Teenage Wasteland: Boukherma Bros. Sprawl with Coming-of-Age Melodrama
French directing twins Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma swing hard with their fourth feature, And Their Children After Them, a coming-of-age saga taking place across eight years of the 1990s in the deindustrialized (fictional) town of Heillange in Eastern France. There’s a definite richness to the narrative, a change of pace for the directing duo, who, only in their mid 30s have explored several genres, most notably with their 2020 rural werewolf drama Teddy, starring Anthony Bajon. The dense storytelling this time around is no surprise, based on French crime writer Nicolas Mathieu’s celebrated 2018 novel.…...
French directing twins Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma swing hard with their fourth feature, And Their Children After Them, a coming-of-age saga taking place across eight years of the 1990s in the deindustrialized (fictional) town of Heillange in Eastern France. There’s a definite richness to the narrative, a change of pace for the directing duo, who, only in their mid 30s have explored several genres, most notably with their 2020 rural werewolf drama Teddy, starring Anthony Bajon. The dense storytelling this time around is no surprise, based on French crime writer Nicolas Mathieu’s celebrated 2018 novel.…...
- 8/31/2024
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
French writer Nicolas Mathieu won the Prix Goncourt — France’s highest-profile literary award — for his 2018 novel “And Their Children After Them,” a working-class Bildungsroman set against a backdrop of severe deindustrialization, for which he stated his disparate influences to include John Steinbeck, Émile Zola, Bruce Springsteen and the 2012 Jeff Nichols film “Mud.” The Springsteen namecheck is easily taken care of in this brash big-screen adaptation, via a thuddingly obvious needle-drop as its bike-riding hero straps his hands across some engines and hits the open road. Mathieu’s more literary allusions, however, haven’t survived the journey to Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma’s overlong, outwardly emotive but strangely unmoving film, which resorts to soap-opera mechanics in its saga of three youths variously affected over a six-year period by one rash act of teen delinquency.
The Boukherma twins showed some inventive, genre-jumbling verve in their first three features — most prominently “Teddy,” a...
The Boukherma twins showed some inventive, genre-jumbling verve in their first three features — most prominently “Teddy,” a...
- 8/31/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Transformers Prime actress Tania Gunadi has been awarded a prime Sundance perch.
Author of dark comedy Teddy script, Gunadi is this year’s Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow. In the 11th year of the indie centric collaboration between the Mudbound producer and The Black List, Gunadi will be attending the Park City fest all-expenses paid and introduced to other industry leaders by Elwes.
“To me, the Cassian Elwes Screenwriting Fellowship at Sundance means a wonderful opportunity to learn how films get made from Cassian, someone with an exceptional career in doing that,” Gunadi said today of the fellowship. “I am thrilled about it because it’s been a dream of mine to be a writer/producer, and what better way to understand that journey than by being immersed for several days at one of the top festivals in the world.”
Indonesian-born Gunadi’s Teddy is a dramedy detailing the...
Author of dark comedy Teddy script, Gunadi is this year’s Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellow. In the 11th year of the indie centric collaboration between the Mudbound producer and The Black List, Gunadi will be attending the Park City fest all-expenses paid and introduced to other industry leaders by Elwes.
“To me, the Cassian Elwes Screenwriting Fellowship at Sundance means a wonderful opportunity to learn how films get made from Cassian, someone with an exceptional career in doing that,” Gunadi said today of the fellowship. “I am thrilled about it because it’s been a dream of mine to be a writer/producer, and what better way to understand that journey than by being immersed for several days at one of the top festivals in the world.”
Indonesian-born Gunadi’s Teddy is a dramedy detailing the...
- 1/18/2024
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
We'll be old and gray before Grey's Anatomy ends!
Grey's Anatomy continues to make records and hold its own as a cultural juggernaut in the television landscape as it comes off 19 seasons on the air.
And while there has been a revolving door cast over the past nearly two decades, including the titular main character, Meredith Grey herself, it shows no signs of slowing down.
One of the most exciting aspects of Grey's Anatomy Season 19 is how the series found a way to reinvent itself.
It served as a reboot within the series, and the show pulled it off remarkably well with a fresh batch of interns who have already made their mark and feel like the next generation of this series.
No one could've anticipated that a new version of Og "M.A.G.I.C" conveniently, also "M.A.G.Yk" could bring back the familiar vibes of Grey's Anatomy's heyday,...
Grey's Anatomy continues to make records and hold its own as a cultural juggernaut in the television landscape as it comes off 19 seasons on the air.
And while there has been a revolving door cast over the past nearly two decades, including the titular main character, Meredith Grey herself, it shows no signs of slowing down.
One of the most exciting aspects of Grey's Anatomy Season 19 is how the series found a way to reinvent itself.
It served as a reboot within the series, and the show pulled it off remarkably well with a fresh batch of interns who have already made their mark and feel like the next generation of this series.
No one could've anticipated that a new version of Og "M.A.G.I.C" conveniently, also "M.A.G.Yk" could bring back the familiar vibes of Grey's Anatomy's heyday,...
- 8/11/2023
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
SandalwoodThe Santhosh Ananddram directorial will be released in both Telugu and Kannada languages.Tnm StaffScreengrab/YouTubeThe makers of upcoming film Yuvarathnaa starring Puneeth Rajkumar, released the trailer of the movie on Saturday. Puneeth Rajkumar, popularly known as power star in Sandalwood, plays the titular role in the movie. His performance in the trailer promises a power- packed actioner. The plot explores the loopholes in the education system. The visuals from the trailer indicate that the movie will explore corrupt educational officials and systemic incompetency of the education system in detail. Towards the end of the trailer, we see Puneet taking control of things in an attempt to put an end to the malpractices. Watch the trailer of Yuvarathnaa here: Actor Sayyeshaa plays the role of Vandana and stars opposite Puneeth in the movie. Yuvarathnaa marks Sayyeshaa’s Kannada and Telugu debut. Glimpses from romantic sequences between the duo have been featured in the trailer.
- 3/23/2021
- by SaradhaU
- The News Minute
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