French filmmaker Alain Jessua comes up with a commercial thriller with a science-fiction, medical horror twist. Alain Delon and Annie Girardot don’t shy away from some matter-of-fact nude scenes, that serve a legit dramatic purpose. Outside France the sex content was almost the only angle exploited. Beneath the glamour and intrigues at a chic rejuvenation clinic is an unflinching statement about the abusive entitlements of the wealthy. But don’t worry, being rich means never having to say you’re sorry. In a beautiful restored transfer with full language choices.
Shock Treatment
Blu-ray
Severin Films
1973 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 91 87 min. / Traitement de Choc, Doctor in the Nude / Street Date October 27, 2020 / 30.00
Starring: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy, Gabriel Cattand, Jeanne Colletin, Robert Party, Jean Roquel, Roger Muni, Lucienne Legrand, Anne-Marie Deschodt, Jurandir Craveiro, Joao Pareira Lopez.
Cinematography: Jacques Robin
Film Editor: Hélène Plemiannikov
Special Effects: Louis Assola, André Pierdel
Music: Alain Jessua,...
Shock Treatment
Blu-ray
Severin Films
1973 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 91 87 min. / Traitement de Choc, Doctor in the Nude / Street Date October 27, 2020 / 30.00
Starring: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy, Gabriel Cattand, Jeanne Colletin, Robert Party, Jean Roquel, Roger Muni, Lucienne Legrand, Anne-Marie Deschodt, Jurandir Craveiro, Joao Pareira Lopez.
Cinematography: Jacques Robin
Film Editor: Hélène Plemiannikov
Special Effects: Louis Assola, André Pierdel
Music: Alain Jessua,...
- 31.10.2020
- von Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
When Bernard Natan, head of Pathé, had his French nationality taken away during the French Occupation (after which he perished in Auschwitz), his brother Emile, also a film producer, was similarly denaturalized. But Emile escaped the country, enlisted abroad, and was able to return to France as a conquering hero at the end of the war. His citizenship was restored and he resumed his producing career, notably with Yves Allegret's Maneges (1950).
When Natan died, his company was taken over by his daughter Monique. Now it was the Sixties, and a whole new generation of filmmakers were at work, with a whole new style. But Monique rejected all offers from the nouvelle vague—the only two filmmakers she took a real interest in were Jean Rollin, with whom she produced and co-wrote Le frisson des Vampires (softcore erotic vampire S&M horror), and Alain Jessua.
Jeu de massacre (1967), Jessua's film for Natan's Les Films Modernes,...
When Natan died, his company was taken over by his daughter Monique. Now it was the Sixties, and a whole new generation of filmmakers were at work, with a whole new style. But Monique rejected all offers from the nouvelle vague—the only two filmmakers she took a real interest in were Jean Rollin, with whom she produced and co-wrote Le frisson des Vampires (softcore erotic vampire S&M horror), and Alain Jessua.
Jeu de massacre (1967), Jessua's film for Natan's Les Films Modernes,...
- 14.6.2012
- MUBI
French actor who played several classic roles on stage and dubbed the voice of Marlon Brando in The Godfather
In order to fully appreciate the wide-ranging acting talents of Michel Duchaussoy, who has died from a heart attack aged 73, one would have to be both French-speaking and resident in France. To those less fortunate, the knowledge of Duchaussoy is restricted to his striking appearances in several Claude Chabrol movies, and others by Alain Jessua, Louis Malle and Patrice Leconte, which were among the relatively few of his many films to be released in Britain and the Us.
In France, Duchaussoy was equally known as a television actor, whose voice was also recognisable from his dubbing of cartoon characters and stars such as Marlon Brando, in The Godfather. Prolific as he was in films and television, Duchaussoy was celebrated mainly for his 20-year tenure with the Comédie-Française theatre in Paris. There,...
In order to fully appreciate the wide-ranging acting talents of Michel Duchaussoy, who has died from a heart attack aged 73, one would have to be both French-speaking and resident in France. To those less fortunate, the knowledge of Duchaussoy is restricted to his striking appearances in several Claude Chabrol movies, and others by Alain Jessua, Louis Malle and Patrice Leconte, which were among the relatively few of his many films to be released in Britain and the Us.
In France, Duchaussoy was equally known as a television actor, whose voice was also recognisable from his dubbing of cartoon characters and stars such as Marlon Brando, in The Godfather. Prolific as he was in films and television, Duchaussoy was celebrated mainly for his 20-year tenure with the Comédie-Française theatre in Paris. There,...
- 20.3.2012
- von Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
The Weinstein Company President of Distribution, Erik Lomis, announced today that Sarah's Key will be re-released on November 4th on 300 screens across the Us. Sarah's Key opened in late July and has grossed over $7 million.
"Audiences responded to Sarah's Key for its great story, its emotional impact, and its historical importance; and the power of that word-of-mouth made it one of the most successful indie releases of the summer. We know there's an even bigger audience for the movie, and that's why we're re-releasing it now, in a wider pattern, and just in time for awards consideration," said Lomis.
Based on Tatiana De Rosnay's best-selling novel, Sarah's Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. Sarah's Key has been on...
"Audiences responded to Sarah's Key for its great story, its emotional impact, and its historical importance; and the power of that word-of-mouth made it one of the most successful indie releases of the summer. We know there's an even bigger audience for the movie, and that's why we're re-releasing it now, in a wider pattern, and just in time for awards consideration," said Lomis.
Based on Tatiana De Rosnay's best-selling novel, Sarah's Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. Sarah's Key has been on...
- 3.11.2011
- von MovieWeb
- MovieWeb
Title: Sarah’s Key Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Frederic Pierrot, Niels Arestrup, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Aidan Quinn War stories are often terrible and grim, but their high moral contrast allows room to compellingly highlight some of the best instincts and aspects of humanity, alongside the worst. Set against the backdrop of one of those amazingly under-told stories of real-life history, the compelling and pedigreed Sarah’s Key, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, is a sort of cold-case ancestral mystery, except rooted in character and told with an admirable self-discipline often lacking in thematically similar films. The story centers around Julia Jarmond (Scott Thomas), an American magazine journalist married...
- 25.7.2011
- von bsimon
- ShockYa
ComingSoon.net has your first look at a new TV spot for Sarah's Key , opening in theaters on Friday, July 22. Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, the drama stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, Gisele Casadesus and Aidan Quinn. The film starts in Paris, July 1942, where ten-year-old Sarah is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard . their secret hiding place . and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarah's story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist...
- 15.7.2011
- Comingsoon.net
The Weinstein Company has debuted the official trailer and poster for “Sarah’s Key,” based on the bestselling novel written by Tatiana de Rosnay.
Synopsis: Sarah’s Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down.
In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah’s family was forced to leave is about to become her own.
Synopsis: Sarah’s Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down.
In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah’s family was forced to leave is about to become her own.
- 7.6.2011
- von Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 7.6.2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 7.6.2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the movie trailer and image from Sarah's Key, starring Kristen Scott Thomas. Gilles Paquet-Brenner directs the incredible-looking drama which is being sent out by The Weinstein Company on July 22nd this year. Also known as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the film includes Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominque Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn and Natasha Mashkevich. Sarah's Key comes from a screenplay by Serge Joncour and Paquet-Brenner, based on the New York Times best seller written by Tatiana de Rosnay...
- 7.6.2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The one-sheet for Gilles Paquet-Brenner next film, Sarah’s Key, has landed over at ComingSoon.net, depicting a contemplative Kristen Scott Thomas as she stares longingly into the distance.
Thomas’ Sarah locked her little brother in a wardrobe, you see, in a desperate bid to protect him from the anti-semetic French police intent on arresting her parents and ten-year-old self in the middle of the night.
Having promised to come back for him but unable to do so for the next sixty years, Sarah must retrace her steps, unaware of an American reported simultaneously following a trail of clues that indicate a link between the two women.
Sarah’s Key will open with a limited release in select cinemas on July 22. Kristen Scott Thomas is set to star alongside Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, Gisele Casadesus and Aidan Quinn.
Thomas’ Sarah locked her little brother in a wardrobe, you see, in a desperate bid to protect him from the anti-semetic French police intent on arresting her parents and ten-year-old self in the middle of the night.
Having promised to come back for him but unable to do so for the next sixty years, Sarah must retrace her steps, unaware of an American reported simultaneously following a trail of clues that indicate a link between the two women.
Sarah’s Key will open with a limited release in select cinemas on July 22. Kristen Scott Thomas is set to star alongside Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, Gisele Casadesus and Aidan Quinn.
- 2.6.2011
- von Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at the poster for Sarah's Key , the Gilles Paquet-Brenner drama starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frederic Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, Gisele Casadesus and Aidan Quinn. Opening in limited theaters on July 22, the film starts in Paris, July 1942, where ten-year-old Sarah is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard . their secret hiding place . and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarah's story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist...
- 26.5.2011
- Comingsoon.net
I bet you missed me! Don’t worry… I’ll make it up to you! Here is a look at Sarah’S Key, a film based on the bestselling French Novel by Tatiana De Rosnay. Sarah’S Key stars Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient,Nowhere Boy, Confessions Of A Shopaholic, The Other Boleyn Girl) , Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Gisèle Casadesus, Aidan Quinn, and Natasha Mashkevich, and is scheduled for limited release on July 22.
Synopsis:
Paris, July 1942:
Ten-year-old Sarah is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard . their secret hiding place . and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarah.s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond,...
Synopsis:
Paris, July 1942:
Ten-year-old Sarah is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard . their secret hiding place . and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarah.s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond,...
- 10.3.2011
- von Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – In our latest crime/drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Mesrine: Killer Instinct”! “Mesrine: Killer Instinct” stars Gérard Depardieu, Vincent Cassel and Cécile De France.
The film also stars Gilles Lellouche, Roy Dupuis, Elena Anaya, Michel Duchaussoy, Myriam Boyer, Florence Thomassin, Abdelhafid Metalsi, Gilbert Sicotte, Deano Clavet, Mustapha Abourachid and Ludivine Sagnier from director Jean-François Richet based on a book by Jacques Mesrine.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Mesrine: Killer Instinct” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Mesrine: Killer Instinct” with Gérard Depardieu.
Image credit: Music Box...
The film also stars Gilles Lellouche, Roy Dupuis, Elena Anaya, Michel Duchaussoy, Myriam Boyer, Florence Thomassin, Abdelhafid Metalsi, Gilbert Sicotte, Deano Clavet, Mustapha Abourachid and Ludivine Sagnier from director Jean-François Richet based on a book by Jacques Mesrine.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Mesrine: Killer Instinct” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Mesrine: Killer Instinct” with Gérard Depardieu.
Image credit: Music Box...
- 23.8.2010
- von adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Cassel Called On Medical Help To Lose Weight For Gangster Role
French movie star Vincent Cassel had to call on doctors to help him lose weight safely for his role in new film Mesrine as he struggled to keep the pounds from plummeting.
The Ocean's Eleven and Eastern Promises villain piled on 40 pounds (18.1 kilograms) to play infamous French gangster Jacques Mesrine in the film and then had to lose all the weight to play the thug as a young man.
Wiry Cassel called in experts when his efforts to shed the pounds became a little too easy.
He says, "I was helped by my doctors. For the first time in my life, I had bad cholesterol. I was freaking out, but by the time I finished the movie, the weight was gone and so was the bad cholesterol.
"I actually had a problem keeping the weight on. I had an assistant coming with this huge milkshake every day. When we completed the first (part of the) movie, I actually started to lose weight too fast and I had to stay on a certain kind of diet."
Cassel's efforts have already been rewarded in his native France - he picked up a Cesar award for his portrayal of Mesrine.
The film was a labour of love for the actor - he spent seven years trying to find the perfect director and raise the $50 million (£33.3 million) required to make the gritty four-hour epic.
But the wait cost him the chance to appear onscreen with his real-life father - Jean-Pierre Cassel died before the film started, so the Derailed star turned to family friend Michel Duchaussoy to play his character's dying dad.
Cassel admits the scene in which Mesrine bids his father farewell was packed with emotion.
He tells the Los Angeles Times, "The day we shot the scene it was terrible. There was a tension on the set. We shot that really fast, maybe three takes. Then I shook his hand and said, 'Ciao'."...
The Ocean's Eleven and Eastern Promises villain piled on 40 pounds (18.1 kilograms) to play infamous French gangster Jacques Mesrine in the film and then had to lose all the weight to play the thug as a young man.
Wiry Cassel called in experts when his efforts to shed the pounds became a little too easy.
He says, "I was helped by my doctors. For the first time in my life, I had bad cholesterol. I was freaking out, but by the time I finished the movie, the weight was gone and so was the bad cholesterol.
"I actually had a problem keeping the weight on. I had an assistant coming with this huge milkshake every day. When we completed the first (part of the) movie, I actually started to lose weight too fast and I had to stay on a certain kind of diet."
Cassel's efforts have already been rewarded in his native France - he picked up a Cesar award for his portrayal of Mesrine.
The film was a labour of love for the actor - he spent seven years trying to find the perfect director and raise the $50 million (£33.3 million) required to make the gritty four-hour epic.
But the wait cost him the chance to appear onscreen with his real-life father - Jean-Pierre Cassel died before the film started, so the Derailed star turned to family friend Michel Duchaussoy to play his character's dying dad.
Cassel admits the scene in which Mesrine bids his father farewell was packed with emotion.
He tells the Los Angeles Times, "The day we shot the scene it was terrible. There was a tension on the set. We shot that really fast, maybe three takes. Then I shook his hand and said, 'Ciao'."...
- 23.8.2010
- WENN
Among France's great younger actors, Vincent Cassel gained a fan base for portraying his nation's disenfranchised. Playing a rageful character living an aimless existence (the drama "La haine") or playing a literally lifelong criminal (the action film "Dobermann"), Cassel excelled at the quintessential angry young man. But those who have observed the skills underpinning his characterizations should not be surprised to learn that Cassel first trained at a circus school in France, at age 16, and that his earliest performances were as a street dancer and acrobat. Of course those skills came in handy for his role as the bendy burglar François Toulour in the "Ocean's" franchise. But Cassel's brilliant tour de force acting is now fully on view: "Mésrine: Killer Instinct" opens Aug. 27 in Los Angeles and New York after already winning Cassel a host of best-actor awards. (Part two of the saga, "Mésrine: Public Enemy No. 1," follows...
- 20.8.2010
- backstage.com
In addition to the previously announced titles, Tiff just keeps adding more great stuff to their line-up.
The most recent announcement (I’m sure there are more to come), includes a couple of interesting titles along with a couple of heavy weights. Up front is Danny Boyle’s story of survival 127 Hours starring James Franco, Casey Affleck’s bizarre biopic/drama I’m Still Here (trailer), Guillem Morales’ great looking Spanish thriller Julia’s Eyes (trailer) and Matt Reeves’ remake Let Me In (trailer).
Other titles which sound promising include Mitch Glazer’s Passion Play, a fable starring Mickey Rourke and sex bomb Megan Fox, Álex de la Iglesia’s insane parody about the Spanish Civil War with clowns The Last Circus and Benoît Jacquot’s Deep in the Woods.
All of the new additions after the break.
Last Night Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere
A married couple are...
The most recent announcement (I’m sure there are more to come), includes a couple of interesting titles along with a couple of heavy weights. Up front is Danny Boyle’s story of survival 127 Hours starring James Franco, Casey Affleck’s bizarre biopic/drama I’m Still Here (trailer), Guillem Morales’ great looking Spanish thriller Julia’s Eyes (trailer) and Matt Reeves’ remake Let Me In (trailer).
Other titles which sound promising include Mitch Glazer’s Passion Play, a fable starring Mickey Rourke and sex bomb Megan Fox, Álex de la Iglesia’s insane parody about the Spanish Civil War with clowns The Last Circus and Benoît Jacquot’s Deep in the Woods.
All of the new additions after the break.
Last Night Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere
A married couple are...
- 18.8.2010
- QuietEarth.us
Yep. Matt Reeves' Let Me In is getting the Special Presentation treatment at the Toronto International Film Festival, along with the latest from Danny Boyle, John Sayles, Clint Eastwood and others. Here's today's announcement:
Toronto International Film Festival Adds New Galas And Special Presentations To Its High-calibre Line-up
Toronto - The Toronto International Film Festival announces the exciting addition of two Galas and 18 Special Presentations to this year's line-up, including 14 World Premieres. This year's Festival includes the world premieres of new films by Clint Eastwood, Danny Boyle, John Sayles, Guillem Morales and Stefano Incerti. The Galas and Special Presentations announced today feature on-screen appearances by Matt Damon, James Franco, Jennifer Connelly, Will Ferrell, Keira Knightley, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Toni Servillo, Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, Bill Murray, Charlotte Rampling, Emma Roberts and Eva Mendes.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Last Night Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere
A married couple...
Toronto International Film Festival Adds New Galas And Special Presentations To Its High-calibre Line-up
Toronto - The Toronto International Film Festival announces the exciting addition of two Galas and 18 Special Presentations to this year's line-up, including 14 World Premieres. This year's Festival includes the world premieres of new films by Clint Eastwood, Danny Boyle, John Sayles, Guillem Morales and Stefano Incerti. The Galas and Special Presentations announced today feature on-screen appearances by Matt Damon, James Franco, Jennifer Connelly, Will Ferrell, Keira Knightley, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Toni Servillo, Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, Bill Murray, Charlotte Rampling, Emma Roberts and Eva Mendes.
Galas
Closing Night Film
Last Night Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere
A married couple...
- 17.8.2010
- Screen Anarchy
I often mentioned how this was a Helen Mirren type of year, but Keira Knightley is challenging the silverscreen status with three titles which include Never Let Me Go, London Boulevard and the Tiff closer in Massy Tadjedin's Last Night (formerly known as Tell Me). The Miramax Films French/U.S co-production sort of looked "shelved" - the inactivity on the title which finished lensing a long time ago, was perhaps due to the distribution house not knowing what to do with the title, or the title having not tested well in its New Jersey screenings. The film stars Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington and Guillaume Canet who'll be presenting his latest directing effort in Little White Lies. The other Gala selected film is Gilles Paquet Brenner's Sarah’s Key (In French it goes by Elle S'appelait Sarah). Here' s the synopsis on this one. Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel,...
- 17.8.2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the rest of its galas and premieres, and set a program of midnight screenings. The festival has added a diverse roster of films ranging from the Clint Eastwood-directed Hereafter to the Casey Affleck-directed Joaquin Phoenix documentary I'm Not Here to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire followup 127 Hours, to the Will Ferrell-starrer Everything Must Go. Here are the additions to the program: Gala Premieres * Last Night, Massy Tadjedin, USA/France World Premiere. The festival's closing night film. A married couple are apart for a night when the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's away, his wife encounters her past love. The film stars Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington and Guillaume Canet. *Sarah’s Key Gilles Paquet Brenner, France World Premiere. Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel, Sarah’s Key tells...
- 17.8.2010
- von MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Sneak Peek actor Vincent Cassel ("Eastern Promises") as French gangster 'Jacques Mesrine', in writer/director Jean-François Richet's French, Canadian and Italian co-production "Mesrine: Killer Instinct".
The 246 minute feature is broken into 2 parts, with the first part based on the autobiography "L'instinct de mort" by Mesrine and the second part detailing Mesrine's criminal career following his escape from prison and bloody end.
Also starring are Ludivine Sagnier as 'Sylvie Jeanjacquot', Michel Duchaussoy as 'Pierre André Mesrine' and Myriam Boyer as Mesrine's mother.
Actor Cassel ("Brotherhood Of The Wolf"), previously a runner-up favorite to play 'The Joker' in director Chris Nolan's "The Dark Knight", has won numerous awards for his career performance as Mesrine including France's César Awards for Best Actor In A Leading Role and Best Actor @ Japan's Tokyo International Film Festival.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Mesrine: Killer Instinct"...
The 246 minute feature is broken into 2 parts, with the first part based on the autobiography "L'instinct de mort" by Mesrine and the second part detailing Mesrine's criminal career following his escape from prison and bloody end.
Also starring are Ludivine Sagnier as 'Sylvie Jeanjacquot', Michel Duchaussoy as 'Pierre André Mesrine' and Myriam Boyer as Mesrine's mother.
Actor Cassel ("Brotherhood Of The Wolf"), previously a runner-up favorite to play 'The Joker' in director Chris Nolan's "The Dark Knight", has won numerous awards for his career performance as Mesrine including France's César Awards for Best Actor In A Leading Role and Best Actor @ Japan's Tokyo International Film Festival.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Mesrine: Killer Instinct"...
- 22.7.2010
- von Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
- Yann Samuell has come full circle and he is only three feature films into his filmmaking career. Samuell's first film, Love Me If You Dare trickled into several markets including the U.S. and made a name for the director. Starring Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard, Lmiyd featured love coming late in life in a flash-back mode going back and forth between adulthood and childhood with the two characters. Seems like his next directing gig will visit similar themes of regret. Samuell is set to start filming L'âge de Raison (“The Age of Reason”) next month with Sophie Marceau toplining the fantasy comedy. Also starring players Jonathan Zaccaï, Marton Csokas and Michel Duchaussoy, this centres on Margaret (Marceau), a career girl who on her 40th birthday, receives the visit from a provincial solicitor who sends her some old, forgotten letters she wrote to herself when she was seven, the age of reason.
- 21.8.2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Intimate Strangers
Screened
Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- Truffaut used to say Hitchcock filmed his murder scenes like love scenes and his love scenes like murder scenes. Patrice Leconte seems to have something like that in mind in his new film, "Intimate Strangers", a peculiar love story designed like a suspense mystery. From Pascal Esteve's moody and insistent musical score, sounding very much like Bernard Herrmann's work for Hitchcock, to cameraman Eduardo Serra's careful, almost geometric compositions, the film has the look of a suspense thriller. We expect a bloody knife or mangled corpse to turn up at any moment. Yet Leconte and co-writer Jerome Tonnerre have something else in mind.
Set for release soon in France, "Intimate Strangers" should perform well there, with Sandrine Bonnaire and Fabrice Luchini heading a fine cast. Leconte's movies are usually strong enough to make it to North America, and this should prove no exception, even if it's not equal to his most sublime films, such as "Ridicule", "Monsieur Hire" and last year's "The Man on the Train".
Leconte calls his film "a sentimental thriller," which is about right. A chance meeting, a case of mistaken identity, a woman in trouble and a jealous husband all fuel the thriller aspect. But what is really at stake are the emotional lives of two unlikely people, people who were never supposed to meet but do. They then fall into a relationship that deepens with each meeting and opens up new vistas for both. Dare we call it love?
Anna (Bonnaire) comes to a building to see a shrink. Because of slight dyslexia that causes her to get directions mixed up, she knocks on the door of tax attorney William Faber (Luchini). The mild-mannered taxman is initially too startled by her intimate confessions to correct her mistake. At her next appointment, he tries to level with her, and by her third visit, she has realized her error and angrily declares that his failure to reveal his true identity is tantamount to psychological rape.
Yet she returns, and soon the two cannot do without their weekly meetings. Gradually, William comes to wonder about this strange woman: Is she in danger? Does her husband truly exist? He gets an answer to the latter question when the husband, Marc Gilbert Melki), shows up at his office.
Anna in turn wonders about the tax consultant. He lives a life a little too neat and tidy, having taken over his father's business and seemingly never ventured far into the world. There is a bit of cat-and-mouse here, where each tries to establish a level of trust and confidence with the other.
The movie has other characters. The shrink (Michel Duchaussoy) down the hall, the one Anna was supposed to see, offers advice to the man who "poached" his client. William's longtime secretary (Helene Surgere) has her own ideas about what is going on behind her boss' closed door. Then there is Anna's husband, William's ex-girlfriend (Anne Brochet) and her new boyfriend (Laurent Gamelon), and we're not quite certain what role each will play in the story, which adds to the suspense.
Leconte uses a few interiors and even less exteriors to create the movie's own world, which is somewhat romanticized and somewhat sinister. This world is one in which the real danger lies in emotional intimacy and the degree to which one is willing to question one's life.
The film does get claustrophobic
it never quite achieves the balance between a two-character study and a larger world, as did "The Man on the Train". The film also could do with a bit more humor, most of which is supplied by the sagacious shrink. But the effort here is admirable and the ending satisfying if a little pat for such an unusual story.
INTIMATE STRANGERS
Les Films Alain Sarde/France 3 Cinema/Zoulous Films/Assise Production
Credits:
Director: Patrice Leconte
Screenwriters: Jerome Tonnerre, Patrice Leconte
Producer: Alain Sarde
Executive producer: Christine Gozlan
Director of photography: Eduardo Serra
Production designer: Ivan Maussion
Music: Pascal Esteve
Costume designer: Annie Perier-Bertaux
Editor: Joelle Hache
Cast:
William: Fabrice Luchini
Anna: Sandrine Bonnaire
Dr. Monnier: Michel Duchaussoy
Jeanne: Anne Brochet
Marc: Gilbert Melki
Luc: Laurent Gamelon
Mrs. Mulon: Helene Surgere
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- Truffaut used to say Hitchcock filmed his murder scenes like love scenes and his love scenes like murder scenes. Patrice Leconte seems to have something like that in mind in his new film, "Intimate Strangers", a peculiar love story designed like a suspense mystery. From Pascal Esteve's moody and insistent musical score, sounding very much like Bernard Herrmann's work for Hitchcock, to cameraman Eduardo Serra's careful, almost geometric compositions, the film has the look of a suspense thriller. We expect a bloody knife or mangled corpse to turn up at any moment. Yet Leconte and co-writer Jerome Tonnerre have something else in mind.
Set for release soon in France, "Intimate Strangers" should perform well there, with Sandrine Bonnaire and Fabrice Luchini heading a fine cast. Leconte's movies are usually strong enough to make it to North America, and this should prove no exception, even if it's not equal to his most sublime films, such as "Ridicule", "Monsieur Hire" and last year's "The Man on the Train".
Leconte calls his film "a sentimental thriller," which is about right. A chance meeting, a case of mistaken identity, a woman in trouble and a jealous husband all fuel the thriller aspect. But what is really at stake are the emotional lives of two unlikely people, people who were never supposed to meet but do. They then fall into a relationship that deepens with each meeting and opens up new vistas for both. Dare we call it love?
Anna (Bonnaire) comes to a building to see a shrink. Because of slight dyslexia that causes her to get directions mixed up, she knocks on the door of tax attorney William Faber (Luchini). The mild-mannered taxman is initially too startled by her intimate confessions to correct her mistake. At her next appointment, he tries to level with her, and by her third visit, she has realized her error and angrily declares that his failure to reveal his true identity is tantamount to psychological rape.
Yet she returns, and soon the two cannot do without their weekly meetings. Gradually, William comes to wonder about this strange woman: Is she in danger? Does her husband truly exist? He gets an answer to the latter question when the husband, Marc Gilbert Melki), shows up at his office.
Anna in turn wonders about the tax consultant. He lives a life a little too neat and tidy, having taken over his father's business and seemingly never ventured far into the world. There is a bit of cat-and-mouse here, where each tries to establish a level of trust and confidence with the other.
The movie has other characters. The shrink (Michel Duchaussoy) down the hall, the one Anna was supposed to see, offers advice to the man who "poached" his client. William's longtime secretary (Helene Surgere) has her own ideas about what is going on behind her boss' closed door. Then there is Anna's husband, William's ex-girlfriend (Anne Brochet) and her new boyfriend (Laurent Gamelon), and we're not quite certain what role each will play in the story, which adds to the suspense.
Leconte uses a few interiors and even less exteriors to create the movie's own world, which is somewhat romanticized and somewhat sinister. This world is one in which the real danger lies in emotional intimacy and the degree to which one is willing to question one's life.
The film does get claustrophobic
it never quite achieves the balance between a two-character study and a larger world, as did "The Man on the Train". The film also could do with a bit more humor, most of which is supplied by the sagacious shrink. But the effort here is admirable and the ending satisfying if a little pat for such an unusual story.
INTIMATE STRANGERS
Les Films Alain Sarde/France 3 Cinema/Zoulous Films/Assise Production
Credits:
Director: Patrice Leconte
Screenwriters: Jerome Tonnerre, Patrice Leconte
Producer: Alain Sarde
Executive producer: Christine Gozlan
Director of photography: Eduardo Serra
Production designer: Ivan Maussion
Music: Pascal Esteve
Costume designer: Annie Perier-Bertaux
Editor: Joelle Hache
Cast:
William: Fabrice Luchini
Anna: Sandrine Bonnaire
Dr. Monnier: Michel Duchaussoy
Jeanne: Anne Brochet
Marc: Gilbert Melki
Luc: Laurent Gamelon
Mrs. Mulon: Helene Surgere
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9.7.2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Intimate Strangers
Screened
Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- Truffaut used to say Hitchcock filmed his murder scenes like love scenes and his love scenes like murder scenes. Patrice Leconte seems to have something like that in mind in his new film, "Intimate Strangers", a peculiar love story designed like a suspense mystery. From Pascal Esteve's moody and insistent musical score, sounding very much like Bernard Herrmann's work for Hitchcock, to cameraman Eduardo Serra's careful, almost geometric compositions, the film has the look of a suspense thriller. We expect a bloody knife or mangled corpse to turn up at any moment. Yet Leconte and co-writer Jerome Tonnerre have something else in mind.
Set for release soon in France, "Intimate Strangers" should perform well there, with Sandrine Bonnaire and Fabrice Luchini heading a fine cast. Leconte's movies are usually strong enough to make it to North America, and this should prove no exception, even if it's not equal to his most sublime films, such as "Ridicule", "Monsieur Hire" and last year's "The Man on the Train".
Leconte calls his film "a sentimental thriller," which is about right. A chance meeting, a case of mistaken identity, a woman in trouble and a jealous husband all fuel the thriller aspect. But what is really at stake are the emotional lives of two unlikely people, people who were never supposed to meet but do. They then fall into a relationship that deepens with each meeting and opens up new vistas for both. Dare we call it love?
Anna (Bonnaire) comes to a building to see a shrink. Because of slight dyslexia that causes her to get directions mixed up, she knocks on the door of tax attorney William Faber (Luchini). The mild-mannered taxman is initially too startled by her intimate confessions to correct her mistake. At her next appointment, he tries to level with her, and by her third visit, she has realized her error and angrily declares that his failure to reveal his true identity is tantamount to psychological rape.
Yet she returns, and soon the two cannot do without their weekly meetings. Gradually, William comes to wonder about this strange woman: Is she in danger? Does her husband truly exist? He gets an answer to the latter question when the husband, Marc Gilbert Melki), shows up at his office.
Anna in turn wonders about the tax consultant. He lives a life a little too neat and tidy, having taken over his father's business and seemingly never ventured far into the world. There is a bit of cat-and-mouse here, where each tries to establish a level of trust and confidence with the other.
The movie has other characters. The shrink (Michel Duchaussoy) down the hall, the one Anna was supposed to see, offers advice to the man who "poached" his client. William's longtime secretary (Helene Surgere) has her own ideas about what is going on behind her boss' closed door. Then there is Anna's husband, William's ex-girlfriend (Anne Brochet) and her new boyfriend (Laurent Gamelon), and we're not quite certain what role each will play in the story, which adds to the suspense.
Leconte uses a few interiors and even less exteriors to create the movie's own world, which is somewhat romanticized and somewhat sinister. This world is one in which the real danger lies in emotional intimacy and the degree to which one is willing to question one's life.
The film does get claustrophobic
it never quite achieves the balance between a two-character study and a larger world, as did "The Man on the Train". The film also could do with a bit more humor, most of which is supplied by the sagacious shrink. But the effort here is admirable and the ending satisfying if a little pat for such an unusual story.
INTIMATE STRANGERS
Les Films Alain Sarde/France 3 Cinema/Zoulous Films/Assise Production
Credits:
Director: Patrice Leconte
Screenwriters: Jerome Tonnerre, Patrice Leconte
Producer: Alain Sarde
Executive producer: Christine Gozlan
Director of photography: Eduardo Serra
Production designer: Ivan Maussion
Music: Pascal Esteve
Costume designer: Annie Perier-Bertaux
Editor: Joelle Hache
Cast:
William: Fabrice Luchini
Anna: Sandrine Bonnaire
Dr. Monnier: Michel Duchaussoy
Jeanne: Anne Brochet
Marc: Gilbert Melki
Luc: Laurent Gamelon
Mrs. Mulon: Helene Surgere
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- Truffaut used to say Hitchcock filmed his murder scenes like love scenes and his love scenes like murder scenes. Patrice Leconte seems to have something like that in mind in his new film, "Intimate Strangers", a peculiar love story designed like a suspense mystery. From Pascal Esteve's moody and insistent musical score, sounding very much like Bernard Herrmann's work for Hitchcock, to cameraman Eduardo Serra's careful, almost geometric compositions, the film has the look of a suspense thriller. We expect a bloody knife or mangled corpse to turn up at any moment. Yet Leconte and co-writer Jerome Tonnerre have something else in mind.
Set for release soon in France, "Intimate Strangers" should perform well there, with Sandrine Bonnaire and Fabrice Luchini heading a fine cast. Leconte's movies are usually strong enough to make it to North America, and this should prove no exception, even if it's not equal to his most sublime films, such as "Ridicule", "Monsieur Hire" and last year's "The Man on the Train".
Leconte calls his film "a sentimental thriller," which is about right. A chance meeting, a case of mistaken identity, a woman in trouble and a jealous husband all fuel the thriller aspect. But what is really at stake are the emotional lives of two unlikely people, people who were never supposed to meet but do. They then fall into a relationship that deepens with each meeting and opens up new vistas for both. Dare we call it love?
Anna (Bonnaire) comes to a building to see a shrink. Because of slight dyslexia that causes her to get directions mixed up, she knocks on the door of tax attorney William Faber (Luchini). The mild-mannered taxman is initially too startled by her intimate confessions to correct her mistake. At her next appointment, he tries to level with her, and by her third visit, she has realized her error and angrily declares that his failure to reveal his true identity is tantamount to psychological rape.
Yet she returns, and soon the two cannot do without their weekly meetings. Gradually, William comes to wonder about this strange woman: Is she in danger? Does her husband truly exist? He gets an answer to the latter question when the husband, Marc Gilbert Melki), shows up at his office.
Anna in turn wonders about the tax consultant. He lives a life a little too neat and tidy, having taken over his father's business and seemingly never ventured far into the world. There is a bit of cat-and-mouse here, where each tries to establish a level of trust and confidence with the other.
The movie has other characters. The shrink (Michel Duchaussoy) down the hall, the one Anna was supposed to see, offers advice to the man who "poached" his client. William's longtime secretary (Helene Surgere) has her own ideas about what is going on behind her boss' closed door. Then there is Anna's husband, William's ex-girlfriend (Anne Brochet) and her new boyfriend (Laurent Gamelon), and we're not quite certain what role each will play in the story, which adds to the suspense.
Leconte uses a few interiors and even less exteriors to create the movie's own world, which is somewhat romanticized and somewhat sinister. This world is one in which the real danger lies in emotional intimacy and the degree to which one is willing to question one's life.
The film does get claustrophobic
it never quite achieves the balance between a two-character study and a larger world, as did "The Man on the Train". The film also could do with a bit more humor, most of which is supplied by the sagacious shrink. But the effort here is admirable and the ending satisfying if a little pat for such an unusual story.
INTIMATE STRANGERS
Les Films Alain Sarde/France 3 Cinema/Zoulous Films/Assise Production
Credits:
Director: Patrice Leconte
Screenwriters: Jerome Tonnerre, Patrice Leconte
Producer: Alain Sarde
Executive producer: Christine Gozlan
Director of photography: Eduardo Serra
Production designer: Ivan Maussion
Music: Pascal Esteve
Costume designer: Annie Perier-Bertaux
Editor: Joelle Hache
Cast:
William: Fabrice Luchini
Anna: Sandrine Bonnaire
Dr. Monnier: Michel Duchaussoy
Jeanne: Anne Brochet
Marc: Gilbert Melki
Luc: Laurent Gamelon
Mrs. Mulon: Helene Surgere
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9.2.2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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