DVD: Olivia Bonamy

DVD: Olivia Bonamy

DVD:

Olivia Bonamy

Kimstim Collection: La Captive
Françoise Bertin, Aurore Clément

Kino Video, 2005

Bloody Mallory

Olivia Bonamy, Adrià Collado

Lions Gate, 2005

Bloody Mallory...
This is a great little French movie. I was lucky enough to see it on a cinema screen while living in the UK where it screened at a horror film festival called Fright Fest. And while the film is now at least 4 years old, it's well worth the wait to finally have on DVD ...

Them (a.k.a. Ils)

Olivia Bonamy, Michael Cohen

Dark Sky Films, 2008

Rumania is no place for the French!
The emergence of French horror within other markets has been the big news lately. One can almost make a film list as long as those from Japan, Korea, or the USA. And what does this mean to the horror aficionado? This means great news indeed. Here we have a little ...

The Captive/La Captive

Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud

Image Entertainment, 2004

Brutally direct look at obsession.
Simon is a writer with an endless supply of nice suits and gorgeous furnishings, living in a beautiful apartment with his girlfriend Ariane, and his ailing mother. The Paris apartment is large, lovely, and currently under renovation; as Simon never seems to do any ...

Pretty Devils

Audrey Tautou; Olivia Bonamy;Axelle Ade-Pasdeloup

Terra Entertainment, 2002

A darkly comical "coming-of-age" film
This is an earlier Audrey Tautou movie (2000), with a feel darker than Amelie, but not as heavy as Pretty Dirty Things. In this film, Tautou (as always) plays an off-center lovable young woman (Anne-Sophie) who finds unique ways of dealing with the difficulties of ...

Read My Lips

Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos

Sony Pictures, 2003

Read My Lips: a relationship stronger than words.
Read my Lips (Sur mes lèvres) is a 2001 noir-ish French psycho-sexual thriller by Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped), starring Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises; Irreversible, married to actress Monica Bellucci) as Paul Angeli, and Emmanuelle Devos as ...

Hypnotized and Hysterical

Amira Casar, Marina Foïs

Synkronized USA, 2006

great movie
The feature-length debut of French film-short director Claude Duty, HYPNOTIZED AND HYSTERICAL is a lightly comic study of three 20-something women coming to terms with their careers, their relationships, and themselves...great story line!

Pretty Devils

Olivia Bonamy, Audrey Tautou

Terra, 2002

A darkly comical "coming-of-age" film
This is an earlier Audrey Tautou movie (2000), with a feel darker than Amelie, but not as heavy as Pretty Dirty Things. In this film, Tautou (as always) plays an off-center lovable young woman (Anne-Sophie) who finds unique ways of dealing with the difficulties of ...

Read My Lips [Region 2]
Buster Cheri, Jamie Leigh

La Captive [Region 2]

Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud

Brutally direct look at obsession.
Simon is a writer with an endless supply of nice suits and gorgeous furnishings, living in a beautiful apartment with his girlfriend Ariane, and his ailing mother. The Paris apartment is large, lovely, and currently under renovation; as Simon never seems to do any ...

Filles perdues, cheveux gras [Region 2]

Amira Casar, Marina Foïs

great movie
The feature-length debut of French film-short director Claude Duty, HYPNOTIZED AND HYSTERICAL is a lightly comic study of three 20-something women coming to terms with their careers, their relationships, and themselves...great story line!