John Madden: “I would not have imagined that my film would come out in wartime” April 30, 2022 INTERVIEW – The British director, author of comedies whose Shakespeare in Love, in 1998, tackles the historical genre in his latest feature film. At… Continue Reading
Our review of La Ruse: de bonne guerre April 29, 2022 REVIEW – Class, humor and disenchantment are at the rendezvous of this film based on real events in 1943. With a Colin Firth very… Continue Reading
“The Collini Affair”, the aftermath of the war April 26, 2022 The Collini Affair ** by Marco Kreuzpaintner German film, 2 h 03 Everything surprises in this murder case. In Berlin in 2001, 67-year-old Fabrizio… Continue Reading
Jean-Christophe Buisson: “In war as in war” April 22, 2022 CHRONICLE – Two good Anglo-Saxon psychological films on 39-45: The Collini Affair and Cunning. War is ugly, but it inspires filmmakers. Probably because it’s… Continue Reading
Where’s Anne Frank !: Ari Folman brings the ghosts of history to life December 9, 2021 CRITICAL – The director of Waltz with Bachir returns with a pretty animated and family fable which revisits the fate of the young Jewess… Continue Reading
At dusk: the good, the reds and the partisans November 24, 2021 CRITICAL – Lithuanian filmmaker Sharunas Bartas signs a pictorial historical drama, crossed by poetic flashes. In the heart of a Lithuania occupied by the… Continue Reading
Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. in negotiations to join the cast of the next Christopher Nolan November 7, 2021 Oppenheimer, which will retrace the course of the “father of the atomic bomb”, is announced for July 2023. Actors Robert Downey Jr. and Matt… Continue Reading
“Mein Kampf”, a critical and criticized edition May 20, 2021 Ten years of work, a thousand pages, three times as many notes. The dimensions of the structure Historicize evil, to be published by Fayard… Continue Reading
“The Last Vermeer”, the story of the forger Han van Meegeren, on OCS Max May 17, 2021 CRITICAL – Forger of genius, he succeeds in abusing Göring, exchanging a fake Vermeer for two hundred canvases seized from the museums of Holland…. Continue Reading
Petersen’s Ship, a great war film caught in the storm of history January 16, 2021 TELEVISION – An Arte documentary offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of a German film classic, which came close to shipwreck on multiple… Continue Reading