French film director (born 1943) known for visually driven films including adaptations and films featuring animals; active since the mid-1970s.

Directed internationally released films such as Black and White in Color (1976), The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1986), The Bear (1988) and Two Brothers (Due Fratelli, 2004).

Reviews highlight Annaud's skill at visual storytelling: a mixed but largely favorable reception for The Name of the Rose (noted adaptation limits, strong performances, evocative sets, weak score) and a warm appraisal of Two Brothers for its animal cinematography and family-friendly fairy-tale tone. Both pieces praise visual detail and directorial craft.

For:film lovers interested in literary adaptations, historical dramas, and nature/animal films; viewers looking for visually driven cinema.

 On the other hand, forgettable are the scores by James Horner, who, despite a highly respectable resume, seems to have taken no more than half an hour to compose the music for this film, which besides being scarcely present (and up to this point, not necessarily a bad thing) is quite trite, underdeveloped, and not always suitable to the situations depicted.

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 Annaud is a master at capturing the expressions of the two tigers, he manages to hypnotize us with the gestures of the animals, with shots that are often difficult but then appear clean and essential on the big screen.

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