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The History of French Cinema: 2002 |
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8/1 - |
The premiere of François Ozon’s 8 femmes (Eight Women) takes place in Paris. Catherine Deneuve, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier, Isabelle Huppert, Danielle Darrieux, Fanny Ardant, Firmine Richard and Emmanuelle Béart star as the eight women of the title, each of whom is suspected of murdering an industrialist. [ADD] |
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9/1 - |
Bertrand Tavernier’s Laissez-passer (Safe Conduct) is released. Based on the true-life experiences of French film-makers during the Nazi occupation, the film stars Jacques Gamblin, Christian Berkel, Marie Desgranges, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Denis Podalydes, Charlotte Kady, Marie Gillain and Maria Pitarresi. [ADD] |
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27/3 - |
Laetitia Colombani's black comedy, À la folie... pas du tout (He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not), is released. Audrey Tautou stars. [ADD] |
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3/4 - |
Jean-Luc Godard's adaptation of King Lear, featuring Woody Allen, Burgess Meredith, Peter Sellers, Molly Ringwald, Norman Mailer and Julie Delpy amongst its cast, is finally released in French cinemas 15 years after it was made. [ADD] |
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30/4 - |
Writer-director Guillaume Nicloux’s Une affaire privée is released. Thierry Lhermitte plays a Chandleresque private eye investigating the disappearance of a 22-year-old student. Marion Cotillard also stars. [ADD] |
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23/5 - |
Gaspar Noé's controversial Irréversible debuts at the Cannes Film Festival. Albert Dupontel, Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci star. [ADD] |
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26/5 - |
Roman Polanski's The Pianist win the Palme d'Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with the Grand Prize of the Jury going to Aki Kaurismäki's Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man Without a Past). [ADD] |
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24/7 - |
Michel Reilhac's Polissons et galipettes (The Good Old Naughty Days) is released. The film comprises of 11 single-reel adult films from the 1920s and one from 1905, most of which were screened in the waiting rooms of brothels to instruct inexperienced young men on their first visit. [ADD] |
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28/8 - |
Nicolas Philibert’s Être et avoir (To Be and To Have), which follows the learning process of thirteen children, aged 4 to 10 in a one-room school in the Auvergne region of southeast France, is released. The film was named as one of the best films of 2002 in the Film Comment poll of 59 international film critics. [ADD] |
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28/8 - |
Nicole Garcia's L'Adversaire (The Adversary) is released. Daniel Auteuil stars. [ADD] |
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11/9 - |
Alain Brigand’s 11'09"01 - September 11, a compilation film to which eleven international filmmakers each contribute one film lasting precisely 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame is released. Each film relates to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. The directors involved are Samira Makhmalbaf, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Claude Lelouch, Shohei Imamura, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ken Loach, Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai and Mira Nair. [ADD] |
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2/10 - |
Patrice Leconte’s L'Homme du train (The Man on the Train) is released. Jean Rochefort and former pop star Johnny Hallyday star as two men from very different walks of life who strike up an unlikely friendship. [ADD] |
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18/12 - |
Agnès Varda’s Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après (The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later) is released. [ADD] |
