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Links to the reviews:
3 Hearts (Opening Night Selection) (Benoît Jacquot 2014)
Reality (Closing Night Selection) (Quentin Dupieux 2014)...
Type: Posts; User: Chris Knipp
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Links to the reviews:
3 Hearts (Opening Night Selection) (Benoît Jacquot 2014)
Reality (Closing Night Selection) (Quentin Dupieux 2014)...
QUENTIN DUPRIEUX: REALITY/RÉALITÉ (2014)
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ALAIN CHABAT IN REALITY
La vida es sueño y sueño de sueño?
Those not enamored of whimsy may not adore...
STÉPHANE DEMOUSTIER: 40-LOVE/TERRE BATTUE (2014)
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CHARLES MÉRIENNE IN 40-LOVE
Father and son
As Jérôme Sauvage, the harried store manager who gets let...
SHORTS PROGRAM
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EXTRASYSTOLE
Blurb descriptions in italics are followed by my comments.
The Smallest Apartment in Paris / Le Plus petit appartement...
ARMEL HOSTIOU: STUBBORN/UNE HISTOIRE AMÉRICAINE (2015)
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VINCENT MACAIGNE AND KATE MORAN IN STUBBORN
Lonely French guy in New York
In this movie...
ANDRÉ TÉCHINÉ: IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER/L'HOMME QU'ON AIMAIT TROP (2014)
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ADÈLE HAEMEL AND GUILLAUME CANET, IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER
A crooked...
CÉDRIC ANGER: NEXT TIME I'LL AIM FOR THE HEART/LA PROCHAINE FOIS JE VISERAI LE COEUR (2014)
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GUILLAUME CANET IN NEXT TIME I'LL AIM FOR THE HEART
The...
LUCIE BORLETEAU: FIDELIO, ALICE'S ODYSSEY/FIDELIO, L'ODYSSÉE D'ALICE (2014)
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MEVIL POUPAUD, ARIANE LABED IN FIDELIO, ALICE'S ODYSSEY
The film Fidelio:...
CYPRIEN VIAL: YOUNG TIGER/BÉBÉ TIGRE (2014)
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HARMANDEEP PALMINDER IN YOUNG TIGER: MANY WITH HIS FRENCH SCHOOLMATES
A young Punjabi striver at risk in...
THOMAS CAILLEY: LOVE AT FIRST FIGHT/LES COMBATTANTS (2014)
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KEVIN ANAÏS AND ADÈLE HAENEL IN LOVE AT FIRST FIGHT
Boy meets tomboy
Love at First...
PIERRE SALVADORI: IN THE COURTYARD/DANS LA COUR (2014)
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OLEG KUPCHIK AND CATHERINE DENEUVE IN THE COURTYARD
Indulgence of losers
Catherine Deneuve...
MARIE AMACHOUKLI-BARSACQ, CLAIRE BERGER & SAMUEL THEIS: PARTY GIRL (2014)
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JOSEPH BOUR AND ANGÉLIQUE LITZENBERGER IN PARTY GIRL
A wayward woman's...
SOPHIE LETOURNEUR: GABY BABY DOLL (2014)
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LOLITA CHAMMAH IN GABY BABY DOLL
Shaggy rustic French rom-com
In Sophie Letourneur's tongue-in-cheek...
ABD AL MALIK: MAY ALLAH BLESS FRANCE!/QU'ALLAH BÉNISSE LA FRANCE! (2014)
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MARK ZINGA IN MAY ALLAH BLESS FRANCE!
From hood to rap star, unblemished
...
FRÉDÉRIC TELIER: SK1/L'AFFAIRE SK1 (2014)
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RAPHAËL PERSONNAZ AND OLIVIER GOURMET IN SK1
Catching and trying a suspected serial killer the French way
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ANTOINE BARRAUD: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST/LE DOS ROUGE (2015)
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BERTRAND BONELLO IN PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
In search of the monstrous
Clearly...
CHRISTOPHE HONORÉ: MÉTAMORPHOSES (2014)
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AMIRA AKILI AND SÉBASTIEN HIREL IN MÉTAMORPHOSES
Honoré's mythological misfire
Perhaps this is an "ambitious...
THOMAS LILTI: HIPPOCRATES/HIPPOCRATE (2014)
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VINCENT LACOSTE AND REDA KATEB IN HIPPOCRATES
Interning in a Paris hospital
Former physician Thomas...
CÉDRIC JIMENEZ: THE CONNECTION/LA FRENCH (2014)
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Drug war nostalgia
There's nobody as vivid as Gene Hackman's "Popeye" Doyle or action as good as the...
CÉDRIC KAHN: WILD LIFE/VIE SAUVAGE (2014)
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Not so wild
This film, featuring one of director and actor Matthieu Kassovitz's more extensive roles in...
JEAN-PAUL CIVEYRAC: MY FRIEND VICTORIA/MON AMIE VICTORIA (2014)
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GUSLAGLIE MALANDA AND PIERRE ANDRAU IN MY FRIEND VICORIA
Cloying generosity
In My...
MÉLANIE LAURENT: BREATHE/RESPIRE (2014)
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LOU DE LAÂGE AND JOSÉPHINE JAPY IN BREATHE
Poison girlfriends
The beautiful French actress Mélanie Laurent...
JEAN CHARLES HUE: EAT YOUR BONES/MANGE TES MORTS (2014)
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JASON FRANÇOIS AND MOISE DORKEL IN EAT YOUR BONES
Tragicomic Gypsy noir thriller, enacted by...
BENOÎT JACQUOT: 3 HEARTS/3 COEURS (2014)
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BENOÎT POELVOORDE AND CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG IN 3 HEARTS
Tragedy of errors
Benoît Jacquot's new romantic...
From the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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. . . . March 6 – 15, 2015
Rendez-Vous with French
Cinema 2015
March 6 – 15