 While the 2007 Best Picture Oscar field was wide open (Martin Scorcese's popcorn mobster drama The Departed finally won), several categories were all but virtual locks, including the acting categories. As expected, UK actress Helen Mirren won Best Actress for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frears' drama The Queen, while US actor Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the UK production The Last King of Scotland. European Film Award Best Picture winner Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) won the Best Foreign Film Oscar. Another foreign language favourite, the Spanish-Mexican co-production El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) won a stunning three Oscars: Best Cinematography for Guillermo Navarro, Best Makeup for David Martí and Montse Ribé and Best Art Direction for Eugenio Caballero and Pilar Revuelta. El laberinto del fauno was the film with most statues to its name after The Departed, which besides Best Picture also won Best Director for Scorcese, Best Screenplay and Best Editing. |
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 Adaptations of English-language novels dominated the 2007 Césars, the French national film prizes that were handed out yesterday (Saturday) in Paris. Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley, a retelling of the second version of D.H. Lawrence's erotic classic Lady Chatterley's Lover, and actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet's Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One), based on the novel by US writer Harlan Coben, won Best Film and Best Director respectively, with Chatterley picking up a total of five awards and Ne le dis à personne going home with four. The suprise box office hit of 2006, Philippe Lioret's Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas (Don't Worry, I'm Fine) won two Césars including Best Female Newcomer for its star Mélanie Laurent. Little Miss Sunshine was named the Best Foreign Film, while UK actor Jude Law and Algerian-born actress Marlène Jobert were awarded honorary Césars.
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 I vicerè (The Viceroys), the new film from Italian director Roberto Faenza ( I giorni dell'abbandono/Days of Abandonment, Alla luce del sole) is currently being readied for a release in autumn, and the Turin-born filmmaker is asking the public to lend a hand with the promotion of his upcoming feature by creating their own trailers. Starting Monday February 26, the public will be able to download selected scenes and excerpts of the musical score on the film's official website www.ivicere.it and use it for the creation of their own trailer, with the five best trailers earning a place on the website. The maker of the best trailer will be invited to join Faenza for the editing of the theatrical trailer. |
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 Four more trailers have been added to european-films.net: for Ferzan Ozpetek's latest, Saturno contro; Alain Resnais' Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places); Joachim Trier's Reprise and Koen Mortier's IFFR entry Ex Drummer. The latest film from French directing giant Alain Resnais ( Hiroshima, mon amour, L'année dernière à Marienbad) is Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places), his second adaptation of a play by UK playwright Alan Ayckbourn after Smoking/No Smoking from 1993. The film stars French thespians Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Carré, Lambert Wilson, André Dussolier, Pierre Arditi and Italian transplant Laura Morante. It tells the story of six characters in search of love in a snow-covered Paris (changed from London) and premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Best Director Silver Lion. |
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 57th Berlinale: director Wang Quan’an and actress Nan Yu celebrate after the ceremony. Photo by Fabrizio Maltese for european-films.net. All rights reserved. The Chinese film Tuya de hun shi (Tuya’s Marriage) from director Wang Quan’an has won the Golden Bear, the top prize of the Berlin Film Festival. The 2007 edition of Berlinale concluded this evening with the awards ceremony before a screening of the closing title Angel from French director François Ozon. Tuya’s Marriage tells the story of a woman’s efforts to find a new husband who can take care of both her and her sick ex-husband. The film was one of the few universally praised films in Competition in Berlin. Acting prizes went to German actress Nina Hoss for her portrayal of the title character in Christian Petzold’s Yella and Argentinean actor Julio Chavez for his role in Ariel Ritter’s El otro (The Other), which also won the Jury Grand Prix. |
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