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Breillat's Bad Love becomes a Must Read, not a Must See

30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

If the debilitating after-effects of a stroke weren't bad enough (she miraculously gave birth to not one (The Last Mistress) but two films when you add the Nyff selection Bluebeard) now comes word that the Bad Love (a project which she mentioned to us the last time she came to Nyff for a film), a remake of Breillat's own film, is Doa. - Thanks to Fin De Cinema's Joe Bowman for piecing together an update on provocatrice filmmaker Catherine Breillat. If the debilitating after-effects of a stroke weren't bad enough (she miraculously gave birth to not one (The Last Mistress) but two films when you add the Nyff selection Bluebeard) now comes word that the Bad Love (a project which she mentioned to us the last time she came to Nyff for a film), a remake of Breillat's own film, is Doa. It would have starred model Naomi Campbell, »

- Ioncinema.com Staff

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A 'Monk' like Existence for Filmmaker Dominik Moll

20 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- With a Friend Like Harry and Lemming feel like ages ago, so any news on filmmaker Dominik Moll for this detail hungry cinephile is good news. There is a brief mention today that the under-appreciated filmmaker received support called "an advance on receipts" from France's committee of the National Film Centre (Cnc) and was one of six screenplays to get what I imagine is some Euros (Jacques Doillon’s Aux Quatre Vents, Benoit Jacquot’s Hypnose, Philippe Faucon’s Kamikaze, L’oiseau by Yves Caumon and Juan José Lozano’s Impunité were the others). French production house Diaphana will be producing The Monk (La Moine) and that's about all the info we have right now. I'd like to see Laurent Lucas make it a third participation with the filmmaker who up to date only directed four films. He most recently penned for L’Autre monde for helmer Gilles Marchand. »

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Greggory, Garrel and Julie Depardieu Star in Doillon's 'Aux Quatre Vents'

7 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- The majority of his films don't find U.S distribution (perhaps his films are simply too "French") but audiences might remember him as the helmer of Le petit criminel, Ponette and most recently, Raja. Just by reading the plot outline, I think busy bee director Jacques Doillon might find a taker for Aux Quatre Vents (To the Four Winds). Counting on a stellar cast, written by Doillon, the film centres on a playwright (Pascal Greggory) who invites some actors to his secluded house to prepare a play. But the combined presence of his ex-wife (Julie Depardieu) and her lover (Louis Garrel), as well as the playwright’s assistant and mistress (Agathe Bonitzer), makes this a particularly turbulent day, in which romantic and creative rivalries become entangled.
For some reason, I'm thinking of Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants as I write this (probably because of the Birkin connection »

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Because We Were Born Review

5 March 2009 11:00 AM, PST | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »

Because We Were Born's co-director Jean-Pierre Duret began his career in the mid-80s as a boom operator and sound assistant on the films of Louis Malle and Jacques Doillon, and more recently, he's led the sound work on the films of Francois Ozon, Agnes Jaoui and the Dardennes Brothers. This pedigree surely helped Born, Duret and Andrea Santana's thrid nonfiction film set in Northeast Brazil, land a premiere slot last fall at the Venice Film Festival, a placement that even the Variety review admitted "may have minimized the attention it garnered as it may have gotten lost among the large number of films showing there." After moving on to Rotterdam and opening theatrically in France, Born's future fest ... »

- Karina Longworth

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