After taking part in Brady Corbet’s debut The Childhood of a Leader this past summer, Bérénice Bejo (The Artist, The Past) is back, this time leading a drama from Belgian director Joachim Lafosse (The White Knights, Our Children, Private Lessons). Premiering at Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight section, After Love follows a marriage in its final weeks after our main couple decides to get a divorce. While it doesn’t have U.S. distribution yet, it’ll come out in the U.K. at the end of this month and the first trailer has now arrived.
We said in in our review,” In the past, the Belgian director Joachim Lafosse made a film about a mother seeking escape from domestic hell by killing her four young children (Our Children), and one in which a teenager is tutored in the ways of sex by his adult friends, only to be...
We said in in our review,” In the past, the Belgian director Joachim Lafosse made a film about a mother seeking escape from domestic hell by killing her four young children (Our Children), and one in which a teenager is tutored in the ways of sex by his adult friends, only to be...
- 10/4/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In the past, the Belgian director Joachim Lafosse made a film about a mother seeking escape from domestic hell by killing her four young children (Our Children), and one in which a teenager is tutored in the ways of sex by his adult friends, only to be raped by each of them in turn (Private Lessons). With these precedents in mind, it’s impossible not to be apprehensive about the fate of the two adorable twins in his new feature, After Love, which from the get-go are ensnared in their parents’ ferocious marital crisis. So here’s some good news right off the bat: the girls make it out of the film unscathed. In fact, no one gets assaulted or murdered or unduly traumatized in any other way. In this regard, After Love is an unusually moderate film by Lafosse’s standards. While it ultimately lacks some of the vigor of his previous work,...
- 5/15/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Cineuropa reports that Red Lights/Roberto Succo director Cédric Kahn will be the significant other in Joachim Lafosse’s L’economie d’un couple. Kahn who often moonlights as an actor joins the already announced Berenice Bejo on the project which was announced during Cannes. Wasting no time with the eventual (Locarno or Venice is earmarked) unveiling of Les Chevaliers Blancs, Lafosse commenced production on his seventh feature film this week on a project that is a topical economic reality: splitsville in the middle class.
Gist: Written by Mazarine Pingeot and Fanny Burdino, the dramedy centers onMarie and Thierry, a middle-class couple with kids who separate and argue over who owns what. Their solution is to continue living under the same roof. She bought the apartment they live in with their children but he’s the one who completely renovated it. As Thierry can’t afford to find somewhere else to live,...
Gist: Written by Mazarine Pingeot and Fanny Burdino, the dramedy centers onMarie and Thierry, a middle-class couple with kids who separate and argue over who owns what. Their solution is to continue living under the same roof. She bought the apartment they live in with their children but he’s the one who completely renovated it. As Thierry can’t afford to find somewhere else to live,...
- 6/8/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
The White Knights
Director: Joachim Lafosse // Writer: Zelia Abadie, Bulle Decarpentries, Joachim Lafosse, Thomas van Zuylen
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse seems fascinated with incredibly uncomfortable subject matters, known for transgressing awkward familial dynamics in films like the Isabelle Huppert headlined Private Property (2006), an inappropriate student/teacher relationship in Private Lessons (2008), and in his most notable title to date, infanticide in Our Children (2012), which played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and nabbed Emilie Dequenne a special Best Actress prize in that sidebar (the film also starred Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup). His next title, which stands as Lafosse’s sixth feature film, The White Knights, focuses on humanitarian work and stars Vincent Lindon as the head of an Ngo working to extract 300 children from a civil war raging in Chad so that they may be relocated to adoptive French families. Lindon is an incredibly prominent screen presence in France, lately...
Director: Joachim Lafosse // Writer: Zelia Abadie, Bulle Decarpentries, Joachim Lafosse, Thomas van Zuylen
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse seems fascinated with incredibly uncomfortable subject matters, known for transgressing awkward familial dynamics in films like the Isabelle Huppert headlined Private Property (2006), an inappropriate student/teacher relationship in Private Lessons (2008), and in his most notable title to date, infanticide in Our Children (2012), which played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and nabbed Emilie Dequenne a special Best Actress prize in that sidebar (the film also starred Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup). His next title, which stands as Lafosse’s sixth feature film, The White Knights, focuses on humanitarian work and stars Vincent Lindon as the head of an Ngo working to extract 300 children from a civil war raging in Chad so that they may be relocated to adoptive French families. Lindon is an incredibly prominent screen presence in France, lately...
- 1/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Some movies you don't exit, you escape. You crawl out from underneath them, they're so heavy and oppressive and immovably huge. "Our Children" is one such weighty mass. But instead of being a transformative, ultimately life-affirming experience, the way similarly bleak "Amour" and "Rust & Bone" are, "Our Children" is full of one-note grimness. Directed by Belgian film director Joachim Lafosse ("Nue Propriété," "Élève libre") there's nothing to be gained from the experience, and it is a grim drag in both content and form. By the time it reaches its semi-shocking conclusion, groans erupted from our audience and the squeaking of hastily exited chairs could be heard. The opening frames of "Our Children" reveal four tiny coffins being loaded into an airplane. They're followed by a shot of Murielle (Emilie Dequenne), who looks all beat up and tells the unseen person at her bedside that she wants the kids to be buried in Morocco.
- 8/2/2013
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
Some movies you don't exit, you escape. You crawl out from underneath them, they're so heavy and oppressive and immovably huge. "Our Children" is one such weighty mass. But instead of being a transformative, ultimately life-affirming experience, the way similarly bleak "Amour" and "Rust & Bone" are, "Our Children" is full of one-note grimness. Directed by Belgian film director Joachim Lafosse ("Nue Propriété," "Élève libre") there's nothing to be gained from the experience, and is a grim drag in both content and form. By the time it reaches its semi-shocking conclusion, groans erupted from our audience and the squeaking of hastily exited chairs could be heard. The opening frames of "Our Children" reveal four tiny coffins being loaded into an airplane. They're followed by a shot of Murielle (Emilie Dequenne), who looks all beat up and who tells the unseen...
- 10/12/2012
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
Buzz: It what looks to be especially strong dramatic fare, Nue propriété (2006) and Élève libre (2008) helmer Joachim Lafosse stamped this picture with Cannes laurels: the mix includes fellow Belge Emilie Dequenne (Dardenne bros’ Rosetta) and reunites A Prophet’s Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup as well. Lafosse likes to provoke his texts with bent out of shape characters – they lack a certain lack of transparency and the family dynamic, a focal point in his last three, never turn out to be quite the white picket fence and 2.5 kids sort. French-speaking auds will definitely consider this Un Certain Regard selected film as a must item, but international auds might overlook the grim number.
Gist: Murielle (Émilie Dequenne) and Mounir (Tahar Rahim) love each other passionately. Ever since he was a boy, the young man has been living with Doctor Pinget (Niels Arestrup) who provides him with a comfortable life. When Mounir...
Gist: Murielle (Émilie Dequenne) and Mounir (Tahar Rahim) love each other passionately. Ever since he was a boy, the young man has been living with Doctor Pinget (Niels Arestrup) who provides him with a comfortable life. When Mounir...
- 5/15/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Similar to the Golden Globes because it is a foreign group of film journalists who conduct the voting (though I'm sure they have no mandate to prefer films loaded in stars), this year's the 15th Lumiere Awards has a pair of films in the top tier that recently that duked it out for the Louis Delluc award. Philippe Lioret's Welcome (which just got picked up by Film Movement this week) and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet (a Spc release next February) received five and four noms respectively. - Similar to the Golden Globes because it is a foreign group of film journalists who conduct the voting (though I'm sure they have no mandate to prefer films loaded in stars), this year's the 15th Lumière Awards has a pair of films in the top tier that recently that duked it out for the Louis Delluc award. Philippe Lioret...
- 12/18/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
2009 Torino Glbt Film Festival Awards 2009 Torino Glbt Film Festival: April 23-30, 2009 Best Feature Film: Leonera / Lion’s Den by Pablo Trapero (Argentina/South Korea/Brazil, 2008) Special Mention: Actress Martina Gusman for Lion’s Den Special Jury Award: Elève libre / Private Lessons by Joachim Lafosse (Belgium, 2008) Special Mention: Actor Jonas Bloquet for Death in Venice Special Mention: Wu sheng feng ling / Soundless Wind Chime by Kit Hung (Hong Kong/China/Switzerland, 2008) Best Documentary (ex-aequo): Khastegi / Sex My Life by Bahman Motamedian (Iran, 2008) and Out in India: A Family’s Journey by Tom Keegan (USA/India, 2007) Special Mention: Giorgio/Giorgia…storia di una voce by Gianfranco Mingozzi (Italy, 2008) Best Short Film: Saliva by Esmir Filho (Brazil, 2008) Special Mention: Même pas mort / Tomboy by Claudine Natkin (France, 2008) The Nuovi Sguardi Award: Wu sheng feng ling / Soundless Wind Chime by Kit Hung (Hong Kong/China/Switzerland, 2008) Audience Awards Best Feature [...]...
- 5/3/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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