Gabito Ballesteros is pulling the nostalgic heartstrings with the release of his newest track. On Thursday night, the música Mexicana star released the single “A Puro Dolor,” a requinto-backed re-envisioning of the 2000 Son By Four hit.
The video flashes between a young woman in red surrounded by candles before Ballesteros speaks on a payphone and sings passionate lyrics about missing a lost lover: “I’m dying to see you/Agonizing slowly and strongly.”
“A Puro Dolor” marks the singer’s first solo single since April’s “Fendi.” This year,...
The video flashes between a young woman in red surrounded by candles before Ballesteros speaks on a payphone and sings passionate lyrics about missing a lost lover: “I’m dying to see you/Agonizing slowly and strongly.”
“A Puro Dolor” marks the singer’s first solo single since April’s “Fendi.” This year,...
- 12/1/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
This Barbie is part film programmer.
Hari Nef makes history at Mubi with the Hand-Picked by Hari Nef curated series, the first of its kind for the streaming and distribution platform.
The “Barbie” and “And Just Like That” actress selected Todd Haynes’ “Safe” and “Velvet Goldmine,” Alex Ross Perry’s “Listen Up Philip,” the fashion documentary “Martin Margiela: In His Own Words,” Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise,” the coming-of-age day-in-the-life “The African Desperate,” Maurice Pialata’s “Loulou” with Isabelle Huppert, Robert Greene’s “Actress,” Shirley Clarke’s documentary “Portrait of Jason,” and cult classic “Center Stage” from the Mubi vault for the inaugural program.
Check out Nef’s full selection, ready to stream, here.
“I was thinking about what resonates with me in film, and it starts with ideas of spectacle, performance, and queerness,” Nef said in a press statement. “I love films about performers, and the confrontation that happens between a person,...
Hari Nef makes history at Mubi with the Hand-Picked by Hari Nef curated series, the first of its kind for the streaming and distribution platform.
The “Barbie” and “And Just Like That” actress selected Todd Haynes’ “Safe” and “Velvet Goldmine,” Alex Ross Perry’s “Listen Up Philip,” the fashion documentary “Martin Margiela: In His Own Words,” Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise,” the coming-of-age day-in-the-life “The African Desperate,” Maurice Pialata’s “Loulou” with Isabelle Huppert, Robert Greene’s “Actress,” Shirley Clarke’s documentary “Portrait of Jason,” and cult classic “Center Stage” from the Mubi vault for the inaugural program.
Check out Nef’s full selection, ready to stream, here.
“I was thinking about what resonates with me in film, and it starts with ideas of spectacle, performance, and queerness,” Nef said in a press statement. “I love films about performers, and the confrontation that happens between a person,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Since the early 1970s, Isabelle Huppert has amassed a staggering body of work. Relentlessly prolific and uncompromisingly daring, she has embodied an eclectic range of characters, often delving into the enigmatic recesses of individuals who are by turns destructive, tormented, and obsessed, and yet can be audaciously empowered, sexually complex, and passionately reflective. Huppert “surprises and unsettles us,” notes David Parkinson, writing for the British Film Institute, doing so by “relaxing her tightly coiled control and channeling her strength and energy into doing something shockingly impulsive.” But that control and impulsiveness was not instantaneous, nor was it effortless. Huppert’s abilities have been steadily honed over the course of more than 140 appearances in film and television. And if there is a darkness lingering over some of her more disturbing characterizations, there...
- 9/10/2020
- MUBI
“Acting is very easy for me,” Isabelle Huppert said, not bragging so much as stating a fact. Sitting in a small Manhattan conference room, she leaned back and shrugged her shoulders. The famously understated French star, whose “Greta” opens this month, is as honest and direct as she appears on screen — if also warmer than you might expect from her many film roles. “Everything I do as an actress is really the story of the scorpion who can’t avoid stinging the frog,” she said. “It’s just my nature, you know?”
That casual admission was alarming to hear. Huppert’s five-decade filmography — a peerless body of work that’s crossed paths with everyone from Otto Preminger and Jean-Luc Godard to Claire Denis and Mia Hansen-Løve — is littered with sociopaths, self-mutilators, and murderers. Huppert only objected to the last type: “What killers have I played before?” she asked. Well, there...
That casual admission was alarming to hear. Huppert’s five-decade filmography — a peerless body of work that’s crossed paths with everyone from Otto Preminger and Jean-Luc Godard to Claire Denis and Mia Hansen-Løve — is littered with sociopaths, self-mutilators, and murderers. Huppert only objected to the last type: “What killers have I played before?” she asked. Well, there...
- 2/28/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Any list of the greatest foreign directors currently working today has to include Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The directors first rose to prominence in the mid 1990s with efforts like “The Promise” and “Rosetta,” and they’ve continued to excel in the 21st century with titles such as “The Kid With A Bike” and “Two Days One Night,” which earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
- 8/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Isabelle Huppert (Courtesy: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
The best actress Oscar race might seem like a showdown between La La Land’s Emma Stone and Jackie’s Natalie Portman, but Elle’s Isabelle Huppert is proving to be quite the upset. Should Huppert actually snag an Oscar nomination this year, shockingly it would be a first for the French thespian. If Huppert has flown under the Academy’s radar, who else out there is considered the best of the best and hasn’t had a chance to win Hollywood’s biggest award?
Our latest indication of Huppert’s surprise domination this awards season was at the Golden Globes when the 63-year-old won for best actress in a drama and bested Portman — Stone was nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy. Further catapulting Huppert in the best actress Oscar standings was Elle being named best foreign-language film,...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
The best actress Oscar race might seem like a showdown between La La Land’s Emma Stone and Jackie’s Natalie Portman, but Elle’s Isabelle Huppert is proving to be quite the upset. Should Huppert actually snag an Oscar nomination this year, shockingly it would be a first for the French thespian. If Huppert has flown under the Academy’s radar, who else out there is considered the best of the best and hasn’t had a chance to win Hollywood’s biggest award?
Our latest indication of Huppert’s surprise domination this awards season was at the Golden Globes when the 63-year-old won for best actress in a drama and bested Portman — Stone was nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy. Further catapulting Huppert in the best actress Oscar standings was Elle being named best foreign-language film,...
- 1/12/2017
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
French actress Isabelle Huppert has made a big splash starring in at least two widely acclaimed films this year: Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle,” about a businesswoman who is assaulted in her home and then begins stalking her attacker, and Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come,” about a philosophy professor who’s life is thrown in disarray when her husband leaves her for another woman. Now, Huppert returns yet again in Bavo Defurne’s “Souvenir,” about a middle-aged factory worker’s new relationship with a young boxer. Watch a trailer for the film below. (Note: there are no English subtitles.)
Read More: Why ‘Elle’ Star Isabelle Huppert Is the Actress Whose Oscar Time Has Come
In the film, Huppert plays Liliane, an unassuming model employee in a pâté factory who meets a new worker named Jean (Kévin Azaïs) who boxes in his spare time. They soon form a platonic relationship, but...
Read More: Why ‘Elle’ Star Isabelle Huppert Is the Actress Whose Oscar Time Has Come
In the film, Huppert plays Liliane, an unassuming model employee in a pâté factory who meets a new worker named Jean (Kévin Azaïs) who boxes in his spare time. They soon form a platonic relationship, but...
- 11/10/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
Leave it to a Romanian director to make a movie that best expresses the dangers of the dyed-in-the-wool mindset of modern America. Culled partly from historical documents, Aferim! is a twisted history lesson whose messages transcend its insular time period of 19th-century Romania. Its story concerns Constable Costandin (Teodor Corban) and his son, Ionita (Mihai Comanoiu), who chase after a wanted Gypsy slave...
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
Leave it to a Romanian director to make a movie that best expresses the dangers of the dyed-in-the-wool mindset of modern America. Culled partly from historical documents, Aferim! is a twisted history lesson whose messages transcend its insular time period of 19th-century Romania. Its story concerns Constable Costandin (Teodor Corban) and his son, Ionita (Mihai Comanoiu), who chase after a wanted Gypsy slave...
- 6/24/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a potential relationship between two men over the course of a weekend, whereas its successor considers the opposite extreme. Again sticking to a tight timeframe, the film chronicles the six days leading up to a couple’s 45th wedding anniversary.
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a potential relationship between two men over the course of a weekend, whereas its successor considers the opposite extreme. Again sticking to a tight timeframe, the film chronicles the six days leading up to a couple’s 45th wedding anniversary.
- 6/17/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
From Sophie’s Choice to My Sister’s Keeper, child loss has been the subject of everything from prestige Oscar pictures to Ya drivel. It’s an understandable focus, for there are few more intrinsically emotional narrative foundations than parents coping with the loss of a child. And whether those characters are together or separated, that loss serves as both a shared crucible and a uniting force.
Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love pares this scenario down to its most elemental sediments, brings in two international superstars with a loaded onscreen history, and the rest nearly takes care of itself. Valley of Love lives and dies on the caliber of its actors, and the film is certainly in good hands with Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, two performers who haven’t been together since Maurice Pialat’s Loulou but have careers that, together, span every major auteur constellation across the globe.
Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love pares this scenario down to its most elemental sediments, brings in two international superstars with a loaded onscreen history, and the rest nearly takes care of itself. Valley of Love lives and dies on the caliber of its actors, and the film is certainly in good hands with Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, two performers who haven’t been together since Maurice Pialat’s Loulou but have careers that, together, span every major auteur constellation across the globe.
- 3/25/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. There are a few contenders out there for the biggest French star in the world. Vincent Cassel and Mathieu Amalric have enduring international appeal, Juliette Binoche is an auteurist favorite, and a new generation of actors like Jean Dujardin, Lea Seydoux, and Omar Sy are increasingly having as much success in the U.S. as they are at home. But if we're talking about cinematic legends — truly prolific, popular actors — the safest bets might be Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu. Across decades-long careers, the two actors have earned enormous acclaim, won virtually every prize available, and had every A-list director around the world lining up to work with them. They've only worked together twice, however, in 1974's "Going Places" and 1980's "Loulou," which makes their reunion 30 years on in Cannes competition entry "Valley Of Love" a major event.
- 3/24/2016
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
It strikes me as peculiar that Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, two of the French cinema's titans, each appearing in hundreds of films (Depardieu 217 films, Huppert 126 to date according to imdb), had previously worked together in just 2 films - Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuse (1974) where young Huppert had a supporting role and Maurice Pialat's great Loulou (1980). But some 36 years later, they are together again in Guillaume Nicloux (Kidnapping of Michel Huellebecq, The Nun)'s Valley of Love, a film that takes place in Death Valley, playing themselves, well, sort of. Deeply anchored by these two veteran actors' chemistry, the film is much more than a coy, reflexive exercise in celeb-dom but a deeply affecting drama about grief and a physical manifestation...
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- 3/24/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Valley of Love star Isabelle Huppert Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special, starring Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst and Jaeden Lieberher, prompted Isabelle Huppert to bring up Mud in our conversation on Guillaume Nicloux's haunting Valley Of Love. Anaïs Romand, George Cukor's The Women with Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell and Woody Allen's Magic In The Moonlight came to mind.
Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, last seen on the screen together in Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), play a long divorced couple brought together by the death of their son. Similar in effect to what Nicloux did with The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, fictional plot and biographical details merge so that in the end, only truth matters, once it has made its way through fact and fiction.
Isabelle Huppert: "For me, it's a great film about cinema ..."
Huppert, whose character is never named, arrives first in Death Valley.
Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special, starring Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst and Jaeden Lieberher, prompted Isabelle Huppert to bring up Mud in our conversation on Guillaume Nicloux's haunting Valley Of Love. Anaïs Romand, George Cukor's The Women with Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell and Woody Allen's Magic In The Moonlight came to mind.
Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, last seen on the screen together in Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), play a long divorced couple brought together by the death of their son. Similar in effect to what Nicloux did with The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, fictional plot and biographical details merge so that in the end, only truth matters, once it has made its way through fact and fiction.
Isabelle Huppert: "For me, it's a great film about cinema ..."
Huppert, whose character is never named, arrives first in Death Valley.
- 3/21/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As always, a number of deserving film festival entries are stragglers in need of distribution or funneled away by buyers to be released in the following year. One of the downsides of attending a number of film fests is seeing great cinema sometimes plopped unceremoniously into a limited theatrical (or even VOD) release over a year later without any traction. And if a film happened to receive a cold shoulder at a prestigious venue like Cannes the chances of convincing audiences otherwise is a difficult feat.
Happily, all but two titles from this list currently have Us distribution (and with a little luck, someone will eventually get around to snapping those up, too). A thankful shout out to the following distributors is in order, with Strand Releasing responsible for three of the titles, while Kino Lorber, Sundance Selects, Drafthouse, A24, and Alchemy make up the others. Until then, here’s...
Happily, all but two titles from this list currently have Us distribution (and with a little luck, someone will eventually get around to snapping those up, too). A thankful shout out to the following distributors is in order, with Strand Releasing responsible for three of the titles, while Kino Lorber, Sundance Selects, Drafthouse, A24, and Alchemy make up the others. Until then, here’s...
- 12/21/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Early on in her seminal text, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, critic Molly Haskell makes dismissive note of the “modern” movie, something that was then purported by many to be a corrective to classical filmmaking. One of its chief tenets, she claimed, was that we came out of the theatre feeling superior to the foibles and insanity of the characters. Furthermore, she points to John Cassavetes’ Minnie & Moskowitz as representational of where modern screen romance stood, claiming its disorganized, improvised approach (“letting it all out”) was a poor substitute for the way an old Hollywood master (e.g. Howard Hawks) created order and understanding out of the chaos of relationships.
If Cassavetes was synonymous with what drove the culture wars of the 1970’s, then what do we make of his supposed compatriots and kindred spirits, particularly Maurice Pialat, the one labelled by many as...
If Cassavetes was synonymous with what drove the culture wars of the 1970’s, then what do we make of his supposed compatriots and kindred spirits, particularly Maurice Pialat, the one labelled by many as...
- 10/22/2015
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
It should surprise precisely nobody that Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne made a single list for Sight & Sound, and it doesn’t strike me as odd that they acted so nonchalant about the effort. Their comments section will say it all: “A random list of ten greatest films.” I do, however, question the extent to which this is “random,” insofar as connections to their oeuvre are concerned, and fellow fans will probably notice commonalities from the word “go.”
All right, yes, The Big Heat doesn’t exactly scream “social realism,” but the concerns shared by many of these pictures — economic and social inequality, for one, as well as the strains they put on romantic and parent-child relationships — rings through the Dardennes’ long career. If Shoah or Modern Times are a bit more dour and comedic (guess which adjective applies to which film) than The Kid with a Bike, they have the qualities of forebears,...
All right, yes, The Big Heat doesn’t exactly scream “social realism,” but the concerns shared by many of these pictures — economic and social inequality, for one, as well as the strains they put on romantic and parent-child relationships — rings through the Dardennes’ long career. If Shoah or Modern Times are a bit more dour and comedic (guess which adjective applies to which film) than The Kid with a Bike, they have the qualities of forebears,...
- 10/19/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Read More: 5 Maurice Pialat Classics Returning to Theaters The Museum of Moving Image has announced a major retrospective for the lifework of French film director Maurice Pialat, which will run from October 16 - November 1. The career of late filmmaker Maurice Pialat (1925-2003) has been justly celebrated in his native France, but his legacy is unfairly underappreciated in the United States. The Pialat Retrospective will include all ten of his features in 35mm, in addition to his 1971 TV miniseries "La maison des bois," and several of his short films. Pialat emerged shortly after the French New Wave with his emotional, raw and sometimes autobiographical films. Pialat ended up directing some of the most significant French films of the 20th century, including "À nos amours," "We Won't Grow Old Together" and "Van Gogh." Other films on the slate include four collaborations with Gérard Depardieu -- "Loulou,"...
- 9/30/2015
- by Tarek Shoukri
- Indiewire
Soak up the Sun: Pialat’s Palme d’Or Winning Spiritual Anguish
As part of Cohen Media Group’s Maurice Pialat retrospective, perhaps the most significant title showcased in the lineup is his infamous 1987 title, Under the Sun of Satan. Instantly reviled after winning the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (with a jury made up of such heavy-hitters as Elem Klimov, Jerzy Skolimowski, Theo Angelopoulos, and Norman Mailer), where Pialat was jeered by a disapproving crowd, the title quickly lapsed into obscurity following a continually tepid critical reception.
Perhaps Pialat’s austere and increasingly deliberate examination of mental and spiritual anguish told through the perspective of a bumbling priest whose blasphemous predicament proves only the presence of Satan rather than God was as simultaneously too old fashioned as it was inconveniently provocative. Based on a 1927 novel by French author Georges Bernanos, Pialat’s treatment does seem...
As part of Cohen Media Group’s Maurice Pialat retrospective, perhaps the most significant title showcased in the lineup is his infamous 1987 title, Under the Sun of Satan. Instantly reviled after winning the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (with a jury made up of such heavy-hitters as Elem Klimov, Jerzy Skolimowski, Theo Angelopoulos, and Norman Mailer), where Pialat was jeered by a disapproving crowd, the title quickly lapsed into obscurity following a continually tepid critical reception.
Perhaps Pialat’s austere and increasingly deliberate examination of mental and spiritual anguish told through the perspective of a bumbling priest whose blasphemous predicament proves only the presence of Satan rather than God was as simultaneously too old fashioned as it was inconveniently provocative. Based on a 1927 novel by French author Georges Bernanos, Pialat’s treatment does seem...
- 9/29/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Maurice Pialat, canny inquisitor of the French bourgeoisie whose startlingly iconoclastic films include "We Won't Grow Old Together" and "A Nos Amours," will tour Us theaters once again this year. The Cohen Film Collection will present five Pialat gems in New York from September 11 to September 17 at the Lincoln Plaza, and in La from September 25 to October 1 at the Laemmle Royal. The collection includes 1987’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner “Under the Sun of Satan,” with Gérard Depardieu and Sandrine Bonnaire, the erotic “Loulou,” a tale of tortured love with Isabelle Huppert and Depardieu, “Van Gogh,” about the last days of the artist, Cassavetes-esque family drama “The Mouth Agape,” starring Monique Mélinand as a woman dying of torturous cancer, and the slice-of-life “Graduate First,” centered on teenagers in a French suburb. Later, more Pialat retrospectives will screen at The Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria) from October 17 to October 25...
- 8/26/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Above: Bound to get taken offline by the time you read this, hurry up and watch Star War Wars: All 6 Films At Once (Full Length)Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory visit the famed closet of the Criterion Collection and recount their experiences encountering Godard's Weekend and films by Antonioni.At the invaluable chrismarker.org, Chris Marker's short film 2084 (1984) has been remixed.At its premiere at the Berlinale, Queen of the Desert, Werner Herzog's long-awaited return to epic filmmaking, garnered an unfortunate, uneven response. Now the full trailer for the film is out, and we hope it grows in our estimation upon re-viewing. As a recap, read impressions from Daniel Kasman and Adam Cook, as well as our interview with long-time Herzog cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger about working on the film.
- 6/17/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
A Croisette anomaly of sorts and still a relative unknown despite his three decade and dozen film span, Guillaume Nicloux’s only previous Cannes showing was 1994’s Faut pas rire du bonheur landing in the Directors’ Fortnight. An American based West Coast meeting place grief-stricken drama, this also happens to be Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu’s on-screen reunion a good 35 years after Maurice Pialat’s “Loulou”. Working with Huppert once again after 2013’s The Nun, Valley of Love actually follows last year’s The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq. While our panel gave the film your average passing grade of three, our Nicholas Bell appears to have been the among the few touched by the awkwardness of the affair stating that the film is “a rather beautiful, melancholy poem about guilt, grief, and the tragedy of expectation.”...
- 5/24/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
There are a few contenders out there for the biggest French star in the world. Vincent Cassel and Mathieu Amalric have enduring international appeal, Juliette Binoche is an auteurist favorite, and a new generation of actors like Jean Dujardin, Lea Seydoux, and Omar Sy are increasingly having as much success in the U.S. as they are at home. But if we're talking about cinematic legends — truly prolific, popular actors — the safest bets might be Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu. Across decades-long careers, the two actors have earned enormous acclaim, won virtually every prize available, and had every A-list director around the world lining up to work with them. They've only worked together twice, however, in 1974's "Going Places" and 1980's "Loulou," which makes their reunion 30 years on in Cannes competition entry "Valley Of Love" a major event. In the latest from director Guillaume Nicloux ("The...
- 5/22/2015
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
"Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, those enduring monuments of French cinema, last shared the screen in Maurice Pialat’s 1980 Loulou as a studly small-time crook and his fresh-faced mistress," begins Jon Frosch in the Hollywood Reporter. "Now the two are back together—the former with his middle-aged bulk, the latter having slimmed down to an alarmingly wiry frame—in Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love, a flawed but affecting two-hander that intrigues and frustrates in nearly equal measure." We've got the trailer and we're collecting more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/22/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, those enduring monuments of French cinema, last shared the screen in Maurice Pialat’s 1980 Loulou as a studly small-time crook and his fresh-faced mistress," begins Jon Frosch in the Hollywood Reporter. "Now the two are back together—the former with his middle-aged bulk, the latter having slimmed down to an alarmingly wiry frame—in Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love, a flawed but affecting two-hander that intrigues and frustrates in nearly equal measure." We've got the trailer and we're collecting more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/22/2015
- Keyframe
Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, those enduring monuments of French cinema, last shared the screen in Maurice Pialat’s 1980 “Loulou” as a studly small-time crook and his fresh-faced mistress. Now the two are back together — the former with his middle-aged bulk, the latter having slimmed down to an alarmingly wiry frame — in Guillaume Nicloux’s Valley of Love, a flawed but affecting two-hander that intrigues and frustrates in nearly equal measure. Playing an estranged couple that reunites in California’s Death Valley per instructions in their son’s suicide note, the movie starts off like a nostalgia stunt
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- 5/21/2015
- by Jon Frosch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Concorde has picked up rights to all German-speaking territories for Guillaume Nicloux’s Palme d’Or contender Valley of Love.
“They’re one of Germany’s biggest distributors and we’re very pleased with this partnership,” said Camille Neel, head of sales at Paris-based Le Pacte which is selling the title. Neel negotiated the deal with Concorde’s Guy Amon.
Produced by Timbuktu producer Sylvie Pialat of Paris Les Films du Worso, Valley of Love stars Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu as a divorced couple reunited in Death Valley by their dead son.
It is the first time Huppert and Depardieu have appeared on the big screen together since 1980’s Loulou, a semi-autobiographical film by Pialat’s late husband, Maurice Pialat.
“They’re one of Germany’s biggest distributors and we’re very pleased with this partnership,” said Camille Neel, head of sales at Paris-based Le Pacte which is selling the title. Neel negotiated the deal with Concorde’s Guy Amon.
Produced by Timbuktu producer Sylvie Pialat of Paris Les Films du Worso, Valley of Love stars Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu as a divorced couple reunited in Death Valley by their dead son.
It is the first time Huppert and Depardieu have appeared on the big screen together since 1980’s Loulou, a semi-autobiographical film by Pialat’s late husband, Maurice Pialat.
- 5/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Concorde has picked up rights to all German-speaking territories for Guillaume Nicloux’s Palme d’Or contender Valley of Love.
Produced by Timbuktu producer Sylvie Pialat of Paris Les Films du Worso, Valley of Love stars Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu as a divorced couple reunited in Death Valley by their dead son.
“They’re one of Germany’s biggest distributors and we’re very pleased with this partnership,” said Camille Neel, head of sales at Paris-based Le Pacte which is selling the title.
It is the first time Huppert and Depardieu have appeared on the big screen together since 1980’s Loulou, a semi-autobiographical film by Pialat’s late husband, Maurice Pialat.
Produced by Timbuktu producer Sylvie Pialat of Paris Les Films du Worso, Valley of Love stars Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu as a divorced couple reunited in Death Valley by their dead son.
“They’re one of Germany’s biggest distributors and we’re very pleased with this partnership,” said Camille Neel, head of sales at Paris-based Le Pacte which is selling the title.
It is the first time Huppert and Depardieu have appeared on the big screen together since 1980’s Loulou, a semi-autobiographical film by Pialat’s late husband, Maurice Pialat.
- 5/14/2015
- ScreenDaily
It has been a long time since Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu shared the screen together. They were in 1974's "Les valseuses," and six years later appeared together in "Loulou" in 1980. Now three decades and some change later, they are pairing up again for "Valley Of Love" and are headed to the Cannes Film Festival to show off the result. Read More: The 20 Most Anticipated Films Of The 2015 Cannes Film Festival Guillaume Nicloux ("The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq") directs this one about estranged parents who are brought together by the suicide of their son. Here's the official synopsis: Isabelle and Gérard go to a strange appointment in Death Valley, California. They have not seen each other for years and are here to answer to an invitation from their son Michael, a photographer, which they received after his suicide, six months ago. Despite the absurdity of the situation, they...
- 5/11/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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
The Valley of Love
Director: Guillaume Nicloux // Writer: Guillaume Nicloux
Even with eleven feature films under his belt, director Guillaume Nicloux remains the least recognizable name on our top ten list, but his last two features have significantly elevated his international status, including his 2013 remake of the Jacques Rivette film The Nun (based on the novel by Denis Diderot, which starred Isabelle Huppert, Martina Gedeck, Louise Bourgoin and newcomer Pauline Etienne. While that film never received Us distribution, his 2014 title, The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq was picked up by Kino Lorber after winning Best Screenplay at Tribeca and will receive a theatrical release in the Us next spring. Nicloux’s latest promises to be his most anticipated to date, reuniting film stars Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu, who last worked together in the excellent Maurice Pialat film, Loulou (1980). Filming in California, the film concerns the story revolves around Isabelle and Gérard,...
Director: Guillaume Nicloux // Writer: Guillaume Nicloux
Even with eleven feature films under his belt, director Guillaume Nicloux remains the least recognizable name on our top ten list, but his last two features have significantly elevated his international status, including his 2013 remake of the Jacques Rivette film The Nun (based on the novel by Denis Diderot, which starred Isabelle Huppert, Martina Gedeck, Louise Bourgoin and newcomer Pauline Etienne. While that film never received Us distribution, his 2014 title, The Kidnapping of Michel Houllebecq was picked up by Kino Lorber after winning Best Screenplay at Tribeca and will receive a theatrical release in the Us next spring. Nicloux’s latest promises to be his most anticipated to date, reuniting film stars Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu, who last worked together in the excellent Maurice Pialat film, Loulou (1980). Filming in California, the film concerns the story revolves around Isabelle and Gérard,...
- 1/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Even after nearly two decades of short films, documentaries and the success of his 1968 feature debut, L’enfance Nue, director Maurice Pialat’s celebrated sophomore feature, We Won’t Grow Old Together never received a theatrical release stateside, despite also winning a Best Actor award for Jean Yanne at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Remastered for an exciting Blu-ray release from Kino Classics, it’s a title ripe for reconsideration in the cinematic canon. Pialat’s filmography has proven to be a major influence on countless emerging artists, with the likes of Ira Sachs, Alex Ross Perry and a slew of others directly citing the filmmaker as inspiration for their own output.
We Won’t Grow Old Together basically features a string of interactions between an aging film director, Jean (Jean Yanne), and his much younger mistress, Catherine (Marlene Jobart). We assume they met when she had vague aspirations to become...
We Won’t Grow Old Together basically features a string of interactions between an aging film director, Jean (Jean Yanne), and his much younger mistress, Catherine (Marlene Jobart). We assume they met when she had vague aspirations to become...
- 8/19/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”…
Mauricio Zacharias: Machu Picchu and Pre-Columbian architecture. Brazilian film “O Som Ao Redor” (Neighboring Sounds), about the fears, anxieties and resentments of the new Brazilian middle class. Mad Men season 6 – this TV series keeps inspiring me to explain less, and write more.
Bell: How does your collaboration with the director of your screenplay influence the finished script? For instance, after having written two features for Karim Ainouz and, now, two for Ira Sachs, what changed after the first collaboration that may have made the next project easier (or more difficult?)
Zacharias: Each director has a different approach to collaborating on a script. Some are very hands on, others don’t even want to see any pages until the draft is done. After having collaborated with several directors from different nationalities, I believe that spending time before any word is...
Mauricio Zacharias: Machu Picchu and Pre-Columbian architecture. Brazilian film “O Som Ao Redor” (Neighboring Sounds), about the fears, anxieties and resentments of the new Brazilian middle class. Mad Men season 6 – this TV series keeps inspiring me to explain less, and write more.
Bell: How does your collaboration with the director of your screenplay influence the finished script? For instance, after having written two features for Karim Ainouz and, now, two for Ira Sachs, what changed after the first collaboration that may have made the next project easier (or more difficult?)
Zacharias: Each director has a different approach to collaborating on a script. Some are very hands on, others don’t even want to see any pages until the draft is done. After having collaborated with several directors from different nationalities, I believe that spending time before any word is...
- 1/14/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
★★★★☆ The biopic - with its predilection towards didacticism and earnestness - has always been a troublesome form of cinema but, with Van Gogh (1991), Maurice Pialat expertly navigates the minefield of cliché and shakes the shackles of genre expectation to create an intelligent paean to creativity. Often overlooked, Pialat was one of the masters of French cinema, frequently combining underplayed naturalism with stark emotional maturity. He brings a humanist eye to the story of the last days of the legendary Dutch painter's life, sidestepping the overcooked preening that so often blights period dramas.
The film opens in 1890, with Vincent van Gogh (French rock star Jacques Dutronc) moving to the Auvers-sur-Oise. Sick, penniless and indebted to his brother, van Gogh stays in the local inn and is a frequent visitor of Dr. Gachet (Gerard Sety) whose spirited daughter Marguerite (Alexandrea London) becomes an object of his fascination. Realising his life is winding down,...
The film opens in 1890, with Vincent van Gogh (French rock star Jacques Dutronc) moving to the Auvers-sur-Oise. Sick, penniless and indebted to his brother, van Gogh stays in the local inn and is a frequent visitor of Dr. Gachet (Gerard Sety) whose spirited daughter Marguerite (Alexandrea London) becomes an object of his fascination. Realising his life is winding down,...
- 10/1/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
On the other side of my content filled posts for Sound on Sight, I manage a semi-popular Tumblr blog called Obscure and Offbeat Cinema. There is virtually no written content and the vast majority of what I present are screenshots taken from films that I’m watching or planning to watch. Though a popular film will sneak in now and then, the focus remains on films that are off the beaten path. With over 3000 images posted in 2012, I thought it would be interesting to single out my favourite shots seen for the first time this year and share them with you. This link is quite obviously unique to my own cinematic experience of 2012, as well as my own personal quirks and aesthetic obsessions, so you might not agree with all of the choices. I also warn, this list may not be Safe for Work and in the case of objectionable...
- 12/29/2012
- by Justine
- SoundOnSight
Frequently namechecked by critics, fellow actors and directors as one of the greatest screen actors alive, French actress Isabelle Huppert is the subject of the first of a series of impressive tributes to be made at this year’s Marrakech International Film Festival. She is also being honoured here by an eclectic, 11-movie sampling of her back catalogue, including 1980 Gerard Depardieu-starrer “Loulou”; Michael Haneke’s “The Piano Teacher,” for which she won the second of her two Best Actress awards in Cannes; and her more recent work with Brillante Mendoza and Hong Sang-soo, “Captive” (reviewed here) and “In Another Country” (reviewed here). And when we spoke with the actress yesterday, she was happy that the selection was well-curated. “When you choose, you have to lose something, by necessity,” she said, in reference to her immense list of credits, “but it’s a good choice.” But on the subject...
- 12/3/2012
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
We sat down with Ira Sachs shortly after the world premiere of his latest film, Keep the Lights On, after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, 2012. Set in New York City, the film spans a decade in the relationship of Erik, a documentary filmmaker, and Paul, a closeted lawyer. Beginning when the two men first meet, the film intimately details their romance, from an intense first encounter through the trajectory of a complicated relationship tempered by drug addiction, sex, and cultural attitudes towards gay relationships.
In our interview, we discuss with Sachs the rumored autobiographical aspect of his latest work, as well as his filmmaking process. This being the fifth feature from the talented director, he discusses the films that have inspired the tone of his other works, along with his latest (which includes some Jacques Nolot titles and Maurice Pialat’s 1980 film, Loulou), along with depictions of gay relationships in cinema.
In our interview, we discuss with Sachs the rumored autobiographical aspect of his latest work, as well as his filmmaking process. This being the fifth feature from the talented director, he discusses the films that have inspired the tone of his other works, along with his latest (which includes some Jacques Nolot titles and Maurice Pialat’s 1980 film, Loulou), along with depictions of gay relationships in cinema.
- 9/6/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
There was plenty of discussion across the movie blogosphere following last week's announcement that Vertigo had dethroned Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time according to Sight & Sound's decennial poll. In addition to revealing the top 50 as determined by critics, they also provided a top 10 based on a separate poll for directors only. In the print version of the magazine, they have taken it a step further by reprinting some of the individual top 10 lists from the filmmakers who participated, and we now have some of them here for your perusal. Among them, we have lists from legends like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino, but there are also some unexpected newcomers who took part including Richard Ayoade (Submarine), Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) and Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene). Some of these lists aren't all that surprising (both Quentin Tarantino...
- 8/6/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Dec 20, 2010
Isabelle Huppert is a treasure of European cinema, held in the same esteem that Meryl Streep is in America. A perpetually searching, hungry actress, she has worked for many of the most vital and demanding filmmakers in her nearly forty year career. Bold and confrontational in films like The Piano Teacher (2001), Ma Mere (2004), and Loulou (1980), she has never been concerned about being disliked by an audience, a lack of character vanity which serves lauded French director Claire Denis well in her latest work White Material. Reminiscent of the literary works of ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com...
Isabelle Huppert is a treasure of European cinema, held in the same esteem that Meryl Streep is in America. A perpetually searching, hungry actress, she has worked for many of the most vital and demanding filmmakers in her nearly forty year career. Bold and confrontational in films like The Piano Teacher (2001), Ma Mere (2004), and Loulou (1980), she has never been concerned about being disliked by an audience, a lack of character vanity which serves lauded French director Claire Denis well in her latest work White Material. Reminiscent of the literary works of ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com...
- 12/20/2010
- CinemaNerdz
Well here we are, another mid-month Criterion Collection New Release announcement extravaganza. A few titles that we suspected, due to rumors and various clues, and new addition to Maurice Pilat’s section of the Criterion Collection.
First off, we’re getting a re-release of a Criterion classic, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus. This is Criterion #48, so they are keeping in line with their re-releasing older titles, with new features, transfers, and absolutely gorgeous cover art. This Black Orpheus painting is one that I would certainly buy a print of, to hang on my wall. Black Orpheus will be released on August 17th on DVD and Blu-ray
A few weeks back, we told you about how the New York Times, in their Summer DVD column, let loose the idea that Criterion was working on a collection of Josef Von Sternberg titles, and we now have a complete list of the films, along with supplemental materials and artwork.
First off, we’re getting a re-release of a Criterion classic, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus. This is Criterion #48, so they are keeping in line with their re-releasing older titles, with new features, transfers, and absolutely gorgeous cover art. This Black Orpheus painting is one that I would certainly buy a print of, to hang on my wall. Black Orpheus will be released on August 17th on DVD and Blu-ray
A few weeks back, we told you about how the New York Times, in their Summer DVD column, let loose the idea that Criterion was working on a collection of Josef Von Sternberg titles, and we now have a complete list of the films, along with supplemental materials and artwork.
- 5/14/2010
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
She has probably seen it all as an actress with over 90 films under her belt. She seems to increase track record in cinema as fas as she can go. She obviously doesn’t look her age because of all the things she has done in the past.
She is still slim framed from the days of movies like Loulou and with freckles that stand out on her pale skin, and eyes that light up a room. She is surely one of the biggest cinematic figures of our time.
She came to the scene in the early 70s since then she has been showered with accolades at various times in her career. She is a person...
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She is still slim framed from the days of movies like Loulou and with freckles that stand out on her pale skin, and eyes that light up a room. She is surely one of the biggest cinematic figures of our time.
She came to the scene in the early 70s since then she has been showered with accolades at various times in her career. She is a person...
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- 8/9/2008
- by John
- ReelSuave.com
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