Tag: French film
“Maigret” with Gérard Depardieu: Requiem for the Innocent Man – Culture
From Tobias Kniebe An arm in the cuff measuring blood pressure. A heart under the white fine rib that is being bugged. And a pale, bloated face that answers questions:…
“Little Nick tells about happiness” in the cinema – culture
Big: “Little Nick” meets its creators, René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé, in an animated film made from their minds. Of Fritz Goettler A sunny, clear day in the late 1950s,…
“You won’t get my hate” in the cinema: living on – culture
Of Johanna Adorjan After the Islamist terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, the Facebook post of a Frenchman whose wife had been murdered went viral. She had been…
“November”, French police thriller Cinema: When hate erodes – culture
A civil servant is jogging along the Seine after work, two colleagues are watching football in a pub, France versus Germany, a friendly game. The boss is still on the…
“Peter von Kant” in the cinema: Toxic teddy bear – culture
Peter von Kant, very drunk and very alone, dances through his apartment, which is bathed in cold, dark blue light. Rather, he staggers. Desperately, in his dressing gown, he waits…
“The Magnetic” in the cinema: alchemy of sounds – culture
“I think I’m in love,” says Philippe, a little miserably, to the medical examiner who has just put a stamp on his draft notice. He was just too lovable and…
“The Restless” in the cinema: painting after torments – culture
What do artists dream of? About colors as rich as Gaugin or Van Gogh, about irrepressible work energy, a studio in the south, a gallery owner who makes money from…
"France" in the cinema: A life for the show
Self-pity and selfie-journalism: Léa Seydoux plays a TV presenter in crisis in the media satire “France”. Or is it actually about something completely different? source site
“Gloria Mundi” in the cinema: Marseille can be very cold – culture
It’s like a war, all against all, says filmmaker Robert Guédiguian of French society today. His new film, “Gloria Mundi – Return to Marseille”, is sadder and colder than the…