Isabelle Adjani: Best Actress César Winner
L’ENFER D’HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT: Other César Winners
Veteran Isabelle Adjani, 54, received the Best Actress César from the hands of Gérard Depardieu, who announced, "Ah, [the winner] is a friend!"
In Jean-Paul Lilienfeld’s Skirt Day, Adjani plays a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown, having to deal with obnoxious, misogynistic students in a rough, immigrant-filled Parisian neighborhood. The teacher ends up taking matters in her own hands when her students ridicule and harass her on the day she shows up wearing a skirt in class. Her solution? Point a gun at them and hold them hostage.
Now with five César wins in the Best Actress category, Adjani has broken her own record. Her previous wins were [...]
by Steve Montgomery | February 27, 2010
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Tags: César 2010, César Awards, Film Awards, Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, Skirt Day
Gérard Depardieu Too White to Play Alexandre Dumas?
Gérard Depardieu, one of the greatest icons of French cinema, has dismissed claims that he has been miscast as mixed-race author Alexandre Dumas in Safy Nebbou’s big-budget production L’Autre Dumas / The Other Dumas. In Depardieu’s words at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday, those arguments are "ridiculous" and "unnecessary," while the issue itself is "not interesting" and "not a problem." A number of reviewers had complained that Depardieu was "too white" for the role.
Additionally, France’s Representative Council for Black Associations has questioned the propriety of having the blond, blue-eyed Depardieu cast as the Three Musketeers author, the grandson of a Haitian slave who, according to the Council, was mocked because of his looks and [...]
by Andre Soares | February 19, 2010
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Tags: Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Ethnicity in Film, Frank Le Wita, Gérard Depardieu, Safy Nebbou, The Other Dumas
AFI FEST 2009: PRECIOUS, THE WHITE RIBBON, AJAMI
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire by Lee Daniels (top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (middle); Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi in Vincere by Marco Bellocchio (bottom)
Among the Sunday, Nov. 1, highlights at the AFI FEST 2009 at the Chinese Theater complex in Hollywood are:
Lu Chuan’s historical drama City of Life and Death, winner of the Golden Shell for best picture at the San Sebastian Film Festival
Claude Chabrol’s psychological mystery-drama Bellamy, his first collaboration with Gérard Depardieu
Lee Daniels‘ Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, a strong possibility for the Oscar 2010 best picture shortlist and the Sundance 2009 US Narrative Jury Prize winner
Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner and potential Oscar 2010 contender [...]
by Andre Soares | October 31, 2009
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Tags: AFI FEST, AFI FEST 2009, Ajami, Bellamy, City of Life and Death, Gabourey Sidibe, Gérard Depardieu, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Lee Daniels, Los Angeles Screenings, Marco Bellocchio, Precious, The White Ribbon, Vincere