Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
Continue readingIt is common for parents and their children to butt heads over things, over time those tiffs and arguments are replaced with respect and admiration. However “The Truth” sees the tensions rise between an actress and her screenwriter daughter.Read More: Catherine Deneuve Is A Joy In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Playful English-Language Debut, And That’s ‘The Truth’ […]
Continue readingIt’s hard for Juliette Binoche to think about her recent career trajectory from a bird’s eye view as she hurtles along within it. She has put out five films in the past two years.Her latest is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s French-language drama “The Truth,” which is getting her Oscar buzz for her role opposite Catherine Deneuve. It […]
Continue reading“The Truth,” directed by Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu, will be released in Korean cinemas in December this year. Rights were acquired by local distributor Tcast.The highly-acclaimed director was absent from the Busan International Film Festival’s opening ceremony, where he was Thursday named as Busan’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year award. But he has now arrived […]
Continue reading3B Productions, the French production outfit behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Venice opener “The Truth,” is developing the next films of Atiq Rahimi (“The Patience Stone”) and Karim Dridi (“Chouf”).Rahimi, whose latest film “Notre-dame du Nil” will be world premiering at Toronto, is developing with Jean Brehat at 3B Productions and Ron Senkowski (“The Prophet”) the adaptation […]
Continue readingThe Venice Film Festival premieres a slate of some of 2019’s buzziest films, including “The Truth,” “Joker,” “Ad Astra” and “Marriage Story.” Check out a gallery of the stars hitting Italy’s most prestigious film festival.More from VarietyRoman Polanski’s ‘An Officer and a Spy’ Pre-Sells to Raft of Territories (Exclusive)Venice Film Review: Brad Pitt in ‘Ad […]
Continue readingHirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth puts spotlight on motherhood, female relationships and the nature of cinema itself.The Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night (Aug 28) with Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s French-language debut The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche.The generally well-received feature made for a fitting opening film amid the ongoing debate over […]
Continue readingThe 2019 Venice Film Festival has an opener in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “The Truth.” We won’t learn what the rest of this year’s competition slate is until later this week, but today we learned what will close the festival, Giuseppe Capotondi’s “The Burnt Orange Heresy.”Adapted from Charles Willeford’s 1971 novel, the feature stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth […]
Continue readingThe 76th Venice Film Festival isn’t quite ready to reveal it’s highly anticipated 2019 slate to the world, but it did announce its opening night film this morning. In a slight surprise, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “The Truth”, a film without Hollywood connections, will kick off the festivities. Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,” Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing,” Chazelle’s “La […]
Continue readingThe movie from the award-winning director is described as a ‘poetic reflection on the relationship between mother and daughter’The Truth, the new film from multi-award-winning Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, will open the 2019 edition of the Venice film festival.Filmed in French and English, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke, The Truth is […]
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