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Cruel Intentions is a teen drama series created by Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman. Based on the 1999 film of the same name by Roger Kumble which in turn was based on the French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, the Prime Video series is set in Washington D.C. in the prestigious Manchester College and it revolves around step-siblings Caroline and Lucien who are at the top of the social ladder. When a hazing incident goes wrong, Caroline bets Lucien to seduce Annie Grover, the daughter of the United States Vice President to make it go away. Cruel Intentions stars Sarah Catherine Hook, Zac Burgess, Savannah Lee Smith, Sara Silva, John Harlan Kim, Khobe Clarke, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Brooke Lena Johnson. So, if you loved the seductive drama, thrilling twists and turns, and compelling...

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Dear Child is a mystery crime drama series written and directed by Isabel Kleefeld. The Netflix series is based on an international bestselling novel Liebes Kind by Romy Hausmann. Dear Child revolves around a 13-year-old missing persons case which is reopened after an unknown woman is struck by a car in a German forest and the girl who accompanies her is being interviewed by the police. The Netflix series is a claustrophobic and dark experience with plenty of twists and turns. So, if you loved the thrilling mystery, intensely dark story, and compelling characters in Dear Child here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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The Sinner is a police procedural mystery crime thriller drama anthology series created by Derek Simonds. Based on the 1999 novel of...

Exposure tells the complex story of Jacs Gould, a young photographer grieving the death of her friend Kel. When the two were inseparable, Jacs’ award-winning photo captured the final moments of Kel’s life. Now, back in their hometown for the funeral, Jacs suspects Kel’s death may not have been suicide.

Jacs plunges into an investigation, chasing cryptic clues from Kel’s phone. Her coping mechanisms involve drinking in excess and engaging in risky behavior. Through it all, Alice Englert brings Jacs’ anguish to the surface in a profoundly moving performance. We feel Jacs’ agony as she tries to make sense of her loss and her misguided ways of dulling the pain.

Englert ensures we understand, if not condone, all of Jacs’ mistakes. She renders the character as whole—loud but vulnerable, lashing out while deeply wounded. It’s a challenging role that could so easily become unsympathetic. Instead,...

Alice Englert as Dylan and Jennifer Connelly as Lucy in Bad Behaviour Photo: Matt Henley

A sometimes mystical, sometimes ferocious mother/daughter comedy which includes one of the most satisfying scenes of violence you’re likely to see all year, questionable though that sentiment is in context, Alice Englert’s Bad Behaviour is a real treat. It’s the feature début, as writer and director, of Alice Englert, who also stars in it as young stunt performer Dylan, whose mother Lucy, played by Jennifer Connelly, is attending a retreat in an attempt to expand her mind, but struggles to deal with another attendee. There’s great support from a cast which includes Ben Whishaw and Beulah Koale.

If you’re already familiar with Alice, it’s probably because of her acting career. She utters a little gasp of excitement when I tell her that I loved her work in Goran Stolevski...

Jason Yu’s Sleep and Brant Anderson’s The Strangers’ Case were among the winners at the 32nd Raindance Film Festival, which held its jury awards ceremony today in London.

Korean filmmaker Yu - a former assistant director to Bong Joon Ho - won the Discovery award for best debut feature with Sleep. The black comedy stars the late Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Yu-mi, in the story of an expectant wife who must stop her husband’s sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.

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Sleep debuted in Critics’ Week...

The 32nd Raindance Film Festival (June 19-28) has revealed its jury award winners, reflecting a renewed focus on emerging filmmakers.

Korean thriller “Sleep,” directed by Jason Yu and starring Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Yu-mi, took home the Discovery Award for best debut feature. The film marks Lee’s final role before his passing.

Brandt Anderson’s “The Strangers’ Case,” a multi-perspective drama about Syrian refugees, won best international feature. The documentary category saw “Searching for Amani” emerge victorious. Directed by Debra Aroko and Nicole Gormley, the Kenya/U.S. co-production follows a 13-year-old boy investigating his father’s murder within a Kenyan wildlife conservancy.

Luke Gilford secured best debut director for “National Anthem,” a coming-of-age tale set in the world of queer rodeo. Paula Grimaldo claimed best performance in a debut feature for her turn in “The Quiet Maid,” portraying a young Colombian woman working for a wealthy Spanish family who seeks revenge.

Exposure is a gripping series that dives into the harsh realities of trauma and justice. It follows Jacs Gould, played by Alice Englert, who is devastated by her best friend Kel’s tragic and sudden death by suicide. Jacs returns to her hometown seeking answers in order to uncover disturbing truths about men who may have played a role in Kel’s death. And along the way, she discovers truths about herself that change her. Let us dive into the cast and character guide to get to know these characters properly.

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Jacs Gould

Jacs Gould, portrayed by Alice Englert in Exposure, is a character who undergoes a transformation driven by grief, anger, and a quest for justice throughout the series. Initially, we see her as a vibrant and carefree photographer, but then Jacs’ world is shattered when her best friend Kel dies tragically. This event becomes the catalyst...

Many shows and films have explored the themes of sexual predators, abuse, and violence against women. If you’ve watched Promising Young Woman, which tells the story of a friend seeking revenge for the assault on her friend, then watching the series Exposure will give you a similar feeling, especially in the beginning. Exposure, directed by Lucy Coleman, starts off as a mystery drama but turns into something much deeper and darker by the end. The story is about a young woman named Jacs Gould (played by Alice Englert). Jacs is heartbroken when her best friend, Kel (played by Mia Artemis), suddenly and tragically takes her own life. Jacs goes back to her hometown for Kel’s funeral, desperate to understand why her friend did this. Even though they were close all their lives, Jacs never knew what Kel was hiding or what the reason behind her death was. Jacs...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Bad Behaviour (Alice Englert)

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Bad Behaviour cannot pick a tone. Over the 107 minutes of Alice Englert’s debut feature, the only consistency comes from constant shifting. Following Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), a former child actor attending an enlightenment retreat, and her daughter, Dylan (Englert), the dark comedy switches between these two stories until they converge in the third act. Neither plotline has enough substance, though, acting like a series of half-baked ideas about wellness, parenthood, and happiness. – Michael F. (full review)

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Heroes Shed No Tears (John Woo)

In this explosive precursor to his breakout film A Better Tomorrow, director John Woo demonstrates the genesis of his trademark style of hyperkinetic action and violence in...

“Bad Behaviour” is a new dramatic feature, directed by Alice Englert, starring Jennifer Connelly, Karan Gill, Ben Wishaw, Englert, Beulah Koale, Marlon Williams, Dasha Nekrasova and Ana Scotney, releasing June 14, 2024 in select theaters:

“…’Lucy’, a former child actress, seeks healing from the traumas of her life. She embarks on a spiritual retreat, only for it to become anything but healing: she’s easily annoyed by the other attendees and wants attention from the retreat’s new-age guru ‘Elon Bello’.

“Even worse, she has become destructively obsessed with the retreat’s celebrity guest, a model named ‘Beverly’. As Beverly finds ‘enlightenment’ easily, Lucy’s feelings of insecurity continue to rise to the surface. During this time, Lucy also tries to connect with her stunt performer adult daughter ‘Dylan’ who’s currently on set in New Zealand.

“Dylan’s falling into an obsession of her own: a bad romance with the main...

“You’re not a bad person. It’s just bad behaviour,” says Dylan (writer/director Alice Englert).

Dylan is a stunt performer, hard at work on the set of a new fantasy production. Her mother, Lucy (Jennifer Connelly), is about to disappear into what turns out to be the latest of many spiritual retreats. They speak on the phone before the retreat’s mandated silence begins. Lucy is frantic with worry. We get the impression that she does this every time. It’s a dangerous occupation, she protests. Dylan has no time for this. Her life takes place at speed. She’s always scoping out locations, suiting up, practising, performing, flirting with a colleague whilst he chokes her for the camera.

Lucy likes, perhaps needs, to take things slowly. She had a troubled childhood and there’s a suggestion that she has struggled with mental illness. She seems pretty cynical for somebody purportedly seeking transcendence,...

On Tuesday June 11, GMA3: What You Need to Know welcomes Jennifer Connelly, an award-winning actress known for her roles in “A Beautiful Mind,” “Requiem for a Dream,” and “House of Sand and Fog.” Connelly has received critical acclaim for her performances, earning a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for her role […]

GMA3: What You Need to Know: Jennifer Connelly, Alice Englert...

After the success of Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg is reportedly working on his next standalone film in the Predator franchise. Titled Badlands, the film reportedly features Elle Fanning in the lead role. While no plot details have been revealed, the film will also be set in the Predator universe like Prey.

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Fanning’s casting might just be a masterstroke for the film as she has been known for her powerhouse performances. While she was recently seen in her Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated series The Great, Fanning has been delivering amazing performances since she made her debut as a child actress in I Am Sam. Here are five performances that prove why she is the best choice for Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator film.

1. The Beguiled (2017) A still from The Beguiled | Credits: American Zoetrope/Fr Productions

Elle Fanning first worked with director...

“Bad Behaviour” is a new dramatic feature, directed by Alice Englert, starring Jennifer Connelly, Karan Gill, Ben Wishaw, Englert, Beulah Koale, Marlon Williams, Dasha Nekrasova and Ana Scotney, releasing June 14, 2024 in select theaters:

“…’Lucy’, a former child actress, seeks healing from the traumas of her life. She embarks on a spiritual retreat, only for it to become anything but healing: she’s easily annoyed by the other attendees and wants attention from the retreat’s new-age guru ‘Elon Bello’.

“Even worse, she has become destructively obsessed with the retreat’s celebrity guest, a model named ‘Beverly’. As Beverly finds ‘enlightenment’ easily, Lucy’s feelings of insecurity continue to rise to the surface. During this time, Lucy also tries to connect with her stunt performer adult daughter ‘Dylan’ who’s currently on set in New Zealand.

“Dylan’s falling into an obsession of her own: a bad romance with the main...

London’s Raindance Film Festival is making a significant calendar shift for its 32nd edition, moving from its traditional fall slot to a new summer schedule.

Raindance kicks off with the U.K. premiere of Tilman Singer’s “Cuckoo,” a horror feature starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens that previously played at Berlin and SXSW. Closing the festival is the European premiere of “National Anthem” by Luke Gilford, starring Charlie Plummer as a construction worker joining a community of queer rodeo performers. The film, which was at Toronto and SXSW, leads into the Pride in London weekend with a wild West End party.

This year, Germany is the festival’s guest of honor. The festival will showcase new German films, including “Cuckoo,” “Eternal You” and “What You See of Me.” A dedicated shorts program and industry panels, including a session with production designer Mona Cathleen Otterbach, will highlight Germany’s cinematic achievements.

The 32nd edition of the UK’s Raindance Film Festival is to open with horror-thriller Cuckoo, starring Hunter Schafer, as the festival shifts away from autumn to a midsummer slot, running June 19-28.

This year, 90% of the international films screening in competition are debut features. The jury includes actors Alice Englert, Claes Bang, Jared Harris and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and producers Ivana MacKinnon and Paul Sng.

Cuckoo is a German-us co-production that has played at Berlin and SXSW. Schafer plays a 17- year-old who is forced to leave her American home to live with her father and his new family as...

The 32nd edition of the UK’s Raindance Film Festival is to open with Tilman Singer’s horror-thriller Cuckoo, starring Hunter Schafer, as the festival shifts away from autumn to a midsummer slot, running June 19-28.

This year, 90% of the international films screening in competition are debut features.

The jury includes actors Alice Englert, Claes Bang, Jared Harris and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and producers Ivana MacKinnon and Paul Sng.

Opening night film Cuckoo is a German-us co-production, that has played at Berlin and SXSW. Schafer plays a 17- year-old who is forced to leave her American home to live with her...

Bridgerton has become an obsession for nearly everyone watching the series and it is no surprise because it has romance, drama, and political intrigue all in a beautiful period setting. Netflix’s Bridgerton recently aired its third season and so far fans seem to enjoy it. With the fourth season already renewed the fans just have to wait until it comes out but while you wait here are the best similar shows you should check out after binging Season 3.

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Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story is a prequel series to the Netflix hit series Bridgerton. Created by Shonda Rhimes, the Netflix series is loosely based on the rise of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the late 18th century and her epic love story and married life with King George of England. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story stars India Amarteifio in the lead role with Adjoa Andoh,...

"Is there anyone willing to share a shame?" Gravitas has revealed an official US trailer for the strange dark comedy titled Bad Behaviour, yes with the British spelling of "Behaviour." It's from New Zealand, made by an Australian actress named Alice Englert, who also co-stars. It first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was regarded as one of the worst films at the festival by most critics. Bad Behaviour is a dark comedy about Lucy, a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she also navigates the close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt performer daughter, Dylan. It stars Jennifer Connelly, Ben Wishaw, Alice Englert, Ana Scotney, Dasha Nekrasova, Marlon Williams, Beulah Koale, and Karan Gill. Described as a "dull, weird movie about an unpleasant woman seeking enlightenment [that's] as aimless as its characters." It's finally set to land on VOD in the US in June.

One year after it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the New Zealand black comedy “Bad Behaviour,” starring Jennifer Connelly, is finally coming out in North America. The film is the directorial debut of actor-turned-filmmaker Alice Englert. Englert made some noticeable turns in “Ginger & Rosa” (2012), playing Lena Duchannes in the film “Beautiful Creatures” (2013), and in “Top Of The Lake China Girl” (2017), but she is also known as the daughter of famous New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion, so clearly filmmaking runs in their blood.

Continue reading ‘Bad Behaviour’ Trailer: Jennifer Connelly & Ben Whishaw Star In New Black Comedy Opens June 12 at The Playlist.

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired a pair of starry indies — Alice Englert’s dark comedy Bad Behaviour, starring Jennifer Connelly, and Christian Ditter’s family comedy The Present, starring Isla Fisher and Greg Kinnear. Bad Behaviour opens in limited theaters and on digital and VOD in the U.S. and Canada on June 14, with The Present to hit digital and cable VOD in the U.S. on June 18.

World premiering at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, Englert’s debut feature Bad Behaviour watches as a former child actress seeking enlightenment at a retreat navigates the close but turbulent relationship with her daughter. Also starring Ben Whishaw, Englert, and Ana Scotney, among others, the film is produced by Desray Armstrong and Molly Hallam. Exec producers included Stephen Braun of Bee-Hive Productions, Whishaw and Englert. The film was made with finance from the New Zealand Film Commission, the New Zealand Government’s Screen Production Rebate,...

Network: Netflix

Episodes: Eight (hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: September 18, 2020 -- September 18, 2020

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone, Jon Jon Briones, Finn Wittrock, Charlie Carver, Alice Englert, Amanda Plummer, Corey Stoll, Sophie Okonedo, and Vincent D’Onofrio.

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A suspense drama series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the Ratched TV show was created by Evan Romansky and is based on the character of Nurse Ratched in the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest novel by Ken Kesey.

The series tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched (Paulson). In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on...

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A Netflix suspense drama series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, the Ratched TV show is based on the character of Nurse Ratched from the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest novel. It stars Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone, Jon Jon Briones, Finn Wittrock, Charlie Carver, Alice Englert, Amanda Plummer, Corey Stoll, Sophie Okonedo, and Vincent D’Onofrio.

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Streaming on the Netflix subscription service, the Ratched TV show is based on the character of Nurse Ratched from the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest novel. It stars Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone, Jon Jon Briones, Finn Wittrock, Charlie Carver, Alice Englert, Amanda Plummer, Corey Stoll, Sophie Okonedo, and Vincent D’Onofrio. The series was created by Evan Romansky and tells the origin story of asylum nurse...

Ratched will not be returning for a second season after all. Netflix gave the origin series of Nurse Ratched an initial two-season order in September 2017. The eight-episode first season was released in September 2020, and there won't be any other episodes.

Starring Sarah Paulson, Cynthia Nixon, Judy Davis, Sharon Stone, Jon Jon Briones, Finn Wittrock, Charlie Carver, Alice Englert, Amanda Plummer, Corey Stoll, and Sophie Okonedo, the psychological thriller series is set in 1947. The story follows the early days of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched (Paulson) at the hospital seen in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

The show was created by Evan Romansky, based on the Ken Kesey novel and the 1975 feature film.

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“American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy and frequent “AHS” star Sarah Paulson reunited back in 2020 for Netflix’s “Ratched,” an 8-episode series telling the origin story of iconic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest villain Nurse Mildred Ratched. The series invited us to “meet the woman before the monster,” and the original plan was for a two season storyline.

Those plans have changed, however. As reported by Deadline, Sarah Paulson has confirmed this week that there will not be a second season of Netflix’s “Ratched” after all.

Two seasons of “Ratched” had originally been ordered up back in 2017.

Here’s the plot synopsis for the first season, which is streaming on Netflix…

“In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image...

Hot Hosts Head For Hota

Australian actor Rebel Wilson has been named as the emcee of the 2024 edition of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) awards. Wilson will take to the stage on Saturday, Feb. 10.

Two days earlier, on Feb. 8, singer and actor Harry Connick Jr. will be the host of the Aacta Industry Awards. Both hosts will be joined by some of the industry’s most dynamic stars presenting at the ceremonies. And both ceremonies, presented by Foxtel Group, will be held at the Home of the Arts (Hota) on the Gold Coast in Queensland.

Shorts To Features

Writer-director-actor Alice Englert, producer Jodi Matterson, director David Michôd, and producer Jamie Hilton, will be among the speakers at Flickerlab 2024 on Thursday. Pitched as a one-day journey from shorts to features, the Bondi, New South Wales-located event is backed by the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Aftrs...

Warner Bros.’ “Wonka” continued its golden run at the U.K. and Ireland box office with £6.6 million ($8.4 million) over the Dec. 29 weekend.

The Timothée Chalamet starrer now has a total of £43.8 million in the territory after four weekends on release.

Black Bear’s “Ferrari,” directed by Michael Mann and starring Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz, raced to a £1.9 million debut in second place. In third position, in its second weekend, Warner Bros.’ “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” collected £1.7 million for a total of £5.9 million.

Elysian’s “The Boy And The Heron,” directed by Miyazaki Hayao, bowed with £1.6 million in fourth place. Rounding off the top five was another debut, Sony’s “Anyone But You,” with £1.2 million.

The only other debut in the Top 10 was Disney’s “Next Goal Wins” with £844,604.

Mubi’s “Priscilla,” starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, and Warner Bros.’ “One Life,” starring Anthony Hopkins, both released wide across more than 300 sites each,...

Australian actress Alice Englert – daughter of award-winning director Jane Campion – talks to us about her intriguing directorial debit Bad Behaviour.

Starring Ben Whishaw, Jennifer Connelly and Englert herself, the film follows Lucy (Connelly), a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon (Whishaw), while also navigating the close but turbulent relationship with her daughter, Dylan.

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Alice Englert’s film will likely be a morbid eye-opener to a small part of its target audience, but it hardly says anything affecting, never mind life-changing, to those who actually introspect and seek help. It is, at least in sporadic parts, an intervention for those of us who need it. The true victory of the Jennifer Connelly starrer lies in the serendipitous moments; it transcends the bounds of personal experience and becomes more universal. And that effect gels quite nicely with the backdrop of a group therapy-like retreat that our middle-aged, troubled, and very sour lead has gone on.

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What Happens In The Film?

Elon’s a bit creepy. But that’s not the worst a cult leader-esque guru who runs wilderness retreats for rich folks can be. The painfully cryptic dialogue exchanged between the enlightened and those seeking enlightenment sounds just about as pretentious and ineffective as you’d expect.

Updated: Just hours after this article was first posted, MGM+ announced it had acquired Alex Gibney’s “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon” and will air as a two-part docuseries on March 17 and March 24, 2024 at 9 p.m. Edt/Pdt.

It’s not too late to pick up a thoughtful gift for the people in your life, and that includes film distributors. While much of Hollywood is shutting down in advance of the holidays, plenty of cinema-loving elves are still toiling away in hopes of seeing their (very deserving) films land underneath the metaphorical tree.

And there are plenty of gifts to share, because even as the distribution landscape continues to shift and shape with startling regularity, some of the year’s most interesting and unique cinematic efforts are still looking for a home. In fact, we’ve got 18 of them wrapped and ready to go.

This holiday season,...

Icon Film has released the trailer for Alice Englert’s “poignant and funny” directorial debut ‘Bad Behaviour.’

Lucy (Connelly), a former child actress, seeks healing from the traumas of her life. She embarks on a spiritual retreat, only for it to become anything but healing: she’s easily annoyed by the other attendees and wants attention from the retreat’s new-age guru Elon Bello (Whishaw). Even worse, she has become destructively obsessed with the retreat’s celebrity guest, a model named Beverly. As Beverly finds “enlightenment” easily, Lucy’s feelings of insecurity continue to rise to the surface.

During this time, Lucy also tries to connect with her stunt performer adult daughter, Dylan (Englert) who’s currently on set in New Zealand. Dylan’s falling into an obsession of her own: a bad romance with the main actor Elmore, whose insistence on doing his own stunts will have disastrous consequences.

Alice Englert directs and stars alongside a mesmerising Connelly in this inconsistent tale about a troubled former child star who checks into a retreat

Much like the little girl with the curl in the well-known rhyme, when this film is good, it’s very good. But when it’s bad it’s … well, the original poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow says “horrid,” but Bad Behaviour is more very awkward and self-indulgent. But the good largely outweighs the “oof” and this is a first feature for writer-director-co-star Alice Englert who should be applauded for taking interesting if not always successful risks.

At least Englert made a safe bet by casting Jennifer Connelly in the lead, for one of her best roles for many years. Here she plays Lucy who, like Connelly herself, was once a child star but is now filled with rage and bitterness with her parents, her (never seen...

The daughter of Jane Campion, Englert knew it was risky to make her debut feature about a difficult mother. But, she says, Campion ‘loved it’

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Depending on your level of cynicism, your scam alarm bells may sound from the first pan flute notes that open Bad Behaviour.

Inspired by her time at meditation retreats, Australian actor Alice Englert’s debut directorial feature – which she also wrote and stars in – is filled with desperate figures who will try anything for inner peace.

"Never, ever give in to hope." Ahi in Australia has revealed the first official trailer for a dark comedy called Bad Behaviour, yes with the British spelling of "Behaviour." The film comes from New Zealand, directed by an Australian actress named Alice Englert, who also co-stars. It initially premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and was regarded as one of the worst films at the festival by most critics. Bad Behaviour is a dark comedy about Lucy, a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she also navigates the close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt performer daughter, Dylan. The film stars Jennifer Connelly, Ben Wishaw, Alice Englert, Ana Scotney, Dasha Nekrasova, Marlon Williams, Beulah Koale, and Karan Gill. Described in reviews as a "dull, weird movie about an unpleasant woman seeking enlightenment [that's] just as aimless as its characters.

Most people know Alice Englert as the daughter of the great New Zealand auteur Jane Campion. And some may know her as an actress from films like “Them That Follow,” “Body Brokers,” and Campion‘s “The Power Of The Dog.” But Englert is a filmmaker, too, and her feature debut, “Bad Behavior,” is ready for its theatrical release in New Zealand next month.

Continue reading ‘Bad Behavior’ Trailer: Jennifer Connelly Stars As A Former Child Actor In Crisis In Alice Englert’s Feature Debut at The Playlist.

Heartfelt Obsession

Netflix this week announced six new Korean romance titles slated for the rest of 2023. They are: “See You in my 19th Life,” “King the Land,” “Behind Your Touch,” “Destined With You,” “A Time Called You,” and “Doona!”

The titles were unveiled at an in-person event called “K-romance obsession” in Seoul. Guests were mostly K-drama influencers from around the Asia Pacific region and the event was decked out with reds, pinks and vast numbers of heart decorations. Guests were offered snack food that had been featured in earlier hit K-drama shows including “Crash Landing on You,” “Extraordinary Attorney Woo,” “Business Proposal” and “Alchemy of Souls.”

According to Netflix, between 2018 to 2022, global viewership of its K-Romance titles tripled, with more than 90% views coming from outside South Korea in 2022 alone. Don Kang, VP of content (Korea) said, “Our stories touch on the universal aspects of life — love, heartbreak, and tenderness, while...

Warwick Thornton’s “The New Boy” has been set as the opening title of next month’s Sydney Film Festival, which will celebrate its 70th edition, June 7-18. The film, a tale of sprituality and survival in 1940s Australia, starring Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair and Aswan Reid, will also play in the festival’s competition section.

Other titles in competition include: the world premiere of Australian documentary feature “The Dark Emu Story,” directed by Allan Clarke; Christian Petzold’s previously announced “Afire”; Charlotte Regan’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “Scrapper”; Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Monster”; Aki Kaurismäki’s compassionate comedy “Fallen Leaves”; Kim Jee-woon’s “Cobweb”; Asmae El Moudir’s “The Mother of All Lies”; Alice Englert’s directorial debut “Bad Behaviour”; Celine Song’s Sundance and Berlinale 2023 selected romance “Past Lives”; Liu Jian’s 2023 Berlinale-selected animation “Art College 1994”; Devashish Makhija’s “Joram,” a thriller about an...

Several titles set to premiere at Cannes among the selection.

Sydney Film Festival (June 7-18) has revealed the 12 titles that will play in competition at its 70th edition, including five that are set to premiere at Cannes this month.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster from Japan and Fallen Leaves from Finnish master Ari Kaurismaki are two that will play in Competition at Cannes before heading to Sydney, alongside Cobweb from Korean director Kim Jee-woon, which will play out of competition in Cannes.

Asmae El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies will be the first film from Morocco to ever compete...

Each year, IndieWire curates a list of the top female filmmakers to watch over the next 12 months, and the women ushering in the next generation of cinema makes for a truly exciting 2023.

This International Women’s Day, IndieWire invites audiences to celebrate the rising directors, especially coming off of a history-making 2023 Sundance where first-time filmmaker A.V. Rockwell was awarded the top prize for “A Thousand and One.” Rockwell is the third Black woman to win the Grand Jury Prize for the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the festival, following Nikyatu Jusu’s 2022 win for surreal thriller “Nanny.”

“I think of Black women filmmakers and there are still not many doing it at the highest level,” Rockwell told IndieWire’s Eric Kohn of breaking barriers, “but I think that going from making one or two if they’re lucky theatrical movies to now being able to consistently make movies into our seventies or eighties,...

The YA adaptation boom of the 2010s is a fascinating time, filled with potential franchises that never took off, some that lingered far beyond their expiration date, and others that remained successful till their final curtain call. The landscape had never been more fruitful for teens and, especially, young girls to have something for them at the box office. But if you weren’t already in love with an established book, like Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” the odds weren’t in your favor that your favorite adaptation would get more than a single feature.

In February 2013 Warner Bros. released “Beautiful Creatures,” an adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s 2009 novel. The story follows Southern boy Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich) and his growing attraction to newcomer Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert). Ethan soon realizes Lena comes from a long line of witches, and on her 16th birthday her soul will...

Exclusive: Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has boarded international sales on Goran Stolevski’s Housekeeping For Beginners starring top Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca as an unmaternal, gay woman who suddenly finds herself responsible for her partner’s two young daughters.

The drama is one of the buzziest productions to come out of Southeastern Europe this year and brings together a host of hot indie producers from three continents.

Australian-Macedonian director Stolevski’s star has been rising ever since Focus Features pre-acquired world rights to his debut feature, the Serbian mountains-shot horror You Won’t Be Alone, featuring Marinca, Noomi Rapace and Alice Englert in the cast.

After a Sundance debut, the film launched theatrically in the US in April 2022, via Universal. Focus Features also pre-acquired Stolevski’s Australia-set second feature Of An Age which opens in the U.S. on February 17.

Marinca plays the character of Dita, whose mansion in the...

Big sales were hardly in short supply at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, with Netflix going wild for “Fair Play,” AppleTV+ shelling out for “Flora and Son,” and Searchlight Pictures snapping up “Theater Camp”, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of superior films still looking for homes.

Of the still-for-sale titles that premiered at this year’s festival, there’s plenty to intrigue all sorts of buyers, from those looking for films with excellent performances that could inspire major awards pushes (like the Jonathan Majors-starring “Magazine Dreams”), those in search of the next big director, hungry genre hounds (see: “Divinity”), and even documentary lovers looking for films with incredible real world impact.

And while it’s still early days, given the incredible assortment of films still looking for homes, we can’t help but tout their allure to all interested buyers. These aren’t just...

Writer/director Alice Englert makes her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival 2023 with the unfortnately misguided Bad Behaviour. An impressive cast headlines the comedy-drama, but the storytelling is such a monotonous slog that it’s difficult to connect with any of the shallow material behind the nuanced performances. There’s a good movie buried somewhere here, but the traces of it rarely make themselves known.

‘Bad Behaviour’ finds a former child actor seeking enlightenment Jennifer Connelly as Lucy | Courtesy of Sundance Institute

Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) is a former child actor who makes a trip into the middle of nowhere to seek enlightenment from a guru, Elon Bello (No Time to Die‘s Ben Whishaw). She’s prepared to spend the silent retreat in a beautiful mountain resort with other wealthy volunteers who are also interested in some soul-searching. However, Lucy is about to explore pieces of her past that...

In Bad Behavior, the feature debut from writer-director Alice Englert, Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) travels to a high-profile silent retreat with her guru (Ben Wishaw). During her search for spiritual enlightenment, however, Lucy can’t seem to let go of her self-centeredness. As the title suggest, Lucy can’t seem to stop engaging in bad behavior—and the worst of it is still to come. Editor Simon Price tells Filmmaker about his experience working on the project, including how he came up in the industry. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being […]

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In Bad Behavior, the feature debut from writer-director Alice Englert, Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) travels to a high-profile silent retreat with her guru (Ben Wishaw). During her search for spiritual enlightenment, however, Lucy can’t seem to let go of her self-centeredness. As the title suggest, Lucy can’t seem to stop engaging in bad behavior—and the worst of it is still to come. Editor Simon Price tells Filmmaker about his experience working on the project, including how he came up in the industry. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being […]

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Alice Englert’s feature debut Bad Behavior follows Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) as she embarks on a silent retreat under the guidance of her guru (Ben Wishaw). As the film’s title suggests, Lucy is no stranger to behaving badly—and during this so-called “spiritual” getaway, she will sink to shocking new lows. Dp Matt Henley tells Filmmaker about working on the film, including the various media influences he and Englert looked to in order to heighten the film’s “emotion, thematics or story.” See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of […]

The post “I Had an Overwhelming Reaction to the Script”: Dp Matt Henley on Bad Behavior first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Alice Englert’s feature debut Bad Behavior follows Lucy (Jennifer Connelly) as she embarks on a silent retreat under the guidance of her guru (Ben Wishaw). As the film’s title suggests, Lucy is no stranger to behaving badly—and during this so-called “spiritual” getaway, she will sink to shocking new lows. Dp Matt Henley tells Filmmaker about working on the film, including the various media influences he and Englert looked to in order to heighten the film’s “emotion, thematics or story.” See all responses to our annual Sundance cinematographer interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of […]

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Every production faces unexpected obstructions that require creative solutions and conceptual rethinking. What was an unforeseen obstacle, crisis, or simply unpredictable event you had to respond to, and how did this event impact or cause you to rethink your film? I spent close to three years alone with my story, researching, imagining it, and writing it and I loved that. I treasured that it was a secret that was mostly just interesting to me. It’s freeing but I longed for companionship too. It’s a strange thing when something that feels so inside you, so private becomes something that belongs to […]

The post “Do Everything You Can and Then Trust What Happens” | Alice Englert, Bad Behavior first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Every production faces unexpected obstructions that require creative solutions and conceptual rethinking. What was an unforeseen obstacle, crisis, or simply unpredictable event you had to respond to, and how did this event impact or cause you to rethink your film? I spent close to three years alone with my story, researching, imagining it, and writing it and I loved that. I treasured that it was a secret that was mostly just interesting to me. It’s freeing but I longed for companionship too. It’s a strange thing when something that feels so inside you, so private becomes something that belongs to […]

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