Emmanuelle Devos on Frédéric Mermoud's Moka based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay: "The landscape does have an effect on your acting." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Moka star Emmanuelle Devos at the start of our conversation at the French Institute Alliance Française, mentioned seeing Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon in Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes and Laurie Metcalf and Chris Cooper in Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 on Broadway. She has a long history with her first director, Arnaud Desplechin (My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument, Esther Kahn, A Christmas Tale, Kings & Queen), who also directed her son Raphaël Cohen in My Golden Days. Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric regular Grégoire Hetzel is Moka's co-composer. Emmanuelle and I had spoken at the Tribeca Film Festival with Jérôme Bonnell for his Le Temps De L'Aventure (Just A Sigh).
Marlène (Nathalie Baye) with Diane (Emmanuelle Devos...
Moka star Emmanuelle Devos at the start of our conversation at the French Institute Alliance Française, mentioned seeing Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon in Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes and Laurie Metcalf and Chris Cooper in Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 on Broadway. She has a long history with her first director, Arnaud Desplechin (My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument, Esther Kahn, A Christmas Tale, Kings & Queen), who also directed her son Raphaël Cohen in My Golden Days. Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric regular Grégoire Hetzel is Moka's co-composer. Emmanuelle and I had spoken at the Tribeca Film Festival with Jérôme Bonnell for his Le Temps De L'Aventure (Just A Sigh).
Marlène (Nathalie Baye) with Diane (Emmanuelle Devos...
- 6/13/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Just a Sigh bears an evocative English title, and one that proves more appropriate than the original French — Le temps de l'aventure, or The Time of Adventure.
Perhaps the sigh suggests contentment, as in a reflex of post-coital release, or perhaps it suggests resignation, like a gesture of exasperated defeat. Alix (Emmanuelle Devos) does both. Her time of adventure, such as it is, begins and ends with a spontaneous afternoon tryst, an opportunity she seizes after eyeing a handsome Irishman (Gabriel Byrne) on a Paris-bound train.
This sort of fleeting European rendezvous belongs to a rich cinematic tradition reaching from Brief Encounter to Before Sunrise. Just a Sigh's day-long liaison sustains interest largely for the a...
Perhaps the sigh suggests contentment, as in a reflex of post-coital release, or perhaps it suggests resignation, like a gesture of exasperated defeat. Alix (Emmanuelle Devos) does both. Her time of adventure, such as it is, begins and ends with a spontaneous afternoon tryst, an opportunity she seizes after eyeing a handsome Irishman (Gabriel Byrne) on a Paris-bound train.
This sort of fleeting European rendezvous belongs to a rich cinematic tradition reaching from Brief Encounter to Before Sunrise. Just a Sigh's day-long liaison sustains interest largely for the a...
- 3/19/2014
- Village Voice
Jérôme Bonnell and Emmanuelle Devos. Picture by Anne-Katrin Titze.
Emmanuelle Devos, the brilliant star of Jérôme Bonnell's intriguing Just A Sigh (Le Temps De L'Aventure) graced the red carpet with her director for their Tribeca Film Festival premiere at the Sva Theatre in Chelsea last night. Yasujiro Ozu turns into Hitchcock's Spellbound, Stage Fright, and "why not" Strangers On A Train - to how important it is to Devos to choose the proper clothes.
Anne-Katrin Titze: There are a lot of characters in your film who don't make an appearance but are very important for the story. Was is clear to you who wouldn't show up? You trick the audience's curiosity.
Jérôme Bonnell: Because I think cinema is to hide, before it is to show things.
Akt: I was thinking of Ozu in this context. The fiances whom we never see, etc.
Jb: I never thought of him but thank you so much.
Emmanuelle Devos, the brilliant star of Jérôme Bonnell's intriguing Just A Sigh (Le Temps De L'Aventure) graced the red carpet with her director for their Tribeca Film Festival premiere at the Sva Theatre in Chelsea last night. Yasujiro Ozu turns into Hitchcock's Spellbound, Stage Fright, and "why not" Strangers On A Train - to how important it is to Devos to choose the proper clothes.
Anne-Katrin Titze: There are a lot of characters in your film who don't make an appearance but are very important for the story. Was is clear to you who wouldn't show up? You trick the audience's curiosity.
Jérôme Bonnell: Because I think cinema is to hide, before it is to show things.
Akt: I was thinking of Ozu in this context. The fiances whom we never see, etc.
Jb: I never thought of him but thank you so much.
- 4/19/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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