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6 February 2011
Incendies -December 2010
We can discuss the adaptation on film of a theatrical masterpiece, the horrors of war, the realism of the action, the focus of the actors, the ambition of the filmmaker, the caustic presence of the lead or the curious absence of actual Arabic (…) Continue Reading »
De ce qui se passa en 1973 au Chili, il en est question et il n’en est pas. Du coup d’état de Pinochet et des horreurs qui s’en suivirent on en entend parler et l’on en entend rien non plus. De la folie des hommes et d’un homme en particulier, on en discute et ça ne se discute pas.
Pablo Larraìn nous explique qu’il n’a pas réalisé ce film comme une leçon d’histoire, qu’il ne cherche pas à (…) Lire la suite »
Lukewarm valentine leaves lobster less than devastated. Continue Reading »
23 January 2011
Nino’s Place
by Clotilde Couturier11 am on 11 July 1995, from his local radio station, 26 year-old Nino announced to the rest of the world the fall of Srebrenica. Later that same day, he is one of 15000 men forced to leave the city, heading for the free zone, some 100 km away. (…) Continue Reading »
« Shahada » traite avant tout de drames humains. En tant qu’être humain, j’ai envie d’exprimer les choses simplement : « Je te hais », « Je t’aime », « J’ai envie de toi » ! Lire la suite »
Réalisé par Jim Sharman, avec Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Botswick, etc...
Il y a parfois des films qui vous semblent tellement géniaux et mythiques qu’on en oublierait presque qu’il est possible que certaines personnes sur Terre n’en aient jamais entendu parler. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS pour les intimes) est de ceux-là pour moi.
Issu du mouvement des Midnight Movies (…) Lire la suite »
23 January 2011
Director Marina de Van on Don’t Look Back
by Abla KandalaftQ AND A - MARINA DE VAN : NE TE RETOURNE PAS (DON’T LOOK BACK)
Although Marina de Van has followed the traditional route of Sorbonne and Femis, from which she graduated in 1996, she is regarded as a maverick film-maker, her films hardly fitting (…) Continue Reading »
The film uncovers the shocking truth behind the phenomenon of the falsos positivos, or false positives, a term that outside a scientific context is used by Columbians to designate the civilians killed by the military and dressed up as guerillos to hike up the army’s FARC executions statistics. Incredibly, although the subject matter is uncompromisingly grim, this is no tear-jerker. The viewer (…) Continue Reading »
Director Benjamin Heisenberg talks to us about his film The Robber after it premiered at the Paris Film Festival in July 2010.
How did you adapt the novel, which was itself based on a true story?
The novel is by Martin Prinz. He put together the two strands of the story: the successful runner and the masked robber. The weird thing was that even after his identification he still managed to (…) Continue Reading »
Anocha answers our questions following the screening of Mundane History, which premiered at the Paris Film Festival in July 2010.
Why the title?
The title in English represents a contrast between something trivial (mundane) and something bigger, eventful and more unique (history) and translates the way this quite mundane situation, that happens to an individual involves much larger (…) Continue Reading »