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...L’Eclisse (1962) Where to watch: Amazon Prime, iTunes and (US) The Criterion Channel Michelangelo Antonioni made a star of the city’s financial centre in the stylishly cynical love story L’Eclisse, set...
...(They too have twice won the Palme d’Or, for 1999’s Rosetta and 2005’s L’Enfant.) In their new film, The Unknown Girl, the drama flows from the refugee crisis, channelled into one microcosmic story....
...Titled L’Eden, it depicts exotic animals and plants and would have required 3,600-wood blocks to create....
...Adams, of Wallpaperdirect, says this trompe l’oeil feature has come full circle....
...Servillo is more like Vittorio De Sica crossed with a lizard. The audience applauded the film at its close but rose as if relieved to exit....
...For an hour it’s like reheated De Sica. Then it gathers texture, warmth, wit – and unpredictability....
...The story becomes as quietly agonising as a De Sica film....
...His Cercle de l’Harmonie band is not on top form – woodwind tuning is a problem – but he provides the energy and conviction so often missing on stage. www.opera-comique.com...
...And L’Oréal was run by an Englishman for years – presumably “because he was worth it”. But national identity can cause problems....
...And the names you will remember from the production team are, first, the set designer, Antoine Fontaine – for his eye-bath sets of painted flats, which exploit a keen sense of trompe l’oeil perspective,...
...Abdellatif Kechiche made a wonderful little-seen film called L’Esquive (Games of Love and Chance) – a Rohmer-style comedy acted by immigrants and pieds blancs – and specialises in raising everyday reality...
...L’Avventura was soon esteemed a masterpiece and voted one of the 10 best films ever in an international critics’ poll....
...Khechiche made a wonderful little-seen film called L’Esquive – an Eric Rohmer-style comedy acted by gifted immigrants and pieds blancs – and specialises in raising everyday reality to a poetic pitch....
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