André Téchiné

...or festivals more than a train ride from his Paris apartment overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens. I never know how each film will end, Techine explains. When I'm filming, I shoot each scene as if it were a short film. It's only when I...

In this article: Barocco, Francois Truffaut, France, Wild Reeds, Paris, Anne Bronte, Algerian War, Cahiers du cinema, and Armond White

...after a four year gap since he made his previous film. I Don't Kiss was based on a story by Techine 's collaborator Jacques Nolot, with dialogue by Techine, Nolot, and the writer Michel Grisolia. The film is a bleak, melancholic portrait...

In this article: I Don't Kiss, Paris, DVD, and Hamlet

Director Andre Techine loosely based this drama on a widely reported 2004 incident in France in which a non-Jewish young woman said she was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack. The lead character, Jeanne (Emilie Dequenne), is a jobless...

In this article: Emilie Dequenne, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Dardenne brothers, Catherine Deneuve, Rosetta, and France

...fought and fought against it. 'In the end, though, the acting won. 'I kept meeting directors I was interested in - Claude Chabrol, Andre Techine. It's the eyes, you know. You can see if they are going to be transgressive or not by their eyes.

In this article: Daniel Auteuil, Guy Beart, Emmanuelle Beart, Un coeur en hiver, Rufus Sewell, Calvaire, Manon des Sources, Hollywood, and Paris

...had established herself as an international presence. She built her career in the 1980s, notably in Jean-Luc Godard's "Hail Mary," Andre Techine's "Rendez-vous" and Philip Kaufman's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Of the legendary...

In this article: Juliette Binoche, Paris, Jean-Luc Godard, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Romain Duris, Inglourious Basterds, Oscar, Melanie Laurent, Akram Khan, and Michael Haneke

...this week at New York's French Consulate. The drawings depict directors from films she has appeared in over the years, from Andre Techine to Anthony Minghella, who made "The English Patient". "I wanted to get closer to the directors...

In this article: Juliette Binoche, Academy Award, New York, Agence France Presse, The English Patient, All rights reserved, Akram Khan, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Anthony Minghella

...into a larger canvas of cultural dislocation, identity and friendship. In moving between the stories of his three principal actors, Techine establishes both an emotional immediacy and painful confusion that shrewdly captures the intensity of...

In this article: Loin, Europe, Tangier, Morocco, DVD, and Jean Renoir

...new ways to organize and package the titles in their wide-ranging Studio Canal library, Lionsgate sticks its neck out with an Andre Techine collection, offering a survey of four psychological studies by the serious-minded French director.

In this article: Catherine Deneuve, Wild Reeds, I Don't Kiss, The Witnesses, My Favorite Season, Algerian War, DVD, AIDS, and Daniel Auteuil

...we talking about? Language? Nationality? No, it's a question of sensibility, a question no one raises higher than director Andre Techine. In his past films ("Wild Reeds," "Les Voleurs," "Alice et Martin"), what makes his movies French is...

In this article: The Witnesses, AIDS, Julie Depardieu, Bastille Day, and Michel Blanc

...most of its opportunities for high drama, political sermonizing and the jerking of tears. Mr. Techine, working from a screenplay he wrote with Laurent Guyot and Viviane Zingg, refuses to pigeonhole his characters in comfortable niches or...

In this article: The Witnesses, AIDS, Julie Depardieu, Emmanuelle Beart, and Michel Blanc