Emmanuel Prevost Movies
- 2008
Recalling such prior efforts as Maurice Pialat's 1984 Police and Bob Swaim's 1982 La Balance, Gallic director Olivier van Hoofstadt's relentlessly tense and violent action thriller Go Fast plunges into the violent and dangerous world of French metropolitan police. Roschdy Zem stars as Marek, a cop involved in a risky sting operation against a drug trafficking ring. In the process, his best friend and partner dies, which prompts his transfer to an undercover division of the force. He soon learns that his new mission will involve infiltrating a gang involved in smuggling cannabis from southern Spain to small-town France. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Roschdy Zem, Olivier Gourmet, (more)
- 2008
A mother and daughter find themselves dealing with surprisingly similar romantic difficulties in this light-hearted French comedy. Lola (Christa Theret) is a pretty fourteen-year-old girl living with her mother Anne (Sophie Marceau), who is divorced from Alain (Alexandre Astier), Lola's dad. Young Lola has been taking her first steps into teenage romance, and has been dating a boy from her class named Arthur (Felix Moati), but when she decides to break things off with him, the situation becomes tense after Lola starts seeing his close friend Mael (Jeremy Kapone). Meanwhile, as a typical child of divorce Lola likes to play her mother and father against each other for her own advantage, but what she doesn't know is that Anne and Alain have begun dating again on the sly. Written and directed by Lisa Azuelos, Lol features music from Supergrass, Blur, Keane and Junesex. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sophie Marceau, Christa Theret, (more)
- 2007
French journalist and filmmaker Laurent Courau offers a gonzo yet reflective study on the oft-misunderstood vampyric subculture in this documentary that made its debut at the 2007 World Film Festival. A fringe group that draws from dark mysticism to create their mysterious underground culture, the modern day vampires all speak unguardedly about their lifestyles in a series of illuminating interviews. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2006
From swingers clubs filled with sex-seekers of all ages and body types to libidinous limo rides, a Tokyo S&M hotel, the UK Torture Garden Club, and an amputation fetishist who gets his kicks by slicing off body parts, documentary filmmaker Raphael Sibilla teams with producer Emmanuel Prevost to offer an unflinching look at transgressive sexual practices across the globe. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
On the heels of his first foray into romantic comedy, versatile French filmmaker Luc Besson breaks new ground yet again with this computer-animated, family-friendly adaptation of his own children's book Arthur and the Minimoys. Arthur is a wide-eyed ten-year-old whose vivid imagination is fueled by the colorful bedtime stories his grandmother reads to him each night. His dreams are filled with images of African tribes and the remarkable inventions detailed in the enigmatic book that his grandfather left behind after mysteriously disappearing four years ago. Arthur and his family are in danger of losing their home to an unscrupulous real-estate developer, but if there is any truth to the tales of a treasure hidden deep beneath their garden and the tiny, fairy-like creatures that his grandmother so frequently sketches, there may still be hope of saving their home before it's too late. Now, with nothing to guide him but the clues left behind by his grandfather, Arthur will set out to find the mythical world of Seven Kingdoms, where the Minimoys are said to dwell, and ensure that his troubled family always has a place to call home. An imaginative children's fantasy in the vein of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Arthur and the Invisibles features the voices of David Bowie, Snoop Dogg, Madonna, Mia Farrow, and Freddie Highmore. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, (more)
