Filmmaker Amélie Bonnin wanted her feature debut to carry a personal imprint. The auteur behind this year’s Cannes Film Festival opener “Leave One Day” had already field-tested the concept ...

Filmmaker Amélie Bonnin wanted her feature debut to carry a personal imprint. The auteur behind this year’s Cannes Film Festival opener “Leave One Day” had already field-tested the concept ...

Panelists: Amélie Bonnin (co-writer/director), Dimitri Lucas (writer). Key quotes: Co-writer/director Amélie Bonnin on making her protagonist a woman, when it had been a man in her short film ...

Amélie Bonnin’s Leave One Day may feature a dozen song-and-dance numbers but, its maker insists, “It’s not a musical. “It’s a film with songs inside of it, she continues.

Directed by first-timer Amélie Bonnin, Leave One Day isn’t so notable just for being a musical, since Leos Carax’s Annette filled the same slot just a few years ago. But it is rare to see a ...

Amélie Bonnin’s musical film Leave One Day made history on Tuesday evening as the first debut film to open the festival across its 78 editions.

"Leave One Day," Amélie Bonnin's feature film that opened the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, is an unusual film for a Cannes opener in several ways. It's a musical, only the third to ...

Chalk it up to Cannes' unique position that you're reading this review.. Which isn't to say that Amélie Bonnin's locally flavored jukebox musical "Leave One Day" is anything close to a wash - nor ...

Amélie Bonnin is an art director and filmmaker with degrees in graphic design (from the Olivier-de-Serres school in Paris, then UQAM in Montreal) and ...

Filmmaker Amélie Bonnin wanted her feature debut to carry a personal imprint. The auteur behind this year’s Cannes Film Festival opener “Leave One Day” had already field-tested the concept ...

Amélie Bonnin is an art director and filmmaker with degrees in graphic design (from the Olivier-de-Serres school in Paris, then UQAM in Montreal) and screenwriting (from the Atelier de la Fémis ...