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French romantic comedy “This Charming Girl” and French comedy “Vanishing Goats” have joined the slate of Paris-based sales company MPM Premium, which will introduce the films to buyers at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris.

“This Charming Girl,” directed by Jean-Luc Gaget and co-written with Raphaële Moussafir, will be released in France by Nour Films. The cast is led by Pauline Clément, Arthur Dupont, Emilie Caen (“Ducobu”) and Karin Viard.

The film centers on Clémence, a quiet yet amusing Parisian, who had a complicated childhood. At the age of 30, she struggles with low self-esteem. Fate intervenes when she meets Paul, a man with a domineering personality whom everyone calls “Paul Pot.” Clémence begins to ask herself: could he be the one?

The production companies are La Féline Films, Les Films du Capitaine and Karé Productions.

“This Charming Girl” will have a market screening at Rendez-Vous on Jan. 16.

Marie Rémond’s “Vanishing Goats,...

You might have to wait a whole hour for Kristin Scott Thomas to appear in the guise of carefree and broke aristocrat Bijou in this breezy mid-life crisis drama set in Greece, but once she arrives everything suddenly falls into place.

Two tickets to Greece, the French title from director Marc Fitoussi (Call My Agent) follows two former school best friends Magalie (Laure Calamy) and Blandine (Olivia Côte) as they reconcile decades after falling out and losing touch with one another. Despite the years, Magalie hasn’t changed one bit and is still the life and soul of any party that will have her. On the other hand, stuck up upper middle class Blandine has forgotten how to have fun.

Newly divorced and still pining for her old married life, Blandine is spurred on by her well-adjusted grown-up son, Benjamin (Alexandre Desrousseaux), to take a trip with Magalie to the...

Even Kristin Scott Thomas can’t save this painful French comedy about two older women heading for the Greek islands for wacky fun

Marc Fitoussi, whose directing credits include work on the French TV hit Call My Agent!, has created this excruciatingly sugary French comedy of female friendship in a vacation paradise. It’s a one-note, one-joke, non-Mamma-Mia! the non-musical, with three lead performances that are borderline insufferable.

Olivia Côte plays Blandine, a straitlaced, sobersided woman whose life is miserable; she’s divorced from a man who is now marrying someone half his age and her 20-year-old son is moving out. But then she reconnects with an old schoolfriend, the wild and irrepressible Magalie (Laure Calamy) who suggests they do something they once dreamed of as kids: visit the Greek island of Amorgos, because it was featured in Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, their favourite film from those days.

Sun! Sea! Men! Margaritas! The siren song of this holy quartet is all that is required to tempt free-spirited hot mess Magalie (“Call My Agent” star Laure Calamy) to pack her bags and join her estranged former schoolfriend Blandine (Olivia Côte) on the holiday of a lifetime. The invitation has come courtesy of Blandine’s teenaged son Benjamin (Alexandre Desrousseaux), who believes, with good reason, that his recently divorced mother is in danger of becoming a recluse — and she wasn’t exactly the life and soul of the party to begin with. The stage is set for a pleasant if meandering comedy-drama powered by the personality clash at its core.

“Two Tickets to Greece” opens with a prologue establishing the contrast between these two women as teenagers, and it’s perhaps not strictly required, since this dynamic is telegraphed loud and clear in every glance, line and scene in the movie.

An uptight and depressed French divorcée reunites with her impetuous teenage bestie on a revealing journey through paradise. Two Tickets to Greece reminds that getting your groove back is never easy. Life invariably hurts, rejects, and disappoints in the most cruel ways. Sometimes we need help to get out of our comfort zones and find a new path to happiness. It's difficult at first, but dropping your guard works wonders. Writer/director Marc Fitoussi infuses quirky realism and sobering truth to a refreshingly honest comedy-drama.

In 1989, 15-year-old Blandine Bouvier (Leelou Laridan) sneaks Magalie Graulières (Marie Mallia) into her house. The girls make martinis, listen to CDs, and dream about a fantasy vacation. Luc Besson's The Big Blue is their favorite movie. They swear to take a trip to Amorgos, a Greek island, before passing out drunk and getting yelled at by Blandine's irate parents.

Three decades later, Blandine...

In Marc Fitoussi’s Two Tickets to Greece, former besties Blandine (Olivia Cotê) and Magalie (Laure Calamy) cross paths after 30 years and decide take a trip to Greece together. Blandine, as if in homage to her name, has become timid and conservative over the years, while Magalie has an active sex life, likes to shake her tailfeather in nightclubs, and tries to ingratiate herself with just about anyone. Cue the drug-related hijinks and misunderstandings between the women and the Greek locals, threatening to jeopardize their trip.

This by-the-numbers travel comedy is nothing if not corny in its repeated attempts to wring humor from Blandine’s prudishness. In one scene, Magalie gets fully nude in their hotel room, with Blandine, trying to look away, repeatedly peeking to see if her friend has finally put some clothes on. While there’s an obvious queer dimension to that and other scenes, including one...

Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has picked up U.S. distribution rights to the French comedy Two Tickets to Greece (aka Les Cyclades), starring César Award winner Laure Calamy (Call My Agent!), Olivia Côte and Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient). It’ll be released in theaters on July 14.

The film is set to open against Searchlight Pictures’ Sundance comedy Theater Camp, IFC Films’ Lakota Nation vs. United States, Roadside Attractions’ sports doc Black Ice, Kino Lorber’s horror comedy Final Cut from filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, Vertical’s rom-com The Modelizer, Crunchyroll’s Psycho-Pass Providence and MM2 Entertainment’s thriller Shadows.

Written and directed by Marc Fitoussi, who worked with Calamy on Call My Agent!, Two Tickets to Greece tells the story of Blandine (Côte), who is recently divorced and helplessly watching her only son leave home when her former best friend Magalie...

Kristin Scott Thomas starrer “Two Tickets to Greece” has been picked up by Parkland Entertainment for U.K. and Ireland distribution, Variety can confirm.

Directed by Marc Fitoussi (“Call My Agent”) the French comedy stars Scott Thomas alongside Olivia Côte (“My Donkey”) and “Call My Agent’s” Laure Calamy.

Set in present-day Paris and Greece, “Two Tickets to Greece” tells the story of recently-divorced Blandine (Côte), who is struggling to put her life back together. She is persuaded by her loud and fearless friend Magalie (Calamy) to head to the Greek island of Amorgos, which they’ve dreamed of visiting since they were teenagers. It’s only once the two women arrive they realize that their different approaches to life mean their dreamy holiday won’t go as planned, especially once Magalie’s pal Bijou (Scott Thomas) arrives on the scene.

“Two Tickets to Greece” was produced by Caroline Bonmarchand...

Léa Todorov’s first feature focuses on visionary Italian physician and educator Montessori.

Indie Sales has boarded Léa Todorov’s first feature Maria Montessori and has released a first look image from the project, which is currently in post-production.

The Franco-Italian co-production intertwines the real-life story of visionary Italian physician and educator Montessori with a fictional Parisian cabaret star hiding her child diagnosed with a disability to protect her career. The film’s French title is La Nouvelle Femme.

Set in the early 1900s, the film stars Jasmine Trinca as the titular character, known for her teaching experience with children...

Film has its market premiere this month at EFM.

Indie Sales has boarded Léa Todorov’s first feature Maria Montessori ahead of the film’s market premiere at EFM.

The Franco-Italian co-production intertwines the real-life story of visionary Italian physician and educator Montessori with a fictional Parisian cabaret star hiding her child diagnosed with a disability to protect her career. The film’s French title is La Nouvelle Femme.

Set in the early 1900s, the film stars Jasmine Trinca as the titular character, known for her teaching experience with children with learning challenges that led to the founding of the now famous Montessori method.

‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ and French-Senegalese war drama ‘Father & Soldier’ provided a boost to French cinemas.

The French box office saw ticket sales hit 15.05 million admissions in January, a 41.3 jump up from the same month in 2022, but still 15.1 down from the 2017-2019 pre-pandemic average, according to figures from state film organisation the Cnc.

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way Of Water (Disney) led the month and the film has sold 12.7 million tickets to date since its December 14 release in the territory. It is now the 18th most successful film in French box office history, but a far cry...

‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ and French-Senegalese war drama ‘Father & Soldier’ provided a boost to French cinemas.

The French box office saw ticket sales hit 15.05 million admissions in January, a 41.3 jump up from the same month in 2022, but still 15.1 down from the 2017-2019 pre-pandemic average, according to figures from state film organisation the Cnc.

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way Of Water (Disney) led the month and the film has sold 12.7 million tickets to date since its December 14 release in the territory. It is now the 18th most successful film in French box office history, but a far cry...

French sales company to showcase comedy and drama slate at Rendez-Vous.

Paris-based Indie Sales has boarded Jean-Pierre Améris’ Take A Chance On Me and Pierre Jolivet’s Green Tide, expanding the company’s star-powered French slate.

Indie Sales’ French language line-up also includes Noémie Lvovsky’s The Great Magic, Mathias Gokalp’s The Assembly Line, Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi’s A Tale of Shemroon and Marc Fitoussi’s Two Tickets to Greece.

Take A Chance On Me stars popular French singer turned actress Louane Emera, whose credits include The Belier Family, who plays a young woman juggling between odd jobs to support her agoraphobic father.

Laure Calamy, who plays Noémie, the wacky assistant to Mathias Barneville in Call My Agent!, won the César (French equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Actress for My Donkey, My Lover & I, the film by Caroline Vignal that opens this weekend Stateside from Greenwich Entertainment. It’s the distributor’s second narrative film in a year and its widest release since The Rescue.

Wide here means 52 screens in 28 markets in the U.S. where the specialty box office can still be pretty punishing, especially for foreign language fare. Greenwich has been releasing about two film a month, mostly documentaries. My Donkey (Antionette Dans Les Cévennes in French) is Calamy’s first starring film role. It has a theatrical window through August 30.

Netflix’ hit French series became a U.S. and global phenomenon over four seasons, recently sparking a U.K. adaptation

It’s a sort of summer vacation movie with...

Devotees of French film history approaching “My Donkey, My Lover & I” should discard any ideas they might have about the historical use of that particular animal as a symbol of spiritual suffering.

The gently amusing and emotionally slight latest feature from director Caroline Vignal (“Girlfriends”) does indeed involve an unhappy woman and a donkey that serves as her de facto confessor, but the similarities to Robert Bresson’s “Au Hasard Balthazar” end the moment Patrick the donkey shuffles into frame. He’s a recalcitrant sort, a bit too stubborn and much too loud to sacrifice himself for the sins of humanity.

Antoinette knows a little bit about those sins. She’s a single schoolteacher in the throes of a starry-eyed affair with Vladimir, the married father of one of her students. She’s certain they’re going to spend a full week out of her summer holiday together and is...