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So the story goes: Having completed only two (Duelle and Noroît) of the proposed four films in his quick-succession series Scenes from a Parallel Life, Jacques Rivette found himself hounded by investors and teetering on the edge of sanity. The result: Merry-Go-Round—a fascinatingly nonsensical ramble through the director’s own inland empire, featuring a scruffy Joe Dallesandro, as American abroad Ben Phillipps, and a sleepy-eyed Maria Schneider, as mystery woman Léo Hoffmann, wandering the French countryside in search of the elusive Elisabeth (Danièle Gegauff), the former’s girlfriend and the latter’s sister. Read More »

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With characteristic invention, Ariane Mnouchkine, one of Europe’s most visionary stage directors, had the actors of Le Théâtre du Soleil improvise refugee stories based on what they’d gathered in a lifetime of newspaper reading before showing them the extraordinary letters on which THE LAST CARAVANSERAIL is based. Selected letters – written by Iranian, and Kurdish refugees held in France, Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand – were then organized into an episodic, non-linear, structure that honors and recalls Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, manifold tales of war, no matter its cause, and its consequences. The 6-hour play, presented in two parts, neither points its finger at the West nor portrays the refugees as saintly; what it does is give dimension to withering statistics.Read More »

It was to be Marcel Pagnol’s last film; like Mankiewicz, he did not make any movies (apart from a short) in the last twenty years of his life; probably busy writing his memoirs (“le Château De Ma Mère,La Gloire de Mon Père ” which were successfully tranfered to the screen by Yves Robert in the late eighties.).

Alphonse Daudet’s short stories were tailor made for a Provençal director such as Pagnol;if you go to Provence,you can visit the windmill where Daudet was supposed to write his “letters” ;actually he never lived in this place,but in the castle of some of his friends near the legendary mill.But it’s true that most of the stories which were included in “LETTRES DE MON MOULIN” are true stories: Daudet was told about Maitre Cornille ,MR Seguin’s goat and others by peasants and shepherds he used to meet when he walked across the hills.Read More »

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Emilio travaille comme nègre pour Donald, un romancier célèbre en panne d’inspiration. Las de cette situation, il décide de quitter l’artiste et de de publier ses poèmes. Lors d’une réception, les deux hommes se retrouvent et la vérité éclate…

Writer of detective novels that are selling well, Emilio Serrantoni not figure as an author: shy and insecure, has agreed to publish with the signing of another Donald Ross, which are the most fame and money. Avid player, but he regularly loses. After a particularly heavy defeat, Donald urgent need of a new work by Emilio, who is called ‘I hate blondes’ which tells of a robbery at a house whose alarm systems are identical to that del’editore Brown. For a number of misunderstandings real thieves think Emilio is their inside guy.Read More »

On retrouve dans ce film le va-et-vient entre l’intime et le monde, entre le vrai et le faux dans ces passionnants Nuages américains, journal de Morder qui couvre la période de l’été 1982 au 1er janvier 1983. Le film se divise en deux parties : la première retrace son voyage aux Etats-Unis où le cinéaste est censé retrouver un ami avec qui il va rompre et une seconde, française, où il évoque une rencontre avec un autre garçon.Read More »

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During a gallant party, three women decide to provoke a gentleman by challenging him to improvise poems on the theme of “women’s breasts”. The result is a cascade of puns, witticisms and naughty undertones between the man and his former lover, the lady of the house and a young provincial ingenue.Read More »

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Fascinated as much as terrified, a woman takes refuge in the privacy of her room to secretly read “Discourse against God” by the Marquis de Sade, which she has stolen from her husband’s library. The first lines she reads make her aware of the incredibly sulphurous and anticlerical aspect of this book, because in the 18th century, the refusal of God can only be brutal and protestant, a language without limits destined to break up all the prisons of men.Read More »

PLOT: Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval’s works break down the boundaries between countries, languages and genres. Their new film mixes documentary, acting, dance and song to counteract a “politics of tracking” and advocate a radical change of approach. From the story, of a Brazzaville slave who must follow his master into death, to that of a Senegalese exile who finds himself reincarnated in Barcelona, to the trance of the Bela Vista carnival. When the House Burns Down is a visual poem that celebrates the collective dimension of life.Read More »

Eric Rohmer’s mostly faithful staging of Heinrich von Kleist’s play Käthchen von Heilbronn. It was taped in 1979 at the Theatre des Amandiers, Nanterre for broadcast on French TV. After Die Marquise von O…, this is Rohmer’s second Kleist adaptation, and it features a lot of familiar faces in the Rohmersphere.Read More »