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The History of French Cinema: 1998 |
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21/1 - |
Bunny Godillot's debut feature Riches, belles, etc is released. In addition to Anouk Aimée, Marisa Berenson, Alexandra Kamp and Claudia Cardinale, Godilliot also appears billed as Bunny Schpoliansky. [ADD] |
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4/3 - |
Manuel Pradal’s Marie Baie des Anges is released. Vahina Giocante stars as a 14-year-old girl hanging around with a group of aimless friends on the Riviera, especially a boy, Orso (Frederic Malgras) with whom she briefly escapes to an idyllic island. [ADD] |
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24/5 - |
Greece's Theo Angelopoulos’s Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day) wins the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, while the Grand Prize goes to Roberto Benigni's La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful). [ADD] |
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3/6 - |
Bruno Podalydès’ comedy film Dieu seul me voit (Only God Sees Me) is released. His brother, Denis Podalydès, plays a chronically hesitant man involved in liaisons with three different women. Isabelle Candelier, Cécile Bouillot and Jeanne Balibar also star. [ADD] |
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8/7 - |
Arthur Joffé’s Que la lumière soit! (Let There Be Light!), about an attempt by God to have a script he has written made into a movie, is released. The film stars Hélène de Fougerolles, Tchéky Karyo, Ticky Holgado and Pierre Arditi (as the Voice of God). [ADD] |
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23/9 - |
Eric Rohmer’s Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale), set amongst the wine vineyards of France, is released. Béatrice Romand and Marie Rivière star as two friends, one of whom is married and tries to matchmake for her single friend. [ADD] |
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18/11 - |
Benoît Jacquot's L'Ecole de la chair (The School of Flesh), in which Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Martinez get drawn into a mutually addictive sexual relationship to their cost, is released. [ADD] |
