Category Archives: movies

love triangle (film: Chère inconnue – Moshé Mizrahi, 1980)

Posted on December 29, 2021 by admin

I’m not much of a fan of melodramas. Most movies in that genre leave me indifferent at best, and unwillingly amuse me in the worst cases. However, there are exceptions, and in those cases the effect may be the opposite. … Continue reading →

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space dystopia and Glasnost (film: Kin-dza-dza! – Georgiy Daneliya, 1986)

Posted on December 28, 2021 by admin

‘Kin-dza-dza!‘ is a 1986 science fiction production of the Soviet film studios Mosfilm, directed by Georgian director Georgiy Daneliya. If we didn’t know anything about this movie and if it was spoken in English we could classify it in the … Continue reading →

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a lost letter (film: Le bon plaisir – Francis Girod, 1984)

Posted on December 24, 2021 by admin

At the end of ‘Le bon plaisir‘ (1984), the film directed by Francis Girod, before the credits, a routine disclaimer is displayed stating that the story and the characters are imaginary. In fact, the relationship between this film and reality … Continue reading →

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Truffaut after Truffaut (film: La petite voleuse – Claude Miller, 1988)

Posted on December 21, 2021 by admin

We can look at ‘La petite voleuse‘ (1988) in several ways. First of all, the film contains a few landmarks worth being studied in film schools: the last screenplay written by François Truffaut before his death in 1984, entrusted when … Continue reading →

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Depardieu and Baye meet at the peak (film: Rive droite, rive gauche – Philippe Labro, 1984)

Posted on December 18, 2021 by admin

‘Rive droite, rive gauche‘ (1984) is the last of the 9 films in the career of director Philippe Labro. I don’t know exactly why Labro, who had been a friend and film disciple of Jean-Pierre Melville, concluded his directing career … Continue reading →

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Spielberg meets Bernstein (film: West Side Story – Steven Spielberg, 2021)

Posted on December 17, 2021 by admin

The history of cinema is (also) a history of remake movies, and getting back to a famous theme such as ‘West Side Story‘ is an event, especially since the 2021 version is directed by the famous Steven Spielberg himself, who … Continue reading →

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gang of foolish (film: Flickering Lights – Anders Thomas Jensen, 2000)

Posted on December 11, 2021 by admin

‘Blinkende lygter‘ (the English title is ‘Flickering Lights‘) is the first feature film by Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, who, by the time the movie was made in the year 2000, had already started a prolific screenwriting career. He continued … Continue reading →

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a reverence to printed journalism (film: The French Dispatch – Wes Anderson, 2021)

Posted on December 8, 2021 by admin

Wes Anderson planned to launch ‘The French Dispatch‘, his latest extravagant fantasy, at Cannes, with the red carpet deployed for his stars, and when Corona canceled the 2020 film festival, the director along with the film’s producers decided to postpone … Continue reading →

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24 hours (film: Oslo, August 31st – Joachim Trier, 2011)

Posted on December 6, 2021 by admin

‘Oslo, August 31‘ (2011), the second film by Norwegian director Joachim Trier, is inspired by a French novel written in 1931, which was also brought to screen by Louis Malle during the Nouvelle Vague period of his career. Trier, a … Continue reading →

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Norwegian Nouvelle Vague (film: Reprise – Joachim Trier, 2006)

Posted on December 4, 2021 by admin

‘Reprise‘, the 2006 debut film by Norwegian director Joachim Trier, is a tribute to the directors of the French New Wave and their films. In many ways it looks like a New Wave movie made in Norway in the 2000’s. … Continue reading →

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