The director's commitment to these children -- both on-screen and off -- is evident, both in his craft and action: proceeds from the film will be used to help the child soldier actors rehabilitate themselves.
The situation of child soldiers remains the same: and the finger points back -- many argue -- at Museveni himself.
But now -- for the first time -- both Valadan and Utrillo are at the center: literally a stone's throw from the Seine in the classy Madeleine plaza, at the most chic museum on the right bank.
One should not imagine a Cannes party as -- what I once expected -- the Rock Hudson hot-tub orgy scene in Seconds.
Any spectator of this new dramatic film by Lee Daniels, who has a tad of a self-esteem issue, will identify with the pains of this story.
"Your film has no message," I said to Jacques Audiard after the screening. "It is refreshingly free."
Fanny lies alone on her bed with a white gauze curtain billowing, as her legs, slightly parted, tremble under her frock.
His philosophy may be intuited in how he plays basketball with Adam: "Keep shooting through... When you fail a shot, don't stop."
What I want to show in my film is the abuse of power; the police are like god. They can butcher people. I don't expect people to like the film, but I want them to think about it after they go to bed.
"No I don't believe in a God, I believe in the collectivity of people: that you are stronger as a group."
Breillat thinks the French don't like her because she makes films where its women, not men, who are talking about sex.
All charismatic, powerful men ruthlessly destroy other people's lives as they cheer on "Vincere!"
It is a compelling true story: a French convict is released from prison, finds it impossible -- with a prison record -- to get work, and decides to g...
It was my first Johnnie To film -- "Vengeance" -- and I was happy to find it an aesthetic experience. From the first shot of an upper-class mod hom...
I surprised by the jury's decision, as the film has too limited a subtext to justify all the gore, especially after the first hour, when things get really bloody.
The intent of the movie is to show how the imminent war -- or any imminent war -- results from the sickness of a culture as well as from inherent human malice.
Fish Tank tells the story of an alienated adolescent girl fighting her way to have an identity with a mother who hates her and a peer group which shuns her.
The film is marked by anxiety, cruelty and power manipulation in which the climax is a clitorectomy executed with a pair of scissors.
