Support from Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the director of men and gods did not fail to express his dissatisfaction with the failure of the candidate of La France Insoumise. This caused many outraged reactions on Twitter. A fiery election night. At 8 p.m. last night, the estimates for the first presidential round fell. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the […]
Tag: Xavier Beauvois
Xavier Beauvois protests against the Netflix festival at the Cinémathèque française and the Institut Lumière
The American streaming platform wanted to extend this partnership to other private rooms. But faced with organizations representing the profession, he had to backtrack, contenting himself with the two public institutions. The partnership forged between Netflix, the Cinémathèque française and the Lumière Institute continues to make people cringe. On Twitter, the filmmaker Xavier Beauvois showed […]
Albatross by Xavier Beauvois: gendarmes and madmen
CRITICAL – For his new film, Xavier Beauvois looks at a gendarme in disarray. A powerful film. He leaves. He’s seen too much. Laurent is a runny man. This sub-gendarmerie officer throws the glove. Daily life is not rosy. Albatross takes place in Étretat. As elsewhere, life carries its share of banal misery. We must […]
Cinema: Jérémie Renier, the antistar
PORTRAIT – The actor discovered by the Dardenne brothers in 1996, who became a star in Cloclo, plays with justice and compassion a gendarmerie commander of Étretat in Xavier Beauvois’ new film. He arrives by mototaxi under torrential rain. All smiles, he arrives from Aix-en-Provence where he attended a preview ofAlbatross, the new film by […]
Can Xavier Beauvois’ Albatross dream of the Golden Bear?
The new work from the director of men and gods, César 2011 for best film, could be one of the favorites for the selection of the Berlinale 2021, which takes place online this year. A gendarme angry with “indifference», Which wobbles and then falls … with Albatross, in the running for the Golden Bear in […]
The Berlinale 2021 in hybrid mode
The festival, which opens this Monday, adapts to the pandemic offering a two-part edition and a selection reduced to a hundred films. The 70e edition of the Berlinale was held from February 20 to 1er March 2020 under normal conditions. Festival-goers from all over the world discovered films in theaters, without masks or barrier gestures. […]
Berlinale 2021: Céline Sciamma and Xavier Beauvois in the official competition
The moviess Little Mom and Albatross are among the fifteen feature films selected for the first digital edition of the Berlin International Film Festival. Two French films will take their virtual flight for the Berlinale 2021. Albatross by Xavier Beauvois and Little mom by Céline Sciamma are part of the main competition of the 71e […]