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By the beginning of November, Les Films du Losange found the film was performing "strongly" in France. [106] In the United States and Canada, Sony moved it from 10 to 22 screens by 25 January 2006 to gross $718,406. [102] It opened in the United Kingdom making £169,000 in its first weekend, reaching £1 million by 24 March 2006. [107]
The President (French: Le Président) is a 1961 French political thriller film directed by Henri Verneuil and based on, though altering, the ending of, the novel of the same title by Georges Simenon. It tells the story of a French prime minister ( Jean Gabin ), a lifelong proponent of the national good, who is twice betrayed by an opportunistic ...
Presidents (French: Présidents) is a 2021 French political satire film written and directed by Anne Fontaine. [5] Although it was promoted with the disclaimer that "any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental", the film stars Jean Dujardin and Grégory Gadebois in roles inspired by former French presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, respectively. [6]
Prevalence of this view is also evident on the film festival circuit. Whether at Cannes, Berlinale or Sundance, it is much easier to find visually beautiful films than films with strong dialogue ...
Directors Blitz Bazawule ('The Color Purple'), Bradley Cooper ('Maestro'), Michael Mann ('Ferrari'), Alexander Payne ('The Holdovers'), Celine Song ('Past Lives') and Justine Triet ('Anatomy of a ...
Pépé le Moko ([pe.pe lÉ™ mo.ko]) is a 1937 French film directed by Julien Duvivier starring Jean Gabin, based on a novel of the same name by Henri La Barthe and with sets by Jacques Krauss. An example of the 1930s French movement known as poetic realism , it recounts the trapping of a gangster on the run in Algiers , who believes that he is ...
The film, shot partly in the Gaumont studios in the Buttes-Chaumont, and partly in the Fontainebleau forest near Paris, was directed by Alice Guy-Blaché, with sets and costumes designed by Victorin Jasset and Henri Menessier, inspired by engravings by James Tissot.
The Things of Life (French: Les Choses de la vie) is a 1970 romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel Intersection by Paul Guimard. The film centers around a car accident experienced by Pierre ( Michel Piccoli ), an architect, and the events before and after it. [ 2 ]