It’s around this time of year that films from the Cannes Festival get released and this week sees two that look promising. La Part des Anges – or The Angel Share – directed by Ken Loach got excellent reviews from the critics and earned Ken Loach the Jury Prize. Click for review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/03/angels-share-ken-loach-review
Interesting that the posters for the different countries have such different positioning. Showing at the Renoir.
‘Journal de France’ is another film from Cannes. The director is 70-year-old photographer Raymond Depardon who was chosen by Francois Hollande to take the official photograph after his election. This is his first documentary film, exploring ‘la France profond’.
He brings his photographer’s eye and sensibility to recording the countryside but also some of the events that have impacted it. At the Renoir.
‘Bel Ami’ is the adaptation of the Maupassant story which despite starring Robert Pattison, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas, got poor reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bel_ami_2011/ At the Cézanne.
I do like the rather unusual films from the Middle East that surface here from time to time. My understanding is cobbled together from the visuals and the French subtitles so subtleties are usually lost on me, but they have original stories and characters – generally quite intriguing. ‘Les Femmes du Bus 678’, an Egyptian film, looks promising. It’s at the Mazarin
And finally, if you can’t get to the cinema, Echappées Belles on France 5 on Saturday evening is featuring Provence – painters in Avignon, Saint-Rémy, Cavaillon and Manosque, animals in the Camargue, and beautiful Luberon villages. Sounds lovely!
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