Tag Archives: French cinema

triangular love (film: César et Rosalie – Claude Sautet, 1972)

Posted on February 10, 2021 by admin

‘Cesar et Rosalie‘, the title of the 1972 movie by French film director Claude Sautet, can easily be misleading. It is not a simple love story, or rather it is not a single love story, but two. In other words, … Continue reading →

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Isabelle and Gerard (film: Valley of Love – Guillome Nicloux, 2015)

Posted on February 5, 2021 by admin

‘Valley of Love‘, the film written and made in 2015 by Guillaume Nicloux brings Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert together on screen. These two formidable French actors had never acted together for 35 years in a film. In the meantime … Continue reading →

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Deneuve and Binoche at their best in a smart and sensible movie by Hirokazu Koreeda (film: La vérité – Hirokazu Koreeda, 2019)

Posted on January 30, 2021 by admin

The presence of Catherine Deneuve or Juliette Binoche in the cast would be reason enough to make me run to see a movie. ‘La vérité‘ (the title in English is ‘The Truth‘) made in 2010 gave me the double opportunity … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Fiica astronautei

Posted on January 25, 2021 by admin

Plecările în misiunile spațiale de astăzi nu sunt foarte diferite de plecările marinarilor în călătorii pe oceane, cu 500 de ani în urmă. Despărțirile sunt de lungă durată și întoarcerea nu este întotdeauna garantată. Literatura și cinematografia de anticipație s-au … Continue reading →

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a strange version of the Jekyll / Hyde story (film: Madame Hyde – Serge Bozon, 2017)

Posted on January 23, 2021 by admin

Director and co-writer Serge Bozon started from the famous novella by Robert Louis Stevenson to make in 2017 ‘Madame Hyde‘ a feminine version of the story, transferred into a school in 21st century France. Starring Isabelle Huppert, one of the … Continue reading →

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more than a courtroom drama (film: La fille au bracelet – Stéphane Demoustier, 2019)

Posted on December 28, 2020 by admin

The French court drama ‘La fille au bracelet‘ (the English title is ‘The Girl with a Bracelet’) made in 2019 by Stéphane Demoustier starts from a situation that is one of the nightmares of any parent. How do a couple … Continue reading →

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the charm of Belmondo (film: L’as des as – Gerard Oury, 1982)

Posted on December 25, 2020 by admin

In 1982, when he made ‘L’as des as‘ (the English title is ‘Ace of Aces‘) Gérard Oury was a highly regarded director in France and had also gained an international reputation with action comedy films, including the best known of … Continue reading →

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translator, traitor (film: Les traducteurs – Régis Roinsard, 2019)

Posted on November 18, 2020 by admin

Traduttore, traditore: Translator, traitor – this ingenious consonance that seems to have originated from angry Italians who believed that many French translations of Dante betrayed either the beauty or the accuracy of the poet’s work is gaining new meanings in … Continue reading →

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a long, slow, beautiful, different film about colonial Asia (film: India Song – Marguerite Duras, 1975)

Posted on October 31, 2020 by admin

‘India Song‘ written and directed in 1975 by Marguerite Duras can be either a mesmerizing or a painful cinematic experience. The French writer whose literary work largely reflected her life experience in Asia and her fascination with this continent has … Continue reading →

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a classic of the French ‘film noir’ (film: Le doulos – Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962)

Posted on October 27, 2020 by admin

Made in 1962, ‘Le doulos‘ is probably the most characteristic ‘film noir’ of Jean-Pierre Melville‘s career. It is also the film in which the French director expresses openly on screen, with cinematographic means, his total devotion to the American cinematography … Continue reading →

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