L'envers

Filmmaker Lawrence Shapiro discusses voice-over acting with the talented people behind the characters.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.

จากอาชีพนักแสดงที่ประสบความสำเร็จทั้งด้านภาพยนตร์และโทรทัศน์ แอนตัน เยลชินได้สร้างมรดกอันล้ำค่าไว้ในฐานะนักแสดง ผ่านบันทึกและงานเขียนอื่นๆ ภาพถ่าย เพลงต้นฉบับที่เขาแต่ง และการสัมภาษณ์กับครอบครัว เพื่อน และเพื่อนร่วมงาน ภาพยนตร์เรื่องนี้ไม่เพียงแค่นำเสนออาชีพที่น่าประทับใจของแอนตันเท่านั้น แต่ยังนำเสนอภาพรวมของตัวเขาเองอีกด้วย

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.

ชมเรื่องราวการเลื่อนสถานะที่ไม่น่าเกิดขึ้นได้ในสังคมฝรั่งเศสและโศกนาฏกรรมความรักที่สร้างจากเรื่องจริงของโจเซฟ โบโลญ นักไวโอลินและนักประพันธ์ผู้โด่งดัง