Read More: Academy Award-Winner Michel Hazanavicius's 5 Tips for Filmmakers Academy Award-winning French director Michel Hazanavicius was chosen by the Colcoa French Film Festival in Los Angeles for its Focus on a Filmmaker program this year. Besides revisiting the film that launch his international career, "OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies," the festival hosted the L.A. premiere of the filmmaker's latest work "The Search," which premiered in competition at last year's Cannes Film Festival. Based on Fred Zinnemann's classic film of the same name, Hazanavicius's update is set during he second Chechen war of 1999 and stars Berenice Bejo and Annette Bening. The film is an epic drama that offers a look into the devastation of war through the eyes of an orphan child. A big departure from Hazanavicius most famous film, Best Picture Oscar-winner "The Artist," the humanistic drama showcases a more political and serious tone than his previous.
- 4/29/2015
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Indiewire
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