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In a village outside Dakar, the gods – or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Directed by Alain Gomis and starring multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams, “Tey” is a beautiful, sensual, humane tale with beautiful scenes that seek to show the elements of friendship, desire, sadness, affection and anger that are usually left unsaid.Read More »
Louis decides to leave his wife and finds his happiness elsewhere. Along the way, he meets a man with whom he falls in love.Read More »
Documentary master Frederick Wiseman’s 38th film in a career that has spanned more than that number of years, turns his attention to one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, the Paris Opera Ballet. John Davey’s camera roams the vast Palais Garnier, an opulent 19th century pile of a building: from its crystal chandelier-laden corridors to its labyrinthine underground chambers, from its light-filled rehearsal studios to its luxurious theater replete with 2,200 scarlet velvet seats and Marc Chagall ceiling. LA DANSE devotes most of its time to watching impossibly beautiful young men and women — among them Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnès Gillot, and Agnès Letestu — rehearsing the choreography of Mats Ek, Wayne McGregor, Rudolf Nureyev and Pina Bausch. For balletomanes and the curious alike, LA DANSE serves up a scrumptious meal of delectable moments, one more glorious than the next, made even more precious by their ephemeral nature.Read More »
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Judith leads a double life: two lovers, two sons in France and one daughter in Switzerland. Entangled in secrets and lies, her lives begin to shatter.Read More »
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Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman makes his second fictional feature with La Dernière Lettre (The Last Letter). Anna Semyonova (Catherine Samie) is locked up in an occupied Ukrainian ghetto in 1941. Adapted from Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate, the film consists of the woman reciting a monologue of the final letter she wrote to her son before the Nazis came for her. Shot in black-and-white, the only other characters in this film are the shadows on the wall.Read More »
A re-edited version of Joris Postema’s Stop Filming Us, Vivuya and Twahirwa’s film takes a closer look at the imbalance of power inherited from colonialism and its consequences on the representation of the DRC, cinematic and otherwise.Read More »
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When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.Read More »
A young man decides one night to leave the woman he loves. He tells him by phone. All night, he calls her. They talk about this dead love. The young man is a painter. He meets a runaway teenager who prostitutes himself to eat. Strong bonds are created between the painter and the teenager.
“Au cours de son errance nocturne à Paris, Jean se souvient de sa passion pour Stella à laquelle il vient d’annoncer la fin de leur liaison. Il rencontre Jeannot, un jeune prostitué, devant la gare de Lyon : les deux hommes se racontent leurs tourments, poursuivant ensemble leur déambulation à travers la capitale…”Read More »
Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her.Read More »