Jean-Luc Godard is one of the founders of the French New Wave – and, at 87, he's still kicking at the limits lesser intellects erect around cinema. (His new film, a video essay called Le Livre d'Image, will compete at Cannes in May). Now Michel Hazanavicius, director of 2011's Oscar-winning salute to the silent film era The Artist, has rustled up the nerve to put the Godard story onscreen. Well, not the whole story – just the period from 1967 to 1968, when the moviemaker met and married actress Anne Wiazemsky, then 19, and became radicalized...
- 4/18/2018
- Rollingstone.com
French director Claude Miller's final ever film, Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012) is anchored by a performance of great subtlety and depth by Audrey Tautou (Amelie) as the titular character, whilst she's also ably matched by Gilles Lellouche as her husband. To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Thérèse Desqueyroux this coming Monday (9 September), we've been given Three DVD copies of Miller's period drama to give away to our well-read supporters, courtesy of the team at world cinema specialists Artificial Eye. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
In the French region of Landes, not far from the city of Bordeaux, marriages are arranged to merge land and unite neighbouring families. Thus, young Thérèse Larroque (Tautou) becomes Mrs. Desqueyroux. However, her avant‐garde ideas quickly clash with local conventions.
In the French region of Landes, not far from the city of Bordeaux, marriages are arranged to merge land and unite neighbouring families. Thus, young Thérèse Larroque (Tautou) becomes Mrs. Desqueyroux. However, her avant‐garde ideas quickly clash with local conventions.
- 9/6/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Regardless if it contains the red-hot Martha Marcy May Marlene alumn Elizabeth Olsen and the months away from a potential Best Actor nom lock in Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), you can’t blame Mickey Liddell’s Ld Entertainment for staying put on Therese. On top of having to deal with a just released, competing title of Thérèse (a.k.a Thérèse Desqueyroux) – the Cannes film based on the François Mauriac character, the title that sat on the shelf for the better part of last year and the 2013 campaign. Having thrown himself into the distribution game with some tricky, tough to bank titles Biutiful, I Love You Phillip Morris and the 4 star instant cult Killer Joe, this deal was probably cooked up somewhere in June, way before it was announced as a Tiff title. Roadside Attractions will pick up the load with in collaboration with Ld Entertainment prez David Dinerstein.
- 8/28/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
While most in America still know Audrey Tautou as "Amélie," in France, the actress has carved out a robust career by playing wildly varied characters in films that couldn't be further removed from Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Parisian fantasy, in hits like "Priceless" and "Coco Before Chanel." In her most recent role in the late Claude Miller's final film "Thérèse," based on the classic 1927 novel by François Mauriac, Tautou proves her formidable range by embodying the titular heroine, a woman stuck in a loveless marriage and dull provincial life after wedding for convenience. With the female oppression of the period and her arrogant husband weighing her down, Thérèse makes a reckless decision that could potentially threaten her social standing for life. Indiewire sat down with Tautou in New York to discuss her turn in the drama which opens today, working with the late director, and her career post "Amélie." Watching this,...
- 8/23/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
Most people who know the work of French actress Audrey Tautou first fell in love with her when she starred in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie back in 2001. After that movie, Tautou seemed to be in dozens of French imports, but in recent years she's been more selective, playing more mature roles like Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel and starring in fims such as Delicacy and Beautiful Lies that haven't gotten nearly as much attention in the States. Her most recent film and probably most complex role is in Thérèse , based on the 1927 novel "Therese Desqueyroux" by François Mauriac and the final film by Claude Miller, who had been directing French films since the early .70s but who tragically passed away before the film's Cannes Film Festival premiere in 2012. Her...
- 8/23/2013
- Comingsoon.net
The final feature from the recently passed French director Claude Miller (A Secret, Alias Betty) is a blandly handsome adaptation of François Mauriac's bitter 1927 novel Thérèse Desqueyroux—previously filmed 50 years ago, with Amour's Emmanuelle Riva in the title role. Here, it's Audrey Tautou, sullenly shaking off her pixie-cute Amélie whimsy and climbing into the bell jar as a dispassionate Jazz Age aristocrat suffocated by her fiscally beneficial marriage to narrow-minded, provincial landowner Bernard (Gilles Lellouche), brother of her best friend, Anne (Anaïs Demoustier). Unenergetically paced and too tasteful by half, the film tries to get into the troubled yet enlightened headspace of pouty, chain-smoking T...
- 8/21/2013
- Village Voice
The trailer is in for the Audrey Tautou drama "Thérèse" (not to be confused with the Elizabeth Olsen-fronted period piece of the same name). The film is the late director Claude Miller's last. The French drama is based on the 1927 novel by François Mauriac about a woman cut from the same cloth as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, stifled by her loveless marriage and dull provincial life. Thérèse married for convenience, hoping she could feign contentment, but the weight of female repression and social customs coupled with the arrogance of her husband eventually drives her to grab a chance at love where she can find it, even if it means taking reckless action. You can check out Indiewire's exclusive look at the poster here. Watch the trailer below.
- 7/2/2013
- by Madeline Raynor
- Indiewire
Watch the trailer for Therese, also known as Thérèse Desqueyroux, starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier. Claude Miller directs as well as adapting the screenplay alongside Natalie Carter, based on the novel by François Mauriac. Mpi Media distributes the French drama which opens in select theaters from August 23rd, 2013. François Mauriac's legendary 1927 novel of French provincial life has been gloriously brought to the screen by the inestimable Claude Miller in his final film. Sumptuously photographed to capture the full beauty of the pine-forested Landes area...
- 7/1/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
What happened to our sweet Amelie? Audrey Tautou, who can usually be relied upon to look adorkable, proceeding to melt you into a puddle with little more than a coy look and a smile, puts away the pixie charm in "Therese" and gets ready to kill. Really. The first trailer for the French film is here, and it promises stuffy period settings and melodramatic stakes. The final film from Claude Miller ("La classe de neige," "Little Lili") is based on the novel by François Mauriac, which tells the tale of a young, intelligent woman in 1920s France who falls into a loveless, abusive marriage of convenience and seeks a way out by poisoning her husband. And that's where the intrigue lies, though when we saw it at Cannes last year, we weren't too thrilled, calling it a movie that "starts out very strong but ends as meekly as its protagonist’s story does.
- 6/28/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Sneak Peek footage from late director Claude Miller's last film, the French drama "Thérèse", adapting author François Mauriac's 1927 novel of the same name, starring Audrey Tautou and Gilles Lellouche:
"...in France, late 1920, Thérèse (Tautou) marries her charming and free spirited neighbor 'Bernard Desqueyroux' (Lellouche), joining their properties to form a vast estate.
"Thérèse becomes quickly stifled by the tedium of provincial life and the intellectual mediocrity of her husband, dreaming of Paris, longing for stimulation and culture, and despite herself, starts looking for a way to escape. Until the day Bernard almost poisons himself with arsenic..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Thérèse"...
"...in France, late 1920, Thérèse (Tautou) marries her charming and free spirited neighbor 'Bernard Desqueyroux' (Lellouche), joining their properties to form a vast estate.
"Thérèse becomes quickly stifled by the tedium of provincial life and the intellectual mediocrity of her husband, dreaming of Paris, longing for stimulation and culture, and despite herself, starts looking for a way to escape. Until the day Bernard almost poisons himself with arsenic..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Thérèse"...
- 6/28/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The 1920s are still in vogue, thanks to the latest film set in the ’20s, “Thérèse.” The film, starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier and directed by Claude Mille, tells the story about a housewife who wants to a life filled with the love and fun she feels she’s missing. Here’s more about the film: “Audrey Tautou stars as a provincial housewife in 1920s France, whose suffocating marriage to a boorish landowner inspires her to a fatal bid for freedom, in the late director Claude Miller’s exquisite adaptation of the classic novel by François Mauriac. François Mauriac’s legendary 1927 novel of French provincial life has been gloriously brought to [ Read More ]
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- 6/27/2013
- by monique
- ShockYa
Audrey Tautou is an unhappily married woman who struggles to break free from social pressures? Yes, that’s exactly the thing with Therese Desqueryroux (aka Thérèse), Claude Miller‘s upcoming drama which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Head inside to check out the latest posters, images and a brand new clip from the movie which is set to hit limited theaters this August! Doesn’t look bad at all… As we previously reported, Therese is an adaption of the François Mauriac novel of the same name, first published in 1927. Unfortunately, it’s the last work of director Claude Miller, who died in April 2012. ...
- 6/27/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Catch the first poster for the late Claude Miller's THÉRÈSE, starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier. The film opens nin selecct theaters from August 23, 2013! Miller is also responsible for the exquisite adaptation of the classic novel by François Mauriac wheree Tautou stars as a provincial housewife in 1920s France, whose suffocating marriage to a boorish landowner inspires her to a fatal bid for freedom.
- 6/27/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Opening within a month of each other is the Audrey Tautou starring drama "Thérèse" and the Elizabeth Olsen fronted thriller "Therese." The title (minus the accents on the former) isn't the only thing the two projects have in common: Both are period projects, headlined by recognizable stars and based on famous French novels (Tatou's project is based on "Thérèse Desqueryroux" by François Mauriac; Olsen's, on Emile Zola's scandalous novel, "Thérèse Raquin") centered on repressed women stuck in a loveless marriages. When the Tautou film, which marks the final film of the late Claude Miller, premiered back at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival as the closing night film, it went by the book's title, "Thérèse Desqueryroux," so we called up Mpi Pictures head Marie Therese Guirgis (who's releasing the film) to suss out why they chose to go with a potentially conflicting title instead of sticking with the old one. "Well,...
- 6/26/2013
- by Nigel M Smith
- Indiewire
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In this second screen version of François Mauriac's bitter 1927 novel (the first was Franju's in 1962), Audrey Tautou does well as the wealthy, intelligent Bovaryesque provincial wife, who expresses her disgust at the stultified haut-bourgeois life outside Bordeaux and the inner demons she can't understand by an attempt to poison the dull, overbearing husband she has been driven into marrying. A handsome, solidly acted period movie about deliberately dislikable people, it's the swansong of a director who was a longtime assistant to François Truffaut.
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In this second screen version of François Mauriac's bitter 1927 novel (the first was Franju's in 1962), Audrey Tautou does well as the wealthy, intelligent Bovaryesque provincial wife, who expresses her disgust at the stultified haut-bourgeois life outside Bordeaux and the inner demons she can't understand by an attempt to poison the dull, overbearing husband she has been driven into marrying. A handsome, solidly acted period movie about deliberately dislikable people, it's the swansong of a director who was a longtime assistant to François Truffaut.
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- 6/10/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The French actor tells Catherine Shoard why she swerved away from sweetness to play a gritty, troubled heiress in the 1920s
Meeting Room F in the basement of Toronto's Hyatt Regency hotel has no windows. It has coffee and cookies and the groggy chuckle of an extractor fan. It is 11am at the fag-end of last autumn's film festival. In the corner is a whiteboard in search of a mantra, and a big bin.
And then suddenly Audrey Tautou, too: nose to knees in red satin, eyes like Minstrels, skin like milk. She could be a hologram, a creature from another world – specifically, Cannes, where the film she's talking about today first premiered and where, earlier this year, she hosted the festival's opening and closing ceremonies with perfect grace and maximum gamine.
Yet Tautou is not a person to feel out of place. Rather, she is a fish out of...
Meeting Room F in the basement of Toronto's Hyatt Regency hotel has no windows. It has coffee and cookies and the groggy chuckle of an extractor fan. It is 11am at the fag-end of last autumn's film festival. In the corner is a whiteboard in search of a mantra, and a big bin.
And then suddenly Audrey Tautou, too: nose to knees in red satin, eyes like Minstrels, skin like milk. She could be a hologram, a creature from another world – specifically, Cannes, where the film she's talking about today first premiered and where, earlier this year, she hosted the festival's opening and closing ceremonies with perfect grace and maximum gamine.
Yet Tautou is not a person to feel out of place. Rather, she is a fish out of...
- 6/7/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Audrey Tautou gives an opaque performance as the fatally ambiguous heroine in this intriguingly oppressive drama
This is the last film from Claude Miller, who died last year at the age of 70. François Mauriac's mysterious novel of dark provincial passion (previously filmed by Georges Franju in 1962) has here has been turned into a closely observed, intriguingly oppressive and unventilated drama, whose suspense accumulates as the action proceeds with its heavy, deliberate tread. Audrey Tautou plays Thérèse herself in pre-war France: she's a free thinker and free spirit, but nonetheless someone with a lively appreciation of her family's riches and social standing, and how advantageous it would be to marry the dull, wealthy landowner Bernard Desqueyroux (Gilles Lellouche), the brother of her best friend Anne (Anaïs Demoustier). After this is achieved, Anne scandalises one and all by having an affair with handsome young Jean (Stanley Weber), who is subject to...
This is the last film from Claude Miller, who died last year at the age of 70. François Mauriac's mysterious novel of dark provincial passion (previously filmed by Georges Franju in 1962) has here has been turned into a closely observed, intriguingly oppressive and unventilated drama, whose suspense accumulates as the action proceeds with its heavy, deliberate tread. Audrey Tautou plays Thérèse herself in pre-war France: she's a free thinker and free spirit, but nonetheless someone with a lively appreciation of her family's riches and social standing, and how advantageous it would be to marry the dull, wealthy landowner Bernard Desqueyroux (Gilles Lellouche), the brother of her best friend Anne (Anaïs Demoustier). After this is achieved, Anne scandalises one and all by having an affair with handsome young Jean (Stanley Weber), who is subject to...
- 6/7/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Free-spirited newly-wed Therese Desqueyroux (Audrey Tautou) kicks back against the suffocating repression of bourgeoise provincial France with devastating results. Obliged to enter a loveless match, the young Therese quietly rebels against her boorish husband (Gilles Lellouche) in a rejection that will see her turning to crime to free herself from his flaccid grip. The last film from French director Claude Miller, this adaptation of François Mauriac's novel offers a sombre insight into a world of snobbery and anti-semitism.
- 6/6/2013
- Sky Movies
★★★☆☆ Following on from the critical and commercial success of A Royal Affair (2012) and the Oscar-winning Anna Karenina (2012), it seems that the French are once again looking to tap into the allure of the period drama. In cinemas this week is Claude Miller's eponymous adaptation of François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012), far less elaborate and grandiose than the aforementioned films, yet a more subtle and affecting offering. Set in Landes in the 1920s, Audrey Tautou plays Thérèse, a wealthy, free-spirited woman who enters into a fruitless, unhappy marriage with Bernard Desqueyroux (Gilles Lellouche).
Thérèse may live within an affluent society, yet she dreams of something more - growing increasingly tired and frustrated with her tedious suburban setting, and struggling to break away from the social pressures of living within rural France at such a time. Marrying Bernard, Thérèse is adamant that she will soon grow comfortable living such a lifestyle,...
Thérèse may live within an affluent society, yet she dreams of something more - growing increasingly tired and frustrated with her tedious suburban setting, and struggling to break away from the social pressures of living within rural France at such a time. Marrying Bernard, Thérèse is adamant that she will soon grow comfortable living such a lifestyle,...
- 6/5/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Next month Audrey Tautou will host the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, an honour only given to a select few. Is she finally overcoming the curse of her most successful film?
For someone as shy and discreet as Audrey Tautou, the next few weeks will be feel uncomfortably like putting her head above the parapet again, exposed to potshots from her Gallic critics.
On the other hand her British fans, who remember her as the pixie-faced heroine of The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, one of the most successful French films of all time, can look forward to a feast after the famine.
Next month the film Thérèse Desqueyroux, an adaptation of the François Mauriac 1927 classic released in France last November, in which Tautou plays the title role of a repressed wife who poisons her domineering, misogynistic husband, will open in British cinemas.
Around the same time, Tautou...
For someone as shy and discreet as Audrey Tautou, the next few weeks will be feel uncomfortably like putting her head above the parapet again, exposed to potshots from her Gallic critics.
On the other hand her British fans, who remember her as the pixie-faced heroine of The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, one of the most successful French films of all time, can look forward to a feast after the famine.
Next month the film Thérèse Desqueyroux, an adaptation of the François Mauriac 1927 classic released in France last November, in which Tautou plays the title role of a repressed wife who poisons her domineering, misogynistic husband, will open in British cinemas.
Around the same time, Tautou...
- 4/14/2013
- by Kim Willsher
- The Guardian - Film News
Directed by the late French director Claude Miller, Thérèse Desqueyroux closed this year’s Cannes Film Festival to largely very warm reviews, with Audrey Tautou and Gilles Lellouche (Jean Dujardin’s co-star in the upcoming The Players) leading the adaptation of François Mauriac’s original 1927 novel of the same name,
Set for release in France later this year, the first international poster for the film has made its way online, with a heart-breakingly beautiful Tautou front and centre.
“In the Landes region of France, near Bordeaux, marriages are arranged to merge land parcels and unite neighboring families. Thus, young Thérèse Larroque becomes Mrs. Desqueyroux. But her avant-garde ideas clash with local conventions. In order to break free from the fate imposed upon her and live a full life, she will resort to tragically extreme measures…”
Anaïs Demoustier co-stars as Anne de la Trave, Lellouche’s younger sister, with the script coming from Natalie Carter,...
Set for release in France later this year, the first international poster for the film has made its way online, with a heart-breakingly beautiful Tautou front and centre.
“In the Landes region of France, near Bordeaux, marriages are arranged to merge land parcels and unite neighboring families. Thus, young Thérèse Larroque becomes Mrs. Desqueyroux. But her avant-garde ideas clash with local conventions. In order to break free from the fate imposed upon her and live a full life, she will resort to tragically extreme measures…”
Anaïs Demoustier co-stars as Anne de la Trave, Lellouche’s younger sister, with the script coming from Natalie Carter,...
- 7/3/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Starting July 13th and running through September 2nd, prepare yourself to be transported to a summer vacation in France. All you have to do is check in at Tiff Cinematheque (350 King Street West, Toronto).
The 41-film sabbatical will make take you to popular and renowned destinations that include Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou (1965), Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959), and Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion (1937).
We’ll even be making stops at more remote, recherché locations, such as Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore (1973) and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (1969).
Remember to pack lightly, re-schedule accordingly, and prepare for the ultimate staycation. Bon voyage!
Screenings include:
La Grand Illusion (1937)
Friday July 13 at 6:00 Pm
Sunday July 22 at 7:30 Pm
117 minutes
Heralded as “one of the fifty best films in the history of cinema” by Time Out Film Guide, Jean Renoir...
The 41-film sabbatical will make take you to popular and renowned destinations that include Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou (1965), Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959), and Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion (1937).
We’ll even be making stops at more remote, recherché locations, such as Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore (1973) and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (1969).
Remember to pack lightly, re-schedule accordingly, and prepare for the ultimate staycation. Bon voyage!
Screenings include:
La Grand Illusion (1937)
Friday July 13 at 6:00 Pm
Sunday July 22 at 7:30 Pm
117 minutes
Heralded as “one of the fifty best films in the history of cinema” by Time Out Film Guide, Jean Renoir...
- 7/2/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
It wouldn't be Cannes without a few gorgeous French people turning up to promote a classy literary adaptation, and Day 11 of Cannes this year saw the arrival of Thérèse Desqueyroux, the Claude Miller film based on the book by François Mauriac and starring Audrey Tautou and Gilles Lellouche along with Anaïs Demoustier. Cheer for the home team by having a look at the gallery below. See Day 10 photos.
- 5/27/2012
- EmpireOnline
Cosmopolis
So we've known for some time now that Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will be opening the Cannes Film Festival (site) on May 16. Yesterday, the Festival announced that Thérèse Desqueyroux, Claude Miller's final film, will close this year's edition on May 27. Miller's adaptation of François Mauriac's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux features Audrey Tautou in the title role as well as Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
And lineups for the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection were unveiled on Tuesday. Jean-Pierre Dardenne will preside over the Jury.
Today, the Festival's announced the full lineup for the Official Selection of its 65th anniversary edition. This is a roundup-in-progress, obviously.
Competition
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. The synopsis at the official site: "Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact,...
So we've known for some time now that Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will be opening the Cannes Film Festival (site) on May 16. Yesterday, the Festival announced that Thérèse Desqueyroux, Claude Miller's final film, will close this year's edition on May 27. Miller's adaptation of François Mauriac's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux features Audrey Tautou in the title role as well as Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
And lineups for the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection were unveiled on Tuesday. Jean-Pierre Dardenne will preside over the Jury.
Today, the Festival's announced the full lineup for the Official Selection of its 65th anniversary edition. This is a roundup-in-progress, obviously.
Competition
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. The synopsis at the official site: "Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact,...
- 4/19/2012
- MUBI
Claude Miller
Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller will be screened at the closing ceremony of the 65th Festival de Cannes on 27 May.
The film features Audrey Tautou in the title role with Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
Claude Miller’s final film is an adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel “Thérèse Desqueyroux”.
Miller died on April 4, 2012 in Paris at the age of 70 shortly after finishing this film. It is the final piece in his immense body of work, to which the Festival de Cannes will pay tribute.
“What thrills me in the filmmaking process is to focus on the interplay of appearances, gestures, looks, behaviour and to use them to try to intimate the inner lives of people, their secret garden, even though we only see them from the outside,” said Miller.
Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut. He...
Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller will be screened at the closing ceremony of the 65th Festival de Cannes on 27 May.
The film features Audrey Tautou in the title role with Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier.
Claude Miller’s final film is an adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel “Thérèse Desqueyroux”.
Miller died on April 4, 2012 in Paris at the age of 70 shortly after finishing this film. It is the final piece in his immense body of work, to which the Festival de Cannes will pay tribute.
“What thrills me in the filmmaking process is to focus on the interplay of appearances, gestures, looks, behaviour and to use them to try to intimate the inner lives of people, their secret garden, even though we only see them from the outside,” said Miller.
Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut. He...
- 4/19/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The wait is almost over, and tomorrow Thierry Frémaux and co. will pull back the curtain on the lineup of the Cannes Film Festival. This morning we learned that the restored version of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time In America" will get a special screening, and now the organizers have announced what film will be the last to unspool.
Claude Miller's "Thérèse D" starring Audrey Tautou has been given the closing night slot at the festival. The filmmaker is no stranger to Cannes. He won the Jury Prize for "La classe de neige" in 1998 (tied with Thomas Vinterberg's "Festen") and was also up for a Palme d'Or when he returned in 2003 with "Litte Lili." The director had just finished work on "Thérèse D" when he passed on April 4th, so this is a pretty nice posthumous honor to give the filmmaker. As for the film, it's...
Claude Miller's "Thérèse D" starring Audrey Tautou has been given the closing night slot at the festival. The filmmaker is no stranger to Cannes. He won the Jury Prize for "La classe de neige" in 1998 (tied with Thomas Vinterberg's "Festen") and was also up for a Palme d'Or when he returned in 2003 with "Litte Lili." The director had just finished work on "Thérèse D" when he passed on April 4th, so this is a pretty nice posthumous honor to give the filmmaker. As for the film, it's...
- 4/18/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Audrey Tautou, Thérèse Desqueyroux Claude Miller's Thérèse Desqueyroux (formerly known as Thérèse D.), starring Audrey Tautou, will close the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The 70-year-old Miller died in Paris last April 4. Based on the 1927 novel by Nobel Prize winner François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux tells the story of Thérèse Desqueyroux (Tautou), an unhappily married woman who struggles to break free from her drab provincial existence in 1920s France. Gilles Lellouche co-stars. In 1962, Georges Franju directed Thérèse Desqueyroux / Therese, starring Hiroshima, Mon Amour's Emmanuelle Riva as Thérèse and Cinema Paradiso's Philippe Noiret as her husband. Thérèse Desqueyroux is scheduled to open in France and Belgium in November. The information below on director Claude Miller is from the Cannes Film Festival press release: Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut, “the filmmaker of the intimate.” Through the evolution of his work,...
- 4/18/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
French film director and close associate of François Truffaut
The film director Claude Miller, who has died aged 70 after a long illness, was continually dogged by comparisons to his friend and mentor François Truffaut. Hardly a review of his films failed to mention Truffaut in some way or another. This came about for various reasons. Miller was Truffaut's production manager on several occasions and made subtle references to the older director's work in many of his own films, almost always mentioning him in interviews. He had a small role in Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) and adapted La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief, 1988) from a 30-page screenplay that Truffaut had written a few years before his death.
When Truffaut was once asked whether he had started a school of directors, he denied it. "These people are more influenced by other directors than myself. If Claude Miller has points in common with me,...
The film director Claude Miller, who has died aged 70 after a long illness, was continually dogged by comparisons to his friend and mentor François Truffaut. Hardly a review of his films failed to mention Truffaut in some way or another. This came about for various reasons. Miller was Truffaut's production manager on several occasions and made subtle references to the older director's work in many of his own films, almost always mentioning him in interviews. He had a small role in Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) and adapted La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief, 1988) from a 30-page screenplay that Truffaut had written a few years before his death.
When Truffaut was once asked whether he had started a school of directors, he denied it. "These people are more influenced by other directors than myself. If Claude Miller has points in common with me,...
- 4/6/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
"French film director, producer and screenwriter Claude Miller, whose works include The Best Way to Walk [Le meilleur facon de marcher, 1976] and Class Trip [La classe de neige, 1998], has died aged 70," reports the Afp. "'A sad day, Claude Miller is dead,' tweeted the Cannes Film Festival, at which Miller was awarded the special jury prize in 1998 for Class Trip. Among other renowed works by the filmmaker are La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief [1988]) which starred Charlotte Gainsbourg; Garde a Vue (Custody) in 1981; and Mortelle Randonnee (Mortal Circuit) in 1983."
Just a couple of weeks ago, Jonathan Rosenbaum posted his 1994 review of The Accompanist (1992): "Miller started out promisingly as an assistant to some key French filmmakers during the 60s, including Robert Bresson (Au hasard Balthazar), Jacques Demy (Les demoiselles de Rochefort), and Jean-Luc Godard (Weekend). He then served as production manager or production supervisor on Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her and La chinoise and no...
Just a couple of weeks ago, Jonathan Rosenbaum posted his 1994 review of The Accompanist (1992): "Miller started out promisingly as an assistant to some key French filmmakers during the 60s, including Robert Bresson (Au hasard Balthazar), Jacques Demy (Les demoiselles de Rochefort), and Jean-Luc Godard (Weekend). He then served as production manager or production supervisor on Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her and La chinoise and no...
- 4/5/2012
- MUBI
Film-maker best known for film starring a young Charlotte Gainsbourg as a teenage serial thief has died
The French film director Claude Miller, best known for L'Effrontée and La Petite Voleuse, both featuring a young Charlotte Gainsbourg, has died aged 70.
Before becoming a director himself, Miller worked for a number of noted new wave directors: he acted as assistant director on Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, before becoming production manager for a string of films by François Truffaut, including Bed and Board, Day for Night and The Story of Adele H.
With Truffaut's encouragement, Miller moved into a higher profile role, making his directorial debut in 1976 with The Best Way to Walk. His first significant success, however, was the multi-award-winning police procedural thriller Garde à Vue, with Lino Ventura and Michel Serrault.
In the mid-80s, Miller...
The French film director Claude Miller, best known for L'Effrontée and La Petite Voleuse, both featuring a young Charlotte Gainsbourg, has died aged 70.
Before becoming a director himself, Miller worked for a number of noted new wave directors: he acted as assistant director on Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, before becoming production manager for a string of films by François Truffaut, including Bed and Board, Day for Night and The Story of Adele H.
With Truffaut's encouragement, Miller moved into a higher profile role, making his directorial debut in 1976 with The Best Way to Walk. His first significant success, however, was the multi-award-winning police procedural thriller Garde à Vue, with Lino Ventura and Michel Serrault.
In the mid-80s, Miller...
- 4/5/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Audrey Tautou's latest film, "La Délicatesse" -- or "Delicacy" -- encompasses several genres at once. The first part of the film feels like a storybook romance, as we follow her character Nathalie and her first love Francois (Pio Marmaï) as they meet, fall for each other, and get married -- everything is perfect, [spoiler alert] until the day he has an unexpected accident and dies. Then the film transforms into a study of grief and mourning, as Nathalie buries herself in her work and avoids most of the people in her life. But when she abruptly kisses her co-worker Markus (François Damiens), the film changes once again, now becoming a comedy. For Markus, life is now a "(500) Days of Summer"-inspired fantasy sequence, where the world becomes alive, and for Nathalie, it's a chance to begin again -- despite most everyone's shock and disapproval of her choice in partners. ("You can do better,...
- 3/12/2012
- by Jen Vineyard
- The Playlist
First promo image from Therese D, starring French actress Audrey Tautou has been released.
Tautou’s next movie is directed by French filmmaker Claude Miller (The Little Theif).
Actually, Therese D is the remake of the 1962 French film Thérèse Desqueyroux which was itself based on novel of the same name by author and Nobel Prize Laureate François Mauriac.
Therese D centers on a woman trapped in a disappointing marriage who tries to reclaim her freedom by any means. Check out the full synopsis for the movie.
Therese D (Thérèse Desqueyroux) synopsis:
France, late 1920’s. Lovely and free-spirited, Thérèse marries her neighbor Bernard Desqueyroux, thus joining their respective properties in one vast estate. Bernard tolerates his brilliant, passionate young wife’s strong character and opinions, but she soon finds herself suffocated by the boredom of her provincial life and her husband’s intellectual mediocrity.
She dreams of Paris, longs for stimulation and culture and,...
Tautou’s next movie is directed by French filmmaker Claude Miller (The Little Theif).
Actually, Therese D is the remake of the 1962 French film Thérèse Desqueyroux which was itself based on novel of the same name by author and Nobel Prize Laureate François Mauriac.
Therese D centers on a woman trapped in a disappointing marriage who tries to reclaim her freedom by any means. Check out the full synopsis for the movie.
Therese D (Thérèse Desqueyroux) synopsis:
France, late 1920’s. Lovely and free-spirited, Thérèse marries her neighbor Bernard Desqueyroux, thus joining their respective properties in one vast estate. Bernard tolerates his brilliant, passionate young wife’s strong character and opinions, but she soon finds herself suffocated by the boredom of her provincial life and her husband’s intellectual mediocrity.
She dreams of Paris, longs for stimulation and culture and,...
- 11/16/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Every year the American Film Market (Afm) releases a heap of new images from upcoming films and thanks to the Collider we’re treated to the first images from French actress Audrey Tautou’s new movie Therese D. Based upon the novel of the same name by author and Nobel Prize winner Laureate François Mauriac , Therese D is to be directed by French filmmaker Claude Miller (The Little Thief).
Here’s the synopsis for the Therese D:
France, late 1920’s. Lovely and free-spirited, Thérèse marries her neighbor Bernard Desqueyroux, thus joining their respective properties in one vast estate. Bernard tolerates his brilliant, passionate young wife’s strong character and opinions, but she soon finds herself suffocated by the boredom of her provincial life and her husband’s intellectual mediocrity. She dreams of Paris, longs for stimulation and culture and, despite herself, starts to seek a way out. Until the day...
Here’s the synopsis for the Therese D:
France, late 1920’s. Lovely and free-spirited, Thérèse marries her neighbor Bernard Desqueyroux, thus joining their respective properties in one vast estate. Bernard tolerates his brilliant, passionate young wife’s strong character and opinions, but she soon finds herself suffocated by the boredom of her provincial life and her husband’s intellectual mediocrity. She dreams of Paris, longs for stimulation and culture and, despite herself, starts to seek a way out. Until the day...
- 11/15/2010
- by Staff
- SoundOnSight
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