It really seems a busy month for Lumière as some days after we announced their newest releases, they already have two new ones coming up.
This time they add two French movies on their catalogue.
AVANT L’HIVER
The excellent new movie by Philippe CLAUDEL ('Il y a longtemps que je t'aime', 'Tous les soleils') with Kristin SCOTT THOMAS ('Il y a longtemps que je t'aime'), Daniel AUTEUIL ('Le huitième jour', 'Caché'), Richard BERRY ('Le petit prince a dit', 'L'Emmerdeur') and Leïla BEKHTI ('La source des femmes', 'Paris je t'aime').
The movie was one of the highlights of last year’s edition of the Filmfestival from Ghent.
Synopsis:
Lucie presumes that her husband Paul - an older neurosurgeon - has an affair. Indeed, Paul behaves strange lately, but the truth behind it is dark and complicated.
BONUS: Interview met regisseur Philippe CLAUDEL (40 min.)
Technical specifications:
France, Luxembourg, 2013 | Length: 103 minutes + 40 minutes (extra)
Language: French | Subtitles: Dutch and French
Format: 16:9 | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
JE FAIS LE MORT
A movie by Jean-Paul SALOMÉ ('Les femmes de l'ombre') with François DAMIENS ('Rien à déclarer'), Géraldine NAKACHE ('Nous York') en Lucien JEAN-BAPTISTE ('Possessions').
Synopsis:
A has-been actor takes a job playing the victims in a homicide reenactment, where he sparks with the civil officer investigating the real-life crime.
BONUS: Audio commentary, interview with Jean-Paul Salomé, improvisations by François Damiens (20 min.)
Technical specifications:
France,2013 | Length: 104 minutes + 20 minutes (extra)
Language: French | Subtitles: Dutch Format: 16:9 | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Bristol's very own electronica export Allflaws have announced that they have already begun work on a new forthcoming album which they are looking to release later this year on UK label Derelict State Records.
Allflaws led by vocalist and producer Gabriel Curran released the somewhat daring, experimental and dystopian LP Versus The Soul back in June of 2013 to wide acclaim. Subsequently the albums release was marred by the banning of the music video Metamorphosis, which was deemed too explicit and controversial for Youtube and other media networks. The follow up will be there 4th official studio album, and will be a very timely and prompt return for Allflaws who have an uncanny knack for producing progressive and leftfield material with influences ranging from industrial, hip hop, trip hop, dance, rock and IDM.
Things are really going fast these days as a couple of days ago Lumière announced the highly acclaimed Jacques Tati-box and now the label informs us about two brand new other releases.
ECHOES FROM THE DEAD (Released on 25th March 2014)
A movie by DANIEL ALFREDSON (Millennium) starring LENA ENDRE (Millennium-trilogie, Wallander), TORD PETERSON (Pettson & Findus) and THOMAS W GABRIELSSON (A Royal Affair)
Synopsis:
Julia has lived with the guilt of her son's disappearance for 21 years. As she returns to her childhood home on Öland, old truths and lies are stirred up. Who can she trust, and what happened to her 5-year old son?
Technical Specifications:
Sweden, 2013 | Length: 100 minutes | Languages: Swedish | Subtitles: Dutch/ Format: 16/9 | Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
SNABBA CASH III (Released on 25th March 2014)
Directed by JENS JONSSON starring JOEL KINNAMAN (RoboCop, Johan Falk), MATIAS VARELA (Snabba Cash, Arne Dahl) and MALIN BUSKA
Synopsis:
That day Sergey Sobolev, police officer, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he's driving too fast and when he sees a boy on a passage walk, it's too late. The boy died, and now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal his crime and stay free. All the characters in this film have to choose - to cross or not to cross the line, when the price for your choice is life... yours and of the ones you love.
Technical Specifications:
Sweden, 2013 | Length: 127 minutes | Languages: Swedish | Subtitles: Dutch, French/ Format: 16/9 | Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
De Filmfreak Distributie has informed us about their upcoming releases. This is what you can expect.
AT ANY PRICE
Imagine
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron, Kim Dickens
A farming family's business is threatened by an unexpected crisis, further testing the relationship between a father and his rebellious son.
THE ASYLUM
Piecefield Films
Director: Saskia Vredeveld
Made in collaboration with photographer Roger Ballen, THE ASYLUM is a surrealistic haven where the lust for power and the desire to love are penetratingly portrayed.
PRINCE AVALANCHE
Remain In Light
Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault |
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
LES PROFS
Victory Productions
Director: Pierre-François Martin-Laval
Stars: Christian Clavier, Isabelle Nanty, Pierre-François Martin-Laval
MINUSCULE
Victory Productions
Directors: Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo
In a peaceful forest, the remains of a picnic trigger a ruthless war between rival ant colonies, obsessed with gaining control of the same prize: a box of sugar cubes! Amidst this struggle a young ladybug befriends a black ant and helps him save his people from the horrible red ants...
EVERYWHEN
Parovisie
Director: Jarand Breian Herdal
Stars: Harald Evjan Furuholmen, Hugo Herrmann, Phillip Larsen
A boy must fight his way from an alternate reality, back to his own, to save his suicidal 5-year old brother; when 3 billion people are reported missing.
BEHIND THE REDWOOD CURTAIN
Dalton
Director: Liesbeth De Ceulaer
Behind the Redwood Curtain takes us on a mesmerizing journey through the dark and eerie Redwood forest. Seven forest dwellers - loggers, scientists, activists and Native Americans - invite us to discover their part of these impressive woods. There are no Walmarts and Starbucks here, just small towns and big trees. The ancient Redwoods have always kept the region isolated but now that excessive logging is encroaching, the survival of this unique habitat is under threat. Liesbeth De Ceulaer tells a compelling story about the relationship between man and his natural environment in which she entwines her own impressions of the forest with the beliefs, dreams and fears of the forest inhabitants.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Imagine
Director: Joss Whedon
Stars: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
Sacred Bones Records is proud to present International, The third full length LP from Copenhagen's Lust For Youth. To put it bluntly, International is unrecognizable as a Lust For Youth record on first listen. Hannes Norrvide’s previous solo albums under the Lust for Youth moniker have been described as “dark, cold, atonal, tormented, lonely, and lower than lo-fi.” The approach on International has shifted dramati- cally. Writing as a three-piece now, with longtime live collaborator Loke Rahbek and new band member Malthe Fisher, who produces and plays guitar, LFY have entered a completely new territory. The result is stunning. International is a buoyant synth masterpiece in the vein of early Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys and New Order. Norrvide’s work has always had pop sensibilities buried deep in the reverb, but the hooks are front and center on International, and there is nothing lo-fi about it.
That is not to say the record is without substance. There are still some deeply introspective moments as well, notably the instrumental passages “Ultras” and “Basorexia,” which evoke the morning-after loneliness that a lot of earlier Lust For Youth work has explored. According to Rahbek, “the record sort of happened by chance. Hannes and I had talked about recording some stuff together for the fun of it, and Malthe offered to help us record. Initially, we were just going to do a song or two, but within a few weeks it was obvious that it was a combination that worked. The period was strange, terrible things happened in everyone’s life outside of the studio, so as a result many hours were spent in the studio, like a safe zone.”
“As the title indicates,” Rahbek adds, “the record deals with the rootless, sometimes almost inhuman, nature of traveling and touring. Hotel rooms and strangers’ beds, drugs and clubs, and the impossibility of living a regular life.” It may be an irregular life, but nothing could suit them better. International is Norrvide’s magnum opus, and with Fisher’s production and Rahbek’s co-writing skills, the potential this band has always shown has been fully realized. The album features additional production by Elias Bender Rønnenfelt of Iceage as well asAdrian Toubro of Lower
The deluxe edition of International, exclusively available through Sacred Bones mail order will ship with a bonus cassette featuring remixes by Silent Servant, Total Control, Helm, Chelsea Wolfe, Cult of Youth, Marshstepper & more. This bonus remix EP will also be available as a deluxe edition of the album available from digital retailers.
Album art, track listing, tour dates are below as well as a stream of "Epoetin Alfa", the first engrossing taste ofInternational.
The track showcases the growth that Lust For Youth has experienced over the last year, you can hear it in the production, you can hear it in Norrivide's voice, you can hear it everywhere. It's the opening track on the record and is a great example of the shape of LFY to come. This track also features beautiful guitar work by Elias Bender Rønnenfelt of Iceage.
