La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Director
Tom Novembre
Director
Mireille Perrier
Assistant
Marie-France Pisier
Producer
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Ice Rink's Manager
Bruce Campbell
Actor
Dolores Chaplin
Actress
Gilbert Melki
Stand in of the Actress
Dominique Deruddere
Cinematographer
Jean-Loup Horwitz
The Sound Engineer
Éva Ionesco
The Editor
Valérie Lecomte
Script Girl
Love, Simon (2018) based on the book “Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda” (by Becky Albertalli) is a teen LGBTQ+ rom-com with themes of longing to find others with similar struggles, and ultimately is a story of acceptance of identity from those around you, and most importantly, from yourself.
In less than 30 minutes, Proudfoot guides the viewer through a narrative that touches on American history, mind-health issues, race, and gender politics
Not every silence is empty. Some are filled with things too heavy for words.
Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.
When it comes the horror genre, I am VERY hard to please or impress, much less scare. Coming from a current mindset of appreciation for chilling, unsettling, tension-inducing efforts such as "Hereditary", "The Conjuring" (ONLY the first one to date, mind you), "Lights Out", "The Babadook", "Midsommar", "Talk To Me", "Oddity", "Bring Her Back", and the like