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Jérémy Clapin’s French-language Meanwhile On Earth is a heady dose of minimalist science fiction. No laser beams, no interstellar wars. It’s in the same camp as Coherence or The Vast of Night, earthbound thrillers that underexpose sci-fi elements. Clapin translates the alienation of grief into an alien encounter rooted in emotional importance over extraterrestrial engagement. Meanwhile On Earth dances between genre disinterest and grounded storytelling, seeking forgiveness through soulful themes that confront psychological unknowns with an ungraspable sense of ambiguity.

Megan Northam stars as Elsa ​​Martens, the sister to missing astronaut Franck Martens (Sébastien Pouderoux in voice only). Elsa hears Franck speaking in her mind, and then another voice intrudes. A disembodied entity requests Elsa provide five individuals to be inhabited by invisible cosmic beings, and in return, they’ll release Franck. Nobody else can hear the voices, leaving Elsa to question whether Franck might return home after nearly three years.

Meanwhile on Earth (Pendant ce temps sur Terre) from writer/director Jeremy Clapin (I Lost My Body) is a slow-burn sci-fi story of grief and loss, and arrested development. The film stars Megan Northam (The Passengers of The Night) as Elsa, a budding illustrator and sister to famed astronaut who never returned from a fateful space mission. In her small French town, her brother Franck even has a bronze statue immortalizing him…which she routinely vandalizes to make him look like a superhero. Needless to say, it’s been hard for Elsa and her family to move on and Franck is never far from their thoughts.

In a bizarre twist, Elsa is contacted by her brother after she enters a paranormal vortex while gazing at the stars. But when her connection to Franck is cut short, and an unknown entity begins communicating with Elsa, she learns that she has been...

Writer/Director Jérémy Clapin, whose 2019 animated debut, I Lost My Body, earned an Academy Award nomination, makes the jump to live-action with the sci-fi thriller Meanwhile on Earth. Today, we have an exclusive clip that sets up violent psychological horror.

Metrograph Pictures releases Meanwhile on Earth in theaters on November 8, 2024.

In the film, “Elsa, along with her family, is struggling following the disappearance of her brother Franck, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission. While stargazing one night, Elsa is shocked to receive contact from Franck, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind Franck’s reappearance, forcing her to confront the lengths she will go for the brother she once feared was gone forever.”

Sébastien Pouderoux, Catherine Salée, and Dimitri Doré also star.

Watch the clip below, which unleashes a violent chainsaw confrontation in the woods. Or does it? Things are...

“Meanwhile on Earth” is a new live-action science fiction feature, directed by Jérémy Clapin, starring Megan Northam, Catherine Salée, Sam Louwyck, Roman Williams and Sofia Lesaffre, releasing November 8, 2024 in theaters:

“…’Elsa’ (Northam), along with her family, is struggling following the disappearance of her brother ‘Franck’, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission.

“While stargazing one night, Elsa is shocked to receive contact from Franck, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind Franck’s reappearance…

“…forcing her to confront the lengths she will go for the brother she once feared was gone forever.

Click the images to enlarge…...

In writer-director Jérémy Clapin’s downbeat science-fiction film Meanwhile on Earth, the promises of the future are already the naïve and tarnished daydreams of the past, while the present is a matter of inexorable decline. Lit in wintry tones of disillusionment, nearly every shot in Clapin’s follow-up to I Lost My Body evokes a kind of post-Futurist mood. At the same time, there are flashes of nostalgia for what we thought the present could be—if only we had believed in those daydreams hard enough for them to become reality.

The film tells the story of Elsa (Megan Northam), a young woman whose brother, Franck (voiced by Sébastien Pouderoux), has disappeared into the vacuum of outer space on an exploration mission. Her talent as an illustrator motivates Meanwhile on Earth’s several animated daydreams, in which she meets with Franck on a spacecraft that suggests something out of a Mœbius comic.

"A stunning sci-fi experience." Metrograph Pics has revealed another teaser for the indie sci-fi film titled Meanwhile on Earth, from French filmmaker Jérémy Clapin. It's now rescheduled to open in November, shifting a few months from the initial September date for a better fit later in the fall. This first premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier in the year. Jérémy Clapin is the same director who made the excellent animated film I Lost My Body, which anyone can now watch on Netflix. In this new film, a young woman is contacted by her missing brother, an astronaut who vanished on a mission, but all is not what it seems in this sci-fi thriller. The intro from Berlinale explains: "Siblings Elsa & Franck were always very close. When Franck mysteriously disappeared during a space mission three years ago, everything changed for Elsa. Since then, the 23-year-old has struggled to move on with her life.

"No one will ever know we are among you." Metrograph Pictures has revealed an official trailer for an indie sci-fi film titled Meanwhile on Earth, from French filmmaker Jérémy Clapin. This premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, and opens in art house theaters in the US starting in September this fall. Jérémy Clapin is the same director who made the excellent animated film I Lost My Body, which anyone can now watch on Netflix. In this new film, a young woman is contacted by her missing brother, an astronaut who vanished on a mission, but all is not what it seems in this sci-fi thriller. The intro from Berlinale: "Siblings Elsa & Franck were always very close. When Franck mysteriously disappeared during a space mission three years ago, everything changed for Elsa. Since then, the 23-year-old has struggled to move on with her life. One day she is contacted by an...

Grief is a concept that everyone with a heart can relate to, but it’s not always something that everyone with a brain can deal with. Riffing on Jean Cocteau’s 1950 classic Orphée and giving it a very modern makeover, French writer-director Jérémy Clapin explores that very paradox with Meanwhile on Earth, a strange, poetic, and endearingly surreal meditation on the counterintuitive ways in which we react when confronted with loss.

In a very literal way, Clapin has been here before, with his acclaimed and surprisingly poignant 2019 animated film I Lost My Body, in which the disembodied hand of a pizza delivery boy goes on a journey to find the rest of itself. This much more cryptic follow-up pushes the notion a whole lot further, and whether it works or not will be in the eye of the beholder.

The loss this time is felt by Elsa (Megan Northam), who...

The first batch of titles for the Panorama sidebar section for the 2024 Berlin Film Festival were revealed today and we’ve got a Sundance Film Festival pair of international premieres in Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun and Jane Schoenbrun‘s I Saw the TV Glow. We also find Les Paradis de Diane by Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann and world premiere status for Jérémy Clapin‘s Pendant ce temps sur with Megan Northam, Catherine Salée and Sam Louwyck. Here are the selections. The competition titles will be announced next month.

All Shall Be Well by Ray Yeung | with Patra Au Ga Man, Maggie Li Lin Lin, Tai Bo, Leung Chung Hang, Fish Liew Chi Yu

Hong Kong, China 2024

World premiere

When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years.…...

Films starring Saoirse Ronan and Justice Smith are set for Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section.

Panorama announced its first 11 titles on Thursday, seven of which are world premieres. The lineup includes Nora Fingscheidt’s “The Outrun,” which stars Ronan as an antihero who must embark on a journey to find herself. “After years of excess in London, she seeks silence and self-reflection in her Scottish homeland,” the film’s logline reads.

Directed by Jane Schoenbrun, “I Saw the TV Glow” — which stars Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine and Danielle Deadwyler, among others — is also part of the program. In a press release, the festival called the film “one of the most idiosyncratic and fascinating works of the year, effortlessly crossing boundaries of genre, gender and trauma in this eye- and soul-opening trip.”

The annual Panorama Audience Award will be presented on Feb. 25. Berlin Film Festival is set to take place beginning Feb.

Pendant ce temps sur Terre

Jérémy Clapin made a huge splash with his debut film J’ai perdu mon corps (the animated film premiered in the Cannes Critic’s Week in 2019) – but for his sophomore film he moved into live action with a cast comprised of Wim Willaert, Sofia Lesaffre, Megan Northam and Catherine Salée. Production on Pendant ce temps sur Terre (aka Meanwhile On Earth) took place in August of last year in the region of Clermont-Ferrand. Clapin reteams with producer One World Films’ Marc du Pontavice.

Gist: This revolves around an “absent” hero: an astronaut lost in the emptiness of space.…...

After making a name for himself for a rather inventive (animated) tale of young love and true yearning, I Lost My Body filmmaker Jérémy Clapin is getting a bit more “hands-on” with his sophomore feature. Cineuropa reports that production has already began on Pendant ce temps sur Terre (which translates as meanwhile on earth) – with a cast comprised of Megan Northam, Sofia Lesaffre, Catherine Salée, Wim Willaert, Roman Williams. We had just reported on Megan Northam joining Mareike Engelhardt’s Rabia – which the actress will shoot next. Filming takes place in France, and Belgium. One World Films’ Marc du Pontavice is producing.…...

The first clapperboard is set to slam at the end of April on this movie which is directed by Thierry Binisti, steered by Ts Productions and sold by Be For Films. 29 April will see Thierry Binisti commence filming on his 3rd fiction feature film Le Prix du passage. Mostly known for A Bottle In The Gaza Sea, the director has assembled a cast composed of Alice Isaaz, Adam Bessa (seen in Blessed and hitting screens this year in Haute couture) and Belgium’s Catherine Salée (nominated for the Best Supporting Role Magritte in 2013, 2014, 2015 and...

France’s Baptiste Petit-Gats is an hyphenate that keeps himself plenty busy editing, photographing, writing and directing. The bulk of his editing gigs up until now have been in documentary film work, evident in the way he shot and edited his own short film, participating in the MyFrenchFilmFestival, “Flowers.”

In the film, Petit-Gats tells the heartbreaking story of a widowed mother and her adolescent son over the course of a rainy All Saints Day, an originally Catholic holiday dedicated to remembering the dead. Berenice is obsessed with finding the flowers she was meant to have bought to place on her husband’s grave, and drags her adolescent son Sacha from shop to shop to find the right ones. Sacha has other priorities however, and the two struggle to stay on the same page.

The film’s story is told from Berenice’s point of view with close ups and out-of-focus backgrounds.

There was a time in our society when we could still believe in the power of the underdog, and in the large-scale triumphs represented in uplifting films like “Norma Rae” and “Erin Brockovich.” But as the economic inequality gap continues to widen and corporations run amok and unchecked, we find ourselves settling for stories where merely surviving feels like a big win.

In “Two Days, One Night,” Sandra (Marion Cotillard) isn’t out to unionize a factory or to expose environmental disaster; she just wants her job back. After Sandra took a sick leave to treat her depression, her bosses...

From IFC Films and Belgian directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne comes the first trailer for Two Days, One Night starring Marion Cotillard.

The two filmmakers and international star Marion Cotillard

have teamed up for the first time ever to create this universal story about working-class people living on the edges of society.

Sandra (Cotillard) has just returned to work after recovering from a serious bout with depression. Realizing that the company can operate with one fewer employee, management tells Sandra she is to be let go. After learning that her co-workers will vote to decide her fate on Monday morning, Sandra races against time over the course of the weekend, often with the help of her husband, to convince each of her fellow employees to sacrifice their much-needed bonuses so she can keep her job. With each encounter, Sandra is brought into a different world with unexpected results in...

Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne directors of Two Days, One Night with Anne-Katrin Titze: "We spent a long time with the costumes." Photo: Ryan Werner

Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's latest masterpiece of conscience, Two Days, One Night (Deux Jours, Une Nuit), stars Marion Cotillard with Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée, Batiste Sornin, a formidable Olivier Gourmet, Timur Magomedgadzhiev and Catherine Salée, who played the mother of Adèle in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is The Warmest Colour.

The Dardennes and I spoke about fairy tales, their work with costume designer Maïra Ramedhan Levi, finding the right clothes, the use of rehearsals, suspense, seduction versus vulnerability and working with stars.

Marion Cotillard as Sandra: "The pink top she wears, tells a number of things."

After having suffered a nervous breakdown Sandra (Marion Cotillard), a worker in a Belgian solar panel factory, finds out that in her absence, her 16 co-workers were asked...

Director Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Screenwriter Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Starring: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne, Catherine Salée, Simon Caudry; Running time: 95 mins; Certificate: 15

Marion Cotillard captures the overwhelming despair and paralysis at the core of depression with grace and nuance in the Dardenne brothers' new drama. Her fragile heroine Sandra returns to work at a solar panel factory following a severe depression, only to discover that she has been deemed dispensable and will be made redundant unless her colleagues forgo their annual bonuses.

Though the first vote has already gone against her thanks to interference from the factory's foreman, Sandra's boss is persuaded to hold a new ballot on Monday morning, giving her the weekend to visit each of her 16 co-workers and try to change their minds. It's a daunting prospect for anyone; much more so Sandra who is only just returning to the world of social interaction,...

Nick Cave documentary 20,000 Days on Earth and titles set for Cannes among Sydney Film Festival competiton contenders.

In an unusual move the Sydney Film Festival has included among its official competition contenders, the June 4 opening night film 20,000 Days on Earth, which digs deep into the life of Australian-born musician and artist Nick Cave and won the top prize for documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

This year will also see the biggest number of Australian films in the competition. David Michôd’s The Rover will come fresh from Cannes and the other two are Ruin, which writer/directors Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody filmed in Cambodia, and Fell, a debut film from Kasimir Burge that will have its world premiere at the annual event. Burge won a Crystal Bear at Berlin for his short Lily.

See below for the full list of the finalists in the seventh year of the A$60,000 ($56,000) competition.

Finishing off the...

Welcome back to Cannes Check, In Contention's annual preview of the films in Competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 14. Taking on different selections every day, we'll be examining what they're about, who's involved and what their chances are of snagging an award from Jane Campion's jury. Next up: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's "Two Days, One Night."  The directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgian, 63 and 60 years old). World cinema's favorite fraternal directing duo, and the pre-eminent figures in Belgium's spotty filmmaking history, the pair grew up in the French-speaking Wallonia district, studied drama and philosophy respectively, and co-founded the Derives documentary production company in 1977 -- it stands to this day. After a decade of non-fiction work, they made their first narrative feature, "Falsch," in 1987; their third feature, 1996's "La Promesse," proved the breakthrough, premiering at Toronto, winning a couple of major Us critics' awards,...

With a filmography spanning nearly 4 decades, Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have made a name for themselves in the international film community. With movies such as La Promesse, L’Enfant, and The Kid With a Bike, many were curious to see what the brothers would do next, anticipation that increased with the news that the duo was working on their first new feature since 2011. Titled Two Days, One Night, or Deux jours, une nuit, the film stars Marion Cotillard, Olivier Gourmet, and Catherine Salée. Ahead of the film’s premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the first trailer has been released, and can be seen below.

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Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing, Catherine Salée, Benjamin Siksou, Mona Walravens, Alma Jodorowsky | Written by Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix | Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche

Love is a complicated thing, it can also be destructive but for those fleeting moments when you are truly in love they can shape your life forever. Blue is the Warmest Colour is a film about love and a young woman’s discovery of herself, in both good ways and bad. Controversial to some it also features some intense performances, and sex scenes that almost seem to go too far. While I myself can understand the reason for this, some find it just a little too uncomfortable especially depending on who you are viewing it with.

When Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) experiences love at first sight, she never expected it to be with another girl, a stranger on the street with blue hair. Trying...

Deux jours, une nuit (Two days, One night)

Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Writers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Producers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

U.S. Distributor: Sundance Selects

Cast: Marion Cotillard, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Salée, Fabrizio Rongione

The Dardennes might have dropped “working” with kids, but are still obsessed with the “working” class. As was the case with Cécile De France (The Kid with a Bike), the brothers will do what they do best, straddle their viewers in and make their a-list starlet (Marion Cotillard) dissappear into her character. Two days, One night is what Cannes dreams are made of.

Gist: The film follows 30-year old Sandra (Cotillard) and her husband (Rongione) on their hunt across the city for colleagues prepared to sacrifice their bonuses so she can keep her job.

Release Date: Production began in June of last year, so this will receive a red carpet Main Comp showing...

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 30 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the erotic French romance and Palme d’Or winner “Blue is the Warmest Color” starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos! This film is rated “Nc-17” for explicit sexual content.

“Blue is the Warmest Color” – a love story about two women – also stars Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing, Catherine Salée, Benjamin Siksou, Mona Walravens and Alma Jodorowsky from writer and director Abdellatif Kechiche and writer Ghalia Lacroix based on the comic by Julie Maroh. Note: You must be 17+ to attend this “Nc-17”-rated screening.

To win your free “Blue is the Warmest Color” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete,...

Title: Blue is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle, Chapitres 1 et 2) Sundance Selects Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Screenwriter: Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix, loosely adapted from the graphic novel “Blue Angel,” or “Le bleu est une couleur chaude” by Julie Maroh Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Jérémie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Mona Walravens, Fanny Maurin, Benjámin Siksou, Sandor Funtek Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 10/17/13 Opens: October 25, 2013 Let me take a stab at what you’re going to say as you leave this film. “In my next life, I want to be French.” As we can see by Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest film, the French enjoy the [ Read More ]

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Blue is the Warmest Color Us Trailer. Abdellatif Kechiche‘s Blue is the Warmest Colour / La vie d’Adèle (2013) movie trailer stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, and Aurélien Recoing. Blue is the Warmest Colour‘s plot synopsis: based on the Le Bleu est une couleur chaude by [...]

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French director Abdellatif Kechiche (Sorry, Haters) returns with Blue Is the Warmest Color, which won the coveted Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Sundance Selects has released the first trailer and poster for this graphic novel adaptation, which follows a young woman (Ad&#232le Exarchopoulos) who falls for an older woman (L&#233a Seydoux) in this drama that spans several years. Take a look at the first footage, along with the teaser poster for this award-winning drama.

Acclaimed French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche's latest, based on Julie Maroh's graphic novel, was the sensation of this year's Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d'Or. Ad&#232le Exarchopoulos is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. L&#233a Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life.

Blue is the Warmest Color International Trailer. Abdellatif Kechiche‘s Blue is the Warmest Colour / La vie d’Adèle (2013) French movie trailer stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, and Aurélien Recoing. Blue is the Warmest Colour‘s plot synopsis: based on the Le Bleu est une couleur chaude [...]

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The Dardenne brothers have begun shooting their latest film - one of 21 features to receive a major financial boost from Eurimages.

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have commenced principal photography on Two Days, One Night (Deux Jours, Une Nuit) in Seraing, Belgium.

For full production details visit

Two Days, One Night (Deux Jours, Une Nuit)

Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and Fabrizio Rongione play the leads alongside a variety of Belgian actors including Olivier Gourmet, Christelle Cornil and Catherine Salée.

The film follows 30-year old Sandra (Cotillard) and her husband (Rongione) on their hunt across the city for colleagues prepared to sacrifice their bonuses so she can keep her job.

Artificial Eye pre-bought the film for the UK from Wild Bunch, which is handling international sales. Sundance Selects has acquired it for the Us.

This €7m ($9.1m) film will be co-produced by Les Films du Fleuve (Belgium), Archipel (France) and Bim (Italy).

The technical crew will be mainly Belgian, including...

Blue Is the Warmest Color movie: Julie Maroh discusses Abdellatif Kechiche’s failure to acknowledge her (photo: Léa Seydoux in Blue Is the Warmest Color) [See previous post: "Lesbian Sex Scenes 'Turned into Porn' Complains Blue Is the Warmest Color Author."] In the segment below (translated from the French original found here), Julie Maroh describes her less-than-satisfying professional relationship with Abdellatif Kechiche. I’m not a mind reader, but I do believe that her last couple of sentences carry a heavy dose of irony. (See also “Blue is the Warmest Color release date?“) This finale at Cannes is evidently incredible, breathtaking. … Tonight, I discovered that it was the first time in film history that a "comic strip" [graphic novel] inspired a Palme d’Or winner, and this thought leaves me petrified. … I’d like to thank everyone who was astonished, shocked, disgusted that Kechiche didn’t say a thing about me while accepting the Palme d’Or. I have no doubts that he had good reasons for not having done so,...

Blue is the Warmest Colour Clips, Poster. Abdellatif Kechiche‘s Blue is the Warmest Colour / La vie d’Adèle (2013) movie clips, movie poster stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, and Aurélien Recoing. Blue is the Warmest Colour‘s plot synopsis: based on the Le Bleu est une couleur chaude [...]

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Blue Is the Warmest Color: Oscars? Césars? European Film Awards? (Picture: Léa Seydoux, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Adèle Exarchopoulos at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony) [See previous post: "Lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Color wins Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or."] Both Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, director-co-screenwriter Abdellatif Kechiche, and Blue Is the Warmest Color itself are all shoo-ins for the 2014 Césars and near-shoo-ins for the European Film Awards. Kechiche has already won two Best Director / Best Screenplay / Best Film Césars: for Games of Love and Chance (2003) and The Secret of the Grain (2007, produced by Claude Berri). Even so, he has never been shortlisted for the European Film Awards; yet, at the very least one nomination — Best European Film, Best Director, or Best Screenplay — is all but guaranteed later this year. Needless to say, at this stage it’s impossible to know if Blue Is the Warmest Color will be France’s submission for the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. In case Kechiche’s...

Le bleu est une couleur chaude (Blue Is a Hot Color)

Director/Writer/: Abdellatif Kechiche

Producer(s): Kechiche’s Quat’sous Films & Wild Bunch

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Sandor Funtek

Almost Kubrick-like with how demanding he is of each scene, Abdellatif Kechiche has been developing his signature style (long takes that magnify everything that surrounds the human condition) focusing on the fringe characters of society since his debut 2000′s La Faute à Voltaire and expertly with 2007′s The Secret of the Grain. His fifth feature film is an adaptation from a graphic novel – his second adaptation.

Gist: This centers on Jocelyne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who is 15 years old and is certain of two things: she is a girl, and girls go out with boys. On the day in which she spots Emma’s (Léa Seydoux) blue hair on the Grand Place,...