The film uncovers the shocking truth behind the phenomenon of the falsos positivos, or false positives, a term that outside a scientific context is used by Columbians to designate the civilians killed by the military and dressed up as guerillos to hike up the army’s FARC executions statistics. Incredibly, although the subject matter is uncompromisingly grim, this is no tear-jerker. The viewer (…) Continue Reading »

Director Benjamin Heisenberg talks to us about his film The Robber after it premiered at the Paris Film Festival in July 2010. How did you adapt the novel, which was itself based on a true story? The novel is by Martin Prinz. He put together the two strands of the story: the successful runner and the masked robber. The weird thing was that even after his identification he still managed to (…) Continue Reading »

Anocha answers our questions following the screening of Mundane History, which premiered at the Paris Film Festival in July 2010. Why the title? The title in English represents a contrast between something trivial (mundane) and something bigger, eventful and more unique (history) and translates the way this quite mundane situation, that happens to an individual involves much larger (…) Continue Reading »

Catalin Mitulescu is the co-writer and producer of If I want to whistle, I whistle. We talked to him after the film premiered at the Paris Film Festival in July 2010. Catalin is best known for his film Trafic, which won him the Short Film Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2004. How did the idea for the story come about? The idea initially came about years ago during some work we did in prison. My (…) Continue Reading »

Lu Chuan talks to us about his film City of Life and Death after it premiered in France at the Paris Film Festival in July 2010. The film is a spectacular portrayal of the Japanese army’s invasion of Nanking. Lu Chuan, a Beijing Film Academy graduate, co-wrote Black Hole, a successful TV series in China. This is his most internationally well known film to date, although his previous films had (…) Lire la suite »

Can a humming through a closed bathroom door really heal two broken hearts? Can it erase the sound of a phone that won’t ring and the words of a diary written day after day on the same walls, only to disappear once again the next day? Lullaby for Pi is a tale, a fairy tale, with the marvellous Forest Whitaker as the fairy godmother of two distressed and disturbed lovers, displaying just the (…) Continue Reading »

À l’occasion d’un examen médical, Héléna, étudiante en dessin anatomique, fait la connaissance de Benoît, un jeune radiologue. Partageant une meme fascination pour le corps humain, ils vont céder à un amour passionnel, mais à leur façon... La (…) Lire la suite »

Je ne suis pas de celles qui font leurs vraies filles au cinéma, et ne vont voir des films d’horreur ou « gores » qu’en compagnie d’un accessoire plus musclé contre qui se lover en cas de suspens insoutenable. Non. Moi je suis celles qui (…) Lire la suite »

When they chose the poster that would advertise the film, little did the team behind Dernier étage gauche gauche imagine they would have a lawsuit on their hands. Indeed, the day of the Paris premiere of the film, the producers and director (…) Continue Reading »

Saw 7 ended the franchise with a torture –heavy yet slightly anticlimactic bang. The 6 “episodes”, although inconsistent, were rich in suspenseful twists and turns, which allowed the most squeamish of us to periodically shield our eyes and ears, (…) Continue Reading »