Exclusive: Former gangster Francois Troukens will co-direct the $7m crime thriller.
Reformed gangster Francois Troukens turned Belgian media celebrity is to co-direct new $7m (€6m) crime thriller Above The Law (Au-Dessus Des Lois).
Jacques-Henri Bronckart of Belgian outfit Versus has revealed details of the production, which is due to shoot in the summer and will be handled internationally by TF1.
The film centres on a small-time crook who is framed for murder and has to go on the run to prove his innocence.
Troukens was an armed robber, targeting security vans in the 1990s. He was convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison while on the run and was finally caught in 2004.
In jail, he studied philosophy and turned his life around prior to being released conditionally for good behaviour in 2010. Since his release, he has gone on to become a well-known TV personality, with his own show, Un Crime Parfait.
The former...
Reformed gangster Francois Troukens turned Belgian media celebrity is to co-direct new $7m (€6m) crime thriller Above The Law (Au-Dessus Des Lois).
Jacques-Henri Bronckart of Belgian outfit Versus has revealed details of the production, which is due to shoot in the summer and will be handled internationally by TF1.
The film centres on a small-time crook who is framed for murder and has to go on the run to prove his innocence.
Troukens was an armed robber, targeting security vans in the 1990s. He was convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison while on the run and was finally caught in 2004.
In jail, he studied philosophy and turned his life around prior to being released conditionally for good behaviour in 2010. Since his release, he has gone on to become a well-known TV personality, with his own show, Un Crime Parfait.
The former...
- 5/13/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Candy Ming in Yolande Moreau's Henri. "There's obviously a parallel in the film, with the flight and the freedoms of the characters." Yolande Moreau's first solo directorial film Henri brought some warmth to a rainswept night in Edinburgh for the opening of the French Film Festival UK last night. Despite a flight delay, Moreau gamely came straight to the pre-film soiree at the city's Di-Vin bar from the airport, showing an admirable willingness to embrace the Scottish elements, which were out in force.
Introducing the film - about a recently widowed restrauter (Pippo Delbono) and Rosette (Candy Ming) a girl from the local sheltered housing establishment for young people with learning difficulties - she promised to come back for a Q&A afterwords unless "you disappear like flies".
The idea flying off was an interesting choice of metaphor, as the film concerns itself with freedoms and imagery of taking wing abounds,...
Introducing the film - about a recently widowed restrauter (Pippo Delbono) and Rosette (Candy Ming) a girl from the local sheltered housing establishment for young people with learning difficulties - she promised to come back for a Q&A afterwords unless "you disappear like flies".
The idea flying off was an interesting choice of metaphor, as the film concerns itself with freedoms and imagery of taking wing abounds,...
- 11/8/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
During this year’s Festival du nouveau cinéma, held in Montréal from October 9th until the 20th, the Special Presentation section is once again packed with an exceptional line-up of films, 26 new works in all, curated from some of the world’s most respected festivals.
Here is a list of the films being presented in this section of the festival:
A Touch of Sin (Tian Zhu Ding), Jia Zhang Ke (China/Japan), winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes
All is Lost, J.C. Chandor (United States)
L’Amour est un crime parfait (Love is the Perfect Crime), Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu (France/Switzerland)
La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the the House of Usher), Jean Epstein (France/United States/1928), set to the music of Montréal’s own Rock Forest
Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi (Iran)
Le Démantelement, Sébastien Pilote (Québec/Canada)
Le Dernier...
Here is a list of the films being presented in this section of the festival:
A Touch of Sin (Tian Zhu Ding), Jia Zhang Ke (China/Japan), winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes
All is Lost, J.C. Chandor (United States)
L’Amour est un crime parfait (Love is the Perfect Crime), Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu (France/Switzerland)
La Chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the the House of Usher), Jean Epstein (France/United States/1928), set to the music of Montréal’s own Rock Forest
Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovi (Iran)
Le Démantelement, Sébastien Pilote (Québec/Canada)
Le Dernier...
- 9/25/2013
- by Trish Ferris
- SoundOnSight
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