Playtime has boarded Olivier Assayas’ “Suspended Time,” a Covid-era comedy about two couples spending lockdown together. Produced by Olivier Delbosc of Curiosa Films, and by Assayas’ own Vortex Sutra, the pandemic farce is hotly tipped to compete at the Berlin Film Festival next month.
Recent Assayas stalwart Vincent Macaigne leads the cast as Etienne, a filmmaker – and once again director stand-in – locked down with his music journalist brother, Paul, and locked in the family home with respective spouses, Morgane and Carole.
“Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of [those] absent,” reads the synopsis. “This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.”
The project furthers the director’s ongoing partnership with Macaigne and Hamzawi,...
Recent Assayas stalwart Vincent Macaigne leads the cast as Etienne, a filmmaker – and once again director stand-in – locked down with his music journalist brother, Paul, and locked in the family home with respective spouses, Morgane and Carole.
“Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of [those] absent,” reads the synopsis. “This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.”
The project furthers the director’s ongoing partnership with Macaigne and Hamzawi,...
- 1/15/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy and Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Adapted from Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Netflix’s limited series “All the Light We Cannot See” sets two unlikely kindred spirits on a collision course as World War II begins in France when Germany occupied the country. Shawn Levy directed all four episodes of Steven Knight’s scripts.
Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti) and Werner Pfennig (Louis Hoffman) share curiosity and empathy, which translates across their opposing countries and positions in the war. Werner’s skill for fixing and translating radios leads him to a high position in the Nazi effort to decode secret broadcasts that their targets might send. Marie-Laure herself becomes a broadcaster after her father moves her to her uncle’s home in a small, seaside French town.
Here are the cast and characters of “All the Light We Cannot See”:
Aria Mia Loberti in “All the Light We Cannot See” (Netflix)
Marie-Laure LeBlanc...
Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti) and Werner Pfennig (Louis Hoffman) share curiosity and empathy, which translates across their opposing countries and positions in the war. Werner’s skill for fixing and translating radios leads him to a high position in the Nazi effort to decode secret broadcasts that their targets might send. Marie-Laure herself becomes a broadcaster after her father moves her to her uncle’s home in a small, seaside French town.
Here are the cast and characters of “All the Light We Cannot See”:
Aria Mia Loberti in “All the Light We Cannot See” (Netflix)
Marie-Laure LeBlanc...
- 11/3/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning historical fiction novel, "All the Light We Cannot See," is the latest Netflix original to add to your queue. This novel tells the story of WWII from the perspective of Marie Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig, who experience the war in two vastly different ways, and the priceless Sea of Flames, which is being sought after by Nazi officials. If you can't wait to find out what happens in the book and how that may translate to its onscreen adaptation, keep reading.
But proceed with caution: there are spoilers ahead.
Who Is Marie-Laure LeBlanc?
Marie-Laure is a blind Parisian girl who lives with her widowed father, Daniel, who is the locksmith at the Natural History Museum of Paris. Daniel fosters a sense of independence in Marie-Laure throughout her childhood by hand-crafting models of their neighborhood so she can navigate confidently on her own.
Marie-Laure is...
But proceed with caution: there are spoilers ahead.
Who Is Marie-Laure LeBlanc?
Marie-Laure is a blind Parisian girl who lives with her widowed father, Daniel, who is the locksmith at the Natural History Museum of Paris. Daniel fosters a sense of independence in Marie-Laure throughout her childhood by hand-crafting models of their neighborhood so she can navigate confidently on her own.
Marie-Laure is...
- 11/3/2023
- by Jada Welch Olson
- Popsugar.com
Were one to go into “All the Light We Cannot See” totally cold — drawn to the four-part limited series, say, purely by its placement atop Netflix’s home page — it would be impossible to discern that it was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel celebrated for its lyricism and profundity.
The dialogue here is pedestrian. The lead character, blind French teenager Marie-Laure LeBlanc (screen newcomer Aria Mia Loberti), escapes the German invasion of Paris in World War II with her father, Daniel (Mark Ruffalo). They seek refuge in the French port city of Saint-Malo. Yet throughout the journey, and the limited series, our Gallic heroine and Papa LeBlanc speak English with British accents.
The series’ wartime visuals are dark and obviously CG-enhanced. More practical effects include perfectly contained fires placed in strategic spots to indicate — along with James Newton Howard’s overwrought score — that a neighborhood has been bombed.
This lack of realism,...
The dialogue here is pedestrian. The lead character, blind French teenager Marie-Laure LeBlanc (screen newcomer Aria Mia Loberti), escapes the German invasion of Paris in World War II with her father, Daniel (Mark Ruffalo). They seek refuge in the French port city of Saint-Malo. Yet throughout the journey, and the limited series, our Gallic heroine and Papa LeBlanc speak English with British accents.
The series’ wartime visuals are dark and obviously CG-enhanced. More practical effects include perfectly contained fires placed in strategic spots to indicate — along with James Newton Howard’s overwrought score — that a neighborhood has been bombed.
This lack of realism,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Carla Meyer
- The Wrap
All the Light We Cannot See, the Pulitzer-winning book written by Anthony Doerr, has finally been adapted for the screen and is available on Netflix to stream. The four-episodic miniseries is the story of Marie LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig’s self-discovery as the German occupation intensifies in Nazi-occupied France and other parts of Europe. The book and the show had a limited number of characters, but all had an arc that took them through a transformative journey amidst the Second World War as the Nazi occupation got aggressive but human conscience became better.
Spoilers Ahead
Marie-Laure LeBlanc
Marie-Laure LeBlanc in the book and the show was a French blind girl. Her father, Daniel LeBlanc, taught her to navigate around Paris based on the model of the city he made for her. Marie LeBlanc, from a young age, was addicted to a frequency on her radio that imparted knowledge about science and geography.
Spoilers Ahead
Marie-Laure LeBlanc
Marie-Laure LeBlanc in the book and the show was a French blind girl. Her father, Daniel LeBlanc, taught her to navigate around Paris based on the model of the city he made for her. Marie LeBlanc, from a young age, was addicted to a frequency on her radio that imparted knowledge about science and geography.
- 11/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
In 2019, Netflix and Shawn Levy’s production company 21 Laps Entertainment acquired the rights to adapt Anthony Doerr’s 2014 war novel All the Light We Cannot See for television. The Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller tells the story of two teenagers whose paths cross during the height of World War II in occupied France: Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig, a German boy who is kidnapped and forced to become a Nazi soldier.
The four-part drama, which counts Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie among its cast, was developed by British screenwriter Steven Knight who also serves as an executive producer of the limited series (which released Thursday).
“What I have learned is that the story is the story, and it doesn’t necessarily fit the conventional boxes,” Knight says of adapting Doerr’s novel. “I wanted the story to be as long as the story is, and it was perfect for four hours.
The four-part drama, which counts Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie among its cast, was developed by British screenwriter Steven Knight who also serves as an executive producer of the limited series (which released Thursday).
“What I have learned is that the story is the story, and it doesn’t necessarily fit the conventional boxes,” Knight says of adapting Doerr’s novel. “I wanted the story to be as long as the story is, and it was perfect for four hours.
- 11/2/2023
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Before there were dramas on television, there were dramas on the radio. With no visuals to present to their audience, radio series had to conjure up entire worlds out of carefully scripted narration, homespun special effects, and the sheer vibrance of their actors’ voices. Done right, whether back then or in modern podcast fiction, the effect can be magical, with the soundscape creating an experience that can be just as immersive as, if not more than, a story you watch on a screen. Heck, in 1938, Orson Welles nearly caused a...
- 11/2/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
All the Light We Cannot See is a story of the fight against oppression and resistance against unlawful activities. This Anthony Doerr book, which has recently been made into a Netflix mini-series, talks about everything that happened in Germany and Nazi-occupied France. The Netflix series went off track from the source material, but all the characters have been retained with changes given to their personalities.
One of the many characters in the show and in the book who have created a resistance force against the German army has to be Uncle Etienne. He tried to broadcast information about scientific and geographical topics to the younger generation. Since he was a veteran of the First World War, he was aware how unnecessary that conflict was.
Uncle Etienne understood the games political powers played to get people on their side. His job was to inform the younger generation through radio about a...
One of the many characters in the show and in the book who have created a resistance force against the German army has to be Uncle Etienne. He tried to broadcast information about scientific and geographical topics to the younger generation. Since he was a veteran of the First World War, he was aware how unnecessary that conflict was.
Uncle Etienne understood the games political powers played to get people on their side. His job was to inform the younger generation through radio about a...
- 11/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
All The Light We Cannot See, a Pulitzer-winning book by Anthony Doerr, finally got the miniseries treatment thanks to Netflix. The show was released on November 2, 2023, and fans of the book cannot wait for this Steven Knight adaptation. Directed by Shawn Levy, this four-part miniseries is about a French blind girl, a young German soldier, and their struggles through Nazi-occupied France a year before the war was over.
Spoilers Ahead
Is The Book About War Crimes Carried Out By The SS?
The showmakers claimed to have based the miniseries on the award-winning book, but the screenplay couldn’t be farther from the source material. The showmakers acquired the rights to the book, which is solely based on the lives of Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig as they navigate their lives through Nazi-occupied Europe and how events around them change their perspective of people. Marie-Laure LeBlanc was a blind French girl,...
Spoilers Ahead
Is The Book About War Crimes Carried Out By The SS?
The showmakers claimed to have based the miniseries on the award-winning book, but the screenplay couldn’t be farther from the source material. The showmakers acquired the rights to the book, which is solely based on the lives of Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig as they navigate their lives through Nazi-occupied Europe and how events around them change their perspective of people. Marie-Laure LeBlanc was a blind French girl,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
In the previous episode of All the Light We Cannot See, Werner just managed to save Marie from being killed by German soldiers thanks to the help of Etienne. After being locked in a basement by Etienne, who believes Werner is redeemable, Werner realizes Etienne is the professor by putting 2 and 2 together. He hopes to convince the whole resistance team the way he did Etienne, but alas, because he’s German, they’re unwilling to believe him. Etienne is supportive of Werner, though, and he confirms that he is in fact the professor. For Marie, just as one danger has ended, another has begun, and her last battle with Rumpel is about to take place because he’s found her home.
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What Happens In The Episode?
On one side, Rumpel makes his way up the stairs in Marie’s house, and on the other, Werner wakes up in a daze,...
Spoilers Ahead
What Happens In The Episode?
On one side, Rumpel makes his way up the stairs in Marie’s house, and on the other, Werner wakes up in a daze,...
- 11/2/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
All the Light We Cannot See Episode 2 took us back to Werner’s difficult time at the National Political Institute of Education in Berlin. We learned about the terror that he had to face in there, but he didn’t let it shake his spirit thanks to his promise to his sister Jutta, who has always been his conscience. On the other hand, Marie managed to escape from the desperate man Rumpel, who wants the “Sea of Flames” all to himself so he can be “immortal.” Now, it seems Rumpel knows something about Marie’s father because, before trying to hurt Marie, he tried to speak to her about her father. Maybe they crossed paths, or it’s just because her father used to work at the museum. We see how Marie and her father traveled from Paris to St. Malo to find Etienne.
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What happens in the episode?...
Spoilers Ahead
What happens in the episode?...
- 11/2/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
Episode 1 of All the Light We Cannot See brings us up to date about who is who in the fictional historical show. We’ve learned that Marie is all alone in a house in St. Malo, where she waits in desperation for her father and Uncle Etienne. She does get to interact with her uncle, though, and she learns that he is on the radar of the Nazis, so he cannot come home with her. On the other hand, Nazi soldier Werner is making sure his people do not find Marie and her radio, where she broadcasts code. He believes her messages bring hope because it is the same frequency a man known as the professor used to broadcast from. At the end of the episode, Rumpel, a distraught Sergeant Major who is very sick, finds who he has been searching for—Marie—in order to get his hands on...
- 11/2/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
Netflix’s All the Light We Cannot See is finally here, and it’s unfortunate that we have to say it’s quite a disappointment. Still, there are some good things about the series that drag us towards it, like the actors who play the important characters that drive this simple story forward through a non-linear lens. Amongst them all, the first episode is where the most happens, and it does feel a little bit all over the place because it takes quite a bit of time to set things into motion—way too much time for a series with only 4 episodes. The story begins in Nazi-occupied St. Malo. In August 1944, the Americans are dropping bombs on the little seaside town, and Marie is sending a message to her dear Papa and Uncle Etienne. She’s been alone for a very long time, and she’s requesting that they return home to her.
- 11/2/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
Shawn Levy’s All the Light We Cannot See is the latest adaptation to join Netflix’s abundant supply of mediocre, half-baked shows that could’ve been masterpieces but have ended up being dead stock because of their sheer lack of heart. What is set out to be a story about two teenagers from opposite sides during the Second World War ends up coming across as a very dry love story. The series follows the lives of three people (mainly) during the Second World War. Their lives intersect in the Nazi-occupied small town of St. Malo during its bombing. Netflix executive 1: “Let’s make a mini-series with this 500-page book.” Netflix executive 2: “Sure, how about 4 episodes under 50 minutes? It should be enough to cover all the important details”. Sold. Alright, it’s not fair to say that every TV or film adaptation of a popular novel has been bad.
- 11/2/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
“All the Light We Cannot See” is not, in the strictest sense, a comfort watch. Like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthony Doerr novel on which it’s based, the four-episode limited series takes place in a walled city under siege by a bombing campaign, its trapped civilians unable to evacuate — hardly a relaxing break from today’s headlines. But the Netflix show is, in a way, a return to simpler times.
This particular walled city is located in Nazi-occupied France, on the verge of American liberation in August 1944. As written, “All the Light We Cannot See” is already set amid a conflict that’s far closer to good versus evil than most armed struggles. As adapted by screenwriter Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) and director Shawn Levy, the series leans into sentiment and moral simplicity. Knight and Levy aim for an uplifting, inspirational tale of connection that transcends division, distance and prejudice,...
This particular walled city is located in Nazi-occupied France, on the verge of American liberation in August 1944. As written, “All the Light We Cannot See” is already set amid a conflict that’s far closer to good versus evil than most armed struggles. As adapted by screenwriter Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) and director Shawn Levy, the series leans into sentiment and moral simplicity. Knight and Levy aim for an uplifting, inspirational tale of connection that transcends division, distance and prejudice,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Alison Herman
- Variety Film + TV
Sheryl Lee Ralph’s son has been through a lot.
The “Abbott Elementary” star is on the new cover of AARP The Magazine, and in it she opens up her son suffering two terrible incidents, including being shot during a mugging.
Read More: Sheryl Lee Ralph Claims ‘Famous TV Judge” Sexually Assaulted Her In The Past
“When Etienne was in college, he had a car accident and suffered a concussion. It changed his whole brain,” Ralph recalled. “Then he got mugged, and they shot him three times. He woke up in the hospital with two bullets in his leg and a wound in his forehead where a bullet had grazed him.”
The 66-year-old actress said that when she heard that her son had been shot, she “collapsed and dropped the phone.”
“I didn’t even listen to the rest. But they didn’t kill him, thank God,” she said. “Now...
The “Abbott Elementary” star is on the new cover of AARP The Magazine, and in it she opens up her son suffering two terrible incidents, including being shot during a mugging.
Read More: Sheryl Lee Ralph Claims ‘Famous TV Judge” Sexually Assaulted Her In The Past
“When Etienne was in college, he had a car accident and suffered a concussion. It changed his whole brain,” Ralph recalled. “Then he got mugged, and they shot him three times. He woke up in the hospital with two bullets in his leg and a wound in his forehead where a bullet had grazed him.”
The 66-year-old actress said that when she heard that her son had been shot, she “collapsed and dropped the phone.”
“I didn’t even listen to the rest. But they didn’t kill him, thank God,” she said. “Now...
- 7/25/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
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