Tag: french
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FAREWELL / L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL
Cineworld Glasgow, 29.04.11 Based on true events leading up to the end of the Cold War, Farewell follows the story of Colonel Sergei Gregoriev (Emir Kusturica), a Soviet in Moscow, who begins supplying information to the West, using Pierre Froment (Guillaume Canet), a French engineer, to smuggle out secret Soviet intelligence and crucially a list of high-ranking Soviet spies working in the…
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RENOIR, MY FATHER
RENOIR, MY FATHER Jean Renoir A biography of the Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, by his son, the French film director, Jean. In principle, this is a simple book. A fond, often sentimental, look back at the life one of the great artists of the late 19th, and early 20th, centuries, as remembered by his middle…
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LITTLE WHITE LIES
Glasgow Film Theatre, 17.04.11 A big hit in France last year, it says a lot about the attitude of UK multiplex chains, and the disinterest of the British audience for foreign language films that in Glasgow Little White Lies is not showing in the city’s 18-screen multiplex, whose screens are occupied with multiple showings of the Easter holiday, kid-friendly…
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LE QUATRE CENTS COUPS / THE 400 BLOWS
MK2 / 2ENTERTAIN / CINEMA CLUB DVD The films of Francois Truffaut have somehow managed to evade me over the years. I can remember catching Jules et Jim on television some years ago, and I was aware he starred in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), but despite studying film at university, his…
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LES DIABOLIQUES
Glasgow Film Theatre, 31.03.11 My first encounter of a film adaption of the novel Celle Qui N’Etait Plus by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac was the Hollywood version from 1996, Diabolique (Jeremiah Chechik), which was credited as ‘based on’ both the novel and this original French film from 1955, written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The American version was…
Iain Kelly 