Word: chateau
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...France. Water gushes from stone cherubs on its Beaux Arts fountains as mothers sit in the sun, watching their small children spin gleefully on a painted carousel, to the sounds of My Boy Lollipop. Picture-perfect vineyards announce the town's current prosperity; a Gothic cathedral and 13th century chateau commemorate its noble past. Just 265 km from Paris, the gateway to the bucolic Loire Valley, Angers offers four museums, a feast of theater and music, and canoeing on nearby Maine Lake. "This isn't the overcrowded Paris suburbs," sniffs Angers' deputy prosecutor Hervé Lollic. "This is a place...
...Carruth proves anything with his film, it is that sci-fi movies dealing with the tenuous nature of the time-continuum need Christopher Lloyd. In addition to the Grand Prize, Robert Redford’s sad attempt at a cinema chateau also awarded the film a prize for the advancement of science and technology in film. If Primer deserves any prize, it is a Razzie award for the most nauseating and incomprehensible science fiction film ever created...
...actually a relief for me when the invasion finally happened. I was having trouble keeping my crews in a state of readiness. I knew it was coming off when a young man from the chateau where we were staying brought me a tract to translate that had been dropped from an Allied plane. It ordered him and his family to get out of the chateau into the surrounding fields because they were going to start bombing it. I told him instead to take all the civilians to the deepest cellar, where they'd have a better chance of surviving. That...
...children, 13-year-old Philippe (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) and 7-year-old Cathy (Clemence Meyer), are trapped, unable to move on a refugee-clogged road from Paris in 1940. When their car is destroyed, a mysterious youth, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), appears and leads them to a deserted chateau...
...some kind of conceptual abstract sound sculpture. We got together to make a pop band." Maybe, but they did gain notoriety through their own arty happenings. In the spirit of Andy Warhol's Factory, the band occupied the top floors of an abandoned Glasgow art-deco warehouse dubbed "the Chateau." They would host events, playing to a word-of-mouth crowd, while others used the space for art installations. "We were socializing with these people and they all had ideas and they all wanted to do their work in the same way as we wanted to play," explains Kapranos...