Tag Archives: French cinema

Cartea de Film: Michel Marie – Noul Val Francez

Posted on May 18, 2012 by admin

Cu trei-patru ani in urma cinematecile si festivalurile de film din intreaga lume au celebrat jumatate de secol de la aparitia pe scena cinematografiei franceze si internationale a fenomenului numit Noul Val Francez – o generatie de creatori in mare … Continue reading →

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Film: Un long dimanche de fiançailles (Audrey Tautou, 2004)

Posted on August 22, 2011 by admin

‘Amelie’ is one of my preferred movies of all times. It brought to my attention the fabulous actress who is Audrey Tautou and also director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. To a large extent ‘Un long dimanche de fiancailles’ plays on the same … Continue reading →

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Film: Le Chat du Rabbin (Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfarr – 2011)

Posted on June 14, 2011 by admin

Joann Sfar is the director of Gainsbourg, Une Vie Heroique, a film that I loved immensely, one of the best I have seen lately. I was not astonished to learn that his Jewish origins are doubled by some Belgian identity, … Continue reading →

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Film: ‘Gainsbourg (Vie heroique)’ (Joann Sfar, 2010)

Posted on December 28, 2010 by admin

Where does this amazing film come from? Who is Joann Sfar, a director I never heard about before? The easiest answer at hand was the wikipedia entry which tells us that Sfar is a well known comics author in the … Continue reading →

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Film: L’Armee des Ombres (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)

Posted on August 22, 2010 by admin

I was writing a while ago that when Quentin Tarantino was making Inglorious Basterds he was not so much making a film about the Second World War and the Holocaust, but more a Tarantino film that happens during the Second … Continue reading →

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Film: Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)

Posted on August 8, 2010 by admin

(video source nwatts88) Uri Klein, the film critic of Ha’Aretz chose to open yesterday his short presentation of Jean-Pierre Melville‘s Le Circle Rouge (The Red Circle) with a short appearance of the director in Godard‘s Au Bout de Souffle. Melville … Continue reading →

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