permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com, French with English subtitles. With daily news, interviews, data bases, in-depth investigations into the audiovisual industry, Cineuropa aims at promoting the European film industry throughout the world. This August, the director will start filming her seventh feature starring Louise Bourgoin, Pierre Rochefort, and Dominique Sanda. La fille de Monaco - Domnișoara din Monaco . We spoke to Dea Kulumbegashvili about her debut film. After having sex with her, Christophe pushes Audrey and her scooter off the road and kills her. Cineuropa is the first European portal dedicated to cinema and audiovisual in 4 languages. Eminent lawyer Bertrand Beauvois (played by Fabrice Luchini) spends much of La fille de Monaco, or The Girl from Monaco, positively fighting off the advances of women, despite being a rather pale and lumpy specimen of Gallic manhood. All The film stars Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin, and Stéphane Audran. It also feels like the screenwriters missed a great opportunity to tie the two plotlines together. rights reserved. The Girl from Monaco (original title: La Fille de Monaco) is a 2008 French comedy-drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. Then there's la fille de Monaco herself, Audrey, a blonde Amazon with a voracious appetite for sex and kink who immediately latches on and won't easily let go. Security guard Christophe, a skilled sportsman, is acting as Bertrand’s bodyguard. But he begs off, fearing he'll be a disappointment. At the Cumberland. Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. In one of the last scenes, we see Mrs. Lassalle being freed from prison after only one year of imprisonment while Beauvois remains among the inmates. Roschdy Zem, whose craggy looks and hard-boiled masculinity wouldn't get him a role above third henchman in Hollywood, is equally watchable as an intense but taciturn bodyguard who takes his job very seriously. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution Directed by Anne Fontaine. This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. Bertrand is a brilliant lawyer, highly cultured and very media-savvy. An honest and reserved young man, he is not highly educated and admires in others all the culture and mastery of language that he lacks. ), he knows she's bad news for his client. The filmmaker is bringing together Jalil Lespert, Louise Bourgoin and Mélanie Doutey in the cast of this feature film piloted by TS Productions and sold by France Télévisions Distribution . Audrey Varella (Louise Bourgoin), a beautiful but highly promiscuous local TV weather girl whose previous lovers include Christophe, enamors Beauvois, hoping to make a better life with him. to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about 01/10/2019 | Production | Funding | France Next comes nubile Hélène, who drapes herself on his bed in sexy, black lingerie begging for his attention. A Films Pelléas production. expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Toronto Welcome to a platform where professionals can meet and exchange information and ideas. Starring Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin. Distributie Fabrice Luchini, Stéphane Audran. To order copies of This despite the warnings of Christophe to Beauvois, who have formed a bond of friendship, to stay away from her. The film stars Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin, and Stéphane Audran . Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. 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What is it about dumpy old French guys that makes them such babe magnets? He then continues to the court for his final plead in the Lassalle case. Republication or distribution of this content is Then there's la fille de Monaco herself, Audrey, a blonde Amazon with a voracious appetite for sex and kink who immediately latches on and won't easily let go. There are some genuinely suspenseful moments, great dialogue and interplay between lawyer and bodyguard and Bourgoin's performance as the scheming temptress is audacious and inspired. The movie opens with Beauvois in a hot embrace with a well-preserved woman he's just met as he muses aloud whether to take things to the next stage (the hotel room). Plot. But, as a solid thriller, La fille de Monaco feels like it's missed the mark. 20 August 2008 (France) Running time. Contact us | Logos and banners | Change privacy settings, Mission | Structure | Partners | Team | Participate | Donations | Terms and conditions, (The article continues below - Commercial information), Louise Bourgoin to star in Nicole Garcia’s, Arte France Cinéma to co-produce Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s. It would have been far better if these three had never met up…, The filmmaker is bringing together Jalil Lespert, Louise Bourgoin and Mélanie Doutey in the cast of this feature film piloted by TS Productions and sold by France Télévisions Distribution, 01/10/2019 | Production | Funding | France, The first clapperboard will slam in January for this film toplined by Roschdy Zem and Chiara Mastroianni, produced by Petit Film and set to be sold by Charades, Tahar Rahim, Roschdy Zem and Maïwenn are among the cast of this Kazak production, which will be distributed in France by Ad Vitam and sold by Indie Sales, The actress will begin shooting soon; she will be joined by Edouard Baer and Bulle Ogier in the cast of the film, which is directed by Benoît Graffin and produced by EDI, Laurent Larivière’s feature debut, a Franco-Belgian co-production by Mon Voisin Productions together with Saga Film, will be distributed and sold by Le Pacte, Imminent filming for the actor-director’s third feature, with Nicolas Duvauchelle, Marina Foïs and Vincent Rottiers in the cast, 4th feature film for the director-actress who shares the bill with Karin Viard, Emmanuelle Devos, Roschdy Zem and Philippe Rebbot. Middle-aged and highly successful lawyer Bertrand Beauvois (Fabrice Luchini) is hired by Monaco businessman Louis Lassalle (Gilles Cohen) to defend his mother Édith Lassalle (Stéphane Audran), who has killed her former lover. Distributed by: Warner Bros. Release date. 95 minutes: Country: France: Language: French: Box office: $599,595: The Girl from Monaco (original title: La Fille de Monaco) is a 2008 French comedy-drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. The director who made Of Gods and Men is to start shooting an off-the-wall comedy in spring 2013. Ambitious, sexy and bold, Audrey is a weather-girl for a cable TV channel in Monaco, but has no intention of spending the rest of her career there. IMDb5.8/10. The mood is broken when the woman points out they're being followed and he confronts a man who, it turns out, has been hired as his bodyguard by the rich son of a woman he is representing in a high-profile murder trial. Quelle horreur! Newspapers Limited, One Yonge Street, 4th floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6. La fille de Monaco (2008) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. 14A. On November 14, shooting will start in Brittany on Hervé Lasgouttes’s debut feature, Crawl, starring Swann Arlaud. He loves women – but only for conversational purposes – and goes to Monaco to defend a septuagenarian accused of murder. Too bad the murder trial – involving a sordid love triangle between mother, son and a bisexual hustler – doesn't play a greater role in the film. The story revolves around Beauvois, his bodyguard Christophe (hired because the murder victim has a couple of angry brothers with Russian mob ties) and Audrey, a perky weather girl with a social climber's driving ambition. Audrey spends all her time with Beauvois, including nights of exhausting wild sex, and Beauvois entreats Christophe to make her disappear from his life. Regizat de Anne Fontaine. 95 minutes. To order Sinoposis La fille de Monaco: Bertrand Beauvois, un bine cunoscut avocat, se află în Monte Carlo ca să o apere pe mama unui om Lassalle assigns a bodyguard to Beauvois, Christophe Abadi (Roschdy Zem). Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com, The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star La Fille de Monaco Format: DVD. Louise Bourgoin portrays Audrey as a veritable force of nature, teeming with boundless sexual energy who spouts New Age jargon but is not afraid to use her body and her wiles to get what she wants. Cineuropa chatted to Julien Temple about his dazzling tribute to the frontman of The Pogues, Madrid-born director Antonio Méndez Esparza, now settled in the USA, returns with a new bid for the Golden Shell —. In a battle between an irresistible force and an immovable object, only one of them can prevail. The script, co-written by director Anne Fontaine, is laden with carnality and decadence as the lust-struck Beauvois gets drawn further into Audrey's web of sex and degradation. And the perpetually startled look on the seasoned advocate's face seems to express his own bewilderment at the situation. We talked to Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck, the duo behind one of the biggest delights of the year, FR 20/08/2008, BE 03/09/2008, DE 02/07/2009, Philippe Carcassonne, Bruno Pésery, Christine Raspillere. Beauvois willingly takes the blame.
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