23 September 2021. By Neptune BIGGER THAN US *** Malati, a young girl of 18 from Bali, started her campaign against plastic pollution in her country at the age of 12. She takes us on a journey around the world, visiting like-minded, caring young people who have decided to take the future into their own […]
FILM: DUNE – incredibly thrilling
17 September 2021. By Neptune DUNE **** The word for this futuristic film is grandiose. It is a blockbuster that is serious and somber, yet incredibly thrilling. You know you have landed in exceptional territory as the music begins to soar and throb, but then who else could move you as well as the multi […]
FILM: DELICIOUS – a beguiling, old-fashioned tale
10 September 2021. By Neptune DÉLICIEUX (Delicious) ***1/2 (vo French) This film by Eric Besnard is what the title evokes – delicious! The courtly interiors, the bucolic paysage, the delicate music, the inventive food, and the slow love that finally develops make it so. It’s a French film after all, based in the late 18th […]
FILM: THE PATIENCE STONE (Pierre de Patience /Singue Sabour)
By Neptune On Friday 10 September at 19.30 The GRUTLI (in Geneva) with the CINE-CLUB-PERSAN (CCP) will show the film PIERRE DE PATIENCE /SINGUE SABOUR with the actrice GOLSHIFTEH FARAHANI in support of AFGHANI WOMEN. The CCP feels a strong duty towards our Afghani cousins to remind us how the injustices of the past decades […]
THEATER ! in Geneva and Vevey
By Neptune ET J’AI CRIÉ ALINE (based on C.F. Ramuz and created by Thierry Romanens) Last night I saw an exceptional piece of theater at Geneva’s L’Orangerie in the Parc La Grange. If you’re looking for music, there is a hypnotic trio of a pianist, drummer and bassist that accompanies and sort of plays the […]
CONCERTS AND MORE…!
By Neptune Who says Geneva and its environs are boring? We have a vast variety of festivals, including film, theatre and musical events galore. I last wrote about the intimate but international Tannay music festival which is still going on through the 29th of August. There are also the musical concerts in the charming Renoir-like […]
FILM: EIFFEL – the man who built the tower ****
27 August 2021. By Neptune EIFFEL **** (vo French) This is the fascinating story of the man who built the most famous landmark of Paris. The engineer Gustave Eiffel had just collaborated on the Statue of Liberty, and was being encouraged to create something as spectacular for the 1889 World’s Fair that was to […]
FILM: FRENCH EXIT – 1 star
13 August 2021. By Neptune FRENCH EXIT * I was really looking forward to this film. Michelle Pfeiffer in Paris – two beauties meeting – how fitting. Well, it doesn’t quite work out that way. Pfeiffer is still lovely and a fine, matured actress, and this looks like an Oscar-winning role for her. In fact she’s […]
Music in Geneva: Variations Musicales de Tannay
By Neptune It’s August and so the intimate concerts of world famous artists will be once again taking place in the chateau of the charming town of Tannay, just outside Geneva from 16th to 29th of August. Make sure you book early, as the tickets go fast for such luminous artists as the French pianist […]
FILM: SUICIDE SQUAD 2 – what fun!
6 August 2021 It’s high summer in Geneva and it looks and feels like November! What have we done to deserve this continuous rain and these dreary skies? Great movie weather, but there again it’s the summer misery of action or horror films (which I simply refuse to see), mediocre French comedies, and tons of […]
