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The Franco-American
Cultural Fund
A partnership of:
The Directors Guild of America
The Motion Picture Association
The French Society for Authors,
Composers and Music Publishers
The Writers Guild of America, West
PRESENTS
A WEEK OF
FRENCH FILM PREMIERES
IN HOLLYWOOD
APRIL 19 — 25, 2010
With the support of:
L’ARP
The Los Angeles Film and TV Office
of The French Embassy
Unifrance
ALL FILMS SCREENED AT THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA THEATRE COMPLEX, LOS ANGELES
WELCOME TO COL• COA 2010
With 28 new features and 20 new shorts competing
for the COL•COA Awards, the 14th Annual Week of
French Film Premieres in Hollywood confirms the
vitality of the French film industry in the world.
producers, distributors, exhibitors, agents, film critics,
film school students and cinephiles—will have the
opportunity to see thrillers, horror films, comedies,
romances, dramas, blockbusters and art house films.
COL•COA celebrates both the history and the future
of French cinema. While the DGA theatres now bear
the names of Jean Renoir, François Truffaut and
Jean-Pierre Melville during the festival, the legacy of
the French New Wave is featured in 2010 through
a series of screenings and panels. With a program
largely comprised of acclaimed debut features and
short films, COL•COA showcases French cinema’s
ability to constantly reinvent itself.
In a digital and global world, COL•COA now has a
privileged position in Hollywood. It is a place where
industry professionals can watch the latest French
films not to be missed, but also where producers and
distributors can use the popularity of the festival to
promote their films.
Foreign films are often and wrongly considered to
be their own genre. To the contrary, the continued
success of this annual week of French Film comes
from the diversity of its programming. Again this year,
15,000 attendees—a unique mix of writers, directors,
We are delighted, together with our founder, the
Franco-American Cultural Fund, our supporters and
our 32 sponsors, to welcome you to COL•COA. We
invite you to experience French cinema on the big
screen and share your love of film with others.
François Truffart
Director and Programmer
THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CULTURAL FUND (FACF)
FACF 2010
Autumn Stories - Residence in Royaumont
THE MISSION of
COL•COA and FACF
FACF and COL•COA are committed to showcasing our most gifted
filmmakers from the United States and France and strengthening
the cultural exchange between our two nations through the magic
of film.
A five-week stay in France offered to four American Screenwriters
(WGA members) each fall to complete a screenwriting project.
Dijon Film Forum
The Directors Guild
of America (DGA)
The Motion Picture
ASSOciation (MPA)
The DGA represents 14,000 directors
and members of the directorial team
both in the United States and abroad
DGA members’ creative work is represented in feature film, filmed/taped/
and live television, commercials, documentaries, and news. DGA seeks to
both protect and advance directors’
economic and artistic rights and
preserve their creative freedom.
The Motion Picture Association (MPA)
the International arm of the Motion
Picture Association of America –
serves as the voice and advocate of
the American motion picture, home
video and television industries around
the world. Its members include:
The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount
Pictures Corporation, Sony Pictures
Entertainment Inc., Twentieth Century
Fox Film Corporation, Universal City
Studios LLLP, and Warner Bros.
Entertainment Inc.
A four-day forum in October, during which European Directors,
Writers and Producers and other film industry professionals meet
to discuss issues related to global cinema. A FACF delegation
participates in the panels and events.
In March 1996, SACEM signed an agreement with the American
guilds and trade association representing creators of film and
television shows: the Directors Guild of America (DGA) the Writers
Guild of America, West (WGAW), and the Motion Picture Association
(MPA). The partnership was designed with the goal of creating a
common Cultural Fund to promote and teach the art of filmmaking.
The result of the partnership is the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
Financed with Private Copy levy funds, this partnership promotes
film creativity on both sides of the Atlantic by helping to encourage
budding talent and to foster a dialogue between professionals.
In both the U.S. and France, the fund sponsors original programs,
featuring comprehensive artistic assistance, professional advice and
financial aid for cultural projects.
Bob Pisano,
President and Interim CEO
A week of French films in April in the heart of Hollywood, at the
theatres of the Directors Guild of America.
The WGAW is a labor union
representing writers of motion
pictures, television, radio and internet
programming, including news and
documentaries. Founded in 1933,
the Guild negotiates and administers
contracts that protect the creative
and economic rights of its members.
It is involved in a wide range of
programs that advance the interests
of writers, and is active in public
policy and legislative matters on the
local, national and international levels.
Bernard Miyet,
President and CEO
John Wells, President
Film Preservation
Restoration of French films in partnership with The Cinémathèque
Française.
Deauville – Michel d’Ornano Award
Created in 1991 in memory of Michel d’Ornano, Mayor of Deauville,
the award honors a French director whose work is brought to the
screen for the first time.
FRANCO-AMERICAN CULTURAL FUND
Honorary President: Costa-Gavras
President: Bernard Miyet
Paris Office Contact:
Franco-American Cultural Fund
30 rue Ballu - 75431 Paris Cedex 9
P: +33 1 47 15 48 84 • F: +33 1 47 15 48 95
Executive Director:
Alejandra Norambuena Skira
[email protected]
Production Manager:
Eglantine Langevin
[email protected]
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SACEM is the French collecting
agency for music, film and literary
rights for authors, composers,
publishers of music and directors. Its
jurisdiction covers France, DOM-TOM
and some French speaking African
countries. It administers the catalog
of its 130,000 members as well as the
worldwide music catalog through its
reciprocal agreements with authors’
societies all over the world.
The Writers Guild of
America, West (WGAW)
Taylor Hackford, President
COL•COA Film Festival
ABOUT THE FACF
Société des Auteurs,
Compositeurs et Éditeurs
de Musique (SACEM)
U.S. Partners:
DGA: Gina Blumenfeld
MPA: Elizabeth Kaltman
WGAW: Kay Schaber Wolf
WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
L’ARP
Founded in 1987 by Claude Berri, l’ARP (auteurs,
réalisateurs, producteurs) is a registered member
company representing writers, directors and
producers. ARP’s main objective is to defend its
200 members’ moral and economic rights. ARP
is involved with various institutions in Europe; it
organizes cultural events in France and abroad
and provides information for the public through its
theater in Paris, Le Cinéma des Cinéastes.
Los Angeles Film and TV Office
of the French Embassy
The Los Angeles Film & TV Office of the French
Embassy is the local representative of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs’ Film Department. Its purpose
is to promote and support the French film and
television industries on the West coast.
Unifrance
Headquartered in Paris, with offices in New York,
Tokyo and Beijing, Unifrance is 600 French film
professionals promoting French cinema around
the globe. Unifrance sends films and top French
talent to every Continent as roving ambassadors of
French cinema. Unifrance also offers support to film
distributors and festivals worldwide, developing
new markets for French movies everywhere.
Mathieu Fournet, Director
John Kochman, Director
Radu Mihaileanu, President
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The DGA theatres now have names during COL• COA,
honoring three masters of French cinema:
DGA Theatre 1: RENOIR Theatre
DGA Theatre 2: TRUFFAUT Theatre
DGA Theatre 3: MELVILLE Theatre
Jean Renoir
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean Renoir was the
son of impressionist
painter Pierre-Auguste
Renoir. Born in 1894,
he began making films
in 1924 with Catherine
Hessling, who had
been his father’s last
model and whom he
married in 1920. They
collaborated on various silent films, including
Whirlpool of Fate, Nana and The Little Match
Girl. Renoir shot his most important films in the
1930s: The Bitch, Boudu Saved from Drowning,
Madame Bovary, Toni, The Crime of Monsieur
Lange, A Day in the Country, The Lower
Depths, The Human Beast, La Marseillaise as
well as his two masterpieces, The Grand Illusion
and The Rules of the Game. In 1940, he escaped
German-occupied France and went to Hollywood, where he made Swamp Water, This
Land is Mine, The Southerner, The Diary of a
Chambermaid and The Woman on the Beach.
His career then took him to India (The River),
Italy (The Golden Coach) and France (French
Cancan, Paris Does Strange Things, The Elusive
Corporal). Renoir remained an American citizen
until his death in Beverly Hills, in 1979.
Truffaut was born in
Paris in 1932. At a very
young age, he became
a film critic for Les
Cahiers du cinéma,
under the auspices of
his mentor André Bazin.
He made a name for
himself as a controversial writer for the
weekly publication Arts, brutally criticizing
the academic cinema of Delannoy, Allégret,
Autant-Lara or Duvivier while ardently defending films by Becker, Guitry, Bresson, Renoir,
Hitchcock, Welles, Lang and Rossellini. In 1959,
he won Best Director prize at the Cannes Film
Festival for The 400 Blows. He was a driving
force behind the launch of the Nouvelle Vague
with his friends Chabrol, Godard, Rivette and
Rohmer. Because of the success of The 400
Blows, he was able to independently fund his
films, alternating between flops (Shoot the
Piano Player, The Soft Skin, Mississipi Mermaid)
and successful popular films: Stolen Kisses,
The Wild Child, Day For Night (1974 Academy
Award® winner for Best Foreign Language
Film), Small Change and The Last Metro. Published in 1966, his book. Hitchcock/Truffaut, is
renowned worldwide. He died of a cerebral
hemorrhage on October 21, 1984 at the age
of 52. He remains to this day the most wellknown and beloved French filmmaker in the
United States and Japan. © Serge Toubiana
Jean-Pierre Melville
was born Jean-Pierre
Grumbach in 1917. His
affinity for mystery
and his admiration for
the author of Moby
Dick led him to take
the assumed name
of Melville. Melville
joined General de
Gaulle’s Free Forces in London in 1943 and
later portrayed this historical moment in Army
of Shadows (1969), a film starring Simone
Signoret, Paul Meurisse and Jean-Pierre Cassel.
Melville’s career is dense, yet only consists of
thirteen films. The most well-known are film
noir works: Bob The Gambler, Doulos: The
Finger Man, Second Wind, The Godson, The
Red Circle and Dirty Money. In creating these
films, Melville worked with the biggest stars
of French cinema: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain
Delon, Yves Montand, Bourvil and Catherine
Deneuve. They are Melville’s tribute to the
kind of American cinema that he admired:
thrillers and film noir genres, including the
work of John Huston. Another key source of
inspiration in Melville’s work is the more literary
and poetic: Silence of the Sea, based on the
Vercors novel, Cocteau’s Holy Terrors and An
Honorable Young Man, adapted from Simenon.
He also did a cameo appearance in Godard’s
Breathless. Melville died in 1973. His work is
continually studied and rediscovered; many of
his films have reached cult status in Asia and
the United States. © Serge Toubiana
© Serge Toubiana
COL•COA would like to thank Rémy Grumbach, Anne Renoir, Peter Renoir, John Renoir, Patricia Power, Éva Truffaut, Joséphine Truffaut,
Laura Truffaut, Serge Toubiana and Laurence Braunberger for making this project possible.
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RENOIR Th.
Monday, April 19
(L’Arnacœur)
7:30
Saturday, April 24
3:00
HEARTBREAKER
North American Premiere • Comedy/Romance
France, 2010
35mm/Scope/Color/105 min
Directed by: Pascal Chaumeil
Written by: Laurent Zeitoun, Jeremy Doner, Yoann Gromb
Cinematography by: Thierry Arbogast
Editing by: Dorian Rigal-Ansous
Music by: Klaus Badelt
Produced by: Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou,
Laurent Zeitoun
Production Company: Yumé Quad Films
Coproduction: Universal Pictures International France
Cast: Romain Duris (Alex), Vanessa Paradis (Juliette),
Julie Ferrier (Mélanie), François Damiens (Marc), Helena
Noguerra (Sophie), Andrew Lincoln (Jonathan), Jacques
Frantz (Van Der Becq, Juliette’s father), Amandine
Dewasmes (Florence), Jean-Yves Lafesse (Dutour)
International Sales:
Kinology
3 rue de Montyon
75009 Paris
France
Phone: +33 1.48.24.48.71
arnacoeur-lefilm.com/
Presented with the support of
© Universal Pictures International France
Festival Selection: Tribeca Film Festival (2010)
Heartbreaker is an action-packed romantic comedy, led by actress-singer Vanessa Paradis
(Girl on the Bridge, The Key) and art house heartthrob Romain Duris (The Beat That My
Heart Skipped, Paris [COL• COA 2008], Russian Dolls). Duris is Alex, a professional Don Juan
who makes a living breaking up couples with his sister Mélanie (Julie Ferrier, MicMacs).
Because business is slow, they go against their principles to break up only unhappy
couples and agree to work for M. Van Der Bercq. Alex has one week to stop Van Der Bercq’s
daughter Juliette (Vanessa Paradis) from marrying the man she is madly in love with. This
questionable mission becomes hazardous for Alex, as he enters the world of the beautiful,
self-assured and independent Juliette and her seemingly perfect boyfriend, Jonathan.
Pascal Chaumeil wrote and directed his first short film in 1995, Des Hommes avec des
bas, awarded Best Short at the 1996 Festival du Film Policier in Cognac. He followed
with the science-fiction short Liens Sacrés (2001). Before directing Heartbreaker,
his first feature, Pascal Chaumeil worked on several feature films with Luc Besson as
First Assistant Director (The Professional) or Second Unit Director (The Fifth Element,
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc). He has also directed over 100 commercials
and directed films for television such as Clémence (2003) and Mer belle à agitée
(2006), as well as episodes for the acclaimed TV series Spiral (2005), L’État de Grâce
(2006), Desperate Parents (2007/2008) and Duel en Ville (2008).
• “Heartbreaker is one of those high-concept comedies the French turn out with seeming ease…They are so much fun to watch that American producers keep trying to remake them without ever quite getting it right.” (Hollywood Reporter)
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“A well-crafted romantic comedy that reps a happy marriage between love and laughter, Heartbreaker is a step above commercial Gallic comedies and a
step closer to Hollywood fare of yesteryear… Helmer Chaumeil and scribes Laurent Zeitoun (I Do), Jeremy Doner (Damages) and Yoann Gromb have
managed to create a high-octane romance de luxe scenario that recalls classic Cote d’Azur pics like the Hitchcock caper and Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s
Eighth Wife.” (Variety)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
Presented in association with
Col •Coa.Doc
THE HAPPY HOUR TALKs
The RecePTion
is ReseRVed To
PAneL ATTendees
And yoU mUsT be
21+ To ATTend.
Following the
reception, you will
have priority access
to the theatres for
the next screenings.
Tuesday, April 20th
Truffaut Th. - 4:00 PM
Wednesday, April 21st
Truffaut Th. – 4:00 PM
Thursday, April 22nd
Truffaut Th. – 4:00 PM
French filmmakers are invited
to talk about American Cinema
and discuss how it has influenced them. Past editions have
seen fascinating and animated
debates around a topic rarely
discussed in France.
A discussion on the role
of Film Critics in foreign film
distribution, presented with
the support of Unifrance and
moderated by John Kochman,
Executive Director, Unifrance
USA
A one-hour conversation with
writer-director claude miller,
moderated by Variety Executive
Editor steven gaydos.
moderated by
Wade Major, Box Office
For decades, foreign language
film distributors in the U.S.
have relied heavily upon strong
critical support to get customers
in to theaters. And yet the
importance of film criticism has
been hotly debated of late, as
newspapers shed film critics
and the blogosphere takes hold
of the internet. What is the film
critic’s place in America today,
and what does the future hold
in store?
See “Focus on a Filmaker, p.29
Panel speakers:
Alain-Michel Blanc,
co-writer of The Concert
Pascal Chaumeil,
director of Heartbreaker
Pascal Elbé,
writer-director of Tête de Turc
Léa Fehner,
writer-director of Silent Voices
Radu Mihaileanu,
co-writer/director
of The Concert
Emmanuel Mouret,
writer-director of
Please, Please Me!
Grégoire Vigneron,
co-writer/director
of Immaculate
Wine offered by
JK Wine Company and
Michaud Vineyard
Panel speakers:
Ed Arentz, Music Box Films
Richard Lorber, Lorber Films
Fredell Pogodin,
Fredell Pogodin & Associates
John Powers, film critic
Ella Taylor, film critic
Wine offered by
St Supery Vineyard
HENRI-GEORGEs CLOUZOT’s INFERNO
This panel is part of the FocUs
on A FiLmmAKeR honoring
Claude Miller
Wine offered by
Salisbury Vineyards
Friday, April 23rd
Renoir Th. – 3:45 PM
A discussion around the French
New Wave and its relationship
to American Cinema, following
the International Premiere of
the restored film PieRRoT Le
FoU, as part of the COL•COA
Classics series.
moderated by film critic
David Ehrenstein
Panel speakers:
Monte Hellman, Director
Anna Karina, Actress
Howard A. Rodman,
Screenwriter
Serge Toubiana, Cinémathèque
Française Director
Wine offered by
Wild Horse Winery & Vineyards
West Coast Premiere • Documentary/Drama • France, 2009
35mm/HD/Color/Dolby SRD/94 min
2010 César and Étoile d’Or for Best Documentary
International Jury Award at the 2009 São Paulo
International Film Festival
Festival Selection: Göteborg International Film
Festival (2010), Hong Kong International Film Festival,
Dokumentärt (2010), Rotterdam International Film
Festival (2010), London Film Festival (2009), Mostra São
Paulo International Film Festival (2009), New York Film
Festival (2009), Telluride Film Festival (2009), Toronto
International Film Festival, Independence Days (2009),
Viennale, Real to Reel (2009)
Directed by: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea
Written by: Serge Bromberg
Based on the original work by: Henri-Georges Clouzot,
José-André Lacour, Jean Ferry
Cinematography by: Irina Lubtchansky, Jérôme Krumenacker
Editing by: Janice Jones
Music by: Bruno Alexiu
Produced by: Serge Bromberg
Production Company: Lobster Films
Coproduction: France 2 Cinéma
Cast: Romy Schneider (Odette - archive footage), Bérénice
Bejo (Odette), Serge Reggiani (Marcel - archive footage),
Jacques Gamblin (Marcel), Dany Carrel (Marylou - archive
footage), Catherine Allégret (Yvette / Herself - archive
footage), Henri-Georges Clouzot (Himself - archive footage)
MK2
55, rue Traversière
75012 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.44.67.30.00
mk2.com
U.S. Distributor:
Flicker Alley
P.O. Box 931762
Los Angeles, California 90093
Phone: (323) 878-0508
flickeralley.com
© MK2 Diffusion
if you are planning to
see a film at coL•coA
during the week, come
earlier and attend a
hAPPy hoUR TALK.
The panels are programmed at 4:00 pm,
(3:45 pm on Friday)
and include a complimentary wine and
cheese reception
before the early
evening screenings.
Tuesday, April 20
(L’Enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot)
CANCELLEd
FRee Admission,
FiRsT come FiRsT
seRVed
5:30
In 1964, writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique, The Wages of Fear) set out to
make Inferno, an ambitious and visually revolutionary work. A film about a man (Serge
Reggiani) possessed by jealousy, obsessed with his beautiful and flirtatious wife (Romy
Schneider), Inferno had an unlimited budget and creative carte blanche, but production
stopped after three weeks of shooting and never resumed. The reels were lost for years
and unearthed by film collector Serge Bromberg, who reconstructed the film that was
never made with original footage, re-enactments and interviews with the crew. HenriGeorges Clouzot’s Inferno reveals the extraordinary images of an unparalleled creative
undertaking, so dangerously blurring the line between an artist and his work that it also
drove Clouzot to obsession and insanity.
Serge Bromberg is a film collector and has been President of Lobster Films Studios
since 1984. Lobster Films plays a major role in film restoration worldwide and
the collection built by Bromberg now consists of more than 40,000 rare titles,
including feature films, silent films, newsreels and documentaries. In 2008, he
also launched the European Film Treasures on-line archive. He was awarded the
Jean Mitry prize in 1997 for his restoration work. Serge Bromberg has produced
over 500 television programs and documentaries since 1994, including Arletty,
Lady Paname (2007), Discovering Cinema: Learning to Talk (2003), Discovering
Cinema: Movies Dream in Color (2004) or Cellulo (1995-2001). Bromberg is also
artistic director of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
•“It’saremarkablefeatofcinematicarcheology,takinginreminiscencesfromthekeyplayersplusClouzot’srawlocationfootageandwildlysensuoustest
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photography of star Romy Schneider. (…) It remains unclear whether Inferno would’ve been the masterpiece Clouzot was anticipating: his reliance on
tripped-out visuals and a staunchly unreconstructed attitude to sexual politics may have dated the film rapidly. What survives is a striking cautionary
tale for budding filmmakers and a haunting evocation of experimentation run amok.” (Time Out London)
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RENOIR Th.
6:00
Tuesday, April 20
AN ORDINARY EXECUTION
COL• COA HIGH-SCHOOL SCREENINGS
(Une exécution ordinaire)
2008 marked the first year of the COL•COA High School screenings,
with the North American Premiere of WELCOME TO THE STICKS at
the Directors Guild of America.
This year, close to 2,200 teachers and students will attend the West
Coast Premiere of FAREWELL (L’Affaire Farewell), an espionage thriller
co-written and directed by Christian Carion.
FAREWELL will be released in the U.S. by NeoClassics Films
on July 23, 2010
in association with
Blind Date
SCHOOLS
PARTICIPATING IN 2010
Agoura H.S.
Alliance College
Ready H.S.
Beverly Hills H.S.
Bishop Amat H.S.
Brentwood H.S.
Buena Park H.S.
Campbell Hall H.S.
Carson H.S.
Compton H.S.
Crescenta Valley H.S.
Dorsey H.S.
El Camino Real H.S.
Fairfax H. S.
Gahr H.S.
G. Washington
Preparatory H.S.
Grant H.S.
James Monroe H.S.
John Burroughs H.S.
Junipero Serra H.S.
La Habra H.S.
L. A. County H.S.
for the Arts
Lycée Rochambeau
Malborough School
Maywood Academy H.S.
This educational program is produced by COL•COA, in association with
ELMA (European Languages and Movies in America), with the support
of California Language Teachers Association (CLTA/MCLASC), American
Association of Teachers of French-Southern California (AATF-SC) and the
Film & TV Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles.
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Venice High School
students attending
the 2009 COL•COA
screenings with
their teachers
Claudie Worth
and Pavlin Lange
Morningside H.S.
Mountain View H.S.
Palm Springs H.S.
Palos Verdes
Peninsula H.S.
Polytechnic School
Ramona Convent
Secondary School
Sacred Heart H.S.
Santa Monica H.S.
Sherman Oaks Center
for Enriched Studies
Simi Valley H.S.
The Buckley School
The Webb Schools
The Windward School
Venice H.S.
Viewpoint School
Warren H.S.
Westridge School
Whittier H.S.
William and Caroll
Ouchi H.S.
Xavier College
Preparatory H.S.
International Premiere • Drama/Historical
France, 2010
35mm/1.85/Color/Dolby DTS/105 min
Festival Selection:
Seattle International Film Festival (2010)
Written and directed by: Marc Dugain
Based on the novel by: Marc Dugain
Cinematography by: Yves Angelo
Editing by: Fabrice Rouaud
Produced by: Jean-Louis Livi
Production Company: F Comme Film
Coproduction: France 3 Cinéma, StudioCanal
Cast: André Dussollier (Joseph Stalin), Marina Hands
(Anna), Edouard Baer (Vassilli), Denis Podalydès
(The Concierge), Tom Novembre (The Hospital Chief),
Grégory Gadebois (Department Director), Gilles
Gaston-Dreyfus (Beria), Anne Benoît (Alexandra,
Anna’s mother), Gilles Ségal (Uncle Anton)
StudioCanal
1, place du Spectacle
92863 Issy-les Moulineaux
France
Phone: +33 1.71.35.35.35
studiocanal.com
© StudioCanal
COL•COA is proud to support a new generation
of foreign film viewers.
Set in 1952 in the Soviet Union, An Ordinary Execution stars acclaimed actor André
Dussollier (Wild Grass, Tell No One [COL• COA 2007], Same Old Song, Amelie, Three
Men and a Cradle) as Joseph Stalin in his last days. Following the alleged conspiracy
known as “The Doctors’ Plot,” Stalin has deported a group of Jewish doctors accused
of poisoning Soviet officials, including his own personal practitioner Miron Vovsi. Old
and suffering from various ailments, Stalin calls on Anna (Marina Hands, Hidden Diary
[COL• COA 2010], Lady Chatterley, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), a young urologist
with magnetic healing powers, to appease his pain. As she becomes his personal healer,
she enters the unsettling and terrifying world of the tyrant.
Marc Dugain studied finance and was the president of an airline company before
becoming a writer. His first novel The Officers’ Ward (1998) won 18 literary awards,
including the Prix des Deux Magots and the Roger-Nimier award. It was adapted in
2001 by writer-director François Dupeyron and presented in official selection at the
Cannes Film Festival. Marc Dugain followed with three acclaimed novels: Campagne
Anglaise (Lattès, 2000), Heureux comme Dieu en France (Gallimard, 2002) and La
malédiction d’Edgar (Gallimard, 2005), which was translated into 22 languages.
His fifth novel, Une Exécution Ordinaire was published in 2007 and quickly became
a best-seller. An Ordinary Execution is his debut feature as writer-director.
• “Marc Dugain’s debut feature, An Ordinary Execution, adds an intriguing twist to the historical consensus on the dictator’s demise in its portrayal of an encounter between the ailing Stalin and a young doctor who has healing and pain-relieving powers in her hands. (…) Dugain’s story is an ingenious attempt to dissect the corrosive cynicism underlying the Kremlin’s mindset, exemplified by Stalin’s much-quoted dictum, evoked in a closing title, that while one man’s death is a tragedy, the death of a million men is a statistic.“
(The Hollywood Reporter)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
7:30
RENOIR Th.
Tuesday, April 20
8:30
Tuesday, April 20
TÊTE DE TURC
THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN
(Le Père de mes enfants)
West Coast Premiere • Drama • France/Germany, 2009
35mm/1.85/Color/Dolby SRD/110 min
2010 Lumière Award - Best Screenplay
Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes
Inspired by the life of late independent film producer Humbert Balsan, The Father
of my Children is both a portrait of a man trying to reconcile family and work and a
meditation on the difficulty of making art in today’s world. Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
(The Untouchable, Caché) is Grégoire Canvel, a passionate film producer who devotes
all his energy to financing films that he believes in. A tireless supporter of independent
cinema and emerging filmmakers, he spends his life juggling creditors and debt in order
to finance the next project. He loves his wife and children dearly but has very little time
for them. As debts and creditors are closing in on him, his company is threatened to go
bankrupt and the fragile balance that was keeping him afloat is suddenly destroyed.
Mia Hansen-Løve is one of the most promising young French writer-directors.
She started her career at the age of 18 when she met Olivier Assayas, who
gave her a role in Late August, Early September (1998) and Les Destinées
(2000). She then wrote for Les Cahiers du Cinéma and made various short
films, including Après mûre réflexion in 2004. Her debut feature All is Forgiven
(2007), was praised by critics and won the Louis Delluc prize for Best First
Film. She met Balsan when she was working on All is Forgiven, which he was
to produce. She is currently working on a new film, Un Amour de Jeunesse.
Written and directed by: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cinematography by: Pascal Auffray
Editing by: Marion Monnier
Produced by: David Thion, Philippe Martin
Production Company: Les Films Pelléas
Coproduction: Arte France Cinéma
Cast: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (Grégoire Canvel), Chiara
Caselli (Sylvia Canvel), Alice de Lencquesaing (Clémence
Canvel), Alice Gautier (Valentine Canvel), Manelle Driss
(Billie Canvel), Eric Elmosnino (Serge), Sandrine Dumas
(Valérie), Dominique Frot (Bérénice), Antoine Mathieu
(Frédéric), Igor Hansen-Løve (Arthur Malkavian)
Les Films du Losange
22, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie
75116 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.44.43.87.10
filmsdulosange.fr
U.S. Distribution:
IFC Films
11 Penn Plaza, 18th floor
New York, NY 10001
ifcfilms.com
• “In The Father of My Children French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve makes something oddly beautiful and complex from a basic comic template. A story of a workaholic dad who has an immensely difficult time juggling business and family, the film nevertheless takes its conventions in a unexpected direction.” (indieWIRE)
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North American Premiere • Drama • France, 2010
2010 Foundation Barrière award - Prix Cinéma
«De l’écrit à l’écran» for Pascal Elbé
Written and directed by: Pascal Elbé
Cinematography by: Jean-François Hensgens
Editing by: Luc Barnier
Music by: Bruno Coulais
Produced by: Patrick Godeau
Production Company: Alicéleo
Cast: Roschdy Zem (Atom), Pascal Elbé (Simon), Samir
Makhlouf (Bora), Ronit Elkabetz (Sibel), Simon Abkarian
(The Widower), Florence Thomassin (Mouna), Valérie
Benguigui (Yelda), Monique Chaumette (Nora), Laure
Marsac (Claire), Brigitte Catillon (The Mayor), Stéphan
Guérin-Tillié (Samuel), Léo Elbé (Nuri), Gamil Ratib (Aram)
Other Angle Pictures
39 rue de Constantinople
75008 Paris. France
Phone: +33 9.54.88.02.41
tetedeturc.fr
© Warner Bros. France
© Les Films du Lozange
Festival Selection: Hong Kong International Film
Festival (2010), Göteborg International Film Festival,
Festivalfavoriter Section (2010), Cannes International
Film Festival, Un Certain Regard (2009), Toronto
International Film Festival, Contemporary World Cinema
(2009), Pusan International Film Festival (2009), Rio de
Janeiro International Film Festival, Expectativa (2009)
Tête de Turc takes place in a rough, run-down suburban neighborhood where the law
of silence rules. Simon (Pascal Elbé), a doctor, is on his way to tend to an emergency
call. Mistaking him for the police, a few local youngsters throw a Molotov cocktail at
his car, setting it on fire. They all escape except Bora (newcomer Samir Makhlouf), who
gets him out and saves his life. While Simon is in the coma, his brother, police officer
Atom (Roschdy Zem, Days of Glory) investigates as the incident becomes more and more
publicized in the media. When the French government offers a Good Samaritan medal,
Bora is faced with a moral dilemma: betray his friends to get a better life?
Pascal Elbé started acting and writing for theater in the early 1990s, with two
successful plays: Charité bien ordonnée (1992) and Tout baigne! (1995), which
was later adapted to the screen. He won critical acclaim for his role in Father and
Sons (COL• COA 2005) which he also co-wrote. He then co-wrote and starred in
Bad Faith (COL• COA 2007), directed by co-star Roschdy Zem, and 3 Amis (2007),
co-written with director Michel Boujenah. As an actor, he was most recently seen
in Blame It on Mum (2009), Baby Love (COL• COA 2009 Audience Special Prize)
and A Simple Heart (2008), starring Sandrine Bonnaire. For his directorial debut,
Pascal Elbé was inspired by a tragedy that shook the whole country last year in France, when a group
of teenagers set a bus on fire and watched its driver burn, almost to her death.
• “Remarkably written, this social thriller weaves the fate of its characters into a mesh tight enough to strangle them. This cinematographic net grabs the audience and propels them in a very unique atmosphere of suspense. There is no doubt that by choosing to direct, Pascal
Elbé has realized himself.” (Paris Match)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
After 10
(Les Beaux gosses)
10:15 pm
Tuesday, April 20
THE FRENCH KISSERS
West Coast Premiere • Comedy • France, 2009
Festival Selection: New York Rendez-Vous with French
Cinema Today (2010), Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (2009),
Montreal International Festival of New Cinema (2009),
Pusan International Film Festival (2009), Kiev Molodist
International Film Festival (2009), HOF International
Film Festival (2009)
Directed by: Riad Sattouf
Written by: Riad Sattouf, Marc Syrigas
Cinematography by: Dominique Colin
Editing by: Virginie Bruant
Music by: Flairs, Riad Sattouf
Produced by: Anne-Dominique Toussaint
Production Company: Les Films des Tournelles
Coproduction: Pathé Distribution/Pathé International,
Studio 37
Cast: Vincent Lacoste (Hervé), Anthony Sonigo (Camel),
Alice Trémolières (Aurore), Noémie Lvovsky (Hervé’s
mother), Julie Scheibling (Laura), Camille Andreys (Meryl),
Robin Duverger (Benjamin), Baptiste Huet (Loïc), Simon
Barbier (Nicolas), Salomé Durchon (Nolwenn), Irène
Jacob (Aurore’s mother), Emmanuelle Devos (School
Principal)
Other Angle Pictures
39 rue de Constantinople
75008 Paris, France
Phone: +33 9.54.88.02.41
© Les Films des Tournelles
2010 Lumière Award - Most Promising Young Actor for
Vincent Lacoste and Anthony Sonigo
2010 César Award - Best First Film
14 year-old Hervé (newcomer Vincent Lacoste) is not among the popular kids at school.
A mediocre student, mocked for his looks, Hervé is constantly berated and embarrassed
by his overwhelmingly nosy mother (actress/filmmaker Noémie Lvovsky, Actresses,
Feelings [COL• COA 2004], Kings and Queen). He spends most of his days hanging out
with his best friend Camel (Anthony Sonigo), a mullet-wearing Metallica fan who shares
his plight of being ‘uncool’. Together, they look at lingerie catalogs and talk about sex.
Their only serious goal is to kiss a girl, but they can’t even bring themselves to utter a
word when a female classmate walks by. Their world is turned upside down when the
pretty Aurore starts showing interest in Hervé.
Comic book artist Riad Sattouf studied animation at the prestigious school Les
Gobelins. He has published various works since 2000, including Manuel du puceau
(2003) and Ma Circoncision (2004) for the Breal Jeunesse collection directed
by Joann Sfar (COL• COA 2010, Gainsbourg: Je t’aime…Moi Non plus), and the
best-seller Retour au collège (2005) for Hachette Littératures. He draws a weekly
cartoon in Charlie Hebdo and also writes for Fluide Glacial, Teknikart and Les
Inrockuptibles. Riad Sattouf was awarded a Best Comic Book Fauve d’Or for the
third installment of his series Pascal Brutal, Plus fort que les plus forts at the 2010
Angoulême International Comics Festival. Co-written with Marc Syrigas (The New
Eve, Replay), The French Kissers is his first feature film.
• “A notable directorial debut for comic book writer Riad Sattouf, this French teen sex comedy possesses a nice blend of humour and
intelligence that places it somewhere between American Pie and Wild Reeds. (…) It is a well-observed portrait of a teenage boy’s sexual awkwardness which also has strong international value.” (Screen International)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
Col •Coa
Classics
Comedy/Romance • France, 2005
35mm/Scope/2.35:1/Color/ 103 min
Written and directed by: Rémi Bezançon
Cinematography by: Antoine Monod
Editing by: Sophie Reine
Music by: Sinclair
Produced by: Éric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer,
Isabelle Grellat
Production Company: Mandarin Films
Coproduction: M6 Films
TF1 International
6 place Abel Gance
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
France
Phone:+33 1.41.41.21.68
tf1international.com
© Mandarin Films - M6 films
Cast: Vincent Elbaz (Yann Kerbec), Marion Cotillard
(Alice), Gilles Lellouche (Ludo), Elsa Kikoïne (Charlotte),
Didier Bezace (Castelot), Tom Novembre (Yann’s Father),
Cécile Cassel (Clémence), Philippe Nahon (Ludo’s Brother),
Vincent Winterhalter (Eddy), François Levantal (Passenger
going to Sydney)
1:30
Wednesday, April 21
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
(Ma vie en l’air)
A 2006 favorite among the COL • COA
audience, Love is in the Air is a romantic
comedy starring Academy Award® winner
actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose,
Public Enemies, Nine). Yann Kerbec (Vincent
Elbaz, So Close [COL•COA 2009], Park
Benches) is a flight simulator instructor for a
commercial airline but has a gripping fear of
flying, which caused him to lose his first love.
He lives like a bachelor with his slacker best
friend Ludo (Gilles Lellouche, Tell No One
[COL• COA 2007], Mesrine [COL• COA 2009],
Little White Lies), but is still searching for his soul mate. When he falls in love with neighbor Alice
(Marion Cotillard), he is forced to finally overcome his fears.
A graduate of the École du Louvre and the film school ESRA, Rémi Bezançon wrote and
directed various short films including Vikings (2001) and Paraboles (2003), before cowriting his first feature Women For Sale (2004) with Jean-Claude Jean. Love Is in the Air
was his debut feature as writer-director in 2005. A critical and commercial success, Étoile
d’Or for Best Screenplay, his second feature The First Day of the Rest of Your Life was shown
at COL• COA 2009 and was awarded the LAFCA Critics Special Prize.
MORNING RERUNS
In 2010, you will have a chance to see more films at COL•COA…FOR FREE!
Every day, from Wednesday April 21 to Sunday April 25, a film shown earlier
in the week will be rerun at 11:00 AM in the Truffaut Theatre
The film will be announced at 10:00 PM the evening before the screening:
on site in the DGA lobby — on www.colcoa.org
on the COL•COA Facebook fan page — on twitter.com/colcoa
Admission will be free on a first come, first served basis. A continental breakfast will be served Wednesday through
Friday at 10:30 AM in the COL•COA lounge for people attending the screening.
Coffee offered by
© Stéphane Tourné @ Reel Sessions
RENOIR Th.
2:00
Wednesday, April 21
COL• COA
MASTER CLASS
COL• COA LOUNGE
Open to all students and professors of a higher education institution,
the COL• COA master class consists of a premiere screening of a French
film, followed by a discussion.
Admission is free. RSVP is required at [email protected]
designed by
In 2010, students will watch the digital screening of the restored film
Pierrot le Fou, followed by a discussion with Cinémathèque Française
director Serge Toubiana and actress Anna Karina.
Located in the atrium of the Directors Guild of
America (to the right of the RENOIR Theatre)
SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING IN 2010
The lounge is open to the public during the week
for various events (reserved to audience attending the films):
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Enjoy breakfast before the Morning Reruns (see p.19)
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Attend the Happy Hour Talks and mingle with other film fans during the complimentary wine and cheese reception following the panels (see p.11)
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Have a drink before the After 10 series
(see p.20)
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On Saturday, take a break in between films and
buy a crepe outside the lounge
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(Deux de la vague)
Cal State Fullerton
Cal State Long Beach
Cal State Los Angeles
Cal State Northridge
Cerritos College
Chapman University
Citrus College
Irvine Valley College
Long Beach City College
Los Angeles Valley College
Moorpark College
Occidental College
Pepperdine University
Pomona College
Southwestern College
U.C. Riverside
U.C. Santa Barbara
U.C Irvine
U.C.L.A
U.S.C
Victor Valley College
West Los Angeles College
Whittier College
This educational program is produced by COL• COA, in association with
ELMA (European Languages and Movies in America), with the support
of California Language Teachers Association (CLTA/MCLASC), American
Association of Teachers of French-Southern California (AATF-SC) and
the Film & TV Office of the French Embassy in Los Angeles.
5:30
Wednesday, April 21
TWO IN THE WAVE
Col •Coa.Doc
in association with
Following the success of the high school screenings,
COL• COA announces a new educational program.
2009 COL•COA Lounge
TRUFFAUT Th.
U.S. Release date: May 19th, 2010
U.S Premiere • Documentary • France, 2010
Digibeta /Color and Black & White /91 min
Festival Selection: Guadalajara International
Film Festival, Focus France (2010), Rotterdam
International Film Festival, Signals Regained (2010),
Berlin International Film Festival (2010), Hong Kong
International Film Festival (2010), Cannes International
Film Festival, Cannes Classics (2009)
Directed by: Emmanuel Laurent
Written by: Antoine de Baecque
Cinematography by: Etienne de Grammont,
Nick de Pencier
Editing by: Marie-France Cuénot
Produced by: Emmanuel Laurent
Production Company: Films à Trois
Wide Management
40, rue Sainte-Anne
75002 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.53.95.04.64
widemanagement.com
U.S. Distribution:
Lorber Films
333 West 39 St. #503
New York, NY 10018
lorberfilms.com
Film critic Antoine de Baecque and filmmaker Emmanuel Laurent offer an in-depth
analysis of the relationship between François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, through rare
archival footage, interviews and film excerpts. Two in the Wave explores their friendship
from the early Cahiers years, the success of The 400 Blows at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival
and Truffaut’s instrumental help in the making of Breathless, to their brutal falling out ten
years later. Two in the Wave also shows the effect of their tumultuous friendship on the
New Wave itself and its signature actor, Jean-Pierre Léaud, who finds himself torn between
two father figures. If their passion for cinema, their writing and their revolutionary films
gave birth to the French New Wave, as Godard becomes more politicized and the rift
between him and Truffaut widens, the New Wave slowly dissipates.
Emmanuel Laurent is a filmmaker and novelist. A former film editor, he created
the independent production company “Films à Trois” in 1984. He has written,
directed and produced numerous documentaries for television, most recently The
Incredible Journey of the Butterflies (2009), Hitler’s Museum (2006), and Killer
Cure (2005). He is currently writing and directing a one-hour documentary, The
Quest for the Unicorn, produced by Sally Blake.
A former chief editor for Les Cahiers du Cinéma and Libération, Antoine de Baecque
is a renowned film critic and historian. Among his numerous publications, he is the co-author with
Serge Toubiana of a François Truffaut biography (Gallimard,1996) and has recently published a
biography on Jean-Luc Godard (Grasset, 2010). He is currently director of a collection of books on
Cinema for the publisher Ramsay. Two in the Wave is his first documentary film.
• “Buffs interested in the filmmakers and the era will be delighted by wonderful early newsreel and interview footage of the budding young auteurs… They also rep the docu’s high point; director Emmanuel Laurent has unearthed captivating coverage of The 400 Blows star
Jean-Pierre Leaud at the Cannes train station, Truffaut on the Croisette and the excited opening-night crowd at the old Palais.” (Variety)
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RENOIR Th.
AFTER 10 Truffaut Theatre
COL• COA CLASSICS
(Le Vilain)
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3
© Le Pacte
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4
5
6
Tuesday, April 20 to Saturday, April 24.
After 10:00 PM
COL•COA presents After 10, an eclectic series
of late evening screenings in association with
Friday
April 23 • 1:30 PM
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A film already shown
at COL•COA
A restored classic film—
DIGITAL SCREENING
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
PIERROT LE FOU
(Ma vie en l’air)
Throughout the year, anyone
can vote for a film previously
shown at COL•COA to be reprogrammed at the festival.
This film got the most votes
in 2009.
This will be an international
premiere and a historic
screening, as the restored
film has only been screened
digitally at the Cannes Film
Festival and the Cinémathèque Française.
Thursday,
April 22 • 1:45 PM
Saturday
April 24 • 1:00 PM
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Come early and have a drink in the COL•COA
lounge—it’s on us!
Beer offered by
Lounge opens at 9:00 PM
Reserved to audience attending
the After 10 screenings
April 20th
THE FRENCH KISSERS 1
César award winner for Best First Film
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April 21st
ROUND DA WAY
2
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…and three anticipated horror films:
High Lane 3 (4.22), In Their Sleep 4 (4.23),
& The Horde 5 (4.24)
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SATURDAY SPECIAL:
COME DRESSED UP AS A ZOMBIE
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AND SEE “THE HORDE” FOR FREE!
Focus on a filmmaker:
This year COL•COA honors
writer/director Claude Miller.
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Homage to the late writer/
director Eric Rohmer
THE LITTLE THIEF
PAULINE
AT THE BEACH
(La Petite voleuse)
(Pauline à la plage)
AN EYE TO THE FUTURE
(of French Cinema)
An Eye to the future (of French Cinema) is an exclusive COL•COA
presentation.
This program is composed of trailers/teasers of new French films that will be
available at the next Marché du Film in Cannes.
Shown on loop in the Melville Theatre, the program is FREE and accessible
to anyone attending COL•COA.
35mm/Scope/Color/86 min
Festival Selection: French Film Festival of Greenwich
(2010), Namur International Francophone Film Festival,
Regards du présent (2009)
Written and directed by: Albert Dupontel
Cinematography by: Pierre-Yves Bastard
Editing by: Christophe Pinel
Music by: Christophe Julien
Produced by: Catherine Bozorgan
Production Company: ADCB Films
Coproduction: France 2 Cinéma, StudioCanal,
Euro Média Télévision
Cast: Catherine Frot (Maniette), Albert Dupontel (Sidney
Thomas, aka The Villain), Bouli Lanners (Nick Korazy),
Nicolas Marié (Dr Jean William), Christine Murillo (Miss
Somoza), Bernard Farcy (Inspector Elliot), Philippe
Duquesne (Painter), Xavier Robic (Korazy’s Secretary),
Jacqueline Hervé (Huguette)
StudioCanal
92863 Issy-les Moulineaux,
France
Phone: +33 1.71.35.35.35
studiocanal.com
Wednesday, April 21
THE VILLAIN
© ADCB Films
Truffaut Theatre • Admission $5
Wednesday,
April 21 • 1:30 PM
6:00
Sidney Thomas (Albert Dupontel) has always been a rotten individual, even as a child.
Now on the run after a botched bank robbery, he sees no other solution than to go visit
his estranged mother Maniette (Catherine Frot, The Page Turner, The Dinner Game), in
order to hide at her home. Maniette is happy at first to see her son after 20 years. But
soon, she has an epiphany and realizes all the evil he has done since childhood. With the
belief that her own life is cursed for giving birth to such a villain, she decides to give her
son some of his own medicine. A burlesque good vs. evil struggle ensues between mother
and son, but they ultimately bond in order to stop a group of dishonest promoters from
buying their house and the whole neighborhood.
Albert Dupontel started his acting career in the 1988 with Gang of Four, cowritten and directed by Jacques Rivette. He became well-known in France in the
early 1990s as a stand-up comedian, with his provocative one man show Sale
Spectacle. César nominated for his performances in A Self-made Hero (1996), and
Sach’s Disease (2000), he has also acted in Irreversible (2002), Avenue Montaigne
(COL• COA 2006) and Paris (COL• COA 2008). Parallel to his acting career, he has
written and directed three feature films before The Villain, praised for their dry
and unique humor: Bernie (1996), César nominated for Best First Film, The Creator
(1999), and Locked Out (COL• COA 2006).
Tuesday, April 20 to Friday, April 23: 2:00 - 8:00 PM
Saturday, April 24: 1:00 – 8:00 PM
An Eye to the future (of French Cinema) is produced by COL•COA,
in association with French international Sales Companies
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TRUFFAUT Th.
7:30
FAREWELL
RENOIR Th.
Wednesday, April 21
(L’affaire Farewell)
(Fais-moi plaisir !)
8:30
Wednesday, April 21
PLEASE, PLEASE ME!
West Coast Premiere • Thriller/Espionage • France, 2009
In French and Russian with English subtitles
35mm/1.85/Dolby DTS/113 min
© Jean-Claude Lother
Cinema Today (2010), Cinémania (2009), Toronto
International Film Festival, Special Presentation (2009)
Starring two filmmakers in the lead roles, Guillaume Canet (Tell No One, Anything
You Say, both shown at COL• COA) and Emir Kusturica (Life is a Miracle, Underground,
Arizona Dream), Farewell recounts a crucial episode in the Cold War. Hoping to sabotage
the Brejnev regime and give his son a better future, disillusioned KGB colonel Gregoriev
(Kusturica) makes contact with Pierre (Canet), an ordinary French engineer working for
Thompson. He gives him explosive confidential documents about a network of KGB moles
in the West, leaking crucial scientific information to the Soviet Union. Torn between his
fear of putting his family in harm’s way and his desire to know more, Pierre brings the
documents to the French government and soon gets involved against his will in a highly
sensitive espionage affair.
Christian Carion was an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture before making films.
He decided to change careers after meeting young producer Christophe Rossignon,
who has been his producer ever since. Carion made his debut with The Girl from
Paris (COL• COA 2002), co-written with Éric Assous and nominated for Best First
Film at the 2002 César awards. He followed with another commercial and critical
success, the Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominated Merry Christmas
(2005). Written and directed by Carion, this moving tale of friendship in WWI
trenches among enemy soldiers topped the 2 million viewer mark on its French
release and was highly acclaimed during its presentation in official selection at the
2005 Cannes festival. Co-written by Eric Raynaud (Just a Pitch, COL• COA 2009)
Farewell is Christian Carion’s third feature as writer-director.
Directed by: Christian Carion
Written by: Éric Raynaud, Christian Carion
Based on the original work by: Sergei Kostine
Cinematography by: Walther Vanden Ende
Editing by: Andréa Sedlackova
Music by: Clint Mansell
Produced by: Christophe Rossignon
Production Company: Nord-Ouest Films
Coproduction Company: Le Bureau - Le Petit Bureau,
Blackfeet Pictures, France 2 Cinéma, Une Hirondelle
Productions, Pathé Distribution / Pathé International
Cast: Emir Kusturica (Sergei Gregoriev), Guillaume Canet
(Pierre Froment), Alexandra Maria Lara (Jessica Froment),
Ingeborga Dapkunaite (Natasha), Oleksii Gorbunov
(Choukhov)
Pathé international
2, Rue lamennais
75008 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.71.72.30.00
patheinternational.com
U.S. Distribution:
Neoclassics Films
3710 S Robertson Blvd.,
Ste 230
90232 Culver City, CA
Phone: +1 310.559.9200
neoclassicsfilms.com
• “If this were an amped-up American production, it would, given its subject matter, be one of the most heavily promoted films of the year. (…) Intelligent handling should make Christian Carion’s compelling picture a solid international success at least throughout the Western world.” (Variety)
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Festival Selection: Riverrun Film Festival (2010),
Hong Kong International Film Festival (2010), Mostra São Paulo International Film Festival (2009), Rio de
Janeiro International Film Festival, Panorama (2009)
Written and directed by: Emmanuel Mouret
Cinematography by: Laurent Desmet
Editing by: Martial Salomon
Music by: David Hadjadj, Jérôme Rebotier
Produced by: Frédéric Niedermayer
Production Company: Moby Dick Films
Coproduction: Les Films Pelléas
Cast: Emmanuel Mouret (Jean-Jacques), Judith Godrèche
(Elisabeth), Déborah François (Aneth), Frédérique Bel
(Ariane), Jacques Weber (Elisabeth’s Father), Dany
Brillant (Rudolph), Mikaël Gaudin-Lech (Grégoire),
Frédéric Epaud (Flirtatious Man), Frédéric Niedermayer
(Jean-Paul), Karine Ventalon (The Woman in the Train),
Olivier Galfione (Thomas), Jean-François Fagour (The
Guard), Yongsou Cho (The Ambassador), Akihiko Nishida
(The Foreign Affairs Minister), Philippe Sol (Franck)
Pyramide International
5, rue du Chevalier de Saint-George
75008 Paris, France
Phone: 33 1.42.96.02.20
pyramidefilms.com
In association with
© Pascal Chantier
U.S. Release date: July 23, 2010
Charming, clumsy inventor Jean-Jacques (Emmanuel Mouret) inadvertently leads his
girlfriend Ariane (frequent collaborator Frédérique Bel) to believe that he is fantasizing
about a mysterious woman he met in a café. Worried that this could poison their
relationship, Ariane encourages Jean-Jacques to meet with her and allow his fantasy to
become reality, so that he could, hopefully, be rid of this infatuation. Reluctant at first,
Jean-Jacques finds himself carried away in a series of comical adventures, as he discovers
that the mysterious stranger Elisabeth (Judith Godrèche) is the daughter of France’s
President. Surrounded by temptation and beautiful women, including Elisabeth’s
reserved maid Aneth (Déborah François, The First Day of the Rest of your Life, [COL• COA
2009], The Child) Jean-Jacques tries to keep his cool and save his relationship.
A FEMIS graduate, Emmanuel Mouret writes, directs and acts in his films. He
wrote and directed three short films, Il n’y a pas de mal (1997), Caresse (1998)
and Promène-toi donc tout nu ! (1999), before his first feature Laissons Lucie
faire ! in 2000. Often described as a cross between Eric Rohmer and Woody
Allen, he developed his style with two subsequent films, both screened at the
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight: Venus and Fleur (COL•COA 2005) and Change of
Address (COL•COA 2007). His fourth feature Shall We Kiss? (COL•COA 2009),
gained international recognition with multiple festival showings and a U.S.
distribution deal with Music Box Films. With Please, Please me!, he confirms his knack for witty
dialogue and burlesque situations.
• “Part Woody Allen, part Buster Keaton and 100% certified French, actor-helmer Emmanuel Mouret expands his impressive oeuvre of minimalist, burlesque laffers with the slapstick-heavy romantic comedy Please, Please Me! More reliant on visual gags than 2007’s Shall We Kiss?, but tackling similar themes of love and fidelity among a bunch of sex-crazed Parisians, pic aims for the creme de la creme with this clever romp about a goofball inventor trying to make it with the president’s daughter.” (Variety)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
10:15 pm
Wednesday, April 21
ROUND DA WAY
(Lascars)
After 10
© Bac/Millimages
U.S Premiere • Adult Animation/Comedy
France/Germany, 2009
As summer approaches, everyone is itching for action in Boningville, a fictitious place
resembling the projects surrounding Paris. Tony Pepperoni and Joe Hustleton had plans
to spend the summer at the beach in Santo Rico, but a mix-up with the travel agency
ruined their party dreams. However, there is no time to be bored in Boningville. Tony tries
his luck in the ‘business’ with local honcho Zoran, while Joe lands a dream job working for
the local judge and seduces his daughter Clémence. Things get complicated when Tony
attempts to break up with his nymphomaniac girlfriend Manuella, whose entire family
works for the police. Meanwhile, Joe wants to stop hustling but everyone in Boningville
knows “where the party’s at”. Round Da Way features the voices of Vincent Cassel (Ocean’s
Thirteen, Eastern Promises), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, Wicker Park), and French
rapper Diam’s.
Round Da Way started as a series of short one-minute clips on French TV channel
Canal +. After two seasons, it reached cult status and the series was bought in
over 20 countries. Now an adult animation film, it is a directorial debut for Albert
Pereira-Lazaro and Emmanuel Klotz, who co-wrote the screenplay with Alexis
Dolivet, Eldiablo and IZM. Albert Pereira-Lazaro graduated from the animation
school Les Gobelins, then joined the production company Millimages. He has
won many international awards for his 2D animation series, including a Children’s
BAFTA award for Best International Animated Program in 2000 and a Pulcinella
award for Best Family Animated Program in 2004. Emmanuel Klotz is also a Gobelins graduate. He
was assistant director on the TV series Pablo, The Little Red Fox and storyboarded the TV series Corneil
& Bernie (2001). In 2005, Klotz and Pereira collaborated on Arthur en vrai, an animated film blending
2D/3D for the French stand up comedian Arthur.
Festival Selection: Guadalajara International Film
Festival, Focus France (2010), Göteborg International Film
Festival, Animani (2010), Cannes International Critics’
Week (2009), Hong Kong French Cinepanorama, New
Films (2009)
Directed by: Albert Pereira Lazaro, Emmanuel Klotz
Written by: Alexis Dolivet, IZM, Eldiablo, Emmanuel Klotz
Editing by: Thibaud Caquot
Music by: Lucien “Papalu”, Nicholas Varley
Produced by: Philippe Gompel, Roch Lener
Production Company: Millimages
Coproduction: France 2 Cinéma, Studio 37
Cast: Voices: Vincent Cassel (Tony Pepperoni, voice), IZM
(José Hustleton, voice), Diane Kruger (Clémence Nomercy,
voice), Frédérique Bel (Manuella, voice)
Bac Films
88, rue de la Folie-Méricourt
75011 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.53.53.52.52
bacfilms.com
• “Based on a popular TV series that started in 2000 on Canal Plus and morphed into a comicbook, pic follows the adventures of various ghetto-dwellers on the make in the sexual as well as criminal sense. (…) Collaborating helmers Albert Pereira-Lazaro and Emmanuel Klotz (the latter’s credits include the animated feature “Duck Ugly”) notably demonstrate both visual flair and storytelling skill.” (Variety)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
1:45
Thursday, April 22
In association with
1989 French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award
for Best Film
Drama/Crime/Romance • France, 1988
Digibeta/Mono/103 min
(La Petite voleuse)
THE LITTLE THIEF
Directed by: Claude Miller
Written by: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray
Adaptation and dialogue: Luc Béraud, Annie Miller,
Claude Miller
Cinematography by: Dominique Chapuis
Editing by: Albert Jurgenson
Music by: Alain Jomy
Produced by: Claude Berri, Daniel Chevalier,
Jean-Louis Livi, Alain Vannier
Production Company: Orly Films, Renn Productions,
Ciné Cinq, Les Films du Carrosse, Sédif Productions
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg (Janine Castang),
Didier Bezace (Michel Davenne), Simon de La Brosse
(Raoul), Clotilde de Bayser (Séverine Longuet)
International Sales :
Roissy Films • roissyfilms.com
FOCUs ON A FILMMAKER
on Thursday, April 22nd coL•coA honors
claude miller with:
•
A rare screening of
•
A hAPPy hoUR TALK conversation moderated by
steven gaydos, Variety Executive Editor, followed by a wine
and cheese reception in the COL•COA lounge (see p. 11)
Wine offered by
•
The LiTTLe ThieF (see above)
SALISBURY V
INEYARDS
Avila Valley, CA
An evening premiere of his new feature
i Am gLAd ThAT my moTheR is ALiVe,
co-written and directed with his son Nathan Miller (see p. 33)
Followed by a discussion with claude miller after the film,
moderated by director Jon Amiel.
Col •Coa
Classics
Starring actress/singer Charlotte Gainsbourg
(Antichrist, I’m Not There, The Science of Sleep)
as Janine Castang, a rebellious teenager in Post
WW II France, The Little Thief is adapted from
an unfinished François Truffaut script. Janine
lives an unhappy life in a small French village,
and expresses her anger by compulsively
stealing anything she can get her hands on.
Forced to leave the village for stealing from the
church, she goes to the city and finds a job as a
maid. But her untamed energy leads her down
the criminal path again, as she meets and falls
in love with fellow thief Raoul (Simon de La
Brosse, Pauline at the Beach [COL•COA 2010],
Betty Blue).
A graduate of L’IDHEC film school, CLAUDE
MILLER started his career as assistant director
to Robert Bresson, Jacques Demy and JeanLuc Godard. While serving as production
manager for François Truffaut (1968 to 1975),
he wrote and directed two short films, La
Question ordinaire (1969) and Camille ou La
comédie catastrophique (1971), both presented
at the Cannes Directors Fortnight. After a
much-noticed debut feature The Best Way to
Walk (1976), he turned to thrillers, with This
Sweet Sickness (1977), adapted from a Patricia
Highsmith novel, The Grilling (1981), César
award for Best Screenplay and Deadly Circuit (1982). His subtle portraits of
childhood and psychological torment have won critical acclaim: Louis Delluc
award for L’Effrontée (1985), Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for
La Classe de Neige, International Critic’s Prize at the 2000 Berlinale for Of
Woman and Magic (COL•COA 2000) and, most recently, Grand Prix des
Amériques at the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival for A Secret (COL•COA
2008). Claude Miller taught film at Columbia University, the City College of
New York and the School of Visual Arts in 2003 and was also a guest lecturer
at VCU Arts Cinema in Richmond, VA in 2008.
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TRUFFAUT Th.
5:30
Thursday, April 22
RENOIR Th.
IRENE
(Mères et filles)
6:00
Thursday, April 22
HIDDEN DIARY
Supported by
© Pyramide Distribution
Irène Tunc was an actress and the companion of writer-director Alain Cavalier. She worked
with Jean-Pierre Melville in Leon Morin, Priest (1961), Alain Resnais in Je t’aime, je t’aime
(1968), François Truffaut in Two English Girls (1971), and Alain Cavalier in Heartbeat
(1968). She died in a tragic car accident in 1972. In this uncompromising documentary,
Alain Cavalier remembers Irène, her depression and their relationship. He tries to make
sense of her absence through film, taking as main characters his own despair and a diary
that he intended for her, while not knowing if she ever read it.
A graduate of L’IDHEC film school, Alain Cavalier was assistant director to Louis
Malle on Frantic and The Lovers, before directing his first short The American
(1958). He followed with Fire and Ice (1962) and Have I the Right To Kill? (1964),
two politically controversial shorts. After the success of Pillaged (1967) and
Heartbeat (1968), an adaptation of a Françoise Sagan novel starring Catherine
Deneuve, Alain Cavalier stopped making films for eight years. After 1976, he
wrote and directed a series of experimental and minimalist works, such as
Martin and Lea (1979) or Un Etrange voyage (1981). In 1986, his portrait of St.
Thérèse de Lisieux, Therèse, was a commercial and critical success, winning Jury Prize at the 1986
Cannes Film Festival and 6 César awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
After a film without dialog, Libera Me (1993), he turned to documentaries with Lives (2000), René
(2002) and Le Filmeur (2005), presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard.
West Coast Premiere • Documentary/Drama • France, 2009
Festival Selection: Hong Kong International Film Festival
(2010), Cannes International Film Festival, Un Certain
Regard (2009), Montreal International Festival of New
Cinema (2009), Mostra - São Paulo International Film
Festival (2009), Toronto International Film Festival,
Visions (2009), Viennale (2009)
Written and Directed by: Alain Cavalier
Cinematography by: Alain Cavalier
Editing by: Alain Cavalier
Produced by: Michel Seydoux
Production Company: Camera One, Pyramide Productions
Coproduction: Arte France Cinéma
Festival Selection: Richmond French Film Festival
(2010), Kiev Molodist International Film Festival (2009),
Pusan International Film Festival (2009), Montréal World
Film Festival, Hors concours (2009)
Directed by: Julie Lopes-Curval
Written by: Julie Lopes-Curval, Sophie Hiet
Cinematography by: Philippe Guilbert
Editing by: Anne Weil
Music by: Patrick Watson
Produced by: Alain Benguigui, Thomas Verhaeghe
Production Company: Sombrero Films
Cast: Alain Cavalier (Himself), Catherine Deneuve
(herself - archive footage), Vanessa Widhoff (Herself)
Cast: Catherine Deneuve (Martine), Marina Hands
(Audrey), Marie-Josée Croze (Louise), Michel Duchaussoy
(Michel), Jean-Philippe Écoffey (Gérard), Carole Franck
(Evelyne), Eléonore Hirt (Suzanne), Gérard Watkins
(Gilles), Romano Orzari (Tom), Nans Laborde (Pierre),
Meriem Serbah (Samira), Louison Bergman (Martine as a
child), Arthur Lurcin (Gérard as a child), Manon Percept
(Audrey as a child)
Pyramide International
5, Rue du Chevalier de Saint-George
75008 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.42.96.02.20
pyramidefilms.com
Bac Films
88, rue de la Folie-Méricourt
75011 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.53.53.52.52
bacfilms.com
• “It’s hard to imagine a film more simple than Alain Cavalier’s Irène, yet one that cuts to an emotional core with such acuity. To dismiss this as a home movie would be a serious error, not only because its author is an accomplished filmmaker, but more important, Cavalier invites an audience participation that lets both him and his viewers struggle to understand a central figure who is completely absent.”
(The Hollywood Reporter)
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West Coast Premiere • Drama • France/Canada, 2009
© Philippe Guilbert
Col Coa.Doc
•
Exploring mother/daughter relationships through generations, Hidden Diary is a portrait
of three women facing the challenges of womanhood and the weight of family secrets.
Audrey (Marina Hands, Lady Chatterley), a pregnant and independent thirty-year old
living abroad in Canada, is visiting her parents in the small French town where she
was born. Family secrets start unraveling when she finds the diary of her grandmother
Louise (Marie-Josée Croze, Someone I Loved (COL• COA 2009), The Diving Bell And The
Butterfly, Munich), who according to family legend, left her family and never returned. As
she questions her difficult relationship with her mother Martine (cinema icon Catherine
Deneuve) and her own future as a mother, Louise’s secret seems to hold the answers to
all her questions.
Julie Lopes-Curval started writing and directing plays while taking acting classes
at the cours Florent. Following a first script for Adolescents, a commissioned
film, she wrote and directed her first short film, Mademoiselle Butterfly, in
2001. Her first feature as writer-director, Seaside was screened at the Cannes
Directors’ Fortnight in 2002 and won the Caméra d’or. Her following film Toi et
Moi (2005), a romantic comedy starring Marion Cotillard and Julie Depardieu,
was recently released on DVD in the U.S. Her writing credits also include A
Great Little Business and The Role of Her Life, which won the Best Screenplay
award at the 2004 Montréal World Film Festival.
• “Julie Lopes-Curval proves surprisingly subtle in orchestrating the familial Sturm und Drang in a story that recalls Julie and Julia, as a rediscovered recipe binds women across time.” (Variety)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
7:15
Thursday, April 22
SILENT VOICES
RENOIR Th.
West Coast Premiere • Drama • France, 2009
Best Screenplay award at 2009 Montréal
World Film Festival
Directed by: Claude Miller, Nathan Miller
Written by: Alain Le Henry, Claude Miller, Nathan Miller
Based on a story by: Emmanuel Carrère
Cinematography by: Aurélien Devaux
Editing by: Morgane Spacagna
Music by: Vincent Segal
Produced by: Jean-Louis Livi
Production Company: F Comme Film
Coproduction: France 3 Cinéma, Orly Films, Page 114
2010 Michel d’Ornano Award • 2010 Lumière Award Most Promising Young Actress for Pauline Etienne
Festival Selection: Greece French Film Festival (2010),
Venice International Film Festival ,“Venice Days” (2009),
Deauville Film Festival (2009)
Cast: Vincent Rottiers (Thomas Jouvet at the age of 20),
Sophie Cattani (Julie Martino), Christine Citti (Annie
Jouvet), Yves Verhoeven (Yves Jouvet), Maxime Renard
(Thomas Jouvet at the age of 12), Olivier Guéritée
(Patrick / François at the age of 17), Ludo Harlay (Patrick
/ François at the age of 9), Gabin Lefébure (Tommy at the
age of 4), Quentin Gonzalez (Frédéric), Chantal Banlier
(Chantal)
Written and directed by: Léa Fehner
Cinematography by: Jean-Louis Vialard
Editing by: Julien Chigot
Music by: Luc Meilland
Produced by: Philippe Liégeois, Jean-Michel Rey
Production Company: Rezo
Cast: Farida Rahouadj (Zorah), Reda Kateb (Stéphane),
Pauline Étienne (Laure), Marc Barbé (Pierre),
Vincent Rottiers (Alexandre), Julien Lucas (Antoine),
Delphine Chuillot (Céline), Dinara Droukarova (Elsa),
Michaël Erpelding (François), Edmonde Franchi
(Stéphane’s mother)
Orly Films
10, avenue George V
75 008 Paris
Phone: +33 1 53 23 95 00
Rezo Films
29, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière
75009 Paris
Phone: +33 1.42.46.46.30
rezofilms.com
In association with:
Coach 14
21, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud
75011 Paris
Phone: +33 1.47.00.10.08
coach14.com
• “A model of clear, economical story-telling, I’m Glad’s • “Debut by writer-helmer Lea Fehner, who’s made several shorts, offers meaty roles for its impressive cast, builds suspense adroitly and makes good use of its contempo Marseilles locations.” ( Variety)
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plot meticulously provides all the relevant facts but never indulges in any psychoanalysis or speculation, inviting the viewers to make their own decisions. Starring several unknowns in tremendously effective performances, this looks like a natural festival hit…” (Screen International)
© Frédérique Barraja
© Rezo Productions
Léa Fehner studied cinema at the Belgium film school INSAS, then graduated
from la FEMIS cum laude in 2006. During her studies, she completed internships
abroad at the Center for Cinema in Bamako and with the renowned documentary
filmmaker Rithy Panh in Cambodia. She has written and directed four short films:
Caillou, Dora, Ceux qui tiennent les murs, and most recently, Except the Silence, in
competition at the 2007 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and
the 2007 Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival. Silent Voices is her debut feature
as writer-director.
(Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante)
Cinema Today (2010), Venice International Film Festival
(2009), Montréal World Film Festival (2009)
North American Premiere • Drama • France, 2009
Léa Fehner lived next to a correction facility when she was growing up. Moved by the
ghosts that she saw and heard there, she started volunteering with a non-profit association,
offering support to the families visiting their loved ones in jail. This experience inspired
the characters in Silent Voices. Sixteen-year old Laure (Pauline Étienne, Private Lessons,
Restless) wants to see the incarcerated man with whom she is passionately in love, but
she needs to be with an adult to enter the prison. Zorah (Farida Rahouadj, A Day at the
Museum (COL• COA 2009), How Much Do You Love Me) has come all the way from Algeria
to meet her son’s murderer face to face. Stéphane (Reda Kateb, A Prophet) has agreed to
swap places with an inmate who looks like him. They don’t know each other yet, but their
paths cross in the visiting room of this prison.
Thursday, April 22
I AM GLAD THAT MY
MOTHER IS ALIVE
(Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront)
Supported by
8:30
Adapted by Alain Le Henry (A Self-Made Hero, See How They Fall) from a real-life story
and co-directed by Claude Miller and his son Nathan, I am Glad That My Mother is Alive
explores childhood trauma and its dire consequences on adult life. Unbeknownst to
his adoptive parents, troubled 18 year-old Thomas (newcomer Vincent Rottiers, also in
Silent Voices and In the Beginning, both shown this year at COL• COA) searches for his
birth mother, who abandoned him and his brother when they were very young. He finds
her single, with a small child, living in a nearby suburb and introduces himself to her.
Traumatized by years of emptiness and longing for his mother, he starts an ambiguous
relationship with her, part courtship part obsession, which slowly drives him to an act
of madness.
A graduate of L’IDHEC film school, Claude Miller started his career as assistant
director to Robert Bresson, Jacques Demy and Jean-Luc Godard. While serving
as production manager for François Truffaut (1968 to 1975), he wrote and directed two short films, La Question ordinaire (1969) and Camille ou La comédie
catastrophique (1971), both presented at the Cannes Directors Fortnight. After
a much-noticed debut feature The Best Way to Walk (1976), he turned to thrillers, with This Sweet Sickness (1977), adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel,
The Grilling (1981), César award for Best Screenplay and Deadly Circuit (1982).
His subtle portraits of childhood and psychological torment have won critical acclaim: Louis Delluc award for L’Effrontée (1985), Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for La
Classe de Neige, International Critic’s Prize at the 2000 Berlinale for Of Woman and Magic (COL• COA
2000) and, most recently, Grand Prix des Amériques at the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival for A
Secret (COL• COA 2008).
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TRUFFAUT Th.
10:15 pm
(Vertige)
Thursday April 22
HIGH LANE
After 10
North American Premiere • Thriller/Horror • France, 2009
35mm/Scope/Color/Dolby SRD/84 min
Directed by: Abel Ferry
Written by: Johanne Bernard, Louis-Paul Desanges
Cinematography by: Nicolas Massart
Editing by: Soline Guyonneau
Music by: Jean-Pierre Taïeb
Produced by: Alain Benguigui, Thomas Verhaeghe
Production Company: Sombrero Films
Coproduction: Gaumont
Cast: Fanny Valette (Chloé), Johan Libéreau (Loïc),
Raphaël Lenglet (Guillaume), Nicolas Giraud (Fred),
Maud Wyler (Karine), Justin Blanckaert (Anton)
Gaumont
30 avenue Charles-de-Gaulle
92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
France
Phone: +33 1.46.43.20.00
gaumont.com
© Gaumont Distribution
Festival Selection:
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in India (2009)
Towering heights and beautiful vistas turn into a nightmare reminiscent of Deliverance
in this suspenseful horror film starring Fanny Vallette (Molière, Change of Address
(COL• COA 2008) Little Jerusalem) and Johan Libéreau (The Witnesses, A Simple Heart,
Stella). A group of friends on vacation in Eastern Europe embarks on an ambitious
mountain expedition along a Via Ferrata closed for repair. The thrill of this foolish
challenge quickly turns sour as it becomes clear that not only is the path a lot more
dangerous than they thought, but they are not alone in the mountain. Fear exposes old
traumas and brings up hidden emotions to the surface. Soon, everyone is fighting for
their survival.
Abel Ferry has been directing commercials and episodes for the cult TV show
Les Guignols on French channel Canal + for nine years. Previous to High Lane,
he made his mark in international genre circles with two short films, which he
co-wrote and directed: the burlesque Putain, la vieille faut pas l’énerver! (2002),
starring Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) and The
Good, the Bad, and the Zombies, a comedy/horror/western also starring Pinon
and genre actor Lloyd Kaufman. Written by Johanne Bernard and Louis-Paul
Desanges (Mutants), High Lane is his directorial debut. A native of the Alps and
hiking aficionado, Ferry insisted that the actors be physically trained to hike and shoot the film in
extreme mountain conditions.
• “The group’s explosive tension is effectively captured from the start by d.p. Nicolas Massart’s sporty, stomach-churning camerawork. It quickly reaches death-defying levels when the kids try to cross a suspension bridge that seriously needs a safety inspection. (…) Ferry’s maneuvering of the action, espe-
cially in the mountain climbing scenes performed by the actors themselves, reveals a knack for storyboarding sequences into moments of condensed, throbbing anxiety.” (Variety)
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RENOIR Th.
1:30
Friday, April 23
International Premiere
Special Digital Screening of the Restored Film
Crime/Drama/Romance • France, 1965
Digital 2K/Color/110 min
In association with Lionsgate/StudioCanal and La
Cinémathèque Française
Festival Selection: Cannes International Film Festival
(2009)
Written and directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Based on a novel by: Lionel White
Cinematography by: Raoul Coutard
Editing by: Françoise Collin
Music by: Antoine Duhamel
Produced by: Georges de Beauregard, Dino de Laurentiis
Production Company: Films Georges de Beauregard, Dino
de Laurentiis Cinematografica
Coproduction: Rome Paris Films, SNC
With: Jean-Paul Belmondo (Ferdinand Griffon, ‘Pierrot’),
Anna Karina (Marianne Renoir), Graziella Galvani
(Ferdinand’s wife), Samuel Fuller (Himself), Raymond
Devos (The man on the pier), Dirk Sanders (Fred,
Marianne’s brother), Jean-Pierre Léaud (The young man
in the movie theatre), László Szabó (The political exile)
StudioCanal
92863 Issy-les Moulineaux, France
Phone: +33 1.71.35.35.35
studiocanal.com
© StudioCanal
PIERROT LE FOU
Based on Obsession, a novel by Lionel White, Pierrot le Fou is widely considered one of the
most significant films of the New Wave and a turning point in Godard’s work. Featuring a
cameo appearance of director Samuel Fuller and mixing pop culture, literary references
and politics, the film follows in non-linear fashion the wild and ill-fated escapade of
Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Anna Karina), two lovers on the run.
Funded by StudioCanal and the Cinémathèque Française, with the support of the
Franco-American Cultural Fund, producer of COL•COA, the restoration makes the
famously bright and vivid colors in Pierrot le Fou all the more compelling. This new
restored version of the film was only screened digitally at the Cannes Film Festival and
the Paris-based Cinémathèque before the screening at COL•COA 2010.
Jean-Luc Godard is one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave and
remains a radical filmmaker today. Following his debut feature Breathless (1960),
written and produced with the help of François Truffaut, Godard wrote and directed
some of his most celebrated films: Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964),
Alphaville (Golden Bear at the 1965 Berlinale), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Weekend
(1967). After La Chinoise (1967), Godard’s work became more radical, ranging from
political films like Ici et Ailleurs (1976) with the Dziga-Vertov group to a series of
experimental works, including the video art piece Numéro Deux (1975) and the
television mini-series France/tour/detour/deux/enfants (1977). He went back to narrative features in
the 1980s, with Passion (1982), First Name: Carmen (Golden Lion at the 1983 Venice Film Festival)
and the controversial Hail Mary (1985). Throughout the following decade, he worked on one of his
major works, the comprehensive multi-part series Histoire(s) du cinema. Most recently, he wrote and
directed the critically acclaimed In Praise of Love (2001) and Notre Musique (2004).
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5:30
SPHINX
Friday, April 23
RENOIR Th.
5:45
Friday, April 23
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON
(Gardiens de l’ordre)
Film
Noir
Series
North American Premiere • Crime/Thriller/Drama
France, 2010
35mm/1.85/Color/Dolby SR/SRD/105 min
© Gaumont
Festival Selection: French Film Festival in Japan (2010)
During a routine night patrol, police officers Julie (Cécile De France, Hereafter, Mesrine
(COL• COA 2009), The Russian Dolls) and Simon (Fred Testot, Round Da Way (COL• COA
2010), The Whistler, Omar et Fred) accidentally wound the son of a deputy who, in a
state of stupor, violently killed one of their colleagues for no apparent reason. Wrongly
accused of police brutality, facing disciplinary action, they receive no support from their
superiors when they report finding a strange drug at the young man’s house. They decide
to investigate on their own and discover a trafficking network manufacturing a new illegal
drug, the Sphinx.
Writer-director Nicolas Boukhrief started his career as a journalist and co-founded
the fantasy/horror film magazine Starfix in 1982. He started writing for film in
1993 with Not Everybody’s Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents, directed by
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, then wrote and directed his first feature Va Mourire in
1995. He won critical acclaim for the screenplay of Assassin(s) in 1997, co-written
with Mathieu Kassovitz, who also directed the film. The film was presented in
official selection at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. He then turned to comedy for
his second feature as writer-director, Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences), cowritten with Dan Sasson, starring Vincent Cassel and Mathieu Kassovitz. He followed with two critically
acclaimed thrillers, which he co-wrote and directed: Cash Truck (COL• COA 2004) and Cortex (COL• COA
2008). He is also co-founder of the production company Eskwad, which produced Brotherhood of the
Wolf (2001) and Irreversible (2002).
Directed by: Nicolas Boukhrief
Written by: Dan Sasson, Nicolas Boukhrief
Cinematography by: Dominique Colin
Editing by: Lydia Decobert
Music by: Nicolas Baby
Produced by: Sylvie Pialat
Production Company: Les Films du Worso
Coproduction: Gaumont, Entre Chien et Loup
Cast: Cécile De France (Julie), Fred Testot (Simon),
Julien Boisselier (Marc), Nicolas Marié (Le commissaire
principal), Stéphan Wojtowicz (Gilbert), Nanou Garcia
(Sandrine), Stéphane Jobert (Roland), Jean-Michel Noirey
(Rudy), Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (Christian), Foued Nassah
(Joseph), Anthony Decadi (Stan)
Gaumont
30 avenue Charles-de-Gaulle
92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
France
Phone: +33 1.46.43.20.00
gaumont.com
West Coast Premiere • Drama/Romance • France, 2009
35mm/Scope/2.35/Color/Dolby DTS/101 min
Festival Selection: Hong Kong International Film Festival
(2010), New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Today (2010), Pusan International Film Festival (2009),
HOF International Film Festival (2009)
Directed by: Stéphane Brizé
Written by: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon
Based on the novel by: Éric Holder
Cinematography by: Antoine Héberlé
Editing by: Anne Klotz
Music by: Ange Ghinozzi
Produced by: Gilles Sacuto, Miléna Poylo
Production Company: TS Productions
Coproduction: F Comme Film, Arte France Cinéma
Cast: Vincent Lindon (Jean), Sandrine Kiberlain
(Véronique Chambon), Aure Atika (Anne-Marie),
Jean-Marc Thibault (Jean’s father), Arthur Le Houérou
(Jérémy), Bruno Lochet (Jean’s co-worker), Abdallah
Moundy (Jean’s co-worker) Anne Houdy (Funeral home
sales person), Michèle Goddet (School principal),
Geneviève Mnich (Véronique’s mother - voice)
Rezo
29, rue du Fbrg Poissonnière
75009 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.42.46.46.30
rezofilms.com
U.S. Distributor:
Lorber Films
333 West 39 St. #503
New York, NY 10018
lorberfilms.com
© Michaël Crotto, TS Productions
TRUFFAUT Th.
Jean (Vincent Lindon, Welcome [COL• COA 2009], Anything For Her, The School of Flesh)
lives a simple life, happily married to Anne-Marie (Aurore Atika, Fear(s) of the Dark, OSS
117: Cairo, Nest of Spies [COL• COA 2008], The Beat That My Heart Skipped). Everything
changes when his son’s schoolteacher, Mademoiselle Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain,
Little Nicholas, After You [COL• COA 2004], Seventh Heaven, For Sale), asks him to make a
presentation about his job to the class. She is unlike anyone he has met before. A manual
worker who builds houses, Jean is deeply moved by her elegance, her love of classical
music and her discreet ways. They fall madly in love with each other but try to control
their feelings. Their mutual attraction develops in silence, manifesting itself in subtle
ways and yet growing stronger, affecting Jean’s work and his relationship with his family.
Stéphane Brizé wrote and directed a first short film in 1993, Bleu Dommage,
awarded Best Short at the Cognac Film Festival. He collaborated with Florence
Vignon for the screenplay of his second short, L’oeil qui traîne (1996), then for
a first feature, Hometown Blue (1999), in which she also stars. Presented at the
Directors Fortnight in Cannes, Hometown Blue won Best Screenplay at the 1999
Deauville Film Festival and received the Michel d’Ornano Award. Brizé came to
present the César nominated I am Not Here to Be Loved at COL• COA in 2006, his
second feature as writer-director. After Among Adults (2007), an experimental
third film co-produced with Claude Lelouch, Brizé returns to COL• COA in 2010 with Mademoiselle
Chambon. He is also the author of a documentary film, Le Bel Instant.
• “Mademoiselle Chambon (picked up by Lorber Films) is exquisite, never putting a foot wrong. (…) A standard tale of adultery, but Brize decants it through a radical form, dispensing with psychology and extended dialogue. (…) Chambon is one of those films whose seem-
ing smallness belies its breadth.” (indieWIRE)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
7:45
Friday, April 23
IMMACULATE
RENOIR Th.
8:30
Friday, April 23
THE CONCERT
(Sans laisser de traces)
U.S. Premiere • Comedy/Drama
France/Belgium/Romania/Italy, 2009
35mm/Scope/Color/Dolby SRD-SR-DTS/122 min
© Jean-Marie Leroy
International Premiere • Drama/Thriller
France/Belgium, 2010
35mm/Color/95 min
Born in a middle class family, Étienne (Benoît Magimel, A Girl Cut in Two, Intimate
Enemies (COL• COA 2008), The Piano Teacher) is now a successful corporate executive.
Married to the upper class, elegant Clémence (Julie Gayet, Eight Times Up, Shall We
Kiss? (COL• COA 2009), My Best Friend), he is about to take the reigns of the group as the
CEO retires. Everything seems to go well for Étienne. At an ATM one day, he sees Patrick
(François-Xavier Demaison, Little Nicholas, So Close (COL• COA 2009), Coluche), an old
classmate with whom he had lost touch. From that point on, his private and personal life
start to fall apart.
Grégoire Vigneron wrote his first short film in 1994, Tête d’ange, directed by Valérie
Minetto. He met Laurent Tirard while writing and directing the short film Une
Fausse Image de Moi in 2000. They co-wrote a first feature, The Story of My Life
(COL• COA 2005 Audience Award), directed by Tirard. They have since collaborated
on I Do, directed by Éric Lartigau, the critically acclaimed Molière (2007) and most
recently the popular success Little Nicholas (2009), both directed by Tirard. Cowritten with Tirard, Immaculate is Vigneron’s directorial debut. They are currently
working on an adaptation of the comic book Asterix in Britain, which will also be
directed by Tirard. Among his other writing credits, Grégoire Vigneron co-wrote the screenplay of
Changing Sides in 2007, an adaptation of a novel by Alix Girod de l’Ain starring Dany Boon (Welcome
to the Sticks, COL• COA 2008).
Directed by: Grégoire Vigneron
Written by: Laurent Tirard, Grégoire Vigneron
Cinematography by: Laurent Dailland
Editing by: Valérie Deseine
Music by: Christophe La Pinta
Produced by: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier
Production Company: Fidélité Films
Coproduction: Scope Pictures
Cast: Benoît Magimel (Étienne Meunier), François-Xavier
Demaison (Patrick Chambon), Julie Gayet (Clémence
Meunier), Léa Seydoux (Fleur), Jean-Marie Winling
(Maurice), Dominique Labourier (Micheline), André Wilms
(François Michelet)
Wild Bunch
99, rue de la Verrerie
75004 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.53.01.50.20
wildbunch.biz
• “[…] a fast-paced psychological thriller about ambition and remorse. A script impeccably interpreted by the Magimel-Demaison duo, and the beautiful Julie Gayet. A complete gem.” (Le Parisien)
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Directed by: Radu Mihaileanu
Written by: Radu Mihaileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc,
Matthew Robbins
Based on the original story by: Hector Cabello Reyes,
Thierry Degrandi
Cinematography by: Laurent Dailland
Editing by: Ludovic Troch
Music by: Armand Amar
Produced by: Alain Attal
Production Company: Les Productions du Trésor
Coproduction: Oï Oï Oï Productions, France 3 Cinéma,
EuropaCorp, Panache Productions, Castel Films, RTBF,
BIM Distribuzione
Cast: Mélanie Laurent (Anne-Marie Jacquet), Aleksei
Guskov (Andreï Semoinovitch Filipov), Dmitri Nazarov
(Aleksander Abramovitch ‘Sacha’ Grossman), Valeriy
Barinov (Ivan Gavrilov), François Berléand (Olivier Morne
Duplessis), Miou-Miou (Guylène de La Rivière), Lionel
Abelanski (Jean-Paul Carrère), Ramzy Bedia (Owner of Le
Trou Normand)
Wild Bunch
99, rue de la Verrerie
75004 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.53.01.50.20
wildbunch.biz
U.S. Distribution:
The Weinstein Company
weinsteinco.com
© Guy Ferrandis 2009
Film
Noir
Series
Festival Selection: French Film Festival in Japan (2010),
Sofia Film Festival (2010), Cinémania (2009), French
Cinema Today Festival in Russia (2009), Rome Film
Festival, Hors compétition (2009)
Thirty years ago, at the height of his fame, Andrei Filipov (Aleksei Guskov, The House of
Sun, The Weather Station) was asked to step down as conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra
for refusing to fire his Jewish musicians. From legend he went to failure, battling
alcoholism and depression. Now working as a janitor for the Bolshoi, Andrei finds a fax
from the Theatre du Châtelet in Paris, asking the Bolshoi to fly urgently as replacement
for the San Francisco Philharmonic. Moved by a desire to prove himself, he convinces
his old musicians, now struggling to make a living, to pass for the Bolshoi orchestra and
go to Paris. Upon arrival, Filipov is forced to face old demons as he tries to win the trust
of soloist Anne-Marie Jacquet (Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds, Melody’s Smile
[COL• COA 2008], Don’t Worry I’m Fine) for this historic concert.
Radu Mihaileanu left his native Romania in 1980 and graduated from the film
school L’IDHEC in Paris. He started his career as assistant director to Marco
Ferreri and won the First Film award at the 1993 Montréal World Film Festival for
Trahir, a first feature that he co-wrote and directed. His second feature Train of
Life, co-written with Moni Ovadia, won multiple awards, including the Audience
Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival in the category World Cinema and the
FIPRESCI Prize for Best First Film at the 1998 Venice Film Festival. He followed
with Live and Become (2005), co-written with Alain-Michel Blanc, another critical
and commercial success: 2006 César award for Best Screenplay, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the
2005 Berlinale. His fourth feature, The Concert was one of the most popular films of the year in France.
Radu Mihaileanu is currently President of L’ARP, the French guild of writers, directors and producers.
• “Besides the very convincing performances and direction, and the great turn by Alekseï Guskov, […] secondary actors render this film an overall winner. However, a special mention goes to the splendid Mélanie Laurent, recently thrust into the international limelight by Quentin Tarantino, who cast her in Inglourious Basterds. Once again, the French actress infuses her character with a grace and lightness as well as depth that, given her performance in the previous film, are probably her own.” (Cineuropa.org)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
(Dans ton sommeil)
10:15 pm
Friday, April 23
IN THEIR SLEEP
Film
Noir
Series
International Premiere • Thriller/Horror • France, 2010
35mm/Scope/Color/Dolby SR SRD/80 min
Written and directed by: Caroline du Potet, Eric du Potet
Cinematography by: Pierre Cottereau
Editing by: Yann Malcor
Music by: Éric Neveux
Produced by: Caroline Adrian, Antoine Rein
Production Company: Delante Films
Coproduction: BR Films
Cast: Anne Parillaud (Sarah), Arthur Dupont (Arthur),
Thierry Frémont (The man in the station wagon),
Jean-Hugues Anglade (Sarah’s husband)
TF1 International
6 place Abel Gance
France
Phone: +33 1.41.41.21.68
© Albany Films distribution
After 10
Driving late one night on a country road, Sarah (Anne Parillaud, La Femme Nikita, The
Man in the Iron Mask, The Last Mistress) accidentally hits Arthur (Arthur Dupont, The
Romance of Astrée and Céladon (COL• COA 2008), Bus Palladium). Arthur is 18 yearsold, the same age as her son, whose tragic death only a year before still haunts her. He
explains that he is being chased by a mysterious killer (Thierry Frémont, 2005 International Emmy Award for Best Actor in Murder in Mind), who tried to break into his
house. Sarah sees a chance to redeem the death of her son and feels a compelling need
to protect him. They arrive safely in her isolated house in the countryside, but the killer
still lurks…
In Their Sleep is a debut feature by siblings and young filmmakers
Éric and Caroline du Potet. Brother/sister Éric and Caroline du Potet both studied at the film school ESRA. Caroline pursued further
studies in creative writing for film at the Conservatoire Européen
d’Ecriture Audiovisuelle, while Éric gained hands-on experience on
film shoots. Before In Their Sleep, they co-wrote and directed five
shorts: Le Bestiaire (2001), Premières Neiges (2002), Silence, on
danse ! (2003), Ce soir-là (2004) and Le Troisième Oeil (2006).
• “Is it a mirage or a true nightmare? Eric and Caroline du Potet leave this door open, letting their film slide towards fantasy on a morbid little tune. It is effective and well interpreted.”
(TéléCinéObs)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
1:00
Saturday, April 24
PAULINE AT THE BEACH
(Pauline à la plage)
Silver Bear for Best Director at the 1983 Berlinale
1984 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Comedy/Drama/Romance • France, 1983
35mm/1.66/Mono/95 min
Presented in association with MGM
Written and directed by: Eric Rohmer
Cinematography by: Néstor Almendros
Editing by: Cécile Decugis
Music by: Jean-Louis Valéro
Produced by: Margaret Ménégoz
Production Company: Les Films du Losange,
Les Films Ariane
Cast: Arielle Dombasle (Marion), Amanda Langlet
(Pauline), Pascal Greggory (Pierre), Féodor Atkine (Henri),
Simon de La Brosse (Sylvain), Marie Bouteloup (Marie),
Michel Ferry (Sylvain’s friend)
Les Films du Losange
22, ave. Pierre 1er de Serbie
75116 Paris
France
Phone: +33 1.44.43.87.10
filmsdulosange.fr
U.S. Distributor
MGM Home Entertainment
10250 Constellation Blvd.
Los Angeles,
CA 90067-6200
Phone: (310) 449-3000
mgm.com
Eric
Rohmer
Homage
Col •Coa
Classics
© Les Films du Lozange 1983
With the support of the Los Angeles Film and TV Office
of the French Embassy and Cultures France
Pauline at the Beach is the third installment in Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs cycle,
a series of six films. Newly divorced Marion (Arielle Dombasle, Time Regained, L’Ennui,
A Good Marriage) takes her 15 year-old cousin Pauline (Amanda Langlet) on a holiday
at the beach. Although Marion claims to be worldly and wise, Pauline proves to be the
most sensible and mature in matters of the heart in the way she handles her summer
flirtation with young Sylvain (Simon de La Brosse, The Little Thief [COL• COA 2010], Betty
Blue). As Pauline watches her pretentious and clueless cousin become absorbed in a
meaningless love affair with local Lothario Henri (Féodor Atkine, Ronin, Alexander), she
grows disillusioned with the adult world and its lot of deceit and double standards.
A former novelist and literature professor, Eric Rohmer (1920 – 2010) was one
of the founding fathers of the French New Wave. With over 50 films, Rohmer
crafted a coherent and impressive body of work, exploring various moral and
philosophical themes through his film cycles: Six Moral Tales, Comedies and
Proverbs, Tales of the Four Seasons. After a few attempts at filmmaking while he
was editor of the Cahiers du Cinéma from 1957 to 1963, he had a breakthrough
in 1962 with the short film The Bakery Girl of Monceau, first of Six Moral Tales.
Throughout his career, he won many awards, including a Grand Prize of the Jury at
Cannes for The Marquise of O (1976), a Silver Bear for The Collector (1967) and Pauline at the Beach
(1983), a Golden Lion for his overall career (2001), and an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay in
1971 for My Night at Maud’s. His last theatrical film, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, was screened
at COL• COA 2008.
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TRUFFAUT Th.
(Le Hérisson)
3:00
Saturday, April 24
THE HEDGEHOG
Best Director and Special Jury prize at the 2009 Cairo
Cinema Today (2010), Richmond French Film Festival
(2010), Cairo International Film Festival (2009),
Dubai International Film Festival (2009)
Written and directed by: Mona Achache
Based on the novel by: Muriel Barbery
Cinematography by: Patrick Blossier
Editing by: Julia Grégory
Music by: Gabriel Yared
Produced by: Anne-Dominique Toussaint
Production Company: Les Films des Tournelles
Coproduction: France 2 Cinéma, Pathé Distribution /
Pathé International, Topaze Bleue
Cast: Josiane Balasko (Renée Michel), Garance
Le Guillermic (Paloma Josse), Togo Igawa (Kakuro Ozu),
Anne Brochet (Solange Josse), Ariane Ascaride (Manuela
Lopez), Wladimir Yordanoff (Paul Josse), Sarah Lepicard
(Colombe Josse), Jean-Luc Porraz (Jean-Pierre)
Pathé International
2, rue Lamennais
75008 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.71.72.30.00
patheinternational.com
© Thomas Brémond - Pathé Distribution
West Coast Premiere • Comedy/Drama
France/Italy, 2009
35mm/Scope/Color/Dolby DTS/100 min
Adapted from the eponymous best-selling novel written by Muriel Barbery, The Hedgehog
stars newcomer Garance Le Guillermic as Paloma, a precocious and suicidal 11 year-old
who befriends Renée, the secretly erudite concierge of her upscale building (Josiane
Balasko, A French Gigolo, Too Beautiful For You, French Twist). An acute observer of her
dysfunctional family, Paloma sees an ally in Renée, who frequently reads alone with
her cat. A window opens up in Renée’s solitary existence when she is courted by one of
her new tenants, the elegant widower Kakuro (Togo Igawa, Speed Racer, Memoirs of a
Geisha). As she gets to know Kakuro, Renée softens up and starts to see the possibility of
love in her life, while her friendship and her words of wisdom start to change Paloma’s
bleak outlook on the adult world.
Young filmmaker Mona Achache studied theater and literature before working in
film. She worked as assistant director on various features, including Father and
Sons (COL• COA 2005). She was also script supervisor on fiction and documentary
projects. Before The Hedgehog, she wrote and directed two critically acclaimed
short films, popular in the international film circuit: Suzanne (COL• COA 2006),
and Wawa (2007), Golden Bear and Audience Award at the Ebensee Festival of
Nations. She is also an actress, most recently in Eden is West (COL• COA 2009).
She is currently writing a second feature.
• “Perfs are strong, with Balasko in particular suggesting a wealth of simmering emotion beneath her impassive features. The Hedgehog mostly takes place in the somberly lit apartment block; in enjoyable counterpoint, drawings by Paloma occasionally take on a life of
their own.” (Variety)
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TRUFFAUT Th.
5:30
Saturday, April 24
RENOIR Th.
RAPT
(Les Invités de mon père)
5:45
Saturday, April 24
MY FATHER’S GUESTS
West Coast Premiere • Drama/Film Noir/Thriller
France/Belgium, 2009
Loosely based on the real-life kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean Empain in 1978, Rapt
shows the downfall of rich industrialist Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal, Munich, Rush Hour 3,
The Interpreter). Graff is kidnapped by a group of criminals determined to get a ransom.
Brutally mutilated, humiliated by his captors, Graff patiently waits for his wife Françoise
(Anne Consigny, Wild Grass, I Am Not Here to Be Loved [COL• COA 2006], The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly) and his associates to pay the ransom. Outside, his world collapses as
the press reveals a double life he had successfully kept private: lavish parties, mistresses,
gambling debts.
As an actor, Lucas Belvaux has worked with some of the greatest directors: Losey
(The Trout), Zulawski (La Femme Publique), Chabrol (Madame Bovary), Rivette
(Wuthering Heights), Assayas (Disorder) and most recently Robert Guédiguian
in The Army of Crime. He wrote and directed his first movie in 1992, the critically
acclaimed Parfois trop d’amour. After a second feature, the hit comedy Just For
a Laugh, (COL• COA 1998), starring New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud, Belvaux
wrote and directed a critically acclaimed thriller Trilogy: An Amazing Couple, On
the Run and After Life, (2003 Louis-Delluc prize). He followed with The Right
of the Weakest (COL•COA 2008), a social film noir presented in official competition at the 2006
Cannes Film Festival.
Written and directed by: Lucas Belvaux
Cinematography by: Pierre Milon
Editing by: Danielle Anezin
Music by: Riccardo Del Fra
Produced by: Patrick Sobelman
Production Company: Agat Films & Cie
Coproduction: Entre Chien et Loup - Belgique,
RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté
Française, Ateliers de Baere, France 3 Cinéma
Cast: Yvan Attal (Stanislas Graff), Anne Consigny
(Françoise Graff), André Marcon (André Peyrac), Françoise
Fabian (Marjorie), Alex Descas (Maître Walser), Michel
Voïta (Commissaire Paoli), Gérard Meylan (Le Marseillais),
Films Distribution
34, rue du Louvre
75001 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.53.10.33.99
filmsdistribution.com
• “Lucas Belvaux’s Rapt is two movies, both excellent, for the price of one. On the one hand, it’s a social-political thriller of the kind made familiar by Costa-Gavras. On the other, it’s a psychological study of a creature of power during and after his seizure by ransom-hunters, and the effects of the kidnap on those close and not so close to him.” (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Supported by
© Thibault Grabherr
Festival Selection: Greece French Film Festival (2010),
Istanbul International Film Festival (2010), New
York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Today (2010),
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Spectrum (2010)
International Premiere • Comedy • France, 2010
Directed by: Anne Le Ny
Written by: Anne Le Ny, Luc Béraud
Cinematography by: Patrick Blossier
Editing by: Francine Sandberg
Music by: Béatrice Thiriet
Produced by: Bruno Lévy
Production Company: Move Movie
Coproduction: France 2 Cinéma, TF1 International
Cast: Karin Viard (Babette), Fabrice Luchini (Arnaud),
Michel Aumont (Lucien), Valérie Benguigui (Karine),
Veronika Novak (Tatiana), Raphaël Personnaz (Carter),
Olivier Rabourdin (Rémi), Flore Babled (Julie), Emma
Siniavski (Sorina)
TF1 International
6 place Abel Gance
France
Phone: +33 1.41.41.21.68
Lucien is a retired doctor known for his progressive beliefs and militant involvement in
humanitarian causes. At the age of 80, he takes his convictions a step further and marries
Tatiana, a young illegal immigrant from Moldavia, so she can stay in the country. From
his daughter Babette (Karin Viard, Paris [COL• COA 2008], Change of Plans, The New Eve),
herself a doctor who has always worshipped her father’s progressive convictions, to his
son Arnaud (Fabrice Luchini, Molière, Intimate Strangers, Colonel Chabert, The Aviator’s
Wife), who became a rich business lawyer partly as rebellion against him, everyone has a
different interpretation of what seems like an old man’s whim. Chaos ensues as Tatiana
makes herself at home and Lucien starts talking about inheritance.
As an actress, Anne Le Ny has appeared in many feature films, most recently in
The Chameleon (2010), a thriller co-written and directed by Jean-Paul Salomé.
She has worked with writer-directors as eclectic as Agnès Jaoui (The Taste of
Others) or Patrice Leconte (My Best Friend). With her critically acclaimed and César
nominated first feature, Those Who Remain (screened at COL• COA 2008), she
successfully transitioned to writing and directing. In 2008, she also wrote Didine,
directed by Vincent Dietschy. She co-wrote My Father’s Guests with Luc Béraud,
a frequent writing partner of 2010 Focus on a Filmmaker honoree Claude Miller.
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7:45
Saturday, April 24
RENOIR Th.
MAKING PLANS FOR LENA
(Non, ma fille, tu n’iras pas danser)
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
© Jean Claude Lother - Why Not productions
35mm/Color/105 min
Separated from her husband Nigel (Jean-Marc Barr, Dogville, The Big Blue) and mother of
two, Léna (Chiara Mastroianni, A Christmas Tale, Love Songs, Towards Zero) cannot seem
to do anything right. She goes to her mother’s for the holidays but finds upon arrival that
her mother and sister have plotted to invite her ex-husband as well, with all the good
intentions in the world. Overwhelmed by everyone’s desire to see her happy, suffocating
in her family duties, Léna is unable to face her own desires. Unruly and yet lacking selfconfidence, Léna embodies the feminine in all its existential contradictions. Christophe
Honoré has teamed up with author and publisher Geneviève Brisac to write this portrait
of a woman in crisis, struggling to find her place in a society still ruled by archaic codes,
while claiming to be feminist.
Christophe Honoré first made his mark writing novels and children’s books
dealing with sensitive topics such as AIDS or homosexual parenting, as in Close
to Leo (1995), which he later adapted for television (released on DVD in the
U.S. by Picture This! Entertainment). After writing for Les Cahiers du Cinéma
under the pen name Roland Cassard, an homage to Jacques Demy, he made his
first feature film, Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard (2002), presented at Cannes’
Un Certain Regard. In 2004, he boldly adapted Georges Bataille’s controversial
novel My Mother, with Isabelle Huppert and his signature actor Louis Garrel
in the title roles. His following three features Inside Paris, Love Songs and La Belle Personne
(COL• COA 2009) have confirmed the success of Christophe Honoré in American art house circles.
Cinema Today (2010), Mostra São Paulo International Film
Festival (2009), Namur International Francophone Film
Festival, Closing Gala (2009), San Sebastian International
Film Festival (2009), Turin International Film Festival
(2009)
Directed by: Christophe Honoré
Written by: Christophe Honoré, Geneviève Brisac
Cinematography by: Laurent Brunet
Editing by: Chantal Hymans
Music by: Alex Beaupain
Produced by: Pascal Caucheteux
Production Company: Why Not Productions
Coproduction: France Télévisions, Le Pacte
Cast: Chiara Mastroianni (Léna), Marina Foïs (Frédérique),
Marie-Christine Barrault (Annie), Jean-Marc Barr (Nigel),
Marcial Di Fonzo Bo (Thibault), Louis Garrel (Simon),
Fred Ulysse (Michel), Julien Honoré (Gulven), Alice
Butaud (Elise), Caroline Silhol (The flowershop lady), Lou
Pasquerault (Augustine), Donatien Suner (Anton), JeanBaptiste Fonck (José)
Le Pacte
5, rue Darcet
75017 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.44.69.59.59
le-pacte.com
U.S. Distribution:
IFC Films
New York, NY 10001
ifcfilms.com
nonmafilletuniraspasdanser-lefilm.com
• “While Love Songs and Dans Paris revealed prolific filmmaker Christophe Honoré to be a direct descendant of the French New Wave,
he heads straight into Arnaud Desplechin territory with the turbulent family drama Making Plans for Lena. (…) Mastroianni (also in
A Christmas Tale) manages to channel real energy into her character early on, making for a strong performance reminiscent of both
Emmannuelle Devos in Kings and Queen and Gena Rowland’s unruly protags in the films of John Cassavettes.” (Variety)
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8:30
Saturday, April 24
GAINSBOURG:
JE T’AIME…MOI NON PLUS
West Coast Premiere • Biography/Drama • France, 2010
35mm/Color/130 min
Festival Selection: Tribeca Film Festival (2010)
Written and directed by: Joann Sfar
Cinematography by: Guillaume Schiffman
Editing by: Maryline Monthieux
Music by: Olivier Daviaud
Produced by: Marc du Pontavice, Didier Lupfer
Production Company: One World Films
Coproduction: Studio 37, Focus Features International,
France 2 Cinéma, Lilou Films, Xilam Films
Cast: Éric Elmosnino (Serge Gainsbourg), Lucy Gordon
(Jane Birkin), Laetitia Casta (Brigitte Bardot), Doug Jones
(Ugly Face), Anna Mouglalis (Juliette Gréco), Mylène
Jampanoï (Bambou), Sara Forestier (France Gall), Kacey
Mottet Klein (Lucien Ginsburg), Razvan Vasilescu (Joseph
Ginsburg), Dinara Droukarova (Olga Ginsburg), Philippe
Katerine (Boris Vian), Déborah Grall (Elisabeth Levizky),
Yolande Moreau (Fréhel), Ophélia Kolb (The model),
Claude Chabrol (Gainsbourg’s Producer), François Morel
(Boarding School Director), Philippe Duquesne (Lucky
Sarcelles), Angelo Debarre (The Gipsy Guitarist), Joann
Sfar (Georges Brassens)
Kinology
3 rue de Montyon
75009 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.48.24.48.71
gainsbourg-lefilm.com
Presented with the support of
© Jérôme Brézillon - Universal Pictures International France
TRUFFAUT Th.
French icon Serge Gainsbourg was a singer, writer, composer and painter, but mostly
a full time provocateur, famous for his unruly and unpredictable behavior in public.
Gainsbourg: Je T’aime…Moi Non Plus is writer-director Joann Sfar’s adaptation of his own
comic book, mixing film and animation to recount major events in the life of Gainsbourg:
his childhood as a Jew during the war, his muses, addictions and famous public scandals.
With a cast including top model Laetitia Casta as Brigitte Bardot, the late Lucy Gordon
as Jane Birkin and lead actor Eric Elmosnino eerily channeling Gainsbourg, the film is
a dreamy portrait of the glamorous, yet destructive life of the artist, who is frequently
mentioned as a major musical influence.
Writer-director Joann Sfar is a prolific, award-winning comic book and graphic
novel artist. Since the age of 23, he has published close to 150 works, including
the Dungeon series with Lewis Trondheim (since 1998), the Sardine in Outer Space
series with Emmanuel Guibert (2006-2008), Little Vampire (2008), Klezmer:
Tales of the Wild East (2006) or The Rabbi’s Cat (2006 Eisner Award for Best U.S.
Edition of Foreign Material). Following his first feature Gainsbourg: Je T’aime…Moi
Non Plus, he co-directed an adaptation of The Rabbi’s Cat with Antoine Delesvaux,
to be released in June 2010. He has also written several novels, directed animation
short films, and directs a collection of books for children for Gallimard Jeunesse.
• “Prolific cartoonist Sfar’s first feature as writer/director skillfully melds Gainsbourg’s uppity inner child, self-destructive behaviour and prodigious talent with a rousing approach to the societal weight of being — and looking — Jewish. (…) Sfar has an animated feature based on his multi-volume hard-
backed comic The Rabbi’s Cat due this summer but this debut alone gives him immediate credibility as a director.” (Screen International)
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After 10
10:00 pm
(La Horde)
Saturday, April 24
THE HORDE
2010 International Fantasy Film Award at Fantasporto
2010 SCI FI Jury Award at Gérardmer Film Festival
North American Premiere • Action/Horror/Thriller •
France, 2010
35mm/Scope/2.35/Color/Dolby Digital/102 min
Directed by: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
Written by: Arnaud Bordas, Yannick Dahan, Stéphane
Moissakis, Benjamin Rocher
Cinematography by: Julien Meurice
Editing by: Dimitri Amar
Music by: Christopher Lennertz
Produced by: Raphaël Rocher, Xavier Gens
Production Company: Capture the Flag Films
Coproduction: Le Pacte
Cast: Claude Perron (Aurore), Jean-Pierre Martins
(Ouessem), Eriq Ebouaney (Adewale), Aurélien Recoing
(Jimenez), Doudou Masta (Bola), Antoine Oppenheim
(Tony), Jo Prestia (José), Yves Pignot (René), Alain Figlarz
(The Janitor), Sébastien Peres (Seb), Laurent Demianoff
(Kim), Stéphane Orsolani (The Wrestler)
Films Distribution
34, rue du Louvre
75001 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1.53.10.33.99
filmsdistribution.com
lahorde-lefilm.com
U.S. Distribution:
IFC Films
New York, NY 10001
ifcfilms.com
© Le Pacte
Festival Selection: Venice International Film Festival
(2009), Frightfest (2009)
Mourning the loss of a fallen colleague, Aurore (Claude Perron, Chrysalis, Cortex
(COL• COA 2008), Amélie), Ouessem (Jean-Pierre Martins, La Vie en Rose (COL• COA
2007), Empire of the Wolves) and their team are determined to take their revenge on
the criminals who killed him. But when they assault the apartment building where the
gangsters are hiding, they are attacked by a horde of zombies. Understanding that the
only way to survive is to become allies, the police officers fight side by side with Jimenez
(Aurélien Recoing, Counter Investigation (COL• COA 2008) 13 Tzameti), Adewale (Eriq
Ebouaney, Transporter 3, Hitman) and their gang to kill the deadly creatures. Using the
zombie genre as a vessel, The Horde is a political and social film about violence, injustice
and racism in contemporary society.
Benjamin Rocher directed his first animation short film in 1999.
Titled Hominus Rex Creator, it was broadcast on Canal Satellite,
TPS and HBO. After a second short, Ticket Land (2002), he cofounded the television production company Empreinte Digitale
in 2003. He has produced various commercials and programs
with Yannick Dahan, including Opération Frisson, a popular
program about genre films. They also produced Suck My Geek
(2007), the first French documentary about geek culture. Dahan
and Rocher then co-founded the film production company Capture the Flag Films in 2007, which
produced Rivoallan, a short they co-wrote and directed. The Horde is their first feature as writerdirectors. Yannick Dahan has been a film critic and editor for the magazine Positif since 1997. He
writes for Mad Movies, HK and Orient Extrême Cinéma.
• “The Horde is very much at the premium end of the quality scale. Like its kindred Gallic spirits, Switchblade Romance, Martyrs and Frontier(s) (whose director Xavier Gens served as executive producer on this film), The Horde is another example of the French investing high production values to reinvent horror for a modern audience, here producing a pacy, exciting and gory romp into the world of the undead.” (Screenjabber)
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COL• COA
AUDIENCE AWARD &
FIRST FEATURE AWARD
Supported by
When attending a film, you can vote for the
COL•COA awards and win a trip for two to Paris.
Every ticket has a perforated stub that allows you to vote. After
the film, place your stub in the appropriate ballot box outside
the theatre:
WIN A TRIP
FOR TWO TO PARIS
Courtesy of
After every film, don’t forget to vote and place
your stub in the appropriate ballot box outside
the theatre. The more films you vote for, the
more chances to win!
Keep your main ticket stub
It is your proof of entry into the festival drawing.
Three ticket numbers will be drawn from voting stubs during
the Coffee & Cake party on Sunday April 25
The number drawn first wins a Trip for Two to Paris. After the
drawing, the numbers of the five winning tickets will be posted:
Oui!
Comme Ci, Comme Ça
Non Merci!
(Yes!)
(So-So, an average film)
(No thanks!)
Your vote will determine:
The COL•COA Audience Award
The COL•COA First Feature Award
Both awards are based on a grade point average, so that every
film has the same chance to win.
The Audience Award and First Feature Award will be announced
Sunday, April 25, in the evening:
on colcoa.org
Winning ticket holders must contact the festival office by
5:00 pm on Friday April 30 in order to be eligible to win at:
[email protected]
If the first winning ticket holder has not contacted the festival
by Friday April 30th, the second winning ticket holder becomes
eligible to win.
on twitter.com/colcoa
Runners-up will be offered a DVD collection courtesy of:
french-dvds.com
3rd Place
Should the first and second winning ticket holders fail to
contact the festival, the prize will go to the third winning ticket.
2nd Place
on the COL•COA Facebook fan page
on colcoa.org
on our information line: (310) 289 5346
on our Facebook fan page
on twitter.com/colcoa
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RENOIR Th.
LAFCA is a professional organization of Los
Angeles-based film critics working in the Los
Angeles print and electronic media. Each year
since its creation in 1975, LAFCA members honor
outstanding cinematic achievements during
their annual Achievement Awards ceremony
in January. LAFCA also sponsors film events
and donates funds to various Los Angeles film
organizations.
The winner and special mentions of the LAFCA
COL•COA Critics Award will be announced on
colcoa.org Sunday, April 25, after deliberation of
the jury.
The producer of the winning film will be offered
complimentary English Subtitling for his/her next
feature, courtesy of TITRA TVS.
PAST WINNERS
2009
Critics Award
EDEN IS WEST
Special Prize
THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST
OF YOUR LIFE
Special Mention
Yolande Moreau for her acting in
SERAPHINE and LOUISE-MICHEL
2008
Critics Award
THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN
In association with
2010 COL•COA CRITICS AWARDS JURY
PRESIDENT: Jean Oppenheimer
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Jean attended
Northwestern University as an undergraduate
and, ten years later headed back to school, studying international relations at Cambridge University and The London School of Economics. Jean
spent five years as a story analyst for The Geffen
Film Company before becoming a film critic and
feature writer. The years between her academic
sojourns were spent writing and producing newscasts for WCVB-TV, Boston’s ABC affiliate. She is
a Contributing Writer at American Cinematographer—especially proud of her 17-year association
with the magazine—and writes occasional articles
for The New York Times syndicate. She reviews
films on FilmWeek, which is broadcast on KPCC
89.3FM (one of L.A.’s National Public Radio stations), as well as on XM Satellite Radio. She has
served three terms as president of The Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson is a film and music critic whose writing appears in L.A. Weekly, Screen International,
The Village Voice, Revolver, and Vulture. He is the
Rock Music guide at About.com and teaches writing and criticism at the Writing Pad in downtown
Los Angeles. Currently vice president of the Los
Angeles Film Critics Association, Tim has spoken
at the Palm Springs International Film Society and
the EMP Pop Conference in Seattle. Mama Laura’s
Boys, a documentary he wrote and co-produced
about the longest-running blues club in Los Angeles, played at the Tribeca Film Festival and on
PBS. He recently served as a grants peer panelist
for the Department of Cultural Affairs for the City
of Los Angeles.
Sheri Linden
Sheri Linden was film reviews editor at Variety
from 1993 to 2001, and has been a member of the
Los Angeles Film Critics Association since 2003.
Her reviews of films, TV shows, plays, concerts and
books have appeared in Variety, the Hollywood
Reporter, Boxoffice, and Art & Antiques. She was
a contributor to the TCM book Leading Men: The
50 Most Unforgettable Actors of the Studio Era.
In addition to her reviews for the Hollywood Reporter, she writes about film for the Reuters news
service and the Los Angeles Times.
Wade Major
Wade Major is a Sr. Critic for Boxoffice Magazine
and Boxoffice.com. A regular featured critic on
NPR’s FilmWeek, he is also the co-creator and
producer of IGN’s popular IGN DigiGods! weekly
internet radio show and co-host of the web-tv
show Stupid For Movies. As a filmmaker, he is the
producer of the award-winning feature documentary, Schlock: The Secret History of American Movies and has contributed to DVD commentaries for
such films as Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975),
Gozu (2003) and Barocco (1976). His work has
been published by Los Angeles Times, the New
York Daily News and ABCNews.com. He appears
regularly on Reelz Channel’s What It Takes and
has authored and contributed to several books on
Asian cinema. He holds a degree in Film and Television from UCLA.
Brent Simon
Brent Simon is a regular contributor to Screen International, New York Magazine’s Vulture and H
Magazine, among other outlets. A proud graduate
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Simon served for five-plus years as editor-in-chief
and lead film critic of the now-defunct Entertainment Today, at the time Los Angeles’ oldest free
weekly newspaper focused exclusively on entertainment. Since then, he has worked with AFI Fest
and on several book projects, including Magill’s
Cinema Annual. Simon has also contributed film
criticism, essays and feature pieces for print publications as diverse as Los Angeles Daily News, Paper, Los Angeles CityBeat, Zeitgeist, Now Playing
Magazine and PopSmear. He is currently president
of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
(À l’origine)
2010 Lumière award - Best Cinematography for
Glynn Speeckaert
2010 César Awards - 11 nominations and Best
Supporting Actress for Emmanuelle Devos
2010 Étoile d’Or – Best Actor for François Cluzet
35mm/Scope/Color/Dolby Digital/128 min
Cinema Today (2010), Cannes Film Festival (2009),
Namur International Francophone Film Festival, Regards
du présent (2009), Prague French Film Festival, Czech
Critics Choice (2009)
Directed by: Xavier Giannoli
Written by: Xavier Giannoli, Marcia Romano
Cinematography by: Glynn Speeckaert
Editing by: Célia Lafite Dupont
Music by: Cliff Martinez
Produced by: Édouard Weil, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Production Company: EuropaCorp, Rectangle Productions
Coproduction: France 3 Cinéma, Studio 37
Cast: François Cluzet (Philippe Miller / Paul), Emmanuelle
Devos (Stéphane), Gérard Depardieu (Abel), Vincent
Rottiers (Nicolas), Soko (Monika), Brice Fournier (Louis),
Stéphan Wojtowicz (Marty)
EuropaCorp
137, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris
France
Phone: +33 1.53.83.03.03
europacorp.com
www.alorigine-lefilm.com
Sunday, April 25
IN THE BEGINNING
© Stéphanie Di Giusto 2007 - Europacorp - Rectangle Prod. - Studio 37 - France 3 Cineema
COL• COA
CRITICS AWARD
1:00
When he stumbles upon an abandoned construction site, small-time crook Philippe
Miller (François Cluzet, One for the Road, Tell No One [COL• COA 2007], Too Beautiful
For You) sees an opportunity to make some money. Claiming to be in charge of reviving
the site to build a highway, he convinces everyone of his good will, including the mayor
Stéphane (Emmanuelle Devos, A Christmas Tale, Read My Lips, Kings and Queen). But
Miller quickly loses control of his own scheme, as this illegal highway gives hope to an
entire region plagued with unemployment, giving him a sense of responsibility he had
never felt before.
Xavier Giannoli co-wrote and directed various short films, including Le Condamné
(1993), Terre Sainte (awarded Best Short at the 1995 Cognac Film Festival) and
Dialogue au Sommet, nominated for Best Short at the 1997 César awards. He made
his mark with L’interview, 1998 Palme d’Or and 1999 César award for Best Short,
and a critically acclaimed first feature, Eager Bodies (COL• COA 2004). After a
second feature, Une Aventure (2005), he wrote and directed the highly praised
The Singer, starring Gérard Depardieu and Cécile de France (COL• COA 2007),
presented in official competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. A few years
ago, Giannoli read an intriguing story in the press about a con man who had built a piece of highway
leading nowhere. After meeting with the judge in charge of the case and the con-man himself, he
decided to make In the Beginning.
• “Thanks to Cluzet and Devos, the story’s central relationship and the deception that lies at the heart of it is always credible. There is much emotional danger at every step, as each character gets deeper and deeper into a situation whose muddiness is trapping them faster than the asphalt hardening on the highway.” (The Hollywood Reporter)
Supported by
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TRUFFAUT Th.
Col• Coa short film award jury:
Kimberley Browning
Kimberley is the founder of Hollywood Shorts Filmfest and Emerging Filmmaker’s Program. Launched
in 1998, Hollywood Shorts presents regular industry
short film screenings in Los Angeles, and serves as
a short film advocacy and programming consultant
for film festivals and micro cinemas. In 2000, Hollywood Shorts began short film production arm,
producing and consulting on over 30 short films.
Kimberley also oversees the Emerging Filmmaker’s
Program, which incubates feature film projects from
select filmmakers from the Hollywood Shorts community. Kimberley is a filmmaker and producer, developing a slate of feature films under her Griffith
Place Films banner. Kimberley serves as the Chair
of the Cinematic Arts nominating committee for
YoungARTS, the evaluating procedure for the US
Presidential Scholars of the Arts.
Jeremy Kagan
Jeremy Kagan is an award-winning director/writer/
producer of feature films and television. His credits include the 10-part series Freedom Files, Heroes,
The Big Fix, The Chosen, The Journey of Natty Gann,
Katherine: The Making of an American Revolutionary, Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 and Roswell. He has won an Emmy for Dramatic Series Directing and his movie, Crown Heights, won the 2004
Humanitas. A tenured professor at USC, Jeremy has
served as Artistic Director of the Sundance Institute,
and is the author of Directors Close Up. His most
recent independent picture is Golda’s Balcony, and
he has produced advocacy videos for The Democracy School, The Doe Fund and Bioneers. He is also
the founder of the new Change Making Media Lab,
cmml.usc.edu.
Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer was born in South Africa, where he
graduated from the Johannesburg School for Art,
Drama and Music. His feature film debut came in
2003 with The Cooler, a romantic drama starring
William H. Macy and Maria Bello. The Cooler was selected for competition in the 2003 Sundance Film
Festival, opened the 2003 Los Angeles Film Festival
and won the Special Jury Prize at the Cognac Festival du Film Policier. Wayne then wrote and directed
Running Scared, the gritty action thriller starring Paul
Walker as a New Jersey mobster. Wayne most recently wrote, produced (with Frank Marshall) and directed
Crossing Over, an ensemble drama about illegal immigration in Los Angeles released by The Weinstein
Company in 2009. The film stars Harrison Ford, Ray
Liotta, Jim Sturgess, Ashley Judd and Cliff Curtis.
A short AFTERNOON
PART ONE
Program compiled with the support of Christine Gendre (UNIFRANCE)
*363
Comedy / 2009 / 2’34 • Beta SP NTSC • 16/9 • Stereo
Written and directed by: Marc Amyot
Produced by: Marc Amyot
Somewhere in the universe, a man in a strange
spaceship is about to have an unexpected
encounter. (Presented with THE FRENCH KISSERS)
THE BED BY THE WINDOW
(Le Lit près de la fenêtre)
Drama / 2009 / 12’04 • Beta SP NTSC • 1.85 • Dolby SRD
Written and directed by: Michaël Barocas
Produced by: Une Hirondelle Productions
International sales: Une Hirondelle Productions
In a hospital room, three old people are finishing
their life together. One of them is privileged to
have a bed near the window.
(Presented with MY FATHER’S GUESTS)
THE LITTLE DRAGON (Le Petit dragon)
Animation / 2009 / 8’1 • Digi Beta Pal • 1.77 • Dolby SR
Written and directed by: Bruno Collet
Produced by: Vivement Lundi!
International sales: [email protected]
(+33 2.99.65.00.74)
Thirty-five years after Bruce Lee’s death, his soul
reincarnates in a little doll.
(Presented with GAINSBOURG: JE T’AIME, MOI NON PLUS)
VINYL
Comedy / 2009 / 18’ • Beta SP NTSC • 16/9 • Stereo
Written and directed by: Julien Hallard
Produced by: Les Films Velvet
(+33 1.71.18.10.81)
It is an almost ordinary day in the strangest record
shop in Paris. (Presented with LOVE IS IN THE AIR)
Sunday, April 25
PART I: 1:00
PART II: 4:15
COL• COA SHORT FILM AWARD: The winner will be posted on colcoa.org on Sunday, April 25, after deliberation of the jury.
The producer of the winning film will be offered complimentary English Subtitling for his/her next film, courtesy of TITRA TVS.
7:57 AM-PM
PIG IN A POKE (Tragédie Grouick)
ALTER EGO
FRENCH ROAST
On May 25th, 2009, renowned musician Renaud
Capuçon interpreted Gluck’s masterpiece “Orfeo
Melody” on a 1737 Guarnerius violin, in the
Parisian subway. (Presented with THE CONCERT)
A ventriloquist and his marionette try to renew their
show but it is not easy when you have no talent.
Nadir and Ester, a young man and woman who seem
to have nothing in common, meet in a public park in
Paris. (Presented with TETE DE TURC)
A waiter brings the check to a dreary businessman
in a Parisian café. Appalled, he realizes that he forgot
his wallet. (COLCOA HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM)
LOGORAMA
FOUR (4)
Drama / 2009 / 11’ • 35mm • 2.35 • Dolby Sr
Written and directed by: Simon Lelouch
Produced by: 27.12 Productions
International sales: premium-films.com
(+33 1.42.81.17.28)
Animation / 2009 / 16’05 • 35 mm • 1.85 • Dolby 5.1
Written and directed by: François Alaux , Hervé de Crécy,
Ludovic Houplain , H5
Produced by: Autour de Minuit Productions
(+33 1.42.81.17.28)
Oscar Best Animated Short 2010
Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis,
wild animals rampaging through the city… and
more in Logorama! (Presented with HEARTBREAKER)
THE STORY OF MY LIFE (Toute ma vie)
Drama / 2009 / 5’55 • 35mm • 2.35 • Dolby SR
Written and directed by: Pierre Ferrière
Produced by: Five 2 One Films
International sales: Five 2 One Films
In the street, a stranger calls Alessandra. He may
remind her of all the important moments in her
life, but his face remains unknown to her.
(Presented with I AM GLAD THAT MY MOTHER IS ALIVE)
A GRASSHOPPER IN THE GARDEN
(Une Sauterelle dans le jardin)
Drama / 2008 / 24 • 35mm • 1.85 • Dolby SR
Written and directed by: Roches Marie-Baptiste
Produced by: Ysé Productions
(+33 1.47.00.85.64)
Sixteen-year-old Solène is going mad spending
her summer vacation in a deadly neighborhood
until Antoine arrives on the scene…
Animation / 2009 / 7’42 • 35 mm • 1.85 • Dolby SR
Written and directed by: Matthieu Van Eeckhout,
Mark Eacersall
Produced by: Les Films d’Avalon
International sales: La Luna Productions
(+33 1.48.07.56.00)
(Presented with THE VILLAIN)
Drama / 2009 / 16’40 • 35mm • 1,85 • Dolby SRD
Written and directed by: Edouard Salier
Produced by: Autour de Minuit Productions
International sales: autourdeminuit.com
(+33 1.42.81.17.28)
Four letters, 400, 000 possibilities... But there is only
one code. (Presented with IN THEIR SLEEP)
PART TWO
TEXTURE OF DREAMS (Matières à rêver)
Animation / 2009 / 6’ • Beta SP NTSC • 1.85 • Dolby SR
Written and directed by: Florence Miailhe
Produced by: Paraiso Production Diffusion
International sales [email protected]
(+33 1.43.15.91.91)
Texture of Dreams is a fantasy, a painting created
spontaneously - the same way one improvises in love.
LOST PARADISE (Paradis perdu)
Drama / 2008 / 11’ • Digi Beta Pal • 1.85 • Dolby SR
Written and directed by: Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun
Produced by: Divine Productions
(+33 1.53.34.95.95)
A couple makes love tenderly in a cheap hotel
room. A few minutes later, the idyll that seemed so
authentic suddenly seems to have vanished.
(Presented with THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN)
Romance / 2009 / 20’30 • Digi Beta NTSC • 16/9 • Stereo
Written and directed by: Cédric Prévost
Produced by: Le Standart
(+33 1.44.54.10.11)
THE MAN IN THE BLUE GORDINI
Animation / 2008 / 8’15 • 35mm • Scope • Stereo
Written and directed by: Fabrice O. Joubert
Produced by: Pumpkin Factory
(+33 1.42.81.17.28)
WAITING FOR THE RAIN TO STOP
(L’Homme à la Gordini)
Animation / 2009 / 10’ • 35mm • 1.85 • Dolby SRD
Written and directed by: Jean-Christophe Lie
Produced by: Prima Linea Productions
(+33 1.42.81.17.28)
(En attendant que la pluie cesse)
Romance / 2009 / 8’53 • 35mm • Scope • DTS SR
Written and directed by: Charlotte Julia
Produced by: Les Films d’Avalon
(+33 1.40.16.11.12)
At the end of the 70’s, orange tops were the fashion
of the day. A mysterious man driving an R8 Gordini is
determined to change that.
During a thunderstorm, a woman takes refuge in a
hall where a man already shelters.
(Presented with ROUND DA WAY)
NEVER NOTHING ELSE (Plus rien jamais)
Drama / 2009 / 14’ • 35mm • 1.85 • Dolby SR
Written and directed by: Lionel Mougin
Produced by: Dharamsala
(+33 1.55.04.84.00)
In an apartment building, people seem so different
and yet their story is sometimes so similar.
(Presented with PLEASE, PLEASE ME!)
ONE LAST CIGARETTE (Une Dernière cigarette)
Drama, Comedy / 2009 / 19’ • Digi Beta NTSC • 1.85 •
Dolby SR
Written and directed by: Géraldine Maillet
Produced by: Pavillon Rouge
International sales: Pavillon Rouge
(+33 1.53.36.02.07)
Two couples are dining next to each other in a
restaurant. In each couple, there is a smoker. They go
out on the sidewalk to give in to their bad habit.
(Presented with IN THE BEGINNING)
(Presented with MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON)
A WHORE AND A CHICK (Une Pute et un poussin)
Comedy / 2009 / 15’ • 35mm • Scope • Dolby SRD
Written and directed by: Clément Michel
Produced by: Sombrero Films
International sales: Premium Films
(+33 1.42.77.06.31)
A young woman is lost in the middle of nowhere. At
a bus stop, she meets a young man dressed up as a
chicken, who has trouble pedaling on his rusty bicycle.
ALLONS-Y ! ALONZO !
Animation / 2009 / 7’52 • 35mm • 1.85 • DTS
Written and directed by: Camille Moulin-Dupré
Produced by: Vivement lundi!
(+33 2.99.65.00.74)
A tribute to French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo.
(Presented with PIERROT LE FOU)
For more information and contacts in English about
new French shorts, please visit unifrance.org
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COL•COA Thanks:
COL•COA Team
Director and Programmer
François Truffart
Associate Director
Guylaine Vivarat
(Franco-American Cultural Fund)
Gina Blumenfeld, DGA
Elizabeth Kaltman, MPA
Alejandra Norambuena-Skira, SACEM
Kay Schaber Wolf, WGAW
Ticket Sales and Reservations Manager
Jamila Jones
The Festival Supporters:
Film Department and Sponsor Relations
Virginie Le François-Ross
Florence Gastaud, l’ARP
Mathieu Fournet, Los Angeles Film & TV
Office of the French Embassy
Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Unifrance
French Delegation Logistics
Anouchka Van Riel
Theater Management &
Volunteers Coordinator
Aaron Clark
Public Relations
Cathy Mouton
Art direction
Jérôme Curchod, TheBonusRoom.com
Web design
Gerald Maestu & Alex Lacorne,
3wplanet.com
Interpreters
Yolande Gilot
Katherine Vallin
In France:
Production Manager FACF
Eglantine Langevin
Coordination Material and Prints
Caroline Santiard
Public Relations
Vanessa Jerrom
Claire Vorger
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The Festival Partners Representatives:
Special Thanks:
Olivier Albou, Other Angle Pictures
Jon Amiel, DGA
Ed Arentz, Music Box Films
Karin Argano, JK Wine/Michaud Vineyard
Alain Attal, Les Productions du Tresor
Robert Baker, MGM
Marina Bailey
Carole Baraton, Wild Bunch
Rémi Bezançon
Tony Bill, DGA
Alain-Michel Blanc
Maelys Boissière, Volvic/Saint Géron
Laurence Braunberger
Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Films Distribution
Stephane Brizé
Kimberley Browning, Hollywood Shorts
Libby Buchanan, DGA
Ariane Buhl, Gaumont
Brian Bullen, LA Weekly
Sandrine Butteau, French Embassy
Tina Cao, St. Supéry
Maryse Capdepuy, Éclair Group
Christian Carion
Aimee Carlson, Dailymotion
Sandrine Cassidy, USC
Véronique Cayla, CNC
Steve Chagollan, Variety
Florence Charmasson, Unifrance
Pascal Chaumeil
Nanxi Cheng, Rezo
Sebastien Chesneau, Rezo
Marie-Magdeleine Chirol, AATF-SC
Costa-Gavras
Patrice Courtaban, TV5 Monde
Céline Danhier, Catherine Malandrino
Elias Davis, WGAW
Henry Deas, Variety
Mathieu Debusschère, Film and TV office,
French Embassy
Peter Debruge, Variety
Pascal Degove, EuropaCorp.
Frederic Demey, Neoclassics Films
Esther Devos, Wild Bunch
Chantal Dinnage, HFPA
Virginie Drouot, Reel Sessions
Albert Dupontel
Romain Duris
David Ehrenstein
Pascal Elbé
Eric Elmosnino
Brigitte Erbert, Sunset Marquis
Hotel and Villas
Nicolas Eschbach, TF1 International
Etienne Farreyre, French Consulate
Lea Fehner
Jesse Flores, Sunset Marquis Hotel and Villas
Isabelle Frilley, Titra TVS
Marc Frydman
Katherine Fugate, WGAW
Sarah Galau, Film and TV office,
French Embassy
Claude Gaillard, SACEM
Kathy Garmezy, DGA
Schon Garrison, Peets Coffee & Tea
Carolina Gavet, Valrhona
Steven Gaydos, Variety
Christine Gendre, Unifrance
Marcel Giacusa, Tim Webber
And all of the DGA operations team
Michel Gomez, City of Paris
Mike Goodridge, Screen International
Carl Gottlieb, WGAW
Frank Graumann, Éclair Group
Joan Graves, MPA
Tim Grierson, LAFCA
Dorothée Grosjean, Gaumont
Rémy Grumbach
Daniel Guando, The Weinstein Company
Taylor Hackford, DGA
Jonathan Hale, Airstar
Adrienne Halpe, Rialto Pictures
Marie-Jo Halty, French Consulate
Mia Hansen-Løve
Doug Harlan, Hollywood Blonde
Régine Hatchondo, Unifrance
Monte Hellman, DGA
Paula Hirsch, MCLASC
James Israel, indieWIRE
Gilles Jacob, Festival de Cannes
Nathalie Jeung, Le Pacte
Samantha Jung, Cooper Spirits International
Jeremy Kagan, DGA
Keri Kanetsky, Arthouse Marketing
Anna Karina
Vaihiria Kelley, Air Tahiti Nui
Randal Kleiser, DGA
John Kochman, Unifrance USA
Amanda Kozlowski, Lionsgate / StudioCanal
Wayne Kramer, WGAW
Kora Kroep, Club Culinaire
Pascal Ladreyt, ELMA
Greg Laemmle, Laemmle Theatres
Vincent Leclercq, CRRAV
Jean-Louis Lefèvre, Titra TVS
Eric Legendre, Variety
Amy Lewin, MGM
Sandrine Lima, Reel Sessions
Sheri Linden, LAFCA
Sharline Liu, WGAW
Richard Lorber, Lorber Films
Jim Lotta, Rossmore Property & Casualty
Lael Lowenstein, LAFCA
Miriam Lubow
Bakole Luntumbue, Air Tahiti Nui
Wade Major, LAFCA
Catherine Malandrino
Yann Marchet,
Ile-de-France Film Commission
Chris Marcich, MPA
Anna Marsh, StudioCanal
François Martin, Sunset Marquis
Hotel and Villas
David Martinon, Consul General of France
Jeff Masino, Flicker Alley
Juliette McCourt, Nicolas Feuillatte
Neil NcNally, Rosenthal Winery
Grégoire Melin, Kinology
Klaus Messner,
Sunset Marquis Hotel and Villas
Radu Mihaileanu
Claude Miller
Marc Missonnier, Fidélité Films
David Mohen, Airstar
Catherine Montouchet, Pathé
Hilary Morse, PMG
Emmanuel Mouret
Camille Neel, Bac Films
Frédéric Niedermayer, Moby Dick Films
Jean Oppenheimer, LAFCA
Jérôme Paillard, Marché du film
Nick Panza, Air Tahiti Nui
Elisabeth Perlié, Le Pacte
Julie Peterson, American World Services/
Vins de Provence
Donald Petrie, DGA
Sébastien Pfeiffer, Club Culinaire
Catherine Piot, TF1 International
Bob Pisano, MPA
Fredell Pogodin,
Fredell Pogodin & Associates
Patricia Power
John Powers
Stéphanie Rainin, French Consulate
Michael Rathauser, Lionsgate / StudioCanal
Alexis de Rendinger, StudioCanal
Anne, John et Peter Renoir
Gilles Renouard, Unifrance
Christophe Rossignon,
Nord-Ouest Production
Paul Richer, Pyramide International
David Ripert, Dailymotion
Howard A. Rodman, WGAW
Martin Rogard, Dailymotion
Jay Roth, DGA
Camille Rousselet, Wide Management
Jennifer Rucks, Salisbury Vineyards
Alison Russ, DGA
Lise de Sablet, Film and TV office,
French Embassy
Benoît Sauvage, Pathé
Muriel Sauzay, Pathé
Laurence Schonberg, Other Angle Pictures
Sara Serlen, The Weinstein Company
Joann Sfar
Elizabeth Shane, St-Germain
Brad Silberling, DGA
Brent Simon, LAFCA
Chuck Slocum, WGAW
Dimitri Stephanides, TF1 International
Manlin Sterner, MK2
Jeff Stockwell, WGAW
Mikaela Sullivan, Wild Horse Winery
Rose Surnow, IFC Films
Alan Swyer, WGAW
Ella Taylor
Daniel Tenkman, DGA
Betty Thomas, DGA
Serge Toubiana, Cinemathèque Française
Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Les Films
des Tournelles
Loïc Trocmé, Gaumont
Eva, Joséphine et Laura Truffaut
Agathe Valentin, Les Films du Losange
Alexandra Vallez, Filmair
Peterangelo Vallis, San Joaquin Valley
Winegrowers Association
Harold van Lier, StudioCanal
Alain Vannier, Orly Films
Olivier-René Veillon, Ile de France
Film Commission
Grégoire Vigneron
Brian Walton
Harvey Weinstein, The Weinstein Company
John Wells, WGAW
Ryan Werner, IFC Films
Pamela Wittmann, Millissime/
Nicolas Feuillatte
Copil Yanez, IFTA
Meriem Zegmou, Variety
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MONDAY
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Opening Night • 7:30 pm
Renoir
Theater
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ColCoa High School
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Competition Closing Film
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Short Films Competition PART 1
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14th ANNIVERSARY
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