Politics drama that upset France’s Front National party to market premiere at Rendez-vous with French cinema.
The French release of Lucas Belvaux’s populist politics drama This Is Our Land (Chez Nous) will go ahead as planned in February and without cuts in the face of fierce criticism from France’s far-right Front National (Fn) party, distributor Jean Labadie of Paris-based Le Pacte has vowed.
The Belgian director’s film has been in the eye of a political storm this week following the release of the first trailer on Dec 30, ahead of its scheduled Feb 22 release.
Le Pacte’s international sales team will hold buyers-only screening at Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week. It will get its festival world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the end of this month.
“The film will be released in February as planned and in its current form. There will be...
The French release of Lucas Belvaux’s populist politics drama This Is Our Land (Chez Nous) will go ahead as planned in February and without cuts in the face of fierce criticism from France’s far-right Front National (Fn) party, distributor Jean Labadie of Paris-based Le Pacte has vowed.
The Belgian director’s film has been in the eye of a political storm this week following the release of the first trailer on Dec 30, ahead of its scheduled Feb 22 release.
Le Pacte’s international sales team will hold buyers-only screening at Unifrance’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris next week. It will get its festival world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam at the end of this month.
“The film will be released in February as planned and in its current form. There will be...
- 1/6/2017
- ScreenDaily
Outgoing culture minister Aurélie Filippetti denounced culture budget cuts in open letter.
Fleur Pellerin has been appointed as France’s new Minister of Culture and Communication, replacing Aurélie Filippetti who exited the job earlier this week denouncing cuts to the country’s culture budget.
The appointment was part of a hasty cabinet reshuffle by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday following the dissolution of the government the previous day after three ministers - Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg, Education Minister Benoit Hamon and Filippetti - broke rank over its economic policy.
Outgoing Minister of Culture and Communication Filippetti had announced on Monday she did not want to participate in a new government.
In an open letter, she lamented “unprecedented “ cuts to France’s budget for culture - traditionally “a symbol of the left” - for two years running and said she did was leaving because she did not want to “swallow other snakes”.
The reshuffle came amid...
Fleur Pellerin has been appointed as France’s new Minister of Culture and Communication, replacing Aurélie Filippetti who exited the job earlier this week denouncing cuts to the country’s culture budget.
The appointment was part of a hasty cabinet reshuffle by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday following the dissolution of the government the previous day after three ministers - Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg, Education Minister Benoit Hamon and Filippetti - broke rank over its economic policy.
Outgoing Minister of Culture and Communication Filippetti had announced on Monday she did not want to participate in a new government.
In an open letter, she lamented “unprecedented “ cuts to France’s budget for culture - traditionally “a symbol of the left” - for two years running and said she did was leaving because she did not want to “swallow other snakes”.
The reshuffle came amid...
- 8/27/2014
- ScreenDaily
François Hollande, France's first Socialist president for nearly 20 years, has had a nightmarish first year
The freshly cut inscription on the marble "tombstone" was savage and to the point: "Betrayal! Here lie the promises of F. Hollande which were made to workers and their families in Florange on 24 February 2012. From the steelworkers of Lorraine." With barely suppressed anger and bitterness, Frédéric Weber, a local union official, explained why it was sitting in his office: "When François Hollande was campaigning for the presidency, he said to me: 'I will be the president of change.' He came to Florange and he said that he would fight a war against the kind of finance that closed our steelworks. But he has bowed down before the markets and screwed the workers instead."
Few countries do gesture politics with as much panache as the French. But the anger last week in this picturesque corner of north-eastern France,...
The freshly cut inscription on the marble "tombstone" was savage and to the point: "Betrayal! Here lie the promises of F. Hollande which were made to workers and their families in Florange on 24 February 2012. From the steelworkers of Lorraine." With barely suppressed anger and bitterness, Frédéric Weber, a local union official, explained why it was sitting in his office: "When François Hollande was campaigning for the presidency, he said to me: 'I will be the president of change.' He came to Florange and he said that he would fight a war against the kind of finance that closed our steelworks. But he has bowed down before the markets and screwed the workers instead."
Few countries do gesture politics with as much panache as the French. But the anger last week in this picturesque corner of north-eastern France,...
- 4/27/2013
- by Julian Coman
- The Guardian - Film News
Frenchman Pascal Lamy says France's 'Gps is a little wonky' and lambasts minister for industrial regeneration
The head of the World Trade Organisation has delivered a hard-hitting critique of France, saying the country has lost its bearings and needs profound reform to increase its competitiveness.
Pascal Lamy, a Frenchman, said his country needed to stop thinking it was "an island of temporary happiness in a world of catastrophes".
"This is not a good approach. We cannot deduce from it that if France has problems it's the world that must change."
Lamy, a former European commissioner and supporter of the Socialist president, François Hollande, saved his harshest criticism for Arnaud Montebourg, the minister for industrial regeneration, whom he lambasted for blaming the Chinese for France's economic woes.
"If there is an example of a Gps that has a few problems, in my opinion it's him," he said in an interview with French radio and television.
The head of the World Trade Organisation has delivered a hard-hitting critique of France, saying the country has lost its bearings and needs profound reform to increase its competitiveness.
Pascal Lamy, a Frenchman, said his country needed to stop thinking it was "an island of temporary happiness in a world of catastrophes".
"This is not a good approach. We cannot deduce from it that if France has problems it's the world that must change."
Lamy, a former European commissioner and supporter of the Socialist president, François Hollande, saved his harshest criticism for Arnaud Montebourg, the minister for industrial regeneration, whom he lambasted for blaming the Chinese for France's economic woes.
"If there is an example of a Gps that has a few problems, in my opinion it's him," he said in an interview with French radio and television.
- 3/1/2013
- by Kim Willsher
- The Guardian - Film News
Facebook managers will reportedly have to answer concerns expressed over privacy before a French data privacy agency. French industry minister Arnaud Montebourg, and junior minister Fleur Pellerin - whose remit includes the digital economy - have asked representatives of the social networking site to give "clear and transparent explanations" regarding recent privacy concerns, according to Reuters. Facebook representatives will reportedly appear before the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (Cnil) later on Tuesday (September 25), following numerous claims that private messages had been appearing on some users' public timelines. The alleged problem was said (more)...
- 9/25/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
François Hollande under pressure over economy, eurozone treaty and minister's comments that nuclear power was the future
Cracks have appeared in the new French government after a Socialist minister made a gaffe about the future of nuclear power and tensions mounted over the thorny issue of parliamentary ratification of the European budget treaty.
The Socialist president, François Hollande, and his prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, have seen their popularity ratings fall over the summer as the French economic crisis deepens. Already struggling with a difficult return to work after the holiday season, the government has now been shaken by the row over nuclear energy.
The Green party, which has two ministers in the Socialist-led government, was taken aback after the minister for industrial recovery, Arnaud Montebourg, described nuclear power as an "industry of the future", seeming to cast doubt on a commitment to shut power stations and reduce France's devotion to atomic energy.
Cracks have appeared in the new French government after a Socialist minister made a gaffe about the future of nuclear power and tensions mounted over the thorny issue of parliamentary ratification of the European budget treaty.
The Socialist president, François Hollande, and his prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, have seen their popularity ratings fall over the summer as the French economic crisis deepens. Already struggling with a difficult return to work after the holiday season, the government has now been shaken by the row over nuclear energy.
The Green party, which has two ministers in the Socialist-led government, was taken aback after the minister for industrial recovery, Arnaud Montebourg, described nuclear power as an "industry of the future", seeming to cast doubt on a commitment to shut power stations and reduce France's devotion to atomic energy.
- 8/28/2012
- by Angelique Chrisafis
- The Guardian - Film News
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