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Les Salauds
''Bastards'' (french: Les Salauds) is a 2013 thriller film directed by Claire Denis. It stars Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroianni. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Marco Silvestri is an oil tanker captain who works abroad and now has little contact with his sister, who is married to his best friend, Jacques, in Paris. He is divorced and his two daughters live with their mother in the Vendee. His sister, Sandra, asks him to return after her husband commits suicide, which he does, giving up his job. It emerges that Sandra and her husband’s women’s shoe manufacturing business, inherited from the father of Marco and Sandra (Marco gave them his share of the inheritance), faces bankruptcy. Also, Sandra’s daughter, Justine, has a history of drugs, alcohol and self-harming and is in hospital with internal injuries from sexual abuse and torture. The doctor is considering an operation but Justine wants to leave the hospital. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Denis
Claire Denis (; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film ''Beau Travail'' (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s, as well as of all time. Other acclaimed works include '' Trouble Every Day'' (2001), '' 35 Shots of Rum'' (2008), '' White Material'' (2009), '' High Life'' (2018) and '' Both Sides of the Blade'' (2022), the last of which won her the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival. For her film '' Stars at Noon'' (2022), Denis competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. She won the Grand Prix, sharing the award with Lukas Dhont's film ''Close''. Her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France, and continues to influence European cinematic identity. Early life Denis was born in Paris, but raised in colonial French Africa, where her father was a civil servant, living in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, French Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Subor
Michel Subor (, born Mischa Subotzki; 2 February 1935 – 17 January 2022) was a French actor who gained initial fame with the starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's second feature, ''Le petit soldat'' (1960), but the French government banned it until 1963 because of its political content, touching on terrorism during the undeclared Algerian War. He acted in a couple of American films in the late 1960s like as Claude Jade's husband in Alfred Hitchcock's '' Topaz''. In 1999, he once again played Forestier in '' Beau Travail'', a highly praised variation of '' Billy Budd'', directed by Claire Denis. He continued to work with her. Early life and education He was born as Mischa Subotzki in France in 1935, to anti-Bolshevik parents from the Soviet Union who had immigrated a few years earlier. His father was an engineer in Moscow, and his mother was born in Azerbaijan. Michel Subor has a sister who moved to the United States as an adult. Career His career started with small roles in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mubi (streaming Service)
Mubi (; stylized as MUBI; The Auteurs before 2010) is a global curated film streaming platform, production company and film distributor. Mubi produces and theatrically distributes films by emerging and established filmmakers, which are exclusively available on its platform. Additionally, it publishes ''Notebook'', a film criticism and news publication, and provides weekly cinema tickets to selected new-release films through Mubi Go. Mubi's streaming platform is available in over 190 countries on the web, Android TV, Chromecast Chromecast is a line of digital media players developed by Google. The devices, designed as small dongles, can play Internet-streamed audio-visual content on a high-definition television or home audio system. The user can control playback with ..., Roku devices, PlayStation, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and LG Electronics, LG and Samsung Electronics, Samsung Smart TVs, as well as on mobile devices including iPhone, iPad and Android (operating system), And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanctuary (Faulkner Novel)
''Sanctuary'' is a 1931 novel by American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of an upper-class Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. The novel was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough and established his literary reputation, but was controversial given its themes. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit, but this has been debated by scholars and Faulkner's own friends. The novel provided the basis for the films ''The Story of Temple Drake'' (1933) and ''Sanctuary'' (1961). It also inspired the novel '' No Orchids for Miss Blandish'' as well as the film of the same title and ''The Grissom Gang'', which derived from ''No Orchids for Miss Blandish''. The story of the novel can also be found in the 2007 film '' Cargo 200''. Faulkner later wrote ''Requiem for a Nun'' (1951) as a sequel to ''Sanctuary''. Plot summary The novel is set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature. Born in New Albany, Mississippi, Faulkner's family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a young child. With the outbreak of World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel '' Soldiers' Pay'' (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote '' Sartoris'' (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published ''The Sound and the Fury''. The following year, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV News
MTV News is the news production division of MTV. The service is available in the US with localized versions on MTV's global network. In February 2016, MTV Networks confirmed it would refresh the MTV News brand in 2016, to compete with the likes of BuzzFeed and Vice (magazine), ''Vice'', however by mid-2017 MTV News was significantly downsized due to cutbacks. MTV News content is available from respective MTV websites, Mobile apps, Apps, YouTube and on-air. In November 2018, MTV News began producing daily updates on Twitter titled ''MTV News: You Need To Know''. Now titled ''MTV News'' ''Need To Know,'' the show has evolved to a digital series that covers trending topics from pop culture to social justice issues to electoral politics and beyond. History MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program ''The Week in Rock'', hosted by Kurt Loder, the first official MTV News correspondent. Since 1990, the opening riff to Megadeth's "Peace Sells" has been the main opening theme fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bad Sleep Well
is a 1960 Japanese crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars Toshiro Mifune as a young man who gets a prominent position in a corrupt postwar Japanese company in order to expose the men responsible for his father's death. It has its roots in Shakespeare's ''Hamlet,'' while also doubling as a critique of corporate corruption. It is one of four films, along with '' Drunken Angel'' (1948), ''Stray Dog'' (1949) and '' High and Low'' (1963), in which Kurosawa explores the film noir genre. Like Kurosawa and Mifune's next two movies, '' Yojimbo'' (1961) and ''Sanjuro'' (1962), Mifune's character is "a lone hero fighting against overwhelming odds and corrupt authorities." Plot A group of news reporters watch and gossip, at an elaborate wedding reception held by the Public Development Corporation's Vice President Iw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it; he was involved with all aspects of film production. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film '' Sanshiro Sugata''. After the war, the critically acclaimed ''Drunken Angel'' (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then little-known actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another fifteen films. ''Rashomon'' (1950), which premiered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Dupond-Moretti
Éric Dupond-Moretti (born 20 April 1961) is a French-Italian lawyer and politician who was appointed Minister of Justice in 2020 by President Emmanuel Macron. As a criminal defence lawyer he is renowned for his record number of acquittals which earned him the nickname "Acquitator", some of the controversial figures he defended, as well as his outspoken personality. On 6 July 2020, Dupond-Moretti took office as Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex. His appointment came as a surprise to many political commentators. Dupond-Moretti has overseen a sharp increase in the budget devoted to the judiciary system following reports of lengthy procedures. He also successfully defended a bill in front of the French Parliament in order to strengthen the severity of the sentencing process, stating the judiciary response to minor offenses was "too weak to be effective". Early life Dupond-Moretti is the only son of Jean-Pierre Dupond, a meta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Fillières
Hélène Fillières (born 1 May 1972) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. She is the sister of filmmaker Sophie Fillières Sophie Fillières (born 20 November 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter who has written for more than fifteen film and television productions since 1991. Filmography References External links * 1964 births Living people .... Filmography As actress As director and screenwriter References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fillieres, Helene 1972 births Living people French film actresses French television actresses 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Film directors from Paris French women film directors French women screenwriters French screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Miossec
Christophe Miossec is a French singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964. Beginnings Christophe Miossec was not new to the world of music when he met his first great success. Between 14 and 17, he was in a teenage band, ''Printemps Noir'' ("Black Spring"), touring around Brest. After obtaining his ''Baccalauréat'' in literature, Miossec went to study history at the Brest University, and quickly got bored. He then worked some time for the paper ''Ouest France''. Journalism didn't suit him any better than history did, so he moved to Paris, and went from one little job to another for some time. He finally joined the French TV Station TF1 and worked there for two and a half years. Eventually, he began to think about turning back to music. In 1993, he had a critical meeting with guitarist Guillaume Jouan, which led the two to start working on an album. A year later, they were joined by the guitarist Bruno Leroux. ''Boire'' to ''Chansons ordinaire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Loiret Caille
Florence Loiret Caille (born 26 June 1975) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than sixty films since 1996. Filmography References External links * 1975 births Living people French film actresses {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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