"What if I told the police where you buried Barcelo?" Netflix has revealed the official trailer for a French action-thriller titled Restless, also known as Sans répit, arriving on Netflix later this month. Another of these French films about a sketchy cop getting into trouble. After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a mysterious witness. When the investigation of the missing person is given to one of his colleagues, and an anonymous witness tries to blackmail him, things start to get really out of hand. Franck Gastambide stars, with Simon Abkarian, Michael Abiteboul, Tracy Gotoas, Jemima West, & Serge Hazanavicius. Damn this looks intense! When the French want to go big on action, they go all out with all kinds of explosive action. Check this out. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Régis Blondeau's Restless,...
- 2/6/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Gaumont unveils Lemercier comedy Homecoming [pictured] and Kev Adams’s feelgood drama To The Top.
Gaumont has launched sales on Valérie Lemercier’s comedy Homecoming about a woman in her 50s who goes through a second youth when a change in professional and personal fortunes forces her to move back in with her parents.
It marks a fifth time in the director’s chair for popular French actress Lemercier after comedies including Palais Royal! and The Ultimate Accessory.
Lemercier also stars as the central character of Marie-Francine who has to contend with her over-bearing parents while rebuilding her life.
Edouard Weil’s Rectangle Productions is producing the film which began shooting April 20 for delivery in the second half of 2017.
Gaumont has also taken on sales of Serge Hazanavicius’s To The Top starring box office draw Kev Adams as a champion snowboarder with aspirations of taking on Mount Everest.
He heads to the French snowboarding Mecca Chamonix...
Gaumont has launched sales on Valérie Lemercier’s comedy Homecoming about a woman in her 50s who goes through a second youth when a change in professional and personal fortunes forces her to move back in with her parents.
It marks a fifth time in the director’s chair for popular French actress Lemercier after comedies including Palais Royal! and The Ultimate Accessory.
Lemercier also stars as the central character of Marie-Francine who has to contend with her over-bearing parents while rebuilding her life.
Edouard Weil’s Rectangle Productions is producing the film which began shooting April 20 for delivery in the second half of 2017.
Gaumont has also taken on sales of Serge Hazanavicius’s To The Top starring box office draw Kev Adams as a champion snowboarder with aspirations of taking on Mount Everest.
He heads to the French snowboarding Mecca Chamonix...
- 5/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Anil D. Ambani led Reliance Entertainment has now announced a unique Indo-French partnership with Julie Gayet's Rouge International, and Elisa Soussan's my Family, to produce Serge Hazanavicius's directorial venture Nomber One, in which Kev Adams will be playing the lead role. The film has been written by Serge Hazanavicius, Stephane Dan, Mary-Noelle Dana, and Alexis Galmot. Nomber One is about a quest, and of the ascension of a uniquely talented young man, in a world gone mad, a world of commerce and mercantile deals. It is also the tale of a father-son relationship between two men who share the same passion, of how events tear them apart, and of how a love of the snow, and quite simply love itself, brings them back together again. The movie is a story of riders, the daring last action heroes who risk their lives for a beautiful run, for...
- 1/25/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
India’s Reliance Entertainment is teaming with two French production companies – Julie Gayet’s Rouge International and Elisa Soussan’s myFamily – to co-produce Serge Hazanavicius’ mountaineering drama nOmber One.
Hazanavicius, the brother of The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius, is best known as an actor (The Monuments Men, I’ve Loved You So Long) and TV director.
He has co-written and will direct nOmber One, a father-son relationship story, which is set to star French actor Kev Adams. Co-writers also include Stephane Dan, Mary-Noelle Dana and Alexis Galmot.
The film will start shooting in February 2016 in France before moving to the Indian Himalayas in March and April.
“nOmber One is the story of a quest, and of the ascension of a uniquely talented young man in a world gone mad – a world of commerce and mercantile deals,” said Reliance in a statement.
A major investor in DreamWorks, Reliance also recently became a co-founder of Steven Spielberg’s [link...
Hazanavicius, the brother of The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius, is best known as an actor (The Monuments Men, I’ve Loved You So Long) and TV director.
He has co-written and will direct nOmber One, a father-son relationship story, which is set to star French actor Kev Adams. Co-writers also include Stephane Dan, Mary-Noelle Dana and Alexis Galmot.
The film will start shooting in February 2016 in France before moving to the Indian Himalayas in March and April.
“nOmber One is the story of a quest, and of the ascension of a uniquely talented young man in a world gone mad – a world of commerce and mercantile deals,” said Reliance in a statement.
A major investor in DreamWorks, Reliance also recently became a co-founder of Steven Spielberg’s [link...
- 1/25/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
India’s Reliance Entertainment is teaming with two French production companies – Julie Gayet’s Rouge International and Elisa Soussan’s myFamily – to co-produce Serge Hazanavicius’ mountaineering drama nOmber One.
Hazanavicius, the brother of The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius, is best known as an actor (The Monuments Men, I’ve Loved You So Long) and TV director.
He has co-written and will direct nOmber One, a father-son relationship story, which is set to star French actor Kev Adams. Co-writers also include Stephane Dan, Mary-Noelle Dana and Alexis Galmot.
The film will start shooting in February 2016 in France before moving to the Indian Himalayas in March and April.
“nOmber One is the story of a quest, and of the ascension of a uniquely talented young man in a world gone mad – a world of commerce and mercantile deals,” said Reliance in a statement.
A major investor in DreamWorks, Reliance also recently became a co-founder of Steven Spielberg’s [link...
Hazanavicius, the brother of The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius, is best known as an actor (The Monuments Men, I’ve Loved You So Long) and TV director.
He has co-written and will direct nOmber One, a father-son relationship story, which is set to star French actor Kev Adams. Co-writers also include Stephane Dan, Mary-Noelle Dana and Alexis Galmot.
The film will start shooting in February 2016 in France before moving to the Indian Himalayas in March and April.
“nOmber One is the story of a quest, and of the ascension of a uniquely talented young man in a world gone mad – a world of commerce and mercantile deals,” said Reliance in a statement.
A major investor in DreamWorks, Reliance also recently became a co-founder of Steven Spielberg’s [link...
- 1/25/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
With the Oscar hullabaloo all over with, it’s worth noting that Kristen Scott Thomas was considered a contender, and something of an also ran this year for a film that isn’t half bad. It’s a performance film, and she and Elsa Zylberstein are excellent in 2008’s I’ve Loved You For So Long, a French film that likely came to some prominence because of Thomas’s great performance. The film itself is something of a vehicle with a structure that cheats itself a little, but it’s hard to argue that Thomas doesn’t manage to give it her all. She stars as Juliette Fontaine, who has just been released from prison after fifteen years. This though is revealed slowly, after she is re-introduced to her sister Lea (Zylberstein) and her family. They are wary of her, Lea has two adopted daughters and her husband Luc (Serge Hazanavicius...
- 3/2/2009
- Collider.com
The weekly buffet of DVDs and games is open yet again. This week sees the release of the Baz Luhrmann helmed epic drama "Australia" on DVD and Blu-ray. The colorful film is a must-see for fans of the adventure and romance genres and features powerful performances and meticulous direction. We have three reviews from "Australia" - two from the big screen release, the other from the DVD release. We suggest you read them for their varied points of view. Two are positive, the one negative. What's it about? Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across...
- 3/2/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Enter for a chance to win "I've Loved You So Long" (a.k.a. "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime") on Blu-ray! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The critically acclaimed drama is a winner of a BAFTA Award in the foreign language category, a Golden Globe nominee and has been nominated for many more awards. Also in the cast are Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot and Claire Johnston. Enter now! (registered users only). Not registered? Get registered and you receive a 10% voucher to use on each and every purchase* on our DVD and games store! What's it about? Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life...
- 2/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Enter for a chance to win "I've Loved You So Long" (a.k.a. "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime") on DVD! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The critically acclaimed drama is a winner of a BAFTA Award in the foreign language category, a Golden Globe nominee and has been nominated for many more awards. Also in the cast are Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot and Claire Johnston. Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life together isn’t easy to begin with. Juliette has to relearn certain basics. The world has moved on and she often seems confused. Although she may seem cold and distant,...
- 2/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Enter for a chance to win "I've Loved You So Long" (a.k.a. "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime") on DVD! Take home the Kristin Scott Thomas drama from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The critically acclaimed drama is a winner of a BAFTA Award in the foreign language category, a Golden Globe nominee and has been nominated for many more awards. Also in the cast are Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill, Frédéric Pierrot and Claire Johnston. Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life together isn’t easy to begin with. Juliette has to relearn certain basics. The world has moved on and she often seems confused. Although she may seem cold and distant,...
- 2/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Seen on: October 22, 2008
The players: Director: Philippe Claudel, Writer: Philippe Claudel, Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Laurent Grevill, Serge Hazanavicius, Frederic Pierrot
Facts of interest: French title is "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime."
The plot: For 15 years, Juliette has had no ties with her family who had rejected her. Although life once violently separated them, Lea, her younger sister, takes her into her home, which she shares with her husband Luc, his father, and their two daughters.
Our thoughts: Poor Juliette (Thomas) has been rotting for 15 years in prison for the murder of her 6-year-old child, and is finally released into the care of her loving sister Lea (Zylberstein). Starting here [A], we will move laterally 110 minutes to where we return to the murder and, inexorably, its motivation....
The players: Director: Philippe Claudel, Writer: Philippe Claudel, Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Laurent Grevill, Serge Hazanavicius, Frederic Pierrot
Facts of interest: French title is "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime."
The plot: For 15 years, Juliette has had no ties with her family who had rejected her. Although life once violently separated them, Lea, her younger sister, takes her into her home, which she shares with her husband Luc, his father, and their two daughters.
Our thoughts: Poor Juliette (Thomas) has been rotting for 15 years in prison for the murder of her 6-year-old child, and is finally released into the care of her loving sister Lea (Zylberstein). Starting here [A], we will move laterally 110 minutes to where we return to the murder and, inexorably, its motivation....
- 10/28/2008
- by David Ashley
- screeninglog.com
Kristin Scott Thomas is tremendously mov ing in "I've Loved You So Long" as a woman who moves in with her sister's family after serving 15 years in prison for killing her 6-year-old son.
Scott Thomas' reserve as an actor - which probably helped keep her from top stardom after an Oscar nomination for "The English Patient" (1996) - makes her perfect casting for this French film, the auspicious debut of director Philippe Claudel.
Her frequent, sad silences and body language speak volumes as Juliette,...
Scott Thomas' reserve as an actor - which probably helped keep her from top stardom after an Oscar nomination for "The English Patient" (1996) - makes her perfect casting for this French film, the auspicious debut of director Philippe Claudel.
Her frequent, sad silences and body language speak volumes as Juliette,...
- 10/24/2008
- by By LOU LUMENICK
- NYPost.com
I've Loved You So Long
Competition
BERLIN -- Rarely do head and heart coalesce to such sublime effect in film as in I've Loved You for So Long, the debut feature by Philippe Claudel, who directs like a veteran. Drawing from his background as a novelist and screenwriter, Claudel definitely put his heart and soul into the script to ensure that no scene is gratuitous, no shot is sloppily composed, and every line from the key characters is nuanced to shed light on the past and future of their development.
Kristin Scott Thomas deserves an award for her stupendous turn as a woman released from prison trying to rebuild her relationship with her estranged sister, and regain her place in society. The rest of the cast provide solid support in enhancing her performance. The film's tasteful, continental flavor should play to discerning audiences in and outside of European art houses. Festivals ignore this at their own loss.
Juliette Kristin Scott Thomas) completes her 15-year jail sentence for a crime considered a heinous offense against nature. She is taken in by her sister Lea (Elsa Zylberstein), a literature professor who lives in the cozy French town of Nancy with her lexicographer husband Luc (Serge Hazanavicius), his father and their adopted daughters. Their parents have disowned Juliette, and brought up Lea, still a girl at the time, as if she were an only child. Although the locals cannot suppress their curiosity about Juliette, Lea and Luc are initially embarrassed to include her into their social lives. Their behavior provides an acute satire on the smug bourgeois values of a provincial town. Only the pesky nieces take an instant shine to their newfound aunt. Faure, a divorced policeman and Michel Laurent Grevill), Lea's colleague, both become fascinated with Juliette's mysteriously aloof air.
The camera accompanies Juliette wherever she goes, observing her loneliness and sorrow in close-ups of her lined, careworn face, in medium shots of her among people yet keeping a distance with her body language and in long shots of her all alone against an impersonal backdrop. Prison becomes a metaphor for many things -- for society with its confining laws and mores, or a state of mind that not only Juliette, but other characters are in. There is a moment of recognition and empathy when she tells Michel he "always sees the world through books."
Claudel takes great care in placing the narrative building blocks that lead up to a gradual and deeply moving rapprochement between Juliette and the rest of humanity. He orchestrates scenes of underlying emotional intensity with composure, such as Juliette's reunion with her mother, or Luc's first display of trust by asking Juliette to babysit. As Juliette slowly comes out of her shell, the lighting is warmer and the makeup softer, so she literally turns more and more beautiful.
A few scenes before the denouement, Juliette and Michel are captured in a shot in a museum with the statue of an angel hovering above them. The iconic image adds a spiritual dimension to her suffering and final salvation, and is an expression of faith in the human capacity to redress injustice and prejudice with love and understanding.
The narrative pieces together Juliette's past bit by suspenseful bit, so the audience is kept equally on edge as those around her. The final revelation is timed to make reconciliation achieved in the moving coda as cathartic for the audience as the sisters. By then, Juliette and those who constitute her new circle have reciprocally made the leap of forgiveness and acceptance as to have rendered the truth just a thing of the past.
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
UGC YM Images/France 3 Cinema/ Integral Film
Credits:
Screenwriter-Director: Philippe Claudel
Producer: Sylvestre Guarino
Executive producer: Yves Marmion
Director of photography: Jerome Almeras
Production designer: Samuel Deshors
Music: Jean-Louis Auber
Co-producer: Alfred Hurmer
Costume designer: Jacqueline Bouchard
Editor: Virginia Bunting
Cast:
Juliette: Kristin Scott Thomas
Lea: Elsa Zylberstein
Luc: Serge Hazanavicius
Michel: Laurent Grevill
Running time -- 115 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BERLIN -- Rarely do head and heart coalesce to such sublime effect in film as in I've Loved You for So Long, the debut feature by Philippe Claudel, who directs like a veteran. Drawing from his background as a novelist and screenwriter, Claudel definitely put his heart and soul into the script to ensure that no scene is gratuitous, no shot is sloppily composed, and every line from the key characters is nuanced to shed light on the past and future of their development.
Kristin Scott Thomas deserves an award for her stupendous turn as a woman released from prison trying to rebuild her relationship with her estranged sister, and regain her place in society. The rest of the cast provide solid support in enhancing her performance. The film's tasteful, continental flavor should play to discerning audiences in and outside of European art houses. Festivals ignore this at their own loss.
Juliette Kristin Scott Thomas) completes her 15-year jail sentence for a crime considered a heinous offense against nature. She is taken in by her sister Lea (Elsa Zylberstein), a literature professor who lives in the cozy French town of Nancy with her lexicographer husband Luc (Serge Hazanavicius), his father and their adopted daughters. Their parents have disowned Juliette, and brought up Lea, still a girl at the time, as if she were an only child. Although the locals cannot suppress their curiosity about Juliette, Lea and Luc are initially embarrassed to include her into their social lives. Their behavior provides an acute satire on the smug bourgeois values of a provincial town. Only the pesky nieces take an instant shine to their newfound aunt. Faure, a divorced policeman and Michel Laurent Grevill), Lea's colleague, both become fascinated with Juliette's mysteriously aloof air.
The camera accompanies Juliette wherever she goes, observing her loneliness and sorrow in close-ups of her lined, careworn face, in medium shots of her among people yet keeping a distance with her body language and in long shots of her all alone against an impersonal backdrop. Prison becomes a metaphor for many things -- for society with its confining laws and mores, or a state of mind that not only Juliette, but other characters are in. There is a moment of recognition and empathy when she tells Michel he "always sees the world through books."
Claudel takes great care in placing the narrative building blocks that lead up to a gradual and deeply moving rapprochement between Juliette and the rest of humanity. He orchestrates scenes of underlying emotional intensity with composure, such as Juliette's reunion with her mother, or Luc's first display of trust by asking Juliette to babysit. As Juliette slowly comes out of her shell, the lighting is warmer and the makeup softer, so she literally turns more and more beautiful.
A few scenes before the denouement, Juliette and Michel are captured in a shot in a museum with the statue of an angel hovering above them. The iconic image adds a spiritual dimension to her suffering and final salvation, and is an expression of faith in the human capacity to redress injustice and prejudice with love and understanding.
The narrative pieces together Juliette's past bit by suspenseful bit, so the audience is kept equally on edge as those around her. The final revelation is timed to make reconciliation achieved in the moving coda as cathartic for the audience as the sisters. By then, Juliette and those who constitute her new circle have reciprocally made the leap of forgiveness and acceptance as to have rendered the truth just a thing of the past.
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)
UGC YM Images/France 3 Cinema/ Integral Film
Credits:
Screenwriter-Director: Philippe Claudel
Producer: Sylvestre Guarino
Executive producer: Yves Marmion
Director of photography: Jerome Almeras
Production designer: Samuel Deshors
Music: Jean-Louis Auber
Co-producer: Alfred Hurmer
Costume designer: Jacqueline Bouchard
Editor: Virginia Bunting
Cast:
Juliette: Kristin Scott Thomas
Lea: Elsa Zylberstein
Luc: Serge Hazanavicius
Michel: Laurent Grevill
Running time -- 115 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/19/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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