It's the trailer Sally Potter shot to launch her beautiful movie "The Tango Lesson" (1997). The notes of one of Astor Piazzolla's masterpieces, Libertango, are played by Yo-yo Ma, who also appears in the clip.
Claude Chabrol's new movie La Fille coupée en deux, a story of love, jealousy and possession, inspired by true facts, has been selected for an out of competition section (Masters) of the 64th Venice Film Festival (Aug. 29 - Sept. 8). Even the trailer is great.
The famous Brazilian actor Matheus Nachtergaele debuts behind the camera with A Festa da Menina Morta (The Dead Girl's Feast), the story of Santinho, a young man who's considered a religious guru from his Amazonian community.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Tropical Malady director), makes a portrait of his parents (both doctors)' lives, before they became involved, setting their stories in two different time periods with recurring actions, conversations, feelings, characters. It can sound confusing but it is indeed a great film about who we are, how we change, what we fear and love.
Giacomo Battiato won the Golden Marcus Aurelius for best film (audience award) with this tough and striking movie about the Srebrenica genocide, occurred in 1995 during the War in Bosnia, and the hunt to the war criminals who ordered and committed it. In the cast there are among the others Benoit Magimel, Hippolyte Girardot and Karolina Gruschka
Philippe Garrel directs his son Louis and Laura Smet, in this story, shot in a striking black and white, that touches themes like love, loneliness, stardom, regrets, suicide... It all starts from the encounter between a star and a photographer who has to make a reportage about her....
Haile Gerima's Teza is a touching and powerful voyage into 30 years of Ethiopia's history, from Selassie to Mengistu, and in Europe's contradictions, from the perpective of a 'survivor'. I've tried to offer a possible glance at the film with the very little material I've found.
Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, one of the best living filmakers, IMO, directs Juliette Binoche in his first movie shot in Europe. All his poetics seems to be in the film, presented in the Un Certain Regard section at 2007 Cannes Film festival.
I haven't been able to find a trailer yet, so here it is a small part of a report about 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the film by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, that has won the Golden Palm at 2007 Cannes Film festival. Mungiu describes with a stunning realism the struggle of two young women, facing the pain of an abortion in a Romania on the verge of Ceausescu's regime downfall.
To see Sabine Azema and Daniel Auteil in the same movie is a rare and unmissable grace. Here they play a couple who gives new life to their relationship following... instinct. It's a nice comedy, perfectly acted and well directed by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu.
Chinese director Chen Kaige (winner in 1993 of the Golden Palm at Cannes Film festival with the breathtaking Farewell my concubine) returns to the world of opera directing the biopic on Mei Lanfang (played by Leon Lai), the greatest Beijing Opera singer of 20th Century. In the cast there's also Zhang Ziyi who plays Meng Xiaodong, a famous opera singer herself, who was Mei Lanfang's lover.
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