Fanny Ardant Articles

William Shimell, Juliette Binoche in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy "Please can you explain to me what the secret of this actress is meant to be? I would really like to know why she has been so esteemed for so many years. She has nothing. Absolutely nothing!" "She is nothing. Compared with her, Isabelle Adjani is great even if she's totally nuts. Or Fanny Ardant – [...]

Veteran filmmakers Marco Bellocchio, Wim Wenders, and Claude Lelouch; Oscar winners Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Pedro Almodóvar; the French Film Academy; the Cannes Film Festival; and hundreds of other individuals and organizations have signed a petition demanding the release of Roman Polanski, who was arrested by Swiss police — at the behest of the American Justice Department — following his arrival at the Zurich [...]

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009 Sunday, March 29, highlights Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website   Born in 68 Directed by: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel Cast: Laetitia Casta, Yannick Renier, Yann Trégouët Distributor: Peccadillo Pictures Country: France Year: 2008 Running time: 170min   Festival favourites Martineau and Ducastel return to the LLGFF with an epic drama covering life and sexual politics in [...]

A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted [...]