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"Maybe it's better if I tell you everything?" Another fantastic stop-motion animated short to feature today. This one comes from a British-Polish animation filmmaker named Tessa Moult-Milewska, who finished this as her graduation project from London's Nfts. Curiosa is a stop-motion animated film under 10 mins that premiered at the 2022 London Film Festival. It picked up numerous awards and is finally online after playing on the fest circuit a while. Curiosa tells the story of overly curious Mary, who visits her boyfriend's flat for the first time, just to discover it’s been stripped bare of all personal belongings. After being denied an explanation, she notices a door and decides to climb into his head. Learning quite a bit in the process. There is whole new style once she leaps into his mind, with body performances by Luna Tosin & Malik Ibheis. Plus the voices of Lizzie Waterworth-Santo as Mary & Dan Connolly as James.

The film is Picturehouse Entertainment’s third acquisition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Tran Anh Hung’s Cannes Competition title The Pot-Au-Feu from France’s Gaumont.

Set in the world of French gastronomy in 1885, the film stars Juliette Binoche as an esteemed cook who has a long-term relationship with a gourmet, played by Benoit Magimel.

It marks the latest feature from Vietnam-born Hung, who won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 1993 with The Scent Of Green Papaya, and returned to the festival with The Vertical Ray Of The Sun in...

Both the truth and limits of the old adage that directing is 90 percent casting can be found in Werewolves Within, a fun if middling horror-suspense-comedy with thick ribbons of whodunit mystery that sails along for quite a while on the strength of a lunatic vibe, born of its motley-crew players, before finally petering out. A […]

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Summer release planned for Juliette Binoche love triangle drama.

IFC Films is reuniting with Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche and has acquired US rights to her imminent Berlin world premiere Fire (aka Both Sides Of The Blade) starring Juliette Binoche, Vincent London and Grégoire Colin.

The distributor plans a summer release on the story about a love triangle. Binoche plays Sara, who lives happily in Paris with Jean (London). When Sara spots her old flame and Jean’s former best friend Francois (Colin) in the street she is overcome with the notion her life could suddenly change.

Francois and Jean...

Curiosa Trailer — Lou Jeunet‘s Curiosa (2019) movie trailer has been released by Film Movement. The Curiosa trailer stars Noémie Merlant, Niels Schneider, Benjamin Lavernhe, Camelia Jordana, Amira Casar, Mathilde Warnier, Damien Bonnard, Alexia Giordano, and Mélodie Richard. Crew Lou Jeunet and Raphaëlle Desplechin wrote the screenplay for Curiosa. Arnaud Rebotini created the music for the [...]

Continue reading: Curiosa (2019) Movie Trailer: Noémie Merlant Becomes Enmeshed in a Affair Between Husband, Lover, & Muse...

"I can't be your husband so I'll be your lover." Film Movement has released a new official US trailer for an erotic drama French film called Curiosa, not to be confused with the new Mad Max sequel in the works titled Furiosa. It already opened in 2019 in France, but is just hitting US theaters this summer. A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th-century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier. Set in the end of the 1800s, the film is about two lovers who do not end up marrying, but they reconnect one year later. And a passionate love affair begins, with a focus on erotic photography as Pierre Louÿs is getting into it using very early cameras. The cast includes Noémie Merlant (from Portrait of a Lady on Fire), Niels Schneider, Benjamin Lavernhe, Camelia Jordana, Amira Casar, Mathilde Warnier,...

After breaking out in Céline Sciamma’s dazzling Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Noémie Merlant has gone on to collaborate with Zoé Wittock, Jacques Audiard, and André Téchiné––and even direct her own feature, Mi iubita, mon amour, which just premiered at Cannes Film Festival. Now, Curiosa––a period romance that premiered in France just before her breakthrough role––will finally be coming to U.S. shores beginning August 13 via Film Movement and we’re pleased to debut the exclusive trailer.

Lou Jeunet’s romantic drama is set in 1895 Paris, following Pierre Louÿs, a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Pierre and his friend Henri De Régnier are both madly in love with Marie de Heredia (Merlant), the cheeky daughter of their mentor. Despite her feelings for Pierre, Marie eventually marries Henri who has a better situation. Badly hurt, Pierre leaves for Algeria where he meets Zohra,...

Pulsar Content has come on board “Olga,” Elie Grappe’s coming-of-age tale set in the competitive world of youth athletics, seen through the eyes of an Ukrainian gymnast living in exile in Switzerland.

The film follows Olga, a talented and passionate 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast who does her best to fit into the national team. As Olga prepares for the European Championship, the Euromaidan revolt erupts in Kiev in 2013, involving those closest to her, and shakes up everything in her life.

“Olga” was written by Grappe and Raphaëlle Desplechin, whose screenwriting credits include “Nos Batailles” and “Curiosa.” Now in post, the movie is produced by Tom Dercourt at Cinema Defacto in France and Jean-Marc Frohle at Point Prod in Switzerland.

Pulsar Content will launch pre-sales this week at UniFrance’s virtual Rendez-Vous market with the script, and will unveil a promo at Berlin’s virtual European Film Market. “It’s a...

Kandisha

French horror duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury are set to return with a vengeance in 2020, potentially premiering two features. The first looks to be their fifth project, Kandisha, produced by Delphine Clot and Guillaume Lemans and stars Mathilde La Musse, Samarcande Saadi, Suzy Bemba and Nassim Lyes Si Ahmed. Simon Roca. Composer Raf Keunen (who works regularly with Michael R. Roskam) provides the score, and their usual editor Baxter is also on hand.…...

In one of Pierre Louÿs’s most famous works, “The Woman and the Puppet,” adapted nearly 80 years later by Luis Buñuel for his final film, 1977’s “The Obscure Object of Desire,” an upper-class diletante is so consumed by his egocentric passion for a woman that he has has no sense of the beloved – allowing Buñuel to have the object of his desire played by two actresses without the dandy even noticing.

Produced by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films, sold by Memento Films Intl., and distributed in France by Memento Films Distribution, Lou Jeunet’s “Curiosa,” her first feature film, debuts at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous after healthy pre-sales, closing Japan (Klockworx), Russia (Provzglyad), South Korea (Entermode), Spain (Vercine) and Mexico and Central America (Nueva Era).

Mfi has also licensed Bulgaria (6A Media), former-Yugoslavia (Dexin), Hungary (Vertigo Media), the Czech Republic (Mimesis/Pilot Films), Eastern Europe (HBO Eastern Europe) and Taiwan (Movie...

Intelligent comedy about women’s liberation tale unfolds in all-girls school against the backdrop of May 1968.

Memento Films International (Mfi) will kick off sales on Martin Provost’s 1960s-set comedy-drama How To Be A Good Wife, starring Juliette Binoche, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris this week (January 17-21).

Binoche will star as the co-head of an all-girls housekeeping school in a small town in the eastern French region of Alsace in the late 1960s. She runs the school alongside husband with the mission to train teenage girls to become perfect housewives. The schools were common in...