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11'09''01 September 11
"Eleven filmmakers, eleven looks implicating their individual conscience"... Such is the epigraph of this collective film about the tragic events that occurred a year ago in New York and changed the face of a world, already disturbed, forever.
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A Lost Man
One of the most talented French photographers inspired director Danielle Arbid's story about a search for identity.
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A Piece Of Sky
A Piece of Sky is about women who try to resist their environment and take advantage of it.
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Amelie
With Amelie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (The City of the Lost Children, Alien Resurrection) has made a charming and falsely harmless film that is, above all, a fabulous postcard of Paris.
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Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
With a 50 million dollar budget, and a catastrophic predecessor, Alain Chabat's Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra was much-anticipated and became France's #1 blockbuster.
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A Very Long Engagement
In A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet once again leads us into his pastel colored fantasy world, this time however, presenting us a war melodrama steering us away from the quirky madness of his first two films, and the nostalgic cuteness of the last.
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Avenue Montaigne
Avenue Montaigne falls into the Parisian comedy sub-genre, focusing on that weird self-centered microcosm that the City of Lights is.
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The Belvaux trilogy
It's an adventure, a new cinematic experiment that the filmmaker proposes here. Built as a scavenger hunt for the audience who unceasingly wonders about supporting characters of each of the three films when they are off camera. Includes: An Amazing Couple, On the Run & After Life.
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Blanche
With its anachronistic approach to Swashbucklers, Blanche was supposed to be a provocative film that would divide the public. In spite of an impressive gallery of supporting roles, this bloated farce by Bernie Bonvoisin quickly deflates into an indigestible mixture of ineffective action and corny dialogue.
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The Black Box
The Black Box is one these thrillers that aim at blurring the lines between reality and dream.
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Blueberry (Renegade)
What makes Blueberry a unique and worthy western entry is not only its deconstructive aspect but how it twists two emblematic roots of the genre, revenge and duals.
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Captain Ahab
This quite interesting variation on Herman Melville's character is solely the fruit of Mr. Ramos' imagination in which Captain Ahab was the chance to interpret and complement Moby Dick, which pretty much started where this film ends.
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Boarding Gate
The stench of Demonlover permeates Olivier Assayas's Boarding Gate.
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Bon Voyage
Jean-Paul Rappenau pays homage to some old French classics in Bon Voyage, offering the perfect mix of comedy, action, romance and historical references with a strong and glamorous ensemble cast.
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Brotherhood of the Wolf
The legend of the beast of Gévaudan serves as a pretext for a film of odds and ends that shamelessly mixes genres in Brotherhood of the Wolf, a film with a neat aestheticism close to the universe of the comic strip.
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Cet Amour-Là
What this film really offers is a chance to study the marvelous Jeanne Moreau: her aged yet beautiful face, her still quite energetic and strong body, her velvet voice, her startling smile. Her persona, period. Without its stunning star, the film goes nowhere. With her, it also goes nowhere, but at least you get to go nowhere with Jeanne Moreau.
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Change of Address
Trying too hard to be charming and funny while dangerously perched on the peak of awkwardness and failure, Change of Address is most unfortunate in trying to be an American romantic comedy.
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Chaos
In French director Coline Serreau's social drama Chaos, Hélène, a "petite bourgeoise", gets her life turned upside down when she witnesses the beating of Noémie, a prostitute. From that moment Hélène's life won't be the same, as the film becomes a plea for women's freedom denouncing physical and psychological abuse from men.
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Clean
The latest film by Olivier Assayas is just beautiful. A deposed rock star must give up drugs and her past way of life to get her son back. Assayas directs a melodrama imprinted with nostalgia.
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Corto Maltese
An adaptation of the adventures of Corto Maltese, a mythical figure of comics, this ecstatic dive into a universe set halfway between history and romantic poetry cannot be compared to current animated productions and is intended for sensitive souls in the audience.
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The Crimson Rivers
French director Mathieu Kassovitz’s new entry falls short for trying too hard to make a French thriller the Hollywood way. Set in the Alps, The Crimson Rivers is a cross between Seven and
The Name Of The Rose.
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