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Articles de cet auteur (185)
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14 mai 2010
Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps
A welcome sequel. 23 years earlier, Michael Douglas’ Oscar-winning role as insider trader, Gordon Gecko, with his now immortalised motto, Greed is good, became on of the screen’s most famous icons. Stone’s film was in some ways prophetic and was released at the time of the Wall Street collapse of October 1987. It was strong stuff and a timely (…) -
14 mai 2010
Aurora
Puiu’s previous film, The Death of Mr Lazarescu, was a fine cinema experience and contributed to the flowering of the contemporary Romanian film industry. Anyone familiar with the earlier film would be looking forward to Aurora. Puiu has done it again, in the sense that he takes his time with developing characters and plot, spending a great (…) -
14 mai 2010
Abel
This is a modest film about a young boy with mental and behavioural problems seemingly caused by his father’s abandoning the family to work in the US and who is not heard from in two years and walks in on the problem and compounds it. 9 year old Abel has been hospitalised and does not speak. The devoted mother agrees to his coming home in the (…) -
13 mai 2010
O Estranho Caso de Angélica (The Strange Case of Angelica)
If an audience did not know who the director is and his style of film-making for almost 80 years (there is no evidence apart from de Oliveira to suggest how a centenarian makes films ; he was born in 1908), they might well give it a miss as a throwback to romantic film-making and a style that owes much to the visuals of the silent era. They (…) -
13 mai 2010
Tournée (On Tour)
The tour starts in Le Havre and continues south along the French coast. Those on tour are five American women who have created a New Burlesque Show, stating that they want to target women and do without men. Actually, the excerpts from their show which we see on screen look very much like the old burlesque despite the hearty applause of the (…)