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The Temptation of Gad (film: Reste un peu – Gad Elmaleh, 2022)

Posted on March 29, 2023 by admin

I’ve been looking forward to watching ‘Reste un peu‘, Gad Elmaleh’s semi-documentary and semi-autobiographical film ever since I saw some interviews and debates on the francophone televisions on the occasion of its release on screens in France a few months … Continue reading →

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a mousetrap in a mousetrap (film: See How They Run – Tom George, 2022)

Posted on November 17, 2022 by admin

Viewers who had the opportunity to see Agatha Christie’s famous play ‘The Mousetrap’ will have a great advantage and probably will enjoy more watching the film ‘See How They Run‘ directed by Tom George, one among the several promising premieres … Continue reading →

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the world as a madhouse (film: Le roi de coeur – Philippe de Broca, 1966)

Posted on September 30, 2022 by admin

‘Le roi de coeur‘ starts from a formidable idea and ends up betting too much on it. In the filmography of director Philippe de Broca, the film occupies a special place, being considered one of his most ‘serious’ films in … Continue reading →

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the Israeli comedy of the summer (film: Hummus Full Trailer – Asaf Kobrovsky, 2022)

Posted on June 3, 2022 by admin

The local cinematheque screened in a preview session one of the Israeli films that has a good chance of becoming the summer hit of 2022. The title is ‘Hummus Full Trailer‘, an action comedy that gathers in its cast some … Continue reading →

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crime comedy with a French sauce (film: Cop au vin – Claude Chabrol, 1985)

Posted on May 9, 2022 by admin

‘Cop au vin‘ (an inspired translation of the original title ‘Poulet au vinaigre‘) is one of those films by Claude Chabrol which, when viewed, I have the impression that they were made with Alfred Hitchcock looking approvingly over the French … Continue reading →

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this bubble lost air (film: The Bubble – Judd Apatow, 2022)

Posted on April 7, 2022 by admin

‘The Bubble‘, the comedy that Netflix launched on April 1st of this year, directed and co-written by Judd Apatow had all the prerequisites to be a blockbuster. It starts from an excellent idea, refers directly in the satirical register to … Continue reading →

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between style and mystery (film: Le mystère de la chambre jaune – Bruno Podalydès, 2003)

Posted on January 31, 2022 by admin

Gaston Leroux‘s ‘Le mystere de la chambre jaune‘ is one of the most famous detective novels in the locked-room whodunit genre. Agatha Christie herself considered it the masterpiece of the genre. It has had several screenings, on large and small … Continue reading →

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Netflix Looks Up (film: Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay, 2021)

Posted on January 7, 2022 by admin

It’s rare for a film to radically divide opinions like ‘Don’t Look Up‘, the political-apocalyptic satire written and directed by Adam McKay that ended the year 2021, succeeded to do. Fame preceded it in my mailbox and in the news … 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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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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