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  • Eldorado

    Eldorado

    Un « road movie » à la mode « de chez nous » comme dit la comptine. Sauf que « chez nous » c’est en belgique ! Bouli Lanners filme ce pays avec tendresse et l’on ne se lasse pas des forêts vallonnées (eh ! oui il n’est pas que plat), des ciels bas et des personnages peu conventionnels, avec ces petits riens qui les rendent « et belges » et (…)
  • La vie moderne (English Corner)

    La vie moderne (English Corner)

    Raymond Depardon is a celebrated French journalist and photographer. He became a documentary maker in the 1990s. Since that time he has worked in partnership with Claudine Nougaret to produce documentaries about people from the French countryside. Born on a farm himself, Depardon decided to go into the mountains he had been visiting for (…)
  • Afterschool (English Corner)

    Afterschool (English Corner)

    An accomplished film by 24 year old Antonio Campos who had made a number of short films, including Buy Me Now, which received some international commercial release. This first feature film is much more ambitious. We are in a privileged school (and the director draws on his own experience – and includes his own preoccupations in his central (…)
  • Gomorra (English Corner)

    Gomorra (English Corner)

    This is not the most lucid of films. We admire the sincerity and courage that has gone into the making of it, the craft and the skill in working with many non-professional performers. However, with the decision to take five stories out of the many in Roberto Saviano’s 2006 best-seller (translated into 33 languages) and to intercut them, this (…)
  • Ashes of time redux (Les cendres du temps)

    Ashes of time redux (Les cendres du temps)

    Le temps dépose des cendres dans la mémoire, cendres sous lesquelles le feu des passions passées continuent de couver. Des images sublimes rachètent la voix off parfois confuse, ne permettant pas toujours de distinguer entre les récits des protagonistes qui s’entremêlent. Même si l’on commence à se lasser de l’esthétisme guerrier des arts (…)