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“Toutouyoutou” (pronounced “Two-Two-You-Two) is a comedy series set in a middle-class French suburb in the 1980s. The main women are either married or divorced. All the men work for a pioneering aeronautics company, focused on keeping up with, if not outpacing, the Americans, Russians and Brits in technological development. Everyone is getting along comfortably until a wild card is introduced. Jane (Alexia Barlier), a super attractive, outgoing Yank comes to town, introducing aerobics to the area just as it’s starting to gain popularity elsewhere. Despite her outward friendliness, suspicion starts to grow that her motives may not be as innocent as they seem. The one to have the most nagging doubts is Karine (Claire Dumas), who emerges as the main protagonist.

All the men find Jane alluring. The women want to be like her, sign up for her classes and start forming friendships.

After suffering an inexplicable seizure which leaves her paralyzed on her right side, 19-year-old Augustine (27 year-old singer-turned-actress Soko in a break out performance), is shipped off to Paris' all female psychiatric hospital Piti&#233-Salp&#234triere which specializes in detecting the then-fashionable ailment of 'hysteria'. Watch our exclusive clip, where Augustine is first introduced to doctors of the academy, and then check out this acclaimed drama, in select theaters starting today.

Augustine - Exclusive "The Academy"

Augustine captures the attention of Dr. Charcot (Vincent Lindon) after a seizure which appears to give her intense physical pleasure. Intrigued, he begins using her as his principal subject hypnotizing her in front of fellow doctors as she displays her unusual fits in lecture halls, eventually blurring the lines between doctor and patient.

Augustine was released May 17th, 2013 and stars Vincent Lindon, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin, Lise Lamétrie, Roxane Duran, Sophie Cattani, Grégoire Colin.

Title: Augustine Music Box Films Director: Alice Winocour Screenwriter: Alice Winocour Cast: Vincent Lindon, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin, Roxane Duran, Lise Lamétrie, Sophie Cattani Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 2/14/13 Opens: May 2013 Charcot Island in Antarctica was discovered by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named it in honor of his father, Professor Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of modern neurology. Augustine, a fact-based film takes us to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris where Charcot (Vincent Lindon) developed his theory on hypnosis and hysteria in the late 19-century. A nineteen-year old kitchen-maid, Augustine (Soko) comes to the hospital for treatment for convulsions and seizures that left her with a deformed right eye  [ Read More ]

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Tomboy tells the story of 10-year-old Laure (played by the amazing Zo&#233 H&#233ran) who moves to the suburbs and decides to pass as a boy amongst the pack of neighborhood kids. As "Mikael" she catches the attention of leader of the pack Lisa, who becomes smitten with her. Finding resourceful ways to hide her true self,...

Since its prestigious debut as the opening night film of the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section (where it went on to win the Teddy Award), Writer-director Céline Sciamma's Tomboy has won numerous awards including “Best Feature Film” at the 2011 Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the “Audience Award” for Best Feature at the 2011 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, and the “Jury Prize” for Best Feature at the 2011 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. In addition, the film is nominated for “Outstanding Film - Limited Release” at the 2012 GLAAD Media Awards. Tomboy will debut on DVD in the United States on June 5th courtesy of Wolfe Video. Bonus materials include a behind-the-scenes documentary featuring interviews with the director and cast. We consider Tomboy to be one of the best films about gender identity of recent years, so we jumped at the opportunity when Wolfe asked us to give...

Rating: 4.0/5.0

Chicago – “Tomboy” is a delicate, sensitive story of adolescence that’s not often told in cinema. It is the tale of a young girl who would rather be a boy and those days before gender confusion hits puberty like a runaway train. The film’s greatest accomplishment is writer/director Celine Sciamma’s stunning ability to draw natural, believable performances from her adolescent cast, who never hit a false note in this moving film.

The press materials and some critics have somewhat incorrectly written that “Tomboy“‘s lead character Laure (Zoe Heran) is “mistaken for a boy” after she moves with her family to a new neighborhood as if it is not completely intentional on her part. It is clearly a decision (she says Mikael when a girl asks for her name) and not mere mistake by her new group of friends, which makes for a far more interesting...

Title: Tomboy Director: Celine Sciamma Starring: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy, Yohan Vero, Noah Vero Humans are inherently social creatures, and the manner in which we each form a perception of our place in the world around us — and how our ego takes shape and form from our id — certainly relates as much to our interactions as any ingrained or telegraphed sense of social acceptance and duty. Capturing the fickle progress of that individual transformation, however, is a difficult task. A tender and perspicacious look at the toddling steps of adolescent character and personality, writer-director Celine’s Sciamma’s French import “Tomboy” assays the gender confusion...

Title: I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive Directors: Claude Miller and Nathan Miller Starring: Vincent Rottiers, Annie Jouvet, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti, Yves Verhoeven “I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive,” which played at the 2010 City of Lights City of Angels (Colcoa) Festival, is a stirring familial drama of simmering resentment, anchored by a searing performance from young Vincent Rottiers, whose piercing blue eyes and quiet intensity are enough to make one ruminate about a possible fraternal collaboration with Daniel Craig. The American version of these sorts of damaged-kid stories typically cedes all ambiguity in favor of pat cathartic redemption, but this gripping French import keeps an edge of violence and uncertainty about...

Tomboy

Written and directed by Céline Sciamma

2011, France

Gwyneth Paltrow sported a fake moustache in Shakespeare in Love and Hilary Swank stuffed a sock down her jeans for Boys Don’t Cry. For Laure, the young heroine of Tomboy, it’s a tub of Play-Doh that helps prolong her dream of being one of the boys – at least for the summer.

Laure (Zoé Héran) has recently moved to a new neighbourhood, with her pregnant mum (Sophie Cattani), dad (Mathieu Demy) and younger sister Jeanne (Malonn Lévana). With her short hair, baggy T-shirts and lack of interest in dolls, Laure could pass for a boy. So when one of the local kids Lisa (Jeanne Disson) makes that assumption, Laure is quick to assume the identity of Michael.

Building a compelling drama around what she calls “the story of a lie”, writer/director Céline Sciamma once again shows that she’s well...

After an incident of breathtakingly casual neglect, a pair of children are taken from their young single mother (Sophie Cattani) and adopted by a childless middle-class couple in I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive, a drama from French father-son directors Claude and Nathan Miller. The younger boy, just a baby, fits into his new life with ease, to the point of being given (and growing into) a new name. But the older brother guards the vague memory of his biological mother like an infection he’d rather not shake, aging into a resentful, angry teenager and then a sullen ...

Director: Céline Sciamma Writer: Céline Sciamma Starring: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy Upon returning from a summer retreat, Laure (Zoé Héran) joins her parents (Sophie Cattani and Mathieu Demy) and six-year-old sister, Jeanne (Malonn Lévana), at their new home. The new neighborhood means many things to Laure, including new friends, a new school, and a new identity. From first glance, Laure’s gender is inconclusive. With her prepubescent, 10-year-old frame and short haircut, Laure can easily pass for a boy. From what we can gather, Laure has been a tomboy for quite a while. Laure prefers to dress like a boy and play with boys and her parents seem too distracted to notice -- Laure’s father is away at work for most of the film and her mother is practically bedridden by pregnancy.

Tomboy is French writer-director Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to the highly praised Water Lilies, and it again follows a confused child discovering her sexuality. This time the narrative centers on Laure (Zoé Héran), a 10-year-old tomboy. When she moves to a new neighbourhood with her parents, she engages in a gender confused role-play in which she pretends to be a boy to make new friends, not realising the hurt she’s causing along the way.

On the surface, Tomboy may seem like another film about a lonely child trying to fit in, but it’s a really rather intricate and dramatically insightful exploration into how, and more importantly why, one child in particular feels the need to invert their own identity to find acceptance in society or even within themselves.

Instead of launching in at the deep end, Sciamma opts for a more laid back and soulful approach, letting Laure...

The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.

The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.

The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.

"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...

Ok, I know that I'm almost one month late. After all, the list of the candidates for the Best Male and Female Hopes has been public knowledge since November 25. Anyway, I just want to post the information since I'm a lover of French culture. Enjoy.

The 2010 César for the Best Female Hope:

Marie-Julie Baup in Micmacs à tire-larigot

Astrid Berges Frisbey in Un barrage contre le Pacifique

Agathe Bonitzer in Un chat un chat

Sophie Cattani in Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante

Judith Davis in Je te mangerais

Anaïs Demoustier in Sois sage

Mati Diop in 35 rhums

Pauline Etienne in Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront

Alice de Lencquesaing in Le père de mes enfants

Florence Loiret-Caille in Je l’aimais

Sara Martins in Mensch

Lola Naymark in L’armée du crime

Vimala Pons in La Sainte Victoire

Soko in A l’Origine

Christa Theret...

The title of Nicole Garcia's complex and rewarding story of intertwined lives is "Charlie Says", but it is really about what observant 11-year-old Charlie sees.

It's not just the look on the face of his adulterous father but the range of human behavior his innocent gaze takes in as the friendships and marriages of half-a-dozen unconnected characters become entangled.

Set in a breezy unnamed Atlantic French town, the film takes a while to get going but turns into a penetrating examination of the way people's lives can veer off track and how hard it can be to find the way back.

The introduction of so many characters feels awkward at the outset, but seemingly random scenes begin to cohere as director and co-writer Garcia tightens the threads. By the time it's over, the film's many riches leave a warm and lasting impression. The writing and acting are top class, and the film has a handsome look. Audiences may well decide they want to see it a second time, not to catch up but to relish.

The philosopher's lament over man's inability to remain quietly in his room infuses the stories of the central characters, all men, who find themselves stranded along paths that they wish they hadn't taken.

In a mysterious prologue set at an anthropological dig in a polar wasteland, a man later revealed to be Pierre Benoit Magimel) becomes stir-crazy and walks out into the blinding snow. He is saved but quits his exploring career and disappears to become a schoolteacher.

Meanwhile, his former partner, Matthieu (Patrick Pineau), becomes a famous scientist, and years later he shows up in their hometown ostensibly to speak at a seminar but actually to find his lost friend.

Pierre has become a diligent if distant teacher whose self-absorption blinds him to the half-hearted affair that his wife Nora (Minna Haapkyla) has drifted into with a virile but bored man named Serge Vincent Lindon).

Serge's son Charlie (Ferdinand Martin) is one of Pierre's students. Bright and curious, Charlie is trapped into his father's conspiracy and must lie to his mother about what his dad is up to when he's with Nora.

Meanwhile, a genial dimwit named Joss (Benoit Poelvoorde) is caught up in a house burglary destined clearly to go wrong, while tennis champion Adrien Arnaud Valois) is in town for a game but is in a state of near catatonia over the excessive demands of his sport.

Interwoven in all their lives is the peripatetic town mayor, Jean-Louis Bertagnat (Jean-Pierre Bacri), who combines a wry self-knowledge with the instincts of a petty politician. He has complicated his life by spending too much time with his lovely young mistress (Sophie Cattani) when he should concentrate on getting re-elected.

As if that weren't enough, underscoring each of these stories is the subject of Matthieu's seminar, which deals with his discovery of the remains of a prehistoric man he calls Dirk, who left his home and died 180 miles away leaving forever unanswered the question: Why did he leave?

After Pierre's flight from the polar exploratory base, he is treated for a morbid fear of loneliness, and that not uncommon human trait can be seen in the lives of the others in the film.

Charlie sees it all, and through him we see the lost childhood of the confused grown-ups who surround him. There is inventive humor in the movie, much of it visual, along with the sadness, and it shares with many great films not happy endings but endings that will do for now.

CHARLIE SAYS

Mars Distribution

Les Productions du Tresor

Credits: Director: Nicole Garcia; Screenwriters: Jacques Fieschi, Nicole Garcia, Frederic Belier-Garcia; Producer: Alain Attal; Director of photography: Stephane Fontaine; Production designer: Thierry Flamand; Editor: Emmanuelle Castro

Cast: Jean-Louis Bertagnat: Jean-Pierre Bacri; Serge Torres: Vincent Lindon; Pierre: Benoit Magimel; Joss: Benoit Poelvoorde; Matthieu: Patrick Pineau; Adrien: Arnaud Valois; Charlie: Ferdinand Martin; Nora: Minna Haapkyla; Severine: Sophie Cattani; Pierre-Yves: Philippe Lefebvre; Ricordi: Philippe Magnan; Mo: Samir Guesmi; Balhaus: Jerome Robart; Charlie's Mother: Valerie Benguigui; Thierry: Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet; Bar owner: Jean-Louis Foulquier.

No MPAA rating, running time 130 minutes.