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Ed Howard on four shorts by Maurice Pialat.
Pat Jordan for the New York Times Magazine on "How Samuel L Jackson Became His Own Genre."
For the Wall Street Journal, John Jurgensen talks with Sissy Spacek about her forthcoming memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life (via Movie City News).
In Reverse Shot, David Ehrlich argues that Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) is "a vital (if imperfect) chapter of this beloved saga, as...
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Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2010 AFI Fest)
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Written by: Jean Cosmos, François Olivier Rousseau and Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince Ringuet, Gaspard Ulliel and Raphaël Personnaz
“The Princess of Montpensier’s” titular young noblewoman and her sheltered, privileged milieu are far removed from the 16th-century France we first encounter in Bertrand Tavernier’s period romance. Set during the reign of Charles IX in the midst of a war that pits Catholics against Protestants, the film opens on the battlefield, the camera panning the gruesome scene at ground level as horsemen trample dead soldiers before it lifts above the tree line to capture the scope of both the conflict and the countryside.
A Western by way of Gaul, “Princess” is at once epic in its depiction of war and authentic in its portrayal of combat, with swordfights that are choreographed rather than...
(from the 2010 AFI Fest)
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Written by: Jean Cosmos, François Olivier Rousseau and Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince Ringuet, Gaspard Ulliel and Raphaël Personnaz
“The Princess of Montpensier’s” titular young noblewoman and her sheltered, privileged milieu are far removed from the 16th-century France we first encounter in Bertrand Tavernier’s period romance. Set during the reign of Charles IX in the midst of a war that pits Catholics against Protestants, the film opens on the battlefield, the camera panning the gruesome scene at ground level as horsemen trample dead soldiers before it lifts above the tree line to capture the scope of both the conflict and the countryside.
A Western by way of Gaul, “Princess” is at once epic in its depiction of war and authentic in its portrayal of combat, with swordfights that are choreographed rather than...
- 4/11/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2010 AFI Fest)
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Written by: Jean Cosmos, François Olivier Rousseau and Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince Ringuet, Gaspard Ulliel and Raphaël Personnaz
“The Princess of Montpensier’s” titular young noblewoman and her sheltered, privileged milieu are far removed from the 16th-century France we first encounter in Bertrand Tavernier’s period romance. Set during the reign of Charles IX in the midst of a war that pits Catholics against Protestants, the film opens on the battlefield, the camera panning the gruesome scene at ground level as horsemen trample dead soldiers before it lifts above the tree line to capture the scope of both the conflict and the countryside.
A Western by way of Gaul, “Princess” is at once epic in its depiction of war and authentic in its portrayal of combat, with swordfights that are choreographed rather than...
(from the 2010 AFI Fest)
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Written by: Jean Cosmos, François Olivier Rousseau and Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince Ringuet, Gaspard Ulliel and Raphaël Personnaz
“The Princess of Montpensier’s” titular young noblewoman and her sheltered, privileged milieu are far removed from the 16th-century France we first encounter in Bertrand Tavernier’s period romance. Set during the reign of Charles IX in the midst of a war that pits Catholics against Protestants, the film opens on the battlefield, the camera panning the gruesome scene at ground level as horsemen trample dead soldiers before it lifts above the tree line to capture the scope of both the conflict and the countryside.
A Western by way of Gaul, “Princess” is at once epic in its depiction of war and authentic in its portrayal of combat, with swordfights that are choreographed rather than...
- 4/11/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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