tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175254072008-05-10T12:58:28.506+02:00Incitatus ReviewJthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1163798408081052532006-11-17T22:17:00.000+01:002006-11-17T22:20:08.106+01:00Incitatus Review Moved!Find us through the fixed address :
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Gérald Hustache-Mathieu :: France :: 2006 :: 1h36
A young orphan finds herself in the tranquility of a secluded monastery, till the day that she is invited to join the order as a nun. One of her ’sisters’ tells her she has a brother, and helps her with a two week secretive leave so that she can find him. In the outside world she tracks him down, discovering she has a family, life and love.Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1151271447373279852006-06-25T23:36:00.000+02:002006-06-25T23:38:34.360+02:00DikkenekDikkenek
Olivier van Hoofstadt :: Belgium :: 2006 :: 1h24
Dirty male characters who shout and fight and pretty girls who drink and kiss, in a trashy world of money of scum. A not-for-everybody cult-ish movie which flirts with originality and vulgarity, in a luke warm soup which keeps the pace despite being little more than a sequence of sketches. For people who can live with Poelvoorde-type Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1151229821059750622006-06-25T11:59:00.000+02:002006-06-25T12:09:07.390+02:00Changement d'adresseChangement d'adresse
Emmanuel Mouret :: France :: 2006 : 1h25
Young musician David arrives in Paris, and needing a place to live, he meets Anne who is looking for a room mate. The clumsy, accommodating and naive David and the similarly disposed bighearted Anne become friends, supporting each other in their respective quests for love, but the burning question of course is whether or not they willJthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1151165024170491842006-06-24T17:59:00.000+02:002006-06-24T18:53:49.890+02:00Paris je t'aimeParis je t'aime
20 directors :: France :: 2006 :: 1h50
18 directors, from France and elsewhere, each dedicate 5 minutes of film to the theme of Love in one neighborhood of Paris each. With not only some top directors but also an impressive (similarly international) cast, we are presented with a panoply of micro tales on our so cherished 100 km2. A wonderful cinematographic Symposium theme, whichJthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1150306605372923712006-06-14T19:33:00.000+02:002006-06-14T20:21:07.220+02:00On va s'aimerOn va s'aimer
Ivan Calbérac :: France :: 2005 :: 1h37
Two couples of thirty-somethings with -by cinema standards- customary middle-class professions deal with love and infidelity. Succumbing to desire as an escape from the self-induced monotony of daily life is hardly an original theme for a movie, and here it is exposed with almost painful simplicity. To top up the embedded mediocrity, we are Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1150090807674500512006-06-12T06:42:00.000+02:002006-06-12T07:48:27.306+02:00Dans la peau de Jacques ChiracDans la peau de Jacques Chirac
Michel Royer, Karl Zéro :: France :: 2005 :: 1h30
Satirical archive portrait of Jacques Chirac's political career, hopping from his time as major of Paris, to prime minister to president. Commented footage from the last 40 years or so, where the voice-over plays the role of the thoughts of Jacques Chirac, as a cynical couch self-analysis of his first-of-the-class Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1149780219606474822006-06-08T17:21:00.000+02:002006-06-08T17:23:40.990+02:00Conversation(s) avec une FemmeConversations with other women
Hans Canosa :: USA :: 2006 :: 1h25
A man moves up to a woman at a wedding we don’t really see with two glasses of Champagne and attempts to seduce her. She’s the out-of-town seventh bridesmaid replacement, he’s the older bachelor brother of the bride and both somewhat cynical and melancholic. As the night progresses, their relationship - present, past and future - Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1149635217291602902006-06-07T01:04:00.000+02:002006-06-07T01:24:23.770+02:00The Road to GuantanamoThe Road to Guantanamo
Michael Winterbottom :: UK :: 2005 :: 1h35
Four Englishmen set off to Pakistan for the marriage of one of them, when they decide to continue on to Afghanistan at the onset of the US military action there. They get arrested, sent to a prison, then to the Guantanamo Bay prison, and only 2.5 years later return home to the UK. This dramatized documentary retraces the recent Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1149291612090708072006-06-03T01:39:00.000+02:002006-06-05T15:21:06.806+02:00Marie-AntoinetteMarie-Antoinette
Sofia Coppola :: USA :: 2005 :: 2h03
From the Royal court of Vienna to Versailles, Marie-Antoinette is whisked off to France to wed the young heir to the throne Louis Auguste. Their marriage brings them closer together slowly, despite their young age, as they try to take on the role which was bequeathed to them. The movie introduces itself as a pink-punk-rock-and-roll-type of Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1148775464954443392006-05-28T02:16:00.000+02:002006-05-28T02:17:44.966+02:00VolverVolver
Pedro Almodovar :: Spain :: 2005 :: 2h01
Raimunda is exiled in a laborers Madrid with her teenage daughter, but still with one foot firmly planted in her provincial past. Times are hard for them, and when both her somewhat ex-communicated mother and her boyfriend die, she is trust back into the murky depths of her life. Twisted in the Almodovarian way, we are dragged along painfully by a Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1147905740847719912006-05-18T00:04:00.000+02:002006-05-18T00:43:28.226+02:00Da Vinci CodeThe Da Vinci Code
Ron Howard :: USA :: 2005 :: 2h32
Contemporary search for the holy grail rewriting History, as the result of several mysterious murders, most notably of the curator of the Louvre who left behind a coded message for his grand daughter and a Professor in symbology. Embarking on the quest, they unravel the mystery of all mysteries in Christian History, that the Holy Grail is in Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1147733052110037882006-05-16T00:06:00.000+02:002006-05-16T01:57:15.836+02:00C.R.A.Z.Y.C.R.A.Z.Y.
Jean-Marc Vallee :: Canada :: 2005 :: 2h09
Coming of age in a 1960s to 80s Canadian family of five brothers, Zac struggles to find a place for himself in the world. Tuned to the rhythm of pop, the brothers all take on a role making them a portrait of an era, but do not be misled into thinking that is all. Zac's development as a person and in his relationships to his parents are at Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1147562098818424022006-05-14T00:25:00.000+02:002006-05-14T09:09:42.390+02:00Les Filles du botanisteLes Filles du botaniste
Dai Sijie :: France, China :: 2005 :: 1h45
Orphaned girl Li Min gets sent to a draconian botanist for a schooling placement where she meets An, his patient and dutiful daughter. The magical garden and the surrounding -surreal- countryside bears almost impossibly hidden and cultivated herbs which are poisonous, healing, meat eaters or hallucinogenic. Like Alice in Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1146786008754004852006-05-05T01:31:00.000+02:002006-05-12T16:24:41.226+02:00CampingCamping
Fabien Onteniente :: France :: 2005 :: 1h35
Wealthy man takes his daughter out on a holiday to Marbella, but they never arrive due to their car breaking down forcing them to stay with a group of habitual campers on their August routine. Picture them all dancing one behind the other with their hands on each other's shoulders through the camp site, but do not be misled into thinking this Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1146680336736111692006-05-03T19:57:00.000+02:002006-05-12T16:36:28.500+02:00Quatre étoilesQuatre étoiles
Christian Vincent :: France :: 2005 :: 1h40
Woman leading an uninteresting life inherits 50 000 euros and decides to go and spend it in the Cote d'Azur living it up. On arrival, she falls for a small time swindler, and goes in for the ride. A sunny, fast cars, Cannes and beautiful houses type movie, if it was not for the main characters being played by Isabelle Carré and José Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1146563714207764392006-05-02T06:04:00.000+02:002006-05-12T16:40:42.300+02:00April SnowOechul
Jin-Ho Hur :: South Korea :: 2005 :: 1h45
A man and a woman who were having an affair crash their car against another killing a young man. Their respective spouses find them in a coma in hospital and have to deal with the consequences. Their pain of betrayal, the tragedy of death and coma, and on top of that the frustration of not being able to talk to their partners, brings the two Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1146447327276849562006-05-01T02:30:00.000+02:002006-05-12T16:35:21.043+02:00Veer-ZaaraVeer-Zaara
Yash Chopra :: India :: 2004 :: 3h10
During a rescue mission, pilot Veer rescues the young Zaara and falls impossibly in love. As she is already promised to another man through circumstance, her powerful fiancé, jealous of their love, has him put in jail. The proportions of the tragedy and consequences of their brief meeting on their lives and those around them are hard to Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1145753166001625452006-04-23T02:14:00.000+02:002006-04-23T02:50:01.373+02:00Something like happinessStesti
Bohdan Slama :: Czech Republic :: 2005 :: 1h40
Generous but impractical young man, in love with his childhood friend, is brought to building a short life together with her through circumstance before she leaves to follow her fiancé abroad. These circumstances are taking care of two little boys of their mutual friend who could no longer cope psychologically. Their lives unfold in a Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1144526513009889772006-04-08T21:21:00.000+02:002006-04-08T22:01:57.446+02:00Somewhere In BetweenSomewhere In Between
Pierre Coulibeuf :: France :: 2005 :: 1h10
A woman arrives in a foreign inhospitable city and wonders if she'll be able to settle in, changing her mind with the tick of the pendulum. The main theme of this contemporary dance movie is flanked by side themes of everyday movements of, amongst others, estrangement in a subterranean parking lot, two women living together and the Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1144355296164487962006-04-06T22:17:00.000+02:002006-04-06T22:48:00.666+02:00La DoublureLa Doublure
Francis Veber :: France :: 2006 ::1h25
Young, simple man in the middle of a relationship crisis is convinced to pretend he is having an affair with a top model to cover-up her affair with a married industrialist. This creative plot line is followed through with a conventional simplicity that ruins the originality of the whole idea. The characters are as predictable as the situations,Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1143409739651084892006-03-26T23:31:00.000+02:002006-03-27T00:03:58.993+02:00Toi et MoiToi et Moi
Julie Lopes-Curval :: France :: 2005 :: 1h30
Writer of a photo-novel-magazine draws inspiration from her and her sister's troubled romantic lives. She herself -nervously played by Julie Depardieu- is hooked on a noncommittal boyish man, while enduring the advances of handsome workman. Her cello-playing sister -played by the ever charming Marion Cotillard- finds herself living in an Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1143141501431059302006-03-23T20:05:00.000+01:002006-03-23T21:34:35.263+01:00Le CouperetLe Couperet
Costa-Gavras :: France :: 2004 :: 2h02
Set in a fictional France resembling our own, Bruno finds himself confronted with the cut-throat competition on the labour market in a take-all consumer society. Bruno, played brilliantly by José Garcia, literally takes out his competition for a position which he helps liberate in order to be reinstated into the active world. The violence is Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1142595399605398992006-03-17T11:50:00.000+01:002006-03-18T10:01:38.316+01:00Essaye-moiEssaye-moi
Pierre François Martin-Laval :: France :: 2006 :: 1h30
Young boy proposes to his little girlfriend under the stars, who replies that she will accept on the condition that he goes out into space. Many years later, as an adult and an astronaut, he goes to her house to ask her hand in marriage. When she refuses, he proposes that she tries being with him for 24hours to see how she likes Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17525407.post-1142378336488576862006-03-14T22:00:00.000+01:002006-03-27T00:02:13.626+02:00Underworld 2: EvolutionUnderworld Evolution (Saga Underworld)
Len Wiseman :: USA :: 2006 :: 1h46
The beautiful vampire-warrior Sélène searches for the origins and potential end to the vampire and werewolf's epic struggle in this dark, gothic violent world in which she finds herself. Not as bad as the press makes it out to be, but still just a simple cartoon-style action movie with imagery which looks like it comes Jthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14582940283246332915noreply@blogger.com