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

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

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

My Best Friend

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

Patrice Leconte

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