Tuesday, December 11, 2012

le papillon

   Julien, an aging widower, is a passionate butterfly collector. Elsa, a nine-year-old girl, with her mother, who is a very young woman named Isabelle, just moved into his apartment building. The mother is usually away, leaving her daughter alone for dangerous amounts, and Elsa starts visiting Julien. Julien grudgingly agrees to let her stay after her mother failed to respond to his calls.

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One day, Julien decides to go to the vercors plateau in search for a rare butterfly called isabelle which can live for only 72 hours. Elsa decides to join
his adventure, without telling him, and hides in his car. During the search Julien eventually reveals butterfly collecting was a hobby of his son, who then died very young. His son had asked Julien to find the Isabelle butterfly, and so this is why the butterfly was so important to Julien. The story complicates when Elsa's mother reports her daughter kidnapped. The police send out a search party looking for her.
Elsa ends up falling into a hole while looking for the butterfly with Julien. Julien has to call the authorities who come to rescue Elsa. However Julien is suspected of kidnapping and is taken into custody for some short time. A young boy named Sebastian helps get Elsa out of the hole, and she is able to go home with her mother.
It all ends very happily as Julien is released when they realize that he had never kidnapped Elsa. Isabelle, Elsa's mother, allows her to continue seeing Julien and studying butterflies with him. Both Julien and Elsa benefit greatly from each other's presence.


le chanson pourquoi




Monday, December 10, 2012

les choristes



 Les Choristes is a 2004 French movie directed by Christophe Barratier.




"Widely successful orchestra conductor Pierre Morhange (Jacques Perrin) returns to France when his mother dies. 
He reminisces about his childhood inspirations through the pages of a diary kept by his old music teacher Clément Mathieu (Gérard Jugnot). 


In 1949, a young Pierre (Jean-Baptiste Maunier) is the badly   behaved son of single mother Violette (Marie Bunel). He attends a boarding institution, Fond de L'Etang ("Bottom of the Pond"), for "difficult" boys presided over by strict headmaster Mr. Rachin (François Berléand). New teacher Mathieu brightens up the school and assembles a choir, leading to the discovery of Pierre's musical talents and a transformation in the children. "------resource from Wikipedia   .

Clement Mathieu taught the boys how to sing and slowly changed them. The movie is touching in the end when Clement left the school and saw letters flowing out the window on which wrote his students' words and their scrawls.    

La Nuit       Cerf-Volant    Caresse sur l'ocean

Friday, December 7, 2012

Becoming Jane





"Becoming Jane" is a 2007 British historical biographical movie directed by Julian Jerrold, which depicts the early life of  Jane Austen, the author of Pride and Prejudice and her posited relationship with  Thomas Langlois Lefroy. The movie is based on the 2003 book Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Hunter Spence. 


Jarrold began the production of the film in early 2006, opting to shoot entirely in Ireland as he found it had better-preserved locations than Hampshire, England, where Austen grew up. 

 It is believed that Jane Austen's personal life is the inspiration of her book Pride and Prejudice and Elizabeth is the allusion of herself. 

Jane Austen is the youngest daughter of Reverend George Austen and his wife has yet to find a suitable husband. Jane wishes to become a writer, to the dismay of her mother and the proud delight of her father.
She happened acquaint Thomas Lefroy, who is a lawyer with a bad reputation. They argued but increasingly taking interest in each other and in time they fell in love.
However, Jane goes back home and learnt that Thomas has engaged with someone else for his family arrangement. At the same time, she accepts the marriage proposal of Mr. Wisley.


She leaves to go home. Jane catches a last glimpse of Tom through the carriage window as he briefly follows, the horses outpacing him.
Years later, Jane has become a successful writer and the two happened to meet again and she found that Thomas named his eldest daughter Jane.
The last scene shows Tom's daughter sitting by Jane as she reads aloud from Pride and Prejudice, while Tom watches Jane affectionately. As she concludes, their eyes meet, and Tom joins the rest of the company in honouring Jane and her work with applause.




Thursday, December 6, 2012

Pride and Prejudice



“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” 

 lady's imagination is  very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” 
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” 


    Pride and Prejudice is an English literature written by Jane Austen follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet dealt with her manners, upbringing, education, marriage and morality in the early 19th-century England.It was then shoot in movies which are also popular today.




Wednesday, December 5, 2012