"I'm already proud of you, Marcel." Sony Pictures Classics has revealed the first teaser trailer for a French animated film called Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, the latest creation from Sylvain ...

You could say that Marcel Pagnol's movies are defined by the faces he cast, none more distinctive than that of Raimu, a music-hall legend turned big-screen star whom Orson Welles called "the greatest ...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North America, Latin America, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Israel, India and Italy, and aboard airlines and ships worldwide, to the animated film The ...

Premiering at Cannes, the latest feature from the 'The Triplets of Belleville' and 'The Illusionist' director is a whimsical biography of a pioneering French writer and filmmaker. By Frank Scheck A ...

French playwright and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol’s prolific career is brought to life in the animated biopic A Magnificent Life. Hand drawn by director Sylvain Chomet, the film shows how embracing ...

Behold the multiple paradoxes of Marcel Pagnol. Once upon a time he was France’s most celebrated filmmaker, the first of his craft to be selected to the lofty Academie Francaise. His best-known works ...

Elle Driver has swooped for the rest of the world on Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol. The Paris-based sales outfit has boarded the animated feature for all territories excluding ...

Sylvain Chomet, the BAFTA-winning, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker of “The Triplets of Belleville” and “The Illusionist,” has partnered up with Mediawan‘s ON Kids & Family (“The Little Prince,” ...

Exquisite artistry can't compensate for a certain dramatic inertia in 'The Triplets of Belleville' director’s disappointingly lifeless portrait of the Marseille-born playwright-turned-filmmaker. What ...