14 August 2020. THE ROADS NOT TAKEN **1/2 Sally Potter is quite a director. She started off years ago with short and experimental films but really came into her own in 1992 with the ground-breaking “Orlando”, based on Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same name, about a character who changes sex throughout centuries of history.Potter […]
FILM: Geneva’s offering this week
7 August 2020. Even though there is no exciting new release this week, there is still a lot on offer in the Geneva and surrounding cinemas that are trying to get back on their feet: The one retrospective of classics not to miss is “L’été aux cinémas du Grütli” which started from July 1st and […]
FILM: Geneva’s offering this week
7 August 2020. Even though there is no exciting new release this week, there is still a lot on offer in the Geneva and surrounding cinemas that are trying to get back on their feet: The one retrospective of classics not to miss is “L’été aux cinémas du Grütli” which started from July 1st and […]
FILM: RICHARD SAYS GOODBYE – Johnny Depp’s latest film
24 July 2020. RICHARD SAYS GOODBYE (The Professor) *1/2 It hurts to say that Johnny Depp’s latest film is a disappointment, because I’m one of his biggest fans. From “Edward Scissorhands” to “Donnie Brasco”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Sweeney Todd” or the raucous, delightful “Pirates of the Caribbean”, he could embody any character, illuminate […]
FILM: WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE?
17 July 2020. WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE? *** Oscar-crowned Cate Blanchett – the younger version of Meryl Streep – for she is a chameleon of an actress, plays here a celebrated architect with a happy and loving family, who suddenly disappears, probably off to Antarctica. She has not been practicing her profession for some years, […]
FILM: ARETHA FRANKLIN – AMAZING GRACE
3 July 2020. Cinelux cinema is showing UN DIVAN A TUNIS, a delightful film that they originally brought out in mid-February of this year. And then Covid hit, and it was closedown. Below is the original review of it on February 14. Cinelux is also featuring the thrilling documentary on ARETHA FRANKLIN – AMAZING GRACE. A true […]
FILM: AGAINST ALL ENEMIES – Seberg and the Black Panthers
26 June 2020. Dear cinephiles, due to the recent lengthy confinement, you have probably gotten used to watching all sorts of films on your small or big screens at home. It’s easy, cheap and comfortable, so you may be reluctant to go back to the BIG screen in the newly reopened cinemas. But nothing tops […]
FILM – A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
19 June 2020. There’s a lot going on in the Geneva cinemas as they try valiantly to come up for air and win back cinephiles to their comfortable screening rooms and their attractive programming. They are starting off with some films that had just been released when Corona hit, like DEGAULLE and Eastwood’s RICHARD JEWELL in the Pathé Cinemas. Both […]
FILM: QUEEN AND SLIM – mirroring George Floyd
12 June 2020. QUEEN AND SLIM **** It’s uncanny how sometimes things gravitate to each other just at the right time. Or maybe it’s that an excellent work naturally fits into the present, whenever it was written (as so many works of Shakespeare or other immortal writers), or created as a film. Quality is timeless. […]
FILM: Cinemas open up!
5 June 2020. The cinemas are opening up! Slowly, but surely, this Saturday, June 6th. We’re blessed to have had a careful, orderly and easy transition here in Switzerland for the Corona crisis. Let us hope we all remain well and healthy in these tentative conditions. Vive la Suisse! Here are a sampling of the […]