What begins as a fairy-tale romance set in the beautiful Mediterranean town of Agde gets more complicated when Stann's family ties prove more durable, and dangerous, than he expects. Stann, the hub of a sprawling, criminally inclined clan, finds himself torn between Gloria, a vibrant Black American woman who offers him a glimpse at a life beyond the one he knows, and his inescapable family obligations.
This isn't your average pandemic thriller; here, the infected meld with inorganic material in their surroundings, until their outward contours and their personhood are gone. Thibault Emin's film starts with a little whiff of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen. After their one-night stand, hypochondriac Anx (Matthieu Sampeur) and impertinent Cass (Edith Proust) find themselves bunkered up in one corner of a madcap apartment block.
Films seen long ago but unavailable for rewatching often loom large, like myths shadowed by fear: Will a second viewing confirm or dispel the initial impression? I first saw "Caught in the Acts" ("Délits flagrants"), a documentary by the French director Raymond Depardon, in Paris, a few months after it opened there, in 1994, and it struck me as one of the greatest documentaries I'd ever seen.
During an interview with the French content creator Antton Racca, Niney was asked about the story of American actress Scarlett Johansson putting her used tissue up for sale and getting $5 300 (4,471) in 2008. On camera, Niney then blows his nose into a tissue - assuring viewers that he is in "very, very good health", drops it into a plastic bag and announces that he is putting it up for sale - with any proceeds going to "a really good charity".
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Jean Vigo's L'Atalante, his poetic and surreal 1934 romance about a young couple living on a canal barge, is one of the most beautiful, sensual films of all time. Dita Parlo and Jean Daste play the newlyweds getting awkwardly accustomed to married life in close quarters, and their love story shapes the film. But it's their bargemate, the uncouth Pere Jules, played by Michel Simon, who steals the show:
An auctioneer is like a plastic surgeon. You have to trust them," she says. "So I trust you." She entrusts her piece to André Masson (played by the actor Alex Lutz)-a character named for the French Surrealist painter-who explains to his new assistant: "The fantastic part of the job is turning up a real rarity. You're Indiana Jones. But 99% of the time is soliciting. Like a whore.
In her breakout film, modern great Marion Cotillard supplies annoying-girlfriend comic relief for Samy Naceri's gallivanting Marseille taxi driver. The spunkiness and sultriness she gives out in every scene is small beer for her but you've got to start somewhere. There are worse places than in this French box office ram-raider, which spawned a franchise. Beguiling Innocence. Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy
The French translation of 'Groundhog Day' as 'un jour sans fin' encapsulates the film's essence, illustrating how some cultural concepts become untranslatable. It reflects countless repetitiveness.
