A very deliberate and well crafted document, marking Nick Cave’s 54.79th birthday. Without doubt how much you think you are going to enjoy this constructed window on Nick Cave’s imagined and real worlds, is much dependent on how much you like Nick Cave in yours … however, the part performance, part trad-doc, part existential exploration, part fairytale, has enough insight into the mind-tank of this contemporary cult figure to turn even the goodest of seeds b find out more...
Godard's hugely influential debut went on to inspire a new wave of French cinema and this is the film which epitomised the iconoclasm of the early Nouvelle Vague. Belmondo is the hip gangster, modelled on Bogart, whose escapades, including shooting a cop, leave him and his girlfriend on the run from both the cops and his enemies. The insolent casual style and cool moods make this the ultimate film noir.
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The film opens with shots of a prosperous town and its stately avenues of rich mens' houses, all placidly awaiting the start of the country club season, as the venomously honeyed voice of an unseen female narrator begins spinning a web of speculation and suspicion round three married women, shortly to be completed by their receipt of a poisonous letter indicating that the narrator has run away with one of their husbands. With the three wives trapped for the day supervising a children's picnic find out more...
