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Cinema Movie Review: L’écume des jours (Mood Indigo) (2013) 8

Cinema Movie Review: L'écume des jours (Mood Indigo) (2013)

Apr

16

2013

In the mood for Gondry Compulsory reading for any French teenager, Boris Vian’s 1947 novel Froth on the Daydream, from which < em>L’écume des jours (Mood Indigo) (2013) is adpated, is one of those texts that one probably finds out too young and too quickly to enjoy it at its best, or to appreciate its ...
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Movie Review: Les invisibles (2012) 1

Movie Review: Les invisibles (2012)

Dec

17

2012

Gay and wide open In this magnificent documentary, Sébastien Lifshitz asks eight people to tell us about their lives. None of them is an art director, fashion designer, actor or journalist. None of them lives in Paris’s gay Marais nor haunts its exclusive gyms to maintain the fit body of a guy in his thirties. ...
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Movie Review: Dans la maison (In the House) (2012)

Movie Review: Dans la maison (In the House) (2012)

Oct

10

2012

House breaker During the pre-generic sequence of the film, one is happily surprised by François Ozon’s new opus: one is stricken by the sobriety of the images, and there seems to be someone who has finally dared to direct Fabrice Luchini, instead of letting him ‘Luchinize’ all over the place. But alas! As soon as ...
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Move Review: Amour (Love) (2012) 3

Move Review: Amour (Love) (2012)

Sep

27

2012

Finding a way Always a happy day when we welcome a new recruit to Picturenose’s ranks of reviewers – Elisabeth Kovacs from Brussels is our latest addition, and she opens her account with her thoughts on Michael Haneke‘s Palme d’Or winner. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are a refined, cultivated and elegant couple ...
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