List of French films of 2002
Table:
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes

8 Women
François Ozon

Comedy mystery
5 wins & 19 nominations

Adolphe
Benoît Jacquot
Isabelle Adjani
Drama
1 win

The Adversary
Nicole Garcia

Entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

Aram
Robert Kechichian
Simon Abkarian
Drama
1 win, 1 nomination

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Alain Chabat
Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier
Adventure comedy
1 win & 4 nominations

L'Auberge espagnole
Cédric Klapisch
Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Audrey Tautou
Drama

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie
Zhou Xun, Liu Ye
Period drama

Carnage
Delphine Gleize
Chiara Mastroianni
Drama
Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

Demonlover
Olivier Assayas
Connie Nielsen
Thriller drama
Nominated for Palme d'Or at Cannes, +3 wins, +2 nom.

Décalage Horaire
Danièle Thompson
Juliette Binoche, Jean Reno
Romantic comedy
Nominated for César Award

Les Diables
Christophe Ruggia
Adèle Haenel, Vincent Rottiers
Drama

Femme Fatale
Brian De Palma
Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas
Crime thriller

Filles perdues, cheveux gras
Claude Duty
Amira Casar, Marina Foïs, Olivia Bonamy, Charles Berling
Musical comedy-drama
Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Best French Script at the 2002 Deauville Film Festival

Glowing Eyes
Jacques Nolot
Jacques Nolot
Drama
Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (film)
Laetitia Colombani
Audrey Tautou
Romance thriller
1 nomination

L'homme du train
Patrice Leconte
Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday
Crime drama
Nominated for Golden Lion, +6 wins, +2 nom.

Irréversible
Gaspar Noé
Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel
Crime drama
Nominated for Palme d'Or, +2 wins, +4 nom.

A Loving Father
Jacob Berger
Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu
Drama

Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers
Robert Guédiguian
Ariane Ascaride

Entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

A Piece of Sky
Bénédicte Liénard
Séverine Caneele

Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

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8 Women ( French : 8 femmes ) is a 2002 French dark comedy musical film , written and directed by François Ozon . Based on the 1958 play by Robert Thomas , it features an ensemble cast of high-profile French actresses that includes Danielle Darrieux , Catherine Deneuve , Isabelle Huppert , Emmanuelle Béart , Fanny Ardant , Virginie Ledoyen , Ludivine Sagnier , and Firmine Richard . Revolving around an eccentric family of women and their employees in the 1950s , the film follows eight women as they gather to celebrate Christmas in an isolated , snowbound cottage only to find Marcel , the family patriarch , dead with a knife in his back . Trapped in the house , every woman becomes a suspect , each having her own motive and secret . Ozon initially envisioned a remake of George Cukor 's film The Women ( 1939 ) , but eventually settled on Thomas 's Huit femmes after legal obstacles prevented him from doing so . Drawing inspiration from Cukor 's screwball comedies of the late 1930s and the 1950s work of directors such as Douglas Sirk , Vincente Minnelli , and Alfred Hitchcock , 8 Women blends farce , melodrama , musical , and murder-mystery film while addressing murder , greed , adultery , and homosexuality . Set primarily in the entry hall of a manor house , the film recreates much of the play 's original theatrical feel . It also serves as a pastiche of and homage to the history of film and the actresses ' filmographies . The film 's premiere was held on 8 January 2002 in Paris , where filming had taken place . 8 Women competed for the Golden Bear at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival , where its all-female cast was awarded a Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution . Released to generally positive reviews , with major praise for the stars , the film was nominated for twelve César Awards , including Best Film . At the 2002 European Film Awards , the film was nominated for six awards , including Best Film and Best Director ; it won for Best Actress for the eight principal actresses .
François Ozon ( French : [ fʁɑ̃.swa o.zɔ̃ ] ; born 15 November 1967 ) is a French film director and screenwriter whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality . He has achieved international acclaim for his films 8 femmes ( 2002 ) and Swimming Pool ( 2003 ) . Ozon is considered to be one of the most important French film directors in the new New Wave in French cinema such as Jean-Paul Civeyrac , Philippe Ramos , and Yves Caumon , as well as a group of French filmmakers associated with a cinema du corps/cinema of the body .
Adolphe is a 2002 French drama film based on the novel Adolphe by Benjamin Constant . The film was directed by Benoît Jacquot and starred Isabelle Adjani as Ellénore and Stanislas Merhar as Adolphe .
Benoît Jacquot ( French : [ bənwa ʒako ] ; born 5 February 1947 ) is a French film director and screenwriter who has had a varied career in European cinema .
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ( born 27 June 1955 ) is a French film actress and singer . She is the only actress or actor in history to win five César Awards ; she won Best Actress for Possession ( 1981 ) , One Deadly Summer ( 1983 ) , Camille Claudel ( 1988 ) , La Reine Margot ( 1994 ) , and Skirt Day ( 2009 ) . She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2010 , and a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014 . Adjani 's performance as Adèle Hugo in the 1975 film The Story of Adele H. earned her the first of two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress . Her second nomination - for Camille Claudel - made her the first French actress to receive two nominations for foreign-language films . She won Best Actress at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival for her performances in Possession and Quartet , and , later , she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 1989 Berlin Film Festival for Camille Claudel . Her other notable film performances include The Tenant ( 1976 ) , Nosferatu the Vampyre ( 1979 ) , Subway ( 1985 ) , Diabolique ( 1996 ) , and French Women ( 2014 ) .
The Adversary ( French : L'Adversaire ) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Nicole Garcia , starring Daniel Auteuil and Géraldine Pailhas .
Nicole Garcia ( born 22 April 1946 ) is a French actress , film director and screenwriter . Her film Charlie Says was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival . Her film Going Away was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival . She was the President of the Jury for the Caméra d'Or section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival . Her eldest son , Frédéric Bélier-Garcia , is a theatre director and writer . From her relationship with Jean Rochefort , she has a second son , the actor Pierre Rochefort .
The 55th Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May 2002 . The Palme d'Or went to the Polish-French-German-British co-produced film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski . The festival opened with Hollywood Ending , directed by Woody Allen and closed with And Now . Ladies and Gentlemen , directed by Claude Lelouch . Virginie Ledoyen was the mistress of ceremonies . Director Woody Allen was also presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or given to a director who had achieved a notable body of work but who had never won a competitive Palme d'Or .
Aram is a 2002 French action drama film written and directed by Robert Kechichian . The film is set primarily in France between 1993 and 2001 around Aram , a young French-Armenian militant attempting to supply arms to Nagorno-Karabakh and dealing with the aftermath of assassinating a Turkish general . Aram was released in 2002 in theatres in France , and made its American debut in 2004 at the Armenian Film Festival in San Francisco .
Robert Kechichian ( born 1946 ) is a French-Armenian film director , actor and screenwriter known for his work on Aram , Taxi 2 and other films .
Simon Abkarian ( Armenian : Սիմոն Աբգարեան ; born 5 March 1962 ) is an Armenian-French actor .
Asterix & Obelix : Mission Cleopatra ( French : Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre ) , also known as Asterix and Obelix Meet Cleopatra , is a 2002 French/Italian fantasy comedy film written and directed by Alain Chabat and adapted from the comic book series Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo . Based on the book Asterix and Cleopatra , which had previously been adapted into a 1968 animated film , it also acts as a sequel to the 1999 movie Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar . Christian Clavier and Gérard Depardieu reprise their roles as Asterix and Obelix , alongside newcomers Jamel Debbouze , Monica Bellucci , Claude Rich , Gérard Darmon , Édouard Baer , Dieudonné , and Chabat himself . It was the most expensive French movie at that time , before being beaten by A Very Long Engagement two years later . A critical success , it was also a major box office success in France , becoming its most successful film in 36 years and second biggest commercial success of all time after 1966 's La Grande Vadrouille .
Alain Chabat ( born 24 November 1958 ) is a French actor , director , screenwriter and television presenter . He was originally known for his work in the comedy group Les Nuls , including as the co-writer and lead actor of La Cité de la peur ( 1994 ) . He has since then become a notable filmmaker of his own , typically both writing and starring in the movies he directed , which include cult comedy films such as Asterix & Obelix : Mission Cleopatra , RRRrrrr ! ! ! and HOUBA ! On the Trail of the Marsupilami . He also appeared in French Twist , The Taste of Others , The Science of Sleep , Happily Ever After and the television series Kaamelott . Additionally , he voiced the character of Shrek in the French dubbing of the Shrek franchise .
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu ( UK : /ˈdɛpɑːrdjɜː , ˌdɛpɑːrˈdjɜː/ , US : /-ˈdjʌ , ˌdeɪpɑːrˈdjuː/ , French : [ ʒeʁaʁ ɡzavje maʁsɛl dəpaʁdjø ] ( listen ) ; born 27 December 1948 ) is a French actor . He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history , having completed more than 170 films since 1967 . [ citation needed ] He has received acclaim for his performances in The Last Metro ( 1980 ) , for which he won the César Award for Best Actor , in Police ( 1985 ) , for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor , Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) , and Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1990 ) , winning the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor , his second César Award for Best Actor , and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor . He co-starred in Peter Weir 's comedy Green Card ( 1990 ) , winning a Golden Globe Award and later acted in many big budget Hollywood movies including Ridley Scott 's 1492 : Conquest of Paradise ( 1992 ) , Kenneth Branagh 's Hamlet ( 1996 ) , Randall Wallace 's The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1998 ) , and Ang Lee 's Life of Pi ( 2012 ) . He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite . He was granted citizenship of Russia in January 2013 ( officially adopted name in Russian : Жерар Депардьё , romanized : Zherar Depardyo ) , and became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro during the same month .
Christian Jean-Marie Clavier ( French pronunciation : ​ [ kʁis.tjɑ̃.klavje ] ; born 6 May 1952 ) is a French actor , screenwriter , film producer and director . He became widely popular after starring in two hit comedy series : Patrice Leconte 's Les Bronzés and Les Visiteurs directed by Jean-Marie Poiré . He furthered his popularity by taking a role of Asterix in the screen adaptations of the comic books by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny . He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier .
L'Auberge Espagnole ( /loʊˈbɛərʒ ˌɛspənˈjoʊl , -pæn-/ ; literally : the Spanish inn ) , also known as Pot Luck ( UK ) and The Spanish Apartment ( Australia ) , is a 2002 French-Spanish film directed and written by Cédric Klapisch . It is a co-production of Mate Production , Via Digital , BAC Films , Ce qui me meut , France 2 Cinéma and Studio Canal ) . The movie is about an economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona , Spain , as part of the Erasmus programme , where he learns from a group of students from all over Western Europe in a student share-house . The film is told in the first-person perspective of the main character , Xavier , and is mainly in French . Some of the dialogue is in English and a significant amount is in Spanish , as well as small amounts in Catalan , Danish , German and Italian . L'Auberge Espagnole is the first part of the Spanish Apartment trilogy , which continues in the sequels Russian Dolls ( 2005 ) and Chinese Puzzle ( 2013 ) .
Cédric Klapisch ( French : [ se.dʁik kla.piʃ ] ; born 4 September 1961 ) is a French film director , screenwriter and producer .
Romain Duris ( French pronunciation : [ ʁɔmɛ̃ dyʁis ] ( listen ) ; born 28 May 1974 ) is a French actor , best known for his role in Cédric Klapisch 's Spanish Apartment trilogy , which consists of L'Auberge Espagnole ( 2002 ) , Russian Dolls ( 2005 ) and Chinese Puzzle ( 2013 ) . He also appeared in the 2017 film All the Money in the World .
Judith Godrèche ( born 23 March 1972 ) is a French actress and author . She has appeared in more than 30 films .
Audrey Justine Tautou ( French pronunciation : [ odʁɛ ʒystin totu ] ( listen ) ; born 9 August 1976 ) is a French actress . Signed by an agent at age 17 , she made her acting debut at 18 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Venus Beauty Institute ( 1999 ) , for which she received critical acclaim and won the César Award for Most Promising Actress . Tautou achieved international recognition for her lead role in the 2001 film Amélie , which met with critical acclaim and was a major box-office success . Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards , four César Awards ( including Best Film and Best Director ) , two BAFTA Awards ( including Best Original Screenplay ) , and was nominated for five Academy Awards . Tautou has since appeared in films in a range of genres , including the thrillers Dirty Pretty Things and The Da Vinci Code , and the romantic Priceless ( 2006 ) . She has received critical acclaim for her many roles including the drama A Very Long Engagement ( 2004 ) and the biographical drama Coco avant Chanel ( 2009 ) . She has been nominated three times for the César Award and twice for the BAFTA for Best Actress in a leading role . She became one of the few French actors in history to be invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) in June 2004 . Tautou has modeled for Chanel , Montblanc , L'Oréal and many other companies . She is an active supporter of several charities .
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ( simplified Chinese : 巴尔扎克与小裁缝 ; traditional Chinese : 巴爾扎克與小裁縫 ; French : Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise ) is a 2002 Franco-Chinese romance drama film with dialogue in the Sichuan dialect directed by Dai Sijie and starring Zhou Xun , Chen Kun and Liu Ye . It premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival on 16 May . Based on the 2000 semi-autobiographical novel of the same title by Dai , the film revolves around two young Chinese boys of bourgeois background who were sent to a remote village in Sichuan province for three years of re-education during the Cultural Revolution . They both fell in love with a beautiful local girl , granddaughter of an old tailor and known to everyone as the Little Seamstress . During those years of intellectual oppression , the three found solace and liberation in a collection of banned translated novels by Western authors , among whom their favourite was Balzac . The film explores the themes of youth , love , and freedom in those dark times in China .
Dai Sijie ( born 1954 ) is a Chinese-French author and filmmaker .
Zhou Xun ( Chinese : 周迅 , born 18 October 1974 ) is a Chinese actress and singer . She is regarded as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China . She gained international fame for her roles in Suzhou River ( 2000 ) and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ( 2002 ) . Zhou has won Best Actress honors from Asian Film Awards , Asian Television Awards , Beijing College Student Film Festival , China Film Director 's Guild Awards , China TV Golden Eagle Award , Chinese Film Media Awards , Golden Bauhinia Awards , Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards , Golden Rooster Awards , Hong Kong Film Awards , Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards , Hundred Flowers Awards , Huading Awards , Shanghai Television Festival and Shanghai Film Critics Awards ; as well as the French award-giving body Festival du Film de Paris . Zhou ranked ranked 91st on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013 , 15th in 2014 , 17th in 2015 , 60th in 2017 , and 53rd in 2019 .
Liu Ye ( Chinese : 刘烨 ; pinyin : Líu Yè , born 23 March 1978 ) is a Chinese actor . Liu ranked 78th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013 , 48th in 2014 , and 89th in 2015 .
Carnage ( French : Carnages ) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Delphine Gleize . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival .
Delphine Gleize ( born 5 May 1973 ) is a French film director and screenwriter . She has directed ten films since 1998 . Her film Carnages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival .
Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni ( born 28 May 1972 ) is a French actress and singer . She is the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve .
Demonlover is a 2002 neo-noir thriller film by French writer/director Olivier Assayas . The film stars Connie Nielsen , Charles Berling , Chloë Sevigny , and Gina Gershon with a musical score by Sonic Youth . It premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival , although it was more widely released several months later . The story focuses on the entanglement between various national corporations vying over the financial control of interactive 3-D anime pornography . The film contains various themes , including desensitization to violence and the problematic nature of globalization . Upon its theatrical release in the United States , it was rated R for strong violence , sexual content and some language . It was released in both R-rated and unrated director 's cut versions on DVD . The film is primarily in French , with some scenes in English and Japanese . It is considered an example of New French Extremity by some journalists . In recent years the film has gained a cult following .
Olivier Assayas ( born 25 January 1955 ) is a French film director , screenwriter and film critic .
Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen ( born 3 July 1965 ) is a Danish actress whose first major role in an English language film was a supporting role in The Devil 's Advocate ( 1997 ) . Her films include Gladiator ( 2000 ) , Mission to Mars ( 2000 ) , One Hour Photo ( 2002 ) , Basic ( 2003 ) , The Hunted ( 2003 ) , The Ice Harvest ( 2005 ) , and Nymphomaniac ( 2014 ) . She starred as Meredith Kane on the Starz TV series Boss ( 2011-2012 ) and was a lead character in the second season of The Following . She has joined the DC Extended Universe , appearing as Hippolyta in its films Wonder Woman ( 2017 ) , Justice League ( 2017 ) and Wonder Woman 1984 ( 2020 ) .
Jet Lag ( French : Décalage Horaire ) is a 2002 film starring Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno . It is the second film directed by Danièle Thompson , after the 1999 release Season 's Beatings .
Danièle Thompson ( born 3 January 1942 ) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter . Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury , and actress Jacqueline Roman . She has written screenplays for a number of highly successful films including Cousin , cousine , La Boum , Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre , La Reine Margot and Jet Lag , which she also directed . She was nominated for the 1976 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Cousin , cousine . Her 2006 film , Fauteuils d'orchestre was France 's entrant for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film . She is half Jewish from her father , and was on the 1986 Cannes Film Festival jury . In 2010 , she was with Isabelle Adjani , Paul Auster , Isabelle Huppert , Milan Kundera , Salman Rushdie , Mathilde Seigner , Jean-Pierre Thiollet and Henri Tisot among the petition 's signatures for Roman Polanski when the film director was temporarily arrested by Swiss police at the request of U.S authorities . Thompson 's son is the actor Christopher Thompson . They have written screenplays together , most notably those of Jet Lag and Season 's Beatings .
Juliette Binoche ( French pronunciation : ​ [ ʒyljɛt binɔʃ ] ; born 9 March 1964 ) is a French actress , artist , and dancer . She has appeared in more than 60 feature films , been the recipient of numerous international awards , and performed frequently on stage - both as an actress and dancer - internationally . She began taking acting lessons during adolescence and , after performing in several stage productions , was cast in the films of such notable auteur directors as Jean-Luc Godard ( Hail Mary , 1985 ) , Jacques Doillon ( Family Life , 1985 ) , and André Téchiné ; the latter would make her a star in France with the leading role in his 1985 drama Rendez-vous . Her sensual performance in her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( 1988 ) , directed by Philip Kaufman , launched her international career . She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg , who offered her several parts , including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined , choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski in Three Colors : Blue ( 1993 ) , a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César . Three years later , Binoche gained further acclaim in Anthony Minghella 's The English Patient ( 1996 ) , for which she was awarded an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress , in addition to the Best Actress Award at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival . For her performance in Lasse Hallström 's romantic comedy Chocolat ( 2000 ) , Binoche was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 . During the 2000s she maintained a successful career , alternating between French and English language roles in both mainstream and art-house productions . In 2010 , she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami 's Certified Copy making her the first actress to win the European Best Actress Triple Crown ( for winning best actress awards at the Berlin , Cannes and Venice film festivals ) . Throughout her career Binoche has intermittently appeared on stage , most notably in a 1998 London production of Luigi Pirandello 's Naked and in a 2000 production of Harold Pinter 's Betrayal on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award . In 2008 she began a world tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration with Akram Khan . Often referred to as La Binoche by the press , her other notable performances include : Mauvais Sang ( 1986 ) , Les Amants du Pont-Neuf ( 1991 ) , Damage ( 1992 ) , The Horseman on the Roof ( 1995 ) , Code Unknown ( 2000 ) , Caché ( 2005 ) , Breaking and Entering ( 2006 ) , Flight of the Red Balloon ( 2007 ) , Camille Claudel 1915 ( 2013 ) , and Clouds of Sils Maria ( 2014 ) .
Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez ( born 30 July 1948 ) , known as Jean Reno ( French : [ ʒɑ̃ ʁeno ] ) , is a French actor of Spanish descent . He has worked in French , English , Japanese , Spanish and Italian productions ; Reno appeared in films such as Crimson Rivers , Godzilla , The Da Vinci Code , Mission : Impossible , The Pink Panther , Ronin , Les Visiteurs , Wasabi , The Big Blue , Hector and the Search for Happiness and Léon : The Professional .
Les Diables ( The Devils ) is a 2002 French drama film from director Christophe Ruggia starring Adèle Haenel and Vincent Rottiers .
Adèle Haenel ( French : [ adɛl enɛl ] ; born 11 February 1989 ) is a French actress . Haenel began her career as a child actress and quickly rose to prominence in the French entertainment industry . She has been nominated at the César Awards seven times , winning twice for her performances in Suzanne and Love at First Fight . Haenel is also known for her long personal and professional relationship with director Céline Sciamma and appeared in her films Water Lilies , Pauline , and Portrait of a Lady on Fire .
Vincent Rottiers ( born 17 June 1986 ) is a French actor . He has appeared in more than thirty films since 2002 . He is the older brother of actor Kévin Azaïs .
Femme Fatale is a 2002 erotic thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma . The film stars Antonio Banderas and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos . It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival . Warner Bros. has included the film in the catalogue of Warner Archive Collection .
Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11 , 1940 ) is an American film director and screenwriter . With a career spanning over 50 years , he is best known for his work in the suspense , psychological thriller , and crime drama genres . His prominent films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie ( 1976 ) , Dressed to Kill ( 1980 ) , Scarface ( 1983 ) , The Untouchables ( 1987 ) , and Mission : Impossible ( 1996 ) , as well as cult favorites such as Sisters ( 1973 ) , Blow Out ( 1981 ) , Body Double ( 1984 ) , Casualties of War ( 1989 ) , Carlito 's Way ( 1993 ) , and Femme Fatale ( 2002 ) . De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors . His directing style often makes use of quotations from other films or cinematic styles , and bears the influence of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard . His films have been criticised for their violence and sexual content but have also been championed by prominent critics such as Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael .
Rebecca Alie Romijn ( /roʊˈmeɪn/ roh-MAYN ; Dutch : [ roːˈmɛin ] ; born November 6 , 1972 ) is an American actress and former model . She is known for her role as Mystique in the trilogy of the X-Men film series , and as Joan from The Punisher ( 2004 ) , both of which are based on Marvel Comics . She also had a recurring role as Alexis Meade on the television series Ugly Betty , and as Number One on Star Trek : Discovery . Major roles include as Eve Baird on the TNT series The Librarians , which ran for four seasons , and as the host of the game show Skin Wars .
José Antonio Domínguez Bandera [ a ] ( born 10 August 1960 ) , known professionally as Antonio Banderas , is a Spanish actor , film producer and director . He is the recipient of numerous accolades , including a Cannes Best Actor Award and nominations for a Tony Award , an Academy Award , two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards . Banderas began his acting career with a series of films by director Pedro Almodóvar in the 1980s and then appeared in several Hollywood films , such as Philadelphia ( 1993 ) , Interview with the Vampire ( 1994 ) , Desperado ( 1995 ) , Assassins ( 1995 ) , Evita ( 1996 ) , and The Mask of Zorro ( 1998 ) . He also appeared in the Spy Kids series and provided the voice of Puss in Boots in the Shrek franchise as well as its spin-off film Puss in Boots . In 2003 , Banderas made his theatre debut as Guido Contini in Nine , for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award . He received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles in the television film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ( 2004 ) and the second season of Genius ( 2018 ) ; his portrayal of Pablo Picasso in the latter garnered him critical praise . For the 2019 film Pain and Glory , he earned the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor , and received nominations for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor .
Hypnotized and Hysterical ( Hairstylist Wanted ) ( original title : Filles perdues , cheveux gras ) is a 2002 French musical comedy-drama film about the crossing paths of three lost young women . It was directed by Claude Duty . The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2002 .
Amira Casar is a British-born actress who grew up in England , Ireland , and France .
Marina Sylvie Foïs ( born 21 January 1970 ) is a French actress .
Olivia Bonamy ( born 21 September 1972 ) is a French actress . She is best known for her appearances in the films Jefferson in Paris , Jacques Audiard 's Read My Lips , the thriller Ils and Le ciel , les oiseaux et ta mère .
Charles Berling ( born 30 April 1958 ) is a French actor , director and screenwriter .
The Deauville American Film Festival ( French : Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville ) is a yearly film festival devoted to American cinema , taking place since 1975 in Deauville , France . It was established by Lionel Chouchan , André Halimi , and then Mayor of Deauville Michel d'Ornano , with support from the Groupe Lucien Barrière in providing a luxurious setting for the Festival . Although not competitive at its origin , the festival began to award prizes in 1995 , for feature films , and 1998 for short films .
Glowing Eyes ( alternative title : Porn Theatre ) ( French : La chatte à deux têtes ) is a 2002 French drama film directed by and starring Jacques Nolot . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival . The film has been cited as a favorite by filmmaker John Waters , who presented it as his annual selection within the 2005 Maryland Film Festival .
Jacques Nolot ( French : [ nɔlo ] ; born 31 August 1943 ) is a French actor , screenwriter and film director .
He Loves Me . He Loves Me Not ( French : À la folie . pas du tout ) is a 2002 French psychological drama film directed by Lætitia Colombani . The film focuses on a Fine Arts student , played by Audrey Tautou , and a married cardiologist , played by Samuel Le Bihan , with whom she is dangerously obsessed . The film studies the condition of erotomania and is both an example of the nonlinear and unreliable narrator forms of storytelling . The title refers to the last two lines of the French game of Effeuiller la Marguerite ( Fr. , to pluck the daisy ) of pulling petals off a flower , in which one seeks to determine whether the object of their affection returns that affection and to what extent : un peu ( a little ) , beaucoup ( a lot ) ; passionnément ( passionately ) : à la folie ( to madness ) ; pas du tout ( not at all ) .
The Man on the Train ( French : L'homme du train ) is a 2002 French crime-drama film directed by Patrice Leconte , starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday . It was re-titled Man on the Train in the USA . The film was shot in Annonay , France and won the audience awards at the Venice Film Festival for Best Film and Best Actor ( Jean Rochefort ) in 2002 . Though not an English-language film , the UK Film Council awarded £500,000 to assist its production . Paramount Classics acquired the United States distribution rights of this film and gave it a limited US theatrical release on May 9 , 2003 to a total of 85 theaters ; this film went on to gross $ 2,542,020 in United States theaters , which is a solid result for a non-English film . Paramount Classics was ecstatic with this film 's performance in the United States market .
Patrice Leconte ( French : [ ləkɔ̃t ] ; born 12 November 1947 ) is a French film director , actor , comic strip writer , and screenwriter .
Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort ( French : [ ʒã ʁɔʃ.fɔʁ ] ; 29 April 1930 - 9 October 2017 ) was a French stage and screen actor . He received many accolades during his career , including an Honorary César in 1999 .
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet ( French pronunciation : ​ [ ʒɑ̃ filip leo smɛt ] ; 15 June 1943 - 6 December 2017 ) , better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday ( [ ʒɔni alidɛ ] ) , was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor , credited for having brought rock and roll to France . During a career spanning 57 years , he released 79 albums and sold more than 110 million records worldwide , mainly in the French-speaking world , making him one of the best-selling artists in the world . He won 5 diamond albums , 40 golden albums , 22 platinum albums and 10 Music Victories . He sang an estimated 1,154 songs and performed 540 duets with 187 artists . Credited for his strong voice and his spectacular shows , he sometimes arrived by entering a stadium through the crowd and once by jumping from a helicopter above the Stade de France , where he performed 9 times . Among his 3,257 shows completed in 187 tours , the most memorable were at Parc des Princes in 1993 , at the Stade de France in 1998 , just after France 's win in the 1998 FIFA World Cup , as well as at the Eiffel Tower in 2000 , which had record-breaking ticket sales for a French artist . [ citation needed ] A million spectators gathered to see his performance at the Eiffel Tower , with some 10 million watching on television . Usually working with the best French artists and musicians of his time , he collaborated with Charles Aznavour , Michel Berger and Jean-Jacques Goldman , while his shows were produced by Jean-Claude Camus , considered to be one of the greatest producers in France . Hugely popular in France , he was referred to as simply Johnny and seen as a national monument ( the only singer since Edith Piaf ) and a part of the French cultural legacy . He was a symbol of the Trente Glorieuses when he emerged in 1960 and a familiar figure to four generations . More than 2,500 magazine covers and 190 books were dedicated to him during his lifetime , making him one of the persons most widely covered by the media in France . His death from cancer in 2017 was followed by a popular tribute during which a million people attended the procession and 15 million others watched the ceremony on TV .
Irréversible ( French pronunciation : ​ [ iʁevɛʁsibl ] ) is a 2002 French experimental psychological thriller drama film , written and directed by Gaspar Noé and starring Monica Bellucci , Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel . The film employs a reverse chronology and follows two men through the streets of Paris as they seek to avenge a brutally raped girlfriend . The film 's soundtrack was composed by Thomas Bangalter , one half of the electronic music duo Daft Punk . Irréversible competed at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and won the Stockholm International Film Festival 's award for best film . Irréversible has been associated with a series of films defined as the cinéma du corps ( cinema of the body ) , which according to Palmer share affinities with certain avant-garde productions : an attenuated use of narrative , assaulting and often illegible cinematography , confrontational subject material , and a pervasive sense of social nihilism or despair . Irréversible has also been associated with the New French Extremity movement . The film was particularly controversial upon its release for its graphic portrayal of violence , specifically the scene where a man is savagely bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher and its 10-minute long take rape of Alex ( Monica Bellucci ) , who is then brutally beaten into a coma . It had accusations of apparent homophobia as well . American film critic Roger Ebert called Irréversible a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable .
Gaspar Noé ( Spanish : [ gasˈpaɾ noˈe ] ; French : [ ɡas.paʁ nɔ.e ] ; born December 27 , 1963 ) is an Argentine filmmaker based in Paris , France . He is the son of Argentine painter , writer and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé . He has directed five feature films : I Stand Alone ( 1998 ) , Irréversible ( 2002 ) , Enter the Void ( 2009 ) , Love ( 2015 ) , and Climax ( 2018 ) .
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci ( Italian pronunciation : [ ˈmɔːnika belˈluttʃi ] ; born 30 September 1964 ) is an Italian actress and model . Bellucci began her career as a fashion model , modeling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior , before making a transition to Italian films and later Hollywood films and French films . She is perhaps best known to American audiences for her role as Persephone in the 2003 science-fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions . She also played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola 's gothic romance film Bram Stoker 's Dracula ( 1992 ) and Malèna Scordia in the Italian-language romantic drama Malèna ( 2000 ) , and was in the controversial Gaspar Noé arthouse horror film Irréversible ( 2002 ) , and Mel Gibson 's biblical drama The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ) , in which she portrayed Mary Magdalene . She later played a Bond girl in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre .
Vincent Cassel ( French pronunciation : [ vɛ̃sɑ̃ kasɛl ] ; born Vincent Crochon , 23 November 1966 ) is a French actor . He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth , in Mathieu Kassovitz 's 1995 film La Haine ( Hate ) , for which he received two César Award nominations . He garnered wide recognition with English-speaking audiences for his performances in Ocean 's Twelve ( 2004 ) and Ocean 's Thirteen ( 2007 ) , as well as Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) , Black Swan ( 2010 ) , and Jason Bourne ( 2016 ) . Cassel is also renowned for playing the infamous French bank-robber Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine : Killer Instinct and Mesrine : Public Enemy Number One ( both in 2008 ) . Throughout his career , which spans more than three decades , Cassel has earned critical acclaim and numerous accolades , including a César Award in 2009 and a Canadian Screen Award in 2016 .
A Loving Father ( French : Aime ton père ) is a 2002 French film starring Gérard Depardieu , Guillaume Depardieu and Sylvie Testud . It was directed by Jacob Berger .
Jacob Berger ( born 1963 ) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter . His 1990 film Angels was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival .
Guillaume Depardieu ( 7 April 1971 - 13 October 2008 ) was a French actor , winner of a César Award , and the oldest child of Gérard Depardieu .
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers ( French : Marie-Jo et ses deux amours ) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian . It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival .
Robert Jules Guédiguian ( born 3 December 1953 ) is a French film director , screenwriter , producer and actor . Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin .
Ariane Ascaride ( born 10 October 1954 ) is a French actress and screenwriter . She has appeared in films such as Marius et Jeannette ( Marius and Jeannette ) , Ma vraie vie à Rouen ( The True Story of My Life in Rouen ; USA , My Life on Ice ) and À la place du coeur ( Where the Heart Is ) . She also starred in and co-wrote the screenplay for Le Voyage en Arménie ( Armenia ) .
A Piece of Sky ( French : Une part du ciel ) is a 2002 French-Belgian drama film directed by Bénédicte Liénard . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival .
Bénédicte Liénard ( born 25 April 1965 in Mons , Belgium ) is a Belgian filmmaker .
Séverine Caneele ( born 10 May 1974 ) is a Belgian film actress . She won the award for Best Actress at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for the film L'humanité .