While our favourite French and Belgian actress Virginie Efira is over at Cannes Film Festival this week, we shall take a peak at her new movie drama PARALLEL TALES (Histoires paralleles) from director Asghar Farhad which has started playing in French cinemas as of this week. The star studded cast also includes Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve and Adam Bessa. In search of inspiration for her new novel, Sylvie spies on her neighbors across the street. When she hires young Adam to help her with her daily routine, she has no idea that he will turn her life and her work upside down, until the fiction she had imagined surpasses the reality of them all.
VIRGINIE EFIRA, VINCENT CASSEL, ISABELLE HUPPERT, PIERRE NINEY, CATHERINE DENEUVE
Although the plot is still kept under wraps, new movie project from Cannes winner Asghar Farhadi PARALLEL TALES is set to have Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, Isabelle Huppert, Adam Bessa and Catherine Deneuve in the cast. The film is set for spring 2026 release. After shooting over a dozen movies in three years, Efira is coming back to the big screens. This July she will star in VIE PRIVEE with Jodie Foster about a renowned psychiatrist who mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.
Beside Sam Claflin series, we are also getting a new COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO movie and today you can check out new trailer with PierreNiney in the lead role of Edmond Dantès, a young sailor who was falsely accused
of treason and is imprisoned without trial in the Château d’If, a
grim island fortress near Marseille. After many years of captivity, he
finally escapes and, under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo,
plans to take revenge on those who have wrongly accused him. Directed by
Musketeers helmers Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière this historical adventure movie will arrive this summer, June 28th to French cinemas based on Alexandre Dumas' famous classic novel. Check out the latest trailer below and tell us what you think:
COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO TV SERIES
Speaking
of Mediawan's historical TV series THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO with Sam
Claflin, Blake Ritson and Jeremy Irons, I have the first poster
First poster for Sam Claflin's Monte Cristo series
from it
for you today. Claflin plays Edmond, a sailor who is falsely accused of
treason and imprisoned without
trial in the Château d’If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. After
many years of captivity, he finally escapes and, under the identity of
the Count of Monte Cristo, plans to take revenge on those who have
wrongly accused him. Irons
plays Abbé Faria who has a decisive role in carrying out Cristo's
revenge. Ana Girardot, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Karla-Simone Spence,
Michele Riondino, Lino Guanciale, Gabriella Pession and Nicolas Maupas
also star in Bille August directed series.
Beside Sam Claflin series, we are also getting a new COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO movie and today you can check out the first trailer with Pierre
The movie will hit French cinemas this June
Niney in
the lead role of Edmond Dantès, a young sailor who was falsely accused
of treason and is imprisoned without trial in the Château d’If, a
grim island fortress near Marseille. After many years of captivity, he
finally escapes and, under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo,
plans to take revenge on those who have wrongly accused him. Directed by
Musketeers helmers Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière it will arrive June 28th to French cinemas based on Dumas' famous classic novel.
Beside Sam Claflin series, we are also getting a new COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO movie and today you can check out the first image of Pierre Niney in the lead role of Edmond Dantès, a young sailor who was falsely accused of treason and is imprisoned without trial in the Château d’If, a grim island fortress near Marseille. After many years of captivity, he finally escapes and, under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, plans to take revenge on those who have wrongly accused him. Directed by Musketeers helmers Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière it will arrive late next year.
I've already told you that our dear Pathe will do a movie adaptation of COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO after they give us two Musketeers movie in April and December, and now Pierre Niney has been announced as the lead! To shoot from July with October 2024 opening date, it will be told from the point of view of Edmond Dantès, the first French superhero, who steps from the light into the shadows, assuming the identity of masked avenger. Based on Dumas' famous novel, it will be an epic adventure film, with exceptionally strong characters!
DINOSAUR WITH STEPHEN FRY
LAUNCHES THIS SUNDAY!
And here is something that actually begins as soon as tomorrow: this Sunday Channel 5 is launching their four episode documentary series DINOSAUR WITH STEPHEN FRY which takes the British comedian on a
New series starts this Sunday at 7PM
journey back to 155 million years ago!
In this new factual series the comedian charts the dinosaurs’ time on
earth from their ‘golden age’ in the Jurassic era right through to their
last days, when the planet was hit by a huge asteroid. He interacts
with the giant beasts and meets experts who tell him surprising facts
about the creatures. A prehistoric environment via a 360-degree Dinosaur
World, which has been designed to immerse viewers in a hyper-realistic
representation of the jungles of the Jurassic period and plains of the
Cretaceous period. Thanks to state-of-the-art CGI, Stephen is able to
chart their story on earth right through to their demise 66 million
years ago. He gets to meet much-loved dinos such as the 26m-long
diplodocus and witness ferocious battles between triceratops and the
fearsome tyrannosaurus rex.
Oui, oui, we're having a French movie Saturday today! Opening in French cinemas this December is epic romance LA PROMESSE DE L'AUBE with Pierre Niney playing famous novelist Romain Gary and Charlotte Gainsbourg also starring.
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years
as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War
II, this tragicomedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of
the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the
Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
'THE GUARDIANS' TRAILER
WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR
The movie aired last weekend at London Film Festival
Also opening on the very same day as the above mentioned saga on Romain Gary, December 6th over in France, is movingly epic First World War drama THE GUARDIANS (Les Gardiennes) which follows the touching story of women that were left behind to work a family farm during the Great War while their men were dying for their country. While their men were guarding the country, the women were left to be the guardians of their homes and farms.