A World Of Pure Imagination
Golden ticket: Netflix landed the big one this week, wrapping up a deal to acquire the full Roald Dahl catalogue of stories, marking one of the streamer’s most significant acquisitions to date and one that the company was understood to have been chasing voraciously. The agreement extends a partnership that began in 2018, initially only covering animated adaptations, with projects to date including Taika Waititi and Phil Johnston’s upcoming series based on the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and an adaptation of Matilda The Musical with Sony and Working Title.
Franchise potential: Financial details weren’t disclosed but general consensus seems to be that this was a...
- 9/24/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
French director Claire Simon is putting the spotlight for her next documentary on the steps of life from birth to death for the bodies of women.
Simon, who was at the San Sebastian Film Festival with her latest film “I Want to Talk About Duras,” starts shooting this week at the Paris public hospital, Hopital Tenon, in the city’s 20th Arrondissement.
With “This Body of Women” (the literal English translation of the title) she plans to trace all of the female health cycles from birth to death.
“I’m doing a documentary about women’s bodies in a hospital in Paris. It’s all the [medical issues] around gynecology, like giving birth, abortion, endometriosis, IVF, cancer. It’s about all the stops of life but only for women,” she says.
Simon did some preliminary filming in July and hopes to be finished by November.
“It’s an incredible institution with top scientists.
Simon, who was at the San Sebastian Film Festival with her latest film “I Want to Talk About Duras,” starts shooting this week at the Paris public hospital, Hopital Tenon, in the city’s 20th Arrondissement.
With “This Body of Women” (the literal English translation of the title) she plans to trace all of the female health cycles from birth to death.
“I’m doing a documentary about women’s bodies in a hospital in Paris. It’s all the [medical issues] around gynecology, like giving birth, abortion, endometriosis, IVF, cancer. It’s about all the stops of life but only for women,” she says.
Simon did some preliminary filming in July and hopes to be finished by November.
“It’s an incredible institution with top scientists.
- 9/23/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
A superfan dates his idol in Claire Simon’s I Want To Talk About Duras (Vous Ne Désirez Que Moi), premiering in the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Official Competition before screening at the New York Film Festival. Based on the transcript of an audio interview, the French language drama stars Swann Arlaud as Yann Andréa, a man 38 years younger than his novelist partner Marguerite Duras, whose screenplay for Hiroshima Mon Amour won her an Oscar nomination in 1959.
In 1980, the pair stirred the literary world by getting together, and two years into their relationship, Andréa confided in Michèle Manceaux (Emmanuelle Devos) over several taped sessions. The results were turned into a book after his death, no doubt a compelling read but a cinematic challenge. As Simon herself has said, “This is completely unsuited to cinema,” although the book did inspire a more conventional drama, Cet Amour-Là, in 2001. But if you...
In 1980, the pair stirred the literary world by getting together, and two years into their relationship, Andréa confided in Michèle Manceaux (Emmanuelle Devos) over several taped sessions. The results were turned into a book after his death, no doubt a compelling read but a cinematic challenge. As Simon herself has said, “This is completely unsuited to cinema,” although the book did inspire a more conventional drama, Cet Amour-Là, in 2001. But if you...
- 9/20/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
"For the first time, a woman gave herself to me... It was total love." A festival promo trailer has debuted for the French romantic drama titled I Want To Talk About Duras, which is premiering at the 2021 San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain this week. Originally known as Vous ne désirez que moi in French, which translates to You Only Want Me (this title is more alluring for sure), this is the latest fictional film from filmmaker Claire Simon, known for many of her docs as well as her narrative films. I Want To Talk About Duras explores the relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior. César-winning actors Emmanuelle Devos and Swann Arlaud co-star as Manceaux and Andréa in the film, which is "based on an unedited transcript of a 1982 interview between Andréa and writer and journalist Michèle Manceaux." Worth...
- 9/20/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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