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Danièle Delorme and Jean Gabin in 'Deadlier Than the Male.' Danièle Delorme movies (See previous post: “Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 Actress Became Rare Woman Director's Muse.”) “Every actor would like to make a movie with Charles Chaplin or René Clair,” Danièle Delorme explains in the filmed interview (ca. 1960) embedded further below, adding that oftentimes it wasn't up to them to decide with whom they would get to work. Yet, although frequently beyond her control, Delorme managed to collaborate with a number of major (mostly French) filmmakers throughout her six-decade movie career. Aside from her Jacqueline Audry films discussed in the previous Danièle Delorme article, below are a few of her most notable efforts – usually playing naive-looking young women of modest means and deceptively inconspicuous sexuality, whose inner character may or may not match their external appearance. Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (“Open for Inventory Causes,” 1946), an unreleased, no-budget comedy notable...

A beautifully observant meander through the difficulties and discoveries of wise but still confused advanced age, led by a gorgeous, vital, 70-odd Catherine Deneuve. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Ah, Catherine Deneuve. Gorgeous, vital, and sexy at 70-odd — and in a way completely suited to her age, and not like she’s aspiring to youth long gone — she remains a goddess. Even as– nay because she here portrays a down-to-earth, realistically human woman whose life is a mess. Deneuve’s (Persepolis) Bettie runs a financially strapped restaurant in the small French village she grew up in. Her very elderly mother is a stroppy handful. Her married lover has just left his wife… for a much younger other other woman. Fed up with it all, she gets in her car one Sunday afternoon, right in the middle of lunch service,...

Yet another romantic drama, but at least this drama has quite interesting cast on board! Rebecca Hall and Richard Madden will lead us through the pre-wwi-set tale (simply) titled A Promise, which comes from director Patrice Leconte and is set to play Out Of Competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Head inside to find the first official images and poster & let us know what you think! Leconte directed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Jérôme Tonnerre, which revolves around a married woman who falls in love with her husband’s teacher. What’s romantic about that? Separated by the war, they pledge their...

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Lots of news out of Venice today. "Une Promesse," the new film by French filmmaker Patrice LeConte, will round out the Out of Competition section at the 70th festival, running August 28 through September 7. It stars Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman and Richard Madden. Additionally, actress, screenwriter and author Carrie Fisher will complete the international jury. Meanwhile, Mexican director Amat Escalante has joined the Venice Lion jury, headed by Saudi Arabia's first woman filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour, which honors a debut film at the festival. Here's the official synopsis for "Une Promesse":Une Promesse, written (with Jérôme Tonnerre) and directed by Patrice Leconte, will have its world premiere screening at the 70th Venice Film Festival.  Based on a novel by Stefan Zweig, the film takes place in Germany, in the period preceding World War I, and hinges on a woman who falls in love with the young assistant to her husband, a rich and powerful industrialist.

The final years of French Master Renoir prove to be dull in Gilles Bourdos’ bio-drama I lose count of the beautiful moments throughout co-writer/director Gilles Bourdos artist bio Renoir; an admiring story about French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) in his final years co-written by Bourdos, Michel Spinosa, Jérôme Tonnerre and based on the work of Jacques Renoir, the great-grandson of the famous painter. A paintbrush dips into a glass of water and adds a spinning swirl of red pigment. Water sprays from a garden hose and becomes a sparkler for light droplets. Renoir’s female servants take to the river alongside his country home in Cagnes-sur-Mer and swim. They are carefree, laughing, comfortable with their bodies and truly beautiful.

With the potential disaster of Lay the Favorite still waiting to hit, it’s good (and reassuring) to see Rebecca Hall grab an offset to whatever Stephen Frears hath wrought. (And, while it’ll probably be entertaining, I’m not talking about Iron Man 3.) Variety informs us that the actress will star for Patrice Leconte in A Promise, the filmmaker’s adaptation of Stefan Zweig‘s novella Journey into the Past; Jérôme Tonnerre has co-written the screenplay.

Being a romantic period drama, A Promise would see Hall play “the wife of an older, wealthy man who falls hopelessly in love with her husband’s teacher, a young and ambitious engineer from a modest background.” But, despite making a promise to stay together and engage in all the other goings-on typical of a romantic relationship, the start of World War I forces the couple to separate and — you guessed right...