Sami Bouajila Articles

Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, the stars of Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory, join forces once again in Bouchareb's Outside the Law First, Cannes Film Festival organizers pissed off Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government by showing Sabina Guzzanti's documentary Draquila: Italy Trembles, which delves into the corruption and decay found in Berlusconi's Italy. Today came Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law, which seriously pissed off members [...]

Rachid Bouchareb's Hors-la-loi / Outside the Law hasn't even had its Cannes Official Competition screening, yet — that will be on May 21 — and it's already being reviled by right-wing politicians and French war veterans. Directed and written by Bouchareb, Outside the Law is a drama-thriller about Algeria's struggle for independence from France following World War II — an issue that remains an ugly, [...]

2008 César Awards French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences' 2008 César du Cinéma nominations: January 25, 2008 2008 César du Cinéma winners: the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, on February 22, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   BEST FILM / MEILLEUR FILM * La graine et le mulet / The Secret of the Grain directed by Abdellatif Kechiche produced by Claude [...]

Peeping jane Marianne Faithfull tries to see if there's a best actress Silver Bear awaiting her on the other side of the glory hole. In The Guardian, Geoffrey Macnab interviews Marianne Faithfull, whose Irina Palm, the story of a woman who becomes a sex worker in order to get money for her sick grandson, was screened at the Berlinale: "Irina Palm is far less voyeuristic [...]