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Editioral Knives Out When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive Detective Benoit Blanc(Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate.
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On A Magical Night After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave. She moves to Room 212 of the hotel opposite her marital home, so she can spy.
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Amanda After his sister is brutally killed, David (Vincent Lacoste) finds himself in charge of his 7 year-old niece, Amanda(Isaure Multrier).
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So Long, My Son Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economical changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
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Someone, Somewhere Remy, a young Parisian with an unskilled job. Melanie, a young Parisian who works in scientific research. Two depressed moods living in close proximity but strange to each other. Shall the two meet?
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg A young woman separated from her lover by war, faces a life-altering decision
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Tokyo Film Festival - Award Winners Knives Out — Poster Photo Credits LIONSGATE:1,4,6,7,32 MEMENTO FILMS: 8,10,11 CURZON ARTIFICIAL EYE: 12,14,15,16,18,19 STUDIO CANAL: 20.22,23 BFI:24,26,27
Acknowledgments We would like to thank the following: Jill Reading: BFI Eloise Fuller: Grapevine Digital. Nicki Foster: PremierComms.Com
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EDITORIAL If anyone doubted the emotional impact that movies have on audiences, then you need to look no further than the power-packed passion that is in this issue of this magazine; for it has been another outstanding month for film lovers. Our cover feature review is the incredible Knives Out which would fill cinemas on word-of-mouth alone. Gracing our cover is an actress who MbM prophesizes will be one of the biggest movie stars the world has seen since the days of Elizabeth Taylor; her name is Ana de Armas who plays the role of Marta Cabrera. Other reviews in this our 80th issue, are:
On A Magical Night Amanda So Long, My Son Someone, Somewhere and the magnificent and the beautifully restored masterpiece
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg In May 2013 Movies by Mills was first published. Its cover feature review was Populaire, directed by Regi Roinsard, starring Romain Duris, Deborah Francois and Berenice Bejo. The magazine received glowing reviews particularly from one of the most respected critics in the film world: Susan Granger.
We Wish All Our Readers A Very Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!
Thank you for your support. Enjoy the Read.
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KNIVES OUT Directed By Rian Johnson Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer You know something, spill it. - Linda Drysdale I expect foul play. - Benoit Blanc
Whodunnit? Or as Detective Blanc’s tendency to use doughnuts as a metaphorical reference – Whodoughnut? Cinemagoers enter a cinema with expectations of the film they are about to see, but I find it much more interesting to see their facial expressions on their way out. As patrons began exiting Cineworld after seeing Knives Out, there were passionate exclamations like “That is the best film I’ve seen all year!” “What a movie!” “The cast was brilliant!” What caused the euphoric outbursts was a crime caper that they once made in the tradition of an Agatha Christie mystery. It is all here except the monochrome images. The story is about renowned novelist, Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) who is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday. The inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan’s dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan’s untimely death. Thrombey is one-man murder-mystery novelist which made him a millionaire, and his adult children and their children have been living off him for years. Now that he is dead and what appears to be suicide, they all expect to be in his will, which turns out to be as mysteriously thrilling as the rest of the narrative. When Blanc appears at the vast estate to investigate Thrombey’s death. It seems most likely that Harlan Thrombey was murdered and anyone in the dysfunctional family could have been the murderer: no one can be ruled out.
Set in a beautiful house just outside of Boston. The cast got along so well that in between takes they wouldn’t split off and go back to 4
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their trailers but they would go to the room in the basement of this house and then Rian would sneak off and go down there and there were all these movie stars hanging around shooting the stuff. It was amazing. Rian Johnson revealed who was the first person to sign on for his crime caper was Daniel Craig.
“He plays this kind of eccentric Detective. He’s like a Poirot. He’s so good. He’s such a great actor that once we got him in there, we were making the movie. So, I said we’re throwing a party. Who wants to come?” Jamie Lee Curtis stated that she would have gone to the opening of a door. “If you said Daniel Craig is inside that door, I would have walked through it. I don’t care what out-fit you put me in.”
The biggest surprise in the movie is Ana de Armis whom Johnson described as extraordinary and has so much heart, so much emotion. She wins everybody over. And how did the cast feel about the script? DANIEL CRAIG: “It was on the page. I worked a long time on accents and trying to figure where he came from, but it’s Rian’s script.” CHRIS EVANS: “As an actor, I think most people up here are mercurial by nature, so follow that appetite. This did come to me when I wanted to play something different.” ANA DE ARMIS: “I also have a no credit because it was on the script. The character; she has no agenda. She is who she is. She has a big heart. She is just trying to protect her family which is the most important thing for her. She is in a very vulnerable place but she’s not someone people can walk over. So, she’s just defending everything’s she’s got.” Rian Johnson had in mind the song “Sweet Virginia” for the ending of the movie from the moment he started writing the screenplay. Perhaps the summing up for the film should come from the legendary actor Christopher Plummer who plays Harlan in the film. Asked what he attributed to his long successful acting career: “Scripts like this! Wonderful piece of writing. It’s mad, it’s diabolical. I loved every second of it.” See it and be prepared to give it a Standing Ovation.
UK Theatrical Release Date: th 29 November 2019
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Chris Evans & Ana de Armas with Director Rian Johnson
Richard Drysdale(Don Johnson),Linda Drysdale(Jamie Lee Curtis), Ransom Drysdale(Chris Evans), Greatmoma Wannetta(K. Callan), Marta(Ana de Armas), Harlan Thrombey(Christopher Plummer)
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Benoit Blanc(Daniel Craig) in Knives Out
Benoit Blanc(Daniel Craig), Lieutenant Elliott(LaKeith Stanfield) Trooper Wagner(Noah Segan) in Knives Out
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ON A MAGICAL NIGHT Directed By Christophe Honore Starrng: Chiara Mastroianni, Vincent Lacoste, Camille Cottin, Benjamin Bolay Richard, Richard, Richard! - Maria After 20 years of marriage, Maria (Chiara Mastroianni) decides to leave her husband Richard (Benjamin Biolay) She moves to the room 212 of the hotel opposite her martial home. From there, Maria can scrutinize her apartment, her husband, her wedding. She wonders if she has made the right decision. Besides the standout performance by Chiara Mastroianni (daughter of Marcello Mastroianni) the film holds your attention for the first 40 minutes or so and then begins to taper off into déjà vu territory. The opening sequence promises cinematic references and delights as Maria we soon realize that the posh apartment that she shares with Richard is situated above a seven screen cinema, prominently displaying the current film they are showing which is the latest from Francois Ozon and leads the mind to wander off into the filmography of the director and screen clips in your mind of some of your favorites. But of course, if the film you are watching allows you do that, then it has failed to hold your attention and that is the major problem that On A Magical Night has. The protagonist, Maria, has a scene where she proudly parades her ex-lovers which causes quite a few to literally choke on their breath intake. While at the same time further infidelities are revealed. Vincent Lacoste shows up as the younger version of Richard, followed by the current version of Irene (Camille Cottin) his ex-lover and piano teacher with whom he carried on an illicit from the age of fifteen to twenty-one, broken off by his engagement to Maria. Irene causes some early laughs as a woman eager to rekindle her romance and bustles off next door to test him. The aforementioned ex-lovers’ parade, though humorous, drains the energy of the film. Thankfully, the last sequence lifts the spirits in a determination to wrap the film in happiness and Barry Manilow is the man to do that. There seems to be a point in the screenplay where the filmmakers decided to add or enhance the storyline with Irene’s character having more screen time and undoubtedly it does help as she brings a little 8
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music to the film with her piano-playing and begins to jazz it up. Once again jazz comes to the rescue and just about saves the day and stopping even a lower rating that I otherwise would give it. Alas, it is not a movie that I think cinemagoers would rush out to see. The most tranquil and pleasing scenes are the sequences are involving music and yet the filmmakers fail to realize that until the last moment and then it is a little too late to save the film. There are films that come and go and unfortunately produce shadows of themselves and nothing more. On A Magical Night is such a film. Using the word ‘magical’ in its title entices the cinema patron into the cinema under false pretenses as there is nothing magical about the film. Moments of interest are fleeting and that is never good as it tends to encourage a walkout which is what happened at the screening which I attended.
Rather than laboring the point, let us take a look at the director Christophe Honore’s previous work, and at that of actresses Chiara Mastroianni and Camille Cottin’s. CHRISTOPHE HONORE: METAMORPHOSES (2014) An erotic re-reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses enacted by a cast of literally unknown actors. It is Honore’s take on the story of Diana and Actaeon and following the wanderings of Europa, a high-school student who encounters a marauding truck driver, none other than Jupiter, father of the gods. Here we have stories within stories giving the old transformation myths a modern day slant: Narcissus as an arrogant teenage heart-throb, Orpheus as a charismatic housing-estate preacher, plus a multi-racial , poly-sexual perspective, via perversity and violence. CHIARA MASTROIANNI: BELOVED (2011) Directed by Christophe Honore. Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, CHIARA MASTROIANNI In London, a mother and daughter navigate their respective romances. Madeleine rekindles an affair from thirty years earlier, while her daughter Vera is caught between a musician who cannot commit and her ex, who still pines for her. CAMILLE COTTIN: SOMEONE SOMEWHERE (2019) Directed by Cedric Klapisch Starring: Francois Civil, Ana Girardot, CAMILLE COTTIN Remy, a young Parisian with an unskilled job, lives alone in his apartment. Melanie, a young Parisian who works in scientific research, lives alone in her apartment. Two solitudes, two depressive moods living in proximity but strangers to each other. Shall they ever meet?
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Richard(Vincent Lacoste) & Maria (Chiara Mastroianni) in On A Magical Night
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Richard(Benjamin Biolay), Maria(Chiara Mastroianni) & Richard(Vincent Lacoste) in On A Magical Night
Richard(Benjamin Biolay) & Irene Haffner(Camille Cottin) in On A Magical Night
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AMANDA Directed By Mikhael Hers Starring: Vincent Lacoste, Isaure Multroer, Stacy Martin, Ophelia Kolb After his sister Sandrine (Ophelia Kolb) is brutally killed by Islamic terrorists when they randomly opened fired on a crowd of pleasure-goers, David (Vincent Lacoste) finds himself in charge of his seven-year-old niece Amanda (Isaure Multroer).
David is in his early twenties and is still trying to figure out what he is going to do with his life, and now after this tragic incident, it seems that his life is being planned out for him. He feels totally unprepared for the responsibilities that taking care of Amanda will entail. The child is already in the state of shock not believing that she will never see her mother again, while David is still trying to come to terms that he has lost his sister. Amanda has fits of crying and outfits of temper tantrums over the smallest details like not finding her mother’s toothbrush because David had taken it away from the bathroom shelf so as not be reminded of her fatality. If he finds it difficult, how can he expect Amanda to react as though nothing has happened? Amanda’s fate is in David’s hands. For the love of his sister and Amanda, he must put his life on hold and that means his relationship and his love for Lena (Stacy Martin), a survivor of the attacks who is attempting to cope with her own trauma. With a complicated family history having shrunk the siblings support to a single kindly aunt (Marianne Basler), David is left to care for the young stricken young girl, despite everything in his own life. He lives in a poky bachelor studio, holding two jobs as an errand boy for a Parisian landlord and an occasional gardener for the parks board., he’s been happy with his lot until now, while knowing that it doesn’t bear scrutiny. Can he prove an able guardian of his niece? One of the things that Amanda was promised by her mother is that they would go to London and to Wimbledon to see the tennis. David had told Amanda that he was once a tennis player. Amanda had been looking forward to the trip, so, David bought tickets and they went to see the 12
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finals on Centre Court. This final sequence provided the feel-good emotion that the child needed, and that David hoped for and was awe-struck watching her as she clapped and cheered, and he was proud that he had given Amanda the happiness she needed. For these precious moments he knew he would be her guardian and take care of her until she was eighteen. Game, Set, Match to David.
UK Theatrical Release Date: rd 3 January 2020 DIRECTOR: MIKHAEL HERS: Previously wrote and directed THAT SUMMER FEELING: A French young woman unexpectedly dies in Berlin, where she lives with her boyfriend. Her sudden passing ruins the lives of her family and partner. They struggle to find new meaning in Paris, Annecy and New York. ACTOR: VINCENT LACOSTE: A rising star who continues to capture some excellent parts. Previously known for EDEN Directed by Mia HansenLove and starring: Felix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Greta Gerwig, Vincent Macaigne. An excellent film about house music and the passion that the music generates. The film was inspired by the experiences of her brother, who’s also her collaborator here, Hansen-Love gives us a fictional account of the French House boom that spawned Daft Punk, Cassius et all. With a loose narrative spanning two decades, Eden revolves around an aspiring DJ Paul (de Givry), as he helps put the so-called ‘French Touch’ on the world dance map. A sprawling dramatis personae takes in clubbers, entrepreneurs, tormented cartoonist Cyril, and Paul’s everanxious mother(Arsinee Khanjian). Shot in varied locations from Paris to Chicago, and with cameos from real-life House names, this story of a briefly flaring idyll is a tender, exuberant, musically dizzy panorama that comes across like Flaubert’s Sentimental Education. Vincent Lacoste played the part of Thomas Bangalter in Eden. Actress: STACY MARTIN: She won the coveted role of Anne Wiazemsky opposite Louis Garrel as Godard in Godard Mon Amour in 2017. In 1967, during the making of La Chinoise, film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazamsky and marries her. Another role that gained Stacy Martin further recognition was as Eleanor in Vox Lux. She was the supporting actress to Natalie Portman. The film’s narrative told about an unusual set of circumstances which bring an unexpected success to a Pop Star. In Amanda, Stacy plays the part of Lena, a pianist who Amanda gently initiates a romance between her and David when he asks her to be Amanda’s tutor. NB: The soundtrack features Aaron Copland’s “Clarinet Concerto” in the final sequence of the film.
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David(Vincent Lacoste) & Amanda(Isaure Multroer) in Amanda
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Amanda(Isaure Multroer) & David(Vincent Lacoste) in Amanda
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SO LONG, MY SON Directed by Xiaoshuai Wang Starring: Liya Ai, Jiang Du, Zhao-yan Guo-Zhang We are waiting to grow old - Yaoyun Yaojun (Wang Jingchun) and his wife Liyun ( Yong Mei) were once a happy family until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. So Yaoyun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city. Nobody knows them there, and that is how they like it, even though they don’t understand the local dialect. They have an adopted son Llu Xing who does not offer them comfort they had hoped for. Then one day he openly rejects his foreign parents by running away altogether. Ultimately, they decide to return to lost hopes. So Long My Son is a heavyweight drama chronicling the lives of two married couples and trying to cope with the economic and social changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present. Incredulously, the film was made in three months and as it clocks in a running time of 180 minutes it would appear that the editor had taken a sabbatical. This results in confusion as the plot meanders and I didn’t know which son was which or which family member had entered a scene. Worse still, by that time, I couldn’t have cared less. The theme is set against some of the most devasting-spanning family dramas. After the tragedy of losing their son, the film starts moving forward in time and causes further confusion. Now in the late 1990s with Yaojun and Liyun living in a Southern coastal town. The film attempts to create a devastating portrait of a nation moving from the quiet acceptance of one form of ideology to another. Eventually, we discover that the death of their son was exacerbated by the fact Liyun is unable to have children, after a botched abortion is enforced on her by the factory’s official of planned parenthood, her best friend, and HaoHao’s mother, Haiyan. Any film exhibited must find and appeal to its audience and, I have spoken to you before about this: that I believe that one of the greatest accolades that a film can receive, besides the coveted industry awards such as the Oscar from the Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the BAFTA Awards in London, the TIFF awards in Toronto, the Golden Bear in Berlin, the Golden Lion in Venice, is the Audience Award which is an audio award which is given at the end of a film when the audience shows its appreciation by applauding and giving the film a Standing Ovation. 16
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Now, let’s eavesdrop on this year’s press conference at the Berlin Film Festival of So Long, My Son and see if anyone can unravel the confusing storyline that left me baffled and bemused.
Question to Director Wang Xiaoshuai: In China they have a saying: Look to the future and forget the past. So please tell me how the journey into the past started, how much of that past did you still find? A: Talking about China after the Cultural Revolution ended, there was that saying. At the time that was forgetting about it all and getting on with the economy and throwing yourself from ideology. If you use it now, with the economy have made certain strides, if we look back at all the whole process we have gone through, we need to take a fresh look at that phrase. We still need to keep looking ahead but we still need to take lessons from the past to avoid making unnecessary mistakes and do things better as we go on. Questions to Producer Liu Xuan: How did you meet the director? How did you plan your production and what were the biggest challenges from your point of view? A: The whole production cycle was very long; screenplay, shooting…Actually up to the initial preparations of the screenplay, up to postproduction, took a total of 4 years to get this film made and it covers a very large timespan. There’s a very large cast as well. Now the scale of the production is the largest that Xiaoshuai has ever directed, but because of the script, with financing we overcame a lot of challenges, but I think that at the end of the day it had been worth it and I think we all felt that. What about an actor’s point of view? Here’s Jiano Du’s reaction. My part in the film starts as a child so, from the beginning I have to play somebody who kept a secret inside him for three decades. So, quite a lot of challenge in doing that, and the physical toll that it takes on you in carrying a secret like that for that long. Xiaoshuai helped me a lot. He told me you can think about it like a tree growing and growing inside you. Ultimately it is going to burst out of you and that was very inspiring for me for playing the part. Actress Xi Qui gives her response. My name is Xi Qui. I play the role of Moli in the film So Long, Ny Son and I agree with what everyone else has just said. Let me share a story with you. A couple of days ago when I arrived in Berlin, I was there at the airport and I saw the name of the film in English, “So Long My Son” and I was close to tears because I had worked close to two years on the film, but this beauty and this love, I was holding it within myself and I finally saw the name of the film on the poster and I sent a text message to the director straight away and I was very moved. I hope that if you are moved as I am, that you will be able to put your weight behind it and very much enjoy it.
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Yaojun(Wang Jungchun) & Liyun(Yong Mei) with friends in So Long, My Son
Yaojun(Wang Jungchun) & Liyun(Yong Mei) with friends in So Long, My Son
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SOMEONE SOMEWHERE Directed By Cedric Klapisch Starring: Ana Girardot, Francois Civil, Camille Cottin, Francois Berleand Remember Tournair? And Karine? Karine Pelisson! Short? Brunette. You know she had… - Mathieu Bernard Curly hair? - Remy No! - Mathieu Bernard Remy a young Parisian with an unskilled job. Melanie, a young she-Parisian who works in scientific research. Two depressive moods living in proximity but strange to each other. Shall the two ever meet? Remy and Melanie are victims of big city situation, at a super-connected time when meeting people should be simpler. The title is an optimistic invitation to those seeking someone that is out there that is for them with a belief that they will meet wherever they are. We, the audience want them to fall in love and find that special someone. Written by the director Cedric Klapisch and his faithful co-writer Santiago Amigorena, the screenplay centres on Remy and Milanie, the two 30-year-olds who live in the same neighborhood in Paris. She goes after hopeless date via social media accounts while he struggles to meet anyone at all. Two individuals, two journeys. Without knowing it, they take two roads that will lead them in the same direction, but will it all end in love? The cast of Cedric Klapisch’s romantic comedy include Ana Girardot and Francois Civil. The film is in the fine tradition of Klapisch’s relationship studies, including the trilogy L’auberge espanol (Pot Luck), Russian Dolls, and Chinese Puzzle, as well as Le peril jeune and Un air de famille. The latter title is about an upper middle-class French family celebrating a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
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The key to the success of this film is the casting of Pierre Niney, a celebrated actor whose presence in any film raises its calibre. In Someone, Somewhere Pierre plays the part of Mathieu Bernard. In 2014, Niney played the role of the famous French Fashion Designer Yves Saint Laurent in the titular part. But the film that really is the most memorable in his career which so far has not be surpassed in its excellence is Francois Oxon’s FRANZ, which gave the actor the starring role opposite Paula Beer. A beautifully romantic, graceful and unforgettable film. In a small German town in 1919, Anna (Paula Beer) repeatedly visits the grave of her fiancée, Franz, who was killed in battle during World War I. One day she spies a mysterious young Frenchman Adrien (Pierre Niney), also laying flowers at the grave. She enquires about his business there and he explains he was a friend of Franz. The pair become increasingly close and Anna becomes more and more intrigued by Adrien’s history with her fiancé. Long buried secrets are revealed that will illuminate unknown areas of their past lives and impact their future ones in a wearied and battle-scarred Europe. Franz is an intimate and timely exploration of healing and forgiveness across European borders. If by seeing Someone, Somewhere helps one to find that special ‘someone’ then the film has succeeded in finding its audience. The film was shown as part of the current French Film Festival at London Cine Lumiere, Plymouth Arts Centre, Edinburgh Filmhouse and Aberdeen Belmont.
NB: There Are Chances That If You Have Missed This Film Which Was Last Screened On The 15th November, It Will Be Screened Again Shortly
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Cedric Klapisch, Ana Girardot, Francois Civil on set of Someone, Somewhere
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Remy(Francois Civil) & Mansour (Simon Abkarian) in Someone, Somewhere
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CINEMA RETROSPECT THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG Directed by Jacques Demy Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuova, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farmer I saw the cutest little rompers at the department store. - Madame Emery Admit that you’re pleased. - Genevieve I’ll be more pleased if this baby had a father, and you had a husband. - Madame Emery Guy will come back. - Genevieve Guy or someone else
- Madame Emery Absence is a funny thing. I feel like Guy left years ago. I look at this photo, and I forget what he really looks like. When I think of him, it’s this photo that I see. - Genevieve One of the most romantic films of all-time! The lives of Genevieve Emery (Catherine Deneuve) and Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuova) of Cherbourg, France are presented in 3 acts: Part One: THE DEPARTURE – November 1957. Part Two: THE ABSENCE – January 1958 – April 1958. Part Three: THE RETURN – March 1959 – December 1963 The entire film is sung, and it is magically poetic and uses colour to heighten the emotional impact of the story. Described by director Jacques Demy as a ‘a film in song’. The film pays homage to the Hollywood musical and the French nouvelle vague. 24
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Guy (Nino Castelnuova) is a 20-year-old French motor mechanic, who has fallen in love with 17-year-old Genevieve Emery (Catherine Deneuve) an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, the pair share a passionate night. Genevieve becomes pregnant and the must choose between waiting for Guy’s return or accepting an attractive offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant played by Marc Michel. The haunting theme music throughout the film was composed by Michel Legrand and is called “I Will Wait For You”. Legrand had previously worked with Demy on La Baie Des Anges and Lola. The film inspired Damien Chazelle to make La La Land. The film was originally shot on Eastman negative stock, which had rapidly faded and had become almost unusable. The various copies of the film used in the cinema circuit gradually lost their quality. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg could not be seen with the rich colours which Demy had originally intended. Knowing as he did that the Eastman stock would fade in time, Demy had made the three main yellow, cyan and magenta colour separation masters on black and white negative films, which do not fade. These black and white prints had greater longevity. In the 1990s, Demy’s wife, film director Agnes Varda, headed a project to create a new colour-negative film from the three black and white separations. Restored full-colour prints were made from this in 2004. The resulting film recaptured Demy’s vision of a fantastically colourful Cherbourg.
Composer Michel Legrand assisted in restoring the original four-track stereo sound masters to digital. He remastered his score to produce a higher-quality version, now available on CD. A digital version of the film was released on Blu-ray by Cine Tamaris in 2003, on the 5oth anniversary of its original release. The version was restored independently of the 2004 version with colour grading supervised by Demy’s son Mathieu Demy.
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG IS DISTRIBUTED BY THE BFI & CAN BE SEEN IN CINEMAS FROM DECEMBER 6TH
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Genevieve(Catherine Deneuve) & Guy(Nino Castelnuova) in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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Madame Emery(Anne Vernon) & Genevieve(Catherine Deneuve) in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Genevieve(Catherine Deneuve) in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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THE 32ND TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
AWARD WINNERS COMPETITION
TOKYO GRAND PRIX/THE GOVERNOR OF TOKYO AWARD
UNCLE DIRECTED BY FRELLE PETERSEN
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
ATLANTIS DIRECTED BY VALENTYN VASYANOVYCH
AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR
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AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
NADIA TERESZKIEWICZ ONLY THE ANIMALS
AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR
NAVID MOHAMMADZADEH JUST 6.5
AWARD FOR BEST ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION
CHAOGTU WITH SARULA DIRECTED BY WANG RUI
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BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD
A BELOVED WIFE SHIN ADACHI
AUDIENCE AWARD
ONLY THE ANIMALS DIRECTED BY DOMINIK MOLL
ASIAN FUTURE BEST FILM AWARD
SUMMER KNIGHT DIRECTED BY YOU XING
THE SPIRIT OF ASIA AWARD BY THE JAPAN FOUNDATION ASIA CENTER
REZA JAMALI OLD MEN NEVER DIE
JAPANESE CINEMA SPLASH BEST FILM AWARD
I DOCUMENTARY OF THE JOURNALIST DIRECTED BY TATSUYA MORI
JAPANESE CINEMA SPLASH BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
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TOKYO GEMSTONE AWARD
JOSEFINE FRIDA
SAIRI ITO
RIRU YOSHINA
YUI SAKUMA
LIFE ACHIVEMENT AWARDS
TATSUYA NAKADAI
NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI
AMERICAN AIRLINES AWARD INTER COLLEGE SHORT FILM COMPETITION GRAND PRIX
DOWN ZONE DIRECTED BY TAKUTO OKUI From Osaka University of Arts www.moviesbymills.com
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