Kino mat Häerz... a mat Kaffi!

Les Émotifs anonymes

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Country :
France-Belgique
Year :
2010
Director :
Jean-Pierre Améris
Version :
Original French version
Duration :
80 minutes
Format :
35mm
Actors :
Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré
In collaboration with Service seniors de la Ville de Luxembourg and Help/Croix-Rouge

synopsis

Jean-René, the owner of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a talented chocolatier, are both extremely shy. Their meeting will turn their lives upside down, amid awkward moments, emotions, and chocolate-sweet tenderness.

Les Émotifs anonymes is a gentle and delicate romantic comedy, carried by the performances of Benoît Poelvoorde and Isabelle Carré. The film approaches shyness, the fear of loving, and the difficulty of opening up to others with humor and kindness. With its light tone, mouth-watering atmosphere, and warm humanity, it’s a film that makes you smile and warms the heart.

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Great Restorations

The Graduate

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Credits

Country :
USA 
Year :
1967
Director :
Mike Nichols
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
106 minutes
Format :
vostFR | digital
Actors :
Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Awards :
Best Director, Oscars 1968
📕 Based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film by Gian Maria Tore (Assistant Professor of Cinema, Arts, and Media, University of Luxembourg) - in French | 18:30 : start of the film

synopsis

Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, is unsure what to do with his future when he meets Mrs. Robinson, his father’s boss’s wife. The older woman sets out to seduce him and succeeds quickly. But things get complicated when Mr. Robinson asks Benjamin to date Elaine, his daughter…

 

Les adultes cherchent soit à imposer leur propre schéma, soit à profiter de leur désarroi comme le fait Mrs Robinson ; ils n’apportent pas de réponses. Le lauréat démystifie le modèle de réussite sociale de la classe moyenne américaine et, quand on gratte, l’envers du décor n’est pas reluisant.

L’OEil sur l’écran

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The year 1967 was significant in cinema history, and if you’re trying to make sense of why, you don’t have to look much further than Mike Nichols’ "The Graduate". It is a film which appears at a great turning point in Hollywood film history, at the moments of transition between one era tied to the strictures of classical storytelling and codes self-imposed censorship, and the beginning of a new American perspective on film influenced by artistic innovations from the cinema of Europe.

Senses of Cinema

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Afternoon Adventures

Romeo + Juliet

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Credits

Country :
USA 
Year :
1996
Director :
 Baz Luhrmann
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
120 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Leonardo DiCaprio, Claie Danes, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite
Awards :
Ours d’argent du Meilleur acteur (Leonardo DiCaprio), Berlinale 1997
Age classification :
12+ | Recommended from age 14 and up
📕 Based on the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Shakespeare

synopsis

Verona Beach, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, is the stage for the hatred between two rival families: the Montagues and the Capulets…

Luhrmann’s gleefully cinematic version of the play is so relentlessly inventive and innovative, it takes 20 minutes to get a grasp on how appropriate his approach to the material is. Bravely (but sensibly) sticking with the original dialogue, he makes the central element of his audacious adaptation sheer visual : as the camera races wildly around, or rests on luminous close-ups and ornate tableaux, the striking sets, costumes, characters, the colours and compositions serve perfectly to evoke the forces of wealth and poverty, love and hate, power and pride, prejudice and superstition.

Time Out Film Guide

Romeo + Juliet

Amid the clamor from outraged purists and Shakespeare spinning in his Stratford-on-Avon, England, grave, you should notice that Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence.

Rolling Stone

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Xavier Dolan

Mommy

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Credits

Country :
Canada-France
Year :
2014
Director :
Xavier Dolan
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
138 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clement
Awards :
Prix du jury, Cannes 2014 ; Nomination Best Foreign Language Film, Oscars 2015
Age classification :
12+

synopsis

A widowed single mother gains custody of her son, an impulsive and violent teenager with ADHD. Amid their outbursts and struggles, they try to make ends meet, notably with the unexpected help of their enigmatic neighbor across the street, Kyla. Together, the three of them find a fragile sense of balance, and soon, hope.

À ces héros boiteux, comme à cette banlieue prolétaire de Montréal, Xavier Dolan donne un style rutilant. C’est le paradoxe d’un auteur-réalisateur nourri depuis l’enfance de cinéma hollywoodien (il ne jure que par Titanic), mais reste, pour l’instant, dans son jus québécois et dans l’économie de L’art et essai. Mommy est donc merveilleusement hybride : mi-naturaliste mi-‘bigger than life’, tour à tour terre à terre et parcouru de somptueuses envolées lyriques ou oniriques. Mais aussi d’espiègles coups de théâtre formels : les dimensions de l’écran changent subitement, et avec elles l’horizon des personnages.

Télérama

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Cinematic Siblings

The Thomas Crown Affair

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Credits

Country :
USA 
Year :
1968
Director :
 Norman Jewison
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
102 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Yaphet Kotto
Awards :
Best Original Song, Oscars 1969

synopsis

Although a billionaire, Thomas Crown is at heart an enemy of the system. He enjoys pulling off lucrative heists, until the day his path crosses that of a private detective…

The Thomas Crown Affair

Norman Jewison, à l’instar d’Alfred Hitchcock, met sur le même plan suspense policier et suspense érotique. Un film superficiel, certes, mais extrêmement divertissant.

Télérama

Le film exploite cyniquement le matérialisme américain, tel que nous le ressentions à l’époque.

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Great Restorations

My Dinner with André

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Country :
USA 
Year :
1981
Director :
Louis Malle
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
110 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in French) | 18:30 : start of the film

synopsis

Wallace, a New York playwright, meets André Gregory, an old acquaintance and theatre director. Initially reluctant, Wally gradually gets drawn into the conversation and opens up wholeheartedly over the course of the meal.

My Dinner with André

Louis Malle démontre que le cinéma est un art aussi aventureux que le bavardage.

Télérama

This is a bizarre and surprisingly entertaining satirical comedy ‒ the story of the search beyond theatre turned into theatre, or, at least, into a movie.

The New Yorker

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Xavier Dolan

Tom à la ferme

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Credits

Original title :
Tom at the Farm
Country :
Canada 
Year :
2019
Director :
Xavier Dolan
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
119 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu
Awards :
FIPRESCI Prize, Venice Film Festival 2013
Age classification :
12+
📕 Based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard

synopsis

A young advertising executive travels to the remote Quebec countryside for a funeral, only to discover that no one there knows his name or the nature of his relationship with the deceased. When the deceased’s older brother forces him into a disturbing role-playing scheme designed to protect his mother and the family’s honor, a toxic relationship begins... one that will not end until the truth finally comes to light.

Tom à la ferme

Producteur, sceénariste, monteur, costumier, acteur. Dolan tient tous ces rôles dans "Tom à la ferme". Il ne manquerait plus qu’il compose la musique encore ! Un tel talent frise l’indécence !

France Info Culture

Made of equal parts mourning and melancholy, mystery, and possibly madness, the striking "Tom at the Farm" showcases Dolan’s abundant talents at turning seemingly simple material into a taut, tough film.

Indiewire

Tom à la ferme

It’s taut, creepy, compelling and sexy. And, apart from the location, it’s very much a Dolan film, focused on people testing the limits of their love for each other – and themselves.

Time Out

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Great Restorations

The Ear

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Credits

Original title :
Ucho
Country :
Tchecoslovaquie
Year :
1969
Director :
 Karel Kachyna
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
94 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohaty, Gustav Opocensky
🗣️ 18:15 : Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:30 : start of the film

synopsis

Après être rentré d’une soirée, un fonctionnaire tchécoslovaque devient convaincu qu’il est sur le point de faire l’objet d’une purge politique et tente d’en limiter les conséquences, tout en gérant son mariage turbulent.

A remarkable thriller that explores the paranoia of a country due to the omnipresent nature of its government while also being a compelling domestic drama driven by the strength of its characters. The fact that we, the viewers, are as intrusive to the life of these people as the dreaded ‘ear’ makes for an interesting voyeuristic experience that’s hard to look away from.

Czech Film Review

The Ear

Suppressed as soon as production finished, Karel Kachyna's "The Ear" now resurfaces in a glorious 4K restoration. Prochazka’s dramatic masterstroke was to stage much of the film in the presumably grace-and-favour house that Ludvik shares with his wife, and to have as many thematic nods to Edward Albee's "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" as to the universe of Franz Kafka. It remains a brilliant analysis of how political power is maintained and enforced – and not just in a totalitarian situation.

BFI

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Ciné-Théâtre

Twentieth Century

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Country :
USA 
Year :
1934
Director :
Howard Hawks
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
91 minutes
Format :
digital 
Actors :
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly

synopsis

A Broadway director turns a young actress into a star and marries her. But after three years of marital failure, she leaves for Hollywood. Until the day they meet again on a train…

Aujourd’hui considéré comme un des premiers exemples de la ‘comédie loufoque’ (screwball comedy), "Twentieth Century" fut un triomphe critique. Les deux derniers tiers du film prennent place dans le fameux train ‘Twentieth Century’ : le rythme s’accélère alors frénétiquement, emporté par le délire verbal et comportemental de Barrymore, et la composition hystérique de Carole Lombard dans son premier rôle comique. Maître de l’agitation dans un espace clos, Howard Hawks fait oublier le statisme de l’adaptation d’une pièce de théâtre, et traite un thème cher à ses comédies : le jeu amoureux dynamitant les normes d’un microcosme social, tout en s’y piégeant.

Dictionnaire des films, Éd. Larousse

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Cinematic Siblings

Charade

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1963
Director :
 Stanley Donen 
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
113 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn
Awards :
Nominee Best Original Song, Oscars 1964

synopsis

A young Parisian woman discovers that her husband has been murdered and that he hid $250,000 during the war. Three men pursue her, but she is aided by an enigmatic and charming adventurer…

L’integralité du casting est sensationnelle, tout autant que les dialogues avec leurs réparties qui fusent du tac au tac, la musique de Mancini, nominé à l’Oscar, le générique de début, formidable de sophistication, sans oublier la garde-robe de Miss Hepburn.

aVoir-aLire.com

"Charade" presents us with a temporary entry into that brighter place, into the possibility of adventure, the vicarious possession of beauty. Acted by two Europeans in a mythic, dangerous, beguiling Paris, it remains a quintessential Hollywood film...

The Guardian

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