by Arnaud Trouve
Brad Pitt and Virginie Efira present the Honorary César to David Fincher
The 48th French César Awards were just held and, as expected, The Night of the 12th was the big winner. It won Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Male Newcomer, just like last year's champion Lost Illusions. Its two additional prizes were for Best Sound and Best Director. Dominik Moll almost broke the record at the Césars for the longest time between two directing wins (he previously won 22 years ago for the thriller With A Friend Like Harry)...
Brad Pitt and Virginie Efira present the Honorary César to David Fincher
The 48th French César Awards were just held and, as expected, The Night of the 12th was the big winner. It won Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Male Newcomer, just like last year's champion Lost Illusions. Its two additional prizes were for Best Sound and Best Director. Dominik Moll almost broke the record at the Césars for the longest time between two directing wins (he previously won 22 years ago for the thriller With A Friend Like Harry)...
- 2/25/2023
- by Arnaud Trouvé
- FilmExperience
Hollywood star power enlivens the Césars in Paris last night Photo: Academie des Césars
Director Dominik Moll had to wait 22 years to bag his second César, as Best Director for The Night Of The 12th, a thriller which delves into issues of gender and violence. It was a major winner in last night’s César awards, France’s answer to the Oscars, also winning the award for Best Film. Bouli Lanners and Bastien Bouillon, as two cops trying to solve a gruesome murder, received actor nods as Best Supporting Actor and Best Male Newcomer respectively.
Written in tandem with his frequent collaborator Gilles Marchand the pair were also rewarded with best adapted screenplay from the novel by Pauline Guéna. The last time Moll received the Best Director César was in 2001 for another thriller, Harry, He's Here To Help.
Happy nights: Virginie Emir named Best Actress in the Césars Photo: Academie...
Director Dominik Moll had to wait 22 years to bag his second César, as Best Director for The Night Of The 12th, a thriller which delves into issues of gender and violence. It was a major winner in last night’s César awards, France’s answer to the Oscars, also winning the award for Best Film. Bouli Lanners and Bastien Bouillon, as two cops trying to solve a gruesome murder, received actor nods as Best Supporting Actor and Best Male Newcomer respectively.
Written in tandem with his frequent collaborator Gilles Marchand the pair were also rewarded with best adapted screenplay from the novel by Pauline Guéna. The last time Moll received the Best Director César was in 2001 for another thriller, Harry, He's Here To Help.
Happy nights: Virginie Emir named Best Actress in the Césars Photo: Academie...
- 2/25/2023
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Catherine Deneuve: César Award Besst Actress Record-Tier (photo: Catherine Deneuve in 'In the Courtyard / Dans la cour') (See previous post: "Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve Make César Award History.") Catherine Deneuve has received 12 Best Actress César nominations to date. Deneuve's nods were for the following movies (year of film's release): Pierre Salvadori's In the Courtyard / Dans la Cour (2014). Emmanuelle Bercot's On My Way / Elle s'en va (2013). François Ozon's Potiche (2010). Nicole Garcia's Place Vendôme (1998). André Téchiné's Thieves / Les voleurs (1996). André Téchiné's My Favorite Season / Ma saison préférée (1993). Régis Wargnier's Indochine (1992). François Dupeyron's Strange Place for an Encounter / Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre (1988). Jean-Pierre Mocky's Agent trouble (1987). André Téchiné's Hotel America / Hôtel des Amériques (1981). François Truffaut's The Last Metro / Le dernier métro (1980). Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Le sauvage (1975). Additionally, Catherine Deneuve was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category...
- 1/30/2015
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Not only can Vincent Cassel move seamlessly from blockbusters to indie films while keeping a foot firmly in foreign cinema, but he does so in a manner that's always compelling to watch. And the past few years speak to the diversity of roles he's been taking, whether playing a famed gangster in the two-part "Mesrine," bringing psychological strain to Natalie Portman in "Black Swan," taking a part in the nervy "Our Day Will Come" or even putting James McAvoy through the wringer in Danny Boyle's upcoming "Trance." But before we see him do that, Cassel will don the cloak for "The Monk." Directed by Dominik Moll ("With A Friend Like Harry...") and adapted from the 1796 cult novel by Matthew G. Lewis, the story follows Brother Ambrosio, a 16th Century, pious Capuchin Monk. Abandoned at birth at the gates of a monastery in Madrid, he was raised by the friars,...
- 2/19/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Somestimes, you just have to do a lot of research to find a nice thriller. Even though its script could have been improved, Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien will more than entertain you. Besides, it's rare to see a thriller in which the cast's performance always hits the right note.
Michel (Laurent Lucas) and his wife, Claire (Mathilde Seigner), are going to their summer house for their vacation. However, the temperature is hot and Michel's car has no air conditionning. No wonder their three kids are insufferable. Obviously, Michel stops his car at a gas station in order to have a break from his children. While he's in the men's bathroom of the gas station, Michel is approached by Harry (Sergi López).
According to Harry, Michel and him both went to high school together. However, Michel has no recollection of such a thing. This doesn't stop Harry...
Michel (Laurent Lucas) and his wife, Claire (Mathilde Seigner), are going to their summer house for their vacation. However, the temperature is hot and Michel's car has no air conditionning. No wonder their three kids are insufferable. Obviously, Michel stops his car at a gas station in order to have a break from his children. While he's in the men's bathroom of the gas station, Michel is approached by Harry (Sergi López).
According to Harry, Michel and him both went to high school together. However, Michel has no recollection of such a thing. This doesn't stop Harry...
- 5/24/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Today is National Punctuation Day, the most important non-religious nerd holiday that doesn't involve talking like a pirate. Just think how different our lives would be without the comma, not to mention the semi-colon; we'd be lost without the period. Or the exclamation point! What about the question mark? (Seriously, we'd be screwed: see here.) To celebrate, we've assembled a list of our favorite punctuation marks in movie titles. Call them the Punctuaties (pronounced "Punk-shoe-Ay-shees" [on second thought, don't call them anything]). Best use of a comma in a bad movie by a great director White Hunter, Black Heart Lust, Caution Best use of a comma in a great movie by a great director Sex, Lies, and Videotape One, Two, Three Best use of a comma in the weirdest movie ever: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Best use of a possessive apostrophe: Schindler's List Jacob's LadderAdam's RibPrizzi's Honor Ocean's 11 Best use of a colon: Dr. Strangelove:...
- 9/24/2009
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
CANNES -- So an online betting site has established Dominik Moll's Lemming, the opening-night film of the 2005 Festival de Cannes, as a 2-to-1 favorite to win the Palme d'Or. If it does, then the jury must develop a taste for rodents stuck in drainpipes, a sudden suicide, a ghostly possession and a flying minicamera that lets you spy on your boss' bedroom activities. At times suspenseful and evocative but more often just silly, Lemming does possess a mordant humor as it watches characters spin out of control. But the payoff is slight, failing to live up to expectations created by its own richly developed sense of menace and abnormality lurking beneath the surface of ordinary life.
Moll, who made his Competition debut in 2000 with the quirky thriller With a Friend Like Harry, later acquired by Miramax, has star power in his two Charlottes -- Gainsbourg and Rampling. But away from the festival circuit, Lemming might play like second-rate Alfred Hitchcock or, more to the point, third-rate David Lynch.
Laurent Lucas, who starred in Harry, is Alain, a home automation engineer who comes up with gadgets like the flying webcam. This lets a homeowner keep tabs on his house via computer while he is away. Only the trouble all begins for Alain when he is right at home.
He and his wife, Benedicte (Gainsbourg), host a dinner for Alain's new boss, Richard Pollock (Andre Dussollier), and his wife, Alice (Rampling). First the kitchen sink gets clogged by a rodent trapped in the drainpipe. The rodent, it turns out later, is a lemming, which lives only in Scandinavia and should not be found in a French drain.
Then the Pollocks are extremely late. Their tardiness, Alice announces to stunned silence, is because her husband took more time than usual with one of his whores. Moments later, she empties her wine glass into Richard's face, and the evening is pretty much a disaster.
The next day, Alice drops by the office and tries to seduce Alain. She fails only just barely. The next day, she drops by Alain's home, gets Benedicte to invite her in and, after taking a nap, kills herself.
All very shocking. Only greater shocks come when the dead woman appears to take possession of Benedicte's body and Alain thinks he sees hundreds of lemmings in the house when he has in fact fallen asleep at the wheel of a car and got into an accident.
That an audience stays with this film -- or at least stays interested to see what will happen -- for as long as it does is a tribute to Moll and co-writer Gilles Marchand's sense of wit and a measured tone and style that suit the behavioral malfunctions.
Alas, the film relies too much on its shocks and fails to make the supernatural element at all convincing. The movie noticeably stalls toward the end of the second act so that the third-act skullduggery feels hopelessly contrived.
The actors do credible jobs in the four major roles. Lucas carries most of the weight as a character experiencing a total personality collapse. A man of modern technology and control, his Alain finds himself no longer certain who either he or his wife is.
Sound editor Gerard Hardy's highly selective, impressionistic soundtrack and David Sinclair Whitaker's music make major contributions to this stripped-down psychodrama. Jean-Marc Fabre's cinematography is clean and unobtrusive, and Michel Barthelemy's design emphasizes how a tasteful, well-lit suburban home can be its own nightmare.
LEMMING
Diaphana Films in association with France 3 Cinema
Credits:
Director: Dominik Moll
Screenwriters: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand
Producer: Michel Saint-Jean
Director of photography: Jean-Marc Fabre
Production designer: Michel Barthelemy
Music: David Sinclair Whitaker
Costume designers: Virginie Montel, Isabelle Pannetier
Editor: Mike Fromentin
Cast:
Alain: Laurent Lucas
Benedicte: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Alice: Charlotte Rampling
Richard: Andre Dussollier
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 129 minutes...
Moll, who made his Competition debut in 2000 with the quirky thriller With a Friend Like Harry, later acquired by Miramax, has star power in his two Charlottes -- Gainsbourg and Rampling. But away from the festival circuit, Lemming might play like second-rate Alfred Hitchcock or, more to the point, third-rate David Lynch.
Laurent Lucas, who starred in Harry, is Alain, a home automation engineer who comes up with gadgets like the flying webcam. This lets a homeowner keep tabs on his house via computer while he is away. Only the trouble all begins for Alain when he is right at home.
He and his wife, Benedicte (Gainsbourg), host a dinner for Alain's new boss, Richard Pollock (Andre Dussollier), and his wife, Alice (Rampling). First the kitchen sink gets clogged by a rodent trapped in the drainpipe. The rodent, it turns out later, is a lemming, which lives only in Scandinavia and should not be found in a French drain.
Then the Pollocks are extremely late. Their tardiness, Alice announces to stunned silence, is because her husband took more time than usual with one of his whores. Moments later, she empties her wine glass into Richard's face, and the evening is pretty much a disaster.
The next day, Alice drops by the office and tries to seduce Alain. She fails only just barely. The next day, she drops by Alain's home, gets Benedicte to invite her in and, after taking a nap, kills herself.
All very shocking. Only greater shocks come when the dead woman appears to take possession of Benedicte's body and Alain thinks he sees hundreds of lemmings in the house when he has in fact fallen asleep at the wheel of a car and got into an accident.
That an audience stays with this film -- or at least stays interested to see what will happen -- for as long as it does is a tribute to Moll and co-writer Gilles Marchand's sense of wit and a measured tone and style that suit the behavioral malfunctions.
Alas, the film relies too much on its shocks and fails to make the supernatural element at all convincing. The movie noticeably stalls toward the end of the second act so that the third-act skullduggery feels hopelessly contrived.
The actors do credible jobs in the four major roles. Lucas carries most of the weight as a character experiencing a total personality collapse. A man of modern technology and control, his Alain finds himself no longer certain who either he or his wife is.
Sound editor Gerard Hardy's highly selective, impressionistic soundtrack and David Sinclair Whitaker's music make major contributions to this stripped-down psychodrama. Jean-Marc Fabre's cinematography is clean and unobtrusive, and Michel Barthelemy's design emphasizes how a tasteful, well-lit suburban home can be its own nightmare.
LEMMING
Diaphana Films in association with France 3 Cinema
Credits:
Director: Dominik Moll
Screenwriters: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand
Producer: Michel Saint-Jean
Director of photography: Jean-Marc Fabre
Production designer: Michel Barthelemy
Music: David Sinclair Whitaker
Costume designers: Virginie Montel, Isabelle Pannetier
Editor: Mike Fromentin
Cast:
Alain: Laurent Lucas
Benedicte: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Alice: Charlotte Rampling
Richard: Andre Dussollier
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 129 minutes...
- 5/12/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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