Moritz Borman is producing with Karl Spoerri and Philip Schulz-Deyele.
Robert Schwentke, the German director of US films including Flightplan, Red and The Time Traveller’s Wife, is attached to direct a film about the collapse of German firm Wirecard in 2020. It was the result of the biggest corporate fraud scandal in the country’s history.
The as-yet-untitled film will be based on a tell-all expose called ‘Bad Company’ by Jörn Leogrande, a former top executive at the company.
It is being developed by Karl Spoerri’s Zurich and Los Angeles-based SPG3 Entertainment with Moritz Borman and Philip Schulz-Deyle’s German-based development company Pier 89 Content.
Robert Schwentke, the German director of US films including Flightplan, Red and The Time Traveller’s Wife, is attached to direct a film about the collapse of German firm Wirecard in 2020. It was the result of the biggest corporate fraud scandal in the country’s history.
The as-yet-untitled film will be based on a tell-all expose called ‘Bad Company’ by Jörn Leogrande, a former top executive at the company.
It is being developed by Karl Spoerri’s Zurich and Los Angeles-based SPG3 Entertainment with Moritz Borman and Philip Schulz-Deyle’s German-based development company Pier 89 Content.
- 3/12/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Bye Bye Birdie: Beauvois Bears Burdens in Old-Fashioned Melodrama
The albatross, a large white seabird with a significant wingspan, has been a symbol of a burden for paying penance ever since the 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge depicted this helpful avian creature leading a ship out of a jam only to be murdered by the titular sailor. As the title of the latest film from Xavier Beauvois suggests, Alabatros is also a narrative marrying oceanic themes and the impossibility of atonement for murdering another living thing. The English language title, Drift Away, divorces itself from such metaphorical obscurity to convey something a bit more basic (as is often the case for international titles being rebranded for easier marketing), but Beauvois finds himself adrift in what amounts to a somewhat stagnant, old-fashioned melodrama about grief and redemption.…...
The albatross, a large white seabird with a significant wingspan, has been a symbol of a burden for paying penance ever since the 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge depicted this helpful avian creature leading a ship out of a jam only to be murdered by the titular sailor. As the title of the latest film from Xavier Beauvois suggests, Alabatros is also a narrative marrying oceanic themes and the impossibility of atonement for murdering another living thing. The English language title, Drift Away, divorces itself from such metaphorical obscurity to convey something a bit more basic (as is often the case for international titles being rebranded for easier marketing), but Beauvois finds himself adrift in what amounts to a somewhat stagnant, old-fashioned melodrama about grief and redemption.…...
- 3/7/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With Drift Away, director Xavier Beauvois––known internationally for his masterful monastery-set Of Gods and Men––juxtaposes the picturesque scenery of northern France with a policeman’s inner turmoil, and the community’s social unrest lying beneath the surface, in an intriguing if frustrating policier.
Jérémie Renier plays Laurent, a police officer in Normandy, and sturdy figurehead of the community, soon to be married to his long-term girlfriend Marie (co-writer Marie-Julie Maille). We ride along with the veteran member of the Gendarmerie’s tight-knit team, including Laurent’s partner Quentin and principled new recruit Carole (Iris Bry) as they patrol the area. Countryside disputes and drunk bar patrons (including director Beavois in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo) paint a documentary-like picture of small-town life.
But it’s not just a rustic slice of France’s profonde. The area’s picturesque white cliffs overlooking the Atlantic are a regular spot for suicides,...
Jérémie Renier plays Laurent, a police officer in Normandy, and sturdy figurehead of the community, soon to be married to his long-term girlfriend Marie (co-writer Marie-Julie Maille). We ride along with the veteran member of the Gendarmerie’s tight-knit team, including Laurent’s partner Quentin and principled new recruit Carole (Iris Bry) as they patrol the area. Countryside disputes and drunk bar patrons (including director Beavois in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo) paint a documentary-like picture of small-town life.
But it’s not just a rustic slice of France’s profonde. The area’s picturesque white cliffs overlooking the Atlantic are a regular spot for suicides,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
Both films scored a mixture of threes and fours.
Hong Sangsoo’s Introduction and Maria Speth’s Mr Bachmann And His Class share the lead on the latest Screen jury grid, as a further five titles take their spots.
Prolific Korean director Hong’s Introduction was the most consistent scorer to date, receiving five marks of three (good) plus two fours (excellent) from Sight & Sound’s Nick James and Mathieu Macheret of Le Monde/ Cahiers Du Cinéma. It has a 3.3 score with one mark still to come.
Hong’s fifth Berlinale Competition entry is told in three parts, showing a young man visiting his father,...
Hong Sangsoo’s Introduction and Maria Speth’s Mr Bachmann And His Class share the lead on the latest Screen jury grid, as a further five titles take their spots.
Prolific Korean director Hong’s Introduction was the most consistent scorer to date, receiving five marks of three (good) plus two fours (excellent) from Sight & Sound’s Nick James and Mathieu Macheret of Le Monde/ Cahiers Du Cinéma. It has a 3.3 score with one mark still to come.
Hong’s fifth Berlinale Competition entry is told in three parts, showing a young man visiting his father,...
- 3/3/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Four titles have landed on the first edition of the grid.
Dominik Graf’s period drama Fabian – Going To The Dogs has set the early pace on Screen’s Berlin 2021 Competition jury grid, with a score of 3.1.
The result came from seven of the eight critics, and included three “excellent” scores of four stars from Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, Sight & Sound’s Nick James and Screen’s own critic.
The Morning Star’s Rita di Santo and Anton Dolin of Meduza and Film Art awarded it an “average” mark of two stars each.
Set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic,...
Dominik Graf’s period drama Fabian – Going To The Dogs has set the early pace on Screen’s Berlin 2021 Competition jury grid, with a score of 3.1.
The result came from seven of the eight critics, and included three “excellent” scores of four stars from Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus, Sight & Sound’s Nick James and Screen’s own critic.
The Morning Star’s Rita di Santo and Anton Dolin of Meduza and Film Art awarded it an “average” mark of two stars each.
Set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A Normandy-set cop movie with far more on its mind than simply solving the case, Xavier Beauvois’ Berlinale competition entry “Drift Away” examines the toll that law enforcement takes on an earnest sergeant (Jérémie Renier), and also how the locals react to intrusions by authority figures. Though not necessarily intended as such, it’s a nuanced rebuttal to recent anti-police protests in France and abroad, since it humanizes the role of an officer even as it hinges on the outcome of an armed confrontation between two gendarmes and a desperate farmer. Still, social-justice advocates may find it too convenient, and they wouldn’t be wrong.
Such cases are rarely cut and dried, and while this one duly upsets a community where gun violence is all but unheard of, the situation wears hardest on Renier’s character, Laurent Sandrail, who already is having a tough time separating work stress from his private life.
Such cases are rarely cut and dried, and while this one duly upsets a community where gun violence is all but unheard of, the situation wears hardest on Renier’s character, Laurent Sandrail, who already is having a tough time separating work stress from his private life.
- 3/2/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Most cop movies — and most movies in general — spend the first reel setting up a story that usually kicks off after an “inciting incident,” to quote various screenwriting manuals, which takes place within the first ten or 15 minutes. For the rest of the film, we then watch how that incident unravels and affects the lives of all those involved.
In Xavier Beauvois’ low-key police drama Drift Away (Alabtros), the veteran French writer-director does a curious thing: He spends about an hour on exposition, introducing us to a small-town gendarme named Laurent (Jérémie Renier) as he deals with ...
In Xavier Beauvois’ low-key police drama Drift Away (Alabtros), the veteran French writer-director does a curious thing: He spends about an hour on exposition, introducing us to a small-town gendarme named Laurent (Jérémie Renier) as he deals with ...
Most cop movies — and most movies in general — spend the first reel setting up a story that usually kicks off after an “inciting incident,” to quote various screenwriting manuals, which takes place within the first ten or 15 minutes. For the rest of the film, we then watch how that incident unravels and affects the lives of all those involved.
In Xavier Beauvois’ low-key police drama Drift Away (Alabtros), the veteran French writer-director does a curious thing: He spends about an hour on exposition, introducing us to a small-town gendarme named Laurent (Jérémie Renier) as he deals with ...
In Xavier Beauvois’ low-key police drama Drift Away (Alabtros), the veteran French writer-director does a curious thing: He spends about an hour on exposition, introducing us to a small-town gendarme named Laurent (Jérémie Renier) as he deals with ...
The French sales agent will wager on Golden Bear contender Drift Away and on projects including the two-part adaption of The Three Musketeers and upcoming Stephen Frears and Emanuele Crialese titles. French sales group Pathé International is making its final preparations before making an appearance at the 71st Berlinale's European Film Market (unfolding online 1 -5 March) with a very well-stocked movie armoury.Standing out in the group’s festival showcase is the French-Belgian co-production Drift Away by Xavier Beauvois, which is the 8th feature-length work to come courtesy of the French filmmaker who will be battling it out for the Golden Bear for the very first time, having already been selected to compete twice in Cannes and twice in Venice (in 2000 and 2014). Notably...
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