Word: kaurismaki
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...Ninja babe beats the enemy with maneuvers worthy of Hong Kong martial madame Michelle Yeoh (a member of this year's Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went to Cannes familiars in good form: a Grand Prix (second place) to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past - a tale of an amnesiac among the unemployed and one of the deadpan Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. The film's leading lady, Kati Outinen, took Best Actress. Olivier Gourmet was named Best Actor for his role...
...Atlantic such as Quentin Tarantino and other fledgling director such as Guy Jacques, Agnes Merlet, Nora Jacobson Matthew Harrison and Filip Forgeau. Tarantino's neo-noir, soon-to-be-classics. "Reservoir Dogs" and "True Romance" are to be shown. And even more notable is the premiere of Mika Kaurismaki's Amazonian adventure of a film within a film, "Tigrero: A Film That was Never Made" and Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 cop drama, "Bob Le Flambeur." Themes which seem to be running through the selections for this year's extravaganza are the over-the-top violence of some modern film...
...this is its saving grace. It is not really about the tragic love of Rodolfo and Mimi, or even about the life of dissolute artists. The film's only true heroine is Paris, the gritty, alienating city of the post-war years. To achieve this quality of romantic seediness, Kaurismaki fled the Left Bank for the working-class suburbs of Malakoff and Ivry-sur-Seine...
...decision to film in black-and-white is crucial to the Kaurismaki's success in creating a subtly textured evocation of the city. It as if Kaurismaki had lifted his film from the photographs of Tabard, Izis and Cartier-Bresson. Just as Peter Greenaway calls to mind old master paintings in the composition of his scenes, Kaurismaki insinuates these great photographers of Paris, as well as the tradition of French black-and-white film. He spares no effort to achieve this effect, using a double dose of chiaroscuro lighting and urban mist...
...view-down-the-Champs-Elyseeshey-we're-in-Paris variety) that the film's foreground and background are reversed. The city takes center stage, and the actors become simply street performers, amusing us with their starving artist routine. Set against the backdrop of "La Vie de Boheme," Kaurismaki has produced a gorgeous film about Paris...