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Michel Abramowicz
Michel Abramowicz is a French photographer and cinematographer. Career He studied at the Paris Diderot University. Since then he has shot feature films, commercials and video clips. The DVD version of Taken (film), Taken was distributed with a feature commentary to which he contributed. Selected filmography * 1990: La fille des collines * 1991: Annabelle partagée * 1993: Une journée chez ma mère * 1993: * 1995: État des lieux * 1997: La ballade de Titus * 2000: Capitães de Abril * 2002: Sueurs * 2003: Michel Vaillant (film), Michel Vaillant * 2005: Empire of the Wolves * 2007: Ha-Sodot * 2008: Taken (film), Taken * 2008: Sagan (film), Bonjour Sagan * 2010: From Paris with Love (film), From Paris with Love * 2010: The Matchmaker (2010 film), The Matchmaker * 2011: The Thing (2011 film), The Thing * 2012: Stars 80 * 2016: Past Life (film), Past Life * 2019: The Courier (2019 film), The Courier External links * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Abramowicz, Michel 1950 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the Bois de Boulogne, the area is composed of mostly select residential neighbourhoods, as well as many corporate headquarters and a handful of foreign embassies. One of the most affluent areas of France, it is the wealthiest and most expensive suburb of Paris. Together with the 16th arrondissement of Paris, 16th and 7th arrondissement of Paris, the town of Neuilly-sur-Seine forms the most affluent residential area in France. , it is the commune with the fourth highest median per capita income (€52,570 per year) in France. History Originally, Pont de Neuilly was a small hamlet under the jurisdiction of Villiers, a larger settlement mentioned in medieval sources as early as 832 and now absorbed by the commune of Levallois-Perret. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagan (film)
''Sagan'' is a 2008 French biographical film, directed by Diane Kurys, starring Sylvie Testud as French author Françoise Sagan and Pierre Palmade as a dancer and a society man, Jacques Chazot, who was very well known in France. The film starts in the mid-1950s as Sagan (then still known under her real name Quoirez) closes a publishing deal for her controversial debut novel '' Bonjour Tristesse''. The film then follows Sagan's road to fame, her drug abuse, alcoholism, and gambling, her hedonistic lifestyle spending too much and becoming poor, as well as several complex love affairs with both men and women. Cast * Sylvie Testud - Françoise Sagan * Pierre Palmade - Jacques Chazot * Jeanne Balibar - Peggy Roche * Arielle Dombasle - Astrid * Lionel Abelanski - Bernard Frank * Guillaume Gallienne - Jacques Quoirez * Denis Podalydès - Guy Schoeller * Bruno Wolkowitch - Philippe * Samuel Labarthe - René Julliard * Chantal Neuwirth - Madame Lebreton * Alexis Michal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Births
Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 aboard are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur. * January 6 – The UK recognizes the People's Republic of China; the Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response. * January 7 – A fire in the St Elizabeth's Ward of Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, United States, kills 41 patients. * January 9 – The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China. * January 12 – Submarine collides with Sweden, Swedish oil tanker ''Divina'' in the Thames Estuary and sinks; 64 die. * January 13 – Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier (2019 Film)
''The Courier'' is a 2019 action thriller film directed by Zackary Adler, from a screenplay by Andy Conway and Nicky Tate. It stars Olga Kurylenko, Gary Oldman, Amit Shah, Alicia Agneson, Greg Orvis, Craig Conway, William Moseley and Dermot Mulroney. The film was released in the United States on November 22, 2019, by Lionsgate and in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2019, by Signature Entertainment. Plot Ezekiel Mannings, a wealthy businessman and notorious crime lord who is under house arrest in New York, seeks the elimination of Nick Murch, the only witness who can tie him to a murder. Murch is sequestered in a heavily guarded safe room in London in order to give evidence against Mannings over a video link to the United States. An unnamed female courier and former special ops soldier delivers a package to the safe room, unaware that the package contains a cyanide gas weapon intended to kill Nick. She rescues Nick from the attack and discovers that his protection detail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Past Life (film)
''Past Life'' (Hebrew: החטאים) is a 2016 Israeli drama film written and directed by Avi Nesher and starring Nelly Tagar and Joy Rieger. It is based on Baruch Milch's memoir ''Can Heaven Be Void?'' The film is the first of Nesher's planned trilogy. Plot Two Israeli sisters, one a classical music composer and singer, and the other a budding journalist, try to find out what their father did during World War II in Poland, after a Polish woman runs up to one of them in a Berlin concert venue and calls her the daughter of a murderer. Cast * Nelly Tagar as Nana Milch-Kotler * as Sephi Milch * as Baruch Milch * Evgenia Dodina as Lusia Milch * Tom Avni as Jeremy Kotler * as Thomas Zielinski * as Agnieszka Zielinska Reception The film has a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com awarded ''Past Life'' three stars. Joseph Friar of '' The Victoria Advocate'' also gave ''Past Life'' three stars. Peter Goldberg of ''Slant Magazine'' gave ''Past Life'' two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stars 80
''Stars 80'' is a 2012 French comedy film directed by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann. Plot Cast * Richard Anconina as Vincent Richet * Patrick Timsit as Antoine Miller * Bruno Lochet as Willy References External Links * 2010s French films 2010s French-language films Warner Bros. films French comedy films 2012 comedy films {{2010s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Matchmaker (2010 Film)
''The Matchmaker'' (Hebrew: פעם הייתי, lit. "Once I Was") is a 2010 Israeli drama film written, directed and produced by Avi Nesher, based on the novel ''When Heroes Fly'' by award-winning author Amir Gutfreund. It premiered as an official selection at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and later that year won the Silver Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival. It received seven nominations for Israel's Ophir Awards in 2010, including Best Picture, where Adir Miller also won in the Best Actor category and Maya Dagan won in the Best Actress category. Synopsis The plot of the movie, except for the opening and closing scenes, takes place in Haifa over the course of one month in the summer of 1968. A special bond forms between Arik (played by Tuval Shafir), a 16-year-old boy, and Yaakov Bride (Adir Miller), a scarred matchmaker, bachelor, and Holocaust survivor. Bride and Arik’s father, Yuji (Dov Navon), were childhood friends in Romania, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Paris With Love (film)
''From Paris with Love'' is a 2010 English-language French action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The screenplay was co-written by Luc Besson. The film was released in the United States on February 5, 2010, by Lionsgate Films and both in the United Kingdom and Japan by Warner Bros. Pictures. Plot James Reese is an efficient and affable personal aide to the U.S. ambassador in France and after a brief morning chat, Reese quickly leaves, slips into the building's dark parking garage to switch license plates on his vehicle before successfully surveilling men speeding away. Reese is not only a personal aide, his side job is as an undercover CIA operative. Soon after leaving the parking lot, he is on the phone with his supervisor asking for promotion and his boss gives him another assignment -- delivering a top secret chip to the ambassador's office. Reese discovers the chip was placed in his jacket pocket and hides it as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ha-Sodot
''The Secrets'' () is a 2007 Israeli drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ... directed by Avi Nesher. Plot Noemi is a young devoted Jewish girl who has just lost her mother and who is close to celebrate a marriage imposed by her father. Maybe as a result of the recent lost or maybe because of her interest in the Scriptures, but also because of her lack of feelings towards the future husband (with whom she does not even like to spend time in the same room), the young girl asks her father for the possibility to keep studying the Torah by following a girl's seminary. Arrived at Safed college, she immediately makes friend with the other students except for the rebellious Michelle, who seems to lack every interest in studying. Yet, the seminary students are assign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitães De Abril
''April Captains'' () is a 2000 film telling the story of the Carnation Revolution, the military coup that overthrew the corporatist dictatorship (known as the ''Estado Novo'') in Portugal on 25 April 1974. Although dramatised, the plot is closely based on the events of the revolution and many of the key characters are real - such as Captain Salgueiro Maia and Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano. This European co-production was directed by Maria de Medeiros. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film opens on the evening of 24 April 1974, as a young conscript soldier (Daniel) kisses farewell to his girlfriend (Rosa) before boarding a train from Lisbon back to his Army base at Santarém. Both are fearful that he will be sent to fight in the Portuguese Colonial War. Late and depressed, Rosa then travels by tram to left-wing journalist/lecturer Antónia's flat to babysit for her daughter Amelia. On arriving back (late) at his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Of The Wolves
''Empire of the Wolves'' (French: ''L'Empire des loups'') is a 2005 French action drama film directed by Chris Nahon, written by Christian Clavier, Jean-Christophe Grangé, Chris Nahon and Franck Ollivier, and starring Jean Reno, Arly Jover, and Jocelyn Quivrin. Plot Arly Jover plays Anna Heymes, a stylish 31-year-old Parisian housewife, who experiences nightmares and hallucinations related to a series of gruesome murders in the city. At the same time, a duo of policemen, the unorthodox Schiffer (Jean Reno) and the cautious officer Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin), work to unravel the mystery surrounding the murders. The plot thickens when Anna discovers that she has been subjected to intensive reconstructive surgery, which concealed her Turkish heritage. A series of events escalates into a confrontation with the Turkish mafia and the death of Anna's would-be assassin. Cast * Jean Reno as Jean-Louis Schiffer * Arly Jover as Anna Heymes * Jocelyn Quivrin as Paul Nerteaux * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Vaillant (film)
''Michel Vaillant'' (also released as Need for Speed) is a 2003 French film starring Sagamore Stévenin and Diane Kruger. It depicts events around the 24 hours of Le Mans race, based largely on a comic about the Michel Vaillant character. The racing sequences were shot during the 2002 24 Hours of Le Mans. Plot For decades, Vaillante, run by the Vaillant family, has had a long history of success in various motor racing disciplines. Their most famous driver is Michel Vaillant, son of the team's founder and owner, Henri, and younger brother of the team's manager, Jean-Pierre. One night, Michel's mother Élisabeth has a nightmare of her son's death in an accident at the 24 Hours of Le Mans involving a car bearing the number 13 operated by Leader, a team with which Vaillante had a historic rivalry for more than a quarter of a century. Henri comforts her, assuring that the Vaillante team is not planning to race at Le Mans, that Leader has quit racing for 5 years, and that no one wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
