Synopsis
“The filmmakers tell a story on three time planes of two men of different nationalities and fates who are connected by a love of flying. At the beginning of the film, the younger, Chilean-born Max is already 50 when he hears gunfire: soldiers have risen up against Salvador Allende’s attempt to institute democracy. The event awakens memories of another war. Back then, as a military pilot, he had taken off from London to join the fight against the German Luftwaffe. When he returned to the base he almost didn’t realize that the new instructor, a Frenchman named Antoine, is the one who taught him to fly years earlier. Max was barely just ten when, one day, a plane descended from the heavens to his Chilean village, and a man stepped out who was to become his teacher and role model. Together they toured the country’s rugged landscape, meeting villagers crossing the mountains in the hope of finding work. The pair wander onto a mysterious estate, only to lose all trace of it the next day….”

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Three French journalists travel to Cambodia in 1978 after receiving an invitation from the Khmer Rouge regime, embarking on a perilous adventure.

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Young woman who lives under the gaze of her overprotective stepmother falls for a young man she meets. He is infatuated by her beauty, but is also a sociopath. She wants to leave her stepmother’s hold and he is ready to kill.

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The Son of Gascogne (1995)
October 9, 1995
FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW;Maybe He’s The Son Of a Film Legend
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: October 9, 1995

There really isn’t much difference between a favorite screen image and a personal memory of youthful passion, except that one exists on film and the other only in our private mental movies. That insight lies at the heart of Pascal Aubier’s delicious comic bouillabaisse of a film, “The Son of Gascogne.” The film, which the New York Film Festival is showing tonight at 9 and tomorrow night at 6 at Alice Tully Hall, is a fable about an innocent young man who inherits a mystique that has everything to do with old movies and old loves and our eagerness to confuse the two.

One evening in a Paris bar, Harvey (Gregoire Colin), a waifish tour guide for a group of folk singers from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, is picked out of the crowd by a boisterous stranger named Marco (Jean-Claude Dreyfus). An overbearing, ruddy-faced chauffeur, Marco informs the young man that he bears such an astonishing resemblance to Gascogne, a legendary 1960’s film maker and New Wave pioneer who died in a car crash, that he must be Gascogne’s son.

Marco claims to have known the director from the time he himself played a small part in a Gascogne film that has become a cult classic. All over Paris, he says, there are friends and colleagues of Gascogne’s who would be delighted to know that the director had a son, and he insists on making the introductions.

As it happens, Harvey grew up fatherless in Le Havre. His mother has always refused to discuss the circumstances of his paternity. Could it be?

Reluctantly, Harvey allows Marco to arrange introductions to assorted luminaries of the French cinema, who appear as themselves. They include Stephane Audran, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Chabrol, Bulle Ogier and Marina Vlady, among many others. Harvey finds himself instantly welcomed as a member of their extended family, and he becomes a nostalgic lodestone. As they pour out their personal anecdotes about Gascogne, their faces take on a youthful glow, and Harvey begins to see himself in his father’s image. So potent is Gascogne’s mystique that Harvey suddenly finds himself pursued by beautiful women eager to make love to a legend, even if the encounter has to be secondhand.

In the collective memories of Gascogne, the dead film maker emerges as the soul and essence of the French New Wave, with a legend that outstrips Truffaut and Godard together. A tireless womanizer who apparently had an affair with every woman who crossed his path, he also emerges as a borderline sociopath, a liar and practical joker who liked to assume false identities.

As if this weren’t enough, the ingeniously plotted film weaves in subplots of intrigue and romance. Gascogne supposedly died while working on an epic film that disappeared, although some claim to have viewed the rushes. The existence of a son opens up the possibility that the lost movie may somehow be retrieved. Marco, sniffing opportunity, turns out to be far less reputable than he first appeared.

At the same time that Harvey is embraced by Paris’s smart set, he is falling in love with Dinara (Dinara Droukarova), his Eastern-bloc counterpart on the tour. Dinara just happens to be a film student obsessed with “Breathless.” As she and Harvey deliriously skip down the streets of Paris, the movie intercuts their frolics with shots of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. At moments like this, the film, which is Mr. Aubier’s third feature (his first since 1976), becomes almost too giddy for its own good.

But it is easy to forgive the small excesses and occasional loose ends. Like the 60’s films to which it pays such sentimental homage, “The Son of Gascogne” surges with a passion for movies and for the tempestuous, fantasy-ridden life surrounding their making. As a robust but sophisticated valentine to the French cinema, it is nearly the equal of Truffaut’s classic “Day for Night.”

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James Gracey on Eye For Film wrote:
Based on a 19th century Gothic novella by Aleksey Tolstoy (previously adapted for cinema by Mario Bava as a segment in his 1963 anthology, Black Sabbath), The Vourdalak is the debut feature film from French writer-director Adrien Beau. It tells of the Marquis d’Urfé (Kacey Mottet Klein), an emissary of the King of France who seeks shelter with a family when he becomes lost travelling through Eastern Europe. The family are anxiously awaiting the return of their patriarch, Gorcha, who has gone to capture an outlaw. Before leaving, he forewarned his family that if he does not return within six days, he has been killed and, if he reappears, they must refuse him entry to the house as he has become a vourdalak; a walking corpse returned from the grave seeking the blood of its loved ones…Prior to the rise of the literary vampire, beginning with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, and John Polidori’s The Vampyre, Eastern European folkloric vampires, or revenants, were typically lower-class, peasant folk who had returned from the grave to feed on their family. Stoker et al elevated the figure of the vampire to the aristocracy, free to roam the earth, with wealth and power, draining the life-force of the under-classes. It’s an interesting contrast and one that Beau and co-writer Hadrien Bouvier lift directly from Tolstoy’s story in order to explore ideas about class, family, love, and hereditary intolerance.
Filmed on Super 16, The Vourdalak looks like a much older film, and amid the gauzy atmospherics lurk a plethora of striking images, not least the emaciated Gorcha beckoning his little grandson into the moonlit woods. Voiced by Beau, and portrayed on screen by a skeletal marionette, Gorcha is a terrifying sight; a gaunt, raw-boned husk, with a lipless face, rictus snarl and bulging eyes. The use of a marionette to portray a living corpse, with its shocking features suggestive of the waxy uncanniness of an embalmed body, is daring but effective. It has much more character and soul than a digitally created character and it’s testament to Beau’s screenplay that a certain degree of sympathy is also evoked for this frightening yet strangely pathetic creature.
Shot entirely on location and deeply entrenched in rural folk life and lore, The Vourdalak has a weird air of authenticity and shades of folk horror about it, not least the ritualistic practices enacted by daughter Sdenka (Ariane Labed) and her younger brother Pierre (Vassili Schneider) to try and ward off their father’s corpse. The sound design enhances the chilling atmosphere, with morbid groaning and slurping signalling the undead father’s presence in the night (vourdalaks are said to suck on their burial shroud).
Throughout, Beau explores the dangers of unwavering, unquestioning devotion, and the idea that intolerance and hatred is passed down through generations, refusing to die off. The family are systematically preyed upon by their father, and they literally kill each other because they love each other. Beau’s thoughtful screenplay is also peppered with gentle humour that emanates from carefully drawn characters who we grow to care about. The subtle dynamics that exist within the family unit shift as the story unfolds, creating a strong emotional core.
The younger brother Pierre explains to the Marquis that, “Love itself is a curse in these parts”. This speaks to the family’s predicament, suggesting their love for their father, and each other, is what dooms them as they gradually realise he is a revenant. However, Pierre is also presented as Queer and non-conforming to traditional gender roles (he wears jewellery and make-up and is initially misgendered by the Marquis), cruelly maligned and rejected by Gorcha, so his statement suggests another, deeper context regarding societal intolerance.
An immensely dark, macabre and unsettling work, The Vourdalak is for those who appreciate thoughtful, slow-burning and ghoulish horror. Beau’s methods of storytelling are a reminder of the haunting power and magic of cinema.

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A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.

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Nanayo is the latest film from Naomi Kawase, the winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with The Mourning Forest and BAFF 2003 with Shara. Making a change from Kawase’s former films, which are all set in her native Nara, Nanayo was shot in a poetic village in Thailand. The movie details the human drama that unfolds as different people of different nationalities happen to come together under one roof in a house in the middle of a forest. Lacking a common language, the art of traditional Thai massage becomes the tool they use to communicate. Removed from the speed of modern life, they form a strange but happy pseudo family. Kawase works for the first time with a multi-national cast and staff, including Grégoire Colin (seen in Claire Denis’ Beau Travail and Erick Zonca’s La vie rêvée des anges) and favorite’s Rivette and Truffaut Caroline Champetier as a director of photograhpy. Almost nothing is ever revealed about anyone’s backgrounds but as usual in Naomi Kawase’s movies, nature, atmosphere and landscape have much to say.

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Subtitles:English

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