Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Directors:

Theodoros Angelopoulos
Olivier Assayas

Writers:

Manoel de Oliveira (dialogue) (segment)
Manoel de Oliveira (scenario) (segment) ...

Release Date:

31 October 2007 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. |

Plot Keywords:

Cinema | Experimental Film | Anthology | Long Title | Surrealism

Cast

Isabelle Adjani	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Pegah Ahangarani
Anouk Aimée	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Leonid Alexeenko	...	(segment "Irtebak")
Taraneh Alidoosti
Antonin Artaud	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Vishka Asayesh
Fred Astaire	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
George Babluani	...	The thief (segment "Recrudescence")
Brigitte Bardot	...	(segment "Anna") (voice) (archive footage)
Cindy Beckett	...	Supporting
Josh Brolin	...	(segment "World cinema")
Caju	...	Himself (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")
Carl-Erik Calamnius	...	Ticket Man (segment "La Fonderie")
Castanha	...	Himself (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")
Youssef Chahine	...	Himself (segment "47 Ans Après")
Charles Chaplin	...	(segment "Zhanxiou Village") (archive footage)
Antoine Chappey	...	Le Secrétaire de Khrouchtchev (segment "Rencontre unique")
Maury Chaykin	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Farini Cheung	...	The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To Give It To You")
Maurice Chevalier	...	(segment "Épilogue") (archive footage)
Casper Christensen	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Jean Cocteau	...	Himself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Yves Courbet	...	(segment "No Translation Needed")
David Cronenberg	...	The suicidal man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew in the world in the last cinema in the world")
Anne-Marie Louise Curry	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Willem Dafoe	...	(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Audrey Dana	...	Claude Lelouch's mother (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Duarte de Almeida	...	Le Pape Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")
Émilie Dequenne	...	The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
Marcelle Derrien	...	(segment "Épilogue") (archive footage)
Lionel Dray	...	The boyfriend (segment "Recrudescence")
Jean-Claude Dreyfus	...	The husband (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Yousra El Lozy	...	The girl (segment "47 Ans Après")
Erica Englert	...	The Bug (segment "The Lady Bug")
Deniz Gamze Ergüven	...	The young woman (segment "Recrudescence")
Laleh Eskandari
Setareh Eskandari
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
Maria Falconetti	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Wing Fan	...	The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To Give It To You")
Golshifteh Farahani
Sara Forestier	...	The usherette (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Jacques Frantz	...	The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations")
Pierre Fresnay	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Jean Gabin	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Daria Gratcheva	...	(segment "Dans le Noir")
Aleksei Grishin	...	(segment "Dans le Noir")
Miriam Heard	...	The young woman (segment "Le Don")
Grant Heslov	...	(segment "World cinema")
Bryce Dallas Howard	...	(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Frank Hvam	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Matti Hyvönen	...	Worker (segment "La Fonderie")
Kristian Ibler	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Clayton Jacobson	...	The Man / The Voices #3 (segment "The Lady Bug")
Mahtab Karamati
Niki Karimi
Anna Karina	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Karim Kassem	...	Young Youssef Chahine (segment "47 Ans Après")
Arsinée Khanjian	...	(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Hamideh Kheirabadi
Niku Kheradmand
Takeshi Kitano	...	The projectionist (segment "Rencontre unique") (as Beat Takeshi)
Joachim Knop	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Baran Kosari
Sylvia Kristel	...	Emmanuelle (segment "Cinéma érotique") (archive footage)
Viva Las Vegas	...	The sunbather (segment "First Kiss")
Édith Le Merdy	...	Wife (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Geneviève Lemon	...	The Voices #1 (segment "The Lady Bug") (voice) (as Genevieve Lemon)
Man Li	...	The girl (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Michael Lonsdale	...	The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Yulai Lu	...	The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Sara-Marie Maltha	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Marcello Mastroianni	...	(segment "Trois Minutes") (archive footage)
Marney McQueen	...	The Voices #2 (segment "The Lady Bug") (voice)
Jeanne Moreau	...	The old woman / Herself (segment "Trois Minutes")
Nanni Moretti	...	Himself (segment "Diario di uno spettatore")
Michèle Morgan	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Fatemah Motamed-Aria
Juliana Muñoz	...	(segment "No Translation Needed")
Kim Novak	...	Herself (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Peter Hesse Overgaard	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Paul Parson	...	The projectionist (segment "First Kiss")
Michel Piccoli	...	(segment "Anna") (voice) (archive footage)
Denis Podalydès	...	The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Peter Reichhardt	...	(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Ginger Rogers	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Marie-Christine Moller Salmi	...	Cashier (segment "La Fonderie")
Ela Sanko	...	Crying Woman (segment "Dans le Noir") (as Yola Sanko)
Jérémie Segard	...	The thief (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
Brooke Smith	...	(segment "World cinema")
Zinedine Soualem	...	Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Elia Suleiman	...	The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")
Hedye Tehrani
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Andrew Trujillo	...	Movie Patron
Sahar Valadbeigi
Erich von Stroheim	...	(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Lars von Trier	...	The filmmaker (segment "Occupations")
Michel Vuillermoz	...	The groaning man (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Liang Wang	...	Boy (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Maya Waterman	...	Patron (segment "Anna")
Luisa Williams	...	Anna (segment "Anna")
Marila Zare'i

Also Known As:

Chacun son cinéma (France) (short title)
To Each His Own Cinema (International: English title)

Runtime:

100 min | Canada:119 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

France

Language:

Mandarin | English | French | Spanish | Danish | Finnish | Hebrew | Italian | Japanese | Portuguese | Russian | Yiddish

Color:

Black and White | Color

Certification:

Canada:G | South Korea:15 | Japan:PG-12 | Australia:M | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade)

Filming Locations:

Alexandria, Egypt

Company:

Cannes Film Festival

Movie Connections:

References Hoodwinked! (2005)

Soundtrack:

Suite N.1 BMV 1007

A wonderful omnibus

(This review concerns the DVD version, which omits the contributions by the Coens and Lynch.) Omnibus films are always a mixed bag, but one thing can be said about this one: No other omnibus contains as many films from so many talented directors. So, as omnibuses go, this is pure joy. All these three-minute-pieces deal with being in a movie theater or watching movies. Some goodies and some baddies: Only a few directors manage to compress intensity and emotion into even the briefest, most unassuming forms. One of them is Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – his single-shot entry about a blind movie goer (one of three in this collection) is mysteriously touching and formally exquisite.

Another director of that ilk is Wong Kar-Wai – his film manages to evoke intense feelings of desire and memory with a few almost abstract shots of people in a dark theater, like glowing orange and red strokes on a black canvas, a few intertitles, and dialogue from Godard's "Alphaville": wonderful. Except Wong, all the other Chinese(-speaking) directors show rather wistful visions of the past, including Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Taiwan's Tsai Ming-Liang is the most original among them: In characteristically perfect compositions and hypnotic pace, he imagines his childhood family having a picnic in a movie theater – as if the cinema is a repository of a home long lost. "It's a dream", and not without irony.

Talking about wistful – I like much of Theo Angelopoulos' work, but not that certain underlying pompousness, that "Look at me – I'm a poet!" attitude. Here he has an aged, dignified Jeanne Moreau recite her text from the final scene of Antonioni's "La notte", then addressed to Marcello Mastroianni, to – an actor playing Mastroianni's ghost. Aw, no, Theo! There's just one Marcello, remember? Put his picture on a wall, show him in a scene, but don't replace him with someone else! This is a dedication that backfires. But it is on the foil of such serious arty attempts that other contributions shine, like Lars Von Trier. I had expected something conceptually more intriguing from him, but maybe it is conceptually intriguing to, in the company of illustrious artists, deliver something that is just gross. Trier addresses one of the most serious issues of watching movies: the idiots you're watching them with. He offers an ultimate example of that character, and the ultimate solution. My laugh-out-loud moment. A similar moment of resistance to good taste is Cronenberg's "The suicide of the last jew in the last cinema of the world" – there's not much more to it than the title indicates, but it's fun for one reason. I think the very first film the director ever showed in Cannes was one of his early experimental features, and it just tanked. These early works consisted of dialogue-free scenes with bizarre voice-overs, and Cronenberg uses this form again here. That is irony. And Raoul Ruiz is the man. At his best, he combines Godard's literacy with a reluctant love for storytelling and rich, surprising visuals. Here, he has read Marcel Mauss' "Essai sur le don". A blind man tells how a missionary, a man of God, gave a radio and a movie projector to some Indians. They ritually transform these gifts into ceremonial exchange items and sacrifices. When they give them back to the westerners, they turn them into blind atheists, thus taking away from them both God and the images. And that's just one level of what is happening in these mind-boggling three minutes. Roman Polanski's recurring themes are sex, random cruelty, misleading conclusions and awkward situations – and they are all present here, in this little joke about an elderly couple watching an erotic film. It's quite literal – you could tell it to your friends at a party – but nicely executed. (And why does everyone, except the groaning man, wear glasses?) Abbas Kiarostami's entry is a sketch for "Shirin", his follow-up feature, using the same concept: You do not see the movie, but the reaction of the Iranian women watching it. The film being Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet", the paradigmatic tale of forbidden love, their emotional reactions are powerful and evocative. It makes me long to see "Shirin". And as for the rest, see for yourself.