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Seattle
International Film Festival 2006
A
Summer Day: growing up in rural France.
Interview
by Caroline Planque
posted June 2006
Not all teenagers spend their lives on
their cell phone or surfing the net. In Franck Guérin’s
film, they kill their boredom by roaming the nearby woods
and fields until the accidental death of one of them forces
everyone in the community to reexamine their role and
relationships to one another. Although Arte has produced
the film for French TV, it holds well on the big screen
and is touring the globe from one festival to another.
Guérin, a long-time documentary director, signs
his debut film with Un Jour d’Été
(in which Bernard Blancan, who makes a five-minute appearance,
was just awarded the award for best actor at Cannes for
his role in Indigènes).
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Beyond
the Dogma: The Seattle International Film Festival
gets Danish in 2006 (from May 25 -
June 18)
By
Heike Grodecki
posted May 2006
If you are familiar to the
fact that Seattleites see
more movies per capita
than any other city in the
nation, it will not
surprise you that one of
our city’s biggest events,
the Seattle International
Film Festival (SIFF), is
considered to be the
largest and most highly
attended festivals in the
US and one of the best
“audience festivals” in
the world. Beginning May
25 through June 18, SIFF
has again promised to
bring the best in cinema
from all points of the
globe in an incredible
line-up of more than 250
features and 100 shorts
from more than 50
different countries.
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De père en
fils.
Article et portrait par
Caroline Planque
Dans son
deuxième long-métrage,
Sébastien Rose poursuit son
exploration de la thématique
familiale. Comédie tragique ou
tragédie comique, La Vie
avec Mon Père réunit un
père et ses deux fils et
distille de façon douce amère
l’évolution de leurs relations
transformées par la mort
annoncée du patriarche.
Sébastien Rose était l’invité
du 32ème SIFF.
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