French

‘One day, on the Moroccan shores, one hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of antelopes together threw themselves into the sea.’ – Marguerite DurasRead More »

The young teacher Camille becomes rommmates with the fun-loving Émilie. Although the two have no romantic feelings for each other, they live out their mutual physical attraction – with regular and uncomplicated abandon. When Camille meets the 30-year-old student Nora, his interest in her is also piqued. Everyone wants non-commitment – but how long can you keep your feelings out? Master director Jacques Audiard uses dynamic black-and-white imagery to bring to life the inner world of a young and volatile generation living in France’s multicultural big city.Read More »

The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl system of thought.Read More »

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After several decades of colonial cinema using Africa as an exotic setting – often denying humanity and dignity to its people – and 70 years after the invention of the cinema, freshly independent Africans take hold at long last of that movie-camera which had been forbidden to them for so long. Despite a total lack of means and infrastructures, and filming against all odds, using by chance any African or foreign support, they try to show African reality in its variegated forms, as it is seen at last through African eyes. Using large extracts from the main films, interventions of filmakers, and rare vintage footage CAMERA D’AFRIQUE recalls the early 20 years of those new “author films”, created in Sub-Saharan Africa, which bear witness to an amazing thirst for showing and expressing themselves, never extinguished to this day.Read More »

A young woman’s return home brings up troubles from the past, while her teenage sister is anxious for the future.Read More »

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The word bled in Bled Number One, the title of Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche’s follow-up to his well-regarded debut Wesh-Wesh (What’s Going On?) in 2001, translates roughly as Hicksville. Which is precisely where Kamel ends up after being deported from France to Algeria, the land of his fathers, after doing time for robbery.

Bled is a finely observed slice of life shot in a low-key semi-documentary style. The latest in a run of French-made movies dealing with Franco-Algerian cross-currents, it speaks volumes about the conditions of life in today’s Algeria and should play well in festivals and in the Arabic-speaking world.Read More »

here is a rip of the extra on the kino dvd. a 20 minute interview with haneke with serge toubianaRead More »

Stella is an autobiographical 2008 French film directed by Sylvie Verheyde.

Coming-of-age films – particularly those emanating from Hollywood – have a habit of focusing on those in their late teens, coping with the coming of responsibility and, more often than not, sex. But there is arguably a much bigger jump to be made by those just entering their teens, as they make the move from childhood to the nightmare of puberty at the same time as negotiating the social upheaval of switching schools and taking on life lessons.Read More »

Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording equally well in 35 mm and digitally, LA ROUGE ET LA NOIRE is a film in kaleidoscope form. The portrait of Aatons founder, Jean-Pierre Beauviala creator, inter alia, of the time-code and the light cameras used by the New Wave (in particular the bush camera specially designed for Jean Rouch) is centered around the basic plot introduced by two women thieves who talk as voice-overs, and whose identities will only be revealed at the end.Read More »