Carried away by “The Torrent”!
Shot in the region of Gérardmer, Anne Le Ny directed a film “100% Vosges”, with José Garcia and André Dussolier. “I needed the mountains,” says the actress and director.
Movies
“Armageddon Time”, the lost time of childhood
James Gray revisits his childhood with this nostalgic family chronicle, in the New York of the 80s.
“Close”, friends who are too close
After his first film “Girl”, the young Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont received the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for this sensitive and intense drama.
The eternal prayer of Leonard Cohen
A wonderful documentary portrays the poet and musician, through a single song, “Hallelujah”. Fascinating.
The black novel of a “Blonde”
Ana de Armas is extraordinary as Marilyn Monroe, but Andrew Dominik’s film (coming soon to Netflix) is a tragic whirlwind that traces the drama, humiliation and violence suffered by the most photographed woman in the world.
“Poupelle” closer to the stars
An animated film by Yusuke Hirota, “On the other side of the sky” is an ecological and anti-totalitarian fable, for young and old.
“Tempura”, Mitsuko seeks her way
With a thirty-something city girl as her heroine, director Akiko Ohku’s film evokes the ultra-modern solitude and propriety of Japanese society.
The final sprint of “L’équipier”
Kieron J.Walsh takes us into the peloton of the 1998 Tour de France, with a rider at the end of his career.
Thanks boss!
Javier Bardem plays a cynical boss in “El Buen Patron”, a delightful tragicomedy by Fernando Leon de Aranoa, a success in Spanish cinema.
Go see “Beyond the Summits”.
Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson’s documentary is both an adventure story and a portrait of climber and photographer Brad Washburn.
A documentary film on “suspended” caregivers
Thousands of caregivers have been banned from practicing their profession because they refused to be vaccinated. Without work, without income, some of them tell their story. But also their hopes.
“Luck smiles at Mrs. Nikuko”, and Mrs. Nikuko smiles at life
Telling the daily life of a mother and her daughter, this Japanese animated film is as funny as it is touching.