As we eagerly await her sophomore feature Ama Gloria (currently in post but tipped to premiere later in the year), we just learned that Marie Amachoukeli has an overlap in projects already working on her third feature – an animated film that comically reverse-engineers the hourglass. Variety reports that Marie Amachoukeli (who is at the Cartoon Movie pitch and co-production forum in Bordeaux will co-direct (with Vladimir Mavounia Kouka) Happy End sometime next year. The 2D project in the style of Max Fleischer won’t be for the kids. Variety has a three-minute promo teaser you can watch here.
Co-written with Amachoukeli and Jean-François Halin, this follows Bertha King, a suicidal career soldier who is unlucky enough to finally end things right as the grim reaper hangs up his scythe.…...
Co-written with Amachoukeli and Jean-François Halin, this follows Bertha King, a suicidal career soldier who is unlucky enough to finally end things right as the grim reaper hangs up his scythe.…...
- 3/16/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Cannes acclaimed filmmaker Marie Amachoukeli and leading French studio Miyu Productions will pair on “Happy End,” a macabre comedy Amachoukeli will co-direct with Vladimir Mavounia Kouka. Set for production in 2024, the project has already received backing from Bac Films and MK2, with the latter handling international sales.
Variety has scored a first look at the project, which recently presented at the Cartoon Movie pitch and co-production forum in Bordeaux.
Imagining a world without death and employing a visual style reminiscent of Max Fleischer, the 2D, adult-targeted film follows Bertha King, a suicidal career soldier who has the bad to luck to finally end things right as the grim reaper hangs up his scythe. Left yearning to die while death has gone on strike, the depressed hero must navigate a morose new existence all of sudden freed from the bonds of mortality.
“The idea of the film is to encourage laughter and re-enchantment,...
Variety has scored a first look at the project, which recently presented at the Cartoon Movie pitch and co-production forum in Bordeaux.
Imagining a world without death and employing a visual style reminiscent of Max Fleischer, the 2D, adult-targeted film follows Bertha King, a suicidal career soldier who has the bad to luck to finally end things right as the grim reaper hangs up his scythe. Left yearning to die while death has gone on strike, the depressed hero must navigate a morose new existence all of sudden freed from the bonds of mortality.
“The idea of the film is to encourage laughter and re-enchantment,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The cluelessly arrogant secret agent with a name as silly as his retrograde attitudes — Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka agent Oss 117 — is back in Oss 117: From Africa With Love. Everybody loves a secret agent, even a demonstrably buffoonish one, and versatile Jean Dujardin is a deadpan delight as the staunchly patriotic Frenchman whose adventures were last on the big screen in 2009’s Oss 117: Lost In Rio and 2006’s Oss 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies.
Michel Hazanavicius — for whom Dujardin starred in 2011’s five-time Oscar winner The Artist — directed the previous Oss entries. Taking the reins here is talented multi-hyphenate Nicolas Bedos (La Belle Epoque), and while the result is not consistently as funny as the first two installments, this is an entertaining popcorn movie that’s also a healthy satire of imperialist self-assurance, perhaps best summed up by Hubert’s sincere belief that everybody on Earth wishes they were French.
Michel Hazanavicius — for whom Dujardin starred in 2011’s five-time Oscar winner The Artist — directed the previous Oss entries. Taking the reins here is talented multi-hyphenate Nicolas Bedos (La Belle Epoque), and while the result is not consistently as funny as the first two installments, this is an entertaining popcorn movie that’s also a healthy satire of imperialist self-assurance, perhaps best summed up by Hubert’s sincere belief that everybody on Earth wishes they were French.
- 8/20/2021
- by Lisa Nesselson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cannes Film Festival will close its 74th edition with “Oss 117: From Africa With Love,” the third opus of the spy spoof franchise headlined by Oscar-winning actor Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”).
The movie is directed by Nicolas Bedos, the popular French director whose last film, “La Belle Epoque,” world premiered out of competition at Cannes in 2019.
The first two parodic films of the “Oss 117” franchise, which were directed by “The Artist” helmer Michel Hazanavicius, were major B.O. hits in France and traveled around the world.
“From Africa With Love” is set in 1981, 14 years after “Lost in Rio,” and follows Dujardin as the famed secret agent Hubert Bonisseur who leaves on a mission in Kenya and teams up with a young agent, who is played by Pierre Niney. The movie also stars Fatou N’Diaye and Natacha Lindinger, among others.
The film was penned by Jean-François Halin, and is produced...
The movie is directed by Nicolas Bedos, the popular French director whose last film, “La Belle Epoque,” world premiered out of competition at Cannes in 2019.
The first two parodic films of the “Oss 117” franchise, which were directed by “The Artist” helmer Michel Hazanavicius, were major B.O. hits in France and traveled around the world.
“From Africa With Love” is set in 1981, 14 years after “Lost in Rio,” and follows Dujardin as the famed secret agent Hubert Bonisseur who leaves on a mission in Kenya and teams up with a young agent, who is played by Pierre Niney. The movie also stars Fatou N’Diaye and Natacha Lindinger, among others.
The film was penned by Jean-François Halin, and is produced...
- 6/25/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Not only is the “new recruit as audience surrogate” a time-tested method of spy agency stories, but it’s one of the simplest ways to get a literal foot in the door on a TV show. In the case of the French comedy “A Very Secret Service” (released in the United States as a Netflix Original), young counterintelligence newcomer André Merlaux (Hugo Becker) gets to be the doe-eyed conscience of a show where international diplomacy gets tossed around like manila folders full of classified material.
Andre joins the (fictional) French Secret Services in 1960, but the Cold War only permeates his new small inner circle of colleagues as much as it upsets the normal day-to-day business of a workplace that seems more banal than cutthroat. Writer/creators Jean-François Halin, Claire Lemaréchal, and Jean-André Yerlès manage to harness that droll side of a spy job for their benefit, using André’s growing...
Andre joins the (fictional) French Secret Services in 1960, but the Cold War only permeates his new small inner circle of colleagues as much as it upsets the normal day-to-day business of a workplace that seems more banal than cutthroat. Writer/creators Jean-François Halin, Claire Lemaréchal, and Jean-André Yerlès manage to harness that droll side of a spy job for their benefit, using André’s growing...
- 8/2/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Chicago – It’s no mystery why the appeal of spy satires transcend the boundaries of time and culture. Clueless detectives with a bloated sense of self-importance are great comic punching bags. Everyone loves seeing a doofus get his head slammed in a door, whether that doofus be Inspector Clouseau or Lt. Frank Drebin or countless other law officers who could easily blend in with the Keystone Kops.
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, the French spy better known as Oss 117, was created by author Jean Bruce as a straightforward hero. The character was featured in several ’60s thrillers that were meant to be serious competitors with the James Bond franchise. But in 2006, director Michel Hazanavicius decided to do for the outdated character what Austin Powers did for Bond. His picture, “Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies” was a gloriously nutty delight, with a smashing lead performance by Jean Dujardin, who...
Chicago – It’s no mystery why the appeal of spy satires transcend the boundaries of time and culture. Clueless detectives with a bloated sense of self-importance are great comic punching bags. Everyone loves seeing a doofus get his head slammed in a door, whether that doofus be Inspector Clouseau or Lt. Frank Drebin or countless other law officers who could easily blend in with the Keystone Kops.
Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, the French spy better known as Oss 117, was created by author Jean Bruce as a straightforward hero. The character was featured in several ’60s thrillers that were meant to be serious competitors with the James Bond franchise. But in 2006, director Michel Hazanavicius decided to do for the outdated character what Austin Powers did for Bond. His picture, “Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies” was a gloriously nutty delight, with a smashing lead performance by Jean Dujardin, who...
- 6/10/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Director: Michel Hazanavicius Writers: Jean Bruce (character), Jean-François Halin (screenplay) Producers: Eric Altmeyer, Nicholas Altmeyer Cinematographer: Guillaume Schiffman Starring: Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Rüdiger Vogler Studio: Mandarin Films The spy who loved himself Buffoonish French super-spy Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (Jean Dujardin), aka agent 117, once again charms the ladies while foiling nefarious villains in Oss 117: Lost in Rio, a stale follow-up to 2006’s Cairo, Nest of Spies. An Austin Powers-style spoof carried out with reasonable attention to aesthetic period detail (grainy cinematography, mod outfits, copious split screen effects), Michel Hazanavicius’ comedy charts 117’s efforts in swinging 1967...
- 5/7/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
From a wry documentary exploring anti-Semitism (Defamation, 2009), The Evening Class shifts to a stylish feature that wickedly flaunts Jewish stereotypes. Oss 117: Lost in Rio saw its Bay Area premiere on Halloween night as part of the San Francisco Film Society's 2009 French Cinema Now (Fcn) series, where--in turn--Robert Avila wrote up such a clever synopsis that I won't even try to compete: "Temperatures and laughs are up, tops are down and cultural sensitivity is at an all-time low in this send-up of super-spy Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka Oss 117, the foreigner-fighting, Cold War hero of the popular de Gaulle-era novels by Jean Bruce. The bastard child of James Bond and Inspector Clouzot (played with mesmerizing scenery-chewing élan by French superstar Jean Dujardin) fumbles merrily through a meticulously realized Brazilian wonderland in hot pursuit of a Nazi blackmailer, and in collaboration with a rather-hot-herself Mossad agent (Louise Monot). To...
- 12/12/2009
- Screen Anarchy
CANNES -- Special agent OSS117 is back for another mission. Jean Dujardin, star of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, paid a visit to Cannes to sign off on a sequel to the hit spy spoof. The project will reunite the same core talent, including director Michel Hazanavicius and writer Jean-Francois Halin. It will be produced by Eric and Nicolas Altmayer's Mandarin Films, with Gaumont handling French distribution and international sales, as on the first picture. Delivery is scheduled for December 2008. Based on a series of pulp secret-agent novels by Jean Bruce, the OSS117 franchise already had been adapted eight times in largely forgotten series in the 1960s before film rights to the central character were bought by Mandarin. Nest of Spies, which co-stars Berenice Bejo and Aure Atika, uses a strong retro feel to pastiche the crass colonialism, sexism and homophobia of an unreconstructed tough guy of 1950s France. The movie so far has sold nearly 1.8 million tickets in France.
- 5/24/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CANNES -- Special agent OSS117 is back for another mission. Jean Dujardin, star of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, paid a visit to Cannes to sign off on a sequel to the hit spy spoof. The project will reunite the same core talent, including director Michel Hazanavicius and writer Jean-Francois Halin. It will be produced by Eric and Nicolas Altmayer's Mandarin Films, with Gaumont handling French distribution and international sales, as on the first picture. Delivery is scheduled for December 2008. Based on a series of pulp secret-agent novels by Jean Bruce, the OSS117 franchise already had been adapted eight times in largely forgotten series in the 1960s before film rights to the central character were bought by Mandarin. Nest of Spies, which co-stars Berenice Bejo and Aure Atika, uses a strong retro feel to pastiche the crass colonialism, sexism and homophobia of an unreconstructed tough guy of 1950s France. The movie so far has sold nearly 1.8 million tickets in France.
- 5/24/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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