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Category Archives: Melancholy
Belle de Jour (Beauty of the Day)
Corridors of erotic fantasies help Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) navigate the confines of her private and public life. Or, as the original trailer says: ‘a divorce between the soul and the flesh.’ Séverine has been married to her doctor husband, Pierre … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Gender, Melancholy, romance, Sexuality
Tagged Beauty of the Day, Belle de Jour, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Luis Buñuel, Sexual Fantasies in French cinema
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La Jalousie (Jealousy)
Jealousy and infidelity stand close and intimate in Philippe Garrel’s slender, simple tale of an actor who moves out of the apartment he shares with his young daughter and girlfriend, and goes to live with his new love. So personal, … Continue reading
Posted in French Cinema, French Film, La Jalousie, Melancholy, romance, Sexuality
Tagged Anna Mouglalis, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, Jealousy, Louis Garrel, Maurice Garrel, melancholy, Olga Milshtein, Philippe Garrel
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Trois Couleurs: Bleu (Three Colours: Blue)
Sadness and love are a pure, strong song in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s first ‘movement’ of the Three Colours Trilogy. The music, scored by Zbigniew Preisner, and based around the Song for the unification of Europe (inspired by the Greek text of … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Corinthians 13, Bereavement, European union, Forgiveness, French Cinema, French Film, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Melancholy, Polish cinema, Zbigniew Preisner
Tagged Juliette Binoche, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Zbigniew Preisner
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