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Danielle Arbid
A LOST MAN
15/03 Glasgow
16/03 Edinburgh
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Danielle Arbid was born in the Lebanon in
1970 but left her native Beirut in 1988 to come to live in
Paris. She studied literature and worked as a stringer for
various newspapers. She has been making films for the last
ten years.
Her first feature, was selected for the Cannes Directors’
Fortnight in 2004. Her other films were warmly received
and won several international prizes including the Video
Gold Leopard Prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
L’homme perdu is her latest
venture.
| Personal appearance + Q & A
(with Melvil Poupaud) for A Lost Man
at Glasgow Film Theatre on 15
March at 5.30pm and at Edinburgh Filmhouse on
16 March at 6.15pm. |
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Lional Bailliu
FAIR PLAY
12/03
Glasgow Q&A
13/03
Glasgow (Masterclass only)
14/03
Edinburgh
(Masterclass and Q&A)
16/03 CineLumiere Q&A
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Lionel Bailliu was a member of the first
group of students (1997) to graduate from the Conservatoire
Européen d’Ecriture Audiovisuelle. His short
film Squash (2003), was nominated for a César
in 2003 and for an Oscar in 2004, and garnered
several awards at international festivals, and formed the
basis for one of the sequences in his first feature, Fair
Play.
He wrote the script for and directed the pilot episode of
Elodie Bradford (2004), a series for the French TV network
M6, for which he was French film programme advisor from 1997
until 2003. He also directed the short film Microsnake
in 2000.
He says that Fair Play wasn’t based on traumatic
personal experience of the world of business and office politics.
“It’s just a pretext really to talk about human
relationships and psychological manipulation – all themes
that can be transposed to the domestic environment or in affairs
of the heart.”
The film was structured around the squash tour de force. “The
real interest for me was being able to build up the characters
and to develop the themes properly,” he adds.
Personal appearance + Q & A
for Fair Play at
Glasgow Film Theatre 12 March
at 8.30pm;
Edinburgh Filmhouse 14 March at
6pm and
London CineLumiere 16 March at
8.30pm.
Open workshop for public and students at Screen Academy
Scotland on 13 March at 2pm. Free admission but tickets
must be reserved emailing info@screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
Encounter with Lionel Bailliu at Alliance Française
de Glasgow, 3 Park Circus G3 6AX, Glasgow, Tel. +44
(0)141 331 4080 on 12 March at 6.00pm including a screening
of his Oscar-nominated short film Squash.
Screen Academy Scotland contact: Tamara Van Strijthem
| Screen Academy Scotland – a Skillset Screen
Academy | 2a Merchiston Avenue| Edinburgh EH10 4NU |
tel: +44 (0) 131 455 2615 | t.van_strijthem@napier.ac.uk
www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
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Jean Becker
CONVERSATION
WITH MY GARDENER
12/03 Edinburgh
13/03 Glasgow
14/03
London
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Director Jean Becker has had a long and varied
career in French mainstream cinema and advertising, directing
(among others) a couple of Jean-Paul Belmondo adventure thrillers
in the 60s.
On these shores he is better known for the Vanessa Paradis
/ Gérard Depardieu drama Elisa
and the psychological thriller L’Été
meurtrier / One Deadly Summer.The latter was
also scripted by thriller writer Sébastien Japrisot,
adapting a book by Georges Montforez, as well as more recently
The Children of the Marshland / Les enfants du
marais and Strange Gardens / Effroyables
Jardins, adapted from a novel by Michel Quint.
Becker’s father, the great Jacques Becker, was director
of the 50s classics Casque d’or and Touchez pas au grisbi.The
films of Becker père celebrate the old-fashioned values
of popular communities and male friendship.
His new film Conversation with my gardener / Dialogue
avec mon jardinier is another literary taken
from Henri Cueco’s book.
Becker says he was immediately struck by the way “the
gardener spoke and expressed himself, and the unique thoughts
he had. The gardener is a unique and pretty exceptional human
being. His view of life is truly spontaneous and naïve,
and yet very profound and true.”
| Personal
appearance + Q & A for Conversation with My Gardenerat
Glasgow Film Theatre 13 March at 8pm; Edinburgh Filmhouse
12 March at 8.30pm and London CineLumiere 14 March at
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Serge Bozon
LA
FRANCE
19/03
London
Cine Lumiere
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Director Serge Bozon is better known as an
actor, working with Jean-Paul Civeyrac (Man’s
Gentle Love), Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Judith Cahen
(La révolution sexuelle n’a pas eu
lieu) and Cédric Kahn (L’Ennui).
His directorial talents have been much acclaimed for La
France (2007) which won the prestigious Prix
Jean Vigo for Spirit of Independence. It was presented
last year at the Cannes Film Festival (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs).
Personal appearance at the CinéLumière
only on 19 March at 6.15pm followed by a Q & A Also
includes the screening of the video clip made by Bozon
for Barbara Carlotti’s new album. Carlotti, one
of whose songs features in La France,
will give a concert at 9pm.
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Jean-Pierre Darroussin
THE PREMONITION & CONVERSATION
WITH MY GARDENER
12/03 Edinburgh
13/03 Glasgow
14/03
London
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Jean-Pierre Darroussin had his first acting experience very
early on, appearing in plays when he was at secondary school.
Born on 4 December 1953 at Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, he
relished his first taste of the stage which provided the impetus
for him to join the National Drama Academy and also the Compagnie
du Chapeau Rouge with Catherine Frot.
After a brief appearance in the film Hothead
by Jean-Jacques Annaud, he starred in three comedies in 1981
followed by Our Story for Bertrand
Blier. He returned to work with Blier two years ago in How
Much Do You Love Me? In 1989, Darroussin played
Dany, a disconcerting beatnik in Mes meilleurs
copains. He became one of Robert
Guédiguian’s favoured band of actors and the
director working with him in no fewer than nine films. Darroussin
also frequently works with Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès
Jaoui.
Darroussin manages to combine both serious and comic roles
and alternatives art house titles such as Le Poulpe
by Guillaume Nicloux and Red Lights
by Cédric Kahn with more commercial such as A
Very Long Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
He had finished The Premonition,
his first film as a director, when he was teamed opposite
Daniel Auteul in Conversation with My Gardener.
His directorial debut is a satirical tale about a well-to-do
Parisian lawyer who takes flight from the middle class.
Personal appearance + Q & A
for The Premonition and Conversation
with My Gardener at Glasgow Film Theatre 13
March at 5.45pm and 8.30pm; Edinburgh Filmhouse
12 March at 6pm and
8.30pm and London CineLumiere (Conversation only)
14 March at 8.30pm.
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Lola Doillon
JUST
ABOUT LOVE
8/03
Glasgow
9/03
Edinburgh
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Lola Doillon grew up on film sets. Her father, Jacques Doillon
is the award-winning director of Le Petit Criminel
and Le Jeune Werther and her sister
is the actress Lou Doillon
Lola herself has worked in nearly every technical post a film
shoot can offer, from second unit director to on-set photographer.
“I used to hang out, and at 16 I started as an intern,”
Doillon recalls. “I love the work side of it –not
the shiny side but the idea of never being in the same place
and the possibility of touching people.”
Having joined the family business, Doillon’s first feature
is the coming-of-age tale Just About Love? /Et
toi, t’es sur qui? It was selected to
screen in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard
section last year where it was well-received.
Doillon had previously enjoyed some success with the short
film Majorettes, a three-part story about teenagers which
screened in Directors’ Fortnight at
Cannes in 2005. She wanted to continue telling stories about
teenagers.
“It was a real pleasure to work with teenagers and after
that I said to myself, ‘If I do a feature, what will
I do? If I talk about kids, what will I talk about?’
and asking that question made me think about that time when
you are 14 or 15 and you experience so many firsts –sexual
firsts, emotional firsts - when everything happens to you and
you’re in between two worlds,” she explains.
Doillon had teamed with Saga Blanchard –who co- ordinated
production on her partner Cedric Klapisch’s Russian
Dolls–on her short and continued the partnership for
Just About Love?“We did five
shorts together, and so, in a way, we grew up together,”
says Doillon.
Personal appearance + Q & A
for Just About Love? at Glasgow Film Theatre 8
March at 8.30pm and Edinburgh Filmhouse 9
March at 8.30pm
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THE STORY OF
RICHARD O
26/03
London Riverside
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Damien Odoul was first noted for his debut feature, Le Souffle.
Born on 15 March, 1968 in Le Puy (Auvergne), Odoul travelled
Europe and Asia from the age of 16, and published his first
collection of poems at the age of 19. He directed his first
short film at 20.
Odoul wrote Le Souffle in 17 days and he
says it was “very much autobiographical”. It was
the first instalment in a proposed trilogy of self-exploration
and was followed by Errance, which starred
Laetitia Casta. And the 39-year-old Odoul brings something
of his own nature to the main character played by Mathieu
Amalric in The Story of Richard O.
Personal appearance + Q & A
at Riverside Studios Hammersmith on
26 March at 8.40pm.
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Melvil Poupaud
TOWARDS
ZERO &
A LOST MAN
15/03 Glasgow
16/03 Edinburgh
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Melvil Poupaud made his acting debut at the age of ten inLa
ville des pirates, directed by Raoul Ruiz with whom he has
made a further five critically acclaimed films. During his
film career, he has worked with many of France’s most
respected directors, including Jean-Jacques Annaud, Benoit
Jacquot, Eric Rohmer and François Ozon.
“I always choose my movies because of the directors
more than the part. It’s more the pleasure of working
with a good director like Rohmer or Ozon that gets me interested
in the project than trying to calculate some kind of image,”
he has said.
Born in Paris on 26 January 1973 he was named after Herman
Melville by his screenwriter mother. Poupaud was nominated
twice for a César as Most
Promising Actor: in 1989, for La fille
de quinze ans, directed by Jacques Doillon and
for his performance in 1993 in Laurence Ferreira Barbosa’s
Les gens normaux n’ont rien d’exceptionel.
Twenty-three years ago, with the first payment he received
as an actor, he bought a video camera and started to make
small movies all by himself in his bedroom. They also formed
part of his first feature film as a director, entitled Melvil,
which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s
Fortnight.
In 2003, he had the honour of having two of his films shown
at the Venice International Film Festival: Le
divorce, directed by James Ivory and Les
sentiments, directed by Noémie Lvovsky.
For his performance in François Ozon’s Le
temps qui reste, he won the Best Actor Award
at the 2005 Valladolid Film Festival. His most recent work
is in Zoe Cassavetes’ Broken English,
and the two films in this year’s FFF A Lost
Man / Un homme perdu (2007) and Towards
Zero / L’heure zero (2007).
Personal appearance + Q & A
at Glasgow Film Theatre on 15
March for A Lost Man (with Danielle Arbid) at
5.30pm and Towards Zero
at 8.15pm ; and at Edinburgh Filmhous on 16
March at 6.15pm for A Lost Man (with Danielle
Arbid) and for Towards Zero, at
8.45pm.
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Pierre Salvarori
PRICELESS
4/03
London Cine Lumiere
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Cabaret actor, then scriptwriter for television serials, Pierre
Salvadori made his first short film, Ménage,
in 1992. His parents brought him to Paris from Tunisia when
was 7 and he completed a theatrical training with Jacqueline
Chabrier. That took him into café-theatre and then
writing.
His latest film is a romantic comedy Priceless
which boasts central performances by Audrey Tatout as a determined
golddigger and comic Gad Emaleh. From the outset Salvadori
tried to write scenes of a true visual nature – situations
that were destined to be filmed.
“Their value is not literary. You need to search for
situations which are dramatically rich and contain expressive
images. This concept comes from Lubitsch - the idea that in
?lming an object it can speak for itself.”
Personal appearance and Q &A
at CinéLumière, London, on 4
March 7pm.
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