Joann Sfar, the French comic book artist and filmmaker, recently wrapped "Fashion Week", a graphic novel inspired by the headline-making robbery at Kim Kardashian West's Paris hotel room in 2016.
Sfar is also developing a French film loosely based on the incident, reports variety.com.
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Sfar is co-writing the script with Marion Festraets ("Chefs") and will be directing the film, which he said will be a comedy exploring the themes of feminism, masculinity and patriarchy in today's society.
Titled "Fashion Week", the film will address "violence against women, the relationship between the very rich people and the less rich, the world of fashion and the encounter between figures of new and old worlds," Sfar told Variety.
The plot of the movie will revolve around a group of older thieves who plan to rob a famous influencer during her trip to...
Sfar is also developing a French film loosely based on the incident, reports variety.com.
Also Read:?Kim Kardashian shares emotional letters from late father
Sfar is co-writing the script with Marion Festraets ("Chefs") and will be directing the film, which he said will be a comedy exploring the themes of feminism, masculinity and patriarchy in today's society.
Titled "Fashion Week", the film will address "violence against women, the relationship between the very rich people and the less rich, the world of fashion and the encounter between figures of new and old worlds," Sfar told Variety.
The plot of the movie will revolve around a group of older thieves who plan to rob a famous influencer during her trip to...
- 10/11/2019
- GlamSham
Joann Sfar, the French comic book artist and filmmaker, recently wrapped “Fashion Week,” a graphic novel inspired by the headline-making robbery of Kim Kardashian West in her Paris hotel room in 2016. Sfar is also developing a French film loosely based on the incident.
Sfar is co-writing the script with Marion Festraëts (“Chefs”) and will be directing the film, which he said will be a comedy exploring the themes of feminism, masculinity and patriarchy in today’s society. Titled “Fashion Week,” the film will address “violence against women, the relationship between the very rich people and the less rich, the world of fashion and the encounter between figures of new and old worlds,” Sfar told Variety.
The plot of the movie will revolve around a group of older thieves who plan to rob a famous influencer during her trip to Paris and find themselves embroiled in the whirlwind of Fashion Week in the French capital.
Sfar is co-writing the script with Marion Festraëts (“Chefs”) and will be directing the film, which he said will be a comedy exploring the themes of feminism, masculinity and patriarchy in today’s society. Titled “Fashion Week,” the film will address “violence against women, the relationship between the very rich people and the less rich, the world of fashion and the encounter between figures of new and old worlds,” Sfar told Variety.
The plot of the movie will revolve around a group of older thieves who plan to rob a famous influencer during her trip to Paris and find themselves embroiled in the whirlwind of Fashion Week in the French capital.
- 10/10/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Comedy marks directorial debut of veteran producer.
Paris-based Other Angle has boarded sales on dramatic comedy Chouquette, the directorial debut of veteran producer Patrick Godeau who is in Cannes this year with Un Certain Regard opener Barbara.
“I’ve wanted to direct a film since I was 14-years-old but ended up working in every other aspect of cinema,” explains veteran producer Godeau, whose recent credits also include Camping 3 and The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun.
“I’m the sort of producer who likes to develop a project from scratch, bringing in the various elements of screen-writer and director myself… I was in the middle of following the same process for Chouquette when my partner said, ‘Why don’t you direct it yourself?’” he said.
Loosely adapted from a novel by Emilie Freche, transposed from the south of France to Northern Brittany, Chouquette stars Sabine Azéma as a 60-something woman living alone in...
Paris-based Other Angle has boarded sales on dramatic comedy Chouquette, the directorial debut of veteran producer Patrick Godeau who is in Cannes this year with Un Certain Regard opener Barbara.
“I’ve wanted to direct a film since I was 14-years-old but ended up working in every other aspect of cinema,” explains veteran producer Godeau, whose recent credits also include Camping 3 and The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun.
“I’m the sort of producer who likes to develop a project from scratch, bringing in the various elements of screen-writer and director myself… I was in the middle of following the same process for Chouquette when my partner said, ‘Why don’t you direct it yourself?’” he said.
Loosely adapted from a novel by Emilie Freche, transposed from the south of France to Northern Brittany, Chouquette stars Sabine Azéma as a 60-something woman living alone in...
- 5/18/2017
- ScreenDaily
Following his award-winning hit The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra’s new film, The Sense of An Ending, releases exclusively in New York and Los Angeles this Friday, March 10, and nationwide next week on March 17.
Winning rave reviews, the film is also being acclaimed at film festivals. The Sense Of An Ending was honored at the Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco with three awards including Jury Prize for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor for Jim Broadbent.
Based on the book by Julain Barnes, The Sense of An Ending was adapted for the screen by award-winning playwright Nick Payne and produced by David Thompson and Ed Rubin (Woman In Gold). The drama stars Academy Award® winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Gangs of New York, Moulin Rouge!), Harriet Walter (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Michelle Dockery (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island, Hugo, Lars and the Real Girl...
Winning rave reviews, the film is also being acclaimed at film festivals. The Sense Of An Ending was honored at the Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco with three awards including Jury Prize for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor for Jim Broadbent.
Based on the book by Julain Barnes, The Sense of An Ending was adapted for the screen by award-winning playwright Nick Payne and produced by David Thompson and Ed Rubin (Woman In Gold). The drama stars Academy Award® winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Gangs of New York, Moulin Rouge!), Harriet Walter (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Michelle Dockery (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island, Hugo, Lars and the Real Girl...
- 3/7/2017
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Take a trip down memory lane with new photos from CBS Films’ The Sense Of An Ending starring Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, and Emily Mortimer, alongside Charlotte Rampling. The new drama, directed by Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox, Netflix’s Our Souls At Night), opens in select theaters March 10.
Read Variety’s review from the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival Here.
Starring Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Gangs of New York, Moulin Rouge!), Harriet Walter (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Michelle Dockery (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island, Hugo, Lars and the Real Girl), Billy Howle (The Witness for the Prosecution, Cider with Rosie, Glue), Joe Alwyn (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Higher Education, Keepers), Freya Mavor (The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, Sunshine on Leith, Skins), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Belle) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years,...
Read Variety’s review from the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival Here.
Starring Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Gangs of New York, Moulin Rouge!), Harriet Walter (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Michelle Dockery (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Emily Mortimer (Shutter Island, Hugo, Lars and the Real Girl), Billy Howle (The Witness for the Prosecution, Cider with Rosie, Glue), Joe Alwyn (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Higher Education, Keepers), Freya Mavor (The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, Sunshine on Leith, Skins), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Belle) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years,...
- 2/14/2017
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
CBS Films has released a powerful first trailer for the upcoming drama The Sense Of An Ending, directed by Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox).
The film stars Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Gangs of New York, Moulin Rouge!), HarrietWalter (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Michelle Dockery (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), EmilyMortimer (Shutter Island, Hugo, Lars and the Real Girl), BillyHowle (The Witness for the Prosecution, Cider with Rosie, Glue), Joe Alwyn (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Higher Education, Keepers), Freya Mavor (The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, Sunshine on Leith, Skins), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Belle) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years, Melancholia).
Tony Webster (Broadbent) leads a reclusive and quiet existence until long buried secrets from his past force him to face the flawed recollections of his younger self, the truth about his first love (Rampling) and the devastating consequences of decisions made a lifetime ago.
The film stars Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Gangs of New York, Moulin Rouge!), HarrietWalter (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), Michelle Dockery (Babel, Atonement, Sense and Sensibility), EmilyMortimer (Shutter Island, Hugo, Lars and the Real Girl), BillyHowle (The Witness for the Prosecution, Cider with Rosie, Glue), Joe Alwyn (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Higher Education, Keepers), Freya Mavor (The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, Sunshine on Leith, Skins), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Belle) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years, Melancholia).
Tony Webster (Broadbent) leads a reclusive and quiet existence until long buried secrets from his past force him to face the flawed recollections of his younger self, the truth about his first love (Rampling) and the devastating consequences of decisions made a lifetime ago.
- 12/14/2016
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sfar adapted and is directing his direct his best-selling comic strip.
Joan Sfar’s animated adaptation of his popular comic book Petit Vampire has gone into production, Studiocanal, which is co-producing with the director’s Autochenille Production, has announced.
The comic, about a little vampire who has been 10-years-old for 300 years and decides he wants to go to school to make some friends, has sold some 320,000 copies since it was first published in 1999.
It will be Sfar’s fourth feature after live action pictures Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun as well as animation The Rabbi’s Cat.
Other characters include Michael, a mischievous orphan who is always getting into trouble, and arch-enemy Gibbus, a supernatural moon-headed creature who is determined.
The film is produced by Autochenille Production and Panache Productions, co-produced by Studiocanal with the participation of France 3 Cinéma.
Studiocanal handles...
Joan Sfar’s animated adaptation of his popular comic book Petit Vampire has gone into production, Studiocanal, which is co-producing with the director’s Autochenille Production, has announced.
The comic, about a little vampire who has been 10-years-old for 300 years and decides he wants to go to school to make some friends, has sold some 320,000 copies since it was first published in 1999.
It will be Sfar’s fourth feature after live action pictures Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun as well as animation The Rabbi’s Cat.
Other characters include Michael, a mischievous orphan who is always getting into trouble, and arch-enemy Gibbus, a supernatural moon-headed creature who is determined.
The film is produced by Autochenille Production and Panache Productions, co-produced by Studiocanal with the participation of France 3 Cinéma.
Studiocanal handles...
- 5/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Ramin Bahrani made a name for himself with three independent films over the last decade, focusing on humanity’s daily struggles, reinvented foreign lives in America, and a fundamental sense of decency. With 2012’s At Any Price and this year’s 99 Homes, Bahrani has twice returned to the festival that launched his career, presenting the evolution of those themes. Not coincidentally, the worst...
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Ramin Bahrani made a name for himself with three independent films over the last decade, focusing on humanity’s daily struggles, reinvented foreign lives in America, and a fundamental sense of decency. With 2012’s At Any Price and this year’s 99 Homes, Bahrani has twice returned to the festival that launched his career, presenting the evolution of those themes. Not coincidentally, the worst...
- 5/13/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
German distributor has picked up four titles ahead of Cannes.
Munich-based distributor Tiberius Film has acquired four titles ahead of Cannes, including the Audrey Tautou-starring Open At Night.
Edouard Baer directs this racy comedy about a crazy trip through Paris at night. Michel Galabru, who passed away in January this year, also star in his final film role.
Tiberius has also picked up The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun, a remake of the 1970 original of the same name.
Directed by Joann Sfar (Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life), the film stars British actress and 2013 Screen Star of Tomorrow Freya Mavor (Skins) as a secretary who secretly borrows her bosses car without knowing the trouble that awaits her.
The company has also taken the National Geographic documentary Medicine Of The Wolf, Julia Huffman’s exploration of the historical relationship between man and animal.
The final title is horror thriller Carnage Park from director Mickey Keating ([link...
Munich-based distributor Tiberius Film has acquired four titles ahead of Cannes, including the Audrey Tautou-starring Open At Night.
Edouard Baer directs this racy comedy about a crazy trip through Paris at night. Michel Galabru, who passed away in January this year, also star in his final film role.
Tiberius has also picked up The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun, a remake of the 1970 original of the same name.
Directed by Joann Sfar (Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life), the film stars British actress and 2013 Screen Star of Tomorrow Freya Mavor (Skins) as a secretary who secretly borrows her bosses car without knowing the trouble that awaits her.
The company has also taken the National Geographic documentary Medicine Of The Wolf, Julia Huffman’s exploration of the historical relationship between man and animal.
The final title is horror thriller Carnage Park from director Mickey Keating ([link...
- 5/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
Electrified by crackling dialogue and visual craftsmanship of the great Howard Hawks, Only Angels Have Wings stars Jean Arthur as a traveling entertainer who gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome and aloof daredevil pilot, played by Cary Grant, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled...
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
Electrified by crackling dialogue and visual craftsmanship of the great Howard Hawks, Only Angels Have Wings stars Jean Arthur as a traveling entertainer who gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome and aloof daredevil pilot, played by Cary Grant, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled...
- 4/12/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
Read More: Watch: 'The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun' Trailer Previews Stunning Neo-Noir Thriller After adapting his own comics in his previous two feature films ("Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life," "The Rabbi's Cat"), filmmaker Joann Sfar turns to Sébastien Japrisot's noir-thriller "The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun" for his latest outing. The novel was previously adapted into a 1970 film directed by Anatole Litvak, though Sfar has a style far more sexy and thrilling up his sleeve. "The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun" centers on Dany Doremus (Mavor) as she drives her boss' car to a town where everyone seems to know her, although she claims she's never been in the town before. Matters become worse when she discovers a body in her trunk, which the clip above teases in full. The film hits theaters and On Demand today,...
- 12/18/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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