Fabrice du Welz, whose latest film “Inexorable” (pictured) played at Toronto, is reteaming with his Belgian producer Jean-Yves Roubin at Frakas Production on his next project, “Maldoror.”
Inspired by a true story, “Maldoror” follows Paul Chartier, a young policeman who became obsessed with a case involving a notorious child abuser after coming close to catching him. Popular Belgian actor Benoit Poelvoorde, the star of “Inexorable,” is part of the cast of “Maldoror.”
Roubin, who is attending San Sebastian with Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “Earwig,” as well as “Titane” (which he co-produced), described “Maldoror” as a mix of thriller and film noir in a similar vein to David Fincher’s “Zodiac.” He said the film, now in development, was inspired by a notorious crime case that shook Belgium in the 1990s, known as the Affaire Dutroux.
Marc Dutroux was a convicted Belgian serial killer, rapist, and child molester who was sentenced to...
Inspired by a true story, “Maldoror” follows Paul Chartier, a young policeman who became obsessed with a case involving a notorious child abuser after coming close to catching him. Popular Belgian actor Benoit Poelvoorde, the star of “Inexorable,” is part of the cast of “Maldoror.”
Roubin, who is attending San Sebastian with Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “Earwig,” as well as “Titane” (which he co-produced), described “Maldoror” as a mix of thriller and film noir in a similar vein to David Fincher’s “Zodiac.” He said the film, now in development, was inspired by a notorious crime case that shook Belgium in the 1990s, known as the Affaire Dutroux.
Marc Dutroux was a convicted Belgian serial killer, rapist, and child molester who was sentenced to...
- 9/20/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
While handsomely shot, well-cast, and occasionally atmospheric, the latest from Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz qualifies as a watchable disappointment. Inexorable reaches for the somber allure of Claire Denis’ Bastards and instead has the psychological force of a particularly rote ’90s thriller. A shame when all the ingredients are in place for something deeper and more unsettling.
Benoît Poelvoorde, so memorable as the lead in 1992’s Man Bites Dog—streaming on Criterion Channel, still a must-watch—is Marcel Bellmer, a novelist moving into a gob-smackingly large country estate with his wife and young daughter. Said wife is Jeanne (Mélanie Doutey), and the estate was the home of her late father, a noted publisher. The giant mansion goes oddly unexplored in Inexorable, and that is a literal waste of space. We never get a sense of its geography or feel any sense of its hidden corridors.
Into this environment comes Gloria...
Benoît Poelvoorde, so memorable as the lead in 1992’s Man Bites Dog—streaming on Criterion Channel, still a must-watch—is Marcel Bellmer, a novelist moving into a gob-smackingly large country estate with his wife and young daughter. Said wife is Jeanne (Mélanie Doutey), and the estate was the home of her late father, a noted publisher. The giant mansion goes oddly unexplored in Inexorable, and that is a literal waste of space. We never get a sense of its geography or feel any sense of its hidden corridors.
Into this environment comes Gloria...
- 9/11/2021
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Adoration
Belgian provocateur Fabrice du Welz returns with Adoration, the third chapter of his celebrated Ardennes trilogy, which follows his 2004 debut Calvaire and 2014’s delicious Alleluia (our interview)—both titles which the director is perhaps best known for in the Us. Having taken recent trips abroad, including the troubled French production of 2014’s Colt 45 and du Welz’s English language debut Message from the King (available on Netflix), du Welz at last returns to the isolated hysteria which has marked his past Ardennes installment by reuniting with his Vinyan (2008) star Emmanuelle Beart. Also included in the fantastic cast are French icon Beatrice Dalle, Belgian actors Benoit Poelvoorde and Peter van den Begin, Haneke discovery Fantine Harduin (the troubled child of 2017’s Happy End), Xavier Legrand’s Custody breakout Thomas Gioria, and excitingly, the return of Laurent Lucas, who headlined the two previous Ardennes titles.…
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Belgian provocateur Fabrice du Welz returns with Adoration, the third chapter of his celebrated Ardennes trilogy, which follows his 2004 debut Calvaire and 2014’s delicious Alleluia (our interview)—both titles which the director is perhaps best known for in the Us. Having taken recent trips abroad, including the troubled French production of 2014’s Colt 45 and du Welz’s English language debut Message from the King (available on Netflix), du Welz at last returns to the isolated hysteria which has marked his past Ardennes installment by reuniting with his Vinyan (2008) star Emmanuelle Beart. Also included in the fantastic cast are French icon Beatrice Dalle, Belgian actors Benoit Poelvoorde and Peter van den Begin, Haneke discovery Fantine Harduin (the troubled child of 2017’s Happy End), Xavier Legrand’s Custody breakout Thomas Gioria, and excitingly, the return of Laurent Lucas, who headlined the two previous Ardennes titles.…
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- 1/8/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Diving into the hundreds of new theatrical releases, including large chunks of grueling, gluttonous marathons through world cinema’s greatest offerings from a variety of film festivals, and coming to a reasonable list of selections demonstrating what one deems to be ‘the best,’ remains an utterly self-involved, sometimes fruitless tradition. Who, after all, can rightly determine what is indeed ‘best’ in an art form where one person’s trash is another’s treasure? Personally, I prefer to compile a list of ‘favorite’ things, items which remain meaningless unless you put stock in its author’s general tastes.
Amidst the incessant jabbering of awards season exaggeration, it’s difficult not to be swayed by the most topical, most shiny and brand new theatrical releases courting awards voters (which is why I felt it necessary to see Inarritu’s new film twice). Nearly half of my selections appeared on my mid-year list of favored theatrical releases,...
Amidst the incessant jabbering of awards season exaggeration, it’s difficult not to be swayed by the most topical, most shiny and brand new theatrical releases courting awards voters (which is why I felt it necessary to see Inarritu’s new film twice). Nearly half of my selections appeared on my mid-year list of favored theatrical releases,...
- 12/14/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
After premiering in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Belgian auteur Fabrice du Welz’s excellent fourth feature Alleluia went on to play in the esteemed Vanguard lineup in the Toronto International Film Festival before nabbing Best Actor and Actress awards at Fantastic Fest for superb performances from Laurent Lucas and Lola Duenas. Although this didn’t translate into notable box office profit for Us distributor Music Box Films (released in mid-July for a limited theatrical run, the title didn’t crack ten grand in its paltry five week run), du Welz’s beautiful cult-classic in the making will eventually secure a greater following. A recent Blu-ray re-release of Criterion Collection’s presentation of the 1969 Leonard Kastle film, The Honeymoon Killers, based on the same romantic killing spree, should funnel some attention to it, as well as du Welz’s break into English language in 2016 with his next title.
- 10/14/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Fabrice du Welz, the Belgian filmmaker behind the captivating Calvaire and Vinyan returns this month with Alleluia. Loosely based on the exploits of the Lonely Hearts Killers, du Welz’s mystic, morbid love story is an incredible, mad portrait of devotion and murder. Shock Till You Drop presents an exclusive clip from the stunner, an intimate moment in which a…
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- 7/17/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Alleluia, Fabrice Du Welz's sensual, brutal version of the "lonely hearts killers"—made into a 1969 film by Leonard Kastle, The Honeymoon Killers, and Arturo Ripstein's 1996 Deep Crimson—was a highlight of the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes last year, and is now getting a Us theatrical release through Music Box Films' Doppelgänger Releasing arm. Shot close in intimate 16mm, the film juggles tones deftly to capture the loneliness, desire, horror, humor, and absurdity in an amour fou between two single sociopaths who find in each other an intense, primal attraction. But both persons are so distorted, and the love between them thereby turning so distorted, that it leads not to the greatest, strangest love affair—though you could call it that, I suppose—but the most perverse: the man sets up a scheme to seduce and rob women, and his lover, quickly beset by manic jealousy, ends up killing them.
- 7/17/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
We sat with Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, where his latest feature, Alleluia, played in the Vanguard line-up (it premiered earlier that year in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where we initially caught the film). The second part of his Ardennes trilogy, which began with his excellent 2004 debut, Calvaire, du Welz sat with us to dish about his projects, including the truncated Us release of his 2008 film Vinyan, and the incredible difficulties he experienced on the set of Colt 45, another 2014 title yet to be released stateside.
Alleluia is a perverse examination of familiar material, a reimagining of the famed Honeymoon Killers we’ve seen depicted in various features from the past several decades. Reuniting Du Welz with his Calvaire star Laurent Lucas, he gets a remarkable performance from Spanish actress Lola Duenas in a film that’s fun, violent, and impressively styled. In our interview,...
Alleluia is a perverse examination of familiar material, a reimagining of the famed Honeymoon Killers we’ve seen depicted in various features from the past several decades. Reuniting Du Welz with his Calvaire star Laurent Lucas, he gets a remarkable performance from Spanish actress Lola Duenas in a film that’s fun, violent, and impressively styled. In our interview,...
- 7/16/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
In the Mood For Love: Du Welz Returns With Gloriously Dark Rendering of Insatiable Passion
His first film since 2008’s underappreciated Vinyan, Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz debuts the second installment in his proposed Ardennes trilogy, Alleluia. His 2004 directorial debut, Calvaire (aka The Ordeal) depicted a rather hellacious account of a singer whose car breaks down in the middle of the woods, stranding him in the midst of a very strange and terrifying rural community. Here, Du Welz bases his latest madness on the true account of serial killing couple Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, a case that famously inspired the 1969 film The Honeymoon Killers and 1996’s Deep Crimson, amongst others. But Du Welz hardly unveils a simple account of unhinged, obsessive love. His is a demonic hymnal of passion, a darkly droll exercise in the delusory notion of love as an unhealthy obsession told with aggressive flourish. But...
His first film since 2008’s underappreciated Vinyan, Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz debuts the second installment in his proposed Ardennes trilogy, Alleluia. His 2004 directorial debut, Calvaire (aka The Ordeal) depicted a rather hellacious account of a singer whose car breaks down in the middle of the woods, stranding him in the midst of a very strange and terrifying rural community. Here, Du Welz bases his latest madness on the true account of serial killing couple Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, a case that famously inspired the 1969 film The Honeymoon Killers and 1996’s Deep Crimson, amongst others. But Du Welz hardly unveils a simple account of unhinged, obsessive love. His is a demonic hymnal of passion, a darkly droll exercise in the delusory notion of love as an unhealthy obsession told with aggressive flourish. But...
- 7/13/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s been nearly seven years since Fabrice Du Welz unveiled Vinyan to mixed reception at the Venice Film Festival, but early reviews of Alléluia, which premiered as part of Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight sidebar last year, suggest it is something of a return to form. The film stars Lola Dueñas (Talk ToHer, I’m So Excited!) as Gloria, who meets […]...
- 6/16/2015
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- The Film Stage
Fabrice du Welz (Calvaire, Vinyan) returns with his best work yet: Alleluia. Loosely based on the Lonely Hearts Killers, this warped, horror romance is a mad depiction of psychotic and psychosexual devotion. It is one of the summer’s must-sees. Out July 17th in NY & La, as well as on VOD and iTunes from Music Box’s…
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- 6/3/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Read More: Music Box Acquires Belgian Online Dating Horror Flick 'Alleluia' The "lonely hearts killer" is a staple of urban legends and horror stories, but what happens when the intended victim is so in love with the killer that she joins in on the crimes? That's precisely the question Belgian director Fabrice du Welz ("Calvaire," "Vinyan") attempts to answer with his new film, "Alleluia." In the above trailer, exclusive to Indiewire, the origins of the dark, obsessive love affair between a killer and his almost-victim are explored. The film was a popular entry on last year's festival circuit. In addition to screening as an official selection in the Director's Fortnight at 2014 Cannes Film Festival, "Alleluia" also played the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and won Best Picture, Director, Actor and Actress at Fantastic Fest 2014. Laurent Lucas ("With a Friend Like Harry," "Calvaire") and Lola...
- 6/3/2015
- by Becca Nadler
- Indiewire
Message From the King
Director: Fabrice du Welz // Writers: Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell
Belgian director Fabrice du Welz announced himself with a memorable debut over a decade ago with 2004’s Calvaire, a film meant to be the first chapter in his loosely related Ardennes trilogy. Fascinating, bizarre, and perhaps the most successfully strange and unnerving auteur since Lynch, du Welz’s next two features were treated to problematic releases, including 2008’s underrated Vinyan, and the 2014 debacle, Colt 45, which was yanked out of the director’s hands and released in France (it has yet to reach the Us). But 2014 also marked a strong return for du Welz with the excellent Alleluia, the second part of his Ardennes trilogy, reuniting him with star Laurent Lucas and providing Lola Duenas with one of the best roles of her career. It was announced that du Welz was also working on another feature, Children of the Gun,...
Director: Fabrice du Welz // Writers: Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell
Belgian director Fabrice du Welz announced himself with a memorable debut over a decade ago with 2004’s Calvaire, a film meant to be the first chapter in his loosely related Ardennes trilogy. Fascinating, bizarre, and perhaps the most successfully strange and unnerving auteur since Lynch, du Welz’s next two features were treated to problematic releases, including 2008’s underrated Vinyan, and the 2014 debacle, Colt 45, which was yanked out of the director’s hands and released in France (it has yet to reach the Us). But 2014 also marked a strong return for du Welz with the excellent Alleluia, the second part of his Ardennes trilogy, reuniting him with star Laurent Lucas and providing Lola Duenas with one of the best roles of her career. It was announced that du Welz was also working on another feature, Children of the Gun,...
- 1/16/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Before he transforms into the Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman is gonna be seeking vengeance in upcoming thriller, Message From The King. A co-production by Ink Factory and Entertainment One, the story will follow a South African man played by Boseman, who hightails it to the Us to track down a dangerous target.
This tale of revenge will be directed by Belgian filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz, whose previous successes include Cannes darling, Alleluia, and Vinyan. Working from a script by Unknown scribes Stephen Cornwell and Oliver Butcher, the fast-paced story revolves around “Jacob King, who arrives from South Africa in search of his younger sister with just a few hundred dollars and a plane ticket home in a week’s time. Twenty-four hours in, he learns she’s been killed and the film tells the story of what happens in the next six days.”
The role of King will mark Boseman...
This tale of revenge will be directed by Belgian filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz, whose previous successes include Cannes darling, Alleluia, and Vinyan. Working from a script by Unknown scribes Stephen Cornwell and Oliver Butcher, the fast-paced story revolves around “Jacob King, who arrives from South Africa in search of his younger sister with just a few hundred dollars and a plane ticket home in a week’s time. Twenty-four hours in, he learns she’s been killed and the film tells the story of what happens in the next six days.”
The role of King will mark Boseman...
- 11/4/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Back in 2011, The Playlist ran a Halloween-inspired feature on must-see foreign language horror films. This writer fought hard for the inclusion of “Calvaire (The Ordeal)” from burgeoning Belgian genre filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz. The film achieved a very specific kind of notoriety in being lumped in with the New French Extremity, a term coined by Artforum critic James Quandt. He used the name as a pejorative to describe what appeared to be a new wave of highly transgressive works by French directors—Gaspar Noé, Alexandre Aja, and Catherine Breillat, to name only a few—starting in the late 90s and bleeding profusely into the aughts. Despite not being French, Du Welz made the team, so to speak, and “Calvaire” officially put the then 31-year-old stalwart genre aficionado on the map for fans of a certain kind of upsetting and, well, extreme cinematic experience. Yet time passed, as it does, and after his eventual 2008 follow-up,...
- 10/14/2014
- by Erik McClanahan
- The Playlist
Fabrice du Welz previously directed a wonderful film that went outside the norm called Calvaire (The Ordeal). While I still have yet to see his follow-up, Vinyan, that doesn’t detract me from finding out when he has a new movie. Alleluia is one of two films he has recently filmed. The other being an action film called Colt 45 (hold the Billy Dee). Alleluia looks to be a unsettling view of a couple who goes on a bit of a murder spree. Loosely based on a true crime.
Alleluia is the adaptation of a crime spree that shook the United States from 1947 to 1949. It’s the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez: a young nurse places a “lonely hearts” ad and meets a gigolo who steals from widows.
She falls in love with him, abandons her children and holds onto her precarious existence until the story turns to tragedy…...
Alleluia is the adaptation of a crime spree that shook the United States from 1947 to 1949. It’s the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez: a young nurse places a “lonely hearts” ad and meets a gigolo who steals from widows.
She falls in love with him, abandons her children and holds onto her precarious existence until the story turns to tragedy…...
- 8/19/2014
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Fabrice Du Welz got our attention with the disturbing film Calvaire. He followed that up with Vinyan, which garnered a tepid response, still, Du Welz proved to be a filmmaker to watch.
His next film, Alleluia, arrives in the States via Fantastic Fest next month and, today, we have an international trailer to share with you.
StudioCanal UK is handling distribution overseas and provides us with this synopsis...
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His next film, Alleluia, arrives in the States via Fantastic Fest next month and, today, we have an international trailer to share with you.
StudioCanal UK is handling distribution overseas and provides us with this synopsis...
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- 8/19/2014
- by Ryan Turek
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Belgian director Fabrice du Welz (Calvaire, Vinyan) won rave in Cannes with his latest descent into the darker folds of the human psyche and with the North American premiere of his Alleluia around the corner at the Toronto International Film Festival the first theatrical trailer has arrived to give a taste of what is to come.Loosely based on a real life crime tale this is a saga of lust, sex, and obsession building up to violence and it's not at all hard to see what the buzz was about. Lola Duenas and Laurent Lucas star. Take a look at the trailer below....
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- 8/19/2014
- Screen Anarchy
We’re nearing September, which means we’re getting close to Alamo Drafthouse’s 10th annual Fantastic Fest. The film festival held in Austin, Texas is one of the most interesting and exciting fests around. Catering to hardcore cinephiles with a little bit of an interest in the strange, Fantastic Fest features a bevy of some of the best new horror films, indie thrillers, dark comedies, and low-budget sci-fi. Last year some of the best films included at the fest were Afflicted, Borgman, Jodorowsky’s Dune, The Sacrament, Blue Ruin, Grand Piano, We Are What We Are, A Field in England, The Congress, and Big Bad Wolves. In 2011 Fantastic Fest was one of the places to see Adam Wingard’s amazing You’re Next before it was shelved until it’s official release just last year.
Now the initial lineup for the 2014 festival has been announced and as always it looks very promising.
Now the initial lineup for the 2014 festival has been announced and as always it looks very promising.
- 8/6/2014
- by Max Molinaro
- SoundOnSight
Our favorite film festival in the world is nigh. Later next month, Austin, Texas will host hundreds of genre fans for Fantastic Fest 2014!! We have the full list which includes the Us Premiere of Tusk as well as the World Premieres of ABCs of Death 2 and Horsehead. These won’t be all the films that will play the 10th anniversary of the film festival but it would be enough if it was. Look forward to more announcement waves of programming and don’t forget to follow up with our predictions that we made last week. I have added trailers above the film titles, if available. If the trailer is not available, there will be a still above the title.
From the Press Release
Fantastic Fest Celebrates 10 Years Of Chaos And Destruction With Us Premiere Of Kevin Smith’S “Tusk”, Leonard Maltin, The Meltdown With Jonah And Kumail And “ABCs Of Death 2...
From the Press Release
Fantastic Fest Celebrates 10 Years Of Chaos And Destruction With Us Premiere Of Kevin Smith’S “Tusk”, Leonard Maltin, The Meltdown With Jonah And Kumail And “ABCs Of Death 2...
- 8/6/2014
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
A podcaster is slowly turned into a walrus, skaters are hunted by a cult, and 26 different ways to die are revealed. Yes, Fantastic Fest is adding some horror to their 10th anniversary this September. The first wave of programming for the festival has been announced and Kevin Smith’s Tusk will be screened, as well as the horror anthologies V/H/S Viral and ABCs of Death 2.
Fantastic Fest will open with the Us premiere of Tusk and will later feature the Us premiere of V/H/S Viral. ABCs of Death 2 will make its world debut at the festival taking place September 18th-25th in Austin, Texas. We have a press release with more details and the first wave’s full listing of films, as well as the festival’s official Mondo poster:
Austin, TX – Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - “Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to...
Fantastic Fest will open with the Us premiere of Tusk and will later feature the Us premiere of V/H/S Viral. ABCs of Death 2 will make its world debut at the festival taking place September 18th-25th in Austin, Texas. We have a press release with more details and the first wave’s full listing of films, as well as the festival’s official Mondo poster:
Austin, TX – Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - “Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to...
- 8/5/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
It's that time of year again, isn't it? There is no greater party on Earth for fans of genre films than Austin's annual Fantastic Fest, and ten years in, they just keep making it better. "In 2014, we are taking no prisoners. This festival is going to set new boundaries of decadence, destruction and debauchery." - Tim League As much as I love events like Cannes, Sundance, or Toronto, I can't imagine the directors of those festivals ever issuing that statement. The scary thing is that Tim League isn't kidding. Fantastic Fest is special because it's much more than just movies being screened. Every day is packed with events that elevate the entire festival, and with this year taking place at the new Alamo Drafthouse on S. Lamar, complete with the brand-new Highball, it feels like it's going to be a blow-out the likes of which even the most avid Fantastic...
- 8/5/2014
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Fantastic Fest 2014 kicks off September 18th, and the first wave of programming has been announced. With films like Tusk, V/H/S Viral, The Babadook, and ABC's of Death 2 on the menu, it's one not to miss!
From the Press Release:
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the first wave of events, special guests, and film programming for Fantastic Fest 2014, taking place September 18-25 in Austin, Texas, at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
Fantastic Fest is thrilled to open the fest with the Us Premiere of Kevin Smith's dark horror-comedy Tusk. Smith will be in attendance for a red carpet gala screening and Q&A.
Immediately following Tusk, the world premiere of ABCs Of Death 2 will unveil 26 devilishly diabolical tales at Fantastic Fest with multiple directors from the horror anthology sequel in attendance, including Alejandro Brugués, Robert Boocheck, Lancelot Imasuen, E.L. Katz,...
From the Press Release:
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the first wave of events, special guests, and film programming for Fantastic Fest 2014, taking place September 18-25 in Austin, Texas, at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
Fantastic Fest is thrilled to open the fest with the Us Premiere of Kevin Smith's dark horror-comedy Tusk. Smith will be in attendance for a red carpet gala screening and Q&A.
Immediately following Tusk, the world premiere of ABCs Of Death 2 will unveil 26 devilishly diabolical tales at Fantastic Fest with multiple directors from the horror anthology sequel in attendance, including Alejandro Brugués, Robert Boocheck, Lancelot Imasuen, E.L. Katz,...
- 8/5/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
The Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest has a stellar rep around these parts, and it’s not hard to see why when you consider some of the indie titles that have played there in recent years. Last year alone saw Coherence, Grand Piano and Septic Man make their world premieres, and films like Blue Ruin, Afflicted, Witching & Bitching, The Sacrament and Borgman all land in the U.S. for the first time.
This year doesn’t look to be any different, with a terrific lineup of indie titles including boatloads of promising horror. We’ve got sequels like The ABCs of Death 2 and V/H/S Viral, and originals like Kevin Smith’s anticipated Tusk and The Babadook. Keep in mind this is only the first wave of film announcements for Fantastic Fest 2014 – we’ll keep you posted as more titles are confirmed for the festival, which runs in Austin,...
This year doesn’t look to be any different, with a terrific lineup of indie titles including boatloads of promising horror. We’ve got sequels like The ABCs of Death 2 and V/H/S Viral, and originals like Kevin Smith’s anticipated Tusk and The Babadook. Keep in mind this is only the first wave of film announcements for Fantastic Fest 2014 – we’ll keep you posted as more titles are confirmed for the festival, which runs in Austin,...
- 8/5/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Well, now. If the idea of Calvaire and Vinyan director Fabrice du Welz tackling a dark crime / action thriller wasn't enough to get you all excited and the stellar first trailer for his upcoming Colt 45 wasn't enough to do the job either then how about this: Yes, it's a second trailer for the upcoming release and it's even better than the first, which was already pretty damn good.Police armourer and firearms instructor Vincent Milès is a shooting ace. Only 25 years old, his prowess is the envy of the world's finest but, to the incomprehension of his colleagues, Vincent refuses to join the police action units. Trapped in a situation primed to blow sky high, Vincent is left with no choice but to...
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- 8/2/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Earlier today we brought you the full lineup of Tiff 2014's Midnight Madness programme, and we're back with the 11 films that comprise the fest's Vanguard lineup, which includes Alleluia, Shrew's Next, Spring, and the latest from Takashi Miike.
A few of the films on this list don't fall in the pure horror category, but we've included them as well just because they sound so damn intriguing!
From the Press Release:
The Toronto International Film Festival's Vanguard programme seduces audiences with a sensory experience full of mystery and boundary-busting madness with bold international films that walk the razor’s edge. International programmer Colin Geddes brings together the work of some of the most audacious auteurs in the world to present a cinematic adventure that takes audiences to the dark, dangerous places that both unnerve yet intrigue them.
“The Vanguard programme presents the intersection between genre and arthouse to showcase intrepid works that fearlessly defy convention,...
A few of the films on this list don't fall in the pure horror category, but we've included them as well just because they sound so damn intriguing!
From the Press Release:
The Toronto International Film Festival's Vanguard programme seduces audiences with a sensory experience full of mystery and boundary-busting madness with bold international films that walk the razor’s edge. International programmer Colin Geddes brings together the work of some of the most audacious auteurs in the world to present a cinematic adventure that takes audiences to the dark, dangerous places that both unnerve yet intrigue them.
“The Vanguard programme presents the intersection between genre and arthouse to showcase intrepid works that fearlessly defy convention,...
- 7/29/2014
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Belgian director Fabrice du Welz is having himself something of a year. While his early career was marked by long gaps between projects - Calvaire released in 2004, Vinyan in 2008 and then nothing until 2014 - he's gone rapid fire this year with a pair of projects hitting screens in the same calendar year. One - Alleluia - was selected to the Cannes Film Festival. And the other? The other is Colt 45, which has just released one hell of a stylish trailer leading up to its French theatrical release.Police armourer and firearms instructor Vincent Milès is a shooting ace. Only 25 years old, his prowess is the envy of the world's finest but, to the incomprehension of his colleagues, Vincent refuses to join...
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- 7/8/2014
- Screen Anarchy
We recently told you about Vinyan and Calvaire director Fabrice du Welz's next film, Alleluia, which brings a ripped-from-the-headlines tale to horrifying life. Today comes word that a distribution home for the film has been found so read on for the scoop!
Per Variety, Chicago-based arthouse distributor Music Box has acquired all North American rights to the Belgian genre filmmaker’s gritty horror movie. The film was also acquired by Carlotta Films, a company specializing in classics, for French distribution.
Head over to the official Alleluia website to learn more.
Written by Fabrice du Welz and Vincent Tavier, the film stars Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas, Héléna Noguerra, David Murgia, Stéphane Bissot, Renaud Rutten, and Philippe Résimont.
Synopsis
Manipulated by a loving and jealous husband, Gloria has run away with her daughter and started a new life far away from men and from the rest of the world. Impelled by her friend,...
Per Variety, Chicago-based arthouse distributor Music Box has acquired all North American rights to the Belgian genre filmmaker’s gritty horror movie. The film was also acquired by Carlotta Films, a company specializing in classics, for French distribution.
Head over to the official Alleluia website to learn more.
Written by Fabrice du Welz and Vincent Tavier, the film stars Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas, Héléna Noguerra, David Murgia, Stéphane Bissot, Renaud Rutten, and Philippe Résimont.
Synopsis
Manipulated by a loving and jealous husband, Gloria has run away with her daughter and started a new life far away from men and from the rest of the world. Impelled by her friend,...
- 6/26/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
It was just about four years ago that we first told you about Alleluia, the latest film from the man behind the French horror flicks Calvaire and Vinyan. At long last, some stills have finally surfaced, leading us to believe that it won't be long before this one enters our lives. Check 'em out!
Head over to the official Alleluia website to learn more.
Written by Fabrice du Welz and Vincent Tavier, the film stars Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas, Héléna Noguerra, David Murgia, Stéphane Bissot, Renaud Rutten, and Philippe Résimont.
Synopsis
Manipulated by a loving and jealous husband, Gloria has run away with her daughter and started a new life far away from men and from the rest of the world. Impelled by her friend, Madeleine, she agrees to meet Michel through a dating site. The first time they see each other, there is a spark. Michel, the small-time crook...
Head over to the official Alleluia website to learn more.
Written by Fabrice du Welz and Vincent Tavier, the film stars Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas, Héléna Noguerra, David Murgia, Stéphane Bissot, Renaud Rutten, and Philippe Résimont.
Synopsis
Manipulated by a loving and jealous husband, Gloria has run away with her daughter and started a new life far away from men and from the rest of the world. Impelled by her friend, Madeleine, she agrees to meet Michel through a dating site. The first time they see each other, there is a spark. Michel, the small-time crook...
- 6/18/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine des Realisateurs (a.k.a Directors’ Fortnight) has in the past couple of years, counted on a healthy supply of French, Spanish and Belgium produced film items, and has been geared towards the offbeat genre items as with last year’s edition curated by Edouard Waintrop and co. To be unveiled on the 22nd, as we attempted with our Critics’ Week predix, Blake Williams, Nicholas Bell and I (Eric Lavallee) are thinking out loud and hedging our bets on what the section might look like or what the programmers might be looking at for 2014. Here is our predictions overview:
Alleluia
Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.
Alleluia
Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.
- 4/16/2014
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
Alleluia
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Writers: Fabrice Du Welz
Producer: Clément Miserez, Vincent Tavier, Matthieu Warter
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Laurent Lucas, Lola Duenas, Helena Noguerra
While he hasn’t released anything since 2008’s sorely underrated Vinyan, Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz has been busy. His first film since then, the Joey Starr led action thriller Colt 45, wrapped some time ago, and while we thought we’d see this released somewhere in 2013, it looks like 2014 should usher it into theaters. But even more exciting is that Welz is in post-production with Alleluia, which is meant to be the second chapter in his Ardennes trilogy, an opus kicked off by his delectably bizarre debut, 2004’s The Ordeal. This latest sees him reteam with everyone’s favorite star of weirdo French films, Laurent Lucas (who starred in The Ordeal), co-written and produced by Vincent Tavier, the man who wrote...
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Writers: Fabrice Du Welz
Producer: Clément Miserez, Vincent Tavier, Matthieu Warter
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Laurent Lucas, Lola Duenas, Helena Noguerra
While he hasn’t released anything since 2008’s sorely underrated Vinyan, Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz has been busy. His first film since then, the Joey Starr led action thriller Colt 45, wrapped some time ago, and while we thought we’d see this released somewhere in 2013, it looks like 2014 should usher it into theaters. But even more exciting is that Welz is in post-production with Alleluia, which is meant to be the second chapter in his Ardennes trilogy, an opus kicked off by his delectably bizarre debut, 2004’s The Ordeal. This latest sees him reteam with everyone’s favorite star of weirdo French films, Laurent Lucas (who starred in The Ordeal), co-written and produced by Vincent Tavier, the man who wrote...
- 3/6/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Belgium's Fabrice Du Welz is on a roll. There was a four year gap between his breakthrough effort Calvaire and the subsequent Vinyan followed by another five year gap between Vinyan and Colt 45, but though we're still waiting on a trailer for Colt 45 Du Welz is already in edit on the subsequent Alleluia while also prepping the South Africa set Children of the Gun. And today we get our first look at Alleluia with a trio of stills.Loosely based on the true life crime story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, Alleluia stars Lola Duenas and Laurent Lucas as a pair of destructive lovers on an escalating crime spree. Check the images below....
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- 11/13/2013
- Screen Anarchy
[Post updated with an additional still and new poster art.]Vinyan and Calvaire director Fabrice du Welz is now in post production on his latest effort, Colt 45, and the first images has arrived online. Police armourer and firearms instructor Vincent Milès is a shooting ace. Only 25 years old, his prowess is the envy of the world's finest but, to the incomprehension of his colleagues, Vincent refuses to join the police action units. Trapped in a situation primed to blow sky high, Vincent is left with no choice but to embrace the darkness within him if he is to survive.His Life Is Thrown Into Chaos when he meets Milo Cardena, a corrupt cop who will drag him into a downward spiral of violence, placing Vincent...
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- 6/23/2013
- Screen Anarchy
[Click here for an addition still and new sales art from Colt 45.]Vinyan and Calvaire director Fabrice du Welz is now in post production on his latest effort, Colt 45, and a first still has arrived online. Police armourer and firearms instructor Vincent Milès is a shooting ace. Only 25 years old, his prowess is the envy of the world's finest but, to the incomprehension of his colleagues, Vincent refuses to join the police action units. Trapped in a situation primed to blow sky high, Vincent is left with no choice but to embrace the darkness within him if he is to survive.His Life Is Thrown Into Chaos when he meets Milo Cardena, a corrupt cop who will drag him into a downward spiral of...
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- 6/22/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Belgium's reigning enfant terrible, Fabrice du Welz burst on to the international scene in 2004 with Calvaire (The Ordeal), a punishing horror picture he followed in 2008 with Vinyan. There have been false starts on projects since then but du Welz is now in post on picture number three, a dark action-thriller titled simply Colt 45. Weapon supervisor and shooting instructor for National Police, Vincent Milès is an expert in combat shooting. He's only 25 and the elites from all around the globe are courting him. Against all odds, he refuses to join the prestigious field squads. His life takes a crucial turn when he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious field agent, who drags him into an infernal swirl of violence. Vincent will soon find...
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- 5/10/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Tsunami 2004 movie The Impossible poster: Naomi Watts Tsunami 2004 movie The Impossible poster with Naomi Watts. J.A. Bayona, the director of the horror thriller The Orphanage, offers a different sort of horrific experiences in The Impossible, a movie about the 2004 tsunami that killed approximately 230,000 people in the coastal areas surrounding the Indian Ocean. Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts (21 Grams) and Ewan McGregor (recently seen in Salmon Fishing in Yemen) star. Tsunami 2004 movies: too soon? Four years ago, another tsunami 2004 movie, Fabrice Du Welz’s Vinyan, was screened out of competition at the Venice Film Festival. Starring Emmanuelle Béart and [...]...
- 7/6/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Fabrice du Welz raised quite a few heads when he released Calvaire. Not only are Belgian horror films a rare commodity, for a freshman effort Calvaire felt surprisingly mature and focused. Clearly this wasn't some kind of semi-professional one-off, but a film that bared the director's lasting intentions. Genre fans were pretty disappointed when du Welz' follow-up (Vinyan) didn't turn out to be a straight horror flick, but at least they'll always have Calvaire to revisit.Calvaire is one of the few films that get noticeably better which each consecutive viewing. The first time I watched it I found the first half of the film somewhat slow and uneventful, but knowing what is to come you'll find a lot of subtle (and often very funny) foreshadowing...
- 5/11/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Conspiracy theory madness or a monumental mistake followed by a massive cover up? Consider the 'facts':
Berlin 1945. At first glance Us Air Force flight 545D does not reveal anything eye catching. It looks just like any other military cargo plane taking off for the U.S .
But a closer look in the planes cargo compartment would puzzle any spectator. 13 men in handcuffs, chained to each other - and they all look like Adolf Hitler.
Over half a century later Norwegian researcher Skule Antonsen sides with Spanish documentary filmmaker Idelfonso Elizalde to follow in the footsteps of Adolf Munchenhauser, one of the 13 Hitler look alike war prisoners who was secretly transported to the U.S for investigation . When Munchenhauser is released from detention in 1946 he is allowed to stay in the U.S.
Skule digs into Munchenhausers life. Is it possible that Adolf Munchenhuser really was Adolf Hitler? As Skules quest...
Berlin 1945. At first glance Us Air Force flight 545D does not reveal anything eye catching. It looks just like any other military cargo plane taking off for the U.S .
But a closer look in the planes cargo compartment would puzzle any spectator. 13 men in handcuffs, chained to each other - and they all look like Adolf Hitler.
Over half a century later Norwegian researcher Skule Antonsen sides with Spanish documentary filmmaker Idelfonso Elizalde to follow in the footsteps of Adolf Munchenhauser, one of the 13 Hitler look alike war prisoners who was secretly transported to the U.S for investigation . When Munchenhauser is released from detention in 1946 he is allowed to stay in the U.S.
Skule digs into Munchenhausers life. Is it possible that Adolf Munchenhuser really was Adolf Hitler? As Skules quest...
- 11/15/2010
- Screen Anarchy
And the French horror invasion keeps right on going with the announcement of Fabrice du Welz's latest based on a true story psycho horror tale, Alleluia.
According to Screen Daily the Vinyan and Calvaire director will soon be bringing us Alleluia, which will be based on the true story of two of the Forties' most notorious serial killers -- Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, also known as The Lonely Hearts Killers.
Thus far the incredibly spooky Béatrice Dalle (pictured; Inside) is set to star along with Bouli Lanners and Virginie Efira. Du Welz has co-written the script with Vincent Tavier, and shooting is now set for early 2011.
Raymond Fernandez and his common-law wife Martha Beck became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" after their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949. Between 1947 and 1949 they are believed to have killed as many as 20 women. - as per WikiPedia
Look for more soon!
According to Screen Daily the Vinyan and Calvaire director will soon be bringing us Alleluia, which will be based on the true story of two of the Forties' most notorious serial killers -- Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, also known as The Lonely Hearts Killers.
Thus far the incredibly spooky Béatrice Dalle (pictured; Inside) is set to star along with Bouli Lanners and Virginie Efira. Du Welz has co-written the script with Vincent Tavier, and shooting is now set for early 2011.
Raymond Fernandez and his common-law wife Martha Beck became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" after their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949. Between 1947 and 1949 they are believed to have killed as many as 20 women. - as per WikiPedia
Look for more soon!
- 5/17/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Fabrice Du Welz has chosen the subject, or subjects, of his latest film: Serial killers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, also known as The Lonely Hearts Killers. Du Welz will direct Alleluia , a true life/road film about Beck and Fernandez who killed an estimated 20 women during a two year span in the 1940s. The pair were at the center of the 1970 film The Honeymoon Killers . Starring in Alleluia is Béatrice Dalle of Inside . Du Welz previously directed the unnerving Calvaire and the slow-burn Vinyan .
- 5/17/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz has a singularly unusual, and frequently disturbing, view of humanity that translates into some truly unsettling films. Anyone who has seen his 2004 film Calvaire and walked away unscathed can attest to this. Sort of a Belgian Lars Von Trier, he's an auteur with an astonishing eye for visual imagery, determined to use startling and frequently beautiful camerawork to show viewers a dark side of humanity that lies behind doors we would probably prefer remain closed.
2009's Vinyan is no exception. Not as outright crazy nor jaw-droppingly shocking as Calvaire, it is nonetheless a harrowing journey that examines themes of parenthood, tribalism, and Eastern/Western dichotomies. Vinyan stars Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle Béart as Paul and Jeanne Bellmer, a married couple living in Thailand, trying to deal with the disappearance of their son months ago. Paul is slowly coming to a grim acceptance, while Jeanne is...
2009's Vinyan is no exception. Not as outright crazy nor jaw-droppingly shocking as Calvaire, it is nonetheless a harrowing journey that examines themes of parenthood, tribalism, and Eastern/Western dichotomies. Vinyan stars Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle Béart as Paul and Jeanne Bellmer, a married couple living in Thailand, trying to deal with the disappearance of their son months ago. Paul is slowly coming to a grim acceptance, while Jeanne is...
- 4/8/2010
- by TK
[Above pic from Alucarda; see below]
Horror remakes are like those annoying, Jack-Daniels-filled uncles who get off on pushing other folks’ buttons—you shouldn’t encourage them. Superlative examples (1982’s The Thing, 2004’s Dawn of the Dead, 2006’s The Hills Have Eyes and last year’s The Last House on the Left) bless local AMC venues few and far between, and must wade through the muddy tracks left by atrocities such as The Fog, Friday the 13th, The Hitcher and Friday the 13th. And, no, the fact that those last two come from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes factory is not lost here. As more second-tries are greenlit throughout Hollywood and the majority premiere to scathing reviews overshadowed by profitable opening weekend grosses, horror heads will continually be subjected to soul-crushing decimations of nostalgic favorites.
It’s a downward spiral that shows no signs of concluding. The hypnotic, twirling white lines seen during the opening credits of The Twilight Zone,...
Horror remakes are like those annoying, Jack-Daniels-filled uncles who get off on pushing other folks’ buttons—you shouldn’t encourage them. Superlative examples (1982’s The Thing, 2004’s Dawn of the Dead, 2006’s The Hills Have Eyes and last year’s The Last House on the Left) bless local AMC venues few and far between, and must wade through the muddy tracks left by atrocities such as The Fog, Friday the 13th, The Hitcher and Friday the 13th. And, no, the fact that those last two come from Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes factory is not lost here. As more second-tries are greenlit throughout Hollywood and the majority premiere to scathing reviews overshadowed by profitable opening weekend grosses, horror heads will continually be subjected to soul-crushing decimations of nostalgic favorites.
It’s a downward spiral that shows no signs of concluding. The hypnotic, twirling white lines seen during the opening credits of The Twilight Zone,...
- 2/23/2010
- by Matt Barone
- ReelLoop.com
Director: Fabrice Du Welz. Review: Adam Wing. Every parent's worst nightmare is explored in the new thriller Vinyan, after losing their only child in a devastating tsunami; Paul (Rufus Sewell, Dark City) and Janet Belhmer (Emmanuelle Beart, Mission Impossible) barely have the strength to go on. Paul is somewhat lacking in faith when his wife claims to have seen their son in a documentary about the orphans living in the Burmese jungle; he shows his support by agreeing to join her on a search for the boy. They really should have stayed at home though because what they uncover is both devastating and destructive to them both, drug traffickers threaten their lives and a clan of rabid children suggest a fate far worse than anything death could conjure up. An unimaginable descent into pure madness from the writer and director of The Ordeal (Fabrice Du Welz) which kind of goes...
- 10/8/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
Red Cliff
John Woo hasn’t exactly lit up the screen with his Hollywood films has he? Face/Off is enjoyable I guess but the less said about Windtalkers, Paycheck and even Mission Impossible 2 the better really. It’s a shame because the man is capable of directing action sequences better than anybody else on the planet.
Red Cliff sees John Woo look to Chinese history for inspiration. It’s a sweeping, magnificent epic that looked amazing on the big screen.
The Han dynasty is coming to an end in third century China so as a last ditch attempt for survival the Emperor raises an army that stretches close to a million to attack the two neighbouring kingdoms.
Red Cliff boasts beautiful cinematography and action set pieces. It’s great to see a Director back at the top of his game.
Looks incredible on Blu-Ray.
Damage
Leave your brain at the door for this one.
John Woo hasn’t exactly lit up the screen with his Hollywood films has he? Face/Off is enjoyable I guess but the less said about Windtalkers, Paycheck and even Mission Impossible 2 the better really. It’s a shame because the man is capable of directing action sequences better than anybody else on the planet.
Red Cliff sees John Woo look to Chinese history for inspiration. It’s a sweeping, magnificent epic that looked amazing on the big screen.
The Han dynasty is coming to an end in third century China so as a last ditch attempt for survival the Emperor raises an army that stretches close to a million to attack the two neighbouring kingdoms.
Red Cliff boasts beautiful cinematography and action set pieces. It’s great to see a Director back at the top of his game.
Looks incredible on Blu-Ray.
Damage
Leave your brain at the door for this one.
- 10/2/2009
- by Alex Wagner
- FilmShaft.com
Director: Fabrice Du Welz Starring: Emmanuelle Béart - Jeanne Bellmer; Rufus Sewell - Paul Bellmer One would think it almost impossible that a film which follows the journey of grieving parents into a remote Burmese jungle to find their lost son - washed away 6 months previously by the 2004 tsunami - could fail to elicit any emotion from its viewer, and so it is something of a disastrous achievement that Vinyan manages to do exactly that. The lurching and hallucinogenic journey itself is launched when troubled mother Jeanne (Emmanuelle Béart) becomes convinced that she sees her missing son in the background of some grainy documentary footage at a charity evening in Phuket which she and her husband Paul (Rufus Sewell) are attending. Immediately enraptured by the idea that her son is alive in nearby Burma, she convinces her initially skeptical spouse to set out on a predictably hazardous rescue journey. Enlisting...
- 10/1/2009
- by Joel Gregory
- t5m.com
Belgian director Fabrice du Welz (pictured), whose credits include Calvaire: The Ordeal and this year’s Vinyan, got in touch with info on his recently announced third feature, tentatively titled More. The new project will mark his U.S. debut, as he’ll be helming the film in New York City next spring with star Brady Corbet Of Funny Games.
“I can’t reveal much,” du Welz tells us, “but I can tell you that More is based on a real event and it happens in the New York art world.” His excitement about tackling that setting is what drew him to make a film in America for the first time, and he adds, “It’s a high-concept film with great character potential, dilemmas and situations and extreme, twisted scenes. I’ve met with producers and Brady Corbet, and spent time in New York City. All those elements make...
“I can’t reveal much,” du Welz tells us, “but I can tell you that More is based on a real event and it happens in the New York art world.” His excitement about tackling that setting is what drew him to make a film in America for the first time, and he adds, “It’s a high-concept film with great character potential, dilemmas and situations and extreme, twisted scenes. I’ve met with producers and Brady Corbet, and spent time in New York City. All those elements make...
- 9/17/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)
- Fangoria
Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz is heading to NY for a dark psychological thriller, Bloody Disgusting was told in a press release announcing the film. After some resistance to working in the U.S., Belgian arthouse horror director Fabrice Du Welz has announced that he will be helming his first American feature. More is a dark psychological thriller set in downtown New York. For the auteur behind the moody, terrifying films Calvaire and Vinyan, the movie is another exploration of the world of madness. 21-year-old American Brady Corbet is set to play the lead in what Du Welz calls truly a breakout role. The director was immediately drawn to Corbet, who has worked with Michael Hanneke (Funny Games Us) and Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin). Hes a bright young actor, full of potential, says Du Welz. As soon as I met him, I had a strong feeling.
- 9/12/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
Few films have divided the Dread Central staff like the Funny Games remake did, but one thing we all agreed on was how great its two young co-stars, Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet, were. Apparently we're not alone as Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire, Vinyan) has tapped Corbet for the lead in his next project, which is tentatively entitled More.
Shooting begins in March, 2010, and according to Twitch Film, Corbet's part is described by Du Welz as "truly a breakout role. He's a bright young actor, full of potential. As soon as I met him, I had a strong feeling." More is the director's second English-language film (after Vinyan) but marks his first Us production.
As for More's storyline, it's a dark psychological thriller set in downtown New York. [According to Du Welz] the movie is "another exploration of the world of madness." [It was] penned by 22-year-old newcomer Zachary Wigon [and] is being produced by...
Shooting begins in March, 2010, and according to Twitch Film, Corbet's part is described by Du Welz as "truly a breakout role. He's a bright young actor, full of potential. As soon as I met him, I had a strong feeling." More is the director's second English-language film (after Vinyan) but marks his first Us production.
As for More's storyline, it's a dark psychological thriller set in downtown New York. [According to Du Welz] the movie is "another exploration of the world of madness." [It was] penned by 22-year-old newcomer Zachary Wigon [and] is being produced by...
- 9/12/2009
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz ( Calvaire , Vinyan ) has lined up his next project and it will find him working on U.S. soil. Described as "another exploration of the world of madness," the psychological thriller is called More and he's pulled in Brad Corbet ( Funny Games ) to star. Du Welz will re-team with director of photography Benoit Debie. Shooting is expected to begin in the U.S. in March. Du Welz tells ShockTillYouDrop.com he can't reveal plot details at this time, however, "It's based on real event, it's gonna be extreme and it's happens in the art world in New York." More is penned by newcomer Zachary Wigon and is being produced by Alex Mar and Nicholas Shumaker of Empire 8 Productions, in conjunction with Michael Gentile of Paris-based...
- 9/12/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
After his surreal and a time at grotesque French thriller Calvaire, director Fabrice Du Welz returns with his second feature - this time a full blown horror tale – titled Vinyan. Starring Emmanuelle Béart and Rufus Sewell Vinyan follows the story of a couples harrowing journey to discover the fate of their son, lost in a tsunami disaster. You can check out a lush, dark and very atmospheric trailer at the link. Vinyan goes on sale, October 5th. Synopsis: When someone dies a horrible death, their spirit becomes confused and angry. They become "Vinyan". A couple leaves the civilized world behind and descends into a living nightmare in this chilling horror thriller. Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles of Burma. While her husband is worried that she's losing her mind,...
- 9/9/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
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