Film stars Raphael Personnaz and Jeanne Balibar.
Paris-based Snd has boarded Anne Fontaine’s Boléro about the birth of the renowned orchestral work from Maurice Ravel, now shooting in France.
Set in the Roaring 1920s, the film stars Raphael Personnaz, known for Our Brothers, Julia(s) and The French Minister, as the composer. Jeanne Balibar, who has appeared in Lost Illusions, Cold War and Grace Of Monaco, plays the Russian dancer-choreographer Ida Rubinstein who commissioned the now legendary music.
Snd, the film arm of France’s M6 group, is on board as co-producer and French distributor and is launching international sales at Cannes.
Paris-based Snd has boarded Anne Fontaine’s Boléro about the birth of the renowned orchestral work from Maurice Ravel, now shooting in France.
Set in the Roaring 1920s, the film stars Raphael Personnaz, known for Our Brothers, Julia(s) and The French Minister, as the composer. Jeanne Balibar, who has appeared in Lost Illusions, Cold War and Grace Of Monaco, plays the Russian dancer-choreographer Ida Rubinstein who commissioned the now legendary music.
Snd, the film arm of France’s M6 group, is on board as co-producer and French distributor and is launching international sales at Cannes.
- 5/3/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The holiday season is almost here and Amazon Prime is getting in the mood with its list of December 2021 releases. Sure there are the usual Christmas movies to be found but the real gift this month are two big original titles.
The sixth and final season of beloved sci-fi series The Expanse premieres on Dec. 10. Amazon is doing its usual release strategy of three episodes on the premiere day followed by a weekly schedule so there’s still some time to be spent with the crew of the Rocinante. The other big ticket item is the Desi and Lucy biopic Being the Ricardos on Dec. 21. Sure, Aaron Sorkin seems to be completely disinterested in I Love Lucy and Nicole Kidman bears no passing resemblance to the iconic comedienne whatsoever but uh…it’s a movie!
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The sixth and final season of beloved sci-fi series The Expanse premieres on Dec. 10. Amazon is doing its usual release strategy of three episodes on the premiere day followed by a weekly schedule so there’s still some time to be spent with the crew of the Rocinante. The other big ticket item is the Desi and Lucy biopic Being the Ricardos on Dec. 21. Sure, Aaron Sorkin seems to be completely disinterested in I Love Lucy and Nicole Kidman bears no passing resemblance to the iconic comedienne whatsoever but uh…it’s a movie!
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- 12/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
French actor-turned-director Stéphane Freiss started shooting in Italy Monday on “Face à Toi,” a drama toplining emerging French star Lou de Laâge and Italy’s Riccardo Scamarcio (“Three Floors”), set against the backdrop of the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot.
De Laâge plays the 25-year-old Esther who has always lived in a very close-knit Jewish Orthodox community in the south of France and is looking to break out of religious constrictions.
De Laâge, who won France’s Cesar Award for most promising young actress in 2013 for her role in Christian Duguay’s “Jappeloup,” more recently played the lead in Anne Fontaine’s 2016 “The Innocents,” which went to Sundance. She also starred in Fontaine’s “White as Snow,” in 2019, opposite Isabelle Huppert.
Scamarcio, who is among Italy’s top box office draws, plays the older Elio who left his father’s farm in Southern Italy to attend art school in Rome,...
De Laâge plays the 25-year-old Esther who has always lived in a very close-knit Jewish Orthodox community in the south of France and is looking to break out of religious constrictions.
De Laâge, who won France’s Cesar Award for most promising young actress in 2013 for her role in Christian Duguay’s “Jappeloup,” more recently played the lead in Anne Fontaine’s 2016 “The Innocents,” which went to Sundance. She also starred in Fontaine’s “White as Snow,” in 2019, opposite Isabelle Huppert.
Scamarcio, who is among Italy’s top box office draws, plays the older Elio who left his father’s farm in Southern Italy to attend art school in Rome,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
French icon Isabelle Huppert would love to play a Disney villain — except she would make her a bit “more lovable,” she laughs. “It’s scarier when you make them a bit more lovable and attractive and more manipulative instead of doing it like a classical villain.”
In “White as Snow,” a playful twist on the Snow White tale, Huppert is Maud, a aging hotelier who worries about her stepdaughter Claire (Lou de Laâge), a pure woman who is the object of Maud’s jealousy. Directed by Anne Fontaine and in theaters now, “White as Snow” puts a modern twist on the oft-adapted story.
Huppert talked about her collaboration with Fontaine and playing the character who nods to the iconic wicked stepmother.
It’s been quite a year — how have you been doing this past year and a half?
I’ve been very lucky because I’ve been working a lot.
In “White as Snow,” a playful twist on the Snow White tale, Huppert is Maud, a aging hotelier who worries about her stepdaughter Claire (Lou de Laâge), a pure woman who is the object of Maud’s jealousy. Directed by Anne Fontaine and in theaters now, “White as Snow” puts a modern twist on the oft-adapted story.
Huppert talked about her collaboration with Fontaine and playing the character who nods to the iconic wicked stepmother.
It’s been quite a year — how have you been doing this past year and a half?
I’ve been very lucky because I’ve been working a lot.
- 8/21/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Confused? You probably will be. Though not entirely in a bad way. White As Snow is – you guessed it – a modern-day retelling of Snow White.
Wicked stepmother Maud (Isabelle Huppert) is less than impressed when jaded middle-aged lover, Bernard (Charles Berling), takes a shine to his stepdaughter Claire (Lou de Laâge). What to do? Keep her on as wickedly exploited cheap labour? Or arrange to have her driven into the mountains for a little filial assassination? Cue misty mountain roads and wild woods, of the sort that Claire secretly fantasises about as she goes to sleep each night.
But the plan goes wrong – a small matter of a car accident – and Claire ends up in a small but otherwise perfect village location, sharing a house with twins Pierre and Francois (both played by Damien Bonnard) and cellist Vincent (Vincent Macaigne). Also, Vincent’s shaggy dog, Chernobyl!
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Wicked stepmother Maud (Isabelle Huppert) is less than impressed when jaded middle-aged lover, Bernard (Charles Berling), takes a shine to his stepdaughter Claire (Lou de Laâge). What to do? Keep her on as wickedly exploited cheap labour? Or arrange to have her driven into the mountains for a little filial assassination? Cue misty mountain roads and wild woods, of the sort that Claire secretly fantasises about as she goes to sleep each night.
But the plan goes wrong – a small matter of a car accident – and Claire ends up in a small but otherwise perfect village location, sharing a house with twins Pierre and Francois (both played by Damien Bonnard) and cellist Vincent (Vincent Macaigne). Also, Vincent’s shaggy dog, Chernobyl!
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- 8/12/2021
- by Jane Fae
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Clad in a scarlet suit, Isabelle Huppert approaches a mirror in the opening scene of “White as Snow,” director Anne Fontaine’s modern-day retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s tale “Snow White.” Playing widowed hotel owner Maud, the French star — as ravishing a screen presence as ever — studies her face, searching for the inevitable imperfections of maturity.
That unspoken concern with age is negatively reinforced in the company of her stepdaughter, quiet ingénue Claire. Little is said about the women’s relationship before the passing of Claire’s father, but in the present, the older woman worries that Claire’s amicable temperament and unaffected beauty have bewitched Maud’s current lover. The film’s major downfall resides in the lackluster central conflict, limited to a one-sided fit of jealousy.
Early on, Fontaine deploys an enchanting fairytale score from Bruno Coulais (“Wolfwalkers”) to ease us into the slightly heightened tone of the piece.
That unspoken concern with age is negatively reinforced in the company of her stepdaughter, quiet ingénue Claire. Little is said about the women’s relationship before the passing of Claire’s father, but in the present, the older woman worries that Claire’s amicable temperament and unaffected beauty have bewitched Maud’s current lover. The film’s major downfall resides in the lackluster central conflict, limited to a one-sided fit of jealousy.
Early on, Fontaine deploys an enchanting fairytale score from Bruno Coulais (“Wolfwalkers”) to ease us into the slightly heightened tone of the piece.
- 8/11/2021
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
Are fairy tales nothing more than tired tropes? It’s an intriguing concept that guides “White As Snow.” The film offers a blunt inspection of the standard fairy tale while skillfully updating typical constructs. Centered around the strained stepmother/stepdaughter dynamic, screenwriters Pascal Bonitzer and Anne Fontaine give the latter character a sense of freedom as well as choice. This is prevalent especially when it comes to instilling sexuality not as a device, but as a natural part of life itself.
Read More: ‘White As Snow’ With Isabelle Huppert & Lou De Laâge Is A Female Empowerment Fairy Tale [Tribeca Review]
Fontaine also serves as the director of the project; ‘Snow’ presents another chance for her to explore female characters with depth and perspective.
Continue reading ‘White As Snow’ Trailer: Anne Fontaine Tells A Female-Empowerment Fable With Isabelle Huppert As The Evil Step-Mom at The Playlist.
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Fontaine also serves as the director of the project; ‘Snow’ presents another chance for her to explore female characters with depth and perspective.
Continue reading ‘White As Snow’ Trailer: Anne Fontaine Tells A Female-Empowerment Fable With Isabelle Huppert As The Evil Step-Mom at The Playlist.
- 7/20/2021
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
Jason Adams reporting from the Tribeca Film Festival one last time...
The sins of the flesh have always been right there on the surface of Fairy Tales, waiting to be ravaged by sex and by violence, by finger and by claw. Crooked old ladies morph into comely lasses, and ripe red lips are ready to be plucked and plundered. Snow White didn't move in with seven little dudes by mistake -- whatever our imaginations can imagine, whatever wishes our hearts can make, they're all within reach for a price, endless sleep and poisoned apples. Anne Fontaine's White as Snow is just the latest in a long string of movies soft-coring up our princess fantasies...
The sins of the flesh have always been right there on the surface of Fairy Tales, waiting to be ravaged by sex and by violence, by finger and by claw. Crooked old ladies morph into comely lasses, and ripe red lips are ready to be plucked and plundered. Snow White didn't move in with seven little dudes by mistake -- whatever our imaginations can imagine, whatever wishes our hearts can make, they're all within reach for a price, endless sleep and poisoned apples. Anne Fontaine's White as Snow is just the latest in a long string of movies soft-coring up our princess fantasies...
- 5/15/2019
- by JA
- FilmExperience
Anne Fontaine’s present-day female-sexual-empowerment fable “White as Snow” is not a Snow White story per se, although it’s fun to think of Isabelle Huppert’s character — an aging health-spa diva who becomes diabolically envious of her stepdaughter — as the wicked queen. This, one might argue, was a campy role the icy French star was born to play, and Huppert sinks her teeth into it, much as her scheming villainess hopes the pale-skinned Claire (Lou de Laâge) might a poisoned apple. But the differences between Fontaine’s stunt and the actual Brothers Grimm fairy tale distractingly outweigh the film’s semi-forced similarities, ultimately leaving audiences to wonder how this coy provocation wound up getting confused with Snow White in the first place.
The answer: Fontaine began with a situation more than a story, wherein a “pure” young woman (so perceived by multiple characters) discovers the nubile effect her beauty has over men.
The answer: Fontaine began with a situation more than a story, wherein a “pure” young woman (so perceived by multiple characters) discovers the nubile effect her beauty has over men.
- 5/14/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Luxembourgian director Anne Fontaine is an icon of Francophone cinema, with a 25-year filmmaking career glutted with César Award nominations and festival debuts. Though her work spans decades and genres, it has always been female-centered, and “White As Snow,” her 16th feature to date, is no exception.
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This modernized retelling casts Claire (Lou de Laâge) as its proverbial princess, a listless orphan working for the coldly maternal Maud (Isabelle Huppert).
Continue reading ‘White As Snow’ With Isabelle Huppert & Lou De Laâge Is A Female Empowerment Fairy Tale [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
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This modernized retelling casts Claire (Lou de Laâge) as its proverbial princess, a listless orphan working for the coldly maternal Maud (Isabelle Huppert).
Continue reading ‘White As Snow’ With Isabelle Huppert & Lou De Laâge Is A Female Empowerment Fairy Tale [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 5/3/2019
- by Lena Wilson
- The Playlist
In writer-director Anne Fontaine’s oh-so-French take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Snow White is a beautiful 20-something experiencing a major sexual liberation, the seven dwarfs are actually seven horny suitors most of whom sleep with, or try to sleep with, Snow White, and the wicked stepmother is, well, Isabelle Huppert.
Kinky and kind of ridiculous, White as Snow (Blanche comme neige), as the film is ironically called, posits itself as a seductive feminist twist on a tale told many times on screen, from the 1937 Disney favorite to the recent reiteration featuring Kristen Stewart as a sword-swinging badass....
Kinky and kind of ridiculous, White as Snow (Blanche comme neige), as the film is ironically called, posits itself as a seductive feminist twist on a tale told many times on screen, from the 1937 Disney favorite to the recent reiteration featuring Kristen Stewart as a sword-swinging badass....
- 4/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The film will compete in Tribeca’s International Narrative Competition section.
Cohen Media Group has acquired Us rights to Anne Fontaine’s racy new comedy-drama White As Snow, ahead of its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival (April 24-May 5) next month.
The film will compete in Tribeca’s International Narrative Competition section alongside films including Sharon Maymon and Flawless’s Flawless, Bora Kim’s House Of Hummingbird and Scott Graham’s Run.
A contemporary re-telling of the Snow White fairytale with a comedic and erotic edge, the feature co-stars Isabelle Huppert as evil stepmother Maud opposite Lou de Laâge as...
Cohen Media Group has acquired Us rights to Anne Fontaine’s racy new comedy-drama White As Snow, ahead of its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival (April 24-May 5) next month.
The film will compete in Tribeca’s International Narrative Competition section alongside films including Sharon Maymon and Flawless’s Flawless, Bora Kim’s House Of Hummingbird and Scott Graham’s Run.
A contemporary re-telling of the Snow White fairytale with a comedic and erotic edge, the feature co-stars Isabelle Huppert as evil stepmother Maud opposite Lou de Laâge as...
- 3/13/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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