“All About Actresses” by Maïwenn (2009)

Favorite 52 movies screened between Aug 20 and May 21 (#11)

Good dialogues, humor, gender content, minority presence and message
Excellent personages and expression
Top script and direction

Famous French actresses exposed in their daily life by their friend Maiwenn who does not spare herself from criticism

IMDB 6,7

Original title: Le Bal Des Actrices

Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Romane Bohringer, Julie Depardieu
Director: Maïwenn
Writer: Maïwenn (as Maïwenn Le Besco)
Music by Gabriel Yared
Cinematography by Pierre Aïm
Film Editing by Laure Gardette

“All About Actresses” by Maïwenn (2009)

Tribute to Maïwenn (3/3)
A weekend treat!

Good dialogues, humor, gender content, minority presence and message
Excellent personages and expression
Top script and direction

Famous French actresses exposed in their daily life by their friend Maiwenn who does not spare herself from criticism

IMDB 6,7

Original title: Le Bal Des Actrices

Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Romane Bohringer, Julie Depardieu
Director: Maïwenn
Writer: Maïwenn (as Maïwenn Le Besco)
Music by Gabriel Yared
Cinematography by Pierre Aïm
Film Editing by Laure Gardette

“Gas, Food, Lodging” by Allison Anders (1993)

Facets of Fatherhood (5/10)
Fridays Classics

Good script, direction, images, dialogues (8) Excellent personages (9)
Top score: minorities (10)

Surprising!

Cast: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk
Director: Allison Anders
Writers: Richard Peck (novel), Allison Anders (screenplay)
Music by J. Mascis
Cinematography by Dean Lent
Film Editing by Tracy Granger

“A Man In Love” (Un Homme Amoureux) by Diane Kurys (1987)

A year’s favorites review

Excellent camera and cast, good acting and good score
Unfortunately, because of its weak structure, the movie loses its direction (and its meaning) in the end. However, it remains a movie with many layers:
“The movie’s title is intriguing. At first I thought it referred to Coyote’s love for Scacchi. Then to her father’s love for her mother. Then to the assistant’s love for Coyote. Finally, after the Coyote character was developed into a classic portrait of a man who uses romantic self-aggrandizement as an excuse for allowing his moral decisions to be made by his genitals, I realized the title referred to the hero’s feelings for himself.” [Roger Ebert]

Cast: Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Peter Riegert, John Berry, Vincent Lindon, Claudia Cardinale, Jamie Lee Curtis
Written and directed by Diane Kurys
Produced by Michel Seydoux
Photographed by Bernard Zitzermann
Edited by Joele van Effenterre
Music by Georges Delerue

“A Man In Love” (Un Homme Amoureux) by Diane Kurys (1987)

Homage to Diane Kurys (4/6)

Excellent camera and cast, good acting and good score
Unfortunately, because of its weak structure, the movie loses its direction (and its meaning) in the end. However, it remains a movie with many layers:
“The movie’s title is intriguing. At first I thought it referred to Coyote’s love for Scacchi. Then to her father’s love for her mother. Then to the assistant’s love for Coyote. Finally, after the Coyote character was developed into a classic portrait of a man who uses romantic self-aggrandizement as an excuse for allowing his moral decisions to be made by his genitals, I realized the title referred to the hero’s feelings for himself.” [Roger Ebert]

Cast: Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Peter Riegert, John Berry, Vincent Lindon, Claudia Cardinale, Jamie Lee Curtis
Written and directed by Diane Kurys
Produced by Michel Seydoux
Photographed by Bernard Zitzermann
Edited by Joele van Effenterre
Music by Georges Delerue

“Gas, Food, Lodging” by Allison Anders (USA, 1993)

Surprising, great personages

Cast: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk
Director: Allison Anders
Writers: Richard Peck (novel), Allison Anders (screenplay)
Music by J. Mascis
Cinematography by Dean Lent
Film Editing by Tracy Granger

“Their Finest” (Lone Scherfig, UK 2016)

Cast: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Helen McCrory, Eddie Marsan, Jake Lacy, Henry Goodman, Jeremy Irons
Director: Lone Scherfig
Writer (novel): Lissa Evans
Writer: Gaby Chiappe
Cinematographer: Sebastian Blenkov
Editor: Lucia Zucchetti
Composer: Rachel Portman

“Always Shine” (Sophia Takal, USA 2016)

strongest: direction
weakest: message

Director: Sophia Takal
Writer: Lawrence Michael Levine
Actors: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael Levine