Silhouette Film Festival - Parc de Buttes Chaumont, Paris.
By Ed Millar and Jen Wallace
An intrepid gang of ÉCUers made their way to the beautiful Parc de Buttes Chaumont to watch one night of the Silhouette Film Festival. The film festival is in its 10th year and is an outdoor event with films from all over the world projected onto an inflatable screen next to the lake. Here, ÉCU writers Jen and Ed, share their opinions on the festival and the films.
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The Living Theatre: A Day in the Life of Paris
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By Jen Wallace and Marc Rickenbach
On May 25, at Le Pavé d’Orsay, a narrow empty space tucked away in
Paris’ 7th, we attended the Introductory Cocktail and Press hour
celebrating the return of The Living Theatre to Paris after a twenty
year absence. The following weekend, in collaboration with the Bilingual
Acting Workshop, The Living Theatre would hold a workshop and two
perfor...
by Marc Rickenbach
In recent months French filmmaker and arts and crafts enthusiast Michel Gondry has been popping his head up all over the place on both sides of the Atlantic. The director, most well known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Science of Sleep (not to mention numerous music videos, which we’ll get to in a bit), released the big screen version of old time radio and comic book hero The Green Hornet in January. To promote the new film, he guest dir...
Eyebrows were raised when the Cinémathèque Française announced its
October – January exhibition ‘Brune/Blonde’, so Jen Wallace decided to
pay a visit to see if hair in Cinema really was the cultural-talking
point that the exhibition claimed it to be.
Throughout cultural history, hair is something that has always
defined an era and played an important role in more richly developing
the physical appearance of any female character. Greek tragedies,
Pre-Raphaelite ...
Bringing a feminine approach to the largely-masculine dominated
cinematic era of the Nouvelle Vague, Agnes Varda has been a pioneer of
French feminist cinema for over 40 years. Cléo de 5 à 7 traces 2 hours
in a woman’s life as she travels around Paris anxiously awaiting medical
test results. One of the key scenes in the film takes place at Parc
Montsouris in the 14th arrondissement, and Jen Wallace headed over there
to discover which landmarks featured in the movie can still be f...
by Jennifer Wallace
Parisian landscapes are frequently manipulated by directors to create
a self-contained world for the protagonists. In Michael Haneke’s
‘Hidden’, clues to unravelling the mystery of the film are deeply
embedded in its location. Jen Wallace visits the Cité florale to
unearth some answers.
If you were to ask people what films they know that are set in Paris,
you’d be sure to come up with popular answers such as ‘Amélie’, ‘Paris
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