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The Nature Of Love
''The Nature of Love'' (french: Simple comme Sylvain) is a 2023 Canadian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Monia Chokri."Simple comme Sylvain, de Monia Chokri, ira à Cannes" Ici Radio-Canada, April 13, 2023. The film had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at the on 18 May 2023. Plot University professo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monia Chokri
Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982) is a Canadian actress and film director. Life and career Born in Quebec City in 1982, she began her acting career after she completed her studies at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 2005. Her mother is of Scottish origin through Scandinavian ancestors, while her father is descended from Tunisian Berber roots. In addition to having played in several theatre productions in Montreal, she has received notable roles in films presented at the Cannes Film Festival directed by Québécois filmmakers who are better known outside of Canada, namely Denys Arcand and Xavier Dolan. In '' Heartbeats'', she played Marie, a young woman who falls in love with the same man as her gay male best friend Francis, played by Dolan, who also directed. The quality of her acting has been noted by critics, notably in Les Inrockuptibles and Le Monde. At the end of 2010, the readers of Les Inrockuptibles named her #4 on their list of the top actresses of the year fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Beaulieu
Christine Beaulieu is a Canadian actress and playwright from Quebec. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards, for her performance in ''The Mirage (Le Mirage)'', and was again a Prix Iris nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for '' Norbourg''. She won the Gémeaux Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2020 for her regular role as Josiane in ''Lâcher prise ''Lâcher prise'', also known in English as ''Freefall'' or ''Let Go'', is a Canadian television comedy series, which premiered in 2017 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borsos Competition
The Borsos Competition is the main awards program for Canadian feature films screening at the annual Whistler Film Festival. Introduced for the first time in 2004, the juried competition presents six awards annually to honour films, actors, screenplays, directors, cinematographers and editors in Canadian cinema. The award is named in memory of Canadian film director Phillip Borsos.Alexandra Gill, "Whistler film festival launches Borsos award". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...'', December 4, 2004. The festival also presents several other awards, which are not part of the Borsos Competition. Best Canadian Feature Film Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film From 2006 to 2010, separate awards were presented for actors and actresses. Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whistler Film Festival
The Whistler Film Festival (WFF) is an annual film festival held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 2001, the festival is held the first weekend of December and includes juried competitive sections, the Borsos Awards, and the Pandora Audience Award. A conference for the Canadian film industry, known as the Whistler Summit, is organised in connection with the film festival. The festival has built up a reputation as one of the most important Canadian film festivals despite its location in a much smaller community than most of the other major festivals, particularly as a premiere venue for Canadian independent films.Norman Wilner"Five buzzy films to stream at the Whistler Film Festival" ''Now'', December 1, 2020. Some film critics have even gone so far as to suggest that the festival is emerging as Canada's equivalent to the influential American Sundance Film Festival. As of 2015, the Whistler Film Festival bills itself as "Canada's coolest film festival" and has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Têtu (magazine)
Têtu (, French for "stubborn") is the main LGBTQIA magazine published in France. It was subtitled in French ( en, the magazine of gays and lesbians) until 2007, and reaffirmed itself as a men's magazine since then. As of December, 2012, its certified circulation was of 41,961 copies monthly. Publication stopped in 2015 until the magazine was reborn and issued its next issue on 28 February 2017. History Published since 1995, co-founded by Didier Lestrade and Pascal Loubet, and historically directed by Pierre Bergé, ''Têtu'' was started following the demise of ''Gai Pied'' magazine (published between 1979 and 1992). Pierre Bergé sold the magazine in January 2013 and since then it has been owned by Jean-Jacques Augier. ''Têtu'' declared bankruptcy in January 2015 and went into liquidation in July 2015 having made €1.1million ($1.2million) in losses in 2014. In November 2015 a French start-up, Idyls, bought ''Têtu'' and it started publishing again online only. Overview ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Jankélévitch
Vladimir Jankélévitch (; 31 August 1903 – 6 June 1985) was a French philosopher and musicologist. Biography Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France. In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris, under Professor Bergson. In 1924 he completed his DES thesis (', roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) on ''Le Traité : la dialectique. Ennéade I 3 de Plotin'' under the direction of Émile Bréhier.Alan D. Schrift, ''Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers'', John Wiley & Sons, 2009, pp. 140–1. From 1927 to 1932 he taught at the , where he wrote his doctorate on Schelling. He returned to France in 1933, where he taught at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and at many universities, including Toulouse and Lille. In 1941 he joined the French Resistance. After the war, in 1951, he was appointed to the chair of Moral Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I after 1971), where he taught until 1978. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She is best known for her writings on race, feminism, and class. The focus of hooks's writing was to explore the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She published around 40 books, including works that ranged from essays and poetry to children's books. She published numerous scholarly articles, appeared in documentary films, and participated in public lectures. Her work addressed love, race, class, gender, art, history, sexuality, mass media, and feminism. She began her academic career in 1976 teaching English and ethnic studies at the University of Southern California. She later taught at several institutions including Stanford University, Yale Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plato
Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. He has also shaped religion and spirituality. The so-called neoplatonism of his interpreter Plotinus greatly influenced both Christianity (through Church Fathers such as Augustine) and Islamic philosophy (through e.g. Al-Farabi). In modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche diagnosed Western culture as growing in the shadow of Plato (famously calling Christianity "Platonism for the masses"), while Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom At The Farm
''Tom at the Farm'' (french: Tom à la ferme) is a 2013 Canadian psychological thriller film directed by and starring Xavier Dolan. The film is based on the play of the same name by Michel Marc Bouchard, who co-wrote the screenplay with Dolan. It was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013, and also at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. At Venice, the film won the FIPRESCI Prize. ''Tom at the Farm'' was also nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. Plot When his boyfriend Guillaume dies at 25, Tom, a youthful advertising editor from Montreal, visits Guillaume's rural community to deliver a eulogy at the funeral. He meets Guillaume's mother Agathe Longchamp, who does not know Guillaume was gay and that Tom was his lover. When Tom agrees to stay at the farm house, he is surprised when Agathe tells him Guillaume has a brother, Francis. Later that night, Tom is awakened by Francis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan-Tadros (; born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and costume designer. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, ''I Killed My Mother'' (), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program."Québécois filmmaker electrifies Cannes" . '''', 25 May 2009. Since 2009, he has written and dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Extraordinary Person
''An Extraordinary Person'' (french: Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Monia Chokri and released in 2013.Julie Ledoux"Le court métrage Quelqu’un d’extraordinaire de Monia Chokri en compétition au Festival du film de Locarno" ''Voir'', July 17, 2013. The film stars Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Sarah, a brilliant academic who suffers from severe social anxiety but must cope with seeing many old friends at her colleague's engagement party."Chutes extraordinaires et royaumes mortels: 7 courts métrages québécois de La distributrice de films". ''24 images'', Vol. 172 (June/July 2015). The film's cast also includes Anne Dorval, Sophie Cadieux, Evelyne Brochu, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Laurence Leboeuf, Marilyn Castonguay and Anne-Marie Cadieux. The film premiered at the 2013 Locarno Festival, and was named in the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list as one of the ten best Canadian short films of 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
