Bérénice Bejo Joins Nanni Moretti-Starrer ‘Colibrì’ Which Kicks off Sales at...
Oscar-nominated French actor Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”) has joined Pierfrancesco Favino (“The Traitor”), Nanni Moretti, and the Italian cast of romantic drama “Il Colibrì,” which has started shooting...
View ArticleBerenice Bejo to Star in Lone Scherfig’s ‘The Movie Teller,’ Embankment...
Bérénice Bejo, Oscar nominated for “The Artist,” and two-time Goya winner Antonio de la Torre are to star in “The Movie Teller,” which is to be directed by Lone Scherfig, a BAFTA nominee with “An...
View ArticleCOVID-19 or Not, Cannes 2022 Kicks Off With Glamour, a French Zombie Movie...
A blazing hot beach day in the South of France was interrupted by a flock of men dressed in penguin-black tuxedos and women in shimmering ballgowns. They marched past bikini-clad locals to mark the...
View Article‘Final Cut (Coupez!)’ Review: Cannes Opens With an Annoying Zombie Comedy...
The last time the Cannes Film Festival dropped a zombie comedy into its coveted opening-night slot, it was 2019, and the movie — Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die” — was no big whoop, but it served...
View ArticleNetflix Sets Xavier Gens’ Genre Movie Set in Paris’ Seine, Starring Berenice...
Netflix has set Xavier Gens’ (“Gangs of London”) untitled Paris-set genre movie starring Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist“) and Nassim Lyes (“Overdose”) as its next French film original. Set in the Summer of...
View ArticleSpain’s Valladolid Festival Honors Berenice Bejo, Charlotte Rampling,...
One of Spain’s biggest and oldest movie events, the Valladolid Intl. Film Festival, known as the Seminci in Spain, is broadening its range of Spanish films and aims to strengthen its position as an...
View Article‘Another End’ Review: Gael García Bernal and Renate Reinsve Illuminate a...
It’s ironic that memory is the central theme of Piero Messina’s Berlin Competition title “Another End,” when so many of its twists and turns are so directly lifted from other films that it feels like...
View Article‘Under Paris’ Review: At Last, a Shark Movie Worthy of Swimming in the Wake...
“What if there were a shark in the Seine?” is, one can only assume, a question that Parisians ponder on a daily basis. It’s also brilliant in its simplicity, if not quite as appealingly silly a...
View ArticleCannes Camera d’Or Winner César Diaz Heads to Locarno with Bold Bérénice...
Guatemalan born director César Diaz, a 2019 Camera d’Or winner for “Our Mothers,” pulls from his past to provide a harrowing and earnest look at an activist’s inner tumult in his latest title, “Mexico...
View Article‘Under Paris 2’: Netflix Developing Sequel to French Shark Movie With...
With its post-apocalyptic ending, the French shark movie “Under Paris” doesn’t necessarily lend itself — narratively speaking — to a sequel. But after scoring the best launch for a non-English language...
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