The best actress award went to Isabelle Adjani, one of France's biggest stars, who collected her fifth Cesar playing against her glamorous image to portray a dowdy teacher facing breakdown in "La journee de la jupe" (Skirt Day).
Their trade organisation, the Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA), wrote to Mr Geithner on February 13th warning him that the entire industry, which is the largest manufacturing employer in the country, was facing "breakdown".
Like Steven in "The Cobweb," Minnelli's typical hero is a morbidly sensitive artist, often facing a breakdown or recovering from one.
Many people, including the lawyers I speak to who represent families facing the breakdown of such arrangements, struggle with the uncomfortable question of whether it can ever be in the best interests of a child to be conceived for the purpose of being removed from the woman who gave birth to that child, and what the long-term psychological and emotional consequences of that removal might be.
David Sparks, the LGA vice-chairman, said the announcement meant some councils would have seen their funding cut by 40% in five years and were now facing "financial breakdown".
Egypt also now faces a breakdown in law and order, a crackdown on free expression, an increase in sectarian tensions and a collapsing economy.
At any given respected breakfast joint you'll find couples facing potential relationship breakdown, all before 11.30am.
By the end of the 1980s, the Soviet system was facing an economic breakdown more severe and far-reaching than the worst capitalist crisis of the 1930s.
Nor am I facing a relationship breakdown by revealing all – you don't exactly make yourself an investment by telling people you've got cancer.
A16 Indian Families Facing Chaos A breakdown of the Native American family, mirrored throughout reservations across the country, has been building for generations but is now growing worse, tribal and outside experts say.
As East Germany went through its own revolution, rejecting one Communist leader after another, facing a possible breakdown of authority, and as our allies became increasingly concerned, US policymakers could no longer take refuge behind the boilerplate declaration that we support a unified Germany in NATO.
