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INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (INCROYABLE MAIS VRAI)

July 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (INCROYABLE MAIS VRAI)

One of the many delightful things about Quentin Dupieux’s films is that they do not waste our time. They are a marvel of economy while at the same time seriously introducing a wealth of bemusing ideas in their tightly written, superbly absurd plots. And so it is with INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (INCROYABLE MAI VRAI), a… Read More »

Tagged With: France, middle class, recoil, semi-legal medical procedue, time travel

HAPPENING — Audrey Diwan and Anamaria Vartolomei Interview

May 17, 2022 By Leave a Comment

HAPPENING — Audrey Diwan and Anamaria Vartolomei Interview

When I spoke with director/co-writer Audrey Diwan and star Anamaria Vartolomei about THE HAPPENING (L’événement ) via Zoom on April 23, 2022, the infamous Supreme Court leak about The Brethren’s intentions about Roe V. Wade hadn’t yet happened. Still a film about a single woman seeking an illegal abortion in 1963 France still had great… Read More »

Tagged With: and 1963, anger, Annie Ernaux, France, illegal abortion, Laurent Tangy, patriarchy, repression, smiling

TITANE

October 5, 2021 By Leave a Comment

TITANE

What to make of TITANE. a sprawling study of female rage meeting toxic masculinity? Certainly filmmaker Julia Ducournau presents it in all visceral glory, eschewing the depiction of few bodily functions as she explores gender identity and the overwhelming need for affection in a world where making the wrong choice about either can be fatal.… Read More »

Tagged With: brain surgery, firefighter, France, serial killer, titanium plate

MANDIBLES (Mandibules)

July 22, 2021 By Leave a Comment

MANDIBLES (Mandibules)

In MANDIBLES, Quentin Dupieux takes us on a road trip with two lovable innocents and an outsized housefly. Why there is an outsized housefly in the trunk of a dilapidated Mercedes just waiting to be discovered/rescued/exploited by this pair of misfits is never explained, nor does it need to be. This latest excursion by Dupieux… Read More »

Tagged With: buddy film, class system, France, road trip

BACK TO BURGUNDY

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BACK TO BURGUNDY

BACK TO BURGUNDY’s original French title is less about returning home and more about the ties that bind one to that home. I leave the reasons for why movie titles are willfully mistranslated, but bring it up because THE TIES THAT BIND feels like a more accurate description of why a prodigal son finds it… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, France, intergenerational tension, winemaking

DEERSKIN (Le Daim)

May 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment

DEERSKIN (Le Daim)

When we first meet Georges (Jean Dujardin), he has already begun his journey of transformation driving through the remoter edges of alpine France. We can sense from the way he fidgets that all is not right with the hero of DEERSKIN. And when he stops at a roadside gas station to flush his jacket down… Read More »

Tagged With: editing, France, fringe, hearing voices, homemade machete, narcissism

1917

December 23, 2019 By 3 Comments

1917

There is a moment during Sam Mendes’ masterpiece of a film, 1917, where a character is permitted to remove himself from the overwhelming, unrelenting now, and process both  the facts of what he’s been through and the conjecture about what he’s about to face. During this moment, George MacKay, playing the appropriately named Will, gives… Read More »

Tagged With: France, Germany, Great War, trench warfare, World War I

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