MICHEL PICCOLI HABEMUS PAPAM In Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam, veteran French actor Michel Piccoli delivers a delightfully underplayed turn as mild-mannered Cardinal Melville, a newly elected pope who has a panic attack just as he is about to appear on the balcony at St Peter’s. His advisors arrange for him to see a renowned psychoanalyst, who also happens to be an atheist, played by Moretti. “The pope escapes from the Vatican and
on the brink of divorce, and when their son befriends a new boy in class the relationship develops into an ominous alliance. Persbrandt’s credits include Jan Troell’s Ever-
lasting Moments and he has been cast in Peter Jackson’s adaptations of The Hobbit. He won a Guldbagge award from the Swedish Film Insti- tute for Everlasting Moments in 2008, having been nominated in 2006 for Simon Staho’s Bang Bang Orangutang. He has also been nominated for three Danish Bodil awards, including one for his performance in In A Better World.
strolls around the city where he finds himself in situations which he had not experienced for a long time,” says Moretti. “His wandering around Rome leads Melville and the audience to ask themselves certain questions. Meanwhile, the psychoanalyst remains a prisoner inside the Vatican where, after initially feeling disoriented, he ends up appearing almost at ease.” Piccoli’s impressive career has included films
with Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz), Jean Renoir (French Cancan), Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Doulos), Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt) and Luis Buñuel (Belle De Jour). He has previous European Film Awards nominations in the European Actor category for Belle Toujours in 2007 and for Je Rentre A La Maison in 2001.
ANDRÉ WILMS LE HAVRE A longtime collaborator of Aki Kaurismäki, France-born André Wilms starred in the Finnish auteur’s 1991 La Vie De Bohème and also appeared in his films Juha and Leningrad Cow- boys Meet Moses. Wilms reunites with the director on Le Havre and is enchanting as the film’s cen- tral character Marcel Marx. An old bohemian and writer, Marx has exiled
himself from Paris to the titular French port town, where he works as a shoe-shiner. When he crosses paths with a young African illegal immi- grant, he decides he must help the boy make his way to London to stop him from being sent home. A strong cast also includes Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. Wilms picked up the European Supporting
André Wilms (left) with Blondin Miguel in Le Havre
Actor Award at the 1992 European Film Awards for La Vie De Bohème.
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