All articles by Grant Rosenberg
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Charly (L'Avion)
Dir: Cedric Kahn. Fr-Ger.2005. 100mins.Making a family film thatappeals to young and more sophisticated audiences is not that easy - but it isa task that film-maker Cedric Kahn mostly succeeds in with Charly.Though no less than fivescreenwriters were involved, Kahn's feature tells the simple and well-wornstory of a young boy ...
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Russian Dolls (Les Poupees Russes)
Dir/scr: Cedric Klapisch,Fr-UK. 2005. 125mins.We last saw Xavier(Romain Duris) five years ago at the end of L'Auberge Espagnole,literally running away from his new life as a civil servant. After the youthfulexuberance of his time in Barcelona chronicled in that film, who'd want tomeasure out their life with coffee spoons' Not ...
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By The Pricking Of My Thumbs (Mon Petit Doigt M'a Dit)
Dir: Pascal Thomas. Fr.2005. 105mins.A French adaptation ofAgatha Christie's same-named novel, By The Pricking Of My Thumbs findsthe right balance between silly humour and creepy mystery. Directed by PascalThomas (La Dilettante) and starring Andre Dussolier - best known outsideof France as the unseen narrator of Amelie - and Catherine Frot ...
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Gamblers (Les Mauvais Joueurs)
Dir. Frederic Balekdjian.Fr. 2005. 85mins.Taking place entirely ina garment district of Paris, Gamblers is a French Mean Streets, amessy, gratifying film about life in an ethnically-mixed neighbourhood and theart of making a living however one can. The first feature by the promisingFrederic Balekdjian, it makes for an assured, exciting drama ...
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Pale Eyes (Les Yeux Clairs)
Dir: Jerome Bonnell. Fr.2005. 87mins.At just under anhour-and-a-half, Pale Eyes is exactly the right length for its intimate,austere story. Though sometimes too deliberately paced, this modest filmimpresses as it tries to get inside the head of a lovely but anguished youngwoman, thereby arriving at a sort of minimalist grace. It ...
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Anthony Zimmer
Dir. Jerome Salle. Fr.2005. 90mins.From the opening BernardHermann-esque chords over shots of a mysterious woman entering a train stationcarrying a bright red sack, it's clear that we are settling into a thrillerharkening back to vintage Hitchcock - with a helping of James Bond Euro-luxurythrown in for good measure. Less cliche-ridden ...
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Empire Of The Wolves (L'Empire Des Loups)
Dir. Chris Nahon, Fr. 2005. 128 min.L'Empire des Loups(The Empire of the Wolves) is another in a growing niche of moody, slickFrench action thrillers trying to compete with similar American and Asian fare.Adapted from a Jean-Christophe Grangenovel, as with the thriller CrimsonRivers and its sequel (all three starring Jean Reno), ...