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To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

A declaration of love on the big screen

2007•1h 40m•6.5/10
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6.5/10(151)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

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Production

Elzévir Films, StudioCanal, ARTE

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani

Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)

Taraneh Alidoosti

Taraneh Alidoosti

Self

Pegah Ahangarani

Pegah Ahangarani

Vishka Asayesh

Vishka Asayesh

David Cronenberg

David Cronenberg

The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...")

Josh Brolin

Josh Brolin

(segment "World cinema")

George Babluani

George Babluani

The thief (segment "Recrudescence")

Leonid Alexeenko

(segment "Irtebak")

Dàvi Alvarado

Boy (segment "Anna")

Cindy Beckett

Supporting

Caju

Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")

Castanha

Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")

Carl-Erik Calamnius

Ticket Man (segment "La Fonderie")

Luisa Williams

Anna (segment "Anna")

Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli

Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")

João Bénard da Costa

João Bénard da Costa

Pope Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")

Antoine Chappey

Antoine Chappey

Khrouchtchev's secretary (segment "Rencontre unique")

Farini Cheung Yui-Ling

The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To ...")

Casper Christensen

Casper Christensen

(segment "The Last Dating Show")

Audrey Dana

Audrey Dana

Claude Lelouch's mother (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")

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