Iconic French fashion house La Maison is to be spotlighted in an Apple TV+ drama series starring seven-time César Award nominee Lambert Wilson.
La Maison will take a behind-the-curtain look at how a family dynasty of an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent LeDu (Wilson), leaving his family’s legendary haute couture house hanging by a thread. Perle Foster (Amira Casar), Vincent’s former muse who is still in his shadow, teams up with next-generation, visionary designer Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot) to save and recreate the century-old Maison Ledu, claiming their rightful place in both the LeDu family and the fashion world.
Related: 2023 Apple TV+ Pilots & Series Orders
Wilson, who played The Merovingian in The Matrix trilogy and is this year’s Locarno Jury President, leads a cast featuring Carole Bouquet (En Thérapie), Zita Hanrot (Fatima), Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake...
La Maison will take a behind-the-curtain look at how a family dynasty of an iconic fashion house is thrown into scandal and reinvention by a viral video featuring star designer Vincent LeDu (Wilson), leaving his family’s legendary haute couture house hanging by a thread. Perle Foster (Amira Casar), Vincent’s former muse who is still in his shadow, teams up with next-generation, visionary designer Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot) to save and recreate the century-old Maison Ledu, claiming their rightful place in both the LeDu family and the fashion world.
Related: 2023 Apple TV+ Pilots & Series Orders
Wilson, who played The Merovingian in The Matrix trilogy and is this year’s Locarno Jury President, leads a cast featuring Carole Bouquet (En Thérapie), Zita Hanrot (Fatima), Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake...
- 7/20/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
All great actresses of a certain age should get to anchor as many starring vehicles as the indefatigable Isabelle Huppert. Her prolific output and enduring marquee-name status are testament to French cinema’s continued interest in women past the age where Hollywood mostly confines them to secondary mom roles. But that doesn’t mean every project is going to be a gem, and “About Joan,” a muddled, maudlin character study that gives its leading lady plenty of screen time but little to actually do, sits at the least memorable end of her filmography. Starring Huppert as an independent, unmarried woman reflecting on the various men she’s loved and lost over the course of four decades, it’s painless but aimless, sunk by a terminal lack of narrative vigor.
Premiering in Berlin’s non-competitive Berlinale Special section (and surely selected only as an event on which to pin the festival...
Premiering in Berlin’s non-competitive Berlinale Special section (and surely selected only as an event on which to pin the festival...
- 2/16/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Warner TV, the French pay-tv channel and on-demand service launched by WarnerMedia, is teaming with Mediawan Group’s MakingProd for its first French original TV series, “Visitors,” a fantasy comedy by Simon Astier.
The eight-part half-hour series was created, written and is being directed by Astier, whose fanboy profile and graphic universe seem to be the perfect match for Warner TV’s identity. Astier’s previous credits include the comedic science fiction series “Hero Corp” in which he also starred, and Netflix’s supernatural series “Mortel.” Stéphane Drouet at MakingProd is producing “Visitors,” which recently started filming.
Astier stars in “Visitors” as Richard, a rookie police officer who sees two strange lights colliding in the sky on his first day on the job. The series’ large ensemble cast also includes Florence Loiret Caille, Damien Jouillerot, Vincent Desagnat, Tiphaine Daviot, Grégoire Ludig, Julie Bargeton, David Marsais, Arnaud Tsamere, Delphine Baril and Adrien Ménielle.
The eight-part half-hour series was created, written and is being directed by Astier, whose fanboy profile and graphic universe seem to be the perfect match for Warner TV’s identity. Astier’s previous credits include the comedic science fiction series “Hero Corp” in which he also starred, and Netflix’s supernatural series “Mortel.” Stéphane Drouet at MakingProd is producing “Visitors,” which recently started filming.
Astier stars in “Visitors” as Richard, a rookie police officer who sees two strange lights colliding in the sky on his first day on the job. The series’ large ensemble cast also includes Florence Loiret Caille, Damien Jouillerot, Vincent Desagnat, Tiphaine Daviot, Grégoire Ludig, Julie Bargeton, David Marsais, Arnaud Tsamere, Delphine Baril and Adrien Ménielle.
- 6/22/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The most lauded of titles on this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival, UniFrance’s online showcase featured by over 50 Ott services around the world, may not be a film but a drama series.
With four seasons aired, and a milestone in world sales on a French TV show, slow-boiling espionage series ‘Le Bureau des légendes’ (“The Bureau”) is tracking to become a French modern classic, its admirers say..
“This series is the best ever made in France,” trumpeted French newspaper Le Figaro.
A Canal Plus Création Originale produced by The Oligarchs Productions (Top) and Federation Entertainment Ent., which handles international sales, the series was created by screenwriter-director Eric Rochant whose “The Patriots,” with Yvan Attal as a Mossad operative, was selected for main competition at the 1994 Cannes Festival.
First released on Canal Plus in April 2015, Season 4 concluded last November. MyFrenchFilmFestival is screening Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 1 in its New Horizons showcase, out of competition.
With four seasons aired, and a milestone in world sales on a French TV show, slow-boiling espionage series ‘Le Bureau des légendes’ (“The Bureau”) is tracking to become a French modern classic, its admirers say..
“This series is the best ever made in France,” trumpeted French newspaper Le Figaro.
A Canal Plus Création Originale produced by The Oligarchs Productions (Top) and Federation Entertainment Ent., which handles international sales, the series was created by screenwriter-director Eric Rochant whose “The Patriots,” with Yvan Attal as a Mossad operative, was selected for main competition at the 1994 Cannes Festival.
First released on Canal Plus in April 2015, Season 4 concluded last November. MyFrenchFilmFestival is screening Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 1 in its New Horizons showcase, out of competition.
- 2/16/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Music is at the core of two new Specialty features making their theatrical bows this weekend, albeit from rather different ends of the spectrum. XLrator Media will open Jimi: All Is By My Side focusing on the artist’s life in London in nearly three dozen theaters, while Samuel Goldwyn Films will bow faith-centered The Song in over 300 theaters, the biggest number of runs for a limited release newcomer this week. Magnolia Pictures will take thriller The Two Faces Of January starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac to an initial half-dozen locations in the wake of its VOD release late last month and CBS Films is targeting the same number of runs for its Cannes ’14 feature Pride. Factory 25 is opening its art meets goth-rap thriller Hellaware and Cinema Libre will debut a former Swiss foreign-language Oscar contender The Little Bedroom in exclusive New York runs. The weekend is...
- 9/26/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Good Grief: Nuanced Dramatic Debut Lands Long Awaited Release in Us
Initially premiering at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the directorial debut of Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond, The Little Bedroom, at last gets a Us theatrical release after four years. Picking up several accolades during its extended festival circuit tour, the film was Switzerland’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film back in 2011. Notably, it may be one of the last chances to see Michel Bouquet in a lead role (though he’s also in 2012’s celebrated Renoir, which France submitted for the same accolade in 2013). An intersection of two individuals during a period of increasing desperation, both refusing to accept an innate truth about the present state of their situations, it’s a quietly affecting and genuinely moving portrait of grief, reconciliation, and the cruel inevitably of aging.
Having given birth to a stillborn child only several months ago,...
Initially premiering at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, the directorial debut of Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond, The Little Bedroom, at last gets a Us theatrical release after four years. Picking up several accolades during its extended festival circuit tour, the film was Switzerland’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film back in 2011. Notably, it may be one of the last chances to see Michel Bouquet in a lead role (though he’s also in 2012’s celebrated Renoir, which France submitted for the same accolade in 2013). An intersection of two individuals during a period of increasing desperation, both refusing to accept an innate truth about the present state of their situations, it’s a quietly affecting and genuinely moving portrait of grief, reconciliation, and the cruel inevitably of aging.
Having given birth to a stillborn child only several months ago,...
- 9/25/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In their affecting debut film, set in Switzerland, co-writer-directors Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond take on grief and aging, two of life's — and cinema's — most challenging themes. Months after the death of her unborn child, Rose (Florence Loiret Caille) returns to work as a home care nurse, and is immediately challenged by Edmond (Michel Bouquet), an increasingly frail old man who refuses to give up his independence. Rose won't speak of her loss, while Edmond is simply indomitable, and it's their shared refusal to give in to careless emotion that draws the two together. Chuat and Reymond also share a desire to avoid melodrama, which makes The Little Bedroom an undeniably slow build. The screenplay is built of small moments and...
- 9/24/2014
- Village Voice
Justice or Chaos
Director: Vincent Gaenq
Writer: Vincent Garenq
Producers: Nord Ouest Films’ Christophe Rossignon and Philip Boëffard
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Gilles Lelouche, Charles Berling, Florence Loiret Caille
His 2011 sophomore feature Guilty made the pedophilic accusations of The Hunt seem like a cake walk (and is also based on a true story). The acclaimed reception of that film sees him returning to real life injustice, snagging more French notables like Lelouche and Berling to head his cast. If it’s anything like his last film, look forward to a distraught and distressing reenactment.
Gist: A look at the Clearstream case, a politico-financial conspiracy that shook the French Republic in the years 2000.
Release Date: Filming took place last August, so we’re assuming that due to the attention his last film received as well as the subject matter should see this as a prime candidate for a Cannes sidebar,...
Director: Vincent Gaenq
Writer: Vincent Garenq
Producers: Nord Ouest Films’ Christophe Rossignon and Philip Boëffard
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Gilles Lelouche, Charles Berling, Florence Loiret Caille
His 2011 sophomore feature Guilty made the pedophilic accusations of The Hunt seem like a cake walk (and is also based on a true story). The acclaimed reception of that film sees him returning to real life injustice, snagging more French notables like Lelouche and Berling to head his cast. If it’s anything like his last film, look forward to a distraught and distressing reenactment.
Gist: A look at the Clearstream case, a politico-financial conspiracy that shook the French Republic in the years 2000.
Release Date: Filming took place last August, so we’re assuming that due to the attention his last film received as well as the subject matter should see this as a prime candidate for a Cannes sidebar,...
- 2/4/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Fans of Mélanie Laurent can count on the Film Movement folks to import one of her French title items a little bit past the midday point this year (third quarter), as the mini label picked up The Day I Saw Your Heart - a Jennifer Devoldère signed dramedy featuring Laurent, Michel Blanc and Florence Loiret Caille. Gist: Aka Et Soudain Tout le Monde me Manque (which translates to And Suddenly I Miss Everyone) Families are complicated… Especially when Eli, the father, who’s about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked... Worth Noting: This is collaboration number two between the helmer and the actress: Mélanie Laurent previously toplined Devoldère's feature debut, Shoe at Your Foot (2009). Do We Care?: Despite whimsical...
- 2/28/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
"A Prophet" from director Jacques Audiard won nine awards at the 35th annual Cesar Awards. The Oscar nominated film for best foreign language took home best French film of the year, director, screenplay, editing, cinematography, production design, best actor, and most promising actor (best male newcomer) for Tahar Rahim. Niels Arestrup won best supporting actor also for "A Prophet."
Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" was named best foreign film of the year, beating out last year's Oscar winner "Slumdog Millionaire" and this year's blue contender, "Avatar."
Meanwhile, "Avatar's" Sigourney Weaver presented Harrison Ford with a Cesar of Honor award. Aw...
Here's the list of nominees and winners of the 35th annual Cesar Awards (winners are highlighted):
Best Film
A l.Origine, Xavier Giannoli
Le Concert, Radu Mihaileanu
Les Herbes Folles, Alain Resnais
La Journee de la Jupe, Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Rapt, Lucas Belvaux
Un Prophete, Jacques Audiard
Welcome, Philippe Lioret...
Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" was named best foreign film of the year, beating out last year's Oscar winner "Slumdog Millionaire" and this year's blue contender, "Avatar."
Meanwhile, "Avatar's" Sigourney Weaver presented Harrison Ford with a Cesar of Honor award. Aw...
Here's the list of nominees and winners of the 35th annual Cesar Awards (winners are highlighted):
Best Film
A l.Origine, Xavier Giannoli
Le Concert, Radu Mihaileanu
Les Herbes Folles, Alain Resnais
La Journee de la Jupe, Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
Rapt, Lucas Belvaux
Un Prophete, Jacques Audiard
Welcome, Philippe Lioret...
- 2/28/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Paris – French Academy members got serious on Friday with two politically charged dramas heading the major categories for the 35th annual Cesar Awards that will see Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" go head to head with Philippe Lioret's "Welcome." The nominees were announced Friday at a press conference in Paris.
While no one can foresee the winners, "A Prophet" looks bound to triumph with Jacques Audiard's prison drama nominated for 13 awards including best film, best director and a best actor and most promising male newcomer nod for the film's breakout star Tahar Rahim.
Academy voters also gave a hearty reception to Phillipe Lioret's "Welcome" with 10 nods and Xavier Giannoli's "In the Beginning" with 11 nominations.
Radu Mihaileanu's "The Concert" was also music to voters' ears with the tragicomedy about a washed-up former conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra who travels to Paris to make his career comeback scoring six nominations.
While no one can foresee the winners, "A Prophet" looks bound to triumph with Jacques Audiard's prison drama nominated for 13 awards including best film, best director and a best actor and most promising male newcomer nod for the film's breakout star Tahar Rahim.
Academy voters also gave a hearty reception to Phillipe Lioret's "Welcome" with 10 nods and Xavier Giannoli's "In the Beginning" with 11 nominations.
Radu Mihaileanu's "The Concert" was also music to voters' ears with the tragicomedy about a washed-up former conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra who travels to Paris to make his career comeback scoring six nominations.
- 1/22/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ok, I know that I'm almost one month late. After all, the list of the candidates for the Best Male and Female Hopes has been public knowledge since November 25. Anyway, I just want to post the information since I'm a lover of French culture. Enjoy.
The 2010 César for the Best Female Hope:
Marie-Julie Baup in Micmacs à tire-larigot
Astrid Berges Frisbey in Un barrage contre le Pacifique
Agathe Bonitzer in Un chat un chat
Sophie Cattani in Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante
Judith Davis in Je te mangerais
Anaïs Demoustier in Sois sage
Mati Diop in 35 rhums
Pauline Etienne in Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront
Alice de Lencquesaing in Le père de mes enfants
Florence Loiret-Caille in Je l’aimais
Sara Martins in Mensch
Lola Naymark in L’armée du crime
Vimala Pons in La Sainte Victoire
Soko in A l’Origine
Christa Theret...
The 2010 César for the Best Female Hope:
Marie-Julie Baup in Micmacs à tire-larigot
Astrid Berges Frisbey in Un barrage contre le Pacifique
Agathe Bonitzer in Un chat un chat
Sophie Cattani in Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante
Judith Davis in Je te mangerais
Anaïs Demoustier in Sois sage
Mati Diop in 35 rhums
Pauline Etienne in Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront
Alice de Lencquesaing in Le père de mes enfants
Florence Loiret-Caille in Je l’aimais
Sara Martins in Mensch
Lola Naymark in L’armée du crime
Vimala Pons in La Sainte Victoire
Soko in A l’Origine
Christa Theret...
- 12/22/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
French director Erick Zonca, acclaimed for his feature "The Dreamlife of Angels", further explores the wasted young lives of the dispossessed in this well-programmed double feature, currently receiving U.S. theatrical premieres at Gotham's Film Forum.
It is composed of the 65-minute feature "The Little Thief", his most recent effort, as well as "Alone", an even shorter dramatic film made one year prior to "Angels". Although not quite as interesting as his debut feature, both films on the bill provide evidence of a filmmaker ever willing to explore his terrain in uncompromising fashion.
"Thief" follows its protagonist, known only as "S" (Nicolas Duvauchelle), through a circuitous existence from apprentice baker to criminal and back to apprentice baker. Shortly after S is fired from the dead end job he detests, he moves to Marseille and falls in with a bunch of petty criminals who hang out at a small boxing club. He performs low-level duties ranging from driving to doing odd jobs for the elderly mother of one of the hoods. Ultimately, in the boxing ring and in his criminal milieu, S discovers that his dreams of success are ill-founded and his newfound colleagues turn on him with a brutal vengeance.
"Alone" takes even less time to chronicle the downward spiral of its central character, Amelie (Florence Loiret), who as the film begins is fired from her job as a waitress because of her poor attitude. Quickly losing her apartment and all her possessions, she enters into a life of homelessness and despair, and when a gun happens to literally fall into her hands, takes up a life of crime as well. Unfortunately, her attempts at robbery succeed no better than anything else in her existence.
At times, Zonca's unrelenting bleakness and the total absence of humor in his approach proves wearisome and, despite both films' brief running times, there are decided longueurs in his pacing.
But there's no disputing his acutely observed characterizations, his depth of psychology, the vividness of his cinema verite style and his ability to extract superbly realistic performances from his young cast members. Both "The Little Thief" and "Alone" demonstrate that Zonca is a deeply humanistic filmmaker at the beginning of an important career.
THE LITTLE THIEF
New Yorker Films
Director:Erick Zonca
Screenwriters:Erick Zonca, Virginie Wagon
Producer:Pierre Chevalier
Cinematographers:Pierre Milon, Catherine Pujol
Editor:Jean-Robert Thomann
Production designer:Kristina Zonca
Color/stereo
Cast:
S:Nicolas Duvauchelle
Barruet:Yann Tregouet
The Eye:Jean-Jerome Esposito
Chacal:Martial Bezot
Running time -- 65 minutes
No MPAA rating
ALONE
Director/screenwriter:Erick Zonca
Cinematographer:Pascal Poucet
Editor:Jean Robert Thomann
Color/stereo
Cast:
Amelie:Florencel Loiret
Sophie:Veronique Octon
Running time -- 34 minutes
No MPAA rating...
It is composed of the 65-minute feature "The Little Thief", his most recent effort, as well as "Alone", an even shorter dramatic film made one year prior to "Angels". Although not quite as interesting as his debut feature, both films on the bill provide evidence of a filmmaker ever willing to explore his terrain in uncompromising fashion.
"Thief" follows its protagonist, known only as "S" (Nicolas Duvauchelle), through a circuitous existence from apprentice baker to criminal and back to apprentice baker. Shortly after S is fired from the dead end job he detests, he moves to Marseille and falls in with a bunch of petty criminals who hang out at a small boxing club. He performs low-level duties ranging from driving to doing odd jobs for the elderly mother of one of the hoods. Ultimately, in the boxing ring and in his criminal milieu, S discovers that his dreams of success are ill-founded and his newfound colleagues turn on him with a brutal vengeance.
"Alone" takes even less time to chronicle the downward spiral of its central character, Amelie (Florence Loiret), who as the film begins is fired from her job as a waitress because of her poor attitude. Quickly losing her apartment and all her possessions, she enters into a life of homelessness and despair, and when a gun happens to literally fall into her hands, takes up a life of crime as well. Unfortunately, her attempts at robbery succeed no better than anything else in her existence.
At times, Zonca's unrelenting bleakness and the total absence of humor in his approach proves wearisome and, despite both films' brief running times, there are decided longueurs in his pacing.
But there's no disputing his acutely observed characterizations, his depth of psychology, the vividness of his cinema verite style and his ability to extract superbly realistic performances from his young cast members. Both "The Little Thief" and "Alone" demonstrate that Zonca is a deeply humanistic filmmaker at the beginning of an important career.
THE LITTLE THIEF
New Yorker Films
Director:Erick Zonca
Screenwriters:Erick Zonca, Virginie Wagon
Producer:Pierre Chevalier
Cinematographers:Pierre Milon, Catherine Pujol
Editor:Jean-Robert Thomann
Production designer:Kristina Zonca
Color/stereo
Cast:
S:Nicolas Duvauchelle
Barruet:Yann Tregouet
The Eye:Jean-Jerome Esposito
Chacal:Martial Bezot
Running time -- 65 minutes
No MPAA rating
ALONE
Director/screenwriter:Erick Zonca
Cinematographer:Pascal Poucet
Editor:Jean Robert Thomann
Color/stereo
Cast:
Amelie:Florencel Loiret
Sophie:Veronique Octon
Running time -- 34 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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