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Angèle Mac, Clément Penhoat, Ahmed Abdel Laoui and Kylian Larmonie star in the genre film. A production bringing together Les Films du Worso and Unité, sold by Elle Driver. Since 12 April, in the Paris region, Guillaume Nicloux has been filming La Tour d’Assitan, his 16th feature film after, among other titles, Thalasso (in competition at San Sebastian in 2019), To the Ends of the World (Directors’ Fortnight 2018), Valley of Love (in Cannes competition in 2015) and The Nun (in competition in Berlin in 2013). Starring in this film, at the border between fantasy and horror, are Angèle Mac (making her feature film debut), Clément Penhoat (better known under his rapping name Hatik and revealed on screen in the series Validé), Ahmed Abdel Laoui (seen in The Specials and Just Kids) and Kylian Larmonie. Written by the director, the script begins one morning, when the inhabitants of a housing...

’Beautiful Minds’ is inspired by the real-life experiences of co-director Alexandre Jollien who was born with cerebral palsy but overcame his disabilities to study philosophy

Elle Driver has launched sales on Bernard Campan and Alexandre Jollien’s pioneering French comedy-drama Beautiful Minds, about a workaholic funeral director and a solitary vegetable delivery man and philosopher born with cerebral palsy, who embark on a road trip in a hearse.

It is inspired by the real-life experiences of Jollien who was born with cerebral palsy but overcame his disabilities to study philosophy and become became a major thinker and spiritual teacher, who has written several best-selling books.

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Guillaume Nicloux's To the Ends of the World is showing January and February, 2020 in the series From France with Love.A man, center-frame, despondent and immobile, sits on a bench, his head hanging heavy on his chest. Behind him, a foggy background reveals lightly-dressed soldiers trodding the ground in a casual manner, their movement slowed down to strolling. When Robert Tassen (a gritty Gaspard Ulliel) finally aligns his gaze with the spectator, even framed in long shot, his eyes are piercing, brimming with rage. Guillaume Nicloux’s fourteenth feature, To the Ends of the World, is a febrile film set in the time preceding the First Indochina War and, at once, a meditation on grief and ire, the personal and social overlapping in genesis of a war trauma which turns out to be a festering, often crippling wound.

The event takes place from December 14-21.

French director Guillaume Nicloux will head the jury of the 11th edition of the European cinema-focused Les Arcs Film Festival, which takes place Dec 14-21 in the French ski resort.

Meanwhile, Oscar-nominated actor Isabelle Huppert has been announced as the honorary “godmother” of its Talent Village, nurturing emerging directors.

Nicloux’s credits include The Nun, Valley Of Love and most recently Thalasso (aka Just Great) starring Gerard Depardieu and cult French writer Michel Houellebecq as two dissolute men who meet in a health spa in a Northern French seaside resort.

Past jury presidents...

The French director will chair the competition jury at the 11th Les Arcs Film Festival, while the world-famous actress will be the patron of the Talent Village. The ten features duking it out for the Crystal Arrow at the 11th Les Arcs Film Festival (14-21 December 2019) will be weighed up by a jury chaired by French filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux. The identities of the other jury members and the festival’s programme will be unveiled in Paris on 4 November. Meanwhile, the second edition of the Talent Village, which supports young filmmakers in their endeavours to make their feature debuts (see the news), will be blessed with a patron with an undeniable aura of prestige in the form of Isabelle Huppert, who will come along to share her experience and talk to them about their projects.As...

Whether you love him or hate him, it’s undeniable that French writer Michel Houellebecq is one of the seminal authors of our time. After all, not many novelists today have had their names turned into adjectives, with the term “Houellebecquian” signifying the kind of darkly comic contemporary malaise — the melancholy of shopping malls and supermarkets, of tasteless microwave dinners and nondescript residential towers, of loveless copulating, eternal solitude and collective failure — that have characterized his novels since his breakthrough debut from 1994, Whatever.

Outside the literary sphere, Houellebecq may also be one of the only major writers ...