SYNOPSIS:
A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.Read More »
Celebrating movie theaters’ magic, a film enthusiast follows the footsteps of Paul Dédalus. Memories, fiction, and discoveries intertwine in a torrential flow of cinematic imagery.Read More »
A young Jew in 19th-century London, Esther Kahn is so disconnected with her surroundings – hardly speaking, emotionless – that she seems retarded. Unhappy among her poor tailoring family, she yearns for the stage. Only there does she engage with life.Read More »
It is in childhood that we find Paul Dédalus, who, as a simple spectator, will discover what will change his life: the seventh art. The passion of a cinephile will soon give way to the aspirations of a filmmaker. Desplechin revisits his character, Paul Dédalus, and his favorite actor, Mathieu Amalric, whom he portrays in childhood after exploring two other periods of his life in Comment je me suis disputé… (ma vie sexuelle) and Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse. Thus, he concludes his own trilogy by returning to the source. It is a story about the importance of culture in early childhood, which shapes us, and about vocation.Read More »
Synopsis:
The story revolves around a brother and sister who are nearing their fifties – Alice is an actress, Louis was a teacher and a poet. They no longer speak to one another and have been avoiding each other for over twenty years, but the death of their parents will force them to cross paths.Read More »
IMDB:
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.Read More »
At the end of World War II, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas – an institution specializing in mental illness. Jimmy suffers from numerous symptoms: dizzy spells, temporary blindness, hearing loss… In the absence of any physiological causes, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture.Read More »
Criterion wrote:
In Arnaud Desplechin’s beguiling A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who come together at Christmas after she learns she needs a bone marrow transplant from a blood relative. That simple family reunion setup, however, can’t begin to describe the unpredictable, emotionally volatile experience of this film, an inventive, magical drama that’s equal parts merriment and melancholy. Unrequited childhood loves and blinding grudges, brutal outbursts and sudden slapstick, music, movies, and poetry, A Christmas Tale ties it all together in a marvelously messy package.
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IMDB quote:
The story follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.Read More »