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The History of French Cinema: 1991 |
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13/3 - |
Bertrand Blier’s 'Merci la vie' (Thank You, Life) is released. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Anouk Grinberg star as friends who experiment with sex only to face the possible consequences later on. [ADD] |
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13/3 - |
Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Cyrano de Bergerac wins 10 awards, including best film, at this year’s César ceremony in Paris. [ADD] |
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13/3 - |
TV channel Canal Plus announces the formation of its cinema division Studio Canal Plus. [ADD] |
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17/4 - |
Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s first feature film, is released. Dominique Piñon and Jean-Claude Dreyfus star. [ADD] |
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22/4 - |
A report published by UNESCO reveals that US films are flooding the African market. In Egypt, they account for 86%. [ADD] |
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15/5 - |
Jacquot de Nantes, Agnès Varda’s film about her late husband, the film director Jacques Demy, is released. [ADD] |
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20/5 - |
Joel and Ethan Coen’s Barton Fink creates history by becoming the first film to take the Golden Palm, best director and best actor prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. [ADD] |
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19/6 - |
Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael’s Toto le héros (Toto the Hero) is released after winning the Caméra d'Or prize at Cannes this year. [ADD] |
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4/9 - |
Jacques Rivette’s La Belle noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker) is released. Michel Piccoli stars as Frenhofer, a painter inspired to return to the canvas by the girlfriend (Emmanuelle Béart) of a young artist (David Bursztein) who visits Frenhofer at his home in Provence. [ADD] |
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16/10 - |
Leos Carax's Les Amants du Pont Neuf (Lovers on the Ninth Bridge) is released following a troubled production which saw the budget escalate and its initial financiers back out. Denis Levant and Juliette Binoche star. [ADD] |
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30/10 - |
Maurice Pialat’s Van Gogh, depicting the last months of the troubled artist’s life, is released. Jacques Dutronc portrays Van Gogh as a shambling wreck of a man, battling against his own demons and those people around him. Bernard Lecoq, Gérard Séty and Alexandra London also star. [ADD] |
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9/11 - |
Yves Montand dies of cardiac arrest only a few days after completing filming of Jean-Jacques Beineix's IP5: L'île aux pachyderms, in which the character he plays suffers the same fate. [ADD] |
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18/12 - |
Tous le matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World) is released. Jean-Pierre Marielle, Guillame Depardieu and Gérard Depardieu star. [ADD] |
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– Cinemas showing experimental and avant-garde films form a national union. [ADD] |
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– Credit Lyonnais take control of the MGM-Pathe group after the resignation of Giancarlo Parretti from the group’s French companies. [ADD] |
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| – Domestic cinema records a fall of 4% in admissions in the past year, and the industry’s share of the national box office income falls to 30% compared to 58% achieved by American imports. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key French Films of 1991 |
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L’Allemagne neuf zero (Jean-Luc Godard) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Double vie de Veronique (The Double Life of Veronica) (Krzysztof Kieslowski) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hors la vie (Maroun Bagdadi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Madame Bovary (Claude Chabrol) [MORE] [ADD] |
