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A Magnificent Life
''A Magnificent Life'' () is a 2025 animated biography film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film had its world premiere at the Special Screenings section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2025, and will be theatrically released in France by Wild Bunch on 15 October 2025. Summary It follows the life of 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol, an acclaimed playwright, novelist and filmmaker, who is visited by a vision of his childhood self. Cast * Laurent Lafitte as Marcel Pagnol * Géraldine Pailhas as Augustine Pagnol Production On June 2021, the film was announced at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, with Sylvain Chomet directing the film, and Aton Soumache and Ashargin Poiré serving as producers. Release In May 2022, Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to the film for North and Latin America, the Middle East, Israel, Scandinavia, India, Italy, airlines and ships. In May 2024, Picturehouse Entertainment acquired U.K. and Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Chomet
Sylvain Chomet (; born 10 November 1963) is a French comic writer, animator and film director. Early career Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), near Paris, he studied art at high school until he graduated in 1982. Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum studio. In September of that year, he established a freelance practice, working on commercials for clients such as Principality, Renault, Swinton and Swissair. In addition to his animation career, Chomet has created many print comics, starting in 1986 with ''Secrets of the Dragonfly.'' In 1992 Chomet wrote the script for a science fiction comic called ''The Bridge in Mud''. 1993 saw Chomet writing the story for ''Léon-la-Came'', which was drawn by Nicolas de Crécy for '' À Suivre'' magazine. This was published in 1995 and won the René Goscinny Prize in 1996. In 1997, Chomet published ''Ugly, Poor, and Sick'', again with de Crécy. This won them the Alph-Art Best Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upcoming French-language Films
Upcoming (formerly Upcoming.org) is a social event calendar website that launched in 2003, founded by Andy Baio (blogger), Andy Baio. Features Upcoming combines features of an event calendar and a social networking site. Primarily, the site is a searchable, browseable repository of upcoming events, such as art exhibits, conferences, and music concerts. Event information is primarily contributed by the user community, although in its later years, an increasing percentage of event data originated from commercial sources. Users can indicate their plans by marking that they are "watching" or "going" to an event. Users can also establish "friend" relationships with each other and receive notifications about what their friends are attending. The site switched to the Yahoo! user accounts system in early 2007, and changed its domain name to upcoming.yahoo.com. At the same time, the site formally changed its name from "Upcoming.org" to simply "Upcoming". Upcoming uses iCalendar, GeoR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |