Tag: Emmanuelle Bercot
Making Of | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Working Class Goes to the Back Lot: Kahn Prosaically Processes a Director’s Strife
What should cinema be and who should it be made for?...
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...
Jumbo | Review
Do Introverts Dream of Electric Carousels?: Wittock Waxes Fatuous in Debut
A finely wrought tradition of European cinema includes a bounty of infamous depictions of...
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...
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: #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...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #83. Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Fille de Brest
La Fille de Brest
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Writers: Emmanuelle Bercot, Severine Bosschem
2015 was an exceptional year for writer/director Emmanuelle Bercot. She was the second woman in...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Maiwenn Breaks a Leg with “Mon Roi”
It was with her multi-angled, social dramedy where the actress, slowly turning into filmmaker (2006's Pardonnez-moi and 2009's Le bal des actrices) made her...
2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes
Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...
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...
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 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #89. Maiwenn’s Mon roi
Mon roi
Director: Maiwenn // Writers: Etienne Comar, Maiwenn
Actress turned director Maiwenn's last stint behind the camera won her the Jury Prize at Cannes 2011...
Kechiche & Guiraudie Among 2013 Louis-Delluc Prize Finalists
It's among France's prestigious award films with a legacy dating back to 1937 (see entire wiki-list of winners) and it's one that I've made...
Cohen Media Group Takes a Ride with Emmanuelle Bercot’s “On My Way”
Cohen Media Group are making a ballsy acquisition move at this year's Berlin Film Festival - picking up Emmanuelle Bercot’s comp film Elle S’en...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: Picks 200-101
Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional...