Exclusive: New York-based Distrib Films has acquired U.S. rights for French-language road movie Amore Mio and dramatic comedy Spare Keys for theatrical release in the coming months.
Spare Keys (Fifi) is the directorial debut of filmmaking duo Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan.
The coming-of-age comedy drama follows a teenager who gets the keys to a wealthy friend’s empty house to escape her chaotic family over the summer, only to discover her friend’s older brother was planning to stay there on his own too.
Céleste Brunnquell (Origin of Evil, In Treatment) and Quentin Dolmaire (My Golden Days, Synonyms) co-star.
The movie made its mark at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2022 where it won best film in the New Directors Competition. It drew 50,000 spectators in France for indie distributor New Story last summer.
Amore Mio, which is billed as a French modern take on Thelma & Louise, is...
Spare Keys (Fifi) is the directorial debut of filmmaking duo Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan.
The coming-of-age comedy drama follows a teenager who gets the keys to a wealthy friend’s empty house to escape her chaotic family over the summer, only to discover her friend’s older brother was planning to stay there on his own too.
Céleste Brunnquell (Origin of Evil, In Treatment) and Quentin Dolmaire (My Golden Days, Synonyms) co-star.
The movie made its mark at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2022 where it won best film in the New Directors Competition. It drew 50,000 spectators in France for indie distributor New Story last summer.
Amore Mio, which is billed as a French modern take on Thelma & Louise, is...
- 1/11/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Running Jan. 19-Feb. 19, this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival, an online showcase organized by France’s film-tv promotional body UniFrance, will mark its 14th edition with an accent on young talent, both in front of and behind the camera, and an emphasis on female empowerment.
With a mix of heritage docs like Agnès Varda’s “Jane B. for Agnès V.,” and a nine-film competition that spotlights auteurist animation like Alain Ughetto’s “No Dogs or Italians Allowed” alongside outré dramatic fare, the 11 features and 15 shorts that make up this year’s selection will be available on 80 partner platforms as well on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, where all the shorts will be available to screen free of charge.
All films will be subtitled in 11 languages, including Arabic, English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish and Ukrainian, while the feature section will also be available for free in many Latin American, African and Middle Eastern territories.
“No...
With a mix of heritage docs like Agnès Varda’s “Jane B. for Agnès V.,” and a nine-film competition that spotlights auteurist animation like Alain Ughetto’s “No Dogs or Italians Allowed” alongside outré dramatic fare, the 11 features and 15 shorts that make up this year’s selection will be available on 80 partner platforms as well on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, where all the shorts will be available to screen free of charge.
All films will be subtitled in 11 languages, including Arabic, English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish and Ukrainian, while the feature section will also be available for free in many Latin American, African and Middle Eastern territories.
“No...
- 1/9/2024
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
16 nominees in each category will compete in the first round of voting.
France’s Cesar Academy has revealed the breakout stars selected for its annual Revelations list of local up-and-coming talent who will vie in the most promising actor and actress categories at the 2024 awards set for February 23 in Paris.
16 nominees in each category will compete in the first round of voting among Academy members, that will then be whittled down to five in each category.
The Revelations committee is comprised of 18 casting directors active in French film production and is then validated by the board of the Academy.
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France’s Cesar Academy has revealed the breakout stars selected for its annual Revelations list of local up-and-coming talent who will vie in the most promising actor and actress categories at the 2024 awards set for February 23 in Paris.
16 nominees in each category will compete in the first round of voting among Academy members, that will then be whittled down to five in each category.
The Revelations committee is comprised of 18 casting directors active in French film production and is then validated by the board of the Academy.
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- 11/16/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
France’s César Academy has unveiled its annual Revelations list showcasing 32 emerging acting talents making their mark in the French-speaking cinema world.
The 16 selected actresses include Suzy Bemba for her performance year in Catherine Corsini’s Homecoming. Bemba was also seen in Venice Golden Lion winner Poor Things this year.
The selection also features Rebecca Marder for Corsica-set thriller Grand Expectations; Garance Marillier, for bio-pic Marinette about French female soccer pioneer Marinette Pichon, and Park Ji-min for her award-winning performance in Return To Seoul.
The actor list includes Milo Machado Graner, who plays the visually impaired son in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Marc Zinga’s for his performance in Belgium’s Oscar entry Omen and Samuel Kircher for Catherine Breillat’s taboo-breaking drama Last Summer. His brother Paul Kircher is also in the selection for The Animal Kingdom.
The talents were selected by a committee of...
The 16 selected actresses include Suzy Bemba for her performance year in Catherine Corsini’s Homecoming. Bemba was also seen in Venice Golden Lion winner Poor Things this year.
The selection also features Rebecca Marder for Corsica-set thriller Grand Expectations; Garance Marillier, for bio-pic Marinette about French female soccer pioneer Marinette Pichon, and Park Ji-min for her award-winning performance in Return To Seoul.
The actor list includes Milo Machado Graner, who plays the visually impaired son in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Marc Zinga’s for his performance in Belgium’s Oscar entry Omen and Samuel Kircher for Catherine Breillat’s taboo-breaking drama Last Summer. His brother Paul Kircher is also in the selection for The Animal Kingdom.
The talents were selected by a committee of...
- 11/16/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Romantic comedy marks the feature directorial debut of Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan.
Paris-based Urban Sales is to handle world sales of Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan debut feature Spare Keys, which is set to receive its world premiere at San Sebastian next month.
The French romantic comedy, which will play in the festival’s New Directors section, stars Céleste Brunnquell as a teenage girl who starts a relationship with her friend’s brother, played by Quentin Dolmaire.
Screen can exclusively reveal a first trailer for the feature, which will be released under the title Fifi in France by New...
Paris-based Urban Sales is to handle world sales of Jeanne Aslan and Paul Saintillan debut feature Spare Keys, which is set to receive its world premiere at San Sebastian next month.
The French romantic comedy, which will play in the festival’s New Directors section, stars Céleste Brunnquell as a teenage girl who starts a relationship with her friend’s brother, played by Quentin Dolmaire.
Screen can exclusively reveal a first trailer for the feature, which will be released under the title Fifi in France by New...
- 8/24/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
“When I met you, you were ripe,” says Denis Podalydès’s Philip to his younger mistress (Léa Seydoux) in Arnaud Desplechin’s adaptation with Julie Peyr of Philip Roth’s Deception (Tromperie). She responds: “No, I was rotting on the floor under a tree.”
Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère Et Sœur (Brother And Sister), starring Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani, Melvil Poupaud, and Cosmina Stratan has been selected to screen in the 75th anniversary edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Arnaud’s Ismael's Ghosts was the 2017 Cannes Opening Night Gala selection and his Philip Roth adaptation Deception was a 2021 highlight.
Arnaud Desplechin with Anne-Katrin Titze on Philip Roth: “He’s as is, he’s absolutely imperfect, selfish as I was saying.”
Desplechin will have had ten world premieres at Cannes: Oh Mercy!; My Golden Days; Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian; A Christmas Tale; Esther Kahn...
Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère Et Sœur (Brother And Sister), starring Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani, Melvil Poupaud, and Cosmina Stratan has been selected to screen in the 75th anniversary edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Arnaud’s Ismael's Ghosts was the 2017 Cannes Opening Night Gala selection and his Philip Roth adaptation Deception was a 2021 highlight.
Arnaud Desplechin with Anne-Katrin Titze on Philip Roth: “He’s as is, he’s absolutely imperfect, selfish as I was saying.”
Desplechin will have had ten world premieres at Cannes: Oh Mercy!; My Golden Days; Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian; A Christmas Tale; Esther Kahn...
- 4/19/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘Synonyms’ Film Review: French-Israeli Identity Drama Pushes Protagonist, and Audience, to the Limit
How much indulgence might you feel for a young man going through an existential identity crisis? “Synonyms,” the kinetic new drama from writer-director Nadav Lapid (the original “The Kindergarten Teacher”), is so wrapped up in the intense emotions of its millennial protagonist that tolerance becomes not only an expectation but also a requirement.
Though often surrounded by people, Yoav (powerful newcomer Tom Mercier) is also very much alone in his search for self-definition. He arrives in Paris after a traumatic stint in the Israeli army, to stay in a gorgeous but apparently abandoned rental apartment. His belongings are stolen immediately, which is particularly inconvenient since he’s just taken a freezing bath and is naked.
The chill nearly kills him, but his wealthy young neighbors, Caroline (Louise Chevillotte) and Emile, find him just in time. They rescue him, in a sense, warming him up and giving him clothes and money.
Though often surrounded by people, Yoav (powerful newcomer Tom Mercier) is also very much alone in his search for self-definition. He arrives in Paris after a traumatic stint in the Israeli army, to stay in a gorgeous but apparently abandoned rental apartment. His belongings are stolen immediately, which is particularly inconvenient since he’s just taken a freezing bath and is naked.
The chill nearly kills him, but his wealthy young neighbors, Caroline (Louise Chevillotte) and Emile, find him just in time. They rescue him, in a sense, warming him up and giving him clothes and money.
- 10/24/2019
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Synonyms Kino Lorber Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Nadav Lapid Screenwriter: Nadav Lapid, Haïm Lapid Cast: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevilotte Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/5/19 Opens: October 25, 2019 Thomas Wolfe said you Can’t Go Home Again, in fact that is the title of […]
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- 10/15/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
by Chris Feil
Unfolding with the wonder of a contemporary fable, Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms takes a sometimes witty but often breathtaking approach to displaced national identity. Already awarded the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear, the film is an unpredictable existential examination of redefining oneself in a world that exploits you, and the limitations of willful self-reinvention.
Newcomer Tom Mercier stars as Yoav, a young Iscraeli man relocating to Paris after a term in the military. He’s quickly robbed of all his belongings while squatting in a posh apartment, begging for help naked throughout the building before being found near death by young couple Caroline and Emile (Louise Chevillotte and Quentin Dolmaire). They possess the prototypically French persona that Yoav wants to adopt, and are all too generous and willing to play welcoming committee...
Unfolding with the wonder of a contemporary fable, Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms takes a sometimes witty but often breathtaking approach to displaced national identity. Already awarded the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear, the film is an unpredictable existential examination of redefining oneself in a world that exploits you, and the limitations of willful self-reinvention.
Newcomer Tom Mercier stars as Yoav, a young Iscraeli man relocating to Paris after a term in the military. He’s quickly robbed of all his belongings while squatting in a posh apartment, begging for help naked throughout the building before being found near death by young couple Caroline and Emile (Louise Chevillotte and Quentin Dolmaire). They possess the prototypically French persona that Yoav wants to adopt, and are all too generous and willing to play welcoming committee...
- 9/5/2019
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
"Gosh, life is sublime." Kino Lorber has released the official Us trailer for an award-winning indie drama titled Synonyms, aka Synonymes, from Israeli writer/director Nadav Lapid. This premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and it won the Golden Bear, the top prize there, which it definitely deserves (here's my review). Based on the real life experiences of Lapid, Synonyms explores the challenges of putting down roots in a new place. Tom Mercier stars as Yoav, an Israeli man who shows up in Paris, France. His "attempts to find himself awaken past demons and open up an existential abyss in this tragicomic puzzle that wisely knows how to keep its secrets." Also starring Quentin Dolmaire and Louise Chevillotte. The film is also adored by most critics, with David Ehrlich (read his review) describing it as a "sui generis work of tormented genius." Any & every cinephile needs to...
- 8/22/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Relocation becomes dislocation in director Nadav Lapid’s intense, beguiling Synonyms. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the story follows a young Israeli man who moves to Paris in the hope of shedding his past and remolding his identity, yet instead finds his sense of self chipped away at. This is an unsettling film about nationality and how society shapes people in a way that is difficult to entirely shake off.
For Yoav (spellbinding first-time actor Tom Mercier) Paris is the antithesis of everything with which he’s been brought up. A liberal, tolerant, sexy place, France is not the militaristic nation state that Yoav takes his home country to be. “Israel will die before I die,” he exclaims, “I’ll be buried in Pere Lachaise!” He refuses to speak Hebrew and buries a bulky French dictionary under his arm as he goes about town–the...
For Yoav (spellbinding first-time actor Tom Mercier) Paris is the antithesis of everything with which he’s been brought up. A liberal, tolerant, sexy place, France is not the militaristic nation state that Yoav takes his home country to be. “Israel will die before I die,” he exclaims, “I’ll be buried in Pere Lachaise!” He refuses to speak Hebrew and buries a bulky French dictionary under his arm as he goes about town–the...
- 2/20/2019
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
Tom Mercier in SynonymsNow that the 69th Berlin International Film Festival has concluded it is even easier to see that startlingly few films in the centerpiece competition were able to escape the doldrums of average, straightforward and unsurprising cinema. There was a chance, in the lead-up to the closing ceremony, that the awards would double down on an unforgivably mediocre selection, yet as the festival ended there was a blast of hope that symbolically bodes well for next year, the 70th edition, to be newly headed by Locarno Festival’s former Artistic Director, Carlo Chatrian. German director Angela Schanalec, whose last film The Dreamed Path was at Locarno in 2016, took home the prize for best director for one of the festival’s best films, I Was at Home, But..., in a remarkable gesture of support for an approach to filmmaking that is far away from commercial concerns. And the Golden Bear went to Synonyms,...
- 2/19/2019
- MUBI
Nadav Lapid’s astonishing, maddening, brilliant, hilarious, obstinate, and altogether unmissable new film “Synonyms” opens with a sequence that might be described as a sideways attempt at psychic suicide. A twentysomething Israeli traveler named Yoav (extraordinary newcomer Tom Mercier) strides through the rainy streets of Paris in a shaky low-def shot that resembles paparazzi footage of a celebrity trying to leave the press behind. He storms into one of those gorgeous old buildings along the banks of the Seine, digs out the hide-a-key, and opens the door to a cold and cavernous apartment. There’s no couch, no bed, no furniture of any kind, but Yoav doesn’t seem to mind the monastic vibe; the camera relaxes into the refined grammar of contemporary European cinema as he surveys the empty space.
Yoav strips nude in the tub, revealing a soldier’s body, and yanks at his genitals. Then, some rustling from the next room over.
Yoav strips nude in the tub, revealing a soldier’s body, and yanks at his genitals. Then, some rustling from the next room over.
- 2/14/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Nadav Lapid’s two previous films have all had elements of autobiography and political critique, but neither framed those traits in a vehicle as deliriously unpredictable and enthrallingly impenetrable as “Synonyms.” Breathtaking in the way it careens from one scene to the next in a whirlwind of personal and political meaning all but impossible to grasp in full measure, the film is an excoriation of Israel’s militant machismo and a self-teasing parody of Parisian stereotypes, embodied by actor Tom Mercier in this astonishingly audacious debut. Based partly on Lapid’s own past as an Israeli who moved to Paris and refused to speak Hebrew, this uncategorizable cinematic trip will polarize critics and audiences alike, with some reading it as indulgent, disjointed excess and others admiring the sheer fearlessness of it all.
Among those most likely to be scandalized, the nationalists controlling Israel’s Ministry of Culture may be surprised...
Among those most likely to be scandalized, the nationalists controlling Israel’s Ministry of Culture may be surprised...
- 2/13/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Films by Zhang Yimou and André Téchiné will have world premieres in Berlin.
The final titles for the Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlianle Special sections have been announced.
The new competition additions are world premieres of Zhang Yimou’s One Second, André Téchiné’s Farewell To The Night, Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms, the German premiere of Vice, and the European premiere of Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace.
Of the new titles, Farewell To The Night, Alan Elliott’s Amazing Grace and Vice will play out of competition. 17 of the 23 films in the Competition section will be in contention...
The final titles for the Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlianle Special sections have been announced.
The new competition additions are world premieres of Zhang Yimou’s One Second, André Téchiné’s Farewell To The Night, Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms, the German premiere of Vice, and the European premiere of Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace.
Of the new titles, Farewell To The Night, Alan Elliott’s Amazing Grace and Vice will play out of competition. 17 of the 23 films in the Competition section will be in contention...
- 1/17/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Synonymes
Israeli director Nadav Lapid breaks into French cinema with his long-gestating third feature Synonymes (Synonyms). Produced by Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt, the young cast includes Louise Chevillotte (of Garrel’s Lover for a Day), Quentin Dolmaire (or Desplechin’s My Golden Days) and Laetitia Dosch. The partially autobiographical project will be in Hebrew and French and newcomer Tom Mercier will play the lead. Lapid competed in Locarno with his 2011 debut Policeman, which won a Special Jury Prize. His 2014 sophomore film The Kindergarten Teacher (read review) was a Special Screening in the Cannes Critics’ Week (which was remade in 2018 starring Maggie Gyllenhaal).…...
Israeli director Nadav Lapid breaks into French cinema with his long-gestating third feature Synonymes (Synonyms). Produced by Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt, the young cast includes Louise Chevillotte (of Garrel’s Lover for a Day), Quentin Dolmaire (or Desplechin’s My Golden Days) and Laetitia Dosch. The partially autobiographical project will be in Hebrew and French and newcomer Tom Mercier will play the lead. Lapid competed in Locarno with his 2011 debut Policeman, which won a Special Jury Prize. His 2014 sophomore film The Kindergarten Teacher (read review) was a Special Screening in the Cannes Critics’ Week (which was remade in 2018 starring Maggie Gyllenhaal).…...
- 1/7/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
During the French Revolution, a young monk finds his quiet monastery in a verdant nook of the South of France overrun by soldiers and new ideas in A Violent Desire for Joy (Un desir violent de bonheur). Working in the tradition of Rohmer, Pasolini and Eugene Green, young filmmaker Clement Schneider, born in 1989, has created a film that’s less concerned with historical veracity and expensive re-enactments than it is with feelings and concepts compacted to a recognizable and human scale. Starring Quentin Dolmaire, the curly-haired breakout star from Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days, as the holy man, and given ...
- 5/25/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
During the French Revolution, a young monk finds his quiet monastery in a verdant nook of the South of France overrun by soldiers and new ideas in A Violent Desire for Joy (Un desir violent de bonheur). Working in the tradition of Rohmer, Pasolini and Eugene Green, young filmmaker Clement Schneider, born in 1989, has created a film that’s less concerned with historical veracity and expensive re-enactments than it is with feelings and concepts compacted to a recognizable and human scale. Starring Quentin Dolmaire, the curly-haired breakout star from Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days, as the holy man, and given ...
- 5/25/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Arnaud Desplechin’s coming-of-age tale, My Golden Days, follows anthropologist Paul Dédalus (played by Desplechin favourite, Mathieu Amalric) who is planning to return to his home country of France, from Tajikistan. Held by security at the airport Paul recounts past memories and events. From a covert mission in the Ussr where he offers his passport and identity to a young Russian, his mother’s mental illness and his father’s depression. However, what the film centres on more so than any of these is Paul’s relationship with Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet).
Desplechin captures perfectly, the all-consuming rollercoaster that is your first love and how the journey from childhood to adulthood can impact these relationships that were once seen as infinite. We see a young Paul (played by Quentin Dolmaire) evolve from a teenager who “feels nothing” and who brushes incidents off nonchalantly, to someone with much more to lose as...
Desplechin captures perfectly, the all-consuming rollercoaster that is your first love and how the journey from childhood to adulthood can impact these relationships that were once seen as infinite. We see a young Paul (played by Quentin Dolmaire) evolve from a teenager who “feels nothing” and who brushes incidents off nonchalantly, to someone with much more to lose as...
- 3/7/2018
- by April McIntyre
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Midwife (Sage femme) Director: Martin Provost Written by: Martin Provost Cast: Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/1/17 Opens: July 21 in theaters and October 17 on DVD. Some say that opposites attract; for example, good listeners and good talkers could easily match up. Others […]
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- 9/8/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
We see less and less of female actors as they age, the talents often forced into retirement by a lack of interesting parts and the overall sexism of the entertainment industry that prefers to focus on their looks rather than creating spaces for them to flourish and enter the next stage of their careers. But if this is quite often the case, it seems no one told Catherine Deneuve about it — or, at least, she chose not to listen, and how lucky we are for that. Over the past fifteen years, Deneuve, who could’ve chosen to play only Grand Dame parts, has instead done a couple of musicals, voiced an animated character, played a tracksuit-wearing umbrella-factory director, been a Queen in an Asterix flick, and achieved new dramatic depths working with auteurs such as Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuelle Bercot. She has made her work impossible to fit into a box.
- 7/14/2017
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
MaryAnn’s quick take… The chemistry of two formidable actresses fuels an extraordinary yet subtle clash in a nuanced, unsentimental story about how women’s friendships shape our lives. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Huh. French drama The Midwife is almost the same movie as American indie The Last Word, in thematic terms if not down to the small details: an older, rather obnoxious woman and a younger one who needs a bit of a boot in the ass strike up a friendship, to the eventually betterment of both of them, though not after a rocky ride. I watched both films almost back to back, and I’m glad this one came second, because it washed away the terrible taste the first one left. Midwife gets right everything...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Huh. French drama The Midwife is almost the same movie as American indie The Last Word, in thematic terms if not down to the small details: an older, rather obnoxious woman and a younger one who needs a bit of a boot in the ass strike up a friendship, to the eventually betterment of both of them, though not after a rocky ride. I watched both films almost back to back, and I’m glad this one came second, because it washed away the terrible taste the first one left. Midwife gets right everything...
- 7/8/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… The chemistry of two formidable actresses fuels an extraordinary yet subtle clash in a nuanced, unsentimental story about how women’s friendships shape our lives. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for stories about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Huh. French drama The Midwife is almost the same movie as American indie The Last Word, in thematic terms if not down to the small details: an older, rather obnoxious woman and a younger one who needs a bit of a boot in the ass strike up a friendship, to the eventually betterment of both of them, though not after a rocky ride. I watched both films almost back to back, and I’m glad this one came second, because it washed away the terrible taste the first one left. Midwife gets right everything...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Huh. French drama The Midwife is almost the same movie as American indie The Last Word, in thematic terms if not down to the small details: an older, rather obnoxious woman and a younger one who needs a bit of a boot in the ass strike up a friendship, to the eventually betterment of both of them, though not after a rocky ride. I watched both films almost back to back, and I’m glad this one came second, because it washed away the terrible taste the first one left. Midwife gets right everything...
- 7/8/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Author: Stefan Pape
We’re all rather fond of routine, and you get to a certain age in life when you’ve settled on your friends, you don’t really need any more. We can fear the return of that old companion, somebody from a former life, somebody you feel there’s a reason you lost contact with. It’s this notion that Martin Provost’s The Midwife thrives on, and while we feel the anxiety and impatience of our protagonist in this endeavour when her life is disrupted – the overriding sentiment to take away is that change is not always such a bad thing after all.
Catherine Frot plays the aforementioned role, the experienced, compassionate midwife Claire Breton, who returns home from a nightshift to a voicemail – from Béatrice Sobolevski (Catherine Deneuve), an old friend of Claire’s, who eventually went to have a relationship with her father, a successful Olympic swimmer.
We’re all rather fond of routine, and you get to a certain age in life when you’ve settled on your friends, you don’t really need any more. We can fear the return of that old companion, somebody from a former life, somebody you feel there’s a reason you lost contact with. It’s this notion that Martin Provost’s The Midwife thrives on, and while we feel the anxiety and impatience of our protagonist in this endeavour when her life is disrupted – the overriding sentiment to take away is that change is not always such a bad thing after all.
Catherine Frot plays the aforementioned role, the experienced, compassionate midwife Claire Breton, who returns home from a nightshift to a voicemail – from Béatrice Sobolevski (Catherine Deneuve), an old friend of Claire’s, who eventually went to have a relationship with her father, a successful Olympic swimmer.
- 2/16/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As Goldie Hawn once put it, Hollywood has only three roles for women: Ingénue, District Attorney and “Driving Miss Daisy”. The fact of the matter is, too many strong talents see the pool of good parts unfairly dry up once they reach middle age, and short of radically reshaping the American film industry (I’m for that, too!), might I suggest this temporary stop-gap – might they consider learning French?
While it doesn’t reach the heady highs of last year’s festival hit “Things To Come,” Martin Provost’s “The Midwife” once again proves that French filmmakers know how to treat actresses of a certain age. Offering plum roles to Catherines Frot and Catherine Deneuve, “The Midwife” is a minor-key crowd pleaser about friendship, forgiveness and rolling with the punches.
Single mother Claire (Catherine Frot) lives a lonely, vampiric existence in the suburbs of Paris. She sleeps days and works nights,...
While it doesn’t reach the heady highs of last year’s festival hit “Things To Come,” Martin Provost’s “The Midwife” once again proves that French filmmakers know how to treat actresses of a certain age. Offering plum roles to Catherines Frot and Catherine Deneuve, “The Midwife” is a minor-key crowd pleaser about friendship, forgiveness and rolling with the punches.
Single mother Claire (Catherine Frot) lives a lonely, vampiric existence in the suburbs of Paris. She sleeps days and works nights,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
When one thinks of directors behind burgeoning franchises, the last name one would come up with is Arnaud Desplechin, and yet, here we are. Now, that lede is a tad bit misleading, but with the director’s latest, and possibly greatest, work, entitled My Golden Days, he’s not only returning to his roots but the very lead character of his third film My Sex Life…Or How I Got Into An Argument.
Once again we meet Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist played by Mathieu Amalric, as he prepares to leave his latest home, Tajikistan. Told in ostensibly three vignettes with the final narrative taking up a majority of the runtime here, we watch as Paul looks back on his life including his childhood dealing with a broken home, a trip to Russia which led to the proverbial birth of a second Paul Dedalus, and finally his time in college and...
Once again we meet Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist played by Mathieu Amalric, as he prepares to leave his latest home, Tajikistan. Told in ostensibly three vignettes with the final narrative taking up a majority of the runtime here, we watch as Paul looks back on his life including his childhood dealing with a broken home, a trip to Russia which led to the proverbial birth of a second Paul Dedalus, and finally his time in college and...
- 3/19/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days bears some superficial similarities to national compatriots Eric Rohmer and Olivier Assayas, two directors who tend to make films about beautiful, young, artistic people going through tough times that results from some combination of inner conflict, government, and the sensibilities of other, equally fashionable people. Of course, these directors aren’t especially alike; Rohmer is concerned with the way a person’s desires and actions — or their ideas and realities — may conflict, particularly in concerns of (heterosexual) love; Assayas’ characters drift apart and float together through means largely outside their control, or at least through means incident rather than integral to their decisions. (His protagonists are generally undone by loneliness and isolation, whereas Rohmer’s encounter trouble when they interact with one another.) My Golden Days contains much of Rohmer’s hapless romance and Assayas’ internal depression, but it is temporally expansive and deploys...
- 10/15/2015
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- The Film Stage
★★★★☆ Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days (2015) follows Paul Dédalus (Quentin Dolmaire) on a path through adolescence into adulthood, as told by his older self (Mathieu Amalric). Paul is reminiscent of those teenagers embodied by a youthful John Cusack - a twinkle in his eye, too smart for his own good but above all forthright and principled; he is beaten up for sticking to his guns on a number of occasions. Bloodied, bruised and patched up by siblings Ivan (Raphael Cohen) and Delphine (Lily Taieb), he proudly defies, "I didn't feel a thing".
- 10/15/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Arnaud Desplechin shows off Film4Climate bracelet from Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Brian De Palma, Wes Anderson, De Palma directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, along with Hitchcock/Truffaut and Festival Director Kent Jones, joined Arnaud Desplechin on the red carpet of the New York Film Festival North American premiere of My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) at Alice Tully Hall for a boys on film moment.
Roman Polanski's Tess d'Urbervilles, a Chekhovian scene, François Truffaut's autobiographical Mississippi Mermaid, Strindberg in Paris, and a theory from our previous conversation including the Under Capricorn complex come into play in our conversation.
Desplechin hero Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric)
Paul Dédalus is Mathieu Amalric in adult form and a teenage Paul (Quentin Dolmaire) has always had an affinity for plaid. Fabric samples are everywhere in Esther's (Lou Roy-Lecollinet) family home and a great big green neon sign in...
Brian De Palma, Wes Anderson, De Palma directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, along with Hitchcock/Truffaut and Festival Director Kent Jones, joined Arnaud Desplechin on the red carpet of the New York Film Festival North American premiere of My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) at Alice Tully Hall for a boys on film moment.
Roman Polanski's Tess d'Urbervilles, a Chekhovian scene, François Truffaut's autobiographical Mississippi Mermaid, Strindberg in Paris, and a theory from our previous conversation including the Under Capricorn complex come into play in our conversation.
Desplechin hero Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric)
Paul Dédalus is Mathieu Amalric in adult form and a teenage Paul (Quentin Dolmaire) has always had an affinity for plaid. Fabric samples are everywhere in Esther's (Lou Roy-Lecollinet) family home and a great big green neon sign in...
- 10/10/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Arnaud Desplechin of My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) directs Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Sara Sampson
Mathieu Amalric, André Dussollier, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire, Antoine Bui, Cécile Garcia-Fogel, Olivier Rabourdin, Irina Vavilova, Françoise Lebrun, Dinara Drukarova, Raphaël Cohen and Lily Taieb make My Golden Days burst with life.
How André Dussollier becomes a smiling Ernst Lubitsch devil out of Heaven Can Wait, location scouting in Roubaix, green Alfred Hitchcock scissors, New York Film Festival director Kent Jones's Hitchcock/Truffaut, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and Roman Polanski's Tess d'Urbervilles became part of my animated conversation with Arnaud.
Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) questioned by agent (André Dussollier)
We spoke about François Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid (La Sirène Du Mississipi), Esther’s siren song and Paul’s knightly mourning, how Stanley Cavell and John Ford make for a good epilogue, and why Arnaud no longer writes small talk but does dance choreography.
Mathieu Amalric, André Dussollier, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire, Antoine Bui, Cécile Garcia-Fogel, Olivier Rabourdin, Irina Vavilova, Françoise Lebrun, Dinara Drukarova, Raphaël Cohen and Lily Taieb make My Golden Days burst with life.
How André Dussollier becomes a smiling Ernst Lubitsch devil out of Heaven Can Wait, location scouting in Roubaix, green Alfred Hitchcock scissors, New York Film Festival director Kent Jones's Hitchcock/Truffaut, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and Roman Polanski's Tess d'Urbervilles became part of my animated conversation with Arnaud.
Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) questioned by agent (André Dussollier)
We spoke about François Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid (La Sirène Du Mississipi), Esther’s siren song and Paul’s knightly mourning, how Stanley Cavell and John Ford make for a good epilogue, and why Arnaud no longer writes small talk but does dance choreography.
- 10/6/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
My Golden Days director Arnaud Desplechin Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
With the 53rd New York Film Festival now in full swing and the visit of Pope Francis to New York ongoing, here are four more films to look forward to. Stig Björkman's portrait on Ingrid Bergman with Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger and her children providing personal memories accompany Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words and Arnaud Desplechin's resplendent My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) stars Mathieu Amalric, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire and André Dussollier. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives fame) has his Cemetery Of Splendour, starring Jenjira Pongpas Widner, haunting us, and Brian De Palma discussing his films with Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow in De Palma will keep you awake.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center raises the curtain with six free opening day screenings in celebration of 25 years for The Film.
With the 53rd New York Film Festival now in full swing and the visit of Pope Francis to New York ongoing, here are four more films to look forward to. Stig Björkman's portrait on Ingrid Bergman with Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger and her children providing personal memories accompany Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words and Arnaud Desplechin's resplendent My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) stars Mathieu Amalric, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Quentin Dolmaire and André Dussollier. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives fame) has his Cemetery Of Splendour, starring Jenjira Pongpas Widner, haunting us, and Brian De Palma discussing his films with Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow in De Palma will keep you awake.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center raises the curtain with six free opening day screenings in celebration of 25 years for The Film.
- 9/25/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, will make its World Premiere at the 53rd New York International Film Festival, running from September 25 to October 11. The film was one of 26 announced as part of the festival’s main slate, along with one of four World Premieres.
Some of the main slate highlights include Todd Haynes’s Carol, featuring Cannes Best Actress Winner Rooney Mara alongside Cate Blanchett, Miguel Gomes’s three part saga Arabian Nights, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, the Us premiere of Michael Moore’s latest Where to Invade Next, Michel Gondry’s French film Microbe et Gasoil, and the World Premiere of the documentary Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, about the life of the fames photographer and filmmaker.
Previously announced films include the World Premiere of The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’s Philippe Petit biopic serving as the opening night film, the World Premiere of...
Some of the main slate highlights include Todd Haynes’s Carol, featuring Cannes Best Actress Winner Rooney Mara alongside Cate Blanchett, Miguel Gomes’s three part saga Arabian Nights, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, the Us premiere of Michael Moore’s latest Where to Invade Next, Michel Gondry’s French film Microbe et Gasoil, and the World Premiere of the documentary Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, about the life of the fames photographer and filmmaker.
Previously announced films include the World Premiere of The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’s Philippe Petit biopic serving as the opening night film, the World Premiere of...
- 8/13/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.The New York Film Festival has revealed that Robert Zemeckis's much-anticipated 3D quasi-heist film The Walk will open the 2015 event. The newly released full trailer can be watched above.Famed writer Jean Gruault has died at the age of 90. Gruault had written scripts for François Truffaut (Jules and Jim), Jacques Rivette (The Nun), Alain Resnais (Mon oncle d'Amérique), and others, including writing the novel on which Valérie Donzelli's Cannes competitor this year, Marguerite & Julien, was based.We're crossing our fingers that Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight will make 50+ cinemas in the U.S. equipped to project 70mm.This week is a trailer bonanza, including Mistress America, the new Noah Baumbach collaboration with actress Greta Gerwig after Frances Ha.This Long Century has published several new pieces, including...
- 6/10/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Other winners include Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days and Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang.
Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) picked up the Art Cinema Award at the 47th Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes this evening (May 22).
Review: Embrace Of The Serpent
Anticipation surrounded Guerra’s return to the Croisette after the Colombian director’s acclaimed 2009 Un Certain Regard entry The Wind Journeys.
His new film chronicles the friendship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists and claims to be the first film to shoot in the Colombian jungle in three decades. Sales are handled by Films Boutique.
Screen Future Leader Cristina Gallego of Colombia’s Ciudad Lunar produced with Venezuela’s NorteSur and Mc Producciones and Buffalo.
Screen revealed last week that Gallego is to reunite with Guerra on Birds Of Passage (Pajaros de Verano), set in an arid region of Colombia where a rare rainstorm leaves a trail of devastation. Shooting is set...
Embrace Of The Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) picked up the Art Cinema Award at the 47th Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes this evening (May 22).
Review: Embrace Of The Serpent
Anticipation surrounded Guerra’s return to the Croisette after the Colombian director’s acclaimed 2009 Un Certain Regard entry The Wind Journeys.
His new film chronicles the friendship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists and claims to be the first film to shoot in the Colombian jungle in three decades. Sales are handled by Films Boutique.
Screen Future Leader Cristina Gallego of Colombia’s Ciudad Lunar produced with Venezuela’s NorteSur and Mc Producciones and Buffalo.
Screen revealed last week that Gallego is to reunite with Guerra on Birds Of Passage (Pajaros de Verano), set in an arid region of Colombia where a rare rainstorm leaves a trail of devastation. Shooting is set...
- 5/22/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
This week at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Arnaud Desplechin returned to form with his latest "My Golden Years." A quasi-followup to his 1996 effort "My Sex Life," the movie brings back Mathieu Almaric, but centers around newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet. And our critic on the ground at Cannes was impressed by their turns, writing in his review that it feels like they'll be part of "a new generation of talent emerging who'll likely be cropping up in French cinema for decades to come." Now you can see some of the spark that landed them the gig in the first place. Telerama has debuted Dolmaire's and Roy-Lecollinet's audition footage for the movie. For their test, Desplechin asked them to act out a scene from "My Sex Life," which makes sense given they are playing younger versions of those characters. And for comparison sake, this site has provided the original scene.
- 5/20/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Magnolia Pictures said today that it has acquired all U.S. rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days. The film, which just premiered in Directors’ Fortnight, stars Mathieu Amalric (Quantum Of Solace), Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet. Desplechin wrote the script with Julie Peyr. Pascal Caucheteux of Why Not Productions produced. My Golden Days centers on Paul Dédalus, an anthropolgist preparing to leave Tajikistan, who has a series of flashbacks that include…...
- 5/18/2015
- Deadline
Magnolia Pictures is acquiring all U.S. rights to Arnaud Desplechin's "My Golden Days," which screened in the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Mathieu Amalric stars as the adult Paul Dédalus in the framing story for an exploration of obsessive first love and identity. Written by Desplechin and Julie Peyr, the film was produced by Pascal Caucheteux of Why Not Productions and sold in Cannes by Wild Bunch. The film is a prequel of sorts for Desplechin's 1996 "My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into an Argument," in which Amalric is the young Dédalus played here by Quentin Dolmaire. He's an ambitious anthropology student who deals with a fractured family in Roubaix (Desplechin's home town) and limited resources while pursuing an intense romance with nubile beauty Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet). All these years later, Dédalus still has unresolved feelings about the affair. Many Cannes...
- 5/18/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Magnolia Pictures has picked up all Us rights from Wild Bunch to Arnaud Desplechin’s Directors’ Fortnight selection My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse).
Mathieu Amalric and newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet star in the story about an anthropologist detained upon his return to France who recounts his memorable life story to the authorities.
Desplechin and Julie Peyr wrote the screenplay and Pascal Caucheteux of Why Not Productions produced.
“Arnaud Desplechin is a true master and in My Golden Days he gives us another incredibly radiant, wise, funny and human film,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles. “We’re thrilled to be handling such a gem.”...
Mathieu Amalric and newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet star in the story about an anthropologist detained upon his return to France who recounts his memorable life story to the authorities.
Desplechin and Julie Peyr wrote the screenplay and Pascal Caucheteux of Why Not Productions produced.
“Arnaud Desplechin is a true master and in My Golden Days he gives us another incredibly radiant, wise, funny and human film,” said Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles. “We’re thrilled to be handling such a gem.”...
- 5/18/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
In Cannes the pervasive mood of buzz and business really begs for comedy, and Yorgos Lanthimos's English-language debut The Lobster, so far the best film in the competition, was a much-needed intervention of the absurd at the festival. This came additionally as a surprise to me because I've never been a fan of the Greek director of Dogtooth and Alps, preferring instead the work by his producer, Athina Rachel Tsangari, who made Attenburg. But in a festival whose thread of a theme this year of the intrinsic human difficulty of romantic relationships (In the Shadow of Women, My Golden Days, Carol), The Lobster wonderfully refracts these concerns of grave emotional drama into a precise, gimmick-bound dark comedy. Surprisingly touching, it takes adult worries over loneliness, solitude and coupledom and sends them into a perverse alternate world where single people are punished for their social status by being sent to...
- 5/16/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) is the "marvelously vivid origin story for the hopelessly romantic French academic played by Mathieu Amalric in 1996’s three-hour Gallic gabfest My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument," writes Variety's Justin Chang. All the reviews we've collected so far are positive with extra praise lavished on the leads, newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet and the "inherently cinematic, the sun-crisped, agile cinematography of Irina Lubtchansky" (David Jenkins, Little White Lies). » - David Hudson...
- 5/16/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Arnaud Desplechin's My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) is the "marvelously vivid origin story for the hopelessly romantic French academic played by Mathieu Amalric in 1996’s three-hour Gallic gabfest My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument," writes Variety's Justin Chang. All the reviews we've collected so far are positive with extra praise lavished on the leads, newcomers Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet and the "inherently cinematic, the sun-crisped, agile cinematography of Irina Lubtchansky" (David Jenkins, Little White Lies). » - David Hudson...
- 5/16/2015
- Keyframe
The politics of where the top French films play in the Cannes Festival are always intense. So one question: "Ou est Arnaud Desplechin's 'Trois Souvenirs de ma Jeunesse'?" has been answered. Although five of the auteur's films have played in the Competition, his latest (whose English title is “My Golden Years”) is being sold by France's powerful Wild Bunch and is set to world premiere on May 15 in the edgier and more daring sidebar Quinzaine or the Directors’ Fortnight. It "may be his best and most moving film,” stated Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has been running the sidebar for three years. “Mathieu Amalric, the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.” Powerful French producer and sales company Wild Bunch already has four pics playing in competition: Jacques Audiard’s “Dheepan,” Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “The Assassin,...
- 4/17/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Five-time Palme d’Or nominated director to world premiere latest film in parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival.
My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthusiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Days, directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.
“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”
Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.
So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film was not announced...
My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthusiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Days, directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.
“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”
Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.
So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film was not announced...
- 4/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Five-time Palme d’Or nominated director to world premiere latest film in parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival.
My Golden Years (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthousiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Years, the last feature directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.
“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”
Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.
So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film...
My Golden Years (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse), from French director Arnaud Desplechin’s, is set to world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes on May 15.
Artistic director Edouard Waintrop, who has helped revamp the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival since his arrival in 2012, said: “With pride and enthousiasm, we are thrilled to announce the presentation of My Golden Years, the last feature directed by Arnaud Desplechin, maybe his best and most moving film.
“Mathieu Amalric and the young Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet delight us in their excruciating and glowing quest for time and lost loves.”
Desplechin is a Cannes veteran who has had five films nominated in Competition, from La Sentinelle in 1992 to Jimmy P. in 2013.
So there was some surprise among French journalists at Cannes’ Official Selection press conference yesterday when the film...
- 4/17/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
With five pictures under their belt, it might be safe to say that director Arnaud Desplechin and actor Mathieu Amalric are France's Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. But where that pair haven't worked together in a couple of decades, Desplechin and Amalric are back together in the upcoming "Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse" (Aka "My Golden Years"), and the first international trailer and images for the movie have arrived. Previously known as "Nos Arcadies," the film is actually a prequel to 1996's “My Sex Life … or How I Got Into an Argument,” with Almaric reprising his role as Paul Dedalus, with the character reflecting back on his childhood and teenage memories. Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet play the younger versions of Paul in this film which is highly expected to land a spot at the Cannes Film Festival. "Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse" opens in France on May 20th.
- 4/3/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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