Vive le French movies! Following submission of the Caesars last Friday, here's a selection of films "made in France"!
Of Love and fresh water Isabelle Czajka
with Pio Marmai and Anais Demoustier
Synopsis Julie Bataille, 23 and Bac +5, no longer wants small jobs. She wants a real job. In an interview, she meets Ben, who has chosen to live from day to day shifts and small trades. He proposes to spend the summer in the South with him. Julie refuses, then one day, on a whim, every plate and went to join him.
My opinion Watching this film, I immediately thought of you Celine! For many reasons! ;-) In other puncky film, kind, full of good replica! He left it describes really well the mood of Youth who enter the world of work. Oh cruel world!
white as snow Christophe Blanc
with François Cluzet
Synopsis Maxime has everything to be happy. Manager of a dealership thriving high-end vehicles, he is married to a delightful young woman and lives in a comfortable villa. Everything changes the day that Simon, his partner is murdered by a gang of thugs. Maxim must be accountable to them.
My opinion The film is a reflection of the Villa Maxime: neat and impersonal. Lack of rhythm, too extensive interpretations ... In short, nothing will!
Crime love Alain Corneau
with Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier and
Synopsis In the sterile setting of a powerful multinational offices, two women compete . The young Isabelle is working under the orders of Christine, a woman of power she admires unreservedly. Convinced of his ascendancy over his protegee, Christine Isabelle results in a foul play and perverse seduction and domination. But this little dangerous game can go very far ... My
What advice ambition, cynicism and authority can push to do! Even if the staging is minimalist, the plot is full of twists which provide suspense until the end! I enjoyed!
Frontline Jean-Christophe Klotz
with Lespert
Synopsis Antoine Rives, journalist, runs a story on returnees in Rwanda. He met Clement, a student of Rwandan Hutu Tutsi whose fiancee, Alice, has disappeared. Antoine convinces him to leave with him in Rwanda in search of Alice, and let filming his journey. A crossing of the horror in which Antoine is going to lose his illusions about his job as a journalist and wondered how far he can shoot and expose the human tragedy in the world ..
My opinion although rooted in reality, the film seemed little meaning. Too quiet, no images of the massacre. It would be so abused that the character at the sight of the atrocities he has witnessed. Without this film, look
Kigali, images cons a massacre, a documentary by the same director from 2006.
Sarah ' Gilles Paquet-Brenner
with Kristin Scott Thomas
Synopsis Jarmond Julia, an American journalist living in France for 20 years, investigates the painful episode of Vel d'Hiv. Going up the facts, his path crosses that of Sarah, a girl who was 10 years old in July 1942. What was the subject of an article becomes to Julia, a personal stake, revealing a family mystery.
My opinion This is my favorite of the week. A simple story, strong, moving and made with sobriety. The editing is magnificent as the interpretation of Kristin Scott Thomas! A must see!
Small handkerchiefs Guillaume Canet
friends with William
Synopsis Following a disturbing event, a group of friends decided nevertheless to go on Vacation on the sea like every year. Their friendship, their certainties, their guilt, their love will be shaken. They will finally have to remove the "little handkerchiefs" that they put on their secrets and lies.
My opinion The film was the buzz at the time of its release. However, these Parisian holiday Cape Ferret, I was pissed! Too long, no photographs or particular colors. In short, I did not like!
Men and Gods by Xavier Beauvois
with others in Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale
Synopsis 90's. In a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa, 8 French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. When a team of foreign workers was murdered by an Islamist group, terror moves into the region. The army offers protection to the monks, but they refuse. Despite growing threats around them, the monks' decision is to stay at all costs.
My opinion This film is inspired by the abduction of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria in 1996. Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, César for best film, this film was to be seen. The photography is beautiful with the colors yellow, ocher and green, the setting is refined in the image of the lives of these monks. A beautiful film (a bit long, however ...).
