10.01.2018 Au hasard Balthazar
3But Bresson’s donkey is not a character, through its gaze and its suffering, it demonstrates the hopeless struggle of the protagonists, dealing with their pride, their greed, their sensuality. (Françoise Zammour)
06.18.2018 The flamboyance of Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk’s flamboyant Fifties melodramas signalled the dawn of a Hollywood genre, where an explosion of colour on screen overloaded the eye.
03.30.2018 The New Wave
” They followed this theory with vigour: in the cinema, the real author is the director.” (Françoise Zamour)
01.29.2018 Turkish Delight
With the Rose Delight fragrance blending rose and louloum, associations of ideas spread like a sugar trail: Turkish Delight (Loukoum) is the title of a 1973 film by Paul Verhoeven.
06.26.2017 Philosophical thought of cinema
“The moment is not overcome. It turns into a drama and a sequence that confronts action with time.” (Jean-Clet Martin)
02.27.2017 Fahrenheit 451
In the fictitious society of Fahrenheit 451, books are outlawed, hunted down and destroyed by fire.
07.15.2016 Black Narcissus
The title of the film comes from the name of the 1911 perfume Black Narcissus by the House of Caron.
05.13.2016 The “palme d’or”
The palm leaf as a design for the prize united two symbols: an emblem of victory that went right back to Antiquity plus a nod to city of Cannes
12.31.2015 The Rose and the Beast
WIthout a rose, Beast would have never met Beauty, whom made him beautiful anew.
11.09.2015 Shanghai
Shanghai was China’s first modern cosmopolitan city, its cultural capital and financial heart of Asia but tormented.
05.11.2015 The Coen brothers at Cannes
Julie Assouly, author of “L’Amérique des frères Coen”, summarizes the extraordinary career of the Coen brothers…
03.16.2015 The hourglass in Death in Venice
“It seems that the sand is waiting for the very last moment to seep into the globe underneath…”
01.01.2015 Candles stories: Barry Lyndon
Directed by Stanly Kubrick, this true masterpiece was entirely and exclusively shot under candlelight…
11.02.2014 The patriarch of the cinematographic eye
diptyque did partner the second edition of Private Choice, where a collection of art and design took place in the house where Georges Melies was born. This is an opportunity to pay tribute to this tutelary ancestor of cinema.