In Claire Denis’ Both Sides of the Blade, Sara (Juliette Binoche) is an ex-girlfriend of her husband Jean's (Vincent Lindon) one-time friend, François (Grégoire Colin). He exists as a dormant piece of the past in the quiet intersection of the couple’s love. As in all good tales about marriage, there are two sides to their story. In a stable, loving relationship, the story's two-sidedness is harmless, but in an unstable partnership, that two-sidedness can be decisive—a double-edged blade. As long as its edge remains dull, its existence doesn't make any difference, but it has the potential to threateningly, suddenly sharpen. Sara and Jean go on vacation; they swim; they say sweet things to one another; they embrace with genuine affection in the morning. It's only when Sara sees François—who then recruits Jean for his new business—that a renewed awareness of his existence disturbs the peace of the oblivious.
- 7/24/2022
- MUBI
Juliette Binoche as “Sara” in Claire Denis’ Both Sides Of The Blade. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Curiosa Films. An IFC Films release
Juliette Binoche and French stars Vincent Lindon and Gregoire Colin deliver top-notch acting in a love triangle drama, in renowned director Claire Denis’s Both Sides Of The Blade. Previously titled Fire in English, this well-acted French romantic drama’s French title is Avec Amour Et Acharnement, which translates as “With Love and Fury,” which would have worked in English as well. Juliette Binoche’s character Sara certainly is playing with fire, when her eye strays to an old flame despite her better judgment, threatening her present loving relationship. Plenty of sparks fly as a result.
Juliette Binoche plays Sara, who is in a loving, long-term relationship with Jean (Vincent Lindon), Sara
had left her previous amour Francois (Gregoire Colin) for Jean, his best friend and business partner,...
Juliette Binoche and French stars Vincent Lindon and Gregoire Colin deliver top-notch acting in a love triangle drama, in renowned director Claire Denis’s Both Sides Of The Blade. Previously titled Fire in English, this well-acted French romantic drama’s French title is Avec Amour Et Acharnement, which translates as “With Love and Fury,” which would have worked in English as well. Juliette Binoche’s character Sara certainly is playing with fire, when her eye strays to an old flame despite her better judgment, threatening her present loving relationship. Plenty of sparks fly as a result.
Juliette Binoche plays Sara, who is in a loving, long-term relationship with Jean (Vincent Lindon), Sara
had left her previous amour Francois (Gregoire Colin) for Jean, his best friend and business partner,...
- 7/16/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fire Review — Fire (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Claire Denis, written by Claire Denis and Christine Angot and starring Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Gregoire Colin, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica, Alice Houri, Mati Diop, Bruno Podalydes and Lola Creton. French filmmaker Claire Denis’ new film, Fire (also known as Both Sides of the [...]
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- 7/11/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
A slow burn that never quite bursts into flame, “Both Sides of the Blade” is likely to appeal most to those who are already fans of director Claire Denis. That said, would anyone turn down the opportunity to spend a couple of hours with her luminous leading lady, Juliette Binoche?
Certainly not Jean, smitten lover of Binoche’s enigmatic Sara. The film opens with the two of them on vacation, frolicking in the ocean and unable to keep their hands off each other. The rather mournful score from Tindersticks, which could have been lifted from a 1970s divorce drama, is our early hint at troubles unseen.
Jean and Sara, it turns out, have been together for nearly a decade and still seem to be madly in love. But then we notice that he has to ask for her credit card when he wants to go shopping. She spots her ex-boyfriend...
Certainly not Jean, smitten lover of Binoche’s enigmatic Sara. The film opens with the two of them on vacation, frolicking in the ocean and unable to keep their hands off each other. The rather mournful score from Tindersticks, which could have been lifted from a 1970s divorce drama, is our early hint at troubles unseen.
Jean and Sara, it turns out, have been together for nearly a decade and still seem to be madly in love. But then we notice that he has to ask for her credit card when he wants to go shopping. She spots her ex-boyfriend...
- 7/7/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
The latest from Claire Denis, Fire (Both Sides of the Blade), explores the complexities of relationships past and present but gets muddled in the process.
Navigating the endless maze of emotion is a fine tight-rope to walk. Mammoth tasks is nothing new for Denis, a bold filmmaker whose work is always interesting. And Fire also sees Denis working with Christine Angot again on the screenplay.
With the UK premiere taking place at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival this romantic drama takes in the outskirts of Paris. We see middle-aged couple Jean (Vincent Lindon) and Sara (Juliette Binoche) blissfully in a bubble of euphoria. This, however, doesn’t last long with the return to the scene of former lover, François (Grégoire Colin), to complicate matters.
This is not quite the high drama you typically expect from a love-triangle we normally see on the big screen. It certainly isn’t the...
Navigating the endless maze of emotion is a fine tight-rope to walk. Mammoth tasks is nothing new for Denis, a bold filmmaker whose work is always interesting. And Fire also sees Denis working with Christine Angot again on the screenplay.
With the UK premiere taking place at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival this romantic drama takes in the outskirts of Paris. We see middle-aged couple Jean (Vincent Lindon) and Sara (Juliette Binoche) blissfully in a bubble of euphoria. This, however, doesn’t last long with the return to the scene of former lover, François (Grégoire Colin), to complicate matters.
This is not quite the high drama you typically expect from a love-triangle we normally see on the big screen. It certainly isn’t the...
- 3/8/2022
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: IFC Films has set a July 8 stateside release date for Claire Denis’ Berlin Film Festival winner Fire, starring Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon.
The movie, which won Denis the Best Director prize in Berlin, is a love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.
Denis wrote the script with French novelist Christine Angot. The film also stars Mati Diop, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica and Hana Magimel.
DoP is Eric Gautier, whose credits include Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is The Purest White, and the film was produced by Curiosa Film with associate producer Jacqueline de Croÿ of Dear Gaia Films.
Set in the winter in Paris, Fire (previously known internationally as Both Sides Of The Blade) tells the tale of a fiery love triangle involving Jean (Lindon) and Sara (Binoche) who have been living together for 10 years. When they first met,...
The movie, which won Denis the Best Director prize in Berlin, is a love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.
Denis wrote the script with French novelist Christine Angot. The film also stars Mati Diop, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica and Hana Magimel.
DoP is Eric Gautier, whose credits include Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is The Purest White, and the film was produced by Curiosa Film with associate producer Jacqueline de Croÿ of Dear Gaia Films.
Set in the winter in Paris, Fire (previously known internationally as Both Sides Of The Blade) tells the tale of a fiery love triangle involving Jean (Lindon) and Sara (Binoche) who have been living together for 10 years. When they first met,...
- 2/25/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
While we’re hopeful that 2022 may see the premiere of two new Claire Denis films, the first one has now seen the light of day. Fire (aka Both Sides of the Blade), shot during the pandemic, recently premiered at Berlinale, will stop by Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema next month, and arrive this summer via IFC Films. Ahead of the release, the first trio of clips have now arrived, which preview the story of a love triangle, with a cast featuring Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Grégoire Colin, Issa Perica, Bulle Ogier, and Mati Diop.
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “In Fire a romance breaks down and threatens to break up in a stylish apartment overlooking the sweet Parisian skyline. The director is of course Claire Denis, a filmmaker whose last work began in a place that looked like Eden and ended in a spaceship plummeting...
Rory O’Connor said in his review, “In Fire a romance breaks down and threatens to break up in a stylish apartment overlooking the sweet Parisian skyline. The director is of course Claire Denis, a filmmaker whose last work began in a place that looked like Eden and ended in a spaceship plummeting...
- 2/15/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In Fire a romance breaks down and threatens to break up in a stylish apartment overlooking the sweet Parisian skyline. The director is of course Claire Denis, a filmmaker whose last work began in a place that looked like Eden and ended in a spaceship plummeting toward no less than a black hole. A baroque melodrama that might just maybe be a trolling farce, Fire‘s concerns are of a more earthbound variety–though if the insistent strings of Tindersticks’ score are something to go by, they are of no less importance. (Yeah right.)
Fire finds Denis collaborating for the second time with playwright Christine Angot, with whom she made 2018’s Let the Sunshine In, now the first of what has become a trilogy with Juliette Binoche. The French actress does her thing again as one half of this film’s wilting relationship, playing Sara, a radio host who used...
Fire finds Denis collaborating for the second time with playwright Christine Angot, with whom she made 2018’s Let the Sunshine In, now the first of what has become a trilogy with Juliette Binoche. The French actress does her thing again as one half of this film’s wilting relationship, playing Sara, a radio host who used...
- 2/12/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Juliette Binoche puts in another tremendous performance in Claire Denis’ drama Both Sides Of The Blade. The Berlin Film Festival competition title is an intimate slow-burner that sets a credible scene, but doesn’t quite deliver on the mystery it promises.
Binoche plays Sara, a radio presenter who has been with Jean (Vincent Lindon) for 10 years. They appear to be very much in love. Gradually, it’s revealed that they met through Sara’s ex-boyfriend François (Grégoire Colin), whom she suddenly spots in the street one day.
Consumed by strong feelings, Sara is unnerved when François gets in touch with Jean, suggesting they work together on a new business venture. She becomes paranoid when the two men meet up — and increasingly confused when she finally gets to speak with François.
The melodramatic score uses traditional thriller tropes to suggest that something ominous may happen,...
Binoche plays Sara, a radio presenter who has been with Jean (Vincent Lindon) for 10 years. They appear to be very much in love. Gradually, it’s revealed that they met through Sara’s ex-boyfriend François (Grégoire Colin), whom she suddenly spots in the street one day.
Consumed by strong feelings, Sara is unnerved when François gets in touch with Jean, suggesting they work together on a new business venture. She becomes paranoid when the two men meet up — and increasingly confused when she finally gets to speak with François.
The melodramatic score uses traditional thriller tropes to suggest that something ominous may happen,...
- 2/12/2022
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Juliette Binoche completes an intriguing love triangle that highlights the incompatible emotions that coexist in an affair
Claire Denis’s new film is a seductively indirect love triangle, a drama of the mind as much as the heart. It’s intriguing if contrived and anticlimactic, though acted at the highest pitch of sensual conviction. Denis has co-written the screenplay with the author Christine Angot, with whom she wrote her previous movie Let the Sunshine In, and this has the same novelistic feel. The original French title is Feu, ou Avec Amour et Acharnement; the English subtitle comes from a Tindersticks’ track composed especially for this film about the lacerating agony of an impossible choice: (“I’m sliding down both sides of the blade”).
The three combatants are heavyweights of French cinema. Juliette Binoche is Sara, a presenter on a highbrow Paris radio talk show, who for 10 years has lived with...
Claire Denis’s new film is a seductively indirect love triangle, a drama of the mind as much as the heart. It’s intriguing if contrived and anticlimactic, though acted at the highest pitch of sensual conviction. Denis has co-written the screenplay with the author Christine Angot, with whom she wrote her previous movie Let the Sunshine In, and this has the same novelistic feel. The original French title is Feu, ou Avec Amour et Acharnement; the English subtitle comes from a Tindersticks’ track composed especially for this film about the lacerating agony of an impossible choice: (“I’m sliding down both sides of the blade”).
The three combatants are heavyweights of French cinema. Juliette Binoche is Sara, a presenter on a highbrow Paris radio talk show, who for 10 years has lived with...
- 2/12/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“Fire” begins in water: a wide, rippling expanse of Mediterranean blue under a cloudless sky, displaced and disrupted by two whirling human bodies. Sara (Juliette Binoche) and Jean (Vincent Lindon) tussle in the otherwise empty ocean as though they’ve just discovered weightlessness, while Eric Gautier’s camera lingers on skin touching skin under the shimmer. The lovers are, we guess, on vacation, though in this immediately seductive opening scene, they seem suspended in another ecstatic reality altogether.
It’s no spoiler to say we’ll never see them like this again in Claire Denis’ frank, hot-blooded relationship drama; most relationships only have select moments of such removed bliss, after all. But we frequently grieve for this sunlit simplicity in the messy, emotionally fraught and very Parisian pileup of desires, regrets and jealousies that follows. “Fire” is a love triangle of unusually elegant geometry, with multiple romantic histories and phantom...
It’s no spoiler to say we’ll never see them like this again in Claire Denis’ frank, hot-blooded relationship drama; most relationships only have select moments of such removed bliss, after all. But we frequently grieve for this sunlit simplicity in the messy, emotionally fraught and very Parisian pileup of desires, regrets and jealousies that follows. “Fire” is a love triangle of unusually elegant geometry, with multiple romantic histories and phantom...
- 2/12/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Summer release planned for Juliette Binoche love triangle drama.
IFC Films is reuniting with Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche and has acquired US rights to her imminent Berlin world premiere Fire (aka Both Sides Of The Blade) starring Juliette Binoche, Vincent London and Grégoire Colin.
The distributor plans a summer release on the story about a love triangle. Binoche plays Sara, who lives happily in Paris with Jean (London). When Sara spots her old flame and Jean’s former best friend Francois (Colin) in the street she is overcome with the notion her life could suddenly change.
Francois and Jean...
IFC Films is reuniting with Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche and has acquired US rights to her imminent Berlin world premiere Fire (aka Both Sides Of The Blade) starring Juliette Binoche, Vincent London and Grégoire Colin.
The distributor plans a summer release on the story about a love triangle. Binoche plays Sara, who lives happily in Paris with Jean (London). When Sara spots her old flame and Jean’s former best friend Francois (Colin) in the street she is overcome with the notion her life could suddenly change.
Francois and Jean...
- 2/3/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has nabbed U.S. rights to “Fire,” the new drama from celebrated French director Claire Denis. The pact marks the first major domestic deal of the Berlinale 2022 competition.
World premiering next week at the Berlin Film Festival, “Fire” is headlined by two of France’s biggest stars, Juliette Binoche (“The English Patient”) and Vincent Lindon (“Titane”). The pair have never been in a film together.
IFC Films has a long history with both Denis and Binoche. The director-driven distribution company previously handled Denis’ “Let The Sunshine In,” which starred Binoche, and “White Material.” Binoche also appeared in such as IFC releases as Olivier Assayas’ “Clouds of Sils Maria” and “Non-Fiction,” as well as Abbas Kiarostami’s “Certified Copy.”
Set in the winter in Paris, the film tells the tale of a fiery love triangle involving Jean (Lindon) and Sara (Binoche) who have been living together for 10 years. When they first met,...
World premiering next week at the Berlin Film Festival, “Fire” is headlined by two of France’s biggest stars, Juliette Binoche (“The English Patient”) and Vincent Lindon (“Titane”). The pair have never been in a film together.
IFC Films has a long history with both Denis and Binoche. The director-driven distribution company previously handled Denis’ “Let The Sunshine In,” which starred Binoche, and “White Material.” Binoche also appeared in such as IFC releases as Olivier Assayas’ “Clouds of Sils Maria” and “Non-Fiction,” as well as Abbas Kiarostami’s “Certified Copy.”
Set in the winter in Paris, the film tells the tale of a fiery love triangle involving Jean (Lindon) and Sara (Binoche) who have been living together for 10 years. When they first met,...
- 2/3/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most fruitful collaborations in cinema history has been between Claire Denis and Stuart Staples’ band Tindersticks. After working together on a number of films––Nénette et Boni, Trouble Every Day, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum, White Material, Bastards, and High Life––their latest team-up comes with Fire.
Led by Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica, and Binoche’s daughter Hana Magimel, the love-triangle romance is one of 2022’s most-anticipated. As our first real preview, Tindersticks have unveiled the closing song as well as revealing it’ll premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 12.
Titled Both Sides of the Blade, it’s part of their new greatest-hits collection Past imperfect : the best of tindersticks ’92 – ‘21, which is set for release on March 25. The music video for this rather beautifully somber track, depicting a woman shaving in front of a mirror,...
Led by Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica, and Binoche’s daughter Hana Magimel, the love-triangle romance is one of 2022’s most-anticipated. As our first real preview, Tindersticks have unveiled the closing song as well as revealing it’ll premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 12.
Titled Both Sides of the Blade, it’s part of their new greatest-hits collection Past imperfect : the best of tindersticks ’92 – ‘21, which is set for release on March 25. The music video for this rather beautifully somber track, depicting a woman shaving in front of a mirror,...
- 1/18/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Films don’t get much more anticipated than those from Claire Denis. Perhaps the most consistent director working today, she was all set to follow High Life with another Robert Pattinson collaboration, The Stars at Noon, but the pandemic interrupted those plans and so she embarked with some of her most trusted collaborators for a smaller scale new film titled Fire.
Led by Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica, and Binoche’s daughter Hana Magimel, the first image has now arrived, seen above courtesy of Le Inrockuptibles for the film that’s an adaptation of Christine Angot’s new novel Un tournant de la vie.
As Richard Brody translates, Claire Denis said, “Honestly, I knew, in real life, the protagonists of this story too well and I was afraid that it would be too hard for me. Christine told me we’d change things.
Led by Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Mati Diop, Grégoire Colin, Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica, and Binoche’s daughter Hana Magimel, the first image has now arrived, seen above courtesy of Le Inrockuptibles for the film that’s an adaptation of Christine Angot’s new novel Un tournant de la vie.
As Richard Brody translates, Claire Denis said, “Honestly, I knew, in real life, the protagonists of this story too well and I was afraid that it would be too hard for me. Christine told me we’d change things.
- 3/18/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Production has wrapped on Fire (Feu), the latest movie from French filmmaking royalty Claire Denis. Pic stars heavyweight actors Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon, appearing opposite each other for the first time, in a love triangle story about a woman caught between two men – her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.
This is the project that was previously reported as being called Radioscopie and was moved swiftly into production when Denis’ The Stars At Noon, set to star Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley, was delayed – that movie is now expect to shoot as soon as April.
Fire also stars Mati Diop, Gregoire Colin, Bulle Ogier, and Issa Perica in the cast. It part shot at the famed Radio France headquarters Maison de la Radio in Paris, where the daily cultural radio program Radioscopie has been broadcasting since 1968.
Olivier Delbosc is producing the movie for his Curiosa Films.
This is the project that was previously reported as being called Radioscopie and was moved swiftly into production when Denis’ The Stars At Noon, set to star Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley, was delayed – that movie is now expect to shoot as soon as April.
Fire also stars Mati Diop, Gregoire Colin, Bulle Ogier, and Issa Perica in the cast. It part shot at the famed Radio France headquarters Maison de la Radio in Paris, where the daily cultural radio program Radioscopie has been broadcasting since 1968.
Olivier Delbosc is producing the movie for his Curiosa Films.
- 2/3/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
High among our list of most-anticipated films of 2021 is Claire Denis’ Fire, which quickly went into production while her adaptation of The Stars at Noon got delayed. Reuniting with Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon, not much was known about the film outside of it being set in the world of French radio. Now, as filming concludes, many more details have arrived.
Also reuniting with Denis are Mati Diop and Grégoire Colin (pictured above in the incredible 35 Shots of Rum), who have been revealed as part of the cast alongside Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica, and Hana Magimelm. Cineuropa also reports novelist Christine Angot reteamed with Denis for the script, following their collaboration on Let the Sunshine In, while cinematography is from Eric Gautier. Check out a new synopsis below, which actually makes no mention of it being set in the radio world:
Fire tells the tale of a passionate love triangle.
Also reuniting with Denis are Mati Diop and Grégoire Colin (pictured above in the incredible 35 Shots of Rum), who have been revealed as part of the cast alongside Bulle Ogier, Issa Perica, and Hana Magimelm. Cineuropa also reports novelist Christine Angot reteamed with Denis for the script, following their collaboration on Let the Sunshine In, while cinematography is from Eric Gautier. Check out a new synopsis below, which actually makes no mention of it being set in the radio world:
Fire tells the tale of a passionate love triangle.
- 1/28/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
If you looked at the poster for Ladj Ly’s French-language drama Les Misérables, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a documentary. That’s not an accident.
An unnervingly well-timed portrait of police brutality and youth revolt in a rough Paris suburb (or “banlieue”), Les Misérables serves as a kind of spiritual sequel to the 1995 classic La Haine. A similarly bleak tale of urban social conflict, La Haine forced the government to reflect on the country’s near-sacred assimilation model, which posed French society as an inclusive home for immigrants and ethnic minorities – on the condition they were willing to play the French way.
Most in France still believe in the old approach to newcomers, but Les Misérables offers a new spanner in the works in the form of a keener focus on the country’s racial tensions, which are less subconscious bias, and more of an all-encompassing...
An unnervingly well-timed portrait of police brutality and youth revolt in a rough Paris suburb (or “banlieue”), Les Misérables serves as a kind of spiritual sequel to the 1995 classic La Haine. A similarly bleak tale of urban social conflict, La Haine forced the government to reflect on the country’s near-sacred assimilation model, which posed French society as an inclusive home for immigrants and ethnic minorities – on the condition they were willing to play the French way.
Most in France still believe in the old approach to newcomers, but Les Misérables offers a new spanner in the works in the form of a keener focus on the country’s racial tensions, which are less subconscious bias, and more of an all-encompassing...
- 9/2/2020
- by Adam Solomons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Director Ladj Ly's "Les Miserables" is not a contemporary, retelling of Victor Hugo's classic. In fact, it is a gritty and fiery urban thriller with a social urgency bubbling under the surface to provide added depth.
Set in the low-income housing district of Montfermeil, which was also the setting for parts of Victor Hugo's novel, the film tells us of the class struggle and culture clashes between disenfranchised immigrants in Paris today.
The narrative follows police officer Ruiz (Damien Bonnard) on his first day of work at his new unit in the ghettos of Paris, where he patrols along with his experienced partners, the veteran short-fused squad leader Chris (Alexis Manenti) aka "the Pink Pig" and his absolutely laidback companion Gwada (Djibril Zonga), who harass mostly the Muslim immigrants to the point of simmering community resentment.
It is in this community we meet a few key players, namely...
Set in the low-income housing district of Montfermeil, which was also the setting for parts of Victor Hugo's novel, the film tells us of the class struggle and culture clashes between disenfranchised immigrants in Paris today.
The narrative follows police officer Ruiz (Damien Bonnard) on his first day of work at his new unit in the ghettos of Paris, where he patrols along with his experienced partners, the veteran short-fused squad leader Chris (Alexis Manenti) aka "the Pink Pig" and his absolutely laidback companion Gwada (Djibril Zonga), who harass mostly the Muslim immigrants to the point of simmering community resentment.
It is in this community we meet a few key players, namely...
- 3/9/2020
- GlamSham
Oh, oh. Didn’t we just endure another retelling of this classic story? And in song this last time? With an actor or two not known for their (to put it gently) pipes? No, it’s the same title, but put that flick out of your head. Along with countless 19th-century costume epics. So we’re not dealing with the stealing of baked goods and a hungry waif and dogged inspectors. Although this film does concern itself with poverty and law enforcement. But there’s class struggle and culture clashes between disenfranchised immigrants. Plus there are some trigger-happy thugs engaged in racial profiling. You may think those problems have only plagued our backyard, but it’s going on all over the globe, in this film and the original novel’s backdrop. This is a very modern-day melodrama that is also titled Les Miserables.
The story actually begins on a somewhat...
The story actually begins on a somewhat...
- 1/17/2020
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Les MISÉRABLE Amazon Studios Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ladj Ly Screenwriter: Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti Cast: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 10/24/19 Opens: January 10, 2020 Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables” is to […]
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- 1/5/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Already vying for six European Film Awards, Roman Polanski’s ‘An Officer and a Spy” (“J’accuse”) is nominated for five Lumieres Awards, the French prizes given by Paris-based members of the foreign press.
The period film, which won the Silver Prize at the Venice Film Festival, is nominated for best film, director, actor (for Oscar-winning Jean Dujardin), script and cinematography.
While Polanski has been at the heart of a widespread backlash following the rape accusation made by the former actress Valentine Monnier last month, “An Officer and a Spy” has been highly successful at the French box office since opening on Nov. 13 and is now nearing 1 million tickets sold.
The movie tells the true story of counter-espionage officer Georges Picquart, who defied orders and embarked on a compromising mission to clear the name of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a promising French-Jewish officer who was unfairly accused of spying for Germany in the late 1890s.
The period film, which won the Silver Prize at the Venice Film Festival, is nominated for best film, director, actor (for Oscar-winning Jean Dujardin), script and cinematography.
While Polanski has been at the heart of a widespread backlash following the rape accusation made by the former actress Valentine Monnier last month, “An Officer and a Spy” has been highly successful at the French box office since opening on Nov. 13 and is now nearing 1 million tickets sold.
The movie tells the true story of counter-espionage officer Georges Picquart, who defied orders and embarked on a compromising mission to clear the name of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a promising French-Jewish officer who was unfairly accused of spying for Germany in the late 1890s.
- 12/3/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Jury Prize winner is also France’s submission to the Oscars this year.
Ladj Ly’s debut feature and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, revolving around social tensions in a tough Paris suburb, is the frontrunner in the 25th edition of France’s Lumière awards this year, with seven nominations.
The awards which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Les Misérables has been nominated for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, first film and twice in the best new actor section for two of its cast members,...
Ladj Ly’s debut feature and Cannes Jury Prize winner Les Misérables, revolving around social tensions in a tough Paris suburb, is the frontrunner in the 25th edition of France’s Lumière awards this year, with seven nominations.
The awards which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Les Misérables has been nominated for best film, director, screenplay, cinematography, first film and twice in the best new actor section for two of its cast members,...
- 12/3/2019
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
"What if voicing anger... was the only way to be heard?" Amazon Studios has released the first official Us trailer for the acclaimed French drama Les Misérables, which also won the Jury Prize (third place behind Parasite and Atlantics) at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. This film marks the feature directorial debut of very talented actor/filmmaker Ladj Ly, and it has nothing to do with the original "Les Misérables" book by Victor Hugo. It's a contemporary story set in the suburbs of Paris. Stéphane joins the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil. He meets his new teammates, Chris and Gwada, and discovers the tensions between the cops and the locals in the district. Starring Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu, Almamy Kanoute, and Jeanne Balibar. This was one of my favorite films out of Cannes this year, a remarkably powerful and invigorating film about cops and citizens.
- 10/23/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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