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To celebrate the release of Gemma Bovery, available on DVD and Blu-ray from 8th February 2016, we have 2 Blu-rays to give away.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Posy Simmonds, Gemma Arterton stars in this amusing and sexy modern-day re-working of Madame Bovery.
Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon becomes tired of their simpler life and finds distraction with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin (Luchini), a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favourite novel.
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To celebrate the release of Gemma Bovery, available on DVD and Blu-ray from 8th February 2016, we have 2 Blu-rays to give away.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Posy Simmonds, Gemma Arterton stars in this amusing and sexy modern-day re-working of Madame Bovery.
Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma soon becomes tired of their simpler life and finds distraction with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin (Luchini), a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favourite novel.
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- 2/1/2016
- by Laura Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Gemma Arterton is a joy to watch but can’t carry this Posy Simmonds-meets-Flaubert caper alone
Mercurial Gemma Arterton provided the spark that sold Tamara Drewe to cinema audiences, and she’s the main attraction again in this latest Posy Simmonds adaptation. Arterton plays Gemma Bovery (the on-screen title initially withholds the “G”), a restless Brit who decamps to bucolic Normandy, where her life imitates that of literature’s most infamously bored housewife. Under the lustful gaze of Flaubert fan Martin (Fabrice Luchini, all startled eyes and hangdog mouth), Gemma is soon bedding the local young buck, unnoticed by husband Charlie (Jason Flemyng), who’s too busy restoring antiques to keep track of his marriage.
Arterton has flirty fun with the title role, and her scenes with Luchini boast a satirical crackle that’s missing elsewhere. Cinematographer Christophe Beaucarne drools over the picturesque landscapes while Bruno Colais’s music...
Mercurial Gemma Arterton provided the spark that sold Tamara Drewe to cinema audiences, and she’s the main attraction again in this latest Posy Simmonds adaptation. Arterton plays Gemma Bovery (the on-screen title initially withholds the “G”), a restless Brit who decamps to bucolic Normandy, where her life imitates that of literature’s most infamously bored housewife. Under the lustful gaze of Flaubert fan Martin (Fabrice Luchini, all startled eyes and hangdog mouth), Gemma is soon bedding the local young buck, unnoticed by husband Charlie (Jason Flemyng), who’s too busy restoring antiques to keep track of his marriage.
Arterton has flirty fun with the title role, and her scenes with Luchini boast a satirical crackle that’s missing elsewhere. Cinematographer Christophe Beaucarne drools over the picturesque landscapes while Bruno Colais’s music...
- 8/23/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Anne Fontaine; Screenwriters: Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer; Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Niels Schneider; Running time: 99 mins; Certificate: 15
Gemma Arterton sets pulses racing in rural France as a modern, much fluffier version of Gustave Flaubert's 19th-century heroine Madame Bovary, but in essence, she is merely replaying her part in 2010's similarly-themed comedy drama Tamara Drewe; that is to say, an object of lust rather than a fully fleshed-out human being.
Both films are based on graphic novels by Posy Simmonds which started life as cartoon strips for The Guardian (the former being a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd). In this case, Flaubert's fallen woman, Gemma, is a Londoner who moves to Normandy with her furniture restorer husband (Jason Flemyng) to live the bucolic life that many a tube-riding, broadsheet-reader fantasises about. Arterton is, as usual, bursting with charm, although the focus is...
Gemma Arterton sets pulses racing in rural France as a modern, much fluffier version of Gustave Flaubert's 19th-century heroine Madame Bovary, but in essence, she is merely replaying her part in 2010's similarly-themed comedy drama Tamara Drewe; that is to say, an object of lust rather than a fully fleshed-out human being.
Both films are based on graphic novels by Posy Simmonds which started life as cartoon strips for The Guardian (the former being a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd). In this case, Flaubert's fallen woman, Gemma, is a Londoner who moves to Normandy with her furniture restorer husband (Jason Flemyng) to live the bucolic life that many a tube-riding, broadsheet-reader fantasises about. Arterton is, as usual, bursting with charm, although the focus is...
- 8/21/2015
- Digital Spy
Fabrice Luchini and Gemma Arterton star in a watchable if contrived adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel about a French baker and his British neighbour
This Anglo-French co-production is a watchable if contrived entertainment, sugary and soapy at the same time, bringing a touch of Albert Square to the very heart of picturesque Normandy. It’s an adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ 1999 graphic novel Gemma Bovery, which began life as a serial in the Guardian; satirising middle-class lifestyle aspiration and, a little like the Woody Allen short story The Kugelmass Episode, it surreally drops modern characters into the Flaubert novel Madame Bovary.
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This Anglo-French co-production is a watchable if contrived entertainment, sugary and soapy at the same time, bringing a touch of Albert Square to the very heart of picturesque Normandy. It’s an adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ 1999 graphic novel Gemma Bovery, which began life as a serial in the Guardian; satirising middle-class lifestyle aspiration and, a little like the Woody Allen short story The Kugelmass Episode, it surreally drops modern characters into the Flaubert novel Madame Bovary.
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- 8/20/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The film team review this week's new releases, including The Wolfpack, about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation and Gemma Bovery, a sleepy adaptation of the Posy Simmonds comic, starring Gemma Arterton
Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wonder howl honest The Wolfpack, a documentary about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation, is being with us; watch Gemma Arterton wander listlessly around rural France in Posy Simmonds adaptation Gemma Bovery; follow Alejandro Jodorowsky on a wonky waltz through his childhood in The Dance of Reality; and see a dictator plummet from power in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's satire The President
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Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wonder howl honest The Wolfpack, a documentary about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation, is being with us; watch Gemma Arterton wander listlessly around rural France in Posy Simmonds adaptation Gemma Bovery; follow Alejandro Jodorowsky on a wonky waltz through his childhood in The Dance of Reality; and see a dictator plummet from power in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's satire The President
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- 8/20/2015
- by Presented by Xan Brooks, with Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes. Produced by Andrea Salvatici
- The Guardian - Film News
Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wonder howl honest The Wolfpack, a documentary about a gang of brothers raised in semi-isolation, is being with us; watch Gemma Arterton wander listlessly around rural France in Posy Simmonds adaptation Gemma Bovery; follow Alejandro Jodorowsky on a wonky waltz through his childhood in The Dance of Reality; and see a dictator plummet from power in Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s satire The President
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- 8/20/2015
- by Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Dan Susman and Andrea Salvatici
- The Guardian - Film News
We’re used to directors working with the same actors more than once, but it’s much more rare to connect a performer with an author whose work is being adapted to the screen, unless that author is William Shakespeare. The last example that comes to mind is Richard Benjamin, starring in the back-to-back Philip Roth movies “Goodbye, Columbus” and “Portnoy’s Complaint” during the Nixon era. While Benjamin was the ideal manifestation of a certain brand of Roth hero, actress Gemma Arterton steps up as another complex and bewitching Posy Simmonds heroine in “Gemma Bovery.” It’s a complex relationship between author,...
- 5/29/2015
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Oh, to be beautiful and bored. It has been over 150 years since Gustave Flaubert shocked the world with "Madame Bovary," his groundbreaking book about a provincial doctor's wife who embarks on a tragic affair to escape her dull, routine life. And ever since, the character of Emma Bovary has become both a literary and cinematic archetype, fueling an entire subgenre of stories about women looking to escape their circumstances, only to find hard consequences following dalliances outside their marriage and home. It's a story that still resonates (see our review of Sophie Barthes' straightforward take on the novel starring Mia Wasikowska), but can present-day riff "Gemma Bovary" find any new insights to the yarn Flaubert spun over a century and a half ago? The short answer is no, but then again, Anne Fontaine's film isn't exactly trying to be progressive either. Based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds,...
- 5/27/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Gemma Bovery Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: A- Director: Anne Fontaine Screenwriter: Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine, based on Posy Simmonds’ 1999 graphic novel Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Isabelle Candelier, Niels Schneider, Mel Raido Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 5/20/15 Opens: May 29, 2015 Life follows art. Art follows life. Sometimes art follows art. In that last category, let’s say an author modernized Dave Eggers’s stunning 2014 novel “The Circle,” about the influence of social media by bringing it right up to the present moment. Unless the modernizing author is Dave Eggers, he or she would be sued for [ Read More ]
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- 5/22/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Also playing as part of the 14 night open air programme at London’s Somerset House will be Guy Ritchie’s A Man From U.N.C.L.E and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl.
Film4’s programme of open-air screenings at London’s Somerset House will kick off with Anne Fontaine’s comedy Gemma Bovery starring Gemma Arterton, based on the character by British writer Posy Simmonds.
Film4 Summer Screen (August 6-19) will feature 14 nights of open air films at Somerset House, accompanied by a series of talks and special events in Behind the Screen.
Also screening will be Guy Ritchie’s A Man from U.N.C.L.E. – a reimagining of the classic 1960s TV series starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
The closing night film will be Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s teen comedy Me And Earl And The Dying Girl.
The line up will also include Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, Wrath of God...
Film4’s programme of open-air screenings at London’s Somerset House will kick off with Anne Fontaine’s comedy Gemma Bovery starring Gemma Arterton, based on the character by British writer Posy Simmonds.
Film4 Summer Screen (August 6-19) will feature 14 nights of open air films at Somerset House, accompanied by a series of talks and special events in Behind the Screen.
Also screening will be Guy Ritchie’s A Man from U.N.C.L.E. – a reimagining of the classic 1960s TV series starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.
The closing night film will be Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s teen comedy Me And Earl And The Dying Girl.
The line up will also include Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, Wrath of God...
- 5/12/2015
- by [email protected] (Sarah Cooper)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Gemma Arterton On Life After James Bond, the 'Clash of the Titans' Nightmare and Why She's a 'Quite a Sexual Person' Many British actors often feel trapped behind period pieces, with their difficult costumes and restrictive mannerisms, but that's not an issue facing Gemma Arterton in this classic literary update. Based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel of the same title, "Gemma Bovery" is a reimagining of Flaubert's literary classic "Madame Bovery." The film's synopsis reads: "Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her furniture restorer husband Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng) move to the very same Norman village where the novel was written. Local baker and Flaubert fan Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) falls for the lovely and charming newcomer and sets out to be her mentor. It doesn't take long before his wild imagination leads him to draw parallels between the.
- 4/24/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
After shoring up in Toronto with their Cannes pick-ups in Alleluia and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, the Music Box Films folks have landed their Tiff item. In what should be a significant month of post Tiff month of deal announcements, Music Box’s William Schopf has, according to Variety, made his first item pick-up (we feel that there’ll be more in the pipeline) in Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery. Starring another Gemma in Gemma Arterton, the title had the odd distinction of being included at the fest alongside Sophie Barthes’ Madame Bovery. Fontaine’s film as an outside chance at picking up France’s Foreign Oscar nom, and though the trade doesn’t mention it, we expect a 2015 release.
Gist: Martin is an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster, more or less willingly transformed into the baker in a Norman village. All that remains of his youthful ambitions is a...
Gist: Martin is an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster, more or less willingly transformed into the baker in a Norman village. All that remains of his youthful ambitions is a...
- 9/18/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Oh, to be beautiful and bored. It has been over 150 years since Gustave Flaubert shocked the world with "Madame Bovary," his groundbreaking book about a provincial doctor's wife who embarks on a tragic affair to escape her dull, routine life. And ever since, the character of Emma Bovary has become both a literary and cinematic archetype, fueling an entire subgenre of stories about women looking to escape their circumstances, only to find hard consequences following dalliances outside their marriage and home. It's a story that still resonates (see our review of Sophie Barthes' straightforward take on the novel starring Mia Wasikowska), but can present-day riff "Gemma Bovary" find any new insights to the yarn Flaubert spun over a century and a half ago? The short answer is no, but then again, Anne Fontaine's film isn't exactly trying to be progressive either. Based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds,...
- 9/5/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The BBC has unveiled its plans to mark the centenary of World War I this year, airing a wide range of documentaries, drama and arts to recognise the impact of the conflict.
"This summer is the moment to explain and reflect on how the war started and to examine its lasting effects," the BBC's Adrian Van Klaveren said. "It's a time of national commemoration as we remember those who died and so the BBC will be there to share events and unite people in their acts of memorial." Read on to find out what the BBC has arranged...
Commemoration
World War One Commemoration (August 4)
The major events in the UK and across Europe to mark Britain's declaration of war will be covered by Huw Edwards in London and Sophie Raworth in Belgium. The service of commemoration for the Commonwealth in Glasgow will be covered, along with the memorial in Belgium's...
"This summer is the moment to explain and reflect on how the war started and to examine its lasting effects," the BBC's Adrian Van Klaveren said. "It's a time of national commemoration as we remember those who died and so the BBC will be there to share events and unite people in their acts of memorial." Read on to find out what the BBC has arranged...
Commemoration
World War One Commemoration (August 4)
The major events in the UK and across Europe to mark Britain's declaration of war will be covered by Huw Edwards in London and Sophie Raworth in Belgium. The service of commemoration for the Commonwealth in Glasgow will be covered, along with the memorial in Belgium's...
- 6/25/2014
- Digital Spy
As we learned from the"Sin City: A Dame To Kill For" poster "controversy," sex sells. Indeed, it speaks any language, and even though this first teaser trailer for "Gemma Bovery" is entirely in French, all you need is a set of eyes (or even one) to understand what exactly the marketing team behind this one wants you to notice. Starring Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini, the film is based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel, a reimagining of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" that updates the tale to a contemporary setting, and finds the titular character living as an English expatriate in Normandy. And it seems director Anne Fontaine ("Adore," "Coco Before Chanel") knows exactly how her camera should drink up her lead actress. No wonder Luchini is so excited about this. No U.S. release date for this one, but it opens in France this fall. Check out...
- 6/3/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
As we learned from the"Sin City: A Dame To Kill For" poster "controversy," sex sells. Indeed, it speaks any language, and even though this first teaser trailer for "Gemma Bovery" is entirely in French, all you need is a set of eyes (or even one) to understand what exactly the marketing team behind this one wants you to notice. Starring Gemma Arterton and Fabrice Luchini, the film is based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel, a reimagining of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" that updates the tale to a contemporary setting, and finds the titular character living as an English expatriate in Normandy. And it seems director Anne Fontaine ("Adore," "Coco Before Chanel") knows exactly how her camera should drink up her lead actress. No wonder Luchini is so excited about this. No U.S. release date for this one, but it opens in France this fall. Check out...
- 6/3/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Returning behind the camera following last year’s Adore, the BAFTA-nominated Anne Fontaine is back with another adaptation, this time setting her sights on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel, Gemma Bovery, first serialised in The Guardian.
The film is set to be released in France this September, and the dialogue-free first teaser trailer and posters have been launched, along with a trio of stills.
Courtesy of Amazon, here’s the synopsis for the original novel.
Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bête-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma’s sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off.
Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert’s notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk?...
The film is set to be released in France this September, and the dialogue-free first teaser trailer and posters have been launched, along with a trio of stills.
Courtesy of Amazon, here’s the synopsis for the original novel.
Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bête-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma’s sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off.
Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert’s notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk?...
- 6/3/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lakes International comic art festival eschews superhero model to give women writers and artists equal billing
There's a new kind of comic event coming to our shores, modelled not on the superhero-focused all-American approach, but on a much closer neighbour: the European comic festival. With founder patrons including the Costa prize-winning Mary and Bryan Talbot, the Lakes International comic art festival has an eclectic guest list, from the artist of The Walking Dead, Charlie Adlard, to the graphic journalist Joe Sacco.
And unlike a fair number of other conventions, which have come under fire in the past few years for only inviting only one or two women guests – if any – this weekend's event taking over the whole of Kendal, Cumbria, aims to include talents old and new from both sides of the gender divide.
Long-time Guardian favourite and multiple award-winner Posy Simmonds is one such guest, a prolific artist who...
There's a new kind of comic event coming to our shores, modelled not on the superhero-focused all-American approach, but on a much closer neighbour: the European comic festival. With founder patrons including the Costa prize-winning Mary and Bryan Talbot, the Lakes International comic art festival has an eclectic guest list, from the artist of The Walking Dead, Charlie Adlard, to the graphic journalist Joe Sacco.
And unlike a fair number of other conventions, which have come under fire in the past few years for only inviting only one or two women guests – if any – this weekend's event taking over the whole of Kendal, Cumbria, aims to include talents old and new from both sides of the gender divide.
Long-time Guardian favourite and multiple award-winner Posy Simmonds is one such guest, a prolific artist who...
- 10/17/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Love is Strange
Marisa Tomei has joined the cast of Ira Sachs' NYC-set drama feature "Love Is Strange". Tomei will play novelist Kate, who’s married to the nephew of one of the male leads.
John Lithgow and Alfred Molina play partners of 38 years who finally are able to marry only to be forced to crash separately with friends and family after they lose their apartment. [Source: Deadline]
The Guest
Sheila Kelley has joined the cast of Adam Wingard's "The Guest" at Snoot Entertainment. The story follows an ex-Marine (Dan Stevens) who returns a changed man and becomes a house guest to a military family whose eldest son recently died.
Kelley plays the family’s grieving matriarch. Simon Barrett penned the script, while Keith Calder and Jessica Wu will produce. [Source: Variety]
Gemma Bovery
Mel Raido is set to star in Anne Fontaine's indie drama "Gemma Bovery" starring Gemma Arterton. Philippe Carcassonne...
Marisa Tomei has joined the cast of Ira Sachs' NYC-set drama feature "Love Is Strange". Tomei will play novelist Kate, who’s married to the nephew of one of the male leads.
John Lithgow and Alfred Molina play partners of 38 years who finally are able to marry only to be forced to crash separately with friends and family after they lose their apartment. [Source: Deadline]
The Guest
Sheila Kelley has joined the cast of Adam Wingard's "The Guest" at Snoot Entertainment. The story follows an ex-Marine (Dan Stevens) who returns a changed man and becomes a house guest to a military family whose eldest son recently died.
Kelley plays the family’s grieving matriarch. Simon Barrett penned the script, while Keith Calder and Jessica Wu will produce. [Source: Variety]
Gemma Bovery
Mel Raido is set to star in Anne Fontaine's indie drama "Gemma Bovery" starring Gemma Arterton. Philippe Carcassonne...
- 8/7/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the Guardian
The life and works of the late Iain Banks will be celebrated by close friends including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid in a special event at this August's Edinburgh international book festival, for which the Guardian is media partner.
"Scotland and the world were rocked by his death last weekend," said Nick Barley, the festival director. "We'd been planning a celebration anyway as we're marking our 30th birthday, and his first novel, The Wasp Factory, was out in 1984. I spoke to him many times about what he'd like to do. He wanted to be there – sadly he can't be."
Instead, the event on the festival's closing Sunday will see Scottish authors including Rankin, McDermid and Ken MacLeod looking back over Banks's 29-year career.
The life and works of the late Iain Banks will be celebrated by close friends including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid in a special event at this August's Edinburgh international book festival, for which the Guardian is media partner.
"Scotland and the world were rocked by his death last weekend," said Nick Barley, the festival director. "We'd been planning a celebration anyway as we're marking our 30th birthday, and his first novel, The Wasp Factory, was out in 1984. I spoke to him many times about what he'd like to do. He wanted to be there – sadly he can't be."
Instead, the event on the festival's closing Sunday will see Scottish authors including Rankin, McDermid and Ken MacLeod looking back over Banks's 29-year career.
- 6/20/2013
- by Alison Flood
- The Guardian - Film News
Shane Meadows on being a 'mad little Stone Roses fan', Gemma Arterton on perfecting her French, and actor Michael Shannon on working with rising indie director Jeff Nichols
Shane off his head
Trash wasn't quite at the premiere of Shane Meadows's Made of Stone last Thursday. Instead, I attended a very buzzy satellite premiere of the Stone Roses doc at the Hackney Picturehouse, where the raucous atmosphere of the Victoria Warehouse in Manchester was well captured by the live feed (one of 200 such events round the country) of the red carpet and post-screening Q&A. Mick Jones of the Clash described the Stone Roses as "a generational band" and said he wished Shane Meadows had been around to have filmed the Clash. The loyal band of This is England stars – shortly to star in another instalment, set in 1990 – were out in force, including Thomas Turgoose and Andrew Shim. Shimmy...
Shane off his head
Trash wasn't quite at the premiere of Shane Meadows's Made of Stone last Thursday. Instead, I attended a very buzzy satellite premiere of the Stone Roses doc at the Hackney Picturehouse, where the raucous atmosphere of the Victoria Warehouse in Manchester was well captured by the live feed (one of 200 such events round the country) of the red carpet and post-screening Q&A. Mick Jones of the Clash described the Stone Roses as "a generational band" and said he wished Shane Meadows had been around to have filmed the Clash. The loyal band of This is England stars – shortly to star in another instalment, set in 1990 – were out in force, including Thomas Turgoose and Andrew Shim. Shimmy...
- 6/1/2013
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Director Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) , whose erotic drama Two Mothers (aka Perfect Mothers, with Naomi Watts and Robin Wright) is due out April 3rd, 2013 in France, confirmed to Allocine that her next film will be a big screen version of Posy Simmonds graphic novel, Gemma Bovery. While Fontaine was kind of ‘superstitious’ I guess in that she didn’t like to talk about the casting, French actor Fabrice Luchini revealed that he’ll be starring with Arterton, who he refers to as a ‘British atomic bomb’. The story of an English couple who comes to live in Normandy is told in flashback, detailing the tragicomic... Related posts: Cannes 2010: Tamara Drewe Starring Gemma Arterton Tamara Drewe Clips Tamara Drewe Trailer and Poster Gemma Arterton in Hansel and Gretel Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton In Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters First Look...
- 3/17/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
We briefly covered Tamara Drewe here on Cbm back in 2010, and now Bleeding Cool reports that Gemma Arterton has signed up to star in another big screen adaptation of one of Posy Simmonds' newspaper strips turned graphic novels. Director Anne Fontaine has reportedly told AlloCine that she will be helming the film, while French actor Fabrice Luchini has told them that he will be acting alongside the British bombshell. The graphic novel description is as follows... "Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bête-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous,...
- 3/17/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
Gemma Arterton and French actor Fabrice Luchini are set to star in a film adaptation of the comic strip "Gemma Bovery".
"Coco Avant Chanel" and "Two Mothers" director Anne Fontaine helms the project which is described as a reimagining of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".
The story deals with the last few months in the life of an English expatriate living in Normandy. Shooting kicks off this Summer.
Posy Simmonds created the comic, and is the author of "Tamara Drewe" which was also adapted as a film that starred Arterton and Luke Evans.
Source: Allocine & The Playlist...
"Coco Avant Chanel" and "Two Mothers" director Anne Fontaine helms the project which is described as a reimagining of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".
The story deals with the last few months in the life of an English expatriate living in Normandy. Shooting kicks off this Summer.
Posy Simmonds created the comic, and is the author of "Tamara Drewe" which was also adapted as a film that starred Arterton and Luke Evans.
Source: Allocine & The Playlist...
- 3/17/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
It would seem that Gemma Arterton has a thing for the works of author Posy Simmonds. The actress sashayed across the screen in Stephen Frears' adaptation of the writer's "Tamara Drewe" a couple of years back, and now it looks like she's set to lead another one of Simmonds' books as it heads to the movies. French actor Fabrice Luchini revealed to Allocine that he'll be starring with Arterton in "Gemma Bovery," which Anne Fontaine ("Two Mothers," "Coco Before Chanel") confirmed she will direct. A reimagining of Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" (duh), the story is told in flashback, detailing the tragicomic last few months in the life of the titular character, an English expatriate living in Normandy. The setting is contemporary and nods to Flaubert's novel overt, so perhaps it will be a bit of fun for those looking to shake up the literary canon. Production is set to get underway this summer,...
- 3/16/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Die Hard | The Nutcracker | Ghosts Of Christmas Special Past | Madcap Christmas | The Snowman/Peter & The Wolf | The Wizard Of Oz | Guilty Pleasures Christmas Cinema Party | Enchanted Pictures | Experience Cinema
Christmas tradition now dictates that every cinema in the land must screen It's A Wonderful Life, every year, forever after. Sure it's a great movie but, just as Jimmy Stewart is invited to imagine the world without him, perhaps we can imagine festive moviegoing without Frank Capra's well-worn perennial? Here's a glimpse of that alternative reality.
In cinemas across the UK, familiar staples of Christmas programming are sprinkled around the schedules, with old chestnuts (such as White Christmas and Miracle On 34th Street) and newer classics (Gremlins and The Muppet Christmas Carol). But it's Bruce Willis's incidentally Christmassy Die Hard that's emerging as the new seasonal favourite. London's Prince Charles (WC2) goes the extra distance with a back-to-back Die Hard trilogy tomorrow,...
Christmas tradition now dictates that every cinema in the land must screen It's A Wonderful Life, every year, forever after. Sure it's a great movie but, just as Jimmy Stewart is invited to imagine the world without him, perhaps we can imagine festive moviegoing without Frank Capra's well-worn perennial? Here's a glimpse of that alternative reality.
In cinemas across the UK, familiar staples of Christmas programming are sprinkled around the schedules, with old chestnuts (such as White Christmas and Miracle On 34th Street) and newer classics (Gremlins and The Muppet Christmas Carol). But it's Bruce Willis's incidentally Christmassy Die Hard that's emerging as the new seasonal favourite. London's Prince Charles (WC2) goes the extra distance with a back-to-back Die Hard trilogy tomorrow,...
- 12/15/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
As this summer’s blockbuster season reminds us comic book adaptations are big business with the latest incarnations of heroes old and new filling the local picturehouse and running merry riot over box office records.
Given the twin benefits of a wealth of material on which to draw and a ready audience primed to see their favourites fleshed out and thrown onto a movie screen it seems that we’ll be seeing many more familiar, and some less familiar, cartoon characters in movies of their own.
Jean Dujardin turned the world into a swooning mess when he led Michel Hazanavicius’ award magnet The Artist last year and in this article Anwar Brett takes a look at another of the actor’s roles, that of Lucky Luke in James Huth’s adaptation of the comic book by Morris, which is out now on DVD, as well as nine other cartoon heroes...
Given the twin benefits of a wealth of material on which to draw and a ready audience primed to see their favourites fleshed out and thrown onto a movie screen it seems that we’ll be seeing many more familiar, and some less familiar, cartoon characters in movies of their own.
Jean Dujardin turned the world into a swooning mess when he led Michel Hazanavicius’ award magnet The Artist last year and in this article Anwar Brett takes a look at another of the actor’s roles, that of Lucky Luke in James Huth’s adaptation of the comic book by Morris, which is out now on DVD, as well as nine other cartoon heroes...
- 5/29/2012
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Italian Film Festival In Scotland
The cream of Italy's recent output is served here, including a host of festival winners. Oscar entry Terraferma contrasts the stunning Sicilian landscape with issues of seaside poverty and immigration, while the latter topic also crops up in the realist drama Our Life, for which Elio Germano won a Cannes best actor award in 2010. The big winner at the national Donatello awards, We Believed, is a three-hour account exploring Italy's reunification, and for perspective there are classics such as Elio Petri's Oscar-winning 1970 thriller Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion.
Dca, Dundee; Edinburgh Filmhouse; Gft, Glasgow; Eden Court, Inverness, Fri to 26 Apr
Terracotta Far East Film Festival, London
If names such as Sion Sono, Kim Ki-duk and, um, Kevin Spacey, or a summary like, "fish grow legs and attack Okinawa" mean something to you, then this is your kind of festival. It's mostly fresh Japanese and South Korean movies,...
The cream of Italy's recent output is served here, including a host of festival winners. Oscar entry Terraferma contrasts the stunning Sicilian landscape with issues of seaside poverty and immigration, while the latter topic also crops up in the realist drama Our Life, for which Elio Germano won a Cannes best actor award in 2010. The big winner at the national Donatello awards, We Believed, is a three-hour account exploring Italy's reunification, and for perspective there are classics such as Elio Petri's Oscar-winning 1970 thriller Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion.
Dca, Dundee; Edinburgh Filmhouse; Gft, Glasgow; Eden Court, Inverness, Fri to 26 Apr
Terracotta Far East Film Festival, London
If names such as Sion Sono, Kim Ki-duk and, um, Kevin Spacey, or a summary like, "fish grow legs and attack Okinawa" mean something to you, then this is your kind of festival. It's mostly fresh Japanese and South Korean movies,...
- 4/6/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The cartoonist Ronald Searle has died at the age of 91, his family confirmed to the BBC earlier today.
Best known for creating the schoolgirl horrors of St Trinian’s, whose doors re-opened in 2007 with two new films to complement those of the 50s and 60s, his distinctive artwork has served as an inspiration for many artists and has appeared in numerous magazines, though he did also collaborate with filmmakers over the years.
Two weeks ago I re-watched the 1970s musical telling of Scrooge with Albert Finney and Alec Guinness and, as it does each year, it evoked the festive spirit in a way that only a Box of Delights and Gonzo in a top hat can match.
The title sequence for the film is brilliantly dark, arch and beautiful in its own right. This was perhaps my first knowledge of Ronald Searle’s work and while St Trinian’s Belles...
Best known for creating the schoolgirl horrors of St Trinian’s, whose doors re-opened in 2007 with two new films to complement those of the 50s and 60s, his distinctive artwork has served as an inspiration for many artists and has appeared in numerous magazines, though he did also collaborate with filmmakers over the years.
Two weeks ago I re-watched the 1970s musical telling of Scrooge with Albert Finney and Alec Guinness and, as it does each year, it evoked the festive spirit in a way that only a Box of Delights and Gonzo in a top hat can match.
The title sequence for the film is brilliantly dark, arch and beautiful in its own right. This was perhaps my first knowledge of Ronald Searle’s work and while St Trinian’s Belles...
- 1/3/2012
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Gemma Arterton used to be 'the girl from the Bond film', but three years on she has stopped feeling grateful and begun speaking out about her industry
The first film role Gemma Arterton played was Mickey Mouse. She was five, her younger sister, taking on the role of Donald Duck, was two, "and there's this video of us, where we're watching Mickey Mouse and I'm making my sister act it out with me. And I've really got it down! I used to do that stuff all the time, just copying." Disney films were pretty much the only art in her childhood, she says. "My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films." It wasn't until she was about 16 that she realised that acting could be a legitimate job.
From that realisation – then on to a performance arts course, before a...
The first film role Gemma Arterton played was Mickey Mouse. She was five, her younger sister, taking on the role of Donald Duck, was two, "and there's this video of us, where we're watching Mickey Mouse and I'm making my sister act it out with me. And I've really got it down! I used to do that stuff all the time, just copying." Disney films were pretty much the only art in her childhood, she says. "My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films." It wasn't until she was about 16 that she realised that acting could be a legitimate job.
From that realisation – then on to a performance arts course, before a...
- 11/5/2011
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
I have to admit I was a little prejudiced towards Stephen Frears‘ last film, Tamara Drewe – which is released on Blu-ray today. For every good review (like Peter Bradshaw’s intriguing write up in The Guardian in which he likened the film to a “particularly salacious episode of The Archers”), there was a nagging doubt based on several, admittedly superficial, factors.
First among these was the horrible trailer in which a character says “she doesn’t need a boy… she needs a man”, a line which never actually appears in the film. Then there were the posters, which generally just displayed Gemma Arterton in hot pants, resting on a fence in a bright and cheerful Dorset setting. It seemed bland and cosy, with these efforts to promote the film actually selling it short, giving little indication of the loose morals, black comedy and violent tragedy that actually lay within.
Tamara...
First among these was the horrible trailer in which a character says “she doesn’t need a boy… she needs a man”, a line which never actually appears in the film. Then there were the posters, which generally just displayed Gemma Arterton in hot pants, resting on a fence in a bright and cheerful Dorset setting. It seemed bland and cosy, with these efforts to promote the film actually selling it short, giving little indication of the loose morals, black comedy and violent tragedy that actually lay within.
Tamara...
- 3/28/2011
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
Made in Dagenham; Tamara Drew; We Are What We Are; Dream Home; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
If the stamp of a good critic is their ability to predict award-winning hits, then my detractors will be pleased to know that I'm probably out of a job. Last summer I was confidently declaring that the wonderful British movie Made in Dagenham (2010, Paramount, 15) would become "this year's Full Monty": a solid drama which coated its serious subject matter (equal pay for women) in enough feelgood froth to appeal to mainstream multiplex audiences on both sides of the Atlantic while also garnering multiple statuettes. In the end, having been shamefully overlooked at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the movie turned out to be more like "this year's Brassed Off", another home-grown gem which has grown in stature since opening to only moderate box-office success in 1996, and which...
If the stamp of a good critic is their ability to predict award-winning hits, then my detractors will be pleased to know that I'm probably out of a job. Last summer I was confidently declaring that the wonderful British movie Made in Dagenham (2010, Paramount, 15) would become "this year's Full Monty": a solid drama which coated its serious subject matter (equal pay for women) in enough feelgood froth to appeal to mainstream multiplex audiences on both sides of the Atlantic while also garnering multiple statuettes. In the end, having been shamefully overlooked at both the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the movie turned out to be more like "this year's Brassed Off", another home-grown gem which has grown in stature since opening to only moderate box-office success in 1996, and which...
- 3/27/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Reviewer: Glenn Heath, Jr.
Rating (out of 5): ***
Glazed in a dusty yellow sheen, Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmonds' comic strip, coyly dances around a well-traveled idea: the grass is always greener on the other side. At first, this breeds comedic situations through rampant miscommunication, as deeply unhappy souls yearn for a romantic or economic situation that will produce inspiration. Eventually, these small self-deceptions turn grotesque. Tamara Drewe's collective of off-kilter characters, some purposefully and others regrettably rooted in the small English town of Ewedown, watch romantic relationships unfold from a distance, judging them with a selfish desire for tragedy that will benefit their own needs. Through their outside gaze, we feel the power of gossip and mischief mold the narrative. Perspective is everything for Frears, and often his characters see only what they want to see.
Rating (out of 5): ***
Glazed in a dusty yellow sheen, Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmonds' comic strip, coyly dances around a well-traveled idea: the grass is always greener on the other side. At first, this breeds comedic situations through rampant miscommunication, as deeply unhappy souls yearn for a romantic or economic situation that will produce inspiration. Eventually, these small self-deceptions turn grotesque. Tamara Drewe's collective of off-kilter characters, some purposefully and others regrettably rooted in the small English town of Ewedown, watch romantic relationships unfold from a distance, judging them with a selfish desire for tragedy that will benefit their own needs. Through their outside gaze, we feel the power of gossip and mischief mold the narrative. Perspective is everything for Frears, and often his characters see only what they want to see.
- 3/15/2011
- by underdog
- GreenCine
This week on DVD and Blu-ray Stephen Frears turns in one of his sexy romps, a crop of the some of the finest working actresses band together and an Italian classic comes back to life. This Week's Top Pick: The Frothy, Biting "Tamara Drewe" The Deal: Based on the popular graphic novel of the same name by Posy Simmonds, "Tamara Drewe" finds veteran British director Stephen Frears' ("The Queen," "Dangerous ...
- 2/8/2011
- Indiewire
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Tesis" (1996)
Directed by Alejandro Amenabar
Released by Widowmaker Films
Long out of print, "The Others" director Alejandro Amenabar's debut about a grad student's discovery of a snuff film is being remastered and rereleased by Widowmaker Films.
"Alice in Murderland" (2011)
Directed by Dennis Devine
Released by Brain Damage Films
A year after Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" scared the bejeezus out of kids in multiplexes everywhere, this horror take on Lewis Carroll's classic fairy tale aims to do so intentionally on DVD players around the country.
"America, America" (1963)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
Elia Kazan's most personal film based on the story of his uncle's immigration to the United States from Turkey, where as a Greek his family is persecuted, was already released as part of last year's Kazan boxed set, but now will be...
"Tesis" (1996)
Directed by Alejandro Amenabar
Released by Widowmaker Films
Long out of print, "The Others" director Alejandro Amenabar's debut about a grad student's discovery of a snuff film is being remastered and rereleased by Widowmaker Films.
"Alice in Murderland" (2011)
Directed by Dennis Devine
Released by Brain Damage Films
A year after Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" scared the bejeezus out of kids in multiplexes everywhere, this horror take on Lewis Carroll's classic fairy tale aims to do so intentionally on DVD players around the country.
"America, America" (1963)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
Elia Kazan's most personal film based on the story of his uncle's immigration to the United States from Turkey, where as a Greek his family is persecuted, was already released as part of last year's Kazan boxed set, but now will be...
- 2/6/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Looking to discover some of the best films of last year that might just have flown under your radar? Here’s our round-up…
General consensus seems to be that 2010 was a solid year for English-language films. But, as usual, there were an abundance of movies that didn't quite get the love they deserved.
Granted, our round-up this year kicks off with one that was a solid hit, but given that it's still managed to avoid many people's radar, we felt it deserved another push. As for the rest? Well, let's just say it's worth you digging out any of these...
10. Easy A
Okay, this one's cheating a bit. It was a solid box office hit and reaped a fair bit of acclaim. Yet, we're kicking off the list with it as it's also a film that's been overlooked by many who have pigeon-holed it without really giving it a chance.
General consensus seems to be that 2010 was a solid year for English-language films. But, as usual, there were an abundance of movies that didn't quite get the love they deserved.
Granted, our round-up this year kicks off with one that was a solid hit, but given that it's still managed to avoid many people's radar, we felt it deserved another push. As for the rest? Well, let's just say it's worth you digging out any of these...
10. Easy A
Okay, this one's cheating a bit. It was a solid box office hit and reaped a fair bit of acclaim. Yet, we're kicking off the list with it as it's also a film that's been overlooked by many who have pigeon-holed it without really giving it a chance.
- 1/12/2011
- Den of Geek
Just what were Den Of Geek’s favourite films of 2010? Our writers put forward their personal choices, in our mammoth round-up...
The year’s nearly over and the season of turkey beckons. As 2010 draws to a close, what better time to pick over the films of the last 12 months? Here, then, are the writers of Den Of Geek’s five favourite films of the year, along with their most despised misfire of 2010.
And at the bottom, we’ve got the round-up of the overall top ten (it'll take a bit of scrolling if you want to go directly there!). So, what’s our absolute favourite movie of the year? Read on to find out…
Ti Singh
Top 5
1. Agora
2. Inception
3. Toy Story 3
4. Robin Hood
5. The Social Network
Stinker of the year: The Other Guys
I love a good historical epic, and in a summer dominated by sequels, remakes and reboots,...
The year’s nearly over and the season of turkey beckons. As 2010 draws to a close, what better time to pick over the films of the last 12 months? Here, then, are the writers of Den Of Geek’s five favourite films of the year, along with their most despised misfire of 2010.
And at the bottom, we’ve got the round-up of the overall top ten (it'll take a bit of scrolling if you want to go directly there!). So, what’s our absolute favourite movie of the year? Read on to find out…
Ti Singh
Top 5
1. Agora
2. Inception
3. Toy Story 3
4. Robin Hood
5. The Social Network
Stinker of the year: The Other Guys
I love a good historical epic, and in a summer dominated by sequels, remakes and reboots,...
- 12/17/2010
- Den of Geek
I'm sensing a lot of confidence as Focus is moving full steam ahead with marketing for Jane Eyre, the upcoming Charlotte Bronte adaptation featuring Alice in Wonderland actress Mia Wasikowska in the title role for director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre). Just yesterday we saw the debut of the first poster from the film which co-stars Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins and Imogen Poots.
The adaptation was penned by Moira Buffini whose only work to date so far is the adaptation of Tamara Drewe, which I didn't particularly enjoy, although I am in no way ready to write her off, this is hardly the same kind of material and perhaps she may be better suited for the classics rather than Posy Simmonds' graphic novel.
Jane Eyre is set for a March 11 release and begins as Jane Eyre flees Thornfield House, where she works as a governess for...
The adaptation was penned by Moira Buffini whose only work to date so far is the adaptation of Tamara Drewe, which I didn't particularly enjoy, although I am in no way ready to write her off, this is hardly the same kind of material and perhaps she may be better suited for the classics rather than Posy Simmonds' graphic novel.
Jane Eyre is set for a March 11 release and begins as Jane Eyre flees Thornfield House, where she works as a governess for...
- 11/9/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Chicago – There are some movies that are gut level great because of plot, atmosphere and pacing, and then there are movies like “Tamara Drewe,” which rely on the elusive star power of the performer to drive its engine. Gemma Arterton portrays the title character and lights up the screen with a vivid presence in this simple story of a woman’s homecoming.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Based on a British graphic novel, Tamara Drewe is about a woman who used to live in a small country village in the UK, who comes home to take care of selling the family home after her mother dies. Her arrival stirs the circumstance in the otherwise dull area, as she is interrelated to several of her fellow villagers by past relationships, and she brings in another yet another character who causes a couple teenagers in town to spy on her.
The story opens at a writers retreat in the same village.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Based on a British graphic novel, Tamara Drewe is about a woman who used to live in a small country village in the UK, who comes home to take care of selling the family home after her mother dies. Her arrival stirs the circumstance in the otherwise dull area, as she is interrelated to several of her fellow villagers by past relationships, and she brings in another yet another character who causes a couple teenagers in town to spy on her.
The story opens at a writers retreat in the same village.
- 10/23/2010
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Stephen Frears made 'Tamara Drewe' for people to laugh. The British director - whose 2006 movie 'The Queen' led Dame Helen Mirren to pick up the Best Actress Oscar - wanted to make a humorous film, and found it when he read the script for the project based on the Posy Simmonds graphic novel. He said: ''I was sent the script. But I had read it when it was in the newspapers. It made me laugh and I always thought it was sexy. I thought it was very fresh, not like any other film. And I approve of that sort of thing. ''I ..
- 10/19/2010
- Virgin Media - Movies
Chicago – Director Stephen Frears is a storytelling legend who sneaks up on us. Besides his new film “Tamara Drewe,” which played at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival, Frears has a filmography that includes “The Queen,” “Mrs. Henderson Presents,” “High Fidelity,” “The Snapper,” “Hero,” “Prick Up Your Ears” and “My Beautiful Laundrette.” Not bad for a self-described accidental filmmaker.
Born in Leicester, England, Frears began his career as an assistant director on a couple of “Swinging ‘60s” British films, “Morgan” (1966) and “If…” (1968). After several years of television and smaller films, his breakthrough came with “My Beautiful Laundrette” (1985), which received an Academy Award nomination. This led to a string of successes, culminating in the highly acclaimed “The Queen” (2006), which garnered an Oscar for Helen Mirren in the title role.
Frears latest is “Tamara Drewe,” a quirky comedy based on a popular British graphic novel about the homecoming of a small...
Born in Leicester, England, Frears began his career as an assistant director on a couple of “Swinging ‘60s” British films, “Morgan” (1966) and “If…” (1968). After several years of television and smaller films, his breakthrough came with “My Beautiful Laundrette” (1985), which received an Academy Award nomination. This led to a string of successes, culminating in the highly acclaimed “The Queen” (2006), which garnered an Oscar for Helen Mirren in the title role.
Frears latest is “Tamara Drewe,” a quirky comedy based on a popular British graphic novel about the homecoming of a small...
- 10/18/2010
- by [email protected] (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Action Room Interviews Cast and Crew of Tamara Drewe
Exclusive: The Daily Blam! was invited to a private, advanced screening of the British graphic novel adaptation Tamara Drewe. We sent our New York operatives correspondents, The Action Room, who also got a chance to sit down with Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans and director Stephen Frears. Based off of the Posy Simmonds penned graphic novel of the same name, Tamara Drewe follows the story of a young newspaper writer who returns to her home town in the English countryside after reinventing herself as a smoldering femme fatale. Our partners, The Action Room, sent Scout Durwood out to the interview section. She proceeded to have some fun and got down to the real answers we need to hear from this brilliant cast and crew. It seems they all enjoyed the fun, with the possible...
- 10/13/2010
- by Bryan Kritz
- The Daily BLAM!
From the Thomas Hardy novel, Far From the Madding Crowd, to a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, to the screen, 'Tamara Drewe' is a retelling of many classic English pastorals with a modern twist. It's fast paced, funny, witty and charming. The more you're familiar with these kinds of stories and characters, the funnier it is. In this case, a young woman, Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton), returns to her childhood country home, a beautiful, successful journalist. The new twist is she's not the typical ugly duckling who naturally matures into a raven beauty. She had surgical...
- 10/12/2010
- by Bonnie Steiger, SF Movie Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
Since her breakout role as Bond girl "Strawberry Fields" in Quantum of Solace, Gemma Arterton has gone on to appear in a series of blockbusters and indies. This summer she co-starred with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and she headlines the quirky new comedy Tamara Drewe.
In this movie based on a comic-strip-turned-graphic-novel by Posy Simmonds, Arterton plays Tamara, once the town's "ugly duckling," who returns (with a new nose and eye-catching figure) to fix up and sell her childhood home. Leonard Maltin talks with Arterton about her career and which movie role she "needed to do." Tune in for the Maltin on Movies premiere on Friday, October 15, at 3:30 Pm Et / 12:30 Pm Pt. Or catch one of its encore showings on ReelzChannel (Dish 299, DirecTV 238, and your cable system).
Next Showing:
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Maltin on Movies | Leonard Maltin | Gemma Arterton...
In this movie based on a comic-strip-turned-graphic-novel by Posy Simmonds, Arterton plays Tamara, once the town's "ugly duckling," who returns (with a new nose and eye-catching figure) to fix up and sell her childhood home. Leonard Maltin talks with Arterton about her career and which movie role she "needed to do." Tune in for the Maltin on Movies premiere on Friday, October 15, at 3:30 Pm Et / 12:30 Pm Pt. Or catch one of its encore showings on ReelzChannel (Dish 299, DirecTV 238, and your cable system).
Next Showing:
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Maltin on Movies | Leonard Maltin | Gemma Arterton...
- 10/11/2010
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
Hitchcock caused a stir by likening actors to cattle, but Stephen Frears is on much safer ground in "Tamara Drewe" where he puts a herd of cows to work acting.
The cows' big scene is actually a pivotal moment in Frears' comedy, which is set in the English countryside and opened Oct. 8 in New York and L.A. via Sony Classics Pictures. Written by Moira Buffini, "Tamara" is based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel, which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd."
Unlike Frears' 2006 hit "The Queen," whose star Helen Mirren won the best actress Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe, "Tamara" features an ensemble cast. Bond Girl Gemma Arterton ("Quantum of Solace") plays Tamara, a former ugly duckling who returns to her bucolic village and thanks to plastic surgery now has the sex appeal to attract new lovers and make ex-boyfriends drool.
As for those cows,...
The cows' big scene is actually a pivotal moment in Frears' comedy, which is set in the English countryside and opened Oct. 8 in New York and L.A. via Sony Classics Pictures. Written by Moira Buffini, "Tamara" is based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel, which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd."
Unlike Frears' 2006 hit "The Queen," whose star Helen Mirren won the best actress Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe, "Tamara" features an ensemble cast. Bond Girl Gemma Arterton ("Quantum of Solace") plays Tamara, a former ugly duckling who returns to her bucolic village and thanks to plastic surgery now has the sex appeal to attract new lovers and make ex-boyfriends drool.
As for those cows,...
- 10/9/2010
- by By Martin A. Grove
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gemma Arterton in Tamara Drewe
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics Note: This review was originally published on May 17, 2010 after I screened Tamara Drewe at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
Adapted from Posy Simmonds's graphic novel (which itself is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd"), Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe offers up a bit of semi-dark comedy with foul-mouthed 15-year-olds, adulteress affairs, stampeding cows and a lovely pair of short shorts all in the midst of a writers' retreat in a small English village referred to as Ewendown. It has its share of laughs, but overall hardly moves the dial.
Starring Gemma Arterton as the title character, Tamara Drewe is an upstart journalist and aspiring novelist returned home to claim her childhood spread following the recent death of her mother. When she last left she was sporting a giant schnoz, but upon her return she's not...
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics Note: This review was originally published on May 17, 2010 after I screened Tamara Drewe at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
Adapted from Posy Simmonds's graphic novel (which itself is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Far From The Madding Crowd"), Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe offers up a bit of semi-dark comedy with foul-mouthed 15-year-olds, adulteress affairs, stampeding cows and a lovely pair of short shorts all in the midst of a writers' retreat in a small English village referred to as Ewendown. It has its share of laughs, but overall hardly moves the dial.
Starring Gemma Arterton as the title character, Tamara Drewe is an upstart journalist and aspiring novelist returned home to claim her childhood spread following the recent death of her mother. When she last left she was sporting a giant schnoz, but upon her return she's not...
- 10/8/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Tamara Drewe is a film directed by Stephen Frears, the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Queen and High Fidelity, and it stars British up-and-comers Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper. But don't be fooled; Tamara Drewe is a very silly, very fun comedy, a loose adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd (and based on Posy Simmonds' graphic novel) in which many people fall in and out love, scheme against each other and spread rumors in the idyllic British countryside. Arterton stars as the titular character, a star newspaper columnist who moves out to her old home in the country and stirs up every man in the village with her new hot body and surgically tweaked nose. Among her suitors is rock star Ben (Cooper), who moves with her initially to the old farmhouse but doesn't exactly take well to rural life. Tamara Drewe debuted to mixed reviews...
- 10/8/2010
- cinemablend.com
Director Stephen Frears covers familiar ground in Tamara Drewe, an aimless but engaging update of the classic English pastoral, adapted from Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel of the same name (which itself is a play on Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd). Gemma Arterton stars as a breezy journalist who returns to her late mother’s estate in the country and proceeds to cause trouble for the people at a nearby writers’ retreat. Among the troubled: philandering celebrity crime novelist Roger Allam, his much-put-upon wife Tamsin Greig, their American academic lodger Bill Camp, and their hunky handyman Luke Evans ...
- 10/7/2010
- avclub.com
Most of Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe is so breezily entertaining, and so bracingly clear-eyed about what total pains in the asses writers can be, that its final 15 minutes feel like an all-wrong slap in the face. That's not completely Frears' fault -- he's essentially being true to the source material, Posy Simmonds' 2007 graphic novel of the same name, about marital misbehavior, deception and dueling egos at a writer's colony in the English countryside. Still, the movie's ending leaves a sour tone that Simmonds' book -- a tart-tongued story accompanied by beautifully soft-colored, naturalistic drawings -- somehow deftly avoids. That doesn't make Tamara Drewe a complete failure as a movie. But it does raise some questions about how even a relatively faithful film adaptation can go off the rails by hitting a few wrong notes, simply in the way particular moments are re-created or framed. A filmmaker can get almost everything right,...
- 10/7/2010
- Movieline
"So dinosaurs rule," demurs Stephen Frears as he cracks a rare smile getting up from his chair. It's perhaps as close as he'll get to accepting a compliment on "Tamara Drewe," a brilliantly devised reworking of Posy Simmonds' graphic novel about a seductive young woman's upheaval of the small English town of Dorset that itself is an update of Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd." As vibrant as the bright blue Mini Cooper Gemma Arterton's Drewe rides into town in, and as cheeky as the Lily Allen album she puts on blast, the comedy appears to be the work of a director a third of Frears' 69 years, though it has an easy wit and canny eye for observation that only comes with age.
Being one of the few resounding successes of this year's Cannes Film Festival, "Tamara Drewe" has worked her charms on Telluride and Toronto,...
Being one of the few resounding successes of this year's Cannes Film Festival, "Tamara Drewe" has worked her charms on Telluride and Toronto,...
- 10/6/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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