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Sunday | ContactMusic.com

'The Past' Emerges As Early Favourite For Palme d'Or At Cannes Film Festival

Iranian Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi, who made his name in the industry with the incredible A Seperation , is potentially sitting on the Palme d'Or after his Paris-set tale ' The Past ' drew boisterous applause and strong reviews following its screening at the Cannes Film Festival this week.

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Related Topix: A Separation, Movies, Entertainment, Life, Interracial,Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural, A Prophet

Sat May 18, 2013

Connecticut Post

Cannes helps actors Bejo and Rahim cross borders

Actress Berenice Bejo poses for portraits at during the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: France, World News, A Prophet, Prison

Fri May 17, 2013

TIME.com

The Past: After the Oscar-Winning A Separation Comes the Divorce

When Ahmad clears customs at de Gaulle Airport, his estranged wife Marie speaks to him urgently on the other side of a glass partition.

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Related Topix: A Separation, Oscars, Wedding

Merced Sun-Star

Iran's Farhadi and China's Jia make Cannes splash

Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday - one exploring China's social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human heart.

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Related Topix: A Separation, Movies, Entertainment, Berenice Bejo, A Prophet, Tahar Rahim

Tue May 14, 2013

Daily Mail

Audrey Tautou keeps it low key in pretty floral dress as she prepares ...

She is famously not keen on being in the spotlight, but Audrey Tautou was the centre of attention on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Audrey Tautou, Movies, Entertainment, France, World News, Drama Movies, The Great Gatsby

BBC News

French cinema seduces the Brits

French cinema is enjoying its biggest box office success in Britain for a decade, with attendance for French language or French-made films in 2012 up by 157% on the previous year.

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Related Topix: Rust and Bone, The Untouchables, Ska, Taken 2, Travel, United Kingdom Travel, Europe Travel, London, United Kingdom Travel, Manchester, United Kingdom Travel

Mon May 13, 2013

Dark Horizons News

Dujardin, Lellouche Team On "La French"

Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche have joined Cedric Jimenez's $26 million action thriller "La French" for Gaumont.

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Related Topix: Point Blank, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Thriller, Jean Dujardin, Drugs

Sat May 11, 2013

Scotsman.com

Romain Duris on his new film, a 'Rocky with typewriters'

Having swerved some English-speaking roles, French actor Romain Duris tells Siobhan Synnot why there's no place like home when it comes to his film choices ROMAIN Duris doesn't see himself as a big deal, but interviewing France's plat du jour requires a pretty big room.

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Related Topix: Romain Duris, Vincent Cassel

Fri May 10, 2013

The Globe and Mail

Ten films I can't wait to watch at Cannes

Directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, based on Dave Van Ronk's posthumous memoir, portrays the Bob Dylan-era Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties.

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, True Grit, Western, Drama Movies, Adventure, Dave Van Ronk, Folk, Movies, Entertainment, Solaris, Science Fiction Movies

Wed May 08, 2013

ScreenCrave

Best Indie Film Trailers Of The Week: 'The Butler,'...

We tend to hate on Hollywood studios because of the movie projects they choose to fund .

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Related Topix: Sundance Film Festival, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

Tue May 07, 2013

The Guardian

Michel Hazanavicius lambasts French film industry

Buttressed by state subsidies and partly sheltered from Hollywood predators, the French film industry has traditionally been regarded with envy by its European neighbours.

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Hollywood Reporter

European Film Academy Wants Movies to Be Excluded From U.S Free-Trade Talks

The European Film Academy and EFA President Wim Wenders have joined the growing chorus in the European industry demanding that film and other cultural industries be taken off the table in upcoming free-trade talks between the European Union and the United States.

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Thu May 02, 2013

NOLA.com

'Blancanieves' movie review: A unique and charming take on the classic 'Snow White' story

Maribel Verdu is the evil stepmother in Spanish director Pablo Berger's 'Blancanieves,' his unique take on the classic 'Snow White' tale.

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Related Topix: Snow White & the Huntsman, Maribel Verdu, Movies, Entertainment

ContactMusic.com

'Populaire' Ties The Fashion of 'Mad Men' With The Spirit of 'The Artist' [Trailer]

It probably won't take you long to work out that Populaire , the new vintage romantic-comedy from debut director Regis Roinsard, is financed by The Weinstein Company.

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Thu Apr 25, 2013

Examiner.com

Blancanieves

I want to be careful not to undersell Pablo Berger 's very beautiful film Blancanieves .

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Tue Apr 23, 2013

Hyperallergic

Creating a Dream World in Black-and-White

It takes only one Academy Award for critics to claim a resurgence of genre, and when The Artist won the 2012 Oscar for Best Picture, it was heralded as signaling the return of an interest in black-and-white silent film.

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Mon Apr 22, 2013

Firstshowing.net

Asghar Farhadi's 'The Past' with Berenice Bejo First Subtitled Trailer

"I don't want them to be together." Memento Films International has recently debuted an English subtitled trailer for a highly anticipated film premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Related Topix: A Separation, Movies, Entertainment, A Prophet