Similar to the Golden Globes because it is a foreign group of film journalists who conduct the voting (though I'm sure they have no mandate to prefer films loaded in stars), this year's the 15th Lumiere Awards has a pair of films in the top tier that recently that duked it out for the Louis Delluc award. Philippe Lioret's Welcome (which just got picked up by Film Movement this week) and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet (a Spc release next February) received five and four noms respectively. - Similar to the Golden Globes because it is a foreign group of film journalists who conduct the voting (though I'm sure they have no mandate to prefer films loaded in stars), this year's the 15th Lumière Awards has a pair of films in the top tier that recently that duked it out for the Louis Delluc award. Philippe Lioret...
- 12/18/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Year: 2009
Directors: Marc Recha
Writers: Marc Recha & Nadine Lamari
IMDb: link
Trailer: N/A
Review by: Linus de Paoli
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
The Catalonian director Marc Recha has been making short films since the late 80s, when he was 18 years-old. Since the success of "L'arbre de les cireres" in 1998, which won him several awards, his films have been shown in Cannes, Locarno and many other festivals around the world. I haven’t seen any of his flicks, so I was very curious when I went to see his latest picture “Petit Indi” which was shown out-of-competition. Screenings on the Piazza Grande are usually the prestigious ones, with at least one big name, a major distributor or some other relevance like a film from the region or about WW2. "Petit Indi" was something else, something very small and intimate.
It tells the story about a 17 year old Catalonian boy called Arnau...
Directors: Marc Recha
Writers: Marc Recha & Nadine Lamari
IMDb: link
Trailer: N/A
Review by: Linus de Paoli
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
The Catalonian director Marc Recha has been making short films since the late 80s, when he was 18 years-old. Since the success of "L'arbre de les cireres" in 1998, which won him several awards, his films have been shown in Cannes, Locarno and many other festivals around the world. I haven’t seen any of his flicks, so I was very curious when I went to see his latest picture “Petit Indi” which was shown out-of-competition. Screenings on the Piazza Grande are usually the prestigious ones, with at least one big name, a major distributor or some other relevance like a film from the region or about WW2. "Petit Indi" was something else, something very small and intimate.
It tells the story about a 17 year old Catalonian boy called Arnau...
- 8/17/2009
- QuietEarth.us
- To put it simply, Rien de Personnel (the opening film for the 48th edition of the Critic's Week) is a sophisticated film that really only gets going in the final act, which is sort of the point of Mathias Gokalp and Nadine Lamari's screenplay. Shot in one location, the story takes place during the course of one evening, where employees of a drug company sip on cocktails and start worrying about their own future with the company as rumors circulate that it is up for sale. Told via the vantage point of several of these workers, Gokalp creates a Gosford Park-like scenario where gossip spreads like wildfire and he reuses the same footage over and over again by increasing the length and further adding details as to the true cause and effects. What occurs is that our perceptions of who these characters really are changes over time.
- 5/14/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- Actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin should be making a second consecutive appearance at the Cannes Critics' Week this year, the 48th edition will commence the festivities with the debut feature film from Mathias Gokalp and the actor top-lines Rien De Personnel (Nothing Personal) with co-stars Denis Podalydes, Zabou Breitman, Pascal Greggory, Melanie Doutey and Bouli Lanners. Written by Nadine Lamari, in order to launch its top secret new product, the Muller pharmaceutical company throws an extravagant party where directors, managers and employees are all invited. During the course of the evening, the guests are asked to participate in a role-playing game which, it turns out, is actually a massive training simulation for the management team. Rumors soon circulate that the company is up for sale, and the panic has everyone trying to save their own skin. The Critic's Week folks also announced the addition of another first time film from another French filmmaker.
- 4/21/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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