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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 7

January 10, 2021 0 Comments

This week's picks won boatloads of Oscars and had nominations galore. They hail from France, and Italy, and Germany, and Spain, and one has no dialogue. When I put together…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 6

December 22, 2020 0 Comments

This week's picks include two French films that couldn't be more dissimilar, one a psychological thriller, and the other a magical story set in Paris. There's an Italian ode to…

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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 5

December 14, 2020 0 Comments

This week’s picks include a healthy dose of Roman decadence, an obsessive and tragic snoop, a ghostly romance, a grieving mother on the warpath, violent union busting, food to die…

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Review: The Bare Necessity (Perdrix)

August 27, 2020 0 Comments

This French comedy is definitely for those who like their films on the quirky side. In it a young woman named Juliette (Maud Wyler, Blue Is the Warmest Colour) is…

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Quickie Review: Burning Ghost (Vif-argent)

August 19, 2020 0 Comments

When we meet Juste (Thimotée Robart) he's wandering on the train tracks somewhere in Paris, confused. He stops at a small house and the man there recognizes what is happening…

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Review: The Truth (La Vérité)

July 2, 2020 0 Comments

Director Hirokazu Koreeda's follow-up to his award winning Shoplifters could not be more different. No longer set in his home country Japan, The Truth is a mother-daughter drama set in…

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Review: Deerskin (Le daim)

April 30, 2020 0 Comments

This has to be one of the oddest movies I've seen in a long while! It's from Quentin Dupieux the writer/director who brought us Rubber. In case you missed that…

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Based on the real-life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher), Synonyms is the strange story of a young Israeli man named Yoav (Tom Mercier) who comes to Paris to escape…

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Review: Non-fiction (aka Doubles vies)

May 26, 2019 0 Comments

After seeing Non-fiction, I found IMDB's description of it to be kind of bizarre: Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their…

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Quickie Review: Girls of the Sun

April 10, 2019 0 Comments

In our #Girlpower era, a film about battalion of Kurdish women fighting ISIS in North Kurdistan should be a slam dunk. But somewhere between idea and execution Girls of the…

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Review: Custody (Jusqu’à la garde)

August 2, 2018 0 Comments

Custody begins as a separated couple, Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and Miriam (Léa Drucker), sit before a magistrate who will decide the fate of their children. Their daughter Joséphine (Mathilde Auneveux)…

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Review: Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

July 19, 2018 0 Comments

If you are a lover of modern art in the least, you're most likely familiar with Paul Gauguin's work, particularly the bold colorful paintings he did while living in French…

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Review: The Guardians (Les gardiennes)

May 3, 2018 0 Comments

Most World War One movies are set in the battles and the trenches, but The Guardians takes place at home on a farm in rural of France. There the women…

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Review: Back to Burgundy

March 29, 2018 0 Comments

Set in the beautiful wine region of Burgundy where so many of the great wines are born, Back to Burgundy is a thoughtful story of three adult siblings grappling with…

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Arty Chick’s Middleburg Festival Download

October 27, 2017 0 Comments

What a great festival! It's my first year at Middleburg, now in its 5th year, but I was truly impressed by their selections. It's a small festival, as yet pretty…