French Cinema
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VOICI LE TEMPS DES ASSASSINS (Dir. Julien Duvivier, 1956, France) – Deadlier than the Male
* * * Danièle Delorme’s Catherine is a devilishly twisted take on the femme fatale but this isn’t strictly a noir in the traditional sense of the genre; more of a revenge thriller gone awry with Jean Gabin’s Andre as the target for their scorn. Julien Duvivier’s 1956 film Voici Le Temps Des Assassins (This Continue reading
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FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach, 2012, US) – New Wave Intertexts
‘I know when to go out. And when to stay in’, sings Bowie on ‘Modern Love’, the opening track to his 1983 album ‘Let’s Dance’. Bowie’s music disputably transcends context but a song like Modern Love educes nostalgia for the 1980’s occasioning the dissolution of time and space in Frances Ha. Although this film is Continue reading
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