Working in duo: male and female directing
At times magic and a fantastic cast / The strength of the story gets a bit lost through the complex editing
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros, Edouard Baer, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini
Directed by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Written by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Music by Olivier Bernet
Cinematography by Christophe Beaucarne
Film Editing by Stéphane Roche
Compelling story, sober but powerful images
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Director: Anne Fontaine
Writer (based on an original concept by) Philippe Maynial
Writer (adaptation): Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine
Writer (dialogue): Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine
Writer: Alice Vial, Sabrina B. Karine
Cinematographer: Caroline Champetier
Editor: Annette Dutertre
Composer: Grégoire Hetzel
The many facets of the love that surrounds a young woman
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Fabrice Luchini, Elsa Zylberstein
Director: Anne Fontaine
Screenplay: Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Fontaine
Music by Bruno Coulais
Cinematography by Christophe Beaucarne
Film Editing by Annette Dutertre
Excellent scenario and some fantastic editing.
Many have called it a bad movie (see the main ratings) because of its scandalous theme – two middle-aged women falling for two young men they know. However, the same critics wouldn’t have blinked if the movie had staged two men falling for their daughter-in-law. Hypocrisy at its best!
Cast: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn, Sophie Lowe
Director: Anne Fontaine
Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
Novel: Doris Lessing
Music by Christopher Gordon
Cinematography by Christophe Beaucarne
Film Editing by Luc Barnier, Ceinwen Berry
The good dialogues and acting do not redeem an uninspired scenario
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Benoît Poelvoorde, André Dussollier
Director: Anne Fontaine
Writers: Anne Fontaine, Nicolas Mercier
Music by Bruno Coulais
Cinematography by Jean-Marc Fabre
Film Editing by Luc Barnier, Nelly Ollivault
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu |
Director: Anne Fontaine
Writers: Philippe Blasband (original idea), Jacques Fieschi
Music by Michael Nyman
Cinematography by Jean-Marc Fabre
Film Editing by Emmanuelle Castro
Excellent direction / “This is a movie of vision and integrity made on an epic scale” writes Matt Zoller Seitz / A (British) patriotic movie in time of Brexit…
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Cillian Murphy. Harry Styles
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte van Hoytema
Editor: Lee Smith
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Great dialogues
Cast: Gene Hackman, Harris Yulin, Jennifer Warren, Janet Ward, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith, Edward Binns, Susan Clark, James Woods, Melanie Griffith
Directed by Arthur Penn
Produced by Robert M. Sherman
Screenplay by Alan Sharp
Photographed by Bruce Surtees
Edited by Dede Allen
Written by Alan Sharp
Intense thriller, sustained direction, truthful personages, great sound track
A movie that has a “visual language designed to enhance the mood of its leading man without distracting from it” writes Brian Tallerico; a movie in which everyone gets used and abused to no end
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Buddy Duress, Ben Safdie, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi
Director: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie
Writer: Ronald Bronstein, Joshua Safdie
Cinematographer: Sean Price Williams
Composer: Daniel Lopatin
Some excellent moments alternating with loss of momentum and some ridiculously weak bad guys
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Writer: Max Botkin, Kerry Williamson
Cinematographer: José David Montero
Editor: Martin Stoltz
Composer: Christian Wibe