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Best Actress Award (Locarno International Film Festival)
The Leopard for Best Actress ( it, Pardo per la miglior interpretazione femminile) is an award given at the Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, .... It was first awarded in 1946. Award winners References External links * {{Locarno International Film Festival Swiss film awards Lists of films by award Locarno Festival Awards for actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locarno International Film Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators. The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du Public, the public choice award. History The Festival del film Locarno kicked off on 23 August 1946, at the Grand Hotel of Locarno with the screening of the movie ''O sole mio'' by Giacomo Gentilomo. The first edition was organized in less than three months with a line-up of fifteen movies, mainly American and Italian, among which was ''Rome, Open City'' directed by Roberto Rossellini, ''And Then There Were None'' dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also written Bruni-Tedeschi (; born 16 November 1964), is an Italian-French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, ''A Castle in Italy,'' was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Personal life Bruni Tedeschi was born in Turin, Italy, in the Piedmont region of Italy. Like her younger sister, Carla Bruni, she has settled in France. The girls were raised bilingual, as their family moved to Paris in 1973, fearing kidnappings and, later, the terrorism of the Red Brigades. She holds dual Italian and French citizenship. Her mother is Italian with French ancestry. Her father is Italian. She is second cousin of Alessandra Martines. Tedeschi had a relationship with the French actor Louis Garrel from 2007 to 2012. Together they adopted a girl from Senegal in 2009. Selected filmography She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: ''Tickets'' (2005), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foul Play (1998 Film) , an unlawful act punishable by some authority
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Foul Play or Foul play may refer to: *Foul play, unfair, unethical, or criminal behaviour * ''Foul Play'' (novel), 1869, by Charles Reade * ''Foul Play'' (1920 film), British * ''Foul Play'' (1977 film), Spanish * ''Foul Play'' (1978 film), American * ''Foul Play'' (album), by Dennis Brown * ''Foul Play'' (TV series), 1981 * ''Foul Play'' (video game), 2013 * Foul (sports), act of a player violating the rules of a sport or game See also * Foul (other) * Fowl Play (other) *Crime In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossy De Palma
Rosa Elena García Echave (born 16 September 1964), known professionally as Rossy de Palma, is a Spanish actress and model. She is well known for her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar such as ''Law of Desire'', ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', ''Kika'', ''The Flower of My Secret'', '' Julieta'', and ''Parallel Mothers''. Life and Career Born in Palma de Mallorca, and her father was a mason from Asturias. In the 1980s, during the Movida cultural movement she moved to Madrid. In 1984 she founded the pop music group for which she was a singer and a dancer. In 1986 she met Pedro Almodóvar in a café in Madrid. He was impressed by her performance during one of the group's concerts. He proposed a role in his next film, ''Law of Desire''. Rossy lent some of her personal dresses to Carmen Maura, who was playing the main female character of the film, Tina Quintero. Her first major role was in 1988 in Almodóvar's ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crazy Stranger
''The Crazy Stranger'' (original title: ''Gadjo dilo'' – Romanes for ''"Crazy Gadjo"'')The Romanian title of the film is ''Străinul nebun'', "The Crazy Foreigner". In a version subtitled in English by Heidi Wood, TVS Titra Film, offered by Netflix, the English title is ''The Crazy Stranger''. is a 1997 French-Romanian film directed and written by Tony Gatlif. Most of the film was shot at the village of Creţuleşti some kilometers from Bucharest and some of the actors are local Romani people. Plot Stéphane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania. He is looking for the singer Nora Luca, whom his father had heard all the time before his death. Wandering along a frozen road, he meets old Izidor, a Rom and tries to tell him of Nora Luca. Drunken Izidor only hears the handful of Romani words and takes Stéphane to his village, determined to teach the boy the Romani language. Stéphane believes that Izidor will take him to Nora Luca when the time has come, so he live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Hartner
Rona Hartner (born 9 March 1973, Bucharest) is a French-Romanian actress, painter and singer, of German ethnicity. She is best known for her role in Tony Gatlif's film Gadjo dilo. Hartner currently focuses on her music career, specializing in Gypsy music. Filmography * 1997: Gadjo dilo by Tony Gatlif * 1999: Children of the Stork by Tony Gatlif * 2000: Sauve-moi by Christian Vincent * 2002: Le Divorce by James Ivory * 2003: Time of the Wolf by Michael Haneke * 2011: Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi (; fa, مرجان ساتراپی ; born 22 November 1969) is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author. Her best-known works include the graphic novel ''Persepolis'' a ... External links * 1973 births Romanian actresses Living people 21st-century Romanian singers 21st-century Romanian women singers {{Romania-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nénette Et Boni
''Nénette'' is a 2010 French documentary film about a 40-year-old female orangutan living in the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes, (the zoo in Paris, France). The film, directed by Nicolas Philibert presents an intimate portrait of the ape, originally from Borneo, who has spent most of her life in captivity. In accord with the Cinéma vérité Cinéma vérité (, , ; "truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda. It combines improvisation with use of the camera to unveil truth or high ... style of Philibert's earlier works, the camera rests on Nénette and her son Tübo in their glass-fronted enclosure. We hear the conversations and see the reflections of the zoo visitors in the glass as they regard Nénette, a mother of four who has survived three mates. Reception Nenette has received positive reviews from critics, scoring 83% positive on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodbye (1995 Film)
''Goodbye'' or '' Tot Ziens! '' is a 1995 Dutch film directed by Heddy Honigmann. Cast *Johanna ter Steege Johanna ter Steege (born 10 May 1961) is a Dutch actress. She won the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in '' The Vanishing'' (1988). Among her other films are Robert Altman's ''Vincent & Theo'' (1990), István ... ... Laura * Guy Van Sande ... Jan * Els Dottermans ... Ann * Warre Borgmans ... Walter * Nelleke Zitman ... Ine * Stefan van de Staak ... Stefan * Cas Enklaar ... Dassenverkoper * Bart Klever ... Loketbeamte * Johan van Assche ... Journalist Brussel * Saskia Temmink ... Barbara * Nina Spijkers ... Clara References External links * 1995 films Dutch drama films 1990s Dutch-language films Films directed by Heddy Honigmann 1995 drama films {{Netherlands-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Ter Steege
Johanna ter Steege (born 10 May 1961) is a Dutch actress. She won the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in '' The Vanishing'' (1988). Among her other films are Robert Altman's ''Vincent & Theo'' (1990), István Szabó's ''Meeting Venus'' (1991) and '' Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe'' (1992), Bernard Rose's ''Immortal Beloved'' (1994), and Bruce Beresford's '' Paradise Road'' (1997). In 1993, she was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival and was awarded with the Berlinale Camera. In 1994, after Julia Roberts and Uma Thurman declined, Stanley Kubrick cast her for his adaptation of Louis Begley's novel ''Wartime Lies''. Kubrick abandoned the project after it became clear that Steven Spielberg's ''Schindler's List ''Schindler's List'' is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 novel ''Schindler's Ark'' by Australian n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personne Ne M'aime
Personne is a surname which may refer too: * Carl Personne (1888–1976), Swedish fencer * Jacques Personne (1816–1880), French pharmacologist and chemist *Nils Personne Lieutenant General Nils Birger Valdemar Personne (29 June 1918 – 26 August 2013) was a Swedish Air Force officer. Personne's senior commands includes Vice Chief of the Air Staff (1961–1966), commander of the 4th Air Group (1966), chief of st ... (1918–2013), Swedish Air Force lieutenant general * Pascale Fontenel-Personne (born 1962), French politician * Paul Personne (born 1949), French blues singer and guitarist {{DEFAULTSORT:Personne Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maaike Jansen
Maaike is a Dutch-language feminine given name, originally a diminutive of the name Maria. Notable people with the name include: * Maaike Aarts Maaike Aarts (born in Amsterdam, March 10, 1976) is a Dutch violinist. She is a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ( nl, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, ) is a Dutch symphony orchestra, based at the Ams ... (born 1976), Dutch violinist * Maaike Caelers (born 1990), Dutch triathlete * Maaike Polspoel (born 1989), Belgian cyclist * Maaike Schoorel (born 1973), Dutch artist * Maaike Schroeder (born 1971), Dutch cricketer * Maaike Smit (born 1966), Dutch wheelchair athlete * Maaike Vos (born 1985), Dutch speed skater * Maaike Petrie Faulstich (born 1977), Dutch Geologist {{Given name Dutch feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Laroque
Michèle Laroque (; born 15 June 1960) is a French actress, comedian, humorist, producer and screenwriter. Early life Michèle Laroque was born in Nice in the department of Alpes-Maritimes. She is the daughter of Romanian dancer and violinist Doina Trandabur, who fled to France to escape Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's regime in Communist Romania. Her father is French doctor Claude Laroque, who met Doina a year earlier during a tour. Michèle is also the niece of Pierre Laroque, the creator of Social Security in France. She studied economics and English, taking comedy classes at the same time in Antibes and then moving to America on a campus in Austin, Texas. In 1979, along with her best friend, she was victim of a car accident that resulted in two years of hospitalisation, a long convalescence and several months of reeducation. Following an extended coma and associated psychological trauma, she made the decision to become a comedian. Career She made her television début in 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
