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The History of French Cinema: 2005 |
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Changes to tax laws mean that tax credits equal to 20% of expenditure on salaries of technicians and production crews, equipment, film stock, post-production and certain other costs are now permissible. Production must take place in France and is subject to a maximum of €1m for films or €1,150 per minute for other audio-visual works. [ADD] |
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26/1 - |
Luc Jacquet’s documentary La Marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins) is released. [ADD] |
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Abdellatif Kechiche’s L'Esquive (The Dodge) wins the César awards for best film, best director, best script, and best female newcomer (Sara Forestier). Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, starring Bill Murray, wins the best foreign film award. [ADD] |
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15/3 - |
The government grants permission to Sofia Coppola to shoot scenes for her biopic Marie-Antoinette in the palace of Versailles. [ADD] |
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12/4 - |
The Culture Ministry rules that films partly financed by US film companies may qualify for state subsidies if they are filmed in the French language and produced in France. [ADD] |
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11/5 - |
Writer-director Dominik Moll’s Lemming premieres at the 58th Cannes Film Festival. Laurent Lucas stars as a man suddenly and inexplicably losing control of his life. André Dussollier, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Charlotte Rampling also star. [ADD] |
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23/5 - |
Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s L'Enfant (The Child) wins the Palme d'Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. [ADD] |
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22/9 - |
A copy of pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès 1899 short Cléopatre, believed to have been lost, is discovered in France. [ADD] |
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24/10 - |
At a film industry conference in Beaune, MPAA Chairman Dan Glickman announces his intention to begin legal proceedings against a recent UNESCO convention permitting countries to protect themselves against what they regard as a cultural invasion by America, claiming it will be used to unfairly limit the number of U.S. films that can be distributed. [ADD] |
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– Admissions to French films outside France reach 73.6 million, exceeding admissions in the domestic market (64.8 million) for the first time. [ADD] |
