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250 years of hypocrisy and lies
The United States celebrates, in a jingoistic and bombastic style, an independence obtained as a rebellion against unfair taxation following the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), the Townshend…
Google’s AI Mode vs. double jeopardy in Savannah
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), with John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, and Lady Chablis, and directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, has many differences compared…
Palme d’Or for Mungiu’s Fjord: Cannes conned by a wily movie!
At first, I thought Cristian Mungiu had produced and directed the wrong movie. After a summary analysis, I decided that his choice was a deliberate trick and that they have…
Dogville (2003)
I used to avoid Lars von Trier’s shitty experiments called films, as they usually tend to be manifestations of his mental insanity. But I happened to decide to watch Dogville…
No luck, plenty of fun, and you’ll definitely die! (You, not them.)
I don’t do film reviews. Here’s a film review. Sorta. A 5-bit one. (I know, it’s “You, nor they,” but nobody observes grammar rules in English. And you won’t understand…
Adieu à l’ombre de BB
The Guardian, on Facebook, promoting the article Brigitte Bardot was a zeitgeist-force and France’s most sensational export, got such comments: Louise Leite: "She later wrote that her son was a…
Le dernier des grands
C'est la traduction en français du billet que j'ai mis sur Facebook ce matin, en commentaire à l'article du Figaro, Alain Delon, la légende du cinéma, est mort. Les chaînes…
Don’t Look Up—This movie is meant to scare you
At first, I thought this film to be your typical American crap, especially as the cast includes too many big names. Most of them, really, weren't necessary, but I just…
Soviet Winter Nostalgia
For someone who lived in a "formerly communist" Eastern European country, hence a victim of the forced "Bolshevization" of a third of Europe, it might seem bizarre (or a sort…
Hating Wes Anderson with gusto
Wes Anderson is likely to be a genius, which is probably why I hate him so much. Or maybe The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) is what made me a h8r:…