Mathieu Amalric

'Christmas' gives gift of comedy

By James Verniere Friday, November 21, 2008 - Updated 0m ago Don’t confuse “A Christmas Tale,” Arnaud Desplechin’s gloriously shaggy dog of a family soap opera, with “A Christmas Carol,” “A Christmas Story” or “It’s a Wonderful...

Christmas Miracle

A Christmas Tale" title="Catherine Deneuve in Desplechin's A Christmas Tale " class="imageWrap" height="167" width="250" /> Catherine Deneuve in Desplechin's A Christmas Tale (CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER VERSION Arnaud Desplechin's...

"Un conte de noël" by Mathieu Amalric

The holidays are meant to be joyous occasions where families come together to rejoice in each other's company—in theory, at least. In practice, families are far more bizarre than the outside world could ever know. The holidays...

"Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father" by Mathieu Amalric

When Andrew Bagby was killed on November 5th 2001, he left behind much more than his memory. Childhood friend and filmmaker Kurt Kuenne set out to create a loving documentary about Bagby that illustrated the life of this quirky...

Who Needs Christmas?

Deck the halls with a neurotic French family and a dozen of director Robert Aldrich's dirtiest. BAMPFA.berkeley.edu A Christmas Tale Directed by Arnaud Desplechin. A Dirty Dozen: The Films of Robert Aldrich November 21-December...

Latest Bond baddie is reluctant star

'Quantum of Solace' villain Mathieu Amalric has no interest in winning movie awards as an actor - because he sees himself primarily as a director. The enigmatic French star admits he stumbled into acting a decade ago and still...

Amalric wanted to be director, not actor

London, Nov 18 (IANS) French actor Mathieu Amalric doesn't care about winning awards because he cares more about being a director. According to contactmusic. com, Amalric explains that he got into acting by chance and still...

A Christmas Tale - movie review

French director Arnaud Desplechin returns to the U.S. three years after his last domestically distributed picture, Kings & Queen, bearing a gift of another sort in A Christmas Tale. Seeing release approximately a month before...

Bond film is tops at U.S. box office

James Bond brushed off some lackluster reviews to sell an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for this 46-year-old film franchise. "Quantum of Solace," starring...

Worth Your Time: 'A Christmas Tale'

The holiday family reunion movie is often as excruciating and treacly as the fraught, multigenerational gatherings it depicts. (Recent example: "The Family Stone.") Rare is the masterwork, like Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander,"...

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