Tag: Léa Seydoux
Swapping Bodies: Arthur Harari Begins Production on ‘L’Inconnue’ with Léa Seydoux
As speculation grows wild into what films will populate the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, today we are looking ahead at a possible big ticket...
Sweet Emotion: Zellner Bros.’ ‘Alpha Gang’ Back on Track with Bautista, Kravitz, Seydoux, Keough & Tatum
Zellner Bros. alumni Riley Keough and other A-listers Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux, Blink Twice duet Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum have joined Alpha Gang—replacing...
Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Art of Saying Nothing: Dupieux Deconstructs Cinema
Had Luis Bunuel approached conveying the reality of cinema produced by artificial intelligence, there may have been...
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...
Direct to Video: Léa Seydoux & Co. Learn Their Lines for Quentin Dupieux’s “À notre beau métier”
After a 2023 where he gave us a double bill in Daaaaaali! (read review) and Yannick, Quentin Dupieux is still seeing double. The quartet...
Anatomy of the Future: Arthur Harari to Direct Léa Seydoux in Sci-fi Project
Adding to a string (Crimes of the Future and The Beast) of recent sci-fi-based roles, actress Léa Seydoux is tipped to join Onoda: 10,000...
Un beau matin (One Fine Morning) | Review
All the Mornings in the World: Seydoux Burns Bright in Hansen-Love’s Moving Drama
Hannah Arendt succinctly remarked on the inference between 'doing' and 'understanding' in...
35th European Film Awards: A Cannes Comp rematch for Ali Abbasi, Lukas Dhont & Ruben Ôstlund
Three huge winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival lead the noms for the 35th European Film Awards. Lukas Dhont’s Close, Ali Abbasi’s Holy...
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...
Crimes of the Future | Review
Origin of the Neo-Species: Cronenberg Crafts a Discourse on Human Evolution
Whatever the evolution happening in the world of David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #15. David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
Crimes of the Future
Produced by Robert Lantos
Directed by David Cronenberg
Written by David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #19. Mia Hansen-Løve’s Un beau matin
Un beau matin (One Fine Morning)
Produced by Les Films Pelléas' David Thion, Philippe Martin.
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory,...
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...
France | Review
France de France: Dumont Soars with Offbeat Melodrama on Media & Misogyny
Few and far between are odd cinematic delights so deliberately off-center and...
The French Dispatch | Review
Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic
Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...
No Time to Die | Review
A Time to Love & a Time to Spy: Fukunaga Lays Craig to Rest in Bond Bacchanalian
It all comes full circle, or at least...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #23. Ildikó Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife
The Story of My Wife
Produced by Monika Mécs, András Muhi, Erno Mésterhazy, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Flaminio Zadra and Pilar Saavedra Perrotta.
Directed...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #24. Bruno Dumont’s France
France
Produced by Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, Muriel Merlin
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Written by Bruno Dumont
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benoît Magimel
Cinematographer: David Chambille
Release Date/Prediction: This...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #35. Arnaud Desplechin’s Tromperie
Deception
Produced by Pascal Caucheteux
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Written by Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Emmanuelle Devos, Gennadi Famin, Denis Podalydès
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Release Date/Prediction:...
Arte France Cinéma Give Coin to Hansen-Løve’s “Un beau matin” & Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Les Herbes sèches”
The Arte France Cinéma selection committee will be supporting a trio of eyebrow raising projects that will go into production in 2021. At the...
Mysteries of Lisbon | Review
Raul Ruiz’s Epic Literary Adaptation is a 5-hour Academic Exercise
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #5. The Story of My Wife – Ildikó Enyedi
The Story of My Wife
Produced by Monika Mécs, András Muhi, Erno Mésterhazy, Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Flaminio Zadra and Pilar Saavedra Perrotta.
Directed...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #15. On a Half Clear Morning – Bruno Dumont
On a Half Clear Morning
No doubt about it --- Bruno Dumont’s been busier than ever. While 2019 saw the restoration of his 1997 debut...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Arnaud Desplechin’s Oh Mercy!
After La sentinelle (1992), My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996), Esther Kahn (2000), A Christmas Tale (2008), Jimmy P:...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #3. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch
More croissant than cronut, Wes Anderson returns to the red, white and blue but of the Hotel Chevalier and Jacques Cousteau sort...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #15. Oh Mercy – Arnaud Desplechin
Oh Mercy
French auteur Arnaud Desplechin switches things up a bit for his tenth feature film Oh Mercy (previously known as Roubaix: a Light/Roubaix: Une...
2018 Cannes Jury Duty: DuVernay, Villeneuve, Zvyagintsev & Kristen Stewart to Hand out Palme d’Or
Jury President Cate Blanchett will be surrounded by fellow thesps Chang Chen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, noteworthy filmmakers Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Denis Villeneuve,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Drake Doremus’ Zoe
We've now arrived to our 75 prediction destination with this final item. A Sundance personality who over time, has developed his own cult following in...
The Lobster | Blu-ray Review
Director Yorgos Lanthimos transplants his celebrated narrative aesthetic from the Greek Weird Wave with his English language debut, The Lobster. The highly anticipated international...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Dolan Comes Out with “It’s the Only the End of the World”
With the exception of what I consider his best film to date, the Venice preemed Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan's home away from home...
It’s Only the End of the World | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
Don’t They Know?: Dolan Delivers a Dud with Familial Drama
Though no stranger to working with French stars, Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan makes his first...
The Lobster | Review
Animal Farm: Lanthimos’ Dystopic Dip into RomCom
Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos makes an admirable English language debut with The Lobster, set within an original dystopic...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #18. Xavier Dolan’s Juste la fin du monde
Juste la fin du monde
Director: Xavier Dolan
Writer: Xavier Dolan
During the substantial critical praise following Mommy (which tied with Jean-Luc Godard for the Jury Prize...
Spectre | Review
The Legacy of Octopussy: Mendes Returns to 007 on Autopilot
A good act is hard to follow, and Spectre, the latest installment in the enduring...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 3: The Lobster Boils Over into Bunuelian Aura
Its much to early to crown him as the godfather of the Greek new wave, but there'll be mounds of further essays written on the tsunami-breaking...
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...
Dolan Doubles Down: It’s Only the End of the World for Cotillard, Seydoux, Cassel, Ulliel & Nathalie Baye
Joining the ranks of filmmakers with insatiable appetites such as Michael Winterbottom, Francois Ozon and Woody Allen, Xavier Dolan doesn't take too much down...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #18. Benoit Jacquot’s Journal d’une femme de chambre
Journal d'une femme de chambre
Director: Benoit Jacquot // Writers: Benoit Jacquot, Helene Zimmer
French auteur Benoit Jacquot tends to get overlooked, though his recent international...
Get Him to the Greek; John C. Reilly Completes Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” Ensemble
Supporting players in John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden are joining the already cast, diverse set of Colin Farrell, Rachel...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #2. Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster
The Lobster
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writer(s): Lanthimos & Efthimis Filippou (both featured in pic above)
Producer(s): Lanthimos, Element Pictures' Lee Magiday & Ed Guiney, Scarlet Films'...
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,...
Criterion Collection: Blue is the Warmest Color | Blu-ray Review
Not quite a year after its memorable premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it would snatch the Palme d’Or from the Steven...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #19. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is a Hot Color
Le bleu est une couleur chaude (Blue Is a Hot Color)
Director/Writer/: Abdellatif Kechiche
Producer(s): Kechiche's Quat’sous Films & Wild Bunch
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #73. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central
Grand Central
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Writer(s): Zlotowski and Gaëlle Macé
Producer(s): Les Films Velvet's Frédéric Jouve
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Tahar Rahim, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet
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