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Puteaux
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Puteaux is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department 8.7 kilometres from the center of Paris, La Défense, Paris business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, spreads over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre. The inhabitants of Puteaux are called Putéoliens, the creation of the city dates from 1148, by Abbot Suger and gave him the name Putiauz. The foundation of Puteaux part of other towns in the region by Abbot Suger, as Carrières-sur-Seine, Vaucresson or Villeneuve-la-Garenne. This appeal was reinforced by certain privileges granted by the Abbot Suger, the name Putiauz comes from the old French Putel, which means a quagmire or swamp and was certainly making reference to the condition of the area before its reorganization. But another etymology exists, hence the name Puteaux would come from Latin puteoli, the name of Puteaux in turn appears to the sixteenth century or seventeenth century. Legend has it that Puteaux inspired the story of the gadfly from La Fontaine, located on the left bank of the river Seine, Puteaux borders Courbevoie to the north, Nanterre to the west and Suresnes to the south. In the east, Puteaux is connected to Paris by the bridge of Puteaux near Neuilly, the territory of the commune of Puteaux also includes the largest part of the Île de Puteaux, on the Seine. Within Puteaux several districts can be distinguished, the district Bas de Puteaux, located between the railway line and the Seine, is the oldest urbanized district. Notable in particular are the old church, the Théâtre des Hauts-de-Seine, the town hall, the town hall was built in 1934 and is a typical example of the architecture of this time. The boulevard Richard Wallace is the Champs-Élysées of Puteaux, the district La Défense is located in the north, separated by the circular boulevard. The district, developed since the end of the 1950s, is one of the business districts in Europe. It mainly consists of buildings, but some notable dwellings can be found within the district as well. Two thirds of the territory of La Défense is located within Puteaux, thus, the CNIT, the Arche de la Défense and the Quatre Temps shopping mall are in Puteaux. The district Île de Puteaux, on there are no dwellings besides some barges. A sporting complex, the Palais des sports, opened in July 2006, tour Pascal B in La Défense and in Puteaux has the head offices of the Bureau dEnquêtes sur les Événements de Mer and of the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea. The tax revenue of La Défense makes Puteaux one of the richest communes of France, Puteaux receives forty million euros per year coming from the companies within the district alone. Puteaux does not have a debt and its reserves, placed in Treasury bills
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Read My Lips (film)
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Read My Lips is a 2001 French film by Jacques Audiard, co-written with Tonino Benacquista. The film stars Vincent Cassel as Paul, an ex-con on parole, and Emmanuelle Devos as Carla, despite their different backgrounds and initial fear of each other, they end up intimately related and helping each other. The film is set partially in the offices and partially in the underworld of Paris. Carla, a lonely woman burdened by lack of respect from her co-workers and her friend, Annie. Carla is introduced immediately with a shot of her putting in her hearing aids, after she faints from exhaustion she accepts the bosss offer to hire an intern to lighten her load. The first applicant to be her assistant, Paul, is an ex-convict who is not technically qualified to be Carlas assistant, pauls affable nature and bad boy spirit relieve Carlas loneliness and open up new possibilities for her. She rebuffs his initial clumsy sexual advances, but gradually become a team, using creative. Paul convinces her to help him – by using her lip-reading skills – to rob Marchand, reluctant at first, Carla becomes more intrigued as problems arise. After Paul fails to find the money, Carla finds it in Marchands freezer, Marchand discovers the theft, thinks Paul stole the money, catches and beats him. Carla and Paul engineer his escape and the total success. As the movie ends, she instigates their making out for the first time in the car
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Jacques Audiard
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Jacques Audiard is a French film director and screenwriter, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director. His 2015 film Dheepan won the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and he began his screenwriting career in the 1980s with films including Réveillon chez Bob. and Mortelle randonnée, Baxter, Fréquence Meurtre and Saxo. In 1994 he directed Regarde les Hommes Tomber, a movie starring Mathieu Kassovitz. The film won the César Award for best first film and the Prix Georges-Sadoul, two years later he reunited with Kassovitz and Trintignant for Un Héros Très Discret – A Self-Made Hero in English, adapted from the novel by Jean-François Deniau. In 1996 A Self Made Hero won the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes, in 2002 Read My Lips was nominated for nine Césars and won three, for Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Sound. In 2015, his movie, Dheepan won the Palme dOr at Cannes. He has released music videos, among them Comme Elle Vient by Noir Désir in which all the actors were deaf-mute. The beginning of the created a minor scandal, it displayed three women discussing politics who come to the conclusion that it is better to be deaf than to listen to that
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2012 Cannes Film Festival
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The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 16 to 27 May 2012. Italian film director Nanni Moretti was the President of the Jury for the main competition, french actress Bérénice Bejo hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. The festival opened with the US film Moonrise Kingdom, directed by Wes Anderson, the main announcement of the line-up took place on 19 April. The official poster of the festival features Marilyn Monroe, to mark the 50th anniversary of her death, the Palme dOr was awarded to Austrian director Michael Haneke for his film Amour. Haneke previously won the Palme dOr in 2009 for The White Ribbon, the jury gave the Grand Prize to Matteo Garrones Reality, while Ken Loachs The Angels Share was awarded the Jury Prize. The official selection was announced on 19 April at Grand Hôtel in Paris, the festivals artistic leader Thierry Frémaux responded that people should not focus only on the competition films, The selection is an ensemble, you have to consider the whole package. The following entries were selected, out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 different schools, the following films were selected, Feature films Short films The line-up for the International Critics’ Week was announced on 23 April at the sections website. The following films were selected, Feature films Short and medium length films Special Screenings The following films were screened in the Cannes Classics section. The Hungarian montage film Final Cut, Ladies and Gentlemen, directed by György Pálfi, was selected as the film for the Cannes Classics section. Haneke previously won the award for The White Ribbon in 2009, Love tells the story of an elderly couple preparing for death. During his acceptance speech, the director said A very, very big thanks to my actors who have made this film and they are the essence of this film. Moretti said that none of the winners had been selected unanimously and he revealed that Holy Motors, Paradise, Love and Post Tenebras Lux were the entries that most had divided the jury
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Arnaud Desplechin
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Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director and screenwriter. He is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department and he has a brother named Fabrice who has acted in several of his films, and two sisters, novelist Marie Desplechin and screenwriter Raphaëlle Desplechin. Arnaud Desplechin studied film directing at the University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle then at the IDHEC and he made three short films inspired by the work of the Belgian novelist Jean Ray. During the late 1980s, Desplechin worked as a director of photography on several films, the 54-minute-long film won the Jean Vigo Prize for Short Films, and was shown at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Desplechins 1996 film My Sex Life, or How I Got Into an Argument was critically successful. In 2000, Desplechin made his first English-language film, Esther Kahn, adapted from a story by Arthur Symons. The film was seen as a homage to François Truffauts work because it deals with coming of age, the next year, he directed Kings and Queen, which mixed comedy and tragedy to tell the story of two ex-lovers played by Amalric and Devos. The film also starred Catherine Deneuve in the role of a psychiatrist, Kings and Queen was nominated for several awards and Amalric won the César Award for Best Actor. However, controversy arose when actress Marianne Denicourt, Desplechins ex-girlfriend, accused him of revealing elements of her life in the screenplay of Kings. In 2005, she published Mauvais génie, describing her relationship with a film director called Arnold Duplancher. In 2006 she unsuccessfully sued Desplechin, in 2007, Desplechin filmed LAimée, a documentary showing his father, his brother, and his nephews in the family house in Roubaix just before it was to be sold. That same year, he filmed the family drama A Christmas Tale, starring Deneuve, Amalric, Devos and this film was screened in competition at Cannes in 2008. His 2013 film Jimmy Picard was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival constituting his fifth film selected in the main competition, in 2014 he adapted Alexander Ostrovskys play The Forest. For the drama film My Golden Days, which he directed and co-wrote, Desplechin won the César Award and Lumières Award for Best Director, in 2016, he was a member of the main competition jury of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. La Vie des morts La Sentinelle My Sex Life, how I Got Into An Argument at The Auteurs Ryland Walker Knight on My Sex Life. and Kings and Queen at The House Next Door
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Artemisia (film)
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Artemisia is a 1997 French-German-Italian biographical film about Artemisia Gentileschi, the female Italian Baroque painter. The film was directed by Agnès Merlet, and stars Valentina Cervi, however, in the chauvinistic world of early-1600s Italy women are forbidden to paint human nudes or enter the Academy of Arts. Orazio allows his daughter to study in his studio—although he draws the line at letting her view nude males and she is direct and determined, and bribes the fisherman Fulvio with a kiss to let her observe his body and draw him. Artemisia seeks the tutelage of Agostino Tassi, her fathers collaborator in painting frescoes, Tassi is a man notorious for his night-time debauchery. The two hone their skills as artists, but they fall in love, and their relationship moves into the realm of physical pleasure. Artemisias father spots the couple making love and files a lawsuit against Tassi for rape, in the subsequent trial, Artemisias physical state is investigated by two nuns, and then she is tortured by thumbscrews. Nevertheless, even under torture, Artemisia denies being raped, Tassi himself, devastated by her plight, admits to raping her in order to stop her ordeal. Merlet said of her film, “I didn’t want to show her as a victim, however, In the transcript, Gentileschi describes the rape in graphic detail and states that Tassi continued to have sex with her. With the understanding that he would protect her honor by eventually wedding her, in the movie, by contrast, shes a willing partner in lust. During the trial, she says only that I love him, he loves me, in the movie, Gentileschi refuses to testify that she was raped, even under torture, a sacrifice that prompts a devastated Tassi to make a sham confession. Just as problematic, says Garrard, is the way the movie ascribes Gentileschis creative maturation to the influence of, of all people, the man whom history records as her assailant. At the same time, many inconvenient details -- most glaringly and they put up a website attacking the film as untruthful in presenting what they say was Artemisias rape by her teacher, Agostino Tassi. At the New York premiere screening of the film on April 28, Gloria Steinem and other women in the audience circulated a fact sheet prepared by Steinem and this intervention led Miramax to retract its claim that that film presents a true story. The rape trial records may be found in an appendix to Garrards book, Garrard interprets them one way, Greer interprets them differently, Merlet offers a third interpretation. No one wants to tell that story, if the central character emerges as a feminist heroine for flouting patriarchical taboos, she also happens to be a tantalizing sex kitten whose artistic curiosity smacks of voyeurism. As portrayed by Valentina Cervi, Artemisia is two different entities. One is a gorgeous early-17th-century Lolita, the other is a fearlessly ambitious teen-age prodigy who is so sure of her talent that she breaks the rules of female decorum and dares go where no nice woman of her time and station has gone before. These two Artemisias dont really fit together, but they make for a ripely sensuous portrait of the artist as a saucy and it lacks, however, detailed scenes showing drawings in the act of being created
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Nicole Garcia
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Nicole Garcia is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film Charlie Says was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and her film Going Away was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. She was the President of the Jury for the Caméra dOr section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and her eldest son, Frédéric Bélier-Garcia, is a theatre director and writer. From her relationship with Jean Rochefort, she has a second son, nicole Garcia at the Internet Movie Database
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Tonie Marshall
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Tonie Marshall is an actress, screenwriter, and film director. She explains how “in a practical sense, it’s complicated to have abandon into an arms and, at the same time. Marshall is the daughter of American actor William Marshall and French actress Micheline Presle, in 1994, her film Pas très catholique was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Venus Beauty Institute won the 2000 César Award for Best Film, in 2002 her film Au plus près du paradis was nominated for the Golden Lion Award as best film at the Venice Film Festival. Marshall is a signatory of the Free Roman Polanski Petition, Tonie Marshall at the Internet Movie Database Tonie Marshall at Allocine
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also spelled Bruni-Tedeschi, is an Italian-French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film A Castle in Italy was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. Like her younger sister, Carla Bruni, she has settled in France, the girls were raised bilingual, as their family moved to Paris in 1973, fearing kidnappings and, later, the terrorism of the Red Brigades. She holds dual Italian and French citizenship and her mother is Italian with French ancestry. Tedeschi had a relationship with the French actor Louis Garrel from 2007 to 2012, together they adopted a girl from Senegal in 2009. She also played a role in the short film Drugstore, as part of a French anti-drug awareness raising campaign Drug Scenes. She recently appeared in one episode of the TV series In Treatment and her debut film as a director, Its Easier for a Camel. won awards at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003 and at the Ankara Flying Broom Womens Film Festival in 2004. It was also awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film and it was also entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. In 2007, Bruni Tedeschi directed Actrices, which won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, valeria Bruni Tedeschi at the Internet Movie Database
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Kings and Queen
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Kings and Queen is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor, in addition, it was nominated for César awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Most Promising Actress and Best Writing. Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, while Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Elias has behavior problems caused by autism, noras present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has committed to a mental hospital. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped is a 2005 French film directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Romain Duris. It tells the story of Tom, a shady realtor torn between a life and his desire to become a concert pianist. The film premiered on 17 February 2005 at the Berlin Film Festival, the film was given limited Release to theaters in North America and grossed $1,023,424 and $10,988,397 worldwide. Intense young tough Thomas Seyr is a 28-year-old real estate broker involved in business deals. Thomas is born to this kind of work, his father, later, when he tries to enlist her help to watch over his father, she tells him they broke up due to Robert changing his attitude and she is aware of Toms backstabbing because Robert told her. Robert by this time is in danger from a Russian gangster, Minskov who scammed him out of 300,000 Euros, Tom chances upon his late mothers manager, his mother having been a concert pianist until she died 8 years previously. The manager remembers him playing something when he was 20 years old, the opportunity rapidly takes over Toms imagination, becoming an obsession. He finds a newly emigrated to France, virtuoso Miao Lin. She speaks only Chinese, Vietnamese and some English, but no French, Tom misses appointments and drops assignments while practicing piano around the clock, and having an affair with the wife of one of his promiscuous business partners. Finally Tom reaches the high standards of his teacher, but he falls apart at the audition and he goes to see his father only to find the apartment destroyed and his father murdered. Two years later, Tom tests a piano onstage and gives directions to the stage manager and he drives Miao Lin to the concert hall and parks the car, when he chances to see Minskov. He follows Minskov, and takes him by surprise waiting for an elevator and they fight in the stairwell, Minskov almost shooting Tom. Tom gains the hand and tries to use Minskovs own gun against him. Tom washes in the restroom and takes his seat in the hall, knuckles and shirt bloody. He is evidently Miao Lins manager and partner, fox Emmanuel Finkiel as Conservatory Professor The film is a remake of James Tobacks 1978 film Fingers, but it devotes more attention to the relationship between Tom and his piano teacher, Miao Lin. The idea that affection can blossom despite a language barrier is one which Jacques Audiard has raised before in Read My Lips. For the film, Duris learned to play his own piano sequences–most notably, Bachs Toccata in E minor, trained by his sister, pianist Caroline Duris, who performs on the soundtrack. The films French title comes from the lyrics of the Jacques Dutronc song La Fille du père Noël and it translates to English as My heart stopped beating
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La Moustache
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La Moustache is a French film from 2005, directed by Emmanuel Carrère and starring Vincent Lindon, and adapted from Carrères own novel. The film features music from Philip Glass, la Moustache opens with Marc Thiriez, a middle aged Parisian, taking a bath and asking his wife if he should shave off the moustache he has sported for most of his adult life. His wife, Agnès, wryly comments that she wouldnt recognize him without it, yet as she leaves, upon her return, Agnès is angry Marc did not let her in the door when she rang. Marc lies and says he broke his shoelace, in the car Marc asks his wife if she notices anything. She does not respond, wanting to know if he thinks she is dressed too sexy for the party. Later that evening, as the two visit their friends Serge and Nadia, Serge tells a story from his marriage to Agnès, how she was sneaky and refused to admit it. Frustrated that Serge and Nadia also do not notice that Marc has shaven his moustache, Marc fights with Agnès in the car as they return home. As they lie in bed that night, another fight over the moustache ensues as Agnès digs in her heels and tells Marc hes never had a moustache, Agnès phones Nadia and Nadia claims Marc has not had a moustache in fifteen years. Agnès takes a pill to sleep. Marc finds an album of pictures from their holiday in Bali. When he confronts Agnès with these pictures, she ignores him and changes the subject and she suggests Marc see a psychiatrist whom her friend François knew. Marc tries to make the best of his situation, but grows more paranoid and he smokes a cigarette and his co-worker tells him he is fool for starting up again. His wife is upset at the team and yells at the TV. She is upset when she finds Marc has taken up smoking again and they go out and Agnès insists on buying Marc a brightly patterned jacket. Agnès orders a cigarette at dinner, saying they will quit together again later and she says the moustache is different, and Marc asks her several times if she is sure he has a moustache in the photograph. She confirms this, which leaves Marc more baffled and he returns home early from work. Marc checks his answering machine to find a message from his father, Agnès friend Bruno calls and Marc tells him to stop kidding him about his moustache. Bruno assures Marc that Marc has not had a moustache in fifteen years, in the kitchen, he tells Agnès to call his parents and tell them that he wont be able to come to their house for dinner the next day
