Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The site's consensus reads, "Led by an outstanding performance from Emmanuelle Devos, Violette is a rewarding, bracingly honest look at social mores and the literary life." [ 4 ] At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 72, based on 14 reviews ...
Violette Nozière, also titled Violette, is a 1978 crime drama film directed by Claude Chabrol starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. It tells the true story of teenage prostitute and murderer Violette Nozière , who poisoned her parents in 1933 France.
Poetic realism films are "recreated realism", stylised and studio-bound, rather than approaching the "socio-realism of the documentary". [2] They usually have a fatalistic view of life with their characters living on the margins of society, either as unemployed members of the working class or as criminals.
Gerbert de Montreuil was a 13th-century French poet from the north of France. He wrote Le Roman de la violette or Gérard de Nevers , [ 1 ] one of the most outstanding medieval poems, famous for its vivid narrative and faithful depiction of contemporary customs.
The most familiar type of affective shot is of the face. The close-up. Some films, such as Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) are composed from a series of close-ups, and in this way create an affection-image film. The affection-image film is therefore a film which foregrounds emotions: desires, wants, needs.
The Flame (French: La flamme) is a 1936 French drama film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Line Noro, Charles Vanel and Gabriel Signoret. It is based on a play by Charles Méré . [ 1 ] The story had previously been made into a silent film in 1926 .
Huppert at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in more than 120 feature films, mostly in starring roles. [1] Regarded as one of the most respected actresses in French cinema, [2] she has appeared in films directed by Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard and Michael Haneke. [3]
Comedy of Power (French: L'Ivresse du pouvoir) is a 2006 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert. [3] The French title means "drunk with power". The film is loosely based on a true story involving the French former oil and gas company Elf Aquitaine and judge Eva Joly.