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"Sicario" is a female action thriller starring Emily Blunt  Courtesy of Festival de Cannes, reprinted with permission  "Sicario" features a brilliant role for Emily Blun t as an FBI agent who volunteers to catch the leaders of a drug cartel together with undercover agents. The "Alliance of Women Film Journalists" nominated her as "Best Female Action Star" of 2015. Directed by Dennis Villeneuve , "Sicario", which means hitman in Spanish, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and was nominated for a Palme d' Or. The theme of the film - the pursuit of drug dealers by the means necessary to cut off 'the head of the dragon' is illustrated visually. As one head goes, violence erupts like firecrackers in Juarez, Mexico where Emily Blunt as agent Kate Macer is recruited for work. She is there to make the op legit in the unorthodox manner undercover agents go about trying to topple pushers and their regime. Two ...

Director Chantal Akerman with actress Delphine Seyrig on the set of "Jeanne Dielman" Festival de Cannes Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles When Chantal Akerman made " Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles " in 1975 she was only 24 years old. The road to making the film began with contacts and one of them was French filmmaker  Babette Mangolte  , currently a professor of visual arts at UC San Diego who wound up being the cinematographer on this film . Akerman and Mangolte met in New York, a city that would later become the young Belgian director's adopted home. Mangolte introduced Akerman to experimental filmmaking, a small and exclusive world she loved. Success came early to Akerman whose film was selected for the  Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight  in 1975. Suddenly 50 international festivals wanted to screen it. It starred the brilliant French actress  Delphine Seyrig  as a housewife and widow ...