If we chroniquons this movie, 12 years later, it is to try to unravel the mystery of CHARLIE KAUFMAN – if that was possible – before the release of his next feature film Anomalisa, February 3, 2016. Return, therefore, to ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, where there is still “only” a screenwriter (Michel Gondry […]
[CRITICAL] RABID DOG (1949)
Mad dog ofAkira Kurosawa, it is this kind of work near-perfect, which might make you reconsider the concepts of “good movie”, or “classic”. A pinnacle of consistency between: a historical context-strong social (post-war japan), a powerful story, a scenario intelligent, what we can expect in terms of depth, emotion or underlying complexity of the characters, […]
[CRITICAL EXPRESS] CIGARETTES AND CHOCOLATE WARM
The director, Sophie Reine, CIGARETTES, AND HOT CHOCOLATE is the first feature length film, has participated in the editing of the last movie from Rémi Bezançon, Our Future. The two filmmakers have in common the same universe : sensitive, poetic, quirky, without pathos, funny, tender, moving. The story’s quasi-autobiographical Sophie Queen evokes subtly in a […]
Fantastic Cinema : 5 films to discover ROGER CORMAN
En 2010, the wonderful world of Hollywood adoubait an oscar of honor, a character outside the norm that only this world of simulacra and hystéries can lead to. On this day, you may be asked who was this old veteran, who boasted of having called his memoir “How to produce a hundred films without losing […]
[CRITICAL] COMANCHERIA
COMANCHERIA (Hell or high water in VO) opens on a scene of turning almost trivial : two men wearing balaclavas threatened the teller to steal a few tickets. Men leave, they discover their faces (Chris Pine and Ben Foster). The simplicity with which they have acted seems anachronistic. “How can we still break the bank […]
[critical] CONJURING – LES DOSSIERS WARREN
Before Amityville, there was Harrisville… Conjuring : records Warren, tells the story horrible, but true, Ed and Lorraine Warren, investigators of paranormal deemed to be in the world, came to the aid of a family terrorized by a presence disturbing them in their remote farmhouse… Forced to confront a creature of the demon a formidable […]
[COUNTER-CRITIQUE] THE LABYRINTH : THE EARTH BURNED
You will also find a positive criticism and supplementary, by Stone to this address. The first Maze, in spite of a tone and an artistic direction largely borrowed from the competition (Hunger Games, Divergent, The Giver, etc) proved to be an efficient entertainment through operating the best of its environment (a maze holding a prisoner […]