Noémie Merlant Says Gory Sisterhood Tale ‘The Balconettes’ Was Sparked By Her Experiences With “Microaggressions, Major Aggressions And Even Physical Violence”

Lana Del Rey was asked by the BBC if she’d write a title track for a James Bond movie.

Anamaria Vartolomei, the breakout star of Audrey Diwan’s Venice prizewinning “Happening,” is under the spotlight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival playing strong women in a pair of movies, “Being Maria” and “The Count Monte Cristo.” Both movies are supported by Chanel for which Vartolomei is an ambassador. Vartolomei says since starring in Diwan’s drama “Happening,” which was set in the 1960s and centered around the then-illegal act of abortion, she has continued being lured to demanding roles with political and social themes.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Lily Gladstone went back home to the Blackfeet reservation after her lengthy awards season with “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and “nobody was upset” that she didn’t win the Oscar for best actress. Gladstone was a frontrunner for the Academy Award alongside Emma Stone, but it was Stone who prevailed on Oscars night thanks to her performance in “Poor Things.” It turns out some of the Blackfeet Nation leaders assumed Lily would be coming home with the gold. “It was funny, the organizers of the event called me beforehand and they said that they’d got a bunch of little cardboard cut-outs of gold-man statues that looked like an Oscar, to give to the kids,” Gladstone recently told Empire magazine.

Megan Vick It’s been half of a decade since “The Society” captivated Netflix viewers during its short life as a streaming series. These viewers became enraptured by a rag-tag group of teens that started their own civilization after landing in an identical version of their town but devoid of the rest of its residents, including their parents. The series, which premiered in May 2019, was renewed two months later and set to go into production in March 2020.

Crystal Hefner is hitting back at claims made on Bridget Marquardt and Holly Madison‘s podcast! The feud is BACK ON!

EXCLUSIVE: The Chi is still going strong.

confirming on social media that she had first received the information in April 2023, after having taken a genetic test “in an effort to be proactive about my health”.While she passed the initial test, she found out two months later that she had breast cancer.The actor, known for her role as Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse, as well as films including The Predator, Date Night and Magic Mike, wrote: “In the past ten months I have had four surgeries, so many days spent in bed I can’t even count and have learned more about cancer, cancer treatment and hormones than I ever could have imagined.”A post shared by o l i v i a (@oliviamunn)“I’ve kept the diagnosis and the worry and the recover and the pain medicine and the paper gowns private. I needed to catch my breath and get through some of the hardest parts before sharing.”A month after her biopsy, Munn underwent a 10-hour double mastectomy surgery.

Guy Lodge Film Critic For crisp tension or thematic clarity, nothing in “The Balconettes” quite outdoes the nearly self-contained, minutes-long short that opens actor-director Noémie Merlant‘s frenzied, heatstruck genre mashup. On a 115-degree summer afternoon in a wilting, AC-challenged Marseilles apartment block, a put-upon middle-aged wife passes out on her balcony.

Courteney Cox remembered her Friends co-star Matthew Perry and says she still talks to him.

Courteney Cox has opened up about the loss of her Friends co-star Matthew Perry and told how she believes he "visits" her regularly since his death last October. While discussing the 20th anniversary of the comedy series' finale on CBS Sunday Morning at the weekend, the actress opened up about the late star and said: "You know, he’s just so funny. He has genuinely a huge heart, obviously struggled.

Demi Moore‘s new film, the feminist body horror “The Substance,” sees Demi Moore bare it all, with several scenes featuring full nudity. At the Cannes Film Festival press conference for the film on Monday, Moore discussed the “vulnerable experience.” “Going into it, it was really spelled out.– the level of vulnerability and rawness that was really required to tell the story,” Moore said.

Ben Croll Noemie Merlant’s sophomore feature “The Balconettes” plays as a raunchy horror-comedy with a greater social conscience. The film follows three roommates – an actress, played by Merlant, a camgirl played by “Dune: Part Two” breakout Souheila Yacoub and a frustrated writer played Sanda Condreanu – who are initially infatuated and eventually repelled by a lothario neighbor from across the yard. Exploring questions of coercion and consent with a healthy dose of blood and guts, “The Balconettes” wants to entertain and energize in equal measure.

Alex Ritman Andrea Arnold’s initial inspiration for her Cannes competition entry “Bird” was perhaps not what many people might have been expecting. “A very long time ago, I had the image a tall, thin man with a long penis, standing on a roof,” she explained at the press conference for the film on Friday when asked about her initial visual prompt. “But I didn’t know if he was good or bad or what he was.” From this bizarre starting point, Arnold crafted a social realist drama about a family on the fringes of society living by British seaside and an unexpected visitor who becomes close to a young girl entering puberty.

Jane Lynch had so much to say about Glee during a recent interview.

Prepare to be shocked, Vanderpump Rules fans.

Ali Wong revealed how Bill Hader pursued her and ultimately ended up sparking a romantic relationship! The pair have been dating for over a year, though their exact romantic timeline hasn’t been made public by them.

By Fans wanting to see Penelope Featherington () and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) in might be surprised to learn that when Newton first got the scripts, his initial thought was: How complicated can this story be?“Penelope has been infatuated by Colin ever since the start of season one,” he explains to Glamour over Zoom. “So in my head, there was a clear path: All he needs to do is see what's been right in front of him all this time, and they'll live happily ever after.”Of course, this is Bridgerton.

Pietro Marcello – whose 2019 film “Martin Eden” made a splash on the international art-house scene – is shooting “Duse,” a movie about legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi stars as Duse and Noémie Merlant (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”) plays her daughter. The Match Factory has acquired international rights to “Duse” and is kicking off sales on this buzzy biopic in Cannes.

In 2020, Magnus von Horn was excited to find that his film Sweat had been accepted into the Official Selection at Cannes, a big step up from his debut, The Here After, which made Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. The pandemic put an end to that, but his disappointment was short-lived; this year, his dark atmospheric follow-up, The Girl With the Needle, sees him joining the big league. “This is huge to me,” he beams. “The main competition!”

Andrea Badgie was 31 when she began experiencing severe pains near her appendix.