Post-apocalyptic films used to have a sort of romance to them. The idea of a desolate wasteland was so otherworldly and foreign that it seemed like the perfect fodder for fun adventures.
10.12.2020 - 14:15 / variety.com
Kaleem Aftab It’s been 25 years since “La Haine” made the banlieue a staple of French cinema. On the back of Mathieu Kassovitz’s cinematic Molotov cocktail, movies such as “Girlhood,” “Divines,” “Cuties” and “Les Miserables” have made the concrete jungles on the outskirts of Paris a haven for cineastes.
Post-apocalyptic films used to have a sort of romance to them. The idea of a desolate wasteland was so otherworldly and foreign that it seemed like the perfect fodder for fun adventures.
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amid fears the new Covid-19 variant will spread.Ireland has banned all flights from the UK for 48 hours, as has Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Turkey, Belgium and Switzerland.The measures are temporary with plans for an EU council meeting at 10am to decide on co-ordinating EU actions.The announcement comes as Scotland prepares for a level four lockdown starting on Boxing Day.Opposition party leaders in Scotland have called on the SNP government to further explain the reasons for
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Celinde Schoenmaker (Rocketman), Julia Nickson (Rambo First Blood Part II), Rayssa Bratillieri (Malhação Vidas Brasileiras) and Hana Hrzic (Métèque) have joined the cast of the romantic comedy Hong Kong Love Story. They join previous announced cast members Byron Mann (Wu Assassins), Dominika Kachlik (M jak milosc) Nichkhun, and Kenneth Tsang (Die Another Day). Production is set to begin in Hong Kong on December 18.
Having scored around 100 films since his first venture into cinema with Jean-Luc Godard’s 1980 drama Sauve Qui Peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself), Gabriel Yared — who won both an Oscar and Grammy for 1996’s The English Patient, the first of four collaborations with the late Anthony Minghella — sits among today’s great movie composers.
Katherine McNamara once performed an entire monologue in French despite not speaking a lick of the language.