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Baguette, Paris, Vin rouge, Fromage
Fan inconditionnelle de Woody Allen, je deviens très virulente cependant lorsque que l’on évoque Minuit à Paris. Le film est en réalité un melting pot de tous les clichés possibles et imaginables de la vie parisienne, mis bout à bout. D’ailleurs, on pourrait juste s’arrêter à l’affiche, qui à elle seule, indique la qualité du film. Reprendre la Nuit étoilée de Van Gogh pour montrer un homme déambulant le long d’un quai, n’évoque rien d’autre qu’une tentative vaine de combiner les images que chacun se fait de Paris, la vie parisienne, de la France et des français. Woody Allen aurait pu coller Owen Wilson sur un fond de café parisien…
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No Room in Hollywood
There is no doubt that Hollywood dominates the global film industry. Occasionally, popular films from other countries gain international notoriety like the French film Amélie or the Swedish film Let the Right One In, but those are rare instances. While the United States dominates the film industry, the rest of the world, mainly Europe, dominates in art. The U.S. does have renowned artists but not as renowned as Europe. Even as an American, I find it difficult to name fellow artistic countrymen, but I can easily rattle off several European artists. Edward Hopper, painter of the Nighthawks, is a celebrated American painter, but his international repute is an iota of…
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Beaux-Arts, fromage, guillotines, and other French concepts
I started learning French about ten months ago. It was an idea that I toyed with for the ridiculously large span of one to thirteen years prior (when it was offered in middle school and my dearest mother thought Spanish would prove more useful in my future and made me study it instead – I will neither agree or disagree with that point all of these years later). Initially this venture, ten months ago, started out of spite – I was surrounded by French speakers and could never get a word in edgewise because I never knew what the hell they were talking about. I planned to learn it the…
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