Articles de cet auteur (185)
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The Filmaker (English Corner)
In 1994, honoured director Alain Cavalier began what has become a cinema diary. He filmed his wife extensively, especially her cancer concern, her weight consciousness as well as her domestic work, like cooking, in detail after detail. His own brush with cancer in his nose becomes a key element. He films his parents in their illnesses and, (...) -
Last Days (English Corner)
As a cinematic aesthetic exercise, Last Days will fascinate cinema buffs who enjoy beautiful portrayals of the enigmatic. And it looks good as well. Van Sant has written as well as directed and declares that he has drawn from the last days of Kurt Cobain in his depiction of Blake (Michael Pitt in a well-wrought performance). Which means (...) -
Bashing (English Corner)
Just when you thought you were beginning to get behind aspects of Japanese inscrutability comes an extraordinary critique in Bashing. This brief film focuses on Yuko who has returned home after being kidnapped while working as a volunteer in Iraq. A heroine’s welcome ? Far, far from it. Her volunteering abroad is seen as a disgrace. Her (...) -
Match Point (English Corner)
London has given Woody Allen a new lease of life. He obviously loves London – with more than enough sights of well-known and unknown locations. He also communicates differently through a principally British cast, their different accents, vocabulary and voice inflections. At times, Match Point is more British than British. We enter the (...) -
Sangre (English Corner)
Sangre just stops. The end. Maybe, Diego, the central character, a middle-aged, very ordinary man, balding, with a cast in his eye, just has nowhere else to go. First time writer and director traps his audience in the humdrum life of Diego and Blanca. With his almost permanently fixed camera, in long takes (sometimes very long -30 seconds (...)