Palm Springs Light Up with The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Hunt and The Past

At the 25th Palm Springs International Film Festival this year, Felix van Groeningen’s Belgian foreign language Oscar contender The Broken Circle Breakdown won the Fipresci Prize for best foreign language film of the year.

The movie, directed by Felix Van Groeningen is a romantic drama between a romantic atheist and a religious realist. It is an intensive portrait of a relationship enhanced by the enigmatic soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass – the movie is a emotional journey of highest order.

It is an official submission of Belgium to the Oscars 2014 best foreign language film category.

Mads Mikkelsen won the Fipresci Prize for the best actor of the year in a foreign language film for the film The Hunt. The Danish movie, directed by Thomas Vinterberg centers on the life of a lonely teacher – how he struggles over his son’s custody and when things were slowly turning for good, everything gets shattered for an innocent lie.  It is a thought-provoking film, an important film of the year shouldered by the superb acting of Mikkelsen.

Bérénice Bejo won the best actor of the year in a foreign language film for the film The Past. Bejo, famous for her performance in The Artist, won accolades this year also for her mesmerizing acting in the film The Past. Directed by Asghar Farhadi, this Iranian movie is an Oscar submission from the country itself. The plot revolves in the movie as the Iranian man deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland.

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Sankha Ghosh was never born in that 'City of Joy', never was a banker, never watched a Godard, never loved Kafka, never fell for that Solitary Reaper, never danced on a friend’s wedding, never fought for human rights, never had a crush at college and never ever aspired to work on a novel! Never was he as simple as this! #He wishes