The world is coming to an end. There are warning sirens, rain of ashes, bomb/missile attacks, news of nuclear explosions in Iran and Moscow. The rumor has it, the Us is shooting down any trans-Atlantic planes. Dead bodies pile up on the streets: caused by viruses, diseases and just total mayhem.
Robinson (Mathieu Amalric) is having a sort of mid-life crisis in the middle of all the chaos. He fell in love with an exotic siren Laetitia (androgynous Omahyra Mota, a Dominican fashion model) while staying in picturesque seaside town of Biarritz. As this chaotic film even more unravels with flashbacks, we get to learn how the tumultuous relationship has been as they travel from Spain, Taiwan, Canada to Paris. On the way to find Lae in a long winded road trip through Pamplona to finally emptied out Paris, Robinson gets plenty of sex and some more. I mean,...
Robinson (Mathieu Amalric) is having a sort of mid-life crisis in the middle of all the chaos. He fell in love with an exotic siren Laetitia (androgynous Omahyra Mota, a Dominican fashion model) while staying in picturesque seaside town of Biarritz. As this chaotic film even more unravels with flashbacks, we get to learn how the tumultuous relationship has been as they travel from Spain, Taiwan, Canada to Paris. On the way to find Lae in a long winded road trip through Pamplona to finally emptied out Paris, Robinson gets plenty of sex and some more. I mean,...
- 3/9/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the gills with obscure titles and names that even a hardcore connoisseur of world cinema such as myself is unfamiliar with. - I've just completed an exhaustive 35 film slate at Tiff and I've got very little time to recharge the batteries for The Festival du nouveau cinéma. Canada's most avant-garde film festival have released their entire slate for their 38th edition. Apart from Lee Daniel's pegged for Oscar - Precious, Lone Scherfig's An Education, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Los abrasos rotos), this year's edition is filled to the...
- 12/13/2009
- by Ioncinema.com Staff
- IONCINEMA.com
The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia announces its complete program. There are still a few surprises to be confirmed, like the closing gala, but they have already put together the final list of films that will be screened at Sitges 09. Below you’ll find the titles of each film and their sections as well as links for the films that we have already reviewed here on Sound On Sight. Opening Film [Rec]2. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. 2009. Official FANTÀSTIC In Competition Section Accident. Soi Cheang. 2009. Accidents Happen. Andrew Lancaster. 2009. The Children. Tom Shankland. 2008. [1] Cold Souls. Sophie Bartes. 2009. The Countess. Julie Delpy. 2009. Les Derniers Jours Du Monde. Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu. 2009. Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009. Dorian Gray. Oliver Parker. 2009. Enter The Void. Gaspar Noé. 2009. Grace. Paul Solet. 2009. [2] Heartless. Philip Ridley. 2009. Hierro. Gabe Ibáñez. 2009. La Horde. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher. 2009. Ingrid. Eduard Cortés. 2009. Kinatay. Brillante Mendoza. 2009. Metropia. Tarik Saleh. 2009. Moon.
- 9/19/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The full lineup has been announced, and among the load of genre fare that's been running the fest circuit are the world premiers of:
Vincenzo Natali's latest, Splice, which we're all excited about.
Simon Fellows twisted adaptation Malice in Wonderland (trailer)
Along some of our personal favorites:
Black Dynamite (friggin awesome)
Swiss scifi flick Cargo (trailer)
Pater Sparrow's incredible Stanislaw Lem adaptation 1 (review)
The Mo Brothers Indonesian slasher Macabre (review)
Atm (get it?) horror-comedy The Human Centipede (review)
Full list after the break.
Opening Film
[Rec]2. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. 2009.
Official FANTÀSTIC In Competition Section
Accident. Soi Cheang. 2009.
Accidents Happen. Andrew Lancaster. 2009.
The Children. Tom Shankland. 2008.
Cold Souls. Sophie Bartes. 2009.
The Countess. Julie Delpy. 2009.
Les Derniers Jours Du Monde. Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu. 2009.
Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009.
Dorian Gray. Oliver Parker. 2009.
Enter The Void. Gaspar Noé. 2009.
Grace. Paul Solet. 2009.
Heartless. Philip Ridley. 2009.
Hierro. Gabe Ibáñez. 2009.
La Horde. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher.
Vincenzo Natali's latest, Splice, which we're all excited about.
Simon Fellows twisted adaptation Malice in Wonderland (trailer)
Along some of our personal favorites:
Black Dynamite (friggin awesome)
Swiss scifi flick Cargo (trailer)
Pater Sparrow's incredible Stanislaw Lem adaptation 1 (review)
The Mo Brothers Indonesian slasher Macabre (review)
Atm (get it?) horror-comedy The Human Centipede (review)
Full list after the break.
Opening Film
[Rec]2. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. 2009.
Official FANTÀSTIC In Competition Section
Accident. Soi Cheang. 2009.
Accidents Happen. Andrew Lancaster. 2009.
The Children. Tom Shankland. 2008.
Cold Souls. Sophie Bartes. 2009.
The Countess. Julie Delpy. 2009.
Les Derniers Jours Du Monde. Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu. 2009.
Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009.
Dorian Gray. Oliver Parker. 2009.
Enter The Void. Gaspar Noé. 2009.
Grace. Paul Solet. 2009.
Heartless. Philip Ridley. 2009.
Hierro. Gabe Ibáñez. 2009.
La Horde. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher.
- 9/12/2009
- QuietEarth.us
- #22. Les Derniers Jours Du Monde Director: Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu Cast:Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Frot, Karin Viard, Sergi Lopez, Omahyra MotaDistributor: Rights Available. Buzz: A preem at Locarno hasn't brought about glowing reviews for this dystopian flick with the two plus hour run time. I'm not sure if this is an overly ambitious project or just a difficult sell, but I'll rally behind this one because I need something less grim to work with my appreciation of Children of Men. The Gist: A global apocalypse is about to destroy all mankind. In a final quest, Robinson (Mathieu Amalric) sets out on a journey from France to Spain, searching for Laetitia, the woman he once loved, even if it means heading back to the centre of the danger zone. But as the world is turning upside down, most people – through their blind panic – have decided to simply enjoy their
- 9/3/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Year: 2009
Directors: Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu
Writers: Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu & Dominique Noguez (novel)
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Linus de Paoli
Rating: 4 out of 10
The Locarno Film festival is getting weirder every day. If you think the Piazza Grande is reserved for divine art house cinema, check this out! Before the screening of “Les Derniers Jours Du Monde”, two trailers for the new Pokémon movie were screened on the Piazza Grande and Shoko Nakagawa, the incarnation of a hentai girl, performed the title song. As if that hadn’t been enough, she was accompanied by Pikachu, himself – who also gave an interview: “Pika, Pika, Pika!!!”… The audience was not amused.
Shortly after the beginning of the Larrieu Brothers’ latest achievement it started to rain and thunder on the Piazza, so I saw most of the film from my refuge under the arcades and I stayed until the end.
Directors: Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu
Writers: Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu & Dominique Noguez (novel)
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Linus de Paoli
Rating: 4 out of 10
The Locarno Film festival is getting weirder every day. If you think the Piazza Grande is reserved for divine art house cinema, check this out! Before the screening of “Les Derniers Jours Du Monde”, two trailers for the new Pokémon movie were screened on the Piazza Grande and Shoko Nakagawa, the incarnation of a hentai girl, performed the title song. As if that hadn’t been enough, she was accompanied by Pikachu, himself – who also gave an interview: “Pika, Pika, Pika!!!”… The audience was not amused.
Shortly after the beginning of the Larrieu Brothers’ latest achievement it started to rain and thunder on the Piazza, so I saw most of the film from my refuge under the arcades and I stayed until the end.
- 8/12/2009
- QuietEarth.us
- It's the end of the world. What do you do? If you are Mathieu Amalric's character in Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu's Les Derniers jours du monde, you satisfy your, and other primal urges first. Starring Amalric, Sergi López, Catherine Frot, Karin Viard, Clotilde Hesme and Sabine Azema, this tells the story of Robinson, who is unable to forget the beautiful and cruel Laetitia, his only great love. The day before the destruction of the planet, Robinson leaves his bunker to be reunited with Laetitia in the most dangerous place on Earth: Paris. From some reason, the trailer elicits thoughts of Hitchcock's North By Northwest and of course, apocalyptic, human civilization is at risk and dwindling by the numbers type of plot line that Hollywood regularly gets wrong. Here we see a guy having perhaps the best time of his life and his unfulfillment comes from not being
- 7/7/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- Memento Films have a mandate to work in a grassroots manner – when they take on a project they don't take half a dozen others to pay the bills. Last year's films included an esteemed batch of autuer films in: Goodbye Solo, Wendy & Lucy, The Class, Wonderful Town, Under the Bombs and Grown Ups. This year they get to showcase Kamen Kalev's Eastern Plays (Director's Fortnight) and Raya Martin's Independencia (Un Certain Regard) in the comps. For buyers there is the Larrieu pic in post pro as well (see Mathieu Amalric pic below). Eastern Plays by Kamen Kalev - Completed Independencia by Raya Martin – Completed North (Nord) by Rune Denstad Langlo - CompletedTHIS Is The End (Les Derniers Jours Du Monde) by Arnaud Larrieu – Post-Production The Exploding Girl by Bradley Rust Gray – Completed Treeless Mountain by So-Yong Kim – Completed ...
- 5/12/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
I've actually been clocking this film for some time but have only been able to find behind the scenes pics which really didn't show much of anything, but apparently it's been a big budget (and destruction) production that's been shot all over the place. Directed by brothers Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu and set in 2016, the film is adapted from Dominique Noguez’s eponymous novel, which opens with a television announcement by the French President: "There is no longer any hope of survival!" The book’s narrator – a screenwriter recovering from a break-up – sets out on a true odyssey. He travels through deserted cities that have been struck by earthquakes and epidemics, and are plagued by gangs of killers. But he also crosses paths with old friends, women who soothe his anguish during the last days of the world and a strange billionaire who throws a final orgy. No, this...
- 4/27/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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