"This could be your last trip." Studiocanal UK has debuted the first official UK trailer for the biopic drama The White Crow, the latest film directed by acclaimed actor Ralph Fiennes. It tells the incredible true story of renowned Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who managed to defect from the Soviet Union to the West, despite being closely guarded by the Kgb, while traveling through Paris in 1961. Nureyev is played by real-life ballet dancer Oleg Ivenko making his acting debut, along with Ralph Fiennes in a role as his ballet coach Alexander Pushkin. The cast also includes Adèle Exarchopoulos, Louis Hofmann, Sergei Polunin, Olivier Rabourdin, Raphaël Personnaz, Chulpan Khamatova, Zach Avery, and Mar Sodupe. This premiered at the Telluride and London Film Festivals last year, and should be released in the Us later this year. Based on the reviews and first look at this footage, this seems like it might be pretty good.
- 1/27/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
★★★★☆ If, like me, you felt modern horror movies had lost the plot, Shiver (2008) - a wonderfully stylish chiller from Spain - may just be enough to restore your faltering faith. Director Isidro Ortiz, the man behind Fausto 5.0 (2001) and Alvaro Augustin, producer of Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Orphanage (2007), pit Julio Valverde against horrors, both real and imaginary, in this subtle shocker.
Teenager Santi (Valverde) suffers from severe photophobia, where exposure to sunlight can result in potentially fatal skin disfigurement. Desperate, his mother Julia (Mar Sodupe) takes him to a village high in the Spanish mountains where there is only limited sunlight each day. However darkness brings other terrors to this remote area, which is plagued by a creature that preys each night on local livestock. When people also start being gruesomely murdered, suspicion inevitably falls on the lonely newcomer Santi.
That master of the macabre Peter Cushing once said the...
Teenager Santi (Valverde) suffers from severe photophobia, where exposure to sunlight can result in potentially fatal skin disfigurement. Desperate, his mother Julia (Mar Sodupe) takes him to a village high in the Spanish mountains where there is only limited sunlight each day. However darkness brings other terrors to this remote area, which is plagued by a creature that preys each night on local livestock. When people also start being gruesomely murdered, suspicion inevitably falls on the lonely newcomer Santi.
That master of the macabre Peter Cushing once said the...
- 10/19/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Shiver
Stars: Junio Valverde, Francesc Orella, Mar Sodupe, Jimmy Barnatán | Written by Hernán Migoya, Alejandro Hernández | Directed by Isidro Ortiz
Moving to an isolated village to try and get away from the sun would probably be a hard thing for a teenage boy, but when people start dying around you and the villagers look to you as the culprit just not going to be a good day. The truth of the murders of course has nothing to do with you but it’s easy to blame the outsider right?
Santi is a boy with issues; the main one is that sunlight is deadly to him. The more he is exposed to it the more danger is in as it will ultimately lead to problems such as being extremely burnt and ultimately cancer. His mother is advised to move the boy to an isolated village where there is more shade and...
Stars: Junio Valverde, Francesc Orella, Mar Sodupe, Jimmy Barnatán | Written by Hernán Migoya, Alejandro Hernández | Directed by Isidro Ortiz
Moving to an isolated village to try and get away from the sun would probably be a hard thing for a teenage boy, but when people start dying around you and the villagers look to you as the culprit just not going to be a good day. The truth of the murders of course has nothing to do with you but it’s easy to blame the outsider right?
Santi is a boy with issues; the main one is that sunlight is deadly to him. The more he is exposed to it the more danger is in as it will ultimately lead to problems such as being extremely burnt and ultimately cancer. His mother is advised to move the boy to an isolated village where there is more shade and...
- 10/16/2011
- by Pzomb
- Nerdly
Not only will our very own London correspondent Ben Austwick be there to cover the fest but it's one of the best lineups ever!
How about the world premier for Pa giant insect comedy Infestation? Check.
Sneak preview of La Horde? Check.
UK premier of Cannes premier Hierro? Check.
The surprisingly good Giallo, the latest from Dario Argento? Check.
The world premier of The Descent part 2? Check!
Full schedule after the break. (Yes we copied Dread Central's post. Thanks UncleCreepy!)
Main Programme - Empire 1
# Thursday 27 August
18.30 Triangle (World Premiere)
The Boat That Shocked! Film4 FrightFest is delighted to open this year’s festival with the first ever showing of British director Christopher Smith’s latest spellbinding horror fantasy. When Jess (Melissa George) hits a seagull driving to her local harbour little does she know it signals a harrowing omen for her yachting trip with friends. From epic ocean vistas to poignantly shocking finale,...
How about the world premier for Pa giant insect comedy Infestation? Check.
Sneak preview of La Horde? Check.
UK premier of Cannes premier Hierro? Check.
The surprisingly good Giallo, the latest from Dario Argento? Check.
The world premier of The Descent part 2? Check!
Full schedule after the break. (Yes we copied Dread Central's post. Thanks UncleCreepy!)
Main Programme - Empire 1
# Thursday 27 August
18.30 Triangle (World Premiere)
The Boat That Shocked! Film4 FrightFest is delighted to open this year’s festival with the first ever showing of British director Christopher Smith’s latest spellbinding horror fantasy. When Jess (Melissa George) hits a seagull driving to her local harbour little does she know it signals a harrowing omen for her yachting trip with friends. From epic ocean vistas to poignantly shocking finale,...
- 7/3/2009
- QuietEarth.us
The UK's most amazing horror film festival Film 4 FrightFest has released what could very well be one of the best horror line-ups we've seen ever for its latest show taking place August 27th - August 31st, brimming with films we've been salivating over Stateside!
If you need any more reasons to fly across the pond check out the schedule below!
Main Programme - Empire 1
Thursday 27 August 18.30 Triangle (World Premiere)
The Boat That Shocked! Film4 FrightFest is delighted to open this year’s festival with the first ever showing of British director Christopher Smith’s latest spellbinding horror fantasy. When Jess (Melissa George) hits a seagull driving to her local harbour little does she know it signals a harrowing omen for her yachting trip with friends. From epic ocean vistas to poignantly shocking finale, Triangle is Smith’s best, polished and most mature work.
95 minutes Director: Christopher Smith UK/Australia 2009
Melissa George...
If you need any more reasons to fly across the pond check out the schedule below!
Main Programme - Empire 1
Thursday 27 August 18.30 Triangle (World Premiere)
The Boat That Shocked! Film4 FrightFest is delighted to open this year’s festival with the first ever showing of British director Christopher Smith’s latest spellbinding horror fantasy. When Jess (Melissa George) hits a seagull driving to her local harbour little does she know it signals a harrowing omen for her yachting trip with friends. From epic ocean vistas to poignantly shocking finale, Triangle is Smith’s best, polished and most mature work.
95 minutes Director: Christopher Smith UK/Australia 2009
Melissa George...
- 7/3/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Dark Sky Films has announced an October 28th DVD release date for their Spanish horror film Shiver, which follows Santi, a bullied teen who suffers from a rare and violent allergy to sunlight. When his condition worsens, he and his mother are forced to move to a remote village in the mountains. His arrival marks the beginning of a series of brutal slayings. Something is alive deep in the shadowy forest. Can a frightened outcast find safety in the darkness or does the ultimate terror wait in the most unexpected place of all? Francesc Orella and Mar Sodupe co-star in this chilling Spanish horror thriller from acclaimed director Isidro Ortiz (Fausto 5.0) and featuring art direction by Pilar Revuelta, Oscar® winner for Pans Labyrinth.
- 8/31/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Guest
PARIS -- So similar are the basic ingredients of Laurent Bouhnik's The Guest to those of Francis Veber's 1998 smash hit The Dinner Game that this latest exercise in misanthropic farce might as well have been called "The Dinner Game: Second Helping." There is the same setup (a dinner to which an outsider has been invited), the same source (a successful stage play) and the same pleasure in humiliation. Even one of the stars is the same.
But will the result be the same? In Veber's case, the result was 9 million tickets sold in France alone and $4 million in U.S. boxoffice. Because gastronomic comparisons are inevitable, the verdict must be that Bouhnik's mayonnaise has not quite taken. Or that the souffle has only partly risen to the occasion. Audiences who do not require anything too substantial nor mind a slightly acid taste might find the fare reasonably palatable.
After three years of unemployment, packaging executive Gerard (Daniel Auteuil) is offered a foreign posting in Indonesia. To clinch the deal, he is persuaded to invite the boss (Hippolyte Girardot) to dinner. His wife, Colette (Valerie Lemercier), who has no culinary or indeed any other skills, panics and allows their upstairs neighbor Alexandre (Thierry Lhermitte), a communications guru, to advise them on what to wear, how to decorate, how to greet a guest and how generally to create a favorable impression with a new employer.
Because Gerard and Colette are wholly deficient when it comes to socializing and have atrocious taste in anything to do with art or fashion, Alexandre -- an unbearable know-it-all -- has his work cut out. He knocks them into the best shape he can by organizing a practice session in which he plays the role of the boss to the hapless Gerard.
On the fateful evening, the boss arrives bearing a bouquet of flowers that, because Gerard has ordered flowers from the local florists, gives rise to all sorts of identity confusion. Alexandre, meanwhile, is receiving the unwelcome attention of Sophia (Mar Sodupe), the attractive young concierge with whom he had earlier enjoyed a one-night stand.
This is all very Gallic and farcical enough to pass muster. As in the Veber movie, much of the humor depends on social and cultural snobbery. Gerard's idea of a good time is an evening spent with his train set, which occupies every spare space in the apartment. Meanwhile, for Colette, high culture means Pavarotti singing in a football stadium.
As a result, none of the characters is particularly appealing, and the movie's main selling point is its encouragement to audiences to feel superior to its lumpen middle-class protagonists. There are enough decent jokes to enable them to do this, though Bouhnik and screenwriter David Pharao (adapting his own play) lack Veber's sharpness and sardonic wit.
No film featuring Auteuil and Lemercier can be anything less than watchable (though both actors might have been better employed elsewhere). Lhermitte, who starred as the snobbish host in Dinner Game, can play this kind of role in his sleep.
The decision by the distributors to release the movie without a press screening suggests a lack of confidence in its reception by the critics. But then, the pundits were pretty sniffy about Dinner Game too.
THE GUEST
EuropaCorp, TF1 Films Prods.
Credits:
Director: Laurent Bouhnik
Screenwriter: David Pharao
Producers: Maurice Illouz, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Director of photography: Jean-Paul Agostini
Production designer: Jacques Bufnoir
Costume designer: Joana George-Rossi
Editors: Frederic Thoraval, Herve de Luze
Cast:
Gerard: Daniel Auteuil
Colette: Valerie Lemercier
Alexandre: Thierry Lhermitte
Pontignac: Hippolyte Girardot
Bonnot: Artus de Penguern
Fournier: Pascale Denizane
Sophia: Mar Sodupe
Running time -- 82 minutes
No MPAA rating...
But will the result be the same? In Veber's case, the result was 9 million tickets sold in France alone and $4 million in U.S. boxoffice. Because gastronomic comparisons are inevitable, the verdict must be that Bouhnik's mayonnaise has not quite taken. Or that the souffle has only partly risen to the occasion. Audiences who do not require anything too substantial nor mind a slightly acid taste might find the fare reasonably palatable.
After three years of unemployment, packaging executive Gerard (Daniel Auteuil) is offered a foreign posting in Indonesia. To clinch the deal, he is persuaded to invite the boss (Hippolyte Girardot) to dinner. His wife, Colette (Valerie Lemercier), who has no culinary or indeed any other skills, panics and allows their upstairs neighbor Alexandre (Thierry Lhermitte), a communications guru, to advise them on what to wear, how to decorate, how to greet a guest and how generally to create a favorable impression with a new employer.
Because Gerard and Colette are wholly deficient when it comes to socializing and have atrocious taste in anything to do with art or fashion, Alexandre -- an unbearable know-it-all -- has his work cut out. He knocks them into the best shape he can by organizing a practice session in which he plays the role of the boss to the hapless Gerard.
On the fateful evening, the boss arrives bearing a bouquet of flowers that, because Gerard has ordered flowers from the local florists, gives rise to all sorts of identity confusion. Alexandre, meanwhile, is receiving the unwelcome attention of Sophia (Mar Sodupe), the attractive young concierge with whom he had earlier enjoyed a one-night stand.
This is all very Gallic and farcical enough to pass muster. As in the Veber movie, much of the humor depends on social and cultural snobbery. Gerard's idea of a good time is an evening spent with his train set, which occupies every spare space in the apartment. Meanwhile, for Colette, high culture means Pavarotti singing in a football stadium.
As a result, none of the characters is particularly appealing, and the movie's main selling point is its encouragement to audiences to feel superior to its lumpen middle-class protagonists. There are enough decent jokes to enable them to do this, though Bouhnik and screenwriter David Pharao (adapting his own play) lack Veber's sharpness and sardonic wit.
No film featuring Auteuil and Lemercier can be anything less than watchable (though both actors might have been better employed elsewhere). Lhermitte, who starred as the snobbish host in Dinner Game, can play this kind of role in his sleep.
The decision by the distributors to release the movie without a press screening suggests a lack of confidence in its reception by the critics. But then, the pundits were pretty sniffy about Dinner Game too.
THE GUEST
EuropaCorp, TF1 Films Prods.
Credits:
Director: Laurent Bouhnik
Screenwriter: David Pharao
Producers: Maurice Illouz, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Director of photography: Jean-Paul Agostini
Production designer: Jacques Bufnoir
Costume designer: Joana George-Rossi
Editors: Frederic Thoraval, Herve de Luze
Cast:
Gerard: Daniel Auteuil
Colette: Valerie Lemercier
Alexandre: Thierry Lhermitte
Pontignac: Hippolyte Girardot
Bonnot: Artus de Penguern
Fournier: Pascale Denizane
Sophia: Mar Sodupe
Running time -- 82 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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