Tag: All cinemas in the world
“The Empire of Silence”: in the heart of darkness, with Thierry Michel
For twenty-five years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been torn apart by a war largely ignored by the media and the international community. The victims number in the hundreds…
African documentaries in the spotlight at the Cinéma du réel festival
In a city that we guess is African, a man from behind on a scooter, a variegated red, black, green, white jacket, holds out his left arm, in a sign…
“Come, I’ll take you”: Alain Guiraudie’s crazy escape
In Clermont-Ferrand, Médéric falls in love with Isadora, a 50-year-old prostitute, but she is married. While the city center is the scene of a terrorist attack, Selim, a young homeless…
Emmanuel Gras films the Yellow Vests of Chartres in “Un Peuple”
It was three and a half years ago: everywhere in France, a people rose up, protesting first of all against the increase in the price of fuels linked to an…
“Faces of Women”: a masterpiece of African cinema restored
Incandescent portrait of three Ivorian women, “Faces of Women”, by Désiré Ecaré (1939-2009) is released in theaters in a restored version, 35 years after its Cannes screening. Critics’ Prize at…
“Little Solange”, a melody while restraint on the divorce seen by a young girl
Solange is a well-behaved 13-year-old child who grew up with a protective older brother, a theater-loving mother and a music-loving father. These four form a loving and balanced family. But,…
Raoul Peck: “Racial hierarchy is the root of all genocides”
If it is true that it is always the victors who write history, that of the Western world is woven of things left unsaid, gray areas and lies. And in…
When cinema films municipal politics
Palace intrigues, the intoxication of power, ambition and fall: what more intense human matter, more subject to passions than politics, its ideals and its betrayals! Power, the relationship to decisions,…
Cyril Dion, defender of biodiversity with “Animal”
What distinguishes humans from other mammals on Earth? Laughter, wrote Rabelais in the 16th century … The philosopher Descartes estimated that this creature, the highest in the animal kingdom, had…