Gilbert Melki

  • Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz – Ve’Lakhta Lehe Isha AKA To Take a Wife (2004)

    Ronit Elkabetz2001-2010DramaIsraelShlomi Elkabetz
    Ve'Lakhta Lehe Isha (2004)
    Ve’Lakhta Lehe Isha (2004)

    The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.Read More »

  • Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau – Crustacés & coquillages AKA Cockles & Mussels (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyFranceJacques MartineauOlivier DucastelQueer Cinema(s)Romance

    Quote:
    For summer vacation, Marc and Béatrix take their two kids to the seaside house of Marc’s youth, where their daughter takes up with a biker and their sons roams the beach with his best friend, who is in love with him. Things get steamier when Béatrix’s lover Mathieu shows up, and Marc’s old flame appears.Read More »

  • Frédéric Mermoud – Complices AKA Accomplices (2009)

    2001-2010CrimeFrédéric MermoudQueer Cinema(s)Switzerland

    Quote:
    Both detectives on a sickening murder case struggle with being alone and childless in their 40s. As they investigate the young man found beaten and strangled to death, platonic friends Karine and Herve unravel a love story between Vincent, and Rebecca a high school girl. The teenage lovers quickly plunged into the kind of amour fou the flics fear to chance for themselves. Rebecca is missing, and unknown to her, the boy was a homosexual Internet hustler. The ordinarily blasé male investigator is appalled to find that on-line dating is a world the sexy Karine knows well. Is Rebecca the killer, another victim or?Read More »

  • Luc Besson – Angel-A (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyFantasyFranceLuc Besson

    Synopsis:
    André, a small-time ex-convict, seems to owe money to everyone in Paris, including a crime boss who promises to kill him if he doesn’t repay him by midnight. After failing to find protection from the American embassy and the French police, a despairing André scrambles onto a bridge over the Seine, intending to leap to his death. He is surprised to see a tall, beautiful girl clinging to a rail on the same bridge, apparently preparing to end her life as well. She jumps, and he jumps too, suddenly resolving to save her life. After scrambling ashore, she tells him her name is Angel-A. Together, they take a cruise on the Seine, repay André’s creditors, visit a Parisian nightspot, and more, as Angel-A helps André.He learns that for this purpose she has fallen out of the sky and into his life. André finds himself falling in love with this mysterious beauty.Read More »

  • Lucas Belvaux – Après la Vie AKA After Life [Trilogy No. 3] (2002)

    2001-2010DramaFranceLucas Belvaux

    In The Trilogy, three different but parallel stories unfold revealing the lives of a husband and wife, a policeman and his drug-addicted wife, and a prison escapee and his friends. The characters wander in and out of three films where we see them switch from leading men and women to supporting actors. The three films, all of different genres (the first is a thriller, the second a comedy and the third a melodrama), provide the same action from different angles and perspectives. Each film can be appreciated on its own, but together they form a cohesive whole allowing the viewer to gain a deeper understanding of the characters. Although it is reminiscent of Kurosawa’s Rashomon and Balzac’s novels, Lucas Belvaux’s project is unprecedented.Read More »

  • Lucas Belvaux – Un Couple Épatant AKA An Amazing Couple [Trilogy No. 2] (2002)

    2001-2010ComedyFranceLucas Belvaux

    In The Trilogy, three different but parallel stories unfold revealing the lives of a husband and wife, a policeman and his drug-addicted wife, and a prison escapee and his friends. The characters wander in and out of three films where we see them switch from leading men and women to supporting actors. The three films, all of different genres (the first is a thriller, the second a comedy and the third a melodrama), provide the same action from different angles and perspectives. Each film can be appreciated on its own, but together they form a cohesive whole allowing the viewer to gain a deeper understanding of the characters. Although it is reminiscent of Kurosawa’s Rashomon and Balzac’s novels, Lucas Belvaux’s project is unprecedented.Read More »

  • François Dupeyron – Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran AKA Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)

    2001-2010DramaFranceFrançois-Dupeyron

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    n a street called Blue in a very poor neighborhood in Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim (Omar Shariff) is an old Muslin Turkish owner of a small market. He becomes friend of the teenager Jewish Moises, tenderly nicknamed Momo (Pierre Boulanger), who lives with his father in a small apartment on the other side of the street. Monsieur Ibrahim gives paternal love and teaches the knowledge of the Koran to the boy, receiving in return love and respect.

    Golden Globe Nominations (2003):
    Best Foreign-Language Film
    Other Awards:
    César Awards—Best Actor: Omar Sharif
    Venice Film Festival—Best Actor: Omar SharifRead More »

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