#Nicolas Bedos

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Mascarade (2022)

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James Wilby (Thomas) and Yann Lerat (his lover) in Mascarade, 2022. Directed by Nicolas Bedos.

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Oh là là mais qui l’eût cru!

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Arnaud Duterque, traqueur de décors sur la Côte d'Azur

Arnaud Duterque a travaillé sur une trentaine de films américains et français allant de Love Actually à Le Zèbre en passant par Stillwater et Magic in the Moonlight. Leur point commun ? Ils ont tous été tournés, ou en partie, sur la Côte d’Azur et leurs décors ont été trouvés par ce location manager. Fort de ces 30 ans de carrière, il revient sur la relation entre la Côte d’Azur et les décors de…

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LA BELLE EPOGUE:

Sad middle aged man

Re-enacts first meeting with wife

Corp recreates past

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Vijf jaar geleden: première van "La belle époque" in Cannes

La Belle Époque is een Franse film geschreven en geregisseerd door Nicolas Bedos. Continue reading Vijf jaar geleden: première van “La belle époque” in Cannes

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Mr & Mrs Adelman

Mr & Mrs Adelman    [trailer]

For more than 45 years, Sarah and Victor have been together. How did they do it? Who's really Sarah, this enigmatic woman who's always been on the shadow of her husband?

Especially in the first half a highly enjoyable, fast-paced romantic, comedic drama. In the second half the more dramatic elements dominate, which is not uncommon during a long partnership.

Still, a very good relationship movie, a rarity these days.

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Nicolas Bedos est condamné pour agression sexuelle. Pour les normies connards, Nicolas Bedos est officiellement un agresseur sexuel et pour les autres, bon bah ça change pas grand chose on le savait déjà. Un mardi comme un autre finalement.

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Important Update: Here is a list of individuals who are officially designated as "Persona Non Grata" and are therefore prohibited from conducting business on Somali soil. The French government is required to enforce this sanction effectively:

Here is the official list of individuals who are now designated as "Persona Non Grata" on Somali soil:

Mélissa Theuriau

Brad Pitt

Christopher Nolan

Vincent Cassel

Romain Gavras

Mouloud Achour

Philippe Fragione

Gilles Lellouche

Jean Dujardin

Guillaume Canet

Marion Cotillard

Nicolas Bedos

Let me be clear: if I see any of these individuals in Somalia, I will personally ensure their arrest. It has become my life's mission to make sure that none of you will ever profit from Somali business dealings.

You tried to ruin my life, but I survived. Now, I will wait for you in Somalia—and if you dare to step foot on our soil, jail is where you will end up.

Your arrogance and cruel intentions towards me have cost you billions of dollars. With this simple text on my blog, I have effectively emptied your pockets.

The European Police will show no mercy to criminals who conspire with the oppressors. We will ensure that you are blocked from any dealings for the next thirty years, until 2055—if you’re still around by then.

Angelo The Crown Prince and future Sultan. Somali Royal Family

P.S.:

Video title: The end of your clown show:

End of the Card Game HD

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Film Journal

"OSS 117: From Africa with Love" by Nicolas Bedos

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Books read and movies watched in 2023 (January to June):

Bolded verdicts (Yes!/Yes/No/Eh) are links to more in-depth reviews!

Books:

Temporary People (Deepak Unnikishnan): Yes!

Inland (Téa Obreht): Yes!

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Anthony Marra): Yes

A Long Petal of the Sea (Isabel Allende): No

Nanjing Requiem (Ha Jin): Yes

When My Name Was Keoko (Linda Sue Park): Yes

Orhan’s Inheritance (Aline Ohanesian): Eh

Insurrecto (Gina Apostol): Yes!

The Memory Police (Yōko Ogawa): No

(poetry) When My Brother Was an Aztec (Natalie Diaz): Yes!

(poetry) Earthly Measures (Edward Hirsch): Yes

(poetry) Refusing Heaven (Jack Gilbert): Yes

(poetry) Lucky Wreck (Ada Limon): No

(poetry) Bright Dead Things (Ado Limon): No

(poetry) A Silence Opens (Amy Clampitt): Yes

Movies:

Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami): Eh

Amélie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet): No

Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky): Yes

Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu): Yes

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujirō Ozu): Yes

Early Summer (1951, Yasujirō Ozu): Yes

Late Autumn (1960, Yasujirō Ozu): Eh

The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice (1952, Yasujirō Ozu): Yes

Superman: The Movie/Superman II (1978, 1981, Richard Donner): No

Superman Returns (2006, Bryan Singer): Yes

Ready or Not (2019, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett): Yes

Spider-Man Trilogy (2002, 2004, 2007, Sam Raimi): No

Batman/Batman Returns (1989, 1992, Tim Burton): No

Batman Begins/The Dark Knight/The Dark Knight Rises (2005, 2008, 2012, Christopher Nolan): Yes

The Lego Batman Movie (2017): Yes

Mascarade (2022, Nicolas Bedos): No

RRR (2022, S. S. Rajamouli): No

Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa): No

Interstellar (2014, Nolan brothers): No

Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott): Yes

Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam): Yes

Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-Wai): Yes

In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai): Eh

Timbuktu (2014, Abderrahmane Sissako): Yes!

The Favourite (2018, Yorgos Lanthimos): Yes!

Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky): Yes

Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky): Yes

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick): Eh

Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii): Yes

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Mamoru Oshii): Yes

The Lion in Winter (1968, Anthony Harvey): Yes

Polite Society (2023, Nida Manzoor): No

War and Peace (1966-7, Sergei Bondarchuk): Yes

Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola): Eh

The Little Mermaid (2023): No

Bed and Sofa (1927, Abram Room): Yes

Lost in Translation, (2003, Sofia Coppola): No

Autumn (1974, Andrei Smirnov): Eh

Empire of the Sun (1987, Steven Spielberg): Yes

Dreams (1993, Karen Shakhnazarov/Alexander Borodyansky): Yes

After Life (1998, Hirokazu Kore-eda): Yes!

Assassin of the Tsar (1991, Karen Shakhnazarov): No

The Idiot (1951, Akira Kurosawa): Eh

Anna Karenina (2012, Joe Wright): Yes

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes): Yes!

Legally Blonde (2001, Robert Luketic): Yes

Election (1999, Alexander Payne): No

Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (2001, Karen Shakhnazarov): No

Day of the Full Moon (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov): Eh

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002, Oliver Parker): Yes

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977, Nikita Mikhalkov): Yes

Family Relations (1981, Nikita Mikhalkov): Yes

Kin-dza-dza! (1986, Georgiy Daneliya): No

Office Romance (1977, Eldar Ryazanov): Yes

Zerograd (aka Zero Town) (1989, Karen Shakhnazarov): No

Jazzmen (aka We Are from Jazz) (1983, Karen Shakhnazarov): Eh

Hussar Ballad (1962, Eldar Ryazanov): Eh

Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick): Yes

The Sting (1973, George Roy Hill): Yes!

Watch Out for the Automobile (1966, Eldar Ryazanov): No

Uncle Vanya (1970, Andrey Konchalovskiy): Yes

The Seagull (1970, Yuli Karasik): Yes

Dark Eyes (1987, Nikita Mikhalkov): Yes

The Red Tent (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov): Yes

Carnival Night (1956, Eldar Ryazanov): Yes

The Irony of Fate (1976, Eldar Ryazanov): No

The Diamond Arm (1969, Leonid Gaidai): Yes

Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965, Leonid Gaidai): Yes

And here’s my 2022 list!

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7 / 10

Título Original: OSS 117: Alerte rouge en Afrique noire

Año: 2021

Duración: 116 min

País: Francia

Dirección: Nicolas Bedos

Guion: Jean-François Halin, Nicolas Bedos. Personaje: Jean Bruce

Música: Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen

Fotografía: Laurent Tangy

Reparto: Jean Dujardin, Pierre Niney, Natacha Lindinger, Fatou N'Diaye, Wladimir Yordanoff, Pol White, Melodie Casta, Ricky Tribord, Hersi Abdirizak, Gilles Cohen

Productora: Coproducción Francia-Bélgica; Blue Sky Films, Mandarin Production

Género: Action; Comedy

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ALFT Cultural Rewind 2022

For the first time this year, I tried to write down everything I've consumed in terms of movies, books and TV Shows during 2022. I live having these lists and I've decided to share in case you're looking for some random recommendations. Feel free to ask for more opinions, thoughts on anything if you want 😊

purple is for things I liked 💜

Movies I’ve watched in 2022

1) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Fincher

2) Flickan som lekte med elden — Daniel Alfredson

3) Amadeus - Milos Forman

4) En attendant Bojangles — Régis Roinsard

5) Licorice Pizza — Paul Thomas Anderson

6) Lynx — Laurent Geslin, Laurence Buchman

7) The Chef (Boiling Point) — Philip Baranti ; James Cummings

8) Her — Spike Jonze (Rewatch, one of my favorite movie ever)

9) Arthur Rambo — Laurent Cantet

10) White Snake — Amp Wong : Zhao Ji

11) Death on the Nile — Kenneth Branagh

12) Enquête sur un Scandale d’État - Thierry de Peretti

13) Goliath — Frederic Tellier

14) The Batman — Matt Reeves

15) Notre Dame Brûle — Jean-Jaques Annaud

16) En Corps — Cédric Klapish

17) Les Bad Guys — Pierre Peril

18) À la folie — Audrey Estrougo

19) Fantastic Beasts : The Secrets of Dumbledore — David Yates

20) Downton Abbey : A new era — Simon Curtis

21) Sentinelle Sud — Mathieu Gerault

22) Elvis — Baz Luhrmann

23) Tenor — Claude Zidi Jr.

24) Tron — Steven Lisberg

25) La nuit du 12 — Dominik Moll

26) Sundown— Michel Franco

27) Nope — Jordan Peele

28) Three Thousand Years of Longing — George Miller (my favorite movie of the year)

29) Tout le monde aime Jeanne - Céline Devaux

30) La page blanche — Murielle Magellan

31) Everything, everywhere, all at once — Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

32) Lord of the ring 1 — Peter Jackson (rewatch)

33) Lord of the ring 2 — Peter Jackson (Rewatch, even if I had forgotten all about it)

34) Lord of the ring 3 — Peter Jackson (Rewatch, even if I had forgotten all about it)

35) Don’t Worry Darling — Olivia Wilde

36) Le visiteur du futur — François Descraques

37) Les secrets de mon père — Véra Belmont

38) Entergalactic — Fletcher Moules

39) Dragon Ball Super — Tetsurô Kodama

40) Maria Rêve — Lauriane Escaffre, Yvonnick Muller

41) Simone : Le Voyage du siècle — Olivier Dahan

42) My Policeman — Michael Grandage

43) Mascarade — Nicolas Bedos

44) Armageddon Time — James Gray

45) Bones and All — Luca Guadagnino

46) Close — Lukas Dhont

47) Les Bonnes Étoiles --(브로커 - Beurokeo) — Hirokazu Kore-Eda

Books I’ve read In 2022

1) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest — Stieg Larsson (the rec is for the whole trilogy)

2) The art and soul of Dune — Tanya Lapointe

3) Un dernier tour de piste — Martin Fourcade

4) The Dark Half — Stephen King

5) Death note — Tsugumi Ōba & Takeshi Obata (Let’s pretend I’ve read all of them and not stop reading before reaching the end for an unknown reason)

6) Le Match de ma vie — Nicolas Mahut

7) Les liaisons dangereuses — Choderlos de Laclos (First re-read since high school. It’s a good things I don’t remember what my literature class sounded like because I think all the toxic/criminal behavior in this book were not called out enough by my teacher.)

8) Midnight Sun — Stephanie Meyer

9) Children of Dune — Frank Herbert

10) Blackwater : The Flood — Michael Mcdowell

11) Les Ravissantes — Romain Puertolas

12) The Royal Game — Stephan Zweig (Re-read, I love this short novel so much)

13) Le plongeur 

14) Le Diner de Babette 

— Karen Blixen

15) Onze Minutes — Paulo Coelho (Re-read, still interesting)

16) Desolation Road — Jerome Noires (Re-read as well, not sure why I felt the need to pick it again but ok book)

17) Double Fault — Lionel Shriver (Re-read as well, didn’t really like it the first time but it’s definitely more interesting/relevant to read when you care about tennis)

TV Shows I’ve (tried to) watch(ed) in 2022

-Mr Robot Season 1 ; Episode 1 to… 4 I think?

-Grey’s Anatomy ; Seasons 1 to 6 (Regular rewatch that stopped by itself at some point)

-Designated Survivor ; Season 1

-House MD ; Season 1, a few episodes (Failed my rewatch, will try again in 2023)

-The Undoing 1 season (✅ completed)

-Severance ; a few episodes ?

-Balthazar ; Season 4 (Only here for Tomer Sisley)

-Veronica Mars ; 4 seasons (✅ completed) (Rewatch except for the last season)

-Outlander ; Season 6

-Heartstopper ; Season 1

-Timeless ; 2 Seasons (✅ completed)

-Moon Night ; 1 Season (✅ completed)

-Quantico ; 1 Season

-Obi-Wan Kenobi ; 1 Season (✅ completed)

-Lost ; Season 1 and 2

-Mind Hunter ; Season 1 and 6 episodes of Season 2

-Shokugeki No Soma ; All 5 seasons (✅ completed) (4 AMAZING seasons. Last one should be forgotten)

-The Walking Dead ; 6 seasons (Rewatch of the first season to try to finish it soon. First time I had stopped around season 8 or 9 I think ?)

-Emily in Paris ; Season 3 (The last source of joy left in the world)

-10 pour 100 (Call my agent) ; 2 seasons and 5 episodes of season 3 (Current watch, very easy to binge watch)

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Movies I watched this Week #129 (Year 3/Week 25):

A few months ago I discovered the early films of Alice Guy-Blaché, the first ever female filmmaker, and history's first director of narrative cinema. An enormously important figure, who was erased and forgotten until her recent resurgence.

The documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché shows how central she was to the development of all of cinema. A most fascinating and moving detective story laying open the amazing life of this pioneering heroine, who helped define its crafts and systems.

Narrated by (another prodigy) Jodie Foster. Like 'The Méliès Mystery' biography, these two are a must-see for any film lover.

Best film of the week! 10/10.

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The short film essay Celebration Sequences gives some excellent examples of “Storytelling's Most Useful Type of Scene”: Weddings, funerals, birthdays, parties, balls (and orgies). Celebrations give a story the chance to gather every important character and let them interact for a while under the auspice of important themes such as love and death.

Because of it, I watched Kurosawa's Hamlet-inspired The bad sleep well. Coppola listed The bad sleep well as one of his favorite films, citing the wedding ceremony of the first thirty minutes "as perfect as any film I've ever seen". He then used it as inspiration for the wedding sequence in The Godfather.

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The devil and Miss Jones [Not to be confused with the 1973 'The Devil IN Miss Jones...] was an unusual 1941 Capra'esque comedy, with a pro-labor bent. It dealt with some real labor, wealth inequality and capitalism issues. And, it did not paint them outright as 'communist' agenda!

The 'richest man in the world' goes underground in order to root out 'agitators' and union leaders, who cause trouble at one of his department stores. However, after working as a regular shoe salesman down in the weeds, he learns to sympathize with the cause of his new working class comrades (after falling in love with one of them, of course).

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3 by French director Nicolas Bedos:

🍿 Masquerade is a sleek caper, like Jim Thompson's 'The Grifters' but on the glitzy part of the French riviera. A young gigolo specializing in seducing rich, older woman falls for a beautiful young con-artist and together they devise a long-con to bilk high-maintenance diva Isabelle Adjani and wealthy real estate broker François Cluzet. Lots of erotic twists and thrilling turns. 6/10.

🍿 In his previous, genial comedy La Belle Époque, Daniel Auteuil is allowed to participate in an immersive reenactment of any historical period of his choice. After being kicked out by his wife, he decides to re-live a week in 1974 when he met her, the love of his life, at the La Belle Époque café in Lyon. A mix of Fincher's "The Game', with 'The Truman show' but with an imaginative heart. Better than Charlie Kaufman. 9/10.

🍿 OSS 117 was a French series about a fictional secret agent, a-la-James Bond, featured in 11 films and parodies. OSS 117: From Africa with Love is a stupid spoof of the EuroSpy genre of the 60's and 70's. and the third starring comedian Jean Dujardin (from ”The artist”). He plays a self-important idiot, politically-incorrect who can't get it up, more Peter Sellers than Sean Connery. Tintin was much deeper. 2/10.

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Because I don’t usually watch such low-brow low-budget trashy sub-genres, I enjoyed the crowd-funded Swiss exploitation Mad Heidi much more that I would under normal circumstances. The absurd story deals with a fascist cheese-based dictator, and a zaftig mountain girl who must escape Stalag-type prison in order to save the motherland and prevent a tainted cheese apocalypse.

As Joe Bob Briggs used to write in his early reviews "Cheese Nazis, cheese zombies, edelweiss throwing stars, and goat cheese hustlers. Mustard covered sausages inserted up the ass. About 10 exploding heads and torsos. Every Swiss cliché in the book, from 'Sounds of Music' and Toblerone to Alp horns, cuckoo clocks, cheese fondue, watches, and pocket knives - dialed up to 11. Women's prison-fu. Gladiator-Fu. Lesbo Fu. One Black Goat Peter. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Casper Van Dien as the megalomaniacal president of Switzerland. Check it out.” 4/10.

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Pierrot le Fou, my 8th New Wave stream of consciousness improvised exploration by JL Godard. Without a screenplay, and Everything Goes attitude, it's one long Pop Art of random allusions, aphorism, literary riddles and intellectual bon mots. Actually, apart from his brilliant debut 'À bout de souffle' (Breathless), I was bored by most of his films.

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The Novice, another remarkable first feature by a young female director (Lauren Hadaway, who doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet). An obsessive freshman joins her university's rowing team and is so driven to compete that she destroys everything in her path, especially herself.

Hadaway's frantic use of film language is thrilling. Also her blending of music by Brenda Lee and Patsy Klein.

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As a teenager I admired Knut Hamsun, read and collected all his books. My pride and joy, and the oldest book I owned was the rare Hebrew translation of 'Hunger', published in Poland in 1889. So I stopped everything to watch Jan Troell's lionizing drama Hamsun about his final and dying years.

Hamsun was a towering Norwegian hero who later turned Nazi-sympathizer traitor and supported Hitler & Germany even as it occupied Norway. Max von Sydow plays him as a venerable 'Great Man', complex, selfish, stubborn and conflicted, and Danish diva Ghita Nørby plays his wife, who was even more pro-German than him. 3/10

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Another re-watch, Edgar Wright final installment of his Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. Immature alcoholic Simon Pegg brings his 4 childhood friends back together to recreate the greatest achievement of their youth, a legendary 12-station pub crawl. Massive drinking & mayhem mixed with an alien invasion by blue-blooded androids.

Like the new 'Demon 79' it culminates with an unexpected apocalyptic Götterdämmerung. Yeah, 'The world's end' is not only the name of the last drinking hole. Plus points for the beautiful Rosamund Pike.

With every re-watch of any Edgar Wright movie, I go back to 'Every frame a picture' showing his visual comedy style, or other essays explaining his unique editing techniques.

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Instead of watching Jason Reitman's 'Up in the air' for the 5th time, I picked up his Front Runner. A bland 2018 Political drama about the fall from grace of Senator Gary Hart, caught with his fly open aboard a yacht called 'Monkey Business' while running for president.

I saw Gary Hart at a political rah-rah at UCLA the first week I came to the US in 1984. But the film itself added no new wrinkle to the usual cliches of election campaigns, newspaper editorial rooms, media ethics or the hypocrisies of public figures. 3/10.

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(My complete movie list is here).