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...Plenel, 52, was part of a troika that ran Le Monde with apparent success for a decade. He made his reputation as a hard-nosed reporter. Beginning in the mid-'90s, as an investigative editor, Plenel - along with managing director Jean-Marie Colombani and board chairman Alain Minc - sought to give an aggressive edge to France's most prestigious daily, founded in 1944 as a staid "newspaper of reference." Colombani and Minc brought in outside investors, in the process reducing the staff journalists' longstanding financial control of the paper from a majority to a blocking minority. Plenel led the editorial...
...With Plenel in the top editor's chair from 1996, the formula seemed to work. Circulation grew from 310,000 in 1994 to 361,000 in 2002. Meanwhile, Colombani went on a buying spree, purchasing provincial titles, the TV newsmagazine Télérama and a share in a printing plant...
...success story began to unravel in Feb. 2003 with the publication of a bestselling book, The Hidden Face of Le Monde, by veteran journalists Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen. Their allegations were sensational: a corrupt relationship with the head of the police union; gifts to Colombani for giving media training to a mayor; a pattern of blatantly favoring certain politicians (such as hapless 1995 presidential candidate Edouard Balladur). In June Le Monde agreed not to proceed with libel lawsuits against the authors, who in turn agreed not to republish their book, but the damage was done. The paper...
...with defense and media conglomerate Lagardère, as well as Madrid's daily El País. If it gets the new funds, Le Monde will have to pay for layoff packages for about 90 employees, work down its debt, and most importantly figure out a new direction. Colombani's aides say he wants to return Le Monde expertise." A noble goal - as long as it attracts readers...
...part the film works so well because Colombani, 27, whose first feature this is, is a terrifically assured filmmaker. Partly it's because Tautou, who won many a heart as too-good-to-be-true Amelie two years ago, here displays a more dangerous kind of innocence with a charm that shades off into obsessive madness in very gentle, persuasive increments. Mostly, it's because this French film brings a cool, almost Pascalian logic to the messy topic of erotomania. Many of us have probably built agreeable little romantic fantasies out of some playful, innocent exchange with the opposite...