Overview of articles
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L’école de la chair
Adaptation of an unknown novel by Yukio Mishima. The rather older Dominique (Isabelle Huppert) falls for the attractive young Quentin. The cinematograPublished on: -
Ephèbes et courtisanes
A range of voices and opinions, based on a text by the 9th-century Iraqi al-Jahiz.Published on: -
Sade
Sade is usually associated with torture and sadism. Jacquot made a fictional portrait in which De Sade (Daniel Auteuil) in 1794, during an unknown perPublished on: -
Le septième ciel
Humane, subtle and complex portrait of a marriage in which the balance of power between the partners shifts. A surgeon’s wife is ill, but that…Published on: -
time after time
A horse is standing petrified at night in the middle of a highway, while the traffic races past. Wait and see: Sala requires the viewer’s…Published on: -
L’evangile du cochon creole
An (anti-) Bible, apocalyptic, political and musical film around ‘The Gospel of the Black Pig’.Published on: -
Princesse Marie
Catherine Deneuve approached Benoit Jacquot for the television film version of the story about Marie Bonaparte, a neurotic cousin of Napoleon and prinPublished on: -
Buffalo Boy
A Vietnamese water-buffalo drama (no, that isn’t a genre, yet) with the power of a western. A young man has to combat wild and watery…Published on: -
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How Arnold Won the West
WIth great casualness, film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is retrained as a politician. The film stays close to the star and his campaign. As a result…Published on: