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Place des Cordeliers à Lyon (1895), a film by Louis Lumière which shows a street in Lyon, France. Actuality film is a non-fiction film genre that uses footage of real events, places, and things (essentially B-roll), a predecessor to documentary film. Unlike documentaries, actuality films are not structured into a larger narrative or coherent ...
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The film was shot in Paris and in the Yonne department, including the communes Collemiers, Sens and Pont-sur-Yonne. Julie's house in the film is located in Collemiers, a commune familiar to the director Éric Gravel, who lives in the Sens area, and whose many residents – like Julie – commute to Paris by train every day for work.
The film opened to 425 locations and landed at number four in the UK box office top ten. [38] The following week the film played at a further 21 screens and earned £268,607 for a total of £1,293,408. It fell three places to seven in the box office chart. [39] As of August 2015, Suite Française has earned over $9 million worldwide. [1]
Mark Keizer of Variety said the film "doesn't ask you to keep up so much as it encourages you to sink into the mystery and go along for the ride". [15] Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter added that "[it] can be a bit low on suspense in [some] places, but [the film] remains intriguing enough to keep you guessing till the [very end]". [16]
Georges Méliès. Georges Méliès (1861–1938), a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a magician with his own theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, when he attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope in December 1895.
The film's screenplay by Ozon is loosely based on Juan Mayorga's play El chico de la última fila (The Boy in the Last Row). The film won the main prize at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival , the Golden Shell , as well as the Jury Prize for Best Screenplay.
The film was teased as a confounding mélange of science fiction and social realism set in Dumont's home region of northern France. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Bernard Pruvost once again appears as Commandant Van der Weyden, and Philippe Jore, as Lieutenant Rudy Carpentier, characters who originally appeared in the miniseries P'tit Quinquin (2014), also ...