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Mariage à l’italienne

Home Programme Comedy Classics Mariage à l’italienne

Credits

Original title :
Matrimonio all’italiana
Country :
Italie-France
Year :
1964
Director :
Vittorio De Sica
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
92 minutes
Actors :
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Tecla Scarano, Generoso Cortini 
Awards :
Best Foreign Language Film nomination, Oscars 1966 ; Best Actress nomination (Loren), Oscars 1965

synopsis

For years, Filumena has been both the servant and mistress of Domenico, who has now decided to marry a young woman from a respectable family. Determined to give her three children a father, she sets a trap for him by pretending to be on her deathbed…

Le motif de l’amour-haine est bien présent, l’agressivité étant, en fin de compte, le meilleur moyen de prendre conscience d’une affection réciproque ; il constitue un principe comique autant qu’un prétexte à rebondissements, et confère au film son énergie et sa dynamique. Sensible et cruel, attentif aux déchirements de toute une société comme à ceux d’un couple conflictuel, constamment surprenant et, finalement, inclassable, ce Mariage à l’italienne mérite décidément d’être redécouvert.

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Great Restorations

Barry Lyndon

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Credits

Country :
UK-USA
Year :
1975
Director :
Stanley Kubrick
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
185 minutes
Actors :
Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff
Awards :
7 nominations including Best Picture and 4 wins, Oscars 1976
Based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
Introduction to the film and its restoration (in English | about 10’)

synopsis

In the 18th century in Ireland, upon his father’s death, young Redmond Barry dreams of climbing the social ladder. He kills his rival — a British officer in love with his cousin — in a duel, but is then forced into exile.

Barry Lyndon

One of the most beautiful of all Stanley Kubrick’s films, originally released in 1975, this slyly savage tale of social climbing in the 18th century is also arguably his funniest.

The Observer

Ryan O’Neal’s excellent performance captures the shallow opportunism endemic to the title character who is brought down as much by his own flaws as by the mores of the ordered social structure of 18th-century England. Casting, concept and execution are all superb.

Variety

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American Fiction

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2023
Director :
Cord Jefferson
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
117 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody
Awards :
4 nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor (Wright), Oscars 2024

synopsis

Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is a literature professor. He is also a frustrated writer whose manuscripts are constantly rejected by publishers. Each time, they suggest he write works about African-Americans in a more “black” style. Monk then decides to write a satirical and parodic work. He publishes this new novel under a pseudonym. Against all expectations, the work becomes a huge success, particularly among the white intelligentsia…

Film en forme de coup de pied bienvenu dans la fourmiliere du racisme latent des élites progressistes.

Télérama

Americain Fiction

Elegantly walking a line between absurdist satire and family drama, this is a clever send-up of how the broadness of Black culture gets reduced to cliché.

Empire

Jeffrey Wright and American Fiction will forever be inextricable thanks to the actor’s committed approach to the pointedly humorous and insightful material.

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Guillermo's Ghost

Cronos

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Credits

Original title :
El espinazo del diablo
Country :
Mexique
Year :
1992
Director :
Guillermo del Toro
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
93 minutes
Actors :
Federico Luppi, Claudio Brook, Ron Perlman, Margarita Isabel, Daniel Jiménez Cacho
Awards :
Grand Prix, Semaine de la critique (Cannes) 1992

synopsis

In the 16th century, an alchemist invents a strange mechanism that allows access to eternal life. In present-day Mexico, Jesús Gris, an elderly antiques dealer, discovers the Cronos clock hidden inside a statue. The object injects him with a powerful venom that restores his strength and youth, but makes him dependent on human blood. Transformed into a monster, Jesús can only rely on the help of his granddaughter…

Visuel de Cronos

Avec 'Cronos', son premier film, Guillermo del Toro visait l’extraordinaire. Et il fit mouche. La redécouverte de cette rareté force l’admiration.

Télérama

Nourri de multiples influences (le gothique de Bava, le corps métamorphe chez Cronenberg, et meme Romero, son vampire ayant les chairs putrescentes d’un zombie), Cronos impressionne par sa maîtrise plastique et ses effets. Son charme indéniable tient aussi a sa mélancolie et a l’hybridation des genres.

Libération

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Citizen Kane

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1941
Director :
Orson Welles
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
119 minutes
Actors :
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Dorothy Comingore, Ruth Warrick
Awards :
Best Screenplay, Oscars 1942

synopsis

“Rosebud.” By uttering this enigmatic word on his deathbed, billionaire Charles Foster Kane seems to reveal the key to the mystery that was his life…

 

 

Visuel Citizen Kane : un homme prononce un discours devant un immense portrait de lui-même, sur une estrade décorée de drapeaux.

Le film qui a tout changé. En 1940, Welles a 25 ans et une liberté totale pour réaliser ce premier film. L’histoire évoque beaucoup la vie du magnat de la presse William Hearst, à qui ça ne plaira pas du tout. Welles ‘truque’ un plan sur quatre, creuse les sols, traverse les plafonds, multiplie des profondeurs de champ audacieuses, insensées. D’une insolente jeunesse, le film fait encore chavirer le spectateur, jusqu’à l’explication finale qui fait triompher l’innocence sur ce qui est censé mener le monde : l’argent, la gloire et même l’amour. 

Télérama

The Orson Welles film is generally considered the greatest American film of the sound period, and it may be more fun than any other great movie. 

Pauline Kael

Visuel Citizen Kane : un homme souriant en manteau et chapeau, accompagné d’une femme en robe élégante, avance parmi des policiers et des journalistes.

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

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Doris Day & Rock Hudson

Send Me No Flowers

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1964
Director :
Norman Jewison
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
100 minutes
Actors :
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Paul Lynde, Hal March

synopsis

After listening to his doctor talk about another patient, George, a hypochondriac, becomes convinced that he is the one in the terminal stage. Believing he is about to die, George asks his friend Arnold to help him find a new husband for Judy, his wife. But George’s strange behavior leads Judy to suspect that he is having an affair with another woman…

 

 

 

Send Me No Flowers

It is a beautiful farce situation, and Julius Epstein has written it, from a play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, with nimble inventiveness and style.

The New York Times

Jewison's cockeyed comedy works its romantic magic with the flighty entanglement of the Hudson-Day, charming-kooky connection.

Movie Eye

Send Me No Flowers

Probably the best of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson vehicles, extracting a surprising amount of black (though sugar-coated) comedy out of the situation in which hypochondriac Rock, mistakenly believing he is dying, thoughtfully tries to arrange a remarriage for his widow-to-be with an old flame.

Time Out

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Home Programme The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Credits

Original title :
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Country :
Italy-Spain-Germany
Year :
1966
Director :
Sergio Leone
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
179 minutes
Actors :
Clint Eastwood, Elli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli

synopsis

During the Civil War, three men, more interested in their own gain than anything else, set out in search of a chest containing gold stolen from the Confederate army. Tuco knows the treasure is hidden in a cemetery; Joe knows the name inscribed on the tombstone that marks the cache. Each needs the other. But a third man enters the race: Sentenza, a brute who does not hesitate to kill to get what he wants…

Visuel de The Good, The Bad an the Ugly

Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.

Rotten Tomatoes

It still looks a treat and is a bold and largely successful attempt to recast the traditions of the genre in a new, sometimes critical, almost operatic way.

Evening Standard

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Of all the great films of the 1960s, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of a fistful that can be truly appreciated only on the big screen.

Detroit Free Press

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Amour de perdition

Home Programme Amour de perdition

Credits

Original title :
Um Amor de Perdiçao
Country :
Portugal
Year :
2008
Director :
Mário Barroso
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
81 minutes
Actors :
Rafael Morais, Tomás Alves, Rui Morisson
Awards :
Locarno Film Festival, 2008

synopsis

In contemporary Portugal, the lonely and suicidal teenager Simao falls in love with Teresa. But does she really exist, or is she just an illusion? Their passion becomes the pretext for a violent, rebellious love—a love doomed to fail.

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Les Papiers de l'Anglais

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Credits

Original title :
Os papéis do Inglês
Country :
Portugal
Year :
2024
Director :
Sérgio Graciano
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
136 minutes
Actors :
Joao Pedro Vaz, David Caracol, Miguel Borges
Awards :
Tokyo International Film Festival, 2024
Based on the novel by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho

synopsis

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet, novelist, and filmmaker, discovers that his father left papers in the Namibian desert that could help him solve a mystery from 1923. Through the quest for the “Englishman’s papers,” we are taken on an epic journey across the stunning landscapes of southern Angola, from the turn of the 19th century to the end of the 20th.

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Grand Tour

Home Programme Grand Tour

Credits

Country :
Portugal-France-Italy
Year :
2024
Director :
Miguel Gomes
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
128 minutes
Actors :
Gonçalo Waddington, Crista Alfaiate, Cláudio da Silva
Awards :
Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2024
Age classification :
12+

synopsis

In 1917 in Rangoon, a colonial official runs away the day his fiancée announces she is coming for their wedding. She then sets off in pursuit of him on an improvised “Grand Tour” through the Far East.

 

Grand Tour

'Grand Tour' revivifie la force du cinéma des origines, dans la sincérité de sa cinématographie, vecteur d’émotions plastiques et sentimentales. Grand film.

Franceinfo Culture

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