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Post by rosafermu on Feb 24, 2014 13:23:50 GMT -5
¡¡¡ Fabulosas !!! Thanks
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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 24, 2014 13:43:09 GMT -5
This must be the scene that Pierce was talking about in the interviews when he said that Emma did her own driving stunts. Apparently she was only supposed to drive up 2 steps, but went up 3 instead. If I recall correctly, he said there was no acting involved in this shot - he was truly afraid of the car flipping!
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Post by williknecht on Feb 24, 2014 14:48:45 GMT -5
Hmm. Perhaps the facial expression of Pierce is then not played. After all, he has his feet on the dashboard
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 23, 2014 23:15:57 GMT -5
The Portuguese trailer (slightly different than the others) ...
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 28, 2014 12:10:19 GMT -5
unasalahat.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/brosnan-and-thompson-as-partners-in-crime-in-the-romantic-comedy-the-love-punch/Brosnan and Thompson as Partners in crime in the romantic comedy “THE LOVE PUNCH” It’s a dream team pairing in the upcoming romantic caper, “The Love Punch,” starring ever-sassy Emma Thompson and always-charming Pierce Brosnan as ex-couple who reunite to steal back the money stolen from their retirement fund. “The Love Punch” sees middle aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones (Brosnan) looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund – including his own – has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate (Thompson), Richard sets out to track down the shady business man behind this, Vincent Kruger. Before they know it, Richard and Kate are caught up in a cat and mouse caper across Europe in a whirlwind of intrigue, mad chases and jewelry theft during which they rekindle their romance. Five years after “LAST Chance Harvey’s” international success, screenwriter and director Joel Hopkins wished again to team up with Emma Thompson. Straight away, the actress was excited about the story of a couple, divorced for eight years, who embark on a roller-coaster journey. And just as she came up with the name of Dustin Hoffman for “Last Chance Harvey,” it was she who thought of Pierce Brosnan for this new project. “I got excited by the idea of this ‘classic’ movie couple,” Hopkins explains. “The starting point is to find a pairing that really excites me even before writing the script and then build a story around them. I really like to cast the movie in my head while I’m writing.” Nicola Usborne, Hopkins’s wife and producing partner, agrees: “We’ve worked together for fifteen years and Joel always begins with characters or preferably with actors and then builds an arc around them”. Pierce Brosnan is enthusiastic about the filmmaker: “Joel as a director has a very good ear for the rhythm of comedy and for the articulation of speech and pacing of dialogue”, he says. Emma Thompson compares the way Hopkins directs actors to the careful making of a dessert: “It’s very delicate and it’s all about finding the right balance of ingredients”, she comments. “It’s really like a soufflé doing this kind of work – you have to get the air into the mix just to make something that really rises. That’s what you want in a director – someone who absolutely collaborates and lets you try things but who also tells you ‘I want it like this and not like that’.” The director will look back fondly on the production of the film: “I’ve always had a relationship with France”, he admits. “I found the crew very invested in the project as a whole, not just in their departments, but interested in the whole project, helping the whole film come together. Perhaps in England, people are a little more inside their departments and less interested in the process as a whole”. Emma Thompson agrees: ” In France, I noticed that the camaraderie existed between all the partners. You’ll be at lunch, which is like a family thing, and everybody sits down to eat and talk with each other, and even have a glass of wine. Not me, though. I live like a nun when I’m shooting”. Pierce Brosnan is just as excited about France as the director: “I’ve come here over the years with James Bond, but this has been the most in-depth experience with a 100% French shoot”, he contends. “You’re surrounded by this sense of cinematic history, and it permeates your being.” Producer Clément Miserez concludes: “I dream of doing “Love Punch 2” and “Love Punch 3” any time, and of working again with Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson, because they’re both nice and humble, and the whole crew would tell you just the same!” “The Love Punch” will open at a cinema near you on April 19 (Saturday) from Axinite Digicinema.
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 31, 2014 5:56:53 GMT -5
www.theupcoming.co.uk/2014/03/30/the-love-punch-movie-review/The Love Punch | Movie review Sunday 30th March 2014 According to Emma Thompson’s grandmother, your heart must have been broken at least ten times before it can truly love. Poor woman, sounds awfully hard done by – but it is along these lines that The Love Punch takes it’s form. The film follows the adventures of eight years divorced couple Richard (Pierce Brosnan) and Kate (Thompson) who are forced to put their differences behind them as they set out to no other than the perfect romance of Paris and the French riviera to reclaim their stolen savings. With ridiculously dubious simplicity, the couple fly off to Paris to confront the young, handsome French financier who defrauded Richard’s company, take part in a high-speed car chase, hack into private company files, gatecrash a wealthy businessman’s wedding and steal a ten million dollar diamond. You see why Pierce Brosnan is the perfect male lead. But this is James Bond in retirement, and the shortcomings of middle-age – not forgetting its learned insights too – provide the film with a warm and charming humour that will appeal to all ages. In a press conference following the screening, writer and director Joel Hopkins admitted his motive for the film was initially to work with Thompson again (Last Chance Harvey was their 2008 hit). It was Thompson’s desire to base the story around a long-since divorced couple, and proposed Pierce Brosnan as her partner in crime. Along with co-stars Celia Imrie and Timothy Spall, the perfect casting contributes to the film’s efforts to, in Hopkins’s words, “remind people of more innocent times” – hence the clichéd setting, fail-safe humour and typical characterisations. But if you forgive this film its easiness, it is really quite an enjoyable and comforting ride. In Hopkins’s writing, which Thompson described as “limpid and clean”, there isa fast, fluid progression that is so absent from today’s film scene. Imrie agreed, claiming that all the contemporary sobriety causes everyone to just fall asleep. With this in mind, the wit, charisma and endearing personality of The Love Punch is unsurprising as it deals, openly and frankly, with the truth of middle-age and marriage.
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 31, 2014 6:01:27 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Mar 31, 2014 8:22:15 GMT -5
Eaz, some great stuff. That's the first time I've heard that Pierce was Emma's suggestion/choice.
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 31, 2014 8:39:17 GMT -5
I think she mentioned it in one of the interviews during TIFF. I recall them talking about it on camera. Of course, it was easy to get distracted from actual information while watching the 2 of them interact!
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 31, 2014 12:45:49 GMT -5
New promo ...
"Bursting"
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 31, 2014 17:18:50 GMT -5
Another short trailer ...
"Adventure"
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 3, 2014 7:32:51 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Apr 10, 2014 18:30:39 GMT -5
Good News/Bad News
Good News: Love Punch now has a U.S. Release Date: may 23
Bad News: Open Road is not releasing it anymore, Ketchup is so it's most likely back from wide to limited.
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 10, 2014 18:40:25 GMT -5
At least it will hit US theaters!! YAY!!
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 12, 2014 9:31:24 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 12, 2014 9:38:33 GMT -5
www.liveforfilms.com/2014/04/12/review-the-love-punch/Review: The Love Punch Posted by Amanda Keats in Comedy, Drama, Film, Headline, Review, Romance, Thriller Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan team up as former spouses turned diamond thieves in The Love Punch, a hilarious mad-cap adventure for the older generation. After his company goes bust and he loses his entire pension overnight, Richard (Brosnan) enlists the help of ex-wife Kate (Thompson) to recover their stolen money from the nasty man who took it. When they discover that the man in question has spent millions on a diamond necklace for his fiancée, they decide it’s only right that they steal it to recoup their losses. The Love Punch really sets the comedic tone early on so that even though the story is quite dramatic and action-packed there is no real sense of peril or fear. As a result, audiences can sit back and relax and just enjoy the story as it unfolds. Forcing these two to spend such a long time together when their relationship is clearly so acrimonious is brilliantly awkward, and watching their relationship develop as the film continues is a joy to watch. There are hilarious references to Brosnan’s former life as James Bond and much of the humour is focused on their age, with fun being poked at the perils of a bad back and other ailments. Thompson and Brosnan are hilarious together, their pairing on screen inspired. They bounce off each other to create some really beautifully timed laughs and when their friends Penelope and Jerry (played by Celia Imrie and Timothy Spall) join the fun, the laughs get even bigger. Writer and director Joel Hopkins (Last Chance Harvey) manages to get the mood just right in The Love Punch and, with such an impressive cast and lots of twists and turns, has made an entertaining film for audiences to enjoy. Though the film is clearly aimed at an older demographic, there is plenty of fun to be had for the younger audience too. The sheer ridiculousness of four middle aged suburbians heading to France to steal a diamond is comedy in itself. It’s a fun adventure, set against a gorgeous French backdrop with a sublime cast. A comedic gem! 4/5*
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 12, 2014 11:45:21 GMT -5
Found this quote from Emma on-line. Not sure of the source, tho...
We play a divorced couple and had some kissing scenes to do, and I just kept messing up the scene in so many different ways, as often as I could, because Pierce was such a good kisser and I didn’t want the scene to end. When we finally got it right, Pierce turned to me and said, “Have we been kissing all day?” And I said, rather sheepishly, “Well yes, I rather think we have.”
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 14, 2014 8:16:24 GMT -5
www.high50.com/culture/the-love-punch-grown-up-film-kids-about14 April 2014 by Tim Willis The Love Punch: grown-up film can kid about
Brosnan and Thompson's new vehicle may be an escapist ham-fest, but it's more proof that midlife cinema could be the new gravy train, says Tim Willis. True, I write as the man who can wait to see Gravity until it airs on ITV2, and who thoroughly enjoyed Diana the Movie (a solitary experience, since no friend would come with). So when I say that, at our age, The Love Punch – starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson – is a pleasant enough way to spend 100 minutes, you’ll understand this ain’t Mark Kermode at the keyboard. Nor indeed is it the Guardian’s critic, Henry Barnes. He panned the film when it previewed last year at Toronto. “Retiree cinema,” he called it – though Emma Thompson had just turned 54 – and continued: “There’s only so much humour you can squeeze out of Pierce’s dicky prostate. “No one’s expecting Alexander Payne from every film featuring people over 50. [Payne is a terribly serious, 53-year-old director.] “But you’d hope for more than mellow, dumbing cinema that romps about with its ailments so proudly on display.” Poor Henry. I think he’s missed the point. Yes, The Love Punch – an outlandish mid-life rom-com about a divorced couple relighting the flame over a Robin Hood-style heist – piles on the cracks about bad backs, bunions and sex lives that are in cobwebs. But any film that has on its soundtrack ‘All Right Now’ by Free, along with the Clash’s version of ‘I Fought the Law’, can’t be all bad. And let’s remember that, to generation high50, Pierce still has the lustre of Bond… James Bond. Many a truth in jest So it’s actually quite funny that, on a frogman-suited climb up a cliff near Cap d’Antibes, one of Pierce’s accomplices brings a packed lunch. It’s funny that Pierce has a late-onset allergy to cats. Young Henry might not understand, but our age group isn’t so insecure that we can’t occasionally laugh at ourselves. I mean, if we need movie role models in maturity, we’ve already got Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Sandra Bullock, and of course the Oscar-winning Emma Thompson. So let’s no get too heated if a couple of grown-up thesps want to be a bit silly, even a bit – yes – childish. At least they’re coming to terms with their age. (NB: Madonna.) And besides, isn’t it great that cinema is beginning to address some genuine 50-plus concerns: mid-life divorce and dating, worries about what the fat cats will do to our pensions, children leaving home, second careers…. With someone in Britain turning 50 every 40 seconds, these will be the issues with which more and more real people (who include writers, directors and actors) are going to identify. Increasingly, they’re going to provide the backdrop for domestic drama, with or without high50’s cheerleading. And if it feels like the producers of The Love Punch started with that conceptual premise, then commissioned a script to fit – well, it’s not a crime to serve up big ideas in a bit of froth. So they wanted to explore something that may confront some of high50’s older readers (if not, by choice or necessity, its younger ones)? They realised that existential fear of an empty, cushioned retirement in the best shot of the film: a mass synchronised swing on a Surrey golf-driving range. It’s a great cinematic moment. But perhaps generation high50 is still waiting for its culturally defining film: the movie that will do for us what Rebel Without a Cause did for Fifties teen-dom. On the other hand, even James Dean started his screen career with Jerry Lewis, in a forgettable comedy called Sailor Beware. The Love Punch may be a sunny little pootle along the Cote d’Azur, but the storm is yet to come. Batten down the hatches.
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 15, 2014 8:55:50 GMT -5
www.digitalspy.com/movies/review/a562813/the-love-punch-review-pierce-brosnan-emma-thompsons-heist-movie.htmlBy Stella Papamichael Monday, Apr 14 2014 Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson stay young at heart as a divorced couple plotting a jewel heist in this British Channel-hopping comedy. It's only old-fashioned in the sense that writer/director Joel Hopkins (who previously cast Thompson in grownup rom-com Last Chance Harvey) pitches it like the sort of mad screwball caper that Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant might have made in the 1930s. In essence, that means the plot is a bunch of nonsense that contrives to get our creaky-boned heroes into impossible positions, both physically and figuratively. It's a bald-faced, cheeky approach by Hopkins that may grate on some viewers' nerves; feeling that perhaps a couple of virtual OAPs shouldn't be able to scale a cliff face – at least, not without being bitten by a radioactive spider first. It works because the chemistry sparkles between Thompson and Brosnan and they're given the space to make the most of it with lots of dry, quick-fire dialog that cuts through the silliness of the action. From the moment the story opens at a family garden party, they're swapping zingers and sideways looks as Richard (Brosnan) fesses up to the breakdown of his relationship with a much younger woman. Kate (Thompson) is immediately en garde. And yet… somehow they end up on the French Riviera together, in one of those wild plot twists that Cary Grant would have taken in his stride – and the former Mr Bond does, too. A fat cat entrepreneur (Laurent Lafitte) has just bought Richard's company and absorbed their pension pot, leaving the couple no option but to crash his engagement party on a small island off the coast of France to steal the diamond he's gifting to his fiancé (Louise Bourgoin as the archetypal comedy bimbo). With such a pretty backdrop and the Beaujolais flowing, thoughts inevitably turn to l'amour, except that Kate and Richard know each other too well to get carried away, but that homeliness is part of the joy. "You don't fancy rubbing some Deep Heat into my coccyx, do you?" Richard's chat-up lines inevitably get the treatment from Kate – and there's no massage involved. Brosnan is smooth as ever and Thompson is a brilliant firecracker, simultaneously scathing and polite. Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie up the fun as neighbours who pitch in to help out and find their own spark rekindled when they have to role-play as a couple of filthy rich Texans. The real ones are bound and gagged in their hotel room and there's a bit of gunplay and a car chase, too. Every thriller cliché is ticked off and tipped off balance by its slightly doddering stars (stopping for loo breaks, etc.). You just have to go with it. This is pure unadulterated wish-fulfilment for the over-50s with a sunset ending that could have been sponsored by Saga Holidays. But, the film is just as likely to appeal to anyone in the mood for a bit of light-hearted escapism in the company of two hugely charismatic stars. They just don't make them like they used to. Except, occasionally, they do.
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 15, 2014 9:06:26 GMT -5
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