Sentences with phrase «french film about a woman»

Paul Verhoeven's reputation as a master of provocation was certainly burnished by this French film about a woman — Isabelle Huppert, earning her first Oscar nomination with a performance that's equal parts scary and seductive — who survives a rape in her own home and then spends the rest of the film setting a leisurely trap for her unseen attacker.

Not exact matches

Sharing honors from the Society Dramatic Authors and Composers, given annually to a French film in Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong places.

French actress and film director Julie Delpy who received the European Achievement in World Cinema award talks about her career, the struggles and challenges as a woman in a male - dominated industry, and about #MeToo - in our exclusive video interview

At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the role, what it was like having the opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share in common, what she looks for in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate between big movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

My favorite piece of the film happens to be the last, directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt), which features a middle - aged American woman traveling alone, with a voiceover done entirely in French with a thick American accent, commenting from her humble - but - naive American perspective on Parisian life.