Lu Chuan talks to us about his film City of Life and Death after it premiered in France at the Paris Film Festival in July 2010. The film is a spectacular portrayal of the Japanese army’s invasion of Nanking. Lu Chuan, a Beijing Film Academy graduate, co-wrote Black Hole, a successful TV series in China. This is his most internationally well known film to date, although his previous films had (…) Lire la suite »

Can a humming through a closed bathroom door really heal two broken hearts? Can it erase the sound of a phone that won’t ring and the words of a diary written day after day on the same walls, only to disappear once again the next day? Lullaby for Pi is a tale, a fairy tale, with the marvellous Forest Whitaker as the fairy godmother of two distressed and disturbed lovers, displaying just the (…) Continue Reading »

À l’occasion d’un examen médical, Héléna, étudiante en dessin anatomique, fait la connaissance de Benoît, un jeune radiologue. Partageant une meme fascination pour le corps humain, ils vont céder à un amour passionnel, mais à leur façon... La (…) Lire la suite »

Je ne suis pas de celles qui font leurs vraies filles au cinéma, et ne vont voir des films d’horreur ou « gores » qu’en compagnie d’un accessoire plus musclé contre qui se lover en cas de suspens insoutenable. Non. Moi je suis celles qui (…) Lire la suite »

When they chose the poster that would advertise the film, little did the team behind Dernier étage gauche gauche imagine they would have a lawsuit on their hands. Indeed, the day of the Paris premiere of the film, the producers and director (…) Continue Reading »

Saw 7 ended the franchise with a torture –heavy yet slightly anticlimactic bang. The 6 “episodes”, although inconsistent, were rich in suspenseful twists and turns, which allowed the most squeamish of us to periodically shield our eyes and ears, (…) Continue Reading »

Fix me is, or at least aims to be, according to director Raed Andoni, a film about the migraines that plague him. And indeed, at first glance, the subject matter is Raed’s psychoanalysis, not particularly weird or abstract, the type undertaken by (…) Continue Reading »

The Silhouette Short Film Festival (France, Paris, Parc des Buttes Chaumont) has the advantage of being outdoors, in the leafy and secluded middle of the Buttes Chaumont, of showcasing some new and edgy shorts and of being absolutely free. On (…) Continue Reading »

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Le film regarde longuement ce qui ne nous est pas demandé de regarder. Quelque chose, de votre regard, qui dérange l’ordre établi, fusse-t-il bourgeois. Il y a une fascination pour la durée laquelle démasque ce qui se joue derrière les apparences, derrière ce regard de surface. De ce point de vue, lorsque l’échappée belle du groupe survient, nous restons sans mot. La surface des visages (…) Lire la suite »