In the films of Belgian auteur Joachim Lafosse, families tend to be torn apart from the inside, brought down by deep-seated psychological baggage (The Restless, Private Property), extremely bad behavior (Private Lessons, Keep Going) or a history of abuse (Our Children). For his latest feature, A Silence (Un silence), the writer-director has managed to pack all three factors into a single movie, focusing on a bourgeois clan that gradually unravels as past and present offenses come back to haunt them.
Like the rest of Lafosse’s work, it’s a penetrating, artfully made drama, this one starring Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Devos and newcomer Matthieu Galoux, turning in quietly riveting performances. But it also overstretches itself, with too many pivotal events coinciding at once, making the plot less credible while dissipating the emotional effect of its many revelations. After premiering in San Sebastian, the film will continue its festival run, followed by theatrical play in France,...
Like the rest of Lafosse’s work, it’s a penetrating, artfully made drama, this one starring Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Devos and newcomer Matthieu Galoux, turning in quietly riveting performances. But it also overstretches itself, with too many pivotal events coinciding at once, making the plot less credible while dissipating the emotional effect of its many revelations. After premiering in San Sebastian, the film will continue its festival run, followed by theatrical play in France,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julia Roberts touched down in Cannes to attend the Chopard Trophée Dinner, in which she was tasked with presenting awards to rising actors Sheila Atim and Jack Lowden. The event was held at the Carlton Hotel Beach Club and was attended by the likes of Xavier Dolan, Saoirse Ronan, Vincent Lindon, Lashana Lynch, Rebecca Hall, Noomi Rapace and Deepika Padukone, among other celebrities. Roberts was named theGodmother of the Trophée Chopard ahead of the Cannes Film Festival.
“Everybody get a picture and you know what we are going to do, we’re going to put all of our phones down,” Roberts told the crowd during her awards presentation. “This is about cinema, which is the love of my life second to my husband.”
Sheila Atim recently appeared in Marvel’s blockbuster “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and next has a role opposite Viola Davis in the warrior epic “The Woman King.
“Everybody get a picture and you know what we are going to do, we’re going to put all of our phones down,” Roberts told the crowd during her awards presentation. “This is about cinema, which is the love of my life second to my husband.”
Sheila Atim recently appeared in Marvel’s blockbuster “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and next has a role opposite Viola Davis in the warrior epic “The Woman King.
- 5/22/2022
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
No Land’s Song
Written by Ayat Najafi
Directed by Ayat Najafi
Germany, France, Iran, 2014
Before 1979, Iran had a history of iconic female singers. Qamar al-Molouk Vaziri was in 1924 the first woman to sing in front of a male audience and still to “retain her good reputation”. It was a time when “women wore burkas and men were on opium”, sighs one of the protagonists of the documentary from the Iranian Ayat Najafi. Singers such as Delkash and Googoosh, as well as Sayeh Sodeyfi, performing in the film, were widely listened to, but have since then been made illegal. After the revolution, female solo-singing in public was banned on the grounds of »exceeding a certain vocal range« and »sexually arousing men in the audience«, and thereby breaking the rule of decency and of not deviating from their normal condition.
Premiering at the Montréal World Film Festival last August, Ayat Najafi...
Written by Ayat Najafi
Directed by Ayat Najafi
Germany, France, Iran, 2014
Before 1979, Iran had a history of iconic female singers. Qamar al-Molouk Vaziri was in 1924 the first woman to sing in front of a male audience and still to “retain her good reputation”. It was a time when “women wore burkas and men were on opium”, sighs one of the protagonists of the documentary from the Iranian Ayat Najafi. Singers such as Delkash and Googoosh, as well as Sayeh Sodeyfi, performing in the film, were widely listened to, but have since then been made illegal. After the revolution, female solo-singing in public was banned on the grounds of »exceeding a certain vocal range« and »sexually arousing men in the audience«, and thereby breaking the rule of decency and of not deviating from their normal condition.
Premiering at the Montréal World Film Festival last August, Ayat Najafi...
- 5/15/2015
- by Tina Poglajen
- SoundOnSight
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