According To Her
Love, motherhood, and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young Belarusian migrant who tries to keep her balance among wealthy French ex-pats in New York.
More info and press below.
Festivals & screenings: Cinequest Film Festival (USA), Moscow International Film Festival (Russia), International Film Festival of India IFFI Goa (India), FAF Austin (USA), Brooklyn Film Festival (USA), Ventana Sur (Argentina), All Light India Festival (India), Las Cruces International Film Festival (USA).
Awards: Golden Peacock Nomination (IFFI Goa); Best Producer (Brooklyn International Film Festival), Best Musical Score (Brooklyn International Film Festival).
Digital distribution: Under The Milky Way.
Available on: Amazon Prime, Itunes, Vudu, Google Play.
Love, motherhood, and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young migrant who tries to keep her balance among wealthy French ex-pats in New York.
Veronica’s virtuoso fingers dance across piano keys, but her symphony of ambition strikes jarring notes against the demands of motherhood and domestic life. A young migrant adrift in a sea of privileged French expatriates, she navigates New York’s glittering upper echelons while fighting not to lose herself in their seductive yet treacherous world.
As her music, heart, and maternal instincts collide in discordant harmony, Veronica must compose a new arrangement of her life—or risk a devastating finale.
US and Canada release: April 3rd, 2017.
UK release: April 6, 2017.
Europe release: April 23, 2017.
Theatrical Premieres
– Cinequest Film Festival (USA, 2016)
– International Film Festival of India (India, 2017)
– Moscow International Film Festival (Russia, 2017)
See the full festivals run and awards on IMDb.
According to Her is now available in France on iTunes in France and all French-speaking countries under the title MÈЯE.
According To Her is also on SFR, a premium cable operator in France.
According To Her has been selected for
Las Cruces International Film Festival, March 7th-11th, 2018.
Actress Nathalie Bryant is the film’s ambassador at the festival.
According to Her has been selected to screen at
All Lights India Dec 1st-4th 2017, Hyderabad, India.
According to Her is at Ventana Sur, Nov 27-Dec 1st, 2017.
According to Her will have its VOD/SVOD distribution through Under The Milky Way
Release in French and in English on major platforms in over sixty countries.
Neue Baron, designed by Frank Hemmekam, is the font of choice for According to Her poster.
According to Her has been selected for the 39th Moscow International Film Festival.
Red carpet and Q&A at Moscow International Film Festival 2017
According to Her selected for the 39th Moscow International Film Festival
According to Her screens in Ekaterinburg, Russia, at Echo, a MIFF satellite festival.
According to Her won Best Producer and Best Music Score awards at the Brooklyn Film Festival.
With actresses Nathalie Bryant (left) and Irina Abraham (right) in attendance.
Q&A at Brooklyn Film Festival
With actresses Nathalie Bryant (left) and Eloise Eonnet (right)
Actor Pascal Yen-Pfister in attendance.
East Coast screening at Brooklyn Film Festival 2017
Monday 5 at 8:30 and Sunday 11 at 16:00
Cast in attendance from left to right: Pascal Yen-Pfister, Eloise Eonnet, Irina Abraham, and Nathalie Bryant.
East Coast screening announced for According to Her at the Brooklyn Film Festival
June 2-11, 2017.
Screening dates coming soon.
Press picture featuring Irina Abraham
According to Her – trailer with Pascal Yen-Pfister and Eloise Eonnet.
According to Her is selected for international competition for Imagine India Film Festival
presented at the Spanish Institute in Madrid, May 17-31.
March 10-17 According to Her is part of the FICG32 film market in Mexico
According to Her has been selected by AF Austin ciné-club film program Julia Podgorsek McMahan
to screen at Richard Linklater Studios in Austin on February, 19th at 2pm.
According to Her screens at the International Film Festival of India – IFFI Goa 2016.
Film Bazaar India international film market.
Press conference – IFFI 2016
Indian press: the Sakal Times and Pandolin.
According to Her was also covered by Goa News, The Prokeraia, Digital Goa, Yashnews, and The Peacock.
Swamped by the audience reaction to her debut feature film According to Her at the 47th International Film Festival of India, French-born film director and screenwriter, Estelle Artus, was quite relieved as she confessed that she didn’t know what to expect from an Indian audience prior to the screening. “I was not sure whether the audience here would relate to my film,” she said, addressing the audience and fielding questions on her film, which is running in the International Competition category at the festival.
Contrary to Artus’s fears, According to Her was a complete winner with respect to its universal appeal, delving into the life of a successful pianist Veronica, who happily gives up her career to embrace motherhood and raise her son.
By Sakal Times
Q&A after screenings atIndia International Film Festival IFFI Goa.
New poster
IFFI selection
According to Her is selected for the 47th International Film Festival of India.
Pascal Yen Pfister, the lead male in According to Her, has been cast in Clint Eastwood’s Sully.
Veronica is a bit like the character of Jurieu in Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game: she is the outsider, the one who disturbs a social microcosm. More than everything else, it’s the language that makes her foreign. This is why I choose to have three languages in the film. Renoir also took risks when he gave its lead role to Nora Gregor. He chose her because of her accent (she was Austrian). In According to her, Veronica speaking Russian to her son is ‘what separates’. What ‘brings together or separates’ is at the core of my film. Of course it echoes what I saw not so much in New York, but in France, where segregation is a matter of culture and language more than in any other country in the world.
Special thanks to actor Jean François Poirier for joining our cast.
“According to Her” showcases outstanding performances and is packed with rich visual and emotional details.”
Filipe Freitas review in Always Good Movies.
According to Her in Cineuropa featuring Pascal Yen-Pfister, Nathalie Bryant, and Vincent Verdi.
Watching it, I discovered a wonderful sensation that I seldom experience in films. It’s one of being a complete outsider in a world in which you are deeply immersed. It’s a feeling that no matter what you’ve done, no matter where you are, you are not of that place.
Chris Garcia’s review in Klaus at Gun Point.
A lot of people don’t realize how much in the dark a director is at the beginning of filming. It’s like sailing by night in high seas, you don’t see anything and everybody relies on you. What makes a director is not that he or she gives direction, it’s the ability to step in the dark and find a path while giving others a feeling of security. Interview in Agnes Films.
Being in upper class New York, our characters are destined for success. Our heroine is expected to be a mother while maintaining a brilliant musical career and her slim figure. Motherhood can and should be greatly assisted by nannies and boarding schools, while the physical and financial expectations are impossible to avoid.
Angeliki Coconi review in Unsung Films.
Cinequest’s panel on women directors
moderated by Robert Hawk.
“Intelligent and provocative, Estelle Artus’ According to Her is a captivating post-modern story about a woman motivated to rediscover her musical talent while navigating the demands of maternity.”
Kady Lee press review.
Director and producer Estelle Artus and actress Nathalie Bryant will be attending screenings and Q&As.
- First screening: Saturday, March 5 at 6:30p.m. Camera 12 – 201 S Second St, San Jose, CA.
- 2nd screening: Monday, March 7 at 7:00p.m. Hammer Theater, San Jose, CA.
- 3rd screening: Wednesday, March 9 at 12:00p.m. Camera 12 – 201 S Second St, San Jose, CA.
STILL PICTURES
Veronica (Irina Abraham) and Paul (Pascal Yen-Pfister)
Arnold Dieser (Howard Wieder) and Amanda ( Eloise Eonnet – background)
Katerina Skakun, Eloise Eonnet, Howard Wieder, Nathalie Bryant, Helene Godec, Pascal Escriout, Ron Aldrich, Chiselle Irby (Left to Right)
Veronica (Irina Abraham) and Gael (Pascal Escriout)
Adele (Nathalie Bryant -left) and Veronica (Irina Abraham-right)
Gael (Pascal Escriout – left) and the artist (Lucas Rainey – right)
Denis (Jean-François Poirier) and Veronica (Irina Abraham)
Veronica (Irina Abraham)
Paul (Pascal Yen-Pfister)
Gael (Pascal Escriout) and Amanda ( Eloise Eonnet)
Veronica (Irina Abraham -left) and her mother (Snezhana Chernova -right)
Veronica (Irina Abraham – left) and her mother (Snezhana Chernova – right)
Pictures © Myriade Films