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Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French. Show all posts
Friday, March 27, 2020
THE WORLD IS YOURS (2018)
Directed By: Romain Gavras
Written By: Romain Gavras, Noe Debre & Karim Boukercha
Cinematography: Andre Chemetoff
Editor: Benjamin Weill
Music By: Jamie XX & SebastiAn
Cast: Karim Leklou, Oulaya Amamra, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel, Sam Spruell, Gabby Rose, Ladj Ly
A small-time dealer dreams of another life but can't afford it. To escape, he must accept one last job involving Spain, drugs, the Illuminati and his overbearing mother.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0061: ZAZIE DANS LE METRO (1960)
Directed By: Louis Malle
Written By: Louis Malle & Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Based on the Novel By: Raymond Queneau
Cinematography: Henry Raichi
Editor: Kenout Peltier
Cast: Catherine Demongeot, Phillipe Noiret, Hubert Dechamps, Carla Marlier, Annie Fratellini
With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country-girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike, under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. Can a little girl cause so much chaos in the heart of the city?
FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952)
Directed By: Rene Clement
Written By: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost & Francois Boyer
Based On The Novel By: Francois Boyer
Cinematography: Robert Juillard
Editor: Roger Dwyre
Cast: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Jaques Marin
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are frequently at cross-purposes.
Friday, June 28, 2019
KNIFE + HEART (2019)
Directed By: Yann Martinez
Written By: Yann Martinez & Cristiano Mangione
Cinematography: Simon Beaufils
Editor: Raphael Leferve
Music By: M83
Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Katie Moran, Jonathan Genet, Felix Maritaud, Romane Bohringer, Elina Lowensohn, Pierre Pirol, Jacques Nolot
Anne produces third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flamboyant sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside down.
Labels:
2019,
Elina Lowensohn,
Foreign,
France,
French,
Giallo,
Katie Moran,
M83,
Mystery,
Nicolas Maury,
Pierre Pirol,
Romane Bohringer,
Simon Beaufils,
Thriller,
Vanessa Paradis,
Yann Martinez
Friday, June 7, 2019
WATER LILIES (2007)
Written & Directed By: Celine Sciamma
Cinematography: Crystel Fournier
Editor: Julien Lacheray
Cast: Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachere, Adele Haenel, Warren Lacquin
Three girls, each about 15, deal with puberty, the onset of sexual attraction, and, for two, the pressure of virginity. Marie, who's slight and diffident, quiet and nearly expressionless, is friends with Anne, who's a bit chunky and impulsive and has decided that François will be her first love. Watching synchronized swimming, Marie is suddenly attracted to the team captain, Floriane, beautiful, aloof, tall, and rumored to be a slut. François pursues her. Marie begins to hang around her; they trade favors, and soon it's an odd sort of friendship. Each of the three experiences her own first, and Marie must sort out attraction and friendship.
Friday, March 1, 2019
CLIMAX (2019)
Written & Directed By: Gaspar Noe
Cinematography: Benoit Debie
Editor: Denis Bedlow & Gaspar Noe
Cast: Sofia Boutella, Sarah Belala, Romain Guillermic, Souhelia Yacoub
In the mid 90’s 20 French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it's soon impossible for them to resist to their neuroses and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.
YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL (JEUNE AND JOLIE) (2013)
Written & Directed By: Francois Ozon
Cinematography: Pascal Marti
Editor: Laure Gardette
Cast: Marine Vacth, Geraldine Pailhas, Charlotte Rampling, Fredtic Pierrot, Fantin Ravat, Johan Laysen
After losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
REVENGE (2018)
Written & Directed By: Coralie Fargeat
Cinematography By: Robrecht Hayveart
Editor: Jerome Eltabet, Bruno Safar & Coralie Fargeat
Cast: Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchede
Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0044: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (2013)
Directed By: Abdellatif Kechiche
Written By: Abdellatif Kechiche & Ghalia Lacroix
Adapted from: the comic book "Le Bleu est une couleur chaude" by: Julie Maroh Cinematography By: Sofian El Fani
Editor: Sophie Brunet, Ghalia Lacroix, Albertine Lastera, Jean-Marie Lengelle & Camille Toubkis
Cast: Lea Seydoux, Adele Exarchopoulus, Salim Kechiouche, Aurellen Recoing, Catherine Salee, Benjamin Siksou, Alma Jodorosky
Saturday, November 8, 2014
AMOUR (2012)
Written & Directed By: Michael Haneke
Cinematography By: Darius Khondji
Editor: Nadine Muse & Monika Willi
Cast: Emanuelle Rivas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud, William Shimell
Sunday, November 3, 2013
SLEEPLESS NIGHT (NUIT BLANCHE) (2011)
Directed By: Frederic Jardin
Written By: Frederic Jardin & Nicolas Saada
Story By: Frederic Jardin & Oliver Douyere
Cinematography By: Tom Stern
Editor: Christophe Panel
Cast: Tomer Sisely, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier, Joey Starr, Laurent Stocker, Birol Unel, Lizzie Brochere, Pom Klementieff, Samy Seghir
Friday, August 16, 2013
INSIDE (2007)
Directed By: Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury
Written By: Alexandre Bustillo
Cinematography By: Laurent Bares
Editor: Baxter
Cast: Alysson Paradis, Beatrice Dalle, Tahar Rahim
Friday, July 26, 2013
LOVE ME IF YOU DARE (2003)
Written & Directed By: Yann Samuell
Cinematography By: Antoine Roch
Editor: Judith Riviere Kawa & Andrea Sedlackova
Cast: Guilliaume Canet, Marion Cotillard
Sunday, March 17, 2013
THE INTOUCHABLES (2012)
Friday, March 8, 2013
MARTYRS (2008)
Sunday, November 25, 2012
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958)
Directed By: Louis Malle
Written By: Louis Malle & Roger Nimier
Based On the Novel By: Noel Calef
Cinematography By: Henri Decae
Editor: Leonide Azar
Original Music By: Miles Davis
Cast: Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
LOVE CRIME (2010)
Directed By: Alain Corneau
Written By: Alain Corneau & Nathalie Carter
Cinematography By: Yves Angelo
Editor: Thierry Derocles
Cast: Ludvine Sagnier, Kristen Scott Thomas
Sunday, July 22, 2012
M. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1953)
Directed By: Jacques Tati
Story By: Jacques Tati & Henri Marquet
Written By: Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet, Pierre Aubert & Jacques Lagrange
Cinematography By: Jean Mouselle & Jacques Mercanton
Editor: Jacques Grassi, Charles Brentoneiche, Suzanne Baron
Cast: Jacques Tati, Louis Perrault
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