FRANCE 2002 (90′)- Dir.: Luc Pagès. With Gad Elmaleh, Cécile de France. Official site A+ Pollux is the third film in a very short time in which the beautiful Cécile de France stars. (The other two are Irène and L’Auberge Espagnole.) Although she plays the title role (Pollux), she is not much seen in this…
Xavier (Romain Duris) is a young student who needs to learn Spanish in order to get a job at the prestigious Ministry of Finance. He decides to join the Erasmus-programme for student exchanges. He enrolls at Barcelona University. In the Catalan capital he finds a room in a large apartment, with students from all over…
Hable con ella (ESP 200X, XX’) Dir.: Pedro Almodavar. With Leonor Watling. My rating: With Hable con ella (Speak to her), Pedro Almodóvar delivers his most intimate film so far. It is the story of two men who are brought together by two women. One man is a female bullfighter’s boyfriend, who lies in a…
Jill Davis’s Girls’ Poker Night is a welcome contribution to the many books that target the group of 30-something women. Ruby Capote is very picky when it comes to men, although she is already spending a couple of years of her life with Doug, with whom she definitely not want to marry. When she gets…
It is 2001, and the battle between good and evil has reached a critical point. Heaven is having financial problems and Hell is risking a management buy-out. Sin noticias de dios is another proof of the originality of Spanish cinema. Penelope Cruz Cruise, which I hardly digest, is playing excellent as a man, who got…
From 25 February on, I will spend six months in sunny California to follow a film course at the New York Film Academy. I will also shoot and direct my first short movie. Curious about my adventures? I will keep you informed in my Hollyblog
The new film by director Costa-Gravas tells the story of an SS officer who, together with the help of young jesuite Ricardo Fontana (a role by Matthieu Kassovitz), tries to inform Pope Pius XII about the concentration camps and genocide. The film poster, designed by advertising’s enfant terrible Oliviero Toscani, is causing a stir in…
Many details of our daily life in a complex society, are currently being exposed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Gursky is German, but don’t worry about the Gründlichkeit with which the pictures are made. German photographer Andreas Gursky (1955) was introduced to photography by his father. He could be described as an antropological landscape photographer….
The guys from Telepopmusik have listened carefully to Grandmaster Flash, Kruder and Dorfmeister and DJ Shadow. Genetic World as their album is called, goes from hip hop to soft and dreamy, which is not quite coherent, but nevertheless agréable. At least it makes one of the most interesting elektronik disks of the last few months….
