Tag: Bertrand Bonello
Planète B | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Say My Name Say My Name: Rapin Conquers Hearts, Minds and VR HeadSets in Wonky Digital Dystopia Piece
After exploring themes of rebirth and reincarnation...
Exclusive Clip: Invalid Expire Dates in Aude Léa Rapin’s ‘Planet B’
After splashing in the Critics' Week section on the Croisette with Heroes Don't Die (2019), Aude Léa Rapin returns to another Critics' Week section...
La Bête (The Beast) | Review
In the Mood for Love & Death: Bonello Explores the Final Frontier of Emotional Intelligence
Throughout the dizzying centuries-spanning odyssey of an unrequited love in...
Love Will Tear us Apart: Sideshow & Janus Films Embrace Bertrand Bonello’s “The Beast”
It just had its NYFF splash and while it was shut out from any of the Golden Lion prizing in Venice, the critic elites...
Venice Film Festival 2023: All of IONCINEMA.com’s Movie Reviews
We came, we saw, we conquered. Our Nicholas Bell was in review overdrive assessing the entire competition and much more. We'll still have film...
2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate
We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...
2023 Venice: Ava DuVernay, David Fincher, Agnieszka Holland, Malgorzata Szumowska & Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Comp Surprises!
We have twenty-three competition entries and all the America films that were tipped to compete for the Golden Lion have indeed stuck to their...
2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries
With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior....
2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions: Bertrand Bonello, David Oelhoffen, Tarsem Singh & Viggo Mortensen…
Sure we are about two weeks away from the official announcements for the films that will premiere on the Lido, but we are very...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...
Emotional Distress: Bertrand Bonello Begins Production on “La Bête”
Our friends at Cineuropa inform us that Bertrand Bonello has begun production on La Bête - his ninth feature film that will have had...
SODEC Coin for Bertrand Bonello, Maxime Giroux, RKSS & Delphine Girard
Quebec's SODEC (the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles) are giving some coin to future international co-productions with Bertrand Bonello's La Bête leading the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #25. Bertrand Bonello’s La bête
La bête
As we explored earlier on our countdown, Bertrand Bonello segued to micro-budget Coma while awaiting the greenlight for his ambitious triple era pronged...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #35. Bertrand Bonello’s Coma
Coma
It'll likely be known as the "interim" project between regularly funded features 2019's Zombi Child and the forthcoming La Bête, Bertrand Bonello (we did...
Titane | Review
Car Crash Set: Ducournau Crafts a Cult Classic with Grotesque Odyssey of Dysfunction
In J.G. Ballard’s seminal 1973 cult novel Crash, infamously adapted in 1996...
The Conversation: The Best of Cannes 2019
Zombies. The Undead. Reincarnation. These were some of the central themes and motifs displayed throughout an alarming amount of films in the 2019 official...
The Conversation: Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Most Anticipated Titles of Cannes 2019
It’s that time of year again, and the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival is about to begin. If last year’s main competition...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #5. Zombi Child – Bertrand Bonello
Zombi Child
Art-house auteur Bertrand Bonello returns with what’s described as a mix between ‘ethnology and fantasy’ for his eighth feature, Zombi Child. Following the...
Interview: Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama)
We sat down with Bertrand Bonello shortly after the North American premiere of his controversial new film Nocturama, which competed at the 2016 Toronto...
The Conversation: Producer Olivier Père
Since joining ARTE France Cinema in 2013, producer Olivier Père has become a prolific fixture on the Croisette. Making a bow in Un Certain...
The Conversation: Jenkins’ Moonlight, Escalante’s The Untamed & the Totality of TIFF ’16
As far as the matter of size goes, the Toronto International Film Festival continues to astound, with close to 300 plus titles amassed for...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #19. Bertrand Bonello’s Paris is Happening
Paris is Happening
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Writer: Bertrand Bonello
Following the horrific bombings in Paris which occurred in late November, Bertrand Bonello's latest, Paris is Happening, sounds...
A Cannes Opener: 2016 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
A furious slew of titles in the works would seem to prophesize a robust main competition slate for Cannes 2016. Though our initial list...
Saint Laurent | Review
Once again, Make it the Same Only New
With this biopic on the great French fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello streamlines for himself...
Portrait of the Artist | 2015 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Review
On My Skin: Barraud Explores the Essence of Monstrosity
There are moments within Antoine Barraud’s sophomore feature Portrait of the Artist that tend to feel...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut
While Sundance (Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange's ’71, Alain Resnais' Life...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #22. Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent
Saint Laurent
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Writers: Bertrand Bonello & Thomas Bidegain
Producers: Mandarin Cinéma’s Eric and Nicolas Altmayer
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Jérémie Renier,...
Tracking Shot October: Barthes’ Madame Bovary, Renzi’s Franny, Bonello’s Saint Laurent, Bell’s Shiva & May
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and...
Hannah Fidell’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #29. Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Writer(s): Bonello & Thomas Bidegain
Producer(s): Mandarin Cinéma's Eric and Nicolas Altmayer
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Gaspard Ulliel
Bonello doing a biopic on...
