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Christine Lagarde jets back to Paris to be questioned over Tapie payout
Christine Lagarde and Bernard Tapie are at the centre of a legal investigation into alleged complicity in embezzlement of public funds and abuse of power over a multimillion euro state payout that could expose the unhealthy friendships between high French politics and the world of business.Lagarde will jet back to Paris on Thursday to be questioned by court judges, hoping to clear her name in a ...
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Cannes Weinstein Co. Picks Up Reeves-Witherspoon Space Romance Passengers
Cannes Film Festival 2013 The company has committed to a multi-million dollar guarantee and will spend a minimum $25 million on marketing the release. Developed by Reeves ...
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Cannes Roger L. Simon to Pen The Future of Now
. "We are very excited to work with such a smart, seasoned, and talented writer such as Roger on this project," said Golubovich. "We developed this idea observing the American news media and power structure from my international perspective, and the notion of idealism gone awry." Just days earlier at the fest, Primeridian announced its first feature, based on the life ...
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Steven Soderberghs Too-Gay Liberace Movie Has Arrived at Cannes
in competition go almost unnoticed, overshadowed by a festival scandal or lost in the hype surrounding another movie in the line-up. Such was the fate of Valria Bruni Tedeschi's Un chateau en Italie (A Castle in Italy), the third French film in the main slate ...
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Miike’s gore-filled flick panned at Cannes
CANNES DO ATTITUDE: Actors Takao Osawa (left) and Nanako Matsushita, and director Takashi Miike, arrive Monday for the screening of the film 'Shield of Straw' ('Wara no Tate') at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in France. | ...
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Liberace Film Spotlights Gay Rights at Cannes
CANNES -- The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover dazzled at the Cannes film festival on Tuesday and threw the spotlight on gay rights at the movie industry's largest annual gathering. Director Steven Soderbergh said he struggled five years ago to secure funding for "Behind the Candelabra" because some financiers thought the film would only ...
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AP Photos Fashion captured by Cannes cameras
FILE - This May 19, 2013 file photo shows actress Jane Fonda wearing a purple-hued Badgley Mischka off-the-shoulder gown as she arrives for the screening of the film Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, ...
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France Tel to invest up to 50 million euro in Dailymotion report
PARIS | Tue May 21, 2013 2:43pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) - France Telecom plans to invest between 30 and 50 million euros ($64 million) in its video-sharing website Dailymotion and begin a fresh search for a partner in the autumn, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Stephane Richard also said in an interview with RTL radio that "the door is not closed" to Yahoo Inc, which had been ...
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Sorrentino Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes
CANNES, France -- La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui.Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's "A Castle in Italy" both feature wealthy characters whose lives have an emptiness at their center.Bruni Tedeschi - the only woman among the 20 directors competing for ...
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Toback Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly
CANNES, France -- A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers."The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of deal-making in luxury hotels along the Croisette promenade and aboard yachts moored offshore. Films are pitched with various ingredients - a director, a script, a few stars - as agents and talent pursue international ...
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World Brief | Europe Right-Wing Writer Kills Himself in Notre-Dame in Paris
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Cannes Melbournes Movie Market Secures Four More Years
A part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, the market gets part of a $5.1 million state government support package from the Australian state government of ...
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Tennis Erakovic in first round exit ahead of French Open
New Zealand No 1 Marina Erakovic insists her confidence hasn't been dented by a poor run of results heading into the French Open. Erakovic has been beaten 6-7 6-3 7-6 by Romanian fifth seed Monica Niculescu in the first round of the Strasbourg WTA tournament. She has won only one singles match in seven tournaments since capturing her maiden WTA title in February but says the ...
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Far-Right activist shoots himself at Notre Dame cathedral
Dominique Venner, a far-Right former activist in France, has committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth in front of the main altar at Notre Dame cathedral in ...
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Ooh aah Eric Cantona shows off prosthetic penis in new film You and The Night at Cannes
, the ex-footballer plays a character known as 'The Stud' who has a prosthetic penis so long that it would provide shade over Old ...
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Cannes 2013 Weekend of a Champion – first look review
Cannes film festival , with a new 10-minute coda added in which the present-day Polanski and Stewart sit in the same Monte Carlo hotel suite where Stewart stayed at the time and chew the fat amiably about their movie, and the way in which motor-racing has changed. The movie has some real archival value and the simple juxtaposition of Polanski and Stewart - the oddest couple in Cannes, surely - ...
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La Dolce Vita plays out with Italian films at Cannes
Tue May 21, 2013 1:13pm EDT * Rome in splendour, Italy in demise in "The Great Beauty" * "A Castle in Italy", 19 other films compete for Palme d'Or By Alexandria Sage CANNES, May 21 (Reuters) - Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," a nostalgic, melancholic ode to the eternal city Rome, is one of several films that touch on the unraveling of contemporary Italy in ...
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UK drops behind France for credit and debit card fraud for first time
Debit and credit card fraud losses rose 14 percent in the UK last year but that wasn’t enough to stop France deposing it as the top country for plastic crime, analytics ...
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Cannes critics embrace Coen brothers Inside Llewyn Davis
U.S. directors Joel, left, and Ethan Coen pose on Sunday ahead of screening Inside Llewyn Davis at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty ...
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Models Kloss Kurkova and Ambrosio among models getting their gold on for Cannes amfAR gala
This computer-generated image released by Armani shows animated images in the likeness of actors Richard Burton, left, and Elizabeth Taylor, in a gold Armani gown. There will be more gold to come this week at Thursday's amfAR gala, at the Cannes Film Festival which will showcase 40 of the world's top models in "The Ultimate Gold Collection Fashion Show," curated by Carine ...
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Frances Bruni gets personal at Cannes
Franco-Italian director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi relived a painful chapter of her family history in a film presented at Cannes Tuesday in which she cast her real-life mother and ex-lover. Bruni Tedeschi, the elder sister of France's former First Lady Carla Bruni, said her work on "A Castle in Italy" (Un Chateau en Italie) helped heal old wounds. "For me work is a form of ...
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European meat traders need to be licensed-French ministers
* Meat traders should be supervised - French ministers * Call for more EU anti-fraud measures * Fading media focus softens will to reach EU meat label deal By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, May 21 (Reuters) - The European Union should introduce a specific licence for meat traders to prevent frauds such as the one that duped Europeans across the bloc into eating horsemeat labelled as beef ...
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Cannes While Theft Continues to Plague Fest Charity Event Hits the Carlton
In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart recaps the recent string of theft to hit the fest, and previews The Heart Fund's dinner at the Carlton Hotel, taking place on ...
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French military rebuild bridge blown up by Islamic fighters in Mali
TASSIGA, Mali - French soldiers in Mali have rebuilt a bridge which was dynamited in January by fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group. The bridge in the village of Tassiga is close to the Niger border. Fighters from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa destroyed the bridge to stop the arrival of African troops stationed in Niger, who were entering to help French ...
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Mystery of French submarine disasters can never be unveiled
The death, or rather, sudden disappearance of Eridis submarine of the French fleet stirred heated debate in the world. The tragedy occurred early in the morning on March 4, 1970. Despite the fact that the site of the tragedy was found almost immediately, it took specialists almost two months to find the submarine itself. This is not the only mysterious detail about the ...
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Mutual importance of Sino-Franco relations
China and France, two major regional powers in Asia and Europe respectively, have long had steady economic relations. Cultural ties have seen a disparity, however, which is perhaps due to the recently unsteady diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the last few months though, there has been a significant improve in this area.
France was one of the first western powers to recognize the People’s Republic of China as a legitimate country and established an embassy in the country before Great Britain, Germany or the United States. Since 2008, however, France has found itself often at odds with the emerging superpower, especially over its One China policy. Read more
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