Charlie Rose with Ephraim Sneh; Agnes Jaoui; Edward Albee (March 20, 2001)
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
One of the most powerful musical experiences I ever had as a dj, was when I played an Amalia Rodrigues track in an Amsterdam café, one winter's day. This older man, sitting a few tables from the dj-booth, instantly began to sob like a baby. Afterwards, he told me he was from Porto, was going through a hard time and missed his family terribly in a cold, rainy country. This track, it could've...
eugonline (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Each day this month I am featuring another letter grouping from a Film Comment list of films of the past decade. Today’s letter: ‘T’. What are the best movies of the past ten years that start with the letter ‘T’? A list of ‘T’ films follows… Take Care of My Cat – Jeong Jae-eun, 2001 South Korea Tale of Cinema – Hong Sang-soo, 2005, South...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Spotlight: Ventana Sur: International execs keen to tap into local production -- In terms of attendance, organization and budget, Ventana Sur will be the biggest Latin American mart ever.
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
France Feature Film Original Title: Parlez-moi de la pluie Director: Agnès Jaoui Writers: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui Cinematographer: David Quesemand Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jamel Debbouze, Agnès Jaoui, Pascale Arbillot, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Frédéric Pierrot, Mimouna Hadji, Florence Loiret-Caille The bitter-sweet, funny, and perceptive Let's Talk About the...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
There's maybe too much to say about the year 2004 in regard to its various film festival and industry awards, but I'll keep it brief. 1.) Tropical Malady was the best film to play at Cannes in 2004, hands down, so was it the fact that Quentin Tarantino was head of the jury that it only nabbed the Prix du jury? I'd venture to say yes. Although Isabelle Huppert's jury also quite liked Park Chan-wook's...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
DVD Video Review: The great filmmaking team of Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri return with another gentle comedy of social anxiety and romantic complications. Noel Megaey reviews the Artificial Eye DVD.
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 03/22/2009
Website Buy it on DVD (Amazon) Read our review Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri interview
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Henri Bergson, in his 1901 essay Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, says that all comedy can be boiled down to noticing mechanical behavior in something living. Laughter is an acknowledgement and reminder to ourselves (and others) to be more sensitive to reality - to try to follow the real contours of [...]
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
"These are heady times for French film, which seems finally to have found a new voice after many years spent emerging from the long shadows of the Nouvelle Vague and battling the influence of Hollywood. French films are taking centre stage around the world and the names of French directors are once again rolling off the tongues of cinephiles: Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, Olivier Assayas, Agnès...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Taking its title from a song by George Brassens, Let's Talk About the Rain is the third film to be directed by Agnès Jaoui from an original screenplay by her husband, Jean-Pierre Bacri, and starring them both. They'd previously worked together on a couple of Alain Resnais films, including writing Smoking/No Smoking, an engaging version of Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn, whose interest...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Any two actors can swan up the red carpet at Cannes, but it takes something extra to be a proper turn, a double act to remember. In 2004, French writer-actor duo Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri won the Best Screenplay prize there for their film Comme une Image ("Look at Me"). Jaoui, who directed the film, did the traditional thing, pausing on the steps in sumptuous evening décolletée,...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
CONVERSATIONS about the weather are so mundane that it takes a brave or foolhardy film-maker to put them in a movie title. Then again, Agnès Jaoui's previous outing as writer, director and star had a similarly bland title in , or as it was released here.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
The 'French Woody Allen', actor-director Agnès Jaoui tells about her new film which tackles sexism, racism and middle-class malaise in her native France
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Smart, sophisticated comedies are as scarce as hen's teeth, so the 44-year-old French film-maker Agnès Jaoui is rightly revered as someone who delivers highly prized goods. Her movies The Taste of Others (from 2000) and, particularly, 2004's Look At Me were terrifically funny and sweet, and this, her latest comedy, was keenly anticipated. But it is a disappointment: a loose, unfocused rag-bag...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Tim Robey reviews Let's Talk About the Rain, The Warlords and Scar 3D.
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