Spontaneous composition, as opposed to free improvisation, finds a group of musicians working towards creating some kind of recognizable construct; sometimes, in fact, as in the case of the title ...

EXCLUSIVE: A controversial organization with tenuous ties to the United Nations -- and which counts Kenyan relatives of Barack Obama among its good-will ambassadors -- is supplying its officials and ...

Set in 1942-43 during the German Occupation of France, Bertrand Tavernier's "Laissez-Passer" should have been an instructive slice of history and a wonderful valentine to the French film industry ...

17/09/2002 - We meet the French director who is in Rome to present Laissez-passer, a film about the Nazi occupation of Paris and to talk about the films of those years Bertrand Tavernier is an ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: indieWIRE originally published this review in February 2002 as part of our Berlin coverage. The film is currently playing at the 40th NYFF and Empire Pictures is opening the film ...