Tag Archives: French cinema

a superb film about love in garbage (Film: Les amants du Pont-Neuf – Leos Carax, 1991)

Posted on April 11, 2019 by admin

I hope that you’ll excuse my enthusiasm. It is quite rare to fall on a film that I consider it deserving a 10/10 rating on IMDB. I am a demanding cinema fan, and the maximum rating is reserved on my … Continue reading →

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synonyms or false friends? (Film: Synonyms – Nadav Lapid, 2019)

Posted on March 18, 2019 by admin

Nadav Lapid‘s talent as a director and scriptwriter is visible in the excellent scenes that open and conclude his movie ‘Synonyms‘ (‘Milim Nirdafot‘ in Hebrew) Which received the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Yoav, the film’s hero, … Continue reading →

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the proof of fire (film: Sauver ou périr – Pierre Niney, 2018)

Posted on March 17, 2019 by admin

Pierre Niney is one of my favorite French actors at the moment. At age 21 he became the youngest resident actor ever at the Comedie Francaise. In the last few years he has captured the attention of cinema lovers and … Continue reading →

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men in water (Film: Le grand bain – Gilles Lellouche, 2018)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by admin

The very fact of making a movie about men in these years when women’s films are the focus of attention is a proof of originality from the director and co-scriptwriter Gilles Lellouche, better known as an actor and only at … Continue reading →

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ode to motherhood (Film: La promesse de l’aube – Eric Barbier, 2017)

Posted on March 7, 2019 by admin

I confess that I had great expectations and some emotions before seeing ‘La promesse de l’aube‘. Romain Gary was together with Boris Vian, the favorite French writer of my adolescence, and ‘La promesse de l’aube‘ was one of my beloved … Continue reading →

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traveling the world, traveling the mind (documentary: Sans Soleil – Chris Marker, 1983)

Posted on February 16, 2019 by admin

‘Sans Soleil‘ is a movie that is hard to fit in any category, same as its director Chris Marker (1921 – 2012) was a cinematic persona hard to characterize or place into a single shelve of the French film history. … Continue reading →

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a cinematographic essay on loneliness (Film: Documenteur – Agnes Varda, 1981)

Posted on February 14, 2019 by admin

‘Documenteur‘ is an interesting essay, but not one of the milestones in the filmography of Agnès Varda. The film follows a French woman, just out of a relationship, looking for housing and than living for a while in a non-proviledged … Continue reading →

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road to abyss (Film: Sans toit ni loi – Agnes Varda, 1985)

Posted on February 12, 2019 by admin

The retrospective of Agnès Varda‘s films that we have enjoyed for the last month at the local cinematheque gave us the opportunity to see the digitally reconditioned version of her wonderful 1985 film ‘Sans toit ni loi‘ (English title is … Continue reading →

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feminine and feminist (Film: L’une chante l’autre pas – Agnes Varda, 1976)

Posted on February 5, 2019 by admin

Agnès Varda‘s retrospective at the local cinema gave me the opportunity to watch for the first time ‘One Sings, the Other Doesn’t‘ (the original title in French is ‘L’une chante l’autre pas’). The story in this film takes place in … Continue reading →

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the story of a fake hero (Film: Un héros très discret – Jacques Audiard, 1996)

Posted on January 30, 2019 by admin

Successful revolutions and liberation movements that succeed often suffer from an interesting syndrome. Several weeks, months, years after the events, there are more and more “heroes” claiming deeds of bravery. In Romanian, the proverb that characterizes this syndrome is ‘Many … Continue reading →

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