(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
second feature by British writer / director Peter Strickland, Berberian Sound Studio is named after the film's setting: a
fictional Italian post-production studio doing the post-synched audio recording for a particularly nasty 1976 giallo film titled The Equestrian Vortex.
Playing on the Barclays Center's «Oculus» screen through March 5 as part of the Public Art Fund's «Commercial Break» series, Meriem Bennani's 30 -
second video piece «Your Year by Fardaous Funjab,»
features an «advertisement» for the artist's
fictional hijab design.