Virginie Ledoyen Articles

Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette, Farewell, My Queen The world premiere of Les Adieux à la reine / Farewell, My Queen will open the 2012 Berlin Film Festival next February 9. Directed by Benoît Jacquot (Tosca, Villa Amalia, Deep in the Woods), Farewell, My Queen stars Inglourious Basterds' Diane Kruger (as Marie Antoinette), Midnight in Paris' Léa Seydoux, and Army of Crime's Virginie Ledoyen. Adapted [...]

In Emmanuel Mouret's quietly observant Un baiser s'il vous plaît / Shall We Kiss? (literally, "A Kiss, If You Please"), which opens today in Los Angeles, a young, good-looking couple, Émilie and Gabriel (Julie Gayet and Michaël Cohen), meet accidentally and are just about ready to go for some physical intimacy when Judith decides to tell Gabriel a story. See, she's in a relationship. But [...]

English version of the Emmanuel Mouret interview.   Quelle était votre inspiration pour l’histoire de Un baiser s’il vou plaît? En ce qui concerne l'histoire, elle a été plus inspirée par ma vie personnelle que par un film en particulier. Mais ma vie est à l'image de beaucoup d'autres vies et il s'agit d'une situation finalement très commune, et cependant exceptionnelle pour celui qui est [...]

A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted [...]