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La Petite Jérusalem
''Little Jerusalem'' () is a 2005 France, French Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Karin Albou. Albou's film depicts how the conflict between the rational and the irrational drives the relationships within a Jewish family living in the outskirts of Paris. Plot Laura, (Fanny Valette), is a young orthodox Jewish philosophy student who lives with her older sister Mathilde (Elsa Zylberstein), Mathilde's husband Ariel, their four children and her Tunisian mother in an apartment on the outskirts of Paris. Despite her mother's attempts to marry her off Laura is devoted to Immanuel Kant, Kantian reasoning and has decided to live a life based on rules with no room for love. Feeling confined by her brother-in-law Laura dreams of getting an apartment in the centre of Paris. Mathilde meanwhile is happy with her life until she discovers a hair on her husband's coat. After she confronts him he admits he has been having an affair. Mathilde decides to divorce him and tells Laur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Albou
Karin Albou is a French-Algerian female director, writer, editor, producer and actress. Early life Karin Albou was born on March 12, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine to History of the Jews in Algeria, Jewish Algerian immigrant parents. Her mother was only 16 when she was born. In 1999 she moved to Tunisia. A year later, she returned to Paris and started her career as a filmmaker and as a writer. As a child, Albou was always involved with dance and singing. After high school, Karin continued to study dance, but also studied literature and drama, eventually enrolling in a film school in Paris. She studied screenwriting but discovered she wanted to be a director while taking classes at École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle. After graduating, she released her first short film, ''Hush!.'' Career Albou made her feature film debut in 2005 with ''Little Jerusalem (film), Little Jerusalem,'' which debuted in the International Critics' Week section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and highly discussed figures in modern Western philosophy. In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, Kant argued that space and time are mere "forms of intuition" that structure all experience and that the objects of experience are mere "appearances". The nature of things as they are in themselves is unknowable to us. Nonetheless, in an attempt to counter the philosophical doctrine of Philosophical skepticism, skepticism, he wrote the ''Critique of Pure Reason'' (1781/1787), his best-known work. Kant drew a parallel to the Copernican Revolution#Immanuel Kant, Copernican Revolution in his proposal to think of the objects of experience as confo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Critics' Week
Critics' Week (), until 2008 called International Critics' Week ('), is a parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. History Critics' week was created in 1962, after the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics' successful campaign for Shirley Clarke's ''The Connection (1961 film), The Connection'' to be screened at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. It is the oldest non-official Cannes sidebar. Critics' Week's objective is to discover and support new talents, showcasing first and second feature films by directors worldwide. Bernardo Bertolucci, Philip Kaufman, Ken Loach, Tony Scott, Agnieszka Holland, Leos Carax, Wong Kar-wai, Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Audiard, Arnaud Desplechin, Gaspar Noé, François Ozon, Andrea Arnold, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Julia Ducournau, Justine Triet, all began at Critics' Week. Since its creation in 1990 and until 2010, there was no jury at Critics' Week. Journalists of all nationalities were in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Cannes Film Festival
The 58th Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 May and ran until 22 May 2005. Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica served as jury president for the main competition. Cécile de France hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Belgian filmmakers Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Dardenne brothers, won the Palme d'Or for the second time with the drama film ''L'Enfant (film), L'Enfant''. The festival opening film was ''Lemming (film), Lemming'' directed by Dominik Moll, while ''Chromophobia (film), Chromophobia'' directed by Martha Fiennes was the closing film. Juries Main competition * Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker - Jury President * Fatih Akın, Turkish-German filmmaker * Javier Bardem, Spanish actor * Nandita Das, Indian actress * Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress * Benoît Jacquot, French filmmaker * Toni Morrison, American author * Agnès Varda, French filmmaker * John Woo, Hong Kong filmmaker ''Un Certain Regard'' *Alexander Payne, American filmmak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salah Teskouk
''Salah'' (, also spelled ''salat'') is the practice of formal worship in Islam, consisting of a series of ritual prayers performed at prescribed times daily. These prayers, which consist of units known as ''rak'ah'', include a specific set of physical postures, recitation from the Quran, and prayers from the Sunnah, and are performed while facing the direction towards the Kaaba in Mecca (''qibla''). The number of ''rak'ah'' varies depending on the specific prayer. Variations in practice are observed among adherents of different ''madhahib'' (schools of Islamic jurisprudence). The term ''salah'' may denote worship in general or specifically refer to the obligatory prayers performed by Muslims five times daily, or, in some traditions, three times daily.Jafarli, Durdana. "The historical conditions for the emergence of the Quranist movement in Egypt in the 19th-20th centuries." МОВА І КУЛЬТУРА (2017): 91. The obligatory prayers play an integral role in the Islamic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Marthouret
François Marthouret (born 12 September 1943) is a French actor. He is best known for playing Paul Lescaut in the French police drama series ''Julie Lescaut ''Julie Lescaut'' is a French police television series created by Alexis Lecaye. It was broadcast from 1992 to 2014 on TF1 (France), La Une-RTBF (Belgium) and TSR (Switzerland). It details the investigations of Police Superintendent Julie Lesca ...''. Selected filmography Theater References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marthouret, Francois 1943 births Living people Male actors from Paris French male film actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurore Clément
Aurore Clément (; born 12 October 1945) is a French actress who has appeared in French and English language movies and television productions. Early life She was born Marie-Thérèse Aurore Louise Clément in Soissons. Following the death of her father while she was still a young girl, she worked to support her family. For a time, she modeled in Paris. Since her appearance in Louis Malle's 1974 film '' Lacombe Lucien'', she has been cast in many roles in over five decades. Career Clément has appeared in more than 80 films and is most often remembered as the character Anne in the film ''Paris, Texas'' (1984), which won the ''Palme d'Or'' at the Cannes Film Festival. Her first appearance in a U.S. movie was in ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979), but her scenes—a long sequence involving French former colonists—were eventually cut from the film and restored in 2001 in the '' Redux'' version. In France, Clément made her stage debut in 1988 with ''The Singular Life of Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cohen (French Actor)
Michael Cohen or Mike Cohen may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Michael D. Cohen (actor) (born 1975), Canadian actor * Michael Cohen (American musician) (1951–1997), 1970s singer-songwriter * Michaël Cohen (born 1970), French actor * Michael Cohen (Israeli musician) (born 1986), Israeli rapper and record producer Education * Michael A. Cohen, director of the graduate program in International Affairs at The New School * Michael D. Cohen (academic) (1945–2013), professor of complex systems, information and public policy at the University of Michigan * Michael Cohen, regent of the University of California Law * Michael Cohen (lawyer) (born 1966), American former attorney who was U.S. president Donald Trump's personal lawyer * Michael H. Cohen, American attorney, professor, and author Science and technology * Michael Cohen (doctor) (1937–2018), doctor of dental medicine who first identified Proteus syndrome * Michael Cohen (pharmacist), president of the Institute for S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Tahar
Sonia, Sonja or Sonya, a name of Greek origin meaning wisdom, may refer to: People * Sonia (name), a feminine given name (lists people named, Sonia, Sonja and Sonya) :* Sonia (actress), Indian film actress in Malayalam and Tamil films :* Sonia (singer), British pop singer Sonia Evans :* Sonia, pen name of Ottavia Vitagliano (1894–1975), an Italian writer :* Sonia, code-name of Ursula Kuczynski, also known as Beurton, a spy for the USSR :*Queen Sonja of Norway (born 1937) :* Sonia Ben Ammar, French fashion model, actress and singer known mononymously as SONIA * Sonia people, an ethnic group on the Great Papuan Plateau of Papua New Guinea Other * Sonia, the allied code name for the Mitsubishi Ki-51, Japanese WW2 era bomber * SONIA, Sterling OverNight Index Average, a financial market rate * ''Sonia'' (album), a 1991 album by Sonia Evans * ''Sonia'' (1921 film), a British silent film * ''Sonia'' (1986 film), a Canadian drama film * ''Sonja'' (film), a 1943 Swedish film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Todeschini
Bruno Todeschini (born 19 September 1962) is a Franco-Swiss actor. Life and career Todeschini studied at L'école supérieure d'art dramatique in Genève and after graduating in 1986, he joined the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, directed by Patrice Chéreau. He has since then been appearing on television ('' Les Rois maudits'', 2005) and in films, many directed by Chéreau. Personal life Todeschini has a child from a previous relationship, a son named Romain, born in 1997. He is married to actress Sophie Broustal, with whom he has a daughter, Paloma, born in August 2003. He is fluent in French and Italian. Selected filmography * 1987 – '' Hôtel de France'' * 1992 – '' The Sentinel'' * 1994 – '' Coming to Terms with the Dead'' * 1995 – '' El pasajero clandestino'' * 1997 – '' Comanche Territory'' * 1998 – '' Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train'' * 2000 – '' Le Libertin'' * 2002 – '' A Private Affair'' * 2003 – '' His Brother'' * 2004 – '' Olgas So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
