Cloclo (English title: My Way)
Directed by Florent-Emilio Siri
Written by Florent-Emilio Siri and Julien Rappeneau
France/Belgium, 2012
Claude François is not an artist whose name resonates very much in North America, yet his impact on the French music scene was second to none during his envious career, which spanned from the early 60s to the late 70s when he met an unpredictable death while attempting to screw a light bulb back in properly while in the shower. Truth be told, his impact on the North American music scene may be greater than most people even realize. The legendary ‘May Way’ song, most famously sung by crooner Frank Sinatra and from which the film derives its international English language title, was originally a French song written by Claude François, ‘Comme d’habitude.’ Florent-Emilio Siri’s film adaptation of the French icon’s life, Cloclo, was released on the silver screen...
Directed by Florent-Emilio Siri
Written by Florent-Emilio Siri and Julien Rappeneau
France/Belgium, 2012
Claude François is not an artist whose name resonates very much in North America, yet his impact on the French music scene was second to none during his envious career, which spanned from the early 60s to the late 70s when he met an unpredictable death while attempting to screw a light bulb back in properly while in the shower. Truth be told, his impact on the North American music scene may be greater than most people even realize. The legendary ‘May Way’ song, most famously sung by crooner Frank Sinatra and from which the film derives its international English language title, was originally a French song written by Claude François, ‘Comme d’habitude.’ Florent-Emilio Siri’s film adaptation of the French icon’s life, Cloclo, was released on the silver screen...
- 6/26/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Optimum Releasing have unveiled a new UK trailer for acclaimed crime drama Outside the Law.
Written and directed by Rachid Bouchareb, Outside the Law stars Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Chafia Boudraa, Sabrina Seyvecou and Assaad Bouab.
A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
Outside the Law was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd annual Academy Awards, and will be released nationwide on May 6.
Check out the UK trailer below:
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Written and directed by Rachid Bouchareb, Outside the Law stars Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan, Chafia Boudraa, Sabrina Seyvecou and Assaad Bouab.
A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
Outside the Law was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd annual Academy Awards, and will be released nationwide on May 6.
Check out the UK trailer below:
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- 4/22/2011
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Rachid Bouchareb’s drama Hors La Loi about the Algerian revolution caused controversy at this year's Cannes Film Festival, prompting a demonstration and armed police on the streets. Nevertheless, the Gulf state of Qatar's 2nd Doha Tribeca Film Festival will open with that film and close with The First Grader. (National Geographic picked up the U.S. rights after it won the runner-up audience prize at Toronto.) Here's the full list of films showing at Dtff from October 26-30: Opening Night Film Outside the Law (Hors la loi), directed by Rachid Bouchareb, screenplay Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle. (France, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, Belgium) - Feature Narrative Three Algerian brothers who lost their family home in France's 1945 attack on the market town, Sétif, scatter across the globe. Each embarks on a different wild adventure -- one heads off to Indochina, another gets involved with the Pigalle boxing club underworld, the third...
- 9/26/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
After he had made the war film Indigènes back in 2006, French director Rachid Bouchareb said that he wants to make a film about the Algerian war of independence. Well, we can now see the teaser of this anticipated film in question that will be called Hors-la-loi (Outside the Law).
The story takes place after the Second World War (1939-1945). After this war, there are many demonstrations in Algeria against the French colonial rule. Three Algerian brothers - Saïd (Jamel Debbouze), Messaoud (Roschdy Zem) and Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila) - decide to immigrate in France because of their political activities. Therefore, these brothers will be separated from their mother.
Messaoud joins the French army and is sent in French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) to fight Vietnamese nationalists. In Paris, Abdelkader leads a group in favour of Algeria's independence. As for Saïd, he becomes wealthy in bars with a bad reputation and boxing clubs of Pigalle,...
The story takes place after the Second World War (1939-1945). After this war, there are many demonstrations in Algeria against the French colonial rule. Three Algerian brothers - Saïd (Jamel Debbouze), Messaoud (Roschdy Zem) and Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila) - decide to immigrate in France because of their political activities. Therefore, these brothers will be separated from their mother.
Messaoud joins the French army and is sent in French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) to fight Vietnamese nationalists. In Paris, Abdelkader leads a group in favour of Algeria's independence. As for Saïd, he becomes wealthy in bars with a bad reputation and boxing clubs of Pigalle,...
- 5/27/2010
- by [email protected] (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Secret Things
Opens
Friday, Feb. 20
New York
NEW YORK -- It's easy to see why Cahier du Cinema voted this effort from French director Jean-Claude Brisseau as film of the year. Combining steamy eroticism and baroque stylization to a degree only imagined by Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut", to which this film has been frequently compared, "Secret Things" is an artistically ambitious exercise that enables audiences to be simultaneously teased erotically and intellectually. Unfortunately, the film is more effective on the former front, as the writer-director allows the proceedings to sink under far too much symbolic weight.
Beginning like the 100th installment of the popular "Emmanuelle" series, the film introduces us to its impossibly beautiful lead female characters: Natalie (Coralie Revel), who performs an erotic act in which she seems to please herself far more than the audience at the most unlikely strip club you're ever likely to see
and Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou), a young barmaid who is quickly dismissed for not agreeing to sleep with the customers.
Natalie takes Sandrine under her wing, which in this case means instructing her in the exotic arts of self-pleasuring and exhibitionism. The pair also soon wind up in a torrid clinch, though Natalie takes pains to assure her partner that she's not really a lesbian. Talk about male fantasies!
The film eventually progresses from this soft-porn territory into something more serious, a la Neil LaBute, as the women take jobs in a Parisian bank with the intent of using their sophisticated sexual wiles to advance up the corporate ladder. All goes swimmingly until they encounter Christophe (Fabrice Deville), the bank owner's Mephistophelean son, the sort of man whose former girlfriends have the unfortunate tendency to set themselves on fire. Christophe's cruelty and deviousness is more than a match for the women's machinations, and the resulting power struggle achieves metaphysical proportions.
While visually stylish and thematically ambitious, "Secret Things" is ultimately more preposterous than provocative, its vague explorations of sexual and class struggle failing to coalesce in a coherent manner. There is quite a lot to enjoy along the way, however, not the least of which are the physical charms of the lead actresses, which well compensate for the film's more ludicrous aspects.
SECRET THINGS
First Run Features
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Producers: Jean-Claude Brisseau, Jean-Francois Geneix
Director of photography: Wilfred Sempe
Editor: Maria Luisa Garcia
Cast:
Sandrine: Sabrina Seyvecou
Nathalie: Coralie Revel
Delacroix: Roger Mirmont
Christophe: Fabrice Deville
Charlotte: Blandine Bury
Running time -- 115 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Friday, Feb. 20
New York
NEW YORK -- It's easy to see why Cahier du Cinema voted this effort from French director Jean-Claude Brisseau as film of the year. Combining steamy eroticism and baroque stylization to a degree only imagined by Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut", to which this film has been frequently compared, "Secret Things" is an artistically ambitious exercise that enables audiences to be simultaneously teased erotically and intellectually. Unfortunately, the film is more effective on the former front, as the writer-director allows the proceedings to sink under far too much symbolic weight.
Beginning like the 100th installment of the popular "Emmanuelle" series, the film introduces us to its impossibly beautiful lead female characters: Natalie (Coralie Revel), who performs an erotic act in which she seems to please herself far more than the audience at the most unlikely strip club you're ever likely to see
and Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou), a young barmaid who is quickly dismissed for not agreeing to sleep with the customers.
Natalie takes Sandrine under her wing, which in this case means instructing her in the exotic arts of self-pleasuring and exhibitionism. The pair also soon wind up in a torrid clinch, though Natalie takes pains to assure her partner that she's not really a lesbian. Talk about male fantasies!
The film eventually progresses from this soft-porn territory into something more serious, a la Neil LaBute, as the women take jobs in a Parisian bank with the intent of using their sophisticated sexual wiles to advance up the corporate ladder. All goes swimmingly until they encounter Christophe (Fabrice Deville), the bank owner's Mephistophelean son, the sort of man whose former girlfriends have the unfortunate tendency to set themselves on fire. Christophe's cruelty and deviousness is more than a match for the women's machinations, and the resulting power struggle achieves metaphysical proportions.
While visually stylish and thematically ambitious, "Secret Things" is ultimately more preposterous than provocative, its vague explorations of sexual and class struggle failing to coalesce in a coherent manner. There is quite a lot to enjoy along the way, however, not the least of which are the physical charms of the lead actresses, which well compensate for the film's more ludicrous aspects.
SECRET THINGS
First Run Features
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Producers: Jean-Claude Brisseau, Jean-Francois Geneix
Director of photography: Wilfred Sempe
Editor: Maria Luisa Garcia
Cast:
Sandrine: Sabrina Seyvecou
Nathalie: Coralie Revel
Delacroix: Roger Mirmont
Christophe: Fabrice Deville
Charlotte: Blandine Bury
Running time -- 115 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/9/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Secret Things
Opens
Friday, Feb. 20
New York
NEW YORK -- It's easy to see why Cahier du Cinema voted this effort from French director Jean-Claude Brisseau as film of the year. Combining steamy eroticism and baroque stylization to a degree only imagined by Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut", to which this film has been frequently compared, "Secret Things" is an artistically ambitious exercise that enables audiences to be simultaneously teased erotically and intellectually. Unfortunately, the film is more effective on the former front, as the writer-director allows the proceedings to sink under far too much symbolic weight.
Beginning like the 100th installment of the popular "Emmanuelle" series, the film introduces us to its impossibly beautiful lead female characters: Natalie (Coralie Revel), who performs an erotic act in which she seems to please herself far more than the audience at the most unlikely strip club you're ever likely to see
and Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou), a young barmaid who is quickly dismissed for not agreeing to sleep with the customers.
Natalie takes Sandrine under her wing, which in this case means instructing her in the exotic arts of self-pleasuring and exhibitionism. The pair also soon wind up in a torrid clinch, though Natalie takes pains to assure her partner that she's not really a lesbian. Talk about male fantasies!
The film eventually progresses from this soft-porn territory into something more serious, a la Neil LaBute, as the women take jobs in a Parisian bank with the intent of using their sophisticated sexual wiles to advance up the corporate ladder. All goes swimmingly until they encounter Christophe (Fabrice Deville), the bank owner's Mephistophelean son, the sort of man whose former girlfriends have the unfortunate tendency to set themselves on fire. Christophe's cruelty and deviousness is more than a match for the women's machinations, and the resulting power struggle achieves metaphysical proportions.
While visually stylish and thematically ambitious, "Secret Things" is ultimately more preposterous than provocative, its vague explorations of sexual and class struggle failing to coalesce in a coherent manner. There is quite a lot to enjoy along the way, however, not the least of which are the physical charms of the lead actresses, which well compensate for the film's more ludicrous aspects.
SECRET THINGS
First Run Features
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Producers: Jean-Claude Brisseau, Jean-Francois Geneix
Director of photography: Wilfred Sempe
Editor: Maria Luisa Garcia
Cast:
Sandrine: Sabrina Seyvecou
Nathalie: Coralie Revel
Delacroix: Roger Mirmont
Christophe: Fabrice Deville
Charlotte: Blandine Bury
Running time -- 115 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Friday, Feb. 20
New York
NEW YORK -- It's easy to see why Cahier du Cinema voted this effort from French director Jean-Claude Brisseau as film of the year. Combining steamy eroticism and baroque stylization to a degree only imagined by Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut", to which this film has been frequently compared, "Secret Things" is an artistically ambitious exercise that enables audiences to be simultaneously teased erotically and intellectually. Unfortunately, the film is more effective on the former front, as the writer-director allows the proceedings to sink under far too much symbolic weight.
Beginning like the 100th installment of the popular "Emmanuelle" series, the film introduces us to its impossibly beautiful lead female characters: Natalie (Coralie Revel), who performs an erotic act in which she seems to please herself far more than the audience at the most unlikely strip club you're ever likely to see
and Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou), a young barmaid who is quickly dismissed for not agreeing to sleep with the customers.
Natalie takes Sandrine under her wing, which in this case means instructing her in the exotic arts of self-pleasuring and exhibitionism. The pair also soon wind up in a torrid clinch, though Natalie takes pains to assure her partner that she's not really a lesbian. Talk about male fantasies!
The film eventually progresses from this soft-porn territory into something more serious, a la Neil LaBute, as the women take jobs in a Parisian bank with the intent of using their sophisticated sexual wiles to advance up the corporate ladder. All goes swimmingly until they encounter Christophe (Fabrice Deville), the bank owner's Mephistophelean son, the sort of man whose former girlfriends have the unfortunate tendency to set themselves on fire. Christophe's cruelty and deviousness is more than a match for the women's machinations, and the resulting power struggle achieves metaphysical proportions.
While visually stylish and thematically ambitious, "Secret Things" is ultimately more preposterous than provocative, its vague explorations of sexual and class struggle failing to coalesce in a coherent manner. There is quite a lot to enjoy along the way, however, not the least of which are the physical charms of the lead actresses, which well compensate for the film's more ludicrous aspects.
SECRET THINGS
First Run Features
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Producers: Jean-Claude Brisseau, Jean-Francois Geneix
Director of photography: Wilfred Sempe
Editor: Maria Luisa Garcia
Cast:
Sandrine: Sabrina Seyvecou
Nathalie: Coralie Revel
Delacroix: Roger Mirmont
Christophe: Fabrice Deville
Charlotte: Blandine Bury
Running time -- 115 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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