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Murder of Samuel Paty. On 16 October 2020, Samuel Paty (French pronunciation: [samɥɛl pati]), a French secondary school teacher, was attacked and killed in Éragny-sur-Oise, [ 1 ] Île-de-France, France, by an Islamic terrorist. The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen Muslim refugee, killed and beheaded Paty ...
The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown 's 2003 novel of the same name. The first in the Robert Langdon film series, the film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno and Paul Bettany.
The Next Three Days is a 2010 American crime thriller film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks.A remake of the 2008 French film Pour elle (Anything for Her) by Fred Cavayé, the plot follows a husband who takes extreme measures to break his wife out of prison after she is wrongfully convicted for the murder of her boss.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 97%, based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A small, sensitive, and moving portrait of a teacher and his students." [5] On Metacritic the film has a score of 87 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [6]
In France, the film sold 580,084 entrées (tickets); [1] by comparison, Tautou's 2001 film Amélie, one of France's most successful films at the box office, sold 8,635,307 tickets. [11] The film, given a limited release to 23 North American movie theaters, grossed $1,011,102 during its theatrical run. The film was a modest success ...
Them (French: Ils) is a 2006 French-Romanian horror film directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud. [3] According to a title card at the beginning of the film, it is "based on real events". Olivia Bonamy plays Clementine, a young teacher who has recently moved from France to a remote but idyllic country house near Bucharest, Romania, with her ...
The Class. (2008 film) The Class (French: Entre les murs, lit. 'Between the walls') is a 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau. The novel is a semi-autobiographical account of Bégaudeau's experiences as a French language and literature teacher in a middle school in ...
Two teenage boys have both been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of their 66-year-old Spanish teacher. Willard Miller, 17, and Jeremy Goodale, 18, admitted to participating in the brutal ...