New Year, new life… and everything that comes after
The month of December is coming slowly but with a firm step. It has a mission to accomplish. It raises its scythe and comes for 2014, who is crawling around like a ghost, to announce: “Goodbye old year, go to your last night and prepare for the end”. And thus, without further hesitation or delay,...
Best cinema premieres in December recommended by Flic Mag
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) At 25, le Quebecois enfant terrible Xavier Dolan has shot five films- including Mommy- that have earned him more than twenty awards and recognitions. The auteur cinema child prodigy even shared the prize for his latest work with none other than the great Godard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. As...
Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg)
The German director Dietrich Brüggemann resumes in his latest film Kreuzweg the long take shooting method he previously used in Szenen Neun (2006), which won the New Berlin Film Award and the Hamburg Nachwuchspreis 2007, to now offer a very disturbing story. Mary, a 14 year old teenager from an ultra-Catholic family finds her convictions...
I Origins
The director of the successful low-budget film Another Earth (Grand Jury Prize and Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Festival 2011) returns to the sci-fi genre with I Origins, the filmmaker’s second feature film, which combines drama, metaphysics, science and romance. The result could not be more satisfying. In the last Fantastic...
Diplomacy
The presentation of Diplomatie, the new film by the grand master Volker Schlöndorff, was one of the delights at Berlinale this year. As expected, the film garnered the veteran director excellent reviews. Indeed, little is left to prove for the founder of the Neuer Deutscher Film founder and author of the film Die Blechtrommel (1979)...
20.000 Days on Earth
Fans of David Lynch, particularly of Mulholland Drive (2001), will find in the Documentary 20,000 Days on Earth –codirected by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard– the perfect excuse to discover the dark and surreal universe around the great Australian musician Nick Cave, a demigod of alternative rock starring in this film –half fact, half fiction–...
How I live now (Kevin MacDonald)
Kevin MacDonald, director of the acclaimed The Last King of Scotland (2006), successfully adapts the novel for young adults How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, with which the British writer won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2004. The filmmaker, known for his documentary facet (Oscar winner for Best Short Documentary for One Day...
Gone Girl (David Fincher)
David Fincher accumulates disturbing thrillers awarded with Oscar nominations, statuettes and success in Cannes. Titles such as Seven (1995), The Game (1997), The Fight Club (1999), Zodiac (2007) or the last one, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), along with others like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) or The Social Network (2010)...
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (Ned Benson)
Presented in Cannes, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them finally arrives at our cinemas in this reduced version after Harvey Weinstein, big tycoon in the film industry famous for his skills with marketing and promotion, acquired the distribution of its rights. Initially, the film of the New Yorker Ned Benson was composed of two different...
Bai ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice) by Diao Yinan
One of the most expected premieres in Spain is the film that, against all odds, won the Golden Bear for Best Film in Berlinale, snatching the award from Boyhood by Richard Linklater, the clear favorite. The director of Bai ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice), little known until then, Diao Yinan, surprised the jury...
Brussels. Dynamic, throbbing and full of contrasts.
Savoring a delicious bonbon while cycling along the amusing comic strip route, with more than 50 fresco paintings hidden throughout the city; going into wonderful art noveau and déco buildings to later relax in the Delirium café, facing an infinite choice of beers; finding inspiration in the museum of surrealist painter René Magritte, and later being stunned...
Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Once again, the director of the trilogy ‘Before…’ shows the success of his career does not depend on the fortuitous romantic encounters between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) around the world and that he is able to surprise us with feature films of equal beauty, originality and significance. In Boyhood, his latest work,...
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