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BARBARA<\/h2>\nBARBARA<\/h2>\n| 2018 – 98′ – Drama, Biopic, Music & Dance, Films About Cinema. Jeanne Balibar won the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Actress for her role as Brigitte, an actress playing real-life chanteuse Barbara, who remains a beloved musical icon in France some 20 years after her death. Brigitte plies her craft, channeling the late singer for the film\u2019s obsessed director\u2026 who is played by, none other than, Mathieu Amalric, this film\u2019s real-life director. Add to the mix the fact that Balibar and Amalric have a long professional and personal history and you begin to peel away the many layers of this reflexive cinematic onion. This is not your typical biopic! Rather than attempting to fabricate a pat narrative based on the singer\u2019s life, Amalric prefers to orchestrate a hypnotic pastiche of overlapping gestures, voices and faces. The result is a delicate, intelligent, moving paean to music, cinema and the art-making process, filled with tenderness \u2014 indeed love \u2014 for both its eponymous subject and its radiant leading lady. No wonder the film was honored with a special Poetry of Cinema Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n BARBARA | 2018 – 98′ – Drama, Biopic, Music & Dance, Films About Cinema. Written by:\u00a0Mathieu Amalric,\u00a0Philippe Di Folco. Directed by:\u00a0Mathieu Amalric. Starring:\u00a0Jeanne Balibar,\u00a0Mathieu Amalric,\u00a0Vincent Peirani,\u00a0Aurore Cl\u00e9ment, Gr\u00e9goire Colin, Fanny Imber, Pierre Michon, Fanny Peirani. Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2017 (Un Certain Regard). Official Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2018. In French with English subtitles. A Gaumont\u00a0release. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,40,11,122,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-biopic","category-drama","category-films-about-cinema","category-music-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21376,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21371\/revisions\/21376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by:\u00a0Mathieu Amalric,\u00a0Philippe Di Folco.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Mathieu Amalric.
\nStarring:\u00a0Jeanne Balibar,\u00a0Mathieu Amalric,\u00a0Vincent Peirani,\u00a0Aurore Cl\u00e9ment, Gr\u00e9goire Colin, Fanny Imber, Pierre Michon, Fanny Peirani.
\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2017 (Un Certain Regard).
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2018<\/strong>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Gaumont\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"