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Gard
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Gard is a department in southern France in the Occitanie region. The department is named after the River Gardon, and the Occitan name of the river has been replacing the French name of the department in recent decades, see also, History of Gard The Gard area was settled by the Romans in classical times. It was crossed by the Via Domitia, which was constructed in 118 BC, Gard is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4,1790. It was created from the ancient province of Languedoc, in return, Gard received from Hérault the fishing port of Aigues Mortes which gave the department its own outlet to the Gulf of Lion. Gard is part of the region of Occitanie and is surrounded by the departments of Hérault, Lozère, Aveyron, Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse, the highest point in the department is the Mont Aigoual. Serious flooding has occurred in the department in recent years, the President of the General Council is Denis Bouad of the Socialist Party. The incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement party received 24. 86% of the vote, the inhabitants of Gard are called Gardois. There are important Roman architectural remains in Nîmes, as well as the famous Roman aqueduct, Gard is also home to the source of Perrier, a carbonated mineral water sold both in France and internationally on a large scale. The spring and facility are located just south-east of the commune of Vergèze, prefecture website General Council website Welcome to the Gard Welcome to the Gard The Regordane Way or St Gilles Trail Map of the department Guide Gard
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Prefecture building of the Gard department, in Nîmes
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Signpost welcoming travellers into the Gard, at
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Arena of Nîmes
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Languedoc-Roussillon
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Languedoc-Roussillon is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Occitanie and it is the southernmost region of mainland France. The region is made up of the historical provinces,68. The former province of Languedoc also extends over what is now the Midi-Pyrénées region,17. 9% of Languedoc-Roussillon was formerly the province of Gévaudan, now the department of Lozère. A small part of the former Gévaudan lies inside the current Auvergne region, Gévaudan is often considered to be a sub-province inside the province of Languedoc, in which case Languedoc would account for 86. 6% of Languedoc-Roussillon. These pays were part of the Ancien Régime province of Roussillon, owning its name to the largest and most populous of the five pays, llívia is a town of Cerdanya, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain, that forms a Spanish exclave surrounded by French territory. At the regional elections in March 2004, the socialist mayor of Montpellier Georges Frêche, since then, Georges Frêche has embarked on a complete overhaul of the region and its institutions. Georges Frêche also wanted to change the name of the region, wishing to erase its duality, thus, he wanted to rename the region Septimanie. This name, however, has not been in use since the 9th century, strong opposition of the population led to Georges Frêche giving up on his idea. He declared that he believed in it but could not go ahead without a mandate. This idea has minimal popular support, on the other hand, there are some who would like to merge the Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées regions, thus reunifying the old province of Languedoc, and creating a large region. Prior to the 20th century, Occitan was the language spoken in Languedoc, both have been under pressure from French. In 2004, research conducted by the Government of Catalonia showed that 65% of adults over the age of 15 in Roussilon could understand Catalan whereas 37% stated they were able to speak it. In recent years there have been attempts at reviving of both languages, including Catalan-medium schooling through the La Bressola schools, Occitan literature — still sometimes called Provençal literature — is a body of texts written in Occitan in what is nowadays the South of France. It originated in the poetry of the eleventh- and twelfth- century troubadours, aimeric de Peguilhan, Giraut de Bornelh and Bertran de Born were major influences in troubadour composition, in the High Middle Ages. The troubadour tradition is considered to have originated in the region, the Romantic music composer Déodat de Séverac was born in the region, and, following his schooling in Paris, returned to the region to compose. He sought to incorporate the music indigenous to the area in his compositions, grapevines are said to have existed in the South of France since the Pliocene period - before the existence of Homo sapiens. The first vineyards of Gaul developed around two towns, Béziers and Narbonne, several entrepreneurs such as Robert Skalli and James Herrick drastically changed the face of the region, planting more commercially viable grape varieties and pushing for new AOC classifications
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Landscape in
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Landscape in
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Pont du Gard aqueduct near
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French New Wave
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The New Wave is a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s. New Wave is an example of European art cinema, using portable equipment and requiring little or no set up time, the New Wave way of filmmaking presented a documentary style. The films exhibited direct sounds on film stock that required less light, filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of realism, subjective realism, and authorial commentary created a narrative ambiguity in the sense that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end. This is why I would like to call this new age of cinema the age of the camera-stylo, Cahiers co-founder and theorist André Bazin was a prominent source of influence for the movement. By means of criticism and editorialization, they laid the groundwork for a set of concepts, revolutionary at the time, Cahiers du cinéma writers critiqued the classic Tradition of Quality style of French Cinema. Notable among these was François Truffaut in his manifesto-like article Une Certaine tendance du cinéma français, Bazin and Henri Langlois, founder and curator of the Cinémathèque Française, were the dual father figures of the movement. These men of cinema valued the expression of the personal vision in both the films style and script. The auteur theory holds that the director is the author of his movies, the beginning of the New Wave was to some extent an exercise by the Cahiers writers in applying this philosophy to the world by directing movies themselves. Apart from the role that films by Jean Rouch have played in the movement, part of their technique was to portray characters not readily labeled as protagonists in the classic sense of audience identification. The auteurs of this era owe their popularity to the support they received with their youthful audience, most of these directors were born in the 1930s and grew up in Paris, relating to how their viewers might be experiencing life. With high concentration in fashion, urban life, and all-night parties. The French New Wave was popular roughly between 1958 and 1964, although New Wave work existed as late as 1973, the socio-economic forces at play shortly after World War II strongly influenced the movement. Politically and financially drained, France tended to back on the old popular pre-war traditions. One such tradition was straight narrative cinema, specifically classical French film, the movement has its roots in rebellion against the reliance on past forms, criticizing in particular the way these forms could force the audience to submit to a dictatorial plot-line. They were especially against the French cinema of quality, the type of high-minded, literary period films held in esteem at French film festivals, New Wave critics and directors studied the work of western classics and applied new avant garde stylistic direction. The low-budget approach helped filmmakers get at the art form and find what was, to them. French New Wave is influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema, many of these directors, such as Edmond Agabra and Henri Zaphiratos, were not as successful or enduring at the well-known members of the New Wave and today would not be considered part of it
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Jean-Luc Godard 's New Wave film
À bout de souffle / Breathless (1960)
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Cover of The New York Times (November 15, 2012), with the headline story reporting on
Operation Pillar of Defense.
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First published issue of New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851.
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The Times Square Building, The New York Times ' publishing headquarters, 1913–2007
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The New York Times newsroom, 1942
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Nouvelle Vague
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The New Wave is a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s. New Wave is an example of European art cinema, using portable equipment and requiring little or no set up time, the New Wave way of filmmaking presented a documentary style. The films exhibited direct sounds on film stock that required less light, filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of realism, subjective realism, and authorial commentary created a narrative ambiguity in the sense that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end. This is why I would like to call this new age of cinema the age of the camera-stylo, Cahiers co-founder and theorist André Bazin was a prominent source of influence for the movement. By means of criticism and editorialization, they laid the groundwork for a set of concepts, revolutionary at the time, Cahiers du cinéma writers critiqued the classic Tradition of Quality style of French Cinema. Notable among these was François Truffaut in his manifesto-like article Une Certaine tendance du cinéma français, Bazin and Henri Langlois, founder and curator of the Cinémathèque Française, were the dual father figures of the movement. These men of cinema valued the expression of the personal vision in both the films style and script. The auteur theory holds that the director is the author of his movies, the beginning of the New Wave was to some extent an exercise by the Cahiers writers in applying this philosophy to the world by directing movies themselves. Apart from the role that films by Jean Rouch have played in the movement, part of their technique was to portray characters not readily labeled as protagonists in the classic sense of audience identification. The auteurs of this era owe their popularity to the support they received with their youthful audience, most of these directors were born in the 1930s and grew up in Paris, relating to how their viewers might be experiencing life. With high concentration in fashion, urban life, and all-night parties. The French New Wave was popular roughly between 1958 and 1964, although New Wave work existed as late as 1973, the socio-economic forces at play shortly after World War II strongly influenced the movement. Politically and financially drained, France tended to back on the old popular pre-war traditions. One such tradition was straight narrative cinema, specifically classical French film, the movement has its roots in rebellion against the reliance on past forms, criticizing in particular the way these forms could force the audience to submit to a dictatorial plot-line. They were especially against the French cinema of quality, the type of high-minded, literary period films held in esteem at French film festivals, New Wave critics and directors studied the work of western classics and applied new avant garde stylistic direction. The low-budget approach helped filmmakers get at the art form and find what was, to them. French New Wave is influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema, many of these directors, such as Edmond Agabra and Henri Zaphiratos, were not as successful or enduring at the well-known members of the New Wave and today would not be considered part of it
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Jean-Luc Godard 's New Wave film
À bout de souffle / Breathless (1960)
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Claude Chabrol
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Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Chabrols career began with Le Beau Serge, inspired by Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt, thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches, La Femme infidèle, and Le Boucher – all featuring Stéphane Audran, sometimes characterized as a mainstream New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière, on the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary and La Cérémonie. Some of his films become almost private jokes, made to amuse himself. Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was born on 24 June 1930 to Yves Chabrol and Madeleine Delarbre in Sardent, France, Chabrol said that he always thought of himself as a country person, and never as a Parisian. Both Chabrols father and grandfather had been pharmacists, and Chabrol was expected to follow in the family business, but as a child, Chabrol was seized by the demon of cinema and ran a film club in a barn in Sardent between the ages of 12 and 14. At this time, he developed his passion for the genre, detective stories. After World War II, Chabrol moved to Paris to study pharmacology and literature at the Sorbonne, Some biographies also state that he briefly studied law and political science at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. After graduating, Chabrol served his military service in the French Medical Corps, serving in Germany. Chabrol has claimed that while in the army he worked as a film projectionist, after he was discharged from the army, he joined his friends as a staff writer for Cahiers du Cinéma, who were challenging then-contemporary French films and championing the concept of Auteur theory. He also wrote for Arts magazine during this period, among Chabrols most famous articles were Little Themes, a study of genre films, and The Evolution of Detective Films. In 1956 he helped finance Jacques Rivettes short film Le coup du berger, unlike all of his future New Wave contemporaries, Chabrol never made short film nor did he work as an assistant on other directors work before making his feature film debut. In 1957 Chabrol and Eric Rohmer co-wrote Hitchcock, a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film The Wrong Man. Chabrol had interviewed Hitchcock with François Truffaut in 1954 on the set of To Catch a Thief, years later, when Chabrol and Truffaut had both become successful directors themselves, Hitchcock told Truffaut that he always thought of them when he saw ice cubes in a glass of whiskey. The most prolific of the major New Wave directors, Chabrol averaged almost one film a year from 1958 until his death. In the mid-sixties it was difficult for Chabrol to obtain financing for films so he made a series of commercial potboilers and spy spoofs, Chabrol had married Agnès Goute in 1952 and in 1957 his wife inherited a large sum of money from relatives. In December of that year Chabrol used the money to make his directorial debut with Le Beau Serge. Chabrol spent three months shooting in his hometown of Sardent using a crew and little known actors
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Chabrol in 2008
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Chabrol's grave at
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An Impudent Girl
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An Impudent Girl is a 1985 French film directed by Claude Miller. It stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, who won the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and Bernadette Lafont and it is a free adaptation of the novel Frankie Addams. The film won the Louis Delluc Prize, and received César nominations for Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actor, Best Writing, Best Costume Design and Best Sound. Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood and she has been raised without a mother, and lives with her crass brother and her father, whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old pest she would like to be rid of, Charlotte is bored and dreams of a better life, and her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist from the other side of the tracks, whom she admires. Charlotte wants to be friends with Clara, whom she sees as her ticket out of the area, while the sophisticated Clara jokingly suggests that Charlotte should become her manager. Miller, Im fascinated by those violent passions that make you ready to cut your throat for something you believe in, passions that, in An Impudent Girl though the conflict is much less violent than the humiliation and hurt of The Best Way to Walk. The main character out of it very well, in fact its certainly my most optimistic film. I wasnt trying to show a terrible drama, just one of those events which happen to all adolescents. Im the proof because I still remember those tiny episodes that ended up affecting me more deeply than I ever realised at the time, the film was a loose adaptation of the novel Frankie Addams by Carson McCullers, although that is uncredited. Miller, It isnt a direct adaptation, there were just enough elements from the book for us to apply for the rights. First of all the Americans who owned them took ages to reply, then they wanted a huge sum of money, almost as much as the cost of the film. Two weeks before shooting was scheduled to begin, the rights had not been secured, Miller decided to go ahead and make the movie anyway. Now were negotiating to pay a percentage, he said in 1986. Fortunately the film has been a hit, Miller cast Gainsbourg after seeing her in the film Paroles et Musiques. He approached her parents for permission to cast her and it helped the marketability of the movie because, as Miller says, Charlotte was in a way already a star because of her parents - people went to see her out of curiosity. The Guardian said it was one of Millers best films since The Best Way to Walk, the film was a success at the box office. Miller later made The Little Thief with Gainsbourg, an Impudent Girl at the Internet Movie Database LEffrontée at AllMovie Review of film at Time Out Magazine
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Cannes Film Festival
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Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+ Pierre Lescure took over as President of the festival, the Board of Directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the festival. The 2016 Cannes Film Festival took place between 11 and 22 May 2016, australian film director George Miller was the President of the Jury. I, Daniel Blake, directed by British director Ken Loach, in 2017, The Festival de Cannes will celebrate its 70th anniversary edition from May 17 to 28. In 1947, the festival was held as the Festival du film de Cannes, at that time the principle of equality was introduced, with a jury made up of only one representative per country. The festival is now held at the Palais des Festivals, expressly constructed for the occasion, although for its 1949 inaugural the roof was unfinished, the festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. Although its origins may be attributed in part to the French desire to compete with Autumns Venice Film Festival, in 1955, the Palme dOr was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Rio was the first female member of the jury as a Sélection officielle – Member, in 1959, the Marché du Film was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has become the first international platform for film commerce, in 1962, the International Critics Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors all over the world. In 1965, an hommage was paid to Jean Cocteau after his death, the next year, Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the festival. The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May, some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. The filmmakers achieved the reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors Society that same year, during the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President and he immediately introduced an important change in the selection of the participating films. Until that date, the different countries chose which films would represent them in the festival, Bessy created one committee to select French films, and another for foreign films. In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the President position, introducing the Caméra dOr award, in 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the Festival. It was nicknamed The Bunker and provoked many reactions against it, in 1984, Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as President of the Festival. It was not until 1995 that Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection and its aim was to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities
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Stars posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore.
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Palme d'Or awarded to
Apocalypse Now at the
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Legion of Honor
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The Legion of Honour, full name National Order of the Legion of Honour, is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction, Chevalier, Officier, Commandeur, Grand Officier and Grand-Croix. The orders motto is Honneur et Patrie and its seat is the Palais de la Légion dHonneur next to the Musée dOrsay, in the French Revolution, all French orders of chivalry were abolished, and replaced with Weapons of Honour. The Légion however did use the organization of old French orders of chivalry, the badges of the legion also bear a resemblance to the Ordre de Saint-Louis, which also used a red ribbon. Napoleon originally created this to ensure political loyalty, the organization would be used as a facade to give political favours, gifts, and concessions. The Légion was loosely patterned after a Roman legion, with legionaries, officers, commanders, regional cohorts, the highest rank was not a grand cross but a Grand Aigle, a rank that wore all the insignia common to grand crosses. The members were paid, the highest of them extremely generously,5,000 francs to an officier,2,000 francs to a commandeur,1,000 francs to an officier,250 francs to a légionnaire. Napoleon famously declared, You call these baubles, well, it is with baubles that men are led, do you think that you would be able to make men fight by reasoning. That is good only for the scholar in his study, the soldier needs glory, distinctions, rewards. This has been quoted as It is with such baubles that men are led. The order was the first modern order of merit, under the monarchy, such orders were often limited to Roman Catholics, and all knights had to be noblemen. The military decorations were the perks of the officers, the Légion, however, was open to men of all ranks and professions—only merit or bravery counted. The new legionnaire had to be sworn in the Légion and it is noteworthy that all previous orders were crosses or shared a clear Christian background, whereas the Légion is a secular institution. The jewel of the Légion has five arms, in a decree issued on the 10 Pluviôse XIII, a grand decoration was instituted. This decoration, a cross on a sash and a silver star with an eagle, symbol of the Napoleonic Empire, became known as the Grand Aigle. After Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French in 1804 and established the Napoleonic nobility in 1808, the title was made hereditary after three generations of grantees. Napoleon had dispensed 15 golden collars of the legion among his family and this collar was abolished in 1815. The Légion dhonneur was prominent and visible in the French Empire, the Emperor always wore it and the fashion of the time allowed for decorations to be worn most of the time
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Medal worn by a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur
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A depiction of Napoleon making some of the first awards of the Légion d'honneur, at a camp near
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First Légion d'Honneur investiture, 15 July 1804, at
Saint-Louis des Invalides by
Jean-Baptiste Debret (1812)
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Paulette (film)
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Paulette is a 2012 French comedy crime film directed by Jérôme Enrico. He wrote the script in cooperation with Bianca Olsen, Laurie Aubanel and it has been said the plot was based on true events. Paulette and her husband had a brasserie. Now the xenophobic old lady lives alone in a banlieue and her pension is too small to get along, in the course of a sequestration most of her furniture and also her TV set are seized. Moreover, the landline is cut off because of overdue bills, Paulette is desperate to earn money somehow and she hears there is much money to be made in dealing cannabis. She visits a known criminal named Vito in her area and asks him for work and he commissions her eventually to sell his cannabis. Yet the other dealers dont put up with her unexpected success and they beat her up and rob her. Again she is desperate because she has to deliver a certain amount of money to Vito, instead of just distributing sheer cannabis she starts to sell cakes and biscuits spiced with cannabis. Soon there is a demand for her elaborate pastries. Vitos boss gets enthusiastic about her success and plans to sell her biscuits to pupils, when she refuses to support this idea, the villain kidnaps Paulettes grandson. She starts a spectacular attempt to free him but in the end it is her son-in-law Ousmane who saves the day, finally she leaves France and opens a cannabis coffee shop in Amsterdam, hereby becoming herself the kind of person she used to dislike, an emigrant. Carola Almsinck wrote on the occasion of the German release Paulette was a very French film, Paulette at the Internet Movie Database Paulette at AllMovie Paulette at Rotten Tomatoes
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Pauline Lafont
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Pauline Lafont was a French actress. She was the daughter of film star Bernadette Lafont and Diourka Medveczky, born Pauline Aïda Simone Medveczky in Nîmes, France, she died in a hiking accident in Barre-des-Cévennes, Lozère, France. Three months and ten days after she had set out, her body was found by a farmer at the foot of a cliff. Investigators determined she had more than ten metres and died instantly. Prior to the discovery of her body, her disappearance had triggered several rumours regarding her whereabouts, vincent mit lâne dans un pré, directed by Pierre Zucca Les Planqués du régiment, directed by Michel Caputo Vive les femmes
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Le Beau Serge
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Le Beau Serge is a French film directed by Claude Chabrol, released in 1958. It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, the film is often compared with Chabrols subsequent film Les Cousins, which also features Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain. François, a successful yet sickly young man, returns to his home town Sardent after a long absence and he finds his friend Serge who has become a wretched alcoholic, unsatisfied with his life in the village. Serge had hoped to leave the village to study, but had to stay to marry Yvonne after she was pregnant, the death of their stillborn child did not help. At the time of arrival of François, Yvonne is again pregnant, François finds himself on the one hand at odds with the provincial village life and on the other hand compelled to help Serge. The fact that they are entangled in affairs with Marie makes things more complicated. At the end, the birth of Serge and Yvonnes second child seems to provide a possibility of success. He chose instead to shoot in Sardent, a village where his mother lived before moving to Paris, the film was shot over nine weeks in the winter of 1957-8 on a budget of 32 million old francs. It was financed from his first wifes inheritance, the film initially ran to 2 hours and 35 minutes, though Chabrol cut a great deal of quasi-documentary material to reduce the running time, a decision he later regretted. Le Beau Serge at the Internet Movie Database
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Web of Passion
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Web of Passion is a 1959 French suspense thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel The Key to Nicholas Street by American writer Stanley Ellin. It was Chabrols first film in the genre, which would be his genre of choice for the rest of his career. The film had a total of 1,445,587 admissions in France, Leda, the mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcouxs daughters fiance suspects that Leda may have been murdered by someone else, web of Passion at the Internet Movie Database Film page at Le Film Guide
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Compartiment tueurs
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The Sleeping Car Murder is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner and this film was the first movie for Costa-Gavras, to be followed later by other, more politically serious work. Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris, when the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, however, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before become the next victims
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Compartiment tueurs
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Constantin Costa-Gavras
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Costa-Gavras is a Greek-French film director and producer, who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller Z. Most of his movies have made in French, however, six were made in English, Missing, Hanna K. Betrayed, Music Box, Mad City. He produces most of his films himself, through his production company K. G. Productions, Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese and his father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. In 1956, he left his university studies to film at the French national film school. After film school, he apprenticed under Yves Allégret, and became an assistant director for Jean Giono, after several further positions as first assistant director, he directed his first feature film, Compartiment Tueurs, in 1965. His 1967 film Shock Troops was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival, the film is a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963. It had additional resonance because, at the time of its release, Z won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Costa-Gavras and co-writer Jorge Semprún won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Film Screenplay, LAveu follows the path of Artur London, a Czechoslovakian communist minister falsely arrested and tried for treason and espionage in the Slánský show trial in 1952. State of Siege takes place in Uruguay under a government in the early 1970s. Hormans father, played by Jack Lemmon, and wife, played by Sissy Spacek, search in vain to determine his fate. Nathaniel Davis, US ambassador to Chile from 1971–1973, a version of character had been portrayed in the movie, filed a US$150 million libel suit. 1372, against the studio and the director, which was eventually dismissed, the film won an Oscar for Best Screenplay Adaptation and the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival. Betrayed, roughly based upon the terrorist activities of American neo-Nazi and white supremacist Robert Mathews, in Music Box, a respected Hungarian immigrant is accused of having commanded an Anti-Semitic death squad during World War II. His daughter, a Chicago defense attorney played by Jessica Lange, the film is inspired by the arrest and trial of Ukrainian immigrant John Demjanjuk and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas realization that his father had been a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival, La Petite Apocalypse was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Amen. was based in part on the highly controversial 1963 play, ein christliches Trauerspiel, by Rolf Hochhuth
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Costa-Gavras at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Costa-Gavras in April 2008, during the filming of
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Georges Lautner
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Georges Lautner was a French film director and screenwriter. He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr, cest une valse 1973, La Valise 1973, Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles 1974, Les Seins de glace 1975, Pas de problème. 1976, On aura tout vu 1977, Death of a Corrupt Man 1978, Ils sont fous ces sorciers 1979, Cop or Hood 1980, Le Guignolo 1981 and this comics has been recently adapted for the screen by SystemD Productions. Media related to Georges Lautner at Wikimedia Commons Georges Lautner at the Internet Movie Database
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Lautner at the
2011 Cannes Film Festival
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Georges Lautner in 1966
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The Thief of Paris
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The Thief of Paris is a 1967 French crime film directed by Louis Malle and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a professional thief at the turn of the century in Paris. The film is based on a book of the title by Georges Darien. The story centers on his burglaries as well as his relationship with his cousin Charlotte. It also features other well-known French actors including Marie Dubois, Charles Denner, the film had 1,225,555 admissions in France. It was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival, in the opening scene, Georges Randal, the thief of the title, breaks into a big house and begins to steal the valuable objects on display. A series of flashbacks then narrates the story of Randals life, an orphan, he is raised by his uncle along with his cousin Charlotte, who grows into an attractive young woman with whom he falls in love. When Georges reaches twenty-one and asks for the money his parents left him and he is rejected as a suitor for Charlotte because he is poor. She is then betrothed by her father to a dim-witted aristocrat. Georges steals the family jewels and from then on, motivated by a sense of justice and desire for revenge, follows a successful career as a gentleman thief. Charlotte says to him You dont need to steal any more and it is apparent that he has a compulsion to go on, knowing that he will eventually be caught. The final scene shows him boarding the train back to Paris with the haul from his latest robbery, the Thief of Paris at the Internet Movie Database The Thief of Paris at Le Film Guide The Thief of Paris at Rotten Tomatoes
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American poster for The Thief of Paris
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Louis Malle
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Louis Marie Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was later nominated multiple times for Academy Awards later in his career, Malle is also one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times. Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood, and he produced both French and English language films, Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France, the son of Francoise and Pierre Malle. He initially studied political science at Sciences Po before turning to studies at IDHEC instead. He assisted Robert Bresson on A Man Escaped before making his first feature, a taut thriller featuring an original score by Miles Davis, Ascenseur pour léchafaud made an international film star of Jeanne Moreau, at the time a leading stage actress of the Comédie-Française. Malles The Lovers, which also starred Moreau, caused controversy due to its sexual content. In Jacobellis v. Ohio, an owner was fined $2,500 for obscenity. The decision was reversed by the higher court, which found that the film was not obscene. Malle is sometimes associated with the nouvelle vague movement, the second film earned Malle his first Academy Award nominations for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced. In 1968 Malle visited India and made a documentary series LInde fantôme, Reflexions sur un voyage and a documentary film Calcutta. Malle later claimed his documentary on India was his favorite film, Malle later moved to the United States and continued to direct there. His later films include Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, My Dinner with Andre, Crackers, Alamo Bay, Damage and Vanya on 42nd Street in English, Au revoir les enfants and Milou en Mai in French. Just as his films such as The Lovers helped popularize French films in the United States. Towards the end of his life, Malle was interviewed extensively for The Times by cultural correspondent Melinda Camber Porter, in 1993, the interviews were included in Camber Porters book Through Parisian Eyes, Reflections On Contemporary French Arts And Culture. Malle was married to Anne-Marie Deschodt from 1965 to 1967 and he had a son, Manuel Cuotemoc Malle with German actress Gila von Weitershausen and a daughter, filmmaker Justine Malle, with Canadian actress Alexandra Stewart. He married actress Candice Bergen in 1980 and they had one child, a daughter, Chloe Francoise Malle, on 8 November 1985. He died from lymphoma at their home in Beverly Hills, California, at 63 on Thanksgiving Day 23 November 1995
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Louis Malle
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Philippe Garrel
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Philippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and producer, associated with New Wave movement. His films have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, Philippe Garrel was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1948, the son of actor Maurice Garrel and his wife. His brother, Thierry Garrel, is a producer, the younger Garrel became interested in film and started his career early, influenced by the new work of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. At the age of 16, Garrel wrote and directed his first film, Les Enfants Désaccordés, in 1982, Garrel won the Prix Jean Vigo for the film LEnfant Secret. He won Perspectives du Cinéma Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 for his 1983 film Liberté, over a ten-year period, Garrel enjoyed a good run of critical recognition at the Venice Film Festival. In 1991, he won a Silver Lion for his film Jentends Plus la Guitare, Le vent de la nuit was nominated for a Golden Lion in 1999. Two years later, Sauvage Innocence was nominated for a Golden Lion and won the FIPRESCI Prize and his 2005 film, Les Amants Réguliers, won him the Silver Lion, for Best Director. Garrel met German singer and actress Nico in 1969 when she performed the song The Falconer for his film Le Lit de la Vierge, the couple soon started living together. He first cast Nico in his 1972 film La Cicatrice Intérieure, songs from the soundtrack were included in Nicos album Desertshore, which featured stills from the film on the front and back covers. Nico was featured in a number of Garrels films after this and their ten-year relationship ended in 1979. Garrel and actress Brigitte Sy are the parents of actors Louis Garrel and he is married to actress-writer Caroline Deruas. Philippe Garrel, Senses Of Cinema website Philippe Garrel, Strictly Film School Philippe Garrel, New York Times movie entry Interview Philippe Garrel at the Internet Movie Database
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Philippe Garrel in 2008
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A curious girl
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A Very Curious Girl is a 1969 French comedy-drama film directed, edited and co-written by Nelly Kaplan. Other English titles are Dirty Mary and Pirates Fiancée, Marie is a young woman who lives in sheer poverty in the fictional village and commune of Tellier with her mother, a woman of obscure origins suspected to be a Romanichel sorcerer, and her pet buck. Marie and her mother are despised by the locals although Marie is also an object for them. One day, when her mother dies after a hit-and-run accident, eventually, she plans to take revenge on those people who take advantage of her. The website filmfanatic. org put this film into the category Foreign Gem, the Guardian mentions A curious girl in her obituary and states Lafonts performance had been brilliant. A Very Curious Girl at the Internet Movie Database A Very Curious Girl at the TCM Movie Database A Very Curious Girl at AllMovie
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A Very Curious Girl
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Nelly Kaplan
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Nelly Kaplan is an Argentine-born French writer who focuses on the arts, film and filmmakers. She studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires and she met Abel Gance in 1954, who gave her the opportunity to work on the film La tour de Nesle. She became his assistant during the film and showed the program Magirama in Polyvision, then, still at Abel Gances side and he trusted her with the direction of all the second crews action scenes during the filming of his movie Cyrano et dArtagnan. Meanwhile, she published her work about Magirama under the name Le Manifeste dun art nouveau, in 1960, she published a film report entitled Le Sunlight of Austerlitz, through the Plon publishing house. Starting in 1961, she directed a series of art shorts. Nelly Kaplan was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a Russian-Jewish family, a neo-surrealist, she is the only female film maker linked with surrealism. Kaplan left for France at the age of 17 and she served as a professor and lecturer at Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques. While Kaplans films have been marketed as soft-core pornography, her works are often female-centered and her films have been shown at numerous international festivals and distributed on every continent. As a member of the SACD, she has part in the board of directors as a member of the Cinema Commission on several occasions. Kaplan collaborates regularly on the show Des Papous dans la Tête and she has assured the chronicle on cinema for 25 years in the magazine Littéraire. Kaplan is Commander of the Arts and Letters, Officer in the National Merite Order, Cavalier of the Legion of Honor, in 1965, under the pen-name of Belen, she published a collection of short stories through the J. J. Le réservoir des sens, was a critical and popular success. In 1968, she collaborated with Claude Makovski on the script for the movie La Fiancée du Pirate, in collaboration with Claude Makovski and René Guyonnet, she wrote the adaptation of Papa, les Petits Bateaux. Which she filmed during the summer of 1971, in 1972 she published Le Collier de Ptyx, a ciné-roman, and in 1974 Un Manteau de Fou-rire ou les Mémoire dune Liseuse de Draps. The book presented problems with a prudish censure, in 1974, Kaplan co-wrote the script of Claude Makovskis film Il Faut Vivre Dangereusement, which she also produced. In 1976, she wrote with Jean Chapot the script for Néa, in 1979, she co-wrote Charles et Lucie with Jean Chapot and Claude Makovski, which she shot in spring of the same year. In 1980-1982, she co-wrote scripts for several TV movies directed by Jean Chapot, including Un fait dhiver, Livingstone, in 1983, she wrote and directed Abel Gance et son Napoleon. This film was selected for the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, official selection Un Certain Regard, in 1984 she co-wrote the script for Regard dans un Miroir, directed by Jean Chapot
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Nelly Kaplan (2009)
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Out 1
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Out 1, also referred to as Out 1, Noli Me Tangere, is a 1971 film directed by Jacques Rivette. It is indebted to Honoré de Balzacs La Comédie humaine, particularly the History of the Thirteen collection, known for its length of nearly 13 hours, the film is divided into eight parts around 90–100 minutes each. The films experimentation with parallel subplots was influenced by Andre Cayattes two-part Anatomy of a Marriage, Out 1 received 13 votes in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics poll of the greatest films ever made, resulting in a final ranking of 127th. When asked why the film is called Out 1, Rivette responded, I chose Out as the opposite of the word in, which had caught on in France. The action of the film is rather like a serial which could continue through several episodes, other featured characters include Emilie, who runs a local hangout under the name Pauline and whose husband, Igor, has been missing for six months. The plot gradually develops when Colin receives three mysterious messages in quick succession containing cryptic references to the Thirteen and to Lewis Carrolls The Hunting of the Snark and he quickly connects this to Balzac and begins a quixotic quest to uncover what the messages mean and who the Thirteen are. Only Emilie buys the letters, but only because they refer to her husband and it turns out that Thomass block was largely due to his break-up with Lili after being with her personally and professionally for seven years. Thomas also is revealed to be a key member of the Thirteen, ironically, a chance encounter between Colin and Thomas motivates the latter to suggest reviving the Thirteen to Etienne, who is reluctant because the group never really did anything to begin with. One of the correspondents in Etiennes letters, Pierre, is frequently discussed but never seen. After seeing him associate with a gang, she draws a gun on him. Her dilemma is solved at the end, when she receives a call from Igor telling her to him in Paris. She and Lili set off for Paris, Thomas remains behind on the beach at the Obade with two of his actors and has a drunken hysterical episode there, when he pretends to collapse on the sand. His actors are worried and frantically try to revive him, when he reveals his jest, they walk away in disgust and get in the car to go back to Paris. Thomas is left alone on the beach, crying and laughing at the time, stranded at the Obade and for the first time in the film. The film then cuts to a completely unrelated shot of Marie, an actress from the Thebes group who still seems to be searching for the missing Renaud. A golden statute of a Greek goddess, perhaps Athena, towers above her, the shot is held for a second before fading out. Achille, Actor in Prometheus Bound troupe, accompanies Thomas and Rose to the Obade at the end of the film. Arsenal, Actor in Seven Against Thebes troupe, vaguely knew Renaud and introduced him to the rest of the group
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The title card to Out 1
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Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me
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Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me also known as A Gorgeous Bird Like Me, is a 1972 French film directed by François Truffaut, starring Bernadette Lafont. It is based on Henry Farrells 1967 novel of the same name, Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets Camille Bliss in prison to interview her, Camille is accused of having murdered her lover Arthur and her father. She tells Stanislas about her life and her love affairs, Stanislas, much to the frustration of his secretary, who also has a crush on him, soon falls in love with Camille and works to find the evidence to prove her innocent. His secretary tries to convince the sociologist that Camille is a manipulative slut, through investigation the sociologist and his secretary find a young boy, an amateur filmmaker, who has captured the evidence they need on film to secure Camilles release from prison. Once free, Camille, who has always loved music and has seduced the cabaret singer Sam Golden earlier in the film, becomes a cause célèbre, Stanislas meets her after a performance and she seduces him at her home, But her husband discovers them and beats him up. Camille kills her husband and then plants the gun on her passed out paramour, when Stanislas is imprisoned for murder, Camille will do nothing to help the man who once freed her. Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me at the Internet Movie Database
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Theatrical release poster
