Stars on the decline

Memorable year of the French cinema, 2011 will not have benefitted everyone. And some dinosaurs took some for their rank. One cannot hope any more on the large old ones to hold the shop. They had the chart, like one says of a face which makes authority, which is tendency, and here that they do not have any more assets.

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• The realizers brought audacity

Take Gerard Jugnot. Since it turned calamitous the Rose and black, in 2009, it spins straight towards the Bermuda Triangle. With ridiculously supported roles (the red Inn, the New War of the buttons), that which was with its ease in the Chorus-singers or Mr Batignole, that it carried out, seems at light-years to regain its bronzing of old bankable.

Ruinous projects

Even report for Christian Clavier and her film One does not choose his family, a commercial failure shingling. Their buddy Thierry Lhermitte? Who will assemble a film on his name? In the family Splendid, Michel Blanc and Josiane Balasko had the nose to restore the course. In the scenario writers, Jean-Jacques Annaud is KB with two ambitious projects - Its Minor majesty and the Black gold - which and the other appeared ruinous one. Governed Wargnier? Its entry with the Academy of the fine arts shines as a nice rattle but does not erase its subliminal Straight line, left in 2011, which turns the back on the golden age of Indo-China. Jean-Jacques Beineix? Even its cartoon, the Business of the century, passed unperceived. The last for the road? Let us be allocated to the actors: if it does not make better choices for its roles, Franck Dubosc, star fragile of Camp-site, can fold up his tent.