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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Louis Malle, Roman Polanski, François Truffaut, Luc Besson, Bertrand Blier, Bertrand Tavernier, Patrice Chéreau, Alain Resnais, Guillaume Canet, Andrzej Wajda, Jacques Audiard, Patrice Leconte, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Denys Arcand, André Téchiné, Ettore Scola, Joseph Losey, Claude Zidi, Abdellatif Kechiche, Tonie Marshall, Michel Deville, Alain Corneau, Claude Sautet, Alain Cavalier, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Christian de Chalonge, Dominik Moll. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Roman Polanski (né Raymond Roman Liebling le 18 août 1933 à Paris) est un comédien, metteur en scène de théâtre et d'opéra, producteur, scénariste, réalisateur de cinéma puis un auteur franco-polonais. Il a notamment réalisé Répulsion, Cul de sac, Le Bal des vampires, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Le Locataire et Le Pianiste. Roman Polanski est né Raymond Roman Liebling le 18 août 1933 à Paris, d'un père peintre et juif polonais, Ryszard Liebling, et d'une mère d'origine russe, Katz Bula Liebling. Roman Polanski vit à Paris jusqu'à l'âge de quatre ans. Il passe ensuite son enfance en Pologne avec sa demi-sœur Anette. Après l'invasion de l'ouest de la Pologne par les troupes allemandes en septembre 1939, il vit dans le ghetto de Cracovie et évite la déportation, contrairement à ses parents et à sa sœur. Sa mère meurt à Auschwitz. Échappé du ghetto, il se réfugie à la campagne chez des fermiers avant de revenir à Cracovie où, devenu vagabond, il détourne la vigilance allemande et arrive à survivre grâce à l'entraide souterraine avec des habitants et d'autres enfants, et grâce au marché noir. Il a alors 10 ans. Il ne revoit son père qu'après la guerre, lors de son retour du camp de Mauthausen. La relation est conflic...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Roman Polanski, Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Truffaut, Luc Besson, Roger Vadim, Christopher Lambert, Marcel L'herbier, Léonce Perret, Bernard Natan, Philippe de Rothschild, Frank Verpillat, Frédéric Mitterrand, Pierre Braunberger, Alain Poiré, Jacques Natteau, Emmanuel Benbihy, Marc Dorcel, Gérard Lebovici, Emil-Edwin Reinert, Roland Joffé, Claude Berri, Humbert Balsan, Agnès B., René Clair, Cino Del Duca, Yves Mirande, Léon Poirier, Alexander Salkind, Christian Fechner, Henri Diamant-Berger, Roger Leenhardt, Robert and Raymond Hakim, Régis Wargnier, Albina Du Boisrouvray, Patrick Braoudé, Nicole Stéphane, François Ravidat, Marin Karmitz, Nicolas Chartier, Yves Robert, Serge Silberman, Anatole Dauman, Gérard Jugnot, Alain Sarde, Gael Aymon, Albert Barillé, Xavier Giannoli, Daniel Tinayre, Jean-François Richet, Didier Haudepin, Nadine Trintignant, Raymond Borderie, Christian Volckman, Danièle Delorme, Christophe Delord, Bartabas, René Féret, Pierre Couderc, André S. Labarthe, Jean Tourane, Bertrand Van Effenterre, Alain Terzian, André Hugon, Emmanuel Itier, Patrick Grandperret, Albert Capellani, Jean-François Davy, Serge Roullet, Jean Choux, Georges Cravenne, Alexandre Mnouchkine, Ralph Baum, Jean-Pierre Marois, Christophe Barratier, Raymond Danon, Bénédicte Couvreur, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Jean-Pierre Rassam, Georges de Beauregard, Raoul Ploquin, Alain Mamou-Mani, Agnès Delahaie, Robert Dorfmann, Georges Dancigers, Patrice Ledoux, Jérôme Salle. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 306. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Roman Raymond Polanski (Polish: , IPA: ; born 18 August 1933) is a French-born and resident Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25428 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Luc Besson, Marius et Jeannette, Cédric Klapisch, le Fabuleux Destin D'amélie Poulain, Patrice Chéreau, Alain Resnais, Agnès Jaoui, Josiane Balasko, Francis Veber, La Haine, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, American Beauty, Pascale Ferran, Michael Haneke, Les Choristes, Jeanne D'arc (Film, 1999), Les Invasions Barbares, Les Triplettes de Belleville, à L'origine, Amen., Danièle Thompson, de Battre Mon Cœur S'est Arrêté, François Ozon, Ne le Dis à Personne, Tout Sur Ma Mère, Ridicule, Va, Vis et Deviens, Bamako, Grégori Dérangère, Philippe Garrel, Rachid Bouchareb, Billy Elliot, Christopher Thompson, le Goût Des Autres, La Vie Rêvée Des Anges, Prix Du Public Mondial, Damien Jouillerot, Jalil Lespert, L'enfant, le Fils (Film, 2002), Julie Bertucelli, Demain on Déménage. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Luc Besson est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste français, né le 18 mars 1959 à Paris (France). En tant que réalisateur, il s'est démarqué avec les films Le Grand Bleu, Nikita, Léon, Le Cinquième Élément et Jeanne d'Arc. En tant que producteur, il est surtout connu pour la série des films Taxi. C'est la 238 fortune de France en 2009, avec 103 millions d'euros. Luc Besson et Bridget Fonda.Luc Besson passe son enfance auprès de ses parents, instructeurs de plongée sous-marine au Club Méditerranée, entre la Grèce et l'ex-Yougoslavie. Un accident l'empêche de poursuivre la plongée à haut niveau. Il commence dans le cinéma en multipliant les postes d'assistant réalisateur en France et aux États-Unis, avant de mettre en scène son premier long métrage, un film de de science-fiction coécrit avec Pierre Jolivet qui évoque la survie d'êtres humains dans un monde post-apocalyptique. Le Dernier Combat, ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Roman Polanski, François Truffaut, Luc Besson, Andrzej Wajda, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Alain Resnais, Joseph Losey, André Téchiné, Denys Arcand, Patrice Chéreau, Guillaume Canet, Bertrand Tavernier, Ettore Scola, Patrice Leconte, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Kechiche, Jean-François Richet, Tonie Marshall, Alain Corneau, Dominik Moll, Alain Cavalier. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 124. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Roman Polanski (Polish: , Polish pronunciation: ; born 1933) is a French-born and resident Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, and in 2002 received the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist. He has also been the recipient of two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe and the Palme d'Or. He left the People's Republic of Poland in 1961 to live in France for several years, then moved to Britain, where he collaborated with Gérard Brach on three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, immediately cementing his burgeoning directing status with the 1968 groundbreaking Academy Award winning horror film Rosemary's Baby. In 1969, Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered while staying at the Polanski's Benedict Canyon home above Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family. Following Tate's death, Polanski returned to Europe and spent much of his time in Paris and Gstaad, but did not make another film until he filmed Macbeth (1971) in England. The following year...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25428 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company. He has been involved with over 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and/or producer, including the Transporter series. Besson was born in Paris to parents who were both Club Med scuba diving instructors. This had a profound influence on his childhood as Besson planned on becoming a marine biologist. He spent much of his youth traveling with his parents to tourist resorts in Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece. The family returned to France when Besson was 10. His parents promptly divorced and were remarried to other people. "Here there is two families, and I am the only bad souvenir of something that doesn't work", he said in the International Herald Tribune. "And if I disappear, then everything is perfect. The rage to exist comes from here. I have to do something! Otherwise I am going to die." At the age of 17 he had a diving accident which left him temporarily unable to dive. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by Thomson Gale on November 13, 2005. The length of the article is 556 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "La bestia".(Luc Besson)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 13, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 1515Page: 84(1)

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Europacorp, Kamikaze, Virginie Silla. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Luc Besson est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste français, né le 18 mars 1959 à Paris (France). En tant que réalisateur, il s'est démarqué avec les films Le Grand Bleu, Nikita, Léon, Le Cinquième Élément et Jeanne d'Arc. En tant que producteur, il est surtout connu pour la série des films Taxi. C'est la 238 fortune de France en 2009, avec 103 millions d'euros. Luc Besson et Bridget Fonda.Luc Besson passe son enfance auprès de ses parents, instructeurs de plongée sous-marine au Club Méditerranée, entre la Grèce et l'ex-Yougoslavie. Un accident l'empêche de poursuivre la plongée à haut niveau. Il commence dans le cinéma en multipliant les postes d'assistant réalisateur en France et aux États-Unis, avant de mettre en scène son premier long métrage, un film de de science-fiction coécrit avec Pierre Jolivet qui évoque la survie d'êtres humains dans un monde post-apocalyptique. Le Dernier Combat, tourné en CinémaScope et en noir et blanc, lui vaut d'être distingué au Festival d'Avoriaz en 1983 et lui permet de signer un contrat avec la Gaumont pour réaliser deux ans plus tard , interprété notamment par Isabelle Adjani et Christophe Lambert. Récompensé par 3 Césars, ce film impose sa griffe visuelle et donne à voir un univers graphiquement sophistiqué, très proche de la bande-dessinée et du vidéoclip que certains identifient comme le Cinema du look (article en anglais). Fort de ce succès, il entreprend la réalisation d'une œuvre qui lui tient à cœur : Le Grand Bleu. Mal reçue au Festival de Cannes 1988, elle devient un phénomène de société faisant 10 millions d'entrées et devenant l'objet de nombreuses analyses qui tentent d'e...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Arthur's backyard looked like an ordinary garden&#8212until he discovered the Minimoys and their vast world where fierce battles are fought, ferocious monsters are faced, and one evil wizard, Maltazard the Cursed, rules from his terrifying stronghold: Necropolis, the forbidden city.

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D Miller
After buying the first book we had to buy the next in the series. It was also in wonderful shape and my daughter loved reading it too.
If you have a kid that likes to read and he or she is 8 years old to maybe 13, they will enjoy these books!

Fun, Fast Read!
This sequel to Arthur and the Minimoys is still a Honey I Shrunk the Kids meets The Secret of Nimh with a smidge of Indiana Jones conglomeration, and I rather like that about it.In this book, we pick up right where the first one left off and we get answers to all the questions left unanswered before -- Will they make it to the Forbidden City? Will they be able to stop the evil M, the cursed? Will Arthur get the treasure back before the cruel Mr. Davido boots his grandma out of her house? We also find out just how vile Maltazard is, we get a look at the Necropolis and of course, the lair of the evil villain.The author is also still parrelling the plight of the Grandmother and Mr. Davido with that of Princess Selenia and her people against M.These are the stark good vs. evil kind of stories where you just KNOW the good guys are going to win in the end...but you still find yourself watching because you HAVE to know HOW they do it and how it all plays out in the end.

In the second half we find Arthur married to the princess...a bit surprising since he's ten...but ok.We also get to meet Arthur's parents who are, well, more interested in finding the rubies than the are in finding their son.In fact, other than voicing their concern they don't seem to care at all but that does seem to be the pattern in the child hero/adventure type stories...the parents are either absent (dead) or indifferent (caring more about stuff or work than about their children).This is a convenient plot device which frees the child to be bolder and more heroic than they might otherwise be allowed to, but with suspension of disbelief, readers can disconnect from what is illogical with regards to a ten year old saving the world (Indiana Jones style) and just enjoy the story for what it is!

Overall...this isn't great literature; it's just plain old fun reading.The story is easy to follow, the good guys are all good (and likeable even) the bad guys are all totally evil and the parallel story line between the "real" world (the M, the Cursed and Mr. Davido) and the world of the Minimoys adds a nice second layer to the story.This book would make nice light reading for a couple of nights for readers aged 8-12...nothing too taxing, but highly entertaining for a few hours!I give it four stars.

Decent, but Lukewarm Follow-Up
In the sequel to Arthur and the Minimoys, Arthur, Princess Selenia and Prince Beta brave Necropolis, The Forbidden City. Arthur is searching for a lost treasure that will save his family's home, and Selenia and Beta seek the evildoer who threatens their entire people.

In Necropolis, a seedy market leads to a seedier palace, in which danger and fear are the norm. Imprisoned by Maltazard the Cursed, the three adventurers see little hope for escape. What they find in the prison and deeper in the palace will change everything. Hope MUST be found, or all the Minimoys will be doomed.

Although this installment carries the spirit and creativity of the first, it seems to lose some of the promised gusto. Things seem to come together a little too easy at times (a toy race car shows up right when and where it is needed), and a little too stretched at others (why did Arthur's grandmother and parents not to more to search for him while he was missing?).

The story is well crafted, but it is missing that intangible something that a truly great story possesses. It's one of those qualities that is hard to describe, yet easy to recognize. Perhaps it is spirit, or cultural differences, or perhaps it is something else altogether.

This is a decent follow-up to the first book, but in the end, some readers might leave with a lukewarm feeling.

Reviewed by Christina Wantz Fixemer
9/15/2006

3½-BALLOONS for WUAT Kids!; 4-STARS for Amazon.com

Better than the first and keeps on going...
Wow...

I use to say that writing in books don't do justice to living through events. But in this book I find I want to live these words and in this world. Realationships in this world make more sense they are easier. Kissing and Love this man has these themes down to a "T". Perfect from cover to cover. Just The right amount of humor. I couldn't put it down and I tried. I am so impressed with the writing that I'm learning french in order to reread the first two books and get the second two before they make it to the us translation. ... Read more

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8-Year Old Enjoying It
My 8-year old daughter (3rd grade), an avid reader, is enjoying this book.She has also seen the movie several times.

Enticing
This book had action, a little romance, fun, humor, family ties, realisticism, and EVERYTHING you could ever want in a book. A definite 5 star!

awesome!
this book was cool i still haven't finished it! i love the battle scenes and the minimoy parts. the movie is going to come out soon so i can't wait to see it in theatres! you better buy this book or you'll regret it once you see the movie1 ... Read more

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Enjoy the dazzling adventures of film director Luc Besson's Arthur and the Minimoys and Arthur and the Forbidden City together for the first time. Join Arthur as he embarks on a journey to the land of the Minimoys, a tribe of people less than one inch tall, to find his missing grandfather and a stolen treasure. Arthur joins two Minimoy friends on a trip to the forbidden city of Necropolis, where they battle the evil wizard Maltazard.

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This is as good as it gets in audio books
Jim Dale is the most brilliant audio book performer in the world.He is as wonderful here as on the Harry Potter audios.I enjoyed this story immensely.The three main characters - Arthur, Selenia, and Beta - are all engaging.The story has an endearing sweetness.I just loved this and would very highly recommend it. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on August 31, 2008. The length of the article is 631 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Besson, el implacable.
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 31, 2008
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: 1661Page: 69(1)

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