Lucky Star is proud to update our Profiles with two more articles on Axelle Ropert. The first is a translation of an interview that Ropert gave regarding the Judith Godrèche affair, a cruel and sad account of the exploitation she suffered at the hands of directors like Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon when she was…… Continue reading Translation Corner: Axelle Ropert on #MeToo, Judith Godrèche, Cinephilia and more
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Profiles #2 – Alejo Moguillansky: Some Notes on La Noche Submarina
Alejo Moguillansky’s slim 2020 feature La noche submarina, released on a streaming platform that no longer exists in the first bleak winter of the Covid lockdowns, opens by announcing its memorial status with two headstones, one written, the other spoken – In memory of the forty-four sailors aboard the ARA San Juan, sons of Neptune,…… Continue reading Profiles #2 – Alejo Moguillansky: Some Notes on La Noche Submarina
Translation Corner #5 – In Praise of a Castaway: Jacques Rozier
In Praise of a Castaway: Jacques Rozier by Rodrigo Moreno and Alejo Moguillansky * The scene is that of a not-so-young playwright and an already old filmmaker of what was the New Argentine Cinema. The playwright complains that his plays aren’t as recognized as those of his colleagues: “Everyone likes them, but no one really…… Continue reading Translation Corner #5 – In Praise of a Castaway: Jacques Rozier
Encounters #2 – Alejo Moguillansky
Here at Lucky Star, we are always on the lookout for points of contact with other cinephile cultures. We are hoping with this column, Encounters, to establish a dialogue, a line of communication. We get to know interesting cinephiles, critics, directors, etc., all as a way to interrogate our own positions, our own cinephilia. In…… Continue reading Encounters #2 – Alejo Moguillansky
Profiles #2 – Un diario de Alejo Moguillansky
Day 1 After watching the films of Alejo Moguillansky I am wondering how to deal with them, what strategies to use, how to respond to what I see. I have a Word document open with various notes, quotes, articles, translations. I am wondering how to use them. I have to imagine that Alejo Moguillansky…… Continue reading Profiles #2 – Un diario de Alejo Moguillansky
Profiles #2 – Alejo Moguillansky: Index
Let us place Alejo Moguillansky on the map of international cinema. In his home country of Argentina, he is respected as part of El Pampero (a collective of filmmakers which includes him, Mariano Llinás, Laura Citarella and Agustín Mendilaharzu). El Pampero Cine operates outside of the traditional methods of film financing and production, refusing the…… Continue reading Profiles #2 – Alejo Moguillansky: Index
Profiles #1 – Axelle Ropert: Some Notes on Etoile Violette
An old memory, more than a decade old by now – sitting in a drab college auditorium, listening to an alumni who had once worked as production designer on a handful of beloved films, most of them directed by Hal Hartley, but who had at that point transitioned to directing rather undistinguished music videos. A…… Continue reading Profiles #1 – Axelle Ropert: Some Notes on Etoile Violette
Translation Corner #2: The Empty Hour by Axelle Ropert
The Empty Hour An Inquiry into French existential films By Axelle Ropert A Rendezvous There are spectators who go to the cinema in the late afternoon. There are those, much more numerous, who only go to the cinema in the evening. And there is the cohort of students, idlers, old people and children, the privileged…… Continue reading Translation Corner #2: The Empty Hour by Axelle Ropert
Profiles #1 – Axelle Ropert: Secret Violence
Secret Violence All of Axelle Ropert’s features revolve in some way around family and the bonds that family has on us. In the previous films discussed, The Apple of my Eye and Miss and the Doctors, these relationships become entangled with other romantic ones. Two of her films, however, focus squarely on the pain of…… Continue reading Profiles #1 – Axelle Ropert: Secret Violence
Profiles #1 – Axelle Ropert: Love at First Sight / Alone Again
Love at First Sight A young boy approaches the brothers who are manning the music at a traditional Greek birthday party. He requests a song from Marika, their legendary great grandmother, but he is quickly shut down. Such songs are too sad for children one of the brothers tells him. He responds simply, “there’s no…… Continue reading Profiles #1 – Axelle Ropert: Love at First Sight / Alone Again
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