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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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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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The French Kissers
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The French Kissers is a 2009 French teen film. Its original French title is Les Beaux Gosses, which means the handsome boys and it was written and directed by Riad Sattouf, marking his film debut. The film follows Hervé, a teenage boy who has little luck with finding a girlfriend until the beautiful Aurore takes a liking to him. Sattouf, a novel writer, was invited to write a script based on an idea from producer Anne-Dominique Toussaint. Filming took place eight weeks in Gagny and Rennes. The film was released in France on 10 June 2009, the film was well received by critics, who particularly praised the humour, the acting and the cinematography. It won the 2010 César Award for Best First Feature Film and it also won the Prix Jacques Prévert du Scénario for Best Adaptation in 2010. Hervé is a boy in junior high school with ordinary looks and middling grades. He and his best friend Camel often fantastize about their classmates and their mothers. Hervé unsuccessfully pursues romances with various girls at his school, including with Laura, after Aurore, a beautiful and popular girl at school, asks him on a date, they embark on an awkward relationship. Although Hervé and Camel are frequent masturbators, while both alone and together, Hervé and Aurore are slow to engage in sexual activity beyond kissing. Aurore eventually breaks up with Hervé when his friends try to grope her in a game of Dungeons & Dragons and she discovers that he lied to them about having sex with her. The film concludes with the characters in school, Hervé is dating Sabrina, Camel is dating Jenifer, Aurore is dating Wulfran. Sattouf wrote the first draft of the script and then asked screenwriter Marc Syrigas to help him to re-write it. Rather than make a film about the codes of todays teens and he wanted to depict the things that happen during teenage-hood that we dont show so often. Casting all of the characters in The French Kissers took place three months. He did not want to work with actors who he feared would be egotistical. Sattouf sought actors who were ugly ducklings with unusual features, and their own way of talking, of walking and he struggled to find teenage actors who were like their characters and were willing to be filmed in an unflattering way
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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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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
