Paris -- French filmmaker Jean-Louis Bertuccelli has died in Paris at the age of 71 on Thursday. His first film, Ramparts of Clay won France's young directors' Jean Vigo prize and was the country's entry into the Oscar's foreign film category in 1971. It tells the story of striking Tunisian villagers taking on the powerful mine owners, from the perspective of a young girl who is hesitant about standing up to power and bucking tradition. Outgoing Cannes president Gilles Jacob called him a "talent with integrity" in a tweet and cited his film Paulina 1880 as his best. The film,
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- 3/7/2014
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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