On 11 th September ACTRESS SANDRINE KIBERLAIN, ACTOR LAURENT LAFITTE, DIRECTOR JEANNE HERRY AND PRODUCER ALAIN ATTAL WILL PRESENT THEIR NEW FILM ELLE L'ADORE (cinema Aventure Brussel)
"A slow-burning cat-and-mouse drama that turns the tables on the crazed fan genre and delicately explores the power of obsession, idolatry and celebrity."- The Hollywood Reporter
DUTCH VERSION
ACTRICE SANDRINE KIBERLAIN, ACTEUR LAURENT LAFITTE, REGISSEUR JEANNE HERRY, EN PRODUCENT ALAIN ATTAL KOMEN HUN NIEUWE FILM ELLE L'ADORE VOORSTELLEN
IN BRUSSEL OP DONDERDAG 11 SEPTEMBER, cinema Aventure Brussel
Scenario en regie door Jeanne HERRY
Met Sandrine KIBERLAIN ('9 mois ferme'), Laurent LAFITTE ('Les petits mouchoirs') en Pascal DEMOLON ('L'Ex de ma vie')
ELLE L'ADORE is de eerste film van Jeanny Herry, de dochter van de Franse charmezanger Julien Clerc en actrice Miou Miou.
ELLE L'ADORE ontvangt dit jaar op het Festival van Deauville de Prix Michel D'Ornano voor Beste Franse Debuut.
Muriel is schoonheidsspecialiste én een zeer grote fan van de superpopulaire Franse charmezanger Vincent Lacroix. Ze is dan ook compleet overdonderd als Vincent in het holst van de nacht voor haar deur staat op zoek naar hulp. Hij moet dringend af van een heel bijzonder pakket in de koffer van zijn auto: het lichaam van zijn overleden vriendin. Muriel stelt verder geen vragen en schijnbaar achteloos aanvaardt zij de delicate opdracht.
Release in Belgie op 24 september 2014
Even before Colette and Hannah Thurlow wrote their new album, the London-based sisters’ atmospheric, imaginative and thrilling vein of rock music under the name 2:54 was already a force to be reckoned with. But the events that tested their commitment and resilience have upped the ante, to produce the magnificent drama and beauty of The Other I.
From the expansive, tempo-shifting opener ‘Orion’ (recently premiered online), and the pining roots of ‘The Monaco’ to the ambient haunts of ‘Tender Shoots’ and the shape-shifting tour de force of ‘Raptor’, the album significantly widens the net beyond the achievements of 2:54’s self-titled debut. The Other I is all the stronger for Hannah and Colette’s hands-on approach to production while Colette’s lead vocals show a striking versatility. The album’s emotional terrain has been carved from circumstances out of their control but equally their sisterly bond.
As Colette explains, the album’s title was inspired by a favourite poet, Percy Shelley, “a rousing romantic, politically charged, a proto-punk of sorts. He called his friend and muse Elizabeth Hitchener the ‘sister of my soul, my second self.’ These lines kept returning to me last year and from there I arrived at ‘The Other I’. The Other I is an enquiry into the duality of the human experience - the division between the self that pounds on like a juggernaut in your head, and the self you present to the world. The idea extends to Hannah and I, to our sisterhood. We know intrinsically what the other thinks and feels, music is just another language we use to communicate.”
Written in Paris and London, the album was recorded at Bella Union’s East London studio before the Thurlows and Alex Robins decamped to North London’s Fish Factory to complete it alongside co-producer and mixer James Rutledge, who's worked with the likes of Radiohead and Fever Ray. ‘In The Mirror’ and ‘Sleepwalker’ are cited as key entry points to the album’s core values, while lyrically ‘Orion’ sets the scene for the album’s adventures. ‘Raptor’ is the album’s brilliant finale, with its simmering intro, hypnotic flow, thrilling coda and rallying mantra: “Calling, I'm calling, I’m calling, I can hear it / You don't know us / One more turn and then I'll go / The end, the end, the end is close.”
The Other I will be released 10th November on Bella Union. Tracklisting and UK live info below. Click HERE to view 'Orion', the first track to be revealed from the album.
Tracklisting:
1. Orion
2. Blindfold
3. In The Mirror
4. No Better Prize
5. Sleepwalker
6. Tender Shoots
7. The Monaco
8. Crest
9. Pyro
10. South
11. Glory Days
12. Raptor
Live:
Monday 8 September – LONDON - Union Chapel (Bella Union Labelled With Love showcase)
Friday 7 November - RAMSGATE – Ramsgate Music Hall
Wednesday 19 November – LONDON - St. Pancras Old Church **(SOLD-OUT!)**
Thursday 20 November - SHEFFIELD - The Harley
Friday 21 November - GLASGOW - The Broadcast
Saturday 22 November - MANCHESTER - Soup Kitchen
Monday 24 November - NOTTINGHAM - The Corner
Wenesday 26 November - BRIGHTON - The Hope
Out on 18th October
12 loveable lunatics, capturing the comic and tragic in all four corners of the earth: cartoonists who risk their lives to defend democracy, with a smile on their faces and a pencil as their only weapon. They are French, Tunisian, Russian, American, Burkinabese, Chinese, Mexican, Algerian, Ivorian, Venezuelan, Israeli and Palestinian.
DUTCH VERSION
Twaalf karikaturisten uit de vier windstreken verdedigen de democratie en riskeren hun leven, al hebben ze maar één wapen: hun potlood. Ze maken grappige en vaak tragische tekeningen in Frankrijk, Tunesië, Mexico, de Verenigde Staten, Burkina Faso, China, Algerije, Ivoorkust, Venezuela, Israël en Palestina.
FRENCH VERSION
12 fous formidables, drôles et tragiques, des quatre coins du monde, des caricaturistes, défendent la démocratie en s'amusant, avec, comme seule arme, un crayon, au risque de leurs vies. Ils sont: français, tunisienne, russe, mexicain, américain, burkinabé, chinois, algériens, ivoirien, vénézuélienne, israélien et palestinien.
Some More Terror is a Soft Riot recording consisting of 11 tracks of instrumental, ambient-influenced synth sounds. It provides a slight detour from the more song-based, psychedelic synth-pop trajectory established with the previous album, Fiction Prediction, and where that synth-pop sound will go on that album’s proper follow-up to come called You Never Know What Might Come Next.
All of the pieces on Some More Terror are mainly improvisations, or based on one-session jams with a small amount of overdubs. They were usually done late at night and in the dead of winter, in between sessions recording tracks for You Never Know What Might Come Next.
Some More Terror locks onto the atmospheric element of Soft Riot’s recorded material to date and isolates it in a new environment, freeing it from the structure and formalities of the world of punk rock and pop music. It offers an audio landscape that augments a feeling of unease and reflection in the chaotic world of late-period modern capitalism and the wheels of progress. The flow of the album rides a slow sine wave, with moments of anxious dread to warm, expansive slabs of calm and harmony.
To some degree it’s an album of political commentary, but one without lyrics and familiar audio cues, allowing the listener to fill the gaps with their own speculation. And where the music is more ambiguous, a more upfront approach is emphasised in the track titling and artwork of the album; perhaps a conscious effort to challenge the idea that ambient or soundtrack-oriented music is passive or locked in the trappings of “new age”. It could be considered Soft Riot’s own private and current version of “punk rock” for these reasons, as well as for that it was written from a place deep within. There’s a lot of strange and harrowing events going on out there in the world these days, but also moments of peace and beauty.
Listeners may find some parallels with classic synth artists such as Tangerine Dream or Cluster, or perhaps the classic era of early/mid 90s Kranky Records (Labradford, Stars Of The Lid), or even at times the micropolyphonal sounds of György Ligeti. As one publication has put the music of Soft Riot: “The music tells stories like the great “irritation” sci-fi cinema of the 70s and 80s. Solaris pop. New Age Wave. The Canadian Jean Michel Jarre of the London underground.”
On 26th August Lumière releases the classic Playtime by Jacques Tati, click here for the review.
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.
EXTRA: SCÈNES WITH COMMENTARY BY JÉRÔME DESCHAMPS / JACQUES TATI, GUEST OF TEMPO TV SHOW / LIKE HOME (60 min.)
Click here for the Playtime-review.
DUTCH VERSION
DVD Release op 26 augustus 2014
PLAYTIME is het meesterwerk van de legendarische Franse regisseur Jacques Tati. Het is op alle vlakken een monumentale en hoogst ambitieuze film, vol met subtiele en tijdloze humor. Dankzij deze gloednieuwe, ultieme digitale restauratie kunt u eindelijk ten volle genieten van de prachtige breedbeeldcomposities in 70mm-formaat. Elk shot zit boordevol hilariteit en vindingrijkheid: een feest voor het oog én voor de lachspieren van de hele familie.
Monsieur Hulot loopt verloren rond in een doolhof van modernistische architectuur en nieuwe technologische snufjes in Parijs. Hij wordt overrompeld door een invasie van Amerikaanse toeristen, en veroorzaakt zoals altijd pure chaos overal waar hij zich begeeft.
Deze klassieker is actueler dan ooit, en krijgt eindelijk de digitale restauratie die hij verdient.
EXTRA: SCÈNES BECOMMENTARIEERD DOOR JÉRÔME DESCHAMPS / JACQUES TATI, GUEST OF TEMPO TV SHOW / LIKE HOME (60 min.)
Technische specificaties:
Frankrijk, 1967 | Duur: 121 minuten + 60 minuten (extra) | Taal: Frans | Ondertitels: Nederlands
Formaat: 16/9 - kleur | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
