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Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux (Let Us Open the Eyes) DVD Review

<i>Dogora: Ouvrons les yeux (Let Us Open the Eyes)</i> DVD Review

Release Date: Out Now Director: Patrice Leconte Cinematographer: Jean-Marie Dreujou Studio/Run Time: Severin Films, 80 min. Cambodia from the eyes of a tourist Most documentary narrators act like khaki-clad tour guides, measuring their self-importance by the number of factoids they can send in one ear and out the other. Dogora is a documentary that features no narrator or dialogue; instead, filmmaker Patrice Leconte cues Etienne Perruchon’s compositions (one of which is the documentary’s namesake) to add a sense of grandeur to Cambodians’ day-to-day lives. With wide-eyed fascination, Leconte’s camera peers over a group of kids sleeping under an outdoor...  read more

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Wes Anderson to write (and direct?) My Best Friend

Wes Anderson to write (and direct?) <em>My Best Friend</em>

Wes Anderson has just signed on for his first project with Imagine, a re-make of the 2006 French comedy Mon Meilleur Ami. Anderson has agreed to write My Best Friend, which will be released through Universal. ...  read more

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My Best Friend

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In My Best Friend, François is an antique dealer whose self-interested business practices have left him with no real friends...  read more

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Patrice Leconte

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Filmmaker Patrice Leconte talks about Intimate Strangers and his obsession with characters who transgress in order to find Liberation...  read more

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