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The History of French Cinema: 2004 |
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19/5 - |
Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre musique, which is divided into three parts: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, is released. [ADD] |
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23/5 - |
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 becomes the first documentary in nearly fifty years to win the Palme d'Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Grand Prix award goes to Chan-Wook Park’s violent revenge drama, Oldboy. [ADD] |
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26/5 - |
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s Iranian/French co-production 10 on Ten is released. [ADD] |
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25/8 - |
Exils, writer-director Tony Gatlif’s road movie through France and Spain, is released. Lubna Azabal and Romain Duris star. [ADD] |
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1/9 - |
Writer-director Olivier Assayas’ Clean is released. Maggie Cheung stars as a pop star who attempts to clean up her act so that she can get her young son back after serving six months in prison for possession of heroin. Nick Nolte appears as the father of Cheung’s dead lover. [ADD] |
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1/9 - |
François Ozon's 5 x 2, which charts the breakdown of a couple’s marriage in reverse chronological order, is released. Valérie Bruni-Tedeschi and Stéphane Freiss star. [ADD] |
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22/9 - |
Writer-director Agnés Jaoui’s witty character study Comme une image (Look At Me) is released. Marilou Berry, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Virginie Desarnauts, Laurent Grévill and Jaoui star. [ADD] |
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13/10 - |
The government passes a law permitting cinemas to block all but emergency service calls to and from mobile phones. [ADD] |
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27/10 - |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s adaptation of Sebastian Japrisot's novel Un long dimanche de fiançailles, (A Very Long Engagement) is released. Audrey Tautou stars as a woman who refuses to believe her fiancée (Gaspard Ulliel) is one of five soldiers killed in the trenches of WW1 after being convicted of self-mutilation to avoid service. [ADD] |
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3/11 - |
Mondovino, Jonathan Nossiter’s documentary film about the French wine industry, is released. [ADD] |
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29/11 - |
A court rules that Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) may not compete in French film festivals because it was part-financed by 2003 Productions, a French subsidiary of the U.S. studio Warner Bros. which was established for the sole purpose of benefiting ‘from [state] financial help even though [the fund] is reserved for the European cinematographic industry.’ [ADD] |
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8/12 - |
Benoît Jacquot's À tout de suite is released. Isild Le Besco plays a posh art student who falls for a young man (Ouassini Embarek) without realising he is a criminal and finds herself on the run when a robbery goes wrong. [ADD] |
