André Gide

Accompanying with three films indeed marked a new beginning in French cinema and then in the wold, The 400 Blows By Truffaut and Breathless by Godard, as well Hiroshima, mon amour (1952) by Alian Resnais. I will try to explain part of this movement in cinema and what made it so famous. The main person in this amazing movement is Jean-Luc Godard who he is a French-Swiss film director, known for his prominence in the New Wave film movement in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In this…

Apollonian: The word Apollonian is an adjective that refers to the God Apollo of the Greek or Roman mythology. Apollo is the messenger Gods; the God of light, spring or youth, medicine and the art of music and also sometimes identified with the sun. He is a son of Zeus and one of the twelve main Gods. The adjective Apollonian was first used by the German philosopher F. W. J. Schelling and later by another German philosopher, F. Nietzsche, who explains it further in combination with the adjective…

willing to fully depart the demanding but secure embrace of the establishment and venture independently into the unknown. Looking back at the poor choices of his youth, the unnamed narrator describes him and his friends as so-called rebels who “read André Gide and struck elaborate poses to…

Nominated for an oscar in the Academic Awards USA in 1995, Fresa y Chocolate ‘a hard-core political film, brimming with explicit dialogue about censorship, Marxism-Leninism, nationalism, aesthetics, and not least, sexuality’. Chanan (2004: 464). Based on a novel by Senel Paz and directed mainly by the legendary Cuban director Tomas Gutierrez Alea, I believe that this masterpiece succeeds to mirror Cuba to the audience. David (Vladimir Cruz) is a communist student with a peasant background,…

story, three hood rat boys cruise around the town pretending to be tough guys. They partake in underage drinking, and smoke marijuana, and act like “greasy characters” but in reality they are not. Their parents pay for their education, and they read Andre Gide in their free time. The real action happens when they arrive at the greasy lake and mistake someone else for their friend. Trouble ensues, and it’s obvious that these three boys have never been in a fight before. In fact, the main…