After a seven-week shoot, filming wraps up today on Laurent Perreau's debut feature: L'insurgée (“The Rebel”). The film - produced by Galatée Films - explores generational conflict between a grandfather and his granddaughter.
The cast includes Michel Piccoli, young Belgian actress Pauline Étienne (Private Lessons), Éric Caravaca (Client), Marie Kremer (My Son) and Aurore......
The Times BFI London Film Festival (LFF) closed with a rapturously received screening of Danny Boyle's kinetically charged paean to MumbaiSlumdog Millionaire, but it was Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan that took home the festival's ultimate honour, the Sutherland Trophy.
The Sutherland Trophy is awarded to the director of the most original and imaginative first feature film screened at The Times......
Maurizio Scaparro's L'Ultimo Pulcinella is the closing film of the Rome Film Festival. The rather Italian story focuses on a father-son relationship against the background of the theatre. Though the two protagonists are Neapolitans, most of the story actually takes place in Paris.
Massimo Ranieri stars as the middle-aged actor Michelangelo, who is specialised in the Neapolitan Pulcinella......
The Stockholm International Film Festival is launching numerous new directors for its 19th edition (November 20-30).
“This year's programme keeps up the momentum. Out of the 175 films at the festival [from 40 countries], a third are made by first-time directors. This is where the exciting directors are introduced,” said Artistic Director Git Scheynius.
Twenty films will vie......
In the wake of the 500,000 admissions garnered in French theatres by Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah and ahead of the release on December 31 of the other Italian Cannes prize-winner, Il Divo (“The Deity”) by Paolo Sorrentino, Italian films are set to be showcased in all their diversity at the 31st Villerupt Italian Film Festival, which kicks off today in eastern France.
The event -......
A Milanese businessman and a handful of “mad people” are the protagonists of Giulio Manfredonia's We Can Do That, which reflects on the possibility of turning small utopias into reality. The film was presented out of competition this morning in the Official Section at the 3rd Rome International Film Festival, which closes tomorrow with the awards ceremony.
The film tells......
Everyone knows that good news comes in pairs and Flemish directors would certainly agree. While Erik Van Looy's second film Loft takes the Belgian box office by storm, Moscow, Belgium is setting out to conquer foreign markets.
Having attracted almost 200,000 Belgian viewers (or rather Flemish), the romantic comedy by Christophe Van Rompaey (see interview) continues to win over audiences in......
One of the last Special Screenings at this year's Rome Film Festival is Guy Ritchie's gangster saga RocknRolla. The film looks at the changing mafia milieu in the British capital, where people from Eastern Europe are pushing traditional Londoners out of the market.
RocknRolla was not only directed but also written by Ritchie, who is also one of the producers. It is a return to the blend......
It was meant to be Fabrizio De André's day, with two films dedicated to one of Italy's most celebrated singer-songwriters, who passed away in 1999. But the double homage paid yesterday by the Rome Film Festival (in the Extra section) instead stirred up much controversy.
At the heart of the contention lie the cold, tit for tat exchanges between De André's widow, Dori Ghezzi, and director......
While British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has been saying for years that "cinema is too important to leave in the hands of storytellers,” Portuguese director João Botelho, in competition at the Rome Film Festival with The Northern Land, lays on the message even thicker.
"Always wanting to recount something is the true original sin of this art,” he said. A sin that the director......
Irish actors Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson will star alongside British actor Jim Broadbent in Perrier's Bounty. Ian Fitzgibbon ( A Film With Me In It) will direct Mark O'Rowe's (Boy A, Intermission) script.
The Dublin-set film is a comic thriller where three fugitives are on the run from the gangster Perrier.
Parallel Films' Alan Moloney and Number 9 Films' Stephen Woolley and......
Despite a year marked by a significant drop in business in film industries worldwide, there was no small amount of satisfaction in Via Veneto yesterday after the closing of The Business Street, the Rome International Film Festival market. According to organisers, "The data confirms the success of the formula for the professional meetings between producers and distributors".
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Veiko Õunpuu, the acclaimed director of Autumn Ball, is back behind the camera with The Temptation of St Tony, produced by Katrin Kissa in Estonia (Homeless Bob), Kristina Aberg in Sweden (Atmo) and Tero Kaukomaa and Jesse Fryckman in Finland (Bronson Club).
Rain Tolk (186 Kilometres), Taavi Eelmaa, and Tiina Tauraite, three of the leads from Autumn Ball, have teamed up again with Õunpuu,......
Released in France on Wednesday, Home has been received by critics with rare enthusiasm, confirming the positive response to its Cannes Critics' Week screening. With the exception of film magazine Positif, which expresses reservations about the film's form, all the major French press publications - specialised and mainstream alike - shower praise upon the film by Swiss-French director Ursula......
The Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, nominated for an Oscar for Children of Nature and who has not made a feature film since 2004, is preparing his new project, Mamma Gogo, to be co-produced by Filmhuset (Norway) and Pandora (Germany).
“Mamma Gogo is the story of a director who is releasing Children of Nature and losing a lot of money. At the same time, his mother is......
Zanussi laughs! One could paraphrase the slogan launched for Garbo in Ninotchka to sum up the new film by Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, With a Warm Heart, which screened in competition today at the Rome Film Festival. A filmmaker with a penchant for drama, an explorer of existential dilemmas and anxieties, the director of The Year of the Quiet Sun (Golden Lion winner at Venice 1984) has......
The Extra section of the Rome Film Festival screened the French/Canadian co-production Martyrs yesterday evening as torrential rain and loud thunder haunted the Eternal City, creating the perfect backdrop for a shocking horror story.
The second film of director Pascal Laugier (House of Voices) piles on the blood and gore in a revenge story that, quite unusually, casts two women as the......
The Extra section of the Rome Film Festival premiered the French/Canadian co-production Martyrs yesterday evening as torrential rain and loud thunder haunted the Eternal City, creating the perfect backdrop for a shocking horror story.
The second film of director Pascal Laugier (House of Voices) piles on the blood and gore in a revenge story that, quite unusually, casts two women as the......
Hunger and In Bruges have been honoured with seven nominations each at the 11th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) and will vie for the title of Best Independent British Film of the year. Slumdog Millionaire has six nominations, Shifty five and Somers Town, Son of Rambow and The Duchess four nominations each.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Happy-Go-Lucky have three......
Olivier Courson - president of StudioCanal's board of directors - has strengthened his team with the arrival of Camille Trumer as chief operating officer. The latter has just announced his departure as director of Paramount France after many years in the position.
At StudioCanal, the new arrival will be in charge of theatrical, video, TV and new-media distribution in France and......
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