Heidi Ellison
Evento
ART FOR AN URBAN REVOLUTION One of Pascal Marthine Tayou’s “poupées” from his installation at the Musée d’Aquitaine. The city of Bordeaux’s biannual citywide contemporary art festival, Evento, took a sociopolitical turn this year under the artistic direction of Italian … Read More
A long engagement for movie-goers
Amélie Fans Beware Oct. 27, 2004: If you, like millions of others, loved Amélie, the film that managed to make Montmartre even more of a tourist attraction, that doesn’t mean you will love director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest, “Un long dimanche … Read More
L’Enfant
Conscience-Impaired Youth Jérémie Renier plays the feckless Bruno. It’s difficult to understand why L’Enfant (The Child), written and directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, won them a second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year – it’s … Read More
Ma Vie en l’Air
Fear of Flying Marion Cotillard and Vincent Elbaz in Ma Vie en l’Air. Photo: © Alain Fillit Ma Vie en l’Air, the first feature film directed by Rémi Bezançon, gets off to a promising, quick-paced start, with a bitterweet Amélie-style … Read More
Zim and Co.
Suburban Trials of Fire Adrien Jolivet as Zim, in trouble with the law again. In France, the banlieue (suburbs) – less a haven for middle-class families than the equivalent of the American ghetto – seems to have become the subject … Read More
Voisins, Voisines
Neighborly Love Frédéric Diefenthal plays Paco, an ex-con. Although Voisins, Voisines, a new film directed by Malik Chibane, got good reviews when it opened in late July, it seems to be going more or less unnoticed by French movie-goers; only … Read More
La Moustache
Who’s Crazy Now? Emmanuelle Devos contemplates Vincent Lindon’s controversial lip brush in in La Moustache. The much-anticipated film La Moustache is now playing on French screens. Based on the novel by Emmanuel Carrère, with a scenario by Emmanuel Carrère (and … Read More
Imposture
Literary Reflections Who is the captor and who is the captive? Photo: Alain Potignon © 2005 EuropaCorp, TF1Films Production, Studio Lavabo Patrick Bouchitey directed, wrote (with Jackie Berroyer) and stars in Imposture, a new film about a French literature professor … Read More
Lemming
Alien Eyes Above: Zombie-like Charlotte Rampling catches the model couple kissing in the kitchen. Below: Charlotte Gainsbourg gets a shock. Photos: © Philippe Quaisse After all the hype at the current Cannes Film Festival and the success of Dominik Moll’s … Read More
Le Promeneur du Champ-de-Mars
Mitterrand’s Final Days Michel Bouquet and Jalil Lespert in Le Promeneur du Champ-de-Mars. Photo © FILM OBLIGE Eric Moulin The hot topic in France this past week has been the new film on the last days of former Socialist President … Read More