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Francisco «Paco» Umbral: do you really know him?
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The man who penetrated my dreams and shook my passions
It's to the sounds of my record player squeaking, Bechet's clarinet and the night rain that I'm about to write this article. The mood is set. Vintage, jazz, romanticism and a theme, that of a director who has fascinated me for many years: Woody Allen. He was the first and only director to offer me films that seemed to come out of my head and his hallucinatory reflections, but also the first to penetrate my dreams and passions. Here's Allen from the «point of view» of what we'd call: an admirer.
Cinema and the Shoah: a look at horror
«The Shoah inscribed a decisive crisis at the heart of the 20th century, marking it irrevocably. Cinema was the art of the 20th century», writes Jean-Michel Frodon. So it's easy to see why the seventh art form is an essential part of today's reflection on the Holocaust. Each film on the subject brings with it controversy and debate, but it also casts a new light on the unfathomable mystery of the Shoah, the annihilation of man by man. So what is the strong link between cinema and the Shoah? And how do films illustrate or condition a singular relationship to the event in question?
The script of Woody Allen's life
This is not an autobiography of any kind. The character's own story is certainly part of it, but it's not the whole story. As impressive as Woody Allen's cinema is, it doesn't make for such a pleasure to read a 534-page pamphlet that's not divided into parts or chapters. Not a work of memory, but a work of entertainment. The director once again takes on the role of writer to romanticize a life that is as hilarious as it is ridiculous, and therefore touching. To read Soit dit en passant is to have a good time laughing and bonding with the main character.
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