Coverage of the Los Angeles French film festival, COLCOA.
.: Critics Award: Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
.: Critics Special Prize: Rapt
.: Special Mention Acting: éric Elmosnino (Gainsbourg: Je T'aime.Moi Non Plus)
.: Audience Award: The Hedgehog
.: Audience Special mention: Farewell
.: Short Film Award: The Man in the Blue Gordini
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The Concert
Writer/director Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert has all the ingredients to become a European film favorite on the US film circuit.
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Farewell
Farewell moves slowly, enveloped in some kind of coldness and inertia that seems to reflect the state of this pre-perestroika Russian society.
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Gainsbourg
Mr. Gainsbourg being such a myth, you would have expected a major French director to direct a biopic about his life. It is however a newcomer, an award-winning graphic novel artist, who tackles the subject.
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Heartbreaker
From Priceless to The Girl from Monaco and now Heartbreaker, the French Riviera more particularly Monaco, Nice and Cannes and its wealthy players seems to an inexhaustible source for romantic comedies and dramas.
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Rapt
While writer/director Lucas Belvaux keeps a couple elements inherent to this subgenre, he delivers a different type of film, focusing instead on the behind the scenes and psychological consequences of a kidnapping.
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COLCOA
French Films Reviews: 1998 - 2012
French Films Reviews: 2013+
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