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JEAN-JAQUES BEINEIX: Beineix started his career as a assistant director on fifteen adverts before releasing his first feature in 1981 ‘Diva’, which attracted the attention of key post-modernism theorist Frederic Jameson, who identified it as the first French postmodern film. Despite ‘Diva’ becoming a cult film for the youth of the time, the French film critic establishment did not appreciate the superficial aspects of its postmodern aesthetics. It was simply considered an irrational attachment to visually pleasing imagery at expense of character development or moral purpose. ‘I think France is a very strange country. There is great intelligence there yet narrowness at the same time… In America, "Diva" is taught in the university. In France they 're told not to like it.’ Beineix http://www.nitrateonline.com/2001/fbeineix.html As a result of this supposed incoherent attachment to style and surface, Beiniex was stablished as the representative of Cinéma du Look. ‘When people understood cinema and disco; film and video-clips, were no longer separate domains, but elements of an explosive cocktail, cinema took a historical turn. In France, Beiniex represesnts that turn’ (Bonitzer 1983:9). Cinéma du Look was positioned by many including Beineix, in a conflicting position with the Nouvelle Vague cinema. Just as establishment critics who supported the modernist cinema of the Nouvelle Vague were attacking his style, Beineix criticised them for being out of touch with contemporary…

Captivating, suspenseful, riveting, exhilarating are only a few of the words that I would use to describe the movie Taken. If you desire a high dose of adrenaline to quench your movie watching thirst, and if you are ready to take a super-charged ride to the action filled city of Paris, France, then this is a must see movie for you. Taken, not for the faint of heart, will keep you on the edge of your seat for the entire ninety-one minutes. Be prepared to have the popcorn container pried from your…

The film I am critiquing is called Lucy. It was released on July 25, 2014, written and directed by Luc Besson and produced by EuropaCorp. It starred Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. The storyline is that the girl (Lucy) gets tricked into a drug deal by her supposedly loving boyfriend. She gets knocked out and they place a synthetic drug called CPH4 in a bag and put in inside her stomach so she can transport it to the buyer. Well on the way to the buyer she gets kicked in the stomach and…

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the adventures of Valerian and Laureline to the cinema was not new, though. Since Besson made The Fifth Element (1997), also based on a French comic series, that he wanted to do it, but the director felt the technology available would not allow to reproduce the unique universe of the spatio-temporal agents. It was only after Avatar, from James Cameron, that Luc Besson believed the conditions were met, and started to think of Valerian as a film. Or more, as the director suggested in a recent…