lundi 22 octobre 2007

La Boite Noire


Separuh film ini cukup bikin pusing :p antara mimpi dan realita..

Note:
Images flash through Arthur's brain, voices buzz in his mind, uttering disjointed words and sentences. Arthur Seligman seems to have had an accident but did he run over a little boy or not? And what was he doing near Cherbourg while he lives in Paris? When he regains consciousness (but does he really?) Isabelle Kruger, a nurse, tell him that he had lapsed into a coma after his accident and that she wrote down all of what he said while he was delirious. She gives him the notebook and Arthur starts investigating ... HIMSELF

LA BOITE NOIRE: $$$
CERITA: $$$
GAMBAR: $$

jeudi 18 octobre 2007

Douches Froides


Cold Showers

Agak sulit menggambarkan film ini, film remaja dengan romansa namun dengan tema yang menarik.
Mickael yang terobsesi dengan pretandingan judo membuatnya melupakan pacarnya Vanessa. Kemudian ada Clement murid baru dalam arena judo yang juga sama2 bersemangat menghadapi pertandingan. Kedekatan di antara ketiganya menghasilkan eksperimen cinta segitiga, termasuk adegan ménage-à-trois nya :) Hal ini juga yang membawa konflik batin bagi Mickael dan setelah tak tahan melihat 'agresivitas' Vanessa, ia tega menonjok muka Vanessa dalam pertandingan judo tsb. :p

DOUCHES FROIDES: $$$
GAMBAR: $$$
CERITA: $$$
KETAWA: $$$
SEKS: x (nudity)

Note:
A trio of French teens experiences a love that will change their lives forever in this erotic coming-of-age tale from director Anthony Cordier. Mickael's (Johan Libereau) obsession with Judo often helps him to focus his frustrations in life, but when he's alone with longtime girlfriend, Vanessa (Salomée Stevenin), his guard fades, leaving a loving and easygoing boyfriend where the aggressive martial artist used to be. Clément (Pierre Perrier) is the new kid in town with a similar obsession with Judo and a pair of nouveau riche parents who stand in stark contrast to Mickael's working class mother and father. When the pair bond over an upcoming tournament and Clément helps Mickael to lose some weight for the meet, Vanessa is hesitant to accept the outspoken newcomer. As the bond between Mickael and Clément strengthens, Vanessa's increasingly complex role in the pair's friendship leads the trio through a series of sacrifices and emotional revelations that will result in a profoundly affecting sexual encounter for all three conflicted teens. By Jason Buchanan

Ne Le Dis A Personne


Tell No One


Seorang lelaki, Alex, yang merana bertahun-tahun setelah istrinya dibunuh kaget setelah melihat video dari attachment email yang memperlihatkan istrinya masih hidup. Dalam ketidakpercayaan ini, Alex mulai mencari tahu kebenaran kematian istrinya dari orang-orang yang mungkin mengetahui peristiwa yang terjadi.

Pencarian ini akhirnya membawanya berhadapan dengan hukum, polisi, gangster, bahkan mertuanya sendiri. A true thriller :)

NE LES DIS A PERSONNE: $$$$
GAMBAR: $$$
CERITA: $$$$
ACTION: $$$

Note:
An innocent man is on the run after he's accused of murder and his spouse seemingly returns from the grave in this thriller from France. Alex Beck (Franois Cluzet) is a doctor who has slowly been putting his life back together after his wife Margot was murdered by a serial killer. Eight years on, Alex is doing well enough until he finds himself implicated in the murder of two people, with plenty of evidence pointing to him as the killer even though he knows nothing of the crimes. The same day, Alex receives an e-mail that appears to be from Margot (Marie-Jose Croze), which includes a link to a video clip that seems to be recent and features his late wife looking alive and well. Margot's message warns Alex that they are both being watched, and he struggles to stay one step ahead of the law as a gang of strong-arm men intimidate Alex's friends into telling whatever they might know about him. Alex's sister Anne (Marina Hands) persuades her well-to-do lover Helene (Kristin Scott Thomas) to hire a well respected attorney, Elisabeth Feldman (Nathalie Baye), to handle Alex's case. While Elisabeth tries to keep Alex out of jail, she learns that her client has a warrant out for his arrest, and Alex goes on the lam while he and his lawyer struggle to find out the truth about the murder as well as Margot's reappearance. Tell No One (aka Ne Le Dis a Personne) was based on the international best-selling novel by Harlan Coben. By Mark Deming

mercredi 10 octobre 2007

5 x 2


Cinq fois deux?

We meet Marion and Gilles on the day they sign their divorce papers. And we move backwards in time. The film is composed of 5 sequences featuring people, hence the title. The backwards time-line shows how their marriage fell apart, and creates nostalgia as we discover the happiness of the early days. The cinematography evolves from cold and static to warm and moving, as the actors actually seem to grow younger. Overall it is a rather dark and pitiless movie, one of its disturbing qualities being that dares to feature a male protagonist who is an absolute jerk.

5 x 2: $$
CERITA: $$
GAMBAR: $$

samedi 6 octobre 2007

Rois et Reine


Kings & Queen ..

Note:
Expertly mixing comedy, tragedy and melodrama, Kings and Queen tells the story of two former lovers who find their lives linked once again, inexplicably. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a 35-year-old art gallery director and single mother who has been unlucky in love until now when she meets a succesful businessman. When a crisis occurs, Nora must track down her ex-husband, Ismael (Mathieu Almaric), a disheveled neurotic musician who has descended into a comic nightmare and is mistakenly committed to a mental hospital under the control of a steely clinical psychiatrist (Catherine Deneuve). As their words collide, the stage is set for a truly unforgettable ending.

ROIS ET REINE: $$
CERITA: $$
GAMBAR: $$

Le Temps qui Reste


Francois Ozon presents..

Le temps qui reste (versi Inggris: Time to Leave) berkisah tentang seorang fotografer pro, Romain, yang juga homoseksual (diperankan Melvil Poupaud, main di Broken English), yang divonis penyakit kanker ganas dan 'sekarat'. Romain menolak penyembuhan dan bimbang menjalani masa akhir hidupnya. Dalam film ini, digambarkan dalam potongan2 adegan ketika Romain menjalani masa kecilnya, ketika dia menyadari orientasi seksualnya, ketika bermain-main dengan kakak perempuannya yang entah jadinya selalu ia musuhi. Romain jg memutuskan hubungan dengan pacar homonya. Ketika dalam perjalanan menengok sang nenek dan berhenti di sebuah resto, si waitress Jany meminta Romain untuk "menanam saham" alias jadi biological father dikarenakan suami Jany impoten. Awalnya tak berminat, akhirnya Romain menyanggupinya dan jadilah ménage à trois (3sum!).

Disutradarai oleh Francois Ozon, dikenal dengan film2nya yang bertemakan kehidupan gay. Ini saya ga terlalu ngerti jalan cerita film ini selain sekedar kehidupan menjelang mati seorang gay, tp itu mungkin yang diinginkan oleh Ozon.

Note: (dari imdb.com)
A successful fashion photographer (Poupaud) is a gay man with terminal cancer. Slowly coming to terms with his situation he is cruel to his lover, has refused chemotherapy, nasty to his pregnant sister and uncommunicative to his loving and supportive parents.

LE TEMPS QUI RESTE: $$
GAMBAR: $$$
CERITA: $$
SEKS: x (ya ada lah, termasuk adegan homonya..hiiiii....)

vendredi 5 octobre 2007

De Battre Mon Coeur s'est Arrêté


Film De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (versi Inggris: The Beat That My Heart Skipped) banyak memenangi film awards di Eropa, termasuk Cesar Awards, Berlin Film Festival dan BAFTA Awards.

Film ini berkisah tentang kehidupan si Thomas (Romain Duris), yang kerja buat sang ayah (sbg real estate thug?) walaupun, namun pada suatu saat secara tidak sengaja mendapatkan kesempatan untuk menjadi pianis untuk orkestra dan berlatih pada orang Cina yang sama sekali tidak ngeh bahasa Prancis. Sejatinya berkarakter yang keras, namun dia menaruh perhatian pada ayahnya, termasuk meminta bekas kekasih ayahnya untuk mengurusi si ayah yang udah jadi alcoholic berat.

Di sisi lain yang keras tsb, Thomas juga terpaksa melawan mafia Rusia yang menjadi saingan bisnis sang ayah. Kehidupan cintanya juga termasuk parah, terlibat affair dengan istri sohibnya sendiri. Dengan intens, alur film ini tidak mengenal kata "lelah". Sisi2 kehidupan Thomas tergambarkan secara realistis, dan mungkin itu yang ada dalam diri orang2 pada kehidupan nyata. Ada sisi gelap dan sisi humanis, dan jalan hidup Thomas berseliweran di antaranya.

Film yang bagus...

Note: (dari imdb.com)
Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn't speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common. Before long, Jacques' bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love. But, when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend's wife, his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light
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(Written by Sujit R. Varma)

DE BATTRE MON COEUR S'EST ARRÊTÉ: $$$$
GAMBAR: $$$
CERITA: $$$$
ACTION: $$

Fauteuils d'Orchestre


directed by Daniele Thompson ... (lihat karya film lainnya: Décalage Horaire)

Kalau anda liat poster di sebelah kanan ini, terlihat 10-an wajah aktor/aktris yang nampang disitu. Sebanyak itulah peran yang ada dalam Fauteuils d'Orchestre (Inggrisnya: Orchestra Seats). Ide ceritanya unik, dan sebetulnya film ini terdiri dari 3 subplot dengan masing-masing segala pernak-pernik kehidupan di dalamnya:
1. panggung pertunjukan musik: Lefort (Albert Dupontel), seorang pianis yang sudah bosan dengan kehidupan konser piano, berharap istrinya (Laura Morante), yang juga sekaligus manajernya, untuk mau tinggal dan hidup tenang jauh dari kota;
2. panggung teater komedi: Catherine, seorang komedian panggung yang ingin mengembangkan kariernya, tidak sekedar tenar di panggung, berupaya menarik perhatian seorang sutradara film (diperankan oleh Sydney Pollack);
3. tempat pelelangan barang2 seni: Jacques, seorang kolektor benda2 seni bermaksud menjual segala koleksinya di situ, bertemu dengan anaknya Frederic (diperankan oleh Christopher Thompson, penulis skenario film ini) yang tak lain adalah mantan kekasih istri sang ayah sekarang.

Ketiga tempat ini berada di satu ruas jalan. Satu hal yang membuat 3 cerita itu saling bersinggungan adalah Jessica (Cecile de France, main di film Mon Colonel), waiter di sebuah kafe, di jalan yang sama. Jessica sendiri punya keinginan untuk mewujudkan mimpi sang nenek.

Note (dari imdb.com):
Catherine, hugely popular (and wealthy) from her long-running television soap opera, longs for glory on the big screen. She prepares to star in a Feydeau farce about to open on the 17th, but despite all her success she wonders if her work has any value or meaning. Jean-François, piano prodigy with an international reputation, is preparing for a major Beethoven recital on the 17th, yet he basically just wants to be alone. Jacques, a businessman turned art connoisseur, has amassed an extraordinary, highly personal art collection, but on the 17th it will all be sold off. Catherine, Jean-François and Jacques have all devoted their lives to art, yet what kinds of lives has art given them? They sometimes cross paths and nurse their neuroses at a café where they are waited on by Jessica, recently arrived in Paris on her own quest for fame and fortune.

FAUTEUILS D'ORCHESTRE: $$$$
CERITA: $$$$
GAMBAR: $$$
KETAWA: $$

Anthony Zimmer


Anthony Zimmer adalah penjahat yang dicari-cari oleh Interpol, dan juga mafia Rusia, terkait dengan kejahatan pencucian uang yang dilakukannya.
Zimmer dikenal sangat ulet dalam menyembunyikan diri, sehingga dia belum tertangkap oleh Polisi. Salah satu kontak yang bisa terhubung ke Zimmer, adalah melalui Chiara (Sophie Marceau), sang pacar. Polisi pun terus mengawasi gerak-gerik Chiara.

Dalam perjalanan naik kereta api TGV ke kota Nice, Chiara memilih duduk dekat Francois Taillandier (Yvan Attal), seorang lelaki biasa-biasa saja yang ingin berlibur ke Nice. Di kota itu, Chiara mengajak Francois tidur sekamar (bukan seranjang loh!) dan selalu berdua, yang menyebabkan para mafia Rusia mencurigai si Francois sebagai Zimmer. Francois pun dikejar-kejar untuk dibunuh oleh mafia Rusia..untung Chiara datang membantu...

Francois yang jatuh cinta kpd Chiara memintanya untuk melupakan Zimmer.. kenapa?
Jawaban berada di akhir cerita...

Akting Sophie Marceau dan Yvan Attal sangat 'mengesankan' dalam film ini. Karakter Chiara yang 'dingin' (tapi kepingin) sanggup diperankan oleh Marceau (berbeda sewaktu di film Je Reste!). Satu lagi, rumah peristirahatan mewah milik Zimmer di Nice yang berada di perbukitan, sangat unik dan modern, tempat adegan klimaks di akhir cerita. Seru deh.

Note: you've been tricked by the director.. :P

ANTHONY ZIMMER: $$$
CERITA: $$$$
GAMBAR: $$$
ACTION: $$$