Tag: Catherine Deneuve
Marcello Mio | Review
In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis
“I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marco La Via & Hanna Ladoul’s Funny Birds
While I don't really see a Catherine Deneuve navigating the wintery sidewalks of Main Street, her co-star in Andrea Riseborough could easily be the...
Split Level: Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve Lead Ensemble in New Honoré Film
Christophe Honoré has landed quite the cast for his next feature film. Re-teaming with daughter-mother team of Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, Honoré also...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #132. Marco La Via & Hanna Ladoul’s Funny Birds
Funny Birds
Marco La Via and Hanna Ladoul first landed on the scene (and the 2018 ACID section in Cannes) with Nous Les Coyotes which...
Peaceful (De son vivant) | Review
The Big C Minus: Bercot Submerges Maudlin Disease Drama with Sentimentality
Cancer isn’t the only element degrading the lives of those defined by it in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #89. Emmanuelle Bercot’s De son vivant
De son vivant
Emmanuelle Bercot reteams with Catherine Deneuve for her sixth feature, De son vivant (In His Lifetime) but unfortunately, Deneuve suffered a minor stroke...
The Truth | Review
I Remember Mama: Kore-eda Anoints Deneuve as a Diva in Pleasurable Drama
A subtle exercise in the limited reality of both perspective and memory, auteur...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #49. De son vivant – Emmanuelle Bercot
De son vivant
It seems director Emmanuelle Bercot remains nearly inextricable from Catherine Deneuve, as the director and icon are reuniting on Bercot’s sixth feature,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #38. Farewell to the Night (L’Adieu a la nuit) – André Téchiné
Farewell to the Night (L’Adieu a la nuit)
French auteur André Téchiné reunites with Catherine Deneuve for the eighth time with Farewell to the Night...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #82. Happy Birthday – Cédric Kahn
Happy Birthday
For his eleventh feature, Happy Birthday, actor/director Cédric Kahn nabs the legendary Catherine Deneuve in the lead role, starring opposite himself, writer/director Emmanuelle...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #58. Julie Bertuccelli’s Claire Darling
Claire Darling
Documentary filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli, who worked with a stunning array of world auteurs as an assistant director, moved into narrative filmmaking with 2003’s...
The Midwife | DVD Review
What seemed like a novel idea, pairing two of French cinema’s contemporary icons from opposing schools of expression (the dramatically inclined Catherine Deneuve and...
Video: Belle de Jour (1967) | Jean-Claude Carrière – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
It's a section I rarely allow myself to venture towards during the madness of what is the Cannes film fest, but in most cases...
The Midwife | Review
Midwife Crisis: Provost Squanders Fine Cast in Trite Melodrama
The essence of French director Martin Provost’s latest film The Midwife is supposed to revolve around...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #38. Martin Provost’s The Midwife
The Midwife
Director: Martin Provost
Writer: Martin Provost
French director Martin Provost has consistently crafted strong, prominent roles for women (his first two titles featured Carmen Maura),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 74. Florence Quentin’s Bonne Pomme
Bonne Pomme
Director: Florence Quentin
Writer: Florence Quentin
Florence Quentin was perhaps best known during the late 80s and early 90s as the screenwriter for director Etienne...
Standing Tall | Blu-ray Review
Notable for opening the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (making director Emmanuelle Bercot the second woman to nab such a distinction in the festival’s history),...
Standing Tall | Review
Jostling Juvi: Bercot’s Take Familiar Stance on the System
Exploring a few too many problematic delinquency issues than it can rightly address, Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall (La Tête...
In the Name of My Daughter | Blu-ray Review
French auteur Andre Techine's In the Name of My Daughter received a decent theatrical run nearly a year after it premiered out of competition...
The Hunger |Blu-ray Review
Roundly dismissed upon its release by critics in 1983, Tony Scott’s classy, stylish art-house vampire film The Hunger arrives on Blu-ray as a demure...
3 Hearts | Blu-ray Review
Premiering at the 2014 Venice Film Festival with little fanfare, and received a limited theatrical release in March, 2015 in the US, Benoit Jacquot’s...
In the Name of My Daughter | 2015 COLCOA French Film Festival Review
Scene of the Crime: Techine's Overly Involved True Crime Saga
Too often, In the Name of the Daughter, the latest from auteur André Téchiné (and...
French Boyhood: Emmanuelle Bercot Takes Center Stage with “La Tête Haute” as Cannes Opener
Backstage helmer Emmanuelle Bercot will instead be taking the center stage. Ranked #77 in our top 100 most anticipated foreign films for 2015 and...
Vice and Virtue | Blu-ray Review
Between his high profile marriages to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda, director Roger Vadim engaged in a notable liaison with Catherine Deneuve, just prior...
3 Hearts | Review
Heart to Heart to Heart: Jacquot’s Romantic Drama Can’t Cover Every Angle
Despite sporting the likes of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve, 3 Hearts, the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #44. Jaco Van Dormael’s Le tout Nouveau Testament
Le tout Nouveau Testament
Director: Jaco Van Dormael // Writers: Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael
Get ready for some inventive strangeness from Belgian auteur Jaco Van...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #79. Emmanuelle Bercot’s La tête haute
La tête haute
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot // Writer: Emmanuelle Bercot, Marcia Romano
Though initially an actress that appeared in films from Jean-Francois Richet and Benoit Jacquot (and more...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #34. Benoit Jacquot’s 3 Hearts
3 Hearts
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Writers: Benoit Jacquot, Julien Boivent
Producers: Edouard Weil
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Benoît Poelvoorde
Though he’s been working...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #86. Andre Techine’s L’homme que l’on aimait trop
L'homme que l'on aimait trop
Director: Andre Techine
Writers: Andre Techine, Cedric Anger, Jean-Charles Le Roux
Producer: Fidelite Films
U.S. Distributor: Right Available
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, Adele...
