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Exclusive: Cohen Media Group will be releasing Driving Madeleine, the next movie from Oscar-nominated director Christian Carion’s (Joyeux Noel), on Jan. 12, 2024 in limited release.

Written and directed by Carion, and starring Line Renaud and Dany Boon, Driving Madeleine follows the unlikely friendship of a struggling taxi driver and an elderly passenger on a heartfelt journey through Paris. A seemingly simple taxi ride evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.

The pic will play on Jan. 12 in in New York at the Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street) and in Los Angeles at Landmark Theatres Sunset (8000 Sunset Blvd.) and Landmark’s Pasadena Playhouse (673 E Colorado Blvd.) before going nationwide on Jan. 19.

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My Son Trailer — Christian Carion‘s My Son / The Hearts of the Down Under and the My Son (2021) movie trailer has been released by Peacock. The My Son trailer stars James McAvoy, Claire Foy, Gary Lewis, Tom Cullen, Jamie Mitchie, Robert Jack, and Owen Whitelaw. Crew Christian Carion and Laure Irrmann wrote the [...]

Continue reading: My Son (2021) Movie Trailer: James McAvoy & Claire Foy star in a Thriller Where They Discover its Twists with the Viewer...

Peacock has released the trailer for My Son, a remake of the 2017 French movie of the same name, starring James McAvoy and Claire Foy. Christian Carion, who directed the original movie, directs this remake as well using a screenplay he co-wrote with Laure Irrmann. That is to say, the characters not played by McAvoy were given a script, as the actor had to improvise his entire performance. Ahead of the movie's premiere on Peacock this month, you can check out the brand new trailer below.

Like the French version of the movie, My Son follows James McAvoy as a man lost without answers. He was not given a screenplay or told any dialogue he had to say, nor did he know how the story would end. In character, McAvoy had to improvise his performance from start to finish, playing off of the other actors who are familiar with the script and the story.

Director Christian Carion and his frequent star Guillaume Canet show off their very particular sets of skills in “My Son” (“Mon garçon”), a polished, if mechanical, vigilante thriller that attempts to combine the psychological deep dive of Denis Villeneuve’s “Prisoners” with the adrenaline shot of Pierre Morel’s “Taken.” Falling well short of those superior films, this limited-release offering — which did modest business when it opened in France back in 2017 — squanders a compelling performance by top-billed Canet, playing an absentee father searching for his kidnapped son in the mountains of southeast France. Themes of parental guilt and the effects of broken families on children are hinted at early but discarded in favor of genre pleasures, which Carion provides to increasingly formulaic effect.

“My Son” is Carion’s fifth feature and his first in a contemporary setting since his 2001 César-nominated debut, “The Girl from Paris.” Since then, he’s tackled World War I,...

The French thriller “My Son” is about a missing boy, an absentee dad, and a welcome lack of affectation in selling its unnerving premise. Less a vigilante explosion à la “Taken” than a methodical suspense flick built around Guillaume Canet’s character’s turbulent reaction to an in-the-moment tragedy, it might roil those who prefer their cinematic hunts to be speckled with Neeson-esque catchphrases and choreographed violence.

This one’s moodier and messier. But in its modest, stripped-down way, it’s a worthy cousin to the genre stalwarts, anchored in the unvarnished power of Canet’s performance, and the no-nonsense approach to Christian Carion’s direction.

We meet Julien (Canet) as he’s driving into the snow-capped mountains of eastern France, having just received word from his distraught ex-wife Marie (Mélanie Laurent) that their 7-year-old son Mathys (Lino Papa) has gone missing from a nature camp in the dead of night.