Emmanuelle Devos Articles

A PROPHET: Césars for Best Picture, Director, Actor Emmanuelle Devos was the Best Supporting Actress César winner for Xavier Giannoli's In the Beginning, a well-received drama that also played at Cannes. In the film, Devos plays the mayor of a small town in the north of France suffering from high unemployment rates. A teary-eyed Mélanie Thierry was the Best Female Newcomer for her young alcoholic [...]

Best Actor Tahar Rahim as a young man behind bars in A Prophet. Ben Whishaw as John Keats in Bright Star. André Dussollier as the elderly hero in Wild Grass. François Cluzet as a con man in In the Beginning.   Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes  

At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar: "I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches of Brazil comes Adrift, known as À Deriva in Portuguese, the third film from Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia. I'm going to say right up front — following in the footsteps of City [...]