History

From 31^st August to 9^th Sep­tem­ber 2012.
Trib­utes this year were paid to William Fried­kin, Salma Hayek, Har­vey Kei­t­el, Liam Nee­son, Melvin Van Pee­bles, and Paula Wag­n­er; the Carte Blanche was giv­en to styl­ist Agnès b.; and the actor Paul Dano was cho­sen as the “New Hol­ly­wood 2012”. In the Casino’s Ital­ian-style the­atre and with free entry for all, the Radio France Phil­har­mon­ic Orches­tra and com­pos­er Michel Legrand staged an excep­tion­al con­cert in trib­ute to the com­pos­er John Williams. Also on the Fes­ti­val pro­gram, a les­son in cin­e­ma by direc­tor William Fried­kin, a Con­ver­sa­tion with the screen­writer René Bal­cer in the con­text of Deauville Sea­son 3, a Mas­ter­class tack­ling the analy­sis of the 2011 Grand Prize win­ning film Jeff Nichols’ Take Shel­ter, and the Fran­co-Amer­i­can round table ded­i­cat­ed this year to “Pro­duc­ing today: issues and new resources”.