A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
2 wins, 9 nominations
Based on short stories by Haruki Murakami.Read More »
In the blocs of low-cost housing in Colombes, the tenants’ association takes part in the renovation of the buildings.Read More »
Suite of the essay on Louis Skorecki’s cinema through the relations of some young cinema enthusiasts.Read More »
Claire, a French tourist, is arrested by a puritanical and brutal policeman, who sends her to a women’s prison.Read More »
The Glimpse films will soon count as many numbers as our century. But the number 19 is really a special delicacy, made by a Roy Stuart at the top of his art. At the heart of this new Glimpse is a long torrid scene in which we witness the slow seduction of a magnificent young woman, never photographed or filmed naked before, and who is slowly drawn to unsimulated sex. Novice maybe, but not: no vice!Read More »
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker. Scripted by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, the film was banned from theaters for the duration of the occupation for its dark portrayal of the hedonistic excesses of the ruling class. Today, it is often singled out as Jean Grémillon’s greatest achievement. Written by AnonymousRead More »
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After the success of The Mother and the Whore, French director Jean Eustache was finally able to make Mes petites amoureuses, an equally personal but vastly different film — a portrait of his childhood in the south of France in which every footstep, every gesture, and every visual detail feels as though it’s been drawn directly from the filmmaker’s memory.Read More »
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Spiritual disciplines span the spectrum from quiet personal self-reflection to physically militant offensives against the ego that tyrannizes us all. Writer/Director Bertrand Bonello’s latest film On War deals with the latter.
On War is a film about purging—the purging of self, of attachment to the world, and of attachment to assumptions about one’s self in the world. As the characters in the film suggest, it is only through this purging that a person may fully release into the immediacy of joy and pleasure. And it is joy and pleasure, things real and authentic, that our protagonist Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric) is searching for.Read More »
The new Glimpse by Roy Stuart – already the eighteenth! – is a great achievement that should delight the fans that we all are. The master of explicit erotic spectacle has again struck strong. Adept in the third way between eroticism and pornography, he gives us a masterpiece far from the insipidinous of traditional eroticism and the vulgarity of routine pornography.Read More »