Tag: The Broken Circle Breakdown
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Cannes Film Festival Completes Official Selection of 2022 Lineup
The Cannes Film Festival has added a string of new titles to its Official Selection, including three movies in competition: Léonor Serraille’s “Un Petit Frere,” Albert Serra’s “Tourment sur les iles” and “The Eight Mountains” by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen (“The Broken Circle Breakdown”).“The Eight Mountains” is an Italian film based on Paolo…
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Felix van Groeningen to adapt Italian novel ‘The Eight Mountains’ for Wildside
It will be co-written and co-directed by Belgium’s Charlotte Vandermeersch.Beautiful Boy and The Broken Circle Breakdown director Felix van Groeningen is to co-write and co-direct a feature based on Paolo Cognetti’s Italian bestseller The Eight Mountains with Charlotte Vandermeersch for Rome-based production outfit Wildside.It will be the first move into directing for Belgian actress Vandermeersch…
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Screen Flanders invests $2.4m into nine film and TV projects
Directorial debut of ‘Broken Circle Breakdown’ actress Veerle Baetens among features.The directorial debut of The Broken Circle Breakdown actress Veerle Baetens is among nine productions to secure more than €2m ($2.4m) from Flemish economic fund Screen Flanders.The Melting has been co-written by Baetens, who is set to begin shooting the drama in Flanders next year,…
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Film Review: ‘Mothers’ Instinct’
A borderline impossible game of Taboo could be played if one were tasked with describing Olivier Masset-Depasse’s “Mothers’ Instinct” without using the word “Hitchcockian.” The Belgian director’s luxuriant psychological thriller is so redolent of the Master of Suspense’s style, and so gorgeously robed in Thierry Delettre’s ’60s costuming that at times one expects star Veerle…
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‘Beautiful Boy’ First Look: Timothée Chalamet Eyes Another Oscar Nomination as Meth-Addicted Teen
The Oscars may have just taken place at the start of March, but the 2018-19 awards season is already looming with the Cannes Film Festival just two months away. One of next year’s big contenders for Amazon Studios is “Beautiful Boy,” which marks the English-language debut of Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen. The filmmaker is…