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Young Werther: Interview with Writer/Director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço

©Courtesy of Lionsgate Unrequited love has been romanticized over the centuries for encouraging people to overcome any obstacle to win the heart of the one they desire. Filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço’s new romantic comedy, Young Werther, is driven by people’s relentless motivation to prove their worthiness to the one hey love. They’ll fight…

TIFF: Modern-Day Old School Antics in ‘Young Werther’

Can a popular book from the eighteenth century be adapted into a modern-day movie? That’s the question that filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço explores in Young Werther, based on what the film introduces in its opening titles as the 1774 hit novel comparable to Beatlemania, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther….

Exclusive Video Interview: Douglas Booth on Playing a Bounty Hunter in ‘That Dirty Black Bag’ and Working with Visionary Directors

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. AMC+’s That Dirty Black Bag is a stylish spaghetti western that follows two equally compelling protagonists, bounty hunter Red Bill (Douglas Booth) and Sheriff Arthur McCoy (Dominic Cooper), as they navigate the treacherous environment of the wild west. Red Bill’s signature accessory – which…