The Anne Hathaway- and Jessica Chastain-starring psychological thriller “Mothers’ Instinct” is set for release in Chinese theaters.
Directed by cinematographer-turned-helmer Benoît Delhomme, the 1960s film depicts a pair of model homemakers and next-door neighbors whose close friendship is severely undone by sudden tragedy. The film is an English-language remake of the 2108 French-language effort by Belgium’s Olivier Masset-Depasse’s film, which was an adaptation of the 2012 novel “Derriere La Haine” by Barbara Abel.
The film will release in China on May 24 on 2,500 screens. That likely sets it in competition with “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” as another English-language title releasing on that date, Variety has confirmed.
The film has had a handful of international releases and is also set for a North American outing at an unspecified date through Neon. The China release follows an agreement between sales firm Anton Corp and Chinese distributor Jl Film.
Jl Film...
Directed by cinematographer-turned-helmer Benoît Delhomme, the 1960s film depicts a pair of model homemakers and next-door neighbors whose close friendship is severely undone by sudden tragedy. The film is an English-language remake of the 2108 French-language effort by Belgium’s Olivier Masset-Depasse’s film, which was an adaptation of the 2012 novel “Derriere La Haine” by Barbara Abel.
The film will release in China on May 24 on 2,500 screens. That likely sets it in competition with “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” as another English-language title releasing on that date, Variety has confirmed.
The film has had a handful of international releases and is also set for a North American outing at an unspecified date through Neon. The China release follows an agreement between sales firm Anton Corp and Chinese distributor Jl Film.
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- 5/20/2024
- by Patrick Frater and Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
When Toddy Haynes’s May December was released last year, it prompted a worldwide (or at least Twitter-wide) reckoning with the meaning of camp. There were furious debates as to the exact parameters of the term and which works fell within them. For Mothers’ Instinct, this matter becomes a kind of existential crisis, because celebrated cinematographer Benoît Delhomme’s 1960s-set directorial debut can’t decide whether it wants to be considered camp or not, as it awkwardly pitches itself between a somber drama and antic melodrama.
Like May December, this remake of the Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 film Duelles is a domestic drama that throws two women into the same space and steadily ratchets up the tension between them. Alice (Jessica Chastain) and Céline (Anne Hathaway) live in neighboring homes in the suburbs. Alice’s son Theo (Eamon Patrick O’Connell) and Céline’s son Max (Baylen D. Bielitz) are best friends,...
Like May December, this remake of the Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 film Duelles is a domestic drama that throws two women into the same space and steadily ratchets up the tension between them. Alice (Jessica Chastain) and Céline (Anne Hathaway) live in neighboring homes in the suburbs. Alice’s son Theo (Eamon Patrick O’Connell) and Céline’s son Max (Baylen D. Bielitz) are best friends,...
- 4/13/2024
- by Ross McIndoe
- Slant Magazine
Esteemed cinematographer Benoît Delhomme’s credits have included a conspicuous number of thoughtful, visually sumptuous period pieces, such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Theory of Everything and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, as well as a few films made to promote fashion brands like Balmain, Dior and Chanel. In a way, that résumé partially explains why he might have been inclined to make his directorial debut with Mothers’ Instinct, for which he also serves as the Dp.
This pulpy, psychologically shallow and yet beautifully shot period thriller is all about two soignée suburban housewives — played by Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway — who spend the film’s 96 minutes suffering, scheming and losing their minds while wearing immaculate vintage-inspired costumes. Ultimately, the characters’ motivations, like their titular instinct, are weakly delineated, but viewers are well-advised not to worry their pretty little heads about any of that and just concentrate on the pantsuits.
A remake of a 2018 Belgian film,...
This pulpy, psychologically shallow and yet beautifully shot period thriller is all about two soignée suburban housewives — played by Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway — who spend the film’s 96 minutes suffering, scheming and losing their minds while wearing immaculate vintage-inspired costumes. Ultimately, the characters’ motivations, like their titular instinct, are weakly delineated, but viewers are well-advised not to worry their pretty little heads about any of that and just concentrate on the pantsuits.
A remake of a 2018 Belgian film,...
- 3/28/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Not every good film is necessarily a good time, and vice versa. On the latter front, see “Mothers’ Instinct,” a 1960s-set suburban psychodrama too silly to secure our belief and too reserved to pass muster as go-for-broke camp — but still compulsive enough, twisty enough and finally berserk enough to keep us hooked through all its tonal and narrative lane-changing. As a pair of model homemakers and next-door neighbors whose close friendship is severely undone by sudden tragedy, even stars Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain don’t always seem to be making entirely the same movie: Hathaway’s sly, high-gloss vamping points to a more brittly amusing one than Chastain’s earnest emotional commitment, turning their characters’ escalating picket-fence battle into a compelling tussle for the soul of the script itself. One wins, and not predictably so.
First-time feature director Benoît Delhomme, however, doesn’t have much command over this strange,...
First-time feature director Benoît Delhomme, however, doesn’t have much command over this strange,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights for Emilio Estevez’s The Way: Chapter 2, reuniting the actor-director with the cast members of his original 2010 hit, father Martin Sheen, Yorick Van Wageningen and James Nesbitt.
The sequel revisits protagonist Tom (Sheen) a decade after his first pilgrimage on Spain’s El Camino de Santiago in the footsteps of his deceased son Daniel (Estevez), as he reconnects with his walking companions Joost (van Wageningen) and Jack (Nisbitt).
Now embedded with Doctors Without Borders in northern Nigeria, performing surgery in a war zone, Tom is sent a copy of Jack’s bestselling book based on their shared experience, in which a disturbing secret is revealed.
Enraged, he leaves to search for Jack and find answers to questions that have haunted him for a decade. His journey reunites him with Joost and leads them through Amsterdam, Dublin, Brussels and France before returning to Spain and the Camino.
The sequel revisits protagonist Tom (Sheen) a decade after his first pilgrimage on Spain’s El Camino de Santiago in the footsteps of his deceased son Daniel (Estevez), as he reconnects with his walking companions Joost (van Wageningen) and Jack (Nisbitt).
Now embedded with Doctors Without Borders in northern Nigeria, performing surgery in a war zone, Tom is sent a copy of Jack’s bestselling book based on their shared experience, in which a disturbing secret is revealed.
Enraged, he leaves to search for Jack and find answers to questions that have haunted him for a decade. His journey reunites him with Joost and leads them through Amsterdam, Dublin, Brussels and France before returning to Spain and the Camino.
- 2/9/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The French sales outfit has the first image of Tomer Sisley in The Price Of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure.
Goodfellas has boarded Claire Burger’s anticipated coming-of-age drama Langue Etrangère, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Nina Hoss, ahead of this week’s Rendez-Vous with France Cinema this week in Paris.
Langue Etrangère is about teenage pen pals in France and Germany and is produced by Anatomy of a Fall producer Marie-Ange Luciani’s Les Films de Pierre with Belgium’s Les Films du Fleuve and Germany’s Razor Film Produktion. Burger wrote the film in collaboration with The Five Devils’ Léa Mysius.
Goodfellas has boarded Claire Burger’s anticipated coming-of-age drama Langue Etrangère, starring Chiara Mastroianni and Nina Hoss, ahead of this week’s Rendez-Vous with France Cinema this week in Paris.
Langue Etrangère is about teenage pen pals in France and Germany and is produced by Anatomy of a Fall producer Marie-Ange Luciani’s Les Films de Pierre with Belgium’s Les Films du Fleuve and Germany’s Razor Film Produktion. Burger wrote the film in collaboration with The Five Devils’ Léa Mysius.
- 1/15/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
“Mothers’ Instinct” is a new ‘psychological thriller’ directed by Benoît Delhomme, as a remake of director Olivier Masset-Depasse's 2018 French-language film, as well as adapting the 2012 novel “Mothers' Instinct”(‘Derrière la haine’) by Barbara Abel, starring Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Josh Charles and Anders Danielsen Lie, currently in post-production for a 2024 release:
“…the friendship of two 1960’s housewives…
“…rapidly deteriorates after a tragedy…”
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“…the friendship of two 1960’s housewives…
“…rapidly deteriorates after a tragedy…”
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- 1/9/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Academy Award-winning actresses Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway are having a literal mother-off in the first official trailer for Mothers’ Instinct. The forthcoming directorial debut from cinematographer Benoît Delhomme stars Chastain and Hathaway as Alice and Céline, respectively and follows their picture-perfect life in Sixties suburbia: they’re best friends raising sons of the same age in the same neighborhood together.
But the seeds of guilt and paranoia begin to blossom into an ugly, monstrous plant when Alice sprints into her neighbor’s home to warn Céline that her son...
But the seeds of guilt and paranoia begin to blossom into an ugly, monstrous plant when Alice sprints into her neighbor’s home to warn Céline that her son...
- 1/9/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Mother’s Instinct trailer: Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain thriller is a remake of 2018 Belgian film
Mothers’ Instinct, a remake of the 2018 Belgian film Duelles, went into production back in May of 2022, with Academy Award winners Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables) and Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) – who also happen to be close friends in their personal lives – in the lead roles. Once filming had wrapped, Hathaway revealed that her role in the film was the hardest she had ever played, as it tapped into her own worst fear. Unfortunately, a release date for Mothers’ Instinct still hasn’t been announced, but that information must be coming down the line soon, because Studiocanal UK has gone ahead and released a trailer for the film. You can check that out in the embed above, and a newly unveiled poster can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Duelles won nine Magritte Awards (the Belgian equivalent of the Oscars), including Best Film and Best Director. It...
Duelles won nine Magritte Awards (the Belgian equivalent of the Oscars), including Best Film and Best Director. It...
- 1/9/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway star in the new trailer for Benoît Delhomme’s Mother’s Instinct. Watch it here.
Benoît Delhomme is the latest cinematographer trying their hand at directing. Having acted as the cinematographer for films such as Free State Of Jones, The Theory Of Everything and Lady Chatterley’s Lover as well commercials and music videos, Delhomme’s directorial debut is a taut thriller about grief and motherhood.
Based on Barbara Abel’s novel Mothers’ Instinct: A Novel of Suspense, the film follows best friends and neighbours, Alice and Céline. After a tragic accident leads to the death of Céline’s son and Céline’s life starts to unravel, their friendship is tested.
Here’s the trailer for Mother’s Instinct.
Not too shabby getting Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain to star in your directorial debut! Chastain and Hathaway are also on board as producers while Sarah Conradt penned the script.
Benoît Delhomme is the latest cinematographer trying their hand at directing. Having acted as the cinematographer for films such as Free State Of Jones, The Theory Of Everything and Lady Chatterley’s Lover as well commercials and music videos, Delhomme’s directorial debut is a taut thriller about grief and motherhood.
Based on Barbara Abel’s novel Mothers’ Instinct: A Novel of Suspense, the film follows best friends and neighbours, Alice and Céline. After a tragic accident leads to the death of Céline’s son and Céline’s life starts to unravel, their friendship is tested.
Here’s the trailer for Mother’s Instinct.
Not too shabby getting Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain to star in your directorial debut! Chastain and Hathaway are also on board as producers while Sarah Conradt penned the script.
- 1/9/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
"Mothers’ Instinct", a new 'psychological thriller' feature, currently in post-production, is directed by Benoît Delhomme, as a remake of director Olivier Masset-Depasse's 2018 French-language film and the 2012 novel "Behind the Hatred" ("Derrière la haine") by Barbara Abel, starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, with a theatrical release by Neon Tba:
".....'Alice' and 'Celine' live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident, as guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond..."
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".....'Alice' and 'Celine' live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident, as guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond..."
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- 11/6/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
James Franco will play a U.S. Navy sailor stationed in post-World War II Naples, where he fathers a child, in gritty Italian drama “Hey Joe.” Directed by Claudio Giovannesi, the film is now shooting in the southern port city.
Franco, who has recently been taking roles outside the U.S. following a now-settled 2019 lawsuit alleging that he sexually exploited young women who took his acting class, will be speaking both English and Italian to play the lead in “Hey Joe,” said producer Carlo Degli Esposti, head of Italy’s prominent Palomar shingle. Degli Esposti added that Palomar got a waiver from SAG-AFTRA for Franco to work on the film “since we are an indie production.”
In “Hey Joe,” Franco plays Dean Barry, an American sailor who in 1944, at age 23, disembarks in Naples which has been destroyed by bombing. He falls in love with a young, very poor, local woman named Lucia.
Franco, who has recently been taking roles outside the U.S. following a now-settled 2019 lawsuit alleging that he sexually exploited young women who took his acting class, will be speaking both English and Italian to play the lead in “Hey Joe,” said producer Carlo Degli Esposti, head of Italy’s prominent Palomar shingle. Degli Esposti added that Palomar got a waiver from SAG-AFTRA for Franco to work on the film “since we are an indie production.”
In “Hey Joe,” Franco plays Dean Barry, an American sailor who in 1944, at age 23, disembarks in Naples which has been destroyed by bombing. He falls in love with a young, very poor, local woman named Lucia.
- 10/19/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
One film we’ve been waiting to see pop up on the fall festival circuit is Mothers’ Instinct, the directorial debut of acclaimed cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, who has worked with Tsai Ming-liang, Anton Corbijn, John Hillcoat, Julian Schnabel, Anthony Minghella, Tran Anh Hung, and more. Led by Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, the Greek distributor Spentzos Film has now unveiled the first trailer though the U.S. release from Neon has yet to be announced.
A remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 French-language psychological thriller, the Sarah Conradt-scripted film follows the friendship of two 1960s housewives that rapidly deteriorates after a tragedy. Also starring Josh Charles, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Caroline Lagerfelt, cinematography comes from, of course, Delhomme himself.
“Annie and I, we have a lot of fun in that movie. And it’s a throwback to another… I like to think of it like a little bit of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?...
A remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 French-language psychological thriller, the Sarah Conradt-scripted film follows the friendship of two 1960s housewives that rapidly deteriorates after a tragedy. Also starring Josh Charles, Anders Danielsen Lie, and Caroline Lagerfelt, cinematography comes from, of course, Delhomme himself.
“Annie and I, we have a lot of fun in that movie. And it’s a throwback to another… I like to think of it like a little bit of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?...
- 8/9/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Jessica Chastain has an instinct about the upcoming psychological thriller and Old Hollywood throwback film “Mothers’ Instinct.”
The 1960s-set film, helmed by cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, is a remake of Belgium director Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 film “Duelles” for an American audience. “Mothers’ Instinct” co-stars Anne Hathaway as Chastain’s best friend and neighbor. However, their shared suburban paradise is rocked after a tragic accident involving their sons. Per the official synopsis, guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.
“Annie and I, we have a lot of fun in that movie. And it’s a throwback to another…I like to think of it like a little bit of ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'” Chastain told IndieWire at the 48th Annual Chaplin Gala honoring her former “The Help” co-star Viola Davis.
Chastain continued,...
The 1960s-set film, helmed by cinematographer Benoît Delhomme, is a remake of Belgium director Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 film “Duelles” for an American audience. “Mothers’ Instinct” co-stars Anne Hathaway as Chastain’s best friend and neighbor. However, their shared suburban paradise is rocked after a tragic accident involving their sons. Per the official synopsis, guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.
“Annie and I, we have a lot of fun in that movie. And it’s a throwback to another…I like to think of it like a little bit of ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'” Chastain told IndieWire at the 48th Annual Chaplin Gala honoring her former “The Help” co-star Viola Davis.
Chastain continued,...
- 4/25/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson and Vincent Perella
- Indiewire
Jessica Chastain is sharing her autograph policy. The Oscar winner was recently captured in a viral video turning down signing a copy of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” novel following her performance in Broadway revival of “A Doll’s House” at the Hudson Theatre, outside of which she regularly greets fans.
“I can’t sign that, just because I’m not doing it,” Chastain says to the fan in the video. The “Molly’s Game” star later took to Twitter to explain her reasoning for declining to sign books such as these.
“I’ve been asked multiple times by fans, to sign books that I’m not attached to contractually. Because it feels wrong, and like I’m taking credit for someone else’s work, I’ll say I can’t sign because I’m not doing it,” Chastain wrote. “That doesn’t mean I’ve read a bad script.
“I can’t sign that, just because I’m not doing it,” Chastain says to the fan in the video. The “Molly’s Game” star later took to Twitter to explain her reasoning for declining to sign books such as these.
“I’ve been asked multiple times by fans, to sign books that I’m not attached to contractually. Because it feels wrong, and like I’m taking credit for someone else’s work, I’ll say I can’t sign because I’m not doing it,” Chastain wrote. “That doesn’t mean I’ve read a bad script.
- 4/19/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
‘Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway’ Gets Behind-The-Scenes Doc Treatment
ITV’s Saturday Night Takeaway is getting the behind-the-scenes doc treatment. In Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway: Behind the Screens (w/t), ITV Studios indie Lifted Entertainment and the host’s shingle Mitre Studios will take a fly-on-the-wall approach to the making of one of ITV’s biggest entertainment shows. Documentary makers will embed themselves within the production team for the upcoming 19th season, in a show that regularly dominates the ITV entertainment schedules. Ant & Dec are stalwart ITV hosts, who also helm I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and various one-off specials. The news comes with ITV entertainment set for a shake-up, with The Masked Dancer and Ninja Warrior being rested this year and The Masked Singer set for more mashup specials. “Saturday Night Takeaway is one of the biggest live entertainment shows on television...
ITV’s Saturday Night Takeaway is getting the behind-the-scenes doc treatment. In Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway: Behind the Screens (w/t), ITV Studios indie Lifted Entertainment and the host’s shingle Mitre Studios will take a fly-on-the-wall approach to the making of one of ITV’s biggest entertainment shows. Documentary makers will embed themselves within the production team for the upcoming 19th season, in a show that regularly dominates the ITV entertainment schedules. Ant & Dec are stalwart ITV hosts, who also helm I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and various one-off specials. The news comes with ITV entertainment set for a shake-up, with The Masked Dancer and Ninja Warrior being rested this year and The Masked Singer set for more mashup specials. “Saturday Night Takeaway is one of the biggest live entertainment shows on television...
- 2/17/2023
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The film is described as “Taken meets Jason Bourne”.
Wild Bunch International has revealed the first behind-the-scenes images from the Bulgarian set of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s The Price of Money – A Largo Winch Adventure, the latest installment of the French action thriller franchise based on a popular Belgian comic.
The film, described as “Taken meets Jason Bourne,” stars Tomer Sisley as the titular billionaire playboy alongside James Franco in the role of the villain.
Filming is now underway in Bulgaria before heading to Thailand and Belgium and wrapping at the end of June with a release slated for spring 2024 via...
Wild Bunch International has revealed the first behind-the-scenes images from the Bulgarian set of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s The Price of Money – A Largo Winch Adventure, the latest installment of the French action thriller franchise based on a popular Belgian comic.
The film, described as “Taken meets Jason Bourne,” stars Tomer Sisley as the titular billionaire playboy alongside James Franco in the role of the villain.
Filming is now underway in Bulgaria before heading to Thailand and Belgium and wrapping at the end of June with a release slated for spring 2024 via...
- 2/17/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Jessica Chastain just sent BookTok into a frenzy.
The Oscar winner finally responded to the long-running fan casting of Netflix’s upcoming “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” adaptation.
During an appearance on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” Cohen brought up the project. “Jessica, are you aware — we got this a lot — of how many people want you to play Celia St. James in the film adaptation of the novel ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’?” Cohen asked Chastain.
The “George and Tammy” actress replied, “I do know there is an online thing about it. Sure, send me a script.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel follows the titular Golden Age movie star as she confides in a modern-day journalist about her controversial past. Celia St. James is a fellow actress and close friend of Evelyn’s.
Social media account DeuxMoi struck down a former fan theory that Anya Taylor-Joy was rumored to be attached.
The Oscar winner finally responded to the long-running fan casting of Netflix’s upcoming “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” adaptation.
During an appearance on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” Cohen brought up the project. “Jessica, are you aware — we got this a lot — of how many people want you to play Celia St. James in the film adaptation of the novel ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’?” Cohen asked Chastain.
The “George and Tammy” actress replied, “I do know there is an online thing about it. Sure, send me a script.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel follows the titular Golden Age movie star as she confides in a modern-day journalist about her controversial past. Celia St. James is a fellow actress and close friend of Evelyn’s.
Social media account DeuxMoi struck down a former fan theory that Anya Taylor-Joy was rumored to be attached.
- 1/7/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Earlier this year, we shared the news that Academy Award winners Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables) and Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) – who also happen to be close friends in their personal lives – would be starring in the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct, a remake of the 2018 Belgian film Duelles, which was loosely based on Barbara Abel’s 2012 novel Behind the Hatred (Derrière la haine). At the time, Duelles director Olivier Masset-Depasse was also at the helm of this English-language telling of the story, but he ended up having to drop out due to a family commitment. Mothers’ Instinct did make it into production with cinematographer Benoit Delhomme (The Theory of Everything) directing, making his feature directorial debut. The film recently wrapped, and during an interview with Vogue Hong Kong Hathaway revealed that she found it very difficult to play her role in this movie.
Scripted by Sarah Conradt-Kroehler (50 States...
Scripted by Sarah Conradt-Kroehler (50 States...
- 11/2/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Anne Hathaway had to ignore her first instinct to run away from the psychological terror of filming “Mother’s Instinct.”
The Oscar winner revealed that she had to tackle her “worst fear” alongside Jessica Chastain for upcoming thriller “Mother’s Instinct,” directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse. “Mother’s Instinct” is a remake of Belgium helmer Masset-Depasse’s 2017 film “Duelles,” based on the novel “Derrière la Haine” by novelist Barbara Abel.
The official synopsis reads: Set in the 1960s, “Mothers’ Instinct” centers on best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live in a suburban paradise. Both are mothers to two sons of the same age, and their idyllic domestic happiness is shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.
“That was the hardest role I have played,” Hathaway...
The Oscar winner revealed that she had to tackle her “worst fear” alongside Jessica Chastain for upcoming thriller “Mother’s Instinct,” directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse. “Mother’s Instinct” is a remake of Belgium helmer Masset-Depasse’s 2017 film “Duelles,” based on the novel “Derrière la Haine” by novelist Barbara Abel.
The official synopsis reads: Set in the 1960s, “Mothers’ Instinct” centers on best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live in a suburban paradise. Both are mothers to two sons of the same age, and their idyllic domestic happiness is shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.
“That was the hardest role I have played,” Hathaway...
- 10/31/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Donzelli’s sixth feature stars Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud, and is co-written with ‘Happening’ director Audrey Diwan.
Paris-based sales outfit Wild Bunch International has boarded Valerie Donzelli’s domestic abuse drama Just The Two Of Us (L’Amour Et Les Forêts) and will launch sales at the upcoming AFM market along with a star-powered slate which includes new titles The Price Of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure and Mexican military drama Heroic.
Just The Two Of Us stars Virginie Efira as a woman caught up in a toxic relationship with a possessive man played by Melvil Poupaud. Co-written with Happening director Audrey Diwan,...
Paris-based sales outfit Wild Bunch International has boarded Valerie Donzelli’s domestic abuse drama Just The Two Of Us (L’Amour Et Les Forêts) and will launch sales at the upcoming AFM market along with a star-powered slate which includes new titles The Price Of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure and Mexican military drama Heroic.
Just The Two Of Us stars Virginie Efira as a woman caught up in a toxic relationship with a possessive man played by Melvil Poupaud. Co-written with Happening director Audrey Diwan,...
- 10/27/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Donzelli’s sixth feature stars Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud, and is co-written with ‘Happening’ director Audrey Diwan.
Paris-based sales outfit Wild Bunch International has boarded Valerie Donzelli’s domestic abuse drama Just The Two Of Us (L’Amour Et Les Forêts) and will launch sales at the upcoming AFM market along with a star-powered slate which includes new titles The Price Of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure and Mexican military drama Heroic.
Just The Two Of Us stars Virginie Efira as a woman caught up in a toxic relationship with a possessive man played by Melvil Poupaud. Co-written with Happening director Audrey Diwan,...
Paris-based sales outfit Wild Bunch International has boarded Valerie Donzelli’s domestic abuse drama Just The Two Of Us (L’Amour Et Les Forêts) and will launch sales at the upcoming AFM market along with a star-powered slate which includes new titles The Price Of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure and Mexican military drama Heroic.
Just The Two Of Us stars Virginie Efira as a woman caught up in a toxic relationship with a possessive man played by Melvil Poupaud. Co-written with Happening director Audrey Diwan,...
- 10/27/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Cutting Edge Media Music has inked a deal with Anton, which will have it invest in the company’s films All Fun and Games and Mother’s Instinct, in exchange for the corresponding rights to the films’ original scores. The deal comes following two successful collaborations with Anton Production on the Searchlight horror-thriller The Night House and the disaster pic Greenland starring Gerard Butler.
All Fun and Games hinges on the premise that there’s a strange element of cruelty embedded in kids’ games—Flashlight Tag, Hangman, Simon Says—and sometimes it’s taken too far. The horror-thriller marking the first joint production for Anton and Agbo follows a group of siblings who find themselves in a game with a demonic twist. Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things), Keith David (Greenleaf), Annabeth Gish (The Fall of the House of Usher) and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Pinocchio) star in the pic,...
All Fun and Games hinges on the premise that there’s a strange element of cruelty embedded in kids’ games—Flashlight Tag, Hangman, Simon Says—and sometimes it’s taken too far. The horror-thriller marking the first joint production for Anton and Agbo follows a group of siblings who find themselves in a game with a demonic twist. Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things), Keith David (Greenleaf), Annabeth Gish (The Fall of the House of Usher) and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Pinocchio) star in the pic,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Caroline Lagerfelt (“Sweet Magnolias”) has boarded Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway feature “Mothers’ Instinct,” Variety can exclusively reveal.
Lagerfelt will play Chastain’s mother-in-law in the psychological thriller, which tells the story of two women living next door to each other in an idyllic neighborhood in the 1960s. When a tragic accident occurs, it threatens to tear their friendship and families apart.
Based on Barbara Abel’s novel “Derrière la Haine,” the film is directed by Benoit Delhomme (“The Theory of Everything”) who also worked on a Belgian film adaptation of the book, “Duelles.”
Olivier Masset-Depasse directed the Belgian version.
Neon have picked up U.S. rights to the film, which has also sold wide internationally. Anton are repping international sales.
Lagerfelt has most recently appeared in “Sweet Magnolias” and “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” She also memorably starred as Serena’s grandmother in the original “Gossip Girl” series opposite Blake Lively.
Lagerfelt will play Chastain’s mother-in-law in the psychological thriller, which tells the story of two women living next door to each other in an idyllic neighborhood in the 1960s. When a tragic accident occurs, it threatens to tear their friendship and families apart.
Based on Barbara Abel’s novel “Derrière la Haine,” the film is directed by Benoit Delhomme (“The Theory of Everything”) who also worked on a Belgian film adaptation of the book, “Duelles.”
Olivier Masset-Depasse directed the Belgian version.
Neon have picked up U.S. rights to the film, which has also sold wide internationally. Anton are repping international sales.
Lagerfelt has most recently appeared in “Sweet Magnolias” and “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” She also memorably starred as Serena’s grandmother in the original “Gossip Girl” series opposite Blake Lively.
- 6/15/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Josh Charles (“The Good Wife”) and Anders Danielsen Lie (“Bergman Island”) are set to join Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway in “Mothers’ Instinct.”
The film, which is based on Barbara Abel’s novel “Derrière la Haine,” tells the story of Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), two best friends and mothers living an outwardly idyllic life a stone’s throw from each other in 1960s America. But the manicured lawns and successful husbands fade into the background when a tragic accident unravels their bond and gives way to guilt, suspicion and paranoia.
Olivier Masset-Depasse made a French adaptation, “Duelles,” in 2018.
Benoit Delhomme (“The Theory of Everything”) is directing the English-language version while Sarah Conradt (“50 States of Fright”) is adapting the English-language script.
Shooting is underway in New York.
European production outfit Anton are repping sales for the project internationally. They also sold the film alongside CAA Media Finance domestically, with Neon acquiring U.
The film, which is based on Barbara Abel’s novel “Derrière la Haine,” tells the story of Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), two best friends and mothers living an outwardly idyllic life a stone’s throw from each other in 1960s America. But the manicured lawns and successful husbands fade into the background when a tragic accident unravels their bond and gives way to guilt, suspicion and paranoia.
Olivier Masset-Depasse made a French adaptation, “Duelles,” in 2018.
Benoit Delhomme (“The Theory of Everything”) is directing the English-language version while Sarah Conradt (“50 States of Fright”) is adapting the English-language script.
Shooting is underway in New York.
European production outfit Anton are repping sales for the project internationally. They also sold the film alongside CAA Media Finance domestically, with Neon acquiring U.
- 6/14/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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Josh Charles (We Own This City, The Good Wife) and Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie, who plays Renate Reinsve’s love interest Aksel in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, have signed on to co-star alongside Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway in the upcoming psycho-thriller Mothers’ Instinct.
Chastain and Hathaway play Alice and Celine, best friends and neighbors who live superficially perfect lives as suburban housewives in 1960s America. But a tragic accident shatters that facade and guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to disolve their sisterly bond, turning the two mothers against one another in a psychological battle of wills.
Mothers’ Instinct is based on the Barbara Abel’s novel Derrière la Haine, which was adapted by Olivier Masset-Depasse as the 2018 Belgian thriller Duelles. Sarah Conradt (50 States of Fright) adapted the English-language script.
Cinematographer Benoit Delhomme (The Theory of Everything,...
Josh Charles (We Own This City, The Good Wife) and Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie, who plays Renate Reinsve’s love interest Aksel in Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, have signed on to co-star alongside Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway in the upcoming psycho-thriller Mothers’ Instinct.
Chastain and Hathaway play Alice and Celine, best friends and neighbors who live superficially perfect lives as suburban housewives in 1960s America. But a tragic accident shatters that facade and guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to disolve their sisterly bond, turning the two mothers against one another in a psychological battle of wills.
Mothers’ Instinct is based on the Barbara Abel’s novel Derrière la Haine, which was adapted by Olivier Masset-Depasse as the 2018 Belgian thriller Duelles. Sarah Conradt (50 States of Fright) adapted the English-language script.
Cinematographer Benoit Delhomme (The Theory of Everything,...
- 6/14/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Good Wife alum Josh Charles and The Worst Person In The World’s Anders Danielsen Lie have joined Mothers’ Instinct, the psychological thriller that stars Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. The film started principal photography this month in the States, and was recently acquired by Neon for the U.S.
The story is set in the early 1960s, where best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway) both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. But this perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Based on the novel Derrière La Haine, by Barbara Abel, the movie is a remake of the 2018 Belgian film Duelles from director Olivier Masset-Depasse. Renowned cinematographer Benoit Delhomme...
The story is set in the early 1960s, where best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway) both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. But this perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Based on the novel Derrière La Haine, by Barbara Abel, the movie is a remake of the 2018 Belgian film Duelles from director Olivier Masset-Depasse. Renowned cinematographer Benoit Delhomme...
- 6/14/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
‘We Own This City’ actor Josh Charles and ‘The Worst Person In The World’ star Anders Danielsen Lie round out the cast.
Anglo-French production and financing outfit Anton has sold the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct, starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, in a slew of territories, attached a new director and added key cast members.
Studiocanal has bought UK-Ireland rights and Amazon has acquired rights for Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
French cinematographer Benoit Delhomme is taking the reins for his directorial debut after Belgian director Olivier Masset-Depasse had to drop out owing to a family commitment. The film is...
Anglo-French production and financing outfit Anton has sold the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct, starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, in a slew of territories, attached a new director and added key cast members.
Studiocanal has bought UK-Ireland rights and Amazon has acquired rights for Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
French cinematographer Benoit Delhomme is taking the reins for his directorial debut after Belgian director Olivier Masset-Depasse had to drop out owing to a family commitment. The film is...
- 6/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Neon, the company behind Oscar-winner Parasite and upcoming Crimes of the Future, just landed U.S. rights to Mothers’ Instinct. The psychological thriller will star Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. Per Deadline, Mothers’ Instinct is based on the novel Derrière la Haine by Barbara Abel and an English-language remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium movie Duelles from director Olivier Masset-Depasse. Masset-Depasse is also set to helm […]
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- 5/11/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Neon, the Oscar-winning studio behind “Parasite,” has acquired U.S. rights to “Mothers’ Instinct,” a psychological thriller starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. It’s a pretty acclaimed group. Both actresses have Oscars of their own — Hathaway won her’s for “Les Miserables” and Chastain is a newly minted victor for her performance in last year’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
“Mothers,” which is fully financed by Anton, is a remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium film “Duelles” by director Olivier Masset-Depasse. It will begin principal photography on May 25. The project has been in the works for some time. Sales were originally launched at AFM in 2020.
Masset-Depasse will direct the English-language remake of his film. Hathaway and Chastain will serve as producers on the film. Chastain’s partner Kelly Carmichael will also produce under the pair’s Freckle Films banner.
Here’s the official logline: “Set in the early ‘60s,...
“Mothers,” which is fully financed by Anton, is a remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium film “Duelles” by director Olivier Masset-Depasse. It will begin principal photography on May 25. The project has been in the works for some time. Sales were originally launched at AFM in 2020.
Masset-Depasse will direct the English-language remake of his film. Hathaway and Chastain will serve as producers on the film. Chastain’s partner Kelly Carmichael will also produce under the pair’s Freckle Films banner.
Here’s the official logline: “Set in the early ‘60s,...
- 5/11/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Upcoming psychological thriller “Mothers’ Instinct” has officially been acquired by Neon for U.S. release.
Belgium director Olivier Masset-Depasse remakes his 2018 film “Duelles” for an American audience, now starring Academy Award winners Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. Both Oscar winners serve as producers, along with Chastain’s producing partner Kelly Carmichael under their Freckle Films banner. The film is fully financed by Anton and principal photography is set to begin May 25.
Set in the 1960s, “Mothers’ Instinct” centers on best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live in a suburban paradise. Both are mothers to two sons of the same age, and their idyllic domestic happiness is shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.
Director Masset-Depasse won a record-breaking nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian...
Belgium director Olivier Masset-Depasse remakes his 2018 film “Duelles” for an American audience, now starring Academy Award winners Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. Both Oscar winners serve as producers, along with Chastain’s producing partner Kelly Carmichael under their Freckle Films banner. The film is fully financed by Anton and principal photography is set to begin May 25.
Set in the 1960s, “Mothers’ Instinct” centers on best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live in a suburban paradise. Both are mothers to two sons of the same age, and their idyllic domestic happiness is shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion, and paranoia bleed into their friendship as a psychological battle of wills gives way to a darker side of the maternal instinct.
Director Masset-Depasse won a record-breaking nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian...
- 5/11/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Neon, the Best Picture Oscar-winning studio behind Parasite, has acquired U.S. rights to the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct starring Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.
Set in the early ‘60s, it follows best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond, and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Mothers’ Instinct is based on the novel Derrière la Haine by Barbara Abel. Writer Sarah Conradt (50 States of Fright) adapted the English-language script.
The Neon-distributed feature is a remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium movie Duelles from director Olivier Masset-Depasse. The filmmaker also will direct this English-language production, which begins shooting on...
Set in the early ‘60s, it follows best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond, and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Mothers’ Instinct is based on the novel Derrière la Haine by Barbara Abel. Writer Sarah Conradt (50 States of Fright) adapted the English-language script.
The Neon-distributed feature is a remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium movie Duelles from director Olivier Masset-Depasse. The filmmaker also will direct this English-language production, which begins shooting on...
- 5/11/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Neon has secured U.S. rights to the English-language remake of “Mothers’ Instinct,” which will star Oscar-winning actresses Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain.
The film, which is fully financed by Anton, is a remake of the 2018 Belgian film “Duelles” from director Olivier Masset-Depasse, who returns to direct this English-language take on the same story. Writer Sarah Conradt (“50 States of Fright”) adapted the English language script.
Based on the novel “Derrière la Haine” by Barbara Abel, the psychological thriller is set in the early ‘60s and follows best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway) who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
The film, which is fully financed by Anton, is a remake of the 2018 Belgian film “Duelles” from director Olivier Masset-Depasse, who returns to direct this English-language take on the same story. Writer Sarah Conradt (“50 States of Fright”) adapted the English language script.
Based on the novel “Derrière la Haine” by Barbara Abel, the psychological thriller is set in the early ‘60s and follows best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway) who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
- 5/11/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
The feature is a remake of the critical acclaim Belgian film ‘Duelles’
Neon has acquired US rights to pscyhological thriller Mother’s Instict starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.
The film will be a remake of the Belgium feature Duelles by Olivier Masset-Depasse which won a record-breaking nine Magritte awards from the Belgian Academy in 2020 including best film and best director.
Masset-Depasse will also direct this English-language remake. Principal photography begins May 25 in the US.
Set in the early 1960s, Chastain and Hathaway play best friends and neighbours who live a traditional idyllic lifestyle, both with successful husbands and sons of the same age.
Neon has acquired US rights to pscyhological thriller Mother’s Instict starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.
The film will be a remake of the Belgium feature Duelles by Olivier Masset-Depasse which won a record-breaking nine Magritte awards from the Belgian Academy in 2020 including best film and best director.
Masset-Depasse will also direct this English-language remake. Principal photography begins May 25 in the US.
Set in the early 1960s, Chastain and Hathaway play best friends and neighbours who live a traditional idyllic lifestyle, both with successful husbands and sons of the same age.
- 5/11/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway are set to team up on the English-language remake of the psychological thriller ‘Mother’s Instinct’.
Based on the novel ‘Derrière la Haine’ by novelist Barbara Abel, Chastain and Hathaway will play best friends and neighbours who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Set in the 1960s, their idyllic lifestyle is suddenly shattered by a tragic accident as guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.
Olivier Masset-Depasse is set to direct the English-language remake based on his 2018 film, ‘Duelles’. The film won nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including best film and best director.
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“It takes actors of Jessica and Anne’s calibre to communicate the intricacy of these two roles,” Masset-Depasse said. “The...
Based on the novel ‘Derrière la Haine’ by novelist Barbara Abel, Chastain and Hathaway will play best friends and neighbours who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Set in the 1960s, their idyllic lifestyle is suddenly shattered by a tragic accident as guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.
Olivier Masset-Depasse is set to direct the English-language remake based on his 2018 film, ‘Duelles’. The film won nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including best film and best director.
Also in news – Matt Damon and Steven Soderbergh to reunite once more for ‘No Sudden Move’
“It takes actors of Jessica and Anne’s calibre to communicate the intricacy of these two roles,” Masset-Depasse said. “The...
- 10/30/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway are going to play rival housewives in the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct, the English-language remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse‘s 2018 Belgian film Duelles. Masset-Depasse will be directing this English-language remake, which Chastain will also be producing. Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway have starred in films together before — namely Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar — but […]
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- 10/29/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
Olivier Masset-Depasse to direct English-language remake of his 2018 film Duelles.
Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway will star in the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct, which Anton will introduce to worldwide buyers at AFM next month.
Belgian writer-director Olivier Masset-Depasse (Illegal) is set to direct the English language remake from his 2018 film Duelles, which won nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including best film and best director.
Sarah Conradt (50 States Of Fright) is adapting the screenplay based on the novel Derrière La Haine by Barbara Abel.
Mothers’ Instinct takes place in the early 1960s as the seemingly idyllic life of two best friends,...
Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway will star in the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct, which Anton will introduce to worldwide buyers at AFM next month.
Belgian writer-director Olivier Masset-Depasse (Illegal) is set to direct the English language remake from his 2018 film Duelles, which won nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including best film and best director.
Sarah Conradt (50 States Of Fright) is adapting the screenplay based on the novel Derrière La Haine by Barbara Abel.
Mothers’ Instinct takes place in the early 1960s as the seemingly idyllic life of two best friends,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway will star in the psychological thriller “Mothers’ Instinct” with sales set to launch at the American Film Market next month.
Chastain and Hathaway will play best friends and neighbors who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. The story, set in the 1960s, will see the perfect harmony suddenly shattered by a tragic accident as guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond
Olivier Masset-Depasse is set to direct the English-language remake based on his 2018 film, “Duelles,” which won nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including best film and best director. The film is based on the novel “Derrière la Haine” by novelist Barbara Abel. Sarah Conradt (“50 States of Fright”) is adapting the script.
“It takes actors of Jessica and Anne’s caliber to communicate the intricacy of these two role,...
Chastain and Hathaway will play best friends and neighbors who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. The story, set in the 1960s, will see the perfect harmony suddenly shattered by a tragic accident as guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond
Olivier Masset-Depasse is set to direct the English-language remake based on his 2018 film, “Duelles,” which won nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including best film and best director. The film is based on the novel “Derrière la Haine” by novelist Barbara Abel. Sarah Conradt (“50 States of Fright”) is adapting the script.
“It takes actors of Jessica and Anne’s caliber to communicate the intricacy of these two role,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Folks could argue that there are no finer actresses in the world than Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. And thanks to the upcoming film, “Mothers’ Instinct,” we are going to get the chance to watch these two act opposite each other as friends-turned-enemies.
According to Deadline, Chastain and Hathaway have signed on to co-star in the upcoming film, “Mothers’ Instinct,” which will be directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse.
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According to Deadline, Chastain and Hathaway have signed on to co-star in the upcoming film, “Mothers’ Instinct,” which will be directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse.
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- 10/29/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Euro financier Anton is launching sales on buzzy AFM package Mothers’ Instinct, which will star Oscar-nominee Jessica Chastain and Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway as 1960’s housewives whose relationship takes a dark turn.
The psychological thriller will follow best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway) who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Writer-director Olivier Masset-Depasse will helm the feature, which is an English-language remake of his 2018 Belgian movie Duelles, which won a record nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including Best Film and Best Director.
The film is based on the novel Derrière La Haine by novelist Barbara Abel. Writer Sarah...
The psychological thriller will follow best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway) who both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Writer-director Olivier Masset-Depasse will helm the feature, which is an English-language remake of his 2018 Belgian movie Duelles, which won a record nine Magritte Awards from the Belgian Academy including Best Film and Best Director.
The film is based on the novel Derrière La Haine by novelist Barbara Abel. Writer Sarah...
- 10/29/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Annual award ceremony held in Brussels every February fetes Francophone Belgian cinema.
Belgium’s annual Les Magritte du Cinéma awards have cancelled their 11th edition, which was due to take place in February 2021, due to the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Taking their name from Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, the awards were created in 2011 to fete French-language Belgian cinema. They are run by the André Delvaux Academy, which in turn was co-founded by Belgium’s Union of Producers of Francophone Films (Upff) and the directors association Pro Sphere.
A raft of national film awards traditionally takes place across...
Belgium’s annual Les Magritte du Cinéma awards have cancelled their 11th edition, which was due to take place in February 2021, due to the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Taking their name from Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, the awards were created in 2011 to fete French-language Belgian cinema. They are run by the André Delvaux Academy, which in turn was co-founded by Belgium’s Union of Producers of Francophone Films (Upff) and the directors association Pro Sphere.
A raft of national film awards traditionally takes place across...
- 10/7/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The director begins filming his second feature, the bloody journey of a Brussels subway driver, starring Antonio de la Torre and Marine Vacth. Last week began the shoot of the new film from Giordano Gederlini, screenwriter on Ladj Ly’s recent film Les Misérables, winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes and of the César award for Best Film, but also on Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Mothers’ Instinct, Best Film and Best Screenplay winner at the latest Magritte Awards, and on Above the Law by François Troukens and Jean-François Hensgens. Giordano Gederlini presents Entre la vie et la mort as a urban and contemporary thriller, with Brussels one of its characters, powerful and organic. The film follows the journey of Leo Castaneda. Leo is a Spanish man living in Brussels, where he drives the subway trains of line 6. One evening, he locks eyes with a young man standing on the platform.
Versus Production confirms that the Belgian director will author the American remake of his film, whose credits will include actresses Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. Olivier Masset-Depasse’s most recent film Mothers’ Instinct is to be the subject of an American remake, also intitled Mothers’ Instinct, which is set to be directed by the Belgian filmmaker himself. Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain will be the movie’s two heroines, with the latter co-producing the film via her production company Freckle Films. Selected for the Toronto International Film Festival in the autumn of 2018, the film made a strong impression on Jessica Chastain’s agent, who immediately recommended it to the actress. Indeed, aside from the film’s aesthetic prowess, it also portrays two strong and memorable heroines, housewives caught in the chains of domesticity who slowly drift towards madness in a residential 1960s suburb. The actress was quick to voice her interest,...
Olivier Masset-Depasse’s third feature has won all the 9 awards it was nominated for. The 10th edition of the Belgian Magritte Film Awards, which took place last Saturday night, saw the triumph of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Mothers' Instinct, which went home with the 9 awards it was nominated for. A real success for the film, which first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and which is soon to be remade in America by the director, with Jessica Chastain producing. The film won, amongst other prizes, the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress for Veerle Baetens, and Best Photography for Hichame Alaouie. This evening was also a resounding success for Versus Production, which thus won its 4th Best Film award in 10 editions of the Belgian Magritte Film Awards. The company also won in the Best Flemish Film category for Tim Mielants’ Patrick, co-produced with Savage Film. This deluge...
Delphine Girard’s 16-minute Belgian thriller “A Sister” gave this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival (Mfff) shorts competition a shot in the arm earlier this week, when the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film.
Shot from the backseat of an unnerving rural car ride and across the desks of an emergency call center, “A Sister” unravels for its viewers as it does for the protagonist, a late-night operator who gets what initially seems a mistaken call. On the other end is a shaky-voiced woman having half a conversation that doesn’t make much sense until small clues in her dialogue make it clear she’s in an unsafe situation, but unable to talk about it.
Despite the film’s positive critical reception and high scores across online aggregating sites, its modest festival run and lack of major competition appearances at events like Clermont-Ferrand or Cannes – common...
Shot from the backseat of an unnerving rural car ride and across the desks of an emergency call center, “A Sister” unravels for its viewers as it does for the protagonist, a late-night operator who gets what initially seems a mistaken call. On the other end is a shaky-voiced woman having half a conversation that doesn’t make much sense until small clues in her dialogue make it clear she’s in an unsafe situation, but unable to talk about it.
Despite the film’s positive critical reception and high scores across online aggregating sites, its modest festival run and lack of major competition appearances at events like Clermont-Ferrand or Cannes – common...
- 1/16/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A borderline impossible game of Taboo could be played if one were tasked with describing Olivier Masset-Depasse’s “Mothers’ Instinct” without using the word “Hitchcockian.” The Belgian director’s luxuriant psychological thriller is so redolent of the Master of Suspense’s style, and so gorgeously robed in Thierry Delettre’s ’60s costuming that at times one expects star Veerle Baetens (“The Broken Circle Breakdown”) to turn around and just be Tippi Hedren all of a sudden. But as much as this deliciously enjoyable, spiral-shaped descent into darkness wears that influence on its immaculately cut, three-quarter-length sleeve, it also represents a subversion of even Hitch’s most femme-centric titles. Here, the devotion, jealousy, coercion, and, indeed, “Suspicion” that underpin his conception of male-female relations are ascribed to a female friendship instead.
Basing the screenplay on the novel “Derrière la haine” by Barbara Abel, Masset-Depasse and co-writers Giordano Gederlini and François Verjans...
Basing the screenplay on the novel “Derrière la haine” by Barbara Abel, Masset-Depasse and co-writers Giordano Gederlini and François Verjans...
- 9/26/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Duelles is a product of the times. Though a homage to the thrillers of Hitchcock and the aesthetics of Sirk, Duelles’ conceit is one that banks on obsessions of current pop culture: nostalgia and the resurgence of female-led domestic thrillers. Its protagonist, Alice (Veerle Baetens), is basically a Belgian Betty Draper — with a house & style evocative of quintessential 50’s urban chic. Beyond the genteel veneer though, she is one that falls in line with the rest of Hitchcock’s Blondes — mysterious, contradictory, and beset by a disabling condition. Duelles opens to a fake-out, a pastiche to the tension-filled voyeuristic sequences of retro-thrillers. We see Alice peering through a window, eyes carefully stalking a brunette in...
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- 9/24/2018
- Screen Anarchy
A dozen years after he premiered his directorial debut in Cages (2006) at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, Olivier Masset-Depasse reteamed with his muse Anne Coesens for his third feature. Mothers’ Instinct (French title of Duelles is more fitting for the competitive nature of the film between the two matriarchs) comes after his early film career defining moment Illegal (Cannes Film Fest title that would become the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar). This latest film is a definite genre item embracing all the elements you’d fine in a Hitch thriller, but in amped up bourgeoisie milieu and actress Veerle Baetens (from The Broken Circle Breakdown fame) is hyperventilate bliss in the lead.…...
- 9/21/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Part Hitchcock, part Douglas Sirk and part Catfight, the retro Belgian psychodrama Mothers’ Instinct (Duelles) follows two very desperate housewives duking it out to the death amid a backdrop of 1960s designer living rooms, petit-four dinner parties and impeccable bourgeois etiquette. It’s a fairly outlandish, campy premise that’s rather skillfully handled by director Olivier Masset-Depasse (Illegal) and stars Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown) and Anne Coesens (Eva), who play two of the most hostile neighbors to hit the screen since Michael Keaton moved into Pacific Heights or Jack Nicholson landed next door to Helen Hunt in As Good as ...
- 9/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Part Hitchcock, part Douglas Sirk and part Catfight, the retro Belgian psychodrama Mothers’ Instinct (Duelles) follows two very desperate housewives duking it out to the death amid a backdrop of 1960s designer living rooms, petit-four dinner parties and impeccable bourgeois etiquette. It’s a fairly outlandish, campy premise that’s rather skillfully handled by director Olivier Masset-Depasse (Illegal) and stars Veerle Baetens (The Broken Circle Breakdown) and Anne Coesens (Eva), who play two of the most hostile neighbors to hit the screen since Michael Keaton moved into Pacific Heights or Jack Nicholson landed next door to Helen Hunt in As Good as ...
- 9/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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