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FILM REVIEW
"MIDNIGHT IN PARIS"
REVIEW WRITTEN BY 2º B
INTRODUCTION
Gil Pender is a writer. He loves Paris and he and his girlfriend, Ines, travel there a few days before their wedding. Gil's favourite age are the 20's. At midnight, a car stops in front of Gil. He goes up by mistake and is transported to the 20's. There he meets with many artists of that age and also from the Belle Époque, where he travels with Adriana, a woman he meets in his first time travel.
Coco Chanel
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Fashion designer Coco Chanel, born August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France, is famous for her timeless designs, trademark suits, and little black dresses. Chanel was raised in an orphanage and taught to sew. She had a brief career as a singer before opening her first clothes shop in 1910. In the 1920s, she launched her first perfume and introduced the Chanel suit and the little black dress.
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ZELDA Sayre
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She was born in the United States, July 24, 1900 and died on March 10, 1948, was an American writer.
She published an autobiographical novel, "Save Me the Waltz" in 1932.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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He was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
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Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) she was an American author and poet best known for her modernist writings, extensive art collecting and literary salon in 1920s Paris.
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Ernest Hemingway
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Work: Autor
He was born in Jully 21th 1899 and he died in Jully 2nd 1961
Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists, and is known for works like A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.
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Jean Cocteau
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Jean Cocteau born on 5 July 1889 and died on 11 October 1963.He was a French poet,novelist,dramatist,designer,playwright,artist and filmmaker.
Cocteau is known for his novel "Les Enfants Terribles" (1929), and the films "Blood of a Poet" (1930),"Les Parents Terribles" (1948).
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Man Ray
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He was born in August 27 1890 . was an American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris , France. He produced major works in a variety of media but considerated himself a pinter above all.He was best know for his photography.He died in November 18 , 1976.
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PERSONAL VALORATION
We think that this film Midnight in Paris was a good and a funny film. There were a lot of famous artist as: Monet, Ernest Hemingway, Coco Chanel… Also the film happens in Paris, a city with nice places: Alejandro III Bridge; and beautiful monuments as Nôtre Dame.
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GOOD JOB!!!
October, 23rd 2014
NOVEMBER, 3rd
HAVE A LOOK AT THESE REVIEWS ON
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
WRITTEN BY TWO 4B STUDENTS
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
BY RENÉ CADME
Hazel is one girl
that has cancer and she starts to go a help group. Here she meets Gus, who
hasn´t got one leg. After that, Hazel tells Gus about one book that she loves and she
tells Gus that she wants to know what the end of the book is because the book
ends in a sentence that doesn´t finish. And they manage to go to Amsterdam to
visit the writer, but, when they arrive at this house, the writer tells their
nonsense because he is an alcoholic. However, they decide to go to a museum.
Here, Hazel and Gus start to be a
couple. But this love doesn´t last because Gus’ cancer is spreading in his body
and he is going to die.
-Metaphor
of the cigarette
Gus says you put the
weapon in your mouth, but you don´t give it the power to destroy you. You put
the cigarette in your mouth and you don´t light it.
-Metaphor
of the green car
They give eggs to
their blind friends, because he will throw the eggs at the green car, because
the green car means hope, but if you throw at the green car, it means that
there isn´t hope.
-Metaphor
of the water
Simply, water means life.
My opinion
I like this film
because you know concepts of life that you didn´t know it and you understand
metaphors on life. It isn´t just a love story, there are more things.
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
BY ANA LÓPEZ TAUSTE
The film is about a girl with cancer (Hazel) who goes to a supporting
group. She meets a boy (Augustus) and they fall in love. The girl loves a book
and she shows it to her friend. They go to Amsterdam to meet the writer and he
is an alcoholic. Augustus tells Hazel that he has cancer in all the body and he
is going to die. She prepares a speech and she reads it in Augustus´ funeral. I
think that this film is very educative because there are a lot of metaphors
about life and it´s about a theme that happens every day but in my opinion the
film is very sad.
Metaphor of the
cigarette- that metaphor is that you put the thing that kills you in the mouth but
you don´t give it the power to kill you. The
cigarettes are one area in his life where he can have power over his body and
what does and does not kill it.
Metaphor of the
roller coaster- it symbolizes life. One day, you are on the top and another day you are
down.
NOVEMBER, 7th
FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS
Have a look at the great powerpoints that some students from 4º B have made ( abridged versión). Their presentations in class were superb. Enjoy the amazing pictures and learn some facts about these festivals by reading the texts.
The Cherry Blossom Festival
Halloween
Winter Lights Festival
Great, guys! Keep up!
January, 20th
SUNSHINE ON LEITH
Conflicts and feelings
15th March
Once again, I am grateful for your reviews on the last film we've seen, Boyhood.
SUNSHINE ON LEITH
Conflicts and feelings
Sunshine on Leith. Alejandro
Martínez Gómez 4ºB
Disappointment
I
have chosen this feeling because I think that it´s the conflict that most
appears in the film and the conflict that most has called my attention because
everybody has been disappointed at any moment.
In
the film, I think that disappointment appears, for example, when Jean finds out
that Rab had a daughter with another woman, but he didn’t tell anything to
Jean. Also, in the party of the anniversary of Liz´s parents, Ally asks her to
marriage him, but she rejects him. Finally, when Davy is fighting with another
man and Ivonne goes to stop him, he becomes aggressive with her, I think that
she feels disappointment and she gets angry with Davy.
In
conclusion, the film shows us that disappointment is present in our lives.
Sunshine on Leith. Ana
López Tauste 4ºB
Freedom:
when the soldiers come from the war and they are dancing and singing on
the street because they are free and they can do all that they want.
Decisions in life: when Ally said to his girlfriend
Liz that he wants to marry her but she said no.
When Liz
decided to go to work to Florida and abandon her boyfriend.
When Davy
decided to go with Yvonne (his girlfriend) to England when Ally decided to join
up again in the Army.
Sunshine on Leith. Jota Abenza 4ºB
For me the most
important feeling of the film is when the woman discovers her husband’s affair
because she discovers that her whole marriage was a lie because her husband was
unfaithful and had a daughter with another woman and she discovers this in the
celebration of their 25th
anniversary. Excellent.
Thank you, guys, for commenting on this first-class film full of feelings and conflicts that we live everyday.
Thank you, guys, for commenting on this first-class film full of feelings and conflicts that we live everyday.
15th March
BOYHOOD
Boyhood is a film which shows the life of a boy, from the age
of 6 to18. I’m going to make a brief reflection about the father, who, together
with the mother, are my favourite
characters.
Ethan Hawke, playing the
part of the father, was born in 1970 in Austin, Texas.
Well, I chose this
character because I think he has lots of remarkable aspects. Summarising, we
could say he tries to give form to Mason’s personality, but not obsessing over
it, but in a soft and “indirect” way. This character has also loads of praiseworthy
traits, like, for example:
- When he argues with his
wife, though they are divorced, he always tries not to bring her angry, so he
shows respect, wisdom and above all, intelligence. And is that intelligence the
one I think he tries to transmit to Mason. So, we could talk about him as
Mason’s mentor.
- As well as this
intelligence and knowledge, I noticed that this man knows which is the perfect
way to teach his son and actually, I really liked the way he talks to Mason,
because, maybe sometimes Mason doesn’t care about what his father tells him,
but, little by little and step by step, his father instils in Mason a set of
moral values, which are going to be very useful to him when he is older. But
the funnier thing, is that Mason is kind of unsuspecting, and that’s what
really stroke me.
OPINION ABOUT THE FILM
I think the reason why I
loved this film is not its specials effects and all that stuff, but its
content, because it shows lots of moral values and the evolution of the
personality of a guy, since he was 6 years old. In my opinions it reflects
perfectly the changes that a teenager feels throughout the puberty and also the
situations that a teenager lives in this period of his life.
Jose Fuentes Ros, 4ºB.
Once again, I am grateful for your reviews on the last film we've seen, Boyhood.
