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Festival du Film Francophone d’Angoulême 2017
The Film Francophone d’Angoulême represents everything I love about French cinema. A cinema which focuses on characters unafraid of their reactions, and endings determined by their emotional truth, rather than a neat moral tidy-up. French cinema is considered by some to … Continue reading
Posted in French Actresses, French Cinema, French Film Festivals, French short films
Tagged #FFA2017, A Frog in Winter, Albert Dupontel, André Téchiné, Angoulême, Anne Wiazemsky, Atlantic Ocean, Au Revoir La-Haut, Bonne Pomme, Call My Agent, Catch the Wind, Catherine Deneuve, Céline Sallette, Cecile de France, Conversations, Death, Dix Pour Cent, Dominique Besnehard, Festival Film Francophone d’Angouleme, Film de Fesses, Florence Quentin, Friendship, Gérard Depardieu, Grenouille d’Hiver, Hiam Abbas, Jealousy, Jean-Luc Godard, Julie Nakache, La Belle Saison, La Redoutable, Le Clitoris, Louis Garrel, Marie-France Brière, Michel Hazanavicius, Muse, Netflix, New Release, New Wave, Niels Arestrup, Nos Annees Folles, Obsession, Pierre Deladonchamps, Pierre Lemaitre, Poilus, Potiche, Prendre Le Large, Quand J'etais Chanteur, Sandrine Bonnaire, Satin Rouge, Sexuality, Stacy Martin, The Artist, The Garden Party, Valerie Nagant, World War One, World War One in French Cinema, Xavier Giannoli
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Jeune & Jolie (Young & Beautiful)
François Ozon points the lens at bourgeois desire through the eyes of a young Parisian student and her complicated relationship with sex and prostitution. It’s a lazy summer, and seventeen year-old Isabelle (Marine Vacth) is on holiday at the ocean … Continue reading
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à Table! (Me, Myself and Mum)
Guillaume Gallienne’s face is pale, soft rising dough that’s been squished with an insensitive fist, in this comic exploration of sexuality, gender and self-acceptance. Written, directed and starring Guillaume Gallienne (as himself, and also his mother) Les Garçons et Guillaume, … Continue reading
Nathalie
Mutual desire rattles the loneliness in the lives of two women, one a prostitute the other a gynecologist. One is a shell of controlling sexuality and the other statuesque and supremely elegant. Both are under each other’s spell and falling … Continue reading
Le Souffle au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart)
If you’re a teenage boy in a post-war bourgeois family, struggling with a cold father, a Catholic education and two mischievous older brothers, there are three pleasures in life: a mother’s love, Jazz music, and the slow, self-conscious introduction to … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Film Review, French Cinema
Tagged Adolescence, Adolescence in French film, Benoît Ferreux, French Cinema, French Film, Le Souffle au Coeur, Lea Massari, Louis Malle, Moral taboos in Film, Moral taboos in French cinema, Mother and son bond in French film, Mother love in French Cinema, Mother love in French film, Murmur of the Heart, Sexuality
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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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Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly and Mr Arnaud)
Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart) is the muse and Mr Arnaud (Michel Serrault) is the man who loves from afar. Desire undeclared, is thus the soft wind that passes through the corridors and large rooms of Mr Arnaud’s smart Parisian apartment. Mr … Continue reading
21 Nuits avec Pattie (21 Nights with Pattie)
Like a grown-up Alice stepping into Wonderland, Parisian fortysomething (‘Caroline’ played by Isabelle Carré) arrives at her recently deceased mother’s country house in southern France to organise her funeral. She finds her mother’s corpse, resembling a man in drag, in … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reviews
Tagged 21 Nights with Pattie, 21 Nuits avec Pattie, André Dussollier, Arnaud Larrieu, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, French films set in the South of France, French movie, French Movie Review, Isabelle Carré, Jean-Marie Larrieu, Karin Viard, Necrophilia, Sexuality
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Pauline à la Plage (Pauline at the Beach)
Summertime fascination, Eric Rohmer-style, is a gentle flirtatious breeze, one that carries early-eighties sexuality and casual connections on the shore of a wild-Atlantic heart. Third in the ‘Comedies and Proverbes’ series, Pauline à la Plage follows fifteen-year old Pauline (Amanda … Continue reading
Posted in Eric Rohmer, Holiday Films, Nouvelle Vague, The New Wave, Vacation Movies
Tagged Amanda Langlet, Atlantic Ocean, Auteur, Comedies and Proverbs, Eric Rohmer, Féodor Atkine, Holiday films, Holiday movies, New Wave, Normandy, Nouvelle Vague, Pauline at the Beach, Pauline à la Plage, Sexuality, Vacation films, Vacation movies
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