A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
French and French-language Films
Nicolas Capitaine, Celine Desoutter, Lucas Durkheim, Leni Marotte, “Hors Saison / Out of Season” (2017) Few films can portray character and tell a story complete in…
French and French-language Films
Soham Chakraborty, Hanxu Chen, M Joffily, Justin Polley, Julie Trouve, “In Orbit” (2019) Similar to Gobelins’ 2018 release “Quand j’ai remplacé Camille” in its theme of…
French and French-language Films
Bruno Cohen, Germaine Colajanni, Rohan Deshchougule, Ronit Kelkar, Isabella Littger de Pinho, Diego Porral, Yujia Wang, “Blind Eye” (2019) After seeing Muhammad Houhou’s 2018-released short”Ostrich Politic”,…
French and French-language Films
Florencia Atra, Leonard Hicks, Man Luo, Claire Matz, Luana Nguyen, Marine Petri, “Oasis” (2019) Compared to other Gobelins animated shorts I have seen so far, the…
French and French-language Films
Han Yang, Basil Malek, “The Tree” (2018) Almost completely silent save for ambient background sound effects, this deeply moving animated short about an elderly man living…
French and French-language Films
Pierre-Marie Adnet, Jean-Luc Dessertaine, Guillaume Pochez, Tristan Poulain, Vincent Rouziere, Alessandro Vergonnier, “Souffle-court” (2018) In this 5-minute short film, a young teenage supercross rider Tom is…
French and French-language Films
Mohammad Houhou, “Ostrich Politic” (2018) What struck me most about this film is its encapsulation of the allegory of Plato’s Cave in which society is convinced…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, French and French-language Films
Ellis Ka-yin Chan, Tena van der Galovic, Zozo Jhen, Yen-chen Liu, Marine Varguy, “A Gong (Grandpa)” (2018) A tale of a small Taiwanese boy attending his…
French and French-language Films
Fabien Corre, Kelsi Phung, “Les lèvres gercées” (2018) In just five minutes, within the setting of a small kitchen and with just two characters – a…
French and French-language Films
Camille Aigloz, Simon Anding Malandin, Michiru Baudet, Margo Roquelaure, Diane Tran Duc, Lucy Vallin, “Mehua” (2017) In real life, the Aztecs did not sacrifice their own…