Out of Season (2023 film)

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Out of Season
Theatrical release poster
FrenchHors-saison
Directed byStéphane Brizé
Written by
Produced bySidonie Dumas
Starring
CinematographyAntoine Heberlé
Edited byAnne Klotz[1]
Music byVincent Delerm[1]
Production
companies
  • Gaumont
  • France 3 Cinéma
  • Caneo Films
Distributed byGaumont
Release dates
  • 8 September 2023 (2023-09-08) (Venice)
  • 20 March 2024 (2024-03-20) (France)
Running time
115 minutes[1]
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Out of Season (

romantic drama film directed by Stéphane Brizé, from a screenplay written by Brizé and Marie Drucker.[2]

The film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, where it premiered on 8 September 2023. It was released theatrically in France by Gaumont on 20 March 2024.

Plot

Laurent, nearing fifty, is a well-known actor who lives in Paris. Hélène is a forty-something piano teacher who lives in a small seaside town. They fell in love about fifteen years earlier, but then broke up. Time has passed, each of them went their separate ways, wounds have healed and anger has subsided. When Laurent tries to drown his sorrows in a Jacuzzi at a spa, he finds Alice by chance.[2]

Cast

Production

Out of Season was produced by Sidonie Dumas for

Pays Vannetais,[4] including on the Rhuys Peninsula.[5] Antoine Heberlé served as the director of photography.[2]

Release

Out of Season was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 80th Venice International Film Festival,[6] where it had its world premiere on 8 September 2023.[1]

The film was theatrically released in France by Gaumont on 20 March 2024.[7]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10.[8] Out of Season received an average rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 32 reviews.[9]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Venice Film Festival 9 September 2023 Golden Lion Stéphane Brizé Nominated [10]

References

  1. ^
    La Biennale di Venezia
    . Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d Lemercier, Fabien (2 March 2023). "Shooting now imminent on Stéphane Brizé's Hors saison". Cineuropa. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  3. ^ "CP_Tournage_HORS-SAISON_Draft.docx" (PDF). www.gaumontconnect.com (in French). Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  4. ^ a b Le Bagousse, Véronique (25 March 2023). "À Saint-Pierre Quiberon, Stéphane Brizé tourne Hors saison avec Guillaume Canet et Alba Rohrwacher". Le Télégramme (in French). Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Quiberon. Tournage de Hors saison : "Cette aventure, c'est une suite de moments de bonheur"". Ouest-France (in French). 8 March 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  6. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (25 July 2023). "Venice Film Festival Lineup: Mann, Lanthimos, Fincher, DuVernay, Cooper, Besson, Coppola, Hamaguchi In Competition; Polanski, Allen, Anderson, Linklater Out Of Competition – Full List". Deadline. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Les line-ups distributeurs s'ajustent". Boxoffice Pro (in French). 21 July 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  8. ^ "Out of Season". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Critiques Presse pour le film Hors-saison". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  10. La Biennale di Venezia
    . Retrieved 12 August 2023.

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