Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2009
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 in the neo-nazi movement while Itso (Tokyo best actor winner Christo Christov) falls for the Turkish girl he saved. Eastern Plays is the second film featuring neo-nazi characters to win a top international film festival prize this week. Nicolo Donato’s Danish drama Brotherhood, about two neo-nazis who fall in love with one another, was [...]
by Irene Young | October 25, 2009
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Tags: A Brand New Life, Christo Christov, Eastern Plays, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Julie Gayet, Kamen Kalev, Rabia, The Trotsky, Tokyo Film Festival, Tokyo Film Festival Awards, Wolf
Cannes 2009: Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson, Hilary Swank, Lily Cole
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)
by Deborah Arthur | May 25, 2009
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Tags: Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Diane Kruger, Film Festivals, Hilary Swank, Joshua Jackson, Julie Gayet, Lily Cole, Photos
SHALL WE KISS? – Q&A with Emmanuel Mouret
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 then again, so is he.
Well, the story in question is about another young, good-looking couple, Judith and Nicolas (Virginie Ledoyen, Mouret, top photo) who broke the barriers of social conventions and personal trust — Judith was married — by kissing one another. But it was all for a [...]
by Andre Soares | April 10, 2009
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Tags: Adultery, Comedies, Emmanuel Mouret, Eric Rohmer, Frederique Bel, Julie Gayet, Los Angeles Screenings, Michael Cohen, Romantic Movies, Sex, Shall We Kiss?, Un baiser s'il vous plait, Virginie Ledoyen, Woody Allen
2006 Marrakech Film Festival Awards Winners
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 drama Hirtia va fi albastra / The Paper Will Be Blue, about a soldier who changes sides during Romania’s bloody 1989 revolution.
French-Senegalese actress Fatou N’Diaye won the best actress award for her performance as a Rwandan waitress falling in love right the time of the Hutu genocide in Robert Favreau’s Canadian drama Un dimanche à [...]
by Andre Soares | December 10, 2006
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Tags: Daniel Auteuil, Dominik Graf, Fatou N'Diaye, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Julie Gayet, Marrakech Film Festival, Max Riemelt, Susan Sarandon, The Paper Will Be Blue, The Red Cockatoo
