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The History of French Cinema: 1996 |
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24/1 - |
Les Enfants du soleil (Children of the Sun), Philippe Caubère's screen adaptation of his series of stage plays, is released. [ADD] |
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20/5 - |
Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies wins the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Grand Prix goes to Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. [ADD] |
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21/8 - |
André Techiné's Les Voleurs (Thieves), starring Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, and Laurence Côté, is released. The film, about a French policeman’s hunt for the murderer of his father and brother with the aid of his lover’s lesbian girlfriend, has a non-linear narrative. [ADD] |
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13/11 - |
Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas’ wry comedy about film-making starring Maggie Cheung as herself filming a remake of the silent French serial film Les Vampires, is released. Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard and Lou Castel also star. [ADD] |
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20/11 - |
Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou’s Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe, a documentary about insect life in meadows and ponds narrated by Jacques Perrin, is released. [ADD] |
