Desperate Measuresis a 1998 thriller film directed by Barbet Schroeder. The Police Officer Frank Conner (Andy Garcia) is in search of a compatible bone marrow donor for his ill son Matt. There is only one catch : Peter McCabe (Michael Keaton), a convicted serial killer. But McCabe is ready for anything to escape and he consults…
In Synecdoche, the first film he directed, Charlie Kaufman offers us a crazy game based on the impossible paradox of the perfect representation of reality. Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a depressive and hypochondriac theater director. He wants to create the absolute play by putting on stage an exact and faithful reproduction of his…
Stalag 17 is a movie directed by Billy Wilder (1953) that tells the story of American prisoners in a German camp during the Second World War. They attempt to escape but they will first to unmask the traitor supposed to be in the group. Several spatial machineries appear in the movie. Stalag 17 est un film…
Stanley Kubrick, who died in 1999, is considered as a genius film director. He made only 13 films in 46 years, mainly because of his perfectionism and because of his insistence to gather a very high level of details before beginning to make the film. However, he was also the writer and the producer of…
Le Cercle rouge is a 1970 movie directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The gangster Vogel (Gian Maria Volonte) escapes the Commissaire Mattei (André Bourvil) who escorted him in the night train from Marseille to Paris. During his escape, he meets Corey (Alain Delon) freshly released from prison. Associated to Jansen (Yves Montand), they decide to burgle…
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