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WHITE AS SNOW – Review by Leslie Combemale

August 4, 2021August 8, 2021 Leslie Combemale anne fontaine, french films, Isabelle Huppert, lou de laage

Fairy tale archetypes are front and center in the surprisingly bland French film White as Snow, even with the presence of first lady of French film Isabelle Huppert and Lou de Laâge. Huppert plays the wicked queen to de Laâge’s fresh faced ingenue in a story meant to update and sex up the famed tale, presumably in the name of female empowerment. If only director and co-screenwriter Anne Fontaine didn’t vilify age and send the message that youth equals beauty and power in every scene of the film, the sexually adventurous choices her Snow White makes wouldn’t feel so shallow.

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THE INNOCENTS, THE BFG, MICROBE & GASOLINE, LIFE ANIMATED and other July 1 openers – Reviews by Jennifer Merin

July 4, 2016June 8, 2020 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments anne fontaine, bfg, innocents, life animated, michel gondry, osanne for president, our kind of traitor, purge election year, roger ross williams, rosannw barr, satanic, soline, Steven Spielberg, susanna shite

Top picks among this week’s opening films are Anne Fontaine’s harrowing post World War II drama, The Innocents, plus Steven

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GEMMA BOVARY – Review by Susan Granger

June 13, 2015June 8, 2020 Susan Granger 0 Comments anne fontaine, gemma arterton, Gemma Bovary, Gustav Flaubert, women directors

French writer/director Anne Fontaine envisions Gustav Flaubert’s classic 19th century novel “Madame Bovary” for contemporary times. The story revolves around

EDA Awards Festivals

AWFJ @ Whistler Film Fest Presents EDAs to Three Women Filmmakers — Jennifer Merin reports

December 9, 2014March 13, 2019 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments anne fontaine, Gemma Bovary, Lainie Miller, Madeleine Grant, That Guy Dick Miller. best female directed film, The Backward Class, Whistler Film Festival

Returning to Whistler Film Festival for the second year, AWFJ presented EDA Awards to women filmmakers represented in the 2014 program. Of the eight festival-nominated female-directed films, five were narratives and three were documentaries. Honoring the high quality of films in both genres, AWFJ decided to level the fic/nonfic playing field by combining the two categories, and assigning all jurors to vote on all films. That decision resulted in the selection of three EDA Award winners. Read on…

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AWFJ Women On Film – ATOM EGOYAN ON SEYFRIED, SEX SCENES AND “CHLOE” – Jen Yamato interviews

April 1, 2010 Jen Yamato (Archived Contributor) amanda seyfried, anne fontaine, atom egoyan, awfj omen on film, chloe, erin cressida wilson, jen yamato, julianne moore

In Atom Egoyan’s “Chloe,” frigid career woman Catherine (Julianne Moore) hires a beautiful young prostitute named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to

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AUDREY TAUTOU on Destiny, Astrology, and “Coco” – Jen Yamato interviews

September 22, 2009August 9, 2024 Jen Yamato (Archived Contributor) anne fontaine, audrey toutou, awfj women on film, coco before chanel, gabrielle coco chanel, jen yamato

Actress Audrey Tautou and designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel are both international symbols of modern French femininity – Chanel as the trend-setting couturier who liberated 20th century women with the simplicity and ease of her clothing, and Tautou as the single most recognizable French actress in the world, thanks to her captivating performances in films like 2001’s Oscar-nominated Amelie and a little 2006 thriller called “The Da Vinci Code. This fall, the lives of Audrey Tautou and Coco Chanel converge in Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel, a handsomely crafted biopic that takes the unconventional tack of highlighting the couturier’s life leading up to, but not beyond, the success of her signature style.

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