Year: 2018

For his second feature film, A syrian family, Philippe Van Leeuw plunges us into the hellish situation in syria any closer to a family trapped in his house. A SYRIAN FAMILY is in competition at the Festival Francophone d’angoulême. Several qualifiers remain hanging in the heart after having seen A SYRIAN FAMILY: harrowing, chilling, powerful. […]

Why a woman sees reship the package sent to her husband ? This is the question asked by A SWEET WOMAN, a road movie particular in Russia, the abandonment. Sergei Loznitsa invites us to a funny trip. That of a woman almost silent, embarking on a journey in the Russian areas to find her husband, […]

It is a divide that seems to separate LIFE and the Law of The Market, the previous film by Stéphane Brizé. The chronic social quasi-documentary leaves room for an adaptation of the first book of the same name by guy de Maupassant, located in 1819. The occasion for the French director to get in his […]

A veteran of the First World War, Tom (Michael Fassbender), accepted a position as lighthouse keeper on a deserted island to try to forget what he has lived. He meets Isabel (Alicia Vikander), with whom he begins a beautiful love story. Their only problem is that the latter may not have children. Fortunately, the sea […]

For this fourth part of the folder UNIVERSAL MONSTERS (our retrospective: HERE), we’re going to address one of the movies that I tried the plus in the selection. The prospect of seeing the very talented american director Tod Browning, the origin of the cult Freaks, tackle the myth of Dracula promises to be a film […]

We continue this retrospective on the series UNIVERSAL MONSTERS (our retrospective: HERE) with the film the Phantom of The Opera, released in 1925. Following the huge public success and critical of the friendly Notre-Dame de Paris in 1923, Carl Laemmle decided, logically, to continue its momentum and product after a few months the first film […]

It is films that, in a plan, manage to stand as a major work, either by their visual quality, by a symbolism felt, or by a mastery of the tools of cinema. The Frankenstein of James Whale is, and the writer-director has paid the luxury to repeat the feat with the very successful “the Invisible […]