Private
Property (Nue
propriété), directed by Joachim
LAFOSSE,
was premiered on Sep. 7, at Venice
Film Festival. Isabelle didn't
attend the festival due to her new theater role. The
film wows Venice with its dark family issues, centered
on a divorced woman and her 20-something twin sons.
Private
Property - "Nue
Propiete" in French, is the third film for Joachim
Lafosse, the Belgian director at 31, the youngest director
competing for the top prize in Venice this year. At
the news conference after the film was well received,
he said:
"It was very important
to have true brothers (Jeremie and Yannick
Renier)
playing in the film because they bring a real credibility
to it. You cannot make up that kind of relationship."
Lafosse also said the
film needed a strong-willed and solid actress like
Isabelle to balance the aggressive and spoiled twins.
"This is a family where
noboday has ever set any boundaires, where are not
limits. The twins are in their 20s, but
they behave like teenagers, they refuse to grow up
and assume their responsibilities."
"When
I was test-screening for the lead female role, I
asked Jeremie and Yannick
to be particularly cruel. All the actresses who came
went away distressed. Only Isabelle could face up to
these guys." (from Reuters,
Thursday, September 7, 2006, 12:09PM)
Private
Property (Nue propriété), directed
by Joachim LAFOSSE, has been selected for the official
competition of the
63rd Venice Film Festival, which
will be held from August 30 to September 9, 2006
21 films in string for
the Gold Lion, all will be thus projected in world
preview.
“Naked property” is
the story of the painful process of the emotional
separation of a divorced mother (Isabelle
Huppert)
and her twin sons 0f 25-year-old (Jérémie
& Yannick Renier), whose family
relations are marked by a possessive love.
The film was shot in Belguim
and completed post-production in Luxembourg in the
studios of Philippe Kohn. Meanwhile, another Luxembourg
company Tarantula currently
produces the full-length film “The Hidden Love
(Madre e Ossa)” in the Grand
Duchy, with Isabelle
Huppert and Greta
Scacchi in the principal roles.
L'Inondation, a
France-Russia production in 1994, is showing now on
Sundance
Channel in the following month. The film only got
very limited distribution since made, and has
never been available on home video. Now it makes
its American television premiere on Sundance
Channel.
Isabelle
Huppert stars
as Sofia, the female half
of a childless couple,
in this 1920s-set period piece from Russian
director Igor Minayev. When she and her husband
(Boris
Nevzorov) adopt a 13-year-old orphan (Masha
Lipkina),
their
prayers seem to have been answered, until Sofia
finds hubby Trofim taking an inordinate interest
in the
blossoming young woman in their care. Based
on a short story by Yevgeni
Zamyatin, whose 1924 novel
We established the new genre of dystopian future
fiction, L'Inondation is
a rather ponderous but well-acted
drama which will appeal primarily to fans of
the divine Miss Huppert.
Starting
at the end of May seven weeks for Madre
E Ossa, the
4th full-length film of fiction film Alessandro
Capone which will join together the French
start Isabelle Huppert and
her counterpart Italian
Laura Morante.
Worked in French language,
the film will recall the meeting of a woman
who has tried to commit suicide for the third time
(Huppert)
and a psychiatrist (Morante)
who works to elucidate the past of this patient without
reactions, locked
up in an inviolable silence. The mystery will rise
little by little on the ill-being marked by the
weight of the bankruptcy of the maternal responsibility.
An exploration will reveal a
rushed marriage, a nondesired pregnancy and taboos
of a relation mother-girl dévastatrice which
masks desires of dead behind appearances of the obligatory
love. The casting is in hand for the role of the girl.
Madre
E Ossa is an adaptation
of a mystery novel of Danielle
Girard, published in Italy in 1997 and best-seller,
but ever published in the Hexagon. Produced by Cristaldi
Pictures, Madre
E Ossa has
a budget of 4,5 million
euros, including a support of 1,8 million
the Italian ministry of the Culture. The French company Backup
Films, specialist in the international
financial arrangements was charged to find coproducteurs
in France, with the Benelux countries and in Germany,
the negotiations being well engaged right now for the
last two territories. (by Fabien
Lemercier, http://www.cineuropa.org)
It all sounds a very
interesting film, a Ingmar Bergman Persona with Bibi
Andersson/Liv
Ullmann, and now Isabelle/Laura
Morante. In 2001,
when Isabelle won
her second Cannes' Prize for her La
Pianiste, Laura Morante was
an another strong candidate for her role in Son's
Room, which won the Palm d'Or at Cannes.
My
Mère Isabelle meets
L'EnfantJérémie
Rénier in new film Nue
Propriété by Joaquim
Lafosse. The film will soon start shooting in
Bonlez, Belguim on March 6 in the following six weeks. Isabelle plays
a divorced woman, Pascale, who lives with her twin
sons François and Thierry
(played by Jérémie's
brother Yannick)
-
on an old restored farm, which she is eager to sell
in
order to emancipate herself and change her life. However,
this proves very difficult as her children are unwilling
to move.
The script was written
5 year ago, but couldn't get enough funding until it
is landed in Isabelle,
whom the director always dreams of in the leading
role. When she decides to throw herself into the adventure,
everything seems to become easy. "I looked for a maison
that had the expression of a lost paradise, with both
greatness and fragility, recalled Joachim.
In my film, Isabelle
Huppert is the mom of the twins who between-will-tear
connection to the family property. What touched me
the most is that Isabelle,
who stated me to be allured by her character of mother
who émancipe, agreed to work with such a young
team. I am also grateful to her to have accepted our
financial conditions, because our budget is only 1,8M euros. The commune of Braine-L'Alleud helped us well
while putting to us in liaison with companies, but
we still seek sponsors..". (read at Le
soir enligne).
After Naked Property,
Isabelle may join Claire
Denis in her new film "White
Material"
adapted from the novel of Marie
NDiaye. The film is still in the writing stage.
According to Why Not Productions, shooting of the film,
a story
set against coffee plantations in a dry season, will
begin next winter (2007).
Interview entitled "Chabrol
vampirise me", Isabelle was
also asked how she felt about the
Césars.
She said, something did not go. This has started
badly, then one made presence of nothing. But
there are unsolved things and it is not normal after
all the time. With the intermittences, one felt all
the length of the evenving a large faintness, even
if, obviously, the cinema takes again its rights.
(read more at: http://www.liberation.fr)
At the
César Ceremony
Théâtre du Châtelet
Feb. 25, 2006
The 13th César Nomination
2006.02.25
Isabelle,
in a black/white strip jacket, is seated next to Michael
Haneke, in Théâtre
du Châtelet, where the
31st César Award
Ceremony is held. She doesn't
look like very excited. You can sense from the atomosphere
that she will not win. This is Isabelle's
13th nomination for César, since
her first nomination in 1976 - Best Supporting Actress
inAloise,
and Winner in 1996 for La
Cérémonie by Claude
Chabrol.
The
Best Actress Award eventually
went to Nathalie Baye,
for her role in
Le
petit lieutenant by Xavier
Beauvois. It is the second Cesar Best Actress Award
for Nathalie
Baye. Last time she won was 23 year before. She
has also won Best Supporting Actress in 1982 and
1981. "Gabreille",
nominated for 6 César
Awards, ended up with Best Production
Design and Best Custome. The biggest winner tonight
is "De
battre mon coeur s'est arrêté"
, nominated for 10 Cesars, and won 6. (go FORUM)
Isabelle won Lumiere Best
Actress of 2005 for her role in Gabrielle, The 11th
annual Lumiere
Awards, France's local version of the Golden
Globes, were presented
at a low-key ceremony at Paris' Cinema des Cineastes
movie hall Tuesday night by the Academie des Lumieres,
whose member base of 200 Paris-based foreign correspondents
vote to decide on the honors.
The Lumieres were initialized
by Daniel Toscan du Plantier and
American Jounalist
Edward Behr in
1995. Since then, the awards are given off shortly
before the ceremony of Cesars Awards (on February 25).
Isabelle has won
Lumiere's Best Actress in 2000 for Merci
pour le chocolat, and
in 1995 for La
cérémonie.
Today, Chabrol's
portrait of power - L'Ivresse
du Pouvoir - shown in Berlin Film Festival.
Isabelle, along
with co-star Françoise Berlend presented at
the press conference, and later on, marched in the
red carpet. (streaming-video
at http://www.berlinale.de)
In the press conference,
Chabrol said that
when he watched television reports about
the
Elf
Aquitaine
graft scandal in the late 1990s which finally snared
big-name French politicians, he found it "very funny" and
thought it would make a great film because corrupt people "are
very clever but very stupid too".
"We should not be naive.
Corruption did not end there and it is nowhere near ending.
We have to live with it. It is not a French speciality," he
said. "But the real subject of the film is the way we get drunk on power.
Human nature finds it very hard to resist ... It is a drug that is too strong
for our
systems. And the problem with power is that it can be enormous but it
can also cease to exist from one day to the next."
Huppert said her character becomes obsessed with the immense
power that the post of investigating judge
brings in France. Chabrol paid tribute to his leading actress, saying: "I do not think there
is anything missing in the film. But if another actress had played the part there
might have been."
In the evening, Chabrol and Isabelle arrived
in the theater for the film premiere at the festival.
An 30-meter red carepet seems like a long way. It took
them 15 minutes to march through.
Because
of the conflict to her new film, Isabelle gives
up directing Iphigénie
en Tauride,
this season's new production of L'Opera de Paris.
The
director is replaced by Polish Krzystof
Warlikowski.
Isabelle's
new film - the adaptation of Susan
Sontag's "In
America" has
been talked about for more than two years. Besides being
the leading actress, Isabelle will
also be one of the producers. The film will be directed
by Polish director
Jerzy Skolimoski,
in English, with a cast like Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Harvey
Keital, Denis Hopper, Helen
Mirren,
etc.
L'Ivresse
du Pouvoir - the new film of Claude
Chabrol will premiere on Feb. 16 at
the
56th Berlin International Film Festvial. As
the only French film on competition this year, Chabrol and Isabelle are
expected to attend the premiere ceremony, including
new release confrence, photo
call, and the opening night.
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