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Tag Archives: Film Review
Timbuktu
An elegiac, much-lauded film, in which love, family, music, faith and football (plus a little eccentricity) bind the town of Timbuktu, despite the controlling, uncompromising presence of the Jihadists. Abderrahmane Sissako directs and writes with a poet’s sensibility, seeking emotional … Continue reading
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Tagged Abderrahmane Sissako, Eccentricty, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, Ibrahim Ahmed dit Pino, Timbuktu, Toulu Kiki
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Elle L’Adore (She Worships Him)
An obsessive fertile imagination is vital to securing freedom for divorced Parisian beautician, Muriel (Sandrine Kiberlain) in this Claude Chabrol-style thriller. When rock star Vincent Lacroix (Laurent Lafitte) accidentally kills his girlfriend during a lover’s tiff, he approaches Muriel, his … Continue reading
A conversation with Marie Rivière … Eric Rohmer’s intelligent adoration of women
Eric Rohmer’s Le Rayon Vert (‘The Green Ray’) and La Femme De L’Aviateur (‘The Aviator’s Wife’) are part of my summer blood. I watch them every August and in my mind they are like old friends, associated with clear night … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, British Film Institute, Comedies and Proverbs, Comedy, Eric Rohmer, French Cinema, French Cinema French Film, French Film, Interview, romance, The Green Ray, The New Wave, Vacation Movies
Tagged Anne-Laure Meury, British Film Institute, Eric Rohmer, Fabrice Luchini, Fanny Mazoyer, Feminism, Film Review, French 1980s films, French Cinema, French Film, Geoff Andrew, Interview with Marie Rivière, Loneliness, Marie Rivière, Philippe Marlaud, The Aviators Wife, The Green Ray
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Au Coeur du Mensonge (The Colour of Lies)
Claude Chabrol masters melancholia as well as suspense in a tale that starts abruptly with a young girl found murdered in the woods of a Breton coastal-town. The last person to see her is her art teacher, René (Jacques Gamblin), … Continue reading
Partir (Leaving)
A fine line divides madness and rational thought in Catherine Corsini’s psychological study of dissatisfied Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas), the bourgeois wife of a doctor, and mother to two unappreciative teenagers. The plot’s bare bones (housewife falls in love with … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Corsini, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal
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