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...tastes lie elsewhere: "American and French cinema are wonderfully creative and entertaining, but they lack the hard-edged, at times brutal messages, themes and humor of northern cinema culture." She says she'd love to make such films for directors like Denmark's Lars von Trier, Britain's Ken Loach or fellow Belgians (and brothers) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - a move that could extend the appeal of De France well beyond la France. - By Bruce Crumley/Paris Great French screen actors often sport formidable noses. Think Jean Gabin, Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil. Now 21-year-old actor...
...find a distributor here after being branded un-American. Though it was conceived of and assembled by a French television producer, 11’9’01 has an international spirit: each renowned director hails from a different country. America is represented by Sean Penn, while Ken Loach, the acclaimed observer of social ills, comes out for Britain. Mira Nair, who won a Harvard Arts Medal this spring‚ represents India. (SWVL...
...last, following a lengthy struggle to find a distributor here after being branded un-American. Though it was conceived of and assembled by a French television producer, September 11 has an international spirit: each renowned director hails from a different country. America is represented by Sean Penn, while Ken Loach, the acclaimed observer of social ills, comes out for Britain; Mira Nair, who won a Harvard Arts Medal this spring‚ represents India. (SWVL...
Sweet Sixteen may put viewers with a long memory in mind of Ken Loach's fine 1969 film Kes, about another troubled teen contending with a troubled life. It is similarly handsome and similarly lacking in the overt didacticism that has scored many of Loach's later films, not always to their advantage. Its ending will also remind viewers of Truffaut's The 400 Blows--a lonely lad standing on an empty shore, contemplating a young life gone wrong, a future full of bleak ambiguity. But that obvious reference somehow enhances Sweet Sixteen, unselfconsciously connecting it to an honorable...
...Ernest Borgnine), grieving over his wife's death, gets the blessing of sunlight in his dark apartment - because the World Trade Center towers no longer block the light. Still, the dominant mood in 11'09"01 is finger pointing. Several of the pieces - set in Chile (Ken Loach), Israel (Amos Gitai), Bosnia (Danis Tanovic) - make a single hectoring, helpful point: our countries have suffered atrocities for years, decades, centuries; welcome to the club, America. Egypt's Youssef Chahine argues that Islamic militants have the right to kill civilians in the U.S. and Israel because these are democracies, where the people...