Icarus Films Selects Oct. 6 For The Domestic DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Cedric Klapisch's Someone, Somewhere

Icarus Films will be joining forces with France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, on Oct. 6 for the domestic DVD debut of writer/director Cédric Klapisch’s Parisian teasing, taunting love story, Someone, Somewhere.

 

Rémy (François Civil — As Above, So Below, Love at Second Sight, Back to Burgundy) is a thirtysomething living in Paris.   He works in a warehouse. — a cavernous, never-ending warehouse — lays awake nights and knows little of the social graces.   Indeed, he seems to have but one friend in the world, a cat that he didn’t want, but got stuck with just the same.  

 

Mélanie played by the enchanting Ana Girardot (Escobar: Paradise Lost, Sunbeat, Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart), has a career, lots and lots of “friends,” but as Klapisch’s film unfolds, we see that she is as alone in Paris as Rémy.   For all of her social media skills, she is lonely.

 

It is here, once the characters are established that we see where the story is playfully taking us.   Mélanie and Rémy are neighbors, we see them crossing paths again and again, the local market, the pharmacy down the street, the Metro … it is a game that Klapisch is playing with us. 

 

Will they meet?   Are they the couple that destiny is toying with?   The answer to that is … no, no, no, not so fast.   Oct. 6, Someone, Somewhere on DVD from Icarus Films to find that answer.

 

Also being announced for the DVD marketplace this past week by Icarus Films is the Sept. 29 release of documentary filmmaker Daniel Traub’s Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own.

 

Born in occupied Poland during the summer of 1942 (right around the time that Hitler decided to attack his “ally,” the Soviet Union), Ursula Von Rydingsvard somehow managed to survive the war, survive refugee camps and then got the “golden ticket” to the United States, where she earned multiple college degrees … and by the mid-1970s was becoming artist of note.

 

Traub’s film walks us through her life and explores her unique standing in the world of monumental scripture, with insights in the process.   Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own is an intimate portrait of the artist, with access to her creative process and a review of some of her many accomplishments.

 

Included with the DVD is the short film titled Xu Bing: Phoenix.