We present interviews for The Three Musketeers: Milady, directed by Martin Bourboulon based on Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 novel The Three Musketeers.
It is the second film of a two-part epic saga and was preceded by The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan. The film stars François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Pio Marmaï, Romain Duris, and Eva Green. It also stars Lyna Khoudri as Constance Bonacieux, Louis Garrel as King Louis Xiii, Vicky Krieps as Anne of Austria, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Duke of Buckingham, Alexis Michalik as Villeneuve de Radis, Patrick Mille as Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord, and Ivan Franek as Ardanza.
The film will be released on the 15th of December, 2023, here are the interviews.
Plot:
Constance Bonacieux is kidnapped before D’Artagnan’s very eyes. In a frantic quest to save her, the young musketeer, aided by Athos, Porthos and Aramis, is forced to join forces with the mysterious Milady de Winter.
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It is the second film of a two-part epic saga and was preceded by The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan. The film stars François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Pio Marmaï, Romain Duris, and Eva Green. It also stars Lyna Khoudri as Constance Bonacieux, Louis Garrel as King Louis Xiii, Vicky Krieps as Anne of Austria, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Duke of Buckingham, Alexis Michalik as Villeneuve de Radis, Patrick Mille as Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord, and Ivan Franek as Ardanza.
The film will be released on the 15th of December, 2023, here are the interviews.
Plot:
Constance Bonacieux is kidnapped before D’Artagnan’s very eyes. In a frantic quest to save her, the young musketeer, aided by Athos, Porthos and Aramis, is forced to join forces with the mysterious Milady de Winter.
The post The Three Musketeers...
- 12/13/2023
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Here’s the striking first official image of Kate Winslet as Lee Miller in feature Lee.
The image, shot during filming on location in Croatia, shows Oscar winner Winslet as the pioneering American photographer who covered WWII in Europe for British Vogue.
Filming is ongoing on the directorial debut of respected cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind).
The film is not being called a biopic by Winslet and the producers, but it does explore the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse and defied expectations by travelling to Europe to report from the frontline. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What Lee captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific.
The image, shot during filming on location in Croatia, shows Oscar winner Winslet as the pioneering American photographer who covered WWII in Europe for British Vogue.
Filming is ongoing on the directorial debut of respected cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind).
The film is not being called a biopic by Winslet and the producers, but it does explore the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse and defied expectations by travelling to Europe to report from the frontline. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What Lee captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific.
- 10/27/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: French company also unveils first deals on Jean-Claude Brisseau’s erotic 3D drama Tempting Devils.
Paris-based genre specialist WTFilms has taken on international sales of mainstream, same-sex romantic comedy Kiss Me! (Embrasse Moi!) in which the protagonist falls for a woman with 76 ex-girlfriends and a crazy family.
The company will kick-off sales on the title, which is in post-production, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema this week.
French stand-up comedian Océanerosemarie – best known for her one woman show La Lesbienne Invisible – makes her directorial and big screen debut in the film.
She plays a happy-go-lucky osteopath who falls for the beautiful Cécile, an artist who has taken a personal vow of celibacy after a series of failed relationships.
Alice Pol plays Cécile. The actress’s other recent credits include Dany Boon’s latest comedy Raid Special Unit (Raid Dingue) in which she co-stars as a hopeless special police force recruit. That film is...
Paris-based genre specialist WTFilms has taken on international sales of mainstream, same-sex romantic comedy Kiss Me! (Embrasse Moi!) in which the protagonist falls for a woman with 76 ex-girlfriends and a crazy family.
The company will kick-off sales on the title, which is in post-production, at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema this week.
French stand-up comedian Océanerosemarie – best known for her one woman show La Lesbienne Invisible – makes her directorial and big screen debut in the film.
She plays a happy-go-lucky osteopath who falls for the beautiful Cécile, an artist who has taken a personal vow of celibacy after a series of failed relationships.
Alice Pol plays Cécile. The actress’s other recent credits include Dany Boon’s latest comedy Raid Special Unit (Raid Dingue) in which she co-stars as a hopeless special police force recruit. That film is...
- 1/11/2017
- ScreenDaily
Marc Allégret: From André Gide lover to Simone Simon mentor (photo: Marc Allégret) (See previous post: "Simone Simon Remembered: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale.") Simone Simon became a film star following the international critical and financial success of the 1934 romantic drama Lac aux Dames, directed by her self-appointed mentor – and alleged lover – Marc Allégret.[1] The son of an evangelical missionary, Marc Allégret (born on December 22, 1900, in Basel, Switzerland) was to have become a lawyer. At age 16, his life took a different path as a result of his romantic involvement – and elopement to London – with his mentor and later "adoptive uncle" André Gide (1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature), more than 30 years his senior and married to Madeleine Rondeaux for more than two decades. In various forms – including a threesome with painter Théo Van Rysselberghe's daughter Elisabeth – the Allégret-Gide relationship remained steady until the late '20s and their trip to...
- 2/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The first trailer for Brian De Palma's erotic thriller Passion starring Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace has landed online in advance of its screening at the Toronto Film Festival. The film is a remake of the late Alain Corneau's French film Love Crime which starred the trio of Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas and Patrick Mille. De Palma's remake centers on the relationship between a woman (McAdams) and her innocent and easily manipulated protégé (Rapace). The trailer features about what you would expect from a De Palma film, tone-wise and the tension between McAdams and Rapace is pretty serious. De Palma hasn't directed a movie since 2007's Redacted, though his last prominent film was 2006's The Black Dahlia. In addition to screening...
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- 8/23/2012
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
There are no really good male roles in Alain Corneau's 2010 French thriller Love Crime. While Kristen Scott Thomas' character does a boyfriend, played by Patrick Mille, that she uses to manipulate the young protagonist (Ludivine Sagnier), but the real heart of the story lies in the conflict between the hero and the villain. Hence why it's such a shame that a talented actor like Dominic Cooper has signed on to Brian De Palma's remake. MediaBiz (via The Playlist) has learned that Cooper and Karoline Herfurth have both signed on for unspecified roles in the DePalma movie, which has been titled Passion. The film is already set to star Rachel McAdams (in the Sagnier part) and Noomi Rapace (who takes over for Scott Thomas). While the remake will change the story a bit, the original Corneau film is about a woman who is set up by her boss and...
- 2/22/2012
- cinemablend.com
Brian De Palma, director of such classic films as Scarface, The Untouchables, and Dressed To Kill, is set to go behind the camera for the first time since 2007’s Redacted, with Passion, a remake of the recent French thriller, Love Crime.
Noomi Rapace, famous for her role as Lisbeth Salander in the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo films, is set to star as one of the two female leads, and her co-star on the upcoming Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (due out tomorrow), Rachel McAdams, is now in talks to join as the other female lead, Collider report.
The original film starred Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier in the leads, and the trailer (which you can watch below) looks pretty intriguing, making the prospect of an English language remake under the direction of De Palma, with Rapace and McAdams in the leads, pretty damn interesting too.
Noomi Rapace, famous for her role as Lisbeth Salander in the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo films, is set to star as one of the two female leads, and her co-star on the upcoming Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (due out tomorrow), Rachel McAdams, is now in talks to join as the other female lead, Collider report.
The original film starred Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier in the leads, and the trailer (which you can watch below) looks pretty intriguing, making the prospect of an English language remake under the direction of De Palma, with Rapace and McAdams in the leads, pretty damn interesting too.
- 12/15/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The new French film Love Crime is an absorbing corporate thriller that examines the lethal alliances of women in power. The final work from Alain Corneau (acclaimed director of lots of French films I haven’t seen), Love Crime pits actresses Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier against each other in a tale of office politics and one-upsmanship turned deadly. The plot, a wonderfully twisty affair filled with ingenious turns, is a pleasure to watch as it unfolds. Christine (Scott Thomas), a ruthless top exec in the Paris office of an American-owned multinational corporation, has it all; money, an expensively-decorated penthouse, and younger boy-toy Philippe (Patrick Mille), a shady lawyer working for her by day. Best of all, she has her bright young assistant Isabelle (Sagnier), devoted despite the menacing and sadistic undertones in their relationship. She enjoys toying with Isabelle’s innocence and teaching her the hard lessons of her cold-blooded professional philosophy.
- 10/7/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Love Crime (Crime D’amour)
Directed by Alain Corneau
Screenplay by Alain Corneau and Nathalie Carter
France, 2010
When two people match wits and try to outmaneuver one-another in a bit of ill-intended one-upmanship, it’s often referred to as ‘cat and mouse.’ Love Crime, the odd film that is both unexpectedly (and perhaps unintentionally) hilarious and frightening at the same time, is rather a game of ‘cat and cat.’
The first cat is Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas). Tall, elegant, and with an ambitious killer instinct, Christine ruthlessly heads a global company at the expense of anyone in her path. Cat number two is Isabelle Guérin (Ludivine Sagnier). Christine’s right-hand-woman, Isabelle, is tightly wound (“Let your hair down,” Christine tells her), dedicated to Christine, and whip-smart.
Falling between them is Philippe (Patrick Mille), whose company holds accounts with Christine’s. Both women sleep with Philippe within the first fifteen minutes of Love Crime and,...
Directed by Alain Corneau
Screenplay by Alain Corneau and Nathalie Carter
France, 2010
When two people match wits and try to outmaneuver one-another in a bit of ill-intended one-upmanship, it’s often referred to as ‘cat and mouse.’ Love Crime, the odd film that is both unexpectedly (and perhaps unintentionally) hilarious and frightening at the same time, is rather a game of ‘cat and cat.’
The first cat is Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas). Tall, elegant, and with an ambitious killer instinct, Christine ruthlessly heads a global company at the expense of anyone in her path. Cat number two is Isabelle Guérin (Ludivine Sagnier). Christine’s right-hand-woman, Isabelle, is tightly wound (“Let your hair down,” Christine tells her), dedicated to Christine, and whip-smart.
Falling between them is Philippe (Patrick Mille), whose company holds accounts with Christine’s. Both women sleep with Philippe within the first fifteen minutes of Love Crime and,...
- 10/4/2011
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
Title: Love Crime Director: Alain Corneau Starring: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille, Guillaume Marquet Interpersonal chess matches always provide audiences with ample amounts of intrigue no matter what the backdrop. Love Crime is a 104 minute French film that has three characters relying on their resources and wits to bury each other. Naturally this all gets going due to some sort of crime of passion scenario based off jealously. Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) is a top executive at a worldwide corporation in Paris, France. She loyally attends to the refined & charming CEO, Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas). This is Isabelle’s life and Christine has been nothing short than a...
- 9/5/2011
- by joe
- ShockYa
Title: Love Crime Directed By: Alain Corneau Written By: Alain Corneau, Nathalie Carter Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille, Guillaume Marquet Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 8/16/11 Opens: September 2, 2011 Director Alain Corneau and co-scripter Nathalie Carter are dangerous people. Watch out. Their intricately plotted tale of love and skullduggery shows them to be capable of the perfect crime. Though Mr. Corneau died recently, I would guess that Nathalie Carter could likely work out a robbery, a kidnapping, a murder and assuredly get away with these felonies. That’s how credible and involving is this complex tale of love, sex, envy, and humiliation—all the things that make office...
- 8/17/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Writers: Alain Corneau (scenario, adaptation, dialogue), Nathalie Carter (scenario, adaptation, dialogue)
Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille, Guillaume Marquet
What does it mean to be a mentor to someone? What does it mean to have a mentor? This type of relationship can become a precarious balance with the mentor not wanting to help the person they are guiding to become more successful than themselves while the person being mentored could worry that, in becoming more successful, they appear ungrateful. Love Crime explores this volatile relationship between Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) and her mentor, Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas).
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Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Mille, Guillaume Marquet
What does it mean to be a mentor to someone? What does it mean to have a mentor? This type of relationship can become a precarious balance with the mentor not wanting to help the person they are guiding to become more successful than themselves while the person being mentored could worry that, in becoming more successful, they appear ungrateful. Love Crime explores this volatile relationship between Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) and her mentor, Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Read more on Laff 2011 Review: Love Crime...
- 6/27/2011
- by Allison Loring
- GordonandtheWhale
The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
- 5/30/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
For younger readers, Bob Geldof is the man whose daughter is draped across faux-chastising articles in the Daily Mail and various other of Britain’s wealth of morally “flexible” tabloid publications and, occasionally, painful and abortive television programmes. If you are nearing adulthood- at least legally- then you will be aware that Geldof organised a pop concert in which poverty was made history, somewhere during the second chorus of “Yellow” by Coldplay. If you are depressingly old (i.e. over thirty) then you will be primarily cognisant of Geldof through his first charity concert, Live Aid, swearing at the British public and, possibly, his now almost forgotten punk band, The Boomtown Rats.
But in between ushering the planet to the utopia in which we now all find ourselves and having embarrassing offspring, Geldof had a quieter- and admittedly brief- dual strand as an artist on the silver screen. In addition to several cameos as himself,...
But in between ushering the planet to the utopia in which we now all find ourselves and having embarrassing offspring, Geldof had a quieter- and admittedly brief- dual strand as an artist on the silver screen. In addition to several cameos as himself,...
- 3/17/2011
- by Ben Szwediuk
- Obsessed with Film
I hate to sound like an old fogy, but boy, they sure don’t make ‘em like they used to. And by ‘em, I mean spoof movies in the Zucker mold (specifically Airplane and The Naked Gun) that were amusing enough at the time, but in retrospect have come to seem like small miracles in comparison with the films that they have inspired. Vampire Party is just one of those films, and it does absolutely nothing to better the image of the parody film as lazy, uninspired, and more irritating than funny. But unlike Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, and Superhero Movie, this is from France.
Sam (Patrick Mille), Alice (Frederique Bel), and Prune (Julie Fournier) are young people who (as is clearly established in the opening narration, perhaps the only very French touch in the whole movie) love to party.
Sam (Patrick Mille), Alice (Frederique Bel), and Prune (Julie Fournier) are young people who (as is clearly established in the opening narration, perhaps the only very French touch in the whole movie) love to party.
- 12/2/2009
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
According to a friend who is, apparently, more connected within the bowels of the horror news industry than I am, the following trailer has been making the rounds online since late last year. I guess I’m late the party — no pun intended — because I’ve never heard of Stephen Cafiero and Vincent Lobelle’s 2008 French horror/comedy “Vampire Party” until today. And despite the language barrier that exists between myself and the endlessly amusing trailer posted below, I’m actually kind of jazzed about it’s upcoming November 17th release date, which comes courtesy of Dark Sky Films. As it turns out, I have absolutely nothing to do that day. Coincidence? Not really. Then again, I’m not exactly a social butterfly, either. I suppose that goes without saying. Here’s what it’s all about: Best friends and hardcore partiers Sam (Patrick Mille), Alice (Frédérique Bel), and Prune...
- 9/29/2009
- by Todd
- Beyond Hollywood
We all love parties, and what could be more fun than one thrown by a group of vampires? We'll all find out come November 17th when Dark Sky Films releases the French horror/comedy Vampire Party (Les dents de la nuit) onto DVD. The film was co-directed by first-timers (according to IMDb) Stephen Cafiero and Vincent Lobelle, who also co-wrote the script with Jean-Patrick Benes and Allan Mauduit.
Here's the official synopsis from Amazon: Best friends and hardcore partiers Sam (Patrick Mille), Alice (Frédérique Bel), and Prune (Julie Fournier) have scored invitations to Medici Night, the legendary VIP bash held every year at a remote castle. But when they discover that this wild party is being thrown by an elite race of blood-crazed vampires, they'll have to stake, stab, slice, bludgeon, and blast their way out of a soiree where the hosts are thirsty and the bar is now open.
Here's the official synopsis from Amazon: Best friends and hardcore partiers Sam (Patrick Mille), Alice (Frédérique Bel), and Prune (Julie Fournier) have scored invitations to Medici Night, the legendary VIP bash held every year at a remote castle. But when they discover that this wild party is being thrown by an elite race of blood-crazed vampires, they'll have to stake, stab, slice, bludgeon, and blast their way out of a soiree where the hosts are thirsty and the bar is now open.
- 9/28/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The revival of Star Trek has arrived in theaters amidst a continuing trend of re-imagings, reboots, and origin stories. J.J. Abrams has somehow managed to make the science fiction franchise new again through a simple re-telling of how the famous crew was formed. Last weekend, X-Men Origins: Wolverine separated the character from the mutant team to delve into his violent past. Later this month in Terminator Salvation a new trilogy of old, yet futuristic Terminators will terrorize humans again.
Though the movie may have been a timely collision with the zeitgeist, perhaps there’s a more important movement Abrams hadn’t intended to align with. A fashion statement so deeply woven into society that maybe you hadn’t even noticed it. I’m talking, of course, about crazy eyebrows.
Zachary Quinto had to shave his ordinary looking ‘brows to then achieve Spock’s two furrowed examples of crazy eyebrow excellence.
Though the movie may have been a timely collision with the zeitgeist, perhaps there’s a more important movement Abrams hadn’t intended to align with. A fashion statement so deeply woven into society that maybe you hadn’t even noticed it. I’m talking, of course, about crazy eyebrows.
Zachary Quinto had to shave his ordinary looking ‘brows to then achieve Spock’s two furrowed examples of crazy eyebrow excellence.
- 5/10/2009
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
Year: 2008
Directors: Stephen Cafiero & Vincent Lobelle
Writers: Stephen Cafiero & Vincent Lobelle & Jean-Patrick Benes & Allan Mauduit
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
From it's Fearless Vampire Killers inspired opening credits onwards Stephen Cafiero and Vincent Lobelle's French vampire comedy keeps it's tongue firmly in cheek. An 'Airplane!' style spoof film with around 10 jokes a minute it cannot fail to entertain, despite several cringe inducing moments of complete stupidity. A deliberately clichéd plot sees three friends invited to a private party held in a spooky castle in the countryside. Sam Polisatokoniminsky (Patrick Mille) is a party animal who gets his kicks any which way he can, his friend Alice (Frédérique Bel) is a gorgeous, blonde aerobics instructor and Prune (Julie Fournier), is a tough minded business woman with a wild streak. After meeting a mysterious stranger (is there any other kind?) at a bar, they manage...
Directors: Stephen Cafiero & Vincent Lobelle
Writers: Stephen Cafiero & Vincent Lobelle & Jean-Patrick Benes & Allan Mauduit
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
From it's Fearless Vampire Killers inspired opening credits onwards Stephen Cafiero and Vincent Lobelle's French vampire comedy keeps it's tongue firmly in cheek. An 'Airplane!' style spoof film with around 10 jokes a minute it cannot fail to entertain, despite several cringe inducing moments of complete stupidity. A deliberately clichéd plot sees three friends invited to a private party held in a spooky castle in the countryside. Sam Polisatokoniminsky (Patrick Mille) is a party animal who gets his kicks any which way he can, his friend Alice (Frédérique Bel) is a gorgeous, blonde aerobics instructor and Prune (Julie Fournier), is a tough minded business woman with a wild streak. After meeting a mysterious stranger (is there any other kind?) at a bar, they manage...
- 5/5/2009
- QuietEarth.us
In The Spotlight – Degrassi: The Next Generation, Clara Sheller, and River City
This week we look at three very different series that hail from three different countries. But all have one thing in common: each tell interesting and intriguing stories about the lives and loves of gay men.
First up, Degrassi: The Next Generation and ‘The Life of Riley’.
Riley Stavros, played by Argiris Karras, is the long running Canadian teen drama’s latest entry in its much-lauded history of depicting the lives of gay characters. But two recent episodes clearly showed Riley is very different from Degrassi’s last gay character, Marco (out actor Adamo Ruggiero). Where Marco was openly gay and never struggled with his sexual identity, it’s been nothing but a constant battle for Riley. In fact, he hates being gay and desperately wishes things were different. But as we see in this first clip, he...
This week we look at three very different series that hail from three different countries. But all have one thing in common: each tell interesting and intriguing stories about the lives and loves of gay men.
First up, Degrassi: The Next Generation and ‘The Life of Riley’.
Riley Stavros, played by Argiris Karras, is the long running Canadian teen drama’s latest entry in its much-lauded history of depicting the lives of gay characters. But two recent episodes clearly showed Riley is very different from Degrassi’s last gay character, Marco (out actor Adamo Ruggiero). Where Marco was openly gay and never struggled with his sexual identity, it’s been nothing but a constant battle for Riley. In fact, he hates being gay and desperately wishes things were different. But as we see in this first clip, he...
- 3/2/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
In The Spotlight – River City
When we last took a peek at BBC Scotland drama River City, gay graphic designer Scott Wallace had lost the child he cared about — not to mention the guy he cared about. Since that storyline wrapped up, Scott has pretty much disappeared; however, a few weeks ago, the show introduced an intriguing new gay character in the very nice form of construction worker Nathan Simpson, played by James Daffern.
When Nathan set up shop in River City, he immediately found himself attracted to bartender Rory Murdoch, played by out actor David Paisley. While Rory was flattered by Nathan’s attentions, Rory is straight … or so he says.
David Paisley (Rory) and James Daffern (Nathan)
When Rory arrived in River City for Christmas back in 2007, he found himself clashing with his father, Lenny, the local gangster in town. Rory has never been involved in his father...
When we last took a peek at BBC Scotland drama River City, gay graphic designer Scott Wallace had lost the child he cared about — not to mention the guy he cared about. Since that storyline wrapped up, Scott has pretty much disappeared; however, a few weeks ago, the show introduced an intriguing new gay character in the very nice form of construction worker Nathan Simpson, played by James Daffern.
When Nathan set up shop in River City, he immediately found himself attracted to bartender Rory Murdoch, played by out actor David Paisley. While Rory was flattered by Nathan’s attentions, Rory is straight … or so he says.
David Paisley (Rory) and James Daffern (Nathan)
When Rory arrived in River City for Christmas back in 2007, he found himself clashing with his father, Lenny, the local gangster in town. Rory has never been involved in his father...
- 2/16/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
Degrassi: The Next Generation has a long history of prominent gay characters and this season is no exception. Earlier this year we met Riley Stavros, a teenager struggling with his sexuality, unable to accept that he is gay. With an episode featuring Riley set to air this week on The N, we decided to chat via e-mail with Argiris Karras, who plays the troubled young man, to get his thoughts on his role.
Argiris Karras
AfterElton.com: Tell us something about yourself. How old are you? Where are you from? What do you do for fun? What kind of music do you listen to?
Argiris Karras: I'm 19 years old and I was born in Toronto, Ontario, one of the greatest cities around!
For fun I often chill with my friends and do a whole bunch of random things such as play soccer and video games, watch movies and listen to music.
Argiris Karras
AfterElton.com: Tell us something about yourself. How old are you? Where are you from? What do you do for fun? What kind of music do you listen to?
Argiris Karras: I'm 19 years old and I was born in Toronto, Ontario, one of the greatest cities around!
For fun I often chill with my friends and do a whole bunch of random things such as play soccer and video games, watch movies and listen to music.
- 2/9/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
Getting To Know … Shameless
The love life of gay teenager Ian Gallagher (Gerard Kearns) on the U.K. series Shameless has never been easy. Whether it’s having to steal a bed just so he can have sex with his hot new boyfriend (somehow landing in prison because of it), trying to keep his ongoing affair with a married man a secret, or that fling with a homophobic drug dealer who has a strange sexual quirk (big surprise), something always comes along to make finding love (or just getting laid) a trying ordeal for poor Ian.
Gerard Kearns as Ian Gallagher
Shameless, which airs on Channel 4, the same network that brings us Hollyoaks, is a dark and perverse comedy/drama about the twisted lives of the extremely dysfunctional Gallagher family, as well as their friends and their enemies. Created by Paul Abbott, who is also the executive producer, the series...
The love life of gay teenager Ian Gallagher (Gerard Kearns) on the U.K. series Shameless has never been easy. Whether it’s having to steal a bed just so he can have sex with his hot new boyfriend (somehow landing in prison because of it), trying to keep his ongoing affair with a married man a secret, or that fling with a homophobic drug dealer who has a strange sexual quirk (big surprise), something always comes along to make finding love (or just getting laid) a trying ordeal for poor Ian.
Gerard Kearns as Ian Gallagher
Shameless, which airs on Channel 4, the same network that brings us Hollyoaks, is a dark and perverse comedy/drama about the twisted lives of the extremely dysfunctional Gallagher family, as well as their friends and their enemies. Created by Paul Abbott, who is also the executive producer, the series...
- 1/26/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
In this edition of Gays Of Our Lives, we introduce “In The Spotlight,” a new recurring feature where we examine in depth a particular series, character or storyline of gay interest.
First up, Casualty’s Dr. Toby De Silva, played by Matthew Needham, who bid goodbye this past week to the long running BBC medical series after a story arc during which the character struggled not only with his sexuality, but with his decision to become a doctor as well.
When Toby first joined the show in September 2007, his conflict over whether or not to be a doctor was quickly apparent as we learned that his overbearing parents had forced him into medicine. And while his relationships with women were rare, fleeting and usually disastrous, there hadn’t been much of an inkling regarding Toby being gay – at least not until he was found in bed with Ben Harding (Mark Letheren...
First up, Casualty’s Dr. Toby De Silva, played by Matthew Needham, who bid goodbye this past week to the long running BBC medical series after a story arc during which the character struggled not only with his sexuality, but with his decision to become a doctor as well.
When Toby first joined the show in September 2007, his conflict over whether or not to be a doctor was quickly apparent as we learned that his overbearing parents had forced him into medicine. And while his relationships with women were rare, fleeting and usually disastrous, there hadn’t been much of an inkling regarding Toby being gay – at least not until he was found in bed with Ben Harding (Mark Letheren...
- 1/12/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
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- 8/27/2008
- by PopSugar
- Popsugar.com
PARIS -- Adapted from Frederic Beigbeder's novel of the same title -- one of the biggest French best-sellers of recent years -- and starring the very bankable Jean Dujardin (Brice de Nice, 0SS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies), Jan Kounen's 99 Francs represents a scathing -- for France -- satire on the advertising industry, one that is likely to do excellent business in its home territory.
Dujardin plays Octave Parango, whizz-kid creative director of the advertising agency Ross and Witchcraft whom we first meet standing on the roof of a skyscraper in driving rain apparently bent on committing suicide. In voice-over -- there is a great deal of VO and direct address to camera -- Octave explains that he is the master of the world, the man who decides today what Joe Public will want to buy tomorrow. And that he is a very bad lot indeed.
He then leads us through the stages of his career, presenting his colleagues -- fellow creator Charlie (Jocelyn Quivrin), finance director Jeff (Patrick Mille), girlfriend Sophie (Vahina Giocante) -- and CEO Alfred Duler (Nicolas Marie), of his leading client, a major dairy products manufacturer.
Quite how bad a lot he is becomes rapidly apparent as the film watches him snort large quantities of cocaine and vent his cynical wit on all around him. When Sophie informs him that she is pregnant with his child, he proves incapable of producing an authentic human response. But he is lucid enough and decides finally to rebel, notably by sabotaging the launch of a new brand of yogurt.
Comparable with last year's Thank you for Smoking, Jason Reitman's acerbic take on lobbyists for Big Tobacco, 99 Francs is strong stuff for France where advertisers traditionally wield considerable influence among television broadcasters who in turn have a major say as regards which movies get made.
Kounen, working from a script by Nicolas Charlet and Bruno Laveine with some impromptu input by Dujardin, pulls few punches in his portrayal of advertising agencies as dens of narcissistic, coke-fueled opportunists on the make. Having made 30 or so ads himself, mostly in England, he presumably knows something of what he is talking about. His approach is not always subtle, and cliche is always lurking, but the movie is constantly inventive and the jokes score more hits than misses.
Some of the humor will fall flat with non-French audiences, but the movie is also dotted with references to well-known movie directors such as Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick, Wong Kar-Wai and Federico Fellini. Kounen is more interested in effects than in narrative clarity. The reality status of a number of scenes appears problematic -- real, pastiche, publicity or drug-induced fantasy? -- though in this the movie reflects the novel.
The pace is fast and furious. Since Kounen deploys the techniques of advertising the better to debunk them, he risks burdening the spectator with sensory overload. But it's all good fun with real bite, and France's best-known yogurt manufacturer will not be best pleased to see its brand name lightly disguised as Madone.
99 FRANCS
Film 99 Francs, Pathe, Arte France Cinema
Credits:
Director: Jan Kounen
Writers: Nicolas Charlet, Bruno Laveine, Jan Kounen
Producer: Ilan Goldman
Director of photography: David Ungaro
Production designer: Michel Barthelemy
Music: Jean-Jacques Hertz, Francois Roy
Costume designer: Sylvie Ong, Claire Lacaze
Editor: Anny Danche
Cast:
Octave Parango: Jean Dujardin
Charlie: Jocelyn Quivrin
Jeff: Patrick Mille
Sophie: Vahina Giocante
Tamara: Elisa Tovati
Duler: Nicolas Marie
Jean-Christian Gagnant: Dominique Bettenfeld
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Dujardin plays Octave Parango, whizz-kid creative director of the advertising agency Ross and Witchcraft whom we first meet standing on the roof of a skyscraper in driving rain apparently bent on committing suicide. In voice-over -- there is a great deal of VO and direct address to camera -- Octave explains that he is the master of the world, the man who decides today what Joe Public will want to buy tomorrow. And that he is a very bad lot indeed.
He then leads us through the stages of his career, presenting his colleagues -- fellow creator Charlie (Jocelyn Quivrin), finance director Jeff (Patrick Mille), girlfriend Sophie (Vahina Giocante) -- and CEO Alfred Duler (Nicolas Marie), of his leading client, a major dairy products manufacturer.
Quite how bad a lot he is becomes rapidly apparent as the film watches him snort large quantities of cocaine and vent his cynical wit on all around him. When Sophie informs him that she is pregnant with his child, he proves incapable of producing an authentic human response. But he is lucid enough and decides finally to rebel, notably by sabotaging the launch of a new brand of yogurt.
Comparable with last year's Thank you for Smoking, Jason Reitman's acerbic take on lobbyists for Big Tobacco, 99 Francs is strong stuff for France where advertisers traditionally wield considerable influence among television broadcasters who in turn have a major say as regards which movies get made.
Kounen, working from a script by Nicolas Charlet and Bruno Laveine with some impromptu input by Dujardin, pulls few punches in his portrayal of advertising agencies as dens of narcissistic, coke-fueled opportunists on the make. Having made 30 or so ads himself, mostly in England, he presumably knows something of what he is talking about. His approach is not always subtle, and cliche is always lurking, but the movie is constantly inventive and the jokes score more hits than misses.
Some of the humor will fall flat with non-French audiences, but the movie is also dotted with references to well-known movie directors such as Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick, Wong Kar-Wai and Federico Fellini. Kounen is more interested in effects than in narrative clarity. The reality status of a number of scenes appears problematic -- real, pastiche, publicity or drug-induced fantasy? -- though in this the movie reflects the novel.
The pace is fast and furious. Since Kounen deploys the techniques of advertising the better to debunk them, he risks burdening the spectator with sensory overload. But it's all good fun with real bite, and France's best-known yogurt manufacturer will not be best pleased to see its brand name lightly disguised as Madone.
99 FRANCS
Film 99 Francs, Pathe, Arte France Cinema
Credits:
Director: Jan Kounen
Writers: Nicolas Charlet, Bruno Laveine, Jan Kounen
Producer: Ilan Goldman
Director of photography: David Ungaro
Production designer: Michel Barthelemy
Music: Jean-Jacques Hertz, Francois Roy
Costume designer: Sylvie Ong, Claire Lacaze
Editor: Anny Danche
Cast:
Octave Parango: Jean Dujardin
Charlie: Jocelyn Quivrin
Jeff: Patrick Mille
Sophie: Vahina Giocante
Tamara: Elisa Tovati
Duler: Nicolas Marie
Jean-Christian Gagnant: Dominique Bettenfeld
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/2/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Opened March 29 (France)
PARIS -- "The Valet", Francis Veber's latest offering, remains faithful to the formula -- broad farce leavened with witty dialogue -- that has made him France's most bankable comedy writer-director and a surefire hit with international audiences. The humor of "Valet" is occasionally predictable, but the movie rattles through its paces and is likely to please across a wide spectrum, not that it will rival the boxoffice success of his "The Dinner Game" (1998).
As usual, Veber's plot turns on a fall guy named Francois Pignon. This time around, Pignon (Gad Elmaleh), an unassuming car valet at a posh Paris hotel, gets caught up in a multimillionaire businessman's infidelities when a paparazzo snaps him -- an innocent passer-by -- in a photo showing the tycoon emerging from a clinch with the famous model Elena (Alice Taglioni).
The tycoon, Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil), egged on by his scheming lawyer, Maitre Foix (Richard Berry), attempts to avoid a breakup with his wife, Christine Kristin Scott Thomas) -- who also happens to own a majority share in his company -- by paying Pignon a large sum of money to pretend to be the man Elena had been kissing in the street. He will have to pretend to have persuaded her to move in with him in his down-at-heel apartment.
A tall order, given the gulf in their fortunes and social standings, but Pignon, whose proposal of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Emilie (Virginie Ledoyen), has just been turned down and who needs the money for his own purposes, agrees to play along.
Meanwhile, given the total implausibility of the scheme, Christine has got her own lawyer on the job, and Pignon, while attempting to explain the situation to his goggle-eyed flatmate and fellow valet, Richard (Dany Boon), finds himself under close surveillance by teams of snoops and snappers representing the rival parties.
Meanwhile, Emilie, who works in a bookshop and is being rabidly courted by cocksure cell-phone salesman Pascal (Patrick Mille), is stunned by the apparent upturn in Pignon's romantic fortunes.
And so the complications pile up in the best traditions of bedroom -- and occasionally boardroom -- farce, leading up to the inevitable happy ending with Levasseur receiving a satisfying comeuppance.
Although it touches fleetingly on issues relating to celebrity, privacy and sexual jealousy, "Valet" is designed purely as entertainment. There is no attempt to append a message or a moral, and there certainly is nothing to trouble ratings authorities.
The production hinges on a first-rate performance in the central role by Elmaleh, who succeeds on the principle of achieving more by emoting less. He leaves the comic gesticulations to Auteuil -- who played the Pignon role in Veber's 2001 movie "The Closet" -- and Boon, who, like Elmaleh, has until recently been better known as a stand-up performer in one-man shows.
Veber's firm direction of the actors is never in doubt. Berry as the unscrupulous corporate lawyer is the standout, but there is across-the-board professionalism from the cast, including relative newcomer Taglioni, whose impersonation of a top model is convincing enough to the untrained eye, and Scott Thomas, whose French contains just the barest hint of an English accent. There also is a brief appearance by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, impersonating himself.
THE VALET
Gaumont, Efve Films, TF1 Films Production, Kairos
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Francis Veber
Producer: Patrice Ledoux
Co-producers: Philippe Desmoulins, Bernard Seitz
Director of photography: Robert Fraisse
Production designer: Dominique Andre
Costume designer: Jacqueline Bouchard
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Editor: Georges Klotz
Cast:
Francois Pignon: Gad Elmaleh
Elena: Alice Taglioni
Pierre Levasseur: Daniel Auteuil
Christine Levasseur: Kristin Scott Thomas
Maitre Foix: Richard Berry
Emilie: Virginie Ledoyen
Richard: Dany Boon
Andre: Michel Jonasz
The Doctor: Michel Aumont
Pascal: Patrick Mille
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
PARIS -- "The Valet", Francis Veber's latest offering, remains faithful to the formula -- broad farce leavened with witty dialogue -- that has made him France's most bankable comedy writer-director and a surefire hit with international audiences. The humor of "Valet" is occasionally predictable, but the movie rattles through its paces and is likely to please across a wide spectrum, not that it will rival the boxoffice success of his "The Dinner Game" (1998).
As usual, Veber's plot turns on a fall guy named Francois Pignon. This time around, Pignon (Gad Elmaleh), an unassuming car valet at a posh Paris hotel, gets caught up in a multimillionaire businessman's infidelities when a paparazzo snaps him -- an innocent passer-by -- in a photo showing the tycoon emerging from a clinch with the famous model Elena (Alice Taglioni).
The tycoon, Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil), egged on by his scheming lawyer, Maitre Foix (Richard Berry), attempts to avoid a breakup with his wife, Christine Kristin Scott Thomas) -- who also happens to own a majority share in his company -- by paying Pignon a large sum of money to pretend to be the man Elena had been kissing in the street. He will have to pretend to have persuaded her to move in with him in his down-at-heel apartment.
A tall order, given the gulf in their fortunes and social standings, but Pignon, whose proposal of marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Emilie (Virginie Ledoyen), has just been turned down and who needs the money for his own purposes, agrees to play along.
Meanwhile, given the total implausibility of the scheme, Christine has got her own lawyer on the job, and Pignon, while attempting to explain the situation to his goggle-eyed flatmate and fellow valet, Richard (Dany Boon), finds himself under close surveillance by teams of snoops and snappers representing the rival parties.
Meanwhile, Emilie, who works in a bookshop and is being rabidly courted by cocksure cell-phone salesman Pascal (Patrick Mille), is stunned by the apparent upturn in Pignon's romantic fortunes.
And so the complications pile up in the best traditions of bedroom -- and occasionally boardroom -- farce, leading up to the inevitable happy ending with Levasseur receiving a satisfying comeuppance.
Although it touches fleetingly on issues relating to celebrity, privacy and sexual jealousy, "Valet" is designed purely as entertainment. There is no attempt to append a message or a moral, and there certainly is nothing to trouble ratings authorities.
The production hinges on a first-rate performance in the central role by Elmaleh, who succeeds on the principle of achieving more by emoting less. He leaves the comic gesticulations to Auteuil -- who played the Pignon role in Veber's 2001 movie "The Closet" -- and Boon, who, like Elmaleh, has until recently been better known as a stand-up performer in one-man shows.
Veber's firm direction of the actors is never in doubt. Berry as the unscrupulous corporate lawyer is the standout, but there is across-the-board professionalism from the cast, including relative newcomer Taglioni, whose impersonation of a top model is convincing enough to the untrained eye, and Scott Thomas, whose French contains just the barest hint of an English accent. There also is a brief appearance by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, impersonating himself.
THE VALET
Gaumont, Efve Films, TF1 Films Production, Kairos
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Francis Veber
Producer: Patrice Ledoux
Co-producers: Philippe Desmoulins, Bernard Seitz
Director of photography: Robert Fraisse
Production designer: Dominique Andre
Costume designer: Jacqueline Bouchard
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Editor: Georges Klotz
Cast:
Francois Pignon: Gad Elmaleh
Elena: Alice Taglioni
Pierre Levasseur: Daniel Auteuil
Christine Levasseur: Kristin Scott Thomas
Maitre Foix: Richard Berry
Emilie: Virginie Ledoyen
Richard: Dany Boon
Andre: Michel Jonasz
The Doctor: Michel Aumont
Pascal: Patrick Mille
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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