Paris-based Urban Sales has acquired Jean-Claude Monod’s queer period drama Girl For A Day and Jul and Jean-Paul Guigue’s hybrid animation Silex And The City and is launching sales for both films at Unifrance’s Paris Rendez-Vous next week,
Set in the 18th century, Girl For A Day is Monod’s debut feature and is based on the true story of a person called Anne Grandjean who was urged to dress as a man and change her name due to her attraction to women, and was then brought to trial. Marie Toscan stars alongside Call My Agent’s Thibault de Montalembert,...
Set in the 18th century, Girl For A Day is Monod’s debut feature and is based on the true story of a person called Anne Grandjean who was urged to dress as a man and change her name due to her attraction to women, and was then brought to trial. Marie Toscan stars alongside Call My Agent’s Thibault de Montalembert,...
- 1/12/2024
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Sovereign has acquired the U.K. and Ireland rights to Radu Jude’s latest feature, “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World,” which won the special jury prize at Locarno Film Festival.
Written and directed by Jude, the comedy stars Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Dorina Lazăr, László Miske, Katia Pascariu and Sofia Nicolaescu, with cameos from Nina Hoss and Uwe Boll. According to its official synopsis, the film follows an overworked production assistant who is instructed to “film a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. But an interviewee makes a statement which forces him to reinvent his story to suit the company’s narrative.”
“Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” recently premiered at Locarno, where it was nominated for the Golden Leopard Award for best film and won the festival’s special jury prize. The film was well-received by critics at the fest,...
Written and directed by Jude, the comedy stars Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrșan, Dorina Lazăr, László Miske, Katia Pascariu and Sofia Nicolaescu, with cameos from Nina Hoss and Uwe Boll. According to its official synopsis, the film follows an overworked production assistant who is instructed to “film a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. But an interviewee makes a statement which forces him to reinvent his story to suit the company’s narrative.”
“Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” recently premiered at Locarno, where it was nominated for the Golden Leopard Award for best film and won the festival’s special jury prize. The film was well-received by critics at the fest,...
- 8/16/2023
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Film Festival Critics Week
Why change a winning team? Such is the argument underlying "Rumba", the follow-up by Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel and Bruno Romy to their critically successful but commercially underperforming slapstick comedy "The Iceberg", which played at Cannes two years ago.
The winsome threesome will be hoping for better returns from their latest foray into gentle whimsy and physical comedy whose style is usually associated with silent movies. However, there is no more evidence now that the general public is ready for a revival of Tati-esque humor, the trio's trademark. Festivals and arthouse circuits appear to be the natural home for "Rumba".
Fiona and Dom (played, of course, by Gordon and Abel) are a married couple who teach at a rural school in northern France and share a passion for Latin dancing. Driving back from a weekend competition, they swerve to avoid a man (Romy) on a suicide mission and crash into a wall. Fiona loses a leg and Dom his memory. They are then separated following a fire in which their house burns down.
This simple narrative serves as a peg on which Gordon, an Australian-born Canadian, and her Belgian partner Abel hang what is essentially a series of sketches and visual gags. Many of them are wordless -- as with "The Iceberg", dialogue is at a premium -- and take place within a fixed frame.
There is much in "Rumba" to please discerning audiences. Pre-title sequences are particularly inventive. Gordon and Abel make imaginative use of back-projection, notably during the hectic car journey in which they rush back home to fetch their dancing clothes, and of overhead shots and shadow-play to highlight their dance routines. There is plenty of slapstick, too, but the couple's humor is mostly deadpan. Responses will range from guffaws to a twitch of the lips, according to taste.
Perhaps the movie could best be considered a family entertainment -- a little of something for everyone. One admires the commitment of the filmmakers and freshness of much of the material, but the rarified nature of the humor means that the movie never fully engages.
Production companies: MK2, Courage Mon Amour, RTBF
Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz, Clement Morel.
Directors/screenwriters: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy.
Executive producers: Claire Dornoy, Abel & Gordon.
Produces: Marin Karmitz, Nathanael Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Abel & Gordon.
Photography: Claire Childeric.
Production design: Nicolas Girault.
Costumes: Claire Dubien.
Editor: Sandrine Deegen.
Sales: MK2 Diffusion.
No MPAA rating, 77 minutes.
Why change a winning team? Such is the argument underlying "Rumba", the follow-up by Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel and Bruno Romy to their critically successful but commercially underperforming slapstick comedy "The Iceberg", which played at Cannes two years ago.
The winsome threesome will be hoping for better returns from their latest foray into gentle whimsy and physical comedy whose style is usually associated with silent movies. However, there is no more evidence now that the general public is ready for a revival of Tati-esque humor, the trio's trademark. Festivals and arthouse circuits appear to be the natural home for "Rumba".
Fiona and Dom (played, of course, by Gordon and Abel) are a married couple who teach at a rural school in northern France and share a passion for Latin dancing. Driving back from a weekend competition, they swerve to avoid a man (Romy) on a suicide mission and crash into a wall. Fiona loses a leg and Dom his memory. They are then separated following a fire in which their house burns down.
This simple narrative serves as a peg on which Gordon, an Australian-born Canadian, and her Belgian partner Abel hang what is essentially a series of sketches and visual gags. Many of them are wordless -- as with "The Iceberg", dialogue is at a premium -- and take place within a fixed frame.
There is much in "Rumba" to please discerning audiences. Pre-title sequences are particularly inventive. Gordon and Abel make imaginative use of back-projection, notably during the hectic car journey in which they rush back home to fetch their dancing clothes, and of overhead shots and shadow-play to highlight their dance routines. There is plenty of slapstick, too, but the couple's humor is mostly deadpan. Responses will range from guffaws to a twitch of the lips, according to taste.
Perhaps the movie could best be considered a family entertainment -- a little of something for everyone. One admires the commitment of the filmmakers and freshness of much of the material, but the rarified nature of the humor means that the movie never fully engages.
Production companies: MK2, Courage Mon Amour, RTBF
Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz, Clement Morel.
Directors/screenwriters: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy.
Executive producers: Claire Dornoy, Abel & Gordon.
Produces: Marin Karmitz, Nathanael Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Abel & Gordon.
Photography: Claire Childeric.
Production design: Nicolas Girault.
Costumes: Claire Dubien.
Editor: Sandrine Deegen.
Sales: MK2 Diffusion.
No MPAA rating, 77 minutes.
- 5/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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