françois cluzet

Hell

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Paul holds Nelly close

Strangely enough there are two films called Hell starring Emmanuelle Béart. This one is from 1994 and is directed by Claude Chabrol. The other (which also goes by L’enfer in the original French) is directed by Danis Tanovic. None too shabby, either of them. More strangely, both films are other directors’ movies. Tanovic took on the second of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Heaven, Hell and Purgatory trilogy after the director died. As for Chabrol, he was completing the film that Henri-Georges Clouzot started in 1964 with Serge Reggiani and Romy Schneider in the leads, which Clouzot abandoned when he got ill (he got better but never went back to it. You can see his footage … Read more

11.6

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François Cluzet in 11.6

A movie for every day of the year – a good one 30 August Warren Buffett born, 1930 On this day in 1930, the business magnate Warren Edward Buffett was born, in Omaha, Nebraska, the second of the three children of a father who was a US congressman and stockbroker. At age 11 Warren bought his first shares. He filed his first tax return aged 14, on income earned from delivering newspapers and selling door to door. The following year he bought a pin table and installed it in a barber’s shop. On leaving school in 1947, his report read – “likes math; a future stockbroker”. After graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln … Read more

Untouchable

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Driss shows Philippe the finer things in life in Untouchable

A movie for every day of the year – a good one 20 April Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech, 1968 On this day in 1968, the senior Conservative British politician Enoch Powell made a speech in which he alluded to Virgil’s Aenid – “As I look forward, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood’.” A Greek scholar who also spoke Urdu – Powell as an ambitious young man had set his sights on becoming the viceroy of India, only to find in later life that the Indians were coming to him – Powell was referring to the prospects for race … Read more