Annecy: TV Series Project ‘Douce’ Offers Caustic Look at Motherhood

VENICE, Italy -- Catherine Deneuve plays an icon of French cinema in “The Truth.” She even chose her own middle name, Fabienne, for her character who says things like, “I’d rather have been a bad friend and a bad mother and a great actress.” But don’t go looking for some essential truths, or gossip, about Deneuve in lines like that, or in Fabienne’s eyeroll at the mention of Brigitte Bardot. The 76-year-old insists that similarities end with the name.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentÉric Rochant, super-producer and creator behind the hit French spy drama “The Bureau,” is set to team with Tomorrow Studios (“Snowpiercer,” “Cowboy Bebop”) on his U.S. television debut.Rochant will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the untitled espionnage series, which will center on the lives of intelligence officers from different countries (U.S., China, Russia, U.K.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSeries Mania has announced that it will take place on March 19-27 in Lille, France, next year after it was forced to move online this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.The celebration of international TV shows will stage the Series Mania Forum as part of the festival, with the formalities taking place at the Lille Grand Palais on March 23-25.Series Mania, which was first created in 2010, added that it intends to award shows a Series Mania Label next year to

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Netflix has dropped a new trailer for Zac Efron’s eco-tour, “Down To Earth”.

, will be lead writer for the adaptation.Conversation With Friends will be produced by Element Pictures.But, what is Conversations with Friends all about?Like Normal People, the book is about two best friends, Frances and Bobbi, who navigate life and love, neither of which are ever black and white.The story follows the two Trinity college students as they embark on an unexpected and sexually charged relationship with an older married couple.Expect love triangles galore and plenty of drama, but

Also Read: Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Anthology Series in Development at HBO Max, Dr. Fauci Set as First SubjectThis “Perry Mason” stars Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason, a low-rent private investigator who is living check-to-check and is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage; John Lithgow as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan, a struggling attorney and a semi-regular employer of Mason; Juliet Rylance as Della Street, E.B.

Also Read: Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Anthology Series in Development at HBO Max, Dr. Fauci Set as First SubjectThis “Perry Mason” stars Matthew Rhys as Perry Mason, a low-rent private investigator who is living check-to-check and is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage; John Lithgow as Elias Birchard “E.B.” Jonathan, a struggling attorney and a semi-regular employer of Mason; Juliet Rylance as Della Street, E.B.

Variety staff pick 10 short films screening at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, either from competition or from the event’s multiple prestigious sidebars, which attendees should take care not to miss.This year, with the entirety of the short film competition on the festival’s digital platform, animation fans from almost anywhere in the world can count themselves among attendees for the cost of a €15 ($16.87) accreditation.France is, predictably, well represented on this year’s

Jamie Lang On Wednesday, Les Femmes s’Animent (LFA), the French arm of Women in Animation (WIA), hosted and streamed “Confinement Votre” (Your Confinement), a global video conference, as part of this year’s WIA Summit at the virtual edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.LFA reached out to women working in the animation industry across Europe about how being confined to working from home affected them, and what they have learned so far from the experience.In the video,

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Jamie Lang Emmy-winning French animation production-distribution company Dandelooo has announced a new deal with Czech production company Krutart for the upcoming 2D animated series “Kosmix.”The announcement was made as Dandeloo streams two shorts, “Shooom’s Odyssey” and “Hungry Bear Tales,” in Competition and a Work in Progress presentation for its 30-minute TV short, “Mum is Pouring Rain,” at this year’s Annecy Intl.