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Last Breath (2024 Film)
''Last Breath'' () is a 2024 drama film directed by Costa-Gavras. It stars Denis Podalydès, Kad Merad, Marilyne Canto and Ángela Molina. Plot Fabrice Toussaint, a philosopher and author, undergoes an MRI and is diagnosed with cancer. He meets doctor Augustin Masset, who is in charge of a palliative care unit. They both speak about the end of life and reflect on their own lives. Toussaint also visits some of Masset's patients and analyses how they face their last days in order to write a book about it. Cast *Denis Podalydès as Fabrice Toussaint *Kad Merad as Augustin Masset *Marilyne Canto *Ángela Molina as Estrella *Charlotte Rampling *Hiam Abbass *Karin Viard *Agathe Bonitzer Production Costa-Gavras wrote the script, based on the actual book the philosopher Régis Debray wrote alongside doctor Claude Grange. His wife, Michèle Ray-Gavras, and their son, Alexandre Gavras, were producers. Release ''Last Breath'' had its world premiere in the official competition o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa-Gavras
Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller '' Z'' (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and '' Missing'' (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including '' Hanna K.''. Early life Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Athens after the war. His father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. His father's Communist Party membership made it impossible for Costa-Gavras to attend university in Greece or to be granted a visa to the United States, so after high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Viard
Karin Viard (; born 24 January 1966) is a French actress. She made her film debut in '' Tatie Danielle'' in 1990. She has appeared in films such as ''Delicatessen'', '' L'Emploi du temps'', ''Adultère, mode d'emploi'' and ''La parenthèse enchantée.'' Viard was a member of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival jury. Life and career Viard was educated at the '' Lycée Pierre Corneille'' in Rouen. Viard has won three César Awards. The first in 2000 for Best Actress for her role in '' Haut les cœurs!'', the second in 2003 for Best Supporting Actress for '' Embrassez qui vous voudrez'' and the third in 2019, in the same category for '' Little Tickles''. Overall, she has been nominated for the César Awards 13 times. Viard has also won the Best Actress award at the Montréal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (), commonly abbreviated MWFF in English or FFM in French, was an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1977 to 2019. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Films
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of French Films Of 2024
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Boyero
Carlos Sánchez Boyero (born 2 May 1953) is a Spanish film critic. He has published in ''Diario 16'', '' El Mundo'', and ''El País'', and is a regular collaborator of Cadena SER. He is a popular and controversial film critic, whose figure has polarized public opinion and that of his colleagues in the profession. Life and career Carlos Sánchez Boyero was born in Salamanca on 2 May 1953. He removed his paternal surname due to bad blood with his father. He moved to Madrid in 1972 and studied at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he befriended Fernando Trueba and Antonio Resines. Boyero struggled with alcoholism and drug abuse in his early life, spending time in four drug rehab centers. Trueba advised him to write a column about nightlife in ', and some time later he began to write film critics for the magazine. He was fired from ''Guía del Ocio'' in 1986 for writing excessive negative reviews. Pedro J. Ramírez hired him to work for ''Diario 16'', and after the newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival
The 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival took place from 20 to 28 September 2024 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. Background A restored 4K version of Montxo Armendariz's film ''Tasio'' (which premiered at the 1984 San Sebastián Film Festival) was announced to be part of the 'Klasikoak' slate. Audrey Diwan's ''Emmanuelle'' was later revealed to be the festival's opening film, as well as part of the official selection's competitive lineup. 2023 Donostia Award winner Javier Bardem is expected to receive the award in 2024, as the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike prevented him from attending the 71st festival. On 9 May 2024, the festival's organization unveiled the official poster for the 72nd edition; it features Donostia Award winner Cate Blanchett and it was designed by José Luis Lanzagorta based on a black and white photograph by Gustavo Papaleo. On 12 July 2024, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain disclosed the 17 Spanish-produced titles which are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Sebastián International Film Festival
The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; , ) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spain, Spanish city of Donostia, Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country. Since its creation in 1953, it has established itself as one of the 14 "A" category competitive festivals accredited by the FIAPF, of which it has one of the lowest budgets. It has hosted several important events of the history of cinema, such as the international premieres of ''Vertigo (film), Vertigo'', by Alfred Hitchcock (who attended the Festival) and the European premiere of ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars''. It was the first festival attended by Roman Polanski and has helped advance the professional careers of filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Bong Joon-ho and Pedro Almodóvar. José Luis Rebordinos has served as the director of the festival since 2011. History The festival was founded on September 21, 1953. Non-Spanish la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Gavras
Alexandre Gavras (born August 23, 1969) is a French film producer. Filmography As a producer As a director References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gavras, Alexandre Living people 1969 births Film people from Paris French film producers French people of Greek descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michèle Ray-Gavras
Michèle Ray-Gavras (born 1939) is a French film producer and journalist. Reporter As an independent journalist between 1963 and 1977, Michèle Ray covered struggles in Vietnam and Bolivia for multiple French media. Between April 1966 and February 1967, while reporting on the Vietnam War, Michèle Ray traveled in South Vietnam among the American GI forces. She then continued to the communist north and was captured by the Vietcong on 17 January 1967. She was liberated on 6 February after falling sick. She brought back a special report published in the ''Nouvel Observateur'', a film that was used in the documentary '' Far from Vietnam'', and she published a book, ''The Two Shores of Hell''. She traveled to Bolivia in 1967 to report on the capture and death of Che Guevara, publishing an article in ''Paris Match'' before being expelled from the country. In 1971, Michèle Ray was covering the Uruguayan general election for French television and radio, when she was kidnapped by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agathe Bonitzer
Agathe Bonitzer (born 24 April 1989) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than twenty films since 1996. Career In August 2018, it was announced that Bonitzer would star in the Netflix science fiction series ''Osmosis''. The series premiered on 29 March 2019. In 2021, she was selected as jury member for Filmmakers of the present competition section of 74th Locarno Film Festival held from 4 to 14 August. Personal life She is the daughter of filmmakers Pascal Bonitzer and Sophie Fillières Sophie Fillières (20 November 1964 – 31 July 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter who wrote for more than fifteen film and television productions from 1991 on. Fillières died on 31 July 2023, at the age of 58, after ending the .... Filmography References External links * * 1989 births Actresses from Paris Living people French film actresses French web series actresses 21st-century French actresses {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiam Abbass
Hiam Abbass (; ; born 30 November 1960), also spelled Hiyam Abbas, is a Palestinian actress and film director with Israeli and French citizenship. She is known for her roles in films such as ''The Syrian Bride'' (2004), '' Paradise Now'' (2005), '' Free Zone'' (2005), ''Munich'' (2005), '' The Visitor'' (2007), '' Lemon Tree'' (2008), '' Insyriated'' (2017), and ''Blade Runner 2049'' (2017). She gained prominence for her role as Marcia Roy in the HBO drama series ''Succession'' (2018–2023). She has also acted in the Channel 4 series '' The Promise'' (2011), the Lifetime miniseries '' The Red Tent'' (2014), the Hulu comedy series '' Ramy'' (2019–present), and the Hulu drama series '' The Old Man'' (2022). Early and personal life Abbass was born in Nazareth, Israel on 30 November 1960 to a family of Israeli Arabs of Palestinian descent. She was raised in the village of Deir Hanna. Since the late 1980s, she has lived in Paris, France, and holds French citizenship. During t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Régis Debray
Jules Régis Debray (; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government. Life 1960 to 1973 Born in Paris, Régis Debray studied at the École Normale Supérieure where he was taught by Louis Althusser. He appeared as himself in the cinema verité movie ''Chronique d'un été'' by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin in 1960. He became an " agrégé de philosophie" in 1965. During the late 1960s, he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Havana in Cuba and became an associate of Che Guevara in Bolivia. He wrote the book ''Revolution in the Revol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
