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...that ministry, current Social Affairs Minister Brice Hortefeux, described his "pride" in revealing France had expelled 30,000 illegal immigrants in 2008 - a rise of nearly 29% over the previous year, surpassing the quota of 26,000 Sarkozy had set for him. Ironically, it was Hortefeux's successor, Eric Besson, who on March 2 announced that Hassanzade would be granted resident papers and could apply for naturalization. "It's significant that Sharif's victory provoked a reaction from the Minister of Immigration, not from the Minister of Sports," says Jean-Joseph Tusa, Tourcoing's Deputy Mayor for Sport...
...more than a film for old people and it became a mass phenomenon in Japan." Takita, 53, got his start in adult films but, until now, is probably most remembered as the director of the 1999 film Secret (Himitsu), which was eventually reamde by French director Luc Besson. Takita beamed as he spoke upon receiving the Oscar. "This is a new 'departure' for me. And I will - we will - be back." he said. Perhaps this year is the harbinger of future Hollywood endings for the Japanese film industry...
...Both Morel movies were produced and co-written by Luc Besson, who's a one-man French film industry. He earned his early rep as a writer-director with Subway, a vivacious crime melodrama, then made the Hollywood-influenced thrillers La Femme Nikita and The Professional (which introduced Natalie Portman) and the Bruce Willis sci-fi hit The Fifth Element. Rarely directing movies anymore, he's produced nearly 70 of them this decade, most set in Paris, many in English, including the Transporter series and a couple of Jet Li action adventures. Besson is Hollywood in another...
...action hero warns his daughter about imminent danger - say, the potential perils of spending the summer in Paris with a classmate - Papa knows whereof he preacheth. Perhaps some angel has whispered to him that if the girls did just go safely museum-hopping, it wouldn't be a Luc Besson movie...
...Richet, who did the 2005 remake of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, is one of those French directors - Luc Besson (The Professional) and Pierre Morel (District B13) are others - who have renounced the glacial minimalism of their national film style for the wild vigor of American B movies. As briskly as the Mesrine story hurtles through its heists, holdups and hair-breadth escapes, the camera moves faster, but always purposefully. Richet brings all the characters to plausible, entertaining life, but Cassel easily dominates the action. Often, as in Eastern Promises, he plays the strutting punk with more bravado...