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To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema (Chacun son cinéma)

Movie · 2007 · 5 people

Made in 2007 for the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, To Each His Own Cinema (French: Chacun son cinéma) takes the form of a French anthology film. It was commissioned and produced by the festival's president, Gilles Jacob, who asked leading directors for shorts on one subject: the movie theatre. The film contains 34 shorts of three minutes each; 32 are by individual directors, and two are by pairs, the Coen brothers and the Dardenne brothers. Its subtitle is "a declaration of love to the big screen".

Thirty-six directors from five continents and 25 countries were invited to express their state of mind of the moment as the cinema inspired it. The list includes Roman Polanski, David Lynch, Wong Kar-wai, Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Takeshi Kitano, Lars von Trier, Theo Angelopoulos, Youssef Chahine and David Cronenberg. Actors such as Jeanne Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Piccoli and Josh Brolin also appear. The languages are French, English and Italian, and the running time is about 100 minutes.

Many of the shorts share subjects: respect for classic European art cinema, the death of the filmgoing habit, childhood wonder, the immersive power of cinema, and what spectators do during a screening, from talking and stealing to crying and sex. One source says the collection is dedicated to Federico Fellini.

DirectorClaude Lelouch, Roman Polanski

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Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau Film actor · died at 89 Michael Lonsdale Michael Lonsdale Actor · died at 89 Sylvia Kristel Sylvia Kristel Actor · died at 60 Deniz Gamze Ergüven Deniz Gamze Ergüven Actor · 48 years old Marcello Mastroianni Marcello Mastroianni Actor · died at 72

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Made for the 60th anniversary of Cannes, this anthology is a tribute to the movie theatre in 34 short films. Squeezing styles as different as Polanski, Lynch, Wong Kar-wai, Kiarostami, Kitano and von Trier into the same three-minute frame is both the film's biggest draw and its weak spot. In so little time, some directors stamp their signature with one sharp idea, while other segments never get past a single joke. As shared themes such as respect for classic European art cinema, the death of the filmgoing habit and childhood wonder keep recurring, the overall impact wears thin. It is far more enjoyable watched not as a whole but as pages torn from the notebooks of master filmmakers.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Honestly, this is not my genre. Thirty-four three-minute shorts, all about the movie theatre. If you want story, tension or pace, there is not much to hold on to here; the segments end almost as soon as they start. Still, if you are curious what names like David Lynch and Takeshi Kitano can do in three minutes, it works in small doses.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

A love letter to the movie theatre: the idea alone warms a heart devoted to the big screen. Many of the shorts turn to childhood wonder, to audiences crying in the dark, to cinema's power to pull us in, and that touches exactly what a generation raised on the classics longs for. Seeing Jeanne Moreau again is a joy of its own. Yet cutting such a vast tradition into three-minute pieces felt a little hurried to me; just as the feeling builds, the curtain falls. And the sadness about the death of the filmgoing habit is, sadly, not unfounded.

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