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Articles de cet auteur (185)
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15 mai 2008
Tokyo ! (English Corner)
One needs to notice the ! after the Tokyo of the title. This is not a film set in Tokyo as such or about Tokyo as such. It is about aspects of Tokyo ! Over a cartoon cityscape, we hear a flight hostess inviting us all to travel to Japan. There are three stories for us, three surreal stories which film buffs would expect from the (…) -
15 mai 2008
Leonera (English Corner)
There have been many prison films but one like this is comparatively rare. It is a gripping film that has its audience wondering what is the right thing to do for prisoners. But this question is complicated here because the prisoners are women and the group is made up of pregnant women and women with children under the age of four, some of (…) -
15 mai 2008
Waltz with Bashir (English Corner)
A documentary, performed as a 90 minute video but then storyboarded for animation. And, all the more effective for that. Ari Folman, who wrote, produced and directed, has drawn not only on his experiences in the war in Lebanon in the 1980s, but also on his subsequent blocking of the experiences, especially the Christin Phalangist massacres (…) -
14 mai 2008
Blindness (English Corner)
A fine but very uncomfortable film to watch, disturbing. Based on a novel by Nobel laureate, Jose Saramago, Blindness is a film for reflection. With its blindness (both real and symbolic) coming upon victims suddenly and its being contagious, it invites its audience to identify with the characters and their traumatic experiences, visualising (…) -
23 mai 2007
The Man from London (English Corner)
A combination of Bela Tarr and a story by Georges Simenon : Simenon in slow-motion (very slow). (Never has a steadicam been steadier in staying put on a face - or a back of a head). In admiration : Tarr has made a film which would be at home in a gallery, each frame a stunning black and white photograph. He has captured the style of the (…)