Philippe falardeau biography of albert
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Country: Belgium
Year: 2012
Duration: 82'
There are some people for whom religion is a daily commitment to their own community. Elisabeth is one of these people, a woman of solid faith, always ready to help others and actively spreading the Catholic message, in part through her radio program. When she meets Father Achille, Elisabeth’s certainties are rock-solid, but slowly but surely the aura of positivism that surrounds her life begins to crack, uncovering lies and ambiguities. Until a tragic epilogue undermines her faith in the church and her colleagues.
Vincent Lannoo
Vincent Lannoo (Brussels, Belgium, 1970) studied theater before enrolling at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Brussels. He has made video clips and commercials and has also made various shorts, including J’adore le cinéma (1998), which was selected for the Festival international du court métrage in Clermont-Ferrand and won the Golden Iris at the Montreal World Film Festival. In 2001 he directed the fake documentary Strass, following the rules of Von Trier’s Dogma. In 2010 he competed at the Torino Film Festival with Vampires, which participated at many international festivals, winning best film, the Audience Award and best screenplay at the Málaga Internationa
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‘Monsieur Lazhar’ find comfort in crisis
While I was an exchange student in England, I made friends with two Algerian graduate students and through them became aware of the personal side of France’s Algerian problem, something that I had been abstractly exposed to as an undergrad when my class read Albert Camus’ 1942 novel “The Stranger” (“L’Estranger”). Philippe Falardeau’s Academy Award-nominated film “Monsieur Lazhar” illustrates an intimate aspect of the Algeria and immigration and living after someone familiar has died, contrasting the viewpoints of children and adults.
The movie about an Algerian immigrant substitute teacher in a Montreal grade school was adapted from a play (by Evelyne de la Cheneliere) and won several 2011 Genie Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Fellag), Best Supporting Actress (Nélisse) and Best Adapted Screenplay.
In 1942, Algeria was still under French rule. The French had invaded and conquered Algeria in 1830. The violence and disease would cause a significant decline in the Algerian population over the next four decades but 50,000 French people would immigrate there. One wonders how the Arabs, Christian or Muslim, would interpret Camus’ novel. Surprise at the
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