France’s mk2 Films will kick off sales in Cannes for Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s apocalyptic teen adventure Eat The Night, set to world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight.
The second feature from the directing duo following 2019 debut Jessica Forever is set in the French city of Le Havre and follows a small-time dealer and his teenage sister who share an obsession with an online video game. When one sibling’s reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, their virtual life and reality collide.
It is produced by Thomas Verhaeghe and Mathieu Verhaeghe of France’s Atelier de Production,...
The second feature from the directing duo following 2019 debut Jessica Forever is set in the French city of Le Havre and follows a small-time dealer and his teenage sister who share an obsession with an online video game. When one sibling’s reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, their virtual life and reality collide.
It is produced by Thomas Verhaeghe and Mathieu Verhaeghe of France’s Atelier de Production,...
- 4/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Following the main lineups for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, a handful of sidebar slates have been unveiled, featuring Directors Fortnight, Critics Week, and Acid. Notable highlights include the Sundance favorite Good One (read our review here), Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point starring Michael Cera, the first film in over a decade from James White director Josh Mond, the Christopher Abbott-led It Doesn’t Matter, Eat the Night from Jessica Forever duo Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Carson Lund’s Eephus, Patricia Mazuy’s Visting Hours, The Hyperboreans, a new film from The Wolf House directors Cristobal Leo & Joaquin Cocina, Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century follow-up Universal Language, and more.
Check out the lineups below.
Cannes Directors Fortnight
Feature films:
“Ma Vie Ma Gueule,” Sophie Fillieres (France) – opening film
“A Son Image,” Thierry de Peretti (France)
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” Tyler Taormina (USA)
“Desert of Namibia,...
Check out the lineups below.
Cannes Directors Fortnight
Feature films:
“Ma Vie Ma Gueule,” Sophie Fillieres (France) – opening film
“A Son Image,” Thierry de Peretti (France)
“Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” Tyler Taormina (USA)
“Desert of Namibia,...
- 4/16/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019). The first few details have emerged regarding Ari Aster's next feature, with Joaquin Phoenix in talks to star. Tentatively titled Beau is Afraid, the film (previously a 2011 short film by Aster) involves an anxious man's surreal and nightmarish trek to his overbearing mother's home following her death. Meanwhile, Spike Lee has announced his plans to direct a musical about the launch of launch of Pfizer’s erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra. Recommended VIEWINGNew York's Screen Slate and Collaborative Cataloging Japan recently hosted a Twitch discussion with legendary filmmaker Masao Adachi on Gewaltpia: Motoharu Jonouchi and the Japanese Avant-Garde. The stream will remain online through tomorrow, and then will be available to Screen Slate's Patreon supporters. Omelia Contadina, by Jr and Alice Rohrwacher in collaboration with the inhabitants of the Alfina plateau,...
- 11/25/2020
- MUBI
When Quentin Dupieux’s “Mandibles,” a buddy comedy about two bumbling dolts and a giant CGI bug, premieres out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 5, the screening could mark a mainstream breakout moment for the idiosyncratic director, and reaffirm French genre filmmaking as a market draw.
Beginning with 2010’s “Rubber,” Dupieux’s absurdist, genre-tinged features have launched out of sidebars in Venice and Cannes, and have played the main slates in Sundance and Toronto; his last film, “Deerskin,” opened the Directors’ Fortnight last year. But his off-kilter style, marked by pitch-black humor and surreal shifts, has thus far limited his commercial footprint, keeping him a cult act both at home and on the international stage.
In France, the filmmaker has burnished and expanded his reputation by touring smaller, regional genre festivals with each new work, returning often to niche events in Sitges, Neuchâtel and Strasbourg. Those events,...
Beginning with 2010’s “Rubber,” Dupieux’s absurdist, genre-tinged features have launched out of sidebars in Venice and Cannes, and have played the main slates in Sundance and Toronto; his last film, “Deerskin,” opened the Directors’ Fortnight last year. But his off-kilter style, marked by pitch-black humor and surreal shifts, has thus far limited his commercial footprint, keeping him a cult act both at home and on the international stage.
In France, the filmmaker has burnished and expanded his reputation by touring smaller, regional genre festivals with each new work, returning often to niche events in Sitges, Neuchâtel and Strasbourg. Those events,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
While recent shutdowns and work stoppages engendered by this year’s pandemic have led to a halt in France’s normally robust exhibition landscape, streaming platforms — both international and local — have emerged from the crisis all the stronger.
The effects of this shift have been felt across the French industry. On the local front, distributors including Le Pacte, StudioCanal and Pyramide have taken advantage of temporary exemptions issued by the Cnc in order to release current titles directly onto paid-vod platforms, while SVOD hybrid services such as the Wild Bunch-backed Filmo TV have seen an exponential increase in traffic and subscriptions.
On the international front, however, the recent upheavals in the market have reinforced existing trends.
“The existence of platforms, both local and transnational, creates more opportunities in general,” says sales agent Carole Baraton. “That was already the case before, and I think Covid just pushed that even further.
The effects of this shift have been felt across the French industry. On the local front, distributors including Le Pacte, StudioCanal and Pyramide have taken advantage of temporary exemptions issued by the Cnc in order to release current titles directly onto paid-vod platforms, while SVOD hybrid services such as the Wild Bunch-backed Filmo TV have seen an exponential increase in traffic and subscriptions.
On the international front, however, the recent upheavals in the market have reinforced existing trends.
“The existence of platforms, both local and transnational, creates more opportunities in general,” says sales agent Carole Baraton. “That was already the case before, and I think Covid just pushed that even further.
- 6/22/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
With February now officially underway, we have a busy month of VOD and Digital releases ahead of us. Tomorrow, things kick off with two vastly different projects hitting various platforms—Atomic Apocalypse and The Hunt for Vlad the Impaler—and just a few days later, Dogs Don’t Wear Pants arrives exclusively on Shudder.
Ant Timpson’s Come to Daddy hits digital on Friday, February 7th, alongside both Knives Out and the latest installment of the Into the Dark series on Hulu, entitled My Valentine. Then, on February 11th, Takashi Miike fans can enjoy the lastest from the acclaimed director, First Love, which was one of this writer’s favorite films out of last year’s Fantastic Fest.
On Valentine’s Day, get ready for both Vfw from Joe Begos and Camp Cold Brook, which is being released from Shout! Studios to hit VOD, and on February 20th, you can enjoy both Jessica Forever,...
Ant Timpson’s Come to Daddy hits digital on Friday, February 7th, alongside both Knives Out and the latest installment of the Into the Dark series on Hulu, entitled My Valentine. Then, on February 11th, Takashi Miike fans can enjoy the lastest from the acclaimed director, First Love, which was one of this writer’s favorite films out of last year’s Fantastic Fest.
On Valentine’s Day, get ready for both Vfw from Joe Begos and Camp Cold Brook, which is being released from Shout! Studios to hit VOD, and on February 20th, you can enjoy both Jessica Forever,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Guillaume Nicloux’s “To the Ends of the World,” Erwan Le Duc’s “The Bare Necessity” and Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s “Jessica Forever” are among the ten French and French-language films set to compete at the 10th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival, the online film showcase created by UniFrance.
Ira Sachs, the American director whose latest film “Frankie” competed at Cannes, will preside over the international jury which will comprise of the French actress Agathe Bonitzer (“Isadora’s Children”), Guatemaltec director Jayro Bustamante (“Ixcanul”), American actor-turned-director Brady Corbet (“Vox Lux”), Belgian director Judith Davis (“My Revolution”) and Czech director Michaela Pavlatova (“My Sunny Maad”). The other jury is made up of members of the international press.
“To the Ends of the World,” which world premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year, stars Gaspard Ulliel (“Saint Laurent”) as a young French soldier in Indochina, in 1945, who survives a brutal massacre in which...
Ira Sachs, the American director whose latest film “Frankie” competed at Cannes, will preside over the international jury which will comprise of the French actress Agathe Bonitzer (“Isadora’s Children”), Guatemaltec director Jayro Bustamante (“Ixcanul”), American actor-turned-director Brady Corbet (“Vox Lux”), Belgian director Judith Davis (“My Revolution”) and Czech director Michaela Pavlatova (“My Sunny Maad”). The other jury is made up of members of the international press.
“To the Ends of the World,” which world premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year, stars Gaspard Ulliel (“Saint Laurent”) as a young French soldier in Indochina, in 1945, who survives a brutal massacre in which...
- 1/7/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel's Jessica Forever, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from December 4 – January 2, 2019 in Mubi's Debuts series.We have wanted to write this film to put into image the atmosphere that we felt during our teenage years. We have always felt close to those who sink into cold, inexplicable violence. This frightens and fascinates us in equal measure. To understand that violence is not always gratuitous and isolated but that it arrives at a moment when it isn’t possible to speak anymore, when words are lacking. A violence that is directed against a world which appears in many shapes, cold, excluding, uninhabitable. A violence against a world we do not want to save but to destroy. Of course, to understand does not mean to legitimize. But we have never looked to position ourselves as judges with our films. Our...
- 12/5/2019
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel's Jessica Forever, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from December 4 – January 2, 2019 in Mubi's Debuts series.In the opening sequence of Jessica Forever there is a brief segment which zooms in on a scrunched adolescent body, a forehead adorned with ash-blond hair tightly pressing on to bloody knees, staining the tidy grey sweatpants the young boy is wearing. Suddenly, a hand slides into the frame, fingers and palm caressing the wounded body part, rearranging the frame according to a center of intimacy. Lingering attentively on the oozing injury opens up a space for the viewer’s empathy, while the camera brings into focus a visual metaphor that sits at the heart of the film as a hymn of love and vulnerability. The story of Jessica Forever, the debut...
- 12/4/2019
- MUBI
Japanese auteur Koji Fukada’s “A Girl Missing” tops the slate of MK2 Films. The shingle also has Agnes Varda’s “Varda by Agnes” and “Jessica Forever” playing at the Berlin Film Festival. MK2 is introducing “A Girl Missing” to buyers at the European Film Market.
“A Girl Missing” reunites Fukada with the star of his Un Certain Regard prize-winning “Harmonium,” Mariko Tsutsui, in the story of a private nurse who has become part of the family she works for until a fateful day when one of the daughters disappears. The media soon reveals the kidnapper to be the nurse’s nephew.
“Anchored by Koji Fukada’s meticulous dissection of flawed and failing family relationships, ‘A Girl Missing’ is a carefully crafted film which will surprise audiences as the story unfolds,” said Juliette Schrameck, the managing director of MK2 Films.
“The sobriety and quiet beauty of the seemingly tranquil setting...
“A Girl Missing” reunites Fukada with the star of his Un Certain Regard prize-winning “Harmonium,” Mariko Tsutsui, in the story of a private nurse who has become part of the family she works for until a fateful day when one of the daughters disappears. The media soon reveals the kidnapper to be the nurse’s nephew.
“Anchored by Koji Fukada’s meticulous dissection of flawed and failing family relationships, ‘A Girl Missing’ is a carefully crafted film which will surprise audiences as the story unfolds,” said Juliette Schrameck, the managing director of MK2 Films.
“The sobriety and quiet beauty of the seemingly tranquil setting...
- 2/7/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has unveiled its fifth edition of 10 Europeans to Watch, spotlighting 10 rising talents from across the continent who are poised for breakthroughs in 2019. The selection includes emerging actors, directors, showrunners and cinematographers from six countries whose dynamic talents are being showcased on screens big and small, and on both sides of the camera.
The group will be feted at the upcoming Berlin Intl. Film Festival with a luncheon in partnership with Dr. Hauschka at the Gorki Apartments on Feb. 9, and at the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg party that evening at the Ritz-Carlton.
The 2019 10 Europeans to Watch:
French cinematographer and director Marine Atlan has two films screening in Berlin: her directorial feature debut, “Daniel,” premieres in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section and she shot Panorama selection “Jessica Forever.”
German thesp Jonas Dassler toplines Fatih Akin’s Berlin competition pic “The Golden Glove.”
Belgian helmer Bas Devos, whose feature debut, “Violet,” won the Berlin...
The group will be feted at the upcoming Berlin Intl. Film Festival with a luncheon in partnership with Dr. Hauschka at the Gorki Apartments on Feb. 9, and at the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg party that evening at the Ritz-Carlton.
The 2019 10 Europeans to Watch:
French cinematographer and director Marine Atlan has two films screening in Berlin: her directorial feature debut, “Daniel,” premieres in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section and she shot Panorama selection “Jessica Forever.”
German thesp Jonas Dassler toplines Fatih Akin’s Berlin competition pic “The Golden Glove.”
Belgian helmer Bas Devos, whose feature debut, “Violet,” won the Berlin...
- 1/21/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
From small to big screens, everybody loves a story about a redeemed criminal. Shows like “The Wire” and films like “The Departed” ask viewers to root for misanthropic men whose criminal careers are either on the downswing or in the not-too-distant past. In “Jessica Forever,” a French Tiff premiere from directors Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, a band of lost boys vie for audience sympathy.
Continue reading ‘Jessica Forever’: Sci-Fi Drama Drones On With No Plot In Sight [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Jessica Forever’: Sci-Fi Drama Drones On With No Plot In Sight [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/15/2018
- by Lena Wilson
- The Playlist
Imagine an installment of Divergent or The Maze Runner directed by two budding French auteurs with a penchant for hyper-stylized violence and minimalist plotting, and you'll get an idea of what's in store with the dystopian whatchamacallit Jessica Forever.
Marking the feature debut of Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, whose shorts (As Long as Shotguns Remain, After School Knife Fight) have scooped up much renown — and a Golden Bear — on the fest circuit, this weird and sometimes wild genre-bender tends to overstay its welcome while delivering a few impressively low-key thrills. Beautifully shot and also too self-serious for its own ...
Marking the feature debut of Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, whose shorts (As Long as Shotguns Remain, After School Knife Fight) have scooped up much renown — and a Golden Bear — on the fest circuit, this weird and sometimes wild genre-bender tends to overstay its welcome while delivering a few impressively low-key thrills. Beautifully shot and also too self-serious for its own ...
This year’s grid features 6 critics, watching each of the 12 films.
Screen has launched its critics jury grid for the Platform strand at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival with Emir Baigazin’s The River the first title to take its place.
This year’s grid will feature scores from six critics:
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Radheyan Simonpillai, Now/CTV Loren King, Boston Globe Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York Vincent Le Leurch, Le Film Français Screen’s own critic
The River has made a strong start to the grid, with an average of 3. It scored consistently, with...
Screen has launched its critics jury grid for the Platform strand at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival with Emir Baigazin’s The River the first title to take its place.
This year’s grid will feature scores from six critics:
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Radheyan Simonpillai, Now/CTV Loren King, Boston Globe Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York Vincent Le Leurch, Le Film Français Screen’s own critic
The River has made a strong start to the grid, with an average of 3. It scored consistently, with...
- 9/7/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Company details sales on Ash, Asako I & II and Sorry Angel ahead of busy Tiff and New York Film Festival.
Jia Zhangke will present a recut version of his Cannes Palme d’Or contender Ash Is Purest White at its North American premiere in the Masters section of the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 6-16), its Paris-based sales company mk2 films has announced.
The contemporary tale of love and survival, starring Zhao Tao as a small-town bar owner whose passion for a local mobster changes the course of her life, has been trimmed by six minutes, mk2 films has revealed.
Jia Zhangke will present a recut version of his Cannes Palme d’Or contender Ash Is Purest White at its North American premiere in the Masters section of the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 6-16), its Paris-based sales company mk2 films has announced.
The contemporary tale of love and survival, starring Zhao Tao as a small-town bar owner whose passion for a local mobster changes the course of her life, has been trimmed by six minutes, mk2 films has revealed.
- 8/31/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Company details sales on Ash, Asako I & II and Sorry Angel ahead of busy Tiff and New York Film Festival.
Jia Zhangke will present a recut version of his Cannes Palme d’Or contender Ash Is Purist White at its North American premiere in the Masters section of the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 6-16), its Paris-based sales company mk2 films has announced.
The contemporary tale of love and survival, starring Zhao Tao as a small-town bar owner whose passion for a local mobster changes the course of her life, has been trimmed by six minutes, mk2 films has revealed.
Jia Zhangke will present a recut version of his Cannes Palme d’Or contender Ash Is Purist White at its North American premiere in the Masters section of the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 6-16), its Paris-based sales company mk2 films has announced.
The contemporary tale of love and survival, starring Zhao Tao as a small-town bar owner whose passion for a local mobster changes the course of her life, has been trimmed by six minutes, mk2 films has revealed.
- 8/31/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Nicole Kidman’s police thriller “Destroyer” and Elisabeth Moss’ rock and roll drama “Her Smell” have been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival’s platform section.
A dozen titles were unveiled on Wednesday for the festival’s only juried competition, with its focus on movies championing “risk-taking.” The platform section, now in its fourth year, was the launching pad for best picture Oscar winner “Moonlight,” “Jackie,” and “The Death of Stalin.”
“This year’s Platform selection stands out for the assured and precise directing on display,” said Tiff director and CEO Piers Handling. “We are thrilled to present a slate that perfectly embodies the essence of the program with so many risk-taking, challenging, and, at times, formally inventive titles that are the result of audacious directors making bold choices.”
“Destroyer” is directed by Karyn Kusama. Annapurna will handle the U.S. release, but has not yet dated the launch.
A dozen titles were unveiled on Wednesday for the festival’s only juried competition, with its focus on movies championing “risk-taking.” The platform section, now in its fourth year, was the launching pad for best picture Oscar winner “Moonlight,” “Jackie,” and “The Death of Stalin.”
“This year’s Platform selection stands out for the assured and precise directing on display,” said Tiff director and CEO Piers Handling. “We are thrilled to present a slate that perfectly embodies the essence of the program with so many risk-taking, challenging, and, at times, formally inventive titles that are the result of audacious directors making bold choices.”
“Destroyer” is directed by Karyn Kusama. Annapurna will handle the U.S. release, but has not yet dated the launch.
- 8/8/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The Platform section of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival will include adventurous films starring Nicole Kidman, Elisabeth Moss, Frank Grillo and Patricia Clarkson, Tiff organizers announced on Wednesday.
Films in the section will include Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell,” with Moss and Amber Heard; Carol Morley’s Martin Amis adaptation “Out of Blue,” with Patricia Clarkson and Toby Jones; and Emmanuel Mouret’s period piece “Mademoiselle de Joncquières,” starring Cecile de France.
Tim Sutton’s “Donnybrook,” which stars Frank Grillo and James Badge Dale in the story of a down-on-his-luck veteran who gets involved in brutal bare-knuckle boxing, will serve as the opening-night film for Platform, while Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s “Jessica Forever,” a directorial debut, will close it.
Also Read: 'Beautiful Boy,' 'A Star Is Born' Highlight Toronto Film Festival Lineup
All of the films except Emir Baigazin’s “The River” and Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,...
Films in the section will include Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell,” with Moss and Amber Heard; Carol Morley’s Martin Amis adaptation “Out of Blue,” with Patricia Clarkson and Toby Jones; and Emmanuel Mouret’s period piece “Mademoiselle de Joncquières,” starring Cecile de France.
Tim Sutton’s “Donnybrook,” which stars Frank Grillo and James Badge Dale in the story of a down-on-his-luck veteran who gets involved in brutal bare-knuckle boxing, will serve as the opening-night film for Platform, while Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s “Jessica Forever,” a directorial debut, will close it.
Also Read: 'Beautiful Boy,' 'A Star Is Born' Highlight Toronto Film Festival Lineup
All of the films except Emir Baigazin’s “The River” and Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,...
- 8/8/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
MK2, the French film producer-distributor that has a record five films competing at Cannes Film Festival, is launching a raft of daring feature debuts from a predominantly female group of filmmakers.
Regrouped under the label Next, MK2 has boarded international sales on Elsa Amiel’s “Pearl,” Mati Diop’s “The Fire Next Time,” Amandine Gay’s “Speak Up,” Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s “Jessica Forever” and Virgil Vernier’s “Sophia Antipolis,” among others. As previously announced, MK2 is also repping Danielle Lessovitz’s “Port Authority,” Mikhael Hers’ “Amanda” and Rohena Gera’s “Sir,” which is world premiering at Critics’ Week.
“Since MK2 was founded in 1974, it’s always been a home for auteurs, such as Jia Zhangke, Pawel Pawlikowski, Xavier Dolan, Stephane Brizé and Robert Guediguian, and we’ve always aimed at showcasing films with singular perspective on the world,” said CEO Nathanael Karmitz. “This year, we’re looking...
Regrouped under the label Next, MK2 has boarded international sales on Elsa Amiel’s “Pearl,” Mati Diop’s “The Fire Next Time,” Amandine Gay’s “Speak Up,” Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s “Jessica Forever” and Virgil Vernier’s “Sophia Antipolis,” among others. As previously announced, MK2 is also repping Danielle Lessovitz’s “Port Authority,” Mikhael Hers’ “Amanda” and Rohena Gera’s “Sir,” which is world premiering at Critics’ Week.
“Since MK2 was founded in 1974, it’s always been a home for auteurs, such as Jia Zhangke, Pawel Pawlikowski, Xavier Dolan, Stephane Brizé and Robert Guediguian, and we’ve always aimed at showcasing films with singular perspective on the world,” said CEO Nathanael Karmitz. “This year, we’re looking...
- 5/9/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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