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4 items from 2012
Robert Bresson's "The Devil, Probably"
21 April 2012 5:01 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"The Devil, Probably [1977], one of the great Robert Bresson's greatest, and least-seen, movies gets a week-long run (April 20-26) in the midst of BAMcinématek's Bresson retrospective — resplendent in a new 35mm print and hailed by no less an authority than Richard Hell as 'the most punk movie ever made.'" J Hoberman for Artinfo: "Like all Bresson's movies, The Devil, Probably is a drama of faith so formally rigorous and uncompromising as to border on the absurd — a Dostoyevskian story of a tormented soul presented in the stylized manner of a medieval illumination. At once chic and austere, The Devil, Probably is a generic youth movie set in a Parisian student milieu where long-haired panhandlers play their bongos by the Seine while sinister nihilists mock religion by planting pornographic photos in church documents. Opening with a newspaper headline (Youth Kills Self In PÈRE Lachaise Cemetery), it unfolds in flashback »
Rendez-vous With French Cinema 2012: Critic's Notebook
9 March 2012 2:30 PM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
by Vadim Rizov
Nicolas Klotz and Elizabeth Percival's Low Life is a hybrid horror film about illegal immigration laced with academic dialogue, scored by a thumpingly contemporary dubstep/witch-house soundtrack. The subjects are students and squatters, who gather nightly to applaud tango dancing in small bars, party in converted lofts, and face off against the police on ideological grounds. While police try to raid a building full of illegal immigrants, the kids form a line of resistance and start chanting insults comparing the police to the Nazi-collaborator Vichy regime. Someone throws a Molotov cocktail, a cop's leg catches on fire, and hostilities cease as he's dragged inside to receive aid from the aliens he's there to arrest.
The long nursing aftermath rounds off 20 minutes that make a much more filled-out argument against French policing practices than the hilariously abrupt moment in Philippe Garrel's 2011 That Summer, in which two friends' »
Les amants de "Low Life": A Talk with Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval
29 February 2012 12:09 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Above: Elisabeth Perceval and Nicolas Klotz. Photograph by Michael Ackerman.
“I am Ophelia. She who the river could not hold.” These words, taken from Heinrich Müller’s play Hamletmachine, are spoken by a girl playing an actress at the start of the beautiful new film Low Life, screening Sunday and Wednesday as part of Lincoln Center’s series Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. She is one of a group of young people who gather together in the streets and in their rooms at night, quoting and making plays, films, novels, and songs in an effort to choose their own identities, and to resist identities imposed on them by the State. The binaries of native/immigrant, legal/illegal, and natural/unnatural come into relief in particular through the love story of Carmen (Camille Rutherford), born in Lyon, and Hussain (Arash Naiman), an Afghan poet threatened with deportation. When together they’re quiet »
Notebook's 4th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2011
5 January 2012 12:58 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Looking back at 2011 on what films moved and impressed us it becomes more and more clear—to me at least—that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, our end of year poll, now an annual tradition, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2011—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2011 to create a unique double feature. Many contributors chose their favorites of 2011, some picked out-of-the-way gems, others made some pretty strange connections—and some frankly just want to create a kerfuffle. All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2011 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative »
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