Articles in French Movie Reviews
Irreversible (2002) Movie Review
“Irreversible” opens slowly, quickly shifts into a chaotic but exciting series of events, before falling back down to Earth and eventually becoming dull. The French film opens with writer/director Gaspar Noe trying to prove that camerawork doesn’t mean you have to use a tripod, or even keep your camera at ground level. For the film’s [...]
February 12th, 2003 | Nix | Comments Off | Read MoreIntimacy (2001) Movie Review
“Intimacy” is the kind of film that you never see being made in America. This could be for a number of reasons, from the average American’s belief that anything with vast amounts of nudity should be rated XXX (or that mind boggling NC-17) or be tossed into the frozen wasteland of late-night cable television. It’s [...]
September 1st, 2002 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreWasabi (2001) Movie Review
I am told by someone “in the know” that French action auteur Luc Besson and his favorite muse, Jean Reno, are celebrated idols in Japan. They are, to paraphrase, “big stuff” over there. What does this have to do with the two men’s latest effort, “Wasabi”? The relation is obvious because the movie is about [...]
August 18th, 2002 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreThe Lover (1991) Movie Review
Jean-Jacques Annaud’s The Lover is based on a novel by Marguerite Duras, supposedly a semi-autobiography about her early teen years in French-colonized Vietnam, where she met a rich (and much older) Chinaman (Hong Kong movie star Tony Leung Ka Fai) who becomes her lover. The young, 15-year old Duras is played by Jane March, and [...]
May 25th, 2002 | Nix | 2 Comments | Read MoreAmelie (2001) Movie Review
On more than one occasion in writer/director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie a character leaves his motorpad unattended and unlocked for long periods at a time, but it’s always there when he comes back for it. In another scene, the heroine witnesses a corner grocer browbeating his helper and she wants to fight back with a witty [...]
February 3rd, 2002 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreBrotherhood of the Wolf (2001) Movie Review
I will be the first to admit that my history is not as sharp or as extensive as I would like it to be, but I am reasonably sure neither the French nor the Native Americans knew martial arts in the 18th century. Mind you, I could be wrong, but I’m quite sure I’m not. [...]
January 18th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreVidocq (aka Dark Portals, 2001) Movie Review
The French film “Vidocq” is an interesting failure. It is breathtaking in its visuals, has an interesting narrative, but its execution is so erratic that I am left to wonder if one-name director Pitof is auditioning to direct a Nine Inch Nails music video instead of trying to make a coherent film. The movie, a [...]
January 1st, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Crimson Rivers (2002) Movie Review
Credits are a strange thing. The credits that roll after the stars’ names have flashed are inconsequential to the moviegoing public. Hence, most people have no idea who, or what, a “Line Producer” is. A Line Producer, in short, is the man who controls the purse strings of a movie’s budget. It is the LP’s [...]
December 24th, 2001 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Messenger (1999) Movie Review
It’s somewhat ironic that I’ve just finished reviewing an excellent period adventure movie in Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” and now I’m about to royally trash another period adventure movie. To begin with, let me state that I am big fan of Luc Besson, whose “La Femme Nikita” (which he wrote and directed) and “Kiss of [...]
December 3rd, 2001 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreCrying Freeman (1995) Movie Review
I must admit to being extremely frustrated with director Christophe Gans’ French version of the popular manga comic book. My frustration is part annoyance and part sadness. The annoyance comes from the fact that the movie is almost a scene-by-scene copy of the Crying Freeman anime (the Japanese cartoon); and except for a few scenes [...]
November 19th, 2001 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read More
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