USA/LUX/FR 2001 (88′)- Dir.: Roman Coppola. With Jeremy Davies, Angela Lindvall, Elodie Bouchez, Billy Zane. | My rating: | Official site The setting is Paris in 1969. The styling is well done. And the story is a little farfetched but nevertheless entertaining. CQ is a film about a filmmaker who makes a film about himself,…
Cavale FR/BEL 2002 (111′)- Dir.: Lucas Belvaux. With Lucas Belvaux, Cathérine Frot, Dominique Blanc, Ornella Muti. My rating: | Official site | Cavale (‘Escape’) is the second part of a strange trilogy, the other two being Un couple épatant and Après la vie. Every film is an independent story, although most of the actors appear…
Bond is back, but in a slightly different way then you might expect. This time the superhero is played by a Dutchy and the episode is called ‘Never Chick Out’. The film is produced, written and directed by Arjen van Lith. Say goodbye to Brosnan or Connery, because here is the very impressive Oscar Haffmans,…
Gangs of New York USA/IT/GER/NL 2002 (168′)- Dir.: Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo Dicaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz. My rating: | Official site | Gangs of New York is probably the most talked about film of the last year. Producer Weinstein and director Scorcese had some troubles together. Miramax took a huge risk by financing this…
SP 2002 (133′)- Dir.: John Malkovich. With Javier Bardem, Laura Morante, Juan Diego Botto. | My rating: | Official site Rejas (Javier Bardem) is a former lawyer turned policeman in a non-descript South-American country. His assignment is to find the terrorist ‘President Ezekiel’, a philosophy professor, who seems to be everywhere. Rejas is married to…
FR 2002 (98′) – Dir.: Jean-Pierre Limosin. With Edouarda Noriega, Anna Mouglalis, Nathalie Richard, Paz Vega. | Official site | Anna Mouglalis | Edouardo Noriega | Due to a shock Graham/Pablo only disposes of a very term memory. Since love mainly consists of memories he can’t fall in love with the girl that falls in…
FR 2002 (97′)- Dir.: Lucas Belvaux. With Ornella Muti, François Morel, Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki. Un couple épatant tells the story of a hypochondria who is so stressed out that he makes up a whole conspiracy theory. He constantly changes is last will, nervously spoken into a dictaphone. His wife Cécile is convinced he has…
USA 2002 (86′)- Dir.: Antony and Joe Russo. With William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Luiz | Official site | George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh produce, through their company Section Eight, films like Ocean’s Eleven, Insomnia, and the pompous Full Frontal. Welcome to Collinwood is another Soderbergh/Clooney production, and reminds vaguely of O Brother, Where are…
USA 2002 (78′)- Dir.: Gerry Winick. With Aaron Stanford, Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth. | Official site | Oscar is a fifteen year old charming guy who likes Voltaire better than young pussies. He falls in love with his stepmother (Sigourney Weaver) who has so much more experience than the pretty girls in his class at…
UK 2002 (112′)- Dir.: Gurinder Chadha. With Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Official site (in Dutch) | Official site (en Français) | Jess wants to become a football player, but growing up in a traditional Indian family is not compatible with her wild ambitions. A girl she meets in the park (played by the…
