Abel (Louis Garrel), Marianne (Laetitia Casta) and their 13-year-old son Joseph (Joseph Engel) live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is thrown into turmoil when Abel and Marianne discover that Joseph has secretly sold valuables from the family home to finance a mysterious ecological project he and his friends have in Africa. They’re about to save the planet…Read More »
Going to buy milk from the farmer next-door can be a real drama.
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Intro by Luc Moullet. Col, 5 mn
EXTRA 2
Interview by Jacques Kermabon, col, 14 mn.Read More »
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This shocker will most likely appeal to fans of pitch-black beyond-bad-taste comedy. Others may find it highly offensive and gory as it chronicles the fate of homeless Brooklyn winos when they get into some tainted wine and begin melting into slimy puddles of human goo. The wine, called “Tenafly Viper,” is being sold by the owner of a liquor store who found it lying around in his basement and sells it to the bums for a buck. It is later revealed that the wine was deliberately spiked by the government.Read More »
Fredrik has everything he could want in life, a girlfriend he loves, he owns a hot dog stand that goes really well, and in addition, he will soon be a father. But happiness does not last forever, Pia decides to leave Frederick and go back to his first true love. Frederick’s world falls apart as he more than any other longs for a child, so he decides to adopt one. Frederick persuade Russian Tatyana who works in his booth to SIMULATE a marriage in order to increase his chances for adoption. But when Frederick meets Milla, who works at the social welfare office, which must approve the adoption, he is in love and everything changes again in Frederick’s life.Read More »
A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.Read More »
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Christmas Eve is a hot and suffocating night in Argentina. A Mitzvah entertainer, a novelist, his girlfriend, a doctor, a wheelchair bound man, a father out looking for a last-minute present – all are tied together without necessarily knowing it, both by circumstances that bring their lives to intersection, but more so by longing.
An acid vision about Christmas.Read More »
Grant Nebel wrote:
Melancholic Screwball
Into the Night resembles a lot of other films of its time: the Los Angeles version of Scorsese’s After Hours or what Miracle Mile would have been if that thing (you know the thing I mean) hadn’t happened. Moving forward, it’s Collateral with one character gender-switched and actually more gunplay, but its most interesting cinematic relative is Eyes Wide Shut. Let’s call it a second cousin: both films are about a man’s two-night journey after he realizes his wife’s infidelity (imagined in Eyes, real here) and more importantly, both take place in a city that’s not quite real. Kubrick created his own hallucination of New York for his film, but director John Landis and writer Ron Koslow had the advantage of making Into the Night in L. A., a city that’s always already part fiction.Read More »
Saotome is a white-collar worker and he was neglected by his wife and children at home. He met Gen, a blue-collar worker and they became good friends.Read More »
