Elective Affinities (1996) is a movie directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani based on the novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Edouard (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and Charlotte (Isabelle Huppert), a couple of aristocrats, invited a childhood friend of Edouard (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) to join them in their villa in Tuscany. This friend is an architect. In the…
Of course place matters in this story where a modern hospital built upon a swamp is subject to a supernatural menace coming from the past. Bien sûr le lieu a de l’importance dans cette histoire qui raconte comment un hôpital moderne construit sur des marais est soumis à une menace surnaturelle venue du passé.
In 1974, Garry Marshall created a cult sitcom: Happy Days about a family in 1950s/1960s Milwaukee. One of the characters, originally planned to be secondary, became the lead role: Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli alias Fonzie, The Fonz, Fonzta! or just Fonz, played by Henry Winkler. He became popular that he had his own statue in 2008,…
Imagine that the lines of the New-York subway system became the strings of a cello plucked by the trains. You would have the musical map of Alexander Chen. Et si les lignes du métro new-yorkais devenaient les cordes d’un violoncelle que viennent pincer les trains qui les croisent ? Cela donnerait la carte musicale d’Alexander…
Released in 1965 Le corniaud is a French road-movie directed by Gérard Oury. Leopold Saroyan, godfather of a syndicate of gangsters, persuades Antoine Maréchal to drive a Cadillac from Naples to Bordeaux. He does not know that various illicit substances are hidden in the vehicle in order to cross illegally the border. During a meeting,…
Filmed in 1966, The Swimmer by Frank Perry was a commercial failure when it was released in 1968 and has long been misunderstood. However, it is an intense and disturbing masterpiece. One morning between late summer and early autumn, a man in a bathing suit (B. Lancaster) enters the garden of a beautiful house and…
(e)space & fiction 