Xavier Giannoli Articles

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) The Cesar winners will be announced on Feb. 27. MEILLEUR FILM / BEST FILM A L’ORIGINE / IN THE BEGINNING, Edouard Weil and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; directed by Xavier Giannoli LE CONCERT / THE CONCERT, Alain Attal; directed by Radu Mihaileanu LES HERBES FOLLES / WILD GRASS, Jean-Louis Livi; directed by Alain Resnais LA [...]

Adel Bencherif, Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Vincent Lindon, Farit Ayverdi in Welcome (middle); Yvan Atall in Rapt (bottom) With 13 nods, Jacques Audiard's prison drama A Prophet — one of the semi-finalists for this year's best foreign language film Oscar, leads the 2010 Cesar Award nominations. In addition to best film and best director mentions, A Prophet is also up for best actor [...]

Best Screenplay Any of those listed for best film, in addition to: Marco Bellocchio's Vincere (co-written by Bellocchio and Daniela Ceselli), about how Benito Mussolini mistreated his first wife (Giovanna Mezzogiorno, top photo) and son while millions of Italians thought he was just the greatest guy around. Ken Loach's Looking for Eric (written by Paul Laverty), about a postman who gets soccer player Eric Cantona [...]

At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar: "I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches of Brazil comes Adrift, known as À Deriva in Portuguese, the third film from Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia. I'm going to say right up front — following in the footsteps of City [...]