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Fanny Ardant and Gabriel Arcand set to star in crime drama.

French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli is teaming with Canadian producer Roger Frappier of Max Films on Italian Shoes, an adaptation of the crime novel of the same name by Henning Mankell, set to star Fanny Ardant and Gabriel Arcand.

Frédéric Bourboulon, known for his collaborations with the late Bertrand Tavernier, is the French producer. The film, which will be shot in winter in Quebec, will tell the story of a man living in self-imposed exile on an island and running away from his past.

Bertuccelli is in Cannes with her documentary Jane Campion,...

Bertrand Tavernier breaks the barrier between fans of European movies and 101 classic French pictures that most of us have never gotten a peek at. The key to this eight-hour film clip excerpt round-up is the hosting-curatorship of Tavernier — the fascinating miniseries has plenty to offer both fans that have never seen an old French movie, and some of us that thought (until now) that we knew something about them. The author and director is also a great storyteller, presenting his favorite underrated directors, actors & composers and putting them, in historical context. Tavernier is a deft film clip picker — all are riveting, none are spoilers, and you’ll come out learning fifty new French words, most of them clean. Highly, highly recommended.

Journeys Through French Cinema

Blu-ray

Cohen Media Group

2017 / Color + B&w / 1:78 widescreen + 1:33 flat / 459 min. without beating any particular bias-drum.

Even when championing directors he dubs The Forgotten Ones,...

• #100.In the Electric Mist Director: Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country) Screenwriters: Tommy Lee Jones, Jerzy and Mary-Olson Kromolowski Producers: Frédéric Bourboulon (Holy Lola) and Michael Fitzgerald (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada) Distributor: Currently Seeking Distribution The Gist: Scripted by Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski and Jones, this is an adaptation of James Lee Burke’s novel, which centers on Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux. New Iberia Lt. Dave Robicheaux is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni–back in his home parish as co- producer of Hollywood director Michael Goldman’s Civil War film–when sozzled/psychic movie-star Elrod Sykes, pulled over for drunk driving, starts babbling about a corpse he found in the Atchafalaya Swamp–the corpse of a black man Dave had seen murdered 35 years before. Fact: This is veteran French director's English-language debut. See It:

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