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Gabrielle Union’s Jenna Jones stumbles upon a forbidden love in more ways than one in the Netflix adaptation of Tia Williams’ book “The Perfect Find.”

Shortly after landing a job under her old fashion world nemesis Darcy Hale (Gina Torres), Jenne meets Eric Combs (Keith Powers) at a party and kisses him. She learns the next day that Eric is Darcy’s 22-year-old son as well as her new coworker at Darzine, Darcy’s fashion magazine. Jenna has just entered her forties, so the age gap between the two of them is glaring.

“Jenna’s focus was basically self-love in a nutshell, but when every way that you validate yourself is taken from you, and you have to figure out who the hell you are and what you do want what you don’t want, ‘What is joy to you, has it changed?’” Union told TheWrap. “Once she gets on that path,...

Brett Eldredge gave the live debut of his new single “Gabrielle” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night. An at-home performance, the clip captured the country singer in his backyard in Nashville, playing the song about a busted relationship on acoustic guitar.

It’s a bare-bones rendition, but it highlights the songwriting-focused nature of Eldredge’s upcoming album, Sunday Drive. The studio version of “Gabrielle,” released last Friday, is based around a piano melody, which Eldredge says became a hallmark of the project.

“It was this upright piano,...

Country artists love to talk about getting out of their comfort zone. But for many who have had a taste of mainstream success, especially on don’t-rock-the-boat country radio, it usually means nothing more revolutionary than changing their shirt.

Beginning back in 2012 with “Don’t Ya,” Brett Eldredge amassed a string of radio hits. Some were solid (“Wanna Be That Song”), others less than (“Lose My Mind,” “Drunk on Your Love”), but they kept him near the top of the charts, on the road with stars like Keith Urban, and profitable.

Netflix’s Chuck Lorre comedy “The Kominsky Method” has added a trio of recurring guest stars for its second season.

Jane Seymour, Jacqueline Bisset and Paul Reiser will appear in the second season of the Golden Globe-winning series as recurring guest stars, joining series stars Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin in multiple episodes each.

Seymour will play “Madelyn,” a seventy-something, well-to-do woman who Norman (Arkin) had a mad love affair with in the Sixties before he met his wife. Fifty years later, they meet and start again.

Bisset will play “Gabrielle,” Mindy’s (Sarah Baker) mom and Sandy’s (Douglas) French ex-wife who delights in still being able to push the buttons of her ex-husband, while Reiser will play “Martin,” a sixty-something high school teacher who gets romantically involved with Mindy.

The comedy about a former Hollywood star...

Adaptation of Jocelyne Saucier’s 2011 novel.

Paris-based Indie Sales has scooped up world sales on Canadian director Louise Archambault’s upcoming feature And the Birds Rained Down.

Adapted from Jocelyne Saucier’s prize-winning 2011 novel, the film follows three elderly hermits living deep in woods that are periodically ravaged by wildfires.

Their quiet lives are disrupted by the arrival of two women, a luminous octogenarian who has been unjustly institutionalised her whole life and a young photographer charged with interviewing survivors of a historically deadly forest fire.

It is Archambault’s third feature and follows her 2013 drama Gabrielle, about a mentally...

Isabelle Huppert (Courtesy: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)

By: Carson Blackwelder

Managing Editor

The best actress Oscar race might seem like a showdown between La La Land’s Emma Stone and Jackie’s Natalie Portman, but Elle’s Isabelle Huppert is proving to be quite the upset. Should Huppert actually snag an Oscar nomination this year, shockingly it would be a first for the French thespian. If Huppert has flown under the Academy’s radar, who else out there is considered the best of the best and hasn’t had a chance to win Hollywood’s biggest award?

Our latest indication of Huppert’s surprise domination this awards season was at the Golden Globes when the 63-year-old won for best actress in a drama and bested Portman — Stone was nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy. Further catapulting Huppert in the best actress Oscar standings was Elle being named best foreign-language film,...

Ten years after screening “Charlie Says” at the Cannes Film Festival, director Nicole Garcia returned this year to the Croisette with her latest drama “From the Land of the Moon” (“Mal de pierres”).

Starring Marion Cotillard, the film is based on Milena Agus’ novel of the same name and follows a French woman in post-World War II Europe who’s torn between the man she’s meant to marry (Àlex Brendemühl) and a charming war veteran (Louis Garrel).

A new international trailer released by StudioCanal shows the free-spirited Gabrielle fighting for her passionate dream of finding true love — an act that is considered scandalous in her small town in the South of France. While the sneak peek has no English subtitles, Cotillard’s performance guides the trailer forward, bringing a level of suspense and heartbreak to the clip.

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The One You’re With: Haigh’s Superb Examination of Marriage and Things Left Unsaid

With imperceptible grace, 45 Years portrays the warping of a near half century marriage by a matter of degrees measured almost exclusively by acute attention to body language and facial expression. As Andrew Haigh’s third feature, the director proves to be quite astute at depictions of nuanced interactions in relationships. Without so much as a single screaming match, the filmmaker conveys the unique experiences and attitudes of a long term relationship, and provides a cinematic counterpart to something like Edward Albee’s famed disintegration into bitterness, bitchery, and alcoholism with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But at its center is the divine Charlotte Rampling as a woman who peels back the thick layer of superficiality that’s enveloped her relationship with someone she doesn’t know very well at all.

On the eve of their 45th wedding anniversary,...

Catherine Deneuve: César Award Besst Actress Record-Tier (photo: Catherine Deneuve in 'In the Courtyard / Dans la cour') (See previous post: "Kristen Stewart and Catherine Deneuve Make César Award History.") Catherine Deneuve has received 12 Best Actress César nominations to date. Deneuve's nods were for the following movies (year of film's release): Pierre Salvadori's In the Courtyard / Dans la Cour (2014). Emmanuelle Bercot's On My Way / Elle s'en va (2013). François Ozon's Potiche (2010). Nicole Garcia's Place Vendôme (1998). André Téchiné's Thieves / Les voleurs (1996). André Téchiné's My Favorite Season / Ma saison préférée (1993). Régis Wargnier's Indochine (1992). François Dupeyron's Strange Place for an Encounter / Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre (1988). Jean-Pierre Mocky's Agent trouble (1987). André Téchiné's Hotel America / Hôtel des Amériques (1981). François Truffaut's The Last Metro / Le dernier métro (1980). Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Le sauvage (1975). Additionally, Catherine Deneuve was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category...

Famed French stage and film director Patrice Chéreau (Intimacy, Gabrielle, Those Who Loved Me Can Take the Train) passed away last October. Now Queen Margot, Chéreau's most commercially successful film, gets a 4K restoration treatment on its 20th anniversary and comes back to theaters, thanks to Cohen Film Collection. This timely release is a rare opportunity to experience what many consider as the most radical redefining act in the period costume drama genre ever, in 4K digital glory. Queen Margot 4K Director's Cut receives a theatrical run here in New York, May 9 - 15 at Film Forum. Based on Alexandre Dumas's novel, Queen Margot tells a bloody chapter in French history when a war between Catholics and Protestants was raging. The main players in...

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Witty, urbane and indefatigable to the last, Chéreau was one of the great directors of the past 40 years, a man whose creative integrity was his professional hallmark

The last time I met the French director Patrice Chéreau, who died on Monday at the age of 68, he had already been diagnosed with cancer. It was in Berlin last April; he looked tired and his hair was thinning. But he refused to stint, either on rehearsals for a production of Elektra at the Aix-en-Provence festival on which he was engaged, or on his mentoring of the young Polish director Michał Borczuch for a programme run by the Rolex Mentors Initiative.

At the end of the week in Berlin, he attended a dinner for eight people, where he was the centre of attention. He was witty and nostalgic – reminiscing about trips he made to the seaside with his parents as a boy – and full of life and plans.

Patrice Chéreau dead at 68: French director best known for ‘Queen Margot,’ gay-related dramas (photo: Patrice Chéreau; Isabelle Adjani in ‘Queen Margot’) Screenwriter, sometime actor, and stage, opera, and film director Patrice Chéreau, whose clinically cool — some might say sterile — films were arthouse favorites in some quarters, has died of lung cancer in Paris. Chéreau was 68. Born on November 2, 1944, in Lézigné, in France’s Maine-et-Loire department, and raised in Paris, Patrice Chéreau began directing plays in his late teens. In the mid-’60s, he became the director of a theater in Sartrouville, northwest of Paris, where he staged plays with a strong left-wing bent. Later on he moved to Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, and in the ’80s became the director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. His 1976 staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth was considered revolutionary. Patrice Chéreau...

Patrice Chéreau, the French filmmaker-actor-writer best known for the female fronted period dramas "Queen Margot" and "Gabrielle," has passed away today in Paris of cancer. He was 68. The Cannes and Berlinale award winner got his start in theater, becoming a young prodigy after netting a professional directing gig in his late teens. He came onto the film scene with his 1975 debut "Flesh of the Orchid," starring Charlotte Rampling. He went on to work with some of France's most celebrated actresses, including Isabelle Huppert ("Gabrielle") and Isabelle Adjani ("Queen Margot"). "Queen Margot" stands to this day as his most celebrated film, having gone on to net an Oscar nomination for its stunning costume design and five César awards, including a win for Adjani. The Cannes Film Festival this year hosted a 20th anniversary screening of the classic, with Chéreau in attendance. [Source: Liberation]...

Moi Petite Reader: Underrated Jacquot Depicts Decadence on the Eve of Doom

The first of underrated Gallic master Benoît Jacquot’s films to reach theaters on Us Shores since 2004 (he’s had steady output since then, however) is the extremely enjoyable, Farewell, My Queen. Based on a novel by Chantal Thomas, we’re witness to the last week of Marie Antoinette’s reign, as told through the eyes of a member of her court. Jacquot, whose films are often showcases for France’s most talented actresses, having crafted films for Isabelle Huppert, Isild Le Besco, and Virginie Ledoyen, is also no stranger to period royalty pieces, having helmed a 2004 film for French television concerning Princess Marie Bonaparte, starring Catherine Deneuve. With his latest effort, he’s given us a heady concoction of historical intrigue, with a tart hint of salaciousness that drains away the generally unrealistic nature of supposedly authentic reenactments.

After four separate announcements (here, here, here and here), the Toronto International Film Festival has rounded out their official line-up with the final slate. The big films from their Masters line-up includes Cannes favorites Le Havre, The Kid with the Bike, Once Upon A Time in Anatolia and Restless. We also getting the Sundance hit Pariah. Check out the last round of films below and head over here to see the entire schedule.

Masters

Almayer’s Folly (La Folie Almayer) Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France

North American Premiere

Somewhere in South-East Asia, in a little lost village on a wide and turbulent river, a European man clings to his pipe dreams out of love for his daughter. Working freely from Joseph Conrad’s debut novel, Akerman tells the story of a trader in 1950s Malaysia whose dreams of a Western life for his Malay daughter slowly lead to destruction. A quest for the absolute,...

Originally produced as a two part TV movie, Henry of Navarre (aka Henri 4) makes its way onto Blu-ray and DVD in the UK in the form of its international theatrical cut. Clocking in at the reduced running time of just over two and a half hours the film is still rather bloated and the pace begins to drag a little towards the end.

The film predominantly covers the middle period in Henry of Navarre’s life in which he married Margot de Valois, which in turn resulted in the infamous Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, his affair with Gabrielle d’Estrees and his subsequent marriage to Marie de’ Medici. Despite all these romantic entanglements (including one particularly energetic sex scene) the primary focus of the makers of Henry of Navarre appears to be the political machinations and bloody conflicts that are derived from the disagreements between the Catholics and...

From outraging Wagner purists to snubbing Hollywood, Patrice Chéreau is forever going against the grain. Now the great French director has turned his sights on British theatre.

Patrice Chéreau, the great French theatre, opera and film director, is in London to rehearse the first play he has ever directed in the UK. It's a coup for the Young Vic, and its artistic director, David Lan, tells me people are hanging about near the rehearsal rooms just to feel the presence, touch the hem. I am not ashamed to admit I am one of those hem-touchers, fascinated to meet the man who changed the face of modern opera with his centenary Ring cycle at Bayreuth in 1976, when he infuriated traditionalists by replacing Wagnerian horns and bearskins with the trappings of 19th-century plutocracy.

That Ring made the then 31-year-old Chéreau's career. It remains the achievement with which he is most often linked,...

In a move designed to increase the reach of independent cinema, IFC Entertainment, one of the leading distributors of independent and foreign films, and Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service, today announced a partnership that gives Netflix U.S. rights to 53 unique titles from IFC Entertainment. Through this agreement select titles from IFC Entertainment's eclectic library of independent films will become available to be streamed instantly to televisions and computers via the Netflix service. The deal was announced jointly by Lisa Schwartz, executive vice president for IFC Entertainment, and Robert Kyncl, vice president of content acquisition for Netflix.

The partnership gives Netflix members on an unlimited plan the opportunity to instantly watch the newly acquired films on their computers or TVs through a range of Netflix ready devices. Those devices include Netflix ready Blu-ray disc players and new Internet TVs from LG Electronics; Blu-ray disc players from Samsung...

Persecution may very well be Patrice Chéreau's most abrasive film. That's saying a lot. After the Cannes-ready provocations of Queen Margot, Chéreau directed Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, the film that introduced the stance he's held for the last decade: an abrasive humanism that abandons all pretensions of style or taste to unbendingly identify with unlikeable people. If we saint the Dardennes for their devotion to victims, we should saint Chéreau for his devotion to victimizers. Though his 2005 feature Gabrielle remains his masterpiece (if we apply that term to Chéreau, a director who makes "mastery" seem worthless), there's much to be said about Pesecution's story of an ordinary asshole (Romain Duris) who realizes he feels more comfortable around his pathetic stalker (Jean-Hugues Anglade) than his independent girlfriend (Charlotte Gainsbourg).

Besides directing, Chéreau has an enviable resume as an actor, having worked with Youssef Chahine, Andrzej Wajda,...

The European Film Academy is set to honor French actress Isabelle Huppert with a European Achievement in World Cinema award this year. Efa wishes to recognize her unique contribution to the film with the honor.

The 56-year-old actress gained popularity when she appeared in the controversial "Les Valseuses" in 1974. Her international breakthrough came in 1977's "La Dentelliere" and her U.S. debut came in the 1980 Michael Cimino film "Heaven's Gate."

Some of her notable films include "Une Affaire De Femmes," "Gabrielle," "La Pianiste," and Violette Noziere.

Huppert won the Best Actress trophy twice in Cannes.

While director Anne Fontaine’s “Coco Before Chanel” has already opened in most of the world, the film is finally getting released here in America September 25th. If you can’t tell by the name, the film is about Coco Chanel’s rise in the fashion world and it stars Audrey Tautou as the famous designer. While I haven’t seen the film so I can’t tell you what I thought, it has a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, so a lot of people have enjoyed it. So to help promote the movie, we’ve been given 9 clips (about 12 minutes of the movie) and they’re after the jump. Take a look:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Coco Before Chanel is the story of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who began her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey became the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success,...

• To put it simply, Rien de Personnel (the opening film for the 48th edition of the Critic's Week) is a sophisticated film that really only gets going in the final act, which is sort of the point of Mathias Gokalp and Nadine Lamari's screenplay. Shot in one location, the story takes place during the course of one evening, where employees of a drug company sip on cocktails and start worrying about their own future with the company as rumors circulate that it is up for sale. Told via the vantage point of several of these workers, Gokalp creates a Gosford Park-like scenario where gossip spreads like wildfire and he reuses the same footage over and over again by increasing the length and further adding details as to the true cause and effects. What occurs is that our perceptions of who these characters really are changes over time.

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PARIS -- Jacques Audiard's De battre mon coeur s'est arrete (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) continued its winning streak Tuesday, waltzing off with the prize for best French film of 2005 at the 11th annual Lumiere Awards, France's local version of the Golden Globes. The remake of James Toback's 1978 cult film, about a young man who yearns to escape his father's real estate business to become a concert pianist, has swept a number of French and international awards including best film from the French Critics' Union and the French Cinema Press Golden Stars awards, best picture at the European Film Festival in Seville and best non-English-language film at last Sunday's British Academy Film Awards. On Saturday, the film will compete for 10 Cesars -- France's top honors -- including best film, director and actor. Beat lead Romain Duris was named best actor at the Lumieres. Isabelle Huppert won best actress for her role in Gabrielle, director Patrice Chereau's adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel The Return. Gabrielle is a contender for six Cesars.

PARIS -- The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard's remake of James Toback's 1970s cult film Fingers, drummed up 10 nominations for the Cesar Awards, France's top film honors, including best film, director and actor (Romain Duris), organizers said. World War I drama Merry Christmas, France's contender for a foreign-language Oscar nomination, and Gabrielle, Patrice Chereau's adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel The Return, bagged six nominations each on Friday. Merry Christmas will vie for best French film with Beat, the Dardenne brothers' Palme d'Or winner L'enfant (The Child), Radu Mihaileanu's Live and Become and Xavier Beauvois' The Little Lieutenant. Beauvois' cop drama nabbed five nominations, including best film, director and actress, for Nathalie Baye.

PARIS -- The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard's remake of James Toback's 1970s cult film Fingers, drummed up 10 nominations for the Cesar Awards, France's top film honors, including best film, director and actor (Romain Duris), organizers said. World War I drama Merry Christmas, France's contender for a foreign-language Oscar nomination, and Gabrielle, Patrice Chereau's adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel The Return, bagged six nominations each on Friday. Merry Christmas will vie for best French film with Beat, the Dardenne brothers' Palme d'Or winner L'enfant (The Child), Radu Mihaileanu's Live and Become and Xavier Beauvois' The Little Lieutenant. Beauvois' cop drama nabbed five nominations, including best film, director and actress, for Nathalie Baye.

NEW YORK -- Wellspring, the distribution wing of Genius Products, nabbed U.S. rights to Patrice Chereau's French drama Gabrielle from StudioCanal. Wellspring plans a spring platform release beginning in Los Angeles and New York. The film stars Isabelle Huppert and Pascal Greggory in a psychological drama of a dissolving marriage, set in turn-of-the-century France. Their couple begins to unravel with the discovery of a letter left by Huppert's character. Chereau (Queen Margot) and Anne-Louise Trividic adapted the screenplay from Joseph Conrad's 19th century short story The Return.