Young & Beautiful
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Underage: François Ozon on Young and Beautiful
A young, remarkably fetching woman sunbathes on a topless beach at the very beginning of Young and Beautiful, François Ozon’s latest feature film. Her younger brother — on vacation with her, their stepfather and remarkably clueless mother — watches her from afar with a pair of binoculars. A tone of youthful sexual indiscretion is already in play before we properly meet Isabelle (Marine Vacth), the girl on the beach, who can’t be much older than 17 and is looking for concrete sexual experience as soon as she can find it. She’ll first find such experience with a furtive German she […]
by Brandon Harris on Apr 25, 2014 -
Cannes 2013 Opens with 3-D Glamour, Call Girls & Sci-Fi Animation
This year’s 66th Cannes Film Festival opened with a venerable love fest at the Jury Press Conference on Wednesday. Led by Steven Spielberg, this year’s panel drew an incredible mix of cinema talent Ang Lee, Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz, as well as Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and Scotland’s Lynne Ramsay. Spielberg and Lee admitted to the assembled press that they absolutely worshipped each other, despite being pitted up against each other at the Oscars this year. Although Spielberg said he was ready to judge, he claimed, “I look at this as two weeks of celebrating film, not two weeks […]
by Ariston Anderson on May 18, 2013
