Though she directed Family First, a savagely violent crime drama tapped as Canada's contender in the Oscars' best foreign-language film category, Sophie Dupuis insists she doesn't have a cruel bone in her body.
While themes of physical brutality and emotional torment may fill her scripts, "In my real life, I'm so soft and I fear violence. I don't want to have it around me at all. But in my writing, it's there," Dupuis told The Hollywood Reporter.
Family First portrays Jp, a petty Montreal hood played by Jean-Simon Leduc, who is caught between wanting to ...
While themes of physical brutality and emotional torment may fill her scripts, "In my real life, I'm so soft and I fear violence. I don't want to have it around me at all. But in my writing, it's there," Dupuis told The Hollywood Reporter.
Family First portrays Jp, a petty Montreal hood played by Jean-Simon Leduc, who is caught between wanting to ...
- 11/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though she directed Family First, a savagely violent crime drama tapped as Canada's contender in the Oscars' best foreign-language film category, Sophie Dupuis insists she doesn't have a cruel bone in her body.
While themes of physical brutality and emotional torment may fill her scripts, "In my real life, I'm so soft and I fear violence. I don't want to have it around me at all. But in my writing, it's there," Dupuis told The Hollywood Reporter.
Family First portrays Jp, a petty Montreal hood played by Jean-Simon Leduc, who is caught between wanting to ...
While themes of physical brutality and emotional torment may fill her scripts, "In my real life, I'm so soft and I fear violence. I don't want to have it around me at all. But in my writing, it's there," Dupuis told The Hollywood Reporter.
Family First portrays Jp, a petty Montreal hood played by Jean-Simon Leduc, who is caught between wanting to ...
- 11/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
On the way to the grocery store, “Family First” director Sophie Dupuis got a call that made her wish she wasn’t wearing jeggings. Not only was her first feature film Canada’s official entry into the Oscar foreign film race, but she needed to announcement it live within the hour.
“I was sure it wasn’t going to be us,” the Quebec native told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at a Q&A on Tuesday following a screening of the crime drama.
“Family First” is a 90-minute journey into the dysfunctional world of debt collectors, brothers Jp (Jean-Simon Leduc) and 19-year-old Vincent (Theodore Pellerin). While older brother Jp begins to have doubts about helping the cartel collect their money, a group lead by their uncle Dany (Paul Ahmarani), Vincent’s explosive, care-free personality leads him deeper into Dany’s web. Canadian actress Maude Guerin plays the on-again off-again alcoholic mother...
“I was sure it wasn’t going to be us,” the Quebec native told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at a Q&A on Tuesday following a screening of the crime drama.
“Family First” is a 90-minute journey into the dysfunctional world of debt collectors, brothers Jp (Jean-Simon Leduc) and 19-year-old Vincent (Theodore Pellerin). While older brother Jp begins to have doubts about helping the cartel collect their money, a group lead by their uncle Dany (Paul Ahmarani), Vincent’s explosive, care-free personality leads him deeper into Dany’s web. Canadian actress Maude Guerin plays the on-again off-again alcoholic mother...
- 11/14/2018
- by Omar Sanchez
- The Wrap
Among the 87 entries this year, down five from 2017’s whopping 92, there are more documentaries than ever, plus two African countries submitting for the first time: Malawi and Niger. Here’s a guide to the films, including logline, sales, and production contact.
Afghanistan
“Rona, Azim’s Mother”
Director: Jamshid Mahmoudi
Logline: A touching drama set in the milieu of Afghan immigrants in Iran who lack full citizens’ rights, with laborer Azim struggling to care for his mother.
Key Cast: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fatemeh Hosseini
Intl. Sales: Noori Pictures
Algeria
“Until the End of Time”
Director: Yasmine Chouikh
Logline: An elderly grave digger and a 60-something widow meet in the cemetery of Sidi Boulekbour and develop feelings for one another.
Key Cast: Djillali Boudjemaa, Djamila Arres
Intl. Sales: MakingOf Film
Argentina
“El Ángel”
Director: Luis Ortega
Logline: A portrait of the infamous teenage serial killer “The Angel of Death,” who took Argentina by...
Afghanistan
“Rona, Azim’s Mother”
Director: Jamshid Mahmoudi
Logline: A touching drama set in the milieu of Afghan immigrants in Iran who lack full citizens’ rights, with laborer Azim struggling to care for his mother.
Key Cast: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fatemeh Hosseini
Intl. Sales: Noori Pictures
Algeria
“Until the End of Time”
Director: Yasmine Chouikh
Logline: An elderly grave digger and a 60-something widow meet in the cemetery of Sidi Boulekbour and develop feelings for one another.
Key Cast: Djillali Boudjemaa, Djamila Arres
Intl. Sales: MakingOf Film
Argentina
“El Ángel”
Director: Luis Ortega
Logline: A portrait of the infamous teenage serial killer “The Angel of Death,” who took Argentina by...
- 11/8/2018
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
The title spells out the theme in the crime drama “Family First,” and if that weren’t enough, the title itself is inked out in cursive on one of the main character’s forearms, a reminder to everyone about how the priorities of mob-linked siblings must align. Quebecois director Sophie Dupuis’ debut feature, selected as Canada’s Oscar foreign language submission, tries to make a virtue of simplicity, whittling the trials of a conflicted goon down to an 87-minute pressure cooker, driving its reluctant hero into action. Yet Dupuis isn’t exactly the first to tackle a “just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” gangland scenario, and the no-frills storytelling mostly works against her, rendering the film’s Verdun, Montreal, underworld disappointingly nondescript.
In this “Animal Kingdom”-like domestic scenario, the mother (Maude Guérin) is too swamped by alcoholism to run the show, so it...
In this “Animal Kingdom”-like domestic scenario, the mother (Maude Guérin) is too swamped by alcoholism to run the show, so it...
- 11/2/2018
- by Scott Tobias
- Variety Film + TV
Drama earned three Iris Prizes at recent Gala Québec Cinéma.
Sophie Dupuis’ Chien de garde will represent Canada in the contest for the 2019 best foreign language film Oscar.
The Québecoise filmmaker’s narrative feature directorial debut centres on a man who tries to balance the demands of a needy family, the collections work he does with his brother, and the father figure / uncle who runs a drug cartel.
Jean-Simon Leduc, Théodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guérin, and Paul Ahmarani star.
Etienne Hansez of Bravo Charlie produced Chien de Garde, which Axia Films distributed in Quebec. Telefilm Canada and others funded the feature,...
Sophie Dupuis’ Chien de garde will represent Canada in the contest for the 2019 best foreign language film Oscar.
The Québecoise filmmaker’s narrative feature directorial debut centres on a man who tries to balance the demands of a needy family, the collections work he does with his brother, and the father figure / uncle who runs a drug cartel.
Jean-Simon Leduc, Théodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guérin, and Paul Ahmarani star.
Etienne Hansez of Bravo Charlie produced Chien de Garde, which Axia Films distributed in Quebec. Telefilm Canada and others funded the feature,...
- 9/19/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Canada has selected Sophie Dupuis' debut feature, Watch Dog (Chien de garde), for the best foreign-language film Oscar.
Quebec stars Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guerin and Paul Ahmarani lead the $1.5 million crime drama's ensemble cast.
Watch Dog follows a young man who lives with his brother, mother and girlfriend in a small apartment in suburban Montreal. Constantly walking a tightrope, he tries to find the right balance between his very needy family, for whom he feels responsible; the collection job he works with his brother; and his involvement in the Montreal drug cartel run by ...
Quebec stars Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guerin and Paul Ahmarani lead the $1.5 million crime drama's ensemble cast.
Watch Dog follows a young man who lives with his brother, mother and girlfriend in a small apartment in suburban Montreal. Constantly walking a tightrope, he tries to find the right balance between his very needy family, for whom he feels responsible; the collection job he works with his brother; and his involvement in the Montreal drug cartel run by ...
- 9/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Canada has selected Sophie Dupuis' debut feature, Watch Dog (Chien de garde), for the best foreign-language film Oscar.
Quebec stars Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guerin and Paul Ahmarani lead the $1.5 million crime drama's ensemble cast.
Watch Dog follows a young man who lives with his brother, mother and girlfriend in a small apartment in suburban Montreal. Constantly walking a tightrope, he tries to find the right balance between his very needy family, for whom he feels responsible; the collection job he works with his brother; and his involvement in the Montreal drug cartel run by ...
Quebec stars Jean-Simon Leduc, Theodore Pellerin, Claudel Laberge, Maude Guerin and Paul Ahmarani lead the $1.5 million crime drama's ensemble cast.
Watch Dog follows a young man who lives with his brother, mother and girlfriend in a small apartment in suburban Montreal. Constantly walking a tightrope, he tries to find the right balance between his very needy family, for whom he feels responsible; the collection job he works with his brother; and his involvement in the Montreal drug cartel run by ...
- 9/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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