_Retrospective: Philippe GrandrieuxBe introduced to another French cinema. Philippe Grandrieux has no country, he has created his own: with images, with time revolutions, with optical illusions. A new lifeA NOVA VIDA | A NEW LIFE | LA VIE NOUVELLE Fragments of stories involving prostitution, betrayal and obsession break through the incandescent beauty of this film as an aesthetic object, “A New Life” is a bold and radical statement about cinema itself: its function, its use, its possibilities. [...] Return to SarajevoRETORNO A SARAJEVO | RETURN TO SARAJEVO | RETOUR À SARAJEVO Grandrieux’s first foray in to cinema (following TV and video projects), shot one week after the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995, captures a return to Sarajevo through the eyes of Sadija Sada Rarecevic and family. Although a documentary, [...] SombreSOMBRA | SOMBRE Jean is a brutal man who goes around France in his car with marionettes and a wolf’s costume as his only baggage. Jean is persecuted by his childhood memories. He can hardly communicate and is a kind of “block of stone”. He meets Claire on a [...] A lakeUM LAGO | A LAKE | UN LAC The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests, somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with [...] Search    |