Lovelace is casting up, with cutie Adam Brody joining as Deep Throat costar Harry Reems (snicker). Demi Moore is going to play Gloria Steinem, which makes sense in a lot of ways, yet my brain finds it really hard to picture. Amanda Seyfried is playing the title role.
Why do gay people always feel the need to tell people they're gay?
The year-long exposure via pinhole camera of the Toronto skyline is done. It doesn't really look anything like I thought it would.
Scientists have figured out that the way to keep Venice from sinking is to pump in more water. Specifically, they need to reverse the process of pumping out the groundwater in the marsh, because that was what was holding the clay up. It did seem like a good idea 100 years ago.
The Iron Lady (not Michele Bachmann, no matter what she thinks) opened in just four theaters...
Why do gay people always feel the need to tell people they're gay?
The year-long exposure via pinhole camera of the Toronto skyline is done. It doesn't really look anything like I thought it would.
Scientists have figured out that the way to keep Venice from sinking is to pump in more water. Specifically, they need to reverse the process of pumping out the groundwater in the marsh, because that was what was holding the clay up. It did seem like a good idea 100 years ago.
The Iron Lady (not Michele Bachmann, no matter what she thinks) opened in just four theaters...
- 1/3/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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- 5/12/2011
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Le Coeur des hommes 2
PARIS -- Four years ago, former film critic Marc Esposito, who used to run the French magazines Premiere and Studio, directed his debut feature "Le Coeur des hommes". After the dreadful "Toute la beaute du monde" in 2006, he chose to do a sequel to his first film. The huge success of this second "Coeur des hommes" -- which topped the French boxoffice and has attracted over a million spectators in two weeks -- should facilitate international sales, despite the fact that the first part didn't sell well abroad. Certainly one can enjoy the sequel (which is much better) without knowing the original. A foreign -- i.e., American -- remake is always a possibility.
The pattern is the same in both films, which centers on four longtime male friends and the women in their lives. Jeff is happily living an epicurean life with a much younger girl. Alex is married but falls for a married woman. Manu just got divorced and meets the right person. Antoine goes from one affair to the next, until his wife finds out about his cheating and forces him to divorce.
Love, passion and faithfulness are the issues addressed by the film, which is in this aspect a very French romantic comedy. It adopts a bittersweet tone that helps the credibilty of situations that are occasionally bigger than life. The key value here is friendship. Most sequences bring the four friends together, and their conversation is enlightened by very funny lines.
This pleasant comedy is well served by a well-balanced cast of favorite actors. Gerard Darmon's Jeff is the eldest. His dialogue is mainly composed of hilarious maxims such as, "Eternal love was invented when life expectancy was of 35 years," which he pronounces with the tone of the wise man who lived many lives.
Marc Lavoine, a popular romantic singer less known as an actor, plays Alex, a hypocrite with an infectious joie de vivre. The scene in which he says, a cigarette in hand, that if he stopped smoking he can stop seducing defines pretty well this character.
Bernard Campan, a renowned comedian, has the most dramatic part as Antoine, a true romantic who does find eternal love. Jean-Pierre Darroussin has the best dialogue and situations. His Manu is not far from the parts he has played for Robert Guediguian as a man who genuinely experiences real passion for two different women.
LE COEUR DES HOMMES 2
Pierre Javaux Prods.
Credits:
Writer/director: Marc Esposito
Producer: Pierre Javaux
Director of photography: Pascal Caubere
Production designer: Fabienne Guillot
Costume designer: Melanie Gautier
Editor: Benoit Alavoine
Music: Beatrice Thiriet.
Cast:
Antoine: Bernard Campan
Jeff: Gerard Darmon
Manu: Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Alex: Marc Lavoine
Lili: Fabienne Babe
Elsa: Zoe Felix
Jeanne: Valerie Kaprisky
Francoise: Ludmila Mikael
Karine: Valerie Stroh
Juliette: Florence Thomassin
Nanou: Catherine Wilkening
Running time -- 115 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The pattern is the same in both films, which centers on four longtime male friends and the women in their lives. Jeff is happily living an epicurean life with a much younger girl. Alex is married but falls for a married woman. Manu just got divorced and meets the right person. Antoine goes from one affair to the next, until his wife finds out about his cheating and forces him to divorce.
Love, passion and faithfulness are the issues addressed by the film, which is in this aspect a very French romantic comedy. It adopts a bittersweet tone that helps the credibilty of situations that are occasionally bigger than life. The key value here is friendship. Most sequences bring the four friends together, and their conversation is enlightened by very funny lines.
This pleasant comedy is well served by a well-balanced cast of favorite actors. Gerard Darmon's Jeff is the eldest. His dialogue is mainly composed of hilarious maxims such as, "Eternal love was invented when life expectancy was of 35 years," which he pronounces with the tone of the wise man who lived many lives.
Marc Lavoine, a popular romantic singer less known as an actor, plays Alex, a hypocrite with an infectious joie de vivre. The scene in which he says, a cigarette in hand, that if he stopped smoking he can stop seducing defines pretty well this character.
Bernard Campan, a renowned comedian, has the most dramatic part as Antoine, a true romantic who does find eternal love. Jean-Pierre Darroussin has the best dialogue and situations. His Manu is not far from the parts he has played for Robert Guediguian as a man who genuinely experiences real passion for two different women.
LE COEUR DES HOMMES 2
Pierre Javaux Prods.
Credits:
Writer/director: Marc Esposito
Producer: Pierre Javaux
Director of photography: Pascal Caubere
Production designer: Fabienne Guillot
Costume designer: Melanie Gautier
Editor: Benoit Alavoine
Music: Beatrice Thiriet.
Cast:
Antoine: Bernard Campan
Jeff: Gerard Darmon
Manu: Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Alex: Marc Lavoine
Lili: Fabienne Babe
Elsa: Zoe Felix
Jeanne: Valerie Kaprisky
Francoise: Ludmila Mikael
Karine: Valerie Stroh
Juliette: Florence Thomassin
Nanou: Catherine Wilkening
Running time -- 115 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/4/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reno, Marceau reunite for 'Cinderella'
PARIS -- French director Marc Esposito will unite Gallic thespians Jean Reno and Sophie Marceau for a film lover's fairy tale with his fourth feature, Cendrillon (Cinderella), the filmmaker said Monday.
The adaptation of the classic rags-to-riches story will start filming in summer 2008 with a budget of 23 million ($36.2 million).
Produced by Pierre Javaux Prods., the film also will star this year's Cesar winner for Most Promising Female Newcomer, Melanie Laurent, as Cinderella and veteran actress Catherine Jacob as her wicked aunt.
Reno will play the role of the king and Marceau will portray the fairy godmother.
The adaptation of the classic rags-to-riches story will start filming in summer 2008 with a budget of 23 million ($36.2 million).
Produced by Pierre Javaux Prods., the film also will star this year's Cesar winner for Most Promising Female Newcomer, Melanie Laurent, as Cinderella and veteran actress Catherine Jacob as her wicked aunt.
Reno will play the role of the king and Marceau will portray the fairy godmother.
- 10/2/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French Men
Pierre Javaux Prods.
Montreal World Film Festival
MONTREAL -- Former film journalist and scriptwriter Marc Esposito's directorial debut was a big crowd-pleaser in French-speaking Montreal, where it played in competition. The dialogue is often witty and performances are certainly crisp, but a very talky script (by Esposito) and a story line that focuses wholly on domestic ructions will mean that it's too ordinary a picture to do much business outside of French-speaking territories.
"French Men" details the various midlife crises of four male friends: Alex (Marc Lavoine), a habitual philanderer whose sexploits are starting to interfere with his otherwise happy marriage
Jeff (Gerard Darmon), a separated fiftysomething who's having a fun-filled relationship with a much younger woman
Manu (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), a lonely shopkeeper who falls into an unexpected affair
and Antoine (Bernard Campan), a troubled husband who ditches his wife when he discovers that she had a one-night stand. The story follows each of their adventures and uses the distressed Antoine's marital strife -- should he or shouldn't he divorce? -- as an emotional core.
The script offers an impressive array of one-liners, and the ensemble cast works hard to keep things moving. All four men come across as quite charming in spite of their peccadilloes, and the setup would have certainly have made an attractive television drama. But on the big screen, the material's just too thin. More backstory about how they all met and managed to remain friends despite differing lifestyles would have helped add depth.
"French Men" is very much a "boy's own" film. Women are presented as an array of stereotypes which include jealous wives, adoring younger girlfriends, sexy office flirts and the like. Jeff's girlfriend even pretends to be a machine so that he can rewind her to give him a hug, a scene which sums up the film's attitude toward women.
Structurally, Esposito manages to interlock the four stories with some skill. But last year's Montreal crowd-pleaser "See How They Run" -- also a French-language ensemble piece -- examined similar problems with more verve and originality.
Montreal World Film Festival
MONTREAL -- Former film journalist and scriptwriter Marc Esposito's directorial debut was a big crowd-pleaser in French-speaking Montreal, where it played in competition. The dialogue is often witty and performances are certainly crisp, but a very talky script (by Esposito) and a story line that focuses wholly on domestic ructions will mean that it's too ordinary a picture to do much business outside of French-speaking territories.
"French Men" details the various midlife crises of four male friends: Alex (Marc Lavoine), a habitual philanderer whose sexploits are starting to interfere with his otherwise happy marriage
Jeff (Gerard Darmon), a separated fiftysomething who's having a fun-filled relationship with a much younger woman
Manu (Jean-Pierre Darroussin), a lonely shopkeeper who falls into an unexpected affair
and Antoine (Bernard Campan), a troubled husband who ditches his wife when he discovers that she had a one-night stand. The story follows each of their adventures and uses the distressed Antoine's marital strife -- should he or shouldn't he divorce? -- as an emotional core.
The script offers an impressive array of one-liners, and the ensemble cast works hard to keep things moving. All four men come across as quite charming in spite of their peccadilloes, and the setup would have certainly have made an attractive television drama. But on the big screen, the material's just too thin. More backstory about how they all met and managed to remain friends despite differing lifestyles would have helped add depth.
"French Men" is very much a "boy's own" film. Women are presented as an array of stereotypes which include jealous wives, adoring younger girlfriends, sexy office flirts and the like. Jeff's girlfriend even pretends to be a machine so that he can rewind her to give him a hug, a scene which sums up the film's attitude toward women.
Structurally, Esposito manages to interlock the four stories with some skill. But last year's Montreal crowd-pleaser "See How They Run" -- also a French-language ensemble piece -- examined similar problems with more verve and originality.
- 7/9/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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