Two FriendsThough known primarily as an actor, Louis Garrel has been conducting appreciable efforts behind the camera as well. After directing three short films, including a César-nominated Petit tailleur, and most recently La règle de trois, Louis Garrel expands upon his fascination of threes with his first feature length film, Two Friends (Les deux amis), in which he also stars. Based loosely on the French play The Moods of Marianne, Garrel's film finds professional movie extra Vincent (Vincent Macaigne) in frenzied love with Mona (Goldshifteh Farahani), who cannot and will not give in to his romantic advances due in part to her restrictive situation, which she keeps secret. She works behind a pastry counter by day, but every evening must return to prison for curfew, not unlike an incarcerated Cinderella. Vincent enlists his best friend, the caddish Abel (Louis Garrel), to help win her over or at least understand her cooling passion.
- 3/14/2016
- by Elissa Suh
- MUBI
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” — Jacques Lacan
“How’s it feel to take that off every night and find there’s nothing underneath?” — Quentin
Rendez-vous (1985) is the sixth film directed by André Téchiné, the first he wrote with Olivier Assayas, and the first time Téchiné cast Juliette Binoche. This director continued his trend of making films about failed romances, per Barocco and Hotel America, and expanded his style to create something similar to Andrzej Żuławski’s films. Téchiné’s film featured graphic sex-scenes with masochistic overtones and soft-core porn shows that are reminiscent to what Żuławski explored in That Most Important Thing: Love. Rendez-vous looks at unrequited love from the perspective of damaged individuals that have no idea what they want and abuse others in the process of trying to discover that for themselves.
Binoche play Nina, a...
“How’s it feel to take that off every night and find there’s nothing underneath?” — Quentin
Rendez-vous (1985) is the sixth film directed by André Téchiné, the first he wrote with Olivier Assayas, and the first time Téchiné cast Juliette Binoche. This director continued his trend of making films about failed romances, per Barocco and Hotel America, and expanded his style to create something similar to Andrzej Żuławski’s films. Téchiné’s film featured graphic sex-scenes with masochistic overtones and soft-core porn shows that are reminiscent to what Żuławski explored in That Most Important Thing: Love. Rendez-vous looks at unrequited love from the perspective of damaged individuals that have no idea what they want and abuse others in the process of trying to discover that for themselves.
Binoche play Nina, a...
- 2/27/2014
- by Cody Lang
- SoundOnSight
French Sex Scandal: Call this wishful thinking, but a movie about sexual addiction from director Abel Ferrara, potentially starring Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani, would be worth wishing for, right? Ferrara is working on a script with occasional collaborator Christ Zois that may “include elements inspired by the lives of other politicians like Bill Clinton and Silvio Berlusconi along with [Dominique] Strauss-Kahn; Depardieu and Adjani (who first appeared together in 1976's Barocco, above) have talked with the director about working together. (Deadline) Holiday Box Office Estimates: Steven Spielberg’s War Horse broke out of the gate with two days of impressive estimated earnings, taking in more than $15 million. As expected, Mission...
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- 12/27/2011
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Marie-France Pisier, the stunning actress who launched her career as go-to gal for the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var, France on Sunday, April 24. She was 66 years old.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Mme Pisier appeared in seminal films of the Nouvelle Vague by Francois Truffaut (Love on the Run, Stolen Kisses), Jacques Rivette (Celine and Julie Go Boating) and Andrew Techine (1969’s Pauline is Leaving, Techine’s first film). She became a staple in French cinema and television over the years, appearing in dozens of TV and film productions, including the international cross-over comedy Cousin Cousine. She even did a little slumming in Hollywood, popping up in such silly fare as French Postcards and the high-trashy TV miniseries Scruples.
A hardworking career actor, Mme. Pisier was seen most recently in the 2009 French TV legal drama Les Chasseur.
Much of Marie-France Pisier’s movie canon...
Beginning in the early 1960s, Mme Pisier appeared in seminal films of the Nouvelle Vague by Francois Truffaut (Love on the Run, Stolen Kisses), Jacques Rivette (Celine and Julie Go Boating) and Andrew Techine (1969’s Pauline is Leaving, Techine’s first film). She became a staple in French cinema and television over the years, appearing in dozens of TV and film productions, including the international cross-over comedy Cousin Cousine. She even did a little slumming in Hollywood, popping up in such silly fare as French Postcards and the high-trashy TV miniseries Scruples.
A hardworking career actor, Mme. Pisier was seen most recently in the 2009 French TV legal drama Les Chasseur.
Much of Marie-France Pisier’s movie canon...
- 4/28/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Le Point and L'Express are among the French news outlets reporting that Marie-France Pisier has died at her home in Saint Cyr sur Mer at the age of 66. First mention is generally going to her work with François Truffaut; her debut, after all, was in his Antoine and Colette, a short film that was part of the 1962 anthology Love at Twenty and she would reprise the role in Stolen Kisses (1968) and Love on the Run (1979). The film many will be thinking of today, though, is Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974). In 1981, Julia Lesage described her role in the film's development: "Script credit is given to Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, and Jacques Rivette…. According to Berto, she and Labourier imagined creating a combination of Persona and What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? in a film with two female protagonists. Berto said, 'Each...
- 4/26/2011
- MUBI
French actor, novelist and director who starred in films by Truffaut and Buñuel
Those who followed the adventures of Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) in a series of lyrical and semi-autobiographical films directed by François Truffaut – incorporating adolescence, marriage, fatherhood and divorce – will know that Doinel's first and (perhaps) last love, Colette Tazzi, was played by the stunningly beautiful Marie-France Pisier, who has been found dead aged 66 in the swimming pool of her house near Toulon, in southern France.
Doinel and audiences first caught sight of Pisier in Antoine et Colette, Truffaut's enchanting 32-minute contribution to the omnibus film L'Amour à Vingt Ans (Love at Twenty, 1962), during a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. She is conscious of Antoine's stares, and pulls down her skirt. We soon realise that Colette is going to break Antoine's heart.
Léaud and Pisier were born in...
Those who followed the adventures of Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) in a series of lyrical and semi-autobiographical films directed by François Truffaut – incorporating adolescence, marriage, fatherhood and divorce – will know that Doinel's first and (perhaps) last love, Colette Tazzi, was played by the stunningly beautiful Marie-France Pisier, who has been found dead aged 66 in the swimming pool of her house near Toulon, in southern France.
Doinel and audiences first caught sight of Pisier in Antoine et Colette, Truffaut's enchanting 32-minute contribution to the omnibus film L'Amour à Vingt Ans (Love at Twenty, 1962), during a concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. She is conscious of Antoine's stares, and pulls down her skirt. We soon realise that Colette is going to break Antoine's heart.
Léaud and Pisier were born in...
- 4/25/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
French actress Marie-france Pisier has been found dead in the swimming pool at her home in the south of France.
The 66-year-old's lifeless body was discovered in the early hours of Sunday by her husband, Thierry Funk Brentano.
Officials in Toulon, near the couple's villa in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, have launched an investigation to determine the cause of death, but foul play is not suspected.
Pisier began a career as an actress in 1961 when she was cast by director Francois Truffaut in short film Antoine and Colette.
She shot to fame and became recognised as a star of the New Wave era, going on to work with filmmakers such as Luis Bunuel and Andre Techine.
The star scooped two best supporting actress honours at the prestigious Cesar awards - the French equivalent of the Oscars - for her work with Techine in Cousin, Cousine (1976) and Barocco (1977).
Her other notable films included 1982 comedy L'as des as and 1978 romantic thriller, The Other Side of Midnight.
Pisier was due to appear at the Cannes Film Festival in May to honour top French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, her co-star in L'as des as.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to Pisier, hailing her as "a supreme elegance born from the most perfect simplicity".
The 66-year-old's lifeless body was discovered in the early hours of Sunday by her husband, Thierry Funk Brentano.
Officials in Toulon, near the couple's villa in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, have launched an investigation to determine the cause of death, but foul play is not suspected.
Pisier began a career as an actress in 1961 when she was cast by director Francois Truffaut in short film Antoine and Colette.
She shot to fame and became recognised as a star of the New Wave era, going on to work with filmmakers such as Luis Bunuel and Andre Techine.
The star scooped two best supporting actress honours at the prestigious Cesar awards - the French equivalent of the Oscars - for her work with Techine in Cousin, Cousine (1976) and Barocco (1977).
Her other notable films included 1982 comedy L'as des as and 1978 romantic thriller, The Other Side of Midnight.
Pisier was due to appear at the Cannes Film Festival in May to honour top French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, her co-star in L'as des as.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to Pisier, hailing her as "a supreme elegance born from the most perfect simplicity".
- 4/24/2011
- WENN
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