bang gang ( a modern love story )
bang gang (a modern love story) is released in selected cinemas on 17 th june 2016 .
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lorenzo lefebvre and marilyn lima in the based - on - a - true - story teen - sex - paty drama' bang gang (a modern love story).'
your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story .
the actress and director both love the genre, but as they told indiewire, they also knew it needed to be retrofitted to tell the true story of catherine weldon and sitting bull .
at one point, a girl refers to the simplicity of her abortion as “a modern day fairytale, ” and the same description could be applied to the whole film. but if “bang gang” climaxes a bit too cleanly, its moral rings true all the same: kids have to be kids before they can become adults .
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remarkable for its shrugging attitude. opposite in spirit to a shocker like larry clark' s
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doesn' t aim to titillate or to alarm .
the big bang theory is the natural evolution of a changing pop culture ecosystem. photograph: cbs
but just as her camera roams about and the teens freely shuffle among partners, husson’s story meanders in narrative perspective, and that lack of focus ultimately gives “bang gang” a feeling of emptiness. as it builds to a climax (if you will), her film should have been gripping; instead, it ends up feeling like a melancholy glimmer .
with her debut feature, “bang gang, ” eva husson captures the restless rhythms of adolescence—the push - pull of angst and boredom, of self - consciousness and the yearning to lose oneself completely .
a girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. he asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
husson’s directorial debut is strong. via an examination of the relationship made between teenagers and sex, it puts a modern spin on the age - old experience of being a teenager and dealing with loneliness .
faced with the implosion of their value systems, they move on by reassessing their priorities, finding love and their real desires .
reviewed at unifrance screening room, paris, aug. 2015. (in toronto film festival — competing .) running time: 98 min. (original title: “bang gang (une histoire d’amour moderne) ” )
“eight seasons in, the big bang theory is one of the funniest shows on tv, ” said writer kevin fallon at the daily beast in an article titled it’s okay to like the big bang theory .
the big bang theory: keeping it simple since 2007. photograph: c. cbs / everett / rex
] it was the year the whole world remembers. the year of the endless winter and the subsequent heat wave. the year in which a train derailed. the year of bang gang. that week, finally the sun came out and for us it all began .
gabriel: it was the year the whole world remembers. the year of the endless winter and the subsequent heat wave. the year in which a train derailed. the year of bang gang. that week, finally the sun came out and for us it all began .
best response to a teen sex scandal: “bang gang. ” as the film is french, allow me to sum up thusly: c’est la vie. that’s right, a bunch of young french teens have a bunch of orgies together over the course of a high school summer, and their parents respond with a glass of good wine (i’m betting) and a collective shrug. longue vie à la france !
how do you blow the steam off, when you are a puzzled, sexually - frustrated youngster? george, laetitia and their group of friends are self destructive and unsatisfied youngsters whom lose control of their own game when an amateur video shot during a orgiastic party, called bang gang, is uploaded on youtube .
there are no complex story arcs to track over the course of the big bang theory. taking cues from seinfeld and friends, the show is truly nothing more than friends hanging out (with their “shields down, ” as one character puts it), without complicated plots, twists or cliffhangers .
“i think the reason i love it is, because the characters are simply nice people, ” said bethany lawson of seaside, oregon. a more cynical, yet equally true, take on the appeal of that accessibility comes from gawker’s clifton: “the big bang theory is a hit because it reassures people that the culture wars are just for pretend. ”
gabriel: [ first lines ] it was the year the whole world remembers. the year of the endless winter and the subsequent heat wave. the year in which a train derailed. the year of bang gang. that week, finally the sun came out and for us it all began. see more »
“shows like big bang theory don’t assign scripts to individual writers. the entire staff sits around a table and cobbles the draft together, ” wrote levine .
george, a pretty teen girl, falls in love with alex. to get his attention, she initiates a game with their friends, discovering, testing and pushing the limits of their sexuality. when the nature of their activities is revealed, each of them deals with the scandal in radically different ways. faced with the implosion of their value systems, they move on by reassessing their priorities, finding love and their real desires .
while jim parsons has won four emmy awards for his portrayal of sheldon cooper, the show itself is not particularly critically acclaimed. while it has been nominated for best comedy series at the emmys, the award has consistently gone to modern family .
but he’s also a callous, serial womanizer, and so when he repeatedly ignores george’s texts and calls, she finds a drastic way to get his attention: by suggesting an all - dare version of truth or dare during one of their clique’s afternoon hangouts. it starts innocently enough but quickly escalates, leading to a members - only website and private, explicit instagram photos and videos, all connected by a catchy name: the bang gang .
“bang gang” (more on that title later) begins with a flash - forward that’s hard to shake, the camera tracking through an airy house in the affluent coastal city of biarritz as dozens of naked teenagers hump each other in all manner of positions; the scene is like the orgy sequence from “eyes wide shut” as it might have been shot by terry richardson .
but husson, to her credit, does succeed in “making the darkness conscious” for these thirsty young fuck buddies. their story is so whitewashed that it flirts with irresponsibility — there’s no violence, and any stds contracted can be cured with a pill .
most overlooked drama: “ black sea. ” i honestly have no idea why kevin mcdonald’s riveting modern submarine flick was so ignored by the critical press and the general public — it features a wildly twisty plot, and an absolute powerhouse of a performance by jude law, among other things — but it was. it deserves far better .
“this is the age of the geek and the big bang theory’s popularity is a reflection of a massive cultural shift where we’re celebrating the brainy, the intellectual and the different – instead of making them an outcast, ” said katherine brodsky, a stringer for variety. “big bang theory lets audiences identify with and be part of that geek world. the jock and high school beauty queen are dead. ”
while the big bang theory is ostensibly about the elite ranks of geniuses, they are very relatable. penny is trying to realize her dreams, leonard fears he can’t live up to his parents’ expectations, sheldon struggles to connect to those around him. the characters breathe life into the idea that geniuses are just like us, which is exactly what the fans love .
even professional comedy writers agree: “big bang theory makes you laugh. they have jokes, jokes that are funny, ” ken levine, a writer on m * a * s * h and cheers, wrote on his blog .
originally tipped as a possible cannes selection, “ bang gang ” instead premieres in toronto’s new competitive platform strand, trading the likely dismissal of a blase croisette crowd for what are sure to be more receptive reactions, given toronto’s long - standing rep as a fest where watching naked french teens swap sexual favors never goes out of style. (the french themselves aren’t so easily seduced, having just witnessed helene zimmer’s “being 14” push those same buttons, albeit not so explicitly, with a far - younger ensemble. )
george, a pretty teen girl, falls in love with alex. to get his attention, she initiates a game with their friends, discovering, testing and pushing the limits of their sexuality. when the nature of their activities is revealed, each of them deals with the scandal in radically different ways .
as geek culture becomes mainstream, the big bang theory – with its casual references to schrödinger’s cat, star trek and string theory and a running gag about how one of the characters “only” has a master’s from mit – is the natural evolution of a changing pop culture ecosystem .
the novelty with “bang gang” — which is dedicated to a long list of male filmmakers, with particular thanks to “men who love strong women. thanks for helping me become one” — is the extent to which husson’s take may be considered “feminist. ” d. p. (and fellow afi grad) mattias troelstrup’s camera ogles the onscreen boys and girls alike, visually framing this memory through the shifting vantage of two teenage girls, timid laetitia (daisy broom) and her more aggressively sex - hungry best friend george (marilyn lima), while privileging the group’s worst offender, alex (finnegan oldfield, recently seen in thomas bidegain’s “les cowboys”), with a “the virgin suicides” - style voiceover that sounds as if it was written and added at a very late stage .
a supporting character, the introverted, aspiring musician gabriel (lorenzo lefebvre), finds his own sense of release by thrashing about at secret dance parties until both george and laetitia drag him into visiting the bang gang. being the film’s voice of reason and the most mature one of the bunch, he finds it all appalling. and aside from the sultry george, he’s the most compelling character in the film because he’s been afforded some actual complexity .
for the moment, however, audiences raised on the chastity - thumping morality of american horror movies (not that this is one, far from it, but that’s the genre where such pretty young things most consistently face consequences for their lusty slip - ups) will peg george as the slutty one and laetitia as the innocent. such labels don’t apply for long once the big “bang gang” explosion occurs, however .
to call the big bang theory popular is an understatement. the show’s season premiere saw over 18 million viewers tune in, continuing its run as the most watched show on american television .
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maybe you have to be of a certain age, but the first two thirds of “drunk, stoned, brilliant, dead, the story of the national lampoon” left me roaring. especially in contrast to today’s milquetoast “saturday night live, ” these lampooners went right for it and hit their bullseye just about every time .
there’s a moment in the new french film bang gang - - yes, those words in that order - - in which one of the male teenage protagonists hides at the bottom of a swimming pool. not much seems to have changed since the days of benjamin braddock back in 1967 and that’s exactly the problem with this feature debut from french writer - director eva husson, which feels like it’s been assembled from parts of countless previous and often much better films looking at the intersection of sexuality and ennui for well - off youngsters .
the show also packs in the jokes. according to vulture, the average 4. 3 jokes per minutes, which translates to a lot of jokes per episode. yet somehow the big bang theory manages to keep the laughs rolling in .
a quietly chilling look at the sex lives of a group of bored high - school students .
a brother and sister also prove key to the action in baya kasmi' s directorial bow, i' m all yours. best known for her collaborations with thomas lilti on his medical dramas hippocrates (2015) and irreplaceable (2016), kasmi reunites with director michel leclerc (with whom she won a césar for scripting the names of love, 2010) for this keenly observed, if tonally haphazard study of a french - algerian family enduring the sticks and stones of life in a parisian banelieue .
two of their
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are the uptight, somewhat mousy laetitia (daisy broom) and the blindly - in - love george (marylin lima, whose hair suggests that her parentage includes both farrah fawcett and rapunzel). after some frolicking by the pool, with footage include the other kind of helicopter shot, george and alex move indoors to make love (her perception) / have sex (his goal) and nikita, already naked and still outside, where it has started to rain, suggests laetitia come over and keep him warm. much to niki’s surprise, she says she “prefers to watch. ”
most of my 2015 top ten were found in “experimental” festivals and sidebars — and much as i admired and enjoyed films like peter strickland’s “the duke of burgundy, ” david robert mitchell’s “it follows, ” alexei german’s “hard to be a god” and andrew haigh’s “45 years, ” the fact that not one of these sterling achievements ended up making the list above hopefully tells its own story .
what “bang gang” lacks in originality, though, it makes up for with mood and technical prowess. husson favors long, dreamlike tracking shots that take us inside the extreme lifestyle choice these teens have made, capturing images that are both playful and startling. in short, these high schoolers engage in booze - and - drug - infused orgies where the only rule is that there are no rules. (“it’s now or never! ” is the battle cry that goes out on group texts announcing these pop - up bacchanals. )
even detractors respect the omnipresence of the big bang theory. “every time i stay in a hotel, i think, ‘my life sure would be easier if i liked this show, ’ because it’s half the dial, ” said tara ariano of previously. tv and grantland. “but then i remember it’s 2014 and i have a computer. ”
i love making lists, so this is kind of a delight to me. first off, i have at least two titles on my top ten list that i think i’m on an island alone with, and they are “ 5 to 7″ and “sleeping with other people. ” next, and this could be a hint as to what my top ten for the year looks like, these are, in alphabetical order, the next ten in line for me: “the end of the tour, ” “grandma, ” “heaven knows what, ” “inside out, ” “me and earl and the dying girl, ” “mistress america, ” “room, ” “sicario, ” “slow west, ” and “the stanford prison experiment. ” as for performances i’m not citing anywhere but love nonetheless, i wish more people paid attention to alison brie in “sleeping with other people, ” john cusack in “love & mercy, ” sam elliot in “grandma, ” ryan gosling in “the big short, ” and lola kirke in “mistress america. ” in terms of my favorite scene of the year, that’s easily when lisa sings “girls just want to have fun” in “anomalisa, ” followed by amy’s eulogy in “trainwreck. ”
– nudges them and us both towards a healthier understanding of what our bits do: for her, blossoming sexuality isn’t necessarily a crisis, just a season we pass through .
thirtysomething nicolas duvauchelle is struggling to make ends meet and has taken to drinking since separating from mélanie thierry, the mother of his adored son, johann soule. despite numerous applications and going on training courses, duvauchelle is unable to find a job and, such is his low sense of self - esteem that he decides to stop some kids from stealing a car radio in order to impress a casual date. unfortunately, during the ensuing scuffle, he is stabbed with a screwdriver and is encouraged by police officers with little love for the city' s immigrant communities to blame an arab for the crime .
each of these characters threaten to make this their movie at some point, and while that lack of focus prevents them from achieving even the slightest whiff of depth, it also endows husson’s story with the mutability of teenage friendships, which tend to shift with the tides. to some extent, these kids become as interchangeable to us as they are to each other. as the film’s latter half descends into an overlong blur of bang gangs, the anonymity of all that sex increasingly begins to seem like the point, as george and her friends eagerly reduce their bodies to dildos and vessels because they all just want to feel wanted, no matter the cost .
as duvauchelle had overheard a first name during the assault, the cops arrest everyone of that name during a banelieue blitz and he is coaxed into identifying driss ramdi as the culprit, even though he has remembered his face from a sales training video rather than the stabbing. enjoying the attention and delighted to find thierry at his hospital bedside, duvauchelle sticks to his story, even though it is as deeply flawed as he is. but, with soule regarding him as a superhero and thierry suggesting that they give their romance another try, duvauchelle is happy to ignore his conscience, especially after he is offered a warehouse job by homea furniture store boss nicolas bridet, who has designs on thierry .
in the well - to - do suburbs of a small town, a group of pretty average, well - adjusted sixteen and seventeen year olds are ordinary adolescents who take a singular path .
summer, new york city. a college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. after a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back .
hill, in a rare moment of blowing his own trumpet, is in agreement. “those early movies caught the wave with the time they were made and with critics more so than other periods of my life, but if you ask me, ‘do i think they were the best? ’ i would say no, ” he explains. “i thought i became a better story teller in the late 80s and 90s. ” like his films, hill is incapable of being didactic, however. “that doesn’t mean i’m right. there are many texts in the end. a film may mean one thing to his maker and may mean a nuanced but different thing to its audience. that’s the way of it. ”
a reaffirmation of romantic values and mutual understanding, above communal failure, discouragement and a general sense of emptiness. [ full review in spanish ]
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when it comes to aesthetic appreciation, listmaking is probably not the best activity in which to engage. it turns criticism into a competition — and the shades of difference between a # 7 choice and a # 8 choice on one’s list can be pretty inscrutable. at best a top 10 list is a personal expression — when i coordinated a poll of 62 critics to determine the 100 greatest american films earlier this year i emphasized the importance of having each selection be a genuine favorite, and included “jeremiah johnson” and “i walked with a zombie” on my own ballot. but groupthink can pose a challenge to authenticity when putting together a top 10 list—– as is the contrarian impulse to resist at all cost what one perceives as groupthink .
1. “ ned rifle ” (hal hartley) — the final scene, when ned (liam aiken) makes a pointed decision to be a very different man than his lout of a father, henry fool (thomas jay ryan). a bressonian gesture, and the trilogy is complete .
jokes that are consistently funny, even into the show’s eighth season, take a lot of hard work and that means a collaborative effort from the writing staff .
one really great film that got a ny release for 2015 is “ tu dors nicole. ” it has a small following, but it is nonetheless worth mentioning as something more people should be checking out if they have not already. it’s a darkly funny surreal film about adolescent ennui. it is explicitly feminine, exploring desire and female friendship with a refreshing eye and a good dose of absurdism .
and then there’s amy schumer, who proved she’s more than just a popular phenomenon, bringing the smarts and savvy of her excellent cable show to the big screen with a script and a performance that are daring, polished, hilarious and winning. even if she’s not winning a statue to go along with them. yet .
“glass chin”: not a punch is thrown in this film about a boxer, but this highly theatrical film sucker punches you when you least expect it. bravo .
a burning desire to visit austria plays a pivotal role in antoine cuypers' s austere debut, prejudice, which owes more than a little to the sombre chamber dramss of michael haneke. impeccably photographed by frédéric noirhomme' s with a chilly detachment that reinforces the unwelcoming elegance of patrick dechesne and alain - pascal housiaux' s interiors, this feels as though it might work better on a stage with a live audience feeding off the unbearable tension caused by an outwardly close family' s strained mealtime bonhomie .
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the focus falls on another stranger in a strange land in mikhaël hers' s this summer feeling, a long - awaited follow - up to memory lane (2010) that feels like a series of loosely strung together eavesdropped moments rather than a concerted narrative. set over three years in a trio of major cities, the action intrigues rather than involves, as hers follows his grieving protagonist on an existentialist quest that places greater emphasis on emotion than incident .
having made such an impressive transition from actress to director with the queen of hearts (2009), declaration of war (2010) or hand in hand (2012), donzelli rather misses her step with this historical hotchpotch. even though her intimate relationship with elkaim had long been over, it can' t have been easy to watch him fall in love with demoustier during the course of the production. but her direction is so over - statedly self - conscious that one spends more time wondering how differently truffaut would have done things than pondering the plight of the lustful leads .
finally, i’ve noticed that films released primarily on vod still get short shrift in these year - end considerations, and i’d like to point out a corker that’s like “grosse pointe blank” meets “clueless”: kyle newman’s “ barely lethal. ” hailee steinfeld plays a spy trained since her earliest days to be a fearsome force in the world of international espionage — but she’s also just a teenager who wants to be “normal. ” so she fakes her death and enrolls in a regular high - school. it’s a dastardly funny comedy, and, in what has to go down as the actor’s best year ever, it features samuel l jackson as steinfeld’s drill - sergeant - like covert handler. newman gives the movie a “mean girls” touch — and a wit that really is killer .
and joel edgerton, who was so terrific in support of johnny depp in “black mass, ” gave us a wallop of a directorial debut. “the gift, ” which he also wrote and co - stars in, is a smart, creepy and genuinely scary movie: quite the auspicious debut .
part of the big bang theory’s continuing success is the fact that because of syndication deals, the show is almost always available somewhere on the proverbial dial. when the show reached the syndication threshold of 80 - 100 episodes back in 2011, it headed straight to cable, and to repeats on fox affiliates nationwide. “ [ it ] just exploded even more, ” said lisa vebber, nbc’s former head of scheduling, speaking to vulture .
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wilkinson has taken an unashamedly partisan stance, and maintains a calm, vicarly presence throughout his film .
betrayal! anger! jealousy! all of it shot with the dreamy poeticism of andrea arnold and glazed with a blissed - out electronic score by m83 collaborator white sea. alex doesn’t care about george — she’s a conquest, and he disposes of her as soon as she’s reaffirmed his self - worth. but george has an idea to ease her pain, an inclusive plan for all their friends that will allow her to view people as interchangeably as alex does: she calls them “bang gangs, ” but they’re basically orgies. games of truth or dare in which “truth” isn’t an option. these kids are ready to maul each other to begin with, but sprinkle in some throbbing house music and a flurry of cocaine and you’re off to the races .
3. “lava” (james ford murphy) — this was the volcano - themed short that played before “inside out. ” like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, it felt so good when it was over. plus, it provided my friends and i with a new benchmark for cinematic shittiness .
some years, making a list is a blast. some years, it’s a royal pain in the ass. every survey i take part in and ballot i fill out ends up varying from any others, because once you’ve been part of a year end colloquium, you realize what does and what doesn’t break through. or what did or didn’t get sent out in screener form. if you look at it from as macro - a perspective as possible, awards season is a giant insanity, with so many different variables across so many different groups and philosophies that consensus feels more and more arbitrary, or tied to promotional campaigns .
as a naked figure scuttles across a well - manicured biarritz lawn, the action flashes back a few weeks, as finnegan oldfield becomes accustomed to the freedom he has been granted by his parents decamping to morocco for nine months. he invites red - haired buddy fred hotier to the house to enjoy the pool and the sunshine that is going to develop into such a fierce heatwave that trains will go off the rails for no apparent reason. however, oldfield has designs on classmates marilyn lima and daisy broom and urges them to come for a sleepover .
four fragile young people flee london to start an unconventional utopia, creating a world of fantasy that overwhelms them .
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daisy alvarez, a retiree in philadelphia, agrees: “the show has a great cast of characters, both the main characters and recurring ones, and i think that most of us can easily identify with one them. ”
walter hill is speaking to the skinny from a cupboard in his la home. “my wife’s given me this little broom closet to do my work in. only a director when you leave the house, you know. ”
therefore, in addition to being a simple plot, it is feignedly complex. [ full review in spanish ]
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to get straight to the point: the titular “bang gangs” are a type of swinger party that a group of high - school kids from the atlantic seaside town of biarritz throw whenever they get bored. most bored of all is the dark - haired, perpetually moody alex (finnegan oldfield, from the recent cannes hit les cowboys), who’s 16 or 17 and whose divorced mom has left him home alone while she’s gone to work in morocco for 9 months. together with his buddy, nikita (fred hotier), an open - faced, up - for - anything redhead, they don’t do much else besides hanging out, watching gymnastics or other suggestive sports on tv and trying to get girls to come over so they can have sex with them .
after losing her virginity, isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel - room trysts. throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes .
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in all its madness - both in anger and absurdity - sorry to bother you develops into a journey that defies classification .
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the sound is first rate, for one thing, and director pierre adidge has some idea of why cocker electrifies a crowd .
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husson' s movie is as much a hormonal mess as its characters, but at least it favors heart over hard - ons .
the principals are a little younger in rudi rosenberg' s debut, the new kid, which builds on his 2009 short, aglaée, which focused on géraldine martineau, a young girl whose physical disability gives her a keener insight into human nature than her peers. however, the emphasis shifts here on to réphaël ghrenassia, a confident 13 year - old who enrols in a left bank middle school shortly after his parents relocate to paris from le havre. but, while ghrenassia was popular at his old school, he has to start from scratch and decides to take uncle max boublil' s advice and hang out with those willing to accept him for himself .
i still have a few films left to see before finalizing my list, so i don’t know for absolute certain what will or won’t make the cut. part of the issue for me is that i refuse to make a list consisting of nothing but “predictable” films. i like to include a little of everything from the year: comedy, horror, animated fare, etc. that means a lot of juggling, and a lot of agonizing over which movies i absolutely can’t bear to exclude. i do intend to keep a promise i made to myself back in the spring, though, by finding room somewhere in my top ten for the amazing “kumiko, the treasure hunter. ” not many people saw that one. they should. double feature it with “fargo” some night. you’ll be glad you did .
yet, as she pays a visit to baye' s salon to have her nails done and meets her daughter, diane rouxel, devos finds herself unable to exact her revenge. she also takes a swimming lesson with clavel and realises that she feels more comfortable with the people she suspects of killing jaccoud than she does with his father and girlfriend, marion reymond. but, while baye is grateful to have a friend in whom she can confide about her fear of ageing and her doubts about clavel' s fidelity, she also begins to wonder why this stranger seems to interested in her unremarkable life. thus, she is almost prepared when things come to a head during a trek into the mountains .
the cinematography manages to project the intimacy of this portion of life that these teenagers will remember as a dream. [ full review in spanish ]
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as the evening wears on and a torrential downpour puts paid to a barbecue, the strain becomes increasingly tangible, as jung suggests that blanchard might like to keep an eye on nephew arthur bois, and labed puts a cat among the pigeons by announcing she is pregnant. yet, for all the intensity of the scenario and baye' s steely sang froid, this relies too much on ambiguity and withheld information to allow the audience to appreciate the nuances of a nevertheless absorbing battle of wits between the calculatingly manipulative blanchard, the attention - seeking labed and the fiercely protective baye .
shocked that alex doesn’t return her phone calls or text messages after their hook - up, george comes up with a scheme designed to make him jealous: though all she really wants is alex to herself, george suggests to a group of classmates gathered in his living room that they raise the stakes on their lame games of “spin the bottle” and “truth or dare” and try a version that’s nothing but dares. in short order, this extracurricular hang - out session has turned into a group hook - up — one that’s so popular with all who participated that the other kids at school want in, flocking to alex’s house anytime a kick - off text message (“it’s now or never! ” they claim) goes ’round .
right off the bat, the flashy opening scene captures the bold and dreamy atmosphere of the film. a character takes the audience through a loud house party filled with intoxicated teenagers partaking in wild sexual activities. synth - pop and electronic music blast in the background as shots of naked bodies are seen in corners of a trashed house. there is no dialogue in this scene—just visuals translated through music. the hypnotic music and bare bodies replace spoken words, creating a different form of communication. the beautiful cinematography of the opening captures your attention right away and reels you into the film .
husson clearly has sympathy for them both, and if her methods of getting into the secret lives of these complicated young women occasionally feel like borrowed dreamy cinema 101 — slo - mo running about, a drony pop / edm soundtrack, naturally lit shots that go a lens flare too far — she’s still interested in these youngsters as more than just cautionary - tale symbols or fresh meat to be ogled. folks on the festival circuit have referred to it as a gallic version of kids, but the comparison is more illustrative than apt. larry clark’s bad - behavior masterpiece was the movie equivalent of a raging dude boner; husson’s movie is as much a hormonal mess as its characters, but at least it favors heart over hard - ons .
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ouija seance: the final game is a lazily written spooker featuring performances that range in quality and which are rarely engaging enough for us to care .
you’ve never seen a high school movie with such a conspicuous absence of body shaming, as these horny teens give each other a satisfaction that they can’t give themselves. “we all have superpowers, ” george declares to the camera before getting railed by a half - dozen dudes off - screen (husson only shows enough of the action to make viewers believe in what’s happening behind closed doors, and her camera ogles the male cast members almost as much as it does the girls). but maybe they shouldn’t be quite so eager to record the sexcapades on their phones — welcome to the age of chekhov’s youtube video .
photographed with immediacy, vibrancy and tact by hélène louvart, this is a lively account of a stranger in paradise. but arbid also includes moments of poignancy, such as issa' s return to lebanon in time to see the father who appears to have committed suicide. the storyline is a touch formulaic in places, but blanc, hamy and lacoste provide admirable support to the debuting issa, who manages to seem possessed and vulnerable without resorting to coy caricature .
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“it’s a very consistently funny show, ” said brodsky. “despite its long run, it hasn’t lost sight of what makes the show funny vs cheesy. ”
regardless of the respectable intentions, elya missed the opportunity to do something bolder with a recurrent topic, treading the same paths that many other films did successfully .
2. “ arabian nights, volume 2: the desolate one” (miguel gomes) — is gomes’ sprawling three - part inquiry into the future of the portuguese state a masterpiece? its fragmented, sketchbook quality almost makes mastery impossible, and beside the point. but one segment in part two, “the judge’s tears, ” is an absolute knockout. gomes channels monty python as a state justice (luísa cruz) struggles with humankind’s basic stupidity. she’s a buñuelian judge judy .
best examination of a grilled foot: “ finders keepers. ” honestly, just watch this fascinating doc from bryan carberry and clay tweel, then you’ll know .
here, she discovers that the mocha - coloured 1972 mercedes coupé she believes killed her child has been put up for sale by beautician nathalie baye, who claims to be parting with the vehicle against her will. posing as a potential buyer, devos meets baye' s boyfriend, david clavel, a fitness instructor who is 13 years her junior. he admits that the paintwork has recently been touched up and devos tracks down seedy drug dealer olivier chantreau in order to purchase a gun .
this sexy debut by afi - trained french director eva husson owes a debt to such controversial adolescent group portraits as' the virgin suicides' and' kids.'
it' s a gleeful kitchen sink throwback to the satiric, absurdist, wildly inventive indies of the' 80s,' 90s, and early 2000s ...
however, she also forges an unlikely friendship with india hair, an arch royalist whose skinhead boyfriend bastien bouillon thinks that all foreigners should be deported. moreover, she winds up in the bed of paul hamy, a smooth - talking business man, who uses his wealth to assuage her doubts about him being married. but, just as issa begins to wonder what she is doing in an ugly city, she meets vincent lacoste, the student son of a prominent lawyer who runs a communist newspaper .
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even before the group gropes begin, husson is rather matter - of - fact about what must be a generational comfort with nudity, sexuality and pornography. these kids are quick to strip down and go skinny - dipping or wrestle on the beach, as if the sheer tension of being a teenager is enough to make them want to explode. meanwhile, all around them, a heat wave is rising and on the news there’s nothing but reports of train derailments and violence. husson makes the pressure palpable from all sides .
“it’s got universally appealing humor that reaches across demographics, which i think is a big part of its appeal, ” said brodsky from variety. “it’s clever yet accessible. “
as the synth score shimmers over the sex binges, any risk of exploitation is offset by explorations of social media, a female pov and bold performances, notably from marilyn lima .
in interview, hill is as straightforward and as unpretentious as his movies. when we ask if he was aware at the time of being part of a golden age of american cinema in the 1970s, he says “oh, christ no. we were just a bunch of people out there trying to make a living. ” and when we suggest his movies were overlooked by critics on their release he fires back, “look, i’m not complaining: if you think you’re going to be an action director and also be a critical darling, you’re crazy. ” at one point he catches himself referencing an old interview of his: “not to quote myself, ” he chuckles. “i realise that’s an ego beyond ego. ”
while “tangerine” wins the little - movie - that - could award (and happily so), appreciation and a hankie or two for “me and earl and the dying girl. ”
elkaim and demoustier certainly have a spark, but they are often required to play to the rear stalls and fight against the excess of eclectic musical choices on the soundtrack. manu de chauvigny' s production design similarly revels in its anachronisms, as do elisabeth mehu' s costumes. moreover, the experiment of having céline bozon shoot interiors on film and the exteriors in digital doesn' t quite come off. yet, for all its stylistic shortcomings, this is staged with such a blithe sense of assurance that it might just acquire a cult following .
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suffice to say that sorry to bother you is science - fiction used correctly in a sentence. it' s mad as hell and it' s not going to take it anymore .
one indolent afternoon, the two girls find themselves hanging out by alex’s pool. he’s a weaselly young man whose face seems permanently twisted into a distrustful scowl, but his seductive skills seem downright classy compared to red - headed pal nikita (fred hotier), who strips down immediately, then begs laetitia to help keep him warm. alex’s strategy is to get george alone and then insult her best friend, claiming to find george far more desirable — a ruse she falls for almost instantly (alex will try the opposite line on laetitia later, with equivalent success) .
a movie made of froth and sweep - second hands and ursula andress. it is of absolutely no consequence or importance at all, but it' s nice while you' re watching it .
ever since an incident in their childhood, siblings vimala pons and mehdi djaadi have detested each other. he is a reformed street punk, whose conversion to radical islam has convinced him that he will only be fulfilled in the maghreb. but she loves her job as a human resources manager, even though she has developed the peculiar habit of sleeping with everyone she fires. indeed, pons has a hard time resisting temptation of any sort, which is perhaps understandable given that grocer father ramzy is equally generous with his customers, while dippy mother agnès jaoui remains unable to deny her offspring anything .
this may not be the most original scenario, but rosenberg coaxes winningly spontaneous performances out of his non - professional cast. onetime quebécois documentarist philippe lesage similarly does a good job with his younger protagonist the demons, an unsettling examination of childhood fears and thought processes that seemingly draws on the sophomore' s own youth in harking back to a 1980s without a world wide web to exacerbate or assuage juvenile misconceptions. owing much to the sombre observational relentlessness of michael haneke, this also contains echoes of classic carlos saura and victor erice studies of how pre - adolescents perceive the grown - up world and its attendant terrors.
bang gang ( a modern love story ) ( french : bang gang ( une histoire d'amour moderne ) ) is a french drama film directed by eva husson . it was shown in the platform section of the 2015 toronto international film festival . it is husson 's directorial debut . 
bang gang (a modern love story) (french: bang gang (une histoire d'amour moderne) ) is a french drama film directed by eva husson. it was shown in the platform section of the 2015 toronto international film festival. it is husson's directorial debut.
bang gang (a modern love story) (french: bang gang (une histoire d'amour moderne) ) is a french drama film directed by eva husson. it was shown in the platform section of the 2015 toronto international film festival. it is husson's directorial debut.