Jacques Gamblin and André Dussollier in The Tiger and the President. Orange Studio-Tandem CRITICISM – André Dussollier and Jacques Gamblin play mischievously Georges Clemenceau and Paul Deschanel, scrapping in the presidential election of 1920. In the history books, he will go down as the “crazy president”. Paul Deschanel (1855-1922), short-lived head of the French state […]
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Revoir Paris, Plan 75, Everyone loves Jeanne … Films to see or avoid this week
The trauma of a survivor of an attack, a government implementing a policy of euthanasia for seniors, Blanche Gardin and Laurent Lafitte, heroes of a first feature film… What should we see this week? Discover the cinema selection of Figaro. See Paris again – Have Drama by Alice Winocour, 1h45 Mia survived an attack. One […]
Tribute to Yves Rodallec, Lautner’s irreplaceable cameraman
The director of photography, who held the camera in The Tontons gunslingers, died on August 14 at the age of 87. During his career, he will have worked with Jean-Pierre Mocky, Joseph Losey, Luigi Comencini, Sydney Pollack, Robert Wise… and thirty times with his friend Georges Lautner. The framing, the light or dark image, cinema […]
In Deauville, American cinema is displayed in worried mode
Call Jane by Phyllis Nagy with from left to right Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver, deals with clandestine abortions in sixties America. Wilson Webb REPORT – In a festival that gives pride of place to films depicting a tormented and neglected youth, we rush to the clearings. Luckily there was the opening ceremony and his […]
Venice Film Festival: Tehran “sees us as criminals”, denounces filmmaker Jafar Panahi
By Figaro with AFP Posted 7 hours ago, Update 6 hours ago Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. AFP/Atta kenare Currently imprisoned in Iran, the Iranian director, in competition for the Golden Lion (Bears don’t exist), addressed an open letter to the organizers in which he attacked the censorship policy of the authorities of his country. In […]
My Policeman, Blonde, The Greatest Beer Run Ever… The back-to-school films to watch on the platforms
From Netflix to Amazon Prime Video via Apple TV+ and Disney+, there will be no shortage of prestigious films. At loggerheads 2Netflix – December 23 Rian Johnson imagines online a sequel toAt daggers drawn, whose first part – very funny – had filled the dark rooms. Detective Benoît Blanc travels to Greece to try to […]
The first images of Hallelujah, the biopic on Leonard Cohen
The documentary film Hallelujah, the words of Leonard Cohen dedicated to the Canadian poet, who died on November 7, 2016, will be released in theaters on October 19. The song Hallelujah or Leonard Cohen’s difficult path to fame. On October 19, a moving documentary on the great Canadian poet who died in 2016 will be […]
Venice Film Festival: Virginie Efira, Penélope Cruz and Daren Aronofsky go into a melody
On the Lido, other people’s children, The immensity and The Whale try to move with more or less happiness. Special Envoy to Venice After the coup de force (the cannibals of Bones and Allthe warring city ofAthena ), the Lido pours into sentiment. All kinds of feelings. The beautiful ones, the good ones and the […]
Lucy Boynton and Jesse Eisenberg enchant Deauville which bets on thrills
REPORTAGE – From teenage scares to a scopic thriller, 48e edition of the American film festival gives pride of place to youth and its anxieties. Special correspondent in Deauville Refocusing on the discovery of the “talents of tomorrow”, the American film festival of Deauville rolled out, for its first weekend, its red carpet for young […]
Catherine Deneuve celebrated at the Venice Film Festival as the most Italian of French actresses
By Figaro with AFP Published on 01/09/2022 at 11:19 Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni at the Alcazar cabaret in Paris in 1971, a year before the birth of their daughter, Chiara. Coruzzi, Giovanni / Bridgeman Images The Golden Lion for his entire career was awarded to him on August 31, the day of the opening […]