Film ruled &#39;not French enough&#39;
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A Paris court has ruled that an acclaimed new film by the director of Amelie is not French enough to vie for French prizes. Jean-Pierre Jeunet&#39;s A Very Long Engagement, a French story filmed in French, has drawn rave reviews.
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The French director Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, The Hairdresser&#39;s Husband, The Man On The Train) is a bit of a thrill tease. He likes situations, usually involving two strangers engaged in gradually unveiled mutual deception, that come on like ...
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Sofia Coppola has brought Marie  Antoinette to the big screen, using rock music in a sumptuous  portrayal of a misunderstood young queen, but some viewers at  the Cannes film festival were less than impressed.
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Watch a movie or make a mobile phone call. Soon, in France, you might not be able to do both at once...
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A summit of French-speaking countries may have opened with the Ivory Coast at the top of its agenda, but it wasn't enough to keep the West African state at the table.
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The director has read the screenplay, but has not come to a decision yet.
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&#39;&#39;Ray&#39;&#39; may play like a crowd-pleaser, but given its long, difficult journey to the screen, you&#39;d think it was an inaccessible art film.
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It may have a captivating title, but this film has little else going for it.
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There&#39;s a popular misconception that it&#39;s impossible to like a movie without any likable characters. Nonsense. The truth, as usual, is a bit more subtle: It&#39;s impossible to like a movie without any empathetic characters. You don&#39;t have to ...
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It's the de rigueur stop off for caring foreign dignitaries. It reached a worldwide audience as a backdrop to the British blockbuster "The Constant Gardener".
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This tough, satisfying French film is an austere crime drama of the sort that rarely makes it to American screens except on cable television.
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The French culture minister sat through a screening of the horror movie ''Saw III'' _ and decided it wasn't for minors.
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Never mind that Jean-Pierre Jeunet's new film is a French story filmed in the French language featuring one of France's biggest actresses. A Paris court has ruled that "Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles" (A Very Long Engagement), which opened Friday in the United States, is too American to compete in French film festivals &#151; because of its Warner Bros. backing.
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The new film "A Very Long  Engagement" was filmed and set in France and uses French actors, extras and technicians. And now its French director is fighting in French courts to prove his film is French.
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It is the world&#39;s greatest film  festival and everybody in movies wants to be there. But that  doesn&#39;t mean they all have fun at Cannes.
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It's not every day that pro-American sentiments are uttered with a French accent.
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.