Julie Gayet Articles

2009 Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2009 Tokyo Film Festival: October 17-25, 2009   In Kamen Kalev's Bulgarian drama Eastern Plays, two estranged brothers are unexpectedly brought together after they play opposing roles in a racist beating — Georgi is a new member of a neo-Nazi group; Itso, a drug-addicted artist, rescues the victimized Turkish family. Compounding matters, Georgi (Ovanes Torosian) starts to question his place [...]

Julie Gayet (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson (Photo by Eric Ryan/Getty Images) Lily Cole (Photo by Eric Ryan/Getty Images) Hilary Swank (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)  

In Emmanuel Mouret's quietly observant Un baiser s'il vous plaît / Shall We Kiss? (literally, "A Kiss, If You Please"), which opens today in Los Angeles, a young, good-looking couple, Émilie and Gabriel (Julie Gayet and Michaël Cohen), meet accidentally and are just about ready to go for some physical intimacy when Judith decides to tell Gabriel a story. See, she's in a relationship. But [...]

The 2006 Marrakech Film Festival came to a close last night, Dec. 9. Dominik Graf's German drama Der Rote Kakadu / The Red Cockatoo, a love story set in 1961 Dresden, starring Max Riemelt and Jessica Schwarz (above), won the Étoile d'Or for best film. Riemelt, for his part, received the best actor award. The Grand Jury Prize went to Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean's political [...]