I'm on holidays...sort of. I managed to hand back all the papers I had to mark so I can focus on the thesis writing over the two week break that is starting today.
I'm exhausted but I have no choice, I have to write chapter 9, damnit!

Yesterday evening, I went to the cinema and saw Logan. The film totally deserves the praises it has gotten. The ( Read more... )

I saw The Handmaiden (which is called Mademoiselle in France, an interesting choice because it actually switches things) yesterday evening. I really enjoyed it. It's a pecculiar film, because it sometimes verges on ridiculouness and burlesque, or just indulges in them. It is beautifully shot and rather cleverly written, hiding genre within genre. ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I had a drink with one of the few friends who are still in Paris and we went to the cinema to see a film that is flawed and yet necessary ( Read more... )

No Marking Hell this week, but several term class meetings after teaching so I didn't get back to home before 8 pm at best. I still managed to go to the movies on Wednesday and Saturday evenings, and saw Triple 9 and Room. I also managed to binge watch the second season of Bosch, watch the first two episodes of Peaky Blinders ' second season on ( Read more... )

I'm still struggling with the second season of True Detective...I didn't quit, because there are few episodes left, but I can't say that I care. The dialogues are poorly written and the characters aren't really fleshed out (I just don't believe in them, at all). As for the plot...well better not to talk about that ( Read more... )

...through movies!

This week I went to the cinema three times. I saw Mad Max Fury Road on Monday, and then on Tuesday I saw a Brazilian movie, The Second MotherVal is from the Nordeste, the poorest part of Brazil. Like many poor single mothers, she left her daughter behind to find a job in São Paulo.  When the film starts she's already the ( Read more... )

...but we definitely needed a heroine!

Yesterday, after sitting all morning long in the bac' jury, and spending the afternoon on twitter because of Varoufakis's resignation, I finally went and saw Mad Max Fury Road at the cinema and I enjoyed it a lot! The direction was spectacular and, of course, the character of Furiosa has become iconic ( Read more... )

I'm avoiding television these days as I'm extremely pissed off at the news using videos showing the dead bodies in Sousse. It is not information but mere sensationalism. Sure the corpses are under white sheets, but still. What's the point of showing this or pools of blood?  It is enough that some morons over there thought it was great to take ( Read more... )

So yesterday, in the evening I went to the cinema but it was not to see The Avengers: Age of Ultron!

I saw Jauja by Lisandro Alonso, starring Viggo Mortensen. My friend M. - and cinema buddy, although that was probably not the kind of film I should have seen with her (for instance I never see Asian films with M. for she isn't a fan of slow paced ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening I went to the cinema and saw Lost River, a film written and directed by Ryan Gosling. It got mixed reviews over here, and honestly I didn't like it. It looked like Gosling wanted to emulate Nicolas Winding Refn - his film especially recalled Only God Forgives -, but when Windeing Refn's movies are atmospheric, intriguing and a bit ( Read more... )