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.

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)



Written & Directed By: Oliver Nakache & Eric Toledan
Cinematography By: Ludovico Einaudi
Editor: Dorian Rigal-Ansous

Cast: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Audrey Fleurot, Anne Le Ny, Clotide Mollet

Friday, March 8, 2013

MARTYRS (2008)



Written & Directed By: Pascal Laugier
Cinematography By: Stephane Martin, Bruno Phillip & Nathalie Moliavko-Visotsky
Editor: Sebastien Pangere

Cast: Morjana Alaoui, Mylene Jampanoi, Catherine Bergin, Xavier Dolan

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