Régis Roinsard’s film stars Virginie Efira, Romain Duris, Grégory Gadebois and Solan Machado-Graner; it is being produced by Curiosa and Jpg, and will be sold by StudioCanal. After having kicked off on 14 January, the shoot for En attendant Bojangles (lit. “Waiting for Bojangles”) by Régis Roinsard will wrap on 13 March. The third feature by the filmmaker, following Populaire and The Translators (which came out in France on 29 January), stars Belgium’s Virginie Efira, Romain Duris (nominated for the César Award for Best Actor in 2019 for...
Amazon Prime Video has acquired more than 40 premium French series and films from several key French distribution companies to feed the library of Prime Video in France, which launched at the end of 2016.
The streaming giant signed deals with TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, France TV Distribution, Ab Droits Audiovisuels, Newen Distribution, EuropaCorp, About Premium Content, Roissy Films and The Bureau Sales.
“We are thrilled to partner with such respected French content creators and distributors and will continue to add leading content to Prime Video in France,” said Jay Marine, vice president of Prime Video Europe.
The new French programs acquired by Amazon Prime include popular TV series such as “Sam,” the remake of the Danish show “Rita,” procedural “Les Innocents,” cop show “Captain Sharif,” family comedy series “Desperate Parents,” and World War II-set series “A French Village.”
Amazon Prime Video also acquired French films such as Régis Roinsard’s “Populaire,” Thomas Cailley...
The streaming giant signed deals with TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, France TV Distribution, Ab Droits Audiovisuels, Newen Distribution, EuropaCorp, About Premium Content, Roissy Films and The Bureau Sales.
“We are thrilled to partner with such respected French content creators and distributors and will continue to add leading content to Prime Video in France,” said Jay Marine, vice president of Prime Video Europe.
The new French programs acquired by Amazon Prime include popular TV series such as “Sam,” the remake of the Danish show “Rita,” procedural “Les Innocents,” cop show “Captain Sharif,” family comedy series “Desperate Parents,” and World War II-set series “A French Village.”
Amazon Prime Video also acquired French films such as Régis Roinsard’s “Populaire,” Thomas Cailley...
- 3/30/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Jeanne Moreau was to French cinema as Manet’s “Olympia” was to French painting — the personification of the gait, glance, and gesture of modern life. Her darting brown eyes and enigmatic moue were the face of the French New Wave. Her candid sensuality and self-assurance, not to mention the suggestion that she was always in control, made her the epitome of the New Woman. From Orson Welles and Luis Bunuel to Joseph Losey and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Moreau was the muse to the greatest directors of world cinema.
“She has all the qualities one expects in a woman,” quipped Francois Truffaut, director of her most beloved film, “Jules and Jim” (1962), “plus all those one expects in a man — without the inconveniences of either.”
Surprisingly, this quintessence of French femininity had an English mother, a dancer at the Folies Bergere. Her French father, a hotelier and restaurateur, upon learning that his daughter likewise had theatrical ambitions,...
“She has all the qualities one expects in a woman,” quipped Francois Truffaut, director of her most beloved film, “Jules and Jim” (1962), “plus all those one expects in a man — without the inconveniences of either.”
Surprisingly, this quintessence of French femininity had an English mother, a dancer at the Folies Bergere. Her French father, a hotelier and restaurateur, upon learning that his daughter likewise had theatrical ambitions,...
- 7/31/2017
- by Carrie Rickey
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Comedy co-stars Miou-Miou and Camille Chamoux; first look revealed.
WestEnd Films is launching world sales on Saving Mum (working title), a heartwarming comedy which reunites the team behind French comedy Connasse: writer-director Eloïse Lang and French actress Camille Cottin (Allied).
Rounding out the cast are ten-time César Award nominee Miou-Miou (Populaire), Camille Chamoux (Supercondriaque) and Johan Heldenbergh (The Broken Circle Breakdown).
The exclusive first picture released features Camille Cottin, Miou-Miou and Camille Chamoux (from left to right). The film is currently shooting on Reunion Island.
Saving Mum is the French-language remake of Danish comedy All Inclusive. WestEnd Films acquired the remake rights for that film from Happy Ending Film.
The film tells the story of free-spirited Rose (Cottin) and her uptight sister Alice (Chamoux) who take their mother Francoise (Miou-Miou) out of Paris to the tropical island of Reunion for her birthday. But when a sexy bartender, an attractive widow, and cheap margaritas...
WestEnd Films is launching world sales on Saving Mum (working title), a heartwarming comedy which reunites the team behind French comedy Connasse: writer-director Eloïse Lang and French actress Camille Cottin (Allied).
Rounding out the cast are ten-time César Award nominee Miou-Miou (Populaire), Camille Chamoux (Supercondriaque) and Johan Heldenbergh (The Broken Circle Breakdown).
The exclusive first picture released features Camille Cottin, Miou-Miou and Camille Chamoux (from left to right). The film is currently shooting on Reunion Island.
Saving Mum is the French-language remake of Danish comedy All Inclusive. WestEnd Films acquired the remake rights for that film from Happy Ending Film.
The film tells the story of free-spirited Rose (Cottin) and her uptight sister Alice (Chamoux) who take their mother Francoise (Miou-Miou) out of Paris to the tropical island of Reunion for her birthday. But when a sexy bartender, an attractive widow, and cheap margaritas...
- 5/19/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Guillaume Gallienne and Guillaume Canet are Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola in Danièle Thompson's Cézanne Et Moi
Where else can you find Édouard Manet (Nicolas Gob), Camille Pissarro (Romain Cottard), Guy de Maupassant (Félicien Juttner), Baptistin Baille (Pierre Yvon), Auguste Renoir (Alexandre Kouchner), Ambroise Vollard (Laurent Stocker), Francisco Oller (Pablo Cisneros), Achille Empéraire (Romain Lancry), Père Tanguy (Christian Hecq), Frédéric Bazille (Patrice Tepasso), the great Sabine Azéma as Paul Cézanne's mother, and Glasgow's own Freya Mavor (Joann Sfar's The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun) as the mother to Zola's children - all in one film?
Danièle Thompson on Jean-Marie Dreujou: "He's a wonderful cinematographer." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Déborah François (of Régis Roinsard's Populaire) is Hortense, Cézanne's wife, Alice Pol is Zola's wife Alexandrine, and his mother Émilie is played by Isabelle Candelier. Back and forth in time we jump, from...
Where else can you find Édouard Manet (Nicolas Gob), Camille Pissarro (Romain Cottard), Guy de Maupassant (Félicien Juttner), Baptistin Baille (Pierre Yvon), Auguste Renoir (Alexandre Kouchner), Ambroise Vollard (Laurent Stocker), Francisco Oller (Pablo Cisneros), Achille Empéraire (Romain Lancry), Père Tanguy (Christian Hecq), Frédéric Bazille (Patrice Tepasso), the great Sabine Azéma as Paul Cézanne's mother, and Glasgow's own Freya Mavor (Joann Sfar's The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun) as the mother to Zola's children - all in one film?
Danièle Thompson on Jean-Marie Dreujou: "He's a wonderful cinematographer." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Déborah François (of Régis Roinsard's Populaire) is Hortense, Cézanne's wife, Alice Pol is Zola's wife Alexandrine, and his mother Émilie is played by Isabelle Candelier. Back and forth in time we jump, from...
- 3/24/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cinematic wankery at its most puerile. Two hours of the sun setting revealing that this is why it gets dark at night would not have been more pointless. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The Childhood of a Leader is would-be deep cinematic wankery at its most puerile. This is a two-hour-long attempt to construct a metaphor that ends at a place where it steps back and smugly makes a “shocking” pronouncement of something so concretely literal that it is, well, literally the fact of the matter that everyone already knows. If actor turned director (and screenwriter, with Mona Fastvold) Brady Corbet had, with his feature debut, given us 120 minutes of the sun setting and then boldly concluded that this is why it gets dark at night, he would not have been more obvious and inevitable and pointless.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
The Childhood of a Leader is would-be deep cinematic wankery at its most puerile. This is a two-hour-long attempt to construct a metaphor that ends at a place where it steps back and smugly makes a “shocking” pronouncement of something so concretely literal that it is, well, literally the fact of the matter that everyone already knows. If actor turned director (and screenwriter, with Mona Fastvold) Brady Corbet had, with his feature debut, given us 120 minutes of the sun setting and then boldly concluded that this is why it gets dark at night, he would not have been more obvious and inevitable and pointless.
- 8/19/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Exclusive: Company also adds new films by Guédiguian, Moussaoui and Risuleo on eve of Cannes.
Paris-based MK2 Films will launch sales in Cannes on an upcoming bio-doc about 1960s icon Marianne Faithfull [pictured] by French actress and director Sandrine Bonnaire.
Simply entitled Faithfull, it will follow the singer’s life journey, from being discovered at the age of 17 in 1960s ‘Swinging London’; to her rock ‘n’ roll life with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger; her battle with drugs and alcohol addiction and rebirth as a performer in later life.
Developed in close co-operation with Faithfull, it is set to feature interviews with Jagger, Salman Rushdie, Anselm Kiefer, Nick Cave and Damon Albarn.
It is Bonnaire’s second documentary after My Name Is Sabine, about her severely autistic sister, which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2007. Paris-based Cinétéve is producing, with the backing of Arte, for a 2017 delivery.
New Talents: Moussaoui and Risuleo
The documentary is among four new...
Paris-based MK2 Films will launch sales in Cannes on an upcoming bio-doc about 1960s icon Marianne Faithfull [pictured] by French actress and director Sandrine Bonnaire.
Simply entitled Faithfull, it will follow the singer’s life journey, from being discovered at the age of 17 in 1960s ‘Swinging London’; to her rock ‘n’ roll life with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger; her battle with drugs and alcohol addiction and rebirth as a performer in later life.
Developed in close co-operation with Faithfull, it is set to feature interviews with Jagger, Salman Rushdie, Anselm Kiefer, Nick Cave and Damon Albarn.
It is Bonnaire’s second documentary after My Name Is Sabine, about her severely autistic sister, which premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2007. Paris-based Cinétéve is producing, with the backing of Arte, for a 2017 delivery.
New Talents: Moussaoui and Risuleo
The documentary is among four new...
- 5/9/2016
- ScreenDaily
If one can expect anything from Michel Gondry, it is that along with the whimsy and touch of the bizarre inherent in his work is an element of truth. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind uses erasure imagery to illustrate the pain of heartbreak. Be Kind Rewind has friendly video store employees creating their own versions of Hollywood hits for their neighborhood. Gondry's latest film, love story Mood Indigo, however, is utterly drowning in whimsy and lacking any figment of truth.
Debonair and bearded Romain Duris (Populaire, The Beat That My Heart Skipped) stars as Colin, living off family money in a spacious Paris apartment. Audrey Tautou (Amelie, A Very Long Engagement) plays cute Chloe, whom Colin meets at a party. The plot goes something like this: guy meets girl, guy and girl fall in love and marry, flower grows in girl's lung.
There's also a B-plot, involving a friend (Gad Elmaleh,...
Debonair and bearded Romain Duris (Populaire, The Beat That My Heart Skipped) stars as Colin, living off family money in a spacious Paris apartment. Audrey Tautou (Amelie, A Very Long Engagement) plays cute Chloe, whom Colin meets at a party. The plot goes something like this: guy meets girl, guy and girl fall in love and marry, flower grows in girl's lung.
There's also a B-plot, involving a friend (Gad Elmaleh,...
- 8/16/2014
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
• It looks like Mike Epps may finally get the chance to play legendary stand-up comedian Richard Pryor after all. The comic has emerged as the front-runner to play the part in a biopic for The Weinstein Company directed by Lee Daniels (The Butler). Epps was previously signed on to play Pryor back in 2005 and met with the late comedian while he was still alive to prepare for the role, but that project fell through. Epps reportedly beat out actors Michael B. Jordan, Nick Cannon, and Marlon Wayans after Wayans had also been previously attached to another Pryor film, this one...
- 8/13/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Delightfully bonkers stop-motion vacuumpunk madness comes to an abrupt halt in this mysteriously truncated version of Michel Gondry’s latest romantic whimsy. I’m “biast” (pro): love Michel Gondry
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
This is not a thing you ever want to hear: “Michel Gondry’s shorter, preferred cut for American audiences.” That was the proud announcement included in a press release about Mood Indigo from a U.S. publicist for the film, and that 90-odd-minute version is the same one I saw at a press screening here in London. Why does Gondry think we English speakers don’t warrant the two-hour-plus version of his whimsical love story? What doesn’t he want us to see? What does he think we can’t handle?
This is what I saw: an hour...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
This is not a thing you ever want to hear: “Michel Gondry’s shorter, preferred cut for American audiences.” That was the proud announcement included in a press release about Mood Indigo from a U.S. publicist for the film, and that 90-odd-minute version is the same one I saw at a press screening here in London. Why does Gondry think we English speakers don’t warrant the two-hour-plus version of his whimsical love story? What doesn’t he want us to see? What does he think we can’t handle?
This is what I saw: an hour...
- 8/1/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
To mark the release of Mood Indigo on 1st August, we’ve been given a Prize bundle to give away including an original Mood Indigo poster signed by the Oscar winning Director, Michel Gondry, a rejacketed edition of the Boris Vian original novel for Mood Indigo, DVDs of Paris (with Romain Duris) and Coco before Chanel (with Audrey Tautou).
Based on the cult novel by Boris Vian and directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep), Mood Indigo tells the surreal and poetic tale of Colin (Romain Duris, Populaire, Heartbreaker) and Chloe (Audrey Tautou, Coco before Chanel, Delicacy) and their idyllic love-story. Set in a fantasy version of Paris, their romantic adventure is turned on its head when Chloe falls sick and discovers a water lily growing in her lung…
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Based on the cult novel by Boris Vian and directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep), Mood Indigo tells the surreal and poetic tale of Colin (Romain Duris, Populaire, Heartbreaker) and Chloe (Audrey Tautou, Coco before Chanel, Delicacy) and their idyllic love-story. Set in a fantasy version of Paris, their romantic adventure is turned on its head when Chloe falls sick and discovers a water lily growing in her lung…
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- 7/29/2014
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Mood Indigo's Audrey Tautou with Michel Gondry at the Tribeca Grand Hotel premiere: "I like the bell. The doorbell that is like an insect." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Michel Gondry had a Tin Drum moment on the red carpet for his Mood Indigo*, starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris with Gad Elmaleh, Omar Sy, Aïssa Maïga and Charlotte Le Bon. Boris Vian transformed into Günter Grass with a Volker Schlöndorff image stuck in and out of Gondry's head ending up in Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky and out of a faucet in Mood Indigo. Tautou and Duris walked the red carpet in 2013 at The Paris Theatre - she for Claude Miller's Thérèse Desqueyroux and he for Régis Roinsard's Populaire.
Audrey Tautou at Mood Indigo New York premiere: "I was really intrigued by the imagination and phantasy of this universe." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
David Byrne,...
Michel Gondry had a Tin Drum moment on the red carpet for his Mood Indigo*, starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris with Gad Elmaleh, Omar Sy, Aïssa Maïga and Charlotte Le Bon. Boris Vian transformed into Günter Grass with a Volker Schlöndorff image stuck in and out of Gondry's head ending up in Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky and out of a faucet in Mood Indigo. Tautou and Duris walked the red carpet in 2013 at The Paris Theatre - she for Claude Miller's Thérèse Desqueyroux and he for Régis Roinsard's Populaire.
Audrey Tautou at Mood Indigo New York premiere: "I was really intrigued by the imagination and phantasy of this universe." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
David Byrne,...
- 7/18/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Speaking from a very personal standpoint, this writer must admit that Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 ode to Paris and everything beautiful in life, “Amelie,” was the film that completely changed his view of what cinema could be. Therefore, it is an absolute favorite. The reason why that film is so outstanding is due in part to an unforgettable performance by one of most important and versatile French actresses working today, Audrey Tautou. In that film, her earnest desire to manufacture happiness out of beautiful memories and second chances rings with heartwarming innocence.
After playing an array of incredibly diverse women in less magical films, Tautou returns to the fantasy world in full form with Michel Gondry’s visually astonishing “Mood Indigo,” based on the novel L'écume des jours. As Chloe, she plays opposite another French star Romain Duris ("Populaire","Russian Dolls"), in a love story that thrives on gorgeous surreal imagery and the actors’ willingness to be immersed in the endless roads of imagination. Uniting Gondry’s unparalleled keen eye for creating dream-like realms and Audrey Tautou’s special talent to shine with luminous honesty in every scene, “Mood Indigo” is bound to mesmerize American audiences.
The delightful French actress spoke to us from Paris about Michel Gondry’s singular methods, the challenges of working in such a peculiar film, and the power of love stories.
Carlos Aguilar: How did you get involved in this project? Where you originally a fan of the novel or of Michel Gondry's films?
Audrey Tautou: I read the novel when I was a teenager. I knew the story and I love it since then. I was very happy, and very joyous, about the way Michel Gondry would make this dream come true. When I say dream I’m talking about this very surreal story.
Aguilar: How difficult is it for you to play a character like this in a fantasy in comparison to roles more grounded on reality?
Audrey Tautou: Everything revolving around my character such as the set design, the accessories, and everything that we shot was very helpful. The only thing that was very new for me was to shoot with a director who is unpredictable. You don’t know where the camera is going. It is very difficult to act without preparing myself, and I think that’s what he wanted. He wanted us to forget the camera, and not to act composed. Sometimes what happened on the set was unplanned. For example, we were shooting a scene and suddenly about 20 children came into the street close to the set, and he [Michel Gondry] asked them to be in the scene and we had to play with them.
Everything that was happening around the set was a source of inspiration for Michel. He wanted everything and everybody to be always moving. His energy was great and very new for me. I would say that for the first time I had no idea what I had done with Chloe in my interpretation. I had no idea if I had done a great scene or if it was bad because I couldn’t look at myself.
Aguilar: Was there any green screen work involved? Does this make it more challenging than having everything physically present?
Audrey Tautou: There was no green screen involved. That was also what was so special while shooting, because today nobody shoots like this anymore. Every object or special effect was done in reality by a team of animators who were filming them second by second on set. It was great because we had everything in front of our eyes and in our hands. Everything was physically there!
When we did the wedding in the aquarium, we were really underwater in an aquarium. When we took trip and had little shopping session flying on the “cloud,” we were really inside this little cloud up in the air, it was a little scary [Laughs].
Aguilar: How was working with Romain Duris, who travels into this strange world with you?
Audrey Tautou: I love working with Romain, I’ve known him for a few years now because we have done two movies together before. He is a great actor, very talented. It is a great pleasure to work with him because you can feel that he really listens to you and he reacts to a lot of sensitivities. It is always great to work with talented actors.
Aguilar: Besides all the whimsical elements, "Mood Indigo" is essentially a love story, a very unique love story. What do you think makes it so special?
Audrey Tautou: It’s a unique and special love story because Colin and Chloe share a very pure love, an absolute love. Their love makes you think nothing wrong can happen to them. What happens to them is really unfair, but it is also very touching and very romantic. For me this love story is on pair with “Romeo & Juliet”, it is a very different movie, but it is still a love story. There is something very moving and powerful about something dark coming and corrupting a very pure heart.
Aguilar: When you read the screenplay was it clear that color would be such as important part of the director’s vision?
Audrey Tautou: He had told me he had this idea for the color to turn into black & white. It was a nice metaphor that he had, which you couldn’t have when you read the book. It is exactly the same idea, and it is in exactly the same spirit as what you have in the story, but with all the decorations and the set design becoming dirty and darker, full of this vegetation in the room.
This comes from that idea about the colors. Then to extent this metaphor to the realm of cinema, the images are used to explore it further. It goes even deeper into the metaphor about how this love is dying, Chloe is dying, everything is dying and even the color of the film is starting to die to become black and white, and sad. I think that’s a great approach.
Aguilar: Paris is depicted in a magical way in many films, among there are some that you've acted in such as Jeunet's "Amelie" and, of course, "Mood Indigo." What is so magical about a city like Paris?
Audrey Tautou: What makes the city magical is the talent of the directors and the way they can elicit a lot of poetry from this city. Of course, Paris has a great aura of its own, but it is also the way they film it that adds poetry, I’d say. This allows Paris to be even prettier, more poetic, and more romantic. There are so many movies that are shot in Paris, but I really think it is about Jean Pierre Jeunet and Michel Gondry's universes, styles and sensitivity.
Aguilar: What would you say is the biggest lesson you learned from working with Michel Gondry?
Audrey Tautou: For me the biggest lesson was not to try to control anything and jus to let myself float on the ocean of his ideas. Not to try to resist, just follow him no questions asked.
Aguilar: This is such a beautifully unique film, but what do you think people will love about "Mood Indigo"?
Audrey Tautou: I think it is romantic, and lovely, and it is something you have never seen before. There are some many ideas, fantasy, and poetry. It’s not a movie you can say “Oh I saw this movie and it is the same thing I’ve seen already a hundred times.” I think there is something very unique, special, and it is a real work of art by Michel. It is unconventional, and it brings fantasy into our world and I think that’s nice. I don’t think we have enough of that.
Aguilar: Does Audrey Tautou prefer reality or fantasy?
Audrey Tautou: Ooh la la [Laughs], I think I prefer the second one. I’ve done a few movies that are in this type of “family.” They take you away from the daily routine. I like fantasy, and I like great heroines.
"Mood Indigo" opens Friday July 18th in La (Nuart Theater) and NY (Landmark Sunshine Cinema)...
After playing an array of incredibly diverse women in less magical films, Tautou returns to the fantasy world in full form with Michel Gondry’s visually astonishing “Mood Indigo,” based on the novel L'écume des jours. As Chloe, she plays opposite another French star Romain Duris ("Populaire","Russian Dolls"), in a love story that thrives on gorgeous surreal imagery and the actors’ willingness to be immersed in the endless roads of imagination. Uniting Gondry’s unparalleled keen eye for creating dream-like realms and Audrey Tautou’s special talent to shine with luminous honesty in every scene, “Mood Indigo” is bound to mesmerize American audiences.
The delightful French actress spoke to us from Paris about Michel Gondry’s singular methods, the challenges of working in such a peculiar film, and the power of love stories.
Carlos Aguilar: How did you get involved in this project? Where you originally a fan of the novel or of Michel Gondry's films?
Audrey Tautou: I read the novel when I was a teenager. I knew the story and I love it since then. I was very happy, and very joyous, about the way Michel Gondry would make this dream come true. When I say dream I’m talking about this very surreal story.
Aguilar: How difficult is it for you to play a character like this in a fantasy in comparison to roles more grounded on reality?
Audrey Tautou: Everything revolving around my character such as the set design, the accessories, and everything that we shot was very helpful. The only thing that was very new for me was to shoot with a director who is unpredictable. You don’t know where the camera is going. It is very difficult to act without preparing myself, and I think that’s what he wanted. He wanted us to forget the camera, and not to act composed. Sometimes what happened on the set was unplanned. For example, we were shooting a scene and suddenly about 20 children came into the street close to the set, and he [Michel Gondry] asked them to be in the scene and we had to play with them.
Everything that was happening around the set was a source of inspiration for Michel. He wanted everything and everybody to be always moving. His energy was great and very new for me. I would say that for the first time I had no idea what I had done with Chloe in my interpretation. I had no idea if I had done a great scene or if it was bad because I couldn’t look at myself.
Aguilar: Was there any green screen work involved? Does this make it more challenging than having everything physically present?
Audrey Tautou: There was no green screen involved. That was also what was so special while shooting, because today nobody shoots like this anymore. Every object or special effect was done in reality by a team of animators who were filming them second by second on set. It was great because we had everything in front of our eyes and in our hands. Everything was physically there!
When we did the wedding in the aquarium, we were really underwater in an aquarium. When we took trip and had little shopping session flying on the “cloud,” we were really inside this little cloud up in the air, it was a little scary [Laughs].
Aguilar: How was working with Romain Duris, who travels into this strange world with you?
Audrey Tautou: I love working with Romain, I’ve known him for a few years now because we have done two movies together before. He is a great actor, very talented. It is a great pleasure to work with him because you can feel that he really listens to you and he reacts to a lot of sensitivities. It is always great to work with talented actors.
Aguilar: Besides all the whimsical elements, "Mood Indigo" is essentially a love story, a very unique love story. What do you think makes it so special?
Audrey Tautou: It’s a unique and special love story because Colin and Chloe share a very pure love, an absolute love. Their love makes you think nothing wrong can happen to them. What happens to them is really unfair, but it is also very touching and very romantic. For me this love story is on pair with “Romeo & Juliet”, it is a very different movie, but it is still a love story. There is something very moving and powerful about something dark coming and corrupting a very pure heart.
Aguilar: When you read the screenplay was it clear that color would be such as important part of the director’s vision?
Audrey Tautou: He had told me he had this idea for the color to turn into black & white. It was a nice metaphor that he had, which you couldn’t have when you read the book. It is exactly the same idea, and it is in exactly the same spirit as what you have in the story, but with all the decorations and the set design becoming dirty and darker, full of this vegetation in the room.
This comes from that idea about the colors. Then to extent this metaphor to the realm of cinema, the images are used to explore it further. It goes even deeper into the metaphor about how this love is dying, Chloe is dying, everything is dying and even the color of the film is starting to die to become black and white, and sad. I think that’s a great approach.
Aguilar: Paris is depicted in a magical way in many films, among there are some that you've acted in such as Jeunet's "Amelie" and, of course, "Mood Indigo." What is so magical about a city like Paris?
Audrey Tautou: What makes the city magical is the talent of the directors and the way they can elicit a lot of poetry from this city. Of course, Paris has a great aura of its own, but it is also the way they film it that adds poetry, I’d say. This allows Paris to be even prettier, more poetic, and more romantic. There are so many movies that are shot in Paris, but I really think it is about Jean Pierre Jeunet and Michel Gondry's universes, styles and sensitivity.
Aguilar: What would you say is the biggest lesson you learned from working with Michel Gondry?
Audrey Tautou: For me the biggest lesson was not to try to control anything and jus to let myself float on the ocean of his ideas. Not to try to resist, just follow him no questions asked.
Aguilar: This is such a beautifully unique film, but what do you think people will love about "Mood Indigo"?
Audrey Tautou: I think it is romantic, and lovely, and it is something you have never seen before. There are some many ideas, fantasy, and poetry. It’s not a movie you can say “Oh I saw this movie and it is the same thing I’ve seen already a hundred times.” I think there is something very unique, special, and it is a real work of art by Michel. It is unconventional, and it brings fantasy into our world and I think that’s nice. I don’t think we have enough of that.
Aguilar: Does Audrey Tautou prefer reality or fantasy?
Audrey Tautou: Ooh la la [Laughs], I think I prefer the second one. I’ve done a few movies that are in this type of “family.” They take you away from the daily routine. I like fantasy, and I like great heroines.
"Mood Indigo" opens Friday July 18th in La (Nuart Theater) and NY (Landmark Sunshine Cinema)...
- 7/17/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
A remarkably grounded French-Iranian drama about a broken family trying to mend; unexpectedly riveting, thanks in part to one of 2013’s best ensembles. I’m “biast” (pro): loved A Separation, adore Tahar Rahim
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
A woman meets a man at an airport. Their greeting is familiar but not romantic… or maybe what we’re seeing is strained romance? Who are they to each other? As she drives him to her home and gets him settled in for a stay, we gradually come to appreciate that they were once a couple, but he — Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) — ran back home to Iran and left her — Marie (Bérénice Bejo: Populaire, The Artist) — in the lurch, and now she has asked him for a divorce, which is why he has returned, for the legal proceedings. She wants to...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
A woman meets a man at an airport. Their greeting is familiar but not romantic… or maybe what we’re seeing is strained romance? Who are they to each other? As she drives him to her home and gets him settled in for a stay, we gradually come to appreciate that they were once a couple, but he — Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) — ran back home to Iran and left her — Marie (Bérénice Bejo: Populaire, The Artist) — in the lurch, and now she has asked him for a divorce, which is why he has returned, for the legal proceedings. She wants to...
- 3/26/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie)
Director: Francois Ozon
Writer: Francois Ozon
Producers: Mandarin Films’ Eric and Nicolas Altmayer
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Romain Duris, Anais Demoustier, Raphael Personnaz
Man, Francois Ozon is on a roll. His last film, Young & Beautiful just premiered at Cannes 2013 in the Main Competition and he’s already in post-production on his next, I Am Woman, which seems to have been recently re-titled The New Girlfriend. Never at a loss for top notch talent, Ozon headlines his latest with two of France’s most sought after leading men, Romain Duris (who Us audiences should recognize from Heartbreaker, Populaire, and several well known Klapisch titles) and Raphael Personnaz (Vronsky in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina) while hot commodity Anais Demoustier plays the female lead.
Gist: Penned by Ozon (pictured above) and based on a novel by British auteur Ruth Rendell,” Girlfriend” turns on Claire,...
Director: Francois Ozon
Writer: Francois Ozon
Producers: Mandarin Films’ Eric and Nicolas Altmayer
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Romain Duris, Anais Demoustier, Raphael Personnaz
Man, Francois Ozon is on a roll. His last film, Young & Beautiful just premiered at Cannes 2013 in the Main Competition and he’s already in post-production on his next, I Am Woman, which seems to have been recently re-titled The New Girlfriend. Never at a loss for top notch talent, Ozon headlines his latest with two of France’s most sought after leading men, Romain Duris (who Us audiences should recognize from Heartbreaker, Populaire, and several well known Klapisch titles) and Raphael Personnaz (Vronsky in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina) while hot commodity Anais Demoustier plays the female lead.
Gist: Penned by Ozon (pictured above) and based on a novel by British auteur Ruth Rendell,” Girlfriend” turns on Claire,...
- 2/24/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was especially exciting however as it seemed every month something even more thrilling arrived to fawn over. In the last few weeks alone we have had The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sleepy Hollow, and now American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street on the horizon. Dipping back further, it was Stoker that got us excited about subtext, The Great Gatsby that slammed the lid on that twenties revival once and for all, and Behind the Candelabra that put Michael Douglas in a 16ft fox fur cape and white brocade jumpsuit.
With just so many memorable movies and TV shows to cover, Clothes on Film asked some respected contributors to the site for their opinions on the best,...
With just so many memorable movies and TV shows to cover, Clothes on Film asked some respected contributors to the site for their opinions on the best,...
- 12/28/2013
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream on Netflix, Lovefilm, blinkbox, and BBC iPlayer.
new to stream
Great Expectations: a lively, vibrant retelling that feels very modern, with none of the stuffiness of a traditional costume drama [my review] [at Netflix] Pretty in Pink: John Hughes’ classic 80s high-school romance [at Netflix] Quartet: a lovely film with heartfelt performances from a fantastic cast that focuses on the upsides of getting older [my review] [at Netflix] Grabbers: Irish horror sci-fi comedy adds a few clever flourishes to a standard alien-creature tale [at Netflix]
new to stream
The Guard: hilarious fish-out-of-water cop comedy as Don Cheadle’s FBI agent must work with Brendan Gleeson rural Irish policeman [at Lovefilm] Smashed: powerful and unsentimental alchoholic-gets-a-wakeup-call drama, with a fantastic performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead [my review] [at Lovefilm]
new to stream
Camp 14: Total Control Zone: the only person known to have escaped from a North Korean...
new to stream
Great Expectations: a lively, vibrant retelling that feels very modern, with none of the stuffiness of a traditional costume drama [my review] [at Netflix] Pretty in Pink: John Hughes’ classic 80s high-school romance [at Netflix] Quartet: a lovely film with heartfelt performances from a fantastic cast that focuses on the upsides of getting older [my review] [at Netflix] Grabbers: Irish horror sci-fi comedy adds a few clever flourishes to a standard alien-creature tale [at Netflix]
new to stream
The Guard: hilarious fish-out-of-water cop comedy as Don Cheadle’s FBI agent must work with Brendan Gleeson rural Irish policeman [at Lovefilm] Smashed: powerful and unsentimental alchoholic-gets-a-wakeup-call drama, with a fantastic performance by Mary Elizabeth Winstead [my review] [at Lovefilm]
new to stream
Camp 14: Total Control Zone: the only person known to have escaped from a North Korean...
- 10/9/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Review by Barbie Snitzer
The title of the new French movie Populaire is not a marketing ploy to introduce American moviegoers to its male lead, Romain Duris, the most populaire French actor of recent years. As handsome as Brad Pitt, as appealing as Channing Tatum, and with the talent and versatility of Ben Foster, it’s surprising he’s not yet become familiar to American audiences. Perhaps he will become populaire with this movie.
Nor is the title a wish on the part of the filmmakers; it refers to a very important character in the movie -a specific model of typewriter. Stay with me here… I promise you this is not a movie about a typewriter, an idea that I would not put past the French, nor is it anything like the dreadful re-enactments of the shadowed man punching keys in Salinger.
I’m not the only reviewer who’s...
The title of the new French movie Populaire is not a marketing ploy to introduce American moviegoers to its male lead, Romain Duris, the most populaire French actor of recent years. As handsome as Brad Pitt, as appealing as Channing Tatum, and with the talent and versatility of Ben Foster, it’s surprising he’s not yet become familiar to American audiences. Perhaps he will become populaire with this movie.
Nor is the title a wish on the part of the filmmakers; it refers to a very important character in the movie -a specific model of typewriter. Stay with me here… I promise you this is not a movie about a typewriter, an idea that I would not put past the French, nor is it anything like the dreadful re-enactments of the shadowed man punching keys in Salinger.
I’m not the only reviewer who’s...
- 9/27/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
★★★★☆ Régis Roinsard scores a palpable hit with debut feature Populaire (2012), a romantic comedy about speed-typing, starring Déborah Francois, Romain Duris and The Artist's Bérénice Bejo. Set in France at the tail end of the 1950s, Rose (Francois) a shopkeeper's daughter dreams of escaping provincial life and making something of herself. She travels to Normandy for an interview with the boss of an insurance company, Louis Echard (Duris), and is delighted when he takes her on as his secretary. Rose is hopeless at her job and Louis considers letting her go, but her gift for typing feeds his addiction to competitive sport.
Louis becomes obsessed with training Rose to compete in the national speed-typing contests that were in vogue at the time. Louis invites Rose to lodge with him in his palatial home, so that he is better able to teach her to touch-type and slowly the pair fall in love.
Louis becomes obsessed with training Rose to compete in the national speed-typing contests that were in vogue at the time. Louis invites Rose to lodge with him in his palatial home, so that he is better able to teach her to touch-type and slowly the pair fall in love.
- 9/24/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Sarah Polley's family documentary is compelling, while Netflix has a treat for Paddington Bear nostalgists
Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell (Curzon Film World, 12) needed all the glowing reviews it deservedly got, presenting as it did a distinct marketing challenge. "Come and see a documentary about Sarah Polley's family" isn't the most alluring of invitations, however much you like the gifted Canadian actor-director. Meanwhile, what makes Sarah Polley's family special – or at least cinematically compelling – is hard to describe without giving the game away. Stories We Tell may arrive on DVD shorn of some mystery, a little like a rewrapped Christmas present, but it's no one-trick doc. If anything, home viewing enhances its one-on-one intimacy.
Like her fiction features Away from Her and Take This Waltz, it's an affecting domestic drama in which the stakes keep shifting. Beginning as a simple elegy for Polley's late mother Diane, it becomes,...
Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell (Curzon Film World, 12) needed all the glowing reviews it deservedly got, presenting as it did a distinct marketing challenge. "Come and see a documentary about Sarah Polley's family" isn't the most alluring of invitations, however much you like the gifted Canadian actor-director. Meanwhile, what makes Sarah Polley's family special – or at least cinematically compelling – is hard to describe without giving the game away. Stories We Tell may arrive on DVD shorn of some mystery, a little like a rewrapped Christmas present, but it's no one-trick doc. If anything, home viewing enhances its one-on-one intimacy.
Like her fiction features Away from Her and Take This Waltz, it's an affecting domestic drama in which the stakes keep shifting. Beginning as a simple elegy for Polley's late mother Diane, it becomes,...
- 9/21/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
Is it a stylish parody of the Doris Day, battle-of-the-sexes Fifties comedies or just a fluffy, empty-headed French farce? Populaire mainly comes across as the latter. It's 1958, and Déborah François's naive Rose has just landed a secretarial post with Romain Duris's dashing boss. He challenges her to win a speed-typing contest, and she agrees. A sort of My Fair Lady without the songs and Rex Harrison.
- 9/20/2013
- The Independent - Film
We get it – you have options at the movie theater. A quick glance over at BoxOfficeMojo reveals that there are about fifty movies in theaters right now, and while they’re perhaps not all conveniently showing near you, fifty is a big enough number to ensure that most moviegoers have plenty to pick from. With the release of a string of new films today, from Battle of the Year to Prisoners to Rush (in limited release) to Sundance hit C.O.G., all the way down to Wednesday’s release of the very charming Enough Said, it’s obvious that audiences aren’t strapped for choices when they head out to the multiplex. Which is why it might see strange that this space will now be used to encourage you to go see a limited release, fifties-set French film about speed typing competitions that is so strapped for recognizable stars (at least in the U.S...
- 9/20/2013
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
To mark the release of Populaire on DVD and Blu-ray 23rd September, we’ve been given three copies to give away on Blu-ray.
Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François, Female Agents) is living in a sleepy French village with her widower father. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, it seems her destiny is to spend the rest of her days as a bored rural housewife.
But Rose wants more from life. Travelling to Normandy, she meets Louis Echard (Romain Duris, Heartbreaker), the dashing boss of an insurance agency who’s hiring a secretary. The interview is a disaster, but Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at an extraordinary speed! Unwittingly, she awakes the dormant sports fan in Louis, who enters her into national speed typing competition. As he coaches her, they both discover that the road to success can take some romantic turns…
Please note: This...
Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François, Female Agents) is living in a sleepy French village with her widower father. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, it seems her destiny is to spend the rest of her days as a bored rural housewife.
But Rose wants more from life. Travelling to Normandy, she meets Louis Echard (Romain Duris, Heartbreaker), the dashing boss of an insurance agency who’s hiring a secretary. The interview is a disaster, but Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at an extraordinary speed! Unwittingly, she awakes the dormant sports fan in Louis, who enters her into national speed typing competition. As he coaches her, they both discover that the road to success can take some romantic turns…
Please note: This...
- 9/13/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Indiewire has obtained an exclusive clip from the French comedy "Populaire," which is being released in theaters today by the Weinstein Company after opening in its native country a year ago. In the film, a woman named Rose (Déborah Francois) applies for a secretarial job at an insurance agency, where her boss Louis (Romain Duris) quickly sees her impressive typing abilities, who then goes on to train Rose to be the fastest typist in the world. The clip plunges us headfirst into a typing competition, where Rose is facing off against another typist while the audiences cheer and Rose's family and Louis' friend (the latter of which is played by Berenice Bejo) listen attentively to the event on the radio. In addition to plot, the scene showcases the film's zippy, frothy nature, as it gleefully evokes the pastel colors and stylings of the 1950's. After scoring big two years ago with "The Artist,...
- 9/6/2013
- by Clint Holloway
- Indiewire
Title: Populaire The Weinstein Company Director: Régis Roinsard Screenwriter: Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley, Romain Compingt Cast: Romain Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo, Shaun Benson, Mélanie Bernier, Nicolas Bedos, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell, Jean Pamphyle Screened at: Dolby24, NYC, 9/5/13 Opens: September 6, 2013 When I was a freshman in college and almost as naïve as I am now, my upperclass fraternity brothers convinced me that I should enter the university typing contest. They knew that I got a 99 in Junior High School typing and heard me clacking away on a Smith-Corona. They must have had a big laugh after I left the room as I looked wide-eyed at the chance [ Read More ]
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- 9/6/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Exclusive: English-language picture stars Gérard Depardieu, Sam Neill, Tim Roth and Jemima West.
TF1 International is launching sales on Frédéric Auburtin’s FIFA picture A Men’s Dream starring Gérard Depardieu as the soccer federation’s colourful co-founder and World Cup creator Jules Rimet.
The English-language picture captures the history of the 110-year-old International Federation of Association Football through the intertwining stories of Rimet, long-serving Brazilian FIFA president Joao Havelange and Swiss Sepp Blatter who is currently at the helm of the organisation.
Sam Neill plays Havelange and Tim Roth plays Blatter.
“We picked up the project because we think it will appeal to a large and wide audience… not just hardcore football fans. The film tells the human story behind this huge world body through the lives of these three passionate, emblematic figures,” said TF1 International sales chief Sabine Chemaly.
The film, produced by Paris-based Thelma Films and Leuviah Films, was shot this...
TF1 International is launching sales on Frédéric Auburtin’s FIFA picture A Men’s Dream starring Gérard Depardieu as the soccer federation’s colourful co-founder and World Cup creator Jules Rimet.
The English-language picture captures the history of the 110-year-old International Federation of Association Football through the intertwining stories of Rimet, long-serving Brazilian FIFA president Joao Havelange and Swiss Sepp Blatter who is currently at the helm of the organisation.
Sam Neill plays Havelange and Tim Roth plays Blatter.
“We picked up the project because we think it will appeal to a large and wide audience… not just hardcore football fans. The film tells the human story behind this huge world body through the lives of these three passionate, emblematic figures,” said TF1 International sales chief Sabine Chemaly.
The film, produced by Paris-based Thelma Films and Leuviah Films, was shot this...
- 9/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: English-language picture stars Gérard Depardieu, Sam Neill, Tim Roth and Jemima West.
TF1 International is launching sales on Frédéric Auburtin’s FIFA picture A Men’s Dream starring Gérard Depardieu as the soccer federation’s colourful co-founder and World Cup creator Jules Rimet.
The English-language picture captures the history of the 110-year-old International Federation of Association Football through the intertwining stories of Rimet, long-serving Brazilian FIFA president Joao Havelange and Swiss Sepp Blatter who is currently at the helm of the organisation.
Sam Neill plays Havelange and Tim Roth plays Blatter.
“We picked up the project because we think it will appeal to a large and wide audience… not just hardcore football fans. The film tells the human story behind this huge world body through the lives of these three passionate, emblematic figures,” said TF1 International sales chief Sabine Chemaly.
The film, produced by Paris-based Thelma Films and Leuviah Films, was shot this...
TF1 International is launching sales on Frédéric Auburtin’s FIFA picture A Men’s Dream starring Gérard Depardieu as the soccer federation’s colourful co-founder and World Cup creator Jules Rimet.
The English-language picture captures the history of the 110-year-old International Federation of Association Football through the intertwining stories of Rimet, long-serving Brazilian FIFA president Joao Havelange and Swiss Sepp Blatter who is currently at the helm of the organisation.
Sam Neill plays Havelange and Tim Roth plays Blatter.
“We picked up the project because we think it will appeal to a large and wide audience… not just hardcore football fans. The film tells the human story behind this huge world body through the lives of these three passionate, emblematic figures,” said TF1 International sales chief Sabine Chemaly.
The film, produced by Paris-based Thelma Films and Leuviah Films, was shot this...
- 9/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
That which glitters is so very, very far from gold in the new French film Populaire. Dig a little deeper into this superficial charmer and you'll find a core that borders on dreadful. I couldn't possibly recommend a film less.It starts innocuously enough. Rose Pamphyle (up and coming Belgian actress Deborah Francois, whose magnetic charisma keeps this mess sadly afloat) is 21, suffocated by her small-town life, and looking for something more. She finds it, we are told, as an insurance company secretary one town over. Her employer is Louis Echard (a snarling Romain Duris, under the impression that smarm is charm), a 30ish bachelor still-pining for the one that got away. Rose's nearly botched job interview is saved at the last minute by...
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- 9/5/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Typist in Love: Roinsard’s Vivid Homage to 50’s Romance is Bearably Predictable
Infusing the unexplored world of competitive typewriting with classic romanticism, Regis Roinsard debut feature, Populaire, is a colorful and vivid homage to American comedies of the 50’s with a distinct French flair. Although there is certainly no room for surprises in the story of this ambitious comedy, the stylistic choices and charm of its protagonists allow it to be engaging enough to turn a few smiles throughout the ordeal.
Striving to become a modern, magazine-cover-ready girl, Rose (Deborah Francois) decides to leave her small-town-life helping run her father’s store to pursue a much coveted position in Normandy. To be a secretary during a time in which women’s activities were still restricted to homemaking and childbearing was an outstanding step upwards in the social scale. Rose knows this, and she decides to interview to work with...
Infusing the unexplored world of competitive typewriting with classic romanticism, Regis Roinsard debut feature, Populaire, is a colorful and vivid homage to American comedies of the 50’s with a distinct French flair. Although there is certainly no room for surprises in the story of this ambitious comedy, the stylistic choices and charm of its protagonists allow it to be engaging enough to turn a few smiles throughout the ordeal.
Striving to become a modern, magazine-cover-ready girl, Rose (Deborah Francois) decides to leave her small-town-life helping run her father’s store to pursue a much coveted position in Normandy. To be a secretary during a time in which women’s activities were still restricted to homemaking and childbearing was an outstanding step upwards in the social scale. Rose knows this, and she decides to interview to work with...
- 9/5/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- IONCINEMA.com
Very few new-release films are sitting positively with critics this weekend. But -- Tomatometer be damned -- Hannah Fidell's indie "A Teacher" is nonetheless a must-see, anchored by a startlingly complex performance from Lindsay Burdge as a high school teacher whose illicit affair with one of her students spirals into obsession. Candy-colored Weinstein Company film "Populaire," starring Deborah Francois, Romain Duris and Berenice Bejo, centers on the world of 1950s competitive typing, and is sitting with generally solid reviews from critics. All the hotness in "Adore" (Robin Wright, Naomi Watts and Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville as the women's hunky sons) can't bring reviewers around to the title, directed by Anne Fontaine; Time Out New York writes that one "can barely stifle a laugh" through the film, which probably isn't what the sexual thriller is going for. Thriller-doc "Salinger," on the enigmatic author of "The Catcher in the Rye,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
New Release
Winnie Mandela
R, 1 Hr., 47 Mins.
Darrell J. Roodt’s bland biopic of the South African antiapartheid activist feels like the Hallmark Hall of Fame version of history. Jennifer Hudson brings some fire to the controversial crusader and Terrence Howard is very good as her husband, Nelson Mandela. But this well-intentioned film is an oversimplified mess. C —Chris Nashawaty
New Release
99% — The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative FIlm
Not Rated, 1 Hr., 37 Mins.
The Occupy Wall Street movement deserves enormous credit for locking the “meme” of the 99 percent into the American psyche. But that doesn’t make this day-to-day documentary about...
Winnie Mandela
R, 1 Hr., 47 Mins.
Darrell J. Roodt’s bland biopic of the South African antiapartheid activist feels like the Hallmark Hall of Fame version of history. Jennifer Hudson brings some fire to the controversial crusader and Terrence Howard is very good as her husband, Nelson Mandela. But this well-intentioned film is an oversimplified mess. C —Chris Nashawaty
New Release
99% — The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative FIlm
Not Rated, 1 Hr., 37 Mins.
The Occupy Wall Street movement deserves enormous credit for locking the “meme” of the 99 percent into the American psyche. But that doesn’t make this day-to-day documentary about...
- 9/4/2013
- by Deven Persaud
- EW - Inside Movies
A French homage to classic American comedies with a few distinct Gallic touches (steamy foreplay, nipples visible through a rain-soaked blouse), Populaire stars dashingly snaggletoothed Romain Duris as Louis, a 1950s office man who trains his secretary, Rose (Déborah François), to be a competitive speed typer. Along the way, they fall in love/hate. Writer-director Régis Roinsard's feature-length debut is visually sharp, with period design that's eye-catching without being fussy or fetishistic. Too bad there's not much going on beneath the surface. Duris, at his best when playing nasty and tormented, strains to hit some of the lighter notes here, while François (who made a strong impression in the Dardennes' The Child) mainly widens her doe eyes...
- 9/4/2013
- Village Voice
Belgian director is currently in Paris with critically acclaimed, mixed media stage show Kiss and Cry, which he also hopes to adapt for the big screen.
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is preparing to shoot his first film in half a decade, a Brussels-set comedy, provisionally entitled Fille de Dieu and starring French actor Daniel Auteuil as God.
“The pitch is: God exists, he lives in Brussels, he’s horrible to his daughter, she gets revenge,” Van Dormael told ScreenDaily.
Van Dormael – best known for his Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day and his last film Mr. Nobody – plans to shoot in Belgium in spring to early summer 2014.
He is producing through his company Terra Incognita. Auteuil, who starred in The Eighth Day, will co-produce through his Paris-based Zack Films.
“The idea is to work with the same team as Mr. Nobody – but in a reduced format so we’ll be 15 to 20 crew maximum — and to try...
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is preparing to shoot his first film in half a decade, a Brussels-set comedy, provisionally entitled Fille de Dieu and starring French actor Daniel Auteuil as God.
“The pitch is: God exists, he lives in Brussels, he’s horrible to his daughter, she gets revenge,” Van Dormael told ScreenDaily.
Van Dormael – best known for his Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day and his last film Mr. Nobody – plans to shoot in Belgium in spring to early summer 2014.
He is producing through his company Terra Incognita. Auteuil, who starred in The Eighth Day, will co-produce through his Paris-based Zack Films.
“The idea is to work with the same team as Mr. Nobody – but in a reduced format so we’ll be 15 to 20 crew maximum — and to try...
- 7/5/2013
- ScreenDaily
Belgian director is currently in Paris with critically acclaimed, mixed media stage show Kiss and Cry, which he also hopes to adapt for the big screen.
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is preparing to shoot his first film in half a decade, a Brussels-set comedy, provisionally entitled Fille de Dieu and starring French actor Daniel Auteuil as God.
“The pitch is: God exists, he lives in Brussels, he’s horrible to his daughter, she gets revenge,” Van Dormael told ScreenDaily.
Van Dormael – best known for his Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day and his last film Mr. Nobody – plans to shoot in Belgium in spring to early summer 2014.
He is producing through his company Terra Incognita. Auteuil, who starred in The Eighth Day, will co-produce through his Paris-based Zack Films.
“The idea is to work with the same team as Mr. Nobody – but in a reduced format so we’ll be 15 to 20 crew maximum — and to try...
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is preparing to shoot his first film in half a decade, a Brussels-set comedy, provisionally entitled Fille de Dieu and starring French actor Daniel Auteuil as God.
“The pitch is: God exists, he lives in Brussels, he’s horrible to his daughter, she gets revenge,” Van Dormael told ScreenDaily.
Van Dormael – best known for his Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day and his last film Mr. Nobody – plans to shoot in Belgium in spring to early summer 2014.
He is producing through his company Terra Incognita. Auteuil, who starred in The Eighth Day, will co-produce through his Paris-based Zack Films.
“The idea is to work with the same team as Mr. Nobody – but in a reduced format so we’ll be 15 to 20 crew maximum — and to try...
- 7/5/2013
- ScreenDaily
Emir Baigazin’s Harmony Lessons won the 39th Seattle International Film Festival’s Best New Director grand jury prize on Sunday [9] as top brass handed out jury and audience awards.Scroll down for full list of winners
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
- 6/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Smoking comes under fire in France, and Shane Meadows is back in the saddle for a biopic of 60s cyclist Tommy Simpson
Up in smoke
Are even the French finally coming round to the idea that smoking in movies is a dying trend? In last week's release Populaire, the suave Romain Duris character is asked to stop smoking in the office by the new secretary, played by Déborah François. Although the film is set in the Gauloise-tinted 1950s, Duris's character knowingly remarks he'd only ever stop smoking if they introduced a law to ban it. Now, this week, we have the gamine Audrey Tautou, one of the most popular international symbols of Frenchness in years. She's playing Mauriac's doomed heroine Thérèse Desqueyroux, and fairly chainsmokes through her ordeal of being married to a lump. "She smokes too much," remarks a disapproving mother-in-law. What can it mean for, say, the new...
Up in smoke
Are even the French finally coming round to the idea that smoking in movies is a dying trend? In last week's release Populaire, the suave Romain Duris character is asked to stop smoking in the office by the new secretary, played by Déborah François. Although the film is set in the Gauloise-tinted 1950s, Duris's character knowingly remarks he'd only ever stop smoking if they introduced a law to ban it. Now, this week, we have the gamine Audrey Tautou, one of the most popular international symbols of Frenchness in years. She's playing Mauriac's doomed heroine Thérèse Desqueyroux, and fairly chainsmokes through her ordeal of being married to a lump. "She smokes too much," remarks a disapproving mother-in-law. What can it mean for, say, the new...
- 6/8/2013
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Boy meets girl meets typewriter in this thoughtful, witty French take on classic Hollywood romcoms
There was an old but not inaccurate joke that romantic movies from the Soviet Union were about triangular affairs between a boy, a girl and a tractor. The attractive new French movie Populaire, the feature-length debut as writer-director of Régis Roinsard, is about a boy, a girl and a typewriter. A typewriter originally meant the female operator, and the machine in this picture takes on a dramatic identity of its own.
In many ways Populaire is a companion piece to Michel Hazanavicius's Oscar-winning The Artist in its knowing love for American cinema. It also has the same star, Bérénice Bejo (though not here in the leading role), and the same photographer, Guillaume Schiffman, who grew up in the movie business as the son of Suzanne Schiffman, the long-time assistant to François Truffaut, with whom...
There was an old but not inaccurate joke that romantic movies from the Soviet Union were about triangular affairs between a boy, a girl and a tractor. The attractive new French movie Populaire, the feature-length debut as writer-director of Régis Roinsard, is about a boy, a girl and a typewriter. A typewriter originally meant the female operator, and the machine in this picture takes on a dramatic identity of its own.
In many ways Populaire is a companion piece to Michel Hazanavicius's Oscar-winning The Artist in its knowing love for American cinema. It also has the same star, Bérénice Bejo (though not here in the leading role), and the same photographer, Guillaume Schiffman, who grew up in the movie business as the son of Suzanne Schiffman, the long-time assistant to François Truffaut, with whom...
- 6/1/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The Comedian | Byzantium | The Big Wedding | Populaire | The Purge | Blood | Everybody Has A Plan | No One Lives | Man To Man | Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
The Comedian
(15) (Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
Byzantium
(15) (Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/Us/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
The Comedian
(15) (Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
Byzantium
(15) (Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/Us/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
- 6/1/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
You'll need a sweet tooth to stomach this French romcom modelled on Mad Men – sans the satirised sexual politics
This sugary French romcom of secretarial romance in the 1950s is all too obviously being sold on the Mad Men ticket, with smart suits, cute dresses and lots of smoking – but entirely without that famous TV show's acid cynicism and anxiety. The manager is asked if he might quit smoking in the office and in reply smirks that only legislation could stop him: Mad Men would never step out of the historical frame in this timid and apologetic way.
There are a lot of sane men, and dull men, and smug men in a movie that could as well be known as Strictly Remington or They Shoot Typists, Don't They? And Romain Duris, Déborah François and Bérénice Bejo, who have shown how compelling they can be in other films, are now...
This sugary French romcom of secretarial romance in the 1950s is all too obviously being sold on the Mad Men ticket, with smart suits, cute dresses and lots of smoking – but entirely without that famous TV show's acid cynicism and anxiety. The manager is asked if he might quit smoking in the office and in reply smirks that only legislation could stop him: Mad Men would never step out of the historical frame in this timid and apologetic way.
There are a lot of sane men, and dull men, and smug men in a movie that could as well be known as Strictly Remington or They Shoot Typists, Don't They? And Romain Duris, Déborah François and Bérénice Bejo, who have shown how compelling they can be in other films, are now...
- 5/31/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Comedian | Byzantium | The Big Wedding | Populaire | The Purge | Blood | Everybody Has A Plan | No One Lives | Man To Man | Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
The Comedian (15)
(Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
Byzantium (15)
(Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/Us/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
The Comedian (15)
(Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
Byzantium (15)
(Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/Us/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
- 5/31/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
At the risk of overkill, it's Cannes. Again. On Sunday night, in a swanky ceremony in the Palais du Festivals, the Palme d'Or was conferred on Blue Is the Warmest Colour by Steven Spielberg and his jury.
The decision was a popular one, both inside the hall and among the critical fraternity – at least, our critic, Peter Bradshaw, thought they got it right.
One person who differed was Julie Maroh, the author of the graphic novel it was based on, who accused director Abdellatif Kechiche of reducing her work to
pornography. Peter, though, vehemently disagreed – here's what he wrote in response.
In the news
Anton Corbijn to shoot James Dean biopic, Life
Sam Mendes in talks to direct Skyfall followup
Rituparno Ghosh: Indian film director dies age 49
Eric Roberts to star in The Human Centipede...
The big story
At the risk of overkill, it's Cannes. Again. On Sunday night, in a swanky ceremony in the Palais du Festivals, the Palme d'Or was conferred on Blue Is the Warmest Colour by Steven Spielberg and his jury.
The decision was a popular one, both inside the hall and among the critical fraternity – at least, our critic, Peter Bradshaw, thought they got it right.
One person who differed was Julie Maroh, the author of the graphic novel it was based on, who accused director Abdellatif Kechiche of reducing her work to
pornography. Peter, though, vehemently disagreed – here's what he wrote in response.
In the news
Anton Corbijn to shoot James Dean biopic, Life
Sam Mendes in talks to direct Skyfall followup
Rituparno Ghosh: Indian film director dies age 49
Eric Roberts to star in The Human Centipede...
- 5/30/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
If The Artist was a flawless recreation of the silent era, then Populaire is a sumptuous homage to the kind of chirpy Doris Day and Rock Hudson rom-coms which personified Hollywood during the 50s and 60s. This is a frothy and stylish French romantic fable with an unlikely yet endearing Rocky-like central premise.
Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François) is a provincial French girl with big city aspirations, much to the disappointment of her conservative shopkeeper father. She manages to muscle her way into a coveted secretary role for an insurance agency run by the dashing Louis Échard (Romain Duris). To her boss’s bemusement, Rose is pretty inept in almost every aspect of her role, with one glowing exception. She possesses amazing, lightning-speed typing skills, and Échard immediately spots the potential fame and opportunities her talent might bring.
Thus begins Rose’s rigorous training schedule as she competes for a place...
Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François) is a provincial French girl with big city aspirations, much to the disappointment of her conservative shopkeeper father. She manages to muscle her way into a coveted secretary role for an insurance agency run by the dashing Louis Échard (Romain Duris). To her boss’s bemusement, Rose is pretty inept in almost every aspect of her role, with one glowing exception. She possesses amazing, lightning-speed typing skills, and Échard immediately spots the potential fame and opportunities her talent might bring.
Thus begins Rose’s rigorous training schedule as she competes for a place...
- 5/30/2013
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Title: Populaire Director: Régis Roinsard Starring: Romain Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo, Mélanie Bernier, Nicolas Bedos, Shaun Benson. The magic of the fifties, a fairytale on the blooming modern woman, with la douce France as romantic scenario, this is the delightful comedy and first feature film by Régis Roinsard. ‘Populaire’ is set in 1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but an outstanding typist. Her magnetising boss, Louis Echard, resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world. Just like Henry Higgins with Eliza Doolittle, Louis serves as Pygmalion to the tomboy and childlike Rose, moulding her not only into an emancipated woman, but paving her way to stardom. [ Read More ]
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- 5/28/2013
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
The Argentinian-born star on silent movie success, her husband Michel Hazanavicius and the trouble with signing autographs
When Bérénice Bejo was young, her sister sat her down and told her: "Bérénice, I love you. But you take up too much room." This was not a hint about bodyweight. The sisterly advice was more to do with Bejo's roving arms, a tendency to flail when she spoke. She was, and still is, a great gesticulator.
"It's the Argentinian in me, I get enthusiastic, I use my body," the 36-year-old tells me, the day after her new film, The Past, has premiered at the Cannes film festival.
Born in Argentina, Bejo grew up in Paris and is best known for charming audiences around the world as Peppy Miller in the Oscar-winning black-and-white movie The Artist. We're having tea on the roof of a seafront hotel, where the view of Cannes's yacht-filled harbour...
When Bérénice Bejo was young, her sister sat her down and told her: "Bérénice, I love you. But you take up too much room." This was not a hint about bodyweight. The sisterly advice was more to do with Bejo's roving arms, a tendency to flail when she spoke. She was, and still is, a great gesticulator.
"It's the Argentinian in me, I get enthusiastic, I use my body," the 36-year-old tells me, the day after her new film, The Past, has premiered at the Cannes film festival.
Born in Argentina, Bejo grew up in Paris and is best known for charming audiences around the world as Peppy Miller in the Oscar-winning black-and-white movie The Artist. We're having tea on the roof of a seafront hotel, where the view of Cannes's yacht-filled harbour...
- 5/26/2013
- by Tom Lamont
- The Guardian - Film News
The Hangover Part III | Something In The Air | Epic 3D | Benjamin Britten – Peace And Conflict | The Moth Diaries | My Neighbour Totoro/Grave Of The Fireflies | The King Of Marvin Gardens
The Hangover Part III (15)
(Todd Phillips, 2013, Us) Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, John Goodman, Justin Bartha, Melissa McCarthy. 100 mins
Here we go again, ostensibly for the last time, and if this doesn't capture the magic of the first Hangover it's at least less offensive than the second, which isn't much of a recommendation. An intervention over Alan's mental health and the hunt for Mr Chow is what sets in motion the Wtf escapades and male bonding this time, but it all feels a little forced and familiar. If anything, the "wolf pack" is now too tame.
Something In The Air (15)
(Olivier Assayas, 2012, Fra) Clément Métayer, Lola Créton. 122 mins
Assayas gets beyond the cliches of France's young, post-1968 revolutionaries,...
The Hangover Part III (15)
(Todd Phillips, 2013, Us) Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, John Goodman, Justin Bartha, Melissa McCarthy. 100 mins
Here we go again, ostensibly for the last time, and if this doesn't capture the magic of the first Hangover it's at least less offensive than the second, which isn't much of a recommendation. An intervention over Alan's mental health and the hunt for Mr Chow is what sets in motion the Wtf escapades and male bonding this time, but it all feels a little forced and familiar. If anything, the "wolf pack" is now too tame.
Something In The Air (15)
(Olivier Assayas, 2012, Fra) Clément Métayer, Lola Créton. 122 mins
Assayas gets beyond the cliches of France's young, post-1968 revolutionaries,...
- 5/25/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Régis Roinsard’s Populaire is being marketed as a romantic comedy, and so it is, but it’s also a buddy comedy of sorts, featuring a girl and her trusty typewriter. As colorful and perky as its tenacious blonde protagonist, Populaire is a sumptuously crafted and cheerful event likely to beguile the same audiences who adored Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist. If there’s nothing particularly [...]...
- 5/21/2013
- by Nathan Bartlebaugh
- The Film Stage
Heavy, Heavy Hangs: Farhadi’s Latest a (mostly) Worthwhile Endeavor
For his first film made outside his native country, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi unveils his latest exercise in domestic unrest with the French language The Past. Following hot on the heels of his critically acclaimed 2011 film, A Separation, anticipation has been high, and Farhadi nearly succeeds in equaling the compelling portrait of miscommunication and misunderstanding he has so brilliantly wrought in his previous film. Once again beginning with a couple on the verge of severing ties (though this time the separation has calcified into divorce), intertwining character arcs unveil an overly complicated scenario that unfortunately brings us to a finale that seems a bit little too late.
Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) has returned to Paris from Tehran seemingly to grant his ex-wife Marie’s (Berenice Bejo) request to divorce. While his presence wasn’t necessarily required, it seems they intend on finally ending on good terms,...
For his first film made outside his native country, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi unveils his latest exercise in domestic unrest with the French language The Past. Following hot on the heels of his critically acclaimed 2011 film, A Separation, anticipation has been high, and Farhadi nearly succeeds in equaling the compelling portrait of miscommunication and misunderstanding he has so brilliantly wrought in his previous film. Once again beginning with a couple on the verge of severing ties (though this time the separation has calcified into divorce), intertwining character arcs unveil an overly complicated scenario that unfortunately brings us to a finale that seems a bit little too late.
Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) has returned to Paris from Tehran seemingly to grant his ex-wife Marie’s (Berenice Bejo) request to divorce. While his presence wasn’t necessarily required, it seems they intend on finally ending on good terms,...
- 5/17/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In theaters September 6th, here’s the new trailer for Populaire.
Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that’s not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at extraordinary speed. Unwittingly, the young woman awakens the dormant sports fan in Louis. If she wants the job she’ll have to compete in a speed typing competition. Whatever sacrifices Rose must make to reach the top, Louis declares himself her trainer. He’ll turn her into the fastest girl not only in the country, but in the world! But a...
Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that’s not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at extraordinary speed. Unwittingly, the young woman awakens the dormant sports fan in Louis. If she wants the job she’ll have to compete in a speed typing competition. Whatever sacrifices Rose must make to reach the top, Louis declares himself her trainer. He’ll turn her into the fastest girl not only in the country, but in the world! But a...
- 5/7/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Among the countless dramatic international fare making it into theaters throughout the coming months, Regis Roinsard's "Populaire" has continued to stand out for the sheer sense of delight emerging from the film's breezy tone, infectious look and screwball tone. With a release date currently set for this September, U.S. distributor The Weinstein Company has released a new trailer for the romantic comedy, giving it one of its first major stateside pushes leading up to its release. The '50s set story follows Rose Pamphyle (Deborah Francois) as the daughter of a village grocer with dreams of one day becoming a secretary. Despite her inexperience, she is hired by an insurance firm. Once the firm's owner (Romain Duris) di3scovers she has amazingly fast typewriting skills, the two enter the competition circuit to try and make her the world's fastest typer. Recent Oscar-nominee Berenice Bejo ("The Artist") costars as Duris'...
- 5/7/2013
- by Cameron Sinz
- Indiewire
Watch the trailer for Populaire, starring Romain Duris, Déborah François and Bérénice Bejo. Written by Romain Compingt, Daniel Presley and helmer Régis Roinsard, the film opens September 6th in limited areas. Alain Attal produces the comedy, and nominee of 5 César Awards. Spring, 1958: 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that's not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at extraordinary speed...
- 5/6/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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