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Articles de cet auteur (185)
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15 mai 2009
Politist, Adjectiv
One needs to take good notice of the title, both words, otherwise some might expect all police whereas the really interesting part is adjective, since the film is concerned with words and language. While there is a basic, slight plot about police work in Porumboius’ home town of Vaslui, most of the action (used loosely because much of it is (...) -
15 mai 2009
Bright Star
John Keats’ short 25 year life was not filled with excitement and adventure as those of his two Romantic contemporaries, Byron and Shelley (the two 1987 films about them, The Haunted Summer and Gothic, certainly illustrate this). Nor was he as long-lived and influential like the former generation of Romantics, Coleridge and Wordsworth (whose (...) -
14 mai 2009
My Neighbor, My Killer
Anne Aghion has made a film about Nicaragua in the past and Antarctica in the present. In the meantime, for nine years, she has been filming on and off in Rwanda and produced three hour-long documentaries on the aftermath of the1994 genocide. This time she has made an 80 minute film on the Gacaca Tribunals set up by the Rwandan government (...) -
14 mai 2009
Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh (No One Knows about Persian Cats)
It seems that pets should neither be seen nor heard in Tehran. But, that is a symbol for the underground music movement in the country, neither seen nor heard. Definitely underground. Kurdish director Bahman Ghobodi has made the fine, award-winning films, A Time for Drunken Horses and Turtles can Fly. However, a project he was working on (...) -
14 mai 2009
Fish Tank
A slice of British urban life, with the 15 year old Mia observed as if she were in a tank, close-up, swimming in a confined space and unable to get out. Later in the film, a fish is caught in a pool, then, gasping for air, it is skewered. The kinder thing to do, one of the characters said. Later, we see the fish was not eaten by the family (...)