Following weeks of heated debate and clashes, France’s film and audiovisual guilds as well as labor unions have finally agreed a set of production guidelines for filming during the pandemic.
The guidelines were approved by the Cchcst and have now been submitted to the labor minister for green-lighting.
The 40-page rulebook calls for the hiring of additional people on set, including a caregiver, a counselor specialized in coronavirus, and an assistant to clean all props; as well as private transportation for cast and key crew members. Further, gatherings on set will be limited to 50 people, while exterior shoots are banned unless they are in an area that can be made fully private and cleaned before and during filming. Catering is limited to individual meal trays.
For kissing and other intimate scenes, as well as crowds or fights, if the production refuses to re-write the scenes or have actors wear masks,...
The guidelines were approved by the Cchcst and have now been submitted to the labor minister for green-lighting.
The 40-page rulebook calls for the hiring of additional people on set, including a caregiver, a counselor specialized in coronavirus, and an assistant to clean all props; as well as private transportation for cast and key crew members. Further, gatherings on set will be limited to 50 people, while exterior shoots are banned unless they are in an area that can be made fully private and cleaned before and during filming. Catering is limited to individual meal trays.
For kissing and other intimate scenes, as well as crowds or fights, if the production refuses to re-write the scenes or have actors wear masks,...
- 5/25/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlinale usually offers fertile ground for the Jewish Film Festival programmers. At the informal gathering around Nicola Galliner, the founder and director of the Jewish Film Festival of Berlin Brandenburg, programmers trade information and impressions as they meet with old and new friends. This year seems rather slim in programming although the good was great.
This was very best film with Jewish content at the Berlinale 2020 !!!
Persian Lessons by Vadim Perelman was a Special Gala. Why it was not in Competition I do not know but it could have won…It can still win next year’s Academy Award for Best International Film. It brought raves from everyone. “A fantastic performance by Lars Eidinger — best Nazi ever !!!” said one fan.
Persian Lessons’ world premiere came days after the racially motivated, right-wing extremist mass shooting in the German city of Hanau which left nine dead.
This Russian-German-Belarus feature, set in...
This was very best film with Jewish content at the Berlinale 2020 !!!
Persian Lessons by Vadim Perelman was a Special Gala. Why it was not in Competition I do not know but it could have won…It can still win next year’s Academy Award for Best International Film. It brought raves from everyone. “A fantastic performance by Lars Eidinger — best Nazi ever !!!” said one fan.
Persian Lessons’ world premiere came days after the racially motivated, right-wing extremist mass shooting in the German city of Hanau which left nine dead.
This Russian-German-Belarus feature, set in...
- 4/30/2020
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
In the six years since it first arrived on the scene, the Shoot the Book pitch session has grown in breadth, scope and above all, ambition. A fixture in Cannes since 2014, Shoot the Book has also spread to festivals and markets in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Annecy, but this year will mark its most significant step forward.
While the 11 titles selected for the pitch session offer a more diverse slate than ever before, event organizers will also introduce new components such as an international rendezvous and several master classes, with the intention of turning the sessions, which run from May 20-21 in the Palais’ Salon des Ambassadeurs, into a key destination for producers and publishers alike.
“Three years ago we recognized that if we wanted to offer our event a chance at long-term success, we’d have to open it on an international scale,” says Nathalie Piaskowski, general director of...
While the 11 titles selected for the pitch session offer a more diverse slate than ever before, event organizers will also introduce new components such as an international rendezvous and several master classes, with the intention of turning the sessions, which run from May 20-21 in the Palais’ Salon des Ambassadeurs, into a key destination for producers and publishers alike.
“Three years ago we recognized that if we wanted to offer our event a chance at long-term success, we’d have to open it on an international scale,” says Nathalie Piaskowski, general director of...
- 5/17/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Gaumont has closed key deals on Rémi Bezançon’s “The Mystery of Henri Pick,” which is having its market premiere at the European Film Market.
The mystery-comedy, which is headlined by French stars Fabrice Luchini and Camille Cottin, was produced by Mandarin Production, the company behind Francois Ozon’s Berlinale competition film “By the Grace of God.”
Gaumont has sold the film to Germany (Neue Visionen), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Canada (Az), Spain (A Contracorriente), Switzerland (Pathé), Benelux (Athena), Portugal (Films 4 You), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Hungary (Hungaricom), Poland (Aurora), Israel (Shoval), the Middle East (Four Star), China (Huanxi), South Korea (The Coup/Activers) and Taiwan (Creative Century).
“The Mystery of Henri Pick” was adapted from the novel by David Foenkinos that has been translated in multiple languages. The film follows a young editor working at a library in Brittany who finds an extraordinary manuscript and decides to publish it. While the novel becomes a bestseller,...
The mystery-comedy, which is headlined by French stars Fabrice Luchini and Camille Cottin, was produced by Mandarin Production, the company behind Francois Ozon’s Berlinale competition film “By the Grace of God.”
Gaumont has sold the film to Germany (Neue Visionen), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Canada (Az), Spain (A Contracorriente), Switzerland (Pathé), Benelux (Athena), Portugal (Films 4 You), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Hungary (Hungaricom), Poland (Aurora), Israel (Shoval), the Middle East (Four Star), China (Huanxi), South Korea (The Coup/Activers) and Taiwan (Creative Century).
“The Mystery of Henri Pick” was adapted from the novel by David Foenkinos that has been translated in multiple languages. The film follows a young editor working at a library in Brittany who finds an extraordinary manuscript and decides to publish it. While the novel becomes a bestseller,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Company to launch Radu Mihaileanu’s The History of Love and Studio Ghibli co-production The Red Turtle.
Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch will kick off sales on Radu Mihaileanu’s saga The History of Love, starring John Hurt, Gemma Arterton and Sophie Nélisse at the Cannes Marché next month.
The mainly New York-set saga, spanning three continents and a period running from just before the Second World War to the present day, is based on Us writer Nicole Krauss’s international bestseller.
Hurt will play Leo, an elderly Polish Jewish immigrant still mourning the loss of his childhood sweetheart in the chaos of war, who is strangely linked to a teenage girl through a long, lost book on love… subtitled ‘the most loved woman in the world’.
“It’s a love story spanning 65 years… revolving around three friends in Poland whose destinies change forever when war breaks out,” Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval told ScreenDaily.
It marks...
Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch will kick off sales on Radu Mihaileanu’s saga The History of Love, starring John Hurt, Gemma Arterton and Sophie Nélisse at the Cannes Marché next month.
The mainly New York-set saga, spanning three continents and a period running from just before the Second World War to the present day, is based on Us writer Nicole Krauss’s international bestseller.
Hurt will play Leo, an elderly Polish Jewish immigrant still mourning the loss of his childhood sweetheart in the chaos of war, who is strangely linked to a teenage girl through a long, lost book on love… subtitled ‘the most loved woman in the world’.
“It’s a love story spanning 65 years… revolving around three friends in Poland whose destinies change forever when war breaks out,” Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval told ScreenDaily.
It marks...
- 4/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
Audrey Tautou made it clear to audiences that she had a certain je ne sais quoi when she appeared in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie as a free-spirited pixie living in a dream world of her own creation, but to her credit even that fantastic little film didn’t fully disclose her depth as an actress. A full decade later, and Tautou is only more strikingly beautiful from age and her ability to impart years of emotional heartbreak into a single glance has only improved. She puts that talent to excellent use in David Foenkinos and Stéphane Foenkinos’ intimate romantic comedy Delicacy (La delicatesse), which sees her as a bereaved young woman who finds new purpose in an awkward love with a co-worker (François Damiens).
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- 10/15/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – In “Delicacy,” the beguiling new film from David and Stéphane Foenkinos, there are moments that beautifully portray the strange effect that love can have on the senses. Two characters spend what appears to be a brief moment together in an office. It’s only upon leaving it that they realize hours have passed by. For fans of charming French rom-coms, this picture may have a similar effect.
The luminous smile that famously graced the face of Audrey Tautou in “Amélie” is replaced by a no less radiant expression of crestfallen heartache. Tautou plays Nathalie, a young woman who loses her great love, François (Pio Marmaï), in a traffic accident. Her stranded heart remains indifferent to the desires of men overwhelmed by her beauty, including her lecherous boss, Charlie (Bruno Todeschini). Thankfully, tragedy has caused Nathalie to favor an uncommon level of frankness, and she has no problem telling Charlie...
The luminous smile that famously graced the face of Audrey Tautou in “Amélie” is replaced by a no less radiant expression of crestfallen heartache. Tautou plays Nathalie, a young woman who loses her great love, François (Pio Marmaï), in a traffic accident. Her stranded heart remains indifferent to the desires of men overwhelmed by her beauty, including her lecherous boss, Charlie (Bruno Todeschini). Thankfully, tragedy has caused Nathalie to favor an uncommon level of frankness, and she has no problem telling Charlie...
- 10/2/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
To mark the release of Delicacy starring Audrey Tautou on DVD and Blu-ray August (out now!), we’ve been given five copies of the movie to give away.
Adapted from David Foenkinos’ multi-award winning novel, with over 700,000 copies sold, Delicacy is a charming, refreshingly unpredictable romance that darts between heartbreak and humour as it explores loss, love and rebirth.
Nathalie (Audrey Tautou: Amélie, The Da Vinci Code) has a wonderful life. She is young, beautiful and has a deeply passionate marriage with Francois. But when her husband tragically dies in an accident, it brings her world crashing down. Picking up the pieces she throws herself completely into her work, and limits her emotional life to fending off the unwanted attentions of her boss. A few years pass before a sudden attraction shakes her from her melancholy with a spontaneous and unexpected kiss with her co-worker Markus (François Damien: Heartbreaker...
Adapted from David Foenkinos’ multi-award winning novel, with over 700,000 copies sold, Delicacy is a charming, refreshingly unpredictable romance that darts between heartbreak and humour as it explores loss, love and rebirth.
Nathalie (Audrey Tautou: Amélie, The Da Vinci Code) has a wonderful life. She is young, beautiful and has a deeply passionate marriage with Francois. But when her husband tragically dies in an accident, it brings her world crashing down. Picking up the pieces she throws herself completely into her work, and limits her emotional life to fending off the unwanted attentions of her boss. A few years pass before a sudden attraction shakes her from her melancholy with a spontaneous and unexpected kiss with her co-worker Markus (François Damien: Heartbreaker...
- 8/6/2012
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Following last week’s release of The Players, with Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) co-starring in the lead, we have a handful of new international films reaching the shelves this week, with three more films from France and two from Asia leading the pack.
We’ve also got a few excellent films to add to Play.com’s exclusive new Blu-ray Steelbook releases, in tandem with Universal’s 100th Anniversary, so with that in mind:
My picks of the week:
Shion Sono’s Himizu & David and Stéphane Foenkinos’ Delicacy
With the Blu-ray Steelbook re-release of Serenity a must-buy for fans/collectors.
Himizu Iframe Embed for Youtube
DVD and Blu-ray
Debuting at the Venice Film Festival last year, where it came away with the Marcello Mastroianni Award, Shion Sono’s Himizu has been receiving critical acclaim ever since in its film festivals tour ever since. The film was given a limited...
We’ve also got a few excellent films to add to Play.com’s exclusive new Blu-ray Steelbook releases, in tandem with Universal’s 100th Anniversary, so with that in mind:
My picks of the week:
Shion Sono’s Himizu & David and Stéphane Foenkinos’ Delicacy
With the Blu-ray Steelbook re-release of Serenity a must-buy for fans/collectors.
Himizu Iframe Embed for Youtube
DVD and Blu-ray
Debuting at the Venice Film Festival last year, where it came away with the Marcello Mastroianni Award, Shion Sono’s Himizu has been receiving critical acclaim ever since in its film festivals tour ever since. The film was given a limited...
- 8/6/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Audrey Tautou has come a long way since her touching, doe-eyed international debut in Amelie. The actress is typecast in such feisty, cutesy roles that it’s hard to determine whether she’s good or just a natural charmer – a bit of both perhaps. In debut directors David Foenkinos and Stephane Foenkinos’ new romance, Delicacy, we find a more determined Tautou at play – who still commands the screen in a delightfully challenging role about life, love and death.
Nathalie (Tautou) is a beautiful, happy and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. Struggling to cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers.
After being pursued by her boss (Bruno Todeschini), Nathalie finds love and a rekindled zest for life in an unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional,...
Nathalie (Tautou) is a beautiful, happy and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. Struggling to cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers.
After being pursued by her boss (Bruno Todeschini), Nathalie finds love and a rekindled zest for life in an unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional,...
- 4/16/2012
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Within the first five minutes of "Delicacy," a new romantic comedy from France that is in theaters now, lead character Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) is asked if she ever considered acting. "Act?," she replies. "Never! Actresses are such a drag.""When I wrote this, I didn’t think that it would be Audrey Tautou at all," says French author David Foenkinos, who penned the screenplay and the best-selling novel on which it is based. "But we got a huge actress, and she said this, and it’s funny for us. She’s making fun of herself."Tautou stars as a young Parisian woman whose happy life is turned upside down by her husband's sudden death. She runs from her friends and her emotions, coping with her loss by burying herself in her work, but eventually succumbs to the unlikely charms of an awkward colleague (François Damiens).In addition to adapting his own work for the screen,...
- 4/9/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
Since March 14, the French film Delicacy, starring Audrey Tautou, has been slowly been rolling out across the United States in limited release. The film, which is based on the best-selling novel by David Foenkinos, who wrote and co-directed the film with his brother Stephane, stars Tautou as Nathalie, a French woman who has buried herself in work since losing her husband of three years. But, seemingly out of the blue and from a completely unexpected source, her spirits are lifted when she begins dating her office subordinate, Markus (Francois Damiens). The film, as its title implies, is rich and enjoyable and one of my favorites so far this year. It is the kind of romantic film the French do so well. The kind of films that American audiences always claim they want to see instead of the typical Hollywood rom-com. A film that makes you want to rush off to Paris and fall in live.
- 4/4/2012
- by Bill Cody
- Rope of Silicon
Film: Delicacy (La délicatesse) (2011) Cast includes: Audrey Tautou (Amélie),François Damiens (Heartbreaker), Bruno Todeschini (Son frére), Pio Marmï (A Happy Event) Writer/Director: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos (first feature film) Genre: Humor | Romance (108 minutes) French with subtitles "What will she order? Nothing humdrum like coffee..." François and Nathalie enjoy replaying their first meeting at Les Cailloux. Falling in love was so easy then. When he proposed, it was totally spontaneous... he put his key ring on her finger... and she said yes. Nathalie had it all... a new job, a handsome, loving husband and plans for the future. But it all ends suddenly when François is killed in an accident. At the funeral, all Nathalie can think is, "What if I am frozen in this moment." When Nathalie finally returns to work, she tells her boss Charles to "pile on the work." Charles, who has always had his eye on Nathalie,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Leslie Sisman
- Moviefone
In association with Organic Marketing and Studio Canal UK, we have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to a preview screening of Delicacy.
Directed by David Foenkinos and Stephane Foenkinos, Delicacy centres on Nathalie Kerr (played BAFTA nominee Audrey Tautou), a French woman, who, three years after the sudden and unexpected death of her husband, is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
In addition to Tautou, Delicacy stars Francois Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Melanie Bernier, Josephine de Meaux, Pio Marmai and Marc Citti.
The screening, part of Rendez-vous with French cinema programme, will take place at 8:15pm on Saturday, March 24 at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh.
Following the film, the directors, David and Stephane, will participate in a Q & A session.
To find out how to enter click next below for details of how to enter.
Directed by David Foenkinos and Stephane Foenkinos, Delicacy centres on Nathalie Kerr (played BAFTA nominee Audrey Tautou), a French woman, who, three years after the sudden and unexpected death of her husband, is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
In addition to Tautou, Delicacy stars Francois Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Melanie Bernier, Josephine de Meaux, Pio Marmai and Marc Citti.
The screening, part of Rendez-vous with French cinema programme, will take place at 8:15pm on Saturday, March 24 at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh.
Following the film, the directors, David and Stephane, will participate in a Q & A session.
To find out how to enter click next below for details of how to enter.
- 3/19/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
At the start of "Delicacy", we meet two lovers, Nathalie (Audrey Tatou) and Francois (Pio Marmai). They are at play, re-creating the memories of their first encounter at a smoky French restaurant, where he gambled as to what she would order, making his move when she proved his thoughts correct. It's the image Francois already had of his future paramour, and, "Delicacy" argues, the one that mattered the greatest. What is love if not a permanent feeling for a temporary state?
"Delicacy" makes its more audacious points about the permanence of relationships through a fairly aggressive manner, showing the couple happy in each others' arms one moment, and finding Nathalie at Francois' funeral the next. Hit by an oncoming vehicle, Francois' death never becomes any more of an abstraction; we never learn the identity of the perpetrator as Nathalie immediately steps into a ghost world, uncertain how to grieve. He's still here,...
"Delicacy" makes its more audacious points about the permanence of relationships through a fairly aggressive manner, showing the couple happy in each others' arms one moment, and finding Nathalie at Francois' funeral the next. Hit by an oncoming vehicle, Francois' death never becomes any more of an abstraction; we never learn the identity of the perpetrator as Nathalie immediately steps into a ghost world, uncertain how to grieve. He's still here,...
- 3/16/2012
- by Gabe Toro
- The Playlist
Audrey Tautou's latest film, "La Délicatesse" -- or "Delicacy" -- encompasses several genres at once. The first part of the film feels like a storybook romance, as we follow her character Nathalie and her first love Francois (Pio Marmaï) as they meet, fall for each other, and get married -- everything is perfect, [spoiler alert] until the day he has an unexpected accident and dies. Then the film transforms into a study of grief and mourning, as Nathalie buries herself in her work and avoids most of the people in her life. But when she abruptly kisses her co-worker Markus (François Damiens), the film changes once again, now becoming a comedy. For Markus, life is now a "(500) Days of Summer"-inspired fantasy sequence, where the world becomes alive, and for Nathalie, it's a chance to begin again -- despite most everyone's shock and disapproval of her choice in partners. ("You can do better,...
- 3/12/2012
- by Jen Vineyard
- The Playlist
Bérénice Bejo as Peppy Miller in Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius, A Separation: César Winners Pt.1 Best Actor Sami Bouajila, Omar m'a tuer / Omar Killed Me François Cluzet, Intouchables / Untouchable Jean Dujardin, The Artist Olivier Gourmet, L'exercice de l'État / The Minister Denis Podalydes, La conquête / The Conquest * Omar Sy, Intouchables / Untouchable Philippe Torreton, Présumé coupable / Guilty Best Actress Ariane Asquaride, Les neiges du Kilimanjaro / The Snows of Kilimanjaro * Bérénice Bejo, The Artist Leila Bekhti, La Source des femmes / The Source Valérie Donzelli, La guerre est déclarée / Declaration of War Marina Foïs, Polisse Marie Gilain, Toutes nos envies / All Our Desires Karin Viard, Polisse Best Supporting Actor * Michel Blanc, L'exercice de l'État / The Minister Nicolas Duvauchelle, Polisse Joey Starr, Polisse Bernard Lecoq, La conquête / The Conquest Frédéric Pierrot, Polisse Best Supporting Actress Zabou Breitman, L'exercice de l'État / The Minister Anne Le Ny, Intouchables / Untouchable Noémie Lvovsky, L'Apollonide,...
- 2/25/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Jean Dujardin, Missi Pyle, The Artist The Artist Wins, Jean Dujardin Loses: César Awards Best Film La guerre est déclarée / Declaration of War produced by Edouard Weil, directed by Valérie Donzelli Le Havre produced by Fabienne Vonier, directed by Aki Kaurismäki * The Artist produced by Thomas Langmann, directed by Michel Hazanavicius Intouchables / Untouchable produced by Denis Freyd, directed by Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache L'exercice de l'État / The Minister produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, directed by Pierre Schöller Pater produced by Michel Seydoux, directed by Alain Cavalier Polisse produced by Alain Attal, directed by Maïwenn Best Foreign Film Drive (United States) directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Black Swan (United States) directed by Darren Aronofsky Incendies (Canada) directed by Denis Villeneuve Melancholia (Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany) directed by Lars von Trier * A Separation (Iran) directed by Asghar Farhadi The King's Speech (United Kingdom) directed by Tom Hooper Le...
- 2/25/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Sneak Peek the new poster supporting the upcoming French romantic comedy feature "Delicacy" ("La délicatesse") directed by David Foenkinos and Stephane Foenkinos, starring Audrey Tautou and Francois Damiens :
"...'Nathalie' (Tautou), a happy and successful Parisian business executive, finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers.
"One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, 'Markus' (Damiens). At first stunned by Nathalie's unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear..."
From StudioCanal, "Delicacy" opens March 16, 2012.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Delicacy"...
"...'Nathalie' (Tautou), a happy and successful Parisian business executive, finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers.
"One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, 'Markus' (Damiens). At first stunned by Nathalie's unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear..."
From StudioCanal, "Delicacy" opens March 16, 2012.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Delicacy"...
- 2/23/2012
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Along with Marion Cotillard, Audrey Tautou is of course one of the best known French actresses internationally, and her films are always a safe bet to be wonderful. Her latest film, La Délicatesse, was released in France at the end of last year, and will be coming to the UK and Us in April and March, released as ‘Delicacy’.
We’ve now got the first Us trailer and poster to share with you, courtesy of Apple, and they give us an idea of the romance and comedy that we know and love of Tautou’s roles; it’s something she does perfectly.
“Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers.
We’ve now got the first Us trailer and poster to share with you, courtesy of Apple, and they give us an idea of the romance and comedy that we know and love of Tautou’s roles; it’s something she does perfectly.
“Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers.
- 2/22/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The world fell in love with French ingénue Audrey Tautou in 2001 thanks to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's thoroughly enchanting romance Amélie. Since then, we've watched Tautou be romanced again and again onscreen, and yet it never gets old. With her sweet smile and undeniable sparkle, she's a lady made to lead love stories. However, her latest romantic-comedy La délicatesse--or Delicacy--offers a slight change-up from her earlier efforts. Instead of falling for a gorgeous young man with a boyish charm, and after some delightful misunderstandings, following him off into their shiny happy ever after, Tautou plays Nathalie, a woman who falls for the gorgeous guy.but abruptly loses him in a fatal accident. However, rather than this being some sort of gender-swapped One Day, this grim turn of events serves only as Delicacy's first act. Based on author-turned-writer/director David Foenkinos' novel, Delicacy's story takes off while Nathalie, in the ...
- 2/21/2012
- cinemablend.com
Bérénice Bejo, Malcolm McDowell, The Artist The Artist, Polisse, Intouchables: César Nominations Pt.1 Best Actor Sami Bouajila, Omar m'a tuer / Omar Killed Me François Cluzet, Intouchables / Untouchable Jean Dujardin, The Artist Olivier Gourmet, L'exercice de l'État / The Minister Denis Podalydes, La conquête / The Conquest Omar Sy, Intouchables / Untouchable Philippe Torreton, Présumé coupable / Guilty Best Actress Ariane Asquaride, Les neiges du Kilimanjaro / The Snows of Kilimanjaro Bérénice Bejo, The Artist Leila Bekhti, La Source des femmes / The Source Valérie Donzelli, La guerre est déclarée / Declaration of War Marina Foïs, Polisse Marie Gilain, Toutes nos envies / All Our Desires Karin Viard, Polisse Best Supporting Actor Michel Blanc, L'exercice de l'État / The Minister Nicolas Duvauchelle, Polisse Joey Starr, Polisse Bernard Lecoq, La conquête / The Conquest Frédéric Pierrot, Polisse Best Supporting Actress Zabou Breitman, L'exercice de l'État / The Minister Anne Le Ny, Intouchables / Untouchable Noémie Lvovsky, L'Apollonide, souvenirs de la maison close / House of Tolerance Carmen Maura,...
- 2/21/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
François Cluzet, Intouchables / Untouchable The 2012 César winners will be announced on February 24. The ceremony will be presided by Guillaume Canet; Antoine de Caunes will act as master of ceremonies. Best Film La guerre est déclarée / Declaration of War produced by Edouard Weil, directed by Valérie Donzelli Le Havre produced by Fabienne Vonier, directed by Aki Kaurismäki The Artist produced by Thomas Langmann, directed by Michel Hazanavicius Intouchables / Untouchable produced by Denis Freyd, directed by Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache L'exercice de l'État / The Minister produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, directed by Pierre Schoeller Pater produced by Michel Seydoux, directed by Alain Cavalier Polisse produced by Alain Attal, directed by Maïwenn Best Foreign Film Drive (United States) directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Black Swan (United States) directed by Darren Aronofsky Incendies (Canada) directed by Denis Villeneuve Melancholia (Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany) directed by Lars von Trier A Separation...
- 2/21/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Title: Delicacy Cohen Media Group Review by: Harvey Karten Director: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos Screenwriter: David Foenkinos from his novel “La Délicatesse” Cast: Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier, Joséphine de Meaux, Pio Marmaï, Monique Chaumette Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 2/15/12 Opens: March 16, 2012 Anyone who has loved and lost–whether through the death of a significant other or a dropped relationship–can identify with the delicate plight of the principal character in David Foenkinos and Stéphane Foenkinos’ “Delicacy.” The writer and directors, whose previous work, a short comedy “Une histoire de pieds” (about a couple’s first date as seen from the perspective of a foot), deliver a...
- 2/17/2012
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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