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French president Emmanuel Macron is set to kick off a three-day trip to Beijing this week, a high-stakes diplomatic mission that will be a delicate balancing act between urging Chinese leader Xi Jinping to alter his stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and maintaining France’s trade priorities. The French delegation accompanying Macron will include dozens of people spread across two jetliners touching down in Beijing on Wednesday — and the French film industry will be among the constituencies represented in the group.

Veteran filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud will travel with Macron and attend various official functions, including the China-France state dinner hosted by Xi Jinping in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Thursday evening. During the trip, Annaud will also be promoting his most recent film, the 2022 disaster epic Notre-Dame on Fire, which is getting a nationwide China release on Friday. It will be the first French film...

While the Academy has accepted 81 submissions for the foreign language Oscar, it rejected the initial would-be entry for China.  The country's first swing was for China Film Co's big-budget Mongolian wilderness adventure "Wolf Totem" (Columbia Pictures, September 11), the 13th feature from French director Jean-Jacques Annaud ("Quest for Fire"), who shot in Mandarin and Mongolian. In 1976, Annaud won the foreign Oscar for France for Africa-set "Black and White in Color," which brought him as a young man to Cameroon, so he understood "Wolf Totem," which is based on a 2004 bestseller by Jiang Rong, about city dwellers discovering a strange landscape. In the film two young Beijing students are sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia.  Read More: How Jean-Jacques Annaud Made Mongolian Survival Tale 'Wolf Totem' (Exclusive Video) China had reason to be confident in their choice, which...

Following its 2015 choice, Philippe Muyl’s The Nightingale, China has once again entered a film by a French director for best foreign language film

For the second year running, China has nominated a film by a French director as its official submission for the best foreign language film Academy award. Wolf Totem, adapted from the popular 2004 novel by Lu Jiamin (writing pseudonymously as Jiang Rong), was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, and follows The Nightingale, directed by Philippe Muyl, which was China’s official entry for the 2015 race.

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Wolf Totem (Le Dernier Loup) Columbia Pictures Reviewed by Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya. Grade: B+ Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Screenwriters: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alain Godard, John Collee, Lu Wei Based on: Wolf Totem by Lu Jiamin (pseudonym: Jiang Rong) Cast: Feng Shaofeng, Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Basen Zhabu, Shawn Dou Yin Zhusheng, Yin Zhusheng Release date: September 11, 2015 Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Wolf Totem is a Chinese/French action-adventure film that takes viewers into the remote land of Inner Mongolia, during the Cultural Revolution of 1967. Based on a novel by the same name Wolf Totem shows a clash of cultures between the ethnic Mongolian nomads and the Han Chinese farmers in the area. [ Read More ]

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Wolf Totem (Le Dernier Loup) Columbia Pictures Reviewed by Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya. Grade: B+ Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Screenwriters: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alain Godard, John Collee, Lu Wei Based on: Wolf Totem by Lu Jiamin (pseudonym: Jiang Rong) Cast: Feng Shaofeng, Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Basen Zhabu, Shawn Dou Yin Zhusheng, Yin Zhusheng Release date: September 11, 2015 Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Wolf Totem is a Chinese/French action-adventure film that takes viewers into the remote land of Inner Mongolia, during the Cultural Revolution of 1967. Based on a novel by the same name Wolf Totem shows a clash of cultures between the ethnic Mongolian nomads and the Han Chinese farmers in  [ Read More ]

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Although it’s not yet been officially announced, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s new film Wolf Totem is expected to be China’s submission for this year’s foreign language Academy Award. Based on the semi-autobiographical, best-selling novel by Lu Jiamin, writing under the pseudonym Jiang Rong, the film tells of a Chinese student who travels to Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution to live among the nomadic herdsman and there becomes fascinated with the wolves that roam the steppes. A Chinese-French coproduction that employs both the Mandarin and Mongolian languages, the film bowed in China on Feb. 19, during the Chinese New

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If you are a fan of wolves French director Jean-Jacques Annaud's latest film, Wolf Totem, may just be up your alley. It will screen at the Efm in Berlin before it opens in his native France on February 25th. You can watch the trailer below. Oscar-winning director Jean-Jacques Annaud's epic film adaptation of Jiang Rong's best-selling novel follows a student being sent to Inner Mongolia at the height of the Cultural Revolution and forges a bond with the wolves.Annaud brought on Avatar and Titanic composer James Horner to create the score. It all has this Chinese/French Dances With Wolves/The Grey sort of vibe to it. ...

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For months now, rumors have been circulating (well…mostly overseas) about the jointly produced Franco-Chinese film, “Wolf Totem.” One of the biggest rumors was that legendary Hollywood composer James Horner would lend his talents to the film. That has now been confirmed. Based on Chinese novelist Jiang Rong’s semi-autobiographical 2004 novel, “Wolf Totem” tells the story of a young student, Chen Zhen (played by Shaofeng Feng), dispatched from Beijing to rural Mongolia with the task of educating herders. The film adaptation is directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, the helmer behind “Seven Years in Tibet,” “Enemy At the Gates,” and about ten other films since 1976. Annaud recently had the following to say to James Horner Film Music about the project: "I feel proud, so proud for the film. I was thrilled when I finished watching it in advance. (…) It will be touching, it will be about the harmony between humans and nature,...