18 Items Found For jeremie renier

"THE CHILD maintains the near miraculous achievement of brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne in creating uncompromisingly powerful, minimalist, neorealist, humanist cinema for the 21st century." Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[It's the] sparseness of visual style, compounded by two effortlessly naturalistic performances, that give the movie an inimitable air of social and cinematic honesty." Uncut "[I]t should be emphasized how coolly detailed is the social network, the finely observed web of connections, interactions, and transactions, that produces the film's dramatic reversals." Film Comment 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "L'ENFANT is a forceful, impassioned and unsparing triumph....Renier and Francois give deeply affecting performances..." Rolling Stone "The Dardennes know how to build a scene for maximum tension....The Dardennes' background in documentary also partly explains their astonishing visual style." New York Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "For all its seeming simplicity, this is an emotionally and intellectually complex film that holds the viewer in a grip as tight as any classic thriller you can name." Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The film has] seedy urban locations, fluid, handheld camerawork and some intense character observation." Total Film "[D]isturbingly quiet..." -- Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly Included in Premiere's "10 Best Movies Of The Year" -- "[The] Dardennes' most compact, powerful drama of sin and redemption yet."Premiere Ranked #4 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."Film Comment36.96363

"It's the closest thing to a crowd pleaser that these rigorous, demanding and profoundly humane artists are likely to make."New York Times "LORNA'S SILENCE is a gritty, deceptively low-key, no-fuss, no-frills movie of consistent originality and surprise in which suspense arises straight up from the heroine's evolving character."Los Angeles Times "[A] somber beauty of a French-language drama....Every time predictability threatens, the plot takes an unexpected turn..."Wall Street Journal "[A] closely observed, sociologically astute, and amazingly naturalistic drama about moral compromise as a by-product of economic need." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "Breaking with the handheld subjectivity of previous films, the Dardennes keep the camera still and distant, giving the film an undercurrent of abstraction culminating in a final sequence that feels more like a fairy tale than social realism." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Renier's performance is the best thing in the movie....The gift of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is to show their characters as trapped in personal human situations; they're not creatures of a plot."Chicago Sun-Times Included in Chicago Sun-Times's "The Best Foreign Films Of 2009" -- "[I]t's about personalities, as intensely observed as always with the Dardennes."Chicago Sun-Times36.53548

"...Exceptional....The conflicts involved are intense and absorbing, proving that compelling moral dilemmas make for the most dramatic cinema..."Los Angeles Times "...Powerful....[The directors] tap into the interior lives of the characters with tremendous subtlety and originality..."Chicago Sun-Times "..The film moves at a constant clip....[It] thoroughly engages the imagination..."USA Today "...The film is really about labor, and keeps up a break-neck, handheld-camera pace..."Film Comment "[A] modest masterpiece about the possibility of kindness....[A] stirring spectacle of a callow child growing -- slowly -- into a moral being."Wall Street Journal36.53548

"...Exceptional....The conflicts involved are intense and absorbing, proving that compelling moral dilemmas make for the most dramatic cinema..."Los Angeles Times "...Powerful....[The directors] tap into the interior lives of the characters with tremendous subtlety and originality..."Chicago Sun-Times "..The film moves at a constant clip....[It] thoroughly engages the imagination..."USA Today "...The film is really about labor, and keeps up a break-neck, handheld-camera pace..."Film Comment "[A] modest masterpiece about the possibility of kindness....[A] stirring spectacle of a callow child growing -- slowly -- into a moral being."Wall Street Journal36.53548

"[Trapero is] as thoughtful and perceptive a filmmaker as ever, using tools appropriate to the goal of drawing attention to systemic social ills." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club36.53548

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4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ough, tender and very talky. Intimately observed and told with an inquisitive, prodding camera..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] masterful movie....Assayas presents a contemplative etude on the passage of time and the markings of material and spiritual loss."Box Office "Director Oliver Assayas' tender, sun-kissed, Chekhovian drama brims with life and loveliness even as it meditates on the loss of childhood." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly "[An] extraordinary film....Packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implications."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "This bittersweet meditation on familial bonds, the passage of youth and the merits of tradition is deeply nuanced and strikes just the right emotional notes....The four main portrayals are outstanding, so natural and believable that you are drawn in to their story immediately."USA Today "SUMMER HOURS has an appealingly lyrical look, and is well-acted by a cast of French cinema vets..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "What happens is that the film builds its emotional power by stealth, indirectly, refusing to be a tearjerker, always realistic, and yet observing how very sad it is to see a large part of your life disappear."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] warmhearted family drama....The lineage of SUMMER HOURS, with its exploration of the changing traditions of family life, stretches all the way back to Chekhov..."Washington Post "Much of SUMMER HOURS, which was shot by the excellent Eric Gautier, feels like a Chekhov play and resonates like Schubert quartet; it's a work of singular loveliness."Wall Street Journal "SUMMER HOURS proves a sharply incisive, yet poignant look at how we decide what bits of our past to keep and what to let go of."Los Angeles Times Ranked #10 in USA Today's "Top Ten Films Of 2009."USA Today0.3567918

4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ough, tender and very talky. Intimately observed and told with an inquisitive, prodding camera..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] masterful movie....Assayas presents a contemplative etude on the passage of time and the markings of material and spiritual loss."Box Office "Director Oliver Assayas' tender, sun-kissed, Chekhovian drama brims with life and loveliness even as it meditates on the loss of childhood." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly "[An] extraordinary film....Packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implications."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "This bittersweet meditation on familial bonds, the passage of youth and the merits of tradition is deeply nuanced and strikes just the right emotional notes....The four main portrayals are outstanding, so natural and believable that you are drawn in to their story immediately."USA Today "SUMMER HOURS has an appealingly lyrical look, and is well-acted by a cast of French cinema vets..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "What happens is that the film builds its emotional power by stealth, indirectly, refusing to be a tearjerker, always realistic, and yet observing how very sad it is to see a large part of your life disappear."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] warmhearted family drama....The lineage of SUMMER HOURS, with its exploration of the changing traditions of family life, stretches all the way back to Chekhov..."Washington Post "Much of SUMMER HOURS, which was shot by the excellent Eric Gautier, feels like a Chekhov play and resonates like Schubert quartet; it's a work of singular loveliness."Wall Street Journal "SUMMER HOURS proves a sharply incisive, yet poignant look at how we decide what bits of our past to keep and what to let go of."Los Angeles Times Ranked #10 in USA Today's "Top Ten Films Of 2009."USA Today0.3567918

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Rolling Stone (3/6/97, p.70) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...concentrates on his crisp Latin and Brazilian backing rhythms including period ditties...as well as more substantial songs..."Entertainment Weekly (2/14/97, p.63) - "...a distinctive song stylist whose eclectic wanderings made him a national treasure in his native France, and a dissolute demi-god to the alternative-rock community....[COULEUR CAFE] chronicle[s]...Gainsbourg's...Latin excursions to eye-opening, often hilarious effect." - Rating: B+Q (12/96, p.166) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...there's enough evidence...to prove the crow-visaged nihilist could swing--albeit mordantly..."0.08829783

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