‘Spring Blossom’ Helmer Suzanne Lindon on Tackling Age-Gap Romance With a Strong Female Character

Tom Grater International Film ReporterHerbert Kretzmer, whose English lyrics for the then little-known French musical Les Miserables helped turn the show into a blockbuster production, has died at the age of 95.High-profile theatre figures including Tim Rice first shared the news and his agent has since confirmed it to the New York Times.

Michelle Pfeiffer has been receiving rave reviews for her role as a well-to-do New Yorker who flees to Paris with her son (Lucas Hedges) as she burns through her savings in the New York Film Festival's closing night movie, Azazel Jacobs' French Exit.

Emiliano Granada Few Brazilian series have won such plaudits abroad as high-end medical procedural ”Under Pressure,” which was selected for the Toronto Festival, swept French Fipa TV festival awards, and is hailed as a signature series in the drive by Globo, Latin America’s biggest media company, into non-escapist, international standard social issue series.As Brazil has become one of he three countries with the most COVID-19 infections in the world, Globo aired an “Under Pressure” two-episode

Ed Meza @edmezavarPortuguese film distributor Midas Filmes has picked up a slew of new acquisitions, including Nanni Moretti’s upcoming “Three Floors,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria” and Daniele Luchetti’s “The Ties,” which opened this year’s Venice Film Festival.The Lisbon-based company, which is taking part in this year’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) focus on Portugal in Lyon, France, has also recently picked up Belgian helmer Lucas Belvaux’s “Home Front,” starring Gérard

Kenzo Takada, the Japanese-French designer and founder of Kenzo, has died from complications of COVID-19 at the age of 81, a spokesman confirmed to The Guardian. He died in the American hospital in Paris."Kenzo Takada has, from the 1970s, infused into fashion a tone of poetic lightness and sweet freedom which inspired many designers after him," Bernard Arnault, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of LVMH said in a statement.

art collection.Pamela Stephenson said six drawings completed by the comedian in recent months were “extraordinary”.She compared the 77-year-old, who is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, to French artist Henri Matisse, who turned to creating cut paper collages when ill health left him unable to paint in his later years.The latest instalment of Connolly’s Born on a Rainy Day series has been unveiled by gallery bosses at Castle Fine Art in London.

“A Call to Spy,” which tracks the true-life story of how British spies navigated France during World War II, may be set 80 years ago, but its themes of racism, sexism and misogyny feel undeniably, infuriatingly urgent. READ MORE: ‘A Call To Spy’ Trailer: New WWII Film Focuses On Churchill’s Female-Led Spy Agency Director Lydia Dean Pilcher keeps the action moving apace even when the familiar, often formulaic narrative threatens to fold.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNicole Garcia’s romance thriller “Lovers” has lured a raft of distributors before and after its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Read More About: Seven warships made their way along the river from Greenock to their final destination at King George V dock at Braehead.The ships and their crew are taking part in Joint Warrior, one of the largest military exercises of its kind in Europe.Eight frigates from Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France and Portugal will be berthed at the dock along with two UK vessels and one from the US.A total of 11 nations will take part in Joint Warrior, bringing 28 warships, two submarines, 81

Entertainment One has gone abroad for more broadcast partners to back a second season of the Canadian medical drama Nurses. Ahead of Mipcom, deals have been signed with Foxtel in Australia, NBCUniversal International Networks in Germany and Africa, Warner TV for France, Streamz and SBS in for Belgium, Talpa Network for The Netherlands, Siminn in Iceland, Turkey's Foxlife and Fox Network Group for the Middle East.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorBBC Studios has closed a raft of global deals for Steve McQueen’s hotly-anticipated anthology drama Small Axe, which will premiere on BBC One in the UK and Amazon in the U.S.Australia’s Foxtel, France’s Salto, Spain’s Movistar+, Russia’s KinoPoisk, and Greece’s Cosmote TV are among the territories to have picked up the show.

Rebel Wilson decided to let loose in in the Mediterranean Sea with a fun jet ski ride, four days after debuting her romance with new boyfriend Jacob Busch, 29. The 40-year-old actress and the handsome Anheuser-Busch heir had their official red carpet coming out at a gala in Monte Carlo on Sept 24, and the pair stayed on in the area to enjoy the good life along the French Riviera.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorAGC International inked key territory deals during the virtual TIFF market on Donnie Yen action pic The Father.Pacts have gone down with Leonine in Germany and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; DeAPlaneta in Spain; Nordisk in Scandinavia; Rialto Distribution & Vertigo Releasing in Australia & New Zealand; and Signature Entertainment in the U.K.

Guy Lodge Film CriticDespite their individual box-office success, the exceedingly mild BDSM frolics of the “Fifty Shades” films did little to revive Hollywood’s interest in the kind of frosty, high-style erotic drama that was de rigueur in the early 1990s — around the time that French writer Annie Ernaux scored some international renown with her sexually frank autofiction novel “Simple Passion.” French filmmakers’ loyalty to such material has remained more steadfast, however, so it’s somewhat

Rita Ora is showing off her stylish side in Milan!

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentParis-based Bac Films has closed multiple territories across Europe and Africa as well as Canada on family adventure “Yakari,” an animated feature reboot of the cult 1970’s franchise.Based on the French-Belgian comic strip first published in 1969 and created by Job, Derib and Dominique, “Yakari” has also been adapted into two popular TV series, the first in the 1980s and another one running from 2005.

Jay Weissberg A 17-year-old Parisian girl of Algerian parentage struggles to negotiate the conflicting tensions between desire, familial expectation, peer pressure and heritage in debuting writer-director Kamir Aïnouz’s intermittently successful “Honey Cigar.” Refreshingly empowering in how it foregrounds the female gaze together with the young woman’s ownership of her sexual urges, the film too often falls back on paper-thin characterizations that trip up the director’s ambitious attempt to