Heidi Ellison
Villa Saint Victor
Home at the Château One of the sitting rooms where guests can mingle or have a quiet drink. The Villa Saint Victor, a hilltop château-hotel in Provence, is not the ancestral residence of Geoffroy and Stéphane Vieljeux’s family, but the … Read More
Evento
ART FOR AN URBAN REVOLUTION One of Pascal Marthine Tayou’s “poupées” from his installation at the Musée d’Aquitaine. The city of Bordeaux’s biannual citywide contemporary art festival, Evento, took a sociopolitical turn this year under the artistic direction of Italian … Read More
A long engagement for movie-goers
Amélie Fans Beware Oct. 27, 2004: If you, like millions of others, loved Amélie, the film that managed to make Montmartre even more of a tourist attraction, that doesn’t mean you will love director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest, “Un long dimanche … Read More
Les Particules Elémentaires
Bruno (Moritz Bleibtreu) rants at his dying mother while his half-brother Michel (Christian Ulmen) looks on. Les Particules Elémentaires, the controversial novel by French provocateur extraordinaire Michel Houellebecq, has been transformed into a German film, Elementareilchen, directed by Oskar Roehler. … Read More
Paris Je t’Aime
L’Amour, Toujours L’Amour Steve Buscemi as a hapless tourist in the Coen brothers’ contribution to the collaborative film. Photo © Patrick Klein/Victoires International 2006 A love letter to Paris in the form of 18 five-minute short subjects strung together into … Read More
13 Tzameti
Unlucky Number George Babluani plays Sébastien. It seems unlikely that Hollywood would take an interest in such a dark film as 13 Tzameti, but critics were quick to see its potential as an American remake after the movie picked up … Read More
Vers le Sud
Love for Sale Ellen with her summertime lover, Legba, in Vers le Sud. Like many French directors, Laurent Cantet has always taken an interest in thorny social issues. His last two movies, L’Emploi du Temps (Time Out) and Ressources Humaines … Read More
Le Petit Lieutenant
Paris Police Blues Nathalie Baye plays a “super-flic.” Cop stories – we’ve seen a million of them on TV and in the movies. What new take on the theme could possibly be left? Director Xavier Beauvois’s Le Petit Lieutenant manages … Read More
L’Enfant
Conscience-Impaired Youth Jérémie Renier plays the feckless Bruno. It’s difficult to understand why L’Enfant (The Child), written and directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, won them a second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year – it’s … Read More
Ma Vie en l’Air
Fear of Flying Marion Cotillard and Vincent Elbaz in Ma Vie en l’Air. Photo: © Alain Fillit Ma Vie en l’Air, the first feature film directed by Rémi Bezançon, gets off to a promising, quick-paced start, with a bitterweet Amélie-style … Read More