Michelle Williams set to star in Suite Française
The film of Irène Némirovsky's bestselling book, set during the second world war, is aiming to cast the American actress as LucileMy Week with Marilyn star Michelle Williams is being lined up for the...
View ArticleWhy are we so obsessed with films about the second world war?
The events they depict happened decades ago and they're often historically dubious. Yet second world war films are back in fashion, with Fury and Unbroken heading the pack of the autumn's awards...
View ArticleThe curse of Oscarbait: the films you didn't see last Sunday
From that Grace Kelly biopic to The Artist director’s follow-up, here are the films that fell by the wayside before this year’s OscarsAs we predict the possible winners of next year’s Academy Awards,...
View ArticleRuth Wilson: ‘People know me as my characters. They don’t know me’
Following her Golden Globe-winning turn in US drama The Affair, and her portrayal of a tough farmer’s wife in the forthcoming film Suite Française, Ruth Wilson’s forte for playing strong, complex women...
View ArticleSuite Française - video review
In this excerpt from the Guardian Film Show, Henry Barnes, Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw review Saul Dibb's adaptation of Irène Némirovsky's bestseller, in which a bored French housewife...
View ArticleSuite Française review – Michelle Williams sleepwalks through wartime
This adaptation of Irène Némirovsky’s acclaimed bestseller about French folk collaborating with the Nazis is flabby, sugary – and passion-freeLike a very solemn Stella Artois commercial, this is a...
View ArticleThe Guardian Film Show: X+Y, Suite Française, Run All Night - video review
Catherine Shoard and Peter Bradshaw join Henry Barnes for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team watch an autistic maths prodigy work out love in X+Y; see a German invader...
View ArticleKristin Scott Thomas: five best moments
The greatest English and French performances from the star of Suite FrançaiseWhile Kristin Scott Thomas may have threatened to quit working in movies on occasion, a relatively steady stream of film...
View ArticleSuite Française review – rewardingly complex and disarmingly compassionate
This handsome adaptation of Irène Némirovsky’s epic novel vividly depicts French rural life under the NazisIn Nazi-occupied France, the bucolic yet class-riven life of the small town of Bussy is turned...
View ArticleSecond Best Exotic Marigold Hotel outruns Liam Neeson at UK box office
The sexagenarian action hero of Run All Night is beaten into second place as the later-life comedy sequel extends its chart-topping reservationResisting the challenge of the latest Liam Neeson...
View ArticleHome sweet at UK box office while older children rush to Insurgent
Biggest opening for an animation since The Lego Movie beats The Gunman and the Divergent sequel – and heads for more glory in the Easter holidayMost kids don’t break up for the Easter holiday until...
View ArticleSuite Française; Clouds of Sils Maria; While We’re Young; A Girl Walks Home...
Everything from easy-on-the-eye wartime romance to surrealist Czech dough inhalation is on offer this weekThere’s something both creakily and comfortingly naff about films such as Suite Française...
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