Sea, quiet and sun. A holidaymaker on his paddleboard. In a few minutes, this idyllic picture is shattered: the man is knocked off his board into the water, and is then devoured by a shark.
Almost 50 years since Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” brought terror to the New England beach town of Amity Island, a shark has appeared on the other side of the ocean to cause panic among French vacationers heading for the Atlantic coast.
“Year of the Shark,” which premiered this week at 21st Neuchatel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival, ahead of its release in France on Aug. 3, is neither a remake of “Jaws,” nor a pastiche of the genre, explain the directors, French twins Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, who are 30 years old.
The Boukherma twins are well-aware that the arrival of the first shark film ever to be made in France, with a five-star cast, is creating a great...
Almost 50 years since Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” brought terror to the New England beach town of Amity Island, a shark has appeared on the other side of the ocean to cause panic among French vacationers heading for the Atlantic coast.
“Year of the Shark,” which premiered this week at 21st Neuchatel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival, ahead of its release in France on Aug. 3, is neither a remake of “Jaws,” nor a pastiche of the genre, explain the directors, French twins Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, who are 30 years old.
The Boukherma twins are well-aware that the arrival of the first shark film ever to be made in France, with a five-star cast, is creating a great...
- 7/10/2022
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
The 9th International Independent Film Festival has crowned as joint champions Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s werewolf film and the documentary by Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe. The International Competition might have been dominated by the Iranian film by Saeed Roustaee Just 6.5, but the French competition jury of the 9th International Independent Film Festival (which unspooled 14 – 19 October), composed of Maïmouna Doucouré, Delphine Gleize and Lio, awarded their Grand Prize 2020 to two feature films decorated with Cannes 2020 labels: Teddy by brothers Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma and The Last Hillbilly by Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe. Honoured with Cannes’ Official Selection label, Teddy (Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s second feature film after Willy 1er) stars Anthony Bajon, Christine Gautier and Noémie Lvovsky in its cast. Written by the two filmmakers, the story begins one evening, during a full moon, when 19-year-old Teddy who works in a...
- 10/20/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
With the state of things these days, Fantastic Fest has gone virtual for 2020, and here are my thoughts on two of the films that helped kick off the festivities this week: Teddy, from the directing duo of Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, and Girl, which features both Bella Thorne and Mickey Rourke.
Teddy: As someone who has a deep love for anything lycanthrope-related, I really enjoyed what Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma were able to do with Teddy. The film hits all the beats you’d expect from a coming-of-age werewolf story, but the directors come at these tropes in a very unique way, making Teddy a thoughtful and heartfelt examination of a young man who has lost his place in this world that also delivers up some gnarly body horror moments and a sizeable body count to boot.
The film follows the titular character (played by Anthony Bajon) who lives in a remote village in France.
Teddy: As someone who has a deep love for anything lycanthrope-related, I really enjoyed what Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma were able to do with Teddy. The film hits all the beats you’d expect from a coming-of-age werewolf story, but the directors come at these tropes in a very unique way, making Teddy a thoughtful and heartfelt examination of a young man who has lost his place in this world that also delivers up some gnarly body horror moments and a sizeable body count to boot.
The film follows the titular character (played by Anthony Bajon) who lives in a remote village in France.
- 9/28/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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