VARIOUS: Best Foreign film nominations for this years Oscar film award ceremonies

Record ID: 343013

  • Title: VARIOUS: Best Foreign film nominations for this years Oscar film award ceremonies
  • Date: 30th March 2000
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) PAUL MORRISON, DIRECTOR OF THE WELSH ENTRY, "SOLOMON AND GAENOR," SAYING: "Well there's huge excitement about the film in Wales. And understandably because there are so few feature films made in Wales. There's been a lot of excitement, a lot of identification, and a lot of people will be watch
  • Embargoed: 14th April 2000 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: While Pedro Almodovar and his "All About My Mother" may be receiving the lion's share of attention among the pictures nominated for best foreign language film, Spain faces keen competition from the official entries of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France and Nepal.
    Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" had been an early favourite in the foreign language film category, but its story of female bonding told via a transsexual prostitute, lesbian actress and HIV-infected nun, may be prove too edgy for older Academy voters.
    Director Regis Wargnier's French language film, "East-West," about French expatriates living in the Soviet Union and starring Catherine Deneuve, has won praise following special Academy screenings in Los Angeles.It also deals with the suppression of individual freedom, which should ring true with American audiences, and Wargnier is no stranger to the foreign film Oscar having won for 1993's "Indochine."
    Other films include British director Paul Morrison's "Solomon and Gaenor," unique for its story melding characters who variously speak English, Welsh and Hebrew.Set in the Welsh Valleys around 1911, the film concerns star-crossed lovers Gaenor, who comes from a chapel-going family, and Solomon, whose parents are orthodox Jews who run a pawnshop.
    "Solomon and Gaenor" is the UK's second Academy Award nomination in the foreign language category.It's previously nominated film was 1993's "Hed Wyn."
    "Under the Sun," while the official Swedish entry, was directed by British-born Colin Nutley.The film centers on a triangular love story in the Swedish countryside in 1956.It is Sweden's twelfth nomination.
    "Caravan" takes the prize for having been shot at the highest altitude.The official Nepalese entry takes place in the northwester Himalayas and involves Tinle, a charismatic old chieftain whose eldest son has just died.Holding young Karma responsible for the death, he refuses to allow him to lead a yak Caravan which leads to a pursuit by the elder man of the young upstart.The film, directed by Eric Valli, is Nepal's first Academy Award nomination.
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