The Kenilworthian (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Queen to Play, a French film (with English subtitles) where chess is portrayed as a means to personal fulfillment, is set to be released November 24th on DVD. When it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, it was described by Genna Teranova as follows: An inquisitive French Riviera hotel maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) becomes entranced by a vacationing couple (Jennifer Beals, Dominic Gould) as...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
FORT LAUDERDALE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Review Queen to Play (Unrated) *** Pawn becomes a queen in a tale of self discovery Posted on Thursday, 10.22.09 BY RENE RODRIGUEZ Attention all nerds and former high-school science-club members: Finally, there is a movie that shares your belief that chess should be a magnet for hot babes and sex. The French drama Queen to Play (Joueuse) is more eloquent...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Samuel Maoz's Lebanon , which is set during the First Lebanon War in 1982, took home the Golden Lion in Venice today, wrapping up the annual festivities. Ang Lee, who's won two Golden Lions himself in the past five years (for Brokeback Mountain and Lust, Caution ) was the head of this year's jury, which also included Sandrine Bonnaire, Sergei Bodrov, Liliana Cavani, Joe Dante, Anurag Kashyap and Luciano...
Jazz Dancers NBA (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
US actor/cast member Viggo Mortensen (R) and young Australian actor/cast member Kodi Smit-McPhee attend the photocall for 'The Road' during the 66th Venice Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, 03 September 2009. US actor/cast member Viggo Mortensen attends the photocall for 'The Road' during the 66th Venice Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, 03 September 2009. US director Angela Ismailos poses for photographers...
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Sandrine Bonnaire in Maurice Pialat´s film Sous le soleil de Satan from 1987, also featuring Gerard Depardieu. Note: the movie of choice for this week is mainly directed to French and/or Chinese speaking cinephiles and book lovers who don't necessaril...
US Official Tabloid Gossip (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
Moore's other films include Sicko and Bowling for Columbine Capitalism, the latest documentary from Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore, features in the official competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. The film, in which Moore looks at the global economic meltdown, is one of 23 titles up for the Golden Lion award. Others include Werner Herzog's remake of The Bad Lieutenant, starring Nicolas...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 26/07/2009
I should point out a few things about the releases below. Firstly, IFC announced another few titles for DVD release, all of them genre flicks (of what quality, I'm not sure, as I haven't seen any of them), and I wonder when they're going to get around to their theatrical releases, instead of their VOD titles. Secondly, I've only mentioned Anchor Bay's re-release of the film Where the Day Takes You...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
France Feature Film Original Title: À nos amours Director: Maurice Pialat Writers: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat Cinematographer: Jacques Loiseleux Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Christophe Odent, Dominique Besnehard, Cyril Collard, Jacques Fieschi, Valérie Schlumberger, Evelyne Ker, Pierre Novion, Tsilka Theodorou, Cyr Boitard Pialat’s strangely inconsistent effort...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 15/07/2009
France Feature Film Director: Maurice Pialat Writers: Catherine Breillat, Sylvie Danton, Jacques Fieschi Cinematographer: Luciano Tovoli Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Richard Anconina, Pascale Rocard, Sandrine Bonnaire, Frank Karaoui, Jonathan Leïna, Jacques Mathou, Bernard Fuzellier, Bentahar Meaachou Pialat’s curious film - a Paris-set tale of cops, lawyers, drug dealers,...
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Throughout his career, Jacques Rivette has always flirted with the thriller genre, evincing a fascination with the shadowy conspiracies and labyrinthine plots that twist and turn behind the scenes, their contours hidden, their surprises held back. In spite of this, Rivette's cinema has been in many other ways the antithesis of the thriller, trading in slow, languid character development and a patient...
Movie Cross Rhodes (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
Film Review #201: Vagabond 1985/2008 Director: Agnes Varda Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Yolande Moreau, Macha Meril From the start she has liked these tracking shots that seem to go rogue. Agnès Varda had no formal training in cinema when she made her first feature in 1954, but in the opening moments of La Point Courte she turns a seaside village’s sleepy summer ambiance to sudden visual exhilaration...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 22/05/2009
MARK OF AN ANGEL (12A) *** DIRECTED BY: SAFY NEBBOU STARRING: CATHERINE FROT, SANDRINE BONNAIRE, MICHEL AUMONT
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/05/2009
France: Safy Nebbou; Catherine Frot Sandrine Bonnaire. Rating
The Herald (Free subscription) | 21/05/2009
For an actress who has worked with virtually all of the big names in modern French cinema – from Gerard Depardieu to Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Hupert to Emmanuelle Beart, Claude Chabrol to Patrice Leconte – Sandrine Bonnaire is surprisingly unassuming in the flesh.
Live for Films (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
An inquisitive French Riviera hotel maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) becomes entranced by a vacationing couple (Jennifer Beals, Dominic Gould) as they play chess on the hotel balcony. Tired of her humdrum existence, she quickly cultivates her curiosity for the game into an obsession. Her working-class husband doesn't share her fascination with the game, so she employs the help of the American expat and retired...
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