Filming anecdotes, notes of intent, information for film lovers: every week, discover behind the scenes of a film release.
Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru by Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson, Jonathan Del Val
With Gad Elmale, Steve Carell, Gerard Darmon…
What is it about? As the 1970s unfold, Gru, who grew up in the suburbs surrounded by bell-bottom jeans and bouffant hair, devises a Machiavellian plan to succeed in the notorious group of super-villains known as the Vicious 6, of which he is the biggest fan.
did you know Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru is the sequel to 2015’s Minions, which grossed $1.16 billion worldwide in its theatrical release! It is also a prequel to the Despicable Me franchise that started in 2010.
After Yang by Kogonada
With Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tiandravijaja…
What is it about? In the near future, every household has a domestic android called “Techno-Sapiens”. In Jake’s family, he is called Yang and especially looks up to young Mika. Also, the day Yang breaks down, Jake puts his whole life on hold to fix it.
Peter von Kant Francois Ozon
With Denis Menochet, Isabelle Ajani, Khalil Ben Gharbia…
What is it about? Famous successful director Peter von Kant lives with his assistant Karl, who likes to mistreat him. Thanks to Sidonia, a great actress, she meets and falls in love with Amir, a young man of humble origin. He offers her to share his apartment and help him in the cinema…
did you know Peter von Kant is a free adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. This performance was already the subject of a feature film made by Fassbinder himself in 1971.
I Love Greece by Nafsika Geri-Karamounas
With Stacey Martin, Vincent Dedien, Maria Apostolakea…
What is it about? Franco-Greek couple Jean and Marina go to Athens for summer vacation. There they discover Marina’s happy family and Greece in crisis. While they plan to spend a few romantic days on a small island in the Cyclades, the whole family decides to accompany them.
did you know For her first feature film, Nafsika Geri-Karamounas wanted to shoot in Greece, more specifically in the Cyclades Islands, which she knows very well. The Greek-Swiss director says: “I wanted to feel confident in this familiar place where I know everyone.”
By Ennio Giuseppe Tornatore
With Giuseppe Tornatorre, Ennio Morricone, Bernardo Bertolucci…
What is it about? At the age of 8, Ennio Morricone dreams of becoming a doctor. But his father decides that he will be a trumpeter like him. From the Conservatory of Music to the Oscar for Best Composer, the journey of one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.
did you know Giuseppe Tornatore worked with Ennio Morricone for twenty-five years. The composer has indeed contributed to almost all of the director’s films, not to mention documentaries, commercials and other aborted projects.
Sadness by Robert Jabazz
Starring Regina Leigh, Berant Zhu
What is it about? After a year of battling the pandemic with relatively mild symptoms, a frustrated nation is finally letting its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, causing a mind-altering plague.
did you know In the New Horror Express podcast, Rob Jabazz explains that his first feature goes beyond a simple zombie film because “Zombies don’t think, they’re already dead”. The idea of ​​infecting infected people with a virus, but not dead, seemed more dangerous to him.
Music Hole Gaetan Liekens, David Mutzenmacher
With Wim Willaert, Vanessa Guide, Lawrence Oltuski…
What is it about? Francis, a small-time accountant who works in a seedy Charleroi cabaret, has marital problems with Martin, his wife. After a heated argument, he wakes up one morning to find very bad news in his freezer.
Crescendo of Dror Zahawi
With Peter Simonischek, Bibiana Beglaus, Daniel Donskoi…
What is it about? Eduard Spork, a world-renowned conductor, agrees to form an orchestra of young Israeli-Palestinians. He is quickly confronted by young musicians who have grown up under war and repression… and are far from in harmony.
By Zahori Marie Alessandrini
With Lara Tortosa, Santos Kurapil, Cirilo Wesley…
What is it about? The Patagonian steppe is consumed by the gray wind… Mora (13) wants to become a “gaucho”. He rebels against the school and asserts himself with his parents, Swiss-Italian ecologists, whose dream of autonomy turns into a nightmare.
did you know Director Marie Alessandrini is originally from Patagonia and grew up in the city of Bariloche, on the border between the mountains and the steppes. When he was a child, access to the steppe was very difficult. Today, the situation is even worse, because it is an area abandoned by the government.
Holy spirit of my Garcia
What is it about? Ibarra Julio is dead. This is terrible news for “Ovni-Levante”, the association of ufology enthusiasts that he headed. José Manuel, one of its members, is particularly affected by death: he and Julio had a secret project that was going to change the fate of humanity. Now he will have to do it alone.
Source: allocine
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