The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from by Mick LaSalle

By Mick LaSalle

while actresses develop into more and more marginalized via Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of girl talent—a Golden Age not like whatever the area has noticeable because the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the enjoyment of performing is alive and good. ratings of French actresses are doing the easiest paintings in their lives in video clips adapted to their megastar photographs and detailed personalities. but almost nobody this facet of the Atlantic even is familiar with approximately them. audience who think shortchanged by means of Hollywood should be overjoyed to find The great thing about the Real.
This e-book showcases more than a few modern French actresses to an viewers that may understand how to understand them—an American public hungry for the precise characteristics that those girls signify. To spend time with them, to appreciate their flashing intelligence and fearless willingness to depict existence because it is lived, offers us what we are trying to find in videos yet so hardly ever locate: insights into womanhood, meditations at the darkish and light-weight aspect's of life's trip, revelations and explorations that circulation audience to mirror on their lonesome lives. The tales they create to the display depart us feeling renewed and fascinated with videos again.
Based on one-on-one interviews and the viewing of diverse movies, Mick LaSalle has prepare a desirable profile of modern generations of French movie stars and an summary in their most sensible paintings. those women's insights and phrases light up his publication, so one can resolution as soon as and for the entire questions american citizens commonly have approximately girls and the films: the place did the entire nice actresses cross? and the way am i able to see their movies?
Please click on the following to determine a video discussing The great thing about the Real on the Roxie movie Festival.

Show description

Read or Download The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses PDF

Similar stage & theatre books

Leading Creators of Twentieth-Century Czech Theatre (Polish and Eastern European Theatre Archive, 13)

During this helpful and targeted presentation of the prime artistic figures in a richly leading edge and dynamic interval of Czech theatre, Professor Jarka M. Burian presents us with insightful pics of the administrators ok. H. Hilar, E. F. Burian, Alfred Radok, and Otomar Krejca: of the recognized Voskovec and Werich comedic duo; of the scenographer Josef Svoboda; and of the playwright, now President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel.

Theatre Audiences

Susan Bennett's hugely winning Theatre Audiences is a different full-length examine of the viewers as cultural phenomenon, which seems to be at either theories of spectatorship and the perform of other theatres and their audiences. released the following in a new up-to-date version, Theatre Audiences now contains: • a brand new preface by way of the writer • a beautiful additional bankruptcy on intercultural theatre • a revised up to date bibliography.

The Slingerland Book

(Book). Slingerland is among the maximum drum businesses of all-time. Rob cook dinner has lovingly compiled the Slingerland tale, with exact chapters at the relatives, the Boston history, the corporate in the course of the a long time, Slingerland endorsees and group of workers, the Gretsch/HSS period, Gibson's acquisition, and masses extra.

Lucid

Lucid, a one act play, is a brief, action-packed drama that explores existentialism in the course of the eyes and brain of Skipper, a psychiatric sufferer. keep on with Skipper's trip to a startling cognizance. .. there are twists included!

Additional resources for The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses

Sample text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.77 of 5 – based on 21 votes