Author: Loris S. Musumeci
LORIS S. MUSUMECI
«Rosemary's Baby: devil or madness?
The film has been the subject of many and varied interpretations, especially a year after its release. The similarities between the 1968 film and the 1969 assassination of Polanski's wife Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, have given rise to theories as numerous as they are far-fetched. There's no question of taking part in the great ball of conspiracies and backward questioning. Even if the case is intriguing. Even if we can't help thinking that the Satanists who murdered Polanski's wife may well have been inspired by Polanski's film. Reality catches up with fiction, in dramatic fashion. But that's not cinema. And in any case, it wouldn't change a thing. Madness can't be explained. And it's best not to play with the devil, so to speak. So let's take a look back at this masterpiece of a thriller, and nothing else.
Nuance and history with «Les Derniers Tsars» (The Last Tsars)»
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«Au secours pardon»: we'll end up crying together
Before his critique of the «society of sneers» in *The Man Who Cries with Laughter* (2020), but after his escapades as a cocaine-addicted advertising executive in *99 Francs* (2000), Octave Parango spent four seasons in Russia. In *Au secours pardon* (2007), Frédéric Beigbeder’s alter ego is as wretched, funny, fascinating, despairing, horrible, tragic, pathetic, and touching as ever.
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