Vengeance au féminin

Gone Girl

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2014
Director :
David Fincher
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
149 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris
Awards :
Nomination Best Actress in a Leading Role (Pike), Oscars 2015 ; 4 nominations, Golden Globes 2015
Age classification :
16+
📖 Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn

synopsis

On the occasion of their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports the disappearance of his wife, Amy. Under pressure from the police and amid media frenzy, the image of the model couple begins to crumble…

 

Renouant avec la noirceur hyperréaliste de Zodiac et les symptômes d’une paranoïa contagieuse, ce whodunit aux faux-airs de Mulholland Drive catapulte Fincher à son meilleur.

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Gone Girl

Not only brutal but also brutally funny, Gone Girl mixes top-notch suspenseful storytelling with the kind of razor-edged wit that slashes so quick and clean you’re still watching the blade go past before you notice you’re bleeding.

The Wrap

Fincher proves himself yet again to be a better cinematic psychologist of (in-)human nature than almost any other director alive.

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The McCarey Way

Make Way for Tomorrow

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1937
Director :
Leo McCarey
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
92 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter

synopsis

Lucy and Barkley Cooper announce to their children that they risk losing their house. Each child has a good reason to avoid paying the bill, and in the end, Lucy and Barkley have to live separately with their children. The living arrangements quickly become difficult.

Que va-t-on faire des vieux ? La réponse donnée par l’indémodable McCarey au temps qui passe est aussi ironique que bouleversante.

Les Inrockuptibles

Make Way for Tomorrow

It would make a stone cry.

Orson Welles

A nearly-forgotten American film made in the Depression. The great final arc of Make Way for Tomorrow is beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s easy to imagine it being sentimentalized by a studio executive, being made more upbeat for the audience. That’s not McCarey.

Roger Ebert

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Why We Love Cinema

Ida

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Credits

Country :
Pologne-Danemark
Year :
2013
Director :
Pawel Pawlikowski
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
79 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
Awards :
Best Foreign Language Film (Poland), Oscars 2015
Age classification :
12+

synopsis

In 1960s Poland, before taking her vows, Anna, a young orphan raised in a convent, goes to visit her aunt, the only surviving member of her family. There, she uncovers a dark family secret dating back to the Nazi occupation.

 

Dans un noir et un blanc qui sont les couleurs de ses souvenirs, et un format carré qui encadre les visages comme des tableaux, rythmé par lesaxo de Coltrane et la transcription par Busoni d’un choral de Bach, porté par une jeune actrice d’autant plus bouleversante qu’elle n’est pas actrice, Ida est un film épuré d’une beauté à couper le souffle.

L’Obs

Dans cette Pologne communiste des années 60, les révélations sur le passé récent de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ébranlent les personnages, en même temps qu’elles dérangent et émeuvent les spectateurs.

Elle

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La Mariée était en noir

Home Programme Vengeance au féminin La Mariée était en noir

Credits

Country :
France
Year :
1968
Director :
François Truffaut
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
107 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Michael Lonsdale

synopsis

Widowed on the very day of her wedding, Julie methodically eliminates one by one the five men she believes are responsible for her husband’s death. Whether they live in a luxury seaside apartment, a mountain hotel room, or a prison cell, she eventually tracks them down…

 

 

C’est l’apogée de la tentation hitchcockienne de Truffaut. Le film baigne dans un hiératisme irréel, une recherche formelle assez gauche et inhabituelle pour le cinéaste, et l’actrice est presque trop charnelle pour le rôle. Mais c’est justement ce qui rend le film si beau et si poignant, cette volonté désespérée d’y croire, de ressembler au modèle inaccessible. Le syndrome Vertigo.

Les Inrockuptibles

La Mariée était en noire

A revenge thriller that is said to have paved the way for Tarantino’s Kill Bill.

The Guardian

With its summery, Mediterranean surface, Jeanne Moreau as the ultimate femme fatale heroine and a knife-twisting tale of murderous revenge and unexpected romance, The Bride Wore Black is well worth rediscovering.

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Vengeance au féminin

Lady Vengeance

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Credits

Original title :
Chinjeolhan geumjassi
Country :
Corée du sud
Year :
2005
Director :
Park Chan Wook
Version :
vostFR+EN
Duration :
115 minutes
Format :
digital | New restoration
Actors :
Lee Yeong-ae, Choi Min-sik, Yea-young Kwon
Awards :
Compétition, Venice Film Festival 2005

synopsis

Unjustly accused of kidnapping and murdering a child, Lee Geum-ja is imprisoned in a women’s prison, where she plans her revenge against the real culprit.

Lady Vengeance

On sort de là ému et ébranlé avec la sensation d’avoir vu un film événementiel à la fois ambitieux, malin, brillant, drôle et bouleversant. Le cinéaste virtuose mélange les noirs désirs et les roses bonbon pour tisser une sublime tragédie grotesque.

àVoir-àLire.com

If you’ve seen either of the first two flicks in this series – Oldboy and Sympathy for Mister Vengeance – you know what’s coming. Novices should prepare for mind-bending bloodshed and violence.

New York Post

Chan Wook may direct with a hyper kinetic zeal that borders on selfindulgence, but the result is something beautiful, riveting, intelligent and surprisingly responsible. It is certainly a fitting conclusion to the best revenge trilogy since Aeschylus’ Oresteia, and, in what probably ensures its status as a classic, it is a film whose Byzantine structure will leave you wanting to see it again.

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Kaouther Ben Hania

La Belle et la Meute

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Credits

Original title :
Aala Kaf Ifrit
Country :
Tunisie-France
Year :
2017
Director :
Kaouther Ben Hania
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
100 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Mariam Al Ferjani, Ghanem Zrelli, Noomane Hamda
Awards :
Un certain regard, Festival de Cannes 2017
📖 Based on the story ‘Coupable d’avoir été violée’ by Meriem Ben Mohamed

synopsis

At a student party, Mariam, a 21-year-old Tunisian woman, locks eyes with Youssef. A few hours later, she wanders the streets in shock. What follows is a long night during which she must fight for her rights and her dignity. But how can justice be obtained when it sides with the perpetrators?

Étrangement, c’est sa solitude qui finit par galvaniser la jeune fille : la proie n’a plus peur, ni honte. Comme si la réalisatrice tenait à montrer que les jeunes Tunisiennes ne peuvent compter que sur elles-mêmes. En ce sens, le dernier plan est l’un des plus gonflés que l’on ait vus sur la liberté de la femme arabe. Thriller surprenant, La Belle et la Meute est, avant tout, la chronique de la naissance d’une conscience politique.

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Ciné-Théâtre

Theater Camp

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Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
2023
Director :
Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
93 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman 
Awards :
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic for ensemble acting, Sundance Film Festival 2023
#CinémathèqueUnreleased

synopsis

When the beloved founder of a run-down theatre camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with the founder’s crypto-bro son to keep the camp afloat.

Theater Camp

Being a theatre geek isn’t required to enjoy Theatre Camp, but it certainly can’t hurt. Mostly, though, this is just funny and smart and sweet stuff, a crowdpleaser for the misfit in all of us.

IndieWire

Cette comédie peut compter sur la qualité de son cast, enfants et adultes, qui parviennent tous à trouver une savante et parfaite chimie là où le risque de surcharge était grand.

Le Polyester

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The McCarey Way

The Awful Truth

Home Programme The McCarey Way The Awful Truth

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1937
Director :
Leo McCarey
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
93 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy 
Awards :
Best Director, Oscars 1938

synopsis

Jerry and Lucy argue constantly and decide to get a divorce. Lucy becomes involved with a businessman, while Jerry takes up with a young heiress. But each does everything possible to make the other’s plans fail…

One of the funniest of the screwball comedies, and also one of the most serious at heart. The awful truth is that the protagonists need each other, and McCarey, with his profound faith in monogamy, leads them gradually and hilariously to that crucial discovery. The issues deepen in a subtle, natural way: the film begins as a trifle and ends as something beautiful and affirmative. A classic.

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Visuel : The Awful Truth

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Vengeance au féminin

I Spit on Your Grave

Home Programme Vengeance au féminin I Spit on Your Grave

Credits

Country :
USA
Year :
1978
Director :
Meir Zarchi
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
102 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace
🚫 18+ : restricted to viewers aged 18 and over

synopsis

Jennifer, a New York–based writer who has rented a cabin in the woods to seek inspiration, is brutally beaten and raped by a gang of delinquents. After taking time to recover, she prepares her revenge.

Meir Zarchi’s I Spit On Your Grave is the grindhouse era’s Gone With The Wind. This rape-revenge epic was initially a flop when released in 1978 as Day of the Woman. However, it became a smash in 1980 when distributor Jerry Gross re-titled it and marketed it as a horror picture. Time and distribution have allowed I Spit on Your Grave a chance to be viewed as the radical cinematic event it was made to be.

Film Threat

I Spit on Your Grave

This brutal, explicit rape-revenge movie isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s told with an eerie minimalism that marks it a grim, disturbing B-movieportrait of civilization’s abuse at the hands of savagery, and its subsequent, equally barbarous revenge.

Entertainment Today

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Milos Forman

Amadeus

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Credits

Country :
USA-France
Year :
1984
Director :
Milos Forman
Version :
vostFR
Duration :
158 minutes
Format :
vostFR
Actors :
Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge
Awards :
8 wins including Best Picture and Best Director, Oscars 1985
📖 Based on the play by Peter Shaffer 
🎞️ Original theatrical release version 4K restoration by The Academy Film Archive and The Saul Zaentz Co. with restoration funding provided by Teatro Della Pace Films

synopsis

The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…

L’originalité d’Amadeus est d’évoquer Mozart à travers Salieri (formidable F. Murray Abraham !). Les libertés prises avec la réalité historique ne font qu’intensifier l’action et le caractère des personnages. Comme le rire délirant de Mozart et sa perruque rose façon Elton John. Comme la trivialité et l’innocence du génie opposées à l’acrimonie grandiose de Salieri. Amadeus captive.

Le Guide Cinéma, Éd. Télérama

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