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• The Wild Child

  
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  François Truffaut had, from his very first feature, his famous debut The 400 Blows, been very interested in childhood and the experiences of a child in a world governed by adult rules. The directors 1970 film The Wild Child returns to that theme and to the territory of childhood, albeit from a very different angle. ...
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• La fille de leau

  
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  La fille de leau was Jean Renoirs first feature, the melodramatic story of young Gudule (Renoirs then-wife Catherine Hessling), whose father dies, her uncle (Pierre Lestringuez) abuses and attempts to rape her, and shes left on her own to endure a series of torments. After settling in with a group of gypsies, shes ...
  4 days ago

• celluloid relapse: la gloire of pagnol’s fanny trilogy (or lack thereof)

  
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  Winter brings with it many opportunities for sequestering oneself in basements, drinking red wine and absorbing vast quantities of French cinema. Chance such as this also presents itself in tandem with the prospect of justifying introverted and potentially anti-social behavior. Indeed, who needs friends with the likes ...
  5 days ago

• Race Matters: France Bans The Release Of “Think Like A Man” Over Lack Of Diversity

  
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  You can’t be serious “Think Like A Man,” the smash movie hit based off Steve Harvey’s book about relationships, has allegedly been banned in France because officials say the film is not “diverse” enough: Surprising as it may be, the answer lies in the fact that the film has an all-black cast. French ...
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• Restored French film recalls fraught filmmaking

  
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  by Michael Phillips. With movies that are blatantly, ridiculously in love with the theater and its practitioners, the harshest critics tend to be those who love both mediums with equal, sentimental passion — the sort of feeling found in every frame of “ Children of Paradise ,” Marcel Carne’s 1945 epic set in ...
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• Friday Feature: First Feminist Film

  
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  The Smiling Madame Beudet made in 1922 is generally regarded by scholars and theorists as historys premier " feminist film ". Germaine Dulac ( wiki ) was a central figure in 1920s French avant-garde cinema, and its only woman director. A filmmaker with her own production company who worked in narrative, ...
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• Le quai des brumes

  
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  Le Quai des Brumes Format: Cinema Screening date: 4 May 2012 Venues: Key cities Distributor: BFI Director: Marcel Carné Writer: Jacques Prévert Based on the novel by: Pierre Dumarchais Cast: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan France 1938 91 mins The label ‘poetic realism’ ...
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• Hilarious spoof of pretentious arty French cinema

  
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  This is an hilarious spoof of pretentious ‘arty’ French cinema told through the eyes of Henri, a lazy ol’ black-and-white tabby cat .
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• Apocalypse Pizza Video

  
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  Despite the soundtrack, this animated short does a great job highlighting one of the most hazardous professions in a post-apocalyptic zombie cityscape – a pizza delivery driver. Or in this case a pizza delivery team, cause to go solo would just be suicide. Thirty minutes or less or your pizza is free… because your ...
  3 weeks ago

• Providence

  
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  Editing is the key to the cinema of Alain Resnais, the crux of his work. Through the cut, the filmmaker controls the flow of space and time, controlling whats seen and not seen, where a scene starts and where it ends, and few other directors have made this truism so explicit in their art. For Resnais, this process has ...
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• Elles Belles

  
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  Sex for money can be so liberating.  At least, that is what some guys always say.  A similar position is staked out in a rather mature new film produced and directed by women and featuring a largely female cast.  Even if they adore Juliette Binoche, this is not a film to watch with your parents.  However, a lot of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Friday One Sheet: Nobody Else But You

  
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  Y ou really cannot go wrong marketing your film with the picture of a naked lady on the poster. Nice pull-quote. The trailer for this 2010 French film, about a woman who thinks she is the living re-incarnation of Marilyn Munroe, is really good too. It is tucked under the seat.
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• Four Maurice Pialat shorts, 1951-1958

  
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  The early work of a director is often an instructive glimpse into the development of the sensibility that would go on to inform his or her mature works, suggesting the auteurs concerns and style in nascent form. With the early shorts and documentaries of the French master Maurice Pialat, its more the case that these ...
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• La femme infidèle

  
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  It is already apparent from the first few moments of Claude Chabrols La femme infidèle that this film will be concerned with domesticity and the illusion of the happy home. The film opens at the lavish country estate of the Desvallées family, Charles (Michel Bouquet), his wife Hélène (Stéphane Audran), and their ...
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