Topic: Isabel Coixet

A new documentary which premiered Tuesday at a film festival in Spain graphically depicts the dramatic dessication of the Aral Sea in Central Asia."Aral, the Lost Sea," combines archive footage from the Soviet era with present-day images to show how the ...
Spain has built a giant robot baby and unleashed it on millions of unsuspecting visitors to the 2010 Expo in Shanghai, China. It was designed by Spanish film director Isabel Coixet, whose films include "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo. Which is ...
A gripping French prison drama led the pack of contenders for Cannes' coveted Palme d'Or as the Riviera's 12-day film frenzy headed into its finale Saturday.Tokyo's neon lights provide the setting for the last of 20 films competing ...

Lush images, audience walk-outs as Cannes winds up

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The neon-lit streets of Tokyo and the corridors of the Louvre museum in Paris provide the setting for a trio of stylized East-meets-West films that caused audience walk-outs as the Cannes festival ended.Gaspar Noe's " Enter the Void ...
Isabel Coixet explores her love of Japan in Cannes entry 'Map of the Sounds of Tokyo'Isabel Coixet's new film, " Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," has three stars actors Rinko Kikuchi and Sergi Lopez, and the Japanese city itself, a ...

Nothing like an old fool in Elegy

says Dennis Hopper's poet to Ben Kingsley's wracked academic lion in this tale of older men falling for much younger women, which is adapted by Nicholas Meyer from Philip Roth's short novel, The Dying Animal. She is the student ...

A few too many views of Paris

Gurinder Chadha contributes a touching story about a young man who pesters women falling for a Muslim girl in a hijab, while Isabel Coixet offers a moving tale about a man on the point of asking his wife for a divorce when ...