In a rather surprising turn of events, after Cannes skipped on premiering Emmanuelle––Audrey Diwan’s follow-up to her Golden Lion-winning Happening––the film won’t be at Venice, Telluride, or TIFF either as the 72nd San Sebastian Festival announced it will world premiere as their opening night film on September 20. Starring Noémie Merlant, Naomi Watts, Jamie Campbell Bower, and Will Sharpe, see the full announcement below along with a new still.
The French production Emmanuelle directed by Audrey Diwan will open the 72nd San Sebastian Festival in competition. The feature film will be screened as a world premiere on 20 September and will be attended by its director and leading cast.
Diwan, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival with Happening / L’événement in 2021, co-wrote the screenplay with fellow filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski. The film follows the steps of a woman in search of a lost pleasure, whose...
The French production Emmanuelle directed by Audrey Diwan will open the 72nd San Sebastian Festival in competition. The feature film will be screened as a world premiere on 20 September and will be attended by its director and leading cast.
Diwan, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival with Happening / L’événement in 2021, co-wrote the screenplay with fellow filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski. The film follows the steps of a woman in search of a lost pleasure, whose...
- 5/7/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
“Emmanuelle,” a new feature from French writer-director Audrey Diwan, will world premiere in competition as the opening film for the 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival, which kicks off on September 20.
Inspired by the eponymous erotic novel by Emmanuelle Arsan, the film tells the story of a woman looking for a lost pleasure. During a business trip to Hong Kong, she meets several new people, including a man named Kei, who constantly eludes her. According to the director, the story was conceived as an exploration of pleasure in the post #MeToo era.
Diwan, a Venice Golden Lion winner for her 2021 film “Happening,” co-wrote “Emmanuelle” with fellow filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski, whose 2013 feature “Grand Central” screened in competition at Cannes and won the François Chalais Award.
Chantelouve, Rectangle Productions and Goodfellas (formerly Wild Bunch) produce. “Emmanuelle” will be distributed by Pathé in France, where it will debut on September 25, and Beta Fiction in Spain.
Inspired by the eponymous erotic novel by Emmanuelle Arsan, the film tells the story of a woman looking for a lost pleasure. During a business trip to Hong Kong, she meets several new people, including a man named Kei, who constantly eludes her. According to the director, the story was conceived as an exploration of pleasure in the post #MeToo era.
Diwan, a Venice Golden Lion winner for her 2021 film “Happening,” co-wrote “Emmanuelle” with fellow filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski, whose 2013 feature “Grand Central” screened in competition at Cannes and won the François Chalais Award.
Chantelouve, Rectangle Productions and Goodfellas (formerly Wild Bunch) produce. “Emmanuelle” will be distributed by Pathé in France, where it will debut on September 25, and Beta Fiction in Spain.
- 5/7/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle has been announced as the opening film of the 72nd San Sebastian Festival, in competition.
The feature film will world premiere on September 20 in a gala screening attended by the director and the cast, led by French actress Noémie Merlant in the titular role.
Further cast members include Naomi Watts, Will Sharpe (The White Lotus), Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things), Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong.
Diwan, who won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion with Happening in 2021, co-wrote the screenplay with filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski.
The English-language feature is inspired by the character and world created by writer Emmanuelle Arsan, whose 1967 erotic novel was adapted into the cult 1970s movie starring Sylvia Kristel.
Plot details have been largely under wraps, but the festival revealed on Tuesday that the film “follows the steps of...
The feature film will world premiere on September 20 in a gala screening attended by the director and the cast, led by French actress Noémie Merlant in the titular role.
Further cast members include Naomi Watts, Will Sharpe (The White Lotus), Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things), Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong.
Diwan, who won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion with Happening in 2021, co-wrote the screenplay with filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski.
The English-language feature is inspired by the character and world created by writer Emmanuelle Arsan, whose 1967 erotic novel was adapted into the cult 1970s movie starring Sylvia Kristel.
Plot details have been largely under wraps, but the festival revealed on Tuesday that the film “follows the steps of...
- 5/7/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
As we welcome in the New Year, we can reveal our annual (non-exhaustive) list of U.S. and international movies we think could grace the festival circuit in 2024. We’ve stuck to our criteria that the project must already be in production and have not already been announced for a festival. More than 70% of our selections last year went on to debut at a major festival. Those that didn’t were largely delayed by the strike or are still in post-production. If the titles below make the cut, it will be a thrilling year on the festival circuit once again.
Megalopolis
Expectations are high that Francis Ford Coppola will deliver his long-awaited $100+ million passion project in 2024. The sci-fi drama charts the story of an architect who wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster. The cast featuring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight,...
Megalopolis
Expectations are high that Francis Ford Coppola will deliver his long-awaited $100+ million passion project in 2024. The sci-fi drama charts the story of an architect who wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster. The cast featuring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight,...
- 1/2/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow, Andreas Wiseman, Zac Ntim and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Earlier this morning Audrey Diwan confirmed the recent news that Naomi Watts has a role in her highly anticipated Emmanuelle, but the French filmmaker also revealed the rest of the line-up and gave us a first look with a splendid Noemie Merlant in a cozy, most-likely duvet something. Will Sharpe, Jamie Campbell Bower, Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong complete the cast. Luàna Bajrami and Anamaria Vartolomei are also part of the cast.
Based on Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski, this follows a young woman’s sexual journey from the arms of her husband to intimate encounters with the wives of his business associates, to further explorations wherein the philosophical and aesthetic facets of eroticism are expounded—and enacted—to the fullest degree.…...
Based on Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski, this follows a young woman’s sexual journey from the arms of her husband to intimate encounters with the wives of his business associates, to further explorations wherein the philosophical and aesthetic facets of eroticism are expounded—and enacted—to the fullest degree.…...
- 12/19/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Noémie Merlant plays the titular role in the erotic drama based on a script co-written by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski.
Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe have rounded out the cast of Audrey Diwan’s English-language feature Emmanuelle that has just wrapped production in Paris. Pathé will release the film in France and France Télévisions has pre-bought the film for local TV broadcast.
Emmanuelle is Diwan’s first English-language feature from Venice Golden Lion-winning Happening director Diwan also features Jamie Campbell Bower, Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong in supporting roles. Shooting started in October and took place in Hong Kong and Paris.
Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe have rounded out the cast of Audrey Diwan’s English-language feature Emmanuelle that has just wrapped production in Paris. Pathé will release the film in France and France Télévisions has pre-bought the film for local TV broadcast.
Emmanuelle is Diwan’s first English-language feature from Venice Golden Lion-winning Happening director Diwan also features Jamie Campbell Bower, Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong in supporting roles. Shooting started in October and took place in Hong Kong and Paris.
- 12/19/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts has joined the cast of “Emmanuelle,” Audrey Diwan’s highly anticipated erotic drama, Variety has confirmed.
Diwan’s follow-up to the Venice-prizewinning “Happening,” the film is inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People’s Children”). The book centers on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Sylvia Kristel, which became a cult hit.
Watts revealed the news when she posted a now-deleted Instagram Story with “Emmanuelle” co-star Noemie Merlant, a critically acclaimed French actor who broke through in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and made her English-speaking debut in Todd Field’s Oscar-nominated film “Tar.” Merlant plays the titular role in “Emmanuelle.” The rest of the cast comprises...
Diwan’s follow-up to the Venice-prizewinning “Happening,” the film is inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People’s Children”). The book centers on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Sylvia Kristel, which became a cult hit.
Watts revealed the news when she posted a now-deleted Instagram Story with “Emmanuelle” co-star Noemie Merlant, a critically acclaimed French actor who broke through in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and made her English-speaking debut in Todd Field’s Oscar-nominated film “Tar.” Merlant plays the titular role in “Emmanuelle.” The rest of the cast comprises...
- 12/19/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The success of Audrey Diwan’s sophomore feature Happening made her next gig as a filmmaker an intriguing one. Her choice of project, created even more intrigue.
As we first revealed last year, that project is English-language debut Emmanuelle, inspired by the character and world created by writer Emmanuelle Arsan, whose 1967 novel of the same name was adapted into the lucrative and cult 1970s soft-core movie starring Sylvia Kristel.
Diwan’s adaptation deviates from that earlier movie and from the source material. We confirmed casting and production details about the movie this morning here, including a first-look image of star Noémie Merlant.
Plot details have been kept under wraps, though Diwan told us last year that the contemporary movie will take place in a luxury hotel where Emmanuelle (Merlant) works and that it will “explore her quest for pleasure”. Unlike the original movie, this film will see its protagonist...
As we first revealed last year, that project is English-language debut Emmanuelle, inspired by the character and world created by writer Emmanuelle Arsan, whose 1967 novel of the same name was adapted into the lucrative and cult 1970s soft-core movie starring Sylvia Kristel.
Diwan’s adaptation deviates from that earlier movie and from the source material. We confirmed casting and production details about the movie this morning here, including a first-look image of star Noémie Merlant.
Plot details have been kept under wraps, though Diwan told us last year that the contemporary movie will take place in a luxury hotel where Emmanuelle (Merlant) works and that it will “explore her quest for pleasure”. Unlike the original movie, this film will see its protagonist...
- 12/19/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Production has wrapped in Paris on Audrey Diwan’s (Happening) anticipated erotic drama Emmanuelle, which stars Noémie Merlant (Portrait Of A Lady On Fire) in the title role.
We can reveal an exclusive first look at the English-language movie, which will also star two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive) opposite Merlant, Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) as the male lead, Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things), Chacha Huang (Money Heist) and Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs).
Inspired by the character and world created by writer Emmanuelle Arsan, the film shot in Hong Kong and Paris from a script co-written with Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children).
Plot details are being kept under wraps but Diwan’s film will deviate from the lucrative and cult 1977 movie adaptation of Arsan’s novel, which starred Sylvia Kristel as the wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok who embarks on a voyage of sexual discovery.
We can reveal an exclusive first look at the English-language movie, which will also star two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive) opposite Merlant, Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) as the male lead, Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things), Chacha Huang (Money Heist) and Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs).
Inspired by the character and world created by writer Emmanuelle Arsan, the film shot in Hong Kong and Paris from a script co-written with Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children).
Plot details are being kept under wraps but Diwan’s film will deviate from the lucrative and cult 1977 movie adaptation of Arsan’s novel, which starred Sylvia Kristel as the wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok who embarks on a voyage of sexual discovery.
- 12/19/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Neon is circling U.S. rights to Audrey Diwan’s English-language debut, “Emmanuelle,” an erotic drama that started filming in September in Paris with Noemie Merlant starring in the titular role.
The film is inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People’s Children”). The book centers on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel. That film developed as a cult hit.
Diwan is best known for her sophomore outing, “Happening,” which received critical raves and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. “Happening” tells the story of a woman obtaining an illegal abortion in the 1960s. After its Venice premiere, the film went on to win the César Award for best female newcomer...
The film is inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People’s Children”). The book centers on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel. That film developed as a cult hit.
Diwan is best known for her sophomore outing, “Happening,” which received critical raves and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. “Happening” tells the story of a woman obtaining an illegal abortion in the 1960s. After its Venice premiere, the film went on to win the César Award for best female newcomer...
- 11/2/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Audrey Diwan’s highly anticipated English-language Emmanuelle reboot starring Noémie Merlant in the titular role has begun shooting in Paris.
Venice Golden Lion Happening writer-director Diwan announced the start of shoot on her Instagram account in a post reading, “Excitement is the word. Emmanuelle. Day I. @noemiemerlant”.
Her clapperboard image confirmed Rectangle Productions (Happening), Chantelouve and Goodfellas (ex-Wild Bunch International) as the main production partners.
The film is also due to shoot partly in Hong Kong with Ivan Lam (007: Skyfall) handling line production under the banner of Infinite Fun Limited.
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Merlant – seen earlier this year as the vindictive, spurned assistant in Tár – was unveiled in February as a replacement for Léa Seydoux, who was originally announced for the lead role back in Cannes 2022.
There has been no official update on other cast members with the...
Venice Golden Lion Happening writer-director Diwan announced the start of shoot on her Instagram account in a post reading, “Excitement is the word. Emmanuelle. Day I. @noemiemerlant”.
Her clapperboard image confirmed Rectangle Productions (Happening), Chantelouve and Goodfellas (ex-Wild Bunch International) as the main production partners.
The film is also due to shoot partly in Hong Kong with Ivan Lam (007: Skyfall) handling line production under the banner of Infinite Fun Limited.
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Merlant – seen earlier this year as the vindictive, spurned assistant in Tár – was unveiled in February as a replacement for Léa Seydoux, who was originally announced for the lead role back in Cannes 2022.
There has been no official update on other cast members with the...
- 10/18/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Following up her Golden Lion-winning drama Happening, director Audrey Diwan announced plans last year to make her English-language debut with Emmanuelle. This latest adaptation of Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel, which follows a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains, had cast Léa Seydoux in its lead role, but now a change-up has occurred.
Deadline reports that Noémie Merlant has stepped in to take the lead of the project, which was scripted by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (whose latest film Other People’s Children arrives this spring). With production set to kick off this September in Hong Kong followed by a likely 2024 premiere, Diwan shared some new details on her approach.
“Initially, when I write, I always feel the need to seek an intimate connection with the story,” she said. “So my film will take place nowadays, Emmanuelle is a woman who is close to my age. I wanted...
Deadline reports that Noémie Merlant has stepped in to take the lead of the project, which was scripted by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (whose latest film Other People’s Children arrives this spring). With production set to kick off this September in Hong Kong followed by a likely 2024 premiere, Diwan shared some new details on her approach.
“Initially, when I write, I always feel the need to seek an intimate connection with the story,” she said. “So my film will take place nowadays, Emmanuelle is a woman who is close to my age. I wanted...
- 2/14/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Happening writer-director Audrey Diwan has recalibrated her English-language debut Emmanuelle, which is a working title. She has set Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) to star in a film that will begin production September in Hong Kong. Léa Seydoux had originally been attached to play the title character.
The Veterans and CAA Media Finance will be discussing the script with buyers at this week’s European Film Market.
Merlant gave her breakthrough performance in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and her recent work includes the Jacques Audiart-directed Paris, 13th District, the Louis Garrel-directed The Innocent, and she starred in her first English-speaking role opposite Cate Blanchett in the Oscar-nominated Todd Field-directed Tár.
The film is inspired by the character and world created by Emmanuelle Arsan. Diwan wrote the script with Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children). The new film will be produced by Chantelouve,...
The Veterans and CAA Media Finance will be discussing the script with buyers at this week’s European Film Market.
Merlant gave her breakthrough performance in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and her recent work includes the Jacques Audiart-directed Paris, 13th District, the Louis Garrel-directed The Innocent, and she starred in her first English-speaking role opposite Cate Blanchett in the Oscar-nominated Todd Field-directed Tár.
The film is inspired by the character and world created by Emmanuelle Arsan. Diwan wrote the script with Rebecca Zlotowski (Other People’s Children). The new film will be produced by Chantelouve,...
- 2/13/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cannes market ensures there is no shortage of news updates, and so we have another round-up. The talented Marielle Heller has found her next project as Variety reports she is set to direct Amy Adams in Nightbitch. The adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel is backed by Searchlight Pictures, which will release the film on Hulu. With production set to get underway this fall, Adams will lead as a woman who is “thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, who slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a canine.”
Following News of the World, Paul Greengrass has announced his next project. The Hood, set to star Benedict Cumberbatch, is a period piece depicting the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt. THR notes our lead will likely play a farmer leading the “major uprising,...
Following News of the World, Paul Greengrass has announced his next project. The Hood, set to star Benedict Cumberbatch, is a period piece depicting the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt. THR notes our lead will likely play a farmer leading the “major uprising,...
- 5/20/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Léa Seydoux, who is in two films at this year's Cannes is to reprise the role first played by Sylvia Kristel, right Photo: UniFrance One of the cult erotic film hits of the Seventies Emmanuelle is to be remade by Happening director Audrey Diwan - who received the Golden Lion in Venice last year -with Léa Seydoux in the title role originally taken by Sylvia Kristel.
The new adaptation from the 1959 novel by Emmanuelle Arsan has just been announced at the Cannes Film Festival. It will be made in English with a script developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski, who directed 2013 film Grand Central, which played at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. She is currently preparing her third feature, co-authored with Robin Campillo, while continuing to co-write with other directors.
Léa Seydoux will be the new Emmanuelle, pictured here in last year’s Cannes hit Deception by Arnaud Desplechin Photo:...
The new adaptation from the 1959 novel by Emmanuelle Arsan has just been announced at the Cannes Film Festival. It will be made in English with a script developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski, who directed 2013 film Grand Central, which played at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. She is currently preparing her third feature, co-authored with Robin Campillo, while continuing to co-write with other directors.
Léa Seydoux will be the new Emmanuelle, pictured here in last year’s Cannes hit Deception by Arnaud Desplechin Photo:...
- 5/17/2022
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Palme d'Or winning actor Léa Seydoux is set to star in filmmaker Audrey Diwan's reboot of the cult erotic novel, "Emmanuelle" (via The Hollywood Reporter).
Initially written in French by Emmanuelle Arsan, the book describes a string of erotic fantasies in various settings while exploring polyamory and bisexuality from the author's lens. French filmmaker Just Jaeckin went on to make a cinematic adaptation of the book in 1974, which went on to garner critical acclaim and spawned a string of sequels and adaptations.
The script for "Emmanuelle" is being developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski. While Diwan is best known for her film "Happening,"...
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Initially written in French by Emmanuelle Arsan, the book describes a string of erotic fantasies in various settings while exploring polyamory and bisexuality from the author's lens. French filmmaker Just Jaeckin went on to make a cinematic adaptation of the book in 1974, which went on to garner critical acclaim and spawned a string of sequels and adaptations.
The script for "Emmanuelle" is being developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski. While Diwan is best known for her film "Happening,"...
The post Léa Seydoux to Lead New Adaptation of Erotic Classic Emmanuelle appeared first on /Film.
- 5/16/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
‘Emmanuelle’: Lea Seydoux Reviving Iconic Erotic Character For Audrey Diwan’s English-Language Debut
Actress Lea Seydoux is heading to the Cannes Film Festival this month with both David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of The Future” and Mia Hansen-Love‘s “One Fine Morning.” The festival isn’t the only thing going on as the Cannes Market has led to the actress starring in “Emmanuelle,” a revival of the film based on French novelist Emmanuelle Arsan‘s iconic sex-positive autobiography, in an English-language reboot.
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- 5/16/2022
- by Christopher Marc
- The Playlist
Léa Seydoux and Audrey Diwan are teaming up for “Emmanuelle.” The film will mark the English-language directorial debut of Diwan, who has received critical raves and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “Happening,” the story of a woman obtaining an illegal abortion in the 1960s. Seydoux will play the title role in the film.
“Emmanuelle” was inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (“An Easy Girl”). The book centers on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel. Adaptation rights for Arsan’s book were acquired by Chantelouve (Marion Delord and Reginald de Guillebon), producers on the film.
The project was announced at the Cannes Film Festival, where Seydoux is premiering two films,...
“Emmanuelle” was inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and is based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski (“An Easy Girl”). The book centers on a woman and the series of erotic fantasies that she entertains. It was previously made into a 1974 film of the same name, directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel. Adaptation rights for Arsan’s book were acquired by Chantelouve (Marion Delord and Reginald de Guillebon), producers on the film.
The project was announced at the Cannes Film Festival, where Seydoux is premiering two films,...
- 5/16/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Palme d’Or winning actress Léa Seydoux will star in Happening filmmaker Audrey Diwan’s English-language directorial debut, Emmanuelle, inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel and based on a script co-developed by Diwan and Rebecca Zlotowski.
The Arsan book follows a young woman’s sexual journey from the arms of her husband to intimate encounters with the wives of his business associates, to further explorations wherein the philosophical and aesthetic facets of eroticism are expounded—and enacted—to the fullest degree.
Diwan’s second feature, Happening, adapted from Annie Ernaux’s book recounting her illegal abortion in the 1960s, received the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival; four César Award nominations, including a win for Most Promising Newcomer for Anamaria Vartolomei; and a BAFTA Award nomination; among other honors. The pic features a cast of stellar emerging French acting talent including Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet-Klein and Luana Bajrami.
Diwan’s feature directorial debut,...
The Arsan book follows a young woman’s sexual journey from the arms of her husband to intimate encounters with the wives of his business associates, to further explorations wherein the philosophical and aesthetic facets of eroticism are expounded—and enacted—to the fullest degree.
Diwan’s second feature, Happening, adapted from Annie Ernaux’s book recounting her illegal abortion in the 1960s, received the Golden Lion at the 2021 Venice Film Festival; four César Award nominations, including a win for Most Promising Newcomer for Anamaria Vartolomei; and a BAFTA Award nomination; among other honors. The pic features a cast of stellar emerging French acting talent including Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet-Klein and Luana Bajrami.
Diwan’s feature directorial debut,...
- 5/16/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Berlin Review: ‘Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves’ is a Contemplative Epic
There’s universality to Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie‘s Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves, even if it is very much a Québécois film. In their second collaboration (after 2011’s Laurentie), the two were desperate to tell a tale about young radicals on the cusp of disillusionment after the failed Maple Spring protests, an infamous series of student demonstrations and strikes fighting back against the government’s proposed tuition hike for universities. Here was a generation emboldened to be confrontational and show their conviction to the world, only to find the war fizzling out after one hundred days and the new term seeing students go back to class. What of those who relented? What of those who would never give up?
These are the upstarts threatening revolution that countries around the globe hope to spark when injustice rears its head. To band together for a...
These are the upstarts threatening revolution that countries around the globe hope to spark when injustice rears its head. To band together for a...
- 2/13/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
'Emmanuelle' movies producer Alain Siritzky dead at 72 (photo: Sylvia Kristel in 'Emmanuelle' 1974) Emmanuelle franchise producer Alain Siritzky died after what has been described as "a short illness" on Saturday, October 11, 2014, at a Paris hospital. Siritzky, whose credits include dozens of Emmanuelle movies and direct-to-video efforts, several of which starring Sylvia Kristel in the title role, was 72. Ironically, Alain Siritzky didn't produce the original, epoch-making 1974 Emmanuelle. He became involved in that Yves Rousset-Rouard production via his Parafrance Films, which distributed Emmanuelle in France. 'Emmanuelle': 1974 movie sensation A couple of years after the release of Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones (not to mention Boys in the Sand and Eyes of a Stranger), and the year after Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider sparked a furor by having simulated sex in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, the 1974 French release Emmanuelle still managed to become a worldwide cause célèbre.
- 10/15/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Alain Siritzky, best known for producing the Emmanuelle series of erotic films, died Saturday in a Paris hospital after a short illness, his family told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 72. In the early 1970s, Siritzky acquired the audiovisual rights to the popular 1959 novel Emmanuelle by Frenchwoman Emmanuelle Arsan. He then distributed Emmanuelle (1974), which starred Dutch actress and model Sylvia Kristel as the promiscuous wife of a French diplomat. See more Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 The “soft-core” movie, filmed in Bangkok, was an immediate sensation in France and would play on the Champs Elysees for 13
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- 10/14/2014
- by Mike Barnes, George Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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