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Melisa Godet’s social drama A Place For Her (La Maison des Femmes) will headline the Paris Rendez-Vous slate ofFederation’s international sales banner Ginger & Fed.

The film is based on La Maison des Femmes de Saint-Denis, a women’s shelter outside of Paris for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Inspired by the centre’s founder Dr Ghada Hatem, A Place For Her stars Karin Viard as a fictional doctor and her team including a midwife, a young intern and a nurse as they navigate balancing their personal lives with their professional dedication to providing care.

The cast also includes Laetitia Dosch,...

It’s been over a year since we said goodbye to the Roy family and their dysfunctional dealings on HBO’s top-tier “Succession,” and while we still have a Waystar RoyCo-sized hole in our hearts, there’s thankfully no shortage of workplace and family drama on our TVs, from “The Bear” to another recent HBO hit, “Industry,” which just wrapped up its third season with its water-cooler finale.

However, if your favorites are on hiatus and you’re looking for more industry drama for your days off, Apple TV+’s new French fashion drama “La Maison” is the perfect fit!

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Created by José Caltagirone and Valentine Milville, the French-language family drama takes place within a Paris-based high-fashion atelier, where two “illustrious, dysfunctional, and powerful rival families… vie for dominance in the cutthroat world of high fashion.” After century-old legendary haute couture...

Alright, I'm going to be real with you guys. This weekend it's a little limited on what new shows and premieres are coming. Though, there's still some great options. And that's also thanks to the many debuts we had earlier in the week. The weekend is going to be your best time to catch up on anything you missed, after all. Here's 6 shows to watch on streaming this weekend, Sept. 28 - Sept. 29, 2024.

Everybody Still Hates Chris - premiered on Comedy Central/Paramount+ Wednesday, Sept. 25Grotesquerie - premiered on FX/Hulu Wednesday, Sept. 25Midnight Family - premiered on Apple TV+ Wednesday, Sept. 25La Maison - episode 3 on Apple TV+ Friday, Sept. 27The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - The Book of Carol - season 2 premiere on AMC Sunday, Sept. 29The Penguin - episode 2 on HBO/Max Sunday, Sept. 29 (shifted to new release day)

Want to learn a bit more about a couple of these shows?...

As a setting for a TV show, fashion is a little like the restaurant industry: a rich, untapped source of detail and conflict, hindered by the logistical complexity of bringing its insular world to the screen. And just as “The Bear” was preceded by a legion of competitive reality shows, plus a misbegotten adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential” starring a young Bradley Cooper, the French drama “La Maison” is the latest of many attempts to make couture into compelling drama. “Project Runway” remains an unscripted institution, but recent scripted efforts have ranged from dutifully reverential (“Becoming Karl Lagerfeld”) to confoundingly inept.

Unlike these earlier series, which fictionalized the lives of icons like Yves Saint Laurent and Coco Chanel, “La Maison” gives itself the freedom to take liberties. Perhaps relatedly, it’s by far the strongest of the recent efforts to graft fashion onto entertainment. Created and showrun by...

Una mirada entre bastidores al mundo contemporáneo y cambiante de la moda y el lujo franceses. © Apple TV+

Apple TV+ ha presentado el tráiler de La Maison, una serie ambientada en un icónico taller de alta costura en París.

La Maison sigue a dos familias rivales ilustres, disfuncionales y poderosas, que compiten por dominar el despiadado mundo de la alta costura. Cuando un escándalo afecta a la icónica casa de modas, la familia debe reinventarse con la ayuda de una joven diseñadora para salvar y reconstruir la centenaria Maison Ledu. Aprovechando todo esto, la despiadada directora ejecutiva del poderoso grupo de lujo Rovel, lanza una ofensiva para adquirir lo que considera su premio más importante: Maison Ledu. Se trata de algo más que adquirir una nueva marca; se trata de venganza.

La serie de 10 episodios está protagonizada por Lambert Wilson (De Gaulle), Amira Casar (Call me by your name), Carole Bouquet...

Apple TV+ today unveiled the trailer and key art for La Maison, the upcoming French-language family drama set within an iconic Paris-based high-fashion atelier.

A behind-the-scenes look at the contemporary ever-evolving world of fashion and aspirational French elegance and luxury, La Maison follows two rival illustrious, dysfunctional, and powerful families as they vie for dominance in the cutthroat high-fashion world.

The 10-episode original series will debut globally with the first two episodes on Friday, September 20, 2024, on Apple TV+, followed by one episode weekly on Fridays through November 15, 2024.

High fashion meets high stakes in this behind-the-curtain look at how an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent Ledu (Lambert Wilson), leaving his family’s iconic and legendary haute couture house, Ledu, hanging by a thread.

Perle Foster (Amira Casar), Vincent’s former muse still in his shadow, collaborates with visionary next-generation...

Apple TV+ today revealed a first look at ‘La Maison,’ the upcoming French-language 10-episode one-hour family drama set within an iconic Paris-based high-fashion atelier.

A behind-the-scenes look at the contemporary ever-evolving world of fashion and aspirational French elegance and luxury, the series follows two rival illustrious, dysfunctional and powerful families as they vie for dominance in the cutthroat world of high fashion.

High fashion meets high stakes in this behind-the-curtain, look at how an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent Ledu (Lambert Wilson), leaving his family’s iconic and legendary haute couture house Ledu hanging by a thread. Perle Foster (Amira Casar), Vincent’s former muse who is still in his shadow, teams up with next-generation, visionary designer Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot) to save, evolve and renew the century-old Maison Ledu. Taking advantage of Vincent’s demise, Diane Rovel...

Today, Apple TV+ revealed a first look at La Maison, the upcoming 10-episode, one-hour, French-language family drama set within an iconic Paris-based high-fashion atelier.

A behind-the-scenes look at the contemporary, ever-evolving world of fashion and aspirational French elegance and luxury, La Maison follows two illustrious, dysfunctional, and powerful rival families as they vie for dominance in the cutthroat world of high fashion.

The series will make its global debut with the first two episodes on Friday, September 20, 2024, on Apple TV+. It will then air one episode weekly on Fridays through November 15, 2024.

High fashion meets high stakes in this behind-the-curtain look at how an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent Ledu (Lambert Wilson), leaving his family’s iconic and legendary haute couture house, Ledu, hanging by a thread.

Perle Foster (Amira Casar), Vincent’s former muse still in his shadow,...

Mallory Wanecque, the breakout actor of “The Worst Ones” who headlines Cannes competition title “Beating Hearts,” is starring alongside Sami Bouajila (“Through the Fire”) in “Vultures,” a thriller directed by Peter Dourountzis (“Rascal”).

Produced by Mediawan-owned 24-25 Films (“Black Box”), “Vultures” is represented internationally by Ginger & Fed, the new international film sales arm of Federation Studios headed by former TF1 Studio boss Sabine Chemaly. The cast is completed by Sami Bouajila (“Through the Fire”), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (“All Your Faces”), Pierre Lottin (“The Night of the 12th”) and Valerie Donzelli (“Declaration of War”).

“Vultures” will be delivered during the second quarter of 2025. Bouajila stars as Samuel, a journalist who partners with his intern daughter Ava to cover the brutal murder of a young girl that lead them to a male supremacist group headed by the enigmatic Nemesis. The movie marks Dourountzis’ follow-up to “Rascal,” an edgy film starring Pierre Deladonchamps as an outsider-turned-killer.

Both features will form part of Paris-based mk2 films’ line-up at Unifrance’s Rendez-Vous in Paris event this week.

mk2 films, the sales outfit behind Anatomy Of A Fall and How To Have Sex, has acquired Jonathan Millet’s thriller Ghost Trail and Laetitia Dosch’s high-concept comedy Who Let the Dog Bite? ahead of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema that opens tomorrow in Paris.

Inspired by real-life events, Ghost Trail is about a Syrian man pursuing some of the people who perpetrated horrors in the name of the regime during the civil war. His mission takes him to France...

"Watch out, this is the big league." Kino Lorber has debuted the US trailer for La Syndicaliste, a French dramatic thriller based on a true story about a whistleblower. This first premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival last year, playing at many other fests along the way. This is the story of Maureen Kearney, played by Isabelle Huppert, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistle-blower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs... Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure. However, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect. The cast also includes Grégory Gadebois,...

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What a sexy delight Erotic Thriller Month has been! We’ve tackled a diverse batch of films within the subgenre over the last four weeks, including Brian De Palma’s controversial classic Dressed to Kill, Paul Feig’s bisexual suburban noir A Simple Favor, and the Wachowski sisters’ sexy neo-noir Bound.

Have we saved the best for last? Well that would depend on how unsimulated you like your gay sex!

In writer/director Alain Guiraudie‘s French gay thriller, Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) frequently visits a nude beach, cruising for anonymous gay sex. He strikes up a friendship with outsider Henri (Patrick D’assumçao), but spends most of his time seeking out the enigmatic Michel (Christophe Paou).

When Franck stays late one evening, however, he sees Michel drown another man in the lake. Can he be sure what he saw or turn off his attraction to the sexy man with the moustache?...

As a female union rep in the oppressively male-dominated French nuclear industry, Maureen Kearney — the real-life heroine of Jean-Paul Salomé’s “La Syndicaliste” (“The Sitting Duck” in the U.K.) — is accustomed to keeping a cool head in a crisis. That doesn’t stop her male superiors from accusing her of the opposite, with then-President Nicolas Sarkozy allegedly branding her a “hysteric in a skirt”: In this men’s club, a woman’s mere presence is deemed her weakness. Yet when Kearney is raped and mutilated by unknown assailants, seemingly as a professional warning, it’s her lack of hysteria under the circumstances that is declared suspicious by men in power. As she’s first disbelieved, then charged without outright fabrication, Salomé’s film pivots from itchy whistleblower thriller to irate courtroom drama, with institutional misogyny as its binding thread.

A rape survivor criticized for her composure: sounds like an assignment for Isabelle Huppert,...

Iconic French fashion house La Maison is to be spotlighted in an Apple TV+ drama series starring seven-time César Award nominee Lambert Wilson.

La Maison will take a behind-the-curtain look at how a family dynasty of an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent LeDu (Wilson), leaving his family’s legendary haute couture house hanging by a thread. Perle Foster (Amira Casar), Vincent’s former muse who is still in his shadow, teams up with next-generation, visionary designer Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot) to save and recreate the century-old Maison Ledu, claiming their rightful place in both the LeDu family and the fashion world.

Related: 2023 Apple TV+ Pilots & Series Orders

Wilson, who played The Merovingian in The Matrix trilogy and is this year’s Locarno Jury President, leads a cast featuring Carole Bouquet (En Thérapie), Zita Hanrot (Fatima), Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake...

Modern Films has shared an exclusive look at the trailer for the political thriller ‘La Syndicaliste.’

Based on the true story of Maureen Kearney, a trade union organiser in the French nuclear industry who became both a victim and suspect in a shocking scandal. Starring Isabelle Huppert in an electrifying performance as Kearney.

Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert) was the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs. Her life was turned upside down when she was

violently assaulted in her own home. The investigation was carried out under pressure: the subject was sensitive. Suddenly, new elements created doubt in the minds of the investigators, and at first a victim, Maureen became a suspect.

“Flo,” a biopic of popular French sailor Florence Arthaud slated to world premiere at Cannes’ Cinema de la Plage, has been boarded by Other Angle. The French sales company will introduce the film to buyers at Cannes.

Set to unspool on May 19, “Flo” charts Arthaud’s unique achievement in the male-dominated world of sailing, notably her victory of the Route du Rhum, a transatlantic sailing race, in 1990. The movie also portrays Arthaud as a fiercely independent woman who chose to live her dreams to the fullest rather than follow her pre-determined path.

The film is directed by Geraldine Danon and is produced by Manuel Munz, in association with Metropolitan which will release the film in French theaters on Nov. 25.

“Flo” stars Stephane Caillard, Alison Wheeler, Pierre Deladonchamps, Charles Berling, Alexis Michalik and Marlyne Canto.

”It’s a real pleasure to work with Metropolitan again after our collaboration on ‘The Best Years of a Life...

More than 300 leading figures from the French film and TV world have gotten behind a petition decrying controversial pension reforms spearheaded by the government of President Emmanuel Macron.

French stars Juliette Binoche, Audrey Fleurot, Camille Cottin, Swann Arlaud, Jeanne Balibar, Bérenice Béjo, Laure Calamy, Camille Cottin, Pierre Deladonchamps and Noémie Merlant; directors Michel Hazanavicius, Alice Diop, Kim Chapiron, Maimouna Doucouré, Robert Guédiguian and Alain Guiraudie, as well as producer Saïd Ben Saïd were among the signatories.

“It is high time to make our voices heard, because cinema, theater, culture, even if they sometimes offer dreams and a means of escape, above all speak of our world,” read an open letter to Macron accompanying the petition.

The petition was launched under the banner of the Cinema Entertainment Collective on the Liberation newspaper website on Thursday afternoon, as a national strike brought public services to a standstill and saw outbreaks of violence...

Kino Lorber has bought U.S. rights to Jean-Paul Salomé’s true life thriller “The Sitting Duck,” starring Isabelle Huppert as the French union organizer and whistleblower Maureen Kearney.

Represented in international markets by The Bureau Sales, “The Sitting Duck” world premiered at Venice where it won the Premio Fondazione Fai Persona Lavoro Ambiente Prize. The film will open theatrically in France in March, and Kino Lorber is planning a U.S. theatrical release later this year, followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms.

“The Sitting Duck” has now been sold around the world. The Bureau Sales has closed deals for Canada (Axia Films Inc.), UK (Modern Films), Germany/Austria (Weltkino Filmverleih Gmbh), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), France (Le Pacte), Spain (Wanda Vision S.A.), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi Zurich Ag), Greece (Cinobo), Portugal, Bulgaria (Beta Film Ltd.), Hungary (Ads Service Ltd.), Romania (Transilvania Film), Israel (Forum Film Ltd.

Paris-based sales company is hosting several market premieres at Rendez-Vous.

Paris-based sales company The Party has acquired Happy! (working title), Pascal Plisson’s upcoming documentary about children with disabilities who chase their dreams despite the obstacles they face.

Writer and filmmaker Plisson’s doc On The Way To School was a box office success in France with 1.4 million admissions and sold to 18 countries worldwide in addition to winning the best documentary award at the Cesars in 2014. He is also behind recent docs Grand Jour, released in 2015, and Gogo in 2019 about a 94 year-old woman attending school in Kenya.

With Happy!, Plisson...

Exclusive: Beta Cinema has unveiled a raft of first deals for German director Kilian Riedhof’s drama You Will Not Have My Hate, inspired by the experiences of French writer Antoine Leiris, whose wife was killed in the November 13, 2015 terror attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.

The feature, which world premiered in Locarno over the summer, has sold to Japan (New Select), Taiwan (Av-Jet), Australia and New Zealand (The Reset Collective), Canada (Sphere Films), Spain (Yoda Films), Switzerland (Praesens Film) and Hungary (Mozinet).

Haut et Court is gearing up to release the feature in French cinemas on November 2 and Tobis Film will launch the picture in Germany and Austria on November 10.

This November 13, will mark the seventh anniversary of the attacks on the Bataclan and other locations across Paris, which killed 130 people, with 90 deaths occurring at the concert hall alone.

You Will Not Have My Hate is adapted from Leiris’s best-selling book,...

We’ve all looked at skyscrapers thrusting tall and proud into the unsuspecting sky and snorted to think of what was subconsciously driving the (inevitably male) architects. Right? Of course we have. Yet I cannot think of a single film before this one that takes our presumptions and seems to say, “Yes, heh heh, yesssss,” with a glint in its eye. I mean, sure, Kate Winslet’s snide aside in Titanic to White Star exec Bruce Ismay about Freud’s “ideas about the male preoccupation with size” is one thing. Eiffel is something else entirely. Also what it does is almost surely subconscious, too, which is sort of perfect. *snort*

This French romantic drama posits that engineer Gustave Eiffel had no interest in his company — which had just delivered the Statue of Liberty to New York City as a gift to America — building a massive tower for the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris.

Romain Duris brings authority to this fanciful version of history, which has Gustave Eiffel erecting the monument as a Taj Mahal for his lost love

Some towering absurdity and vertiginous silliness here … and also a bit of innocent enjoyment. Eiffel is a handsomely produced period drama, a madly Lloyd-Webber-ised romantic fantasy about the construction of the Eiffel tower in 1889 in Paris for the 100th anniversary of the revolution. Screenwriter Caroline Bongrand imagines (which is to say: she entirely invents) a backstory for the great engineer Gustave Eiffel, a grand passion that inspired him to build the tower as his own private Taj Mahal for a lost, secret love.

Eiffel is played with authority and gusto – as well as various frock coats, top hats and lengths of beard – by Romain Duris. In real life he was a widower with five children when he embarked on the tower, but this drama declares...

German director Kilian Riedhof’s drama You Will Not Have My Hate is inspired by the experiences of French writer Antoine Leiris, whose wife was killed in the Bataclan nightclub during the November 13, 2015 Paris terror attacks, leaving him to raise their young son alone.

Leiris became a symbol of quiet defiance in the face of the attackers following a Facebook post, in which he expressed his determination to build a new life with his son based on happiness and love, rather than hatred.

The post went viral and Leiris found himself at the heart of a local and international media storm.

Reidhof and co-writers Marc Blöbaum and Jan Braren adapted the film from Leirin’s autobiographical novel ‘You Will Not Have My Hate’ charting his emotional journey from the night of the attack; to struggling with his loss and then finding the courage to embark on a new life.

In Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera “Orpheus and Eurydice,” Orpheus must travel to the underworld to reunite with his dead wife, Eurydice. To do so, he must placate the Furies, the goddesses of vengeance, and hold onto his love for his wife.

German director Kilian Riedhof had the opera in mind when adapting Antoine Leiris’ autobiographical book “You Will Not Have My Hate.” The film world premieres on Aug. 12 in Piazza Grande at the Locarno Film Festival.

The book is based on Leiris’ experiences following the murder by Islamic State jihadists of his wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, on Nov. 13, 2015, at the Bataclan night-club — one of 130 people killed that evening in a string of terrorist attacks across Paris.

The film begins on that fateful day with Hélène preparing food for their toddler, Melvil, and the couple discussing a holiday in Corsica that they had to abandon so Hélène could pick up some freelance work.

Gina Gammell and Riley Keough’s “War Pony,” Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun” and Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s “The Silent Twins” are among the several female-driven anticipated feature debuts slated for the Deauville American Film Festival’s competition.

Eight titles out of 13 features set to compete at Deauville as first films. “War Pony” world premiered at Un Certain Regard in Cannes and won the Camera d’Or for best debut. “War Pony” is a collaborative experience portraying two young Oglala Lakota men who are torn between traditions and the consumer culture surrounding them. “The Silent Twins,” which also bowed at Un Certain Regard, is a biopic of troubled twin writers June and Jennifer Gibbons starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance.

“Aftersun,” meanwhile, world premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week where it won the French Touch Prize and was acquired by A24. The melodrama stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio as a young father...

Vertigo Releasing has launched a new trailer for Martin Bourboulon’s visually stunning, romantic epic ‘Eiffel.’

Set in 1880s Belle Époque Paris, the film follows Gustave Eiffel (Romain Duris) as he embarks upon the all-consuming task of designing and constructing one of the world’s best-loved land-marks – the Eiffel Tower. It is also undeniably the story of the beguiling and powerful Adrienne Bourgès (Emma Mackey), whose relationship with Gustave Eiffel was instrumental in shaping the skyline of Paris and the future of the city.

Directed by Bourboulon, the film stars Romain Duris, Emma Mackey and Pierre Deladonchamps.

Also in trailers – An all-star cast line up in first look trailer for ‘Amsterdam’

The film will be released in UK and Irish cinemas 12th August 2022. Feast your face on the trailer.

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Exclusive: Here’s your first trailer for German director Kilian Riedhof’s drama You Will Not Have My Hate based on the true story of a man’s quest to rebuild his life without hatred after his wife was killed in the 2015 Bataclan attack in Paris.

The French-language film will world premiere at the 75th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (August 3-13) in a Piazza Grande screening.

The work is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by French journalist Antoine Leiris, recounting his journey as he rebuilt his life and that of his young son following his wife’s murder alongside 89 other people in a terror attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on November 13, 2015.

Leiris’s story garnered attention in France and internationally after he posted an open letter on Facebook to his wife’s killers, saying: “On Friday night, you stole the life of an exceptional being,...

Anna Gutto‘s directorial debut Paradise Highway (starring Juliette Binoche), Blandine Lenoir‘s third feature Annie Colère (starring Laure Calamy), Kilian Riedhof’s sophomore film Vous n’aurez pas ma haine (with Pierre Deladonchamps), Olivia Newman‘s book to film sophomore film Where the Crawdads Sing and Thomas Hardiman‘s debut Medusa Deluxe – a murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing are part of the 75 edition of the Locarno Film Festival (August 3rd to the 13th). Here are the selections for the Piazza Grande, Concorso Cineasti del presente and Fuori concorso sections:

Piazza Grande

Alles ÜBER Martin Suter. Ausser Die Wahrheit.…...

Eiffel Review — Eiffel (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Martin Bourboulon, written by Caroline Bongrand, Thomas Bidegain and Natalie Carter and starring Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps, Armande Boulanger, Bruno Raffaelli and Philippe Herisson. A love story centered around the construction of the Eiffel Tower, director Martin Bourboulon’s film, Eiffel, is intriguing [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Eiffel (2021): A Romantic Story About How The Eiffel Tower Came to Be...

India’s All That Breathes followed up its victory at the Sundance Film Festival by winning top documentary honors in Cannes.

The film directed by Shaunak Sen, which documents a pair of Muslim brothers in Delhi who devote countless hours to restore the health of ailing black kite birds, earned the L’Œil d’or (“Golden Eye”) award in a ceremony on Saturday.

“From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the ‘kite brothers’ care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies,” notes a description of the documentary. “As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this Muslim family and the neglected kite forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and rising social tensions.”

The Golden Eye jury, headed by filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, saluted All That Breathes for reminding “us that every life matters, and every small action matters.

Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s “All That Breathes” has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top documentary award, the Golden Eye.

The film won the documentary grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and was acquired by HBO Documentary Films during Cannes, where it played as a special screening.

Set in Indian capital Delhi, where, in an unbreathable atmosphere, the threat of inter-religious massacres floats in the air, the film follows two brothers, Nadeem and Saud, who along with their assistant, dedicate their lives to save the migratory black kites that are destroyed by human madness.

The Golden Eye jury, composed of Agnieszka Holland, Iryna Tsilyk, Pierre Deladonchamps, Alex Vicente and Hicham Falah, said: “The Golden Eye goes to a film that, in a world of destruction, reminds us that every life matters, and every small action matters. You can grab your camera, you can save a bird,...

The film drew nearly 1.5m spectators in France last October.

Vertigo Releasing has picked up UK-Ireland rights to Martin Bourboulon’s French period romance Eiffel, set against the backdrop of the construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1880s Belle Epoque Paris, and has set an August 5 release date.

Romain Duris plays iconic French engineer Gustave Eiffel opposite Sex Education star Emma Mackey as long-lost love Adrienne Bourgès.

When the pair re-meet 20 years later, Eiffel is embarking on the all-consuming task of designing and constructing the Eiffel Tower while Bourgès has risen up the ranks of Paris society and is married...

"We'll build a dream! This tower is France's tower." Blue Fox Entertainment has revealed the official US trailer for the French romance Eiffel, set during the building of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris at the end of the 1800s. The film not only tells of the struggles of celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel while he creates this famous landmark and works to build it, but also his romance with another woman, a "long lost, forbidden passion that inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever." Oh my. The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Starring Romain Duris as Gustave Eiffel, Emma Mackey as Adrienne Bourgès, and Pierre Deladonchamps as Antoine Restac, with Armande Boulanger, Philippe Hérisson, Andranic Manet, Juliette Blanche. I still want to see this!

A handsome if occasionally harebrained addition to the “great man” genre — with the added implication that such heroic feats might not have occurred were it not for an equally impressive lady working behind the scenes — “Eiffel” offers the half-invented story of Gustave Eiffel, the civil engineer who built the most recognizable monument in the world.

From the opening seconds, the 2.66:1 CinemaScope aspect ratio is a clue that this project was not designed to capture the vertical progress of the Eiffel Tower’s construction. Rather, director Martin Bourboulon’s choice to shoot in the same ultra-wide format as “The Bridge on the River Kwai” signals that the movie will remain firmly rooted at ground level, focused on Eiffel the man and the more melodramatic details of his personal life.

Not a biopic so much as a sketchy piece of historical fiction, “Eiffel” identifies itself as “librement inspiré de faits reels,...

"Any ideas for the competition?" "We must be freer. More audacious." Build it bigger! Pathe in France has unveiled the first official trailer for the intense romantic drama Eiffel, set during the building of the Eiffel Tower in Paris at the end of the 1800s. The film not only tells of the struggles of celebrated engineer Gustave Eiffel as he creates this iconic landmark, but also his romance with another woman, a "long lost, forbidden passion that inspires him to change the Paris skyline forever." Oh my. The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past. Starring Romain Duris as Gustave Eiffel, Emma Mackey as Adrienne Bourgès, and Pierre Deladonchamps as Antoine Restac, with Armande Boulanger, Philippe Hérisson, Andranic Manet, Juliette Blanche. I...

The Key Buyers Event: Digital, a film and TV market held in Russia, will return for a third edition in 2021. The event showcases new audiovisual content from the country and highlights emerging talent. This year’s focus will be international co-production, rather than the typical focus on distribution. The event is organized by promotional body Roskino and is supported by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the City of Moscow and the Agency for Creative Industries. The 2020 edition gathered more than 1,400 participants and 600 international distributors from 70 countries, according to Roskino. A new strand will also be inaugurated this year that will highlight Russian projects for global film festival programmers. “Russian content has enjoyed increasing levels of success within the global market over the last three years. Russian films have increasingly become popular – the latest example is Sputnik, a sci-fi horror that has been acquired for an English-language remake in Hollywood.

Madame Claude

A Parisian period piece about a 1960s brothel madame wasn’t in the cards for 2020, but Sylvie Verheyde‘s sixth feature Madame Claude will surely set its sights on a 2021 fest. Reuniting with Karole Rocher who previously appeared in Verheyde’s 2012 Confessions of a Child of the Century as well as her 2016 title Sex Doll) as the lead, Verheyde rounds out a supporting cast featuring Roschdy Zem, Garance Marillier, Benjamin Biolay, Pierre Deladonchamps, Josephine de la Baume, plus two more Sex Doll cast members, Hafsia Herzi and Paul Hamy. Produced by Florence Gastaud, the title is notably lensed by Leo Hinstin.…...

Shining bright among the nine titles in the French agent’s line-up are Rascal by Peter Dourountzis and Beasts by Naël Marandin, awarded the Official Selection and Critics’ Week labels respectively. The French international sales agent Kinology, steered by Grégoire Melin, will have an impressive hand to play at the Cannes Film Festival’s Online Marché du Film (running 22 – 26 June), flaunting a line-up of nine films which perfectly epitomise the great strategic divide brought about by the health crisis, with some titles launching this season and others pushed back to 2021. Shimmering in the showcase are two French feature films awarded a Cannes Label and which will enjoy private (specially chosen) screenings, ahead of premieres set to unfurl in September. Standing tall under the “Official Selection Cannes 73” banner is Peter Dourountzis’s Rascal (news), a first feature film starring Pierre Deladonchamps, Ophélie Bau and Sébastien Houban. The story follows...

Madame Claude

Director Sylvie Verheyde returns to the world of the sex worker in her sixth feature, Madame Claude, a Parisian period piece about a 1960s brothel madame. Reuniting with Karole Rocher as the lead, Verheyde rounds out a supporting cast featuring Roschdy Zem, Garance Marillier, Benjamin Biolay, Pierre Deladonchamps, Josephine de la Baume, plus two more Sex Doll cast members, Hafsia Herzi and Paul Hamy. Produced by Florence Gastaud, the title is notably lensed by Leo Hinstin (the Dp on Bonello’s 2016 title Nocturama).…...

Vaurien

French director Peter Dourountzis will make his directorial debut with the thriller Vaurien, produced by Sebastien Haguenauer. The project is headlined by Pierre Deladonchamps and Ophélie Bau. Jean-Marc Fabre serves as Dp. Dourountzis won the UniFrance Grand Prize in 2015 for his short film “Errance.”

Gist: Possibly borrowing from his 2015 short film, this is about Dje (Deladonchamps) arrives in Paris penniless, relying on his charm to get by. He seizes every opportunity which comes his way, even if it means killing.…...

The two actors lead the cast of Ève Deboise’s second feature film, a Blue Monday production sold by Be For Films, which is set to be shot from January. The first clapperboard will slam on 2 January for Petite leçon d’amour, Ève Deboise’s second feature film after Lost Paradise (which notably won the Jeonju Grand Prize in 2013). Together once more at the head of the cast are Laetitia Dosch and Pierre Deladonchamps (nominated for the 2017 Best Actor gong at both the César Awards and the Lumières Awards for A Kid; the winner...

The acting duo is currently performing in Peter Dourountzis’ feature debut, which is being produced by 10:15 Productions and will be sold by Kinology. The shoot for Vaurien, the feature debut by Peter Dourountzis, kicked off on 27 October and is due to wrap on 28 November. Toplining this thriller are Pierre Deladonchamps and Ophélie Bau (nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2019 and winner of the Lumières Award...

Not to be too cynical about it, but might the recent horrific fire in Paris’ cathedral attract audiences to a film in which the gothic gem plays a major role? It’s likely a wiser marketing strategy than promoting the unrelenting silliness of Valerie Donzelli’s oh-so-kooky comedy “Notre dame,” the writer-director-star’s return to contemporary Paris following her historical misfire “Marguerite and Julian.”

Despite wanting to be a cathartically humorous riposte to an anger-filled society, this story of a meek architect unexpectedly awarded the contract to redesign Notre-Dame’s esplanade (pre-conflagration) relies on an insufferable combination of flaky absurdism mixed with saccharine insouciance, all packaged like a chirpy sitcom in which dripping snot is played as a big laugh-getter. Timing however may well play to Donzelli’s advantage, at least until the reviews come out.

Cheeriness is the film’s leitmotif, pitched at a level generally reserved for children in the pre-verbal stage.

Celebrating our fav recent Instagram pics through silly polling. So, dear readers, Would You Rather...

• levitate spaceships with the Force and Vincent Rodriguez?

• take a swim in the Mediterranean with Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and French hottie Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake)?

• learn the art of not giving a f*ck with Trinity the Tuck?

• swim in Tennessee with Christina Hendricks?

• sunbathe in Italy with Uma Thurman?

• get psychotically cute with Cory Michael Smith?

• do Madonna cosplay (?) with Erich Bergen?

• receive an honorary degree with Angela Bassett?

• climb a mountain with former Velvet Goldmine collaborators Toni Collette and Sandy Powell (omg!)?

Pictures are after the jump to help you decide.

Slate also includes four new festival title acquisitions and five previously announced Palme d’Or contenders.

Wild Bunch will launch sales on eight new titles at Cannes this year including Sylvie Verheyde’s Madame Claude about an infamous French brothel owner and Lou Ye’s upcoming black and white thriller Saturday Fiction.

The slate also features two recent acquisitions out of the Official Selection as well as two new Cannes Critics’ Week films alongside the five previously announced Palme d’Or contenders.

Verheyde’s Madame Claude stars Karole Rocher as the real-life, late Paris brothel owner whose clients allegedly included John F.

Slate also includes four new festival title acquisitions and five previously announced Palme d’Or contenders.

Wild Bunch will launch sales on eight new titles at Cannes this year including Sylvie Verheyde’s Madame Claude about an infamous French brothel owner and Lou Ye’s upcoming black and white thriller Saturday Fiction.

The slate also features two recent acquisitions out of the Official Selection as well as two new Cannes Critics’ Week films alongside the five previously announced Palme d’Or contenders.

Verheyde’s Madame Claude stars Karole Rocher as the real-life, late Paris brothel owner whose clients allegedly included John F.

Review by Stephen Tronicek

Sorry Angel screens at this year’s QFest St. Louis at 8:00pm April 28th at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar). Ticket information can be found Here

Sorry Angel might just be the most French movie that you see all year. Characters have sex, talk about the philosophical meaning of life, and best of all smoke cigarettes in the most attractive way possible. This is a statement of fact, not a detractor to the piece. Sorry Angel finds itself rooted firmly in traditions that have populated French cinema since the New Wave, but what Sorry Angel has is just the right emotional calibration. With that, the film is brilliant at capturing the feeling of lying next to a loved one, taking in them and feeling, for a brief moment, love.

This emotional calibration is created by a simple thing: freedom, whether that grows out of the structure or the execution.

Come get your Q on! The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis, presented by Cinema St. Louis,runs April 28-May 2, 2019, at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar) .The St. Louis-based Lgbtq film festival, QFest will present an eclectic slate of 28 films. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and to celebrate queer culture. The full schedule can be found Here

The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis begins this Sunday, April 28th. Here’s Sunday’s schedule:

1:00pm April 28th: Transgeek – This is a Free screening

(though tickets are required from box office)

“TransGeek” brings together the stories of transgender people working in the tech industry and participating in geek and gamer cultures. The film documents people who, in pursuit of their passions, risked...

“I mostly read dead writers,” Arthur says. Jacques teases back, “You won’t need to wait long.” The many types of relationships, friendships, and the ways the two transform are explored in Christophe Honoré’s new film Sorry Angel. In this scene, the two lovers discourse as if they were student and teacher, weaving multiple aspects of their relationship: their age difference, common interests, and Jacques’ known status as H.I.V. positive into two lines of dialogue.

We spoke with filmmaker Honoré and one of his lead actors, Vincent Lacoste at the 56th New York Film Festival. Honoré discusses Sorry Angel’s aesthetic manifesto and the new wave of international homophobia that influenced him to tell this story now. Lacoste discusses his character Arthur’s relationship with Nadine (Adèle Wismes), his lover prior to Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps) and the idea Honoré presents that Arthur, Jacques and Mathieu (Denis Podalydès...

Playtime, the Paris-based co-production and sales company which will be presenting Francois Ozon’s anticipated “By the Grace of God” in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, has acquired three offbeat French comedies: Geraldine Nakache’s “I’ll Go Where You Go,” “The Bare Necessity” with Fanny Ardant, and Valerie Donzelli’s “Our Lady of Paris.”

“Our Lady of Paris” marks Donzelli’s fifth feature film, following “Marguerite & Julien,” which competed at the Cannes Film Festival; “Hand in Hand”; “Declaration of War,” which played at Cannes’ Critics’ Week and earned six Cesar nominations; and “Queen of Hearts.”

Donzelli stars in the film as Maud Crayon, a failing architect and single mom of two who unexpectedly wins the contest to spearhead the renovation of the esplanade of Notre-Dame de Paris, and who has to deal with a pair of exes – both of whom she still has feelings for.

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