Focus
Like Ficarra and Requa’s 2011 comedy Crazy Stupid Love, Focus begins promisingly and bops along enjoyably for a while, only to run out of steam…
Benoit Magimel
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A Girl Cut in Two (2008)
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Paul
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The Flower of Evil (2003)
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Francois
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The Piano Teacher (2002)
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Walter Klemmer
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Thieves (Les Voleurs) (1996)
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Jimmy
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CIFF 2014 Tribute: Isabelle Huppert
A tribute to Isabelle Huppert as the 2014 Chicago International Film Festival plans to do the same this weekend.
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Cannes #5: Luster & its lack
CANNES, France – There are entries that have been liked and even loved, but the 2006 Cannes Film Festival reaches its halfway mark looking like a fairly lackluster year. Only Pedro Almodovar’s “Volver,” a high-spirited memory inspired by his childhood in La Mancha, has been embraced by critics and audiences. “Volver” means “to return,” and resembles in its exuberant nostalgia Fellini’s “Amarcord” (“I Remember”).
Cannes 2001: Awards full of surprises
The jury stunned but did not displease a black-tie audience here Sunday night, with the awards for the 54th Cannes Film Festival. It's not that the winners were unpopular, but that they were unexpected. Everyone predicted Nanni Moretti's "The Son's Room," the story of an Italian family devastated by the death of a son, would win something but not the Palme d'Or, or top prize. Everyone expected French legend Isabelle Huppert to win as best actress for her searing performance in "The Piano Teacher," and she did -- but not that the film also would win for best actor and take home the special jury prize.
