Patience (after Sebald)

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Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR ) reports that Perry was drawn to Finland Middle School on Friday after seeing a TV report about teacher Mary Mulvany starting a foundation to raise scholarship money to cover fees.

The most successful French-language film ever made, Intouchables, has turned Omar Sy into an international starIntouchables (known as Untouchable in the UK) is the most successful French-language film ever made. And just as the previous title-holder, Amélie, turned Audrey Tautou into an international star, so Intouchables is having the same effect on Omar Sy. But where Tautou, gamine and Gallic, belongs to a highly bankable tradition, Sy is a one-off, at least for now. He's the country's first black superstar.The fourth of eight children raised in the banlieue by Senegalese Mauritian parents, the 35-year-old is France's darling: as well as winning best actor at the 2011 Césars, he was voted the nation's most popular person in a poll for Le Journal du Dimanche. A hefty share of the $269m raked in by Intouchables must be attributable to his smile.It helps that there is some overlap between Sy's rags-to-riches story and the plot of his breakthrough film. In Intouchables, a buddy movie in which the buddies cross the divides of age, class, race and mobility, Sy plays a street tough who lands a job caring for a paraplegic billionaire. In the process, he transforms not only his own prospects but the lives of a supporting cast of upper-class stiffs.Sy recently moved to Los Angeles, though he insists he will continue to pay taxes in France, perhaps wary of following too closely in Gérard Depardieu's footsteps. He now has a slate of US movies lined up, including superhero blockbuster X-Men: Days Of Future Past, in which he will star alongside Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence.DramaFranceEuropeRyan Gilbeyguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

This year's Cannes film festival showcased a crop of French films that are well worth looking out for when hit the UKLovers of French cinema have plenty to look forward to. At the Cannes film festival we were treated to an intensely French spectacle, certain to be released in British cinemas very soon: Jeune Et Jolie, or Young And Beautiful, by François Ozon, the story of a young woman's sexual awakening. Perhaps only French cinema could get away with this trope, but the performance by newcomer Marine Vacth is tremendous, and the cameo by Charlotte Rampling is enjoyably bizarre.Marion Cotillard is one of the best actors in the world; her face conveys emotions and thoughts with miraculous clarity and sympathy. This year, she is starring in The Immigrant , the new film from American auteur James Gray, which is sure to be a draw for all those who love this great French performer. Another actor who is emerging as one of France's biggest stars is Bérénice Béjo, who was in Cannes with Le Passé (The Past), a brilliant film by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi; this, too, is certain to arrive in the UK before long. She plays Marie, a woman who works in a Paris pharmacy, harassed and hassled by life and by her romantic situation. Marie is trying to finalise her divorce from an Iranian husband, who has arrived in Paris to sort out the paperwork, while at the same time embarking on a relationship with a man who has emotional burdens of his own. Béjo's performance is a marvel. UK cinemagoers may know her as the silent movie star in The Artist. Now she confirms her talents as a grown-up, intelligent presence on the screen. France and the French will be a potent force in cinemas this year.Cannes 2013Cannes film festivalFestivalsFranceEuropeDramaMarion CotillardBérénice BejoAsghar FarhadiPeter Bradshawguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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