With SAND STORM, Elite Zexer demonstrated a high quality of writing to talk about the complexity of family ties. SAND STORM could appear as a work a bit already, due to its theme distant – that of a young generation of modern as opposed to archaic traditions of the parents. We look back at the […]
[critical] The Descendants
In Hawaii, the life of a family switches. Because his wife has just been hospitalized following a boating accident, Matt King tries awkwardly to be closer to his two daughters, Scottie, a girl of ten years old bright and early, and Alexandra, a teenager, a rebellious seventeen-year-old. He also wondered whether he should sell the […]
[CRITICAL] THE FINEST HOURS
After The Heart of the Ocean was released in the end of last year, it is a new film featuring the confrontation between man and the incredible force of nature that is the ocean that the Disney studios we offer. Based on a true story, THE FINEST HOURS tells the story of the rescue of […]
[critical] The Grandmaster
China, 1936. Ip Man, the legendary master of Wing Chun (one of the various styles of kung fu) and future mentor of Bruce Lee, leads a prosperous life in Foshan where he divides his time between his family and the martial arts. It is at this time that grandmaster Baosen, head of the College of […]
[CRITICAL] killing OF the SACRED DEER
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with killing OF the SACRED DEER, a tragedy of ancient accents hitchcockiens, which takes the form of a farce. Director formalist and fond of aesthetic touches, the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos has reached a new level in terms of reputation with The Lobster, a love story in a near future where single people […]
[CRITICAL] THE LAST
A filmmaker a little bit conscientious, and a fortiori of Sean Penn, what is required above all is that we inflict a piece of propaganda pumped full of good feelings. His previous films had as default to insist a little too heavily on the pathos of the story (close-ups on eyes, wet by tears, zoom […]
[CRITICAL] THE LOBSTER
Le Greek Yorgos Lanthimos has made it known to the public thanks to Canine, his first feature film, presented at Cannes in the section un Certain Regard in 2009. Like many others before him, he went through a selection parallel in the first to, today, to integrate with their 3rd film, THE LOBSTER, the prestigious […]