cinema, known for its slow-paced philosophical art films with
interesting, even weird characters.
The movies in a variety of genres are features of the Country in Focus
section of the Vietnam International Film Festival which ends on Oct.
21.
The movies are Heartbreaker, Coco Chanel&Igor Stravinsky, Babies, Little Nicholas and Oceans.
Coco Chanel&Igor Stravinsky, directed by Jan Kounen, was chosen as
the closing film of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the
2002 fictional novel Coco&Igor by Chris Greenhalgh and traces the
affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1920, the
year that Chanel No 5 was created.
The documentary,
Oceans, is an ecological drama documentary filmed throughout the globe.
It is part thriller and part meditation, with minimal dialogue, on the
vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.
It was
directed by Jacques Cluzaud, a cameraman for the movie Indochina , a
1992 French film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s.
Another French movie, the 3D animation movie Arthur and the War of the
Two Worlds, directed by Luc Besson, opened the festival on Oct. 17. The
director shows the world that French cinema is not only all about art
house movies, but also successful box-office blockbusters, including the
very latest in 3D animation technology.
French
representatives at the festival are Coco Chanel&Igor Stravinsky
actress Anna Mouglalis, director of Heartbreaker Pascal Chaumeil, Babies
director Thomas Balmes, and a representative of the Canne film festival
Christian Jeune.
Two others, Francois Catonne and Mathieu
Poirot-Delpech, are jury board members at the Vietnam festival in
the feature film category and for short films and documentaries./.
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