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New French Extremity
New French Extremity (New French Extremism or, informally, New French Extreme) is a term coined by ''Artforum'' critic James Quandt for a collection of transgressive films by French directors at the turn of the 21st century. Also available othe ArtForum website. The said filmmakers were also discussed by Jonathan Romney in ''The Independent''. Quandt associates François Ozon, Gaspar Noé, Catherine Breillat, Bruno Dumont, Claire Denis' '' Trouble Every Day'' (2001), Patrice Chéreau's ''Intimacy'' (2001), Bertrand Bonello's '' The Pornographer'' (2001), Marina de Van's '' In My Skin'' (2002), Leos Carax's '' Pola X'' (1999), Philippe Grandrieux's '' Sombre'' (1998) and ''La vie nouvelle'' (2002), Jean-Claude Brisseau's '' Secret Things'' (2002), Jacques Nolot's '' Glowing Eyes'' (2002), Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi's '' Baise-moi'' (2000), and Alexandre Aja's '' High Tension'' (2003) with the label. While Quandt intended the term as pejorative, many so labeled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of ''Dracula'' (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intimacy (2001 Film)
''Intimacy'' is a 2001 erotic drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anne-Louise Trividic, based on stories by Hanif Kureishi (who also wrote a novel of the same title). It stars Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance. The film is an international co-production between France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, featuring a soundtrack of pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s. ''Intimacy'' contains an unsimulated fellatio scene by Fox on Rylance. A French-dubbed version features voice actors Jean-Hugues Anglade and Nathalie Richard. The film has been associated with the New French Extremity. Plot Jay is a bartender who abandoned his family because his wife lost interest in him and their relationship. Now living alone in a decrepit house, he has casual weekly sex with an anonymous woman, whose name he does not know. At first, their relationship is purely physical, but he eventually falls in love with her. Wanting to know more about her, Jay follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glowing Eyes (film)
''Glowing Eyes'' (alternative title: Porn Theatre) (french: La chatte à deux têtes) is a 2002 French drama film directed by and starring Jacques Nolot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film has been cited as a favorite by filmmaker John Waters, who presented it as his annual selection within the 2005 Maryland Film Festival. Plot In a decrepit Parisian porn film theatre, a fifty-year-old man and a young projectionist begin a tentative relationship, observed by the world-weary Italian-born cashier at the ticket booth. Cast * Vittoria Scognamiglio - Cashier * Jacques Nolot - 50-Year-Old Man * Sébastien Viala - Projectionist * Olivier Torres - L'homme à la robe jaune * Lionel Goldstein - L'homme à l'imper noir * Frédéric Longbois - L'homme à l'éventail * Fouad Zeraoui - L'homme qui a cu sa dose * Jean-Louis Coquery - L'homme nu * Raphaëline Goupilleau - SDF... * Pascal Varley - SDF... * Arben Bajraktaraj Arben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Nolot
Jacques Nolot (; born 31 August 1943) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. Life and career Jacques Nolot was born on 31 August 1943, Marciac, Gers, a small village in Southwest France. A fragile child, Nolot was doted upon by his mother, a woman who had three children with three different men. An illegitimate child, Nolot's family environment was troublesome and from an early age he wanted to run away from home. "The sole elegance my parents had was to allow me to leave. And then to die quickly" he later explained in an interview. At age 16, he was working at the village's grocery store, when a tourist stopping there offered him to take him to Paris. In the French capital, he worked selling vegetables while taking acting classes. At age seventeen, he decided to move to Cannes in order to become a star. Young and without economical resources, he became the lover of a rich woman and later began hustling for men. His life was the street. At age nineteen, he met Roland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Things
''Secret Things'' (french: Choses secrètes) is a 2002 French erotic drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, starring Coralie Revel and Sabrina Seyvecou. The film is sometimes associated with the New French Extremity. ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' named ''Secret Things'', jointly along with '' Ten'' by director Abbas Kiarostami, as the best film of 2002. The film was awarded the French Cineaste of the Year title at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, Brisseau was found guilty of sexually harassing two actresses between 1999 and 2001 during auditions for the film. Plot Two Parisian girls, Nathalie, a stripper at a bar, and Sandrine, a bartender, conspire to climb the social ladder of Paris when they start living together. The club owner gives Sandrine an ultimatum to have sex with a paying client. Nathalie, after finishing her shift, defends and dissuades Sandrine from accepting the offer, and both girls are fired. Sandrine, after falling behind on her rent, is sure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Brisseau
Jean-Claude Brisseau (; 17 July 1944 – 11 May 2019) was a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film '' Secret Things'' ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006 film ''The Exterminating Angels'' ("Les Anges exterminateurs"). His film '' Céline'' was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. At the Cannes Film Festival, he was awarded the France Culture Award in 2003 for ''Secret Things''; in 1988 he was awarded the Special Award for the Youth. In 2002, Brisseau was arrested on charges of sexual harassment after three women came forward accusing him of cajoling them into performing sexual acts on camera by promising them a film role. He was eventually found guilty, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. Brisseau made a semi-autobiographical film in 2006 about this incident, ''Les Anges Exterminateurs''. He was formerly a professor at La Fémis in Paris. Brisseau died in Paris on 11 May 2019 at the age of 74. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vie Nouvelle (film)
''A New Life'' (French: ''La Vie nouvelle'') is a 2002 French experimental film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis Anna Mouglalis ( el, Άννα Μουγλάλη; born 26 April 1978) is a French actress and model. She is known for being a house ambassador for Chanel since 2002, and for portraying the fashion designer Coco Chanel in the 2009 film ''Coco Chane .... Plot The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape. Sources Writing in English * Beugnet, Martine. (2005) ‘Evil and the senses: Philippe Grandrieux’s ''Sombre'' and ''La Vie nouvelle''’, ''Studies in French Cinema'', 5(3), pp. 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1386/sfci.5.3.175/1. * Beugnet, Martine. (2007) ''Cinema and sensation: French film and the art of transgression''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. * Chamarette, Jenny. (2013) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sombre
''Sombre'' is a 1998 French film directed by Philippe Grandrieux, starring Marc Barbé and Elina Löwensohn. The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard and won the C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention at the Locarno International Film Festival. Plot The film deals with Jean (Marc Barbé), a serial killer who follows the Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consist ... cycling race in his car and murders women (mostly prostitutes) along his way. Then he meets Claire (Elina Löwensohn), a psychologically troubled and confused woman who falls in love with him. References Sources * Beugnet, Martine. (2005) ‘Evil and the senses: Philippe Grandrieux’s ''Sombre'' and ''La Vie nouvelle''’, ''Studies in French Cinema'', 5(3), pp. 175–184. https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Grandrieux
Philippe Grandrieux (born 10 November 1954) is a French film director and screenwriter. Life and career Grandrieux was born in Saint-Étienne. He studied film at the INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle) in Belgium. He exhibited his first video work at ''Galerie Albert Baronian'', Bruxelles. In the 1980s, he worked in collaboration with the French Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) and the television channel La Sept/Arte where he helped develop new cinematographic forms and formats that called into question some basic principles of film writing: for instance, the conventions behind documentary, information and film essays. In 1990, he created the film research lab “Live” which produced one-hour-long sequences by Thierry Kuntzel, Robert Kramer and Robert Frank... Since 2005, programs devoted to Grandrieux's features (''Sombre'', ''La Vie nouvelle'', ''Un lac''), installations, video, documentary work and shorts have been broadcast all over the worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pola X
''Pola X'' is a 1999 drama film directed by Leos Carax and starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve. The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel '' Pierre: or, The Ambiguities''. It revolves around a young novelist who is confronted by a woman who claims to be his lost sister, and the two begin a romantic relationship. The film title is an acronym of the French title of the novel, ''Pierre ou les ambiguïtés'', plus the Roman numeral "X" indicating the tenth draft version of the script that was used to make the film. The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. ''Pola X'' has been associated by some with the New French Extremity. Plot Pierre lives a carefree life with his widowed mother in a chateau in Normandy, enjoying rising fame as an author under a pseudonym and writing his second novel, and speeding on his father's old motorbike to sleep with his fiancée and childhood friend Lucie in her parents' chateau. In a bar he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leos Carax
Alex Christophe Dupont (born 22 November 1960), best known as Leos Carax (), is a French film director, critic and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was '' Boy Meets Girl'' (1984), and his notable works include '' Les Amants du Pont-Neuf'' (1991), '' Holy Motors'' (2012) and '' Annette'' (2021). For the last, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. His professional name is an anagram of his real name, 'Alex', and 'Oscar'. Early life Carax was born Alex Christophe Dupont in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, a commune in the suburbs of Paris, France. His mother is American and his father is French. Career Carax's film career began with a series of short films, and as a film critic, before he released '' Boy Meets Girl'' (1984), which established his reputation for a mature visual style. It also saw the first grouping of Carax with Denis Lavant and cinematographer The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In My Skin (film)
''In My Skin'' ( French: ''Dans ma peau'') is a 2002 New French Extremity horror film written by, directed by, and starring Marina de Van. It details the downward mental spiral of Esther, a woman (played by de Van) who engages in increasingly destructive acts of self-mutilation following an accident that injures her leg at a party. Plot Esther (Marina de Van) seems to have it all: a great job, an active social life and an adoring boyfriend. One night, whilst attending a house party with colleagues, Esther hurts her leg in the backyard on some industrial supplies. Alone when it happens, she doesn't even realize she has been hurt until much later, briefly inspecting the injury in an upstairs bathroom. After the party, Esther visits a doctor (Adrian de Van) who patches her up and wonders why she didn't initially feel the injury. Esther wonders too, but seems unconcerned about any cosmetic damage. He asks her jokingly, "Are you sure it's your leg?" The next day, while taking a bath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
