Word: annaud
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...chance to reach out to global audiences and into deeper U.S. pockets. "In France, we make movies for the art of it," Kassovitz says. "It's only art movies that come out." Not so in the U.S., where the box office rules. France's priciest production ever, Jean-Jacques Annaud's just-released Two Brothers, about two tiger cubs separated at birth, cost about 360 million - a little more than the average U.S. film. Even a quirky, just-off-mainstream U.S. project like Gondry's Eternal Sunshine got a generous budget of about $35 million. Kassovitz speaks for many...
Jean-Jacques Annaud created a difficult task for himself when he decided to direct a mainstream film about the battle of Stalingrad. In order to make the film palatable, he had to pull out all the stops. Not only is Enemy at the Gates rumored to be the most expensive film ever made in Continental Europe, but it also stars attractive men with important names-Jude Law, Ed Harris and Joseph Fiennes-and contains one of the best sex scenes in modern cinema. For the most part, Annaud succeeds in his goal; his re-creation of one of the worst...