PARIS -- Love was in the air as Chico Teixeira's Brazilian film "A casa de Alice" won the Golden Swann prize for best film at the 22nd Cabourg Romantic Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday night in the French seaside town.
A jury presided by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Denis named Patrick Bruel best actor for his role in Claude Miller's Holocaust drama "A Secret". Gallic actress Laetitia Casta took home the best actress award for her performance in Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's dramatic comedy "Nes en 68" (Born in '68).
Other members of the fest's jury included director-actresses Anne Le Ny and Maiwenn, actresses Claire Nebout, Lolita Chammah and Hafsia Herzi, actor Clement Sibony and writer Emmanuelle Cosso-Merad.
Emmanuel Mouret won the best director award for "Un baiser, s'il vous plait" (A kiss, please). "Welcome to the Sticks" star Anne Marivin was named most promising actress and Yannick Renier was given the most promising actor prize for his role in "Nes en 68".
Local High School students gave their young jury prize to Doris Dorrie's German title "Cherry Blossoms".
A jury presided by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Denis named Patrick Bruel best actor for his role in Claude Miller's Holocaust drama "A Secret". Gallic actress Laetitia Casta took home the best actress award for her performance in Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's dramatic comedy "Nes en 68" (Born in '68).
Other members of the fest's jury included director-actresses Anne Le Ny and Maiwenn, actresses Claire Nebout, Lolita Chammah and Hafsia Herzi, actor Clement Sibony and writer Emmanuelle Cosso-Merad.
Emmanuel Mouret won the best director award for "Un baiser, s'il vous plait" (A kiss, please). "Welcome to the Sticks" star Anne Marivin was named most promising actress and Yannick Renier was given the most promising actor prize for his role in "Nes en 68".
Local High School students gave their young jury prize to Doris Dorrie's German title "Cherry Blossoms".
- 6/16/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- The 18th Dinard Festival of British Film, which unspools in the Brittany resort Oct. 4-7, will open with Ken Loach's It's a Free World, organizers said Wednesday.
The four-day event will see six U.K. movies vie for the fest's top prize. Competition titles this year include David McEnzie's Hallam Foe, Julian Jarrold's Jane, Asif Kapadia's Far North, Mark Jenkin's The Midnight Drive, Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane and John Carney's Once.
Gallic actress and director Josiane Balasko will lead a jury composed of fellow French female thesps Cecile Cassel, Linh Dan Pham, Claire Nebout and Sylvie Testud, actor Robin Renucci, comedian Laurent Gerra, British actress Imelda Staunton and documentary filmmaker Michael Grigsby.
Loach's Free World will open the fest and Pascal Thomas' Gallic title L'Heure Zero will close it.
Dinard-bound cinephiles will also be treated to 20 French premieres including such titles as Anthony Byrne's How About You, Kevin Macdonald's documentary Mon Meilleur Ennemi and Lenny Abrahamson's Garage. The public will vote on a short film prize awarded by the British Council.
Shane Meadows and his producer Marc Herbert will be in the spotlight with films This is England, Dead Man's Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass, Twenty 4 Seven" and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands."...
The four-day event will see six U.K. movies vie for the fest's top prize. Competition titles this year include David McEnzie's Hallam Foe, Julian Jarrold's Jane, Asif Kapadia's Far North, Mark Jenkin's The Midnight Drive, Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane and John Carney's Once.
Gallic actress and director Josiane Balasko will lead a jury composed of fellow French female thesps Cecile Cassel, Linh Dan Pham, Claire Nebout and Sylvie Testud, actor Robin Renucci, comedian Laurent Gerra, British actress Imelda Staunton and documentary filmmaker Michael Grigsby.
Loach's Free World will open the fest and Pascal Thomas' Gallic title L'Heure Zero will close it.
Dinard-bound cinephiles will also be treated to 20 French premieres including such titles as Anthony Byrne's How About You, Kevin Macdonald's documentary Mon Meilleur Ennemi and Lenny Abrahamson's Garage. The public will vote on a short film prize awarded by the British Council.
Shane Meadows and his producer Marc Herbert will be in the spotlight with films This is England, Dead Man's Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass, Twenty 4 Seven" and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands."...
The fourth "City of Lights, City of Angels: A Week of New French Films" opened Tuesday at the Directors Guild of America with a screening of "Venus Beauty Institute", the big winner at this year's Cesar Awards, including best director for Tonie Marshall -- the second time a woman has won.
"Venus" also won best film, screenplay and young actress (for supporting player Audrey Tautou).
While it's no "The Hairdresser's Husband", "Venus" is a likable enough tale of female bonding and the never-ending quest for happiness and fulfillment when "mutual love doesn't exist." Set mainly within the confines of a neighborhood beauty parlor -- where women and a few men come for massages, facials and, in the case of one exhibitionist woman who likes to parade around in the buff, tanning -- the story is a rambling affair with no burning agenda.
A longtime employee with many loyal clients, Angele (Nathalie Baye) is unlucky in relationships and spends much of the movie coming to terms with an artistic young man Samuel Le Bihan) who falls in love with her and is not easily discouraged. Angele's co-worker Marie (Tautou) counts among her regulars a sad man (Robert Hossein) who had skin from his dead wife's buttocks grafted on him after a tragic accident, and the two drift together. Samantha (Mathilde Seigner) is the third staffer at the Paris salon and the one with the most serious problems.
Bulle Ogier as the shop owner, Emmanuelle Riva and Micheline Presle as Angele's aunts, Jacques Bonnaffe as her ex-boyfriend and Claire Nebout as the tanning woman round out the major players. Gently contrasting the warm, nourishing environment of the salon with the hard world outside, Marshall's direction is fine and the performances touching and realistic, even as the story lurches about with no urgent payoff or new insights into the lives of lonely hearts both seeking and scared silly by love.
VENUS BEAUTY INSTITUTE
Arte France Cinema
and Tabo Tabo Films
Screenwriter-director: Tonie Marshall
Producer: Gilles Sandoz
Director of photography: Gerard de Battista
Editor: Jacques Comets
Color/stereo
Cast:
Angele: Nathalie Baye
Nadine: Bulle Ogier
Antoine: Samuel Le Bihan
Jacques: Jacques Bonnaffe
Samantha: Mathilde Seigner
Marie: Audrey Tautou
L'aviateur: Robert Hossein
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
"Venus" also won best film, screenplay and young actress (for supporting player Audrey Tautou).
While it's no "The Hairdresser's Husband", "Venus" is a likable enough tale of female bonding and the never-ending quest for happiness and fulfillment when "mutual love doesn't exist." Set mainly within the confines of a neighborhood beauty parlor -- where women and a few men come for massages, facials and, in the case of one exhibitionist woman who likes to parade around in the buff, tanning -- the story is a rambling affair with no burning agenda.
A longtime employee with many loyal clients, Angele (Nathalie Baye) is unlucky in relationships and spends much of the movie coming to terms with an artistic young man Samuel Le Bihan) who falls in love with her and is not easily discouraged. Angele's co-worker Marie (Tautou) counts among her regulars a sad man (Robert Hossein) who had skin from his dead wife's buttocks grafted on him after a tragic accident, and the two drift together. Samantha (Mathilde Seigner) is the third staffer at the Paris salon and the one with the most serious problems.
Bulle Ogier as the shop owner, Emmanuelle Riva and Micheline Presle as Angele's aunts, Jacques Bonnaffe as her ex-boyfriend and Claire Nebout as the tanning woman round out the major players. Gently contrasting the warm, nourishing environment of the salon with the hard world outside, Marshall's direction is fine and the performances touching and realistic, even as the story lurches about with no urgent payoff or new insights into the lives of lonely hearts both seeking and scared silly by love.
VENUS BEAUTY INSTITUTE
Arte France Cinema
and Tabo Tabo Films
Screenwriter-director: Tonie Marshall
Producer: Gilles Sandoz
Director of photography: Gerard de Battista
Editor: Jacques Comets
Color/stereo
Cast:
Angele: Nathalie Baye
Nadine: Bulle Ogier
Antoine: Samuel Le Bihan
Jacques: Jacques Bonnaffe
Samantha: Mathilde Seigner
Marie: Audrey Tautou
L'aviateur: Robert Hossein
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 4/28/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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