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If there's one thing films about farming have consistently shown us in recent years, from Britain to Iceland (The County) and beyond, it's that toxic masculinity thrives like wheat in the environment.

This time it's France where men rule the roost and women are thin on the ground and where, for once, the English title of the film gets to the heart of its emotions more than perhaps the more poetic French name La Terre Des Hommes (The Land of Men). Naël Marandin, writing with Marion Doussot and Marion Desseigne-Ravel, takes us to rural dairy country, where Constance (Diane Rouxel) is trying to keep her family farm afloat alongside her dad (Olivier Gourmet) and fiance Bruno (Finnegan Oldfield). With auction prices for their stock dropping - like many details here shown to us in an immersive cattle market scene rather than simply relayed through dialogue -...

Exclusive: Atwater Capital, the media investment firm that has become an increasingly active presence in media and content generation, is set to finance development of an English-language remake of Les Invisibles, the Louis-Julien Petit-directed French film. Deal was made in Cannes.

Adapted by Petit and Marion Doussot from the Claire Lajeunie novel Sur La Route Des Invisibles, Femmes Dans La Rue, the film focuses on the imminent closing of a homeless shelter for woman due to an administration decision. The social workers running the center will do whatever it takes to reintegrate the women back into society. They have no protocol, everything is permitted — but time is running out.

Produced by Liza Benguigui at Elemiah, the female-driven comedy was among France’s top-grossing 2018 films with north of $10 million in ticket sales.

“We are thrilled to invest in this story about empowering and supporting women who are doing their part to improve the human condition,...

Female Trouble: Bouchareb’s Understated First Chapter in Arab-American Trilogy

Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb, perhaps most widely recognized for his films Outside the Law (2010) and Days of Glory (2006), depicting historical and divisive conflicts between Algeria and France, returns once again to the Us with Just Like a Woman, the first film of a planned trilogy depicting the transforming relationships between the Western and Arab world. A female centric road film born out of severe character conflicts created by their oppressive, male dominated existence ensures that the film will be rampantly compared to Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise (1991), even though it avoids an overtly melodramatic malaise. Shining through its formulaic setup and stereotypical antagonists are a pair of actresses that manage to fit perfectly with Bouchareb’s knack for uniting people despite of their socially constructed differences.

Down and out Chicago receptionist Marilyn (Sienna Miller) is struggling to make ends...

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that a brand new poster for Rachid Bouchareb‘s latest drama Just Like a Woman is waiting for you in the rest of this report. You know, the film that stars Sienna Miller as an American housewife and Golshifteh Farahani as her North African friend? C’mon, we already shared 20 great images and trailer for the whole thing… I will once again remind you that Bouchareb directed the pic from a script written by Joelle Touma and Marion Doussot, which revolves around a Chicago housewife runs off to Santa Fe to compete in a belly dancing competition. In...

If you ask me – Rachid Bouchareb‘s latest movie Just Like a Woman looks pretty good (you can’t blame a girl for loving a belly dance, you know…) And that’s exactly what you’re going to see in the rest of this report, because we have 20 new images, a new poster and some kind of an international teaser trailer for the whole thing to share with you today! Click continue & enjoy! Rachid Bouchareb directed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Marion Doussot and Joëlle Touma, which follows an American housewife and a North African woman who travel from Chicago to Santa Fe...