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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Xavier Giannoli</title>
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		<title>Cesar 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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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 JOURNÉE DE LA JUPE / SKIRT DAY, Bénédicte Lesage and Ariel Askénazi; directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
  RAPT, Patrick Sobelman, Diana Elbaum et Sébastien Delloye; directed by Lucas Belvaux
*  UN PROPHÈTE / A PROPHET, Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat et Marco Cherqui; directed by Jacques Audiard
  WELCOME, Christophe Rossignon; directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PROPHET, WELCOME, Isabelle Adjani, AVATAR: Cesar 2010 Nominees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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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&#8217;s prison drama A Prophet &#8212; one of the semi-finalists for this year&#8217;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 and male newcomer (Tahar Rahim, with two nods), best supporting actor (Niels Arestrup), best male newcomer (Adel Bencherif), best screenplay (Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit), and best editing (Juliette Welfling).
The runners-up are Xavier Giannoli&#8217;s  In the Beginning, the tale of a con man (best actor nominee François Cluzet) involved in the building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Best Screenplay Favorites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 05:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Best Screenplay
Any of those listed for best film, in addition to:
Marco Bellocchio&#8217;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&#8217;s Looking for Eric (written by Paul Laverty), about a postman who gets soccer player Eric Cantona (middle photo) to become his life coach.
Writer-director Xavier Giannoli&#8217;s In the Beginning (bottom photo), in which a con man gets a small town to build a highway.
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Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
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		<title>Cannes 2009: ADRIFT, DRAG ME TO HELL, IN THE BEGINNING</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/in-the-beginning-adrift-drag-me-to-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 02:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Raimi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Corliss]]></category>
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At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar:
&#34;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&#8217;m going to say right up front &#8212; following in the footsteps of City of God director Fernando Meirelles, Dhalia is the next great Brazilian filmmaker on the verge of breaking out. Adrift is his calling card, a gorgeous family drama about a beautiful young  girl  and her parents. It&#8217;s not a masterpiece, but it is  definitely one of the better films I&#8217;ve seen here that offers [...]]]></description>
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