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Theatrical: 2001

Studio: Fox Pathé Europa

Genre: Action

Duration: 90

Summary: Ils sont sept. De races et d'horizons différents, ce ne sont ni des mercenaires, ni des samouraïs (quoique), encore moins des nains ! Ils se font appeler les Yamakasi. Leur point commun : leur univers, celui de la cité, et leur passion, celle d'un sport de rue consistant à escalader les façades des immeubles, à sauter de toit en toit, à virevolter entre béton et balustrade. Décriés par les habitants du quartier, recherchés par les forces de l'ordre qu'ils se plaisent à tourner en bourrique, ils font l'admiration du petit Jamel qui, les imitant, se retrouve entre la vie et la mort. Produit par Luc Besson, "Yamakasi" est un film d'action, vif et humoristique, riche en émotion, qui s'attache à montrer que la "racaille" peut aussi respecter certaines valeurs et aider son prochain, même si elle le fait aux dépens des règles légales, à sa manière. Revisitant le mythe de Robin des Bois, "Yamakasi" dresse un portrait particulièrement flatteur de ces acrobates de banlieue, véritables justiciers des temps modernes, aussi persévérants que solidaires. Un scénario certes simple mais qui a le mérite de maintenir le spectateur en haleine. Seul regret : "Yamakasi" ne sera sans doute jamais vu par les personnes à qui il s'adresse véritablement et dont il cherche à combattre les idées reçues. "--Frédéric Thorens"

Theatrical: 2002

Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Genre: Action

Duration: 107

Summary: A series of Rashomon-like flashback accounts shape the story of how one man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.

Theatrical: 2006

Studio:

Genre: Anime

Summary:

Theatrical: 2007

Studio: Sony Pictures

Genre: Mystery & Suspense

Duration: 125

Summary: Francis Ford Coppola returns to directing for the first time in a decade with the fascinating if perplexing "Youth Without Youth", a kind of science-fiction tale of mythic proportions based on a novella by the late Romanian historian and religion scholar Mircea Eliade. Tim Roth stars as elderly linguist Dominic Matei, whose life work--uncovering the roots of human language--has been stymied throughout his long and undistinguished career. Struck by lightning while crossing a Bucharest street in 1938, Matei not only survives but goes through a physical transformation, reverting to the age of 35 and remaining ageless for decades to come. Trying to remain incognito, Matei is pursued in Europe by Nazi intelligence as well as journalists, acquiring strange powers and communicating with a sort of psychological double of himself. Throughout, Matei finds himself unable to escape a cyclical destiny, particularly when he falls for a woman (Alexandra Maria Lara)--physically! similar to a lost love in his pre-lightning life--whose apparent possession by ancient, Indian deities is useful to his work but dangerous to her. The episodic film lurches along with the logic of a dream siphoned into waking life, a constantly shifting consciousness that suggests Matei exists in several planes of experiential reality simultaneously. Coppola has been down this hallucinatory road before, perhaps most spectacularly in "Apocalypse Now". But it is not hard to see how "Youth Without Youth" is a very personal film for him and somewhat of a parallel to his career, which seems rejuvenated with the release of this complex movie, so full of the kind of technical and stylistic flourishes that brought Coppola legions of admirers and detractors years ago. "--Tom Keogh"