Word: francoise
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One night, years ago, a man and his wife, - childhood sweethearts who remain deeply in love - repair to an isolated lake for a swim and some love-making. At a certain point she slips off the dock for one last dip. After a moment, screams are heard - then an ominous...
'She has the impression that people want to silence her.' FRANCOIS-XAVIER KELIDJIAN, lawyer for Brigitte Bardot (right), the 73-year-old film icon who was fined 15,000 euros ($23,000) for provoking discrimination and racial hatred by writing that Muslims are destroying France--her fifth conviction for making...
Sean Penn, President of the nine-person Jury at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, stood before the 2,300 cinema swells in the Lumiere Theatre this evening and told them that the top prize was awarded "unanimously": Entre les Murs, a.k.a. The Class, Laurent Cantet's affecting portrait of a...
There is a family of 25 in Laurent Cantet's The Class (Entre les murs): 24 students in a Paris junior high school and their teacher. This affecting, docu-like drama is based on a book by Francois Begaudeau, a former teacher who has the lead role here. His students...
Critically, too, Dassin was up and down, and then out. He was the first blacklisted director to earn a secure reputation in European films, and under his own name. (Another American exile, Joseph Losey, was making films under pseudonyms.) When the young critic Francois Truffaut saw Rififi, he wrote, "From...