One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. Flanked by theatrical bed-curtains, two women exchange sidelong glances as they untie each other’s hair and plant kisses on each other’s fingers. All the world’s a stage, Éric Rohmer seems to say in his final film, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007), but never more so than in the bedroom. Set in a candle-lit chateau interior, the encounter is simultaneously a coy sapphic experiment and a monogamous heterosexual reunion: with the aid of make-up and a “druid’s potion” to halt the growth of his facial hair, the spurned Celadon (Andy Gillet) has begun to redeem himself, in the eyes of his lover Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour), by becoming a woman. Captured in an unflinching long take, there is a refreshing directness to this moment, one of...
- 12/12/2022
- MUBI
"Something's not right." Signature Entertainment has debuted a new UK trailer for the Belgian crime film Above the Law, originally titled Tueurs in French (which translates to Killers). This first premiered at the Venice Film Festival back in late 2017, but is only now getting a release outside of France and Belgium. This lean, slick, fast-paced action film is based on a true story from 1982. The twisted crime thriller involves a gangster pulling one last job, who witnesses an investigator get killed by a group of masked commandos. He works to free himself and figure out what's really going on, which leads to them discovery a conspiracy that goes all the way up to the top politicians in Belgium. Starring Olivier Gourmet as Frank, with Lubna Azabal, Kevin Janssens, Bouli Lanners, Natacha Régnier, Johan Leysen, Gilles De Schryver, and Stéphanie Crayencour. There is still no Us release planned for this yet,...
- 3/7/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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