In a way, reviewing writer/director Arnaud Desplechin’s film seems somewhat superfluous, as Spectateurs! itself forms a review of a life in film, and what cinema means to those of us whose parts are played by watching what happens on screen. Part documentary, part recreation of Desplechin’s life as portrayed by his long-standing alter ego PaulContinue reading “Filmlovers! (Spectateurs) French Film Festival”
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Along Came Love (le Temps d’Aimer) (12) French Film Festival 2024
This year’s festival screens a film from one of its featured female directors, Katell Quillévéré, with her 2023 film le Temps d’Aimer (Along Came Love) that was influenced by her own family history. Opening with black and white footage of France after the German occupation showing the double-edged images of cheering crowds for the liberationContinue reading “Along Came Love (le Temps d’Aimer) (12) French Film Festival 2024”