Ahead of a confirmed release on the Criterion Collection this July, the new restoration of Lizzie Borden’s acclaimed 1987 Sundance winner Working Girls will get a theatrical run courtesy of Janus Films. Inspired by the experiences of sex workers Borden met while making her landmark docu-style film Born in Flames, Working Girls takes place over a day in a Manhattan brothel as we witness the ins and outs of the profession. In advance of the restoration’s theatrical run starting on June 18, a new trailer has now arrived.
“When I started Working Girls, I wanted to begin with a whole different aesthetic that had to do with telling a story very simply,” Borden told Feminist Studies. “I didn’t want to make a voyeuristic film, but I wanted to create curiosity in the viewer, almost voyeurism, about what it’s actually like to be in a house of prostitution.” She...
“When I started Working Girls, I wanted to begin with a whole different aesthetic that had to do with telling a story very simply,” Borden told Feminist Studies. “I didn’t want to make a voyeuristic film, but I wanted to create curiosity in the viewer, almost voyeurism, about what it’s actually like to be in a house of prostitution.” She...
- 6/4/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Lizzie Borden’s groundbreaking film “Working Girls” is coming back to theaters. The project, detailing the lives of sex workers, approaches the topic with a seldom-seen motivation towards removing stigmas. It was revolutionary at the time of release, garnering attention from audiences as well as a 1987 Sundance Film Festival Special Grand Jury Prize.
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‘Girls’ conscious inspection of characters helps set apart the film’s structure.
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‘Girls’ conscious inspection of characters helps set apart the film’s structure.
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- 6/4/2021
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Ahmed Sylla and Kenzo Sambin are in the cast of the second film by the filmmaker who won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes in 2017, produced by Blue Monday. The first clapperboard slammed yesterday on Un petit frère, the second feature film from Léonor Serraille after Montparnasse Bienvenüe. Standing out in the cast are Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Ahmed Sylla (The Climb) and...
Shortlists to be announced on February 9.
The Academy on Thursday (January 28) published a list of 93 films eligible for international feature film Oscar category.
Algeria’s Heliopolis, about the brutal suppression by French colonial authorities of an uprising in 1945, is omitted from the list. Screen understands the national selection committee withdrew the submission.
There were also a record number of documentary submissions – 238 compared to the previous high of 170 – in light of amended eligibility rules this season due to the pandemic, and a reduced field of 27 animation contenders.
The shortlists will be announced on February 9. The 93rd annual Academy Awards are scheduled...
The Academy on Thursday (January 28) published a list of 93 films eligible for international feature film Oscar category.
Algeria’s Heliopolis, about the brutal suppression by French colonial authorities of an uprising in 1945, is omitted from the list. Screen understands the national selection committee withdrew the submission.
There were also a record number of documentary submissions – 238 compared to the previous high of 170 – in light of amended eligibility rules this season due to the pandemic, and a reduced field of 27 animation contenders.
The shortlists will be announced on February 9. The 93rd annual Academy Awards are scheduled...
- 1/28/2021
- ScreenDaily
Anne Paulicevich was determined to tell a story of female heroism after the birth of her daughter and found her script’s inspiration after reading an article about women who work as prostitutes along the Belgian border. The result was the script for her drama “Working Girls,” Belgium’s official selection for the 2021 Golden Globes and the 93rd Academy Awards.
However, she had a small problem. She needed to get access to a brothel to do proper research.
“I was never in a brothel before and so I said to Freìdeìric (co-director) and to the producer, I won’t write this story if I didn’t meet these women,” Paulicevich tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond. “So I spent a lot of time in brothels, like around nine months for the writing.”
“Working Girls” centers on Axelle, Dominique and Conso who leads a double life. Every morning they meet up in...
However, she had a small problem. She needed to get access to a brothel to do proper research.
“I was never in a brothel before and so I said to Freìdeìric (co-director) and to the producer, I won’t write this story if I didn’t meet these women,” Paulicevich tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond. “So I spent a lot of time in brothels, like around nine months for the writing.”
“Working Girls” centers on Axelle, Dominique and Conso who leads a double life. Every morning they meet up in...
- 1/9/2021
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
The Academy on Friday unveiled to its voters a record 93 films will compete in the Best International Feature Film category — which will no doubt leading to a busy four weeks of viewing before first-round voting begins on Feb. 1.
Helped by Covid-inspired rules that relaxed the usual entry requirements, the films topped the record of 92 entries set in 2017, as TheWrap suggested they likely would in December. The films include a record 34 female directors, seven more than the previous high of 27 set last year.
This is not the official list of qualifying films, which is expected to be released by the Academy later in January. But these 93 films are all in the members-only online screening room devoted to the category, and each of them has been put on a “required viewing” list for one-fourth of the voters. It is unlikely that any of the films will be disqualified at this point, although...
Helped by Covid-inspired rules that relaxed the usual entry requirements, the films topped the record of 92 entries set in 2017, as TheWrap suggested they likely would in December. The films include a record 34 female directors, seven more than the previous high of 27 set last year.
This is not the official list of qualifying films, which is expected to be released by the Academy later in January. But these 93 films are all in the members-only online screening room devoted to the category, and each of them has been put on a “required viewing” list for one-fourth of the voters. It is unlikely that any of the films will be disqualified at this point, although...
- 1/8/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
MyFrenchFilmFestival, an online film festival dedicated to French movies launched by the promotion org UniFrance, will showcase 33 titles, including a competitive lineup of 10 feature films and 10 shorts.
Set to run Jan. 15 to Feb. 15, the 11th edition of the festival will collaborate with more than 60 platforms around the world to allow movies to be watched across more than 200 territories.
The roster of films selected to compete as part of this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival includes Sébastien Lifshitz’s “Adolescents,” a documentary exploring the evolving friendship of two young women through the years; Hafsia Herzi’s “You Deserve a Lover,” a drama about a young woman struggling to overcome a breakup; and Frédéric Fonteyne’s “Filles de joie,” a social drama about family women leading double lives to make ends meet.
The rest of the lineup comprises Bruno Merle’s “Felicita,” a family dramedy about an eccentric couple raising a child; Stéphane Batut...
Set to run Jan. 15 to Feb. 15, the 11th edition of the festival will collaborate with more than 60 platforms around the world to allow movies to be watched across more than 200 territories.
The roster of films selected to compete as part of this year’s MyFrenchFilmFestival includes Sébastien Lifshitz’s “Adolescents,” a documentary exploring the evolving friendship of two young women through the years; Hafsia Herzi’s “You Deserve a Lover,” a drama about a young woman struggling to overcome a breakup; and Frédéric Fonteyne’s “Filles de joie,” a social drama about family women leading double lives to make ends meet.
The rest of the lineup comprises Bruno Merle’s “Felicita,” a family dramedy about an eccentric couple raising a child; Stéphane Batut...
- 1/5/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Europe’s biggest nation of moviegoers, France, saw its theaters reopen with a bang on June 22 and managed to sell between 850,000 and 900,000 admissions through Sunday.
It’s roughly 50% less than an average week in June, but considering the dearth of fresh releases, the heat wave, which plagued most of the country last week, and fears of a second wave of Covid-19, it’s an “outstanding result that is beyond our most optimistic forecast,” said Eric Marti at Comscore France. Theaters had been shutdown for more than two months.
The admission tally is particularly strong since not all theaters were open during the first part of the week. Indeed, only about 60% of theaters had reopened on Monday and Tuesday, and by Wednesday there were 85% of them, said Marti. Today, most of France’s 2,040 cinemas and 5,700 screens are active.
“As many as 660,000 admissions were sold between Wednesday and Sunday, when almost all the venues had reopened,...
It’s roughly 50% less than an average week in June, but considering the dearth of fresh releases, the heat wave, which plagued most of the country last week, and fears of a second wave of Covid-19, it’s an “outstanding result that is beyond our most optimistic forecast,” said Eric Marti at Comscore France. Theaters had been shutdown for more than two months.
The admission tally is particularly strong since not all theaters were open during the first part of the week. Indeed, only about 60% of theaters had reopened on Monday and Tuesday, and by Wednesday there were 85% of them, said Marti. Today, most of France’s 2,040 cinemas and 5,700 screens are active.
“As many as 660,000 admissions were sold between Wednesday and Sunday, when almost all the venues had reopened,...
- 6/29/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The big international box office news this week isn’t actually from the weekend — which was again led by Korea and saw continued ups and downs versus last session as moviegoers await new product. Instead, after 100 days of closure, French cinemas re-opened beginning Monday this week, and with at least 40 films programmed for the post-coronavirus walk-up of the nation’s theaters.
Some eager moviegoers didn’t even wait for Monday morning, with about 120 people heading to the 5 Caumartin cinema in the 9th arrondissement of Paris from 12:01Am on June 22 to see a sneak preview of local comedy Les Parfums. The situation was similar in Rennes, where folks also turned up at midnight to see a re-release of the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski.
Then from just after 9Am Monday morning, Ugc’s flagship cinema in Paris, Ciné Cité Les Halles, welcomed guests for its first screenings with ticket sales reaching almost normal levels,...
Some eager moviegoers didn’t even wait for Monday morning, with about 120 people heading to the 5 Caumartin cinema in the 9th arrondissement of Paris from 12:01Am on June 22 to see a sneak preview of local comedy Les Parfums. The situation was similar in Rennes, where folks also turned up at midnight to see a re-release of the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski.
Then from just after 9Am Monday morning, Ugc’s flagship cinema in Paris, Ciné Cité Les Halles, welcomed guests for its first screenings with ticket sales reaching almost normal levels,...
- 6/24/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Memento-distributed title is among 10 films put into cinemas for June 22 reopening.
Martin Provost’s comedy drama How To Be A Good Wife topped the box office chart in France on Monday (June 22), the first day of cinema theatres opening after a 14-week hiatus due to the country’s Covid-19 lockdown.
According to figures provided by distributor Memento Distribution, the film drew some 20,000 spectators across 600 screens, which is equivalent to a box office of around $154,000.
Biopic De Gaulle came in second for Snd with around 10,000 admissions, for a box office of close to $68,000.
Memento Distribution chief Alexandre Mallet-Guy told Screen...
Martin Provost’s comedy drama How To Be A Good Wife topped the box office chart in France on Monday (June 22), the first day of cinema theatres opening after a 14-week hiatus due to the country’s Covid-19 lockdown.
According to figures provided by distributor Memento Distribution, the film drew some 20,000 spectators across 600 screens, which is equivalent to a box office of around $154,000.
Biopic De Gaulle came in second for Snd with around 10,000 admissions, for a box office of close to $68,000.
Memento Distribution chief Alexandre Mallet-Guy told Screen...
- 6/23/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
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