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Articles de cet auteur (185)
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14 mai 2009
Chun Feng Chen Zui De Ye Wan (Spring Fever)
Lies, secrets, infidelities, sexuality, identity. A great number of themes, especially for a Chinese film that deals with same-sex and bisexual relationships presented in direct and sometimes explicit ways. However, the film is hard going, wandering at times, even meandering, and long. A plot driven by action and causes it is not. Rather, (...) -
13 mai 2009
Up !
A cinema delight. A great choice to open the 2009 Cannes Festival in a time of recession. Money does not make the world go round ! Why a delight ? An endearing plot that leads to many zany developments. Sympathetic characters : a grandfather-figure and a boy who needs a male role model. A hiss-the-villain. Bright Pixar animation. Some (...) -
24 mai 2008
Palermo Shooting (English Corner)
There was a time when Wenders was considered a cinema great. He seems to have fallen from critical appreciation. A pity, since The Palermo Shooting is an attempt to go back to some of his themes of the past (and the mysteries he explored in Wings of Desire or Paris, Texas) with the perspective of a sixty year old. His early films were (...) -
23 mai 2008
My Magic (English Corner)
A modest 75 minute film for Cannes to acknowledge the small but active industry in Singapore. The film opens with a large man in a bar continually asking for another drink. We glimpse a small boy forlorn in a shopping mall. Soon we learn that they are father and son, the son, an intelligent boy, has to care for his alcoholic father. (...) -
23 mai 2008
Il Divo (English Corner)
A fascinating film. But, principally for audiences who follow Italian politics. Otherwise there are so many different characters, names and dates that it may be too difficult to follow. However, Paolo Sorrentino, who wrote and directed, does his best to offer a portrait of Giulio Andreotti which, while it does not give his biography and (...)