Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jean-Pierre Ameris Stars: Isabelle Carre, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alice Pol, Lorella Cravotta, Pierre Niney, Swann Arlaud, Lise Lametrie. Following its screenings at the recent French Film Festival, Jean-Pierre Ameris’s lightweight romantic comedy gets a limited commercial release. This light and frothy French romcom about two painfully shy and socially awkward people [...]
by GREG KING THREE. Tom Tykwer returns home to Germany for his new film Three. This is a provocative contemporary adult drama about the unconventional and complicated relationship that develops between three fortysomething professionals in Berlin – think John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday, and you’ll get the drift. Hanna (Sophie Rois, from Enemy At The [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mathieu Kassovitz Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi, Alexandre Steiger, Daniel Martin, Phillippe Torreten, Sylvie Testud. Rebellion is based on the real life hostage crisis that happened in Ouvea, an island off New Caledonia, in April 1988. It is the lead up to the general election in France, and [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Daniel Auteuil Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Sabine Azema, Emilie Cazanave. Prolific and popular French actor Daniel Auteuil makes his long awaited directorial debut with this handsome looking but old-fashioned and bucolic provincial period melodrama. The Well-Digger’s Daughter is a remake of Marcel Pagnol’s [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mia hansen-Love Stars: Lola Creton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne Havard-Brekke. Goodbye, First Love, which recently screened at the French Film Festival here in Australia, is a bittersweet romance and coming of age story about two teenagers, and it bears a few surface similarities to the recent Like Crazy. This is the [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Aki Kaurismaki Stars: Andre Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Roberto Piazza. The new film from idiosyncratic Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki was one of the highlights of last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, and has been a hit on the festival circuit. Kaurismaki (who won the FIPRESCI award at [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Celine Sciamma Stars: Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy. Les garcons ne crient pas? This winning and humourous coming of age comedy from France screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival last year and also recently screened at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Ten-year old Laure [...]
by GREG KING. We live in an era where cooking shows dominate prime time television, and chefs are fast becoming celebrities in their own right. While he may not be as familiar or instantly recogniseable as the likes of Jamie Oliver or the foul-mouthed Gordon Ramsey, 86-year old sushi chef Jiro Ono is world famous [...]
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