Jean pierre jeunet biography of abraham

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    • Since the beginning of cinema, the French people have been at the forefront of the cinematic landscape. During the silent and early experimental periods, great French auteurs helped revolutionize the medium, shaping the way for films to come.

    As movies evolved, so did France and throughout the different styles and periods maintained a strong role in the international film scene, continuing to transcend the norms and innovate. Perhaps the most well known of all the periods in French cinema is the “French New Wave” during the 1950s and 60s which took the world by storm with its threadbare, emotionally exposed films.

    There were many other highly notable and influential periods in French film. In the earlier decades of the twentieth century, many of the big movies and directors in France were admired and imitated by the best of Hollywood. The country’s cinematic output was not limited to a certain style or genre either, excelling in every different form, including animation and documentary.

    Over the years, while the movies of some countries have gone in and out of the spotlight, France has always managed to stay in the game with its captivating and challenging films that are enjoyed worldwide.

     

    25. Claire Denis (active 1988 – present)

    Best film: Beau Travail

    This powerful voice of modern French film was born in France but spent most of her childhood living in Africa. This unique experience has played a large role in Denis’s typically politically charged films, many of which talk about the themes and effects of colonialism.

    Her debut film, Chocolat (not the one with Johnny Depp), is a semi-autobiographical movie about a French family that lives Cameroon, following their lives and interactions with the Africans. Denis’s breakthrough success, the film was nominated at Cannes and put Denis on the map.

    Over the next few decades, Denis continued to make, as well as teach, film. While not many of them reached as big of a success as her firs

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    Year Title Role Director Notes 1980 La découverteThe young painter Arthur JofféShort 1981 Diva"The Priest" Jean-Jacques BeineixUne pierre, un arbre, un nuageChristine van de Putte Short SamanthaLoulou Victor VicasTV movie Julien Fontanes, magistratFrançois Dupont-Midi TV series (1 Episode) 1982 The Return of Martin GuerreAntoine Daniel Vigne Nominated - César Award for Most Promising ActorTir groupéDaniel Verlot Jean-Claude Missiaen Merlin ou le cours de l'orThe son Arthur Joffé (2) Short Il est trop tard pour rienPierre Novion Short Le village sur la collineRenaud Yves Laumet TV Miniseries 1983 Ghost DanceSalesman Ken McMullenMoon in the GutterFrank Jean-Jacques Beineix (2) Si j'avais mille ansMonique Enckell Le cimetière des voituresYbar Fernando ArrabalTV movie Merci SylvestreBallu Serge KorberTV series (6 Episodes) 1984 Le thé à la mentheRoger Abdelkrim Bahloul NemoMonkey Arnaud Sélignac Mon inconnuePhilippe HarelShort 1985 Partir, revenirA villager Claude LelouchZinaPierre Ken McMullen (2) Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois!!Professor Pichon Jean-Pierre Vergne La bastonMarcel Noblet Jean-Claude Missiaen (2) QuizJérôme George Short Cyril TourneurJean-Pierre Gras Short Via MalaNiklaus Lauretz Tom Toelle TV Miniseries 1986 Betty BlueThe drug dealer Jean-Jacques Beineix (3) Sauve-toi, LolaJean-Pierre Michel DrachSuivez mon regardFrédéric Jean Curtelin Cent francs l'amourTom Jacques Richard Rückfahrt in den TodFred Hans-Jürgen Tögel TV movie 1987 Devil's Paradise [de]Gato Vadim GlownaLa voix du désertJean-Michel RouxShort ChamaneThomas Gilou Short 1988 Frant
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet is that rare breed,

    • Bigbug is all bug and no feature, an obnoxious, puerile work of catastrophic indulgence from Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

    Much has been made of the fact that, over the past few years, Netflix has become something of a safe haven for auteur filmmakers who have felt inhibited by the Hollywood studio system. Serious-minded adult fare has become a thing of the past in the current theatrical landscape, with critically lauded artists seeking the creative freedom and seemingly limitless budgets of major streaming services, who want nothing more than buzz-worthy content and the prestige afforded by such awards magnets as Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Alfonso Cuarón, Jane Campion, and David Fincher. In theory, movie lovers should champion such a marriage, seeing that it allows truly talented creative artists to share their singular visions with the world as a whole, profits be damned. But what most seem to forget is that for every The Irishman and Roma — major efforts regardless of your opinion on their success — we get something like Bigbug, the latest effort from French provocateur Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a filmmaker who hasn’t been relevant for almost two decades, and for good reason if his latest proves anything.

    Specializing in surrealistic flights of fancy that traffic in genres as varied as horror to romance to science fiction to YA, Jeunet has always valued a sort of whimsical visual busyness above all else. His most successful films, Amélie and A Very Long Engagement among them, worked to the degree that they did because they were anchored by emotionally complex leads who exhibited something resembling genuine human behavior. When left to his own singular devices, we were given the likes of The City of Lost Children and Micmacs, soulless Rube Goldberg-esque efforts that existed solely to showcase elaborate visual design. That’s not to say these films are without their champions; truth be told and to their credit, they certainly didn’t look like the

    LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM FOUR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS: Abraham Lincoln (Part I)

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    No predetermined path leads to the top of political leadership. In fact, there are no universal laws of leadership. There is no single magic key that can open the door to numerous victories in the eternal competition of leaders, heads of state, politicians, etc.

    However, the analysis of leadership in a certain historical context allows us to see some common features and shed light on the very nature of this concept. It was exactly what Doris Kearns Goodwin, the author of Leadership in Turbulent Times. Lessons from the Presidents (Vivat, 2021), did.

    Doris – Pulitzer Prize-winning, American historian,  analyzed the decisions that allowed four American presidents (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson) to end wars, establish a fairer socio-economic system, overcome the oligarchy of American society and make a huge contribution to the reputation as the leader of an entire country. These decisions and strategies are relevant in terms of the challenges, which the global world faces today.

    Following the chronology of the book, let’s start with the five so-called “whales of leadership” of the 16th President of America and the national hero of the American people, Abraham Lincoln. The politician who, according to the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a personality that fully met the requirements of his time.

    Abraham Lincoln went through relentless poverty, suffered a devastating blow to his public reputation and his own dignity, which led to an almost suicidal depression. He became president during a period of ruin in American history.

    The ideal and the example of a leader and a politician for Lincoln was George Washington. Already as president, solving complex state problems, Lincoln adhered to a personal credo: to take on the solution of situations larger than those that once had to be solved by W