Posted: April 5, 2016 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: A Christmas Tale, Arnaud Desplechin, Brigitte Bardot, COLCOA, Cyrus, Danny Boon, Death Valley, Duplass brothers, Gerard Depardieu, Grandvil, Guillaume Nicloux, Isabel Huppert, John C. Reilly, John LeCarre, Jonah Hill, Julie Delpy, Julie Peyr, Kings & Queen, Lola, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Marisa Tomei, Mathieu Amalric, My Golden Years, Quentin Dolmaire, Seth Rogan, Valley of Love, Vincent Lacoste | 4,222 Comments »
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Warning: SPOILERS
COLCOA, the incredible film festival of new French cinema (as well as some classics), will be starting in a couple of weeks. But while you may be waiting in baited breath for it (well, I am), you don’t have to wait that long to see Gallic cinema. A few films from the land of Truffaut and Godard have opened in Los Angeles in the last few weeks.
They are opening now between the months of January (where the movies are mainly the leftovers from the Oscar noms and those movies the studios wish to bury) and June (or whatever month is the one where the tentpole films will be thrust upon us). Translated, this means the time period when strong, introspective and personal films can make their appearance before they are gulped up and spit out by billion dollar movies as if they were a character in Jaws.
Lola, the new French rom com written by Eugenie Grandvil (a first feature) and the director Julie Delpy, has more than a passing resemblance to the Duplass brothers’ American comedy Cyrus, starring John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei and Jonah Hill (in the title role). Read the rest of this entry »
