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...And sexuality, family ties and the melancholy of ageing are all held inside this slim and graceful cine-short story. The film moves fast and gets to the point....
...Almost every photograph of Hélène Leloup in Africa catches her with her camera in hand or standing behind a Bell & Howell cine camera....
...In fact, the director is veteran Jean-Jacques Annaud. Every mishap comes from the record....
...Faces Places came to its climax — or poignantly comical anticlimax — with a failed rendezvous with Jean-Luc Godard, that other surviving giant of the cinema’s mid-20th-century French revolution....
...Les Clos Perdus (L’Extrême), Clot de l’Oum (Cine Panettone), Gauby (Coume Gineste), Domaine Jones, Mas Janeil (Traou de l’Ouille), Matassa, Olivier Pithon (Cuvée Laïs), Roc des Anges (Iglesia Vella) and...
...The Jury Prize was shared between Jean-Luc Godard’s French-Swiss cine-essay in 3D Adieu au Langage – barmy or beatific according to taste (for me mostly the former) – and Xavier Dolan’s French-Canadian Mommy...
...“It came from a different angle from the work of the other New Wave directors, such as [François] Truffaut and [Jean-Luc] Godard,” says Darke. “In fact, it was his only straightforward fictional film....
...Jean-Louis Trintignant, the French lead actor in Amour, says: “Everyone knows he is a guy you’d better not screw about with . . . He has fun....
...In À Bout de Souffle (1960), Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo stroll the Champs-Elysées, as does Fred Astaire in Funny Face (1957)....
...advent of the “talkies”, is now being talked up as a leading Oscar contender: its many prizes include the New York Film Critics Circle award for best director and best picture, and a best actor prize for Jean...
...Trust Thames & Hudson, though, to deliver gleaming graphics, pithy text and a cine-historical narrative that brings us right up to today: post-9/11 cinema, The Hurt Locker and brave new waves in Europe,...
...But another reason, wholly as significant, is that the experimental moving image has left the theatre (a term we’ll take to include film-club cellars and cine co-op dugouts) and gone into the art gallery...
...There is always, when all else fails, Jean-Luc Godard. Film Socialisme – what a title. Only Herbert Marcuse or Godard’s mother could love it....
...It was with very little knowledge of films or filmmaking that she directed La pointe-courte, producing it through her own company Ciné Tamaris, which is still going strong today....
...First, it was off to the Ciné Lumière, that centre of French, European and world cinema in west London, celebrating its reopening after a spruce-up....
...When things go wrong at Cannes, a secret machinery, probably designed by the magician-poet who became the festival’s president and excellence grise in the 1950s, Jean Cocteau, ensures that an equal or greater...
...This cine-Satyricon, this in-your-face flesh-feast, is finally revealed as a traditional heartwarmer with a full suite of happy endings. Perhaps that is why it evaded the censors’ scissors....
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