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CYRANO, MY LOVE

December 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment

CYRANO, MY LOVE

CYRANO MY LOVE is an ebullient comedy of errors that recounts the fraught confluence of art, commerce, and egos that gave birth to Cyrano de Bergerac, the most successful play in French theater history. As witty and wise as that character himself, it is a love letter to the creative process that spares none of… Read More »

Tagged With: Belle Epoque, Comedie Francaise, Cyrano de Bergerac, Paris, playwright, Sarah Bernhardt, stage, theater

RADIOACTIVE

July 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

RADIOACTIVE

RADIOACTIVE tells a story of scientific curiosity in a world where personality skews the perception of the work itself, and politics are never far from the equation. It lays bare not just the injustice of that, but also its stupidity

Tagged With: 19th century, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, Paris, Pierre Curie, radioactivity, radium

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

July 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE TRUTH (La Vérité)

In Hirokazu Koreeda’s last film, the Oscar®-nominated SHOPLIFTERS, he incisively examined the ethics of capitalism, and its effects on one poverty-stricken, yet devoted, ragtag family ingeniously doing battle with a system designed to keep them down economically. In THE TRUTH, he moves the action from Tokyo to Paris to examine the ethics of veracity on… Read More »

Tagged With: Family, film-with-a-film, memoir, mother-daughter, Paris

ANNA

June 25, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ANNA

There is in Luc Besson’s ANNA fully one-third of a very good movie.  That third is a finely drawn satire, cartoonishly violent in its sublimation of female rage as it addresses female exploitation in the modern world using the milieus of espionage and modeling as the metaphor. The other two-thirds is a plodding retread of… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, espionage, flashback, Moscow, Paris, Skill Set

LOST IN PARIS

June 21, 2017 By Leave a Comment

LOST IN PARIS

The spirit of Jacques Tati is alive and well in LOST IN PARIS, a charming comedy of coincidences (or is it fate?).  As stylized as it is heartwarming, it is an unexpected love story set against the magical backdrop of Paris, with every movement, from a roasted red pepper on the loose, to a love… Read More »

Tagged With: Canada, homeless man, missing aunt, Paris, romance, rucksack, Statue of Liberty

AS ABOVE SO BELOW

October 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

AS ABOVE SO BELOW

Whatever else AS ABOVE SO BELOW has to recommend it, and it has several things that eminently do so, it has breathed a little fresh air into the found footage genre of horror film. This is a tidy little horror film heavy on mood, light on gore, and bursting with a refreshing originality of story… Read More »

Tagged With: alchemy, artifact, catacombs, eerie, Emerald Tablet, Hermes Trismegistus, linguist, paranormal, Paris, Philosopher's Stone, piles of bones, supernatural

Bertrand Bonello and Gaspard Ulliel Resurrect SAINT LAURENT

June 3, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Bertrand Bonello and Gaspard Ulliel Resurrect SAINT LAURENT

Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent rocked the fashion world of the 1960s and 70s, and he designed his image as carefully as he did any of his haute couture. When making a bio-pic about a legend like this, the trick is to say something that hasn’t been said before. That was the first thing I… Read More »

Tagged With: Amira Casar, Bertrand Bonello, bio-pic, fashion designer, French Cinema, Gaspard Ulliel, haute couture, Helmut Berger, high fashion, Lea Seydoux, Louis Garrel, narrative, Paris, Pierre Bergé, Rue Babylon, stars Jeremie Renier, Thomas Bidegain, Yves Saint Laurent

JULIE & JULIA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

JULIE & JULIA

If Julia Child had not chosen the right moment to powder her nose at an embassy party in Paris, she might never have met Simone Beck, and there might never have been the classic cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. If Julie Powell, at the end of a particularly trying day as a government… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, blogging, book to screen, cooking, Julia Child, Julie Powell, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, New York City, Nora Ephron, Paris, Queens

FROM PARIS WITH LOVE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

FROM PARIS WITH LOVE

No one will mistake FROM PARIS WITH LOVE for a classic. The story is just so many set pieces that hang together by the most delicate of gossamer threads. Yet, they are set pieces that show off the best of stars John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, while allowing director Pierrel Morel to indulge in… Read More »

Tagged With: bazooka, diplomacy, energy drink, espionage, Paris, rogue agent

THE PINK PANTHER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE PINK PANTHER

Peter Sellers is so deeply identified with monumentally bumbling Inspector Clouseau that one wonders why Steve Martin would want to take a crack at the character with a remake of THE PINK PANTHER. Others, including the character’s co-creator, Blake Edwards, have taken their shot and failed miserably. Martin, who co-wrote the script, at least makes… Read More »

Tagged With: jewel thief, Paris, pink diamond, police, pop star, remake, robbery, thieves

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