The filter of globalization seems importantStill Waters is one of the best Japanese in KualaAt the same time the baroque that fascinates obeys its own lawsReferred to another thorny topic liquidity A good opportunity he says with spontaneityAn inconvenience for the tourist no doubtIt increased from 9 million in 2004 to 13Person out really victorious or defeated in the battleare most often challenged as interventions on the heritageSpeculation has been widespread and disproportionateLuxury, conspiracies and pleasure. Two women are leading the game this week, in the shadow of a war. The first is a student in Shanghai in the 1940s, the other billionaire in Texas in the 1980s. Golden Lion in Venice last September, the history of the youngest, adapted from a novel by the Chinese Jane Austen, Eileen Chang, is a mixture of sulphur, but refined, romance and Erotica. Hidden behind an English title esoteric and all the more strange that the film speaks Chinese, "Lust, Caution", the Taiwanese Ang Lee, already lion d'Or in 2005 for "Le Secret de brokeback mountain", conte, on a background of occupation of China by the Japan in the 1940s, binding perverse and scorching a powerful initiatives and a young and timid resistant. By his group to seduce the traitor (the beautiful Tony Leung, heroes of "In the mood for Love") which must be the young Virgin (Tang Wei, ex-finaliste of Miss Universe), then shot, after a severe training, Gary fulfils its mission. Sex, suspense and sophistication, a cocktail (too) long drink (2 h 38) but quite exhilarating.
The second heroine (Julia Roberts, caricatured in his crêpée moumoute to death) was less romantic, but more experience and cynicism. Driven by a virulent anti-communism, she convinces a Texas member (Tom Hanks, perfect) known for his antics, but for its influence on the commission to the defence, to help the Mujahideen to repel the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. 'The war according to Charlie Wilson', the old American truck Mike Nichols ("the graduate") tells of the success of this unlikely commando, who were to marry Pakistan, Israel and Egypt in the underground routing, with the assistance the CIA of weapons designed to shoot down the helicopters of the Red Army. The story is authentic, conducted as a comedy film, the message explicit: when it, America can. And implicit: but after that nothing is more...
Far these adventures in big-budget, two French films are the large gap: nothing in common, in fact, between "Finally widow", Isabelle Mergaut, small comedy agreed and a little disappointing, despite Michèle Laroque and Jacques Gamblin, and "Surviving with Wolves", Véra Belmont, the story of the incredible and true run of an eight-year-old Jewish girl who, during the warcrossing Europe on foot, searching for her deported parents. See family.
Finally, note the seen of the flamboyant "Julius Caesar" of Mankiewicz, with Marlon Brando, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, John Gielgud.
Always on display
The unmissables: "The seed and the Mule", of Abdellatif Kechiche, portrait of an old Maghreb worker who wants to open a couscous restaurant at Sète, prix Louis Delluc; "On the other side", Fatih Akin, three families crossover between Germany and Turkey, Golden Berlin bear; "It's a Free World", Ken Loach, table without concession of the labour market of emigration... in London, award for best screenplay in Venice; "The night belongs to us", James Gray, Shakespearean polar; "Into the Wild", Sean Penn, authentic Odyssey of a young idealist party until the end of life in the snow of Alaska. And also "The visit of the band", malicious Israeli perspective on the Middle East; "California Dreamin' '", Romanian tale of a wacky episode of the war in Kosovo. "The island", beautiful but long meditation mystical Russian Pavel Lounguine; "Garage", portrait happily moving an Irish innocent; and, the French, "Actresses", offbeat self-portrait of Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and "The man walking", first film very of Aurélia Georges.
On the small screen
Friday: "Manhattan" (Woody Allen and Diane Keaton) Zenith (22 h 30, CC worship). Saturday: evening John Huston, ("Above the volcano" and "The honour of Prizzi," at 22 h 45 and 0 h 45, CC worship). Sunday: "Victor Victoria", Blake Edwards (20 h 45, CC Star).
