Colcoa is keeping up with the times. Now in its twenty-first year, the lauded French film festival, sponsored by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, has added a pair of forward-thinking new categories for its newest edition. This year will include a virtual reality program and a web series competition, in addition to its Cinema, Television and Shorts competitions.
“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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- 4/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Life of Riley
Written for the screen by Laurent Herbiet and Alain Resnais
Directed by Alain Resnais
France, 2014
Alain Resnais is inarguably one of the most prolific directors to come out of the French New Wave, with nearly 50 films under his belt, including his masterworks Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Night and Fog. Undeterred by age, he seemed to have been working up until the day he died, with his swan song Life of Riley being presented posthumously at this year’s New York Film Festival. Those only familiar with his Nouvelle Vague work will be in for a pleasant surprise: Life of Riley is perhaps more fun that it deserves to be.
Based on the play by Alan Ayckbourn, the film follows two (or three, depending on how you count) couples in the midst of rehearsals for a play, as the news of their friend’s...
Written for the screen by Laurent Herbiet and Alain Resnais
Directed by Alain Resnais
France, 2014
Alain Resnais is inarguably one of the most prolific directors to come out of the French New Wave, with nearly 50 films under his belt, including his masterworks Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Night and Fog. Undeterred by age, he seemed to have been working up until the day he died, with his swan song Life of Riley being presented posthumously at this year’s New York Film Festival. Those only familiar with his Nouvelle Vague work will be in for a pleasant surprise: Life of Riley is perhaps more fun that it deserves to be.
Based on the play by Alan Ayckbourn, the film follows two (or three, depending on how you count) couples in the midst of rehearsals for a play, as the news of their friend’s...
- 9/25/2014
- by Kyle Turner
- SoundOnSight
The Life of Riley
Director: Alain Resnais
Writers: Alain Resnais, Jean-Marie Bessett, Laurent Herbiet, Caroline Silhol
Producer: Jean-Louis Livi
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Sandrine Kilberlain, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Hippolyte Girardot
Another great auteur that’s had a considerable increase in output over the past several years has been Alain Resnais. He follows up his experimental 2012 film You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet with this film, which sees him returning with some regular cast members like Azema (we’d be shocked not to see her in the lineup since she’s married to the director), Dussollier and Girardot. While this sounds a bit like a wizened version of some recent Gallic films like Little White Lies, we’re sure this will be customary offbeat Resnais, and penned by writer/director Ayckbourn who penned the 2006 Resnais film, Private Fears in Public Places.
Gist: The story begins with a group...
Director: Alain Resnais
Writers: Alain Resnais, Jean-Marie Bessett, Laurent Herbiet, Caroline Silhol
Producer: Jean-Louis Livi
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Sandrine Kilberlain, Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Hippolyte Girardot
Another great auteur that’s had a considerable increase in output over the past several years has been Alain Resnais. He follows up his experimental 2012 film You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet with this film, which sees him returning with some regular cast members like Azema (we’d be shocked not to see her in the lineup since she’s married to the director), Dussollier and Girardot. While this sounds a bit like a wizened version of some recent Gallic films like Little White Lies, we’re sure this will be customary offbeat Resnais, and penned by writer/director Ayckbourn who penned the 2006 Resnais film, Private Fears in Public Places.
Gist: The story begins with a group...
- 2/13/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Title: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Vous n’avez encore rien vu) Kino Lorber Director: Alain Resnais Screenwriter: Laurent Herbiet, Alex Reval, based on Jean Anouilh’s “Eurydice” and “Dear Antoine” Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Noël Bouté, Anne Cosigny, Denis Podalydès, Hippolyte Girardot, Michel Piccoli, Lambert Wilson Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 5/28/13 Opens: June 7, 2013 If you’re a fan of theater—and I mean cerebral theater, not “Cats” or “The Lion King”—you may have run across Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 play “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” one of the best examples of metatheater. In that imaginative work, an acting company prepares to rehearse the play “The Rules [ Read More ]
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- 5/29/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Col*Coa is winding down, but you can still catch a few stellar films and see the award winners for free Monday, April 22, 2013.
Award Screenings at 6:00 pm: The evening will start with the rerun of two awarded films in the Renoir and Truffaut Theaters at the DGA. Films will be announced on Sunday April 21 on the Col*Coa website, on Facebook, Twitter and on the Col•Coa info line (310) 289 5346. Free admission on a First comes First Served basis. No RSVP needed.
You can stay and also see the Closing Night Films at 8:30 pm at the DGA. Reservations needed. Those are both North American Premieres of two very anticipated French films. The thriller Moebus by Eric Rochant will show for free as will the comedy Like Brothers by Hugo Gélin.
Being among the French filmmakers (and I saw way too few of the films) gave me such a surprising sense of renewal - again because of this upcoming generation. After seeing City of Lights, the short by Pascal Tessaud which preceded the classic Jacques Demy film Bay of Angels starring a platinum blond gambling-addicted Jeanne Moreau in Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo in 1963, we spoke at length about what is called "The New Vibe". City of Lights stars a deeply quiet young man from "les banlieus", the notorious "suburbs" surrounding Paris where the international mix of young (and old) proletariat population is invisible to the rest of France except when the anger erupts into riots. This first generation has the French education but not the money or jobs and it hurts. They have picked up the cameras and with no money are creating films which express their lives in many ways like the new Latin American filmmakers or the new Eastern European filmmakers. Tessaud gave me an entire education in the hour we talked and I will share this in time. For now, aside from his wonderfuly trenchant film which played like a feature, which captured the Paris this young generation recognizes as The City of Lights - dancing, the kitchen of a very upscale restaurant, the dreary streets filled with construction, there is another example of The New Vibe, started by Rachid Djaïdani (a story in himself) the film Hold Back (Rengaine) leads the pack of the 20-some-odd new films of The New Vibe. It is produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint (Les Films des Tournelles) whose films are too numerous to name but include my favorite The Hedgehog which I wrote about at Col*Coa two years ago, Col*Coa's current Cycling with Moliere, 2002's Respiro and many many others. Hold Back took 9 years to make and most of the team was unpaid. The New Vibe makes films without the aid of the French system of funding; it is more guerilla-style, not New Wave, not Dogma but New Vibe. Hold Back took Cannes by storm when it showed last year in Directors Fortnight and went on to New Directors/ New Films in New York. The classic story of a Catholic and a Muslim who want to marry but whose family objects, this rendition the Juliet has a brother who marches throughout Paris to alert her 39 other brothers that she wants to marry outside her cultural and religious traditions. "This fresh debut mixes fable, plucky social commentary - particularly about France's Arab community - and inventive comic setpieces" (Col*Coa)
Hold Back (Rengaine) (Isa: Pathe) goes beyond the funny but "establishmant" film Intouchable which played here last year. It is the exact opposite of such films as Sister or even Aliyah (Isa: Rezo) which played here this year and also in Directors Fortnight last year. Aliyah is about a young French Jewish man who must make his last drug sale in order to escape his brother's destructive behavior. He escapes by immigrating to Israel. These films are made by filmmakers within the French establishment and describe a proletariat existence which exists in their bourgeois minds. They lack a certain "verite" which can only be captured by one who knows viscerally what such marginal existence is.
At the opposite end of the contemporary spectrum of films today, a real establishment film is You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Alain Renais (you have to be a Renais fan to love it who was so avant-garde in his day). Those old New Wave films one could see here stand out in beautiful contrast to today's New Vibe: Renais' Stavisky or the 1963 film The Fire Within (Le feu follet) by Louis Malle again starring the beautiful Jeanne Moreau. I missed them both to my regret. When I miss a film I always tell myself I can see it when it's released or on DVD or Mubi, but rarely do I get to see it. Instead I can only read about it as here written up by Beth Hanna on Indiewire blog ToH. The Fire Within was part of Wes Anderson's choices, one of the various showcases of Col*Coa. Says Hanna: "Anderson's taste is impeccable: He has selected Louis Malle's 1963 lyrical depression drama The Fire Within." It was made after the classic Elevator to the Gallows (1958) which Miles Davis scored and which also starred the young Jeanne Moreau. She also could be seen her in Col*Coa in the classic 1963 Jacques Demy-directed Bay of Angels.
Col*Coa really offered something for everyone this year. Another of my favorite film genres, the Jewish film, was represented by Aliyah and The Dandelions (Du Vent dans mes mollets) (Isa: Gaumont), Stavisky, and It Happened in St. Tropez (Isa: Pathe), a classic French comedy -- though a bit dark and yet still comedic, about romance, love and marriage switching between generations in a neurotic, comfortably wealthy Jewish family. The Dandelions was, according to my friend Debra Levine, a writer on culture including film and dance, (see her blog artsmeme), "darling, so touching, so well made, so creative ... i really liked it. Went into that rabbit hole of little girls together ... Barbie doll play. Crazy creative play. As looney as kids can be."
Ian Birnie's favorite film was Becoming Traviata. Greg Katchel's favorite originally was Rendez-vous à Kiruna by Anna Novion, but when I saw him later in the festival his favorite was Cycling with Moliere (Alceste a bicyclette) (Isa: Pathe), again produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint and directed by Philippe Le Guay who directed one of my favorites, The Women on the 6th Floor. Greg also liked Three Worlds though it was a bit "schematic" in depicting the clash of different cultures which were also shown in Hold Back.
Of the few films I was able to see, the most interesting was Augustine by Alice Winokur. It is the French response to David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and the British film Hysteria. All three were about the turn of the century concern of psychologists or doctors with female hysteria. This one concerned Jean-Martin Charcot and the neurologist's belief that hysteria was a neurological disease and he used hypnosis to get at its roots, whild in A Dangerous Method it was seen by Freud and Jung as a mental disorder and in Hysteria by Tanya Wexler (Tiff 2011) in which Dr. Mortimer Granville devises the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
Take a look at Indiewire's own article here for more on Los Angeles's greatest French attraction, the second largest French film festival in the world.
Several American distributors will present their films at Col•Coa before their U.S. release: Kino Lorber – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, co-written and directed by Alain Resnais (Focus on a Filmmaker); Mpi Media – Thérèse, the last film of director/co-writer Claude Miller starring Audrey Tautou; Cohen Media Group – In the House, written and directed by François Ozon and The Attack, co-written and directed by Ziad Doueiri; Distrib Films for two documentaries: Becoming Traviata and The Invisibles; Film Movement for two thrillers: Aliyah and Three Worlds; The Weinstein Company - Populaire.
Below you can see the international sales agents for the current features showing.
11.6 / 11.6 (Isa: Wild Bunch)
Directed by: Philippe Godeau
Written by: Philippe Godeau, Agnès De Sacy
A Few Hours Of Spring / Quelques heures de printemps (Isa: Rezo)
Directed by: Stéphane Brizé ♀
Written by: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent, Emmanuelle Seigner, Olivier Perrier
Aliyah/Alyah ✡ (Isa: Rezo, U.S.: Film Movement
Directed by: Élie Wajeman
Written by: Élie Wajeman, Gaëlle Macé
Armed Hands / Mains armées (Isa: Films Distribution)
Directed by: Pierre Jolivet
Written by: Pierre Jolivet, Simon Michaël
Augustine / Augustine (Isa: Kinology, U.S.: Music Box)
Directed by: Alice Winocour ♀
Written by: Alice Winocour
Aya Of Yop City / Aya de Yopougon (Isa: TF1)
Directed by: Clément Oubrerie, Marguerite Abouet ♀
Written by: Marguerite Abouet
Bay Of Angels / La Baie des anges (U.S.: Criterion)
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Written by: Jacques Demy
Becoming Traviata /Traviata et nous (Isa: Films Boutique, U.S. Distrib Films and Cinema Guild)
Directed by: Philippe Béziat
Written by: Philippe Béziat
Cycling With MOLIÈRE / Alceste à bicyclette (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Written by: Philippe Le Guay, based on an original idea by Fabrice Luchini and Philippe Le Guay
Fly Me To The Moon / Un plan parfait (Isa: Kinology)
Directed By: Pascal Chaumeil
Written By: Laurent Zeitoun, Yoann Gromb, Philippe Mechelen
Haute Cuisine / Les Saveurs du palais (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: The Weinstein Company)
Directed by: Christian Vincent
Written by: Etienne Comar & Christian Vincent, based on the life of Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch
Hidden Beauties / Mille-Feuille (Isa: Other Angle Pictures)
Directed by: Nouri Bouzid
Written by: Nouri Bouzid, Joumène Limam
Hold Back / Rengaine (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Rachid Djaïdani
Written by: Rachid Djaïdani
In The House / Dans la maison (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
Directed by: François Ozon
Written by: François Ozon
It Happened In Saint-tropez / Des Gens qui s’embrassent (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Danièle Thompson ♀
Written by: Danièle Thompson, Christopher Thompson
Jappeloup/ Jappeloup (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Written by: Guillaume Canet
Le Grand Soir / Le grand soir (Isa: Funny Balloons)
Directed by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
Written by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
Little Lion / Comme un Lion (Isa: Pyramide)
Directed by: Samuel Collardey
Written by: Catherine Paillé, Nadège Trebal, Samuel Collardey
Moon Man / Jean de la lune (Isa: Le Pacte)
Directed By: Stephan Schesch
Written By: Stephan Schesch, Ralph Martin. Based on the book by: Tomi Ungerer
Populaire / Populaire (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: TWC)
Directed By: Régis Roinsard
Written By: Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley, Romain Compingt
Rendezvous In Kiruna / Rendez-vous à Kiruna (Isa: Pyramide)
Directed by: Anne Novion ♀
Written by: Olivier Massart, Anne Novion, Pierre Novion
Sons Of The Wind / Les Fils du vent (Isa: Wide)
Directed by: Bruno Le Jean
Written by: Bruno Le Jean
Stavisky / Stavisky (1974) (Isa: StudioCanal)
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Written by: Jorge Semprún
The Attack / L’Attentat
France, Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar, 2013
Directed by: Ziad Doueiri (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
The BRONTË Sisters / Les Soeurs Brontë (Isa: Gaumont, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
Directed by: André Téchiné
Written by: André Téchiné, Jean Gruault, Pascal Bonitzer
The Dandelions / Du Vent dans mes mollets ✡
Directed By: Carine Tardieu ♀
Written By: Carine Tardieu, Raphaële Moussafir, Olivier Beer
The Fire Within / Le Feu Follet (1963) (Isa: Pyramide, U.S.: Janus Films)
Directed by: Louis Malle
Written by: Louis Malle
The Invisibles / Les Invisibles (Isa: Doc & Film, U.S. Distrib Films))
Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz
The Man Who Laughs/ L’Homme qui rit (Isa: EuropaCorps)
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Améris
Written by: Jean-Pierre Améris , Guillaume Laurant
THÉRÈSE / Thérèse Desqueyroux (Isa: TF1, U.S.: Mpi)
Directed by: Claude Miller
Written by: Claude Miller, Natalie Carter
Three Worlds / Trois mondes (Isa: Pyramide, U.S.: Film Movement)
Directed by: Catherine Corsini ♀
Written by: Catherine Corsini, Benoît Graffin
To Our Loves / À nos amours (1983) (U.S. Janus)
Directed By: Maurice Pialat
Written By: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat
True Friends / Amitiés sincères (Isa: Snd Groupe 6)
Directed By: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie
Written By: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie, Marie-Pierre Huster
Welcome To Argentina / Mariage à Mendoza (Isa: Kinology)
Directed By: Édouard Deluc
Written By: Anaïs Carpita, Édouard Deluc, Thomas Lilti, Philippe Rebbot
What’S In A Name / Le prénom (Isa: Pathe, U.S. Under The Milky Way)
Directed by: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Written by: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
You Ain’T Seen Nothin’ Yet / Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Isa: StudioCanal, U.S.: Kino Lorber)
Directed By: Alain Resnais
Written By: Alain Resnais, Laurent Herbiet...
Award Screenings at 6:00 pm: The evening will start with the rerun of two awarded films in the Renoir and Truffaut Theaters at the DGA. Films will be announced on Sunday April 21 on the Col*Coa website, on Facebook, Twitter and on the Col•Coa info line (310) 289 5346. Free admission on a First comes First Served basis. No RSVP needed.
You can stay and also see the Closing Night Films at 8:30 pm at the DGA. Reservations needed. Those are both North American Premieres of two very anticipated French films. The thriller Moebus by Eric Rochant will show for free as will the comedy Like Brothers by Hugo Gélin.
Being among the French filmmakers (and I saw way too few of the films) gave me such a surprising sense of renewal - again because of this upcoming generation. After seeing City of Lights, the short by Pascal Tessaud which preceded the classic Jacques Demy film Bay of Angels starring a platinum blond gambling-addicted Jeanne Moreau in Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo in 1963, we spoke at length about what is called "The New Vibe". City of Lights stars a deeply quiet young man from "les banlieus", the notorious "suburbs" surrounding Paris where the international mix of young (and old) proletariat population is invisible to the rest of France except when the anger erupts into riots. This first generation has the French education but not the money or jobs and it hurts. They have picked up the cameras and with no money are creating films which express their lives in many ways like the new Latin American filmmakers or the new Eastern European filmmakers. Tessaud gave me an entire education in the hour we talked and I will share this in time. For now, aside from his wonderfuly trenchant film which played like a feature, which captured the Paris this young generation recognizes as The City of Lights - dancing, the kitchen of a very upscale restaurant, the dreary streets filled with construction, there is another example of The New Vibe, started by Rachid Djaïdani (a story in himself) the film Hold Back (Rengaine) leads the pack of the 20-some-odd new films of The New Vibe. It is produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint (Les Films des Tournelles) whose films are too numerous to name but include my favorite The Hedgehog which I wrote about at Col*Coa two years ago, Col*Coa's current Cycling with Moliere, 2002's Respiro and many many others. Hold Back took 9 years to make and most of the team was unpaid. The New Vibe makes films without the aid of the French system of funding; it is more guerilla-style, not New Wave, not Dogma but New Vibe. Hold Back took Cannes by storm when it showed last year in Directors Fortnight and went on to New Directors/ New Films in New York. The classic story of a Catholic and a Muslim who want to marry but whose family objects, this rendition the Juliet has a brother who marches throughout Paris to alert her 39 other brothers that she wants to marry outside her cultural and religious traditions. "This fresh debut mixes fable, plucky social commentary - particularly about France's Arab community - and inventive comic setpieces" (Col*Coa)
Hold Back (Rengaine) (Isa: Pathe) goes beyond the funny but "establishmant" film Intouchable which played here last year. It is the exact opposite of such films as Sister or even Aliyah (Isa: Rezo) which played here this year and also in Directors Fortnight last year. Aliyah is about a young French Jewish man who must make his last drug sale in order to escape his brother's destructive behavior. He escapes by immigrating to Israel. These films are made by filmmakers within the French establishment and describe a proletariat existence which exists in their bourgeois minds. They lack a certain "verite" which can only be captured by one who knows viscerally what such marginal existence is.
At the opposite end of the contemporary spectrum of films today, a real establishment film is You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Alain Renais (you have to be a Renais fan to love it who was so avant-garde in his day). Those old New Wave films one could see here stand out in beautiful contrast to today's New Vibe: Renais' Stavisky or the 1963 film The Fire Within (Le feu follet) by Louis Malle again starring the beautiful Jeanne Moreau. I missed them both to my regret. When I miss a film I always tell myself I can see it when it's released or on DVD or Mubi, but rarely do I get to see it. Instead I can only read about it as here written up by Beth Hanna on Indiewire blog ToH. The Fire Within was part of Wes Anderson's choices, one of the various showcases of Col*Coa. Says Hanna: "Anderson's taste is impeccable: He has selected Louis Malle's 1963 lyrical depression drama The Fire Within." It was made after the classic Elevator to the Gallows (1958) which Miles Davis scored and which also starred the young Jeanne Moreau. She also could be seen her in Col*Coa in the classic 1963 Jacques Demy-directed Bay of Angels.
Col*Coa really offered something for everyone this year. Another of my favorite film genres, the Jewish film, was represented by Aliyah and The Dandelions (Du Vent dans mes mollets) (Isa: Gaumont), Stavisky, and It Happened in St. Tropez (Isa: Pathe), a classic French comedy -- though a bit dark and yet still comedic, about romance, love and marriage switching between generations in a neurotic, comfortably wealthy Jewish family. The Dandelions was, according to my friend Debra Levine, a writer on culture including film and dance, (see her blog artsmeme), "darling, so touching, so well made, so creative ... i really liked it. Went into that rabbit hole of little girls together ... Barbie doll play. Crazy creative play. As looney as kids can be."
Ian Birnie's favorite film was Becoming Traviata. Greg Katchel's favorite originally was Rendez-vous à Kiruna by Anna Novion, but when I saw him later in the festival his favorite was Cycling with Moliere (Alceste a bicyclette) (Isa: Pathe), again produced by Anne-Dominque Toussaint and directed by Philippe Le Guay who directed one of my favorites, The Women on the 6th Floor. Greg also liked Three Worlds though it was a bit "schematic" in depicting the clash of different cultures which were also shown in Hold Back.
Of the few films I was able to see, the most interesting was Augustine by Alice Winokur. It is the French response to David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and the British film Hysteria. All three were about the turn of the century concern of psychologists or doctors with female hysteria. This one concerned Jean-Martin Charcot and the neurologist's belief that hysteria was a neurological disease and he used hypnosis to get at its roots, whild in A Dangerous Method it was seen by Freud and Jung as a mental disorder and in Hysteria by Tanya Wexler (Tiff 2011) in which Dr. Mortimer Granville devises the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
Take a look at Indiewire's own article here for more on Los Angeles's greatest French attraction, the second largest French film festival in the world.
Several American distributors will present their films at Col•Coa before their U.S. release: Kino Lorber – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, co-written and directed by Alain Resnais (Focus on a Filmmaker); Mpi Media – Thérèse, the last film of director/co-writer Claude Miller starring Audrey Tautou; Cohen Media Group – In the House, written and directed by François Ozon and The Attack, co-written and directed by Ziad Doueiri; Distrib Films for two documentaries: Becoming Traviata and The Invisibles; Film Movement for two thrillers: Aliyah and Three Worlds; The Weinstein Company - Populaire.
Below you can see the international sales agents for the current features showing.
11.6 / 11.6 (Isa: Wild Bunch)
Directed by: Philippe Godeau
Written by: Philippe Godeau, Agnès De Sacy
A Few Hours Of Spring / Quelques heures de printemps (Isa: Rezo)
Directed by: Stéphane Brizé ♀
Written by: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent, Emmanuelle Seigner, Olivier Perrier
Aliyah/Alyah ✡ (Isa: Rezo, U.S.: Film Movement
Directed by: Élie Wajeman
Written by: Élie Wajeman, Gaëlle Macé
Armed Hands / Mains armées (Isa: Films Distribution)
Directed by: Pierre Jolivet
Written by: Pierre Jolivet, Simon Michaël
Augustine / Augustine (Isa: Kinology, U.S.: Music Box)
Directed by: Alice Winocour ♀
Written by: Alice Winocour
Aya Of Yop City / Aya de Yopougon (Isa: TF1)
Directed by: Clément Oubrerie, Marguerite Abouet ♀
Written by: Marguerite Abouet
Bay Of Angels / La Baie des anges (U.S.: Criterion)
Directed by: Jacques Demy
Written by: Jacques Demy
Becoming Traviata /Traviata et nous (Isa: Films Boutique, U.S. Distrib Films and Cinema Guild)
Directed by: Philippe Béziat
Written by: Philippe Béziat
Cycling With MOLIÈRE / Alceste à bicyclette (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Philippe Le Guay
Written by: Philippe Le Guay, based on an original idea by Fabrice Luchini and Philippe Le Guay
Fly Me To The Moon / Un plan parfait (Isa: Kinology)
Directed By: Pascal Chaumeil
Written By: Laurent Zeitoun, Yoann Gromb, Philippe Mechelen
Haute Cuisine / Les Saveurs du palais (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: The Weinstein Company)
Directed by: Christian Vincent
Written by: Etienne Comar & Christian Vincent, based on the life of Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch
Hidden Beauties / Mille-Feuille (Isa: Other Angle Pictures)
Directed by: Nouri Bouzid
Written by: Nouri Bouzid, Joumène Limam
Hold Back / Rengaine (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Rachid Djaïdani
Written by: Rachid Djaïdani
In The House / Dans la maison (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
Directed by: François Ozon
Written by: François Ozon
It Happened In Saint-tropez / Des Gens qui s’embrassent (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Danièle Thompson ♀
Written by: Danièle Thompson, Christopher Thompson
Jappeloup/ Jappeloup (Isa: Pathe)
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Written by: Guillaume Canet
Le Grand Soir / Le grand soir (Isa: Funny Balloons)
Directed by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
Written by: Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern
Little Lion / Comme un Lion (Isa: Pyramide)
Directed by: Samuel Collardey
Written by: Catherine Paillé, Nadège Trebal, Samuel Collardey
Moon Man / Jean de la lune (Isa: Le Pacte)
Directed By: Stephan Schesch
Written By: Stephan Schesch, Ralph Martin. Based on the book by: Tomi Ungerer
Populaire / Populaire (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: TWC)
Directed By: Régis Roinsard
Written By: Régis Roinsard, Daniel Presley, Romain Compingt
Rendezvous In Kiruna / Rendez-vous à Kiruna (Isa: Pyramide)
Directed by: Anne Novion ♀
Written by: Olivier Massart, Anne Novion, Pierre Novion
Sons Of The Wind / Les Fils du vent (Isa: Wide)
Directed by: Bruno Le Jean
Written by: Bruno Le Jean
Stavisky / Stavisky (1974) (Isa: StudioCanal)
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Written by: Jorge Semprún
The Attack / L’Attentat
France, Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar, 2013
Directed by: Ziad Doueiri (Isa: Wild Bunch, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
The BRONTË Sisters / Les Soeurs Brontë (Isa: Gaumont, U.S.: Cohen Media Group)
Directed by: André Téchiné
Written by: André Téchiné, Jean Gruault, Pascal Bonitzer
The Dandelions / Du Vent dans mes mollets ✡
Directed By: Carine Tardieu ♀
Written By: Carine Tardieu, Raphaële Moussafir, Olivier Beer
The Fire Within / Le Feu Follet (1963) (Isa: Pyramide, U.S.: Janus Films)
Directed by: Louis Malle
Written by: Louis Malle
The Invisibles / Les Invisibles (Isa: Doc & Film, U.S. Distrib Films))
Directed By: Sébastien Lifshitz
The Man Who Laughs/ L’Homme qui rit (Isa: EuropaCorps)
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Améris
Written by: Jean-Pierre Améris , Guillaume Laurant
THÉRÈSE / Thérèse Desqueyroux (Isa: TF1, U.S.: Mpi)
Directed by: Claude Miller
Written by: Claude Miller, Natalie Carter
Three Worlds / Trois mondes (Isa: Pyramide, U.S.: Film Movement)
Directed by: Catherine Corsini ♀
Written by: Catherine Corsini, Benoît Graffin
To Our Loves / À nos amours (1983) (U.S. Janus)
Directed By: Maurice Pialat
Written By: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat
True Friends / Amitiés sincères (Isa: Snd Groupe 6)
Directed By: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie
Written By: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie, Marie-Pierre Huster
Welcome To Argentina / Mariage à Mendoza (Isa: Kinology)
Directed By: Édouard Deluc
Written By: Anaïs Carpita, Édouard Deluc, Thomas Lilti, Philippe Rebbot
What’S In A Name / Le prénom (Isa: Pathe, U.S. Under The Milky Way)
Directed by: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Written by: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
You Ain’T Seen Nothin’ Yet / Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Isa: StudioCanal, U.S.: Kino Lorber)
Directed By: Alain Resnais
Written By: Alain Resnais, Laurent Herbiet...
- 4/20/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
In conjunction with news that hit on Monday, ScreenDaily have reported that both Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz will make a (quick) reunion with Pedro Almodóvar on his next film, Standby Lovers. The extent of their work will only require one day of production — my condolences if you wanted more the duo — but this scene will, somewhat amazingly, mark the first time they’ve ever worked together. (Hard as that is to believe.)
Lovers sees Almodóvar return to the comedic stylings that marked his earlier career, with the story revolving around a group of airline passengers confessing their secrets when their craft appears to be on its way down. One could, knowing this, wager a guess or two as to the nature of Cruz and Banderas‘ roles — quick cut-aways to the people in first class, or something of the sort — but the pre-collected cast will still be taking precedence here.
Lovers sees Almodóvar return to the comedic stylings that marked his earlier career, with the story revolving around a group of airline passengers confessing their secrets when their craft appears to be on its way down. One could, knowing this, wager a guess or two as to the nature of Cruz and Banderas‘ roles — quick cut-aways to the people in first class, or something of the sort — but the pre-collected cast will still be taking precedence here.
- 6/13/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Dexter
"Chuck" star Yvonne Strahovski has joined the cast of Showtime’s "Dexter" for a multi-episode arc in the upcoming seventh season.
Strahovski will play Hannah McKay, a strong, independent woman with a past that she’s struggled to put behind her but is asked by Miami Metro Homicide for help in solving some old cases. [Source: Deadline]
Vatican
Kristin Scott Thomas, André Dussollier and Sergi Lopez are set to star in Laurent Herbiet's €7 million, French-language political thriller "Vatican". Shooting begins in Rome and Switzerland next June.
The story revolves around a bitter struggle for Papal power between two cardinals following the death of the Pope. Thomas plays a devout Catholic mother whose investigations into the death of her Swiss Guard son lead her to uncover this web of intrigue. [Source: Screen Daily]
The Quiet Ones
Erin Richards ("Breaking In," "Being Human"), Olivia Cooke ("The Secret of Crickley Hall," "The Fuse") and West End...
"Chuck" star Yvonne Strahovski has joined the cast of Showtime’s "Dexter" for a multi-episode arc in the upcoming seventh season.
Strahovski will play Hannah McKay, a strong, independent woman with a past that she’s struggled to put behind her but is asked by Miami Metro Homicide for help in solving some old cases. [Source: Deadline]
Vatican
Kristin Scott Thomas, André Dussollier and Sergi Lopez are set to star in Laurent Herbiet's €7 million, French-language political thriller "Vatican". Shooting begins in Rome and Switzerland next June.
The story revolves around a bitter struggle for Papal power between two cardinals following the death of the Pope. Thomas plays a devout Catholic mother whose investigations into the death of her Swiss Guard son lead her to uncover this web of intrigue. [Source: Screen Daily]
The Quiet Ones
Erin Richards ("Breaking In," "Being Human"), Olivia Cooke ("The Secret of Crickley Hall," "The Fuse") and West End...
- 6/13/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Laurent Herbiet's Vatican, Christ Lives with the Borgias casts Kristin Scott Thomas The film is set to delve within the hidden world of the Vatican, and also includes Andre Dussollier and Sergi Lopez in the cast. Variety reports that the $11.3 million-budgeted film is a political thriller produced by Xavier Castano's Loull Productions in collaboration with Conchita Airoldi of Italy-based Urania Pictures. Michel Desprats, Nathalie Hertzberg, Herbiet and Christian Roux wrote the script with Gianluigi Nuzzi. Vatican, Christ Lives with the Borgias is fact-based and looks at Pope Benedict's relationship with his personal secretary as well as the power struggle and alleged money laundering within the Holy See.
- 6/11/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Laurent Herbiet's Vatican, Christ Lives with the Borgias casts Kristin Scott Thomas The film is set to delve within the hidden world of the Vatican, and also includes Andre Dussollier and Sergi Lopez in the cast. Variety reports that the $11.3 million-budgeted film is a political thriller produced by Xavier Castano's Loull Productions in collaboration with Conchita Airoldi of Italy-based Urania Pictures. Michel Desprats, Nathalie Hertzberg, Herbiet and Christian Roux wrote the script with Gianluigi Nuzzi. Vatican, Christ Lives with the Borgias is fact-based and looks at Pope Benedict's relationship with his personal secretary as well as the power struggle and alleged money laundering within the Holy See.
- 6/11/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Note: this is not some casting news headline from a couple of years back. Wild Grass featured ensemble of André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Mathieu Amalric and Anne Consigny are joining Alain Resnais' next feature, which will begin lensing in January of next year. Also joining the cast of Vous N'avez Encore Rien Vu, we have Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Nanty and trio Pierre Arditi, Lambert Wilson and Claude Rich who all appeared in Resnais' 2006 film Private Fears in Public Places. Filming begins in January and will last for. Gist: Co-written by Resnais and Laurent Herbiet, this is adapted from Jean Anouilh’s stage play Eurydice, where a violinist Orphée and touring actress Eurydice leave everything behind to fulfill their love. But jealousy takes hold of Orphée. Worth Noting: For a French filmmaker who has made very little amount of films, he sure if cranking them out in the late stages of his career.
- 11/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Chicago – There’s a very good reason why casual moviegoers are weary of films purporting themselves to be avant-garde. Such a term seems to suggest that a level of effort is required from the audience to fully digest and enjoy a particular work of cinematic art. They are the opposite of disposable entertainments devoured by mainstream viewers like escapist munchies.
In fact, the word “munchies” functions prominently in the jaw-dropping, hotly debated final moment of “Wild Grass,” the latest film from 88-year-old master of cinema, Alain Resnais. The last thing on this filmmaker’s mind is box office results. His greatest wish is merely to inspire audience debate. His most well-known and influential efforts (1959’s “Hiroshima mon amour” and 1961’s “Last Year at Marienbad”) have proven that cinema has the potential to be as complex, as rich, and as widely open to interpretation as literature. He doesn’t care if...
In fact, the word “munchies” functions prominently in the jaw-dropping, hotly debated final moment of “Wild Grass,” the latest film from 88-year-old master of cinema, Alain Resnais. The last thing on this filmmaker’s mind is box office results. His greatest wish is merely to inspire audience debate. His most well-known and influential efforts (1959’s “Hiroshima mon amour” and 1961’s “Last Year at Marienbad”) have proven that cinema has the potential to be as complex, as rich, and as widely open to interpretation as literature. He doesn’t care if...
- 11/4/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It's only at the funding stages, but Alain Resnais looks set to adapt another project with many of the same folk who were responsible for his critically well-received 2009 Cannes entry Wild Grass. With Wild Grass, the filmmaker received a new surge of popularity, and confidence in adapting from other sources - he'll adapt again,but instead of a book it'll be a stage play. According to Cineuropa.org, Vous N’avez Encore Rien Vu (You Haven’t Seen Nothing Yet) will receive funding from the National Film and Moving Image Centre and the project will be produced by F Comme Film's Jean-Louis Livi (he produced Wild Grass and one of my favorites of the last decade in Sur mes lèvres). Co-written by Resnais and Laurent Herbiet (his Wild Grass partner), this is adapted from Jean Anouilh’s stage play Eurydice, where a violinist Orphée and touring actress Eurydice leave everything behind to fulfill their love.
- 7/12/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Paris – French Academy members got serious on Friday with two politically charged dramas heading the major categories for the 35th annual Cesar Awards that will see Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" go head to head with Philippe Lioret's "Welcome." The nominees were announced Friday at a press conference in Paris.
While no one can foresee the winners, "A Prophet" looks bound to triumph with Jacques Audiard's prison drama nominated for 13 awards including best film, best director and a best actor and most promising male newcomer nod for the film's breakout star Tahar Rahim.
Academy voters also gave a hearty reception to Phillipe Lioret's "Welcome" with 10 nods and Xavier Giannoli's "In the Beginning" with 11 nominations.
Radu Mihaileanu's "The Concert" was also music to voters' ears with the tragicomedy about a washed-up former conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra who travels to Paris to make his career comeback scoring six nominations.
While no one can foresee the winners, "A Prophet" looks bound to triumph with Jacques Audiard's prison drama nominated for 13 awards including best film, best director and a best actor and most promising male newcomer nod for the film's breakout star Tahar Rahim.
Academy voters also gave a hearty reception to Phillipe Lioret's "Welcome" with 10 nods and Xavier Giannoli's "In the Beginning" with 11 nominations.
Radu Mihaileanu's "The Concert" was also music to voters' ears with the tragicomedy about a washed-up former conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra who travels to Paris to make his career comeback scoring six nominations.
- 1/22/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Les herbes folles" ("Wild Grass") has new images in the group. The film is sent out by Sony Pictures Classics and directed by Christian Gailly. Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet write. The drama stars Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, André Dussollier, Anne Consigny and Nicolas Duvauchelle. The film is a Cannes Film Festival Award winner of two awards at this year's fest - The Special Jury Prize and the Special Award. Additioinally, it was nominated for the Golden Palm Award...
- 9/28/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
- It was just the other day that I was flipping thru the last edition of Film Comment, checking out their annual Cannes coverage roundup and I was semi-surprised to see Alain Resnais' Les Herbes Folles, or what will be affectionally known as Wild Grass here in the U.S., was a first or second place standing with film critics Les Inrockuptiles' Jean-Baptiste Morain, U.K critic Jonathan Romney and Film Comment's own Gavin Smith - hailing the light drama as the best film of the festival. My after-thought was...this hasn't been picked up yet. Sony Pictures Classics have announced the pick up of the film rights for the U.S., Australia and New Zealand markets, thus becoming another impressive title that the distributor picked up from Cannes. Co-written by Resnais and Laurent Herbiet, adapted from Christian Gailly’s L’incident, this retraces the encounter between a dentist
- 8/10/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Palme d’Or 2009, Grand Prix, Special Jury Prize: Alain Resnais‘ romantic fantasy Wild Grass (adapted by Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet from Christian Gailly’s novel), about a man who becomes intrigued by a younger woman Jacques Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet (written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit) Writer-director Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, about a northern German community enmeshed in a series of nasty events right before the beginning of World War I Writer-director Jane Campion’s Bright Star, about the doomed love affair between British poet John Keats and his neighbor, Fanny Brawne Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes...
- 5/23/2009
- by Massimo David
- Alt Film Guide
BRUSSELS -- The nine-day European Film Festival kicked off here Friday, showcasing debuts or second features from young directors across the continent.
The festival, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, will screen 28 new films, 17 of which are first features and 11 of which are second efforts.
Festival director Dominique Janne said he hopes to build the event up as a springboard for new talent.
"The selection was deliberately diverse," he said. "We have rummaged across the whole European territory to find films, which include intimate and dramatic movies as well as absurd comedies -- even activism-cinema and playful children's films."
A separate Cinedecouvertes section is open to 20 international films that will be shown in open-air screenings.
The program features two movies co-produced by Belgium's Dardennes brothers, the two-time Palme d'Or winners. They are German filmmaker Maria Speth's second feature, "Madonnas", and Algerian war thriller "The Colonel" (Mon Colonel), directed by France's Laurent Herbiet and co-scripted by Costa-Gavras.
French films screening at the event include Anne Le Ny's hospital love story "Ceux Qui Reste"; David Oelhoffen's "In Your Wake" (Nos retrouvailles), about a violent father-son relationship; and Carine Tardieu's "In Mom's Head" (La Tete De Maman).
The festival, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, will screen 28 new films, 17 of which are first features and 11 of which are second efforts.
Festival director Dominique Janne said he hopes to build the event up as a springboard for new talent.
"The selection was deliberately diverse," he said. "We have rummaged across the whole European territory to find films, which include intimate and dramatic movies as well as absurd comedies -- even activism-cinema and playful children's films."
A separate Cinedecouvertes section is open to 20 international films that will be shown in open-air screenings.
The program features two movies co-produced by Belgium's Dardennes brothers, the two-time Palme d'Or winners. They are German filmmaker Maria Speth's second feature, "Madonnas", and Algerian war thriller "The Colonel" (Mon Colonel), directed by France's Laurent Herbiet and co-scripted by Costa-Gavras.
French films screening at the event include Anne Le Ny's hospital love story "Ceux Qui Reste"; David Oelhoffen's "In Your Wake" (Nos retrouvailles), about a violent father-son relationship; and Carine Tardieu's "In Mom's Head" (La Tete De Maman).
- 6/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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