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A classically trained performer who has appeared in films by Jacques Demy, Claude Lelouch and Alexandre Arcady, Berry is best known in the US for two starring roles opposite Nathalie Baye; in Bob Swaim's crime ...
The French adore American crime movies and crime novels, although they often feel compelled to convert pulp into existentialism.
A former dancer who began her film career as the woman Peter Fonda has a brief affair with in "Two People" , Nathalie Baye enjoyed her first brush with fame as Francois Truffaut's script girl assistant in the ...
Xavier Beauvois's new French policier Le Petit Lieutenant conscientiously eschews virtually everything we've come to expect from the genre: high-concept crimes, formidable villains, bitter Bogartian heroes, ...
Sixth Paris Cinema Fest kicks off
The Paris Cinema International Film Festival will kick off its sixth edition Tuesday with a series of public and professional events set to illuminate the French capital during the 12-day film fete.
Highlights of Festival Paris Cinema
French actress Nathalie Baye will be honored by a 20 film retrospective, including a screening of her latest vehicle "God's Offices," directed by Claire Simon.
Besnehard takes rights to 'Grandmothers'
“I dream of casting Susan Sarandon in the role”
French superagent-turned-producer Dominique Besnehard has snagged the literary adaptation rights to Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing's "The Grandmothers." Besnehard's production shingle, Mon Voisin ... via Hollywood Reporter
Directors' Fortnight speaks fluent French
“We had a lot to choose from this year. I wanted to favor films with a certain urgency, audacity and beauty”
The Directors' Fortnight will have a decidedly Gallic flavor as it celebrates its 40th anniversary in Cannes this year, with more than half its 22 titles produced or co-produced by France and just one title ... via Hollywood Reporter
“In movies, people climax together, more or less. You know, sex in movies is either hell or heaven, but never between the two. In life, it's often between the two.”
"In movies, people climax together, more or less. You know, sex in movies is either hell or heaven, but never between the two. via DigitallyOBSESSED.com
Rendez-Vous market grows in 10th year
“The Rendez-Vous is no longer just a big market for finished films. It's become a rendez-vous for future projects as well -- script exchanges, discussions about the next films of certain directors -- that's very important.”
French cinema, and not its president, will be in the spotlight this weekend as the 10th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema unspools in Paris. via Hollywood Reporter
Film feast includes a batch from France
“Do you sleep with every woman you fancy?”
O pening Friday at Facets Cinematheque, the 11th Annual Festival of New French Cinema unveils new work featuring some of the most effortlessly charismatic performers in contemporary film, Nathalie Baye and ... via Chicago Tribune