Tag: Isabelle Huppert
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‘Sidonie in Japan’ Review: A Haunted Isabelle Huppert Gives This Gently Drifting Ghost Story a Soul
The mythology around Japan as a nation of everyday ghosts — where the living and the dead share space, occasionally in view of each other — can lead certain western filmmakers into dubious territory: If you don’t recall how Gus van Sant floundered with the mawkish, condescending exoticism of “The Sea of Trees,” trust that…
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Mediawan takes majority stake in French production company 24 25 Films
The prolific Paris-based producers are behind a slew of successful features including Thomas Kruithof’s Promises with Isabelle Huppert.European production powerhouse Mediawan has taken a majority stake in Thibault Gast and Matthias Weber’s 24 25 films.The prolific Paris-based producers are behind a slew of successful features including Yann Gozlan’s Cesar-nominated Black Box, Thomas Kruithof’s Promises with…
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‘The Father’ Director Florian Zeller Receives France’s Legion of Honor
Florian Zeller, the Oscar-winning director and playwright of “The Father” and “The Son,” received the Medal of Honor, France’s highest decoration, at an intimate ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.The event, hosted in the gardens of the French authors and composers guild (Sacd), gathered a flurry of talent and luminaries from the worlds of film, TV,…
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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny’ gets 2023’s widest release so far
Also new this weekend: Dreamworks animation ’Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ and ’La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck)’, starring Isabelle Huppert.Disney is leading the pack this weekend with Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny out at 743 venues, the widest UK-Ireland release of 2023 so far.It opens ahead of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which debuted at…
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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny’ whips up widest release of 2023
Also new this weekend: Dreamworks animation ’Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ and ’La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck)’, starring Isabelle Huppert.Disney is leading the pack this weekend with Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny out at 743 venues, the widest UK-Ireland release of 2023 so far.It opens ahead of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which debuted at…
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Isabelle Huppert: ‘When you’re an actor, you keep secrets’
The fearless French actor is known for playing powerful, complex women, mostly recently in Jean-Paul Salomé’s corporate drama La Syndicaliste. But she has her own way of balancing loyalty to film with her feminist principlesIsabelle Huppert has a way of inspiring intrigue – even without trying. On the red carpet at Cannes last month, she…