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Lætitia Dosch
Laetitia Dosch (; born 1 September 1980) is a French-Swiss actress. Her film credits include ''Age of Panic'', ''Keeper (2015 film), Keeper'', ''Summertime (2015 film), Summertime'', ''Montparnasse Bienvenue (film), Montparnasse Bienvenue'', and ''Our Struggles''. In 2024, she made make her directorial debut with ''Dog on Trial''. Education Dosch first studied acting at the Jean Périmony, École d'art dramatique Jean-Périmony in Paris, then entered the free classes at the Cours Florent under the tutelage of Michel Fau and , then moved on to La Manufacture in Lausanne, Switzerland. Career Dosch's directorial debut, ''Dog on Trial'', premiered in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it was eligible for the Camera d'Or. Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations Honours * 2018: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier of the ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Cannes Film Festival
The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2024. American filmmaker and actress Greta Gerwig served as jury president for the main competition. American filmmaker Sean Baker (filmmaker), Sean Baker won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the comedy-drama film ''Anora''. The official poster for the festival featuring a still image from the movie ''Rhapsody in August'' (1991) by Akira Kurosawa, selected for the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, 44th edition, was designed by Hartland Villa. French actress Camille Cottin hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. During the festival, three Honorary Palme d'Or were awarded: the first was awarded to Meryl Streep during the festival's opening ceremony; the second was awarded to Studio Ghibli; and the third was awarded to George Lucas during the festival's closing ceremony. Few days before the opening ceremony, festival workers called for a general strike. The Broke Behind the Screens (''Sous les écrans la d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accomplices (film)
''Accomplices'' (original title: ''Complices'') is a 2009 Franco-Swiss crime thriller film directed by Frédéric Mermoud. The film premiered in competition at the 2009 Locarno International Film Festival. It won the Swiss Film Award for Best Screenplay in 2010. Plot Two police detectives in Lyon, both single and childless, are investigating the murder of a young man called Vince, whose body is found strangled in the river Rhône. It emerges that Vince was a high-end male prostitute, finding clients on the internet and meeting them in hotels. His girlfriend was a student, Reb, who he recruited to join him in threesomes, so increasing his range of clients and his earnings. One encounter went wrong when the client started to get rough with Reb, upon which Vince beat him up and the two fled. Furious at the way Reb had been treated, Vince decided to blackmail the man and arranged a rendezvous on the top floor of a multi-storey car park. After handing over the money, the client then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumière Awards
The Lumière Awards (), officially the Lumières de la presse internationale, are French film awards presented by the to honor the best in the French-speaking cinema of the previous year. The awards ceremony is organized by the Académie des Lumières which consists of over 200 representatives of the international press based in Paris. Today they are regarded as one of the most prestigious French film industry awards, and are considered France's equivalent to the Golden Globe Awards. History The Lumière Awards were initiated in 1995 by French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier and American journalist and ex-Newsweek's Paris correspondent Edward Behr. Their idea was to replicate the Golden Globes, which were presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Lumière Awards is usually presented a month before the César Awards, the French national film award. ''Le Figaro'' described the Lumières as "one of the barometers of the French awards season and are a go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Award For Best Female Revelation
The César Award for Best Female Revelation () is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding breakthrough performance of a young actress who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie, within a group of 16 actresses previously shortlisted by the Révélations Committee. It was presented as the César du meilleur jeune espoir féminin from 1983 to 2004 and the César du meilleur espoir féminin from 2005 to 2023. In English, the award was variously referred to as Most Promising Actress or Best Female Newcomer. Winners and nominees Following the AATC's practice, the films below are listed by year of ceremony, which corresponds to the year following the film's year of release. For example, the ''César du meilleur espoir féminin'' of 2010 was awarded on 27 February 2010 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Awards
The César Award is the national film award of France. It is delivered in the ' ceremony and was first awarded in 1976. The nominations are selected by the members of twelve categories of filmmaking professionals and supported by the French Ministry of Culture. The nationally televised award ceremony is held in Paris each year in February. The exact location has changed over the years (in the Théâtre du Châtelet from 2002 to 2016). It is an initiative of the , which was founded in 1975. The César Award is considered the highest film honor in France, the French film industry's equivalent to the Molière Award for theatre, and the Victoires de la Musique for music. In cinema, it is the French equivalent to the Academy Award. The award was created by Georges Cravenne, who was also the creator of the Molière Award for theatre. The name of the award comes from the sculptor César Baldaccini (1921–1998) who designed it. The 50th César Awards ceremony took place on 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ainsi Soient-ils
''Ainsi soient-ils'', also known as ''The Churchmen'' and ''Thy Will Be Done'' in English-speaking countries, is a French television series. In The U.S., the series was shown on MHz Networks beginning in 2012. Content The series takes place in the fictional seminary of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Capuchins in Paris. In the foreground are five seminarians who come from different backgrounds: Yann comes from Brittany and is a scout. Raphael comes from a rich Catholic family. Emmanuel - adoptive son of African descent - is an archaeologist and has turned down the opportunity to graduate to attend the seminar. He was under treatment for depression. Guillaume studied political science and lived in a homosexual partnership. José has killed a Russian drug dealer in a dispute, he has served his prison sentence. Together, the goal is to become priests. The series accompanies them through the studies and the process of detachment from their previous lives. In the process, inner and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savages (2024 Film)
''Savages'' () is a 2024 stop motion animated film directed by Claude Barras and starring Babette De Coster and Martin Verset. Premise Kéria (De Coster), a young girl lives with her father in the Serawak province of Borneo while he works in a palm oil plantation. Her late mother had been part of the indigenous Penan people, but Kéria has little interest in this aspect of her heritage. She and her father rescue an orangutan, who comes to be known as Oshi. When Kéria's Penan cousin Selaï (Verset) is displaced from her home by deforestation and comes to live with the family, the two children and orangutan must fight back against the logging companies. Cast * Babette De Coster as Kéria * Martin Verset as Selaï * Laetitia Dosch as Jeanne * Benoît Poelvoorde as Kéria's father * Pierre-Isaïe Duc as Kéria's grandfather * Michel Vuillermoz as the foreman * Gaël Faye * Sailyvia Paysan as Selaï's mother * Anna-Marie Missoul Production Barras began conceptualizing ''Savage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim's Story
''Jim's Story'' () is a 2024 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu. It is an adaptation of the 2021 novel ''Le Roman de Jim'' by Pierric Bailly. It is a comedic melodrama about fatherhood. It had its world premiere in the non-competitive Cannes Premiere section at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 22 May 2024. It was theatrically released on 14 August 2024 by Pyramide Distribution. At the 50th César Awards, Leklou won Best Actor for his performance. Plot A family's happy life in the Jura Mountains is gradually upended following the return of their son's biological father. Cast * Karim Leklou as Aymeric * Laetitia Dosch as Florence * Sara Giraudeau as Olivia * Bertrand Belin as Christophe * Noée Abita as Aurélie * Andranic Manet as Jim (age 23) * Eol Personne as Jim (ages 7 and 10) * Mireille Herbstmeyer as Monique * Suzanne De Baecque as Léa * Sabrina Seyvecou as Cécile * Marguerite Machuel as Charlotte (age 23) * Robinson Stéve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acid (2023 Film)
''Acid'' (; released in the Philippines as ''Acid Rain'') is a 2023 French-language Fantasy film, fantasy Drama film, drama film directed by Just Philippot from a screenplay by Philippot and Yacine Badday. The film is a co-production between France and Belgium. It is an expansion of Philippot's 2018 short film of the same name. The film premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, 76th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2023. It was released in France on 20 September 2023. Synopsis During a heat wave, strange clouds start pouring down acid rain, wreaking devastation and panic throughout France. In a world teetering on the edge, a girl and her divorced parents must join forces to confront and try to escape this climate catastrophe. Cast * Guillaume Canet as Michal * Laetitia Dosch as Elise * Patience Munchenbach as Selma * Marie Jung as Deborah * Martin Verset as William Production Development ''Acid'' is a feature-length expansion of Just Philippot's short film of the same name. whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother And Son (2022 Film)
''Mother and Son'' () is a 2022 French drama film written and directed by Léonor Serraille, starring Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin, Ahmed Sylla, Sidy Fofana and Milan Doucansi. Cast * Annabelle Lengronne as Rose * Stéphane Bak as young Jean * Kenzo Sambin as young Ernest * Ahmed Sylla as Ernest * Sidy Fofana as little Jean * Milan Doucansi as little Ernest * Audrey Kouakou as Eugenie * * as Thierry * as Julius Caesar * Laetitia Dosch Release The film premiered at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 27 May 2022. It was released theatrically in France on 1 February 2023 by Diaphana Distribution. International distribution is handled by MK2 Films. Reception Peter Bradshaw of ''The Guardian'' rated the film 4 stars out of 5. Diego Semerene of ''Slant Magazine'' rated the film 3 stars out of 4 and calling it a "lovely film about feminine strength that also refuses to glorify motherhood." Guy Lodge of ''Variety'' wrote, "An unsentimental but stoically angui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En Même Temps
''En même temps'' is a 2022 French comedy film produced, written, and directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern. It is the tenth film directed by the duo together and was considered a commercial failure. Synopsis The mayors of two small French towns, from opposing political sides, are glued together by a feminist activist. The forced proximity compels the two men to reconcile their differing views on economic development and ecology. Cast * Vincent Macaigne as Pascal Molitor * Jonathan Cohen as Didier Béquet * India Hair as Elise / Sandra * Jehnny Beth as Nina * Doully Millet as Frida * Yolande Moreau as Madame Bianca * Hakim Amokrane as Moktar * Charlotte Creyx as Mireille * Gustave Kervern as The restaurant owner * Isabelle Gaspar as Cindy * Laetitia Dosch as Sylvie * François Damiens as The diner owner * Ovidie as Clémence * Benoît Delépine as The photographer * Anna Mouglalis as Madame Béquet * Anne Benoît as Molitor's mother Production Pre-produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
