| Peau d’homme, cœur de bête | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Hélène Angel |
| Screenplay by | Hélène Angel |
| Music by | Philippe Miller Martin Wheler |
| Cinematography | Isabelle Razavet |
| Edited by | Laurent Rouan Eric Renault |
Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | France |
Skin of Man, Heart of Beast (French : Peau d’homme, cœur de bête) is a French film directed by Hélène Angel. It won the Golden Leopard at the 1999 Locarno International Film Festival.
French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.
The Golden Leopard is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be entered in the competitive selection. The winning films are chosen by a jury. The award went under many names until it was named the Golden Leopard in 1968. The festival was not held in 1951 and the prize was not awarded in 1956 and 1982. As of 2009 René Clair and Jiří Trnka are the only two directors to have won the award twice, both of them winning in consecutive years.
