Sentences with phrase «french language films»

Note: Two Days, One Night is a French language film with English subtitles.

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Whatever the case, French literature and later film strengthened the stereotype of the French language and culture being associated with love and romance.

Like fellow French - Canadian drama Incendies (see below) the previous year, Monsieur Lazhar earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign - language film.

In Clare Peploe's English - language film version, which opens today in New York and Los Angeles, Marivaux's trademark banter — what the French call «marivaudage» — is blunted, but his jaunty, slightly decadent spirit is well served by the director and her superb cast.

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

Prior to that, he produced and starred in Phil Morrison's black comedy ALL IS BRIGHT alongside Paul Rudd and lent his vocal talents to the English - language version of the Oscar - nominated French animated feature, ERNEST & CELESTINE, and the highly anticipated feature - film adaptation of THE LITTLE PRINCE, directed by Mark Osborne.

Yes, an English - language version of the film will be made available, but only the most subtitle - phobic moviegoers could feel justified in skipping the work of the film's original French - language cast.

She also starred in Jean - Paul Salome's French - language film, ARSÉNE LUPIN.

This French - language film did not make the cut of the five nominated 2017 films for Best Foreign Language Film.

The French - language film from Marie Noelle was co-written by Marie Noelle and Andrea Stoll.

Granted by France's Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers, the SACD Award for best French - language film went to Pierre Salvadori's screwball crime romcom «The Trouble with You.»

Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years as Artistic Director, Edouard Waintrop leaves the Directors» Fortnight (the section that gave us The Florida Project and a Claire Denis comedy in 2017) with what appears to be a program of genre - friendly firecracker line - up items.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

More than anything else, in fact, the look and episodic composition of the film reminded me of Wojciech Has's The Saragossa Manuscript, a Polish film based on a Polish writer's French - language novel set in Spain (that's no doubt as European as it gets).

She has starred in a number of French - language films in the years since, but this is the first to be released in the United States.

French love story «Blue Is the Warmest Color» won in all categories it was nominated for, including foreign language film and young actor / actress for the film's lead, Adele Exarchopoulos.

The case of the DVD, which is available tomorrow from New York - based limited distributor Zeitgeist Films, declares, «Despite some mild bad language in French, this film is appropriate for children.»

The nomination tally is led by two Cannes winners (Stranger By the Lake in 2013, Mommy in 2014) and both French - language films.

She must get a lot of offers, because she also has had a successful career in French - language film.

For his first film made outside his native country, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi unveils his latest exercise in domestic unrest with the French language The Past.

Guillaume Canet) Cast: Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts While director Guillaume Canet has never had his films figure into the Cannes lineup, the status of «Blood Ties» as a remake of the French - language «Les liens du sang,» has the benefit of recent festival favorites like Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts in the cast, and perhaps most crucially, a script co-written by James Gray.

The traditional royalty slot of the 7 pm premiere on the first Saturday is reserved this time for French director Eva Husson's sophomore feature GIRLS OF THE SUN, while the first English - language competition film doesn't screen until the second half of the festival.

At first I questioned the decision to release the French horror flick, High Tension, in the United States dubbed instead of subtitled, as most foreign language films released here would be.

On top of what reads as an almost encyclopaedic account of English - language writing on and debates around mise en scène, Martin offers appropriate engagement with French film scholarship — both in translation and in the original — plus the thriving world of trans - national Spanish - language film criticism.

Timbuktu Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Running time: 96 minutes Certificate: PG - 13 Nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars, this French - Mauritanian drama follows a family who try to avoid the suffering and violence of incoming jihadists.

With the French - language Elle, Paul Verhoeven, cinema's defining subversive craftsman, returned to features after a decade - long break and delivered what is arguably his darkest and most caustic film.

The Cannes Film Festival is opening with a Spanish - language film — a psychological thriller starring Penelope Cruz — the first time since 2004 that the star - studded event is kicking off with a movie that's not in English or French.

French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's Lover For a Day heads to theaters after playing at the New York and Chicago film festivals this fall, while Cohen Media Group is opening Lebanon's The Insult, which is shortlisted in the foreign language category.

Both the LA and NY groups chose «The Social Network» as best picture and «Carlos» as best (and most) foreign - language film — all five and a half hours and 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish (with a Venezuelan accent), various dialects of Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Italian... LAFCA left no doubt about its esteem for both movies, with «Carlos» coming in as first runner - up for best picture and Fincher and Assayas sharing the director's prize.

One note of interest, however, is that although the DVD allows you to switch between three language tracks (Italian, English, and French) and offers two subtitle tracks (French, English), the only portion of the film that actually has subtitles encoded for it is a brief moment towards the beginning that translates the sign on a building.

The two are starring in the English language remake of the popular French film, «The Intouchables.»

The film is the second French - language adaptation of the classic fable following Jean Cocteau's 1946 version.

A French director working with British actors and pre-WWI German setting could theoretically make a film that rises above Europudding mediocrity, but that potential goes unrealized by «A Promise,» Patrice Leconte's unpromising first foray into English - language filmmaking.

(No alternate English - language titles are generally provided for French - language films here, but that translates as You're Sleeping Nicole.)

Two French - language films might seem a bit excessive — unless, that is, you've actually seen these two.

Esther Kahn, the first English - language film from French director Arnaud Desplechin, attributes great performances to an alchemy of approaches.

The Los Angeles critics arrived at a tie for foreign - language film, splitting the award between the French «BPM» and the Russian «Loveless.»

The film comes with optional French and Spanish language tracks and optional French, English and Spanish subtitles.

For those of us yet to make our first feature in our mother tongue, consider this Spanish film is Farhadi's 2nd non-Persian language outing (The Past, in French, was the other).

This term, which gave the film its original title, is the French language equivalent for «Day for Night», the technique of shooting in daylight but making it look like night through a combination of filters, under - exposure and specific printing techniques.

Ever since the French filmmaker Leos Carax announced Annette as his next film, the project has seemed just too strange to survive the often perilous road to financing and production: an English - language musical from the director of The Lovers On The Bridge and Holy Motors, with original songs by the cult art - pop duo...

Criterion's «Director Approved» release includes the French - language documentaries Making of by Raphael Duroy (a 26 - minute portrait with Olivier Assayas, Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche) and Inventory (a 50 - minute doc about the film's unique and personal approach to art) and an original 28 - minute, English - language interview with Assayas discussing his inspirations and aspirations for the film.

Sometimes you have to wonder what goes into creating a unique language for a film, beside the obvious borrowed words from French and Spanish.

It's joined by Guillermo del Toro's love fantasy The Shape of Water, Jordan Peele's prescient horror film Get Out, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedyLady Bird and the French - language ACT UP drama BPM (Beats Per Minute).

Xavier Dolan, the French - Canadian director of such films as Mommy, Laurence Anyways and Tom at the Farm, is exploring such a correspondence with his first English - language feature, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.

That 2015 French animated film received an English - language treatment for Netflix, and featured Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams and Paul Rudd.

Julie Delpy in Before Midnight, another French actress but acting in an English language film, has never been nominated for Actress though this could be her year.

This ambitious black comedy is the first English - language film from Marjane Satrapi, the French - Iranian director of 2007's Oscar - nominated animation Persepolis.

- New, restored 4K digital transfer of the English - language version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray - Alternate French - language version of the film - Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin - Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif - New interview with actor Norman Eshley - Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant - New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas - An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum