Catherine Deneuve to Preside Over 50th Edition of Cesar Awards
Catherine Deneuve will preside over the 50th edition of the Cesar Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars. Busan Film Festival Sets Park Chan-wook Scripted Netflix Title 'Uprising' as Opener, Expands Program Despite Slashed Funding As part of her honorary role as president of this milestone edition, Deneuve will be delivering the opening speech at the ceremony. The gala event will take place on Feb. 28 at the Olympia concert hall and will be broadcast on French pay TV group Canal+, a media partner of the Cesar Awards. “Who better than an extraordinary actress to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Césars?...
Christine Boisson Dies: ‘Emmanuelle’, ‘Exterior, Night’ Actress Was 68
French actress Christine Boisson, who got her big-screen break as a 17-year-old in Emmanuelle, has died at the age of 68 in Paris.Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: Photo Gallery & Obituaries Boisson had just left school and was still a minor when Just Jaeckin cast her in his 1974 erotic classic as the sexually adventurous teenager Marie-Ange, who introduces Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) to the shady libertine figure of Mario. After being cast in a handful of smaller roles purely on the basis of her physique, Boisson decided to go back to school and studied acting at France’s prestigious Conservatoire. On completing the...
‘Emmanuelle’ Review: Notionally Revisionist Remake of the Softcore Classic Is One Big Anti-Climax
On paper, a contemporary feminist spin on “Emmanuelle” sounds like a zesty idea. An ostensible portrait of liberated female sexuality firmly ossified in patriarchal politics, Just Jaeckin’s 1974 softcore smash is the kind of cultural touchstone so emblematic of its era that the very act of remaking it qualifies as a symbolic statement of sorts. In practice, however, “Emmanuelle” is a text so flimsy that reworking it is a bit like trying to defibrillate a blancmange: There’s no pulse of an idea there to activate, much less subvert. Saying something freshly substantive about female desire while honoring the film’s defining...
90-Year-Old Brigitte Bardot Has Fans Concerned Due To Recent Appearance And Hygiene
Former actress and model Brigitte Bardot reclined to a life of privacy in the late’70s, after two-decade decades in the spotlight. Years after being a sex symbol with an appearance that met beauty standards, Bardot gained weight and started to live as a shadow of herself. She has also...
Audrey Diwan On Why Her ‘Emmanuelle’ Is Not A Remake Of Original Cult Movie: “I’ve Never Watched The First Film”
French director Audrey Diwan is opening the San Sebastian Film Festival this evening with third feature Emmanuelle, in the company of its star Noémie Merlant and supporting cast members Will Sharpe, Chacha Huang and Jamie Campbell Bower.‘Emmanuelle’ Review: Audrey Diwan’s Brave Attempt To Revive A Dated Softcore Classic Leaves A Lot To Be Desired – San Sebastian Film Festival Diwan, who won Venice’s Golden Lion for abortion drama Happening in 2021, has taken inspiration for her first English-language picture from Emmanuelle Arsan’s erotic novel, originally published clandestinely in France in 1959 and then officially in 1967. The work sparked a franchise of...