Of the piquant picks from Cannes, I’m most salivating for Audiard’s A PROPHET

No matter that it won the grand prize and garnered critical praise.  I’m just high on Jacques Audiard right now.  His films are bursting with the guts of life.  I often think of his 1995 The Beat My Heart Skipped, and not just because hottie star Romain Duris does a virtual strip over the course of the film. 

Beat was a remake of James Toback’s 1978 music-and-crime drama, Fingers, and I got to see the two directors together at the French Institute in 1996 on the occasion of an Audiard retrospective, which included my other faves, A Self-Made Hero and Read My Lips.

This is what auteurs are for.  You love their work and can’t wait to see what they’ll do next. 

rania posted to Director on May 30, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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