Film stars Raphael Personnaz and Jeanne Balibar.
Paris-based Snd has boarded Anne Fontaine’s Boléro about the birth of the renowned orchestral work from Maurice Ravel, now shooting in France.
Set in the Roaring 1920s, the film stars Raphael Personnaz, known for Our Brothers, Julia(s) and The French Minister, as the composer. Jeanne Balibar, who has appeared in Lost Illusions, Cold War and Grace Of Monaco, plays the Russian dancer-choreographer Ida Rubinstein who commissioned the now legendary music.
Snd, the film arm of France’s M6 group, is on board as co-producer and French distributor and is launching international sales at Cannes.
Paris-based Snd has boarded Anne Fontaine’s Boléro about the birth of the renowned orchestral work from Maurice Ravel, now shooting in France.
Set in the Roaring 1920s, the film stars Raphael Personnaz, known for Our Brothers, Julia(s) and The French Minister, as the composer. Jeanne Balibar, who has appeared in Lost Illusions, Cold War and Grace Of Monaco, plays the Russian dancer-choreographer Ida Rubinstein who commissioned the now legendary music.
Snd, the film arm of France’s M6 group, is on board as co-producer and French distributor and is launching international sales at Cannes.
- 5/3/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
[insert Gilf joke here] THR has reported this weekend that actresses Naomi Watts (The Impossible, J. Edgar) and Robin Wright (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Rampart) will be starring in a new "erotic tale" from director Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel, Nathalie...) called The Grandmothers. "The erotic tale of misguided love and a celebration of the enduring nature of female friendship, The Grandmothers tells the story of two lifelong friends who fall in love with each...
- 12/5/2011
- by George Merchan
- JoBlo.com
Anne Fontaine, a filmmaker who hasn't had many problems exporting her films to the U.S. (Nathalie..., The Girl From Monaco), has began shooting her 12th feature film this week. The unlikely rom com tale about the fusion of two families stars Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Poelvoorde, who was in Fontaine's last film, Coco Before Channel. Co-scripted by Fontaine and Eric Mercier, My Worst Nightmare begins when Agathe (Huppert) takes in Tony, her son Adrien’s best friend, she doesn’t realize it at first, but her life ends up being turned upside down. Behind every child, there are always the parents, in this case a father with no job security, Patrick (Poelvoorde), who is as coarse and brazen as Agathe is cerebral and self-composed. Patrick, who is initially hired to do some work on the house, ends up doing much more: having indirectly caused Adrien’s father to run off with his social worker,...
- 8/26/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Amanda Seyfried updates the classic femme fatale.
Amanda Seyfried in "Chloe"
Photo: Sony Pictures
Chloe is a voluptuous young prostitute with a very deep dark side. Catherine, a middle-aged gynecologist, is unaware of this when she engages Chloe as an undercover temptress to bait her husband, David, a music professor she suspects of having affairs with his female students. Over the course of several liaisons with David, Chloe confirms Catherine's worst fears in graphic detail. This is disturbing news — although not nearly as disturbing as what's really going on.
"Chloe" is a sleek erotic mystery spiked with unexpected twists. It's ideally cast — with Amanda Seyfried as Chloe, Julianne Moore as Catherine, and Liam Neeson as David — and its plot switches are triggered with a smooth calculation that might have won the Hitchcock seal of approval. Director Atom Egoyan usually creates his own extraordinary screenplays; here, though, he has adapted a 2003 movie called "Nathalie...,...
Amanda Seyfried in "Chloe"
Photo: Sony Pictures
Chloe is a voluptuous young prostitute with a very deep dark side. Catherine, a middle-aged gynecologist, is unaware of this when she engages Chloe as an undercover temptress to bait her husband, David, a music professor she suspects of having affairs with his female students. Over the course of several liaisons with David, Chloe confirms Catherine's worst fears in graphic detail. This is disturbing news — although not nearly as disturbing as what's really going on.
"Chloe" is a sleek erotic mystery spiked with unexpected twists. It's ideally cast — with Amanda Seyfried as Chloe, Julianne Moore as Catherine, and Liam Neeson as David — and its plot switches are triggered with a smooth calculation that might have won the Hitchcock seal of approval. Director Atom Egoyan usually creates his own extraordinary screenplays; here, though, he has adapted a 2003 movie called "Nathalie...,...
- 3/26/2010
- MTV Movie News
Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore in Chloe
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics I am not very familiar with Atom Egoyan's work, but perhaps outside of creating a larger understanding of just what exactly he meant with the final shot of Chloe I can safely say this film mines the depths of human stupidity to the point it assumes the audience is just as dumb as its characters.
The story follows Catherine and David Stewart (Moore and Liam Neeson). Both are successful professionals, she's a gynecologist with her own practice and he's a college professor. They have a son (Max Thieriot) who's lashing out against his mother and finding common ground with his father. For the most part they seem like a happy upper class family with all the usual problems. However, when Catherine begins to think David is cheating on her, his every move makes her more and more suspicious...
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics I am not very familiar with Atom Egoyan's work, but perhaps outside of creating a larger understanding of just what exactly he meant with the final shot of Chloe I can safely say this film mines the depths of human stupidity to the point it assumes the audience is just as dumb as its characters.
The story follows Catherine and David Stewart (Moore and Liam Neeson). Both are successful professionals, she's a gynecologist with her own practice and he's a college professor. They have a son (Max Thieriot) who's lashing out against his mother and finding common ground with his father. For the most part they seem like a happy upper class family with all the usual problems. However, when Catherine begins to think David is cheating on her, his every move makes her more and more suspicious...
- 3/26/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Atom Egoyan is known for his dramas about intimacy and the nature of truth, whether familial or sexual. Films like The Sweet Hereafter and Adoration feature young people teetering on the edge of becoming adults and facing up to the effects of their actions, whether that might be lying, in the case of Adoration, or the pressures of telling the truth, as in The Sweet Hereafter. Egoyan's films, which often feature the themes of voyeurism and its intersection with technology, also deal frankly with sexuality, as in 1994's Exotica, which is centered around a strip club. In Chloe, which was adapted from the French Anne Fontaine movie Nathalie... by Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus), Amanda Seyfried plays the title character, a glossy young prostitute in Toronto. A chance meeting in the bathroom of an expensive restaurant leads to a strange relationship between Chloe and Catherine,...
- 3/24/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
The latest, definitely Nsfw trailer for Atom Egoyan's Chloe comes from France where they're reputedly a lot happier about nudity and 'sensuality' than in the Us. You can see for yourself after the break. It will probably leave you with the impression that the French are quite happy about women kissing each other too. I wonder if they'll be happy with this remake of one of their local hits, Nathalie... which starred Emanuelle Beart, Gerard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant in the Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore roles respectively. I'm a longtime fan of Egoyan's, since Family Viewing knocked me upside the head half a lifetime ago. He's an ace with tense and unnerving thrillers about fraught relationship tangles, so I expect to find that he absolutely nailed this one to the post. Via Hollywood Elsewhere...
- 1/12/2010
- by Brendon Connelly
- Slash Film
- The films that usually wash up ashore among French filmmaker Anne Fontaine’s filmography usually contain large doses of male fantasy. As we had previously witness with Nathalie..., eye candy is a label that newbie actress Louise Bourgoin wears well in The Girl From Monaco. After a successful run in French theaters, Magnolia Pictures are looking to turn a few heads with a deal that would see the film make it to screens sometime next year. A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a seventy-year-old criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ? Fontaine is now working on Coco avant Chanel – Audrey Tautou will star as Coco Chanel in a biopic about the legendary French fashion designer.
- 11/11/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Wellspring seduces 'Nathalie' in U.S.
NEW YORK -- Wellspring has acquired all U.S. rights to Anne Fontaine's erotic thriller Nathalie, starring Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Beart. The film centers on a woman who hires a prostitute to seduce her husband and report on his erotic tastes. Directed by Fontaine, whose previous credits include Dry Cleaning and How I Killed My Father, the film premiered at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival and will have its West Coast premiere Tuesday at the City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival in Los Angeles. Marie Therese Guirgis, Wellspring's head of acquisitions, negotiated the deal with John Kochman of Studio Canal. Nathalie was produced by Les Films Alain Sarde. " 'Nathalie' is smart, provocative and incredibly sexy. It's a grown-up film that delivers everything American audiences look for in French cinema," Guirgis said. Wellspring, a division of American Vantage Media Corp., plans a theatrical release in the fall, with a video/DVD release to follow.
- 3/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ardant to host Cesars
PARIS -- French actress Fanny Ardant will preside over the 29th Cesar Awards, France's top film honors, the organizers said Monday. Ardant, who won the best actress Cesar in 1997 for her role as the owner of a gay bar in the comedy Pedale Douce, has been nominated four times for the awards. Her latest film, Nathalie, in which she plays a jealous wife who befriends a prostitute (Emmanuelle Beart) to understand her husband (Gerard Depardieu) better, is currently playing in Paris. Veteran actress Micheline Presle will be honored at the ceremony Feb. 21 at Paris' Theatre du Chatelet. The awards will be transmitted live on French TV channel Canal Plus. Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Bon Voyage and Alain Resnais' Pas sur la Bouche (Not on the Mouth) received 11 and nine nominations, respectively (HR 1/26). The 3,300-plus members of the Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema will vote for the best of French cinema, as well as for the best European and international films of 2003.
- 2/3/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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