Question: Are the directors of films Tarot (1986 Film) and The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen both from the same country?

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean- Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France. One of Deville's comedies," La Lectrice The Reader") was probably his biggest success with international audiences. " La Lectrice" is about a woman( played by Miou- Miou), who finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually finds herself unwittingly attracting a clientele of fetishists who enjoyed being read to. Michel Deville( born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter. At one time his films were difficult to find in North America but presently( 2007) seven of his films are available in DVD in the U.S. His 1980 film" Le Voyage en douce" was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film" Death in a French Garden" was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. A clip from his 1968 film Benjamin is included in Robert Bresson ’s Une Femme Douce( 1969). <SEP> He has directed more than 30 films since 1964. Rudolf Thome( born 14 November 1939) is a German film director and producer. His 1986 film" Tarot" was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. <SEP> Tarot is a 1986 West German drama film directed by Rudolf Thome. It is loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel" Elective Affinities". It was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. <SEP> Devorah Sperber is an American installation artist known for creating works out of spools of thread, chenille pipe cleaners and map tacks that act as optical illusions. Some of her work has involved using thousands of spools of thread to create pixilated versions of iconic works of art by famous artists. Her naming scheme for these works generally follows the format" After[ Artist]/[ Work]". For example, her creation of the" Mona Lisa" using spools of thread is titled" After The Mona Lisa 2". The spools are hung in long, adjacent columns to create a pointillist, inverted abstraction of a famous painting. When viewed by the naked eye, they are barely recognizable. When viewed through an optical device, usually a" viewing sphere"( a transparent sphere the size of a baseball) placed several feet in front of the spools), the abstractions are inverted and shrunk into a remarkably detailed and faithful image of the original painting. The resulting image is usually distorted the way objects are distorted when viewed through a fisheye lens: objects in the center are larger than they appear, and objects in the periphery are smaller than they appear. The horizon of the image viewed through the viewing sphere also bend and curve, depending on the viewer's perspective. Sperber has wittily used the fish eye; in her rendering of the Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa's" elusive smile appears, changes, and disappears in a dramatic and humorous fashion". Sperber exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum from January 26 to June 17, 2007 and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 2008. <SEP> Catherine Tyson( born 12 June 1965) is an English stage, film and television actress. She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1986 film" Mona Lisa". The film also earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. She has also starred in" The Serpent and the Rainbow"( 1988)," Priest"( 1994), and in the ITV drama series" Band of Gold"( 1995 – 97). <SEP> The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen  is a 1966 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville.