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Italian filmmaker’s second film has an ensemble cast that includes Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

Leading German sales agent The Match Factory has acquired international rights to Ginevra Elkann’s upcoming Italian drama I Told You So.

It marks the second feature to be directed by the London-born Italian filmmaker after If Only (Magari), which opened Locarno Film Festival in 2019.

I Told You So, which has the Italian title Te l’avevo detto, is described as “a turbulent mosaic of intertwined stories amidst the inescapable Italian heat”, with an ensemble cast that includes Marisa Borini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,...

There are precious few things we know about Valeria Bruni Tedeschi after watching her film “The Summer House” that we did not know before. But here’s one: The writer-director-star understands how her detractors perceive her. And so unfolds an early scene that seems designed to head the inevitable criticisms off at the pass: At a financing meeting for her new film, director Anna (Bruni Tedeschi) faces a panel of nonplussed producers who complain that her next project is the same as all her others and that her screenplay is “fragile.”

The scene is an amusingly brittle comedy of manners with the director, as ever, gamely ready to cast herself as the ditz. But it is also pointedly metatextual and has credibility-laden documentary guru Frederick Wiseman in it, gnomically sitting on the panel looking as baffled to be there as we are to see him. For a moment it seems like Bruni Tedeschi,...

Title: Les Estivants (The Summer House) Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pierre Arditi, Valeria Golino, Noémie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Laurent Stocker de la Comédie Française, Riccardo Scamarcio, Bruno Raffaelli de la Comédie Française, Marisa Borini, Oumy Bruni Garrel, Vincent Perez, Stefano Cassetti, Xavier Beauvois. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi keeps making the same film, […]

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French president François Hollande's alleged lover wins nomination for ripped-from-the-headlines comedy Quai d'Orsay

• Julie Gayet to sue French magazine Closer over Hollande affair claims

Art appears to be imitating life at the César awards, where French actor Julie Gayet, the star of one political farce, finds herself nominated for her role in another. The alleged lover of president François Hollande is shortlisted as best supporting actress for her performance in Quai d'Orsay, a screwball comedy about a vain French politician.

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Quai d'Orsay goes behind the scenes at the French foreign ministry, where harassed government staffers have their hands full attending to the whims of their preening, gnomic boss. Gayet co-stars as a vampish policy adviser on Africa who will reportedly stop at nothing to gain an advantage over her rivals. She is joined on the shortlist by Marisa Borini, Françoise Fabian, Adèle Haenel and Géraldine Pailhas.

Foreign film nominations for Biancanieves, Gravity and Great Beauty.Scroll down for full list of nominations

Guillaume Gallienne’s Me, Myself And Mum (Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table!) and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) are the hot favourites in France’s upcoming Cesar awards.

The Académie Des Arts et Technique du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for the César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.

Actor Gallienne’s debut feature Me, Myself and Mum - a big screen adaptation of his autobiographical, one-man comedy show about his complicated relationship with his mother - secured 10 nominations.

They comprised best film, best first film, best director, best actor, best supporting actress, best adaptation, best editing, best sound, best set design and best costumes.

The film was produced and distributed by Gaumont, which also picked up another four nominations for The Young...

Adele and Me, Myself and Mum lead French Cesar nominations.Scroll down for full list of nominations

Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) and Guillaume Gallienne’s Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table! (aka Me, Myself And Mum) are the hot favourites in France’s upcoming Cesar awards.

France’s Académie Des Arts et Technique du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for the César Awards at its traditional news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées on Friday morning.

The 39th Cesar ceremony, presided by Intouchables star Francois Cluzet, will take place on February 28.

Nominations (so far)Best FILM9 Month-Stretch (Neuf mois ferme)Me, Myself and Mum (Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!)Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du Lac)Jimmy P. (Jimmy P. Psychothérapie d’un Indien des Plaines)The Past (Le Passé)Venus in Fur (La Vénus à la Foururre)Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (La Vie d’Adèle...

Title: Un Castello in Italia (Un château en Italie/ A castle in Italy) Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Starring: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Louis Garrel, Filippo Timi, Marisa Borini. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, is known to the general public for being the older sister of former French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, as well as being an established actress, screenwriter and director. In ‘Un Castello in Italia,’ Valeria delivers her third feature as director, and co-stars, next to her mother in real life and on stage, Marisa Borini, and her former long time partner, with whom she adopted an African baby girl, Louis Garrel, son of the famous director Philippe. ‘A Castle in Italy’ [ Read More ]

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Forget your body clock: any time of day finds film fans watching Nicolas Winding Refn's tense, brutal thriller, Sorrentino's beguiling look at fading beauty or Soderbergh's tremendous Liberace biopic. Then there's the Coens' hoot of a movie and Carla Bruni's sister's comedy. But which will win the big prize?

At 7.30am on Cannes's main strip people wearing dinner jackets and cocktail dresses held handwritten signs that read "Only God Forgives", triple-underlined, and "Please! Only God Forgives!" They might have been members of a doomsday cult, one with an imperious dress code, but no: a Ryan Gosling film was about to premiere in the Grand Théâtre Lumière and this lot were ticketless, hoping by dressing smartly to pick up last-minute invites. They looked on while several hundred of us filed in for 90 minutes of early-morning ultra-violence.

Moviegoing at the festival runs round the clock. There are marquee screenings not...

Actor-turned-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has given us probably the worst film of the Cannes competition so far: a smug, twee confection about a family losing their house

This is turning out to be a tricky Cannes competition for French film-makers. François Ozon's Jeune et Jolie was interestingly made, but Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian was a baffling, cumbersome bore. And now performer-turned-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has given us what may well turn out to be the most insidiously awful film in the entire festival: a strained jeu d'ésprit which is smug, precious, carelessly constructed, emotionally negligible, and above all fantastically annoying. It's a terrible waste of real acting talent, including that of Bruni-Tesdeschi. The director presumably intended gaiety and pathos. What she created was clunkingly misjudged strains of comedy and high drama — that is: individually misjudged and misjudged in their combination.

It's a truly baffling little...

Un chateau en Italie

Director: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Writer(s): Bruni-Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnès de Sacy

Producer(s): Sbs Productions’ Saïd Ben Saïd

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Louis Garrel, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Xavier Beauvois, Filippo Timi, Marisa Borini, André Wilms

With well over fifty films under her belt, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi is obviously at ease working with fellow thesps. Her third trip behind and in front of the camera follows her It’s Easier for a Camel…, her 2003 debut was critically well received and then she followed that up with the Cannes winning Actresses (2007). No problems with the location nor the dual languages, this Euro dramedy sees her once again team with creative folk such as her hubby Louis Garrel on screen and she penned the project alongside actress/director/writer Noémie Lvovsky. This should resonate if it carries much of the same elements we loved the most...

Italian supermodel nm0116257 autoCarla Bruni[/link] is to wed French President nm0765324 autoNicolas Sarkozy[/link].

The 39-year-old beauty has been dating Sarkozy since October 2006, and the pair recently sent gossips into a frenzy when Bruni sported a new sapphire ring on her engagement finger during the couple's Christmas vacation in Egypt.

And Bruni's mother, nm1330168 autoMarisa Borini[/link], has confirmed the reports after revealing the French leader had asked her permission for Carla's hand in marriage.

She says, "I said to him, 'Monsieur le Président, I have no reason to refuse.'

"Carla is living an authentic love story. I think that they make a good couple."

Local newspaper reports claim a wedding has provisionally been planned for 8 or 9 February, but officials at the Elysee Palace, the President's official residence, have yet to issue a statement to confirm or deny the rumours.