Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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Generation (Village Voice, 3/11/2010)


Asterix Since nothing has changed. France remains the village of Gauls swaggering, boastful and quarrelsome. At once charming, we prefer the rant. A month strike has shown us: in the eldest daughter of the Church, the puzzle turns castagne always, much to the hilarity of foreign countries, giggle: "Oh, those French ..." .- paradox: in this divided country, cracked, where s'étripe without ever knowing why, the two most successful film to celebrate the union of adversity and the values of friendship against all. Men and Gods Xavier Beauvois and Les Petits Handkerchiefs Guillaume Canet indeed win favor with the public and critics. Two films, two communities, two visions of cohesion, harmony: the divine grace of the monks and the unsinkable faith of friends. Alas, the French have to go to the cinema to find this idealized vision of themselves? These universal virtues are they now assigned solely to the fiction? As a Portrait of Dorian Gray reversed, beauty Marianne exists only on screen, while its true face - Roe, sullen, grumpy and coward - appears in the eyes of the century. Help! As The Purple Rose of Cairo flee in the movie!

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