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Annette by Leos Carax will open the Cannes Film Festival Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in Annette Adam Driver and Simon Helberg, this musical is scored by Sparks ( Ron and Russel Mael) who are also behind the lyrics and the original idea for the story, which centres on a stand-up comedian and his wife, an opera singer, who have a two-year-old daughter with an uncommon talent… Worth noting is the presence of Caroline Champetier as director of photography. (The article continues below - C...

The Go Short awards go socially aware Friend of a Friend, This Day Wont Last, Dustin and Marlon Brando triumphs in the Dutch Competition Dustin by Naïla Guiguet, winner of the Best Fiction Film award in the European Competition The 13th Go Short International Short Film Festival, taking place online 7-25 April, handed out its award on Friday night, with the selected winners showing a clear trend for socially aware films dealing with timely topics. In the European Competition, the jury consi...

Lengagement social sillustre aux Prix Go Short Friend of a Friend, This Day Wont Last, Dustin et Marlon Brando triomphe dans la compétition hollandaise Dustin de Naïla Guiguet, élu meilleur film de fiction de la compétition européenn Cet article est disponible en anglais. The 13th Go Short International Short Film Festival, taking place online 7-25 April, handed out its award on Friday night, with the selected winners showing a clear trend for socially aware films dealing with timely to...

Annette by Leos Carax will open the Cannes Film Festival Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in Annette Adam Driver and Simon Helberg, this musical is scored by Sparks ( Ron and Russel Mael) and based on a script written by the director. The film centres on a stand-up comedian and his wife, an opera singer, who have a two-year-old daughter with an uncommon talent… Worth noting is the presence of Caroline Champetier as director of photography. (The article continues below - Commercial informat...

The Go Short awards go socially aware Friend of a Friend, This Day Wont Last, Dustin and Marlon Brando triumphs in the Dutch Competition Dustin by Naïla Guiguet, winner of the Best Fiction Film award in the European Competition The 13th Go Short International Short Film Festival, taking place online 7-25 April, handed out its award on Friday night, with the selected winners showing a clear trend for socially aware films dealing with timely topics. In the European Competition, the jury consi...

13/04/2021 - The director is also part of the cast of this Christmas in July production that will be sold by Le Pacte, together with Louise Bourgoin, Martine Chevallier and Laurent Poitrenaux

La Ligne) and  Written by Blandine Lenoir and Axelle Ropert, the script centres on a worker who accidentally becomes pregnant and finds herself involved in the fight for the legalisation of abortion. The year is 1974 and this fight will give her life a new meaning… Produced by Charlotte Vincent for Aurora Films and Nicolas Brevière for Local Films,  Annie Colère will be co-produced by France 3 Cinéma. Also pre-bought by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature benefits from the...

Her directorial debut first premiered at the Venice Film Festival back in 2019, with the actress describing the movie as an anti-romantic comedy. And Billie Pipers movie Rare Beasts is now finally set to be released across the UK and Ireland on 21 May, almost three years later. Proving shes talented on both sides of the camera, a trailer for the flick shows Billie, 38, as single mum Mandy and navigating her failed love story with Pete [Leo Bill]. Not long to go! Billie Pipers movie Rare Beasts...

Alaa Eddine Aljem’s debut feature The Unknown Saint has come out out of nowhere to inject Arab cinema with a breath of fresh air. It’s that rarest of beasts: a smart, side-splitting Arab comedy tackling collective faith, the presiding craving for a saviour and the primal necessity of finding meaning, or rather conjuring up one. Film director Alaa Eddine Aljem (Unifrance) The underlying sentiment is simple, as Aljem explains:  “We, as a nation, need something to believe in. We cannot be ...

Director François Ozon Eight projects were singled out during the first 2021 session of the CNC’s second advance on receipts committee. Standing tall among these works is Peter von Kant, the 21st feature film by prolific director François Ozon. For the second time, after Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes (in competition in Berlin in 2000), the filmmaker has adapted (loosely, as the title and the main character’s different gender indicates) the play The Bitter Tears...