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Philippe Blasband
Philippe Blasband (born 26 July 1964 in Tehran, Iran) is a filmmaker and a writer in French language from Belgium. He is of JewishGilman S. (2003) "We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature origin and lives in Brussels. Work Novels ** De cendres et de fumées, Gallimard (1990) - Prix Rossel ** L'Effet-cathédrale, Gallimard (1994) ** Max et Minnie, Gallimard (1996) ** Le Livre des Rabinovitch, Le Castor Astral (1998) ** Johnny Bruxelles, Grasset (2005) ** Irina Poignet, Le Castor Astral (2008), novel based on the scenario of Irina Palm Short stories ** Quand j'étais sumo (Le Castor Astral, 2000) Non-fiction ** Le petit garçon qui parlait dans les cocktails, Climax Editions (2007) - included in DVD edition of La couleur des mots Films (as writer) Short films ** Bon anniversaire, Sergent Bob (de Frédéric Fonteyne) ** les Vloems (1989) (de Frédéric Fonteyne) ** La Ballade de Billie (1989) (de Geneviève Mersch) ** ...
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Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ...
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La Femme De Gilles
''Gilles' Wife'' (french: La Femme de Gilles) is a 2004 drama film based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Madeleine Bourdouxhe. The film was directed by Frédéric Fonteyne and written by Fonteyne, Philippe Blasband and Marion Hänsel. It received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC). Cast *Emmanuelle Devos as Elisa * Clovis Cornillac as Gilles *Laura Smet as Victorine *Colette Emmanuelle Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known Mononymous person, mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a Mime artist, mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the ... as Elisa's mother * Gil Lagay as Elisa' father External links * * 2004 films Belgian drama films French drama films Luxembourgian drama films Italian drama films Swiss drama films Films based on Belgian novels 2000s French-language films French-language Swiss films French-language ...
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One Thousand And One Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian Nights'', from the first English-language edition (), which rendered the title as ''The Arabian Nights' Entertainment''. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central and South Asia, and North Africa. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic literature, Arabic, Egyptian literature, Egyptian, Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit, Persian literature, Persian, and Mesopotamian myths, Mesopotamian literature. Many tales were originally folk stories from the Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid and Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), Mamluk eras, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Middle Persian literature#"Pahlavi" literature, Pahlavi Persian ...
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Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna Hall, Susanna, and twins Hamnet Shakespeare, Hamnet and Judith Quiney, Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, ...
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Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, ''Macbeth'' most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and ...
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Anne Girouard
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'.See entry on "Anne" in th''Behind the Name'' databaseand th"Anne"an"Ane"entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton). Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: . As a feminine name Anne * Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary * Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665–1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–07) and ...
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Motherly (2009 Film)
''Motherly'' (french: Maternelle) is a 2009 Belgian comedy-drama film directed by Philippe Blasband. The film tells the story of Viviane, who after the death of her mother, gets visits from her ghost. The film received two nominations at the 1st Magritte Awards. References External links * Belgian comedy-drama films 2009 comedy-drama films 2000s French-language films 2009 comedy films 2009 drama films 2009 films French-language Belgian films {{Belgium-film-stub ...
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Yolande Moreau
Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won three César Awards from four nominations. Career She made her cinematic debut with director Agnès Varda in two movies: Sept pièces (1984) and Vagabond (1985). In 1989, she joined Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeieff's troupe, of which she became one of the stars, especially on the TV programme, ''Les Deschiens''. She played La Levaque in Germinal (1993) directed by Claude Berri, a concierge in the film ''Amélie'' (2001) and Mama Chow in '' Micmacs'' (2009) (both directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet), a mime in ''Paris, Je T'aime'' (2006) and a lovesick woman in ''Vagabond'' (1985) directed by Agnès Varda. She made her directorial debut with the movie When the Sea Rises, which she co-wrote and starred in. The movie was acclaimed by critics, and Yolande Moreau won two César Awards for Best Debut and Best Actress. Moreau stars in the French horror thriller film '' The ...
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Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (; 1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Life and career Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux. Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in '' Gigi''. In 1955 he appeared in ''La Pointe Courte'' ...
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Step By Step (2002 Film)
''Step by Step'' or ''Un honnête commerçant'' is a 2002 Belgium comedy - thriller film directed by Philippe Blasband. Plot The police question Hubert Verkamen, suspected of having killed an entire family. Despite presenting himself as an honest merchant, the cops know perfectly well that he is nothing but a dangerous drug dealer. Having never succeeded in catching him, they rejoice at finally having the opportunity to arrest him and try every means to make him talk, to wear him down. But nothing works; the manipulation is not where it was expected. Cast * Benoît Verhaert as Hubert Verkamen * Philippe Noiret as Louis Chevalier * Yolande Moreau as Inspector Chantal Bex * Frédéric Bodson as Inspector Jean Denoote * Serge Larivière as Inspector Patrice Mercier * Patrick Hastert as Raoul * Olindo Bolzan as Jean-François Samson * Michel Bogen as Jean-Louis * Michel Kacenelenbogen as Jean-Louis * Nathalie Laroche as Nadine Verkamen * Nicolas Combe as Francis * Rachid Benbouch ...
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The Assistant (2015 Film)
''The Assistant'' (original title: ''La Volante'') is a 2015 drama-thriller film directed by Christophe Ali and Nicolas Bonilauri and starring Nathalie Baye and Malik Zidi. Plot One night, while driving his pregnant wife Audrey to the hospital, Thomas accidentally knocks down and kills a young man on the road. Several years later, Marie-France, the mother of the deceased man, is still unable to recover from the tragedy. She becomes a personal assistant for Thomas, who remains completely unaware of her identity. Soon, Marie-France carries out a methodical plan, making herself become indispensable to Thomas, while interfering in his family affairs and also approaching his son Léon. Cast * Nathalie Baye as Marie-France Ducret * Malik Zidi as Thomas Lemans * Johan Leysen Johan Leysen (19 February 1950 – 30 March 2023) was a Belgian actor. He appeared in more than 130 films and television shows from 1977. He starred in the film '' De grens'', which was screened in the Un Ce ...
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Jirô Taniguchi
was a Japanese manga writer/artist. His works belong to the gekiga, or "dramatic pictures", genre of manga. In France he was knighted a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011. Career Taniguchi began his career as an assistant of manga artist Kyuuta Ishikawa. He made his manga debut in 1970 with ''Kareta Heya'' (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic. From 1978 to 1986, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as ''City Without Defense'', ''The Wind of the West is White'' and ''Lindo 3''. From 1987 to 1996, Taniguchi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the 5-volume series ''Botchan no Jidai''. In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which were , '', and . From 1980 to 1983, he collaborated with Garon Tsuchiya for the manga , and . He illustrated Baku Yumemakura’s works, '' Garouden'' from 1989 to 1990 and ''Kamigami no itadaki'' (The Summit of the Gods) from 2000 to 2003. He later receive ...
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