FRANCO NERO WAS IN PARIS! (L’ETRANGE FESTIVAL 2009)

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The legendary Franco Nero (“ Django”) was invited in Paris last week-end during the 15th edition of L’Etrange Festival (litt. trans.: The Strange Festival) where he presented three of his movies:Franco Nero - Forum des Images (Sept. 4th, 2009)Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s gay drama “ Querelle” (1982) adapted from the novel by Jean Genet...

 “ Autostop Rosso Sangue” (a.k.a. “ Hitch-Hike” – 1977), a dark, violent, erotic and suspensful road movie directed by P. Festa Campanile.also starring Corrine Clery (“Histoire d’O”) and David Hess (“The Last House on the Left”)...

Franco Nero & Corrine Clery ("Hitch-Hike" - 1977)

 and the spaghetti western “ Tempo di Massacro” (a.k.a. “ Massacre Time” - 1966) directed by Lucio Fulci.

 Franco Nero was at the opening of the festival on September 4 th, 2009 (watch the video below)...Franco Nero @ L'Etrange Festival Opening (Sept. 4th, 2009)Franco Nero, Frédéric Temps (director of L'Etrange Festival) &

Laurence Herszberg (director of Forum des Images) (Sept. 4th, 2009)

 ...and presented the three movies the day after. Here is the presentation of the first screening, “ Querelle”...

 Between the screenings of  “ Hitch-Hike” and “ Time of Massacer”, there was a very interesting Q&A session where the French fans of Mr Nero could also at the end make their posters and DVD signed by their idols.Franco Nero - Q&A session (Sept. 5th, 2009)More videos about Franco Nero and L’Etrange Festival coming soon...

Frédéric Ambroisine (Sept. 9, 2009)