AvrilGérald Hustache-Mathieu :: France :: 2006 :: 1h36A young orphan finds herself in the tranquility of a secluded monastery, till the day that she is invited to join the order as a nun. One of her ‘sisters’ tells her she has a brother, and helps her with a two week secretive leave so that she can find him.
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DikkenekOlivier van Hoofstadt :: Belgium :: 2006 :: 1h24Dirty male characters which shout and fight and pretty girls who drink and kiss, in a trashy world of money of scum. A not-for-everybody cult-ish movie which flirts with originality and vulgarity, in a luke warm soup which keeps the pace despite being little more than a sequence of sketches.
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The clumsy, accommodating and naive David and the similarly disposed bighearted Anne become friends, supporting each other in their respective quests for love, but the burning question of course is whether or not they will find it right before them…. There are some of the same themes as in Venus et Fleur, his previous movie, with the uncomfortable scenes which come forth from our sentimental lives, but with this time round it is more sophisticated.
Filed under: Europe, France | Tagged: Change of Address, Changement d'adresse, Emmanuel Mouret, Fanny Valette, Frédérique Bel | 1 Comment »
Paris je t’aime20 directors :: France :: 2006 :: 1h5020 directors, from France and elsewhere, each dedicate 5 minutes of film to the theme of Love in one arrondissement (district) of Paris each…. There is quite some variety in the type of films shown, from a funny vampire type love story (Vincenzo Natali) to a bitter sweet reflective story (Alexander Payne), and from a clownesque subway scene (Coen brothers) to a the dramatic dealing with loss (Nobuhiro Suwa).
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Mr Calbérac treated a similar theme in his first movie Iréne, but with a certain lightness and comedy he amused the audience away from his otherwise over-simplicified reality and lack of insight…. Real life is a lot funnier than this.But to dedicate a few words to a wasted hour and a half of viewing: The weak characters -and their singing- are contrasted with a beautiful but unavailable Stringfellows dancer half way through the film, but then how can we believe that the charming Melanie Doutey -even in this naive role- is common?
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Dans la peau de Jacques ChiracMichel Royer, Karl Zéro :: France :: 2005 :: 1h30Satirical archive portrait of Jacques Chirac’s political career, hopping from his time as major of Paris, to prime minister to president. Commented footage from the last 40 years or so, where the voice-over plays the role of the thoughts of Jacques Chirac, as a cynical couch self-analysis of his first-of-the-class thirst for power.At the first glance, it looks like a film constructed by someone who spends too much time in the cellar of TF1 or some other TV station, and at the second glance, that he did not spend enough time there.
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Conversations with other women Hans Canosa :: USA :: 2006 :: 1h25 A man moves up to a woman at a wedding we don’t really see with two glasses of Champagne and attempts to seduce her. She’s the out-of-town seventh bridesmaid replacement, he’s the older bachelor brother of the bride and both somewhat cynical and [...]
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The Road to Guantanamo Michael Winterbottom :: UK :: 2005 :: 1h35 Four Englishmen set off to Pakistan for the marriage of one of them, when they decide to continue on to Afghanistan at the onset of the US military action there. They get arrested, sent to a prison, then to the Guantanamo Bay prison, [...]
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She’s shown with friends, but the troubles of friendships, especially important at the court, are not worked out, nor intimate.Partly because of that fault, her coming of age does not develop, neither is the ending understandable – the role of the aristocracy is practically cut out of the tale…. Because of the superficial adolescent treatment, the whole story looks like a dress-up party, with a well intentioned Marie-Antoinette in the middle.Parallels with ‘Lost in Translation’ are not hard to find, the suicidal boredom of watching spoilt characters wasting their time, mixed with a few meaningful looks here and there which are supposed to add depth.
Filed under: America, USA | Tagged: Kirsten Dunst, Marie-Antoinette, Sofia Coppola | Leave a Comment »
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