Personal Shopper Photo: Carole Bethuel Personal Shopper, 10.55pm, Great Movies, Monday, March 4, also on the same channel at 12.02am on Sunday, March 10
This left-field ghost story from Olivier Assayas is built around a pitch perfect performance from Kristen Stewart. Reteaming with the French director after Clouds Of Sils Maria, she plays clothes-buying gofer Maureen to insufferable A-lister Kyra (Nora Von Waltstätten), while also trying to come to terms with the death of her twin brother to a genetic condition she may share. Assayas maintains a cool and steady mood as Maureen begins encountering what she believes is the ghost of her brother. The writer/director employs that most commonplace of modern tools - the smartphone - as an unexpected conduit, while Stewart delivers a performance that takes you to the edge of your seat. Speaking after the Cannes premiere, Assayas said, "It's the closest I can get to a happy ending.
This left-field ghost story from Olivier Assayas is built around a pitch perfect performance from Kristen Stewart. Reteaming with the French director after Clouds Of Sils Maria, she plays clothes-buying gofer Maureen to insufferable A-lister Kyra (Nora Von Waltstätten), while also trying to come to terms with the death of her twin brother to a genetic condition she may share. Assayas maintains a cool and steady mood as Maureen begins encountering what she believes is the ghost of her brother. The writer/director employs that most commonplace of modern tools - the smartphone - as an unexpected conduit, while Stewart delivers a performance that takes you to the edge of your seat. Speaking after the Cannes premiere, Assayas said, "It's the closest I can get to a happy ending.
- 3/4/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Léa Seydoux stars with Melvil Poupaud, Pascal Greggory, and Camille Leban Martins in Mia Hansen-Løve’s spectacular One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin) Photo: Carole Bethuel / Les Films Pelléas, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Mia Hansen-Løve once again turns the intimately personal into universally understood struggles and joys in her spectacular One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin). Well-chosen costumes by Judith de Luze, detailed sets (production design by Mila Preli), and carefully selected locations in and around Paris (plus a trip to Normandy for a Second World War Veteran’s celebration) with all the in-between places in focus, give us the picture of full lives.
Mia Hansen-Løve with Anne-Katrin Titze: “Léa Seydoux, I always had her in mind for the role.”
Hansen-Løve brings us into the world of Sandra (Léa Seydoux), mother of 8-year-old Linn (Camille Leban Martins) and a widow, who works as a translator/interpreter. Her father Georg...
Mia Hansen-Løve once again turns the intimately personal into universally understood struggles and joys in her spectacular One Fine Morning (Un Beau Matin). Well-chosen costumes by Judith de Luze, detailed sets (production design by Mila Preli), and carefully selected locations in and around Paris (plus a trip to Normandy for a Second World War Veteran’s celebration) with all the in-between places in focus, give us the picture of full lives.
Mia Hansen-Løve with Anne-Katrin Titze: “Léa Seydoux, I always had her in mind for the role.”
Hansen-Løve brings us into the world of Sandra (Léa Seydoux), mother of 8-year-old Linn (Camille Leban Martins) and a widow, who works as a translator/interpreter. Her father Georg...
- 1/19/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Irma Vep, based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 film of the same name, is coming to HBO. The limited series starring Alicia Vikander and created, written, and directed by Assayas, will premiere on Monday, June 6, at 9/8c. It will also be available to stream on HBO Max and will make its world premiere as an Official Selection at the Festival De Cannes 2022. Carole Bethuel/HBO The Academy Award winner (who also serves as an executive producer) stars as Mira, an American movie star who has been disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup. She comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent film classic, Les Vampires. Set against the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, Mira struggles as the distinctions between herself and the character she plays begin to blur and merge. Irma Vep will show the uncertain ground that lies at the border of fiction and reality,...
- 5/17/2022
- TV Insider
“Emily in Paris” Season 2 will debut before the end of 2021, Netflix revealed Thursday, along with nine stunning first-look photos at the new season of the Lily Collins-led comedy.
That’s right, you won’t be waiting too long to return to Emily Cooper’s (Collins) life in Paris and live vicariously through her adventures in the Darren Star-created version of France. Though we don’t have an exact premiere date yet, so stay tuned for that.
Here’s the official description for “Emily in Paris” Season 2: “Now more entrenched in her life in Paris, Emily’s getting better at navigating the city but still struggling with the idiosyncrasies of French life. After stumbling into a love triangle with her neighbor and her first real French friend, Emily is determined to focus on her work — which is getting more complicated by the day. In French class, she meets a...
That’s right, you won’t be waiting too long to return to Emily Cooper’s (Collins) life in Paris and live vicariously through her adventures in the Darren Star-created version of France. Though we don’t have an exact premiere date yet, so stay tuned for that.
Here’s the official description for “Emily in Paris” Season 2: “Now more entrenched in her life in Paris, Emily’s getting better at navigating the city but still struggling with the idiosyncrasies of French life. After stumbling into a love triangle with her neighbor and her first real French friend, Emily is determined to focus on her work — which is getting more complicated by the day. In French class, she meets a...
- 9/23/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Above: 1981 French grande for Stalker. Art by Bougrine.It’s been six months since I last did one of these round-ups of the most popular posters featured on my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram (previously Tumblr).With some 3,349 likes to date, this rare French poster for Tarkovsky’s Stalker, posted just last month, outstripped the pack and is in fact the second most “liked” poster I’ve ever posted, just a couple of hundred likes shy of Andrew Bannister’s UK poster for Parasite which I posted over a Pandemic ago. With art signed by one “Bougrine” the poster is currently offered for sale at Posteritati. Though the style and signature don’t quite look right, there was a Vladimir Bougrine (1938-2001) who was a prominent Soviet dissident painter who ended up in Paris in 1977 where, according to Wikipedia, “the French Ministry of Culture introduced him to...a community of writers,...
- 9/2/2021
- MUBI
Sixties flashback for (front from left) Noémie Lvovsky, Juliette Binoche and Yolande Moreau in Martin Provost’s comedy How To Be A Good Wife Photo: © Carole Bethuel - Les Films du Kiosque The French Film Festival is offering audiences a chance to catch up with its fff@home streaming titles this weekend.
Tickets are onsale now for the virtual event, featuring seven feature films and a selection of shorts, that will run from 7.30pm on Saturday, December 19, to 7.30pm the next day. Films are available for £4.50 each and the shorts programme for just £1.
Included in the line-up is actress-turned director Sarah Suco’s UK premiere debut feature The Dazzled, a slowburn fiml set in an insular Catholic community. Also featured is Just Kids, a drama about siblings in the grips of grief and freedom, directed by Christophe Blanc and Martin Provost's sexual liberation comedy How To Be A Good Wife.
Tickets are onsale now for the virtual event, featuring seven feature films and a selection of shorts, that will run from 7.30pm on Saturday, December 19, to 7.30pm the next day. Films are available for £4.50 each and the shorts programme for just £1.
Included in the line-up is actress-turned director Sarah Suco’s UK premiere debut feature The Dazzled, a slowburn fiml set in an insular Catholic community. Also featured is Just Kids, a drama about siblings in the grips of grief and freedom, directed by Christophe Blanc and Martin Provost's sexual liberation comedy How To Be A Good Wife.
- 12/15/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Netflix has debuted a new trailer for their upcoming series from the makers of ‘Sex in the City’, ‘Emily in Paris’ starring Lily Collins.
Emily, an ambitious twenty-something marketing executive from Chicago, unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris when her company acquires a French luxury marketing company — and she is tasked with revamping their social media strategy. Emily’s new life in Paris is filled with intoxicating adventures and surprising challenges as she juggles winning over her work colleagues, making friends, and navigating new romances.
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily and Samuel Arnold as Luke in episode 107 of Emily In Paris Cr. Stephanie Branchu/Netflix © 2020 (L to R) William Abadie as Antoine, Lily Collins as Emily, Philippine Leroy-beaulieu as Sylvie and Samuel Arnold as Luke in episode 110 of Emily In Paris. Cr. Carole Bethuel/Netflix © 2020
The series stars Lily Collins, Samuel Arnold and Lucas Bravo.
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Emily, an ambitious twenty-something marketing executive from Chicago, unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris when her company acquires a French luxury marketing company — and she is tasked with revamping their social media strategy. Emily’s new life in Paris is filled with intoxicating adventures and surprising challenges as she juggles winning over her work colleagues, making friends, and navigating new romances.
(L to R) Lily Collins as Emily and Samuel Arnold as Luke in episode 107 of Emily In Paris Cr. Stephanie Branchu/Netflix © 2020 (L to R) William Abadie as Antoine, Lily Collins as Emily, Philippine Leroy-beaulieu as Sylvie and Samuel Arnold as Luke in episode 110 of Emily In Paris. Cr. Carole Bethuel/Netflix © 2020
The series stars Lily Collins, Samuel Arnold and Lucas Bravo.
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- 9/17/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Arab Blues Photo: Courtesy of London Film Festival/Carole Bethuel The French Film Festival has announced it will screen a streamlined programme for its 28th edition across dates in November and December.
The programme, which is still a work in progress, will feature films including culture-clash comedy Arab Blues and Papicha - which sees teens fighting fundamentalism - alongside classics like Costa-Gavras' murder mystery The Sleeping Car Murders. Other familiar names joining the line-up include Robert Guédiguian, whose heartfelt family drama Gloria Mundi will also screen.
Festival director Richard Mowe said: "We felt it important that the 28th edition of the French Film Festival UK should continue to keep faith with our colleagues in cinemas and our loyal and enthusiastic audiences stretching from Shetland to Plymouth. The festival will follow the guidelines for distancing and self-protection."
The programme so far - with further titles due to be announced later this...
The programme, which is still a work in progress, will feature films including culture-clash comedy Arab Blues and Papicha - which sees teens fighting fundamentalism - alongside classics like Costa-Gavras' murder mystery The Sleeping Car Murders. Other familiar names joining the line-up include Robert Guédiguian, whose heartfelt family drama Gloria Mundi will also screen.
Festival director Richard Mowe said: "We felt it important that the 28th edition of the French Film Festival UK should continue to keep faith with our colleagues in cinemas and our loyal and enthusiastic audiences stretching from Shetland to Plymouth. The festival will follow the guidelines for distancing and self-protection."
The programme so far - with further titles due to be announced later this...
- 6/12/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sixties flashback for (front from left) Noémie Lvovsky, Juliette Binoche and Yolande Moreau in Martin Provost’s comedy How To Be A Good Wife due to open Unifrance’s Rendezvous with French Cinema Photo: © Carole Bethuel - Les Films du Kiosque Despite France being in the grip of multifarious “grèves” (or strikes) the annual Rendezvous with French Cinema, organised in Paris by Unifrance) is putting on a positive face as the organisers prepare to welcome almost 400 buyers to what is touted as the world’s biggest film market - which runs alongside a media junket for journalists from 32 countries.
Talents up for interviews include Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert among 120 actors and directors. Binoche stars in the market’s opening film How To Be A Good Wife (La Bonne Epouse) by Martin Provost and she will be present at the screening on 16 January alongside co-star Noémie Lvovsky and the director.
Talents up for interviews include Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert among 120 actors and directors. Binoche stars in the market’s opening film How To Be A Good Wife (La Bonne Epouse) by Martin Provost and she will be present at the screening on 16 January alongside co-star Noémie Lvovsky and the director.
- 1/8/2020
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kristen Stewart as Maureen Cartwright in Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper. Photo by Carole Bethuel. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films release ©
Kristen Stewart plays an American with a psychic sense who works as an assistant to a celebrity, in the French/English language film Personal Shopper. The film won Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Summer Hours) the Best Director Award at Cannes, and reunites the French director/writer with Stewart, who gave a striking performance for him in 2014’s Clouds Of Sils Maria in a supporting role.
In Personal Shopper, Stewart plays Maureen Cartwright, a Paris-based American who works as a personal shopper for a famous jet-set client. But we first meet Maureen as she visits a deserted old French country house, where she is using her skills as a psychic medium to contact a spirit that maybe haunting the house. She is supposed to determine if the house...
Kristen Stewart plays an American with a psychic sense who works as an assistant to a celebrity, in the French/English language film Personal Shopper. The film won Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Summer Hours) the Best Director Award at Cannes, and reunites the French director/writer with Stewart, who gave a striking performance for him in 2014’s Clouds Of Sils Maria in a supporting role.
In Personal Shopper, Stewart plays Maureen Cartwright, a Paris-based American who works as a personal shopper for a famous jet-set client. But we first meet Maureen as she visits a deserted old French country house, where she is using her skills as a psychic medium to contact a spirit that maybe haunting the house. She is supposed to determine if the house...
- 3/24/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
At the bar with Nocturama director Bertrand Bonello Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
After being seated next to Django director Étienne Comar and Reda Kateb (who portrays Django Reinhardt) at the uniFrance Locanda Verde lunch, I had a conversation with Bertrand Bonello on his latest film. Nocturama, shot by cinematographer Léo Hinstin, edited by Fabrice Rouaud, costumes by Sonia Philouze with music by Bonello. It has an ensemble cast that includes Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa, Martin Petit-Guyot, Jamil McCraven, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laure Valentinelli, Ilias Le Doré, Robin Goldbronn, Luis Rego, Hermine Karagheuz, and Adèle Haenel.
Finnegan Oldfield as David in Nocturama Photo: Carole Bethuel
When I spoke last year with Thomas Bidegain on Les Cowboys about actor Finnegan Oldfield, who stars in both his and Bertrand's film, he told me that Nocturama was being edited the day of the Bataclan attack in Paris.
Nocturama, a highlight of...
After being seated next to Django director Étienne Comar and Reda Kateb (who portrays Django Reinhardt) at the uniFrance Locanda Verde lunch, I had a conversation with Bertrand Bonello on his latest film. Nocturama, shot by cinematographer Léo Hinstin, edited by Fabrice Rouaud, costumes by Sonia Philouze with music by Bonello. It has an ensemble cast that includes Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal Issa, Martin Petit-Guyot, Jamil McCraven, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laure Valentinelli, Ilias Le Doré, Robin Goldbronn, Luis Rego, Hermine Karagheuz, and Adèle Haenel.
Finnegan Oldfield as David in Nocturama Photo: Carole Bethuel
When I spoke last year with Thomas Bidegain on Les Cowboys about actor Finnegan Oldfield, who stars in both his and Bertrand's film, he told me that Nocturama was being edited the day of the Bataclan attack in Paris.
Nocturama, a highlight of...
- 3/8/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Photos by Carole Bethuel. Courtesy of IFC Films.
Kristen Stewart stars as Maureen Cartwright in the brand new trailer for Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper.
In their Cannes 2016 review, The Guardian called the “captivating, bizarre, tense, fervently preposterous and almost unclassifiable scary movie Stewart’s best performance to date.”
The actress was host of SNL this past weekend. Watch the opening monologue Here.
Olivier Assayas, the internationally-acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart as a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium.
Grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Paris home, determined to make contact with him.
IFC Films will release the movie on March 10.
http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/personal-shopper
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Kristen Stewart stars as Maureen Cartwright in the brand new trailer for Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper.
In their Cannes 2016 review, The Guardian called the “captivating, bizarre, tense, fervently preposterous and almost unclassifiable scary movie Stewart’s best performance to date.”
The actress was host of SNL this past weekend. Watch the opening monologue Here.
Olivier Assayas, the internationally-acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story starring Kristen Stewart as a high-fashion personal shopper to the stars who is also a spiritual medium.
Grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Paris home, determined to make contact with him.
IFC Films will release the movie on March 10.
http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/personal-shopper
The post See Kristen Stewart In New Trailer For The Supernatural Thriller Personal Shopper appeared first on We Are Movie Geeks.
- 2/6/2017
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Opening in select theaters May 8, Gaspard Ulliel is Yves Saint Laurent in the first trailer for Sony Pictures Classics’ Saint Laurent, a film by Bertrand Bonello.
1967-1976. As one of history’s greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
(Yahoo! Movies)
Why did the filmmakers restrict themselves to ten years in Saint Laurent’s life and career, between 1967 and 1976? The director says, “we chose to restrict ourselves to two emblematic collections, the Liberation collection in 1971 and the Russian Ballet collection in 1976. The first provoked outrage: in 1971, with hippie chic booming, Saint Laurent dressed women like their mothers, drawing on his passion for his own, for 1940s movie stars and so on. The newspapers were in uproar, but six months later everybody was wearing vintage. As for the second collection, it has oriental influences, from Gauguin, Delacroix, Matisse, to the Russian Orient.
1967-1976. As one of history’s greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
(Yahoo! Movies)
Why did the filmmakers restrict themselves to ten years in Saint Laurent’s life and career, between 1967 and 1976? The director says, “we chose to restrict ourselves to two emblematic collections, the Liberation collection in 1971 and the Russian Ballet collection in 1976. The first provoked outrage: in 1971, with hippie chic booming, Saint Laurent dressed women like their mothers, drawing on his passion for his own, for 1940s movie stars and so on. The newspapers were in uproar, but six months later everybody was wearing vintage. As for the second collection, it has oriental influences, from Gauguin, Delacroix, Matisse, to the Russian Orient.
- 3/6/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – Is there any actress in the world today with more seductive and transfixing eyes than Léa Seydoux? She often tilts her head in a direction that allows her to peer up from beneath lowered brows. Stanley Kubrick would loved to photograph her. Yet her radiant orbs are capable of conveying more than mere menace. She can appear frighteningly vulnerable and coldly calculating within the same take.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
In Benoît Jacquot’s quietly entrancing picture, “Farewell, My Queen,” Seydoux’s eyes smolder with desire, even as budding tears threaten to disrupt her unwavering gaze. Based on Chantal Thomas’s book of the same name, “Queen” revolves around a fictitious love triangle in Versailles that was dismantled during the last crucial days of the French Revolution. Though it often plays like the final episode of an epic miniseries, Jacquot and his cast makes the most of every moment.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Farewell,...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
In Benoît Jacquot’s quietly entrancing picture, “Farewell, My Queen,” Seydoux’s eyes smolder with desire, even as budding tears threaten to disrupt her unwavering gaze. Based on Chantal Thomas’s book of the same name, “Queen” revolves around a fictitious love triangle in Versailles that was dismantled during the last crucial days of the French Revolution. Though it often plays like the final episode of an epic miniseries, Jacquot and his cast makes the most of every moment.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review of “Farewell,...
- 7/20/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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