Critical Reviews

2011 Tournées Film Festival @ Lafayette College
–Selected Reviews

L’Illusioniste:

New York Times:  Darguis, M.  “Conjuring a Magical Relationship.”

L’Affaire Farewell:

L’Affaire Farewell: “Historical reality or Fiction?”  Debate at the Institut de Sciences Politiques with director, Christian Carion.

Farewell: Clarke, C. “Director Emir Kusturica turns up as an actor in a satisfying real-life cold war thriller.” www. guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/28/farewell-review.

Farewell: Vineberg, S. “On film: Farewell.” Christian Century, October 19, 2010.

Kusturica:  Iordanova, D. ” Kusturica’s `Underground’ (1995): historical allegory or propaganda?” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1999.

La Belle Endormie:

Bluebeard:  Walker, C.  In Bluebeard’s Closet: Women Who Write with the Wolves. “  LIT, 1996. Vol. 7, pp. 13-25.

La Belle endormie, review: http://www.arte.tv/fr/3405834.html

Interview of Breillat: http://videos.arte.tv/en/videos/_la_belle_endormie_de_catherine_breillat-3406676.html

Sleeping Beauty, review: http://www.indiewire.com/film/the_sleeping_beauty_la_belle_endormie/#

La France:

NY Times review: Dargis, M.  “World War I on Their Minds, ’60s Pop in Their Hearts.” http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/movies/11fran.html

Review: Peranson, M. “Band on the Run: Serge Bozon’s La France. ” http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs33/int_peranson_bozon.html

Copie Conforme:

Iranian Cinema: Lahiji, S. “Chaste Dolls and Unchaste Dolls: Women in Iranian Cinema since 1979.” The New Iranian Cinema, http://books.google.com/books?id=V2Ra4RZgEj4C&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=chaste+dolls+and+unchaste+dolls;+Women+in+Iranian+cinema+since+1979&source=bl&ots=yzlzqO7mOr&sig=i0kB1rFzkH_pSa1G_z-wF9LuseI&hl=en&ei=AUJ2TsbDE4Pw0gGOprSvDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=chaste%20dolls%20and%20unchaste%20dolls%3B%20Women%20in%20Iranian%20cinema%20since%201979&f=false

Kiarastomi: Frodon, M. “The Universal Iranian.”  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sais/summary/v021/21.2frodon.html

NY Times review: Holden, S. “On the Road, Packing Querulous Erudition.”  http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/movies/juliette-binoche-in-kiarostamis-certified-copy-review.html?ref=movies

Review:  de Witte, C. “Restoration comedy: Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’” http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49645

Un Homme Qui Crie (A Screaming Man):

 

 

Interview of Mahamat Saleh Haroun: RFI.  “The Treachery of the Fathers.”  http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20100518-un-homme-qui-crie-treachery-fathers

Review: Koehler, R. “A Screaming Man.”  http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942771?refcatid=31