One more nugget of French film production news from this report, Roberto Succo and Red Lights filmmaker Cedric Kahn is setting up his next project for the month after the holidays. Reported a couple of days ago, Guillaume Canet and Leila Bekhti are toplining Une Vie Meilleure which certainly addresses many of the concerns that couples of currently facing - credit card debt, late home payments et al.
My introduction to Cédric Kahn began with Roberto Succo (his fourth film which appeared at Cannes), but it is his follow up film Red Lights (a.k.a Feux Rouges) a dark thriller that brings Hitchcockian traits to the mundane existence had me doing cartwheels of cinephile joy.
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Perhaps France's answer to Antoine Fuqua, Cédric Jimenez has padded his decade long filmography working mostly with gritty texts that either get in tight...
In the interim, filmmaker Gilles Marchand stuck to his writing work supplying screenplays such as Lemming and Feux rouges for Dominik Moll and Cédric Kahn, but now wearing the director hat, Marchand will be returning to Cannes for the first time since 2003's Who Killed Bambi?
So before they presented the screening for Tony Manero, the pre-planned award of the The Golden Coach (Le Carosse d'Or) was to be given out to Jim Jarmusch. Filmmaker Cedric Kahn made the introductions with a speech claiming that they are giving hi the award because the 100 plus filmmakers who select the winner each year are in fact jealous of the given person's talents and with Jarmusch there is plenty to be jealous about. The filmmaker behind Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law and Broken Flowers gave