TagMarie-France Pisier

These black corsets, these slit skirts, these chains, these popular erotic images that I treated as you say fairly stereotypical belong, I believe, to a collective erotic material

Alain Robbe-Grillet

REVIEWS

Sobytie (The Event) – Tallinn 19 Docs

Sergei Loznitsa investigates the events that took place in Leningrad, after a failed coup d’état and marked Soviet Union's end, by creating a grainy prequel of his previous doc, Maidan.

The President – Venice 71 Orizzonti

An allegorical political satire by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, that despite the initial absurdity becomes predictable and didactic in a simplistic way.

Hrútar (Rams) – Thessaloniki 56

Grímur Hákonarson creates a wry subtle tragicomedy set in the rural Icelandic landscape that feels exceptionally heart-warming while touches the verges of melancholic sarcasm. Golden Alexander at the 56th Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Eastern Boys – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A highly narrative dramatic - romantic film by by Robin Campillo dealing with male prostitution and the trafficking of boys from the Eastern Europe in France. Winner of 70th Venice Orizzonti section.

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Iveta Grófová depicts the bleak life in Bohemia that has gradually become Germany's poor man's Thailand.

TagMarie-France Pisier

Trans-Europ-Express Eroticism

Sobytie (The Event) – Tallinn 19 Docs

The President – Venice 71 Orizzonti

Hrútar (Rams) – Thessaloniki 56

Eastern Boys – Venice 70 Orizzonti

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Jacques Rivette: Should filmmakers see movies?

Bertolucci – Dreams from the Other Side

Herz Frank on documentarists

The Meaning of Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky

Biće Skoro Propast Sveta (It Rains in My Village, 1968)