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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Je ne suis pas un Salaud (I’m not a Bastard)
White working-class malaise holds Eddie’s ambition (Nicolas Duvauchelle) in a vice in this tense contemporary thriller set on a Paris council estate. Gripped by swelling low self-esteem, Eddie has tried various jobs, hates them all and finds it difficult to … Continue reading
Un Plus Une
Claude Lelouch flings opens the doors, shows us heightened-colours of India, and lets love happen Continue reading
Mon Roi (My King)
Maïwenn proves the fragility of liberated and moneyed romance by throwing it against a wall and letting it bleed. Continue reading
Posted in Film Review, French film Review, French Movie Reveiw, Movie Review
Tagged Emmanuelle Bercot, Maïwenn, Mon Roi, My King, Romance, Sexuality, Vincent Cassel
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Grenouille d’Hiver (Winter Frog)
Gérard Depardieu is a grey, sad viticulturist, and Eriko Takeda disturbs the tombs in his eyes … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film, Grenouille d’Hiver, Japanese culture in France, Winter Frog
Tagged Death, East meets West in cinema, Eriko Takeda, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, French movie, French Movie Review, French movies about wine, Gérard Depardieu, Great French Short Films, Great French Short Movies, Grenouille d’Hiver, Images of Japan in French cinema, Mourning, Sabine Lenoël, Slony Sow, Winter Frog
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37°2 le Matin (Betty Blue)
“… a travelling circus of events, holding the trauma of romance, and the joys of desire as something more vital to life than work.” Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Review, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, romance, Sexuality
Tagged 37°2 le Matin, Beatrice Dalle, Betty Blue, Betty Blue review, Gabriel Yared, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Maudits Manèges, Mental illness in French film
4 Comments