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Articles de cet auteur (185)
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18 mai 2010
Copie conforme (Certified Copy)
‘What was that all about ?’ is a fair question. ‘Who was that all about ?’ may be an even fairer question. This is really a cinema essay, verbal and visual, about art and perceptions of art, about life and about fantasy. It is celebrated Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami, making a non-Iranian film and a film outside Iran. A British writer on (...) -
18 mai 2010
Tamara Drewe
For over 40 years, director Stephen Frears has been surprising audiences with the range of his films. According to his comments, this time he surprised himself. While the credits say the film is based on a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds (which itself took its cue from Thomas Hardy’s also Dorset-set Far From the Madding Crowd), Frears keeps (...) -
18 mai 2010
Des hommes et des dieux
One of the finest religious films, and one of the best Catholic films, in years. The subject is the Trappist community of Mt Atlas, Algeria, in the 1990s. Seven of them were killed in the latter part of May, 1996. While the film expertly builds up the background of post-colonial Algeria, corrupt government, extreme Islamists, the role of the (...) -
18 mai 2010
Blue Valentine
Director Derek Cianfrance has said that one of the major fears of his childhood was his parents getting a divorce. This is evident in the film with passionate sequences of love and the loss of love, even of hatred. The title gives it away as does the song that the husband sings when wooing his wife but is sung again, most ruefully, over the (...) -
17 mai 2010
Outrage
Despicable things done by despicable people in despicable ways – and filmed to highlight how ugly and despicable they are. This is a Yakuza story with characters who exhibit no redeeming human features and about whom, at the beginning, we couldn’t care less, whom at the middle we couldn’t care lesser about and at the end couldn’t care (...)