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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 12/25/2008
Director Cedric Klapisch's breakthrough film was 1996's "Chacun Cherche Son Chat" ("When The Cat's Away"), a documentary-like trifle about a lost cat that nevertheless seemed to say something essential about life in the anonymity of a big city. Klapisch set his film in Paris' 11th arrondisement, and he filmed it with the affection of someone who knew its streets intimately. His was a Paris that seemed...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Film News: “Parking” will open the Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival on Nov. 6.
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Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Kevin Bishop is an actor whose credits include Cédric Klapisch's acclaimed films L'Auberge Espagnole and Les Poupées Russes. On stage, he appeared as Dudley Moore in the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe hit Pete and Dud: Come Again, which charted Moore's turbulent relationship Peter Cook and transferred to the West End in 2006. Recently, he's risen to prominence as a comedian and impressionist on Channel Four...
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
FRENCH director Cédric Klapisch is probably best known in this country for his soufflé-light comedy from 1996, Chacun Cherche Son Chat (When the Cat's Away).
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Philip French: A disappointing attempt to make a movie that captures the whole of the city's life through some dozen or more local characters
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
IT COMES as no surprise to learn that the prolific French writer-director Cédric Klapisch wrote his thesis on Woody Allen.
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
"There was a wince-inducing portmanteau comedy recently released in this country called Paris Je T'Aime, and that title was very clearly ordering us to go into a Jane Birkin-style breathy rapture at the French capital," writes the Guardian's Peter...
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Though the City of Light is its usual dazzling self in this sprawling yarn, Cedric Klapisch’s drama fails to match it for sparkle. Romain Duris plays a dancer knocked off balance by news of a heart condition.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
BEST of the rest of the week's cinema releases
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News (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
In April 1996, French director Cédric Klapisch's cult romcom The Cat's Away saw a young woman's search for her wayward pet break down social barriers to bring a whole neighbourhood together. Today the tables have been turned in more ways tha...
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Thanks to Gala.fr , I discovered some quotes by the incomparable Miss Béatrice Dalle. She mentioned her admiration for Isabelle Huppert as an actress (of course; the two starred together in Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup [ Time of the Wolf ]). And did you ever wonder what makes Mlle Dalle shiver? Pasolini's films. Above is a photo that I accidentally, and amiably, stumbled upon using the Google...
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high up in the trees (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
{A new friend for Agatha Cyanide. She and Claude Blue-belly prattle and preen.} {A bag purchased from Paula. It will come as no surprise to you to know that I use it often. (otchipotchi)} {Misha-non-penguin lands in Hawaii.} This weekend through Cédric Klapisch’s film, Romain Duris and Juliette Binoche took me to Paris with them. “Two tickets to Paris for $28,” joked the guy at the box office to every...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Film News: COLCOA Film Festival -- Last year, Edith Piaf biopic "La Vie en rose" opened City of Lights, City of Angels film festival and went on to win the best actress Oscar for Marion Cotillard. That pic also eventually grossed more than $10 million for Picturehouse in the U.S.
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Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
The pungent fresh fish section of Rungis, the sprawling, wholesale food market outside of Paris, is the last place one would expect to find an "It" girl tottering around in a Jean Paul Gaultier couture dress and stilettos.
