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Grand Prix (second place): Un prophéte, France, directed by Jacques Audiard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haneke's The White Ribbon Wins Cannes Palme d'Or | 5/24/2009 | See Source »

...runner-up Grand Jury Prize went to Un prophéte (A Prophet), a complex, absorbing, fairly conventional prison drama directed by Jacques Audiard. In the manner of last year's Palme d'Or winner The Class, set in a Paris junior high school, this is a documentary-style study of French minorities in an enclosed environment that sets its own rules. The main tension - and there's plenty in the schemings of rival ethnic gangs - comes from the relationship of a young Arab (Tahar Rahim) and his aged Corsican mentor (Niels Arestrup). When asked at the post-show press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haneke's The White Ribbon Wins Cannes Palme d'Or | 5/24/2009 | See Source »

...movies are getting more imaginative and accessible. Just look at the Taxi films of Luc Besson and Gérard Krawczyk, a rollicking series of Hong Kong-style action comedies; or at such intelligent yet crowd-pleasing works as Cédric Klapisch's L'Auberge Espagnole and Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped, both hits on the foreign art-house circuit. French novelists are focusing increasingly on the here and now: one of the big books of this year's literary rentrée, Yasmina Reza's L'Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Dusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Lost Time | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...haunted by the career he abandoned-as a promising concert pianist, which his mother also once was. It's an improbably melodramatic premise-Golden Boy reset in Paris-and also a remake of the American film Fingers. But that reckons without the canny direction of Jacques Audiard and the appealing work of Romain Duris as the muscle man-musician. His efforts to reclaim himself are told with irony, a touch of almost unspoken romance and surprising, but plausible, results as the movie moves from noirish darkness to the more sunlit realms of artistic aspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Richard Schickel's Best Movie Picks | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...same way with Audiard's characters. It's probably safe to say that there has never been a hood who aspired to the concert stage. But the child of a roughneck father and an elegant mother who has lived an ambivalent, ultimately untriumphant life as a result is not unfamiliar. Out of a borrowed and preposterous premise, Audiard has fashioned a film that is more haunting--and more compellingly watchable--than it has any right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: What These Hands Can Do | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

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