THE French film industry is more often given to ____ agonising about American cultural imperialism or the tyranny of the market than to self-congratulation. But this year, ____ triumph is in the air. It is not just that for the first time in 21 years the Cannes film festival jury, headed this time by Sean Penn, awarded its top prize, the Palme dOr, to a French film, Laurent Cantets Entre les Murs (The Class). Another homegrown movie, Bienvenue Chez les Chtis (which will be remade for an American audience as Welcome to the Sticks), is set to overtake James Camerons Hollywood blockbuster, Titanic, as the countrys all-time top box-office hit. 1. (1) cognitive (2) introspective (3) perceptive (4) volatile (5) random 2. (1) apologetic (2) significant (3) deliberative (4) unapologetic (5) reluctant Apart from their tiny budgets, these two films could scarcely differ more. The first is a ____ documentarystyle classroom drama, filmed-like Nicolas Philiberts charming 2002 film, Etre et Avoir (To Be and To Have)-with real pupils in a real school, this one in a multicultural quarter of Paris. It is adapted from a book by Franois Bgaudeau, based on his experience as a teacher (he plays a fictionalised version of himself in the film). The second is a slick, warm, ____ comedy, written by and starring Dany Boon, a French comic, which overturns French prejudices about the beer-drinking, rain-soaked north. Since its release in February, Bienvenue Chez les Chtis has notched up a ____ 20m cinema tickets in France-just short of the 20.7m that Titanic secured-and over $157.6m in receipts. 3. (1) boring (2) egregious (3) gritty (4) dreary (5) morose 4. (1) redemptive (2) tedious (3) unamenable (4) dry (5) listless 5. (1) sparse (2) bare (3) staggering (4) massive (5) laudatory
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