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Articles de cet auteur (185)
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22 mai 2009
Cendres et Sang
A striking opening in black and white showing a father and three children at the beach. Then a shooting and red blood oozing on the path. Though there is little blood shown in the rest of the film, blood is, indeed, the theme, passionate blood and a drama of blood feuds. Most of the film is set in Romania, filmed in Transylvania, its old (...) -
22 mai 2009
The Time that Remains
Elia Suleiman was born in Nazareth, one of the minority Arabs living in Israel. His films are semi-autobiographical. His film previous to this one, Divine Intervention, received awards at Cannes and was distributed around the world. He does not want to be labelled ’the Palestinian director’. Rather, he wants to entertain his audience with (...) -
21 mai 2009
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon)
Ascetical is a word that springs to mind to begin describing The White Ribbon. Director Michael Haneke has imposed on himself some very strict disciplines for this film. Set in the year before the outbreak of World War I, in a village in northern Germany, it is almost two and a half hours long. Filmed in crisp black and white, it uses the (...) -
21 mai 2009
A l’origine
Screen con men can be outgoing and charming, like Tony Curtis in The Imposter or Leonardo di Caprio in Catch Me if You Can. However, Francois Cluzet in A L’Origine is not a man of immediate charm, though he will have his moments. Released from jail, Paul (Cluzet) gets some help from a criminal friend (Gerard Depardieu) and then robs him of (...) -
20 mai 2009
Inglourious Basterds
After the Grindhouse-indulgent Death Proof, where could Quentin Tarantino go to reclaim his status of the 1990s, of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown ? It seems he went back to a screenplay he had been working on for years, adding, developing, laying aside but, now, picking it up again and really going with it. It is a striking (...)