Word: reau
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...reminder that French cinema ain't dead yet, Patrice Chéreau's Gabrielle arrives just in time: July 14, Bastille Day, commemorating the start of the French Republic. (Two other French films, Laurent Cantet's Heading South and François Ozon's Time to Leave, have their U.S. theatrical premieres this month as well, but, entre nous, you can skip them.) Based on Joseph Conrad's story The Return, the film, written by Chéreau and Anne-Louise Trividic, concentrates the anguish and ego-busting of marital life into a few days in the lives...
...courtship and bitterness, between black-and-white and color) and especially for the beautiful performances of Huppert and Greggory: she the queen for 30 years of serious French film, he the stage actor proving he knows how to pitch an emotion so the camera just catches it. Chéreau, a distinguished director for the stage as well as for film - Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and Intimacy being his movies that are best-known in North America - sets the debate of Jean and Gabrielle as a battle between theater (declaiming speeches) and film (imparting emotions...
...Best Post-Festival Conspiracy Theory: The gay-Mafia rumor. Though Lars Von Trier's Dogville was deemed front-runner for the Palme d'Or, Gus Van Sant's Elephant took the prize. So the festival did end with the an openly homosexual French director (jury president Patrice Chéreau) presenting the award to an openly homosexual American director (Van Sant). But Chéreau was just one of nine jury members, all with their own wills and constituencies. If Dogville had won, theorists might have seen sinister connections between its star, Nicole Kidman, and jury member Meg Ryan...
...included Gerard Dépardieu, Isabella Rossellini and John Malkovich. Next February, popular French actor Antoine de Caunes will make his directing debut with the release of Monsieur N. , a historical thriller about the final years of Napoleon's life. Later in 2003, award-winning director Patrice Chéreau will start production on a Napoleonic film with a script he wrote for Al Pacino, who will play the lead...