Exhibition director inertia Salem "Under the roof of Paris in the year of France-Russia

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Exhibition of famous French film director inertia Salem "Under the roof of Paris" is supported by the Embassy of France in Russia in the framework of the "Year of France in Russia" from June 15 until 11 June 2010. in the Gallery of Arts Zurab Tsereteli (Prechistenka, 19). Iner Salem has long been known film critic, as the author of films that require serious reviews. His paintings - regular participants and winners of the largest film festivals. This year the French embassy in Russia has chosen the last film of Salem "Under the roofs of Paris" to be shown in 27 cities of Russia.
        In Moscow audiences will have the opportunity to see paintings by well-known director. The exhibition "Under the roof of Paris' was compiled from the works of the last twenty years: from pastels late 80's. to paintings in recent months. Opening June 15, incidentally, will be held in the presence of the author and the French film star, the heroine of his latest film, Mylène Demongeot (actress known for the Russian audience primarily as a fearless Ellen, the girlfriend of the hero of Jean Marais in a trilogy of Fantômas).
 "If Marc Chagall was shooting film, he would have made this film" - so wrote about the film "Vodka Lemon" is one of the French critics in the influential newspaper «Le Monde». For the director inertia Salem this comparison is particularly valuable, because as seriously as a director, he feels himself an artist.

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Incidentally, among the filmmakers, "observed" in the hobby painting, incidentally, were seen, for example, Andrei Tarkovsky, was a universal artist Sergei Paradjanov, organized the exhibition repeatedly Stanislav Govorukhin, you can still remember, of course, Sergei Yutkevich, and Sergei Eisenstein, and finally , whose sketches and drawings have been exhibited and published posthumously.
From the "Western" examples: Franco Zeffirelli, whose exhibition was held in 2004 at the Museum of Private Collections (also, incidentally, as a Salem inertia - this was the first major exhibition. And they have decided to hold it in Moscow). Or, Tonino Guerra (writer, and poet), the exhibition which is also now taking place in Moscow.
Certainly, there are many other examples. The question is why film makers (meaning foreign) tend to show their art (an exhibition), especially in Russia? It will try to ask at the opening of inertia in Salem ...

Attach pictures maestro Mylène Demongeot (and its partner in the film "Under the roofs of Paris" - Michel Piccoli).