Post Tagged with: "france"

Lyonel Perabo / 22. November 2012 08:06

Comedy that stays intouch with the heart

”Intouchables”, it is under this name that the latest great film sensation to arise from France is named. Dethroning the iconic “The Artist” as last year’s most popular cinematic feature, “Intouchables” as it is named in its native tongue, has taken everybody aback by the unexpected enthusiasm it created and still creates in French society. Not since “Bienvenue Chez les [...]

Lyonel Perabo / 21. October 2012 14:40

The dirty sounds of French Black Metal

There is something about French Black Metal that you can only understand if you yourself are French. That’s what I believe and what I will hereby explain in the following. When you live in France, the first thing you learn as a toddler is to live with this odd, eerie feeling of melancholy that reeks of death and bitterness. Wherever [...]

Manon Courtaux / 24. May 2012 22:31

A Midsummer Day’s Lie

  Tomboy is a movie which puts you back in your childhood. It doesn’t need to have been anything like being a ten year old girl pretending to be a boy as is Laure/MichaĂŤl’s case: the director, CĂŠline Sciamma, manages to bring the spectator into a child’s universe, with its laws, like the importance in small things – and the [...]