Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail has taken the lead on Screen’s Berlin jury grid with a strong 3.4 while Ari, Dreams, The Ice Tower and Reflection In A Dead Diamond also land.
The Blue Trailreceived four four stars (excellent) and five three stars (good), already beating the score of last year’s joint winners My Favourite Cake and The Devil’s Bath with 3.1.Denise Weinberg stars in the dystopian fable as a 77-year-old who embarks on a journey through the Amazon.
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Close behind was Michel Franco’s...
The Blue Trailreceived four four stars (excellent) and five three stars (good), already beating the score of last year’s joint winners My Favourite Cake and The Devil’s Bath with 3.1.Denise Weinberg stars in the dystopian fable as a 77-year-old who embarks on a journey through the Amazon.
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Close behind was Michel Franco’s...
- 2/17/2025
- ScreenDaily
French director Léonor Serraille’s third feature Ari is the portrait of an über-sensitive young man who ponders his place in the world while looking up people from his past to hold conversations that were never had. If this sounds like the premise for a parody of talky French dramas, for a while it really does suggest one––until the perceived tropes and stereotypes fall away to reveal a raw, humanist core that’s anything but clichéd.
Ari (Andranic Manet) is a 27-year-old trainee teacher. We see early on that he’s awkward around children, at one point collapsing in class. After an ensuing argument with his father, he gets kicked out of the home where he still lives. With his career in question and no place to stay, Ari finds himself in a pre-midlife crisis, forced to rekindle friendships and explain himself to people he’s cut off along the way.
Ari (Andranic Manet) is a 27-year-old trainee teacher. We see early on that he’s awkward around children, at one point collapsing in class. After an ensuing argument with his father, he gets kicked out of the home where he still lives. With his career in question and no place to stay, Ari finds himself in a pre-midlife crisis, forced to rekindle friendships and explain himself to people he’s cut off along the way.
- 2/16/2025
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
Léonor Serraille has established herself among respected voices in French independent cinema, with earlier films that explored the spirit and complexities of everyday life. Her previous works brought sensitivity and honesty to the screen, creating expectations for “Ari.” Her reputation in the arthouse scene suggests a director skilled at portraying emotional depth and observational detail.
Set in Lille’s working-class neighborhoods, “Ari” introduces a young man navigating the challenges of his new career as a primary school teacher. The character of Ari appears thoughtful and vulnerable—struggling to find his place within a society that often feels indifferent. His experiences connect with individuals balancing personal ideals against practical adult realities.
The film uses a fluid narrative approach, with scenes unfolding in a relaxed, organic manner. Conversations feel authentic, and the camera captures intimate moments that reveal the character’s inner world. This technique echoes French New Wave sensibilities while speaking to viewers seeking genuine storytelling.
Set in Lille’s working-class neighborhoods, “Ari” introduces a young man navigating the challenges of his new career as a primary school teacher. The character of Ari appears thoughtful and vulnerable—struggling to find his place within a society that often feels indifferent. His experiences connect with individuals balancing personal ideals against practical adult realities.
The film uses a fluid narrative approach, with scenes unfolding in a relaxed, organic manner. Conversations feel authentic, and the camera captures intimate moments that reveal the character’s inner world. This technique echoes French New Wave sensibilities while speaking to viewers seeking genuine storytelling.
- 2/15/2025
- by Caleb Anderson
- Gazettely
Léonor Serraille has had a career most young directors would dream of — winning the Camera d’Or for her 2017 debut “Montparnasse Bienvenue” before launching her sophomore feature, “Mother and Son,” from Cannes’ competition in 2022. And for just as long, the thirty-something auteur has kept a healthy distance from her own high profile, keeping off social media and living outside of Paris, while often playing cagey about her success.
“For years, I never even told people that I worked in cinema,” Serraille says. “I like being incognito, and I like being a part of a crowd. [To do this job] you can’t look at others from above; you have to remain at eye level, and you have to blend in.”
Those instincts are on stark display in Serraille’s Golden Bear contender, “Ari.” Shot on Super 16 film stock and styled to accent raw emotion, bereft of makeup or vanity, the director’s latest project...
“For years, I never even told people that I worked in cinema,” Serraille says. “I like being incognito, and I like being a part of a crowd. [To do this job] you can’t look at others from above; you have to remain at eye level, and you have to blend in.”
Those instincts are on stark display in Serraille’s Golden Bear contender, “Ari.” Shot on Super 16 film stock and styled to accent raw emotion, bereft of makeup or vanity, the director’s latest project...
- 2/15/2025
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Murmur of the Heart: Serraille Conquers Indifference Through Sincerity
With her third feature, Ari, director Léonor Serraille confirms a clear pattern of interest in exploring characters struggling for meaning and balance in their lives. Much like her 2017 debut, Jeune Femme, Serraille distills her focus on a protagonist who is suffocating in their own ennui, this time switching the perspective to a young man in his late twenties whose sensitivity towards others is exceptionally keen. There’s an earnestness and sincerity to Serraille’s latest which is difficult to convey without seeming mawkish or sentimental, but she strikes a balance which is effectively heartfelt.…...
With her third feature, Ari, director Léonor Serraille confirms a clear pattern of interest in exploring characters struggling for meaning and balance in their lives. Much like her 2017 debut, Jeune Femme, Serraille distills her focus on a protagonist who is suffocating in their own ennui, this time switching the perspective to a young man in his late twenties whose sensitivity towards others is exceptionally keen. There’s an earnestness and sincerity to Serraille’s latest which is difficult to convey without seeming mawkish or sentimental, but she strikes a balance which is effectively heartfelt.…...
- 2/15/2025
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
For all the screenwriting manuals and maxims that insist on character goals and motivations and missions and all those things we’re supposed to have in real life too, there can be something riveting about a character with no plan at all. We never know quite where Ari, the eponymous protagonist of writer-director Léonor Serraille’s excellent third feature, is headed from one scene to the next, not least because he doesn’t either. Quarter-life drift was also the defining condition of Serraille’s 2017 debut “Jeune Femme,” a Cannes Camera d’Or winner that prompted critical comparisons — some favorable, some less so — to Agnès Varda and Lena Dunham alike. But where that film was zingy and vigorous in its youthful malaise, “Ari” turns down the brightness a bit to portray a young, unmoored trainee teacher who gives the film a more melancholic center than its predecessor.
Yet the film is...
Yet the film is...
- 2/15/2025
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
With only a trio of films under her belt, writer-director Léonor Serraille has carved her own special niche within the overcrowded world of French arthouse cinema. Her 2017 breakthrough, Montparnasse Bienvenüe, won Cannes’ prestigious Camera d’Or while confirming the rising status of its lead actress, Laetitia Dosch. Her second effort, the moving and underrated immigrant drama Mother and Son, premiered in Cannes’ main competition, but never quite gained traction abroad.
And while Seraille’s third feature, the partially improvised, shot-on-the-fly character study, Ari, feels in many ways like a more minor effort compared to the others, it continues to showcase the director’s ability to coax strong performances out of both amateur and confirmed actors — including the film’s arresting lead, Andaric Manet.
A sort of male companion piece to Montparnasse Bienvenüe, which chronicled the roller coaster life of a young woman scraping by in the City of Lights, Ari...
And while Seraille’s third feature, the partially improvised, shot-on-the-fly character study, Ari, feels in many ways like a more minor effort compared to the others, it continues to showcase the director’s ability to coax strong performances out of both amateur and confirmed actors — including the film’s arresting lead, Andaric Manet.
A sort of male companion piece to Montparnasse Bienvenüe, which chronicled the roller coaster life of a young woman scraping by in the City of Lights, Ari...
- 2/15/2025
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Huo Meng’s Living The Land and Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milkkick off Screen’s Berlinale 2025 critics jury grid with average scores of 2.4 (with two scores incoming) and 1.8 respectively.
Both family-centred dramas, Meng’s fiction debut is set in 1990s China and told through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy while Lenkiewicz’s UK-produced feature follows a daughter and her ill mother who travel to a Spanish seaside town in hope of a cure.
Nine critics are participating in this year’s jury grid and will mark all 19 films playing in competition.
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Both family-centred dramas, Meng’s fiction debut is set in 1990s China and told through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy while Lenkiewicz’s UK-produced feature follows a daughter and her ill mother who travel to a Spanish seaside town in hope of a cure.
Nine critics are participating in this year’s jury grid and will mark all 19 films playing in competition.
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
- 2/15/2025
- ScreenDaily
Leonor Serraille’s “Ari,” one of the most anticipated European films slated to world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, has been boarded by Pamela Leu’s Be For Films.
“Ari” marks Serraille’s follow up to “Mother and Son” (“Un petit frere”) which competed at Cannes in 2022. Her feature debut, “Jeune Femme,” won the Golden Camera at Cannes in 2017.
Be For Films will kick off sales on the film at the European Film Market running alongside the Berlinale.
Serraille’s third feature, “Ari” revolves around a 27-year-old student teacher who collapses right in the middle of a school inspector’s visit. “Angry with him for being a failure, his father kicks him out of the house. Emotionally raw, and alone in the city, Ari reluctantly forces himself to rekindle his relationships with old friends. As his memories of the previous months successively ebb and flow, Ari discovers...
“Ari” marks Serraille’s follow up to “Mother and Son” (“Un petit frere”) which competed at Cannes in 2022. Her feature debut, “Jeune Femme,” won the Golden Camera at Cannes in 2017.
Be For Films will kick off sales on the film at the European Film Market running alongside the Berlinale.
Serraille’s third feature, “Ari” revolves around a 27-year-old student teacher who collapses right in the middle of a school inspector’s visit. “Angry with him for being a failure, his father kicks him out of the house. Emotionally raw, and alone in the city, Ari reluctantly forces himself to rekindle his relationships with old friends. As his memories of the previous months successively ebb and flow, Ari discovers...
- 1/22/2025
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlinale’s new director Tricia Tuttle unveiled her inaugural line-up on Tuesday under the scrutiny of press and industry who are waiting to see whether she can get the festival back on track after a tumultuous 2024 edition.
The 19-title competition mixes works by confirmed big names such as Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Michel Franco’s Dreams, Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Hong Sangsoo’s What Does That Nature Say To You with second and third movies by rising names such as Léonor Serraille’s Ari and Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail.
Outside of the competition, Tuttle may have secured a starrier than usual red carpet with previously announced invitations to works including Justin Kurzel’s series The Narrow Road To The Deep North with Jacob Elordi, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, with Robert Pattinson, and fresh addition A Complete Unknown, with Timothée Chamalet, but she is keeping...
The 19-title competition mixes works by confirmed big names such as Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Michel Franco’s Dreams, Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Hong Sangsoo’s What Does That Nature Say To You with second and third movies by rising names such as Léonor Serraille’s Ari and Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail.
Outside of the competition, Tuttle may have secured a starrier than usual red carpet with previously announced invitations to works including Justin Kurzel’s series The Narrow Road To The Deep North with Jacob Elordi, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, with Robert Pattinson, and fresh addition A Complete Unknown, with Timothée Chamalet, but she is keeping...
- 1/21/2025
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The lineup for the 75th Berlin International Film Festival has been unveiled, with 19 films competing for the coveted Golden Bear. Outside of those, the festival will also host the world premiere of Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, have a screening of James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown and offer up Tom Tykwer’s latest, The Light, which will be opening the festival.
Here is the full competition lineup for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival:
Ari – Léonor Serraille
Blue Moon – Richard Linklater
La cache (The Safe House) – Lionel Baier
Dreams – Michel Franco
Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) – Dag Johan Haugerud
Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani (What Does That Nature Say to You) – Hong Sangsoo
Hot Milk – Rebecca Lenkiewicz
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – Mary Bronstein
Kontinental ’25 – Radu Jude
El mensaje (The Message) – Iván Fund
Mother’s Baby – Johanna Moder
O último azul (The Blue Trail) – Gabriel Mascaro
Reflet...
Here is the full competition lineup for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival:
Ari – Léonor Serraille
Blue Moon – Richard Linklater
La cache (The Safe House) – Lionel Baier
Dreams – Michel Franco
Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) – Dag Johan Haugerud
Geu jayeoni nege mworago hani (What Does That Nature Say to You) – Hong Sangsoo
Hot Milk – Rebecca Lenkiewicz
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – Mary Bronstein
Kontinental ’25 – Radu Jude
El mensaje (The Message) – Iván Fund
Mother’s Baby – Johanna Moder
O último azul (The Blue Trail) – Gabriel Mascaro
Reflet...
- 1/21/2025
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for the 2025 edition, running February 13-23. It’s the first official lineup overseen by new artistic director and former BFI London Film Festival leader Tricia Tuttle, who succeeds Carlo Chatrian and brings her background as an American journalist and curator to the annual German showcase. She’s also working with co-directors of programming, Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz, to help reposition the Berlinale’s profile among the great global film festivals and lure bigger-name filmmakers in the process.
This year’s lineup, announced Tuesday, January 21, features new films from Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), and Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”). Already confirmed in the mix are “Mickey 17” from Bong Joon Ho and Ira Sachs’ Sundance premiere “Peter Hujar’s Day,” plus Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” opening the festival.
This year’s lineup, announced Tuesday, January 21, features new films from Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), and Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”). Already confirmed in the mix are “Mickey 17” from Bong Joon Ho and Ira Sachs’ Sundance premiere “Peter Hujar’s Day,” plus Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” opening the festival.
- 1/21/2025
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Nineteen features in competition, Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle loaded up on some mainstay auteurs with the likes of Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Hong Sangsoo, Radu Jude, Lucile Hadžihalilović and Golden Bear winner Vivian Qu measuring up against Léonor Serraille (Cannes Camera d’Or winning Montparnasse Bienvenue), Gabriel Mascaro (Venice Special Jury Prize winning Boi Neon), Mary Bronstein (who will premiere her sophomore feature in Sundance this week) and first-time filmmaker / Ida scribe Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The 75th edition of the Berlin Film Festival beings of February 13th.
Of the selections, here are titles we’ve been keeping close tabs on.…...
Of the selections, here are titles we’ve been keeping close tabs on.…...
- 1/21/2025
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival (February 13-23) has unveiled the 19 titles set to play in its official Competition and films selected for its new competitive Perspectives strand.
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New films from Richard Linklater, Hong Sangsoo, Michel Franco and Radu Jude are among those selected for the main competition, with stars including Margaret Qualley, Ethan Hawke, Jessica Chastain, Claes Bang and Marion Cotillard.
It marks the first Competition lineup from new festival director Tricia Tuttle, who announced the titles alongside co-directors of film programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz in Berlin today (January 21).
All Competition titles...
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New films from Richard Linklater, Hong Sangsoo, Michel Franco and Radu Jude are among those selected for the main competition, with stars including Margaret Qualley, Ethan Hawke, Jessica Chastain, Claes Bang and Marion Cotillard.
It marks the first Competition lineup from new festival director Tricia Tuttle, who announced the titles alongside co-directors of film programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz in Berlin today (January 21).
All Competition titles...
- 1/21/2025
- ScreenDaily
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival (February 13-23) has unveiled the 19 titles set to play in its official Competition and films selected for its new competitive Perspectives strand.
Scroll down for full list
New films from Richard Linklater, Hong Sangsoo, Michel Franco and Radu Jude are among those selected for the main competition, with stars including Margaret Qualley, Ethan Hawke, Jessica Chastain, Claes Bang and Marion Cotillard.
It marks the first Competition lineup from new festival director Tricia Tuttle, who announced the titles alongside co-directors of film programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz in Berlin today (January 21).
All Competition titles...
Scroll down for full list
New films from Richard Linklater, Hong Sangsoo, Michel Franco and Radu Jude are among those selected for the main competition, with stars including Margaret Qualley, Ethan Hawke, Jessica Chastain, Claes Bang and Marion Cotillard.
It marks the first Competition lineup from new festival director Tricia Tuttle, who announced the titles alongside co-directors of film programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz in Berlin today (January 21).
All Competition titles...
- 1/21/2025
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the full list of titles set for its official competition alongside perspective and specials sidebars.
A total of 19 films have been selected for the international competition. It’s a buzzy selection with multiple titles that have been anticipated and boast high-profile names. Highlights include Richard Linklater’s latest feature Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott. Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco launches his latest title Dreams in competition. The film stars Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández and Rupert Friend. Franco last worked with Chastain on the Venice competition title Memory.
Elsewhere, Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude lands in competition with Kontinental ’25. Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps also secures a spot alongside Hong Sangsoo’s latest What Does that Nature Say to You, and Mumblecore veteran Mary Bronstein returns as a director with If I Had Legs I’d Kick You...
A total of 19 films have been selected for the international competition. It’s a buzzy selection with multiple titles that have been anticipated and boast high-profile names. Highlights include Richard Linklater’s latest feature Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott. Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco launches his latest title Dreams in competition. The film stars Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández and Rupert Friend. Franco last worked with Chastain on the Venice competition title Memory.
Elsewhere, Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude lands in competition with Kontinental ’25. Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps also secures a spot alongside Hong Sangsoo’s latest What Does that Nature Say to You, and Mumblecore veteran Mary Bronstein returns as a director with If I Had Legs I’d Kick You...
- 1/21/2025
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The competition line-up for the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival is being announced at a press conference at 11am Cet (10am GMT).
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New festival director Tricia Tuttle is revealing the titles for the Competition and new Perspectives strand alongside co-directors of film programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz.
The announcement is being live-streamed on the festival’s social channels. Watch it live above.
Screen will update this page with the titles as they are announced. Refresh the page for latest updates.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Tom Tykwer’s Special Gala out of competition selection The Light.
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New festival director Tricia Tuttle is revealing the titles for the Competition and new Perspectives strand alongside co-directors of film programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz.
The announcement is being live-streamed on the festival’s social channels. Watch it live above.
Screen will update this page with the titles as they are announced. Refresh the page for latest updates.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Tom Tykwer’s Special Gala out of competition selection The Light.
- 1/21/2025
- ScreenDaily
From Sept. 25 to Oct. 2, the 20th edition of Mexico’s Monterrey Film Festival will screen nearly 100 films, culled from world-class festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca and SXSW. The festival will stage Mexican, Latin American and world premieres of fiction and documentary features, many by first-time film directors. Below are 10 outstanding titles:
“The Blue Star,” Javier Macipe, Spain, Argentina (Mexican premiere)
An Ibero-American co-production between Fernando Bovaira’s Mod Producciones of Spain (“Biutiful”), Macipe’s El Pez Amarillo, Cimarrón (“Society of the Snow”) and Prisma, Argentina, the 90s-set film centers on Mauricio, a famous Spanish rock musician who decides to travel across Latin America in a bid to reconnect with his roots. He meets Don Carlos, an aging musician who’s struggling despite having composed some of his country’s most famous folk songs. Carlos, like a musical Master Miyagi, takes in the visitor, and together they form a quirky, Quixote-like duo destined for commercial failure.
“The Blue Star,” Javier Macipe, Spain, Argentina (Mexican premiere)
An Ibero-American co-production between Fernando Bovaira’s Mod Producciones of Spain (“Biutiful”), Macipe’s El Pez Amarillo, Cimarrón (“Society of the Snow”) and Prisma, Argentina, the 90s-set film centers on Mauricio, a famous Spanish rock musician who decides to travel across Latin America in a bid to reconnect with his roots. He meets Don Carlos, an aging musician who’s struggling despite having composed some of his country’s most famous folk songs. Carlos, like a musical Master Miyagi, takes in the visitor, and together they form a quirky, Quixote-like duo destined for commercial failure.
- 9/23/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the lineup of projects for Venice Immersive, the Extended Reality (Xr) section of the event. The program, which will include 63 projects from 25 countries, takes place on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio from Aug. 29 to Sept. 7.
There are 26 projects in Competition, including 19 world premieres and seven international premieres.
There are 30 projects playing Out of Competition, including the best works that have been released or premiered elsewhere since the last edition of the Venice Film Festival; this section is divided into: Best of Experiences (10 projects), and Best of Worlds (20 projects), created by independent artists on the VRChat social platform, an ecosystem of virtual worlds presented in guided tours.
There are seven projects developed during the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive: one project produced thanks to the grant from this year’s eighth edition, six projects developed within the international workshop of the eighth, seventh, sixth and fifth editions.
There are 26 projects in Competition, including 19 world premieres and seven international premieres.
There are 30 projects playing Out of Competition, including the best works that have been released or premiered elsewhere since the last edition of the Venice Film Festival; this section is divided into: Best of Experiences (10 projects), and Best of Worlds (20 projects), created by independent artists on the VRChat social platform, an ecosystem of virtual worlds presented in guided tours.
There are seven projects developed during the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive: one project produced thanks to the grant from this year’s eighth edition, six projects developed within the international workshop of the eighth, seventh, sixth and fifth editions.
- 7/18/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Mad Celebrity — the talent management subsidiary of the pan-Arab film and TV company Mad Solutions — has signed Tunisian actor and writer Majd Mastoura, French Lebanese actor Isabelle Zighondi, and Saudi actor, producer and director Amawri Ezayah to the roster of its Mad Rising Celebrity unit, and visual artist, producer and Dop Mostafa El Kashef, who will be joining Mad Crew Celebrity.
Mastoura is best known for his work on Mohamed Ben Attia’s “Hedi” — for which he received a Silver Bear for best actor from the Berlin Film Festival, making him the first-ever Arab actor to receive the award — and Léonor Serraille’s “Mother and Son,” which world premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
His most recent project is Ben Attia’s surreal Tunisian drama feature “Behind the Mountains,” which world premiered in the Horizons Section of this year’s Venice Film Festival and is holding its Arab...
Mastoura is best known for his work on Mohamed Ben Attia’s “Hedi” — for which he received a Silver Bear for best actor from the Berlin Film Festival, making him the first-ever Arab actor to receive the award — and Léonor Serraille’s “Mother and Son,” which world premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
His most recent project is Ben Attia’s surreal Tunisian drama feature “Behind the Mountains,” which world premiered in the Horizons Section of this year’s Venice Film Festival and is holding its Arab...
- 12/5/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Harrison Ford blockbuster dethroned ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’.
Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (June 30-July 2) Total gross to date Week 1. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (Disney) £5.4m £7.1m 1 2. Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse (Sony) £1.5m £25.9m 5 3. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (Universal) £884,898 £884,898 1 4. The Little Mermaid (Disney) £837,544 £25m 6 5. Asteroid City (Universal) £797,946 £2.7m 2
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.27
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny opened to £5.4m at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend – enough to top the charts, but significantly down on the most recent title in the action franchise.
The Dial Of Destiny had the widest release of...
Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (June 30-July 2) Total gross to date Week 1. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (Disney) £5.4m £7.1m 1 2. Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse (Sony) £1.5m £25.9m 5 3. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (Universal) £884,898 £884,898 1 4. The Little Mermaid (Disney) £837,544 £25m 6 5. Asteroid City (Universal) £797,946 £2.7m 2
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.27
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny opened to £5.4m at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend – enough to top the charts, but significantly down on the most recent title in the action franchise.
The Dial Of Destiny had the widest release of...
- 7/3/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Also new this weekend: Dreamworks animation ’Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ and ’La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck)’, starring Isabelle Huppert.
Disney is leading the pack this weekend with Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny out at 743 venues, the widest UK-Ireland release of 2023 so far.
It opens ahead of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which debuted at 732 sites in May. The Cannes premiere, the fifth instalment in the franchise, sees James Mangold take the reins from Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford returns as the titular adventurer, this time in 1969. Jones is living a quieter life, until his estranged goddaughter – played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge...
Disney is leading the pack this weekend with Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny out at 743 venues, the widest UK-Ireland release of 2023 so far.
It opens ahead of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which debuted at 732 sites in May. The Cannes premiere, the fifth instalment in the franchise, sees James Mangold take the reins from Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford returns as the titular adventurer, this time in 1969. Jones is living a quieter life, until his estranged goddaughter – played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge...
- 6/30/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Also new this weekend: Dreamworks animation ’Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ and ’La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck)’, starring Isabelle Huppert.
Disney is leading the pack this weekend with Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny out at 743 venues, the widest UK-Ireland release of 2023 so far.
It opens ahead of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which debuted at 732 sites in May. The Cannes premiere, the fifth instalment in the franchise, sees James Mangold take the reins from Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford returns as the titular adventurer, this time in 1969. Jones is living a quieter life, until his estranged goddaughter – played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge...
Disney is leading the pack this weekend with Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny out at 743 venues, the widest UK-Ireland release of 2023 so far.
It opens ahead of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which debuted at 732 sites in May. The Cannes premiere, the fifth instalment in the franchise, sees James Mangold take the reins from Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford returns as the titular adventurer, this time in 1969. Jones is living a quieter life, until his estranged goddaughter – played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge...
- 6/30/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Mother and Son was met to great critical acclaim when it premiered in Cannes last year, and finally it now makes its way to audiences this side of the Channel, and to mark the occasion we had the pleasure in speaking to filmmaker Léonor Serraille in Paris at the beginning of the year.
We discuss the themes of the film, the casting of her leading woman Annabelle Lengronne, and exploring the socio-political situation in France in regards to the relationship between the establishment and minorities. We also talk about the success of her preceding feature Jeune Femme, and what sort of impact that had on this project.
I was reading that this story has been with you for some time, why was now the right time to tell it?
It was my second movie and I was very stressed and I maybe wanted not to make another movie, so my...
We discuss the themes of the film, the casting of her leading woman Annabelle Lengronne, and exploring the socio-political situation in France in regards to the relationship between the establishment and minorities. We also talk about the success of her preceding feature Jeune Femme, and what sort of impact that had on this project.
I was reading that this story has been with you for some time, why was now the right time to tell it?
It was my second movie and I was very stressed and I maybe wanted not to make another movie, so my...
- 6/30/2023
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Remember how important the present is because the past can weigh you down and you never know what the future holds could be the message of this film from Léonor Serraille, which delicately considers single motherhood from both the adult perspective and that of the child. Beginning in the late Eighties, it spans 20 years, the focal point passes from mum Rose, first to her elder son Jean and then his younger brother Ernest (played in adulthood by Ahmed Sylla), although these are loose framings of what is, essentially a film less about individualism than the unseen ties that burden and bind us in equal measure.
When we meet them, Rose (Annabelle Lengronne), Jean and Ernest (played as young children by Sidy Fofana and Milan Doucansi) are newly arrived in France from Ivory Coast, living cheek-by-jowl in a room of a relative’s home. Two things are immediately clear. Rose loves her.
When we meet them, Rose (Annabelle Lengronne), Jean and Ernest (played as young children by Sidy Fofana and Milan Doucansi) are newly arrived in France from Ivory Coast, living cheek-by-jowl in a room of a relative’s home. Two things are immediately clear. Rose loves her.
- 6/29/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
"You're in France now. We're here to help. We're family." Picturehouse in the UK has revealed the official trailer for a French indie drama titled Mother and Son in English, originally known as Un Petit Frère in French. This first premiered at last year's 2022 Cannes Film Festival in the competition (though it didn't win anything), and will open this summer in UK cinemas. Beautifully tender and deeply moving, Mother and Son is a vibrant portrait of a family told from multiple perspectives. Centred on a young mother and her two sons after their move from the Ivory Coast to France, the film is an impassioned tale of shifting tensions and identity from writer-director Léonor Serraille (also of Jeune Femme). It also played at the Vienna and Stockholm Fests, and at the American French Film Festival last fall. Starring Annabelle Lengronne as Rose, with Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin, Sidy Fofana, Ahmed Sylla,...
- 5/29/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The International Film Festival Rotterdam presented lauded French cinematographer Hélène Louvart with the Robby Müller Award on Sunday. A collaboration between IFFR, the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers (Nsc) and Andrea Müller-Schirmer, Müller’s wife, the award was founded in 2020, two years after his death, and aims to honor image-makers who have “created an authentic, credible and emotionally striking visual language throughout their oeuvre.”
To mark the special occasion, Louvart presented a masterclass at IFFR, guiding an eager audience through some of her work in films by Win Wenders, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Alice Rohrwacher. The director was also gifted a video containing loving testimonials by some of the aforementioned directors plus others such as Karim Aïnouz, Léonor Serraille and Eliza Hittman. Rohrwacher’s words were a highlight, with the filmmaker finishing her praise of Louvart by saying she loved her dear friend, with whom she collaborated in all of her films “more than cinema.
To mark the special occasion, Louvart presented a masterclass at IFFR, guiding an eager audience through some of her work in films by Win Wenders, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Alice Rohrwacher. The director was also gifted a video containing loving testimonials by some of the aforementioned directors plus others such as Karim Aïnouz, Léonor Serraille and Eliza Hittman. Rohrwacher’s words were a highlight, with the filmmaker finishing her praise of Louvart by saying she loved her dear friend, with whom she collaborated in all of her films “more than cinema.
- 1/30/2023
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center have unveiled the lineup for the 28th edition of Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, an annual celebration of contemporary French filmmaking. The event will take place March 2–12.
It kicks off with a screening of Alice Winocour’s “Revoir Paris,” which stars Virginie Efira as a translator named Mia, who survived a mass shooting in a Paris restaurant and is unable to resume life as usual. In an effort to regain a sense of normalcy, Mia returns repeatedly to the site of the shooting, forming bonds with her fellow survivors. Efira is best known for her star turn in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta.”
“It is a such a pleasure to open this year’s edition with the French critical and box-office hit ‘Revoir Paris’ in the presence of director Alice Winocour and actress Virginie Efira, who just received our French Cinema Award in Paris,” said Daniela Elstner,...
It kicks off with a screening of Alice Winocour’s “Revoir Paris,” which stars Virginie Efira as a translator named Mia, who survived a mass shooting in a Paris restaurant and is unable to resume life as usual. In an effort to regain a sense of normalcy, Mia returns repeatedly to the site of the shooting, forming bonds with her fellow survivors. Efira is best known for her star turn in Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta.”
“It is a such a pleasure to open this year’s edition with the French critical and box-office hit ‘Revoir Paris’ in the presence of director Alice Winocour and actress Virginie Efira, who just received our French Cinema Award in Paris,” said Daniela Elstner,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Event ran December 10-17.
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s Austrian Vera has won the Crystal Arrow award at the 14th Les Arcs Film Festival which wrapped on Friday night in the French mountain resort.
A jury presided over by prolific French actor-director Roschdy Zem gave its great jury prize to Teona Strugar Mitevska’s The Happiest Man In The World. Acting prizes went to Yothin Clavenzani for Ghost Night and Annabelle Lengronne for Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son, which also won a prize for best photography for Helene Louvart. The film is distributed by Diaphana in France and sold by MK2 Films.
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s Austrian Vera has won the Crystal Arrow award at the 14th Les Arcs Film Festival which wrapped on Friday night in the French mountain resort.
A jury presided over by prolific French actor-director Roschdy Zem gave its great jury prize to Teona Strugar Mitevska’s The Happiest Man In The World. Acting prizes went to Yothin Clavenzani for Ghost Night and Annabelle Lengronne for Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son, which also won a prize for best photography for Helene Louvart. The film is distributed by Diaphana in France and sold by MK2 Films.
- 12/16/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The Les Arcs Film Festival will launch a new sidebar showcasing this year’s European entries to the Best International Feature Film Oscar category at its 14th edition, running December 10 to 17 in its namesake French Alps skiing resort home of Les Arcs.
The dates of the European cinema-focused festival overlap with voting for the Oscar Shortlists, running December 12 to 15 ahead of the Shortlists announcement on December 21.
Eight submissions will screen in the new section entitled “Oscar Au Ski”: Cristèle Alves Meira’s Alma Viva (Portugal), Viesturs Kairišs’s January (Latvia), Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s BeautifuInt’l Critics Line: Iceland’s Oscar Entry Beautiful Beings (Iceland), Maryna Er Gorbach’s Klondike (Ukraine), Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage (Austria), Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (Ireland), Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture (Finland) and Carla Simón’s Alcarràs (Spain).
“The festival takes place in a period when the Oscar race is in full swing.
The dates of the European cinema-focused festival overlap with voting for the Oscar Shortlists, running December 12 to 15 ahead of the Shortlists announcement on December 21.
Eight submissions will screen in the new section entitled “Oscar Au Ski”: Cristèle Alves Meira’s Alma Viva (Portugal), Viesturs Kairišs’s January (Latvia), Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s BeautifuInt’l Critics Line: Iceland’s Oscar Entry Beautiful Beings (Iceland), Maryna Er Gorbach’s Klondike (Ukraine), Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage (Austria), Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (Ireland), Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture (Finland) and Carla Simón’s Alcarràs (Spain).
“The festival takes place in a period when the Oscar race is in full swing.
- 11/9/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Alpine event runs December 10-17.
The in-person 14th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival returns to the French Alps from December 10-17 to celebrate European Cinema and present eight films in Official Competition as well as the industry programme.
Official Competition selections vying for the Crystal Arrow award include David Wagner’s Eismayer from Austria (Loco Films handles sales), Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska’s co-production The Happiest Man In The World (distributed by Pyramide Films), and Fulvio Risuleo’s Ghost Night from Italy (Vision Distribution), and Leonor Serraille’s French title Un Petit Frère (Diaphana Distribution).
Rounding out the...
The in-person 14th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival returns to the French Alps from December 10-17 to celebrate European Cinema and present eight films in Official Competition as well as the industry programme.
Official Competition selections vying for the Crystal Arrow award include David Wagner’s Eismayer from Austria (Loco Films handles sales), Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska’s co-production The Happiest Man In The World (distributed by Pyramide Films), and Fulvio Risuleo’s Ghost Night from Italy (Vision Distribution), and Leonor Serraille’s French title Un Petit Frère (Diaphana Distribution).
Rounding out the...
- 11/9/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Bright Future and Limelight titles first to be announced.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and industry platform CineMart are set to fully return in-person in 2023, with its first wave of titles announced today.
The 52nd edition of the festival is scheduled to take place from January 25 to February 5 and organisers said it plans to welcome back audiences with a complete programme of features, shorts, focus programmes, installations and performances.
The 40th edition of IFFR’s co-production market CineMart is also set to run from January 29 to February 1, with one-to-one meetings and informal networking taking place in person for the first time in three years.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and industry platform CineMart are set to fully return in-person in 2023, with its first wave of titles announced today.
The 52nd edition of the festival is scheduled to take place from January 25 to February 5 and organisers said it plans to welcome back audiences with a complete programme of features, shorts, focus programmes, installations and performances.
The 40th edition of IFFR’s co-production market CineMart is also set to run from January 29 to February 1, with one-to-one meetings and informal networking taking place in person for the first time in three years.
- 10/27/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Festival runs November 9-20.
The Stockholm International Film Festival will present 130 films from 50 countries, opening on November 9 with Sweden’s international Oscar submission, Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh.
Political thriller Boy From Heaven premiered in competition at Cannes where it was awarded best screenplay.
Actor Fares Fares will receive the Stockholm Achievement Award on opening night. His credits include Easy Money, Safe House, Westworld and Chernobyl.
The Stockholm Visionary Award will go to Sam Mendes who will present the Nordic premiere of Empire Of Light.
Other notable selections include Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All; Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King...
The Stockholm International Film Festival will present 130 films from 50 countries, opening on November 9 with Sweden’s international Oscar submission, Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh.
Political thriller Boy From Heaven premiered in competition at Cannes where it was awarded best screenplay.
Actor Fares Fares will receive the Stockholm Achievement Award on opening night. His credits include Easy Money, Safe House, Westworld and Chernobyl.
The Stockholm Visionary Award will go to Sam Mendes who will present the Nordic premiere of Empire Of Light.
Other notable selections include Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All; Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King...
- 10/13/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Armageddon Time – James Gray [Review]
Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh [Review]
Broker – Hirokazu Kore-eda [Review]
Frère et sœur – Arnaud Desplechin [Review]
Close – Lukas Dhont [Review]
Crimes of the Future – David Cronenberg [Review]
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook [Review]
The Eight Mountains – Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen [Review]
Eo – Jerzy Skolimowski [Review]
Les Amandiers – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi [Review]
Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi [Review]
Leila’s Brothers – Saeed Roustayi [Review]
Un petit frère – Léonor Serraille [Review]
Nostalgia – Mario Martone [Review]
Pacifiction – Albert Serra [Review]
R.M.N.…...
Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh [Review]
Broker – Hirokazu Kore-eda [Review]
Frère et sœur – Arnaud Desplechin [Review]
Close – Lukas Dhont [Review]
Crimes of the Future – David Cronenberg [Review]
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook [Review]
The Eight Mountains – Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen [Review]
Eo – Jerzy Skolimowski [Review]
Les Amandiers – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi [Review]
Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi [Review]
Leila’s Brothers – Saeed Roustayi [Review]
Un petit frère – Léonor Serraille [Review]
Nostalgia – Mario Martone [Review]
Pacifiction – Albert Serra [Review]
R.M.N.…...
- 6/16/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Life in Rouen: Serraille Stacks Perspectives in Muted Tale of Immigration and Identity
After taking home the Camera d’Or for her 2017 feature Jeune Femme, director Léonor Serraille takes on an ambitious trifecta of perspectives in Un petit frère (Mother and Son) regarding a family immigrating from the Ivory Coast to Paris in 1989. The difference between the original French language title, Un Petite Frere, or ‘my little brother,’ and its English language slant hints at the difficulty in defining the exact focus of this saga spanning over twenty years.
Although defying the usual slant of miserablism often underlining many tales of immigration, especially when they’re reflected through the prism of white privilege, this somewhat gentle tale also neglects its three main characters in sticking to superficiality as it flits between the three of them across time periods.…...
After taking home the Camera d’Or for her 2017 feature Jeune Femme, director Léonor Serraille takes on an ambitious trifecta of perspectives in Un petit frère (Mother and Son) regarding a family immigrating from the Ivory Coast to Paris in 1989. The difference between the original French language title, Un Petite Frere, or ‘my little brother,’ and its English language slant hints at the difficulty in defining the exact focus of this saga spanning over twenty years.
Although defying the usual slant of miserablism often underlining many tales of immigration, especially when they’re reflected through the prism of white privilege, this somewhat gentle tale also neglects its three main characters in sticking to superficiality as it flits between the three of them across time periods.…...
- 5/28/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
by Cláudio Alves
The last days of the 75th Cannes Film Festival saw the premiere of many buzzy titles, including some that were declared Palme d'Or frontrunners on the spot. Albert Serra celebrates his first stint in the Main Competition with Pacification, a film that might not be for everyone but will undoubtedly satisfy the director's fans. Hirokazu Kore-eda returns after Shoplifters with another found-family crowd-pleaser, Broker. Lukas Dhont's Close reduced many to tears, but I'm not convinced. His debut was similarly acclaimed in Cannes, only to receive much-deserved backlash when seen by wider audiences. Kelly Reichardt seems to have delivered a low-key marvel with the Portland-set Showing Up, starring frequent collaborator Michelle Williams. Finally, Léonor Serraille closed the competition screenings with her sophomore feature, Mother and Son.
Just hours before Vincent Lindon's jury announces its choices, the Cannes at Home miniseries comes to an end with Serra's The Death of Louis Xiv,...
The last days of the 75th Cannes Film Festival saw the premiere of many buzzy titles, including some that were declared Palme d'Or frontrunners on the spot. Albert Serra celebrates his first stint in the Main Competition with Pacification, a film that might not be for everyone but will undoubtedly satisfy the director's fans. Hirokazu Kore-eda returns after Shoplifters with another found-family crowd-pleaser, Broker. Lukas Dhont's Close reduced many to tears, but I'm not convinced. His debut was similarly acclaimed in Cannes, only to receive much-deserved backlash when seen by wider audiences. Kelly Reichardt seems to have delivered a low-key marvel with the Portland-set Showing Up, starring frequent collaborator Michelle Williams. Finally, Léonor Serraille closed the competition screenings with her sophomore feature, Mother and Son.
Just hours before Vincent Lindon's jury announces its choices, the Cannes at Home miniseries comes to an end with Serra's The Death of Louis Xiv,...
- 5/28/2022
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
And the last film in competition is another sophomore feature film. Léonor Serraille of course won the Camera d’Or for Jeune Femme (aka Montparnasse Bienvenüe) — that film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section. Mother and Son (Un petit frère) stars Annabelle Lengronne in the lead matriarch flawed role. Hélène Louvart was the cinematographer on the film.
Set over the course of decades, we see two brothers grow up under a mother who doesn’t really have her act together — it leads them to different settings and dwellings – the result: adult children who have their own issues.
As expected, some of our jury folk made their way back home and so with thirteen votes in we’re looking at another 2.8 grade average.…...
Set over the course of decades, we see two brothers grow up under a mother who doesn’t really have her act together — it leads them to different settings and dwellings – the result: adult children who have their own issues.
As expected, some of our jury folk made their way back home and so with thirteen votes in we’re looking at another 2.8 grade average.…...
- 5/28/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Kelly Reichardt’s ’Showing Up’ lands third on Screen’s Cannes jury grid.
Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave finishes on top of Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 3.2 after Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up and Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son fail to match its score.
Reichardt’s Competition debut Showing Up landed in third place with an average of 2.7 after receiving five scores of three (good) from our jurors.
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The film, starring Michelle Williams, centres on a New York artist preparing for a show who must balance professional demands with...
Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave finishes on top of Screen’s Cannes jury grid with an average of 3.2 after Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up and Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son fail to match its score.
Reichardt’s Competition debut Showing Up landed in third place with an average of 2.7 after receiving five scores of three (good) from our jurors.
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The film, starring Michelle Williams, centres on a New York artist preparing for a show who must balance professional demands with...
- 5/28/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
Here’s a fun bit of symmetry: Of the four French titles competing for this year’s Palme d’Or, the first to screen was “Brother and Sister” and the last was “Mother and Son.” (Presumably daughters and grandparents will get their due next year.) Of the two, “Mother and Son” director Léonor Serraille bests her colleague Arnaud Desplechin in the family-saga sweepstakes, delivering a decade-spanning immigration drama that plays on the most intimate of registers.
The film closed out the Cannes competition on Friday, providing it an auspicious berth. This year’s jury will go into deliberations with actress Annabelle Lengronne fresh in mind; should the actress win, she won’t have far to travel.
She isn’t entirely the lead, as the triptych follows a Franco-Ivorian family in chapters dedicated to each member. We open in 1989 on Rose (Lengronne), a young mother of four who leaves her two...
The film closed out the Cannes competition on Friday, providing it an auspicious berth. This year’s jury will go into deliberations with actress Annabelle Lengronne fresh in mind; should the actress win, she won’t have far to travel.
She isn’t entirely the lead, as the triptych follows a Franco-Ivorian family in chapters dedicated to each member. We open in 1989 on Rose (Lengronne), a young mother of four who leaves her two...
- 5/27/2022
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
Nobody who has lived their entire life in one country can fully understand the strange, intimate disruption of emigrating as a family. For a time, parents and children are united and equal in disorientation, the adults’ authority on hold as all parties mutually wander and fumble their way through new cultures, geographies and social circles — a shared rite of passage, cutting through separating decades. Eventually, everyone finds their feet, traditional roles are reasserted, and stable family life resumes — except when it doesn’t, as depicted in Léonor Serraille’s delicate but wrenching second feature “Mother and Son.” An unsentimental but stoically anguished portrait of a tough single mother and two vulnerable sons settling (or not) in France from the Ivory Coast, it shows how the immigrant experience can equally tighten the knot between parent and child, or permanently unravel it.
An unassumingly ambitious drama, plainly but poetically told in three...
An unassumingly ambitious drama, plainly but poetically told in three...
- 5/27/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Competition titles from Hirokazu Kore-eda, Lukas Dhont and Albert Serra face our jurors.
Albert Serra’s Pacifiction and Lukas Dhont’s Close landed mid-pack on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, while Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker disappointed our jurors.
Serra’s Pacifiction averaged 2.6, it tells the story of a high commissioner on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, navigating local concern about French nuclear testing. The film took five threes (good) and two ones (poor) from our jurors. Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret awarded the Catalan filmmaker a four (excellent) whilst Positif’s Michel Ciment gave it a zero (bad).
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Albert Serra’s Pacifiction and Lukas Dhont’s Close landed mid-pack on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, while Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker disappointed our jurors.
Serra’s Pacifiction averaged 2.6, it tells the story of a high commissioner on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, navigating local concern about French nuclear testing. The film took five threes (good) and two ones (poor) from our jurors. Le Monde’s Mathieu Macheret awarded the Catalan filmmaker a four (excellent) whilst Positif’s Michel Ciment gave it a zero (bad).
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- 5/27/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
It has picked up Cristian Mungiu’s ’R.M.N.’ and Dominik Moll’s ’The Night Of The 12th’.
UK-Ireland distributor Picturehouse Entertainment has added two further Official Selection selections to its ever-growing swag bag of Cannes titles.
It has picked up Cristian Mungiu’s Competition drama R.M.N. from Wild Bunch International and Dominik Moll’s The Night Of The 12th, which is screening in Cannes Premiere, from Memento International.
R.M.N. follows a man who quits his job in Germany to return to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village and becomes involved in an ongoing drama. It is...
UK-Ireland distributor Picturehouse Entertainment has added two further Official Selection selections to its ever-growing swag bag of Cannes titles.
It has picked up Cristian Mungiu’s Competition drama R.M.N. from Wild Bunch International and Dominik Moll’s The Night Of The 12th, which is screening in Cannes Premiere, from Memento International.
R.M.N. follows a man who quits his job in Germany to return to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village and becomes involved in an ongoing drama. It is...
- 5/23/2022
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Here’s the good news.
Facing public pressure and mounting outrage over the lack of female representation among the filmmakers it chooses to celebrate, this year’s Cannes Film Festival is making efforts to diversify beyond the cavalcade of many of the same male auteurs. Instead, there will be a record number of women directors in competition.
Now the bad news. That record is a paltry five female filmmakers, out of 21 films overall, representing less than a quarter of all movies vying for Cannes’ top prize, the Palme d’Or. The dearth of women in the lineup puts pressure on the handful of female directors who were tapped to premiere their films in the South of France.
“Because there are so few women in competition, we feel a lot of pressure, as if we had to be symbols,” admits Léonor Serraille, the director of “Mother and Son.” “We ask ourselves a lot of questions.
Facing public pressure and mounting outrage over the lack of female representation among the filmmakers it chooses to celebrate, this year’s Cannes Film Festival is making efforts to diversify beyond the cavalcade of many of the same male auteurs. Instead, there will be a record number of women directors in competition.
Now the bad news. That record is a paltry five female filmmakers, out of 21 films overall, representing less than a quarter of all movies vying for Cannes’ top prize, the Palme d’Or. The dearth of women in the lineup puts pressure on the handful of female directors who were tapped to premiere their films in the South of France.
“Because there are so few women in competition, we feel a lot of pressure, as if we had to be symbols,” admits Léonor Serraille, the director of “Mother and Son.” “We ask ourselves a lot of questions.
- 5/21/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Both features will receive their world premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights for two Cannes Competition titles: Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son and Tarik Saleh’s Boy From Heaven.
Mother And Son debuts on the Croisette today (April 20), and is sold by mk2 films. It tells the story of a woman who moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two sons in the late 1980s and follows the construction and deconstruction of her family over the subsequent 20 years.
It marks the second feature from French filmmaker Serraille,...
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights for two Cannes Competition titles: Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son and Tarik Saleh’s Boy From Heaven.
Mother And Son debuts on the Croisette today (April 20), and is sold by mk2 films. It tells the story of a woman who moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two sons in the late 1980s and follows the construction and deconstruction of her family over the subsequent 20 years.
It marks the second feature from French filmmaker Serraille,...
- 5/20/2022
- ScreenDaily
Both features will receive their world premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights for two Cannes Competition titles: Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son and Tarik Saleh’s Boy From Heaven.
Mother And Son debuts on the Croisette today (April 20), and is sold by mk2 films. It tells the story of a woman who moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two sons in the late 1980s and follows the construction and deconstruction of her family over the subsequent 20 years.
It marks the second feature from French filmmaker Serraille,...
Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights for two Cannes Competition titles: Léonor Serraille’s Mother And Son and Tarik Saleh’s Boy From Heaven.
Mother And Son debuts on the Croisette today (April 20), and is sold by mk2 films. It tells the story of a woman who moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two sons in the late 1980s and follows the construction and deconstruction of her family over the subsequent 20 years.
It marks the second feature from French filmmaker Serraille,...
- 5/20/2022
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Film Festival has added two more films to the Official Selection of the 75th edition, which will kick off on May 17.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “As Bestas,” a French-Spanish movie, has been added to Cannes Première, the new section dedicated to world premieres for movies that are slightly more mainstream, similarly to the out-of-competition strand. Sorogoyen previously earned an Oscar nomination with his 2017 short film “Madre.”
Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs star as a middle-aged French couple moves to a local village, seeking closeness with nature and end up sparking outright hostility and shocking violence with the small community.
“Salam,” a documentary directed by Mélanie Georgiades aka Diam’s, Houda Benyamina (“The Eddy”) and Anne Cissé (“Buck”), is set to play in the Special Screenings section.
Following its April 14 presser, the festival also added three movies competition: Léonor Serraille’s “Un Petit Frere,” Albert Serra’s “Tourment sur les iles...
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “As Bestas,” a French-Spanish movie, has been added to Cannes Première, the new section dedicated to world premieres for movies that are slightly more mainstream, similarly to the out-of-competition strand. Sorogoyen previously earned an Oscar nomination with his 2017 short film “Madre.”
Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs star as a middle-aged French couple moves to a local village, seeking closeness with nature and end up sparking outright hostility and shocking violence with the small community.
“Salam,” a documentary directed by Mélanie Georgiades aka Diam’s, Houda Benyamina (“The Eddy”) and Anne Cissé (“Buck”), is set to play in the Special Screenings section.
Following its April 14 presser, the festival also added three movies competition: Léonor Serraille’s “Un Petit Frere,” Albert Serra’s “Tourment sur les iles...
- 4/29/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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Piers Vs Donald
Guess Who’s Back x 2: Did you miss them? By their own sky-high standards, Piers Morgan and Donald Trump have been relatively quiet over the past few months but, no longer, after a promo vid for Rupert Murdoch’s new channel Talk TV showed the former Potus storming off Morgan’s Uncensored set. The pair, who have been happy to extol the virtues of their friendship in the past, have since been engaged in a public spat, with Trump branding Morgan “part of the Fake News Media” and Morgan challenging him for failing to provide proof of the perceived 2020 election rig. This all after Trump’s daughter Ivanka supposedly offered Morgan her congratulations on his new show.
Piers Vs Donald
Guess Who’s Back x 2: Did you miss them? By their own sky-high standards, Piers Morgan and Donald Trump have been relatively quiet over the past few months but, no longer, after a promo vid for Rupert Murdoch’s new channel Talk TV showed the former Potus storming off Morgan’s Uncensored set. The pair, who have been happy to extol the virtues of their friendship in the past, have since been engaged in a public spat, with Trump branding Morgan “part of the Fake News Media” and Morgan challenging him for failing to provide proof of the perceived 2020 election rig. This all after Trump’s daughter Ivanka supposedly offered Morgan her congratulations on his new show.
- 4/22/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
And so we might not find out anytime soon what the deal with David Lynch was, but we now know that the final tally for the Palme d’Or selections comes to a total of 21. Felix Van Groeningen teamed with partner Charlotte Vandermeersch for The Eight Mountains and promises to give us plenty of eye candy scenery. Léonor Serraille makes the incredible leap from winning the Camera d’Or with her first film and is now competing with Un petit frère. Albert Serra‘s Bora Bora (unsure if that is the actual title) stars Benoît Magimel and Sergi López and is the other title to be added.…...
- 4/21/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
New titles join 47 unveiled at April 14 press conference and previously announced Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick.
Cannes Film Festival has added a flurry of new titles to its 2022 Official Selection, as promised by delegate general Thierry Frémaux at last week’s press conference unveiling the bulk of the titles due to premiere at its 75th edition, running May 17-28.
A total of 17 fresh additions were announced, joining the 47 films unveiled on April 14 as well as Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick, which were announced earlier. This brings the total number of films in selection so far to 66 against 83 in last year’s special July edition.
Cannes Film Festival has added a flurry of new titles to its 2022 Official Selection, as promised by delegate general Thierry Frémaux at last week’s press conference unveiling the bulk of the titles due to premiere at its 75th edition, running May 17-28.
A total of 17 fresh additions were announced, joining the 47 films unveiled on April 14 as well as Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick, which were announced earlier. This brings the total number of films in selection so far to 66 against 83 in last year’s special July edition.
- 4/21/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
After the initial announcement, the 2022 Cannes Film Festival has added a handful of new titles across its various sections. Most notably, Albert Serra’s newest feature Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles is now in competition, as well as the latest film from Montparnasse Bienvenüe director Léonor Serraille. Also added is Serge Bozon’s Don Juan, starring Virginie Efira and Tahar Rahim, in the Cannes Premiere section, while Louis Garrel’s L’Innocent will premiere out of competition. Check out all the additions below.
Competition
Le Otto Montagne Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen (Italy/Belgium)
Un Petit FRÈRE Léonor Serraille (France)
Tourment Sur Les ÎLES Albert Serra (Spain)
Cannes PREMIÈRE
Don Juan Serge Bozon (France)
LA Nuit Du 12 Dominik Moll (France)
Chronique D’Une Liaison PASSAGÈRE Emmanuel Mouret (France)
Midnight Screenings
Rebel Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah (Belgium)
Un Certain Regard
Plus Que Jamais Emily Atef (Germany/France)
Mediterranean Fever Maha Haj...
Competition
Le Otto Montagne Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen (Italy/Belgium)
Un Petit FRÈRE Léonor Serraille (France)
Tourment Sur Les ÎLES Albert Serra (Spain)
Cannes PREMIÈRE
Don Juan Serge Bozon (France)
LA Nuit Du 12 Dominik Moll (France)
Chronique D’Une Liaison PASSAGÈRE Emmanuel Mouret (France)
Midnight Screenings
Rebel Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah (Belgium)
Un Certain Regard
Plus Que Jamais Emily Atef (Germany/France)
Mediterranean Fever Maha Haj...
- 4/21/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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