Claire Denis to preside over jury.
Chloe Sevigny, one of the stars of Cannes opening film The Dead Don’t Die, has directed a short that is among the selections that will screen on the Croisette next month.
Sevigny’s 15-minute film is entitled White Echo and will compete for the short film Palme d’Or that president of the jury Claire Denis will hand out on May 25.
The actor-director’s 2016 short Kitty screened in Cannes Critics Week and won the Palme de whiskers, and she also directed the 2017 short Carmen.
Selections include The Van (Albania-France) by Erenik Beqiri; Anna...
Chloe Sevigny, one of the stars of Cannes opening film The Dead Don’t Die, has directed a short that is among the selections that will screen on the Croisette next month.
Sevigny’s 15-minute film is entitled White Echo and will compete for the short film Palme d’Or that president of the jury Claire Denis will hand out on May 25.
The actor-director’s 2016 short Kitty screened in Cannes Critics Week and won the Palme de whiskers, and she also directed the 2017 short Carmen.
Selections include The Van (Albania-France) by Erenik Beqiri; Anna...
- 4/19/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Each month, the fine folks at FilmStruck and the Criterion Collection spend countless hours crafting their channels to highlight the many different types of films that they have in their streaming library. This July will feature an exciting assortment of films, as noted below.
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Saturday, July 1 Changing Faces
What does a face tell us even when it’s disguised or disfigured? And what does it conceal? Guest curator Imogen Sara Smith, a critic and author of the book In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City, assembles a series of films that revolve around enigmatic faces transformed by masks, scars, and surgery, including Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face (1960) and Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another (1966).
Tuesday, July 4 Tuesday’s Short + Feature: Premature* and Ten*
Come hitch a ride with Norwegian director Gunhild Enger and the late Iranian master...
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Saturday, July 1 Changing Faces
What does a face tell us even when it’s disguised or disfigured? And what does it conceal? Guest curator Imogen Sara Smith, a critic and author of the book In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City, assembles a series of films that revolve around enigmatic faces transformed by masks, scars, and surgery, including Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face (1960) and Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another (1966).
Tuesday, July 4 Tuesday’s Short + Feature: Premature* and Ten*
Come hitch a ride with Norwegian director Gunhild Enger and the late Iranian master...
- 6/26/2017
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Few acting resumes include as many visionary, boundary-pushing auteur filmmakers as Chloë Sevigny’s. A selected list of the directors she’s worked with could easily fill an IndieWire top ten: Harmony Korine, Vincent Gallo, Lars Von Trier, Whit Stillman, Kimberly Peirce, Olivier Assayas, and David Fincher — to name a few. In fact, as IndieWire co-founder Eugene Hernandez put it at a sit-down with the actress at the Provincetown International Film Festival last weekend, Sevigny was at the epicenter of the independent film renaissance of the late 1990s and early 2000s that inspired IndieWire’s creation in the first place.
Read More: Why Chloe Sevigny Waited 20 Years To Make Her Directorial Debut With The Female-Friendly ‘Kitty’
“It was the work of Chloe and so many of her collaborators…that inspired the site we created. So without even knowing it, Chloe, you were part of what helped inspire us to do what we did at IndieWire,” said Hernandez in his introduction.
Sevigny was in Provincetown showing her short film, “Kitty,” the actress’ first foray into directing. It’s a visually lush and fantastical film based on a short story by Paul Bowles, whose work once led her to travel to Marrakech with Korine in the mid-’90s, “Just kind of following in his footsteps.” As the festival presented her with their Excellence in Acting Award, Sevigny and Hernandez sat down for a career-spanning talk that included some eyebrow-raising anecdotes from her days working with indie cinema’s most lauded (and eccentric) directors.
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Here are seven things you may not have known about Sevigny’s most memorable films, and some of the greatest (and most controversial) indies of the last twenty years, according to her:
1. Before “Boys Don’t Cry,” Drew Barrymore wanted to play Brandon Teena, and she asked Harmony Korine to direct it.
“Drew Barrymore had actually approached Harmony and she wanted to play [Brandon Teena] and she wanted me to play Lana in her version. There were some weird initial meetings around that, which obviously didn’t go very far. She sent in these kind of Herb Ritts photos of herself done up as a boy. She looked really attractive, but it wasn’t gonna work. And then I actually went and auditioned for the [Brandon Teena] part. Kimberly Peirce said, ‘You’ve never wanted to be a boy, have you?’ And I said, ‘No,’ and she was like, ‘Why don’t you come back in and try out for the other part?’ So I did, and I got it.”
2. Sarah Polley was Kimberly Peirce’s first choice to play Lana in “Boys Don’t Cry.”
“I only got the part because Sarah Polley passed. That happened to me a lot in the ’90s. She got a lot of parts that I wanted.”
3. The reaction to that infamous blow job scene in Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny” still haunts her.
“I thought it would just kind of play to an art house audience, I don’t know why I thought it would just go under the radar. Vincent’s a real character. I love ‘Buffalo 66.’ I put my faith in him, believed in him. He’s also very seductive, as you can imagine… I think it was a way of kind of reclaiming myself, which sounds odd, but after the celebrity and stuff, being like: ‘No, that’s not who I am, I’m this other thing, and this is what I stand for.’ Or wanting to push the envelope. Like John [Waters], who’s here.” Sevigny gestured to Waters, who called out from the audience: “I loved the ‘The Brown Bunny’! The insects on the windshield…”
Read More: ‘Lizzie’: First Look at Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny in Gothic Historical Murder Mystery
4. “The Brown Bunny” didn’t hurt her career, but it did hurt some relationships.
“I got my first studio film after that. I’d never been offered a studio film. It was ‘Zodiac.’ I don’t think it really hurt me, necessarily. I mean, it hurt me, in a lot of ways… Some relationships have had trouble with it. Of course, my mom and I don’t talk about it.”
5. Whit Stillman is terrifying.
“He’s very precise, and he also likes to do things a lot… It becomes surreal. Not as much as Fincher — he does full takes. Whit just wants you to say one line or one word again and again and again in a series. It’s terrifying. So scared of that man. And yet I keep going back. Glutton for punishment.”
6. Lars Von Trier spanked her on the set of “Dogville” (often).
“I think that Lars tortures the main actresses, and the supporting players get a free ride. He was really into spanking me. But in a playful way. He’d always tease me, like I had to be punished. And he knew I was into Black metal so he was always teasing me about like going off and burning churches. We had a funny rapport. But I think he was harder on Nicole [Kidman].”
7. The Chloe videos hurt her feelings.
“Ugh, I have a really complicated relationship with those. I don’t want to say I’m offended, ’cause that’s such a strong word. But I don’t enjoy them. I think because he’s a comedian. If he was more of a drag performer, I would feel like less – they hurt my feelings. Maybe I should be tougher, I don’t know. But they do.”
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Read More: Why Chloe Sevigny Waited 20 Years To Make Her Directorial Debut With The Female-Friendly ‘Kitty’
“It was the work of Chloe and so many of her collaborators…that inspired the site we created. So without even knowing it, Chloe, you were part of what helped inspire us to do what we did at IndieWire,” said Hernandez in his introduction.
Sevigny was in Provincetown showing her short film, “Kitty,” the actress’ first foray into directing. It’s a visually lush and fantastical film based on a short story by Paul Bowles, whose work once led her to travel to Marrakech with Korine in the mid-’90s, “Just kind of following in his footsteps.” As the festival presented her with their Excellence in Acting Award, Sevigny and Hernandez sat down for a career-spanning talk that included some eyebrow-raising anecdotes from her days working with indie cinema’s most lauded (and eccentric) directors.
Read More: Sofia Coppola On Female Sexuality In ‘The Beguiled’ And Why She Hopes Gay Men Find Colin Farrell Sexy
Here are seven things you may not have known about Sevigny’s most memorable films, and some of the greatest (and most controversial) indies of the last twenty years, according to her:
1. Before “Boys Don’t Cry,” Drew Barrymore wanted to play Brandon Teena, and she asked Harmony Korine to direct it.
“Drew Barrymore had actually approached Harmony and she wanted to play [Brandon Teena] and she wanted me to play Lana in her version. There were some weird initial meetings around that, which obviously didn’t go very far. She sent in these kind of Herb Ritts photos of herself done up as a boy. She looked really attractive, but it wasn’t gonna work. And then I actually went and auditioned for the [Brandon Teena] part. Kimberly Peirce said, ‘You’ve never wanted to be a boy, have you?’ And I said, ‘No,’ and she was like, ‘Why don’t you come back in and try out for the other part?’ So I did, and I got it.”
2. Sarah Polley was Kimberly Peirce’s first choice to play Lana in “Boys Don’t Cry.”
“I only got the part because Sarah Polley passed. That happened to me a lot in the ’90s. She got a lot of parts that I wanted.”
3. The reaction to that infamous blow job scene in Vincent Gallo’s “The Brown Bunny” still haunts her.
“I thought it would just kind of play to an art house audience, I don’t know why I thought it would just go under the radar. Vincent’s a real character. I love ‘Buffalo 66.’ I put my faith in him, believed in him. He’s also very seductive, as you can imagine… I think it was a way of kind of reclaiming myself, which sounds odd, but after the celebrity and stuff, being like: ‘No, that’s not who I am, I’m this other thing, and this is what I stand for.’ Or wanting to push the envelope. Like John [Waters], who’s here.” Sevigny gestured to Waters, who called out from the audience: “I loved the ‘The Brown Bunny’! The insects on the windshield…”
Read More: ‘Lizzie’: First Look at Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny in Gothic Historical Murder Mystery
4. “The Brown Bunny” didn’t hurt her career, but it did hurt some relationships.
“I got my first studio film after that. I’d never been offered a studio film. It was ‘Zodiac.’ I don’t think it really hurt me, necessarily. I mean, it hurt me, in a lot of ways… Some relationships have had trouble with it. Of course, my mom and I don’t talk about it.”
5. Whit Stillman is terrifying.
“He’s very precise, and he also likes to do things a lot… It becomes surreal. Not as much as Fincher — he does full takes. Whit just wants you to say one line or one word again and again and again in a series. It’s terrifying. So scared of that man. And yet I keep going back. Glutton for punishment.”
6. Lars Von Trier spanked her on the set of “Dogville” (often).
“I think that Lars tortures the main actresses, and the supporting players get a free ride. He was really into spanking me. But in a playful way. He’d always tease me, like I had to be punished. And he knew I was into Black metal so he was always teasing me about like going off and burning churches. We had a funny rapport. But I think he was harder on Nicole [Kidman].”
7. The Chloe videos hurt her feelings.
“Ugh, I have a really complicated relationship with those. I don’t want to say I’m offended, ’cause that’s such a strong word. But I don’t enjoy them. I think because he’s a comedian. If he was more of a drag performer, I would feel like less – they hurt my feelings. Maybe I should be tougher, I don’t know. But they do.”
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- 6/22/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
This year’s edition of La Semaine de la Critique — Cannes’ own International Critics’ Week — has named lauded Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho the President of the jury. Per the festival, “As a parallel section dedicated to revealing emerging talents, La Semaine de la Critique is happy to welcome the frontrunner of the new generation of Brazilian filmmakers arising on the international scene.”
Last year, the film-critic-turned-filmmaker debuted his “Aquarius” in Official Competition at the festival, which later went on to earn a number of accolades around the world, including Best Foreign Film Award of the French Union of Film Critic (it was also the subject of controversy after it was snubbed by Brazil’s own Ministry of Culture when it came time to submit for the Academy Awards). The film followed the success of his debut feature, “Neighboring Sounds,” another festival favorite that was a hit with critics and cinephiles alike.
Last year, the film-critic-turned-filmmaker debuted his “Aquarius” in Official Competition at the festival, which later went on to earn a number of accolades around the world, including Best Foreign Film Award of the French Union of Film Critic (it was also the subject of controversy after it was snubbed by Brazil’s own Ministry of Culture when it came time to submit for the Academy Awards). The film followed the success of his debut feature, “Neighboring Sounds,” another festival favorite that was a hit with critics and cinephiles alike.
- 3/16/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The partners on Monday announced at Sundance a new season of the Shatterbox Anthology film series that backed Kristen Stewart’s directing debut Come Swim.
The series is designed to showcase the next cycle of female storytellers and is consistent with Refinery29’s mission to support female voices.
The filmmakers received creative support from the Sundance Institute’s Women At Sundance programme and the anthology will air on TV as well as on Refinery 29 and TNT’s social and digital platforms.
Shatterbox Anthology talent will also have the opportunity to potentially work with and develop creative projects for cable channel TNT, whose owner Turner recently invested in Refinery29.
Besides Stewart’s Come Swim (pictured), which screens again in Park City on Wednesday and Saturday this week, the anthology includes Anu Valia’s Sundance premiere Lucia, Before And After, which screens again on Tuesday and Friday. Chlöe Sevigny’s Kitty debuted in Cannes last year.
“A top priority...
The series is designed to showcase the next cycle of female storytellers and is consistent with Refinery29’s mission to support female voices.
The filmmakers received creative support from the Sundance Institute’s Women At Sundance programme and the anthology will air on TV as well as on Refinery 29 and TNT’s social and digital platforms.
Shatterbox Anthology talent will also have the opportunity to potentially work with and develop creative projects for cable channel TNT, whose owner Turner recently invested in Refinery29.
Besides Stewart’s Come Swim (pictured), which screens again in Park City on Wednesday and Saturday this week, the anthology includes Anu Valia’s Sundance premiere Lucia, Before And After, which screens again on Tuesday and Friday. Chlöe Sevigny’s Kitty debuted in Cannes last year.
“A top priority...
- 1/23/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The partners on Monday announced at Sundance a new season of the Shatterbox Anthology film series that backed Kristen Stewart’s directing debut Come Swim.
The series is designed to showcase the next cycle of female storytellers and is consistent with Refinery29’s mission to support female voices.
The filmmakers received creative support from the Sundance Institute’s Women At Sundance programme and the anthology will air on TV as well as on Refinery 29 and TNT’s social and digital platforms.
Shatterbox Anthology talent will also have the opportunity to potentially work with and develop creative projects for cable channel TNT, whose owner Turner recently invested in Refinery29.
Besides Stewart’s Come Swim (pictured), which screens again in Park City on Wednesday and Saturday this week, the anthology includes Anu Valia’s Sundance premiere Lucia, Before And After, which screens again on Tuesday and Friday. Chlöe Sevigny’s Kitty debuted in Cannes last year.
“A top priority...
The series is designed to showcase the next cycle of female storytellers and is consistent with Refinery29’s mission to support female voices.
The filmmakers received creative support from the Sundance Institute’s Women At Sundance programme and the anthology will air on TV as well as on Refinery 29 and TNT’s social and digital platforms.
Shatterbox Anthology talent will also have the opportunity to potentially work with and develop creative projects for cable channel TNT, whose owner Turner recently invested in Refinery29.
Besides Stewart’s Come Swim (pictured), which screens again in Park City on Wednesday and Saturday this week, the anthology includes Anu Valia’s Sundance premiere Lucia, Before And After, which screens again on Tuesday and Friday. Chlöe Sevigny’s Kitty debuted in Cannes last year.
“A top priority...
- 1/23/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Bulgarian-Danish-French drama previously won festival awards in Locarno and Sarajevo.
Ralitza Petrova’s Godless has won this year’s Golden Puffin, the top award at the 13th Reykjavik International Film Festival (Riff)
The jury, comprised of Goteborg artistic director Jonas Holmberg, Rams director Grimur Hákonarson and bestselling Icelandic novelist Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, said, “The Golden Puffin goes to a bleak but beautiful film with poignant acting and atmospheric cinematography. The film combines the downbeat suspense of an medicalised crime story with a subtle portrayal of the agony in a post communist society where redemption is only glimpsed in the sacral world of music.”
Godless, which is a Bulgarian-Danish-French co-production, previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno and the Special Jury Award and the Heart of Sarajevo for best actress (Irena Ivanova) at Sarajevo Film Festival. It also won five national awards at the Golden Rose National Film Festival in Bulgaria.
Petrova is a graduate of the UK’s National...
Ralitza Petrova’s Godless has won this year’s Golden Puffin, the top award at the 13th Reykjavik International Film Festival (Riff)
The jury, comprised of Goteborg artistic director Jonas Holmberg, Rams director Grimur Hákonarson and bestselling Icelandic novelist Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, said, “The Golden Puffin goes to a bleak but beautiful film with poignant acting and atmospheric cinematography. The film combines the downbeat suspense of an medicalised crime story with a subtle portrayal of the agony in a post communist society where redemption is only glimpsed in the sacral world of music.”
Godless, which is a Bulgarian-Danish-French co-production, previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno and the Special Jury Award and the Heart of Sarajevo for best actress (Irena Ivanova) at Sarajevo Film Festival. It also won five national awards at the Golden Rose National Film Festival in Bulgaria.
Petrova is a graduate of the UK’s National...
- 10/10/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
“Watching You, Watching Me” is the first short film from Refinery29’s “Shatterbox Anthology,” a new initiative that is producing 12 shorts from different female directors, writers and animators centered around the theme of power dynamics.
Directed by Pamela Romanowsky, best known for her James Franco-starring drama “The Adderall Diaries,” “Watching You, Watching Me” is a black and white feature that focuses on four individuals, Shagasyia Diamond, Rachel Fleit, Edward McDonald and Lyn Slater, and how they are perceived in this world. These four people talk about their personal experiences of being judged, whether it be for their appearance, sexual preference, age or how they’ve changed.
“If the reason for you watching people is to judge them, you just need to stop,” says Diamond in the video. “If the reason you are watching people is because you’re intrigued by them, then you need to let that person know.
Directed by Pamela Romanowsky, best known for her James Franco-starring drama “The Adderall Diaries,” “Watching You, Watching Me” is a black and white feature that focuses on four individuals, Shagasyia Diamond, Rachel Fleit, Edward McDonald and Lyn Slater, and how they are perceived in this world. These four people talk about their personal experiences of being judged, whether it be for their appearance, sexual preference, age or how they’ve changed.
“If the reason for you watching people is to judge them, you just need to stop,” says Diamond in the video. “If the reason you are watching people is because you’re intrigued by them, then you need to let that person know.
- 8/31/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
The Film Society of Lincoln Center today announced the lineup for Explorations, a new section featuring bold selections from the vanguard of contemporary cinema, and Main Slate shorts for the 54th New York Film Festival.
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
Explorations is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. It kicks off with six features, including Albert Serra’s latest, “The Death of Louis Xiv,” featuring a tour de force performance by French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Léaud; Douglas Gordon’s portrait of avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas, “I Had Nowhere to Go”; João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist”, which won him the Best Director prize at Locarno; as well as Natalia Almada’s “Everything Else”, Gastón Solnicki’s “Kékszakállú,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Mimosas.”
New York Film Festival Director...
Read More: Nyff Reveals Main Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Manchester By the Sea,’ ‘Paterson’ and ‘Personal Shopper’
Explorations is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. It kicks off with six features, including Albert Serra’s latest, “The Death of Louis Xiv,” featuring a tour de force performance by French cinema legend Jean-Pierre Léaud; Douglas Gordon’s portrait of avant-garde icon Jonas Mekas, “I Had Nowhere to Go”; João Pedro Rodrigues’s “The Ornithologist”, which won him the Best Director prize at Locarno; as well as Natalia Almada’s “Everything Else”, Gastón Solnicki’s “Kékszakállú,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Mimosas.”
New York Film Festival Director...
- 8/29/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
After decades working in Hollywood, Chloë Sevigny can remember three major directors who "crossed the line" during casting. "I've had the 'what are you doing after this?' conversation," the actress said at Variety's Cannes Film Festival panel on Wednesday. "I've also had the 'do you want to go shopping and try on some clothes and, like, I can buy you something in the dressing room' [conversation]," she added. "Just like crossing-the-line weirdness." Another time, she remembers a director told her, " 'You should show your body off more. You shouldn't wait until you're as old as this certain actress who had...
- 5/18/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
After decades working in Hollywood, Chloë Sevigny can remember three major directors who "crossed the line" during casting. "I've had the 'what are you doing after this?' conversation," the actress said at Variety's Cannes Film Festival panel on Wednesday. "I've also had the 'do you want to go shopping and try on some clothes and, like, I can buy you something in the dressing room' [conversation]," she added. "Just like crossing-the-line weirdness." Another time, she remembers a director told her, " 'You should show your body off more. You shouldn't wait until you're as old as this certain actress who had...
- 5/18/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Twenty-one years after Kids, the first film she ever acted in, traveled to Cannes, Chloë Sevigny is on the Riviera with directorial debut, Kitty. The short is one of three movies that will close the Critics' Week section tomorrow. We spoke before the festival for our Ones To Watch coverage; and we sat down this week in person at the beachside Deadline Studio (see video above). Sevigny had just arrived on the Croisette the day before our chat, noting she did so on her own…...
- 5/18/2016
- Deadline
An extended conversation with the acclaimed actor and director, who talks about sexism in Hollywood and why she never gets cast in blockbusters
Your daily update of the latest news and reviews from the Guardian film team. Now showing: Chloë Sevigny sits down with us to discuss Kitty, her directorial debut premiering at Cannes, as well as sexism in Hollywood and the ‘creepy’ casting process.
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Your daily update of the latest news and reviews from the Guardian film team. Now showing: Chloë Sevigny sits down with us to discuss Kitty, her directorial debut premiering at Cannes, as well as sexism in Hollywood and the ‘creepy’ casting process.
Follow us on Twitter (GuardianFilm, Henry, Ben, Catherine, Andrew and producer Rowan) and check out our Facebook page. Comment on the show below.
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- 5/18/2016
- by Presented by Benjamin Lee and produced by Rowan Slaney
- The Guardian - Film News
Chloë Sevigny is taking a seat in the director's chair. The actress's first project as a writer-director, a short film titled Kitty, debuted out of competition on the closing night of the Cannes Film Festival. She stumbled upon the short story, about a little girl who dreams of becoming a kitten, in her early 20s and was quick to realize how close she resembled the story's hero. "There's just a lot that I identified with in this little girl, you know? She's looking at herself in the mirror and hoping to be or wishing to be something that she isn't.
- 5/18/2016
- by Nicole Sands, @nicolesands901
- PEOPLE.com
Chloë Sevigny is taking a seat in the director's chair. The actress's first project as a writer-director, a short film titled Kitty, debuted out of competition on the closing night of the Cannes Film Festival. She stumbled upon the short story, about a little girl who dreams of becoming a kitten, in her early 20s and was quick to realize how close she resembled the story's hero. "There's just a lot that I identified with in this little girl, you know? She's looking at herself in the mirror and hoping to be or wishing to be something that she isn't.
- 5/18/2016
- by Nicole Sands, @nicolesands901
- PEOPLE.com
Deadline's studio at the 69th Cannes Film Festival has been greeting fest-goers all weekend on the Croisette; including visits by Chloë Sevigny, director of closing short Kitty, festival juror Mads Mikkelsen, icons Vanessa Redgrave and James Ivory, Bill Paxton of Mean Dreams, Rebecca Hall from The Bfg, and many more. Photographer Mark Mann is behind the lens for our series of photo sessions and video interviews taking place at Nikki Beach. Click on the photo to launch the…...
- 5/16/2016
- Deadline
The International Film Festival of Cannes, May 11th to 22nd, is the largest media event in the world after the Olympics. The Red Carpet Gala Premieres of world renowned auteur films, movie stars plus their photos go to every newspaper, magazine and television station in the world.
This year we’ll see the stars (and directors with their entourages) in films by Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Jodie Foster ♀, Stephen Spielberg, Jeff Nichols, Sean Penn, Nicolas Winding Refn, Pedro Almodóvar, Ashghar Farhadi, Andrea Arnold ♀, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Xavier Dolan, Bruno Dumont, Nicole Garcia ♀, Ken Loach, Paul Verhoeven, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, David Mackenzie, Matt Ross, Shane Black, Paul Schrader, Rithy Panh and others from almost 30 countries as they pose on the red carpet.
The Official Selection Competition shows films of bankable masters and Un Certain Regard spotlights original and young talent. The Official Selection also includes Out of Competition films, Special Screenings, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Classics, and the Cinéfondation Selection targeting film schools. The Cannes Short Film Corner offers a panorama of short film production worldwide.
There are more short films in the festival and three other “sidebar” festivals which have evolved since Cannes began in 1946. Directors banded together to create the Directors’ Fortnight, critics created the Critics Week and 20 years ago independent filmmakers created Acid.
And with all this hoopla, there are less than 95 feature films screening in all.
At the same time, there is an enormous film market called the Marché du Film. It is the most important event of the film industry, the meeting point for more than 10,000 professionals, including 3,200 producers, 1,500 international sales agents licensing almost 4,000 films and projects to 2,300 distributors from everywhere in the world (about 60 “territories” covering Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia and North America), and 790 festival organizers all there to discover the gems which will make them stand out.
There are gala parties, panel discussions hosted by many different organizations, and for the past three years there has been an increasingly bright spotlight on women and the need for parity in all areas of the film industry.
Traditional theatrical and movie channel buyers are looking for undiscovered jewels, whether in the festival or in the market, films which they judge will be most appealing to their audiences.
In the market itself, Cmg is selling directors Dorota Kobiela and Welchman’s “Loving Vincent”, an animated story of Vincent Van Gogh, still unfinished but which has “presold” in 17 territories. It features over 120 of Vincent Van Gogh’s greatest paintings with a plot drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter himself, leading us to the significant people and events in the time leading up to his unexpected death.
The other big issue today is the unequal number of women in the directors’ ranks…4% worldwide is not representative of the 51% population. Cannes is working to show its interest in improving the numbers. The need to find and show good films by women is important to everyone.
Cambodia and Singapore. Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features, chose 10 films out of 1,100 feature-length submissions and is dominated by female film-makers, with Justine Triet’s “In Bed With Victoria”, a crime thriller, selected as the opening film. And totally unique, closing night will be three short films – including Chloë Sevigny’s adaptation of the Paul Bowles novel “Kitty”, “Smile” (“Bonne Figure”) by Sandrine Kiberlain of France and “En moi” by Laetitia Casta of France.
Other films from afar include the Opening Night film of Un Certain Regard, “Eshtebak” (“Clash”) by Egypt’s Mohamed Diab, Cambodia’s “Diamond island” by Davy Chou in Competition in Critics’ Week, a Cambodian-French-German coproduction. There are two films from Lebanon, “Fallen From Heaven” a first feature in Acid and “Tramontane” in Critics Week. From Tunisia comes Karim Dridi’s “Chouf” in the Official Selection Special Screenings.
Perhaps the most exotic film showing is the Afghanistan-Denmark- France-Sweden coproduction, “Wolf and Sheep” in Directors’ Fortnight. In her debut feature, the young Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat portrays the community in a small village in rural Afghanistan through shepherd children.
Although he is still confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange will make an appearance at the Cannes film festival – via Laura Poitras’s documentary “Risk”, which has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar.
Iran’s famous Oscar-winning (“A Separation”) director, Asghar Farhadi is here with “Inversion”.
As always everyone will be running on adrenalin trying to accomplish everything in ten neverending days.
This year we’ll see the stars (and directors with their entourages) in films by Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Jodie Foster ♀, Stephen Spielberg, Jeff Nichols, Sean Penn, Nicolas Winding Refn, Pedro Almodóvar, Ashghar Farhadi, Andrea Arnold ♀, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Xavier Dolan, Bruno Dumont, Nicole Garcia ♀, Ken Loach, Paul Verhoeven, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, David Mackenzie, Matt Ross, Shane Black, Paul Schrader, Rithy Panh and others from almost 30 countries as they pose on the red carpet.
The Official Selection Competition shows films of bankable masters and Un Certain Regard spotlights original and young talent. The Official Selection also includes Out of Competition films, Special Screenings, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Classics, and the Cinéfondation Selection targeting film schools. The Cannes Short Film Corner offers a panorama of short film production worldwide.
There are more short films in the festival and three other “sidebar” festivals which have evolved since Cannes began in 1946. Directors banded together to create the Directors’ Fortnight, critics created the Critics Week and 20 years ago independent filmmakers created Acid.
And with all this hoopla, there are less than 95 feature films screening in all.
At the same time, there is an enormous film market called the Marché du Film. It is the most important event of the film industry, the meeting point for more than 10,000 professionals, including 3,200 producers, 1,500 international sales agents licensing almost 4,000 films and projects to 2,300 distributors from everywhere in the world (about 60 “territories” covering Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia and North America), and 790 festival organizers all there to discover the gems which will make them stand out.
There are gala parties, panel discussions hosted by many different organizations, and for the past three years there has been an increasingly bright spotlight on women and the need for parity in all areas of the film industry.
Traditional theatrical and movie channel buyers are looking for undiscovered jewels, whether in the festival or in the market, films which they judge will be most appealing to their audiences.
In the market itself, Cmg is selling directors Dorota Kobiela and Welchman’s “Loving Vincent”, an animated story of Vincent Van Gogh, still unfinished but which has “presold” in 17 territories. It features over 120 of Vincent Van Gogh’s greatest paintings with a plot drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter himself, leading us to the significant people and events in the time leading up to his unexpected death.
The other big issue today is the unequal number of women in the directors’ ranks…4% worldwide is not representative of the 51% population. Cannes is working to show its interest in improving the numbers. The need to find and show good films by women is important to everyone.
Cambodia and Singapore. Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features, chose 10 films out of 1,100 feature-length submissions and is dominated by female film-makers, with Justine Triet’s “In Bed With Victoria”, a crime thriller, selected as the opening film. And totally unique, closing night will be three short films – including Chloë Sevigny’s adaptation of the Paul Bowles novel “Kitty”, “Smile” (“Bonne Figure”) by Sandrine Kiberlain of France and “En moi” by Laetitia Casta of France.
Other films from afar include the Opening Night film of Un Certain Regard, “Eshtebak” (“Clash”) by Egypt’s Mohamed Diab, Cambodia’s “Diamond island” by Davy Chou in Competition in Critics’ Week, a Cambodian-French-German coproduction. There are two films from Lebanon, “Fallen From Heaven” a first feature in Acid and “Tramontane” in Critics Week. From Tunisia comes Karim Dridi’s “Chouf” in the Official Selection Special Screenings.
Perhaps the most exotic film showing is the Afghanistan-Denmark- France-Sweden coproduction, “Wolf and Sheep” in Directors’ Fortnight. In her debut feature, the young Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat portrays the community in a small village in rural Afghanistan through shepherd children.
Although he is still confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange will make an appearance at the Cannes film festival – via Laura Poitras’s documentary “Risk”, which has been selected for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar.
Iran’s famous Oscar-winning (“A Separation”) director, Asghar Farhadi is here with “Inversion”.
As always everyone will be running on adrenalin trying to accomplish everything in ten neverending days.
- 5/11/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Returning to Cannes Film Festival after her César-winning performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart will be back with director Olivier Assayas for Personal Shopper. Described as a ghost story that takes place in the fashion underworld of Paris, it’s near the top of our most-anticipated features of the festival. Stewart will also help open the event with Woody Allen‘s Cafe Society (see the trailer) and today brings new images from both features.
Meanwhile, she’s set her directorial debut with Water, a short film that will be backed by Refinery29, THR reports. Although no other details are known, it’s among a slate that also includes Chloë Sevigny‘s Cannes-bound Kitty, Gabourey Sidibe‘s A Tale of Four Women, and more. As we await all the aforementioned films, check the new photos below (hat tip to Woody Allen Pages for the ones from Cafe Society).
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Meanwhile, she’s set her directorial debut with Water, a short film that will be backed by Refinery29, THR reports. Although no other details are known, it’s among a slate that also includes Chloë Sevigny‘s Cannes-bound Kitty, Gabourey Sidibe‘s A Tale of Four Women, and more. As we await all the aforementioned films, check the new photos below (hat tip to Woody Allen Pages for the ones from Cafe Society).
After premiering at Cannes,...
- 5/3/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Following a high-octane performance by an all-female drum circle and hula hoop phenom Marawa Wamp, Refinery29 presented a slew of new projects at its NewFront presentation yesterday -- the theme of which was all about women “claiming power.”
To this end, Refinery -- which says it has a global audience of 175 million across all platforms, as well as 100 million monthly video views -- announced two new YouTube channels: the sports-centric Brawlers in collaboration with Smart Water, and comedy channel Riot, which will launch with eight series and guest appearances from the likes of Lena Dunham.
In terms of scripted originals, Refinery has recruited a handful of high-profile partners to direct projects for its ShatterBox Anthology of 12 shorts, which aims to highlight female filmmakers. Kristen Stewart will make her directorial debut with Water, Gabourey Sidibe will helm A Tale Of Four Women, and Chloë Sevigny will premiere Kitty at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
To this end, Refinery -- which says it has a global audience of 175 million across all platforms, as well as 100 million monthly video views -- announced two new YouTube channels: the sports-centric Brawlers in collaboration with Smart Water, and comedy channel Riot, which will launch with eight series and guest appearances from the likes of Lena Dunham.
In terms of scripted originals, Refinery has recruited a handful of high-profile partners to direct projects for its ShatterBox Anthology of 12 shorts, which aims to highlight female filmmakers. Kristen Stewart will make her directorial debut with Water, Gabourey Sidibe will helm A Tale Of Four Women, and Chloë Sevigny will premiere Kitty at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
- 5/3/2016
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Kristen Stewart is making her directorial debut with a new short film for female-focused digital publisher Refinery29 The Café Society actress is joining R29’s ShatterBox Anthology, which has committed to bringing short films from 12 female directors, writers and animators that explore the dynamic of power. The first project to result from the ethnology is Chloe Sevigny’s Kitty, which will premiere at Cannes. Stewart’s project is currently titled Water. Few other details have been released. Also joining the anthology is Empire actress Gabourey Sidibe, who also will be making her directorial debut with a short called A Tale of
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- 5/3/2016
- by Natalie Jarvey
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stars like Kristen Stewart and Gabourey Sidibe will make their directorial debuts as part of Refinery29’s 2016 original programming slate, the multimedia company announced on Monday. Stewart and Sidibe will be among filmmakers directing short films as part of Refinery29’s “ShatterBox Anthology” series. Stewart’s film is tentatively titled “Water,” while Sidibe’s is “A Tale of Four Women.” Chloë Sevigny’s directorial debut “Kitty” will be the first film of the anthology series, and will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival later this month. Also Read: Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult Break All the Rules in 'Equals...
- 5/3/2016
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Justine Triet’s In Bed With Victoria featuring Virginie Efira Photo: Indie Sales Seven features are in competition for the Nespresso Grand Prize in the Cannes Critics’ Week announced earlier today (18 April) while 10 shorts are in competition for the new Leica Cine Discovery prize.
Justine Triet's In Bed With Victoria will open the sidebar that focuses on young directors in a selection chosen by the professional body of French film critics. It is described as “a light-hearted, frank and modern comedy about a young single mother (played by Virginie Efira from Family To Rent) trying to find the balance between her career and her love life.”
The closing programme will comprise shorts by actresses - Chloe Sevigny (Kitty); Sandrine Kiberlain (Smile) and Laetitia Casta (En moi).
Other contenders in the 55th edition are Turkish director Mehmet Can Mertoglu's Album, about prejudice; Spanish director Olivier Laxe's second film, Mimosas,...
Justine Triet's In Bed With Victoria will open the sidebar that focuses on young directors in a selection chosen by the professional body of French film critics. It is described as “a light-hearted, frank and modern comedy about a young single mother (played by Virginie Efira from Family To Rent) trying to find the balance between her career and her love life.”
The closing programme will comprise shorts by actresses - Chloe Sevigny (Kitty); Sandrine Kiberlain (Smile) and Laetitia Casta (En moi).
Other contenders in the 55th edition are Turkish director Mehmet Can Mertoglu's Album, about prejudice; Spanish director Olivier Laxe's second film, Mimosas,...
- 4/18/2016
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Following the unveiling of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival line-up, the Critics’ Week sidebar has now revealed their slate. As usual, there are a lot of discoveries to be had, with six of main selection being first features and four sophomore effort. Notably, Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher) will screen his new short From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer while Chloë Sevigny will premiere her new film Kitty. Check out the full line-up, along with the trailer for the Un Certain Regard title Apprentice.
Feature Films In Competition
ALBÜM Mehmet Can Mertoğlu (Turkey)
Diamond Island Davy Chou (Cambodia/France)
Raw (Grave) Julia Ducournau (France)
Mimosas Oliver Laxe (Spain)
One Week And A Day (Shavua Ve Yom) Asaph Polonsky (Israel)
Tramontane Vatche Boulghourjian (Lebanon)
A Yellow Bird K. Rajagopal (Singapore)
Special Screenings
Opening Film
In Bed With Victoria (Victoria) Justine Triet (France)
Closing Films
Smile (Bonne Figure) Sandrine Kiberlain (France)
En...
Feature Films In Competition
ALBÜM Mehmet Can Mertoğlu (Turkey)
Diamond Island Davy Chou (Cambodia/France)
Raw (Grave) Julia Ducournau (France)
Mimosas Oliver Laxe (Spain)
One Week And A Day (Shavua Ve Yom) Asaph Polonsky (Israel)
Tramontane Vatche Boulghourjian (Lebanon)
A Yellow Bird K. Rajagopal (Singapore)
Special Screenings
Opening Film
In Bed With Victoria (Victoria) Justine Triet (France)
Closing Films
Smile (Bonne Figure) Sandrine Kiberlain (France)
En...
- 4/18/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The lineup for the 2016 Cannes Critics' Week has been announced.Opening FilmIn Bed with Victoria (Justine Triet): Victoria Spick, a criminal lawyer in a total sentimental void, meets at a wedding her friend Vincent and Sam, a former drug dealer she got out business. The next day, Vincent is accused of attempted murder by his girlfriend. The victim's dog is the only witness. Reluctantly, Victoria accepts to defend Vincent, while she hires Sam as an au pair. This is just the beginning of troubled times for Victoria.CompetitionAlbüm (Mehmet Can Mertoğlu): A couple in their late 30’s sets out to prepare a fake photo album of a pseudo pregnancy period in order to prove their biological tie to the baby they’re planning adopt.Diamond Island (Davy Chou): Bora, an 18-year-old, leaves his village to work on the construction sites of Diamond Island, a project for an...
- 4/18/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
With the Cannes Film Festival unveiling their lineup last week, the sidebars are opening the curtain on what they'll be offering away from the main show, and the Cannes Critics' Week has revealed their first wave of programming. The festival will feature limited American movies in its lineup this year, at least so far, with only Chloë Sevigny's short "Kitty" marking a stateside flick. Instead, there is a very strong international flavor, with Nadav Lapid ("The Policeman," "The Kindergarten Teacher") perhaps the biggest filmmaker of note, and he'll be sitting on the jury as well as screening "From The Diary Of A Wedding Photographer" out of competition. Otherwise, it's a mix of movies from filmmakers who will be arriving in France, hoping to become the next names to explode at the arthouse. The Cannes Critics' Week runs from May 12-20. Opening Night Film In Bed With Victoria, dir: Justine Triet...
- 4/18/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Justine Triet’s In Bed With Victoria to open Critics’ Week; Chloë Sevigny’s Kitty one of three closing films. Scroll down for full list
Cannes Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features, has unveiled the line-up for its 55th edition (May 12-20), following the announcement of the festival’s Official Selection last week.
The parallel section will open with Justine Triet’s comedy-drama In Bed With Victoria, which centres on a beautiful Parisian criminal lawyer in her late 30s who is a self-centred workaholic and sex addict, played by Virginie Efira.
It marks the second feature from French filmmaker Triet, whose Cesar-nominated Age of Panic opened in the Acid section in 2013, and is handled by Indie Sales with French distribution by Le Pacte.
In total, 1,100 features were submitted for consideration.
The seven features chosen to play in competition represent a mix of titles from Turkey, France and Spain to Cambodia, Israel, Lebanon...
Cannes Critics’ Week, devoted to first and second features, has unveiled the line-up for its 55th edition (May 12-20), following the announcement of the festival’s Official Selection last week.
The parallel section will open with Justine Triet’s comedy-drama In Bed With Victoria, which centres on a beautiful Parisian criminal lawyer in her late 30s who is a self-centred workaholic and sex addict, played by Virginie Efira.
It marks the second feature from French filmmaker Triet, whose Cesar-nominated Age of Panic opened in the Acid section in 2013, and is handled by Indie Sales with French distribution by Le Pacte.
In total, 1,100 features were submitted for consideration.
The seven features chosen to play in competition represent a mix of titles from Turkey, France and Spain to Cambodia, Israel, Lebanon...
- 4/18/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
La Semaine de la Critique, the oldest parallel competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival known to most as Critics' Week, has announced the lineup for its 55th edition running from May 12 through 20. Valérie Donzelli heads up this year's jury, whose other members are Alice Winocour, Nadav Lapid, David Robert Mitchell and Santiago Mitre. Among the features in the Competition are Vatche Boulghourjian's Tramontane, Davy Chou's Diamond Island, Julia Ducourneau's Raw (Grave), Oliver Laxe's Mimosas, Mehmet Can Mertoğlu's Albüm, Asaph Polonsky's One Week and a Day, and K. Rajagopal's A Yellow Bird. And this year's edition will close with an intriguing trio: Laetitia Casta's En Moi, Sandrine Kiberlain's Smile and Chloë Sevigny's Kitty. » - David Hudson...
- 4/18/2016
- Keyframe
La Semaine de la Critique, the oldest parallel competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival known to most as Critics' Week, has announced the lineup for its 55th edition running from May 12 through 20. Valérie Donzelli heads up this year's jury, whose other members are Alice Winocour, Nadav Lapid, David Robert Mitchell and Santiago Mitre. Among the features in the Competition are Vatche Boulghourjian's Tramontane, Davy Chou's Diamond Island, Julia Ducourneau's Raw (Grave), Oliver Laxe's Mimosas, Mehmet Can Mertoğlu's Albüm, Asaph Polonsky's One Week and a Day, and K. Rajagopal's A Yellow Bird. And this year's edition will close with an intriguing trio: Laetitia Casta's En Moi, Sandrine Kiberlain's Smile and Chloë Sevigny's Kitty. » - David Hudson...
- 4/18/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Following the Cannes Film Festival's unveiling of its competition and Un Certain Regard lineups last week, the Critics' Week sidebar announced its selections on Monday. Justine Triet's In Bed With Victoria will open the 55th edition of the official sidebar that focuses on young directors. The three closing shorts come from a trio of actresses-turned-directors. They are Chloe Sevigny's Kitty, Sandrine Kiberlain's Smile and Laetitia Casta's En Moi. Turkish helmer Mehmet Can Mertoglu's film Album is in the competition. Spanish director Olivier Laxe's second film, Mimosas, also is in the lineup, as is the female coming-of-age
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- 4/17/2016
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This Friday, a little movie titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hits theaters. Perhaps you may have seen an advertisement or two about it. The film marks the first official pairing of Bats and Supes in a feature film. Surely there are longtime fans eager to see them pec-to-pec, but some fans will be excited about the film's other big debut: Wonder Woman. Ever since Gal Gadot was cast in the role, comic book (and TV) fans have been eager to find out how Wonder Woman would be realized on the big screen. Shockingly, the character has never had...
- 3/24/2016
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
This Friday, a little movie titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hits theaters. Perhaps you may have seen an advertisement or two about it. The film marks the first official pairing of Bats and Supes in a feature film. Surely there are longtime fans eager to see them pec-to-pec, but some fans will be excited about the film's other big debut: Wonder Woman. Ever since Gal Gadot was cast in the role, comic book (and TV) fans have been eager to find out how Wonder Woman would be realized on the big screen. Shockingly, the character has never had...
- 3/24/2016
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
Refinery29 hopes an upcoming program provides new opportunities for women in film. The digital publication has announced ShatterBox Anthology, a series whose individual episodes will all be helmed by female filmmakers.
As its title suggests, ShatterBox will be an anthology made up of 12 different short films across a diverse array of genres. The series will include four comedies, two dramas, four documentaries, and two animated projects, all of which will be led by female talent. Up first will be the directorial debut of actress Chloe Sevigny, who will adapt a short story called Kitty.
ShatterBox Anthology is a response to the insufficient representation of women within major motion pictures. “Of the 100 top grossing films in 2014, only 12% had a female protagonist,” reads a Refinery29 blog post. “Those 100 films featured 4,610 speaking characters — only 30% of them were female. And, if you consider every single film released in 2014, a mere 7% were directed by a woman.
As its title suggests, ShatterBox will be an anthology made up of 12 different short films across a diverse array of genres. The series will include four comedies, two dramas, four documentaries, and two animated projects, all of which will be led by female talent. Up first will be the directorial debut of actress Chloe Sevigny, who will adapt a short story called Kitty.
ShatterBox Anthology is a response to the insufficient representation of women within major motion pictures. “Of the 100 top grossing films in 2014, only 12% had a female protagonist,” reads a Refinery29 blog post. “Those 100 films featured 4,610 speaking characters — only 30% of them were female. And, if you consider every single film released in 2014, a mere 7% were directed by a woman.
- 1/26/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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