Topic: Philippe Claudel

Wander Years: Philippe Claudel's Brodeck

Washington City Paper - 949 days ago
Brodeck, by French novelist and filmmaker Philippe Claudel, is a story about a provincial village that echoes a universal and eternal theme-the plight of the outsider. Claudel's insightful prose, translated gracefully by John Cullen, renders the tale both literary and deeply ...

Who gets your vote for the Guardian First Film award?

guardian.co.uk - 1220 days ago
The film must be a feature-length fiction (documentaries don't count), have been given an official UK cinema release between October 1 2007 and September 30 2008 (if it's just had film festival screenings it won't qualify), and the director ...

I've Loved You So Long

guardian.co.uk - 1223 days ago
The directorial debut of French novelist Philippe Claudel, I've Loved You So Long, gives Kristin Scott Thomas her finest role to date as the sallow, withdrawn Juliette Fontaine, an Anglo-French woman in her forties. We first see her waiting in an ...