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Federico Fellini’s Ginger e Fred is released. Marcello Mastroianni, and Giulietta Masina star as a former dance act from before WWII who are re-united for a popular TV show. [MORE] [ADD] |
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17/2 - |
The Franco-Brazilian co-production accord agreed in 1969 is renewed. [MORE] [ADD] |
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9/4 - |
Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue), complete with a number of explicit sex scenes, is released. 22-year-old Béatrice Dalle stars as Betty, a beautiful waitress heading for a breakdown. Jean-Hughes Anglade also stars as Betty’s boyfriend. [MORE] [ADD] |
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15/5 - |
The Franco-Australian co-production accord is signed. [MORE] [ADD] |
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19/5 - |
Alain Cavalier's Thérèse wins the prize for Best Film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, while Andrei Tarkovsky's Offret (The Sacrifice) wins the jury’s special prize. [MORE] [ADD] |
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18/6 - |
Marco Bellocchio's sexually explicit Italian film Il Diavolo in corpo (The Devil in the Flesh) is released in France. [MORE] [ADD] |
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27/8 - |
Jean de Florette, Claude Berri’s adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s 1963 novel, is released. Daniel Auteuil, Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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8/9 - |
Pierre Lescure and René Bonnell buy the TV rights to 80 Paramount and Universal films for the pay-TV channel Canal Plus. [MORE] [ADD] |
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22/9 - |
Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve sue Roger Vadim for invasion of privacy because of the ‘scandalous revelations’ revealed about them in his bestselling autobiography, D'une étoile à l'autre (Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda: My Life With the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World). [MORE] [ADD] |
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23/10 - |
A restored copy of Marcel L'Herbier's silent classic L'Inhumaine (1924) is screened at the great hall at La Villette with a new soundtrack. [MORE] [ADD] |
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17/12 - |
The Name of the Rose, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of Umberto Eco's medieval detective story is released. Sean Connery plays William of Baskerville a Francsican monk investigating a series of murders in a monastery, while Christian Slater plays his teenage apprentice. F. Murray Abraham, Ron Perlman and Michel Lonsdale also appear. [MORE] [ADD] |
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29/12 - |
The Russian director Andrei Tarkovsy dies of lung cancer in Paris at the age of 54. He made 7 films in 24 years. [MORE] [ADD] |
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31/12 - |
Cinema attendance in France in 1986 was 1.63 million compared to a total of 10.3 million in America, which has just four times the population of France. [MORE] [ADD] |
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31/12 - |
France becomes the last European country to have the gross takings of their domestic productions beaten by American films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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France 1986 - Other Films of Note |
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Les Baliseurs du désert (Nacer Khemir) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Inspecteur Lavardin (Claude Chabrol) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Manon des Sources (Claude Berri) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Mauvais sang (Leos Carax) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Melo (Alain Resnais) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La puritaine (Jacques Doillon) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Tenue de soiree (Bertrand Blier) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Letters Home (Chantal Akerman) [MORE] [ADD] |
