Word: rard
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...Slave of Dreams in 1994.) Moroccan entrepreneur Mohamed Belghmi had a hunch that the ethereal light quality in Ouarzazate would appeal to filmmakers, so he founded the film studio in 1983. Since then, the sets and natural landscape have provided the stunning backdrop to actors Orlando Bloom, Gérard Depardieu, Russell Crowe and Halle Berry, among others. Royal Air Maroc offers round-trip flights to Ouarzazate from most Moroccan cities, so it could be a day trip, but it might be more fun to stay on location at the modest Oscar Hotel, tel: (212) 44 88 22 12, where...
...Moroccan entrepreneur Mohamed Belghmi had a hunch that the ethereal light quality in Ouarzazate would appeal to filmmakers, so he founded the film studio in 1983. Since then, the sets and natural landscape have provided the stunning backdrop to actors Orlando Bloom, Gérard Depardieu, Russell Crowe and Halle Berry, among others. Royal Air Maroc offers round-trip flights to Ouarzazate from most Moroccan cities, so it could be a day trip, but it might be more fun to stay on location at the modest Oscar Hotel, tel: (212) 44 88 22 12, where many an A-lister...
...wait, but last week the whole team, older but definitely no wiser, returned to the fray with a third film, Les Bronzés 3: Friends For Life. "This movie is like reuniting with old friends - both for fans, and those of us in it," says actor Gérard Jugnot, who plays Bernard Morin, a small-time businessman with upper-class aspirations. "In 1978, we were just trying to create these amusing, farcical situations and characters. Little did we know that with time and spreading popularity it would become a social phenomenon." Like its predecessors, Bronzés 3dispatches...
...should Mozart's music be the focal point of this debate, rather than other classical composers such as Bach, Beethoven or Chopin? Many sounds, from Hindu chanting to the noise of the surf breaking on a shore, are believed to be therapeutic. As for classical music, Gérard Mortier, the director of the Paris opera, is one of many who reckons that Mozart isn't the only composer who soothes. "You find the most appropriate music for the pathology," Mortier says. "For some people it might be [Johann Sebastian Bach's] 'Goldberg' Variations. For others it might...
...Mozart home with them." Not all the products being touted are conventional ones. One dairy firm, Alpenmilch Salzburg, is marketing a special Mozart-year yogurt-and-milk drink flavored with marzipan, chocolate and nougat cream, the same ingredients as Mozart Kugel candy. Not everyone approves. Gérard Mortier, the current director of the Paris Opera who headed the Salzburg festival for a decade in the 1990s, says he worries that the Mozart anniversary year "won't yield much. To the contrary, I fear it might turn Mozart into an event. Instead of really delving into Mozart's depth...