Laurent Lafitte Ten Times

Nice little treat today thanks to GQ France -- some suave man photos of actor Laurent Lafitte! He first caught our eyes as the "next door neighbor" in Paul Verhoeven's tremendous 2016 Huppert-vehicle Elle -- and sidenote holy shit that movie's turning 10 this year -- although looking back I'd definitely seen him in things before then like Mathieu Kassovitz's The Crimson Rivers and Guillaume Canet's Tell No One (apprently he only works for sexy directors!). And since Elle I've seen Laurent in the unsettling apocalypse-ish flick School's Out in 2018 and last year's big-budget smash The Count of Monte Christo. Still I don't see shoots of him popping up too often so this is a treasure. Hit the jump for the rest...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Love Me If You Dare (2003)

Julien: Being an adult means to have a

speedometer that marks 210

and not driving over 60.

A happy 50th birthday to the great and gorgeous Guillaume Canet today! This movie above is probably the first thing I ever saw him in (it's also where he first met his partner of the last sixteen years, a certain Miss Marion Cotillard) and I remember digging the movie but I haven't seen it since. Looking through his filmography I've seen surprisingly few of his movies, actually? It seems like he makes a lot that never makes it across the pond. Oh well that hasn't kept me from documenting him plenty over the years -- check our archives right here.

If you're super familiar with Canet's filmography please tell me what I should see that I might not have previously -- I have seen the big stuff like Tell No One and Joyeux Noel. The last thing I saw him in I think was Oliver Assayas' film Non-Fiction (which I loved way more than most people seemed to), and before that I thought he gave a stellar turn as a serial killer in Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart. He's a dream (even if his relationship with Cotillard makes me think he's probably a nutter like her). 

Guillaume Canet Eight Times

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(pics via) About for weeks until Olivier Assayas funny and wise and wonderful new film Non-Fiction hits screens (on May the 3rd to be specific) -- click here to see the trailer (and the film also got a poster last week -- see it here) and click here to read my review of the film from when it screened at NYFF in the fall, which stars Canet and Juliette Binoche, among others. (Sidenote: it's a good month for Binoche lovers -- Claire Denis' High Life with her and Robert Pattinson and fuck boxes in outer space opens this very weekend!) Hit the jump for this whole shoot...

Pretty, Witty, and Canet

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Oh and speaking of Film Festivals -- and we were, just a minute ago actually -- the trailer for Olivier Assayas' Non-Fiction, one of my favorite movies from last fall's New York Film Festival, has finally arrived this very afternoon. It stars Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet as "the bohemian intelligentsia" (that's how the studio describes them, not me) with lots of interlocking sexual liaisons and conversations about books. Here's my review of it at this link -- I called it "top tier classic Woody Allen" even though it wasn't, you know, made by Woody Allen. Somebody's got to start making those literate urbanite movies now that Woody's persona non grata, I guess. Watch:

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Non-Fiction is hitting theaters on May 3rd.

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The Truth Is Right Here

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Now that I've noticed Guillaume Canet's resemblance to Patrick Dempsey (see this tweet from last week) I'm never going to un-notice it, and I'm never gonna not feel dumb for not having noticed it sooner. For serious! It's kind of crazy. Anyway it's especially prominent in Olivier Assayas' latest film Non-Fiction, which has Guillaume acting opposite Juliette Binoche in an existential comedy set against the collapsing publishing world, and which I just reviewed over at The Film Experience before its premiere at the New York Film Festival next week. Go read my words, even if my denseness regarding this whole Canet / Dempsey situation can be seen from outer space.

10 Off My Head: NYFF Highlights

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After a couple weeks of teasing us with their Opening Night film (The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos) and their Centerpiece film (ROMA from Alfonso Cuarón) and their Closing Night film (Julian Schnabel's Vincent Van Gogh bio-pic At Eternity's Gate with Willem Dafoe) our hometown film festival the New York Film Festival has revealed the full line-up for their Main Slate of movies and it's looking like another stellar bunch of pictures to me.

So much so that as I scanned through the 30 titles they have now announced the list I decided to make of the 5 I'm most looking forward to quickly became impossible - no it needs to be 10. And 10 is difficult! But we'll keep it to 10. (Leaving off the three big titles that were already announced.)

10 of NYFF '18 I'm Most Looking Forward To

Burning -- Word on this one from Korean director Lee Chang-dong was ecstatic out of Cannes - I've mentioned it a couple of times already thanks to its star Steven Yeun. It's a love triangle (of sorts, they say) turned thriller (of sorts, they say) based on the story "Barn Burning" by Haruki Murakami.

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If Beale Street Could Talk -- I'm surprised I hadn't posted the trailer yet so there that is - this is of course Barry Jenkins' follow-up to Moonlight, based on a book by James Baldwin, about a pregnant woman trying to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused father of her baby to be. I'm most excited about a showcase role for the always great Regina King.

Non-Fiction -- Yeah this is the new Olivier Assayas movie (his first since Personal Shopper in 2016, which I saw and reviewed at that year's NYFF although I will admit I like the movie a lot more now after a couple of viewings than I did at first) and it stars Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet so you know my ass is there. It's about two couples' intertwined lives set in the publishing industry.

Sorry Angel -- One of the few movies I bothered to post about when Cannes was happening (see right here) this gay love story set in the early 1990s stars Pierre Deladonchamps (so great in Stranger by the Lake) and Vincent Lacoste and deals with HIV, as any gay love story in the early 1990s must. It's from director Christophe Honoré and damn that reminds me I have to watch Love Songs already.

Her Smell -- Speaking of the early 1990s this movie has Elisabeth Moss playing the lead singer of an "Alternative" band who is unraveling and seeing as how Elisabeth Moss is probably the greatest actress working today yeah I said it I am totally, totally stoked, as the 90s kids would call it. This is the new film from Alex Ross Perry, who's given Moss tons to work with over the past few years with Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth - the cast besides Moss is kinda nuts, with Cara Delevingne and Amber Heard opposite Eric Stoltz and Virginia Madsen? Okay. Also Dan Stevens and the extremely talented Lindsay Burdge, who's one to keep an eye on. (She blew me away in Thirst Street and to a smaller degree, because her role was smaller, in The Invitation.)

High Life -- I'm way more mixed on beloved French auteur Claire Denis than most are but she and I are on good terms after last year's Let the Sun Shine In, which positively frolicked in the face of Juliette Binoche, so I'm down to see her train her camera on that actress again and with Robert Pattinson along for the ride! Oh and it's a science-fiction film, and every shot I've seen so far has given my eyeballs a real good feeling about it. (I posted several previously right here.)

Transit -- Excited for this one based pretty solely on the director - Christian Petzold's last two films were Barbara and Phoenix, both showcases for the great actress Nina Hoss, and delivered as such. Hoss isn't around for this but the actor Franz Rogowski is - I have liked him in everything I've seen him in (the one-take wonder Victoria and Michael Haneke's Happy End) - alongside Paula Beer, who was fantastic as the leading lady in Francois Ozon's film Frantz. 

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs -- The Coen Bros latest, which has suddenly just recently turned from a Netflix limited series into an even more limited movie. It's a series of short films all bound together as the unrelated stories in a fiction book of Western Tales - the chapters star Tim Blake Nelson and Zoe Kazan and James Franco and Brendan Gleeson and Tyne Daly (!!!) and David Krumholtz and Ralph Inseon (aka the father from The Witch!) and on and on and on and on. It's the Coens, man. 

Long Day’s Journey Into Night -- I'm the vaguest on this one, from Chinese director Bi Gan, but purposefully so. I do recall people raving about its incredible strangeness when it screened at Cannes - there's supposed to be an insane hour-long 3D sequence -  and I'm gonna keep it at that. It's always good to be surprised about something, so tell me no more. 

Wildlife -- Uh I think we know why we're here:

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JAKE IS FINALLY COMING TO NYFF YESSSSSSSSS pic.twitter.com/xhTbmVQBuu

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 7, 2018

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Honestly I'm looking forward to every single film that they're screening - Louis Garrel's directorial debut! A fourteen-hour-long Argentinean epic! So y'all stay tuned, we'll once again be covering the heck out of it for The Film Experience as the fest runs from September 28 – October 14. Now you go glance through the whole list yourselves and make your travel plans accordingly.
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Binoche Break!

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Here's some excellent news we can use on a soggy Wednesday afternoon - Juliette Binoche is re-teaming with her Summer Hours and Clouds of Sils Maria directing pal Olivier Assayas to make what's described by The Film Stage as as "a full-blown comedy." They say that as if that's a shock, coming from her, but if Ghost in the Shell wasn't a "full-blown comedy" then I must have watched it wrong.

Anyway this new one will be called E-book and it will be set in "the Parisian publishing world" and it will star the dreamy Guillaume Canet. Can I watch it right now, Olivier? I mean I know you haven't filmed it yet but I could really use this movie this afternoon so if you can just go ahead and slap it together real quick I'm waiting, thanks.

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Smile, Guillaume

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I was feeling fairly punch-drunk by the time I sat down on Sunday to watch Rock'n Roll, Guillaume Canet's goofy new movie starring himself and his girlfriend Marion Cotillard (playing "himself" and "his girlfriend Marion Cotillard") because it was my fifth movie of the day, so you maybe shouldn't entirely trust my reaction, but you can read that reaction - an appreciative one - right now over at The Film Experience. It was just what I needed, though.

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This Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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The best scene in the serial-killer-thriller Next Time I'll Aim For The Heart is the first scene, which drops us down in the middle of a real dark night of the soul and, with some precise and disorienting camera-work, deeply unnerves. Two girls become one girl, two bikes become a bike and a car, and we spin and the streets stream outwards and every inch sneaking outside of the camera's view seems teeming with its own creeping-in shadows. It's really a triumph of tension, and the rest of the film thrums well enough riding along on its echo, but eventually an absence of... well the only word I can come up with is "decency" - an absence of decency takes hold, and the perspective strains, rings somewhat hollow. 

It's a movie that wants to have it both ways - it wants to be a singular character-study about a man with no actual character. It wants to minutely detail what it early on decides is inexplicable. The victims all remain hazy, and Guillaume Canet's serial-killer-cop, by choice, does too. When the film focuses on action it's (my apologies) killer - director Cédric Anger (a former critic for Cahiers) clearly knows from his Hitchcock beats and there are some great set-pieces. But they don't really emotionally connect - I mean, what is there to connect to? 

Maybe if it were funnier? It's a story that's crying out for the darkest of comedy - there's a scene where Canet goes door to door flashing a sketch of his own face asking people if they recognize him that the audience lapped up with hungry snorts, but honestly we all just sounded kind of desperate in our laughter by that point. There's an American Psycho inside of this movie begging to be free; now that's a film that found a way to exuberantly detail endless internal nothingness with a spring in its step. Heart never finds that sort of tonal footing - maybe next time aim a little harder, is all.

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Let's French Again

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Speaking of attractive gentlemen who can't keep their hands off of each other in public places hey look it's one-time butt-fuckers Gilles Lellouche & Jean Dujardin! God, the French heat wafting off that shot, it smells of fromage and musk and manliness. I actually think that shot's from around the same time the time they made their butt-fucking movie together, but I do have a reason to post it other than I like thinking about their butt-fucking movie - I mean all the links in this post so far have been to different posts about it so clearly I like thinking about it.

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No I'm here today because back in October I took a look at the trailer for Le French, their new movie together - well that movie's just one of about two dozen titles that'll be showing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema series, which runs from March 6th through March 15th. There are several movies I'm pretty excited to see, but mostly I'm looking forward to...

... their pal Guillaume Canet being here in NYC in person. Twice! He's going to be there for the screenings of both In the Name of My Daughter, André Téchiné's new film which also stars Catherine Denueve, as well as the serial-killer-thriller Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart, which I am very much looking forward to. Here's the trailer for the latter:

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And if after watching that you have no idea why I'm looking 

forward to this movie then I don't know what to say to you.

I Am Link

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--- Still Waters - Dazed got to visit John Waters at home and besides a nice interview there's also a gallery of him and all his junk and it's totally making my toes curl. He has great shit, and bookshelves - bookshelves! - filled with great shit, I am gonna pore over every single corner of these photos with a magnifying glass.

--- Poetry In Motion - The great surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has taken to Kickstarter to try and raise some funds for his next movie, which will be called Endless Poetry and will apparently be a follow-up or continuation to his last movie, The Dance of Reality. This is where I remember I watched half of TDOR on my iPad about a month ago and still haven't finished it - not because I wasn't enjoying it but I got distracted, as one does when one's watching something on one's iPad like an asshole. Here's the direct link to his Kickstarter page.

--- War & Pieces - If war was actually filled with dudes as gorgeous as Jamie Dornan (here's his penis cleavage) and Guillaume Canet (here's a gratuitous post) then war would be a pretty awesome place to die horribly, yo.  Netflix is about to make a movie about a real-world 1961 battle between 150 Irishmen and a massive force of Congolese troops led by the French, with those two hunks as the faces of opposition. Faces that make out? Oh, I'm sure.

--- In Da Club - Yesterday I got about a quarter of the way into Vulture's big piece on the recent resurrection of Ryan Phillippe's cult film 54 before I realized it's a big big piece (that's what Reese Witherspoon said) and I didn't have time to make it all the way through it then, so I'm holding it (that's what Reese Witherspoon said) until lunch today. I did get to the part where Ryan & Breckin talk about wearing short-shorts and making out though and that's totally worth it.

--- Scooter Savior - What an odd story this is - apparently Armie Hammer and a bunch of his rich friends were riding their Vespas around in Venice when some dude went careening down a narrow street in his car and the rich folks formed a barrier of Vespa Vigilantes and blocked him until the police showed up. I feel like I should cuff my pants while reading this story.

--- Liv Strong - The Film Experience is taking a look at actresses who've been nominated more than once for Best Actress for performances in a foreign language this week - he already looked at Sophia Loren earlier this week, and today Abstew takes on the luminous lovely Liv Ullmann, my fave.

--- Tears Maker - Alright I'm just now realizing this link list is more-than-usual stuffed with articles I actually haven't read in full yet - here's another one! Here's an interview with the legendary cinematographer Michael Balhhaus about his time spent working with Rainer Wener Fassbinder on movies like The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Chinese Roulette. I will also read this at lunch. I am apparently taking a very long lunch.

I Am Link

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--- Who And How - Back in January we heard that Michael Cera and John Hawkes were going to star in Charlie Kaufman's (yes that Charlie Kaufman) half-hour pilot for FX called How and Why, which is about a children's science show host who loses his job and stumbles upon the supernatural. I think that's probably the most succinct way to describe what it's about, I guess. You know Charlie! Anyway as if that wasn't already enough to take our little brains and mash them into balls and kick them across the room, now comes word that the show will also star Catherine Keener and Sally Hawkins. I'm trying to keep myself from going ablutely nuts here, FX still has to pick the series up, this could all end up a big zero. On the other hand, KABOOM.

--- Dragon Breath - I know it's cliche to whine about George RR Martin doing anything - breathing, sleeping, moving - that isn't writing the final two books in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, but seriously I don't care he drives me crazy crazy crazy. So I didn't bother reading this new interview with him, but I guess he talks a bunch about there being movies made or something. That's nice, George - go home now!

--- Splinter Off - Doug Liman, the director of Go who has never been able to top that early success even though he's made some stuff that's been decent enough (I really enjoy Mr. & Mrs. Smith), has been trying to get a movie made with Tom Hardy - any ol' movie! He just wants to spend six months in close quarters with Tom hardy, and who can blame him? They were trying to make an Everest movie but now Jake Gyllenhaal's bare ass is making an Everest movie so the two of them are moving on to adapt the video game Splinter Cell. I haven't ever played it, I guess it's about a black-ops unit fighting terrorists and things going boom and so forth. One assumes Tom Hardy will wear tight black pants, so I'm in!

--- Gonna Call - The pair of guys who directed The Lego Movie are of course the same pair behind both Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and both 21 Jump Streets - they kind of own mainstream comedy right now. So we shouldn't be surprised that their names are at the top of the heap for the third Ghostbusters film, which strangely seems to have developed real heat in the wake of Harold Ramis' death. Ivan Reitman is a definite no.

--- Spinning Girls - Ryan Gosling is going to produce and probably star in a bio-pic about famed director and choreographer and visual-magician Busby Berkley. I didn't realize that Busby himself actually led all that interesting a life, but I suppose who cares if you can re-stage all of those spectacular dance routines of his. And hey maybe Ryan will slip all this into just a dance-belt at some point. The world can dream.

--- The Other Man - I don't understand why they only opened Jake Gylenhaal's film Enemy on one screen here in NYC last weekend (and at the shit-hole Angelika at that) but it's spreading to at least a few more screens tomorrow thank goodness, so maybe y'all can see the best movie I've seen in 2014 for yourselves. And hey maybe one of these days I will write up those spoilery thoughts I promised. Til then here's an interview with the director Denis Villeneuve to check out. He gives some info on what he's up to next, both of which sound promising. (Chastain!)

--- Manly Aggression - I really thought that Guillaume Canet's film Blood Ties with Clive Owen and Matthias Schoenaerts had come and gone already and I'd just missed it, but here's The Playlist rolling out a new clip from it and saying that it comes out in theaters and on demand tomorrow. The clip involves Clive and Matthias hugging and then Clive beating the shit out of Matty, so adjust your fetishes accordingly. (I really wish they were re-creating Clive's scene with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Bent, personally.)

--- Beast's A Burden - It seems that Kelsey Grammar will be making a cameo in the new X-Men movie reprising his role as the old version of Nicholas Hoult's Beast - the thought of Nicky growing up to be Kelsey always makes me break out in hives. What a horrible thought. Take care of yourself, Nick! Good good care.

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Lee Strong

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If you'd have told me that the Lance Armstrong bio-pic was going to become a Can't Miss Event, I'd have said to you, "Only if Jake Gyllenhaal and Matthew McConaughey play themselves and show us the orgies." Well it hasn't come to that (yet) but the cast they're lining up is making it pretty must-see all the same. We've already seen that jaw-dropping (or should I say ball dropping? No? Okay then) picture of Ben Foster looking like a Xerox of Lance; I was excited about Foster all on his own merits because I think he's a wonderful actor, but the resemblance he's managed is deep down in Uncannyville. And today comes word that not one not two not three but there are four other actors signed up for this thing that I really like. What could go wrong? (Famous last words.) Lee Pace has signed on for an unspecified role, while Chris O'Dowd is playing the journalist that's trying to get the facts straight on Armstrong (it's that journalist's book that the movie is based on). And also in "key roles" are Jesse Plemons from Breaking Bad and lovely French actor slash director slash Marion Cotillard piece slash gratuity recipient Guillaume Canet. Now that's a bingo.

I Am Link

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--- Geeks United - In case you're not aware, we think Lizzy Caplan is perfect, and we'll hear no insinuations otherwise. (Have you seen Masters of Sex yet? Watch it, she is perfect.) Zach Snyder made a huge mistake not casting her as Lois Lane... but then, he was busy making a lot of mistakes with Man of Steel. Anyway we adore Lizzy. So here's this news - she's going to star opposite her Freaks & Geeks co-alums Seth Rogen and James Franco in The Interview, the new flick from Rogen and his Superbad and This is the End co-writer Evan Goldberg, which is about "a talk show host and producer who somehow get mixed up in a plot to assassinate the leader of North Korea." Lizzy is playing a government agent that's along for the ride, or whatever.

---  Hard Write - Nathaniel's speaking to my heart this morning with a post over at The Film Experience on writing proper movie reviews and how they can sometimes just stop you right in your tracks - he's asking what makes for an easy film to write about, or to read about?

--- Blood Buds - The Playlist has some new pictures and posters from Blood Ties, one-time gratuitous recipient Guillaume Canet's flick starring his lovah Marion Cotillard as well as Clive Owen and Matthias Schoenaerts - nautrally it's the latter who's most interesting me. For some bizarre reason they made individual character posters for this crime drama, but hey, it gives the world a Matthias Schoenaerts poster, so I'll refrain from complain.

--- Mondo Doco - Our pal Daniel reviews the documentary The Dog - which is screening at the New York Film Festival and is about the real-life dude who was the inspiration for Dog Day Afternoon - of which he is not a fan. I feel guilty I'm not seeing more docs at the fest but time is a bitch, man. Thankfully he's reviewing them all so I can suss out what to see eventually.

--- Video Voorhees - This has actually been a rumor for awhile but there's renewed speculation, since the movie's probably getting closer to becoming a reality, that the next Friday the 13th movie - the 13th one, too! - will be a found footage kind of movie. Because a horror movie producer never met a budget he didn't think could be smaller, and a bandwagon's never too far gone!

--- Merci Blah Blah - The first trio of official images of Jean Dujardin in George Clooney's next directorial effort Monuments Men are out, and they're basically just an excuse to stare at Jean Dujardin in vintage military uniform, which is totally a thing I've been wanting an excuse for.

--- Bottom Boos - The first dozen or so titles from Final Girl's Shocktober list of the greatest horror movies of ever, as voted on by Stacie's readership, have been posted - that's numbers 323 to 310, natch. It makes for very strange bedfellows - how about a Wolf Creek and Practical Magic double-feature? Anybody?

--- Doctor Ian - This is probably the first and last time I'll ever link to anything at the Financial Times, but here's an interview with Jeff Goldblum where he's asked about whether he's in the fourth Jurassic Park movie or not. Which reminds me, have I even made mention of the fact that its probably going to star Josh Brolin and Bryce Dallas Howard? I think I've avoided saying it lest I make it be true.

--- Oh Billy - This is the first thing from the upcoming Carrie remake that's made me tingle in the right way in a very long time - hey look it's Chronicle's Alex Russell, who plays the John Travolta part in the new film. He is pretty pretty pretty. Oh, Billy. Billy. Oh, Billy. Oh, Billy. Billy. Oh, Billy. Oh. Oh, Billy.

--- Caffeine Pills - Is Elizabeth Berkley doing well on Dancing With the Stars? I thought Nomi Malone would be the one to get me to watch that show for a minute but no, I can't do it. But I want her to win anyway! She's a dancer! Anyway here she is talking about how close she still is with her Saved by the Bell cast-mates and making excuses as to why they haven't come to watch her dance. Note that Screech is never mentioned!
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Pic of the Day

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There are a whole slew of new pictures from director slash Cotillard-beau slash gratuity-recipient Guillaume Canet's next flick Blood Ties over at The Playlist; shots of all the many somebodies in the movie, people like Billy Crudup and Marion Cotillard and Clive Owen and James Caan, so forth. But of course all I wanna look at is Matthias Schoenaerts in a wifebeater getting manhandled by a cop. I will have good dreams tonight, my friends.

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I Am Link

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--- Ever More Matty -  I can't remember if I even knew this was a thing or not but gratuity-recipient and Cotillard-lover Guillaume Canet is directing a movie called Blood Ties, which is a remake of a French 2008 thriller and stars Clive Owen, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, Billy Crudup, and Matthias Schoenaerts, amongst many others. Naturally it's that last name that most interests me though. The Playlist has the first bunch of pictures from it, including that wife-beatered look at our favorite big beefy Belgian. They seem to think the film might be playing Cannes.

 

--- Finnick Less - In case you're a sane person who skipped the MTV Movie Awards last night (unlike some of us), here's the trailer for Catching Fire that debuted during the show. And here's what I tweeted in reaction to it. I stand by that tweet, tenfold.

--- The Great Jakesby - Jake Gyllenhaal does The Great Gatsby audiobook, y'all. My favorite book being read to me by my favorite crush? Somebody hit me with a car and call me Myrtle. Jake would've made for a terrific Nick.
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--- Four By Filth - Nat plays some catch up with movie trailers by "Yes No Maybe So"'ing four recent ones, including the one for Elysium and the one for James McAvoy's expletive-and-ass-a-thon Filth, which we're all over.

--- Pines Soul - Also over at TFE Paolo takes on Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines, calling it a soap opera boy-style, which is just about the finest take on it I can imagine.

--- The Bloodening - Did ya all hear about that prequel to The Shining that's being developed? I mentioned it last week. Well here's what Stephen King has to say on it. It's not a lot, but it ain't friendly.
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--- Second Banana - Joel McHale will once again play the prick that the lead girl needs to get away with in order to fall for the lead guy in a rom-com; this time it will be Drew Barrymore that he drives into the arms of Adam Sandler which is like a federal offense. Movies have everything backwards.

--- Zom Nom Nom - Head over to The Playlist to hear whether Danny Boyle thinks a third 28 [Fill in the Blank]'s Later movie will happen. Here's a hint - he's worried that zombies might be a tad bit on the over-eposed side. Can't say I disagree. I've been hoping for a big monster renassance myself ever since The Host came out, and it seems like maybe we're finally getting it with Pacific Rim and the upcoming Godzilla reboot.
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Do Dump or Marry - An Eyeful of Frenchies

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Picture it! You're at a party, gently sipping your warm chardonnay, when you look over across the room and wham, that's what you see. An eyeful of Frenchies! Alright alright Matthias Schoenaerts is Belgian but 49% of Belgians speak French (thank you, Siri) so allow me to uncomplicate things for brevity's sake, please.

Anyway he fake-schtupped Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone and that makes him an honorary Frenchman, right? I'm pretty sure that's how you get French citizenship.

You know who gets to real-schtup Marion Cotillard? Her lover actor/director Guillaume Canet. He looks so tiny in that top picture! Is he tiny? He never seemed like a tiny man before. (See a big gratuitous post on him here.) I guess standing next to Matthias would dwarf anybody.

And then of course there's Jean Dujardin. He starred in Canet's film Little White Lies with Marion. I don't think they schtup in it but I haven't seen it - it just hit Netflix this week so I'll finally get around to that after wanting to for some time, even though you all told me it's awful.

So go on - do dump marry them in the comments!

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Do Dump or Marry - Un Gallic Triptych

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Of the several movies coming out this weekend which I just wrote up over at Celebrity Beehive, it's the late-to-our-shores 2010 French film Little White Lies that's got me the most hot and bothered and that's because of its director and its cast. Its director is Guillaume Canet, who we gave good gratutity to back in April; he is Marion Cotillard's lover (it's perfectly acceptable to use that word without giggling because they are French) and did plenty of acting on his own... I mean obviously he did, with that face.

Meanwhile in front of the camera Guillaume wrangled two of our favorite French fellows, recent Best Actor winner slash big-time object du crush Jean Dujardin...

 ... and Benoît Magimel, who we've been angling for ever since Isabelle Huppert told him to sit on her face in The Piano Teacher.

Bonus points - I do believe that Benoît's character is of the homo persuasion in LWL.

By most accounts the movie is not that great but really with a cast this pretty, do you entirely care? Sometimes just staring at pretty people is plenty. Often times. Anyway now you should tell me in the comments who you'd do who you'd dump and who you'd marry.
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