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Home Front (2020 Film)
''Home Front'' (; ) is a 2020 French drama film directed by Lucas Belvaux adapted by a novel of Laurent Mauvignier. It was selected to be shown at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Synopsis They were sent to Algeria during the "events" in 1960. Two years later, Bernard, Rabut, Février, and others returned to France. They remained silent and lived their lives. But sometimes, it takes almost nothing, like a winter birthday or a small gift, for the past to suddenly come back into the lives of those who thought they could deny it, even forty years later. Cast * Gérard Depardieu as Feu-de-Bois * Catherine Frot as Solange * Jean-Pierre Darroussin Jean-Pierre Darroussin (born 4 December 1953) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France. Theater Filmography Actor *1992: '' Riens du tout'' (directed by Cédric Klapisch starring Fabrice Luchini, Daniel Berlioux ... as Rabut * Edouard Sulpice as young Rabut Release * Label Festival de Cannes 2020 * An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Belvaux
Lucas Belvaux (; born 14 November 1961) is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the ''Trilogie'', consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. The three films are '' Cavale'', a thriller; '' Un couple épatant'', a comedy; and , a melodrama. The ''Trilogie'' received the André Cavens Award. His film '' La Raison du plus faible'' was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His film '' One Night (38 témoins)'' was nominated for seven Magritte Awards, winning Best Screenplay. He also appeared as an actor in the film ''Merry Christmas'' (2005). He is the brother of Rémy Belvaux and Bruno Belvaux. Filmography As director/writer As actor * 1981: '' Allons Z'Enfants'' * 1982: '' The Trout'' * 1983: '' The Death of Mario Ricci'' * 1985: '' Chicken with Vinegar'' * 1985: '' Hurlevent'' * 1991: ''Madame Bovary ''Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners'' (; ), com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Mauvignier
Laurent Mauvignier (born in 1967, Tours) is a French writer. He is the brother of the director Thierry Mauvignier. Biography After studying visual arts at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Laurent Mauvignier decided to become a writer in the 1990s following the advice of Tanguy Viel, a friend and novelist. To date, he published all his works at the éditions de Minuit, where along with Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Marie NDiaye or Éric Chevillard, Laurent Mauvignier is associated with the so-called « Style es éditions deMinuit ». Works Novels *''Loin d'eux'', éditions de Minuit, 1999, – Prix Fénéon 2000 *''Apprendre à finir'', éditions de Minuit, 2000, – Prix Wepler 2001; Inter Book Prize 2001 *''Ceux d'à côté'', éditions de Minuit, 2002, *''Plus sale, Inventaire-invention'', 2002, *''Seuls'', éditions de Minuit, 2004, *''Le Lien'', éditions de Minuit, 2005, *''Dans la foule'', éditions de Minuit, 2006, – Prix du roman Fnac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (, , ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor. An icon of French cinema, considered a world star in the same way as Alain Delon or Brigitte Bardot, he has completed over 250 films since 1967, most of which as a lead actor. He is also a film producer, businessman, vineyard owner, and occasional director. Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors including François Truffaut, Bertrand Blier, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci. He is the second highest-grossing actor in the history of French cinema behind Louis de Funès. His body of work also includes many television productions, several records and, as of 2025, 19 stage plays and 9 books. He is known for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures including Cyrano de Bergerac, Georges Danton, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Christopher Columbus, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dantès, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Cannes Film Festival
The 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival was scheduled to take place from 12 to 23 May 2020. On 13 January 2020, Spike Lee was named as the president of the Jury. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, festival management announced on 14 April 2020 that the festival could not be held in its "original form", with alternative means of observing the festival being explored. It was cancelled for the first time since 1968. Earlier, festival management considered holding the festival in June or July, after not cancelling the event. In mid-March, the festival's main venue, the Grand Auditorium '' Louis Lumière'', was converted into a temporary homeless shelter. In May 2020, it was announced that no physical edition of the festival would take place, but a revised Official Selection of films was confirmed on 3 June 2020. Before announcing the list of films from the official selection, Thierry Frémaux the director of the Cannes Film Festival, said in an interview that he was talk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Frot
Catherine Frot (; born 1 May 1956) is a French actress. A 10-time César Award nominee, she won the awards for Best Actress for '' Marguerite'' (2015) and Best Supporting Actress for '' Family Resemblances'' (1996). Her other films include '' Le Dîner de Cons'' (1998), '' La Dilettante'' (1999), and ''Haute Cuisine'' (2012). Early life Frot was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher. Her younger sister, Dominique, is also an actress. Catherine demonstrated comic talent at an early age, and enrolled in the Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, in the Yvelines, Yvelines Department of Île-de-France, Île-de-France region in Franc ... conservatory when she was 14, and was still in school. In 1974, she began her education at the school, and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory. Career In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Jean-Pierre Darroussin (born 4 December 1953) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France. Theater Filmography Actor *1992: '' Riens du tout'' (directed by Cédric Klapisch starring Fabrice Luchini, Daniel Berlioux) - Domrémy *1993: '' Cuisine et dépendances'' (directed by Philippe Muyl starring Zabou Breitman, Sam Karmann) - Fred *1993: '' L'Argent fait le bonheur'' (directed by Robert Guédiguian starring Ariane Ascaride) - Le Curé *1994: ''Cache Cash'' (directed by Claude Pinoteau) - Jean *1994: '' L'Eau froide'' (directed by Olivier Assayas starring Virginie Ledoyen, Cyprien Fouquet) - Inspecteur *1995: '' Le Fabuleux Destin de Mme Petlet'' (directed by Camille de Casabianca) - Hervé Reyter *1995: '' À la vie, à la mort!'' (directed by Robert Guédiguian starring Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan) - Jaco *1996: '' Mon Homme'' (directed by Bertrand Blier starring Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin) - Gilbert's Client *1996: '' Un ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edouard Sulpice
Édouard Sulpice is a French actor born in Chambéry in 1995. He studied at the CNSAD and began his film career by playing the role of Édouard in the film À l'abordage by Guillaume Brac. Career Édouard studied at the National Higher Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where he graduated in 2020. In 2020, he obtained his first film role, playing the character of Édouard in the film À l'abordage directed by Guillaume Brac.. The same year, he played the role of young Rabut (played by Jean-Pierre Darroussin) at the age of 20, in the film Des hommes, directed by Lucas Belvaux based on the novel of the same name by Laurent Mauvignier. In 2021, he played the role of Patrick in L'Évènement directed by Audrey Diwan. In 2022, he played the role of Anthony in the play Their children after them by Nicolas Mathieu. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. Cannes is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside Venice and Berlin, as well as one of the "Big Five" major international film festivals, alongside Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. History The early years The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They found the support of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Films
2020 in film is a history of events, which includes the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2020, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year The year was greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with numerous films originally scheduled for theatrical release postponed or released on video-on-demand or streaming services. However, several film companies stopped reporting box-office numbers during this time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and several films were still in theaters where guidelines were in place. As a result, film grosses will increase if they are re-released in the future. This was also the first year since 2007 that no film grossed $1 billion. Highest-grossing films The top films released in 2020 by worldwide gross are as follows: After being re-released in 4K in China, earning $26.4 million, the overall gross for the 2001 film '' Harry Potter and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s French-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
