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Peindre ou faire l’amour (English Corner)
The archetypal French movie has classy actors, beautiful locations (especially mountains), affluent homes, discussions about art and the arts, meals, relationship issues and, not necessarily, a happy ending. To Paint or Make Love fulfils most of these conditions. Sabine Azema, Daniel Auteuil and Sergi Lopez are excellent performers. The (...) -
Cinéma, aspirines et vautours (English Corner)
A small film based on the stories of the central Brazilian character, Ranulpho Gomes. The setting is 1942 in the drought-stricken outback of Brazil’s northeast. A young German who left his fatherland to avoid war travels the countryside selling the newly developed aspirin, showing film commercials in town squares to eager viewers and (...) -
Sin city (English Corner)
As a tour-de-force of state of the art CGI and cinematic technology, this is a fascinating experience. Storyboarded exactly like the graphic novels it is bringing to the screen, it combines black and white photography with splashes of colour (mainly blood red), white on black silhouettes, swift editorial cuts and a pace that rarely lets up. (...) -
Broken Flowers (English Corner)
It is a pleasure both to watch and to listen to this film. With its African rhythmic musical score creating atmosphere, the film combines some serious themes with a light touch. It is often funny, sometimes satirical at American eccentricity, always genial. After Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic, we are getting used to Bill Murray (...) -
Le temps qui reste (English Corner)
Francois is becoming a prolific director, a film a year in recent years. And it is impossible to predict what he will come up with next. He has done the musical 8 Women, the psychological crime thriller, Swimming Pool and the disintegration of a marriage, 5x2. With Time to Leave – more accurately and literally, The Time that Remains – (...)