Chacun Son Cinema

aka: To Each His Own Cinema
France 2007, 100 minutes
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Ming-liang Tsai, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-Wai, Zhang Yimou
In English with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama, Comedy / Film History

Topics: Shorts.

Aroview: 35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival.

Although consisting of 34 shorts films set in or around the movie theatre, it is by nature a mixed bag with many segments in the anthology not able to leave a lasting impression through their sheer pithiness and lack of time on screen. Still, film buffs will delight in verifying the master filmmaker behind each contribution, with directorial hallmarks – and indeed authorship – given preference in this who’s who of international cinema.

Our personal picks? Take a bow Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, Nanni Moretti, Zhang Yimou, Bille August, Walter Salles, Claude Lelouch, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

NZ International Film Festival 2008