Tag: Movie theater
“Underground Swiss”, Switzerland differently
We are at the Douarnenez festival, in Brittany, so it will not be a question here of how to make your savings grow in Switzerland or to promote watchmaking or…
The youth and freedom of tone of Rwandan cinema in Angoulême
Inviting Rwanda to the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival is a daring bet as the French language, before being rehabilitated as an official language, had been relegated to the background in…
Cinema: Thierry Binisti, director of the “Prix du passage”
The number of illegal crossings between France and the United Kingdom continues to increase, with 1,300 recorded on Monday August 22. And reality meets fiction, at the Angoulême Francophone Film…
Cinema: a double meaning for “The drift of the continents (to the south)” by Lionel Baier
Somewhere in Sicily, the French president and the German chancellor have planned to visit a migrant camp. The emissaries of the two leaders are sent upstream and find the camp…
Locarno International Film Festival: “Tales from the Purple House” by Abbas Fadhel
In Switzerland, in the canton of Ticino, the Locarno film festival takes up its summer quarters as it does every year, transforming the small town on the shores of Lake…
French director Blandine Lenoir
This Thursday evening, at the Locarno festival in Switzerland, a French film was screened on the Grand-Place of the city: Annie Anger. Five years after the success of Dawn, its…
“Searching for Sugar Man” or how a documentary can change your life
10 years ago, the documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” was released. The story of a quest led by South African fans to find American singer Sixto Rodriguez. Without knowing it,…
The “crème de la crème” of auteur cinema at the Locarno Festival 2022
In Switzerland, in the canton of Ticino, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, the Locarno festival takes up its summer quarters as every year. An eclectic and broad-spectrum festival. From…
Death of singer Olivia Newton-John, the Sandy of “Grease”
British-Australian actress and singer Olivia Newton-John, star of the 70s and 80s, has died in Los Angeles aged 73. His role in the musical “Grease”, alongside John Travolta, marked an…
Cinema: “Dodo” by Panos Koútras, satire of the modern world
The culture guest comes to us from Greece. Panos Koútras is famous among fans of series Z for “The Attack of the Giant Moussaka”, a gigantic theatrical success. His new…