Se souvenir des belles choses
Réalisation : Zabou Breitman ; scénario Jean-Claude Deret, Zabou Breitman. Avec Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Zabou.
France, 2002, 110 minutes, Pan Européenne Distribution

Se rappeler, oublier, se retrouver, perdre, se souvenir des belles choses : ces petits riens qui rythment notre quotidien et qui ne deviennent importants que lorsqu'ils nous font défaut sont au cœur de Se Souvenir des Belles Choses. Du rire aux pleurs, ce film peint le tableau des mille et un aspects de la mémoire et de leur détérioration progressive à travers l'histoire d'un couple pour qui le temps est compté.

 

A Slipping Down Life
USA, 1999. Directed and written by Toni Kalem. Starring Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, John Hawkes (I), Sara Rue. Produced by Richard Raddon.
In English, 111minutes.

A Slipping Down Life is everything but your conventional love story. This improbable romance, born of obsession and self-mutilation, turns out to be a tale of self-discovery and realization, a journey in which life slips by like sand in an hourglass.

 

Startup.com
Documentary. USA, 2001. Directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus. Produced by D.A. Pennebaker and Frazer Pennebaker.
In English, 103 minutes. Artisan Entertainment.

Set in the dot-com version of the American dream and colored with themes like friendship, money and power, Startup.com has all the components of a timely drama. This fascinating documentary chronicles the launch and development of govWorks.com, an Internet-based company aimed at guiding people through the meanders of government matters. Startup.com provides an amazing look inside the nitty-gritty and the hardships of such an enterprise, and, on a more personal level, at the toll it can take on a friendship.