French experssivity? by Barbora Misakova

There are few things that are very difficult or even impossible to describe fully. Art – any kind of it is one of those things. Talking about red carpet and famous faces you can see on it is one thing, but talking about ability of these people to persuade you that the things you have seen in the movie they act in are real, is another. The story can be retold but the atmosphere hardly. Jon Frosch, a special France 24’s correspondent in Cannes needlessly tried to describe two French movies that brought stars like Juliette Binoche and Lambert Wilson to the red carpet. Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy and Xavier Beauvois’ Of Gods and Men were in his opi! nion two very different films, but both mysteries of a sort. First mentioned movie – Certified Copy tells a story about French gallery owner (Binoche) attending a talk by an English art critic. They took a day-long road trip into the Tuscan countryside and we can be observers of these two specific characters and their mutual relationship. Director frequently films his actors separately what urges us to search for clues in their expressions, wrote Frosch. The second movie – Of Gods and Men “gives a less expressive, though perfectly adequate, performance.” The plot of the movie is set in monastery where monks pray and eat together. Peaceful life with Muslim neighbors ends when the Islamic extremism begins seeping into their bubble. Even though I haven’t seen these movies yet, short video samples showed enough to inspire and persuade me…

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