#alice winocour

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Paris Memories (2022) | dir. Alice Winocour

#paris memories #revoir paris #alice winocour #virginie efira #benoît magimel #amadou mbow #films #movies #cinematography #scenery #screencaps

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“What I’m really obsessed by is dysfunctional bodies and the fact that there are no words to express how you feel. Words don’t exist. It’s the body that is speaking for you, the revolt of the body.” - Alice Winocour on Disorder

#matthias schoenaerts #disorder 2015 #alice winocour #gifs

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Here is a #41 gifs of Chiara Mastroianni in Augustine. All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. If using, please give this a like and reblog!

#Augustine #Alice Winocour #Augustine 2012 #2010s movies #chiara mastroianni #chiara mastroianni gif #chiara mastroianni gif pack

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Revoir Paris (Alice Winocour, 2022)

#film #France #French film #French cinema #Revoir Paris #RevoirParis #Alice Winocour #AliceWinocour #Nastya Golubeva Carax #NastyaGolubevaCarax #Virginie Efira #VirginieEfira

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new-to-me #351 - Revoir Paris 

#2023 in Films #Revoir Paris #Alice Winocour #52 Films By Women #Directed By Women #CCFF

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#revoir paris #alice winocour #virginie efira #benoit magimel #grégoire colin #maya sansa #film #movie #2022 #movie poster #poster #affiche

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Proxima by Alice Winocour (2019)

#Proxima #Alice Winocour #Eva Green

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Trailer for Paris memories, by Alice Winocour

Tw: This is a movie about a fictional terrorist attack. Even though the attack isn't the focus of the movie, the violence is still there. It's also very reminiscent of what happened in November 2015.

#revoir paris #Paris memories #alice winocour #loved the movie. it was cathartic for me

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Revoir Paris: Salvaging the Gaps of a Shattered Memory

Darius Films MOVIE INFO- ROTTEN TOMATOES: After an idyllic date night full of red wine and a late-night motorcycle ride home, Mia (Virginie Efira) stops at a Parisian bistro to take shelter from a downpour. Her reprieve is shattered when a gunman opens fire. Three months later, with a frustratingly hazy memory of the attack, Mia finds herself numbed and unable to resume her life. Her friends…

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#Alice Winocour #drama #international #movie #movies #Poem #Revoir Paris movie #Virginie Affira

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Revoir Paris movingly deals with healing after trauma, but its narrative structured as a detective hinders the film.

#film review #cinema #film #revoir paris #alice winocour #virginie efira

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Revoir Paris, Alice Winocour, 2022

La reconstruction d’une survivante des attentats de Paris en 2015. Je ne sais pas si c’est un bon film mais j’ai marché à fond dans le côté émotionnel.

How a survivor has to gather the pieces of her memory after being in a terrorist attack. I don’t know if it’s really good but I was totally hooked by the emotions the movie conveys.

★★✰✰✰

#virginie efira #alice winocour #paris #film #cinéma #victime

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Proxima

Proxima #AliceWinocour #MovieReview #EvaGreen Proxima pulls a rabbit out of its hat. Here's an #astronaut #movie that never leaves #Earth, and yet manages to remain absorbing almost all the way through.

Proxima pulls a rabbit out of its hat. Here’s an astronaut movie that never leaves Earth, and yet manages to remain absorbing almost all the way through.  The Earthbound setting actually makes sense, if you think about it. More often than not, space lends itself better for action-oriented sci-fi. Consider for example 3022, in which rotating crews take 10-year shifts managing a space station. One…

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#alice winocour #movie review #proxima

[forest-enchantress]

Here is a #41 gifs of Chiara Mastroianni in Augustine. All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. If using, please give this a like and reblog!

#Augustine #Alice Winocour #Augustine 2012 #2010s movies #chiara mastroianni #chiara mastroianni gif #chiara mastroianni gif pack

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Movies I watched this Week # 152 (Year 3/Week 48):

7 more with gorgeous Belgian actress Virginie Efira:

🍿 Continuing with the rest of Justine Triet's work, In bed with Victoria was a study for Triet's later 2 films. Like 'Sybil' and 'Anatomy of a fall' it is fascinated with the process of elaborate legal machinations, a strong women's sexuality, great kid performances, intellectual analysis and delightful sensuality.

Virginie Efira is a single mom and a powerful criminal lawyer here trying to balance her work and love life, but she is confused, and so is this movie. Still, they are both a delight to watch. 5/10.

🍿 A boilerplate, fast-paced romantic comedy of a hot "cougar" falling for a 19 year old boy, It Boy, predictable and formulaic, but she's such an eye candy, it's impossible to hate.

🍿 An Impossible Love, my second challenging film by Catherine Corsini (After 'Summertime'), 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. A difficult and elusive drama about a beautiful woman who passionately falls in love with a dashing young man. But as soon she becomes pregnant with his child, he leaves her, and refuses to take responsibility for their daughter. What starts as a romantic fairy-tale, turns in the course of 30+ years, into a nightmare of cruelty, abuse and heartache. The dynamics of a horribly narcissist father and his hold of the women who wants to trust him are very hard to watch. Beautifully sad and brilliantly dark. 9/10.

On the other hand, in every one of the 8-9 movies that I've seen with her so far, she always have some 'steamy' sex scenes (but they are usually perfunctory and all are similar in style). I am absolutely not complaining, but is it part of her contract?

🍿 Just the two of us, her most recent film from 2023 is similar in parts to 'An impossible love'. This one too is about a gaslighted, terrorized wife, whose cruel, possessive husband is a disgusting, hard to watch abuser. For some reason she plays here a double role of twin sisters, and her laugh (when she does) lights up the screen. But this was an ugly and unpleasant experience.

🍿 Night Shift, my second by Anne Fontaine (After 'Adore' with Naomi Watts), It's a police procedural, a somehow-updated, French version of Hal Ashby's 'The last detail'. 3 police officers must escort an illegal immigrant from Tajikistan back to his country, knowing he will probably be killed there. I did not expect it to be so captivating. 9/10.

🍿 Paris memories, my second by French director Alice Winocour (She co-wrote the Turkish award-winner 'Mustang'). Efira plays a lovely woman traumatized from having survived a mass-shooting in a Parisian bistro. Going through similar mental agonies as Jeff Bridges did in 'Fearless', this one felt like banal film-making with no real depth. Some moments of pathos when the POV shifted to a couple of the other characters. (Photo Above)

🍿 Because I'm a completist (and sometimes a masochist), I checked out one episode (S2 E1) of Call my agent, a fast-paced French serial of the Netflix kind (i.e., slick, shallow, "funny" with constant muzak in the background). It's about a Parisian entertainment talent agency, and each episode stars a real celebrity. 2/10.

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Young Picasso, a simple British documentary about the early years of the 20th Century's greatest artist. From his birth in Malaga to 1907, when he created Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, "The first modern art masterpiece". Absolutely riveting. 9/10.

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2 by Alexander Payne, both starring Paul Giamatti as an unsuccessful teacher with an unfinished manuscript in his drawer:

🍿 The holdovers, Alexander Payne's 8th feature, and my favorite of all of them (Even more than 'The Descendants'). Absolute pleasure from the very first chords, like listening to Simon and Garfunkel for the first time. 10/10.

🍿 "...If anybody orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I'm not drinking any fucking Merlot!..."

Rewatch: Sideways, the film that helped cause a real growth in pinot noir sales worldwide. I forgot how wonderful it was: It really got better with age... With "Gretchen Schwartz" as Miles' Ex-wife.

[It reminded me of one of the happiest summers of my life, in 1974, when I worked the grape-picking 'vendange' season in the south of France. I started in Perpignan, and together with other free-spirited hobos, hitchhiked north every two or three weeks to a different vinery, and ended up in Champagne. We were housed in worker's quarters, worked long hours in the field, were fed fantastic rustic French food, and received (beside the meager wages) two bottles of red wine each - every day.]

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'The Holdovers' was a modern adaptation of a 1935 French drama, Merlusse, directed by Marcel Pagnol. It also tells of a reclusive teacher assigned to watch over some pupils over the Christmas holidays. And he also has a glass eye, and stinks of codfish, etc. The new version was much superior.

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Re-watch: Umberto Eco, A Library of the World, a wonderful documentary about the private library of the Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic (and flutist).

Roaming through the many rooms hosting his vast MIlanese library of 1,200 rare books, and 50,000+ newer ones is any bibliophile's masturbatory wet dream.

It features the same Carl Orff cover that Hans Zimmer adapted to 'True Romance' under the name 'You're so cool'. 9/10.

Now I want to watch an adaptation of Foucault's Pendulum if there ever was one. Or at least re-watch his 'The name of the rose'. I also wish there was a movie about Eco's favorite writer, Athanasius Kircher.

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So instead of reading all of Borges books again, I was looking for movies based on his stories. Bertolucci's The Spider’s Stratagem, made in the same year as 'The Conformist', is the first that came to mind. An operatic web of truths and lies, symbols of murder & betrayal. "Athos Magnani arrives at the sleepy town of Tara, where years ago, his father—also named Athos Magnani—was assassinated by Fascists while attending a performance of Verdi’s opera Rigoletto." Memory, identity, stagecraft, a trip to the kingdom of the dead.

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From a recent list of '30 best mobster movies', The Traitor, an epic Italian saga about Tommaso Buscetta. He was the first Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss to turn informant, and whose collaborations were used at the big anti-Mafia trials of the 80's. Not as great as 'The Godfather', but a solid entertainment piece. 7/10.

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I struggled with the new disjointed psychodrama May December, my 5th film by Todd Haynes. I found it pointless, confusing and lacking emotional focus. Not close to the pathos of his two earlier masterpieces, ‘Carol’ and ‘Far from heaven’. Natalie Portman was an unreliable narrator, and Julianne Moore‘s family was unconvincingly flat. It felt unnecessary. 3/10.

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The platform is a cruel Spanish horror / science-fiction story, with an unusual hook: Prisoners are held in a 300-floor vertical tower, two to a cell. Once a day they receive food lowered on a platform to their level, and they have only two minutes to eat as much as they can, but the lower you're in the system, the less you're left with. This is not something I usually enjoy, and indeed I despised this unpleasant, disgusting parable of inequality.

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First watch: I kept reading that the sequel Hot Shots! Part Deux was better than the original, but really not by much. A few funny jokes in otherwise lame and lazy spoof. 3/10.

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4 more documentaries:

🍿 Innocence, a painful Israeli documentary by Guy Davidi about Israel's compulsory military industrial-cultural complex. How it indoctrinates, brainwashes and overwhelms (nearly) all its children to become cogs in the war and oppression machine. Told from the prospective of some soldiers who had committed suicide while serving in the army, it's a depressing, evil and unjust story. But it is told in an irritating 'poetic' voice-overs, and I hated everything about it. 3/10.

🍿 Memories from Palestine, a Danish documentary about a tiny museum in the refugee camp of Shatila, Lebanon. It’s a rather small, decrepit room, where the elderly caretaker Mohammeds had been collecting some old keepsakes from 3 generations ago.

🍿 Coded, a lousy documentary about gay illustrator J. C. Leyendecker. The famous commercial artist cloaked his sexuality while producing popular magazine covers for 50 years. 1/10.

🍿 Bob and Don: A Love Story, a light 20-minute documentary by Judd Apatow, about the friendship between the two comedians. Not much meat on it, but OK.

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Summer in Tyrol, a 2010 Danish short about an old couple who argue with each other, even as the old lady dies in a hospital room.

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies

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Epilepticon Movie Marathon 2023

Augustine (2012) dir. Alice Winocour

Summary: An erotic biographical drama film about Louise Augustine Gleizes and her love affair with her neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, in the late 1800s.

Representation: Augustine has a violent seizure at her workplace early in the film that results in her being temporarily paralyzed in her right eye. For the rest of the film, she remains a patient at a hospital with little control over her life choices.

Augustine has many seizures throughout the film, including several that are intentionally triggered by Charcot in front of large crowds of onlookers to serve as a demonstration of the science behind seizures.

The framing of these seizures plays heavily into the sexualization of epilepsy, with several of Augustine's seizures filmed similar to how a masturbation scene would be filmed in an erotic film.

No first aid is given to Augustine during any of these seizures as, because of the era she lived in and the medical community's attitude towards people with seizures, she is meant to be viewed as an exhibition and not helped. She is regularly dehumanized, with even her own neurologist describing her as an "animal".

The word "epilepsy" is not used to describe Augustine's disorder and she is instead diagnosed as having "ovarian hysteria". As this film is a partial biography of the real-life Augustine, the use of this diagnosis term is accurate when recounting her particular experience.

Notes: The main plot of the movie follows a romance between a doctor and their patient. The power imbalance is addressed but may still be uncomfortable for some viewers.

There is full-frontal nudity at several points in this film including a sex scene. There are moments of graphic on-screen animal death. A woman has a brief monologue about intentional self harm.

The film is entirely in French. English subtitles were available.

[Image ID: Three screenshots from Augustine (2012):

Image 1: Augustine, a woman with long black hair in a braid, looks off to the right with a concerned expression. Her right eye is closed due to temporary paralysis.

Image 2: Augustine, a woman wearing only undergarments and a loose corset, and Charcot, a man who is fully dressed in a dark suit, embrace in Charcot's office.

Image 3: Augustine is laying down, perched between two chairs with her neck resting on the head of one chair and her feet resting on the head of another further away chair. She is wearing a dress with a striped skirt that drapes down in the space between the chairs.

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#epilepticon #epilepticon 2023 #actually epileptic #epilepsy #augustine 2012 #stargazer rambles #epilepticon movie marathon #self harm mention

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Proxima by Alice Winocour (2019)

We have spoken about the life between death and a new birth and have realised that after death man is received into a super earthly world which becomes manifest to us on Earth only through its signs or tokens—the stars; for the stars are tokens of another world, indications of spiritual worlds within our ken during our life between death and a new birth.

—Rudolf Steiner, Karmic Relationships vol. V: Lecture VII

#Proxima #Alice Winocour #anthroposophy #spiritual science