Romain Gavras Says Netflix’s ‘Athena’ Formed a ‘Dogville’ in Suburb Where it Lensed

Kate Hudson may be the little sister of the Hudson-Russell bunch, but she'll always support and be proud of her older brother, Oliver Hudson!MORE: Kate Hudson looks just like her famous mom Goldie Hawn with stunning new lookThe actor has a busy and special time ahead of him as he premieres the second season of his show, The Cleaning Lady, and his younger sister is making sure everyone watches it.Although, while she is promoting his show now and urging people to tune in, she admitted it's not something she herself has actually done.WATCH: Kate Hudson supports her son as he gets his first tattooMORE: Goldie Hawn wows in black mini dress to dance with daughter Kate HudsonKate took to Instagram to give a sweet shout-out to Oliver, including a clip of him playing Garrett Miller on the Fox crime show.However, in true sibling taunting fashion, she confessed: "I have no idea what's going on here because I have't seen Oliver's work since Dawson Creek."Then she cheekily added: "But from what people have told me he's really grown as an actor and I couldn't be more proud," alongside a happy tears emoji.A post shared by Kate Hudson (@katehudson)Kate's cheeky yet congratulatory postThe actress even hilariously hinted on just which plastic surgeon the family relies on to keep them looking young, saying: "Have you seen @cleaningladyfox yet?? It's a fun one and Ollie's de-aging! Thank you @drjasondiamond," joking about celebrity favorite Dr.

Jada Pinkett Smith has been joined by British actress Rebecca Humphries for an episode of Red Table Talk, with The Crown star speaking out the devastating damage caused by years of gaslighting.MORE: Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's 24-year marriage – inside their open relationshipIn 2018 Rebecca's then-boyfriend, comedian Seann Walsh, was competing on Strictly Come Dancing in the UK and was caught on camera kissing his dancing professional Katya Jones. Katya was married to another dancer, and Seann had been dating Rebecca for five years.WATCH: Rebecca calls romance with Seann Walsh 'thrill-seeking'Rebecca claimed at the time that Seann had called her "nuts" when she had previously confronted him about his relationship with Katya, and has now revealed that she believes she "enabled" his behavior.Jada was joined by her mom Adrienne Banfield Norris and asked Rebecca to paint a picture of their relationship, to which she shared that they were together for over five years and revealed that it was important that people realize the relationship had "moments of pure romance and tenderness and intimacy".MORE: Jada Pinkett Smith hair loss: everything she's said about 'terrifying' alopecia"But it was a cycle that on occasion took a darker turn.

Kanye West is bringing up Taylor Swift once again.

Sylvester Stallone has shared a photograph of himself holding hands with his wife, Jennifer Flavin, just weeks after she filed for divorce. Taking to Instagram on Monday (19 September), the Rocky actor posted a photograph of the pair ‘s backs as they walked across a green field.

they had not been fast tracked. They told viewers that they “would never jump a queue” as they explained the rules in place for journalists and broadcasters.

Anna Marie de la Fuente In a new deal secured at this week’s San Sebastian Festival, Birgit Kemner’s Manny Films has partnered with Chile’s Storyboard Media to co-produce “Un Buen Día Para Morir” (“A Good Day to Die”), the third feature by Marcelo Ferrari (“Subterra,” “Bombal”). Inspired by the real story of pianist María Paz Santibáñez whose life took a dramatic turn during a protest against General Pinochet’s dictatorship in 1987, the drama turns on 24-year-old piano student Pachi who is shot in the head during a protest against the military regime. Seriously injured and pregnant, she manages to survive and give birth to her daughter. Escaping Chile, she settles in Paris where – against all odds – she fulfills her dream to become a concert pianist.

EJ Panaligan editor Hulu released an official trailer for the upcoming “Hellraiser” reboot, starring Jamie Clayton as the iconic pin-riddled villain, Pinhead. In the trailer, Pinhead causes havoc for a young woman named Riley, played by Odessa A’zion. The 2022 reboot follows Riley as she struggles with addiction and comes across an ancient puzzle box whose sole purpose is to summon Cenobites, sadistic supernatural beings that come to Earth from another dimension. The original 1987 film saw Doug Bradley playing the leader of the Cenobites, and only in the later sequels was he then identified as Pinhead. The “Hellraiser” franchise has spanned across four theatrical films, six straight-to-home movies and multiple comic books.

Jon Voight broke down in tears in front of Donald Trump as he recalled him offering to pay for the cancer treatment of a golf worker. The 83-year-old actor was interviewing the former President of the United States and reminded him of the time he offered to step in to help an employee called Sally at one of his golf courses when she fell ill. Speaking on the 'Newsmax' documentary, Jon told Donald: "You went in and said yeah, 'She's - have her come see me,' and you went to one of the offices, and she came in, and you said, 'I hear you having a little bit of a difficulty.

Addie Morfoot Contributor “In Her Hands,” a Netflix documentary produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, has won the 18th Camden Intl. Film Festival’s audience award. While the in-person component of the Maine-based festival ended on Sept.

A post shared by Kourtney Kardashian Barker (@kourtneykardash)Fans were also keen to come forward with a whole host of compliments for Kourtney, with one commenting, 'Real body! So refreshing

Vanessa Feltz has shared her heartbreak and devastation following the death of her fiancé’s brother, Roy Ofoedu. Ofoedu died aged 47, and was the youngest brother of Vanessa’s partner Phats & Small star Ben Ofoedu, who the political commentator has been engaged to since 2006. Taking to Instagram to share the sad news, the 60-year-old penned: ‘I am truly heartbroken at the tragic loss of Ben’s beautiful brother a gentle gentleman.

Adam Levine has denied cheating on his wife Behati Prinsloo with a social media influencer. Over the weekend, Sumner Stroh took to TikTok to allege that she had an affair with the Maroon 5 frontman at an undisclosed time when she was "young and naïve". She also claimed that Adam recently messaged her and asked if he could use the name Sumner if he and Behati have a son.

It’s official: the Golden Globes are returning in 2023.

Kanye West is undoubtedly one of the music industry’s most popular, prolific and polarizing figures, and his music, videos and various artistic endeavors over the years has helped to shape and change pop culture as we know it.

Christian Eriksen has spoken about how it felt getting booed by Brentford fans who until recently adored him.

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Golden Globe Awards will officially return to NBC after last year's cancellation, the network and the Hollywood Foreign Press announced on Tuesday.The television and film awards show will air live coast-to-coast on NBC and Peacock on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m.

Celebrating their mom! While being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Kelly Clarkson had the support of daughter River, 8, and son Remington, 6.

Holly Willoughby is said to be having crisis talks with This Morning bosses after being devastated by the backlash her alleged "queue jumping" has had on viewers. The ITV presenter and her co-host Phillip Schofield were accused of getting "VIP treatment" to see Queen Elizabeth II lying-in-state at Westminster Hall last week, writes The Mirror.

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’ daughter, Malti, celebrated a special milestone! On Tuesday, the proud mommy shared a series of pictures featuring her and her little lady, writing, “Our first trip to the big

A former restaurant supervisor who torched and destroyed his lover's home has been jailed for almost six years. Dean MacTaggart sparked the blaze forcing Amanda Richards, 43, and a young child to leap from a first floor window to safety.

Sharing his side. Adam Levine denied that he cheated on wife Behati Prinsloo after Sumner Stroh claimed they had a year-long affair via a viral TikTok video.

Season 19 of The Bachelorette may come to a dramatic end for both Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia.

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A united front? Sylvester Stallone appeared to hint at wanting to repair his relationship with estranged wife Jennifer Flavin amid their divorce.

Ready to settle down? Jon Hamm gushed about his girlfriend, Anna Osceola, in a new interview — and hinted that the couple are discussing marriage.

Pregnancies revealed and bombshells dropped. Just a few days after Adam Levine‘s wife, Behati Prinsloo, announced that the duo is expecting their third child, Instagram model Sumner Stroh alleged that she had an affair with the Maroon 5 frontman.

relentlessly entertaining. This looks delightful! A super bitchy, high school-set variation on Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train,” in “Do Revenge” Camila Mendes (from “Riverdale”) and Maya Hawke (from “Stranger Things”) play picked-on high schoolers who make a pact to go after each other’s bullies.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent It took a pandemic and a lockdown for “Drive” director Nicolas Winding Refn to make a directorial comeback in Denmark, where he had delivered the “Pusher” trilogy early in his career. “Sometimes the strangest things come in mysterious ways, and this is one of those,” Refn says of “Copenhagen Cowboy,” his Netflix original series, slated to world premiere Sept. 9 at the Venice Film Festival. Since “Drive,” Winding Refn has directed the Bangkok-set thriller “Only God Forgives,” with “Drive” star Ryan Gosling; “The Neon Demon,” with Elle Fanning playing an aspiring model in Los Angeles.; and the Amazon Prime Video series “Too Old to Die Young,” starring Miles Teller as a grieving cop in crime-ridden Southern California. He was preparing another project set abroad when the pandemic hit.

Vincent Cassel is getting some support on the red carpet.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Iconoclast, the international production group behind Romain Gavras’ Venice competition film “Athena,” is setting a wide-ranging slate of projects with emerging filmmakers from different audiovisual fields, including Leo Berne from the artists collective Megaforce, and Elias Belkeddar and Said Belktibia from the collective Kourtrajmé. The company is also producing the next projects of Harmony Korine and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, among others. In a rare interview, Nicolas Lhermitte, who co-founded Iconoclast with Mourad Belkeddar, says the company has emerged from the pandemic with a record number of developed projects. “We took the opportunity during the pandemic to develop a lot of projects, and today we have around 30 projects in the pipeline, spanning films and series that are set up at our studios in France, the U.S. and Germany,” says Lhermitte, who adds that Iconoclast aspired to “accompany multi-disciplinary artists to venture from one field to another, films, TV series, branded content, and music videos.”

Romain Gavras’ immersive modern tragedy Athena just had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, receiving a 4 1/2-minute standing ovation in the process.

Romain Gavras wastes no time in “Athena” informing the audience of the stakes. There have been three cases of police brutality within two months in the titular majority-minority community.

Designed as something akin to a Greek tragedy for today’s moment, Venice Film Festival Competition title Athena is a torrent, an inundation, a cascade of rage, fury and frustration over the realities of life for a particular group of French families. Such conditions exist in most societies, some more dire than others, but here the wages of pent-up anger are presented with a single-minded intensity and extended duration that would be hard to exceed.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic There is no Athena housing project in Paris. That’s a name invented by “Athena” director Romain Gavras and partner in crime Ladj Ly for the banlieu apartment block that becomes a kind of makeshift fortress in an epic standoff between residents — first- and second-generation Black and Arab immigrants tired of being mistreated — and the French national police. Naming it thus lends what unfolds there a classical resonance, one that ties Gavras’ astonishing third feature to the tradition of Greek tragedy, though the situation could hardly be more timely. “Athena” tells the story of four brothers, one murdered on camera by a group of unidentified men in police uniforms, the three others torn about what to do next. Who were these assailants, shown stomping an innocent 13-year-old to death? Why does the French police seem to be protecting the culprits? And what will it take to obtain justice?

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Swedish director Ruben Ostlund has reacted to the sudden death of Charlbi Dean, the star of his Palme d’Or winning film “Triangle of Sadness.” Ostlund posted an emotional tribute on social media, saying her death was “a shock and a tragedy.” “It is an honor to have gotten to know and work with her. Charlbi had a care and sensitivity that lifted her colleagues and the entire film crew,” Ostlund wrote. “The thought that she will not be by our side in the future makes me very sad,” the director continued.  The up-and-coming South African actor, who died on Monday in New York from an unexpected illness, had a breakthrough performance in “Triangle of Sadness” which was about to begin its theatrical roll-out around the world. After winning the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, “Triangle of Sadness” will make its North American premiere at Toronto and will play at the New York Film festival. Neon will release it in the U.S. on Oct. 8.