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The Tamarind saw: Gainsbourg

Regardless of season, ice cream!

(Italiano) Il colore degli sceicchi. La diversità vista dagli occhi dei bambini

Sending that cash home

The Tamarind will miss: Louise Bourgeois

April 14th, 2010
Published in Culture
by Giovanni Biglino
A work of great elegance. A fresco of Italian haute bourgeoisie painted with no parsimony of colours. A movie that sits proudly in the always praised tradition of great Italian cinematography, with one name coming to mind: that of Luchino Visconti. Io sono l’amore (I am love) is a compelling story, the story of a world (that of an industrial dynasty of fairly recent wealth), the story of a woman [...]
March 8th, 2010
Published in Actualité, Culture
by The Tamarind
Although visually Tim Burton’s latest cinematographic extravaganza was all it was made out to be, story-wise, our favourite adventurous director cannot be said to have taken any risks. The film is very predictable and the characters offer no surprises. Burton’s sequel that takes place thirteen years after Alice gets back form Wonderland, is far less twisted than Carroll’s [...]
January 11th, 2010
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni, Opinions
by Giovanni Biglino
Monsieur Eric Rohmer (1920-2010), a master of Lightness, indefatigable, one of the most celebrated French movie directors. A theorist of the art of Cinema, a sensitive director, a free player who found his own language and remained faithful to it for half a century with delicacy and talent, avoiding contradictions and U-turns, without loosing his unmistakable touch. Maybe he slipped once or twice [...]
November 18th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni
by Giovanni Biglino
During the course of the 17th edition of the French Film Festival UK , alongside with a retrospective of Jacques Tati’s filmography and a homage to Jean Eustache, another iconic French personality has been honoured: Françoise Sagan. In recent years several French symbols have had their bio-pic and in fact Marion Cotillard has interpreted Edith Piaf, Audrey Tatou was Coco Chanel, while Romain [...]
October 27th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni
by Giovanni Biglino
Jordan Scott, daughter of Ridley (Blade runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator), has presented her confident debut movie Cracks during the course of the 53rd London Film Festival, accompanied by her father and her cast, including the stunning Eva Green. The story is set in 1930s England in an isolated all-girls boarding school. In the austere institution (the church hymns, the dark uniforms, the [...]
October 20th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni
by Giovanni Biglino
In 2004 Tom Ford, fashion guru and recognised as one of the most influential designers of the past two decades, said goodbye to Gucci. A few years later, after launching a luxury men’s clothing brand and, en passant, a range of fragrances and an eyewear collection, he made a stylish entrance into the world of film-making. His first feature movie, A single man, has recently been acclaimed by the [...]
June 5th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Culture, Opinioni
by Giovanni Biglino
Shadows in the sun, the second feature movie from director David Rocksavage, is a moving family drama in which all members of cast are perfectly chosen and deliver touching performances. In the late Sixties, Hannah (Jean Simmons), an old woman rummaging through letters and memories of a lifetime, is assisted in her last days by a mysterious young man, Joe (Jamie Dornan). Hannah’s son, [...]
May 28th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Culture
by Katy Fentress
An imposing black man is standing in front of the mirror of a tiny bathroom coating his dark features with red foundation cream. He pulls out an eye shadow palette and starts applying green, gold and purple stripes to his eyelids. He is preparing to head out for a night turning tricks in Paris’ notorious Bois de Boulogne. Beneath his muscular boxer’s physique, a woman is struggling to get [...]