Paula Maxa is the Parisian Grand Guignol Theatre’s leading lady, famous for being murdered on stage every day. But is there a link between the theatre and a series of gruesome real-life murders?Read More »
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Franck Ribière – La femme la plus assassinée du monde AKA The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)
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Rithy Panh – Irradiés (2020)
Rithy Panh2011-2020CambodiaDocumentaryQuote:
A film about people who have survived the irradiation of war and is recommended to those who believe they are immune to it. An extreme, necessary film that penetrates the eye and heart with unyielding force.Read More » -
Bertrand Mandico – L’émission a déjà commencé (2023)
Bertrand Mandico2021-2030ArthouseFranceTVHistoires courtes, the France 2 short films program, gives carte blanche to Bertrand Mandico who brings together three of his short films.
“Rainer, A Vicious Dog in Skull Valley” (2023) 26 min.
Octavia Foss wants to stage a female version of Conan the Barbarian in the theater. She makes a pact with a dog-headed demon to achieve her goals.“We Barbarians” (2023) 27 min.
On the set of a film in the making, four actresses take turns guiding us. They unknowingly drag us into their damnation.“The Last Cartoon” (2022) 8 min.
A time, as much future as current, where “cinema will be will be all other and nothing else”. Where, “it will be the last appointment of the flesh”, where “the energy will be cannibal and the sun will reflect to say nothing”. Pessimistic or optimistic is this cinematic pamphlet on art ?Read More » -
Guillaume Brac – Un pincement au coeur AKA Linda and Irina (2023)
Guillaume Brac2021-2030DocumentaryFranceShort FilmIt is June 2021 and the end of the school year at the Hénin-Beaumont high school. Linda and Irina are best friends. Between TikTok videos and science classes, they confide in each other about their family, their future, and other teenage preoccupations. But Linda has to move house yet again, and will not be here next term. In spite of her mother’s advice, this time she has grown attached to a friend, and their separation will be a painful one. As the summer begins, her heart is sore.Read More »
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Isabelle Broué – Tout le plaisir est pour moi AKA The Pleasure Is All Mine (2004)
Isabelle Broué2001-2010ComedyDramaFranceAfter lecturing her sister on the evils of fake orgasms, Louise, a self-obsessed twenty-something, gets her come-uppance the next morning when she discovers that she has “lost her clitoris”, a misfortune she doesn’t hesitate to communicate, loudly and explicitly, to anyone who’ll listen.
It’s a shame that so many of the characters and situations in this movie, from the gay best-friend to the sex guru with his herbs to the celibate neighbour to the old ladies discussing orgasms, feel like a parade of comedy stereotypes. The falseness and banality of these sketch-like scenes conflict awkwardly with the pseudo-documentary discussions of female sexuality that the director inserts with great earnestness throughout the film.Read More »
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Florence Platarets – Godard par Godard AKA Godard by Godard (2023)
2021-2030DocumentaryFlorence PlataretsFranceThe film is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. Through his words, gaze and work, the film tells the story of a life of cinema; that of a man who will always demand a lot of himself and his art, to the point of merging with it.Read More »
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Anne Émond – Jeune Juliette (2019)
Anne Émond2011-2020ComedyDramaFranceJuliette is in her second year of high school and she has to handle the mockeries of other students. Complexed by her overweight, the young girl enters teenage years full of twists and turns.Read More »
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André Téchiné – Les soeurs Brontë AKA The Bronte Sisters (1979)
André Téchiné1971-1980DramaFranceIn a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.Read More »
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Maurice Dugowson – Lily, aime-moi AKA Lily, Love Me (1975)
Maurice Dugowson1971-1980ComedyCultFranceSynopsis:
Everything involving Patrick Dewaere is pretty cultish, i guess, but i must confess it is a bit of a default category here : arthouse / drama / romance / comedy / politics…none of those really fit in my book…this is one of those bittersweet social satires like they used to do in 70s french cinema…above all, this is a buddy movie / road movie, with a factory worker, a journalist, and a boxer :
— gabbyheinzeRead More »