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Telegraph
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The Stolen Girl, Disney+, review: the TV equivalent of an airport read
'Posh house' drama shows no sign of waning. If you ignore the child kidnapping/parental catastrophe angle of The Stolen Girl (Disney+) there is so much useful interiors advice to be found here. I don't know whether streamers have to show that Product Placement 'P' logo at the beginning of dramas like they do on poor old ITV, but holy moly I want to know what the sofa was they were sitting on (when the police came round to arrest whoever it was). And never mind Jim Sturgess's dad having a nervous breakdown as he confessed to a bout of extramarital phone-sex – just look at the kitchen island he broke down on! Granite surfaces to die for. From which you'll gather that The Stolen Girl, a new thriller about a missing child, is quite hard to take seriously. It doesn't help that the story as it first appears is rather familiar: when nine-year-old Lucia begs her mummy Elisa (Denise Gough) for an overnight playdate with her new best friend Josie, Elisa agrees. Whoops. Josie's mum Rebecca (Holliday Grainger) is not at all what she seems, as Elisa discovers the next day when Elisa doesn't come home and Rebecca's posh house turns out to have been an Airbnb. So unfolds The Missing but in Cheshire. Faultlines in Elisa and Fred's (Sturgess) marriage quickly emerge, no one is who they seem and did I mention how cool the wallpaper is? Anyway, The Stolen Girl is the TV equivalent of an airport read, schlocky trash that moves at a breakneck pace. The idea is that with such dizzying haste, you won't have time to pause for thought and ask testing questions such as, 'How come journalist Ambika Mod is able to find out things about both dodgy mums the police can't, using only her phone?' And, 'What must the current crop of TV scripts be like if actors of this calibre are taking jobs like this?' Or, more pointedly, 'How much must Disney be paying?' Because, make no mistake, the cast of The Stolen Girl is its ace in the hole. It elevates another 'The Girl on the Train who Peaked from Behind the Net Curtain'-style psych thriller to a level of robust watchability. Denise Gough, Holliday Grainger and Ambika Mod (rocking a vintage Ford Cortina that marks the return of the impractical statement vehicle to crime dramas) are a superb central trio. Gough in particular is one of those performers who can turn a stage direction like 'she starts crying' into something epiphanic. Grainger, meanwhile, plants her flag in that moral no man's land where her Rebecca, who initially appears to be the villain of the piece, nibbles at your sympathy and lodges in your brain. The tension in The Stolen Girl – and whatever else it is, it grips like duct tape – comes as much from these performances as from the plot. If only they could give the actors a little more to work with.
The Independent
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Marion Cotillard and Eva Green pay tribute to ‘extraordinary' Emilie Dequenne
Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne has been remembered as 'extraordinary' by her fellow stars of French cinema, Marion Cotillard and Eva Green. The Missing star died at the age of 43, her agent said on Monday, after she revealed she had been diagnosed with a 'rare cancer' in October 2023. According to reports, Dequenne had been suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), an aggressive cancer of the adrenal gland. On Instagram, Green wrote: 'Emilie was already a star, an extraordinary actress who I revered,' when they first met during a drama school presentation, and called her 'humble, encouraging, so full of light and pure kindness'. The Penny Dreadful and Casino Royale star added that she last saw Dequenne at the Cannes Film Festival, where the star was a co-winner in 1999 for her role in Palme d'Or winning film Rosetta. 'When I saw her last summer, she was so vibrant and full of life, we were both certain that she had vanquished the rare form of cancer she had been battling,' she added. 'Her death has left me stunned… heartbroken… as it has left all those who knew her, and even those who knew her only in her films. She was grace, light, and all things excellent.' Cotillard wrote in French that she will 'forever cherish what we shared', and called Dequenne a 'sublime human' and a 'genius actress'. The Oscar winner said 'you have been and will be an source of infinite inspiration for me', and added that she had studied Dequenne's work. 'I am going to find a hard time realising,' she said. 'I will always find this unjust.' Cotillard said she 'loved' and will 'miss' the actress, also known for playing police officer Laurence Relaud in British anthology drama The Missing. The Missing stars James Nesbitt as the father of a boy who disappears during a family holiday in France. Dequenne also starred in horror-action film Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2001) alongside Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Samuel Le Bihan. Her other roles included 2009's The Girl On The Train, in which her character Jeanne makes up a shocking story about a racially motivated attack on a train, and 2012 crime drama Our Children. She also played a sound recordist called Charlotte, who learns that her mother has been murdered, in noughties movie Ecoute Le Temps, and a mother in 2022 coming-of-age film Close. Dequenne cried after receiving the Cannes prize for Rosetta, in what was her first role in film when she was 18. She returned to the festival in 2024 for the 25th anniversary of Rosetta, which tells the story of a young girl's efforts to keep her job in the face of her own schizophrenia. Her last film was the post-apocalyptic thriller Survive, by French director Frederic Jardin. Dequenne was married to actor Michel Ferracci and had a daughter, Milla Savarese.
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marion Cotillard and Eva Green pay tribute to ‘extraordinary' Emilie Dequenne
Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne has been remembered as 'extraordinary' by her fellow stars of French cinema, Marion Cotillard and Eva Green. The Missing star died at the age of 43, her agent said on Monday, after she revealed she had been diagnosed with a 'rare cancer' in October 2023. According to reports, Dequenne had been suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), an aggressive cancer of the adrenal gland. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eva Green (@evagreenweb) On Instagram, Green wrote: 'Emilie was already a star, an extraordinary actress who I revered,' when they first met during a drama school presentation, and called her 'humble, encouraging, so full of light and pure kindness'. The Penny Dreadful and Casino Royale star added that she last saw Dequenne at the Cannes Film Festival, where the star was a co-winner in 1999 for her role in Palme d'Or winning film Rosetta. 'When I saw her last summer, she was so vibrant and full of life, we were both certain that she had vanquished the rare form of cancer she had been battling,' she added. 'Her death has left me stunned… heartbroken… as it has left all those who knew her, and even those who knew her only in her films. She was grace, light, and all things excellent.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by @marioncotillard Cotillard wrote in French that she will 'forever cherish what we shared', and called Dequenne a 'sublime human' and a 'genius actress'. The Oscar winner said 'you have been and will be an source of infinite inspiration for me', and added that she had studied Dequenne's work. 'I am going to find a hard time realising,' she said. 'I will always find this unjust.' Cotillard said she 'loved' and will 'miss' the actress, also known for playing police officer Laurence Relaud in British anthology drama The Missing. The Missing stars James Nesbitt as the father of a boy who disappears during a family holiday in France. Dequenne also starred in horror-action film Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2001) alongside Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Samuel Le Bihan. Her other roles included 2009's The Girl On The Train, in which her character Jeanne makes up a shocking story about a racially motivated attack on a train, and 2012 crime drama Our Children. She also played a sound recordist called Charlotte, who learns that her mother has been murdered, in noughties movie Ecoute Le Temps, and a mother in 2022 coming-of-age film Close. Dequenne cried after receiving the Cannes prize for Rosetta, in what was her first role in film when she was 18. She returned to the festival in 2024 for the 25th anniversary of Rosetta, which tells the story of a young girl's efforts to keep her job in the face of her own schizophrenia. Her last film was the post-apocalyptic thriller Survive, by French director Frederic Jardin. Dequenne was married to actor Michel Ferracci and had a daughter, Milla Savarese.
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marion Cotillard and Eva Green pay tribute to ‘extraordinary' Emilie Dequenne
Belgian actress Emilie Dequenne has been remembered as 'extraordinary' by her fellow stars of French cinema, Marion Cotillard and Eva Green. The Missing star died at the age of 43, her agent said on Monday, after she revealed she had been diagnosed with a 'rare cancer' in October 2023. According to reports, Dequenne had been suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), an aggressive cancer of the adrenal gland. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eva Green (@evagreenweb) On Instagram, Green wrote: 'Emilie was already a star, an extraordinary actress who I revered,' when they first met during a drama school presentation, and called her 'humble, encouraging, so full of light and pure kindness'. The Penny Dreadful and Casino Royale star added that she last saw Dequenne at the Cannes Film Festival, where the star was a co-winner in 1999 for her role in Palme d'Or winning film Rosetta. 'When I saw her last summer, she was so vibrant and full of life, we were both certain that she had vanquished the rare form of cancer she had been battling,' she added. 'Her death has left me stunned… heartbroken… as it has left all those who knew her, and even those who knew her only in her films. She was grace, light, and all things excellent.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by @marioncotillard Cotillard wrote in French that she will 'forever cherish what we shared', and called Dequenne a 'sublime human' and a 'genius actress'. The Oscar winner said 'you have been and will be an source of infinite inspiration for me', and added that she had studied Dequenne's work. 'I am going to find a hard time realising,' she said. 'I will always find this unjust.' Cotillard said she 'loved' and will 'miss' the actress, also known for playing police officer Laurence Relaud in British anthology drama The Missing. The Missing stars James Nesbitt as the father of a boy who disappears during a family holiday in France. Dequenne also starred in horror-action film Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2001) alongside Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Samuel Le Bihan. Her other roles included 2009's The Girl On The Train, in which her character Jeanne makes up a shocking story about a racially motivated attack on a train, and 2012 crime drama Our Children. She also played a sound recordist called Charlotte, who learns that her mother has been murdered, in noughties movie Ecoute Le Temps, and a mother in 2022 coming-of-age film Close. Dequenne cried after receiving the Cannes prize for Rosetta, in what was her first role in film when she was 18. She returned to the festival in 2024 for the 25th anniversary of Rosetta, which tells the story of a young girl's efforts to keep her job in the face of her own schizophrenia. Her last film was the post-apocalyptic thriller Survive, by French director Frederic Jardin. Dequenne was married to actor Michel Ferracci and had a daughter, Milla Savarese.
Saudi Gazette
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Saudi Gazette
Cannes award-winning actress Dequenne dies at 43
BRUSSELS — Award-winning Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne has died from cancer at the age of 43. Dequenne shot to fame when she won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival at the age of 18 for the film Rosetta in 1999. She won another Cannes award for À Perdre la Raison (Our Children) in 2012, and received a Cesar, one of France's top film honours, for Les Choses Qu'on Dit, les Choses Qu'on Fait (The Things We Say, the Things We Do) in 2021. She mainly acted in French-language films but also appeared as police officer Laurence Relaud in 2014 BBC TV drama The Missing. Rosetta, a poignant tale about a teenager's struggle to overcome a life of misery, was Dequenne's first screen role. She had been unemployed after losing her job in a food factory when she was picked for the role. "The first day she filmed in front of a real camera, she managed to bring the whole team together," Luc Dardenne, who directed it with his brother Jean-Pierre, said in a tribute to broadcaster RTBF. "It got better and better as the shoot progressed... She was magnificent and the film owes a lot to her." In The Missing, she played Laurence Relaud, which starred James Nesbitt as the father of a boy who disappears during a family holiday. Her other films included 2009's La fille du RER (The Girl on the Train), 2014's Pas Son Genre (Not My Type) and 2022 Cannes nominee Close. Others paying tribute included French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, who wrote: "Francophone cinema has lost, too soon, a talented actress who still had so much to offer." Dequenne revealed in October 2023 that she was suffering from adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), a cancer of the adrenal gland. In one of her last Instagram posts, for World Cancer Day in February, she wrote: "What a tough fight! And we don't choose..." — BBC
