The ‘bible’ for the series is being written by fellow novelist Douglas Kennedy.
Prolific Belgian producer and tax shelter financier Scope Invest, which has five projects in Official Selection in Cannes, is hatching an ambitious new Cold War series, Expo 58, based on the novel of the same name by bestselling UK writer Jonathan Coe. The ‘bible’ for the series is being written by fellow novelist Douglas Kennedy.
The story is set during the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. It follows a British employee at the Central Office of Information assigned to oversee the creation of an authentic British pub at...
Prolific Belgian producer and tax shelter financier Scope Invest, which has five projects in Official Selection in Cannes, is hatching an ambitious new Cold War series, Expo 58, based on the novel of the same name by bestselling UK writer Jonathan Coe. The ‘bible’ for the series is being written by fellow novelist Douglas Kennedy.
The story is set during the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. It follows a British employee at the Central Office of Information assigned to oversee the creation of an authentic British pub at...
- 5/17/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
All amnesiac thrillers get off to an intriguing start then tend to fall away when their heroes and heroines start to recover their memories. The first half-hour of the Danish ID:a is consistently gripping, as its beautiful heroine awakes in a French river with a scar, a gun, a bag containing €2m and no identity. Her search to discover her past takes her to Denmark, Holland and back to France, and includes some agreeable suspense, a great deal of violence, some rather vague leftwing politics and some narrative holes.
ID:a is worth a visit, as is The Woman in the Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski's first film since My Summer of Love seven years ago and his first thriller. Not exactly an amnesia film but pretty close, it's based on a novel by Douglas Kennedy, the American writer resident in London, whose novel The Big Picture was filmed in France two...
ID:a is worth a visit, as is The Woman in the Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski's first film since My Summer of Love seven years ago and his first thriller. Not exactly an amnesia film but pretty close, it's based on a novel by Douglas Kennedy, the American writer resident in London, whose novel The Big Picture was filmed in France two...
- 2/19/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The Big Picture explores a question that has long fascinated readers and writers – the situation of people who disappear from their everyday lives to hide, take on new identities or are never seen again. In real life, the inventor Rudolf Diesel and the writer Ambrose Bierce both disappeared in 1913; in 1920, the ex-Labour MP Victor Grayson vanished in London, possibly abducted to prevent him exposing governmental corruption. In his short story Wakefield, Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the mind of a middle-class Victorian Londoner who drops out to hide for 20 years a street away from his old home, and in The Third Man Graham Greene (possibly borrowing the idea from Eric Ambler's The Mask of Dimitrios) created an antihero who fakes his own death. In Patricia Highsmith's twice-filmed The Talented Mr Ripley, a villain takes over the identity of a dead man, a device brilliantly used in Antonioni's The Passenger and...
- 7/25/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Following on from the trailer that we put up a few weeks ago, Artificial Eye have just sent over an exclusive clip from their new movie, The Big Picture which stars Romain Duris (Heartbreaker) and Catherine Deneuve. It’s directed by Eric Lartigau and will be with us 22nd July.
Paul Exben is a success story – a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons.
Except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that will enable him to live his life fully…
Starring in the lead role of “Paul” is enigmatic French actor Romain Duris following acclaimed performances in The Beat That My Heart Skipped and the mainstream rom-com Heartbreaker. A huge box-office hit in France earlier this year, the film also stars the prolific Catherine Deneuve alongside...
Paul Exben is a success story – a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons.
Except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that will enable him to live his life fully…
Starring in the lead role of “Paul” is enigmatic French actor Romain Duris following acclaimed performances in The Beat That My Heart Skipped and the mainstream rom-com Heartbreaker. A huge box-office hit in France earlier this year, the film also stars the prolific Catherine Deneuve alongside...
- 7/20/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Artificial Eye have just sent over the new trailer and poster for their movie, The Big Picture which stars Romain Duris (Heartbreaker) and Catherine Deneuve. It’s directed by Eric Lartigau and will be with us 22nd July.
Paul Exben is a success story – a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons.
Except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that will enable him to live his life fully…
Starring in the lead role of “Paul” is enigmatic French actor Romain Duris following acclaimed performances in The Beat That My Heart Skipped and the mainstream rom-com Heartbreaker. A huge box-office hit in France earlier this year, the film also stars the prolific Catherine Deneuve alongside Marina Foïs (22 Bullets) and Niels Arestrup (A Prophet) and is directed by...
Paul Exben is a success story – a great job, a beautiful wife and two wonderful sons.
Except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness is going to change his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that will enable him to live his life fully…
Starring in the lead role of “Paul” is enigmatic French actor Romain Duris following acclaimed performances in The Beat That My Heart Skipped and the mainstream rom-com Heartbreaker. A huge box-office hit in France earlier this year, the film also stars the prolific Catherine Deneuve alongside Marina Foïs (22 Bullets) and Niels Arestrup (A Prophet) and is directed by...
- 7/5/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Major deals are being made in Berlin this weekend on titles that we might eventually see premiere in Cannes -- and I think the consensus on Pawel Pawlikowski's The Woman In the Fifth for a possible Croisette showing is -- the Brit filmmaker certainly fits the scene but this doesn't appear to be fit for this party, at least it doesn't come across as a Main Competition title. Ato Pictures are definitely not concerned with the quality of the picture - as they picked up theatrical distribution rights to the psychological thriller starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. We imagine that a pegged date will come after festival premiere has been realized. Gist: Based on Douglas Kennedy’s novel, co-written by Pawlikowski and novelist, American writer Tom Ricks (Hawke) arrives in Paris to be closer to his daughter, Chloé, who recently moved there with her mother. Completely broke,...
- 2/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
North American rights to Pawel Pawlikowski's "The Woman in the Fifth" have been picked up by Ato Pictures from Memento Films International. The psychological thriller stars Oscar nominees Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas, with a screenplay Pawlikowski adapted from a novel by Douglas Kennedy. Ato plans to release the film later this year. Ato's Head of Acquisitions Sarah Lash negotiated the deal with Meissner with Vicki Cherkas acting as ...
- 2/12/2011
- Indiewire
#45. The Woman in the Fifth Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Producers: Haut et CourtDistributor: Rights Available. The Gist: The screenplay is written by Pawel Pawlikowski based on the novel by Douglas Kennedy, American writer Tom Ricks (Hawke) comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don't go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet. Then Margit, a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events... as if an obscure power was taking control of his life.....(more) Cast: Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas List Worthy Reasons...: We were faced with a drought from this filmmaker so our anticipation levels are at a higher...
- 1/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Dig on the first poster for Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski's French thriller The Woman In The Fifth starring Ethan Hawke and Kristen Scott Thomas. the film is based on Douglas Kennedy's book which revolves around a college lecturer who flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job. In the City of Lights, he meets a widow who might be involved in a series of murders. There's no release date on the film yet but we'll keep you posted.
- 1/8/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
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