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...when we're awarded a prize. We all like to be flattered." Their approach to filmmaking is collective. Even after 15 years together (they're a couple, but not married), Bacri, 53, and Jaoui, 40, are still most comfortable working in big groups. Bacri puts it down to their background in theater - they both started out acting on and writing for the stage - and their shared sense of egalitarianism, both in life and in the movies. "Society is a group and we want to talk about society," he says. "Agnès and I could not write a film with...
...plane flying overhead, but the holiday of the title is no global jaunt. In his most affected sneer, Ryder describes a drug binge under belted-out celebratory cries of “Holiday!” Sounds of airport announcements and seagulls squawking violently lurk in the background while he claims, “We’re here to harass you / we want your pills and grass...
...horror. Shimizu makes the most of this, generating tension and genuine terror with a slow, sweeping camera that seems to glide across the traditional Japanese interiors with neither rhyme nor reason; he uses frequent long takes with symbolic tableaux in the foreground and complex interactions occurring in the background. Shimizu takes this potent philosophical notion and maximizes it’s potential for a startling filmic effect; at least, for the first 30 minutes...
...performances all around and a reliance on an auterist aesthetic being able to triumph over a woefully shallow script are to blame here. Combine the long takes with middling actors giving painfully over-articulated performances and you have something of a mess. Set against the background of bold visual filmmaking and the near incoherent plot, the performances stand out—for their lack of skill...
Although this history guaranteed many classmates would have some knowledge of Bush’s background, many of the business intensive students simply didn’t care. “There were plenty of people at the B-school who had big deal fathers,” notes Paul Gormsen...