Laurent Tirard

En ambos volúmenes, el escritor y periodista francés Laurent Tirard entrevista a más de 30 cineastas para cuestionarlos sobre el oficio de ser director y los métodos de trabajo en las diversas etapas de producción; la elección del tema, escritura del guion, dirección de actores y elementos tan básicos como un simple: ¿dónde poner la cámara? Publicadas originalmente en la revista francesa Studio, las conversaciones de Tirard y los directores revelan detalles clave de la creación audiovisual, además de proponer procedimientos para superar obstáculos profesionales y hasta personales dentro del set. Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Win Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, David Lynch, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Joel y Ethan Coen, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai, Jean-Luc Godard y Claude Chabrol, entre otros, se confiesan ante un autor ávido de respuestas elocuentes y útiles. Así, mientras Lars Von Trier habla de la espontaneidad del plano, con un estilo entre arrogante y enmarañado, Woody Allen explica de forma pausada y clara su sistema para filmar una escena y el trabajo con los actores. Los libros de Laurent Tirard no sólo son alta prioridad para estudiantes de cine, también encantarán al lector curioso en el quehacer del arte cinematográfico; son páginas que permiten entrar al epicentro mismo de la producción fílmica.… (altro)

En ambos volúmenes, el escritor y periodista francés Laurent Tirard entrevista a más de 30 cineastas para cuestionarlos sobre el oficio de ser director y los métodos de trabajo en las diversas etapas de producción; la elección del tema, escritura del guion, dirección de actores y elementos tan básicos como un simple: ¿dónde poner la cámara? Publicadas originalmente en la revista francesa Studio, las conversaciones de Tirard y los directores revelan detalles clave de la creación audiovisual, además de proponer procedimientos para superar obstáculos profesionales y hasta personales dentro del set. Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Win Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, David Lynch, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Joel y Ethan Coen, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai, Jean-Luc Godard y Claude Chabrol, entre otros, se confiesan ante un autor ávido de respuestas elocuentes y útiles. Así, mientras Lars Von Trier habla de la espontaneidad del plano, con un estilo entre arrogante y enmarañado, Woody Allen explica de forma pausada y clara su sistema para filmar una escena y el trabajo con los actores. Los libros de Laurent Tirard no sólo son alta prioridad para estudiantes de cine, también encantarán al lector curioso en el quehacer del arte cinematográfico; son páginas que permiten entrar al epicentro mismo de la producción fílmica.… (altro)

The film's story revolves around "Little Nicolas," a happy, good-natured and sensitive boy who loves his parents, and a group of his unique friends (mostly boys). No one, not even their dedicated (and kind) teacher or the pompous school superintendent, can stop the ever-resourceful children from having fun. They are not rude. They are not disobedient. The boys are just having a good time, doing their best to do something good for friends. It is only that their "good" is not exactly what most adults would think. For these boys, hiring a gangster over the phone is nothing special.

Set in the 50s-like nostalgic world, the film has two main stories: one about Nicolas's (groundless) fear of being abandoned by his own parents; the other about Nicolas's parents arranging a dinner with his hard-working father's boss for his promotion. These two storylines, both unpredictable and interspersed with amusing episodes, keeps a brisk pace throughout, before it concludes with a nice finale.

The 91-minute film is helmed by Laurent Tirard, whose works as director includes an engaging romantic comedy "Molière." With its unanimously fine cast and skillful storytelling (that sometimes becomes pleasantly satirical), "Le petit Nicolas" keeps you entertained until the end. Also, a very creative opening credit animation should not be missed.… (altro)

Rating: 4.9999* of five

The Plot Summary: The well-studied life of France's greatest contribution to the world of the theater, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dites Moliere, contains a two-year-long gap. No facts are known about that time, and no documentary evidence has surfaced in the past 400 years to fill in that infinitesimal blip. Well, hell, thought Laurent Tirard, lemme plug that there hole with a story that explains the later appearance of such timeless characters as The Miser and Tartuffe.

And did he ever. The gap contains Elmire and Jourdain, the bourgeois couple so viciously skewered and so lovingly limned in The Bourgeois Gentleman, and Tartuffe himself, in his stiff-necked foolishness, his crafty ineptitude, is revealed to be Moliere himself. Oh gosh, oh golly, what a sheer joy to know now that I've seen this fiction that Moliere was the man he satirized! The movie is a mashup of the plots of Tartuffe and The Bourgeois Gentleman, meaning slamming doors, foolish misunderstandings, lots of salacious smooching, and laughs that hurt, laughs that come from painful identification with the person laughed at, and also the sense that one is superior to that person.

My Review: Bearing in mind that my normal review for all plays, Aeschylus to Stoppard and points between, is “plays, blech,” the plays of Moliere are exceptionally diverting things...comedies, in the same sense that life is a comedy. That is to say, funny if you're a sick fuck. Well, that's me, because Tartuffe causeth me to split my sides and The Bourgeois Gentleman gave unto me a hernia from prolonged mirth. As this movie combines the best bits of both, I had a rollicking good time, and the actors were absolutely marvelous in their roles.

The ending made me cry like a little girl reading Little Women for the first time.
I had to deduct .0001 star for being French.… (altro)