The actor, an officer of the National Order of Merit in Tunisia, died on Tuesday at the age of 75. Considered the most famous actor of his generation in his country, he also worked in France under the direction of Claude Zidi, Ariel Zeitoun and Jean-Jacques Annaud. Tunisian actor Hichem Rostom, who starred in such […]
MAINTENANCE – The French director painstakingly reconstructed the Notre-Dame fire. Without overdoing the special effects, he signs a grandiose and spectacular film, charged with emotion, which sounds like a tribute to those who saved the cathedral. THE FIGARO MAGAZINE. – How did the idea for this film come about? Jean-Jacques ANNAUD. – When Jérôme Seydoux […]
CRITICISM – At the cinema next Wednesday, the director’s shock film recounting the fire in the cathedral awakens memories of the tragedy. And makes the firefighters the heroes. Jean-Jacques Annaud and fire is a long story. In 1981, The fire warhis adaptation of the prehistoric novel by Rosny aîné, propels the director of Headbutt to […]
STORY – In theaters next Wednesday, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film-event relating the fire in the cathedral is intended to be as realistic as possible. Until what point? A blockbuster featuring heroic firefighters, and a cathedral totally overwhelmed by a fire that it obviously did not see coming: the film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Notre Dame is burning, […]
The protagonists of the fire were invited to relive these few hours when the cathedral burned, the time of a preview screening of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film. A series of previews were organized by the production of Notre Dame is burning. They allowed all the protagonists of the hellish evening of April 15, 2019 to relive […]
In a new trailer the director of Stalingrad delivers the tone of his film: tragic and epic. Parisians panicked by a cloud of black coming from the Seine. Firefighters driven by their mission, to save the cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary. They know that this sacred church has seen the most glorious and also […]
THE SELECTION OF FIGARO – Reboots, superheroes, a handful of originality and a few contenders for the Cannes film festival. Overview. Even if the eruption of the omicron variant has once again upset release schedules, the 7th art is betting on many nuggets and blockbusters this year, where sequels and superheroes still take the lion’s […]
CRITICAL – Nicolas Henry’s unpublished documentary pays tribute to James Bond’s first performer and his extraordinary career. Not to be missed this Friday, October 1 on OCS Géants at 10:45 p.m. There are fates that turn more heads than a Martiny Dry “With a spoon, not a shaker”. That of the Scotsman Sean Connery (1930-2020) […]
STORY – The very evening of the drama, the director decided to make a film of it. Having left for a dantesque three-month shoot, he has already started shooting in Sens and Bourges. Seeing his men crawling under the falls of incandescent debris in the spiral staircase of the tower of the cathedral of Sens […]
INVESTIGATION – The entire industry has been severely affected by the coronavirus crisis. The cinemas hope to open in mid-April. This Sunday March 14, it will be a year since cinemas had to close their doors in France. The operators would never have imagined that their projectors would remain off eight months out of twelve. […]