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The History of French Cinema: 2011 |
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Maria Schneider, whose role opposite Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris catapulted her to fame while virtually destroying her acting career, dies of cancer in Paris at the age of 58. After appearing with Jack Nicholson in The Passenger, Schneider’s career was affected by drug addiction and mental illness. [ADD] |
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| 25/2 - | Xavier Beauvois’ Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men) wins the Best Film Award at the 2011 Cesar Awards, while Roman Polanski wins the Best Director Award for The Ghost Writer, a film he completed while under house arrest in Switzerland. [MORE] | |||
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Annie Girardot dies in a Paris hospital at the age of 79 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. She appeared in more than 100 films over six decades, and won the coveted Cesar Award three times. [ADD] |
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Cédric Klapisch’s bittersweet comedy Ma Part du Gâteau is released. Karin Viard and Gilles Lellouche star. [ADD] |
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Richard Leacock, a pioneer of Direct Cinema and Cinema vérité dies at his home in Paris at the age of 89. [MORE] |
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Philippe Claudel’s romantic comedy Tous les Soleils (All the Suns) is released. [ADD] |
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| 24/4 - | Marie-France Pisier, the star of three Francois Truffaut films, dies at her home in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in the South of France at the age of 66. Her body is found in the family swimming pool by her husband. [ADD] | |||
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Patrice Leconte’s Voir la mer (See the Sea) is released. Clément Sibony and Nicolas Giraud star as two young brothers who form an amicable love triangle with Pauline Lefevre. [ADD] |
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Danish director Lars von Trier is banned from the 64th Cannes Film Festival after jokingly sympathising with Hitler and the Nazis during a press conference to promote his latest film, Melancholia. [ADD] |
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| 22/5 - | The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick's first film in six years, wins the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. American actress Kirsten Dunst wins the Best Actress award for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia. [ADD] | |||
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Antoine Charreyron’s 3D animated feature The Prodigies, an adaptation of Bernard Lenteric’s cult novel La Nuit des Enfants Rois, is released. [ADD] |
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| 12/10 - | Michel Hazanavicius's silent film The Artist is released. Jean Dujardin stars as a famous silent Hollywood movie star fearing that his career is over with the advent of talking pictures. [ADD] | |||
| 2/11 - | Olivier Nakache's and Eric Toledano's Intouchable, a comedy starring François Cluzet and Omar Sy, is released. [ADD] | |||
| 14/12 - | Jalil Lespert's Des vents contraires (Headwinds), co-written with Marion Laine, is released. Benoit Magimel, Isabel Carre and Audrey Tautou star. [ADD] | |||
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