Valerie Lemercier Friday 13th May 2011 2011 Cannes International Film Festival - Day 3 - 'Polisse' - Premiere Cannes, France
Valerie Lemercier
Valerie Lemercier
Jean Paul Gaultier and Valerie Lemercier - Jean-Paul Gaultier and Valerie Lemercier Paris, France - Paris Fashion Week Ready To Wear Fall/Winter 2011 - Jean-Paul Gaultier - Catwalk Sunday 6th March 2011
Avenue Montaigne Review
By Don Willmott
Excellent
An absolute must for Francophiles and a great choice for anyone who loves a vibrant ensemble dramedy, Avenue Montaigne is a bustling delight, a slice of Parisian artistic life that will have you dialing Air France the morning after you see it.
Set in Paris's small theater district, the movie tracks the intersecting lives of a virtuoso pianist, a successful actress, and a rich old art collector, each of whom is facing a huge life change. The connections between them are facilitated by Jessica (Cécile De France), a young and innocent country girl who has arrived in the big city and taken a job at an atmospheric cafe patronized mainly by the artistic types who live and work nearby.
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Friday Night Review
Excellent
The sun goes down, and the city lights of Paris slowly rise. The romantic melancholy of a girl's adventure story finds a haunting backdrop in Claire Denis's Friday Night. This follow-up to the ultraviolent vampire horror show Trouble Every Day feels like a contemporary fable, retaining the signature Denis touches of expressionistic images and aching sensuality. Sweet, shy Laure (Valérie Lemercier) is packing up the apartment on her final evening before moving in with her lover. Laure's the very portrait of ambivalence, a sharp twist on the male fear of commitment.
That Laure won't throw away her sexy red dress (saying, "I'll keep you," in one of her affectionate throwaway lines to household objects, clothing, and her beaten-up but friendly car) says she has some vitality in her yet, and hasn't quite finished exploring life's spontaneous opportunities. Going out for the night wearing a trés chic black dress, Laure gets stuck in a massive traffic jam, allowing regular Denis cinematographer Agnes Godard to rove between vehicles picking up details of Parisian life through rain-speckled car windows illuminated and obscured by neon, headlights, and shadows.
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Les Visiteurs Review
Good
Juvenile, yet endearing, this French farce features Reno as a French royal who goes 1000 years forward in time and meets his progeny. Silly but fun. Or silly fun.
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